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March 28th, 2023

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In Today’s Brief

Jack Ma: Resurfaces in China
Biden: Signs executive order on spyware
Aristocats: Questlove directing remake
SVB: Bought by First Citizens

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Nashville school shooting

Three children and three adult staff members lost their lives in a shooting at a Nashville school yesterday.

In a tweet, Metro Nashville Police Department wrote: “An active shooter event has taken place at Covenant School, Covenant Presbyterian Church, on Burton Hills Dr. The shooter was engaged by MNPD and is dead.” Per local authorities, the shooter was later identified as Audrey Elizabeth Hale, a 28-year-old Nashville resident who reportedly identified as a transgender woman. Police say Hale entered the building through a side door before climbing stairs to the second floor, where the incident unfolded.

The Covenant School is a private Christian school in Nashville for preschool through 6th grade, per its website. According to data compiled by Education Week, there have been 13 school shootings this year in the U.S. in which at least one person was killed or injured.

Mass walkouts in Germany

Transport workers in Germany yesterday staged one of the largest walkouts in decades as unions demanded higher wages amid rising inflation.

The strike was called by the country’s Verdi service workers’ union and the EVG union, which represents rail workers. The walkout brought airports and bus and train stations to a standstill, with flights at eight of the country’s airports, including those in Munich, Frankfurt, and Hamburg, either canceled or delayed. According to estimates from the German Airports Association, around 380K air travelers were not able to take off yesterday.

Verdi is negotiating on behalf of around 2.5M employees in the public sector, including in public transport and at airports, while EVG negotiates for around 230K employees at Deutsche Bahn and bus companies. The unions’ demands for pay raises come as Germany–which is one of Europe’s biggest economies, in terms of GDP–saw an inflation rate of 9.3% in February.

Disney begins layoffs

Walt Disney Co has begun the 7K planned layoffs the company announced earlier this year, according to a letter CEO Bob Iger sent to employees.

Per Iger’s memo, a total of three rounds of job cuts are expected to take place before this summer, with a “second, larger round of notifications” set for April. According to sources familiar with the matter, several of the company’s divisions including Disney Entertainment, Disney Parks, Experiences and Products, and corporate will be impacted. ESPN employees reportedly won’t be affected by this week’s round of cuts, but the sports network is anticipated to be included in later rounds.

Disney lost over $120B of its market value in 2022 and isn’t the only entertainment company partaking in layoffs this year. Paramount Global, Comcast, Warner Bros. Discovery, and others have also implemented job cuts as a part of wider cost-reduction measures.

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Around the Globe

Alibaba founder Jack Ma was reportedly seen in China at a school in Hangzhou; Ma’s appearance comes after months during which he made no public appearances in the country due to a government crackdown on the tech sector (More)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that he will delay a plan to overhaul the country’s judiciary after months of protests, labor strikes, and opposition from within his own government (More)
Lebanon’s government voted to move clocks one hour ahead tomorrow night, reversing a decision to delay the country’s shift to daylight savings time by a month (More)

On the Homefront

Philadelphia officials said the city’s water system was not contaminated and that tap water is safe to drink; on Friday, a pipe ruptured at a chemical plant and leaked hazardous material into a tributary of the Delaware River (More)
President Biden signed an executive order restricting the government’s use of commercial spyware that is considered a national security risk or that has been used “improperly” abroad, such as through targeting journalists (More)
The death toll in the R.M. Palmer chocolate factory explosion rises to seven individuals; all of the bodies were recovered from the blast site as of yesterday, according to local officials (More)

Glitz & Games

Disney taps Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson to direct ‘The Aristocats’ remake in a live-action/hybrid reimagining of the original animated film (More)
Former NFL MVP Lamar Jackson announced that he requested a trade from the Baltimore Ravens on March 2nd, according to a Twitter thread he posted yesterday (More)
‘Creed III’ actor Jonathan Majors was arraigned on charges of assault and harassment, according to the Manhattan District Attorney’s office (More)

Business & Markets

Major indexes in the stock market ended yesterday’s session mixed, with the Dow and S&P 500 gaining while the Nasdaq lost (Dow +0.61%, Nasdaq -0.47%, S&P 500 +0.17%)
Chipotle agreed to pay a settlement of $240K to former employees for closing its Augusta, Maine, location when workers tried to unionize (More)
First Citizens BancShares is acquiring Silicon Valley Bank’s assets, according to a press release from the FDIC (More)

Tips & Tricks

Feel Good: Meet Calcea Johnson and Ne’Kiya Jackson, two New Orleans high school students who claim to have solved a 2K-year-old puzzle in mathematics, which scientists have determined should be submitted to peer review after the pair presented their findings to the American Mathematics Society
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Chow Down: If you want to whip up an out-of-the-box dessert, check out this recipe for churros with chocolate sauce which Eva Longoria called a staple of Mexico City in her new food series Eva Longoria: Searching for Mexico
Nerd Out: A new study published yesterday in the journal Nature Geoscience shows that an abundance of water may be strewn across the Moon, trapped in tiny glass beads that may have formed when asteroids struck the lunar surface
Go Deep: Read why some colleges are eliminating letter grades in favor of pass/fail curriculums…and the potential benefits of those changes, including lower anxiety among students
Hot Goss: Liv Tyler is set to reprise her role as Betty Ross from 2008’s The Incredible Hulk in the upcoming MCU film Captain America: New World Order starring Anthony Mackie
Life Hack: Kickboxing isn’t just a workout for the most intense of us who feel the need to kick and punch things - new studies show that there are several benefits to a single kickboxing workout, including improved strength, flexibility, and even memory

Tip-Offs

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See Jeremy Renner’s anti-gravity recovery workout.

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From space, NASA’s shot of the Earth’s atmosphere.

Why young workers are live-streaming their resignations.

Looking Back…

On March 28th: France and England declare war on Russia, expanding the Crimean War (1854); the city of Constantinople is renamed Istanbul (1930); Wilt Chamberlain plays his last pro basketball game (1972); singer-songwriter and actress Lady Gaga is born (1986).

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