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Yahoo
6 days ago
- Business
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North Syracuse neighbors not happy with new trash rollout
VILLAGE OF NORTH SYRACUSE, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — Some viewers have reached out to the Your Stories Team, wondering why the Village of North Syracuse didn't give its residents more notice about changes to its trash pickup. Neighbors who contacted us and those posting online said they were surprised when their trash and recycling bins were picked up this week and driven away by Syracuse Trash Haulers. Several people claimed they had no clue what was happening until an 'Urgent Notice' from the village was put on their door telling them of the trash change. 'Talk about poor planning,' one resident wrote on the Village of North Syracuse Facebook page. According to North Syracuse Mayor Gary Butterfield, the village's contract with Syracuse Haulers expires at the end of the month. Starting June 1, Butler Disposal will become the village's new trash and recycling hauler. He said the village is required to accept the lowest bid, which was Butler. Butterfield said the village worked with Onondaga County to help with the bidding process. He said they had a short window to alert the people of North Syracuse of the contract change. He added they posted the information on their website and Facebook page, but admits the communication wasn't perfect. He said they could have done better with the transition and getting the word out. The village said Butler will drop off new trash and recycling carts starting June 5. 'So, where is the trash supposed to be stored in the meantime?' Another resident posted on Facebook. The mayor said that while the carts will not be delivered until June 5, Butler will start picking up trash on the week of June 2nd. 'June 2nd, June 3rd, and June 4th, will have manual trash pickup that will pick up your bags at the road….trash on one side, recyclables on the other side. If you can save your recyclables/trash until the following week – perfect – you will have a tote available for the following week. Again, we apologize for any of these difficulties,' The Village of North Syracuse wrote on its Facebook page. Submit a form. North Syracuse neighbors not happy with new trash rollout Your Stories Q&A: Is construction starting on the final phases of Loop the Lake trail around Onondaga Lake? Your Stories Q&A: Dollar store proposed for old North Syracuse Walgreens Your Stories Update: New traffic light installed at 'dangerous' intersection Your Stories Q&A: Children's mental health center planned for vacant lot in Cicero Your Stories Q&A: What's next for closed Big Lots in Oswego? Your Stories Q&A: When will Thruway exit 34A in DeWitt reopen? Your Stories Q&A: Uncle Chubby's in Clay reopening after being closed for 18 months Your Stories Q&A: What documents do I need to bring to DMV to get REAL ID? Your Stories Q&A: Is my Social Security number shown when a store scans my REAL ID license? 'Why do you have to live in a war zone if you're not part of the war?': Syracuse landlord frustrated by bullets on his block Your Stories Q&A: When will the new Chick-fil-A open in DeWitt? Your Stories Q&A: When will the rough ramp near Destiny USA get repaired? Do you need a REAL ID by May 7? What to know Your Stories Q&A: Is Byrne Dairy still replacing former TK Tavern in Camillus? Your Stories Q&A: An update on the future of Beck's Hotel in Mexico Your Stories Q&A: When will new comfort food restaurant open in Bridgeport? Your Stories Q&A: $100 million golf course community planned at former Syracuse country club Your Stories Q&A: Utica bakery known for its half-moon cookies opening spot in Manlius After nearly two weeks, hot water returns to Nob Hill Apartments building Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Business Wire
09-05-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
Butterfield 2025 Annual General Meeting Voting Results
HAMILTON, Bermuda--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Son Limited ('the Bank') (BSX: (NYSE: NTB) announced the results of the Shareholders' vote at the Bank's Annual General Meeting held in virtual format yesterday (May 8, 2025). Each of the proposals numbered 1 through 3 on the Meeting Agenda was approved by the requisite vote, including the re-election of Michael Collins, Alastair Barbour, Stephen E. Cummings, Mark Lynch, Ingrid Pierce, Jana Schreuder, Michael Schrum and John Wright as Directors. About Butterfield: Butterfield is a full-service bank and wealth manager headquartered in Hamilton, Bermuda, providing services to clients from Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, Guernsey and Jersey, where our principal banking operations are located, and The Bahamas, Switzerland, Singapore and the United Kingdom, where we offer specialized financial services. Banking services comprise deposit, cash management and lending solutions for individual, business and institutional clients. Wealth management services are composed of trust, private banking, asset management and custody. In Bermuda, the Cayman Islands and Guernsey, we offer both banking and wealth management. In The Bahamas, Singapore and Switzerland, we offer select wealth management services. In the UK, we offer residential property lending. In Jersey, we offer select banking and wealth management services. Butterfield is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange (symbol: NTB) and the Bermuda Stock Exchange (symbol: Further details on the Butterfield Group can be obtained from our website at: BF-All
Forbes
28-04-2025
- Business
- Forbes
This Former Musk Assistant Ran His Calendar. Now She's Backing His Companies.
In 2016, when she was 25 years old, Elissa Butterfield, a Los Angeles native working in the entertainment industry, accepted a new job that would change her life—she went to work for Elon Musk. At the time, Musk was not the household figure he is today. He was worth closer to $10 billion, or 38 times less than he is now. For two years, as one of Musk's team of executive assistants, Butterfield helped manage her mercurial boss' calendar and ever-changing priorities, from rescuing kids in a cave in Thailand to tunneling holes in Tesla's parking lot. She coordinated calls with investors, moved around meetings, and juggled Musk's wide-ranging portfolio, from Tesla and SpaceX duties to his eccentric extracurriculars and new ventures. In 2018, she graduated to operational roles at both Tesla and SpaceX, before leaving Musk's payroll in 2022. 'I got the impression she was incredibly loyal and must have been incredibly effective,' says a former SpaceX employee. Now, Butterfield is capitalizing on her experience and connections. Since she joined Los Angeles-based venture capital firm Island Green Capital Management in 2024, the firm has made investments in xAI and SpaceX, Musk's two fastest-growing companies. Island Green, founded in 2023 by former Goldman Sachs trader Ateet Ahluwalia, was one of at least 61 investors to participate in xAI's $6 billion investment round last May, which valued the startup at $24 billion, according to Pitchbook. In January, Island Green bought a stake in SpaceX from an unknown seller, likely at a valuation of around $350 billion (which the company hit last December in a $1.25 billion share sale). Island Green's SpaceX bet was through a special-purpose vehicle, a structure popular with investors clamoring to get a piece of SpaceX (and willing to pay a fee), according to a person familiar with the matter. Island Green's Musk-linked bets have already appreciated on paper. xAI raised an additional $6 billion in November at a $50 billion valuation. The valuation hit $80 billion in Musk's merger last month between xAI and his social media company X; and now Musk is reportedly seeking to raise even more money for xAI at a 'proper value,' one that Bloomberg recently suggested could be as high as $120 billion. Likewise, SpaceX shares are now trading in secondary markets at valuations of between $380 million to $400 billion, according to market data trackers PM Insights and Caplight. Island Green has also backed Impulse Space, the startup of another SpaceX alum, Tom Mueller, who was one of the rocket maker's first employees and lead engineer on its rocket. Butterfield's firm participated in a $150 million fundraising round last October, which valued the startup at $510 million, according to PitchBook. Before Butterfield's arrival, Island Green – which now reports $88 million of assets under management — had made just two other bets, in defense company Shield AI and robotics company Formic. Butterfield joins the growing list of Musk alumni to strike deals and launch companies in the Musk-influenced venture capital and startup world. Several of Musk's top executives have amassed hundred-million, even billion-dollar fortunes. Veterans of SpaceX have so far launched 116 companies and raised $6.1 billion in venture capital, according to the SpaceX alumni founders website. Musk's chief of staff from 2014 until 2019, who hired Butterfield, Sam Teller joined Valor Equity Partners, the firm run by Musk's billionaire pal and investor Antonio Gracias, and was a partner there for three and a half years. Unlike her former boss, Butterfield keeps a low profile. She did not return Forbes' requests for comment for this article. The 34-year-old Los Angeles native graduated Cum Laude in 2013 from Belmont University, a private Christian university in Nashville, with a music business degree, according to the university registrar's office. She began her career at talent agency WME, rising to the role of assistant to the head of events, according to her LinkedIn. She then jumped to Musk's team of executive assistants. There was always something to do in those days. In 2016, when Musk ordered his lieutenants to start digging a pilot project in the Tesla parking lot for his nascent tunneling startup (which became the Boring Company), Butterfield was the one who scrambled to get all the Tesla workers to move their cars, as recounted in author Walter Isaacon's biography of Musk. In 2018, when Musk decided to turn SpaceX's launch pad in Boca Chica, Texas into the dedicated base for Starship (SpaceX's newest and largest rocket), he put Butterfield in charge of manufacturing a community for the hundreds of engineers and construction workers working around the clock; she brought in Airstream trailers, palm trees, a tiki bar, and a deck with a fire pit, according to Isaacson's book. She also got dragged into Musk's flights of fancy. In July 2018, when he assigned a group of engineers at SpaceX and the Boring Company to manufacture a mini submarine to help save a group of boys stuck in a cave in Thailand, Butterfield was among those coordinating the details. She helped schedule Musk's flight to Thailand and was apparently relaying Musk's engineering ideas (something involving a 'zero-force zipper solution' for a 'Thai cave tube') to Musk's chief of staff Sam Teller and engineer Steve Davis, president of the Boring Company and one of Musk righthands, per exhibits from a 2018 lawsuit (in which British cave diver Vernon Unsworth unsuccessfully sued Musk for defamation after Musk called him a 'pedo guy' on Twitter). And like any effective company employee, Butterfield learned to manage the boss's moods. In organizing his SpaceX duties, Butterfield tried to 'avoid ever skipping [the] Mars Colonizer [meeting], because that was the most fun meeting for him and always put him in a good mood,' she told Isaacson. According to her LinkedIn, Butterfield became a director of SpaceX's office of the CEO in 2021. One person familiar with her role says she was brought back on then as an executive assistant to cover for a colleague out on maternity leave. Either way, Butterfield left SpaceX for good in 2022 and joined a biotech company as its chief operating officer and founded her own company, Bread and Butterfield LLC. But she left her new gig after a year, and her LLC, while still active, does not appear to be affiliated with any operating business. Guess she wasn't quite ready to leave Musk's orbit for good.
Daily Mirror
22-04-2025
- Daily Mirror
Woman who cut off mum's head locked in chilling prison feud with another twisted killer
Jessica Camilleri and Rebecca Jane Butterfield, regarded as two of the most dangerous prisoners in Australia, are understood to be sworn enemies - and have allegedly even been given a strict non-association order Two twisted killers in one of the most notorious prisons in Australia are said to be locked in a feud so bitter, they're under strict orders never to see each other ever again. In July 2019, Jessica Camilleri decapitated her own mother, Rita Camilleri, 57, before allegedly asking whether she could be brought back to life if her head was reattached to her body and her heart restarted. The horror film obsessive, whose favourite movie is believed to be The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, already "had a lengthy history of assaulting people" before stabbing full-time carer Rita more than 100 times. The NSW Supreme Court also heard Camilleri, now 37, would threaten people during random prank calls, including ones where she claimed she would cut off their heads with a knife. Following her 2020 murder trial in Sydney, jurors found Camilleri guilty of manslaughter due to substantial impairment. Now, Camilleri is serving out a reduced sentence of 16 years and six months, with a non-parole period of 12 years, at the infamous Silverwater Maximum Security Correctional Complex. She's reportedly continued to carry out vicious attacks on prison guards and fellow inmates alike, allegedly ripping out "clumps of hair" during violent altercations. Behind the grim prison walls, Camilleri is also reportedly at war with a woman regarded as Australia's most dangerous female criminal, Rebecca Jane Butterfield. Butterfield, 50, first started her sentence as a low-risk inmate in 2000, after she assaulted a neighbour who had attempted to help her with injuries following an incident of self-harming. Her behaviour then escalated in 2003, when she murdered her fellow inmate and only friend, Bluce Lim Ward, who had been nearing the end of her fraud sentence, by stabbing her 33 times using industrial scissors. Like Camilleri, Butterfield has a reputation at Silverwater for being aggressive. There are currently reports on more than 110 disciplinary matters in her file, including 40 incidents of assault. And it's understood that Butterfield has a particularly strong dislike of Camilleri, with the two women having been enemies since the moment they met. Now, a prison insider has told the Daily Mail Australia that the pair have been given a non-association order, which means they are prohibited from associating with each other or communicating under any circumstances. The source explained: "They hate each other and Butterfield even claims that when Camilleri talks about chopping her mum's head off, which she frequently does, it sets her off on violent outbursts." They added: "Butterfield spirals with any mention of her stepmum, which is probably why Camilleri talking about her mum triggers her." Discussing Camilleri's outbursts, another insider told the publication: "She has become an ongoing problem. She has to be monitored at all times because she will use any opportunity to cause harm. There has already been time added to her sentence for attacks involving extreme hair-pulling. She has scalped people with her bare hands, and anything can set her off." In 2024, Butterfield was reportedly transferred from Silverwater Women's Correctional Centre, in Sydney's west, to Long Bay prison 2024. However, in May of that same year, she was quietly released from prison and admitted to a secure forensic hospital as an involuntary patient, where she receives ongoing treatment for various severe mental health disorders. Although Butterfield's full-term sentence ended almost eight years ago, the question remains as to what will happen next, with facility doctors left to face the decision as to whether she can ever be permitted to rejoin the community. Meanwhile, Camilleri is currently serving her sentence at Dillwynia Correctional Centre in Sydney's west, where she allegedly pulled "clumps of hair" from the scalp of a fellow prisoner back in February - allegedly the sixth incident of this nature.
Yahoo
09-04-2025
- General
- Yahoo
The academics incensed by the woke overhaul of Oxford's 800-year-old graduation ceremony
For centuries, Oxford students have graduated inside the sandstone walls of the Sheldonian Theatre. But this year, students have been sent scrambling back to their blossom-filled quads for their Latin textbooks, to see if they ought to be offended by the ceremonial language used in their upcoming graduations. Late last month, it was revealed that Oxford plans to make the Latin gender-neutral, to cater to those who identify as non-binary. The proposed changes, which will be voted on by Congregation, the university's governing body, on April 29, involve stripping out the grammatically gendered masculine or feminine words. Instead of referring to masters students as 'magistri' (masters) – a masculine word – the new text uses the term 'vos', which is the neutral term for 'you'. The word 'doctores' (doctors), which is also masculine, may also be changed. Congregation has a little more than 5,000 members, and a simple majority vote settles most matters. It is expected that these latest proposed changes will be passed with little fanfare, much to the annoyance of a number of esteemed Latin experts, Oxford students and university staff. 'It really is Schrodinger's Latin,' says David Butterfield, a professor of Latin, who officiated University of Cambridge graduation ceremonies in the ancient language for eight years. 'You cannot hide the fact that grammatical gender is baked into the language. If you want to be non-binary, you have to retreat to the neuter gender, which Latin uses for the subhuman and inanimate. But nobody wants to be an 'it', so Oxford has fudged things by removing any word that explicitly differs in form between the masculine and feminine genders. The result is incredible and weird Latin.' Prof Butterfield describes the new Latin as 'tortuous abstractions' that 'go against the simple spirit' of the ceremony. 'It reads more like legalese jargon than ceremonial celebration,' he says, adding: 'I regret that striking and beautiful phrases, such as Domini doctores, are being replaced with the empty, and rather abrupt, vos.' For many students, graduating in Latin is a great hallmark of Oxford tradition. Dressed in black and white, they line up in rows of four, bow to the vice-chancellor, and solemnly reply 'do fidem', meaning 'I agree', to the conditions of their degree. In the graduation ceremony, an official known as the dean of degrees takes the hand of a student and presents them to the vice-chancellor in Latin. Before, he would say: 'Praesento vobis hunc baccalaureum in artibus', which, for those of us who didn't study declensions hard enough at school, loosely translates as: 'I present to you this scholar of mine'. The proposed change removes the word 'hunc', a masculine word, and instead adds on 'hic adstantem', meaning 'standing here'. 'Hic is an adverb and has no gender, and the gender of ad stantem is not revealed, so it can sort of hedge as non-binary,' explains Prof Butterfield. The University of Oxford argues that 'the proposed changes before Congregation create a single text for each ceremony, covering all options students now have for registering genders in line with legal reporting requirements for higher education'. But for some academics who know their Catullus from their Pliny, the language change places tradition at risk. 'Oxford and Cambridge are not only elite in the academic sense, but elite and renowned in a historical sense. Whether you're a class-A Latinist or not, the fact that this change has been made shows that, little by little, the foundations of tradition are going to be eroded,' says one lecturer, who does not wish to be named. 'It's the start of a slippery slope, which once you've gone down, you're not going to go back.' Another senior fellow of an Oxford college likens the Latin used to the wording of the Book of Common Prayer, arguing that it should be 'protected' from any change. 'The language is set apart from modern colloquial English, and this protects it from the problems that can arise from the ways in which modern English is constantly changing in its nuances and implications,' he says. 'The university administrators are just pointlessly importing modern problems where they don't belong.' Nigel Biggar, a professor of theology at Oxford, also opposes the changes. ''Gendered' pronouns refer to objective biological sex, not subjective identities that endorse stereotypes or transcend them,' he says. Latin is the language of classical scholarship, dating back to the fall of the Western Roman Empire, around AD 476, when it served as the primary language of higher education and scholarship in Europe. And as such, it 'transcended normal bonds of kinship and belonging', explains Douglas Hedley, a professor of philosophy of religion at Clare College, Cambridge. 'It's a tradition grounded in the European idea for university, when the modern nation state was embryonic or, in some cases, non-existent, and Latin was the common language.' For him, the changes at Oxford are an 'attempt to address the latest fad and to try to impose it on an ancient tradition', which he describes as 'incongruous' and 'virtue signalling'. Oxford doesn't publicly release specific numbers of non-binary students, but according to a Times Higher Education survey in 2022, around 0.2 per cent of UK university students identify as 'other gender', which translates to roughly 14 students out of Oxford's 7,000 annual admissions. This was a 42 per cent increase compared with the number the year before, and more than double that in 2018-19. Henry Morris, a 20-year-old studying ancient and modern history at Somerville, is one of the 0.2 per cent identifying as non-binary at Oxford. 'It makes it a bit more personal,' says Morris, who has identified as non-binary since the age of 14. 'It's very nice to have tradition and celebrations, but Oxford is already an elitist institution which is fundamentally unwelcoming. Knowing that the language has changed makes it that bit more welcoming for me.' Though most Oxford students admit that they do not understand the Latin being spoken to them during the ceremony, Morris argues that 'most students would welcome inclusive language.' Other Latin dons at Oxford agree with Morris and say that despite being 'dead', the language should be allowed to evolve. 'There's absolutely no reason why the use of Latin shouldn't move with the times if one wants it to,' declares Armand D'Angour, a professor of classical languages at Jesus College, Oxford. 'After all, classical Latin had no use for the word 'universitas' other than to mean 'totality', but it became the standard word for a university in the 13th century, and now it's clearly indispensable.' He describes getting rid of the masculine and feminine genders in the ceremony as 'a neat solution'. Chris Pelling, a professor of Greek at Christ Church college, agrees: 'The proposed form is perfectly good Latin, and is arguably less clumsy than the form that has been used up till now,' he says. 'There have often been changes made before, most obviously when women were first awarded degrees, and the roof of the Sheldonian Theatre has not fallen in.' But to many students, being denied the privilege of partaking in tradition is a dismaying prospect, as they will be graduating in a different way to previous generations of Oxford students. 'It draws a line between us and them, rather than uniting us under one universal tradition,' says Lydia Dicicco, a 22-year-old student studying Spanish and Italian at St Catherine's College. She describes the changes as 'splitting hairs' in the language. 'When I hear words like 'guys', I never expect it to just refer to men, as it is just one of those words that includes everyone,' she says. 'Similarly, with 'magistri', it is obviously not just talking about men. Women have been graduating from Oxford for 100 years.' 'It feels like change for change's sake,' says Mitchell Palmer, 23, a history and economics student at New College. 'I don't particularly understand why this change needs to be made, seeing as most European languages are gendered. There's no need to throw millennia of linguistic evolution out the window due to a current political problem.' Over at 'the other place', Cambridge academics, while not quaking in their boots, are wary of a similar directive taking shape. 'It would be a travesty if this happened at Cambridge after 800 years of doing it a particular way,' says David Abulafia, a professor of Mediterranean history. He points out that Girton College has a male vice-mistress because it was originally founded as a female-only college in the late 1800s. 'Nobody is offended by those words, which signify legitimation.' According to Prof Hedley, if Cambridge were to initiate the change, there would be more at stake than some altered text: 'It would be a lamentable index of the decay of our civilisation.' Additional reporting by Flora Prideaux Broaden your horizons with award-winning British journalism. Try The Telegraph free for 1 month with unlimited access to our award-winning website, exclusive app, money-saving offers and more.
