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Sara Weller is Britain's bravest businesswoman By RUTH SUNDERLAND Updated: 21:51, 23 November 2024 e-mail View comments Silence: Sara Weller wants senior people to talk about their disabilities Sara Weller was a golden girl with a golden life. Her brilliant career as a retail executive was complemented by a picture-perfect family, with a supportive husband and two children. And then it all unravelled. Weller, now 63, was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Having jetted around the world for her job – at one point she took day trips to India – she is now in a wheelchair. Even more devastating than the collapse in her health was the end of her marriage in a painful divorce. Far from being crushed, however, Weller has emerged stronger. She is using her unique platform as one of the UK's leading business people and a woman with MS to help end disability discrimination in the workplace. Before she discovered she had MS in 2009, she had enjoyed an almost seamless ascent to the top, coupled with what looked like an idyllic domestic life. At her peak, she was managing director of Argos, and arguably the most powerful woman in UK retail. In a previous job at Sainsbury's, she narrowly missed out on becoming the chief executive. MS did not derail her working life for long. She may no longer be the golden girl, but she has earned a far greater accolade: the bravest woman in corporate Britain. Weller is now an independent director at telecoms giant BT and Virgin Money. She is also determined to use her clout to speak out for people with disabilities. 'There are probably around 1,000 directors on FTSE 100 boards and I am the only one sharing the fact I have a disability,' she says. 'If that was the number for gender or race, there would be riots. But the fact there is only one person with a declared disability? Nobody bats an eyelid.' Should there be a target for disabled directors as there is for women? 'It is very complex. Many disabilities are not visible and senior people don't want to talk about it, which creates a conspiracy of silence. People are afraid it will be perceived as a weakness. But if senior people do not talk about their disabilities, then it is a conspiracy of silence.' Her next project is an inaugural day of action in February to help end disability exclusion. This will help businesses do better at including disabled people. 'Some of the most hard-nosed business people have been the most incredibly supportive of me,' she says. RELATED ARTICLES Previous 1 Next The 'last unspoken bias' in business: Former Argos boss... Spread the message there is no shame in claiming pension... Share this article Share HOW THIS IS MONEY CAN HELP How to choose the best (and cheapest) stocks and shares Isa and the right DIY investing account 'I would like senior people to share their experience of disabilities. I would like to see transparent reporting. The focus should be on line managers. They are the difference between people feeling included and feeling excluded.' Unsparingly honest about her emotions, she says she feels her disability is 'a failure and a flaw. Even though logically I know it is not the case, I still feel a lesser person.' No-one else would remotely agree. Her latest achievement is to have completed the London Marathon in her wheelchair, raising a quarter of a million pounds for the MS Society. Most people would be exhausted just navigating her daily life – there are issues entering buildings, crossing roads and going to the loo – let alone being a director of a blue-chip company as well. She is understandably ambivalent about her condition. At the same time as perceiving it as a flaw, she also acknowledges it as a superpower, that has enabled her to make a far bigger impact. 'Without it, I would have just been a director like lots of others. But because of the combination of my career and my MS, I can do things nobody else can,' she says. Even before her diagnosis, as a woman from a modest family background, Weller had defied the odds to reach the top in corporate Britain, which at the start of her career was still dominated by privately-schooled men. Brought up in Weymouth, Dorset, she went to the local grammar school and won a place at New College Oxford to read chemistry. 'I struggled a lot socially and a bit academically too,' she says. She excelled despite her self-doubt, gaining a first-class degree and a research prize as well as playing badminton for the university. Weller learned to be resilient at an early age. Her father died when she was just 14. She and her elder sister, Fiona, had to be self-reliant because their mother, now 96, was busy caring for their dad. 'Overwhelmingly, that was a good thing. The marginal downside is I am reluctant to ask for help.' 'My mum was not a rabid feminist, but she definitely believed that women could do things. She has always been behind me, and that is the most powerful thing. I try to do that with my children.' Her first job was at Mars, which at the time was an incubator for future chief executives. Her contemporaries included Allan Leighton, who became boss of Asda, and Richard Baker, a former chief at Boots. Having worked on filled chocolate bars, including Bounty, Twix and Snickers, she left when it became too hard to juggle the job with her two children, Sophie and Adam, now both adults. Her later roles included a senior position at Sainsbury's, where she was pipped for the top job by Justin King in 2004. 'Justin started the same day as me at Mars, so you can imagine how that felt,' she says. Does she regret never having been a FTSE 100 chief executive? She doesn't answer directly, but says she was approached by grocer Morrisons in 2008 and 'concluded I didn't want to do it.' It was around that time, in her late forties, that she discovered she had MS. 'I was always somebody who planned for tomorrow, because my parents were always preparing for the day my dad died. With my diagnosis, my mindset changed to live for today, because I don't know what I will be able to do tomorrow.' More was to come as her marriage unravelled. Her divorce in 2014 was 'painful on a level way beyond anything else. It was much worse than my diagnosis.' 'I learned I had MS in a world where I had a supportive family and a career. Suddenly, the support system fell away. 'It took away the whole underpinning of my story. My narrative had to be rewritten. I have never wanted another partner, for two reasons: one is that I failed the first time, even though I thought I made a good choice, so why would I think I wouldn't fail again? 'And I think, why would anybody want to link up with someone who has a terminal condition? To protect myself from a sense of rejection, it is easier to say I don't want a partner. No-one that I would want would want me.' Her life is busy and fulfilled with her children, wider family, her friends and her work. 'A partner would have to fit into a little corner of my world, which is not fair. There are odd occasions when I feel a bit bereft, if I'm at an event and everyone else has a partner, but I have chosen this way.' Inevitably, she says, there have been 'days when I would just want to sit in a corner and dissolve into tears'. 'But work has always been my safety blanket and a reason to keep going. It has become my raison d'etre. I can contribute more now.' 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We do not write articles to promote products. We do not allow any commercial relationship to affect our editorial independence. More top storiesStanford and California meet for the first time as Atlantic Coast Conference rivals when each tries to prove its impressive non-league record is no fluke on Saturday afternoon in Berkeley, Calif. Stanford (7-2) took last year's season series 2-1, but the clubs were so evenly matched -- the Cardinal won 14 games, the Golden Bears 13 -- it took overtime at the final Pacific-12 Conference tournament to determine the rivalry winner. The teams enter their first meeting this season with the same number of losses, but Cal (6-2) has had the edge in strength of schedule. The Golden Bears were invited to play in the SEC/ACC Challenge, in which they squandered a second-half lead en route to a 98-93 loss at Missouri. Cal's only other loss also came on the road at a Southeastern Conference site, an 85-69 setback at Vanderbilt on Nov. 13. Meanwhile, Stanford has played seven of its nine games at home and hasn't left the state of California. The Cardinal were beaten by Grand Canyon at a neutral site on Nov. 26 before getting shocked at home by Cal Poly last Saturday. This Saturday's matchup is the first since Andrej Stojakovic, Stanford's prize recruit last year, transferred to Cal after just one season. The son of former NBA standout Peja Stojakovic leads the Golden Bears in scoring at 18.8 points per game. Andrej Stojakovic has averaged 31.9 minutes per game for Cal after getting just 22.3 per game as a freshman at Stanford a season ago. He said anticipating that type of greater opportunity prompted his move across the San Francisco Bay. "I thought that when I played a large amount of minutes (last season), I performed to what I was expected to do from the staff and the program," he noted. "But just going into Cal and having a more consistent role and having the confidence instilled from the staff has been huge so far." Stanford returned just one of its top seven scorers from last season, but that was center Maxime Raynaud. The preseason All-ACC selection is averaging 22.3 points and 12.2 rebounds per game, with double-doubles in eight of nine outings. He had two double-doubles and a pair of 20-point games against Cal last season. Duke transfer Jaylen Blakes offered a unique perspective on his first Stanford-Cal experience. "Every ACC game is going to be a challenge," he claimed. "(Cal is) a rivalry game, but we are just trying to get a win." --Field Level Media3 match earn 。

WASHINGTON — Special counsel Jack Smith moved to abandon two criminal cases against Donald Trump on Monday, acknowledging that Trump’s return to the White House will preclude attempts to federally prosecute him for retaining classified documents or trying to overturn his 2020 election defeat. The decision was inevitable, since longstanding Justice Department policy says sitting presidents cannot face criminal prosecution. Yet it was still a momentous finale to an unprecedented chapter in political and law enforcement history, as federal officials attempted to hold accountable a former president while he was simultaneously running for another term. Trump emerges indisputably victorious, having successfully delayed the investigations through legal maneuvers and then winning re-election despite indictments that described his actions as a threat to the country's constitutional foundations. “I persevered, against all odds, and WON," Trump exulted in a post on Truth Social, his social media website. He also said that “these cases, like all of the other cases I have been forced to go through, are empty and lawless, and should never have been brought.” The judge in the election case granted prosecutors' dismissal request. A decision in the documents case was still pending on Monday afternoon. The outcome makes it clear that, when it comes to a president and criminal accusations, nothing supersedes the voters' own verdict. In court filings, Smith's team emphasized that the move to end their prosecutions was not a reflection of the merit of the cases but a recognition of the legal shield that surrounds any commander in chief. “That prohibition is categorical and does not turn on the gravity of the crimes charged, the strength of the Government’s proof, or the merits of the prosecution, which the Government stands fully behind,” prosecutors said in one of their filings. They wrote that Trump’s return to the White House “sets at odds two fundamental and compelling national interests: on the one hand, the Constitution’s requirement that the President must not be unduly encumbered in fulfilling his weighty responsibilities . . . and on the other hand, the Nation’s commitment to the rule of law.” In this situation, “the Constitution requires that this case be dismissed before the defendant is inaugurated,” they concluded. Smith’s team said it was leaving intact charges against two co-defendants in the classified documents case — Trump valet Walt Nauta and Mar-a-Lago property manager Carlos De Oliveira — because “no principle of temporary immunity applies to them.” Steven Cheung, Trump's incoming White House communications director, said Americans “want an immediate end to the political weaponization of our justice system and we look forward to uniting our country.” Trump has long described the investigations as politically motivated, and he has vowed to fire Smith as soon as he takes office in January. Now he will start his second term free from criminal scrutiny by the government that he will lead. The election case brought last year was once seen as one of the most serious legal threats facing Trump as he tried to reclaim the White House. 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In dismissing the case, Chutkan acknowledged prosecutors' request to do so “without prejudice,” raising the possibility that they could try to bring charges against Trump when his term is over. She wrote that is “consistent with the Government’s understanding that the immunity afforded to a sitting President is temporary, expiring when they leave office.” But such a move may be barred by the statute of limitations, and Trump may also try to pardon himself while in office. immunity afforded to a sitting President is temporary, expiring when they leave office. The separate case involving classified documents had been widely seen as legally clear cut, especially because the conduct in question occurred after Trump left the White House and lost the powers of the presidency. 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ADDISON, Texas, Dec. 05, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- CECO Environmental Corp. (Nasdaq: CECO) (together with its consolidated subsidiaries and affiliates, “CECO”), a leading environmentally focused, diversified industrial company whose solutions protect people, the environment and industrial equipment, announced today that the waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended (“HSR”), applicable to CECO’s tender offer for Profire Energy, Inc. (Nasdaq: PFIE) (“PFIE”) expired at 11:59 p.m., Eastern Time, on November 15, 2024. The expiration of the HSR waiting period satisfies one of the conditions to consummate the tender offer. Other conditions remain to be satisfied, including, among others, a minimum tender of shares of common stock of PFIE representing a majority of the total number of outstanding shares of common stock of PFIE. Unless the tender offer is extended, the offer and withdrawal rights will expire at one minute after 11:59 p.m., Eastern Time, on December 31, 2024. ABOUT CECO ENVIRONMENTAL CECO Environmental is a leading environmentally focused, diversified industrial company, serving a broad landscape of industrial air, industrial water, and energy transition markets across the globe through its key business segments: Engineered Systems and Industrial Process Solutions. Providing innovative technology and application expertise, CECO helps companies grow their business with safe, clean, and more efficient solutions that help protect people, the environment and industrial equipment. In regions around the world, CECO works to improve air quality, optimize the energy value chain, and provide custom solutions for applications including power generation, petrochemical processing, general industrial, refining, midstream oil and gas, electric vehicle production, polysilicon fabrication, battery recycling, beverage can, and water/wastewater treatment along with a wide range of other applications. CECO is listed on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol “CECO.” Incorporated in 1966, CECO’s global headquarters is in Addison, Texas. For more information, please visit www.cecoenviro.com . SAFE HARBOR STATEMENT Certain statements in this communication are forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, both as amended, which are intended to be covered by the safe harbor for “forward-looking statements” provided by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Any statements contained in this communication, other than statements of historical fact, including statements about management’s beliefs and expectations, are forward-looking statements and should be evaluated as such. These statements are made on the basis of management’s views and assumptions regarding future events and business performance. We use words such as “believe,” “expect,” “anticipate,” “intends,” “estimate,” “forecast,” “project,” “will,” “plan,” “should” and similar expressions to identify forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such statements. Potential risks and uncertainties, among others, that could cause actual results to differ materially are discussed under “Item 1A. Risk Factors” of CECO’s Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and in CECO’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2023, and include, but are not limited to: the parties’ ability to complete the proposed transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement in the anticipated timeframe or at all; the effect of the announcement or pendency of the proposed transaction on business relationships, operating results, and business generally; risks that the proposed transactions disrupt current plans and operations and potential difficulties in employee retention as a result of the proposed transactions; risks related to diverting management’s attention from ongoing business operations; the outcome of any legal proceedings that may be instituted related to the proposed transactions; the amount of the costs, fees, expenses and other charges related to the proposed transactions; the risk that competing offers or acquisition proposals will be made; the sensitivity of CECO’s business to economic and financial market conditions generally and economic conditions in CECO’s service areas; dependence on fixed price contracts and the risks associated therewith, including actual costs exceeding estimates and method of accounting for revenue; the effect of growth on CECO’s infrastructure, resources and existing sales; the ability to expand operations in both new and existing markets; the potential for contract delay or cancellation as a result of on-going or worsening supply chain challenges; liabilities arising from faulty services or products that could result in significant professional or product liability, warranty or other claims; changes in or developments with respect to any litigation or investigation; failure to meet timely completion or performance standards that could result in higher cost and reduced profits or, in some cases, losses on projects; the potential for fluctuations in prices for manufactured components and raw materials, including as a result of tariffs and surcharges, and rising energy costs; inflationary pressures relating to rising raw material costs and the cost of labor; the substantial amount of debt incurred in connection with CECO’s strategic transactions and its ability to repay or refinance it or incur additional debt in the future; the impact of federal, state or local government regulations; CECO’s ability to repurchase shares of its common stock and the amounts and timing of repurchases; CECO’s ability to successfully realize the expected benefits of its restructuring program; economic and political conditions generally; CECO’s ability to optimize its business portfolio by identifying acquisition targets, executing upon any strategic acquisitions or divestitures, integrating acquired businesses and realizing the synergies from strategic transactions; and unpredictability and severity of catastrophic events, including cybersecurity threats, acts of terrorism or outbreak of war or hostilities or public health crises, as well as management’s response to any of the aforementioned factors. Many of these risks are beyond management’s ability to control or predict. Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should any related assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may vary in material aspects from those currently anticipated. Investors are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements as they speak only to CECO’s views as of the date the statement is made. Furthermore, the forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made. Except as required under the federal securities laws or the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), CECO undertakes no obligation to update or review any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. Important Additional Information Will be Filed with the SEC This press release is neither an offer to purchase nor a solicitation of an offer to sell common stock of PFIE or any other securities. This communication is for informational purposes only. The tender offer transaction commenced by a subsidiary of CECO is being made pursuant to a tender offer statement on Schedule TO (including the Offer to Purchase, a related Letter of Transmittal and other offer materials) filed by such affiliates of CECO with the SEC. In addition, PFIE will file a solicitation/recommendation statement on Schedule 14D-9 with the SEC related to the tender offer. The offer to purchase shares of PFIE’ common stock is only being made pursuant to the Offer to Purchase, the Letter of Transmittal and related offer materials filed as a part of the tender offer statement on Schedule TO, in each case as amended from time to time. THE TENDER OFFER MATERIALS (INCLUDING THE OFFER TO PURCHASE, THE RELATED LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL AND OTHER MATERIALS) AND THE SOLICITATION/RECOMMENDATION STATEMENT ON SCHEDULE 14D-9 CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION. PRIOR TO MAKING ANY DECISION REGARDING THE TENDER OFFER, PFIE STOCKHOLDERS ARE STRONGLY ADVISED TO CAREFULLY READ THESE DOCUMENTS, AS FILED AND AS THEY MAY BE AMENDED FROM TIME TO TIME, WHEN THEY BECOME AVAILABLE. PFIE stockholders will be able to obtain the tender offer statement on Schedule TO (including the Offer to Purchase, a related Letter of Transmittal and other offer materials) and the related solicitation/recommendation statement on Schedule 14D-9 at no charge on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov . In addition, the tender offer statement on Schedule TO (including the Offer to Purchase, a related Letter of Transmittal and other offer materials) and the related solicitation/recommendation statement on Schedule 14D-9 may be obtained free of charge from D.F. King & Co., Inc. 48 Wall Street, 22nd Floor New York, New York 10005, Telephone Number (866) 342-4881. 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