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Operator Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Zumiez, Inc. fourth-quarter fiscal 2020 earnings conference call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. We will conduct a question-and-answer session toward the end of this conference. Before we begin, Id like to remind everyone of the companys safe harbor language. Todays conference call includes comments concerning Zumiez, Inc. business outlook and contains forward-looking statements. These forward-looking s...

Rick Brooks Perspective -- March 10, 2021 I woke up at 1:15 in the morning and reached for something boring to read so I could go back to sleep. It was a mistake.  The book I found was The Impossible Will Take a Little While, edited by Paul Rogat Loeb.  Its subtitle was Perseverance and Hope in Troubled Times.  And it was perfect…and imperfect.   Perfect because it had 52 short essays by people I have admired for years. Brilliant thinkers and writers like Alice Walker, Desmond Tutu, Dia...

Rick Brooks Perspective -- December 29, 2020 Since her divorce from the richest man in the world, MacKenzie Scott has done something unusual. She pledged to give “the majority of her fortune back to the society that helped generate it.” She promised to get started soon, then delivered more than 6 BILLION DOLLARS in the past year. She gave to causes related to the pandemic and longer-term issues of race and gender-based inequities, poverty, food insecurity and climate change; strengthening d...

Sheikh Faisal (third, from right) welcomes the public to visit the unique garden and literary projects called Kebun Bandar PPM and Little Free Library (LFL) in Kebun Bandar Sungai Bunus in KL. Photo: Bernama City folks can now relax and read books for free while enjoying the beauty of nature at the Malaysian Librarians Association (PPM) outpost in Kebun Bandar located in Sungai Bunus in Kuala Lumpur. Sheikh Faisal Sheikh Mansor, honorary secretary of the Malaysian Book Publishers Association (...

Platforms with a single system that flies clearly with multiple sensors. it is very competitively priced and in the same regime as other uavs. jenna: a good public pitch but no public pricing right now. is that what im gathering? >> right now, right now were working with our potential customers to come up with strategies to keep the costs down. in the end, much of the cost of the system will be sensors. jenna: rick, part of the reason why i ask that weve seen the private plane industry go throug...

Provide live pictures all at cruising altitude of 30,000 feet. rick brooks is program director for northrop grumman space systems and he is our guest now. what makes this different than the other drones were using in the u.s. military right now? >> well, clearly the major difference is the manned and unmanned capability. thats really a big discriminator. it lets you fly missions very easily in the manned mode. you can fly in national airspace very easily and make that switch very quickly to fly ...

Jon: im jon scott live in the fox newsroom. if you ahead in our -- head into our acquisitions department where we have literally hundreds of sat fight feeds coming in were watching all of them. look at sand bags at the ready in mississippi where theyre getting ready for more flooding. mississippi river causing so many problems at near record flood stages. take a look here, this house so far escaping the damage but the cornfield very much underwater and the water level there are expected to go hi...