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☆ Boeing's culture certainly needs to be addressed, says former NTSB investigator Alan Diehl
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-15 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailBoeing's culture certainly needs to be addressed, says former NTSB investigator Alan DiehlAlan Diehl, former NTSB investigator, joins 'Squawk Box' to discuss the latest developments in Boeing's door plug blowout probe, quality control issues facing Boeing, how the company can get back on track, and more.

Persons: Alan Diehl Alan Diehl Organizations: NTSB, Boeing

☆ Off the Board Game, Onto the Digital Canvas
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-06 | by ( Travis Diehl | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The capricious churn of internet-charged culture is producing more main characters, apocrypha and relics than we can handle. Simon Denny, an artist working in Berlin, creates sculptures, installations, videos and prints inspired by the aesthetics of tech companies. In two concurrent shows in Manhattan he has seized on omens like the blade to explore the sociopolitical fallout of the technology industry’s taste for medieval lore. In Denny’s telling, dreams of wizards and blacksmiths, dark forests and dank castles shape the newest digital realms. The sculpture is plugged into a power strip that Denny sourced from a liquidation sale at Twitter during its Musk-mandated transition to X.

Persons: Grimes —, Elon Musk —, Simon Denny, ”, Denny Organizations: Twitter Locations: Canadian, Berlin, Manhattan, New York, Grimes

☆ Frame by Frame, an Artist Distills What Sports Cameras Blur
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-03 | by ( Travis Diehl | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

What would a basketball game be like without the ebb and flow of two teams, without the roar of the crowd? Like Paul Pfeiffer’s videos. In “Fragment of a Crucifixion (After Francis Bacon),” from 1999, the Charlotte Hornets’ star power forward Larry Johnson rocks back and forth, alone on the court, screaming in victory or agony. In “Race Riot,” hands reach in to brace a fallen Michael Jordan — his iconic jersey, number 23, is blank. They’re small, they’re silent — and they’re just for you, an intimate confrontation with extravaganzas meant for millions.

Persons: Paul Pfeiffer’s, Francis Bacon, Larry Johnson, Michael Jordan —, ” Pfeiffer, aren’t, extravaganzas Organizations: Museum of Contemporary Art, Charlotte Hornets Locations: United States, Los Angeles, East Harlem, Mexican

☆ For Thomas Hirschhorn, Handmade Art Keeps Us Human
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-01 | by ( Travis Diehl | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Gladstone Gallery looks like a war zone, the aftermath of a Call of Duty gaming session gone bad, the virtual gunmen downing Red Bull and chain smoking over their keyboards, until a bomb came through the roof. Energy drink cans made of tinfoil and mounds of cigarettes fashioned from plastic foam litter the paper desktops. The cardboard monitors, many of them spiderwebbed with cuts, sport color printouts of screenshots from first-person shooters and photos of unnamed but real war-torn cities. The installation, “Fake It, Fake It — Till You Fake It,” features plenty of charming, even funny details, like a box of plastic foam pizza slices or a couple of “I Heart NY” mugs. Hirschhorn warns of the weaponization of artificial intelligence and social media, represented by virtual forms of war — news feeds and games alike.

Persons: Gladstone, Thomas Hirschhorn Organizations: Red Bull, Energy Locations: Swiss

☆ Is your passport too damaged for travel? Here are 11 reasons it could be, and how to avoid them.
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-26 | by ( Maria Noyen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Determining if a passport is too damaged for travel often comes down to the opinion of a border authority. "Some tourist attractions will have their own 'passport stamp,' but since these are not official government agencies, they could invalidate your passport," Diehl said. Loose bindings and frayed edges are common reasons a passport is deemed too damaged for travel. "Authorities may question the authenticity of a damaged passport," he said, which could cause them to "detain you or send you home." Keeping your passport in good condition is keyDiehl said that the easiest way to avoid being turned away at the airport for having a damaged passport is to keep it safe.

Persons: —, that's, Business Insider's Monica Humphries, Jake Burton's, Eve, Steve Diehl, Diehl Organizations: Service, Business, US Department of State's, Consular Affairs Locations: Alicante, Spain

☆ At White Columns Annual, Outsiders Mix With Insiders
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-24 | by ( Travis Diehl | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

It’s pleasantly disorienting to enter the White Columns Annual in New York in 2024 and see so much work that could have been, and was, made any time in the last half century. There’s not a screen, QR code or 3-D print in sight. The Annual has one constraint. The curator must have seen the included work in New York City in the previous year. In this grass-roots way, the show offers a (very subjective, and therefore narrow) group portrait of an increasingly unwieldy scene.

Persons: It’s Locations: New York, New York City

☆ A Meteoric Career, Cut Short, Still Burns Bright
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-31 | by ( Travis Diehl | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A heavy irony hangs over Michael Richards’s work: The artist known for images of pilots, airplanes, wings and targets died, age 38, in the Sept. 11 attacks. He had spent the night in his studio on the 92nd floor of the World Trade Center’s north tower. But it’s likely that, had he lived, we would still be discussing Richards’s sculpture. In his handful of active years, he was beloved by curators and peers, and found consistent institutional support. Dread Scott, an artist and friend of Richards’s, recalled their conversations ranging over “W.E.B.

Persons: Michael Richards’s, Nari, Kerry James Marshall, Dread Scott, Richards’s, Du Bois, Wu Tang Clan, Richards, Rodney King Organizations: Trade, Bronx Museum, Arts, Jan Locations: Nari Ward, Brazil

☆ H&M blames warm weather for September sales slide
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-27 | by ( Helen Reid | トムソンロイター | London-Based Reporter Covering The European Retail Sector Through A Global Lens. Focusing On Companies Including Adidas | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

H&M, whose biggest rival is Zara owner Inditex (ITX.MC), said September sales would be down 10% year-on-year measured in local currencies. That compares with Inditex reporting sales between Aug. 1 and Sept. 11 that were up 14%. Operating profit in the Swedish group's third quarter jumped to 4.74 billion crowns ($431 million) from a year-earlier 902 million. The year-ago figure included a one-off cost of 2.1 billion crowns for the group's exit from Russia, which also accounted for four percentage points of the 10% September sales decline. H&M announced a share buyback programme starting on Wednesday, planning to buy back up to 3 billion crowns of stock by March 31 next year.

Persons: サマリー, Inditex, Vera Diehl, Nicolas Champ, LSEG, Richard Chamberlain, Anna Ringstrom, Helen Reid, Jan Harvey, Mark Potter Organizations: Union Investment, Barclays, RBC, HK, Tmall Locations: STOCKHOLM, Zara, Swedish, Russia, JD.com, China's Xinjiang, Alibaba's

☆ New Red Order: Artists With a Call to ‘Give It Back’
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-19 | by ( Travis Diehl | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The New Red Order named themselves after the Improved Order of Red Men, a largely white fraternal organization fond of Native regalia. It’s easy to mock grown men playing Indigenous dress-up, but the New Red Order see something deeper: the way American national identity has defined itself in terms of an idealized Native authenticity and freedom. “Even Indians play Indian. Indian people want to appear to be more traditionally Native American.”Over the past five years, Indigenous artists have gained global prominence. Land acknowledgments, which name specific tribes forced to leave an area, may seem to be a kind of progress — but the New Red Order say visibility is not the end, and could even hurt Indigenous artists, if people decide organizations have done enough.

Persons: Warren Harding, Franklin D, Roosevelt, Theodore, ” Zack Khalil, “, Jeffrey Gibson, Smith Organizations: Red, Liberty, Boston Tea Party, The Mississippi Choctaw, Cherokee, Whitney Museum, NRO Locations: Waco , Texas, The, United States, Venice, Kootenai Nation

☆ German arms maker Diehl to ramp up production of IRIS-T air defence system
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-05 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

TODENDORF, Germany, Sept 5 (Reuters) - German arms maker Diehl Defence aims to significantly ramp up the production of its IRIS-T air defence system to satisfy growing demand due to Russia's war on Ukraine, Chief Program Officer Harald Buschek said on Tuesday. Germany so far has supplied two IRIS-T units to Ukraine, where they are mainly used to guard Kyiv against Russian missile attacks. Buschek said Ukraine had shot down more than 110 targets, most of these cruise missiles such as the Kalibr, with a hit rate of almost 100%. The system successfully countered an attack on Kyiv by a swarm of 13 Russian cruise missiles at the start of the year, intercepting all missiles, Buschek said. In the small town of Todendorf, Berlin will host the training of partner nations on the modern IRIS-T air defence system, one of the most coveted weapons that Kyiv has received from the West.

Persons: Harald Buschek, Berlin, Buschek, Sabine Siebold, Friederike Heine, Miranda Murray, Jason Neely Organizations: Diehl Defence, IRIS, Kyiv, Russian, NATO, Thomson Locations: TODENDORF, Germany, Ukraine, Todendorf, Kyiv, Russian, Berlin, Moscow, Russia, Estonia, Latvia

☆ Land Art Today, Beyond Cowboys With Bulldozers
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-04 | by ( Travis Diehl | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

I’m standing in a fallow field on the edge of the San Luis Valley, in south-central Colorado. To the east, beyond a windbreak of tough old trees, the Great Sand Dunes rise against the mountains, where for millenniums this same wind has piled up this same sandy soil. Its creator, the French artist Marguerite Humeau, 36, thinks a lot about extinction. They clack and whistle in the stronger gusts. But the land itself is the work.

Persons: Marguerite Humeau, “, ” Locations: San Luis Valley, Colorado, Denver, French

☆ Ed Ruscha’s ‘Chocolate Room’ Still Tantalizes
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-01 | by ( Travis Diehl | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A rich perfume wafts through the sixth floor of the Museum of Modern Art, where the installation of Ed Ruscha’s full-dress survey “Now Then” is underway. You sense it before you see it: a room where the white walls are turning velvety brown. A chocolate room. “Chocolate Room” is an oddity in Ruscha’s influential oeuvre. Of the 85-year-old Nebraska native’s hundreds of projects — paintings, prints, and photo books; dry eulogies of Americana like SPAM cans and Mobil stations and two-lane blacktop — “Chocolate Room” is his only installation.

Persons: Ed Ruscha’s, McPherson, Daniel, whisks, Robyn, Lynda, Kayla, It’s Organizations: Museum of Modern Art, La Paloma Fine Arts company, Mobil Locations: Nebraska, New York

☆ Women Face Age Discrimination at Every Age, According to a New Study
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-28 | by ( Kelli María Korducki | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

But she was taken aback by the extent to which middle-aged women like O'Neill reported experiencing age-related discrimination at work. "When men get to their 40s or 50s, they're considered to be in the prime of their careers," Diehl told me. In one 2019 poll of 400 US workers ages 40 and older, more men than women reported experiencing or witnessing age discrimination on the job. Research has also found that older job seekers face age discrimination regardless of gender, despite a 56-year-old federal law that purportedly protects against older-age discrimination in employment. It's undeniable that workplace age discrimination occurs across gender lines, but the qualitative experiences surfaced by Diehl, Stephenson, and Dzubinski help paint a picture of how an open culture around age discrimination can ultimately end up fueling good, old-fashioned sexism.

Persons: Julie O'Neill, O'Neill, Julie, WCPO, —, ageism, pats, Amy Diehl, wasn't, they're, Diehl, It's, Amber L, Stephenson, Leanne, dory, she'd, Kelli María Korducki Organizations: Cincinnati Bengals, Harvard Business, Companies, Research Locations: COVID, midlife, Cincinnati, WCPO, New York City

☆ Employee Discrimination: Women of All Ages Face Sexism at Work
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-28 | by ( Kelli María Korducki | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

☆ Colleen Hoover is the hottest author in America. She also may be the most controversial
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-27 | by ( Aj Willingham | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

“Colleen Hoover books always leave me speechless and in tears,” one TikTok reader said. However, Hoover’s work, she says, blurs that line with the addition of painful – and decidedly non-aspirational – narrative arcs. She pointed out what she saw as a pattern in Hoover’s books of women who endure disturbing behavior from their partners. Probably not.”Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni are set to star in the movie adaptation of Colleen Hoover's book "It Ends With Us." Hoover’s books are cloaked in bright, fashionable colors, and her author website offers boutique-style merchandise with flowers and calligraphy and inside jokes from her books.

Persons: doesn’t, Colleen Hoover, Hoover, ”, Blake Lively, Stephen King, It’s, “ Colleen Hoover, Lily Bloom, Atlas Corrigan, Ryle Kincaid, Lily, Ryle, –, influencer Whitney Atkinson, Atkinson, Colleen Hoover's, AJ Willingham, CNN Atkinson, ” Atkinson, “, ” Hoover, “ I’ve, Jenna Bush Hager, ” Amanda Diehl, Smart, “ I’m, Jennifer Prokop, ” Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni, Critics, ” Prokop, — that’s, problematically, Chick, ” Diehl, Diehl, that’s, it’s Organizations: CNN, New York Times, Trade, YouTube, ” CNN, “ Trade Locations: Texas

In order to face either one head on, you must stand on a small, uneven platform of homemade adobe bricks. This is a message from the artist: He’s not interested in a seamless viewing experience. It recalls his contribution to the 2017 Whitney Biennial, where he created a room of adobe bricks. Here, a winding path of bricks connects life-size portraits of members of esparza’s largely queer community. The paintings are also on adobe, referencing his Mexican heritage and accentuating his subjects’ brown skin.

Persons: rafa esparza’s, He’s, JILLIAN STEINHAUER Organizations: Art Basel Miami Beach, Biennial Locations: Los Angeles, New York

In important ways the New York contemporary art world was a much bigger place three decades ago than it is today, not in size but in its thinking. The first institutional solo show of the artist Edgar Calel, titled “B’alab’äj (Jaguar Stone),” is a reminder of this. Obliquely, poetically, Calel refers to Mayan views of the earth as a dynamic, responsive, sacred being. (Sections of molded soil spell out the syllable “tik,” the sound he remembers his grandmother making to call wild birds for feeding.) The resulting SculptureCenter piece, beautiful to see, isn’t a “religious” work in any narrow sense.

Persons: Edgar Calel, Calel, HOLLAND COTTER Locations: York, Guatemala

☆ Germany plans purchase of six IRIS-T air defence units - source
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-13 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

BERLIN, June 13 (Reuters) - Germany aims to purchase six IRIS-T air defence systems for its air force at a total cost of some 900 million euros ($971.73 million), a defence source told Reuters ahead of a final decision by lawmakers on Wednesday. So far, Berlin has bought two IRIS-T units built by Diehl for Ukraine and pledged to send another two systems to Kyiv, but has not equipped its own forces with it yet. Boasting a range of some 40 kilometres (25 miles) and a 360 degree view, the IRIS-T SLM system is one of the most coveted of the weapons that Berlin has supplied to Kyiv. ($1 = 0.9262 euros)Reporting by Sabine Siebold, Editing by Rachel MoreOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Diehl, Sabine Siebold, Rachel More Organizations: IRIS, Thomson Locations: BERLIN, Germany, Berlin, Ukraine, Kyiv

☆ Women are held back at work due to 30 biases out of their control, says new study: 'They were never quite right'
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-07 | by ( Jennifer Liu | In Jljenniferliu | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Gender bias and discrimination have held women back in the workplace for generations, but new research indicates gender-based judgments barely scratch the surface of ways professional women are criticized throughout their careers. In a recent study of 913 women who answered open-ended questions, researchers found 30 common personality traits and identity-based characteristics that women say were used against them at work, according to a research summary published in Fast Company. Other than gender bias, what types of biases have you encountered at work? For example, age is a consistent challenge for women leaders: Some say they were told they were too young to lead, while others were deemed too old. The 30 characteristics that women say were used against them in the workplace include:

Persons: Amy Diehl, Leanne Dzubinski, Amber Stephenson, There's, Diehl, who's, she's Organizations: Fast Company, CNBC Locations: U.S

☆ Estonia and Latvia look to purchase mid-range air defence from Germany
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-21 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

VILNIUS, May 21 (Reuters) - European Union and NATO members Estonia and Latvia will begin negotiations with Germany's Diehl Defence for the purchase of a medium-range air defence system, Estonia's Defence Ministry said on Sunday. The cost of the Iris-T SLM air defence system and additional capabilities such as infrastructure, personnel, training, equipment, will be determined at the negotiations, which could be concluded during the summer, it added. “Our objective is to ensure operational medium-range air defence capabilities for Estonia by 2025, which means that the first systems should arrive in 2024,” Estonia's Defence Minister Hanno Pevkur said. The purchase will be led by Estonia Centre for Defence Investment. Last October, Estonia and Latvia were among 14 European NATO partners to sign a letter of intent to jointly procure air defence systems as Russia's war in Ukraine highlighted shortages.

☆ Mimicking the 19th Century in the Age of A.I.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-03 | by ( Travis Diehl | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Five of his 11 paintings on view at Petzel incorporate A.I.-generated imagery, mostly buried in abstract spills and smears. Indeed, Price conjured the pictures using A.I., printed them “wet” on plastic, then smeared the ink with his fingers, adding an inimitable human touch. This is the distinctive garbled diction of image-generators, which imitate the look of words but not necessarily their meaning. It sure looks like a vintage photo, though: a black and white, worn-looking picture of two women, one hunching enigmatically behind the other. Human anatomy, like words, can be tricky for image-generating A.I.’s.)

☆ Under the radar, Germany trains Ukrainians on advanced air defence weapon
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-03 | by ( Sabine Siebold | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

It is a modern system, whereas they have known the potential of the Leopard tanks for a while," said a German air force officer by way of explanation. Asked about the main differences to older Soviet-built air defences such as the S-300 or Buk, the Ukrainians cited greater effectiveness but also greater complexity. A German trainer said IRIS-T, built by German arms maker Diehl, could not be operated by "turning a switch on and off. It takes only a third of the time to set up its radar compared with the decades-old Patriot system - a critical factor, as any air defence system gives away its position once the radar is turned on. In Ukraine, the air space is closed - if anything flies there, it can be dangerous," said Dmytro.

☆ The largest hedge fund in the world just named a 37-year-old woman as a co-CIO. Meet the top 11 execs leading Bridgewater into its new era.
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-02 | by ( Alyson Velati | Michelle Abrego | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

Karen Karniol-Tambour will join co-CIOs Greg Jensen and Bob Prince to oversee the hedge fund's investment strategy. Despite a breakout year for many multi-strategy and macro hedge funds, Bridgewater lagged behind its peers. Nir Bar Dea, co-CEOBar Dea. Bridgewater AssociatesAs cochief investment officer, Jensen oversees Bridgewater's investment strategies and research efforts as well as its investment talent. Since joining Bridgewater in 1986, he has been a partner in building the hedge fund's investment process and products.

☆ First woman and LGBTQ person elected Massachusetts governor sworn in
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-06 | by ( Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +4 min

Maura Healey, the first woman and first open member of the LGBTQ community to be elected governor of Massachusetts, was sworn into office at the Statehouse Thursday, pledging to lead “with empathy and with equity.”Healey’s elevation to governor signals a political shift in the state’s top elected office from GOP to Democratic hands. Kim Driscoll, who served as mayor of Salem, was elected lieutenant governor with Healey and was also sworn in on Thursday. She acknowledged the soaring cost of housing in Massachusetts and vowed in her first 100 days to create a new secretary of housing. She’s only the second Democrat in the past three decades to be elected governor in Massachusetts. Nancy Lane / The Boston Herald via APThe new governor is also part of a record number of women occupying top state elected offices in Massachusetts.

☆ FTX's collapse could be crypto's dot-com crash moment – with the industry struggling to ever regain investors' trust
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-19 | by ( George Glover | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The collapse of FTX could weigh on cryptocurrencies for years, experts told Insider. And the dot-com crash shows that there could be further pain ahead. "In a very crude way, this isn't that different to the dot-com crash," Morningstar Investment Management CIO Dan Kemp told Insider. Just 48% of internet companies even survived the dot-com crash, and it took Amazon a decade to regain its peak share price of $113. Whether cryptocurrencies can bounce back as some tech stocks did 20 years ago remains to be seen.

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