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Eine der größten Katastrophen der Geschichte ereignete sich im Jahr 1271. Niccolò und Matteo Polo, Vater und Onkel von Marco Polo, besuchten in diesem Jahr Kublai Khan, der als Herrscher der Welt galt, mit Autorität über ganz China, Indien und den gesamten Osten. Kublai Khan war von der Geschichte des Christentums fasziniert und sagte: „Ihr […]

Looking for the perfect summer read? Kate is joined by Laura Potter and returning guest Phil Chaffee to compare recent reads before putting this year's biggest summer books to the test. Inspired by reading lists from The New York Times, The Times, Lit Hub and The Booker Prize, they decide which books are beach reads, suitcase books, and which they'd happily leave behind at the airport. Plus, they reveal the books they're packing for their own holidays.Books discussedRecently readThe Golden Mean — Annabel LyonPlato and the Tyrant — James RommGlorious Exploits — Ferdia LennonThe Game of Kings — Dorothy DunnettThe House of Niccolò series — Dorothy DunnettWe Are Green and Trembling — Gabriela Cabezón Cámara (trans. Robin Myers)Evaluating the picks from the summer reading listsHot Milk — Deborah LevyThe Eighth Life — Nino HaratischwiliA Month in the Country — J. L. CarrWhistler — Ann PatchettThe Things We Never Say — Elizabeth StroutLand — Maggie O'FarrellInstructions for a Heatwave — Maggie O'FarrellJohn of John — Douglas StuartI Want You to Be Happy — Jem CalderThe Director — Daniel KehlmannVilla Coco — Andrew Sean GreerOur holiday recommendationsThe Feast — Margaret KennedyFree Food for Millionaires — Min Jin LeeFamesick — Lena DunhamSwimming Home — Deborah LevyRadiant Star — Ann LeckieThe Balkan Trilogy — Olivia ManningWait for Me — Deborah, Duchess of DevonshireThe Pursuit of Love — Nancy MitfordAlso mentionedPachinko — Min Jin LeeShuggie Bain and Young Mungo — Douglas StuartLess — Andrew Sean GreerTranscription — Ben LernerReading Lolita in Tehran — Azar NafisiTimecodes00:00 Welcome02:44 Phil on The Golden Mean07:39 Laura on Dorothy Dunnett11:55 Kate on Green and Trembling16:54 Beach read game rules18:20 Booker picks: Hot Milk19:40 Doorstop epic The Eighth Life21:46 Classic: A Month Country23:07 NYT Beach Reads, Whistler by Ann. Patchett25:33 Elizabeth Strout and American vibes28:22 Switching to the (UK) Times list28:29 Times list features29:03 Maggie O'Farrell debate30:51 Douglas Stuart pick John of John33:05 New paperback picks35:03 Kehlmann masterpiece The Director38:28 The LitHub list of lists38:55 Villa Coco verdict41:44 Get more from the pod on Patreon43:26 Our personal holiday reads44:03 Phil recommends The Feast46:01 Min Jin Lee deep dive48:18 Lena Dunham Famesick51:44 Laura's summer stack53:56 Mitfords and Tana French01:02:20 Final wrap and farewellSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

DRMatternet Appoints Starbucks EVP Sanjay Shah to Board of DirectorsDeveloper of commercial drone delivery systems for urban and suburban environmentsCEO/founder Andreas Raptopoulos: M.A. in Industrial Design Engineering; Diploma of Imperial College in Industrial Design Engineering; Diploma in Mechanical EngineeringChris Dawson: M.B.A. from INSEAD.Sanjay Kotte: B.B.A. in finance and management; M.B.A. and J.D.Laurence Marton, M.D.: expert in drug development, polyamine metabolism, and cancer research,Saurabh Ranjan: certification in human resource and law; M.A. and M.B.A.No female directors or executives but now a second Sanjay: IN OR OUTSanjay Shah: B.S. in Mechanical EngineeringStarbucks Chief Supply Chain OfficerSVP of Operations, GopuffCOO, Beyond MeatSVP, TeslaVP of North American Customer Fulfillment, AmazonAAON Increases Board Size and Appoints Robert L. Buttermore III, and Patrick J. Jermain as Independent DirectorsBefore 2/9 F now 2/11 FAAON manufactures heating, ventilation, and air conditioning equipment for commercial and industrial indoor environments IN OR OUT: Robert L. Buttermore III: BS mechanical engineeringChief Supply Chain Officer of Rockwell Automation, one of the world's leading industrial automation and digital transformation companiespreviously led Rockwell's Power Control business and oversaw strategic expansion initiatives supporting industrial, semiconductor, energy, HVAC, and data center customers. IN OR OUT: Patrick J. Jermain: MBAFormer CFO PlexusAdministration and Management: 100%. The others:Caron A. Lawhorn: former CFO, ONE Gas, Inc.Stephen O. LeClair: MBA, Chair/former CEO, Core & MainBruce Ware: MBA, CEO, One America Bancorp Inc., a financial institution that he founded to provide niche financial and banking servicesUber's Strategy for Fighting Sexual Assault Suits: ‘What Were You Wearing?'IN OR OUT on the board skillset: Consumer and Digital Experience: “Background in the development and improvement of consumer experiences with a company's products, services, and brand, including through a digital interface.” AND Sustainability and Human Capital Management: “Experience in corporate responsibility, human capital management, and managing sustainability initiatives.”Who is in BOTH?Arora: CEO, Palo Alto Networks (cybersecurity); SoftbankBurns: Former CEO/Chair Xerox; currently invests in techEckert: Partner at PE firm; former CEO MattelGinsberg: Partner at PE firm; former CEO Match GroupKhosrowshahi: CEO; former CEO ExpediaSugar: Former CEO Northrop Grumman (war); Apple: Foxconn suicide machineWynaendts: former CEO Aegon (life insurance); Deutsche bankIN OR OUT on Chief Legal Officer Tony West: “Why safety is personal to me”Uses past public service as a human shield for his current corporate ruthlessness: West spends roughly a third of the statement reciting his resume (prosecuting child exploitation, doing pro bono work for domestic violence survivors, and overseeing the Office on Violence Against Women under Obama) which is why “I would never support or condone conduct—inside or outside a courtroom—that fails to treat women and survivors with dignity and respect”West was a chief architect and defender of Uber's ruthless campaign to pass Proposition 22 in California. Uber and other gig companies spent hundreds of millions of dollars to exempt themselves from state labor laws, ensuring their drivers remained classified as independent contractors without a minimum wage, healthcare, or sick leave.Blames “the system:” “I'll be the first to say that our adversarial legal system can be particularly tough for survivors. By its nature, the trial process is designed to extract facts ... And the fact that all of this occurs in public view makes it all the more difficult …” “The system" isn't asking victims what they were wearing—Uber's highly paid defense attorneys areWest is shifting the blame from his own legal department's aggressive, victim-blaming litigation strategies onto the abstract concept of the "adversarial legal system."the New York Times and unsealed court documents from the multidistrict litigation (MDL) reveal, once a survivor steps into a courtroom, Uber's high-priced defense lawyers resort to classic, traumatizing victim-blaming. Asking women what they were wearing or weaponizing their personal histories to discredit them is a deliberate strategy to minimize corporate payoutsCherry picks one favorable moment: West quotes a single federal judge from a February trial who praised Uber's attorneys, saying they did not engage in "the slightest bit of shaming" and that he wanted it "clear on the record."one favorable quote from one judge in one specific trial: "Look, this one guy said we're nice, so the New York Times must be lying."Bullshits the bigger picture: “Uber was among the first companies to end forced arbitration and mandatory confidentiality agreements in matters involving sexual assault and sexual harassment”Yes, they ended individual forced arbitration, but they fought ruthlessly to ensure survivors still cannot form class-action lawsuits. Forcing victims to fight Uber one-on-one is a massive legal advantage for the companyLies about ESG data: “Uber was also the first—and continues to be one of the only—companies to voluntarily and consistently publish data on the reports of sexual assault”They published "safety data," but as the Times revealed, they hid hundreds of thousands of complaints by categorizing them as "unaudited" or "less serious."While Uber publicly reported a few thousand incidents, internal documents showed they received over 400,000 reports of sexual assault or misconduct between 2017 and 2022.Jefferies ESG chief says investors overstate SpaceX governance risksAniket Shah, Jefferies' global head of sustainability: Investors who avoid SpaceX because of Elon Musk's extraordinary control over the company may be letting governance concerns outweigh potential long-term returns"The idea that there's an — in quotes — acceptable form of good governance" is one that "I highly question," Shah said. "People who try to put governance into some kind of straight-jacket are too simple-minded and, frankly speaking, not looking at data."“Investors who rely on governance checklists alone risk overlooking companies capable of generating substantial long-term returns, particularly founder-led businesses that concentrate decision-making power in a single executive.”IN OR OUT on SpaceX? Did he change your mind?Does this help change your mind? Bill Ackman Says "Never Bet Against Elon," Even as He Passes on SpaceX Stock. Here's Why He's Staying Out.IN OR OUT on SpaceX? Did Bill change your mind?IN OR OUT based on this headline: Mark Zuckerberg Says AI Will Create An 'Infinite' Instagram: outlined a vision where AI-generated content becomes a third major source of contentMark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan's school is the latest billionaire education experiment to collapse: The Primary School closed after nearly a decade, following disappointing outcomes and a shift in the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative's philanthropic priorities from social advocacy toward scientific philanthropyThe Primary School was a passion project for Chan, who regularly visited the campus, read books to kindergartners, and appeared in a curriculum video with Sesame Street's ElmoDespite her hands-on approach, the school struggled with some of its nontraditional elementsTeachers, for instance, were required to sign nondisclosure agreements, and the school experienced high turnover among principals.Finding the right curriculum and policies also proved challenging as administrators tried to determine the best approach to teaching students.Chan told The Wall Street Journal last year: “The outcomes just weren't where [the board] would have wanted them to be or, frankly, anyone would have wanted them to be.”IN OR OUT on the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative?MMIN OR OUT: Your AI strategy isn't failing because of bad design. It's because your team doesn't believe in youWhich is more likely - the team is rejecting AI or the messenger?In which case, IN OR OUT round - if you were employed by the following, and they said you were going to execute an AI strategy, you buying or selling?Mark ZuckerbergALL IN BABY! FIRE EVERYONE! SELLJamie Dimon“Total redeployment” BUYBill Brown, CEO at 3MAsk3M - product innovation using AI (talk to a chatbot and get ideas I think?) SELLKelly Ortberg, CEO at Boeing“Intelligence” - enhance spec drawings and productivity? They're not going deep on AI yet, no money BUYBrian Cornell, Target not-CEO-but-actually-CEOOne bullet: Using data and technology in new ways to strengthen inventory planning, improve in-store consistency and enhance guest interactions SELLSpaceX's first-ever earnings report comes with stock under pressure: Q2 previewStraight up, IN OR OUT - buying SpaceX with it cheap or selling?Elon Musk still runs it like an uncontrolled dictator with sycophants surrounding him!Aniket Shah says you shouldn't be so parochial about that or you'll miss “generational wealth event” like with Facebook, because Facebook was good for everyone!Musk rumored to be building an entire telco (or buying one) because his personal net worth can afford to buy him Verizon and still have almost $800bn left over!Everyone calling this a “test”, but it doesn't matter since the only thing you can do is buy or sell!Meritocracy claims make managers pay men more than equally qualified womenIN OR OUT: MEN OR WOMENStarbucks CEO Earns 1,794 Times More Than the Average Worker: Here's Why He's Paid $31MIN or OUTThe turnaround strategy is working - Niccol made more than any other restaurant CEO per share, stock is up!Starbucks pay committee is a mess of overpaying, interconnected directors: Ritch Allison (chair) bats .249 on pay ratio, Andy Campion bats 0.041, Mike Sievert 0.067, Neal Mohan 0.031. These are literally the among the highest paying directors in the database - so did he earn it or do these people not care and pay egregious amounts?ALL the execs make a lot - is it a good sign when all the execs get PAID, since they're making money in stores?Not EVERYONE is making money - Starbucks not only regressed its offer to the union, they sued them to no longer use the Starbucks logo (which is so fucking petty), and Niccol refused to negotiate with them at first and excluded them from the bonus poolStock is up 20% YTD, 15% in last year! Beating the S&P (slightly)!

Con Carlo Pellegatti e Mario Ielpo salutiamo in gigante del calcio che ci ha lasciati nelle ultime ore: Franco Baresi era una bandiera del Milan, un patrimonio del calcio italiano come non ne esistono più ed è andato via dopo una breve e letale malattia, con la maglia numero 6 cucita sulla pelle e l'affetto di tutto il popolo rossonero.Nell'ultima puntata stagionale non potevano farci mancare un po' di sano calciomercato estivo: il punto delle trattative in corso con Niccolò Ceccarini di Tuttomercatoweb. A proposito di mercato, ricostruiamo il trasferimento a sorpresa di LeBron James a Philadelphia insieme al nostro Simone Sandri.

Calciomercato e Ritiri con Lorenzo Beccarisi e Stefano Impallomeni Ospiti: Niccolò Ceccarini

Starbucks Chairman and CEO Brian Niccol says that customers are spending more per visit by adding drink additions and food, while improved staffing and store upgrades are boosting transactions. Speaking to Romaine Bostock on Bloomberg Open Interest, Niccol says that the company's turnaround efforts are driving broad-based sales gains across customer demographics.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Calciomercato e Ritiri con Francesco Tringali e Stefano Impallomeni. Punto di Mercato con Niccolò Ceccarini

Iniziamo l'ultima puntata della stagione dalla questione più chiacchierata delle ultime ore: Andrea Pirlo sarà il nuovo commissario tecnico della nazionale? Lo chiediamo a Monica Colombo e ad Antonello Valentini.A seguire Niccolò Ceccarini ci racconta le ultime novità sulle trattative di calciomercato.Spazio anche agli altri sport: Giorgio Terruzzi ci racconta cosa è successo nel GP di Formula 1 in Ungheria terminato da pochi minuti e vinto da Norris. Poi, con Pier Augusto Stagi, viviamo insieme l'ultima tappa del Tour de France. In coda una carrellata sulle prime amichevoli stagionali per le big: la Juve vince contro lo Standard Liegi, il Milan fa 2-2 col Celtic, l'Inter piega nel finale il Karlsruhe con una doppietta di Diouf. Ne parliamo rispettivamente con Filippo Cornacchia, Alessandro Iori e Franco Vanni.

Editoriale con Niccolò Ceccarini, intervistato da Vincenzo Marangio

Machiavelli's Prince argues that being feared is better than being loved. This book summary reveals why effectiveness trumps morality for true power.

"Cose di Calcio" con Antonio Paolino. Ospiti: Niccolò Ceccarini, (TMW) Alessandra Bacchetta (giornalista).

"Niccolò Ceccarini (TMW)" su mercato Juventus a Cose di Calcio.

Mentre riprende il conflitto tra Iran e Stati Uniti, stavolta più focalizzato sul controllo dello stretto di Hormuz, i ribelli houthi indirizzano i loro missili contro l'aeroporto di Abha, in Arabia Saudita. La tregua tra i due Paesi è dunque rotta, in un momento in cui il conflitto rimescola le carte in tavola e per gli houthi la presenza saudita in Yemen è forso troppo ingombrante. Ne parliamo con Eleonora Ardemagni, esperta in Yemen e monarchie del Golfo, ricercatrice Ispi.L'obiettivo più significativo raggiunto dai "Volenterosi" a Parigi è l'accordo sullo scudo anti-missili da sviluppare in maniera congiunta, dai nove Paesi firmatari. Ne parliamo con Pietro Batacchi, direttore di Rivista Italiana Difesa.Secondo una ricostruzione del New York Times e di Haaretz, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad è stato per un breve periodo un agente israeliano del Mossad. Ne parliamo con Niccolò Petrelli, ricercatore in Security Studies alla LUISS.

“Judas Kiss: The Traveling Clairvoyant of Tipton Mountain” — A hermit who claims he can watch distant events from inside a hollow pine tree becomes convinced the woman renting the cabin above his is a murderer — and only he knows what she's done.Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/OTRCHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Show Open00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Judas Kiss” (March 23, 1978) ***WD00:45:48.210 = Tales From The Tomb, “Spirit Calling” (1960s)00:50:20.385 = Two Thousand Plus, “World's Apart” (November 29, 1950) ***WD01:19:02.978 = The Unexpected, “Heat Wave” (1947-1948)01:31:11.637 = Unsolved Mysteries, “Indian Fakir” (February 17, 1944) ***WD01:44:47.860 = Dark Venture, “Elizabeth Is Frightened” (July 22, 1947)02:14:43.934 = The Weird Circle, “Haunted Hotel” (May 13, 1945)02:42:15.220 = The Whistler, “Murder Will Shout” (March 19, 1945)03:11:41.385 = Strange Wills, “Emily” (August 31, 1946)03:41:20.826 = Witch's Tale, “Statue of Thor” (May 22, 1933)04:04:13.136 = X Minus One, “Honeymoon In Hell” (December 26, 1956)04:33:07.327 = ABC Mystery Time, “Murder In Haste” (1957) ***WD04:56:48.877 = Strange Adventure, “Death Rides The Carousel” (1945) ***WD05:00:05.724 = Show Close(ADU) = Air Date Unknown(LQ) = Low Quality***WD = Remastered, edited, or cleaned up by Weird Darkness to make the episode more listenable. Audio may not be pristine, but it will be better than the original file which may have been unusable or more difficult to hear without editing.CUSTOM WEBPAGE: https://weirddarkness.com/WDRR0712Weird Darkness presents Retro Radio, a night of classic dark radio drama spanning three decades of murder, madness, and the supernatural.It opens with the CBS Radio Mystery Theater's "The Judas Kiss," in which Oscar Absecker, a solitary handyman living on a dying mountain outside the village of Tipton, believes a big black dog barks three times whenever someone dies — and believes he can watch distant events unfold by standing inside a lightning-struck, hollow pine tree. When Deputy Luke Marbury rents the cabin above his to a woman named Enid Grant, Oscar becomes convinced that she is destroying the much younger man who joins her there, and his visions show him one killing after another. Fred Gwynne stars, with E.G. Marshall hosting.From there comes "Spirit Calling" from Tales From The Tomb, a short piece about a nine-year-old girl named Amy, alone in the house during a violent summer storm after her uncle Stanley's death, and the telephone call that comes through on a dead line.Next is Two Thousand Plus and "World's Apart," in which rocket engineer Jim Granger talks his way onto Flight 17, the first crewed voyage to Neptune, only for the spaceship Phoenix to be dragged off course by an uncharted comet. Crippled and lost, the ship limps to a landing at a place called Green Valley, where Commander Dijkstra can hear heartbeats across a room, the milk is green, and gravity does not behave the way it should.The Unexpected follows with "Heat Wave," starring Barry Sullivan as Whitey Malone, a fugitive sweating out a 110-degree heat wave in a fifth-floor garret while the police close in — and burning to settle accounts with the woman he thinks tipped them off.Then Unsolved Mysteries brings "Indian Fakir," a story told at the United Services Club in Simla, where a colonel recounts what happened when his young English bride, alone in their Bangalore bungalow, tried to outsmart a fakir who demanded a strand of her hair — and handed him threads pulled from a Chinese rug instead.Dark Venture presents "Elizabeth Is Frightened," with Joan Banks as a wealthy woman who marries Philip Bailey, a widower fascinated by the power of one mind to dominate another. As the whole town starts believing Elizabeth is ill and suicidal, only her housekeeper Flora and Dr. Davis suspect what her husband is really doing.The Weird Circle offers "Haunted Hotel," in which Henry Westwick travels to Venice and takes room fourteen at a converted castle to learn how his brother Philip died weeks after marrying the mysterious Countess Narona — and finds the answers coming to him in dreams.The Whistler tells "Murder Will Shout," the story of garage owner George Kramer, buried in debt to a man named Albion, and the small-time racketeer Peanut Marola who offers a black-market car racket, a partnership, and a solution to the Albion problem that goes very wrong on Miller Highway.Strange Wills, starring Warren William, tells "Emily," tracing a violin built by Antonio Stradivarius in Cremona in 1732 through the hands of gypsies, Niccolò Paganini, and the Heller family of Vienna, until it turns up at a barn dance in the Tennessee hills as a GI's war souvenir.The Witch's Tale delivers "Statue of Thor," in which sculptor Neil Redding, bored and cruel, mocks his enormous Swedish model Olaf, seduces Olaf's fiancée Hedwig, and takes the big man to the foundry to watch the statue of Thor cast in bronze — a casting that comes out of the mold wearing a face Redding never sculpted.X Minus One presents "Honeymoon In Hell," set in the late 1960s, when male births stop worldwide and the cybernetics machine known as Junior recommends sending a married couple to the moon. Rocket pilot Ray Carmody is wed to Eastern Alliance pilot Anya Borisovna hours before launch, and on the lunar surface they find an unidentified craft that does not belong to either alliance.ABC Mystery Time offers "Murder In Haste," in which Elbert Taylor kills his wife Ellen, flees Miami by train under an assumed name, and — after a derailment in Georgia — steals the identity of a dead mystery writer named Leslie Jameson, only to have Jameson's wife walk into his New York hotel room.The episode closes with Strange Adventure and "Death Rides The Carousel," where a lawyer named Jeffrey Ford is found stabbed through the heart on a merry-go-round chariot at a village carnival in Merrimack, and Inspector Jonathan Hawke spots the flaw in the ticket taker's account.

"Cose di Calcio" con Antonio Paolino. Ospiti: Gabriele La Monica, Niccolò Ceccarini, Valerio Pavesi,

Virginia e Caterina ci parlano della storia di Masterchef, con l'intervista a Niccolò Califano (Masterchef 13).

Iniziamo il pomeriggio dai motori: prima Giorgio Terruzzi ci racconta cosa è successo nella gara di Formula 1 in Austria, poi insieme a Carlo Pernat analizziamo la corsa di MotoGP ad Assen vinta da Ogura.A seguire ampia parentesi sui Mondiali americani: vincono nella notte Inghilterra e Argentina, superano il turno, tra le altre, anche Croazia e Portogallo. Stasera al via i sedicesimi con Sudafrica-Canada. Noi ne parliamo con Fabio Bazzani di Dazn. Parliamo ancora di Mondiali con Gianni De Biasi per capire quali siano le sue favorite per la vittoria finale.Poi, insieme a Niccolò Ceccarini, entriamo nel cuore di un calciomercato che questa settimana ci ha regalato già diversi affari: Palestra al Chelsea, Nico Paz al Como, Goncalo Ramos al Milan.A seguire un’intervista a Luca Dotto per celebrare la sua carriera nel momento dell’addio al nuoto.In coda andiamo a Londra da Lorenzo Ercoli per farci spiegare che clima si respira a poche ore dall’inizio di Wimbledon. Sinner in campo domani alle 14,30.

Non poteva restare a lungo spettatore di vittorie e gol degli altri. CR7 firma con una doppietta il 5-0 del Portogallo all'Uzbekistan di Cannavaro e aggiunge un altro record al suo curriculum: Cristiano è ora il primo giocatore della storia a segnare in 6 edizioni diverse di un Mondiale. Nella festa dei Lusitani spazio anche per il milanista Leao. Il bomber triste della giornata è Kane, fermato con l'Inghilterra sullo 0-0 dal Ghana. Vittorie di misura per Colombia e Croazia. Di tutto questo parliamo col direttore di DAZN Michele Dalai e anche in #DaiCarloNonFarlo con Carlo Pellegatti e Carlos Passerini inviato a Houston del Corriere della Sera. Spazio anche al calciomercato con Niccolò Ceccarini, con l'Inter bruciata dal Chelsea nella corsa per l'acquisto di Palestra.

rWotD Episode 3328: Ottoman conquest of Lesbos Welcome to random Wiki of the Day, your journey through Wikipedia's vast and varied content, one random article at a time.The random article for Sunday, 14 June 2026, is Ottoman conquest of Lesbos.The Ottoman conquest of Lesbos took place in September 1462. The Ottoman Empire, under Sultan Mehmed II, laid siege to the island's capital, Mytilene. After its surrender, the other forts of the island surrendered as well. The event put an end to the semi-independent Genoese lordship that the Gattilusio family had established in the northeastern Aegean since the mid-14th century, and heralded the beginning of the First Ottoman–Venetian War in the following year.In the mid-14th century, the Gattilusio family had established an autonomous lordship under Byzantine suzerainty on Lesbos. By 1453, the Gattilusio domains had come to include most of the islands in the northeastern Aegean. In the aftermath of the fall of the Byzantine Empire in 1453, however, Mehmed II began reducing the Gattilusio holdings. By the end of 1456, only Lesbos remained in Gattilusio hands, in exchange for an annual tribute to the Sultan. In 1458 Niccolò Gattilusio seized control of the island from his brother, and began preparing for an eventual Ottoman attack. Despite his appeals, however, no help was forthcoming from other Western powers. Mehmed II began his campaign against Lesbos in August 1462, and the Ottomans landed on the island on 1 September. After a few days of skirmishing, the Ottomans brought up their artillery and began bombarding the Castle of Mytilene. By the eighth day, the Ottomans had captured the harbour fortifications, and two days later, they seized the lower town of Melanoudion. At this point, panic set in among the defenders, and their will to continue resisting collapsed.Niccolò Gattilusio surrendered the castle and the rest of the island on 15 September, on promises of receiving estates of equivalent value. He was taken to Constantinople, where he was soon strangled. Despite promises, many of the defenders were executed, and a large part of the inhabitants were carried off for slavery in the Ottoman Empire, as servants in the Sultan's palace, or to help repopulate Constantinople. Ottoman rule on Lesbos lasted, with minor interruptions, until 1912.This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 00:58 UTC on Sunday, 14 June 2026.For the full current version of the article, see Ottoman conquest of Lesbos on Wikipedia.This podcast uses content from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.Visit our archives at wikioftheday.com and subscribe to stay updated on new episodes.Follow us on Bluesky at @wikioftheday.com.Also check out Curmudgeon's Corner, a current events podcast.Until next time, I'm standard Justin.

"Cose di Calcio" con Antonio Paolino. Ospiti: Fabrizio Ponciroli, Niccolò Ceccarini

Niccolò Ceccarini (TMW) a Cose di Calcio.

Today Justin sits down with Dr. Niccolò Petrelli. Niccolò is a research scholar at the Center for International and Strategic Studies at LUISS in Rome, Italy. He earned his Bachelor's degree in Political Science, his Master's degree in International Relations, and his PhD in Political Science, all from Roma Tre University. He has also published many papers and journal articles on counterterrorism, counterinsurgency, and intelligence matters. He's here to discuss the relationship between US and Italian intelligence during the Cold War, and in particular, the Gladio operation, which armed, trained, and funded personnel intended to operate behind enemy lines in the event that World War III broke out in Europe. The Gladio teams were also suspected of being employed to suppress communism in Italy. Connect with Niccolò: LinkedIn: Niccolò Petrelli Connect with Spycraft 101: Get Justin's latest book, Murder, Intrigue, and Conspiracy: Stories from the Cold War and Beyond, here. spycraft101.com IG: @spycraft101 Shop: shop.spycraft101.com Substack: spycraft101.substack.com Patreon: Spycraft 101 Find Justin's first book, Spyshots: Volume One, here. Check out Justin's second book, Covert Arms, here. Download the free eBook, The Clandestine Operative's Sidearm of Choice, here. Kruschiki The best surplus military goods delivered right to your door. Use code SPYCRAFT101 for 10% off! https://kruschiki.com/ Clandestine Laboratories Your new favorite fragrance is here. I'm partial to Novochoc. https://www.clandestinelaboratories.com/fragrances Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Every now and then, a player comes along whose connection to a club is so profound it becomes contagious. Enter Niccolò Pisilli—the lifelong Romanista who joined the academy at nine years old and is now carving out his destiny as a first-team cornerstone in the Eternal City.In this episode, we chart the steady, unyielding rise of AS Roma's homegrown midfield maestro through his impressive 2025–26 campaign: We revisit the unforgettable night Pisilli dissolved into tears under the Europa League lights, proving that some stories are still written with pure passion. A tactical breakdown of his immense versatility, examining how he seamlessly transitions between a deep-lying regista and an attacking mezzala.Analyzing the stats behind his 24 league appearances, his clinical composure in Europe, and that crucial, unforgettable assist in the 2-0 Derby della Capitale triumph over Lazio.With a contract secured until 2029, Pisilli is no longer just a bright prospect—he is the future of the Giallorossi. Tune in as we dissect how this fearless 21-year-old conquered the physical demands of Serie A to become the player every manager wants in their squad. Niccolò Pisilli, AS Roma podcast, Serie A 2026, Italian football talent, Giallorossi future.

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Nonostante l'eliminazione al 2° turno di Jannik Sinner, il tennis italiano vola in alto al Roland Garros. Per la prima volta nella storia, tre gli azzurri ai quarti di finale del torneo: commentiamo i successi di Cobolli, Berrettini e Arnaldi con Diego Nargiso, ex tennista e talent di Supertennis e SkySport.Dalla terra rossa passiamo al rettangolo verde, con le prime trattative di calciomercato che coinvolgono tanto i giocatori quanto le panchine: ne parliamo con Niccolò Ceccarini, direttore di Tuttomercatoweb.È iniziata la settimana che ci porta tra le strade del principato: Kimi Antonelli è il favorito per la vittoria del GP di Monaco? Lo chiediamo al nostro Leo Turrini.

Si può essere un eroe senza smettere di essere un uomo? Alle 5.30 del mattino, mentre la città dorme, Niccolò allaccia le scarpe e insegue quella sensazione che lo fa sentire invincibile. È un triatleta, un Ironman, ma prima ancora è un compagno, un padre e un osteopata. Volevo essere un eroe è il racconto sincero e potente di un uomo che ha fatto dello sport di endurance la propria strada di crescita, fino a raggiungere palcoscenici mondiali. Ma cosa succede quando il sogno è stato realizzato? Quando il traguardo non basta più a riempire il bisogno di essere visto, riconosciuto, abbastanza?Volevo essere un eroe, di Niccolò Pace:https://www.amazon.it/dp/B0H21TMD18#daddocè #mondotriathlon #ioTRIamo ❤️#triathlon #trilife #fczstyle#daddosport #goveganDiventa un supporter di questo podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mondo-triathlon-daddo-podcast--2275909/support.

"Niccolò Ceccarini (TMW)" su VLAHOVIC a Cose di Calcio.

"Cose di Calcio" con Paolo Rossi. Ospiti: Niccolò Ceccarini (TMW), Antonio Paolino, Francesco Caliari.

Il talentuoso artista sardo Niccolò Porcedda conquista il pubblico di Cagliari con un innovativo spettacolo di poesia performativa, unendo magistralmente la potenza della parola recitata alla suggestione del teatro. Riascolta la performance del 24 maggio 2026 al Cornetto Acustico di Cagliari. La scena culturale contemporanea assiste a una potente rinascita della parola parlata. A Cagliari l'artista Niccolò Porcedda ha dimostrato come i versi possano abbandonare le pagine stampate per trasformarsi in pura azione. Il suo ultimo progetto, intitolato significativamente "Io sono un poeta – e altre opinabili affermazioni", ha registrato un grande interesse di pubblico. Non si tratta di un semplice reading, ma di un vero e proprio spettacolo teatrale. L'esibizione unisce fili narrativi differenti, alternando con eccezionale fluidità la prosa e il componimento in versi. Il pubblico viene guidato dentro un'esperienza dinamica, lontana dagli schemi tradizionali della lettura accademica. Un percorso artistico tra musica e parole La formazione del protagonista è ricca e variegata. Niccolò Porcedda nasce infatti come musicista e cantante baritono, avendo studiato violoncello e canto rinascimentale al Conservatorio. Questa profonda sensibilità musicale emerge con chiarezza nella gestione dei ritmi sul palco e nella sonorità stessa delle parole scelte per i testi. Dopo il trasferimento a Milano, l'autore si è avvicinato al circuito nazionale del Poetry Slam. Questa particolare forma di competizione si basa proprio sul voto del pubblico. Da quella stimolante esperienza sul campo è nata l'ispirazione per strutturare un monologo autonomo. Lo show ridefinisce il legame tra artista e spettatore. La risposta del pubblico all'evento di Cagliari Il ritorno nell'isola ha confermato la bontà di una scelta stilistica innovativa. Niccolò Porcedda ha catalizzato l'attenzione della platea cagliaritana riunita per l'occasione al Cornetto Acustico, nel cuore dello storico quartiere di Villanova. Durante la serata, le riflessioni sul ruolo sociale dello scrittore si sono intrecciate a momenti di profonda ironia e lirismo. L'uso moderato della tecnologia e la centralità della voce nuda hanno creato una connessione intima con i presenti. Il successo dell'evento dimostra una forte fame di cultura dal vivo, espressa anche attraverso le interazioni digitali che l'artista cura regolarmente sui propri canali social ufficiali.

DRCoinbase cuts headcount by 14% citing AI acceleration. The shares are gainingCoinbase cuts headcount by 14% citing AI acceleration WHO DO YOU BLAME?Cofounder/CEO/Chair Brian Armstrong: 49.6% voting power MMIn 2020, amidst global protests for racial justice, Armstrong issued a blog post that effectively banned employees from discussing social issues or activism at work: "We don't advocate for any particular causes or candidates internally that are unrelated to our mission, because it is a distraction from our mission... we won't engage in broader societal issues."Brian is a proponent of "Freedom Cities"—privatized zones built on federal land that would be exempt from the laws that govern the rest of the countryMeta Platforms director Marc Andreessen:Impeding the development of AI in any way, he argues, “is a form of murder."Our enemies are 'social responsibility', 'stakeholder capitalism', 'Precautionary Principle', 'sustainable development goals', 'social justice', and 'environmental, social, and governance (ESG)'... These are all ideas that would lead to a stagnant, decadent, and ultimately dead society."The dual class share structure:The holders of our Class B common stock are entitled to twenty votes per share, and holders of our Class A common stock are entitled to one vote per share.Jeffrey Billings, the independent trustee for certain trusts established by Brian Armstrong (representing 18.9% voting power)Co-founder/director Frederick “Fred” Ernest Ehrsam III (10.6% voting power)co-founder and general partner of the crypto-focused venture capital firm Paradigmco-founder and CEO of Nudge, a neurotechnology startup developing non-invasive brain–computer interfacesDuke UniversityWhile Fred is often seen as the quiet intellectual counterpart to Marc Andreessen, his philosophy is arguably even more dystopian to critics because it moves beyond just software—aiming to program human governance and the human brain itself.Fred is the Quiet Architect of a future where human systems are replaced by cold code.Fred is a major backer of the Prometheus Summit, a secretive gathering of tech elites focused on "longevity" and "assisted reproductive technologies."In 2026, Fred was appointed to the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) by President Donald TrumpThe 2 women on the board, seems very DEI-ishThe shares are gaining WHO DO YOU BLAME?InvestorsUp 15$ in 2 days: $655M for brianDiary of a CEO founder says he hired someone with ‘zero' work experience because she ‘thanked the security guard by name' before the interview WHO DO YOU BLAME?The so-called “meritocracy” MM“I hired someone who's CV was two lines. Their experience was zero”Elon Musk's SpaceX Could Be Fast-Tracked Into S&P 500 After IPO Under Proposed Rule Changes AND Elon Musk settles SEC lawsuit over Twitter purchase and agrees to pay $1.5m fineA trust in Musk's name will pay a $1.5m civil penalty, without admitting wrongdoing. Musk won't have to give up any money he allegedly saved from the delay. In its January 2025 lawsuit, the SEC said Musk's 11-day delay in revealing his initial 5% Twitter stake in late March and early April 2022 let him buy more than $500min shares at artificially low prices, before he finally revealed a 9.2% stake. WHO DO YOU BLAME?The SEC CommissionersJan 2025Chair Gary Gensler (D) Commissioner Hester Peirce (R)Commissioner Mark Uyeda (R)Commissioner Caroline Crenshaw (D)Commissioner Jaime Lizárraga (D)Today MMChair Paul Atkins (R)Commissioner Hester Peirce (R)Commissioner Mark Uyeda (R)VacantVacantSpecifically Paul AtkinsDuring his first stint as an SEC Commissioner (George W. Bush), Paul was famous for his dissent against large corporate penaltiesHe argued that fining a company for the "sins" of its executives just hurts the innocent shareholders a second timeRecently in the same Administration with Musk (DOGE)Generally believes the SEC overregulates; Musk has referred to the SEC as “bastards”Commissioner Hester PeirceThe perennial dissenter (pre-Trump 2.0): Whenever the SEC would sue a crypto firm or fine a high-profile CEO, Peirce would release a blistering public letter explaining why the SEC was wrong, overreaching, and "paternalistic."Hester is the primary author of the Token Safe Harbor proposal, which essentially argues that tech companies should be allowed to operate for three years without any SEC oversight to "find their footing."Hester has long argued that the SEC's disclosure requirements are "bloated" and "immaterial." In her view, Musk's failure to file a 13D form for his Twitter stake wasn't a crime—it was a failure to comply with a "clunky, outdated bureaucracy.""In our purportedly enlightened era, we pin scarlet letters on allegedly offending corporations without bothering much about facts and circumstances... After all, naming and shaming corporate villains is fun, trendy, and profitable."The S&P 500, managed by S&P Global Dow Jones Indices, on Thursday, announced it was beginning consultation on rule changes that could potentially help Elon Musk-led SpaceX gain an expedited entry into the index. The rule changes include letting IPOs enter the index six months after their debut on an eligible index instead of a 12-month period, according to current rules.The index also proposed eliminating a minimum Investable Weight Factor (IWF) of 0.10 for megacap companies. The IWF is a methodology used to calculate the number of shares of a company available to trade on the market.Notably, the proposed rule changes also eliminate profitability requirements for megacap companies. Current rules require a company to be profitable on a GAAP basis for 12 months to be considered for the index, but that rule could be eliminated.S&P DJI only accepts feedback during the announced consultation open period, which is generally one calendar month following the consultation announcement. The Index Committee considers the complexity of the change and the desirable implementation timing in determining the open window for the consultation, which is generally aligned, if possible, with the index rebalancing schedule. WHO DO YOU BLAME?S&P Global CEO Martina L. Cheung (31% no on pay last year) DEI? That's all I haveS&P Global Chair Ian Livingston (Lord Livingston of Parkhead)Lord Livingston is also involved in a number of charities particularly in the fields of education, equality and social careLords are weird? That's all I haveThe Index CommitteeThe S&P 500 Index Committee is one of the most powerful and secretive groups in global finance. To prevent insider trading and front-running (where traders buy a stock because they know it's about to be added to the index), S&P Dow Jones Indices (S&P DJI) keeps the names of the individual committee members confidential.“To mitigate even the appearance of a conflict of interest... all Index Committee meetings are confidential. Membership of the Index Committee is not disclosed, and voting members consist of senior S&P DJI staff who have no commercial responsibilities”The Committee Members: Usually consists of about five to nine full-time employees of S&P Dow Jones Indices. Veto Power: Unlike other indices that use a rigid formula, this committee has discretionary authority. They can choose to ignore certain rules (like profitability) if they believe a company is representative of the U.S. economy.Who is probably partly on the Committee:Catherine Clay (CEO, S&P Dow Jones Indices): As the top executive, she oversees all index divisions. She joined in late 2025 with a mandate to modernize the indices for the digital and private-to-public era.Fiona Boal (Global Head of Equities): She oversees the entire equity index suite. Any proposal to change the "seasoning" or profitability rules for the S&P 500 goes through her office.Michael Orzano (Head of Exchange Products): He is the primary strategist for how major listings (like a $1.75T SpaceX IPO) integrate with the exchange-traded product (ETF) ecosystem.He was the lead strategist during the 2020 Tesla Inclusion, which was the most chaotic event in S&P historyHamish Preston (Head of U.S. Equities): He is the primary spokesperson for S&P 500 methodology. If the "SpaceX Rule" is adopted in June 2026, he will be the one explaining the technical justification to the media.Louis Bellucci (Head of Index Committee Management): As of 2026, he is the specific individual tasked with managing the various index committees and ensuring they follow the updated governance protocolsThe general concept of greed MMMM'Tone Deaf' Starbucks CEO Slammed for Justifying $10 Coffee as 'Affordable Premium Experience' - Niccol is so close to the human experience, he thought it was obviously “affordable” premium to pay $10 for a single cup of coffee. WHO DO YOU BLAME?Mike Sievert, Jorgen Knudstorp, Neal Mohan, and Brian NiccolAccording to Free Float knowledge database, the only four directors with base knowledge of marketing in their backgrounds - all direct from their education and bios46% of SBUX influenceRichard Allison, Neal Mohan, Andy Campion, Beth Ford, Mike SievertMembers of the pay committee that graciously granted Niccol $96m such that a $10 coffee is an “affordable premium experience” for Niccol aloneMeanwhile, CEO Pay Surges 11% While Workers' Wages Stagnate at 0.5% in 2025: Report.In the last 5 years, EVERY director at SBUX was tagged as a “bottom payer” for employees using bottom quartile employee median pay relative to peers as a flagAt the same time, SBUX tagged as mildly atypical overpay relative to other paying directors, and the board average 5 year CEO Pay ratio ranking in the BOTTOM QUINTILE - not only do they love paying their employees as little as possible, the couple it with massive pay packages for CEOs everywhere they goBeth Ford, Daniel Servitje, and Neal MohanAccording to Free Float deference numbers, which use how directors get paid, the prestige of the directorship, the overlaps/reliance on the CEO, and social ties to management, these three are the only ones on the board tagged as “Deferential”For instance, Mohan has directorships at Chrome Holding and Starbucks… which one is a bigger deal?These are directors with the most to lose by dissenting - and risking getting replaced - at this board in particularMike Sievert, Daniel Servitje, Marissa Mayer, Neal Mohan, Brian NiccolEstimates of each of their net worth is in excess of $100m, with Servitje part of the nepo Grupo Bimbo money (he's worth >$3bn)Mayer is the rare female fail up, with early Google and Yahoo money >$600mMohan got a $100m stock retention bonus in 2013 alone and is the CEO of YouTube, the ultimate in artist exploitation machineNeal Mohan, who is on every one of these lists DRBrian Niccol, for generating a record quarter, avoiding negotiating with the union, and calling $10 for roasted beans “affordable premium”Activists Protest Jeff Bezos at 2026 Met Gala with Symbolic 'Urine' Bottles - no one like Uncle Jeffe and his wife anymore!!! WHO DO YOU BLAME?Zohran MamdaniHe skipped the Met Gala??? This was his one chance to show he actually DOES love Ken Griffin!WorkersIf they just accepted that they will all be fired by AI robots and take what their tech billionaire overlords bequeath them generously, they wouldn't have to do this: While billionaires get ready for the Met Gala, their workers walk a different kind of runwayA protest fashion show by workers of Amazon, Whole Foods, Starbucks, Uber, organized by the SEIU and Amazon Labor UnionLauren Sanchez DRProfiled in the NYT saying the uber-rich should “stop apologizing” and “start enjoying themselves” - isn't always the wife's fault?Amazon's board of sycophantsLabelled as “Structurally Deferential” in Free Float data, 5 of the 12 directors have been with Bezos for over a decadeThe rest are almost entirely connected to the directors who have been there for more than a decade7 of the 12 directors tagged as bottom payers, 6 of them at just AmazonEVERY DIRECTOR has been flagged more than once for Human Rights violations across all boards they're on - literally they have overseen constant strings of human rights violationsUncle Jeffe - who still thinks you can buy things and make people like youGameStop is preparing offer for eBay, WSJ reports - the offer is for $56bn and would allow a failing brick and mortar video game company to buy a semi-failing 2000s internet auction company - WHO DO YOU BLAME?TD Bank directors Ana Arsov, Cheri Brant, Elio Luongo, Keith Martell, Frank Pearn, Paul Wirth - the TD risk committeeTD offered a “I guess so?” letter for financing coming in around $20bn in debt. That amount of debt would make these directors - who are only active on the GameStop board - among the most indebted in our databaseThe risk committee is: accountant, compliance officer, ex-bank CEO, accountant, lawyer, someone from Moody'sRoaring Kitty Keith GillIsn't this obviously all his fault?Last count, he has as many as 9m shares in GME in 2024…CEO Ryan CohenWhose deep experience selling pet food and video games has set him up to have just the ego to think he can run anything anywhereWho cares

Brian Niccol, Starbucks Chairman & CEO, joins Bloomberg's Romaine Bostick on "Bloomberg Open Interest" to discuss the company's earnings report as well as the future for Starbuck's growth.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ep. 134: Si ricorda come un bambino che trovava rifugio nei libri, «una sorta di corazza» capace di proteggerlo dal mondo. In questa intervista con Malcom Pagani, Niccolò Ammaniti racconta che i suoi libri nascono dai luoghi che «ti rimangono dentro» e spiega come, sl centro delle sue storie, c'è sempre una tensione tra ciò che «la famiglia considera sacro» e il desiderio di libertà, che arriva come «una vertigine» e spesso passa attraverso l'adolescenza, età di metamorfosi e di primi amori vissuti come «una malattia». Ammaniti parla anche della scrittura come necessità nata quasi per caso e del successo che permette di lavorare senza condizionamenti e che, tra memoria e immaginazione: ciò che resta sono le «cicatrici», le uniche prove che la vita è accaduta davvero. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Se vuoi la pace, prepara la guerra" è una verità storica o l'alibi del potere? In questo primo episodio della nuova stagione di Pensiero Stupendo, il prof. Matteo Saudino osserva il ritorno dei conflitti globali attraverso la lente spietata della filosofia politica. Dal realismo di Niccolò Machiavelli, per cui la guerra è l'essenza dello Stato, al "guerra-duello" di Carl von Clausewitz, passando per Hegel, che vede nel conflitto una necessaria "igiene del mondo", e Carl Schmitt con la sua distinzione brutale tra amico e nemico. Dalle milizie mercenarie ai moderni contractors, un viaggio tra le domande fondamentali di chi la guerra la teorizza e chi, purtroppo, la subisce.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Story of the Week (DR):WarSaudi Aramco CEO issues stark warning: Iran war could bring ‘catastrophic' shock to global oilPrediction markets face questions on Iran war bets, from regime change to nuclear detonationThe Maduro Capture (Jan 2026): Just hours before the U.S. captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, a new Polymarket account wagered $30,000 on his removalIsraeli Military Indictments (Feb 2026): At least two individuals in the Israeli defense forces were reportedly indicted for using classified intelligence to place winning bets on the specific dates of military strikes in IranNational Security Risk: A recent report by Responsible Statecraft warns that officials with the power to influence military timing could alter operations to maximize their payout The Atlantic Council recently warned that foreign adversaries can "weaponize the odds" by dumping money into a thinly traded market to create a false narrative that a country is about to collapse, potentially triggering a real-world panic or bank run.Kalshi (private)1/13/25: Kalshi names Donald Trump Jr. as strategic advisorPolymarket (college dropout Shayne Coplan)8/26/25: Kalshi Advisor Donald Trump Jr. Joins Rival Polymarket BoardTrump Jr.'s 1789 Capital is making an eight-figure investment in the controversial prediction-market company.AI JobsAnthropic just mapped out which jobs AI could potentially replace. A ‘Great Recession for white-collar workers' is absolutely possibleThe most AI-exposed group is 16 percentage points more likely to be female, earns 47% more on average, and is nearly four times as likely to hold a graduate degree compared to the least exposed group.Sam Altman admits AI is killing the labor-capital balance—and says nobody knows what to do about itOracle expected to slash thousands of jobs as massive AI spending creates financial cash crisisLayoffs are feeling awfully tempting for a lot of companies right nowCEOs are using one number in the AI age to decide how many people they still needRevenue per employeePatreon's CEO says AI will be a 'bloodbath for the world's creative people' unless tech companies pay upAtlassian slashes 10% of workforce to 'self-fund' investments in AI and enterprise salesThe unexpected 92,000 drop in payrolls is a clue we might be reading the AI jobs narrative all wrongWorker painAI Is Forcing Employees to Work Harder Than EverAI Job Loss Is Breaking the Psyche of Workers, Psychiatrist Warns‘AI brain fry' is real — and it's making workers more exhausted, not more productive, new study findsEconomist Dambisa Moyo says CEOs must play a role in sustaining the consumer class as AI eliminates jobsThis could only happen if we weren't controlled by the TechBro Dropout GangCII‘Not a goodbye…': What Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen told employees after announcing decision to step downShantanu Narayen, CEO of Adobe for 18 years, will step down once a successor is appointed, while continuing as board chairman.Google Hands Sundar Pichai $692M Package Tied to AI BetsPackage uniquely ties executive pay to Waymo autonomous vehicle and Wing drone delivery venture performanceCompensation structure sets precedent for linking CEO pay to specific AI business unit success rather than overall company metricsSo now CEOs can either game their bonus by obsessively focusing on one thing or doom the rest of the company by obsessively focusing on one thing or bothAs You Sow Files Lawsuit Challenging Chubb's Refusal to Put Shareholder Proposal Addressing Climate-Driven Insurance Crisis on Company ProxyThe proposal asks shareholders to vote on whether Chubb should commission a report assessing whether pursuing subrogation claims against parties responsible for climate change could reduce losses, benefit shareholders, and help preserve affordable homeowners insurance.This lawsuit follows the SEC's decision to abandon its longstanding role as a neutral arbiter in the shareholder proposal process. In November 2025, the SEC announced that it would no longer review corporate no-action requests under Rule 14a-8, effectively forcing these matters into court—an expensive and lengthy process.Sen. Elizabeth Warren Slams SEC As 'Lap Dog For Trump's Billionaire Buddies' After It Dismisses Another Crypto Case"The SEC should not be a lap dog for Trump's billionaire buddies"Live Nation, Ticketmaster's Owner, Settles Antitrust Case With Justice DeptThat was fastLive Nation Entertainment board includes Trump administration bro Richard Grenell 2 of 12 are womenGrenell is somehow the president of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts despite no background in anything resembling “the Arts.”He replaced a woman, Deborah Rutter. The chair is President Trump. Of course. And the board now is down to only one woman: 2 years ago it was 60% female.Glass Lewis recommends voting against Starbucks director over ‘board-level E&S oversight'New York State Comptroller, New York City Comptroller, SOC Investment Group, Canadian responsible investment association SHARE, Merseyside Pension Fund, and Trillium oppose the re-election of lead independent director Jørgen Vig Knudstorp, as well as Beth Ford, chair of Starbucks' Nominating and Corporate Governance (NCG) committee.Ford was chair of the EPCI committee and now leads the NCG committee, which assumed some of the responsibilities of the EPCI when it was disbanded.In its benchmark policy proxy paper, Glass Lewis has recommended investors vote against Ford.Goodliest of the Week (MM/DR):DR:Uber rolls out women-only option in the USDR: CEOs of failed banks would have to surrender pay under bipartisan planSenate legislation would mandate “clawbacks” of executive pay, three years after the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank.MM: 24 states, Nintendo sue Trump over tariffs as refund fight growsCostco CEO Ron Vachris Pledges to Return Tariff Refunds to ShoppersMM: Andrew Yang says we should stop taxing workers — and start taxing AIAssholiest of the Week (MM):War on Women: part 1Alex KarpPalantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic PowerPalantir CEO Alex Karp thinks his AI technology will lessen the power of “highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat” while increasing the power of working-class men.“This technology disrupts humanities-trained—largely Democratic—voters, and makes their economic power less. And increases the economic power of vocationally trained, working-class, often male, working-class voters,” Karp said in a CNBC interview Thursday. “And so these disruptions are gonna disrupt every aspect of our society. And to make this work, we have to come to an agreement of what it is we're going to do with the technology; how are we gonna explain to people who are likely gonna have less good, and less interesting jobs.”To Alexandra Schiff, ex WSJ reporter and daughter of Tom Wolfe, who wrote a semi adoring Silicon Valley book in 2017 holding Peter Thiel as a god (and now sits on this board with Thiel), and to Lauren Friedman Stat, who only seems to post Palantir sizzle reels and as best I can tell is married to a “David Stat” who is the name of a “Director” (not on the board?) of Palantir who is in a Form 4 for selling stock:What the fuck are you doing. Do you read what this dude says? Are you that cucked to the tech bro elite you can't stop and say, “Hey, Alex, maybe tone down the suggestion you're trying to stop female Democrats from voting?”War on Women: part 2Glass Lewis recommends voting against Starbucks director over ‘board-level E&S oversight'Because Starbucks disbanded the Environmental, Partner and Community Impact committee of the board - launched in 2023, dissolved in November 2025Committee launched after majority supported SHP to focus on labor issuesJorgen Knudstorp and Daniel Servitje, the OTHER committee members, somehow escape entirelyKnudstorp is the Lead independent director, Niccol is the CEO and chair of the board (yes, chair)But instead of targeting Niccol or even Knudstorp, Glass Lewis targeted the female chair of the committee… ONLYIf the CEO gets to be chair - doesn't the CEO have to take responsibility for board overall? If you have an LID, are they accountable?? Why would the chair of a committee be target without the chair of the board or LID? Can a committee chair dissolve their own committee??Cracker Barrel - the scapegoat was the person of color who had “diversity” in their job description, not the longest tenured director who was also chair of the board but was a white guy - and Glass Lewis suggested voting out the brown dudeWar on Women: part 3 speed roundDOGE, DEI, and climate changeBlack women were disproportionately impacted by DOGE cuts. A year later, they're rebuilding careers for themselves and each otherI Watched 6 Hours of DOGE Bro Testimony. Here's What They Had to Say For ThemselvesOver the course of a six hour long or so deposition, Justin Fox, a former investment banker turned DOGE bro, refused to define what he believes counts as DEI; admitted he used ChatGPT to scan government contracts for terms such as “Black” and “homosexual” but not “white” or “caucasian;” and said that one of the grants he helped slash was “not for the benefit of humankind” before walking that claim back.Why ‘bringing your whole self to work' is a trap, especially for womenFormer Goldman Sachs CEO says DEI programs are ‘counterproductive,' arguing ‘you're branding the people in that program'Climate change: Women face worst impacts as funding support falls shortIn 2025, a UN women report warned that under a worst-case climate scenario, up to 158.3 million more women and girls may live in extreme poverty globally as a result of climate change by 2050Headliniest of the WeekDR: Shell CEO's Pay Jumps 60% Despite Profit Drop and Fatal AccidentsDR: Jack Dorsey Defends Wearing “Love” Hat While Firing 4,000 Employees in Pivot to AI: "I wanted to approach the whole situation with love."MM: Ozempic mania has even Olive Garden and The Cheesecake Factory cutting back on portion sizesMM: Cracker Barrel sales, traffic continue to slump months after failed rebrandWho Won the Week?DR: National Museum of the American Indian and the coffee at CII, was actually pretty not grossMM: The Council for Institutional Investors Spring Conference, who got to witness Proxy Countdown livePredictionsDR: CII loses our phone numberMM: The women start the uprising now:

Dopo la quasi figuraccia contro la Jagiellonia, la Fiorentina cade ancora in campionato contro l'Udinese, mentre il Bologna, a forza di 1-0 continua il ruolino di marcia positivo dell'ultimo mese. Questa sera, invece, torna la Coppa Italia con l'Inter in gita sul lago di Como. Ne parliamo con Niccolò Ceccarini, direttore Tuttomercatoweb e con Franco Vanni di Repubblica. Prima di ributtarsi nel Mondiale di F1, Charles Leclerc si concede un giorno a Montecarlo per sposarsi... chissà se alla cerimonia era presente anche il nostro Leo Turrini e chissà se avranno suonato Sal Da Vinci con la sua "Per sempre sì". Chiediamolo alla nostra inviata a Sanremo Marta Cagnola, appena rientrata dalla Riviera dei Fiori.

Mirafiori è la grande, gloriosa, fabbrica della Fiat. È stata la fabbrica più grande d'Europa, nel 1971 ospitava 60.000 operai, oggi sono poco più di 4.000, la maggior parte vicino alla pensione. Tutti in cassa integrazione, che significa lavorare poco e guadagnare poco. Attraverso le voci degli ultimi operai e delle ultime operaie, Zancan restituisce un mondo fatto di lavoro, fatica, povertà, ma anche di appartenenza, orgoglio, lotte e sogni.

Brian Niccol took over at Starbucks in 2024. He became CEO at a time profits had been falling and customers going elsewhere. He says Starbucks had got too distracted on efficiency and technology and lost focus on customers and experience.Starbucks has re-introduced things like handwriting on cups and ceramic mugs in a bid to win back customers, and has also given the menu and stores a makeover. It's already seen sales improve but Brian Niccol says they still need to do more..Technology is playing a big part in Starbucks plans to improve efficiency. It's using AI to take orders and allowing people to schedule their orders. It's also using technology to simplify the ordering process and stock. Niccol says this is allowing staff to spend more time to chat with customers. Presenter - Michelle Fleury Producers - John Mervin and Justin Bones Editor - Henry Jones01:40 Getting customers back to Starbucks. Says had lost focus and got distracted 07:22 Using technology such as AI taking orders and scheduling orders for customers 15:30 Partnering with 2028 LA Olympics 19:16 Should investors expect a slow rebuild or will the pace pick up this year 22:20 Giving power back to the storePicture: Reuters

Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol joins Bloomberg's Romaine Bostick to talk all things Starbucks including their earnings report, plans for growth, dealing with unions, and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Shoot us a Text.Episode #1256: Tesla IS phasing out its legacy models X  and S to make room for humanoid robots. EV sales just passed petrol cars for the first time in the EU. Finally, Starbucks is brewing a comeback under a new CEO, but margins are still on the drip.Show Notes with links: Tesla is officially sunsetting the Model S sedan and Model X crossover to make room for its future: humanoid robots made in a Fremont, TX factory. CEO Elon Musk says the move reflects Tesla's shift from automaker to physical AI pioneer.Sales of the S, X, and Cybertruck fell 40% in 2025 to just over 50,000 combined units.Tesla will aim to produce 1 million Optimus robots annually in the long term.Musk also confirmed Tesla's robotaxi service will expand to 7 more U.S. cities this year."It's time to bring the Model S and X programs to an end with an honorable discharge," said Musk.In a milestone moment for the EV market, fully electric cars outsold petrol-only vehicles in the EU for the first time in December, highlighting the region's accelerating shift toward electrification.EVs took 22.6% of the EU market in December, just edging out petrol at 22.5%.Hybrids, including plug-ins, remained dominant with a 44% share.EV sales in Europe, Britain, and the EFTA rose for a sixth straight month.Tesla's EU registrations dropped 20.2%, while Chinese brand BYD jumped 229.7%."We're seeing consumer buy-in to this," said E-Mobility Europe's Chris Heron.Starbucks is seeing its first U.S. sales growth in two years thanks to new CEO Brian Niccol's back-to-basics approach, though investors remain wary due to continued margin pressure.U.S. same-store sales rose 4% in Q1; average order value increased 1%.Niccol's “Back to Starbucks” plan focuses on simplified menus and service speed.Margins fell for a second straight year, down 290 basis points in Q1.High bean costs and past tariffs on imports like Brazilian coffee remain a drag.“I'm most excited that our turnaround plan is coming to life in the way we envision, first turn around the top line, and then earnings growth will follow…”, said Niccol.This episode of the Automotive State of the Union is brought to you by Amazon Autos: Meet customers where they shop: reach high-intent buyers shopping for their next car on the #1 online retailer.Join Paul J Daly and Kyle Mountsier every morning for the Automotive State of the Union podcast as they connect the dots across car dealerships, retail trends, emerging tech like AI, and cultural shifts—bringing clarity, speed, and people-first insight to automotive leaders navigating a rapidly changing industry.Get the Daily Push Back email at https://www.asotu.com/ JOIN the conversation on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/company/asotu/

Dave's guest this week is Niccolò Gloazzo, Senior Director of Media & Omnichannel at Kettle & Fire, the brand that helped pioneer shelf-stable bone broth and functional soups.Niccolò shares how Kettle & Fire grew from a digitally native brand into a national retail presence, and what it takes to manage DTC, Amazon, retail media, and in-store growth as a single, connected system.The conversation covers why starting in DTC can create leverage across other channels, how reviews and content portability drive performance, and how retail media has evolved into a full-funnel growth engine. Niccolò also shares how seasonal moments, creative testing, and AI-driven planning are shaping the brand's approach to modern commerce.Connect with Niccolò on LinkedInFollow Beyond the Shelf on LinkedInLearn More about It'sRapidGet the It'sRapid Creative Automation PlaybookTake It'sRapid's Creative Workflow Automation with AI surveyEmail us at sales@itsrapid.io to find out how to get your free AI Image AuditTheme music: "Happy" by Mixaud - https://mixaund.bandcamp.comProducer: Jake Musiker

Niente regali sotto l'albero: nella giornata numero 17 della Serie A infatti le big non fanno sconti. Vincono Juventus, Milan e Napoli. Facciamo il punto con Sandro Sabatini.Entriamo più nel dettaglio: Max Gallo ci racconta il successo degli uomini di Conte maturato pochi minuti fa a Cremona. A seguire Carlo Pellegatti ci parla del netto 3-0 con cui il Milan ha battuto il Verona, mentre Max Nerozzi ci riporta a Pisa, dove ieri sera la Juve ha espugnato, non senza soffrire, l'Arena Garibaldi.Male invece la Fiorentina: la squadra di Vanoli, dopo il successo casalingo contro l'Udinese, cade a Parma e resta all'ultimo posto della classifica. Andiamo a vedere cosa ne pensa Dario Baldi.Spostiamoci poi a Bergamo da Franco Vanni. Stasera è infatti in programma il big match di giornata tra Atalanta e Inter. Gli uomini di Chivu devono vincere se vogliono riprendersi il primo posto.Riavvolgiamo il nastro e torniamo a ieri pomeriggio. L'Udinese agguanta la Lazio al minuto 95 e non mancano le polemiche sulla rete dell'1-1. Sentiamo Stefano Pantano.Infine andiamo da Niccolò Ceccarini per capire cosa potrebbe cambiare a gennaio nelle rose di Serie A quando mancano ormai pochi giorni all'inizio del calciomercato.

Niccolò Paganini - der Teufelsgeiger hat eine große Sonate von etwa 20 Minuten Länge für Gitarre geschrieben. Vom großen Geiger eine große Gitarrensonate? Die Erklärung ist recht einfach: Paganini spielte selbst Gitarre.

La prima semifinale di Supercoppa Italiana ha dato il suo verdetto, abbastanza chiaro: 2-0 del Napoli sul Milan, con anche polemica di contorno per qualche parola di troppo volata tra Allegri e la panchina avversaria. Questa sera conosceremo chi tra Inter e Bologna affronterà lunedì in finale la squadra di Conte. Ne parliamo con Franco Vanni e Carlos Passerini, inviati a Riyadh di Repubblica e Corriere della Sera. Un tunnel senza fine quello buio in cui la Fiorentina procede ancora a tentoni: sconfitta a Losanna in Conference League, ora i playoff sono certi, come è certo che qualcosa tra Natale e gennaio dovrà accadere per dare una scossa ad un gruppo che non riesce a rialzarsi. Ne parliamo con Niccolò Ceccarini, direttore di Tuttomercatoweb.

CIAO!! Se soffrite di attachi epilettici per piacere NON guardate questa puntata CIAO!! :DDD+++ Scontrino Breve Ma Intenso +++

Steve Witkoff è oggi a Mosca per nuovi colloqui tesi a mettere fine alla guerra in Ucraina, accompagnato dal genero di Trump Jared Kushner. Mentre attende aggiornamenti sull'incontro, il presidente Zelensky si dice disponibile ad un nuovo incontro con il presidente Trump. Ne parliamo con Antonella Scott, firma del sole 24Ore, e con Niccolò Petrelli, ricercatore in Studi Strategici all'Università di Roma TRE.Mentre continuano le tensioni tra Stati Uniti e Venezuela, un'inchiesta del Washington Post rivela che Pete Hegseth avrebbe dato l'ordine esplicito di uccidere tutti i passeggeri a bordo di un'imbarcazione di presunti trafficanti nel Mar dei Caraibi. Ne parliamo con Estefano Tamburrini, giornalista esperto di America Latina.

Doveroso omaggio a Nicola Pietrangeli, leggenda del tennis italiano che rimarrà per sempre nella storia di questo sport. Convochiamo Ivan Zazzaroni del Corriere dello Sport per ricordarlo e per parlare del sorpasso di Conte su Gasp nella serata di ieri.La Fiorentina perde ancora colpita dal suo ex Palladino: ultimo posto in classifica con il Verona e confronto con i tifosi a fine partita. Ne parliamo con Niccolò Ceccarini di Tuttomercatoweb. Nel finale sentiamo Guido Bagatta per parlare con lui della vittoria dell'Italbasket contro la Lituania in casa dei baltici.

Starbucks Corp. Chief Executive Officer Brian Niccol says the "Back to Starbucks" plan is working to drive sales and improve service. Sales at established locations rose 1% in the most recent quarter. He talks about renovating restaurants, how more customers are adding protein to their drinks and growing the business in China. He speaks to Bloomberg's Romaine Bostick.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Si l'on entend par “italique” la typographie inclinée que l'on utilise aujourd'hui pour souligner un mot, l'invention naît à Venise, autour de 1500, chez l'imprimeur humaniste Alde Manuce (Aldus Manutius) et son graveur de poinçons, Francesco Griffo (dit “de Bologne”). Leur objectif est double : imiter la belle cursive humaniste alors en vogue dans les chancelleries italiennes, et réduire l'encombrement des pages pour éditer des “livres de poche” bon marché. En 1501, l'italique de Griffo fait ses débuts dans l'édition aldine des “Œuvres de Virgile” au format in-octavo. À la différence de notre usage moderne, l'italique ne sert pas d'abord à l'emphase : il compose tout le texte. On gagne de la place – les lettres sont plus étroites, plus “liées” – et le lecteur retrouve le rythme manuscrit prisé par les lettrés.Mais cette italique imprimée n'est pas née ex nihilo. Elle s'inspire d'une écriture manuscrite italienne du XVe siècle : la cancellaresca corsiva (la “chancelière”), une cursive élégante utilisée par les secrétaires et copistes des cours princières et de la Chancellerie pontificale. Parmi ses artisans, le lettré florentin Niccolò de' Niccoli (†1437) popularise une cursive humaniste rapide et inclinée ; plus tard, des maîtres-écrivains la codifient. Au XVIe siècle, Ludovico degli Arrighi publie à Rome (1522) La Operina, premier manuel imprimé pour apprendre la chancelière ; Giovanni Antonio Tagliente (1524) et Giovan Battista Palatino (1540) diffusent à leur tour des modèles. Autrement dit : la main (l'écriture manuscrite) précède la fonte (le caractère), et l'atelier aldine “fige” cet idéal calligraphique en métal.Après Manuce et Griffo, l'italique se répand partout en Europe. À Paris et Lyon, Claude Garamond et Robert Granjon taillent des italiques qui deviendront des canons stylistiques. Peu à peu, l'usage se transforme : au lieu de composer des livres entiers en italique, les imprimeurs associent un “romain” droit pour le corps du texte et une italique pour des valeurs sémantiques nouvelles : mots étrangers, titres d'œuvres, voix intérieure, emphase. Au XVIIe siècle, cette répartition devient la norme occidentale.Alors, qui l'a inventée ? Pour la typographie italique, la paternité revient à Alde Manuce et Francesco Griffo (Venise, 1501). Pour l'écriture italique manuscrite qui l'inspire, il faut saluer la tradition humaniste italienne : Niccolò de' Niccoli comme initiateur, puis les maîtres-écrivains Arrighi, Tagliente et Palatino, qui en fixent les règles. L'italique moderne est donc une passerelle : de la plume du scribe au poinçon du graveur, puis à nos claviers — une invention à la fois pratique, esthétique et résolument italienne. Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.