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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, I'd like to remind everyone of the company's safe harbor language. Today's conference call includes comments concerning Zumiez, Inc. business outlook and contains forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements and all other statements that may be made on this call that are not based on historical...

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, Diane Ackerman, Vaclav Havel and John Lewis. Arundhati Roy, and Bill McKibben.  One of the best piece...

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 democracy, colleges that welcomed low income students, and much, much more.  So far she has given a...

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 (Mabopa) and Kuala Lumpur World Book Capital (KLWBC) 2020 secretariat member, said that Kebun Bandar ...

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 i'm gathering? >> right now, right now we're 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 we've seen the private plane industry go through a variety of different cycles. i'm just curious thoughts on the drone. because the drone is use...