Ex-B.C. stock promoter Avtar Dhillon sentenced to prison for fraud in U.S. (BC)West Ham are eyeing up a move for Sergio Conceicao should they choose to sack Julen Lopetegui. The Hammers were dealt another damaging defeat at the weekend as Arsenal secured a 5-2 win - with all of their goals coming in the first-half. Lopetegui is yet to have the desired affect having arrived in the summer with the east London outfit sitting 14th in the Premier League . Lopetegui was well backed in the summer with more than £100million spent on new signings. West Ham moved on David Moyes and underlined their ambitions by bringing in the Europa League winner, but already they are having to consider life beyond the Spaniard. The Guardian reports that Conceicao is of serious interest - and the Portuguese manager is equalled interested in the Hammers gig. The 50-year-old led Porto to three league titles and twice took them to the Champions League quarter-finals with internal support for him growing. Other options for the West Ham hierarchy include the former Juventus manager Max Allegri as well as Graham Potter, who is yet to have a job since leaving Chelsea 18 months ago. The Hammers do remain reluctant to fire Lopetegui but there is growing alarm over the team’s form. Lopetegui's future was thought to hinge on the results achieved against Newcastle and Arsenal. The Hammers secured a surprise result when they landed the three points at St James' Park, but the manner of the Gunners loss has done little to help their manager's cause. The Hammers have previously gone after big name managers and backed them in the transfer market, only to see them fall well short of expectations. In the past decade West Ham have hired Manuel Pellegrini, but the ex-Manchester City boss couldn't deliver as hoped. Moyes remains the club's most successful manager of the modern age, delivering a European trophy, but he was shown the door in the summer when his contract expired. Lopetegui though has the club sat just six points above the relegation zone after four wins in 13 league games. The Spaniard has previously performed impressive work at Wolves before choosing to walk away. He led Sevilla to continental success and also has the Real Madrid and Spain jobs on his CV. Join our new WhatsApp community and receive your daily dose of Mirror Football content. We also treat our community members to special offers, promotions, and adverts from us and our partners. If you don't like our community, you can check out any time you like. If you're curious, you can read our Privacy Notice. Sky has slashed the price of its Sky Sports, Sky Stream, Sky TV and Netflix bundle in an unbeatable new deal that saves £240 and includes 1,400 live matches across the Premier League, EFL and more.Gulf Coast Ultra Deep Royalty Trust sees $544,092 in stock sales by Neil Subin
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Nauticus Robotics Completes Aquanaut Mark 2 Evaluation Agreement with a Global Supermajor Oil & Gas CustomerIn the early morning following Election Day in 2020, Claire Woodall, then Milwaukee’s elections chief, mistakenly left behind a USB stick carrying vote totals at the city’s central absentee ballot counting facility. Election conspiracy theorists quickly seized on the mistake, accusing Woodall of rigging the election. Their claims were baseless, but the mistake increased scrutiny on the city’s election staff and led Woodall to create a checklist to make sure workers at central count didn’t overlook any critical steps in the future. This year, despite the checklist, Milwaukee election staff at central count made another procedural mistake — and once again left the door open to conspiracy theorists. Somebody — city officials haven’t said who — overlooked the second step outlined on the checklist and failed to lock and seal the hatch covers on the facility’s 13 tabulators before workers began tabulating ballots. For hours, while counting proceeded, the machines’ on-off switches and USB ports were left exposed. After election officials discovered the lapse, city officials decided to count 31,000 absentee ballots all over again , a choice that led to delays in reporting results. Results from the large and heavily Democratic city ultimately came in at 4 a.m. on Wednesday, only a few hours later than expected, but a time that conspiracy theorists implied was a suspicious hour for vote totals to change . Their posts echoed claims from 2020 that used sensationalized language like “late-night ballot dumps” to describe the reality that in big cities, absentee ballots take time — yes, sometimes late into the night — to collect, deliver, verify and count accurately. In fact, the results in Milwaukee couldn’t have arrived much sooner. Under state law, election officials can’t start processing the hundreds of thousands of absentee ballots until the morning of Election Day. This year, they got a late start because of delays in getting workers settled , but were still expecting to be done around 2 or 3 a.m. Then it became clear the midday decision to redo the count would add more time to the process. But those explanations have done little to curb the false conspiracy theories that have been proliferating on the right, including from losing U.S. Senate candidate Eric Hovde. Election officials have for years known that the slightest mistakes, or even perceived errors, can trigger false claims. In this instance, the failure to follow a critical security step occurred in the state’s most scrutinized election facility, despite new procedures meant to reduce such errors. For people with a conspiratorial mindset, such an oversight can’t be explained away as just a mistake, said Mert Bayar, a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public. The errors can provide conspiracy theorists a feeling of validation because those errors make a “conspiracy theory more realistic ... more believable.” For those people, he said, election errors are instead perceived as “part of a plot to steal an election.” Instead of considering the 2024 Milwaukee mistake a simple oversight, Bayar said, conspiracy theorists may think that the tabulator doors “cannot be left unlocked unless they’re trying something tricky, something stealth.” Genya Coulter, senior director of stakeholder relations at the Open Source Election Technology Institute, said Milwaukee can still fine-tune its processes and checklists. “I don't think anybody needs to be demonized,” she said, “but I do think that there needs to be some retraining. That would be helpful.” Milwaukee error initially drew complaints, but not suspicion It was an election observer who first noticed the open tabulator doors and alerted election officials. Around 2 p.m., Milwaukee’s current election chief, Paulina Gutiérrez, went from tabulator to tabulator, monitored by Democratic and Republican representatives, to lock all of the doors. Two hours later, she made the call to rerun all ballots through the tabulators. The tabulators had been in full view of partisan observers and the media, but behind a barrier that only election officials and some designated observers, like representatives for both political parties who accompany election officials during some election processes, can enter. Any tampering would have been evident, Gutiérrez said, and there was no sign of that. For that reason, some Republicans at central count opposed recounting all the ballots and risking a delay. U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, who went to central count on Election Day to learn more about the error, said he didn’t think anything nefarious happened , though he said the election operation there was “grossly incompetent.” Coulter said the decision to start the counting over again was “the right call for transparency's sake.” Hovde, who lost his Senate race in a state that Donald Trump carried, invoked conspiratorial language to describe what happened. “The results from election night were disappointing, particularly in light of the last minute absentee ballots that were dropped in Milwaukee at 4 a.m. flipping the outcome,” he said Monday in his concession speech. “There are many troubling issues around these absentee ballots.” In an earlier video , Hovde criticized Milwaukee’s election operation and spread false claims about the proportion of votes that his opponent, U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, received from absentee ballots. That led to a skyrocketing number of posts baselessly alleging election fraud in Wisconsin. One prominent conservative social media account questioned whether the tabulator doors being left open was a case of sabotage. In a statement, the Milwaukee Election Commission said it “unequivocally refutes Eric Hovde’s baseless claims regarding the integrity of our election process.” Why Milwaukee’s results were late There’s no proof of fraud or malfeasance in Milwaukee or anywhere else in Wisconsin on Election Day. But a few key factors combined to delay Milwaukee’s results until 4 a.m. First, Milwaukee central count workers started processing and tabulating ballots around 9 a.m., long after the 7 a.m. start time allowed under state law. The delay was a matter of getting dozens of central count workers organized and at the right station in the large facility. The more high-profile one was the failure to close the tabulators, which prompted the decision to count 31,000 absentee ballots all over again. But both of those slowdowns could have been less consequential had Wisconsin election officials been able to process absentee ballots on the Monday before Election Day, as some other states allow. Such a change could have allowed election officials to review absentee ballot envelopes, verify and check in absentee voters but not count votes. An effort to allow election officials to do so stalled in the state Senate this year . Checklist change could ‘improve transparency’ Milwaukee election officials may have avoided the situation entirely — and could avoid similar situations in the future — by modifying their central count checklist, said Coulter, from the Open Source Election Technology Institute. Currently, the checklist states that at the start of Election Day, the tabulator doors should be locked and sealed. It’s not clear why that step was skipped. Gutiérrez didn’t respond to questions for comment about who was in charge of the process or whether that person faced disciplinary action. But the step likely wouldn’t have been overlooked, Coulter said, if the checklist required the official in charge of locking the tabulators to be accompanied by a representative from each major political party. “That's a relatively painless change that ... I think it would improve transparency,” Coulter said. “There needs to be an emphasis on having two people from different political affiliations performing all duties that involve the tabulator,” she said. Another pre-processing step on the checklist calls for people working at the tabulators to make sure the numbered seals pasted over the tabulator doors are intact. It doesn’t call for checking that the tabulator doors are locked. To avoid a repeat situation, Coulter said, “they should also check to make sure that the door to the power button is properly locked, and what to do if it isn't.” Election officials recognize the scrutiny they face over errors, Coulter said, and they sometimes focus more on avoiding mistakes than running election operations. “It's like a racecar driver ... If you focus on the wall, you're going to wind up hitting that wall,” she said. “You have to train your mind to think about the curve and not the wall, but unfortunately, it's really hard for election officials to do that, especially in high-pressure jurisdictions.” Alexander Shur is a reporter for Votebeat based in Wisconsin. Contact Shur at ashur@votebeat.org . Votebeat is a nonprofit news organization reporting on voting access and election administration across the U.S. Sign up for Votebeat Wisconsin’s free newsletter here . This article first appeared on Wisconsin Watch and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.
The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has described 2024 as the most challenging for workers in the country. Joe Ajaero, the NLC President, said this at the 2024 “Harmattan School” on Monday in Abuja, with theme “Trade unions and the Quest for a New Social Contract”. The Harmattan School, an annual event organised by the NLC, serves as a platform for capacity-building, knowledge sharing, and strategic planning. He said that 2024 for workers in the country was filled with harrowing hardship. “I welcome you a year that we have witnessed one of the greatest turbulence in our history as a movement. “It was a period where we were invaded, ransacked, and subjected to the highest level of threats, intimidation,” he said. Ajaero charged workers participating in the harmattan school to actively engage in the training which according to him, was aimed at preparing workers for the engagement and negotiation for the new social contract. According to him, this year’s harmattan school affords the opportunity to dissect all that has happened to the NLC during the year, assess their dynamics, and initiate actionable steps to make ourselves stronger and better. “We believe that in those events, we have emerged stronger, more resilient and better position to deliver on the expectations of Nigerian workers and people,” he said. He said that those events were attempts to weaken and undermine the capacity of the NLC as a movement to deliver on the job to its primary and secondary constituencies. “The articulation and protection of workers rights is our primary responsibility, and anything we do that does not approximate to that amounts to failure. “We are, therefore, left with no other choice than to focus with greater determination and zeal on this mission of making our working places and our nation, to yield better results,,’”he said. Dr Vanessa Phala, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Country Director to Nigeria, charged trade unions to unite and engage governments to find solutions to some of the harrowing challenges workers were grappling with. She said that the ILO expected a new social contract based on rebuilding trust in institutions. “It must be inclusive, and it must protect and ensure participation of all those that are involved. “We know that inspite of the newly negotiated minimum wage that was approved, the rising cost of goods and services is really not making it to have the impact that we want to see. “I charge the conversation in the harmattan school to focus on identifying the kind of social contract that will take Nigeria forward,” she said. She said that the concept of social contract was important, adding that it gives opportunity to take stock. “I expect that the conclusion of this school will identify the priorities of the NLC and how it will engage on policy discussions with the leadership of the country,”she said. NAN
Noam Chomsky, one of the world’s most famous and respected intellectuals, will be 96 years old on Dec. 7, 2024. For more than half a century, multitudes of people have read his works in a variety of languages, and many people have relied on his commentaries and interviews for insights about intellectual debates and current events. Chomsky suffered a stroke in June 2023 that has severely limited his movement, impaired his speech and impeded his ability to travel. His birthday provides an occasion to consider the tremendous corpus of works that he created over the years and to reflect on the many ways that his texts and recordings still critically engage with contemporary discussions all across disciplines and realms. Chomsky’s vast body of work includes scientific research focused on language, human nature and the mind, and political writings about U.S. imperialism, Israel and Palestine, Central America, the Vietnam War, coercive institutions, the media and the many ways in which people’s needs are subjugated in the interest of profit and control. As a scholar of humanities and law , I’ve engaged with Chomsky’s work from an array of perspectives and authored a biography called “ Noam Chomsky: A Life of Dissent ” and a book on Chomsky’s influence called “ The Chomsky Effect: A Radical Works Beyond the Ivory Tower .” One important theme in his broad corpus is his lifelong fascination with human creativity, which helps explain his vociferous attacks on those who seek to keep the rabble in line . Early days Avram Noam Chomsky was born on Dec. 7, 1928, in Philadelphia. He and his younger brother, David Chomsky , were raised in a lively household by Elsie Simonofsky and William (Zev) Chomsky , progressive educators who were deeply immersed in wide-ranging Jewish and Zionist cultural activities. Chomsky often dates his own interest in teaching and learning to his close readings of Hebrew works with his parents and to the lively educational experiences he enjoyed at the Oak Lane County Day School , an experimental school that subscribed to John Dewey’s approach to immersive learning and promoted individual creativity over competition with other students. A precocious learner, Chomsky at 12 years old read the proofs for his father’s book about a 13th-century Hebrew grammarian named David Kimhi . It was an auspicious beginning to a life immersed in philology , philosophy and the study of language and the mind . From very early on, he sought to understand innate human propensities for freedom, dignity and creativity, which inspired his interest in fostering those properties of human nature. While Chomsky’s parents were what he called normal Roosevelt Democrats, he was drawn to more radical approaches to society and to the promotion of noncoercive social structures . At age 10, he read about the Spanish Civil War, which inspired him to write an editorial about the fall of Barcelona for his school’s newspaper. This was an early harbinger of his public intellectual work and his vociferous challenges to systems of oppression and illegitimate authority. As a young man, Chomsky joined a socialist wing of the Zionist youth movement that opposed a Jewish state, and from his readings and discussions he came to favor Arab-Jewish class cooperation in a socialist Palestine. His deep knowledge of Palestine and Israel, bolstered by his ability to read and speak Arabic and Hebrew, helped inform his many vehement critiques of Israeli state power . Chomsky on John Dewey’s approach to education: how to produce free, creative, independent human beings. Radical pedagogy After an early education focused on self-discovery and free-ranging exploration, Chomsky was introduced in high school to rote learning, competition with other students and a mainstream system of values. In reaction, he began to make regular trips to New York City, where he explored bookstores. He also made regular visits with a relative who ran a newsstand on 72nd Street that served as a lively intellectual center for emigrés interested in more radical approaches to society. In 1944, Chomsky completed high school and enrolled in the University of Pennsylvania. Although he has expressed some dismay about the structures of conformity and status quo thinking he encountered there, he did find inspiration in courses with philosopher C. West Churchman , linguist Giorgio Levi Della Vida and, moreover, linguist Zellig Harris . Chomsky knew members of the Harris family because Zellig Harris’ father hosted Jewish services in the Harris home that the Chomsky family occasionally attended. Chomsky’s father’s approach to the study of language bore similarities to Zellig Harris’ work in Semitics , the study of Arabic, Hebrew and other Semitic languages. Harris invited Noam to read the proofs of his “ Methods in Structural Linguistics .” This highly anticipated book was rooted in the idea that the function and the meaning of linguistic elements are determined by their their relationship to other components that make up sentences. After working hard to understand Harris’ linguistics paradigm, Chomsky eventually abandoned it, but he remained fascinated by Harris’ political views and by the unstructured, lively and creative debates that he promoted. Chomsky met Carol Doris Schatz at the Hebrew School where her mother taught and Chomsky’s father was principal. Years later, when they were both students at the University of Pennsylvania, they started dating. They were married in 1949, and four years later they decided to move to an Israeli kibbutz, or communal agricultural settlement. They had expected to find a culture of creative free thinking there. Instead, they were deeply disappointed to find what Chomsky described as ideological conformity to Stalinist ideology. They returned to the U.S. after only six weeks. The young couple settled in Boston and started a family . Noam pursued graduate work, while Carol paused her own studies to raise the children. She later returned to research on language acquisition, which she eventually taught and researched at MIT and Harvard. Carol Chomsky died in 2008. Noam remarried in 2014, to the Brazilian translator Valeria Wasserman Chomsky . Chomskian revolution When Chomsky was a student, most academic psychologists described human language as a system of habits, skills or dispositions to act that are acquired through extensive training, induction, generalization and association. By this account, language grows incrementally with experience, reinforced by a system of rewards and punishments . This framework was at the heart of a structuralist paradigm , which analyzed the form and meaning of texts as different parts of the same thing. Any language, from this standpoint, restricts how phonemes and morphemes – the smallest units of sound and meaning in language – and other constituents are assembled and distributed. By this view, humans have the capacity to learn language in ways akin to how they acquire other kinds of knowledge . Chomsky’s Ph.D. work, the resulting 1957 book “ Syntactic Structures ” and his New York Review of Books review of B.F. Skinner’s “Verbal Behaviour” challenged this paradigm and heralded the Chomskian linguistics revolution. Chomsky’s theory of universal grammar in the history of how philosophers have viewed the human mind and language acquisition. Chomsky’s starting point was that humans are endowed with universal grammar , which is activated by exposure to natural language . Children gain proficiency in a language by building on innate knowledge. This means that the capacity for language quite literally grows in the mind in a manner akin to how organs develop in the body . Chomsky’s interest in innate human abilities draws in part from a range of philosophical treatises penned in the 17th and 18th centuries and associated with the Port Royal system of logic and Enlightenment philosophy , which emphasized science, individual liberty and the rule of law. He developed these ideas in a book called “ Cartesian Linguistics ,” which outlined his intellectual debt to the writings of, among others, Descartes , Kant, Rousseau and Wilhelm von Humboldt . By the early 1960s, Chomsky’s work had gained him recognition in linguistics, philosophy and psychology. His own research, and that conducted by the growing number of linguists who adopted his approach, led to significant advances in the study of syntax, generative grammar, language and the mind, semantics, form and the interpretation of language. His political engagement was documented in what I believe is a remarkable collection of interviews and books about U.S. imperialism, the Cold War, the Middle East, Central America and Southeast Asia, including “ Problems of Knowledge and Freedom ” and “ For Reasons of State .” Puzzled by Americans’ spirit of resigned consensus, he began to collaborate with Edward S. Herman on books including “ Counter-Revolutionary Violence ,” “ The Political Economy of Human Rights ” and “ Manufacturing Consent ,” which was turned into a popular film by the same name. Common thread The common thread connecting Chomsky’s many intellectual projects are four “problems” that were the focus of much of his life’s work. One is Plato’s problem , which considers why it is that humans, whose contact with the world is brief and limited, can come to know so much. The second is Orwell’s complementary problem , which asks how is it that human beings know so little given the amount of information to which they have access. The third is Descartes’ problem , which pertains to the human capacity to freely express thoughts in constantly novel ways over an infinite range by means that are appropriate to circumstances but not caused by them. Finally, there’s Humboldt’s problem, which focuses on what constitutes language . These problems are connected in different ways to how people learn, what impedes human development , and to speculations about the initial state of the language faculty, which he outlined in a range of texts, including “ Knowledge of Language: Its Nature, Origin, and Use ,” “ Language and Problems of Knowledge: The Managua Lectures ,” “ The Minimalist Program ” and “ Why Only Us? Language and Evolution ,” with Robert C. Berwick. Chomsky’s legacy ‘Manufacturing Consent’ is one of Noam Chomsky’s best-known political works. courtesy Penguin Random House Remarkably tenacious and active, Chomsky continued to publish and to speak out on contemporary issues into his mid-90s. His ideas evolved but were rooted in a series of deeply seated ideas about the nature of the human mind. He is one of the most cited intellectuals in history, and he was voted the leading living public intellectual in The 2005 Global Intellectuals Poll . Millions of people have watched his debates and discussions with William F. Buckley , Angela Davis , Alan Dershowitz , Michel Foucault , Howard Gardner , Christopher Hitchens , Richard Perle , Jean Piaget , Briahna Joy Gray and even Ali G . As the figure widely viewed as the founder of cognitive sciences, Chomsky has been critical of the hype surrounding big data , artificial intelligence and ChatGPT . As a voice for the downtrodden and the oppressed, he has spoken from the perspective of human rights, intellectual self-defense and the popular struggle through independent thinking against structures of power and subjugation. Chomsky’s extraordinary achievements resonate far and wide – and are likely to continue to do so into the future. Robert F. Barsky has received funding from the Rockefeller Foundation, The Guggenheim Foundation, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Fonds FCAR, and Vanderbilt University.In recent years, a war has been brewing over the fats we eat. Specifically, it's a fight over "seed oils." Are they as toxic as some health influencers believe? Robert F. Kennedy Jr, President-elect Trump's pick for , is a leading figure in the fight. He has a line of t-shirts, bumper stickers, and red hats dedicated to "make frying oil tallow again," arguing for places like McDonalds to go back to using beef fat. Nutrition experts say the discourse around so-called seed oils stokes unnecessary fear, obscuring the truth about what is already well-established about to promote human health and longevity. Professor Richard Bazinet, who studies how fat fuels our brains at the University of Toronto, says online discourse about seed oils being the "root of all evil" has exploded since 2020. "People are coming out and saying, 'Hey, the government's lying to you,'" he told Business Insider. "Saturated fats are good for you. Seed oils are actually what's killing you, causing cancer." Let's not get it twisted: butter is not the salve here. But the health benefits of seed oils are also murky. For centuries, people around the world have used local oils, some of which could be classified as "seed oils," derived from mustard seeds and flaxseeds. of those were bad for their health. These days, "seed oil" is more of a pejorative term than a technical definition, referring to oils high in omega-6 fatty acid, including: Some influencers call them "the hateful eight." Opponents of seed oils say that they are toxic and often recommend butter instead, which is rich in saturated fatty acids with only small amounts of omega-6. Cardiologist Dariush Mozaffarian, director of the Food is Medicine Institute at Tufts University, told BI he has found no compelling evidence that seed oils are harmful. Mozaffarian has authored dozens of studies independently investigating how oils rich in omega-6 impact health issues like heart disease, stroke, and weight gain. He said he has found lots of evidence they're good for overall health, lowering type 2 diabetes rates, and improving cholesterol levels. But he still can't convince some of his "very smart" friends to agree with him on this, including some nutrition scientists who say the concerning trends linked to omega-6 can't be waved away. A long-term of Eastern European countries in the 1990s found that those who used "seed oils" with a higher concentration of omega-3 had fewer heart disease deaths than countries that went with oil richer in omega-6. One thing all researchers — including Mozaffarian — agree upon is that we need a healthy balance of the two essential fatty acids: omega-3 and omega-6. These days, we do not get enough omega-3. There are clear trends showing that less omega-3 and more omega-6 in the diet is associated with , and operates on pathways in the brain that can encourage more eating, and tell the gut to store more fat. link high omega-6 intake with more chronic pain, , and potential mood issues while on omega-3 suggests supplementation can improve satiety and keep going strong in old age. Several scientists who've studied dietary fats at the National Institutes of Health told BI the internet's focus on specific oils obscures a deeper issue: omega-6 is infused in the American food system in myriad ways, distorting the nutrient density of what we eat. From processed foods at the gas station, to seemingly innocent, seed oil-free items like chicken eggs, our nutrition equation has been thrown completely off balance. A century ago, consumption of omega-6 fatty acids was less than 3% of our total calories. That changed after World War II, when new technology made it possible to mass-produce new kinds of monounsaturated vegetable oils from plants rich in omega-6. Canada invented canola, and many cooks swapped out dangerous trans fats for this cheaper, more accessible oil. Food producers also started making ultra-processed foods with things like canola oil or corn oil. Suddenly, our modern eating era was born. There were some holdouts: McDonald's didn't stop using beef tallow until around 1990, but as vegetarianism and veganism became more popular, "seed" oils became the default inoffensive, dirt-cheap choice to manufacture, fry, and cook food for the masses. Today, omega-6 accounts for roughly 10% to 20% of calories in the average American diet, which is dependent on a backbone of soy and corn. It's unavoidable in our food system, and it's in prepared foods at higher concentrations than ever. It's in everything: corn chips, peanut butter, farmed salmon, even today's grilled chicken is higher in omega-6 than it used to be. Getting enough omega-3 to balance this all out would be a tall order. "We have a river of oils flowing through the food supply," psychiatrist and nutritional neuroscientist Joseph Hibbeln said. Hibbeln is an expert in lipid biochemistry and brain health, and studied dietary fat at the National Institutes of Health for nearly three decades. He has seen through his research how these oils increase appetite, and change people's taste preferences so food companies can drive up sales. "It doesn't have to be a conspiracy, it's just: you sell more food." Traditional Mediterranean diets, the favorite eating plan of most dieticians and nutrition buffs, had about a 1:1 ratio of omega-3's to omega-6's by default. There was plenty of olive oil, high in omega-9, but also a good amount of omega-3 fatty acids from foods like fatty fish, walnuts, and flaxseeds. Still, Dr. Artemis Simopoulos, former chair of the nutrition coordinating committee at the National Institutes of Health, says demonizing "seed oils" misses the point. If most of your diet is ultra-processed, it doesn't matter what your McDonald's french fries are cooked in. "This was a problem that was created by agriculture and food industry," Simopoulos told Business Insider. This is not dissimilar from Mozaffarian's common refrain whenever anyone asks him if they should switch to avocado oil or beef tallow to prevent inflammation. "There are things that are way more important for you than to even think about seed oils," Mozaffarian said. "I want people to be avoiding super processed foods and to be avoiding refined flours and sugars." New alternatives to deep fryer "seed oils" are popping up, and gaining traction. Take Zero Acre, an oil company developing monounsaturated oils made from fermented sugar cane. The company has investment from Chipotle, is used in the restaurants of , and had a collaboration with Shake Shack. The oil industry is already bracing for a change in public sentiment, and not just with independent alternatives like Zero Acre. Simopoulos has consulted for giant food companies like Nestlé and is working with farmers in China to plant more traditional camellia trees for cooking oil, since it's rich in omega-3. She and Bazinet, the University of Toronto researcher, both said big food giants are pivoting away from using omega-6-heavy oils, favoring omega-9, which is nonessential and doesn't compete with omega-3. "Things are totally changing, and the sooner the better," she said. US health authorities speak in broad terms about nutrition, without diving too deep into the chemical and molecular differences between different fat sources. They don't make any scientific distinction between seed oils and other unsaturated fat sources, and they don't talk much about the importance of balancing essential fatty acids. Their unwavering focus is on prioritizing "healthy fats" in the American diet, like omega-3 from salmon, and cutting out butter, which is linked to heart disease. That general messaging doesn't sit well with seed oil skeptics, who are mistrustful of the health system and crave clarity on how manufactured food impacts our health. It leaves no room to acknowledge that maybe vegetable oil isn't the greatest ingredient around. Bazinet said, while the jury is still out on seed oils, some people may want to take extra precautions. Smokers, who are already under extra inflammatory stress, could perhaps be at elevated risk of health issues from consuming seed oils since their blood won't have as much capacity to oxidize fats. For most people, the same advice you've heard for decades still holds true. Eat a diet rich in whole grains, nuts, and vegetables. These polyphenol powerhouses are dream nutrients for your body. Prioritize olive oil — it's low on omega-6 but high in nonessential omega-9, and great for inflammation and brain health. Routinely add in foods that are rich in omega-3, like chia seeds, flax, or fatty fish. Because here's the thing: If you avoid processed foods that are loaded with sugar, calories, and yes, probably have "seed" oil in them too, all nutritionists would consider that a win. 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VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Dec. 02, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Atelier Meats Corp. (the " Company ") is pleased to announce a proposed brokered private placement of special warrants of the Company (each, a " Special Warrant "), to be conducted by Canaccord Genuity Corp., as the sole agent, (the " Agent ") on a commercially reasonable best efforts basis, pursuant to which the Company will offer at least 6,000,000 Special Warrants at a price of $0.50 per Special Warrant (the " Offering Price ") for gross proceeds of at least $3,000,000 (the " Brokered Offering "). Concurrently with the Brokered Offering, the Company intends to complete a non-brokered offering of Special Warrants at the Offering Price for gross proceeds of at least $1,000,000 on the same terms as the Brokered Offering (the " Non-Brokered Offering ", collectively with the Brokered Offering, the " Offerings "). Each Special Warrant will entitle the holder thereof to receive, without any further action on the part of the holder or payment of any additional consideration, one unit of the Company (each, a " Unit "). Each Unit shall consist of one common share in the capital of the Company (a " Common Share ") and one Common Share purchase warrant (a " Warrant "). Each Warrant will entitle the holder thereof to acquire one Common Share at an exercise price of $0.60 at any time prior to the date that is 24 months from the Closing Date (as defined herein). All unexercised Special Warrants will automatically be exercised into Units on the day (the " Qualification Date ") that is the earlier of (i) four (4) months and a day following Closing Date (as defined herein), and (ii) as soon as reasonably practicable, and in any event no later than the third (3rd) business day, after a receipt is issued for the Final Prospectus (as defined herein). The Company will prepare and file a preliminary prospectus and a final prospectus (the " Final Prospectus ") with each of the securities regulatory authorities in the provinces of Canada in which the Special Warrants are sold (the " Jurisdictions ") and obtain a receipt thereof, qualifying the distribution of the Units underlying the Special Warrants, in compliance with applicable securities law. In the event that the Company has not received a receipt for the Final Prospectus within 60 days following the Closing Date, each unexercised Special Warrant will thereafter entitle the holder thereof to receive upon the exercise thereof, at no additional consideration, one-and-one-tenth (1.10) Unit (instead of one Unit) (the additional Units are collectively referred to as " Penalty Units "). Any fractional entitlement to Penalty Units will be rounded down to the nearest whole Penalty Unit. The Company has agreed to pay the Agent a commission equal to 7.0% of the aggregate proceeds of the Brokered Offering payable in cash or Special Warrants, or any combination of cash or Special Warrants at the sole option of the Agent (" Agent's Fee "), as well as a corporate finance fee of $100,000 payable in cash (" Corporate Finance Fee "). In addition, subject to compliance with all required regulatory approvals, the Company will issue to the Agent such number of compensation options (each, an " Agent's Options ") as is equal to 7.0% of the aggregate Special Warrants sold under the Brokered Offering, each of which will entitle the Agent to purchase one Unit at the Offering Price at any time prior to the date that is 24 months from the Closing Date. The Special Warrants will be offered for sale to purchasers in: (i) all provinces of Canada, except Quebec, pursuant to available private placement exemptions under National Instrument 45-106 Prospectus Exemptions ; (ii) the United States on a private placement basis pursuant to available exemptions from the registration requirements under the United States Securities Act of 1933 , as amended (" U.S. Securities Act "); and (iii) offshore jurisdictions agreed upon between the Company and the Agent pursuant to available prospectus or registration exemptions in accordance with applicable laws. Closing of the Offerings is expected to take place on such date or dates as agreed to by the Company and the Agent (the " Closing Date "), but closing of the Non-Brokered Offering may take place at a different time and/or date from that of the Brokered Offering, in the Company's sole discretion. The net proceeds of the Offerings will be used for advancing the development of patents and products, continuing the new product research and development with the University of Rutgers for commercialization including making outstanding payments to the University of Rutgers, for expenses relate to the Offering as well as marketing and general working capital. The Offerings are intended to be undertaken in connection with the Company's proposed direct listing of its common shares on the Canadian Securities Exchange (" CSE ") (the " Transaction "). The Company is a reporting issuer in Alberta and British Columbia. The Special Warrants will be issued pursuant to a private placement and until a receipt is issued for the Final Prospectus, the Special Warrants will be subject to a hold period under applicable Canadian securities laws expiring on the date that is four months and a day following the Closing Date. Listing of the Company's Common Shares on the CSE It is a condition of the proposed Transaction that the Company receive all required board, shareholder, third party, and regulatory approvals, as applicable, and that the Company receives conditional approval to list its common shares on the CSE. In connection therewith, the Company has filed a listing application with the CSE, in accordance with the policies of the CSE. Upon listing, it is expected that the Company's common shares will trade under the ticker symbol "STKK". This news release does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to sell any securities of the Company in the United States. The securities of the Company have not been and will not be registered under the U.S. Securities Act or any state securities laws and may not be offered or sold within the United States or to U.S. persons unless registered under the U.S. Securities Act and applicable state securities laws or an exemption from such registration is available. About Atelier Meats Corp. Atelier Meats Corp. stands out in the cultured meat industry with its groundbreaking scaffold technology, designed to address the key challenge of scalability that has hindered many other companies. By providing a structural framework for lab-grown cells to grow into complex meat cuts, the Company's proprietary solution enables the efficient and cost-effective production of high-quality cultured meat at scale. With two pending patents, the Company's technology offers a competitive edge and a licensing model that could empower other companies in the industry to overcome scalability obstacles. This positions the Company as a vital player in driving the cultured meat sector toward widespread adoption and market viability. Further Information Please Contact Atelier Meats Corp. Leighton Bocking Interim Chief Executive Officer and Director Email: [email protected] Website: www.ateliermeats.com Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Information This news release contains forward-looking statements relating to the timing and completion of the Transaction, the future operations of the Company, the completion of the Offerings, obtaining the receipt of Final Prospectus, the listing application, conditional approval and other statements that are not historical facts. Forward-looking statements are often identified by terms such as "will", "may", "should", "anticipate", "expects" and similar expressions. All statements other than statements of historical fact, included in this release, including, without limitation, statements regarding the Transaction, the Offerings and the future plans and objectives of the Company, are forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. There can be no assurance that such statements will prove to be accurate and actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the Company's expectations include the failure to satisfy the conditions to completion of the Transaction set forth above and other risks detailed from time to time in the filings made by the Company with securities regulations. The reader is cautioned that assumptions used in the preparation of any forward-looking information may prove to be incorrect. Events or circumstances may cause actual results to differ materially from those predicted, as a result of numerous known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors, many of which are beyond the control of the Company. As a result, the Company, cannot guarantee that the Transaction will be completed on the terms and within the time disclosed herein or at all. The reader is cautioned not to place undue reliance on any forward-looking information. Such information, although considered reasonable by management at the time of preparation, may prove to be incorrect and actual results may differ materially from those anticipated. Forward-looking statements contained in this news release are expressly qualified by this cautionary statement. The forward-looking statements contained in this news release are made as of the date of this news release and the Company disclaims any intention and assumes no obligation to update or revise any of the forward-looking statements herein to reflect actual results, whether as a result of new information, future events, changes in assumptions, changes in factors affecting such forward-looking statements or otherwise except as expressly required by Canadian securities law. NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION TO U.S. NEWSWIRE SERVICES OR FOR DISSEMINATION IN THE UNITED STATES. NO RECOGNIZED SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACCEPTS RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE ADEQUACY OF THIS NEWS RELEASE, WHICH HAS BEEN PREPARED BY MANAGEMENT OF THE COMPANY.Elastic (NYSE:ESTC) Stock Price Expected to Rise, Bank of America Analyst Says
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OTTAWA — Brampton Mayor Patrick Brown said foreign interference did not tip the scales in the Conservative party’s last leadership race that installed Pierre Poilievre at the helm. But he offered up Thursday that he changed some of the language he was using after getting pushback from an Indian diplomat that some of his comments could sound like he was endorsing ideas of Sikh nationalism. Brown, who was a candidate for the leadership in 2022, was summoned to a House of Commons committee Thursday to answer questions on the 2022 race after a report from a committee on national security referred to allegations of Indian interference in an unspecified Conservative leadership campaign. “I don’t believe foreign intervention affected the final outcome of the Conservative leadership race,” Brown told the House of Commons public safety and national security committee Thursday. A CBC/Radio-Canada article this week quoted several confidential sources from Brown’s campaign alleging that representatives from India’s consulate interfered to undermine his leadership bid. On Monday, Brown posted on social media about the committee’s summons to say that he had no new evidence to add, and that the public inquiry on foreign interference was the proper venue to evaluate the allegations. Brown insisted to the committee Thursday that no members of the Indian government reached out to him or his campaign workers during his leadership bid, saying the relationship was “already very strained” at that point. The CBC News story also contained allegations that his national campaign co-chair Conservative MP Michelle Rempel Garner was pressured to withdraw her support for Brown — something she denied. When NDP MP Alistair MacGregor quizzed him on the news report, asking why she left the campaign, Brown said she left seeking to launch her own leadership bid to replace UCP leader Jason Kenney in Alberta — not from pressure from India. “At no time when we talked about her departing the campaign did she ever say it was over pressure from the consul general,” he said. He said the article likely referred to a conference call more than a month before she left, after the consul general raised concerns with Rempel Garner about Brown using the words “Sikh nation.” “The consul general had expressed directly to (Rempel Garner) that, obviously that was something they didn’t agree with, that it could be viewed in nationalistic terms towards the Sikh community,” he said. That led him to change the language he was employing to a Punjabi term that he said meant the same thing. Liberal MP Jennifer O’Connell asked if that’s “an appropriate election activity by a foreign government,” charging it was a clear instance of foreign interference. Brown replied that Indian officials “have been more robust in their opinions than some of us would be comfortable with.” A bombshell report by the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians into foreign interference released last spring referred to “India’s alleged interference in a Conservative Party of Canada leadership race.” Brown said he was not under any kind of non-disclosure agreement with the Conservative Party that prevents him from speaking publicly about what happened during the race. He said he believes it’s important to guard against foreign meddling in democracy but that he does not want to get drawn into partisan debates on Parliament Hill. Brown was not included as a witness in the public inquiry into foreign interference, which wrapped up hearings earlier this fall with a final report due in the new year. He was disqualified from the party’s 2022 leadership race due to allegations related to financing rules in the Canada Elections Act. This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 5, 2024. Kyle Duggan, The Canadian PressColumnist {{description}} Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. I had no doubt Dennis Connors would share the feeling. He is a deeply respected upstate historian, curator emeritus for the Onondaga County Historical Association, but a part of him is always a Lackawanna guy. The steel industry brought his family to that lakefront community, where he grew up in a classic double across the street from the towering Our Lady of Victory Basilica. As a kid, Connors embraced the same point I hope to make this morning about light and wonder − and where so many of us, since our Western New York childhoods, have found it at Christmas. The Electric Tower, built in 1912, is framed by holiday lights in a nearby tree in downtown Buffalo on Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2024. Connors remembers nighttime Yuletide rides with his parents through downtown Buffalo, looking out at window displays and decorated streets and a magnificent landmark that in December always burned in reds and greens: The Electric Tower, skyline monument to the season. Dennis Connors, curator of history emeritus from the Onondaga Historical Association: A sensibility shaped by a Lackawanna childhood. Touching off our conversation was an email I received a few weeks ago from Jared Paventi, who works in public affairs for National Grid. The company, he told me, was formally relighting the Niagara Mohawk Building in Syracuse – which the late Ada Louise Huxtable, renowned critic of the New York Times, saw as one of the great examples of art deco in the nation. The connection to Buffalo lies in the hands of the designers. Deco was an exuberant and wildly eccentric style, intertwined with the breakout of electric-powered technology in the 1920s and '30s − which means this region, home to the hydroelectric pioneers of Niagara Falls, was often a treasury for the form. An international audience was treated to firsthand views of the Electric Tower, illuminated for the Yuletide, a skyline icon unique to Buffalo, on Sunday night. The soon-to-be-called-NiMo building went up in 1932 as headquarters for Niagara Hudson, which brought together many power companies under one roof. Electricity was transforming everyday life, and the designers sought to capture that feeling in Syracuse with an Oz-like explosion of stainless steel, aluminum, chrome, black glass and much more. Those features were made to be amplified by light. It was a philosophical statement involving Buffalo architects Lawrence Bley and Duane Lyman. For this landmark, they helped create rippling patterns of white light, soon extinguished due to of fear of World War II bombing raids. The Niagara Mohawk Building − regional headquarters of National Grid in Syracuse − at Christmas. Those lights weren't truly restored until 2000, when NiMo brought in the late international lighting master Howard Brandston – the guy who lighted the Statue of Liberty – to illuminate the building in a stop-in-your-tracks array of color. An image of the Electric Tower, more than 60 years ago, at Christmas. Brandston’s system “started experiencing problems” two years ago, Paventi told me. A deco monument abruptly went dark. National Grid, which took over the building decades ago, hired a group of design specialists to update and reignite a vast system of LED lights, all centered around a stunning deco sculpture called “The Spirit of Light.” The result reaffirms what Brandston told me decades ago, when I wrote for the Post-Standard in Syracuse. “You have no idea how special this building is.” With respect, I gently told him: I think I do. That story – with Christmas at the heart of it – begins in Buffalo, with a building architect Mike Chadwick of Iskalo Development affectionately calls a "wedding cake rocketship." My central Yuletide memories involve that “Electric Tower,” though when I was a kid we knew it as the Electric Building − because that is the way my dad and his co-workers described it. My father spent his career moving coal along the waterfront for Niagara Mohawk. He started at the now-shuttered Huntley station in Tonawanda and then became a coal handler at Dunkirk's now-long-closed steam station. Every year, not long before Christmas, we would head to Buffalo, where the first stop was always the tower. My father would go into the deco lobby to pick up his savings, and then we would hit Sears and Roebuck on Main Street and Jefferson Avenue − my parents somehow trying to shop, without us seeing − before going downtown to find Santa Claus at the department stores. The spiritual highlight, each December, was when night fell and Yuletide lights snapped on atop the Electric Tower. This was long before the tower, owned now by Iskalo, became the centerpiece of New Year's Eve celebrations. I was a little kid. I had no idea it had been designed in 1912 by Esenwein & Johnson, who were inspired by a similar landmark at the Pan-American Exposition and by an ancient lighthouse in Alexandria. M&T Bank's gold dome branch, left, the Hiker statue, center, and the Electric Tower are lit up by lights in downtown Buffalo on Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2024. I didn’t know the original lighting was a design statement by W. D'Arcy Ryan, a global pioneer in outdoor illumination – both at Niagara Falls and the Manhattan skyline. And I didn’t know a guy named Paul Schoellkopf, as president of Niagara Hudson in the early 1930s, brought in Bley and Lyman to do extensive deco work in Buffalo, Niagara Falls and Syracuse. In this regard, Michael Kless speaks for much of Buffalo. He is chief engineer at the Electric Tower, the Washington Street landmark owned by Iskalo Development. That means he has 14 floors worth of equipment and wiring to deal with every day, creating a building that to an engineer almost becomes a living thing. Yet this is no ordinary They were "maybe the leading deco firm in the city,” said architectural historian Martin Wachadlo – though he gave a respectful nod to John J. Wade, architect of City Hall. Wachadlo noted Bley and Lyman created a 1930s pamphlet about deco style, available in the research library of the Buffalo History Museum, in which they wrote: “The public’s attention is attracted to a building at night, it is true, by brilliant illumination, but where a number of buildings are equally striving for attention that building which exhibits an ingenious and imaginative use of light will finally win the attention of the public. Cars drive by the Electric Tower in downtown Buffalo on Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2024. “Such a building,” they wrote, “will fix itself in the mind of the public more strongly and will be remembered long after the others have been forgotten.” Certainly they saw proof in the Electric Tower, graceful beaux arts neoclassical design elevated by what Ryan did with lights at night. Bley and Lyman put their deco principles to work in a smaller but striking Niagara Hudson building, in Niagara Falls. Yet the dizzying apex of their deco vision was part of what became known as the Niagara Mohawk Building in Syracuse. Melvin King was listed as supervising architect. Still, as Chuck LaChiusa’s Buffalo Architecture and History site asserts, Bley and Lyman were “listed as consulting architects but they had designed other structures for the company ... and it is thought that the design came out their office.” The building was a vessel for the entire idea of how power could transform the world, and the design took that notion, as Dennis Connors said, “to the nth degree.” The Niagara Mohawk building, burning pure white in Syracuse. “It was kind of this unique and specific aspect of upstate New York, this idea of electricity and power and so much starting with the Falls, and it all fits right into the whole stream of art deco,” he said. In their 1930s essay, Bley and Lyman reflected on how deco architects could utilize the way light and shadow play with intensity "upon different materials,” as well as “command (of) not only color but movement.” All of it is evident, today, in the NiMo Building. Paventi said it's coincidence that the relighting happened during the holidays, but the building's shifting array of colors included reds and greens of the season when my son and I stopped by a few days ago. How beautiful is it? At 65, I felt the kind of awe I felt at 5, beneath the Electric Tower. The effect was so spectacular that many motorists, overwhelmed, pulled over, parked their cars and tried to somehow capture what they were feeling, with their phones. Erie Bouelvard entrance to a Bley and Lyman masterpiece, the NiMo building in Syracuse. The enduring love and passion of Buffalo fans – dogged, raucous loyalty that's now part of the international football persona of this city – helps explain why these championship Bills still live in greater Buffalo, six decades later. It left me thinking of the dreams of Bley and Lyman, how Bley died in 1940 and Lyman in 1966, though their hope − in Buffalo and beyond − was to do something that would be "remembered long after." Standing there last week, I thought: They pulled it off. We talk a lot, with good reason, about the scholarly legacy of great architects. But the real gift of a truly stunning building is something more elemental, the power to raise a child’s eyes toward the sky and to cause that kid to realize – in a sudden communion of light and structure, with a spark of genius – the daily presence of unexpected, soul-lifting beauty. In Buffalo, looking up, I call that Christmas. Sean Kirst is a columnist with The Buffalo News. Email him at skirst@buffnews.com . 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By TOM KRISHER, Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — For a second time, a Delaware judge has nullified a pay package that Tesla had awarded its CEO, Elon Musk, that once was valued at $56 billion. On Monday, Chancellor Kathaleen St. Jude McCormick turned aside a request from Musk’s lawyers to reverse a ruling she announced in January that had thrown out the compensation plan. The judge ruled then that Musk effectively controlled Tesla’s board and had engineered the outsize pay package during sham negotiations . Lawyers for a Tesla shareholder who sued to block the pay package contended that shareholders who had voted for the 10-year plan in 2018 had been given misleading and incomplete information. In their defense, Tesla’s board members asserted that the shareholders who ratified the pay plan a second time in June had done so after receiving full disclosures, thereby curing all the problems the judge had cited in her January ruling. As a result, they argued, Musk deserved the pay package for having raised Tesla’s market value by billions of dollars. McCormick rejected that argument. In her 103-page opinion, she ruled that under Delaware law, Tesla’s lawyers had no grounds to reverse her January ruling “based on evidence they created after trial.” On Monday night, Tesla posted on X, the social media platform owned by Musk, that the company will appeal. The appeal would be filed with the Delaware Supreme Court, the only state appellate court Tesla can pursue. Experts say a ruling would likely come in less than a year. “The ruling, if not overturned, means that judges and plaintiffs’ lawyers run Delaware companies rather than their rightful owners — the shareholders,” Tesla argued. Later, on X, Musk unleashed a blistering attack on the judge, asserting that McCormick is “a radical far left activist cosplaying as a judge.” Legal authorities generally suggest that McCormick’s ruling was sound and followed the law. Charles Elson, founding director of the Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance at the University of Delaware, said that in his view, McCormick was right to rule that after Tesla lost its case in the original trial, it created improper new evidence by asking shareholders to ratify the pay package a second time. Had she allowed such a claim, he said, it would cause a major shift in Delaware’s laws against conflicts of interest given the unusually close relationship between Musk and Tesla’s board. “Delaware protects investors — that’s what she did,” said Elson, who has followed the court for more than three decades. “Just because you’re a ‘superstar CEO’ doesn’t put you in a separate category.” Elson said he thinks investors would be reluctant to put money into Delaware companies if there were exceptions to the law for “special people.” Elson said that in his opinion, the court is likely to uphold McCormick’s ruling. Experts say no. Rulings on state laws are normally left to state courts. Brian Dunn, program director for the Institute of Compensation Studies at Cornell University, said it’s been his experience that Tesla has no choice but to stay in the Delaware courts for this compensation package. The company could try to reconstitute the pay package and seek approval in Texas, where it may expect more friendlier judges. But Dunn, who has spent 40 years as an executive compensation consultant, said it’s likely that some other shareholder would challenge the award in Texas because it’s excessive compared with other CEOs’ pay plans. “If they just want to turn around and deliver him $56 billion, I can’t believe somebody wouldn’t want to litigate it,” Dunn said. “It’s an unconscionable amount of money.” Almost certainly. Tesla stock is trading at 15 times the exercise price of stock options in the current package in Delaware, Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas wrote in a note to investors. Tesla’s share price has doubled in the past six months, Jonas wrote. At Monday’s closing stock price, the Musk package is now worth $101.4 billion, according to Equilar, an executive data firm. And Musk has asked for a subsequent pay package that would give him 25% of Tesla’s voting shares. Musk has said he is uncomfortable moving further into artificial intelligence with the company if he doesn’t have 25% control. He currently holds about 13% of Tesla’s outstanding shares.Boise State's legacy includes winning coaches and championship moments