Stardate: unknown
Station log: Quark is distracted from his
tongo game with Dax because he’s been completely financially wiped out. He made three investments, and they all crapped out, leaving him broke. Then, to add insult to injury, his cousin Gaila shows up but he has an offer. He wants Quark to join him in his weapons business, doing what he does best: show the customers a good time, and also use the holosuites to demo the weapons without ever actually bringing them onto the station (thus avoiding the long arm of the law). Gaila offers five percent, and Quark sees the actual figures, and realizes that even that small a percentage will wipe out his debt in no time. After a few months, the FCA will be begging Quark to be reinstated.
Dick Pound, the longest serving member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), remains uncertain whether the Tokyo 2020 Games will go ahead. It comes after organisers said they will be ready to host the rescheduled Games - despite the city declaring a state of emergency over Covid-19. Pound said:…
Tom Hanks is in peak avuncular mode in this Paul Greengrass western
. He plays Captain Kidd, a Civil War veteran who now makes a living travelling between remote Texas towns, reading out the news (hence the title, for those who were expecting more Hugh Grant and phone hacking). On one trip, he comes across a German girl (a fantastic Helena Zengel) who d been kidnapped and raised by Kiowa Indians, but whose adoptive family has just been slaughtered. Being Tom Hanks, he decides to take her back to her only surviving family, and the journey plays out like a reverse
The Searchers, in which Hanks s underlying decency battles against racists, misogynists and all the other dregs of the Old West.
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ATLANTA, Dec. 22, 2020 /PRNewswire/ Invesco Ltd. (NYSE: IVZ), a leading global provider of exchange-traded funds (ETFs), announced today that it has launched its first suite of active non-transparent ETFs. The four ETFs will leverage the unique perspective and specialized expertise of Invesco s investment professionals in a structure that retains many of the characteristics that investors find attractive in an ETF structure, including an effective arbitrage mechanism, tax efficiency
1 and intraday tradability
2. Today s announcement is more than a product launch, it is another step towards Invesco s goal to offer a range of innovative investment products that help clients pursue their desired outcomes, says Anna Paglia, Global Head of ETFs and Indexed Strategies at Invesco. Our four active non-transparent ETFs offer a bridge between traditional active and passive strategies