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☆ Investors should explore this 'once in a generation' investment opportunity: Lombard Odier
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-18 | 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 EmailInvestors should explore this 'once in a generation' investment opportunity: Lombard OdierJohn Woods of Lombard Odier explains why he sees opportunity in investment grade bonds, especially as central banks get closer to cutting interest rates.

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(AP) — Lefty Driesell, the Hall of Fame coach whose folksy drawl belied a fiery on-court demeanor that put Maryland on the college basketball map and enabled him to rebuild several struggling programs, died Saturday. Driesell was inducted into the College Basketball Hall of Fame in 2007, but his entry into the Naismith shrine proved more elusive. He went 9-14 in his debut, one of only two times over an entire season in which he would finish with a losing record as a college coach. Congratulations.”After leaving Maryland, Driesell was hired in 1988 by James Madison, a small Virginia school that finished 10-18 in 1987. I figured it out pretty quickly.”___AP college basketball: https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-basketball-poll and https://apnews.com/hub/college-basketball

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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A second man has been convicted on charges stemming from the death of an Ohio religious leader authorities said was killed in a botched robbery attempt. Isaiah Brown-Miller, 23, was convicted Friday of kidnapping and aggravated robbery charges in his third trial in the December 2021 death of 48-year-old Columbus imam Mohamed Hassan Adam, a prominent figure in the Somali community. A co-defendant was earlier convicted of murder in the case. Another jury in October convicted his codefendant, 47-year-old John Wooden, of aggravated murder, kidnapping, aggravated robbery, and other charges in Adam’s death. He faces a mandatory life term in prison and at least 20 years before being eligible for parole.

Persons: —, Isaiah Brown, Miller, Mohamed Hassan Adam, Adam, Toure McCord, Brown, John Wooden, Paul Scarsella, Wooden Organizations: Columbus Dispatch Locations: COLUMBUS , Ohio, Ohio, Columbus, Somali, Franklin County, mistrials, Masjid Abu Hurairah, Franklin

Once the Jayhawks got to the NCAA Tournament, Danny Manning carried them to their second national title. A two-time All-American, Manning led sixth-seeded Kansas on a romp through the NCAA Tournament on a team dubbed Danny and the Miracles. QUADRUPLE DOUBLEThe NCAA record book has an entry for most quadruple doubles. As a senior at UT-Martin, Hudson had 25 points, 12 rebounds, 10 assists and 10 steals against Central Baptist on Nov. 13, 2007, for the only quadruple double in Division I history. At Davidson, Curry led the Wildcats on a memorable run all the way to the NCAA Tournament.

Persons: John Wooden, ”, Bill Walton, Wooden, “, Louis, Walton, ” Walton, Lew Alcindor, Kareem Abdul, Jabbar, MARAVICH'S, Pete Maravich, Pete, Maravich, Bob Knight, Scott May, Kent Benson, Benson, DANNY, Danny Manning, Manning, Danny, Lester Hudson, Hudson, STEPH'S, Stephen Curry, Curry, HANK Loyola Marymount, Bo Kimble, Kimble, Wilt Chamberlain, Frank Selvy, Furman, Selvy, RUSS Bill Russell Organizations: UCLA, Bruins, Associated Press, Memphis State, LSU, Indiana, Hoosiers, Michigan, Notre Dame, Kentucky, Ohio State, Kansas, Jayhawks, NCAA, Oklahoma, UT, Martin, Central Baptist, Wildcats, Southern, Gonzaga, Georgetown, Wisconsin, West, New, New Mexico State, Lions, Newberry, NBA, Baltimore, San, Iowa, AP Locations: St, Kentucky, Kent, Kansas, Davidson, New Mexico, San Francisco

Listen and follow The DailyApple Podcasts | SpotifyArrowhead Stadium, the home of the Kansas City Chiefs, the N.F.L.’s defending champions, is a very loud place. telecast, “Sunday Night Football,” arrived at Arrowhead to prepare for that evening’s game against the Detroit Lions. Kickoff game, traditionally hosted by the winner of last season’s Super Bowl. There would be speeches, fireworks, a military flyover, the unfurling of a championship banner. “It can present some problems.”Broadcasting a football game on live television is one of the most complex technical and logistical challenges in entertainment.

Persons: Brian Melillo, ”, ” Melillo, Jody Rosen Organizations: Spotify, Kansas City Chiefs, NBC Sports ’, Detroit Lions, ” Broadcasting Locations: Arrowhead

Her concert picture, “ Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé,” opened in first place with $21 million in North American ticket sales, according to estimates from AMC Theatres Sunday. The 39-city, 56-show “Renaissance” tour, which kicked off in Stockholm, Sweden in May and ended in Kansas City, Missouri in the fall, made over $500 million and attracted over 2.7 million concertgoers. Toho's 33rd Godzilla film is set in the aftermath of World War II, stars Ryunosuke Kamiki and was directed by Takashi Yamazaki. “Trolls Band Together” landed in fourth place in its third weekend with $7.6 million, bringing its domestic total to $74.8 million. “Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé,” $21 million.

Persons: Beyoncé, ”, Elizabeth Frank, “, John Woo, Paul Dergarabedian, “ Taylor Swift, it’s, Swift, Miley Cyrus, Justin Bieber, EntTelligence, ” Dergarabedian, Ryunosuke Kamiki, Takashi Yamazaki, Koji Ueda, Ridley Scott’s “ Napoleon ”, Joaquin Phoenix, “ Wonka, Comscore, “ Napoleon Organizations: North, AMC Theatres, AMC, Films, Comscore, Netflix, Swift's, Rotten, Toho International, Toho Global, Apple Original, Sony Pictures Locations: U.S, Canada, Stockholm, Sweden, Kansas City , Missouri, Japan

☆ John Woo Has Seen a Lot in Hollywood. He’s Finally Back for More.
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-01 | by ( Brandon Yu | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

When John Woo was a child, living in the dangerous slums of Hong Kong, he had two sanctuaries: the church and the movie theater. Both provided respite from a world of poverty and intense violence. He’d use a flashlight to illuminate the glass and, shifting the light, project moving images onto the wall. That 1989 film, starring his frequent collaborator Chow Yun-fat, proved a major work that established both Woo’s style and our notion of modern action cinema. And yet, even as his so-called “bullet ballet” films went on to influence an array of popular culture makers, including the Wu-Tang Clan and Quentin Tarantino, Woo said he never particularly cared for action films.

Persons: John Woo, Woo, Oz ”, it’s, Chow Yun, Wu, Wu - Tang Clan, Quentin Tarantino Organizations: Wu - Locations: Hong Kong, Wu - Tang

☆ ‘Silent Night’ Review: On the First Day of Christmas, Kill.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-30 | by ( Glenn Kenny | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Woo’s pictures have always operated on the “pure cinema” principle. For this picture he put his prodigious staging, shooting and cutting skills to a test that won’t surprise his fans: The movie is practically free of dialogue. In his initial maniacal reaction, he’s shot in the throat by a drug dealer with slashes of black tattooed on one side of his face. The attack happens around Christmas, and once Brian emerges from a monthslong drinking binge, he shapes up, takes up arms, and marks the next Christmas on his calendar: “Kill them all.” And so it goes. Car chases, motorcycle chases, stabbings, shootings, bone-breaking.

Persons: Joel Kinnaman, Brian, he’s, Catarina Sandino Moreno, mutters, John Woo Locations: California

☆ Stream These 16 Movies Before They Leave Netflix in December
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-29 | by ( Jason Bailey | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +5 min

‘Gladiator’ (Dec. 31)Stream it here. ‘Kung Fu Panda’ (Dec. 31)Stream it here. ‘Mission: Impossible’ 1- 4 (Dec. 31)Stream them here, here, here and here. ‘Role Models’ (Dec. 31)Stream it here. The raw edge yet soft heart of this wildly funny bad-boy comedy from 2008, and the presence of the frequent leading man Paul Rudd, might lead you to assume it’s the work of Judd Apatow.

Persons: ’, Russell Crowe, Ridley Scott’s, Crowe, Maximus, Commodus, Joaquin Phoenix, Scott, Napoleon, ”, Steven Spielberg, Roy Scheider’s, Brody, Kung, Jack Black, Jackie Chan, David Cross, Dustin Hoffman, James Hong, Angelina Jolie, Randall Duk Kim, Lucy Liu, Ian McShane, Seth Rogen, Christopher McQuarrie, Tom Cruise, John Woo, Brian De Palma’s, Brad Bird, Paul Rudd, Judd Apatow, David Wain, Kerri Kenney, Silver, Joe Lo Truglio, Ken Marino, Rudd, Seann William Scott, J, Thompson, Christopher Mintz Organizations: Netflix Locations: Italy, Phoenix

Director John Woo poses during a photocall for the movie "Zhuibu (Manhunt)" at the 74th Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy September 8, 2017. REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi Acquire Licensing RightsLOS ANGELES, Nov 28 (Reuters) - Director John Woo opted not to have any actor dialogue in the action-thriller film "Silent Night," and focus on his own unique visual and sound techniques to engage audiences. Swedish actor Joel Kinnaman plays Godlock, and most of the dialogue in the film comes from either radio broadcasts or police communications. In fact, Kinnaman said, Woo encouraged long takes where the actors had to improvise to create the feeling of a real fight. Reporting by Rollo Ross and Danielle Broadway; editing by Jonathan OatisOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: John Woo, Alessandro Bianchi, Woo, ”, Brian Godluck, he’s, Godluck, Joel Kinnaman, Kinnaman, he's, Rollo Ross, Danielle Broadway, Jonathan Oatis Organizations: Venice Film, REUTERS, Lionsgate, Hollywood, Thomson Locations: Venice, Italy, Hollywood, Hong Kong, Swedish, Godluck

Adrienne Hurst and Sophia Lanman andListen and follow The DailyApple Podcasts | SpotifyThe Space Force, the sixth and newest branch of the U.S. military, was authorized by Congress and signed into law by President Donald Trump in December 2019. The initiative had been shaped within the armed forces and Congress over the previous 25 years, based on the premise that as satellite and space technologies evolved, America’s military organizations had to change as well. From the start, the Space Force had detractors. Positioning and timing satellites, such as GPS (now overseen by the Space Force), allow for digital mapping, navigation, banking and agricultural management. Modern life is reliant on space technologies to an extent that an interruption would create profound economic and social distress.

Persons: Adrienne Hurst, Sophia Lanman, Donald Trump Organizations: Space Force, U.S ., Congress, Air Force, GPS Locations: Eastern Europe, Russia

☆ Apollo may get noodle LBO thrown back in its face
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-12 | by ( Aimee Donnellan | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

The private equity firm has offered to buy Wagamama owner Restaurant Group (RTN.L) for 701 million pounds including debt. Restaurant Group is an obvious takeover target. And Restaurant Group itself reckons it can crank up its EBITDA margin by as much as 3.5 percentage points by 2026. Apollo could comfortably double its money, assuming it used debt of around 300 million pounds to buy the business, or 3 times 2024 EBITDA. The deal is being undertaken by a special purpose vehicle indirectly owned by Apollo Funds, managed by affiliates of Apollo Global Management.

Persons: Andy Hornby, Frankie, Jefferies, John Wood, Neil Unmack, Oliver Taslic Organizations: Reuters, Restaurant, Irenic Capital, Oasis Management, Apollo Group, Restaurant Group, Apollo Funds, Apollo Global Management, Thomson Locations: Britain

☆ New U.A.W. Chief Has a Nonnegotiable Demand: Eat the Rich
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-05 | by ( David Streitfeld | More About David Streitfeld | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Nelson Lichtenstein, a labor historian, said he saw Mr. Fain as a throwback. leadership in a long while, reaching back to the 1930s and 1940s,” Mr. Lichtenstein said. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the “pyramid of success” developed by John Wooden, the coach who produced a U.C.L.A. Mr. Fain copes with stress by working out and listening to music, cranking up selections from the entire spectrum — hip-hop, ’80s rock, Metallica, Frank Sinatra. He’s still getting used to the job, and to the fact that Shawn Fain from Kokomo Local 1166 is the U.A.W.

Persons: Nelson Lichtenstein, Fain, ” Mr, Lichtenstein, Bernie Sanders, Walter Reuther, Martin Luther King Jr, ”, John Wooden, Patrick Anderson, cranking, Frank Sinatra, He’s, Shawn Fain, U.A.W Organizations: Anderson Economic Group Locations: Vermont, East Lansing, Mich, Kokomo

☆ Taco Bell, Chipotle, and other chains pay managers as much as $180,000. Here's what it takes to land a high-earning fast-food job.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-30 | by ( Nancy Luna | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

Since the pandemic, fast-food workers have fled the sector, leaving restaurant chains struggling to find help. But how have fast-food general managers, whose duties range from dealing with fussy customers to inventory management, fared over the years? "While Taco Bell Corporate cannot mandate salaries and wages of franchisees, we offer competitive pay rates and encourage franchisees to do the same," Taco Bell said. The chain said 54% of Taco Bell general managers started as restaurant-level workers. Taco Bell President and Chief Operating Officer Mike Grams began his career as an assistant general manager in Detroit, Michigan.

Persons: —, That's, Taco Bell, Burger, Lynsi Snyder, Nancy Luna, Snyder, Harry, Esther Snyder, Matt Marton, Taco, Mike Grams, Chipotle, Scott Boatwright, Edison Graff, Danny Meyer, Angela Campbell, Campbell, Nordstrom, Jersey Mike's, Sweetgreen, John Wooden Organizations: Service, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Taco Bell, Bell, Taco Bell President, LinkedIn, Shake, GMs, The, Shack, Jersey Mike's, Restaurant Business, UCLA Locations: McDonald's, Irvine , California, Taco, Detroit , Michigan, Chipotle, Newport Beach , California, Canada, France, Germany, Las Vegas , Nevada, Las Vegas, Campbell, The New York, Jersey, Charlotte , North Carolina, Charlotte, Seattle, Arlington , Virginia

Six years later, Barb was 20 and in college when someone else in the family needed help. Her sister Christy was the second-born, 24 years older than Barb and the star of the family in many ways. Christy wasn’t sad or delusional; she wasn’t even upset. It was more as if she were reverting to a childlike state, losing her knack for self-regulation. Her personality was diluting — on its way out, with seemingly nothing to replace it.

Persons: Barb, Christy, Christy wasn’t Organizations: Spotify

He would pour some coffee into a bowl of rice, and that would be the boy’s breakfast. No one from the Navy ever stopped the old man and the young boy. Some mornings, his grandfather would take Roy back across the dirt road into the jungle to pick papayas, lemons and coconuts. He would thrash a course into the thicket to collect firewood from the slender trees — tangen tangen in CHamoru, the language of the Indigenous inhabitants of Guam, which Roy’s grandmothers and grandfathers were. “We’re taking care of it because we hope, one day, in the future, our land will be returned to us.”

Persons: Adrienne Hurst, Dan Farrell, Roy Gamboa, Roy, skipjacks, ” Roy, “, ” Organizations: Spotify, Big Navy, U.S . Naval Base, Navy Locations: Guam, CHamoru

Listen and follow The DailyApple Podcasts | Spotify | StitcherOn the morning of Feb. 7, 2017, two electricians were working on a warning siren near the spillway of Oroville Dam, 60 miles north of Sacramento, when they heard an explosion. As they watched, a giant plume of water rose over their heads, and chunks of concrete began flying down the hillside toward the Feather River. The dam’s spillway, a concrete channel capable of moving millions of gallons of water out of the reservoir in seconds, was disintegrating in front of them. If it had to be taken out of service, a serious rainstorm, like the one that had been falling on Northern California for days, could cause the dam — the tallest in the United States — to fail. The rain, however, didn’t.

Persons: Kory Honea, Dino Corbin Organizations: Spotify, California’s Department of Water Resources Locations: Oroville, Sacramento, Northern California, United States, Butte County

Adrienne Hurst and Dan Farrell andListen and follow The DailyApple Podcasts | Spotify | StitcherSome years ago, a psychiatrist named Wendy Dean read an article about a physician who died by suicide. Dean started asking the physicians she knew how they felt about their jobs, and many of them confided that they were struggling. The doctors Dean surveyed were deeply committed to the medical profession. By the time the journalist Eyal Press met Dean, the distress among medical professionals had reached alarming levels. Professional organizations like National Nurses United, the largest group of registered nurses in the country, had begun referring to “moral injury” and “moral distress” in pamphlets and news releases.

Persons: Adrienne Hurst, Dan Farrell, Wendy Dean, Dean, Eyal Press, Mona Masood, ” Organizations: Spotify, U.S . Army, National Nurses United Locations: Maryland

It was Nov. 3, 2017, and the target was José Manuel Villarejo Pérez, a former government spy. He was rumored to have had powerful friends and to have kept dirt on them all. He was, after all, a spy — and not just any spy, but one who had started his career in the secret police of the Spanish dictator Francisco Franco. Villarejo was handcuffed and taken to Madrid. And what happens when that man finds himself suddenly backed into a corner?

Persons: Adrienne Hurst, Dan Farrell, Manuel Villarejo Pérez, —, Villarejo’s, Francisco Franco, Villarejo Organizations: Spotify, ETA Locations: Spain, Madrid, Spanish, Basque

Their experience, which culminates in a demonstration day, is supposed to be the most productive three months of the fellows’ lives. And this year at the Archbishop’s Mansion in San Francisco, the home of the fellows, almost everyone has been monastically focused on what has become the city’s newest religion: artificial intelligence. gospel had not yet spread in 2021, when Fontenot and his two co-founders, Emily Liu and Evan Stites-Clayton, started the accelerator. But at the mansion in San Francisco, eight of the 10 companies in HF0’s first batch this year were working on A.I.-based apps. “But there’s a threshold where they become dramatically more useful, and I think now it’s crossed that.”

Persons: HF0, ’, Dave Fontenot, Fontenot, Emily Liu, Evan Stites, OpenAI, ”, Robert Nishihara Organizations: Spotify Locations: San Francisco, Clayton, Miami

Adrienne Hurst and Dan Farrell andListen and follow ‘The Daily’Apple Podcasts | Spotify | StitcherAlmost everyone who reads “American Born Chinese,” Gene Luen Yang’s groundbreaking graphic novel, is a little afraid of Chin-Kee. The book is a classic of young-adult literature, threading together stories of Asian American boyhood with a revered Ming dynasty novel. Chin-Kee’s role in it is a small one, but he is the bomb at the book’s heart. He makes the old schoolyard “me Chinese” rhymes and begins sentences with “Confucius say …” He sings “She Bangs,” in a library, in the style of the “American Idol” contestant William Hung. A laugh track runs in a ribbon under each scene, a brutal little receipt: “HA HA HA HA HA.”So when news arrived, in 2021, that “American Born Chinese” would be adapted as a live-action Disney+ streaming series, the first reaction from some readers was, more or less, “Oh, no.”

Persons: Adrienne Hurst, Dan Farrell, Gene Luen, Chin, Kee, “ Confucius, Bangs, ”, William Hung Organizations: Spotify, Idol

It will be the second courtroom visit for Trump since April, when he pleaded not guilty to charges in New York stemming from a hush-money payment to a porn star. Trump is the first current or former president to face criminal charges, but that has not dented his hopes of returning to the White House. Trump has maintained his innocence and portrayed the case as an effort to undermine his re-election effort. The indictment alleges Trump lied to officials who tried to get them back. Trump accuses Democratic President Joe Biden of orchestrating the federal case to undermine his campaign.

Persons: Donald Trump, Trump, Trump's, John Wood, Jack Smith, Joe Biden, Biden, Andrew Goudsward, Andy Sullivan, Howard Goller Organizations: MIAMI, Former U.S, Trump, Reuters, Republican, U.S . Capitol, White, Democratic, Thomson Locations: Former, Miami, New York, New Jersey, Lago Florida

The companies in discussion are largely small- to mid-sized, making them achievable targets, as opposed to firms listed on the FTSE 100. 'DRY POWDER'One of the contributing factors for PE firms' abundance of cash, or "dry powder", is the continued buildup of uninvested capital during the pandemic, according to fund managers. During the first five months of 2023, nine listed firms on the London Stock Exchange were approached by PE firms, exceeding the number of targets in the same time period last year, according to Refinitiv data. Among those out shopping for firms, many seem attracted to these lower valuations of small- and mid-cap firms. Though firms listed on the smaller UK indexes are more domestically focused than their larger counterparts, analysts point out that nearly half of their revenue is from their international presence, making them an even more attractive purchase for PE firms.

Persons: Richard Bullas, Martin, Franklin Templeton, John Wood, Bullas, Moodley, Johann M Cherian, Shounak Dasgupta Organizations: Bank of, Network International Holdings, Hyve, Medica Group, Pharmaceuticals, PE, Martin Currie UK Equity, London Stock Exchange, Apollo, John, John Wood Group, BNP, FTSE, U.S, Thomson Locations: Bank of England, Britain, United States, 10.2x, Europe, U.S, Bengaluru

☆ Nikola Jokic Has Mastered the Art of Slowness
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-22 | by ( Kurt Streeter | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

It is the speed with which he plays, or, rather, the lack of it, that sets him apart in the fast-twitch N.B.A. Jokic, the two-time league most valuable player, could write an instructional book about the game he has come to master: Basketball and the Fine Art of Slowness. He moves where he wants, when he wants, while every other player is slicing around the court in a frenzy. It brought to mind something Jeff Van Gundy, the former N.B.A. Jokic is the epitome of the John Wooden quote, ‘Be quick, don’t hurry.’”“He’s an absolute marvel,” Van Gundy added.

☆ Wood Group shares sink after Apollo abandons 1.7 bln pound bid
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-15 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

The shares initially fell by as much as 40% after private equity firm Apollo said it would not go ahead with an offer following an exploratory bid last month. Representatives for Wood and Apollo declined to comment further. Under UK takeover rules, Apollo cannot launch a takeover offer for Wood for the next six months, except with the company's agreement or in the event that a rival bidder swoops in. The news comes just days after British consumer group The Hut Group (THG) (THG.L) ended takeover discussions with Apollo after concluding that a preliminary bid by the fund was based on "inadequate valuations". Last week, Wood released its first-quarter earnings, which saw the group reiterate its 2023 outlook with performance expected to be weighted to the second half of the year.

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