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Sean Barker can be reached at [email protected] or 789-5651.
Droga5, New York, which last month unveiled its first work for Coke Zero featuring a March Madness brackets theme, returns with a hilarious new spot directed by Smuggler's Randy Krallman. This time, things take a gaming turn, when an MMORPgamer feels a slight twinge of guilt when he realizes he's forgotten to do a huge favor for his girlfriend, and then, not so much. Basically, he's living out Coke Zero's call to action to "Enjoy Everything,"--but maybe he should call on these dudes working for Activision.
The spot continues the brand's push during the NCAA and will be featured across CBS and TBS platforms through April.
After a full year of researching, reciting and rehearsing, debaters from the Cornell Forensics Society are sitting near the top. The debate team ranked in the top 10 in the nation this season. The team took fifth place in a national policy debate competition and finished second in the Northeast Division for the world’s debate competition.
Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that the University’s debate team awards scholarships to its members. In fact, while the team pays for some expenses associated with traveling to competitions, it does not provide any monetary compensation to its members. The Sun regrets the error.
Imagine how Hester Prynne, protagonist of The Scarlet Letter, would have fared in a contemporary high school — a world of Facebook and YouTube; a world where gossip is digitized and privacy extends only as far as your online safety settings. The film Easy A tackles this very question.
What is her background? Jahn Ph.D ’88 studied biology at Swarthmore College as an undergraduate.
The man came out of the residence without incident about 4:05 p.m. and was arrested.
APPLETON - Just before 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, police received a call that a 30-year-old man had physically assaulted a woman at a residence in the 300 block of East Wisconsin Avenue, according to police.
A handgun was reported to have been involved in the incident, Appleton Police Capt. Todd Freeman told USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin.
The initial report was that the victim was struck in the face. She was able to leave the house and refused initial medical attention, Freeman said.
"This guy is known to us and we've been actively looking for him because he has active arrest warrants for serious violations," he said.
That area of East Wisconsin Avenue was closed to traffic during the incident.
"Preliminarily, we know he'll have two arrest warrants and then we're going to have to sort out the involvement of the weapon and if there was a battery and whatnot, so the investigation is still pretty fresh," he said.
In any undertaking, someone always has to go first, and market participants have given Alcoa the honor of being considered the first company to report its quarterly financial results each earnings season. Coming into Thursday afternoon's third-quarter financial report, Alcoa investors didn't have extraordinarily high expectations of the lightweight-metal specialist, and were fully prepared for year-over-year declines in both sales and net income.
The magnitude of those declines, however, was even larger than expected, and the stock responded negatively immediately after the report. Let's take a closer look at what Alcoa said, and what it means for some of its peers going forward.
Alcoa gets crunched Alcoa's third-quarter results brought past improvement to an abrupt halt. Revenue dropped 11%, to $5.57 billion, which was even worse than the 9% sales decline that most investors were expecting to see. On the bottom line, net income plunged 70%, to $44 million, and even after accounting for special items, adjusted earnings of $0.07 per share were just half of the consensus forecast among those following the stock.
As we've seen in past quarters, though, there was considerable choppiness across Alcoa's major segments. The Engineered Products and Solutions division posted record revenue of $1.4 billion, which was up 35% from year-ago levels due largely to major acquisitions over the course of the year. Yet even with the addition of Firth Rixson, operating income for the segment fell $4 million, to $151 million.
Alcoa's other segments also took hits in terms of profitability, with transportation and construction solutions seeing a 12% drop in operating income, global rolled products suffering about a 10% decline, and primary metals posting an operating loss of $59 million compared to a larger profit in the year-ago period. Only the Alumina segment saw better profits, with operating income rising to $212 million thanks to better pricing and volume.
Alcoa CEO Klaus Kleinfeld was quick to remind investors of the challenges the company faced. Yet in his words, "We continue to be laser-focused on the things we can control," and he pointed to cost-cutting measures in the upstream business and innovation in the value-add side of the company as helping to drive Alcoa forward.
What's ahead for Alcoa's markets? For the most part, Alcoa held onto its previous estimates for overall demand in its global end markets. Aerospace should still grow globally by 8% and 9% this year, with long-term aluminum demand rising 6.5% this year on a path to double from 2010 levels by 2020. Alcoa slightly increased its forecasts for global airfoil sales, North American and European auto production, and European heavy-duty truck and trailer production. China will weigh on Alcoa's results, though, with reductions in expectations for automotive, heavy-duty truck, and commercial building and construction sales.
More importantly, though, Alcoa is looking forward to the recently announced split of its value-add and upstream businesses. In the value-add arena, Alcoa pointed to the RTI International acquisition as driving success in obtaining key contracts from major players including Lockheed Martin and Airbus. The company's Micromill project continues to move forward, and investment in its 3-D printing center could help produce key advances in the future that will further distinguish Alcoa from its competitors.
Meanwhile, in upstream, further curtailments of production at higher-cost facilities showed that Alcoa continues to work at reining in costs and focusing on being as profitable as possible. Alcoa has made a lot of progress in surpassing its peers with respect to cost, and that should pay off no matter what happens to pricing in the future.
Despite the promising long-term position that Alcoa appears to be in, investors remained focused on the short-term implications of its poorer-than-expected results. The stock fell nearly 5% in the first half-hour of after-hours trading following the company's announcement. No matter how confident long-term investors might be about Alcoa's future prospects, skeptical shareholders will insist on seeing concrete evidence of the transformation's benefits before they start bidding up shares substantially from their current beaten-down levels.
The article Alcoa Gets Earnings Season Off to a Bad Start originally appeared on Fool.com.
A heroin distribution racket operating through the ‘Ezy Cash’ system was busted on Tuesday by the Panadura Division Law Enforcement Unit, when they arrested seven persons, including the mastermind from Mihidugama in Ratnapura. He had engaged in this trade in the Ratnapura and Horana areas using a rented car and three motorcycles with heroin valued at over Rs 500,000.
The suspects had rented three houses in Horana, paying Rs 18,000 and 15,000 as monthly rent.
The main suspect has had two cases of heroin peddling and a gold chain theft pending before the Ratnapura Magistrate’s court, Police said.
They were produced before the Horana Magistrate and obtained a detention order to be questioned further regarding the heroin racket operated by them.
Bryan Cranston, Brandon J. Dirden, Michael McKean, Reed Birney, Dakin Matthews, Arnie Burton, Crystal Dickinson, Betsy Aidem, Eric Lenox Abrams, Jay Ferenandez, Susannah Schulman, William Jackson Harper, Christopher Liam Moore, Ethan Phillips, Dan Butler, J. Bernard Calloway, Richard Poe.
The conflict of a divided soul — personal, political and national — sears onstage in A.R.T.’s sprawling, heady and thoroughly gripping drama “All the Way,” starring Bryan Cranston (“Breaking Bad”) as President Lyndon B. Johnson. In this production that already has Broadway buzz, Cranston gives a dazzling, far-ranging and moving perf as the accidental president who took office following the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963. Robert Schenkkan doesn’t shrink from the collision of power and personality at this seismic moment of American history, filling his incident-packed narrative to the bursting point — and then some.
The play starts on the plane trip from Dallas after the shooting and continues to Johnson’s landslide election in 1964 over Republican challenger Barry Goldwater. And with Schenkkan, a Pulitzer winner for “The Kentucky Cycle,” telling his story with Texas-sized ambition, what a wild 11-month journey it is.
Cranston, who is expert at playing troubled protagonists who have lost their way, early on transitions from a moment of quiet mourning to an embrace of his manifest destiny. From that point on, his perf builds increasing power and danger like a runaway train, as he vividly shows Johnson as master manipulator, charismatic charmer, good old boy, bad old boy and, ultimately, tragic hero who changed the course of politics, his party and the nation for both good and ill.
In the second half, things grow darker and the play expands into the epic as Johnson becomes paranoid, self-pitying and blinded by hubris as a multitude of events turn him into a nearly Shakespearean figure — minus the eloquence of language, of course, though some of his country-boy stories weave their own spell.
Helmer Bill Rauch — who last year staged the show’s premiere at his Oregon Shakespeare Festival, where he is a.d. — keeps characters and narrative moving with clarity and grace in Christopher Acebo’s legislative arena setting. Shawn Sagady‘s projections also help with historic contexts and characters i.d.’s.
The solid ensemble members all take on multiple roles effectively, but standouts include Michael McKean as J. Edger Hoover, Christopher Liam Moore as LBJ’s aide Walter Jenkins, Dakin Matthews as Sen. Richard Russell, Reed Birney as Hubert Humphrey and Betsy Aidem as Lady Bird Johnson.
Even at three hours, the work has an abbreviated feel since Schenkkan takes on so many story strands, historic themes and characters that major incidents and players become reductive. But it’s all in the service of telling Johnson’s — and the country’s — grand story, and the triumphs that come at tragic costs.
LoebDramaCenter, Cambridge, Mass.; 550 seats; $110 top. Opened Sept. 19, 2013, reviewed Sept. 20. Runs through Oct. 12. Running time: 3 HOURS.
An American Repertory Theater production of a play by Robert Schenkkan.
Directed by Bill Rauch. Sets, Christopher Acebo; costumes, Deborah M. Dryden; lighting, Jane Cox; original music and sound design, Paul James Prendergst; video projections, Shawn Sagady; production stage manager, Matthew Farrell.
The United Nations throws its proverbial hands in the air, citing it makes no sense to send humanitarian aid to Syria until there is a pause in the fighting.
Not a single, solitary humanitarian convoy has reached any of its targeted besieged areas in August due to the ravaging war in Syria. The fighting is simply too intense to provide any aid.
This comes just after a video of 5-year old victim, Omran Daqneesh, surfaced with his face, bloody and full of dust; shocked, bewildered, and completely non-respondent. The images struck a nerve with the world population, and the public is slowly beginning to take notice of the devastation taking place on a daily basis in Syria.
“I decided to use my privilege as Chair to declare that there was no sense in having a humanitarian meeting today unless we got some action on the humanitarian side in Syria,” UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura told reporters in Geneva.
The Special Envoy for Syria has since made a plea to the Russian and Syrian governments to halt bombing campaigns for at least 48 hours so that the UN could supply desperately-needed aid.
“The United Nations count on the Russian Federation to deliver their part, regarding, in particular, the adherence of the Syrian armed forces to the pause, once it comes into effect,” reported Mistura.
The man who filmed Daqneesh’s rescue said that pulling children out of the rubble is far from anything new.
Heavy lifting? Does he mean actual lifting, like the tons of rubble, bones, and bodies that have to be cleared? Doubtful. Or is it that the US and Russia have opened-up a type of Pandora’s Box from Hell that even they can’t control their own war machines?
What is also alarming is the end of the quote about “those who have influence on fighting on the ground.” Who are those people? It would seem logical that it would be the US-backed rebels, whose warring factions have begun uniting, as well as the Islamic State.
There had been a divide in the US intelligence community over whom the rebels actually were. Thrown into the mix is the so-called Islamic State, who actually received weapons from the US that were meant for the rebels.
The BBC reported that rebel factions in Syria had broken the government siege of Aleppo by uniting the various rebel groups.
The US doesn’t have any combat troops on the ground, so instead it has sent weapons and money to rebel groups that they have no control over. The only mission is to oust Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad at whatever cost, which would then allow for multinational oil companies, big banking, and business to step in.
Read More: Big Banking & Oil: Which country do we invade next after Syria?
Dar es Salaam — The founder of Jamii Forum, a whistleblowing forum, Mr Maxence Melo, has revealed the reason behind his organisation decision to shut down its site.
Mr Melo, who has had some troubles with the government recently, said they have decided to shut down the forum because the Electronic and Postal Communication Regulations do not accommodate service providers.
Speaking to The Citizen in a telephone interview, Mr Melo, accused the Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority (TCRA) of targeting whistle-blowers' forums when drafting regulations.
The online content regulations require bloggers and forums operators to register with the TCRA to ensure that comments submitted by blog readers, forum users are moderated be-fore they are published. They are also required to identify the source of content.
"We have been targeted because our forum is a service provider and not content provider, so we have decided to shut it down because we don't' fit anywhere (in the online content regulations)," said Mr Melo.
The TCRA gave online services providers until yesterday to register with the authority in accordance with the regulations.
Reached for comment, the TCRA acting public relations manager, Mr Semu Mwakanjala, played down the allegations.
"What we are doing now is to register all online content providers... we haven't closed any of them," said Mr Mwakanjala when reached by The Citizen's sister paper Mwananchi.
Jamii Forum posted on their site saying that because they have not been registered, they could no longer offer services, until the matter was resolved.
"It is obvious that our platform was being targeted when this regulation was formulated," Mr Melo. In 2016, Jamii Forum founders were arraigned for declining to reveal identities of some of the users of their platform. The case is still ongoing.
FANS eagerly awaiting the return of BBC drama Doctor Foster have been treated to a sneak peek at the new series as Suranne Jones returns as the betrayed GP.
The actress was snapped in Hertfordshire last night filming scenes for the highly-anticipated second series.
The 38-year-old was seen on the first day of filming in the town of Hitchin filming a scene outside a nightclub.
The actress’s character Gemma Foster leaves the club a little worse for wear and is seen by her ex-husband Simon, played by Bertie Carvel.
He takes a photo of her on his phone before leaving in a taxi, possibly to use the snaps as evidence in the character’s messy divorce, which the second series will be based around.
The pair were also seen chatting to the director and larking about between takes and Suranne was also seen listening to music on her headphones.
Fans of the show will be eager to see what happens now after the explosive first series finale which saw Dr Foster expose her husband’s affair with the daughter of family friends - with violent results.
Suranne won four major awards for her portrayal as the woman scorned including a TV Bafta for Best Actress and a National Television Award for Best Drama Performance.
The show also won an NTA for Best New Drama and a Bafta for Best Mini Series.
Speaking at the Baftas she revealed details about the second series and said: “Now we get to look at what actually happens when two people have to live with each other and parent a child and it’s messy.
Suranne, who gave birth to her first child in March, will also be a part of the production team as she added: "I'm Associate Producer this year so the script isn't under lock and key this time. I'm part of the collaborative team this year."
And she admitted she never thought the show would be a success and said: “I didn’t know whether an audience would come to a drama about affairs, of course now we have the American The Affair.
Rob Gabel, formerly an executive at companies like LowerMyBills, Netflix and Machinima, is in the process of closing a $500,000 seed round for his new venture Tubular Labs, an SEC filing reveals.
The service is currently password-protected and thus presumably available only in private beta, but the company will basically provide marketing and analytics tools that help brands increase and engage with their audiences on video site YouTube.
Gabel was formerly SVP of Marketing of LowerMyBills, which was sold to Experian in 2005 for $380 million. He went on to become chief of marketing at Machinima , a Google-backed entertainment network for video gamers, and was briefly employed as VP of DVD Marketing at Netflix.
Also mentioned in the filing are LowerMyBills founder Matt Coffin and Machinima chairman and CEO Allen DeBevoise, who probably invested in Gabel’s next gig.
Another Tubular Labs backer is Ben Smith, a serial entrepreneur and angel investor.
Listed as co-founder of Tubular Labs on LinkedIn is Allison Stern, who previously worked at 20th Century Fox, AOL, Google and YouTube.
Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has transferred Pol Lt Gen Surachate Hakparn, aka Big Joke, from the police force to the civil service, where he will serve as a special adviser to the Prime Minister's Office.
The order was signed by Gen Payut on Tuesday in his capacity as chief of the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) and published in The Royal Gazette the same day, effective immediately.
The order stated that Pol Lt Gen Surachate was another official assuming a temporary position pending an investigation. It effectively added his name to a list of 45 state officials sidelined pending investigations under another NCPO order. The original document was issued on May 15, 2015 by Gen Prayut using his authority under Section 44 of the interim constitution.
As a result of the order, Pol Lt Gen Surachate is completely detached from his former position of immigration police commissioner under the Royal Thai Police Office.
Assistant government spokesperson Taksada Sangkhajan said the cabinet meeting on Tuesday acknowledged Gen Prayut's order. She did not know when Pol Lt Gen Surachate would report to the Prime Minister's Office, or which area of work he would be assigned to.
Prime Minister Prayut did not explain the issue on Tuesday.
Following his appointment as immigration chief in October 2018 Pol Lt Gen Surachate rapidly became the kingdom's most high-profile police officer, featuring almost daily in headline stories aggressively pursuing foreigners in the country illegally, visa overstayers and criminals alike, under the slogan “Good Guys In, Bad Guys Out”.
He was also deputy director of Thailand's Action Taskforce for Information Technology Crime Suppression (Tactics), which targets cybercrime such as romance scams and online fraud and is also under the Royal Thai Police Office.
He was abruptly removed from the job of immigration chief last week. National police chief Pol Gen Chakthip Chaijinda transferred him to the Royal Thai Police Operations Centre on Friday night.
Pol Lt Gen Surachate was reported to retain close ties with Gen Prawit Wongsuwon, deputy prime minister, defence minister and deputy NCPO chief.
The 411: Guests arrived at 161 Glass St. on April 5 for an opulent evening celebrating the best in contemporary art, photography, and fashion — and plenty of partying, too.
Presented by Headington Companies and Forty Five Ten, the inaugural gala was co-chaired by Forty Five Ten president and chief creative Officer Kristen Cole and DC board member and art collector Kaleta Blaffer Johnson. The event officially launched Dallas Contemporary’s spring exhibits.
As patrons, collectors, and creatives arrived, VIPs were met by photographer extraordinaire Yelena Yemchuck for their 15 minutes of fame — partaking in a Polaroid photo shoot. At her side, assisting with the activation was her partner, actor Ebon Moss-Bachrach.
Honorary co-chairs Mario Sorrenti, Self Service founder Ezra Petronio, and Dennis Freedman mingled among the crowd who wandered around the museum, taking in the exhibitions unveiled just for the occasion. The shows were "Mario Sorrenti: Kate" (featuring never before seen images of the fashion icon Kate Moss); "Self Service: Twenty-five Years of Fashion, People and Ideas Reconsidered" (a retrospective on Self Service magazine); and "Yelena Yemchuk: Mabel, Betty and Bette."
At the entrance of the dining room, guests got an up-close look at the art pieces that intersected art and fashion, which would be up for auction — works with names like Karl Lagerfeld, Coco Chanel, and Peter Lindbergh attached.
The chic coterie enjoyed dinner catered by The Joule and listened to Dallas Contemporary executive director Peter Doroshenko deliver inspired remarks about future plans for the museum. Supermodel Kate Moss' rumored appearance came via a pre-recorded video saying she was sorry she missed but encouraging all to enjoy themselves and to support the Dallas institution.
Bidding got fierce in the live auction presented by Christie’s — particularly for a trip to Guadalajara from José Noé Suro (the namesake of Dallas' Jose restaurant) — who surprised the crowd by donating a second trip so that two patrons would go home happy. Following the auction, guests jammed out to Texas singer-songwriter Ben Kweller as he performed some crowd favorites.
Those who wanted to continue the revelry moved to an after-party in the back of the museum, which had been outfitted with velvet green lounge couches and a disco ball. They were met by after-party host, model-actress Erin Wasson, who took over the dance floor as DJ Luis Cerón kept the crowd moving and grooving. Partygoers could visit the full bar or caffeinate at a coffee station with all the accouterments, all while enjoying party foods like fried chicken sliders being passed on trays.
Who: The glamorous guest list included Erykah Badu, Kathryn Swain, Amanda Carter, Chioma Nnadi, Al Tidwell, Fred Holston, Francesco Clemente, Giovanni Testino, Megan Bowdon Wilkinson, Joey Wilkinson, Richard Phillips, Nancy Rogers, Amber Testino, Jeny Bania, Karen Bivins, and Michael Bivins.