[NY Post] Warner Bros Television Group secretly ended a multi-platform deal with Patrisse Cullors, the former leader of Black Lives Matter, The Post has learned.
The Post can reveal no shows were produced under the deal, despite Cullors saying she planned dramas, comedies, documentary series and animated programming for children.
"The studio signed an overall deal with BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors at some point in 2020," said a source familiar with the studio’s contract negotiations Friday.
"Deal expired at end of October 2022.
"The deal unfortunately did not result in any produced shows."
The multi-year agreement was to develop and produce original programming to include black stories across streaming, cable and broadcast platforms.
It encompassed animated and children’s content as well as scripted and unscripted series, according to Variety, which reported on the deal in October 2020.
The agreement was meant to draw on Cullors’ experience as a leader of the movement which started in the courtyard of her Los Angeles home in 2013, according to a statement from the studio at the time.
The value of the deal was not disclosed at the time, Variety reported.
A spokeswoman for Warner Bros, now part of Warner Bros. Discovery, declined comment Friday.
Cullors did not respond to requests for comment.
The end of her contract in October 2022 was in stark contrast to an interview she gave to The Hollywood Reporter in January of that year.
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"....Sorry, Sugarplum, but yer kinda toxic now, and God knows with the DCU we don't need any more problems. Buh-bye."
Mike
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She'll do OK. She has $90 million from the BLM charity to milk, plus the mansions.
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no shows were produced under the deal, despite Cullors saying she planned dramas, comedies, documentary series and animated programming for children.
Gosh. Are you surprised, because I'm totally surprised. Just, shocked.
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100% participation was important to our command so my chief coined the fundraising slogan, “Give a buck; don’t give an F…” For our division. He would then donate a tenner to cover all the dissenters and we won’t have to discuss the intimidating shakedown at morning quarters again for a year.
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Yeah, I worked at a place where it was "suggested" everyone support the United Way campaign. I was long gone by the time the Aramony scandal hit, but I smirked all the same wondering how management at my former employer was handling that, given it was a "news organization."
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Yeah, I worked at a place where it was "suggested" everyone support the aerospace lobbyist PAC.
[Federalist] More than 160 retired generals and admirals [any intelligence experts?]
recently signed a letter calling on Congress to remove so-called diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs from the Department of Defense and remove funding for such programs from the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
"As our Nation faces looming threats from ’foreign’ adversaries/enemies, our military is under assault from a culture war stemming from ’domestic’ ideologically inspired political policies and practices. ... Our military must be laser focused on one mission — readiness, undiminished by the culture war engulfing our country," Flag Officers 4 America wrote in the letter addressed to Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Armed Services Subcommittee Chairman Mike Rogers, and Defense Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman Ken Calvert.
The signatories — which included former National Security Advisor John Poindexter, Medal of Honor recipient Maj. Gen. James E. Livingston, and former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense William Gerald Boykin — expressed concern about how divisive and discriminatory DEI policies affect national security. So-called "equity," they wrote, "sounds benign, but in practice it lowers standards. While equality provides equal opportunities, equity’s goal is equal outcomes."
The officers argued that equal opportunity and meritocracy provide the greatest foundation for both equality and national defense, while the cultural Marxism promoted by DEI policies is a domestic threat to our national security.
"To achieve equal outcomes using identity group characteristics, standards must be lowered to accommodate the desired equity outcomes. Lower standards reduce performance where even slight differences in capability impact readiness and can determine war fighting mission success or failure," they wrote. Furthermore, obsession with identity causes "friction and distrust in the ranks, damaging unit cohesion, teamwork and unity of effort, further degrading readiness."
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Civilian control of the military makes improvement of the woke situation during a Biden Administration unlikely.
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The officers argued that equal opportunity and meritocracy provide the greatest foundation for both equality and national defense, while the cultural Marxism promoted by DEI policies is a domestic threat to our national security.
I'm glad our retired military leaders are speaking out. (Look for these military leaders to be labeled white supremacists in 10,9,8,...)
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When the marketers at Anheiser-Busch failed, a Marketing director and VP were fired. Where are the generals and admirals who step up and take responsibly for the Bud Light level of failure for pushing homosexuality, transexuality and racism that is DEI.
[NYPOST] Forty crocodiles killed a Cambodian farmer today while he was attempting to wrangle one of his reptiles.
The "crocodiles pounced, attacking him until he was dead," Mey Savry — police chief of Siem Reap commune, where the man’s farm was located — told Viral Press of the freak accident.
The 72-year-old victim, named Luan Nam, had reportedly entered the enclosure so he could remove one of the crocs from a cage where it had laid eggs.
Things took a disastrous turn after the beast "attacked the stick" he was using to corral it, "causing him to fall into the enclosure," according to Savry.
All of a sudden, the reptile shepherd was beset by dozens of the animals, which ripped his body to shreds, leaving the paddock awash in blood.
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Wow..who could have predicted that a female croc would have a problem with removing one of her eggs.... Maybe he use the wrong pronoun in explaining it to her...
[NYPOST] Bud Light is one of the brands sponsoring next month’s Cincinnati Pride Parade — the latest in a series of mixed signals the beer giant has given as it grapples with controversy over its Dylan Stench of Death Mulvaney ...the transexual influencer who single-handedly trashed a major American beer brand owned by a Belgian company, tainted Maybelline and Condé Nast, and then demanded that anybody who called him/her/it a man be arrested... partnership.
A glance at the list of sponsors on the event’s website reveals that the Anheuser-Busch brand is lending its name to the annual event, which will be held on June 24.
The image on the page shows a rainbow-colored bottle of Bud Light next to a glass of beer under the heading "Together in Pride."
Bud Light’s sponsorship of the event was first flagged by conservative critics on social media.
The Post has sought comment from Anheuser-Busch as well as from the organizers of the event.
Anheuser-Busch has seen sales of Bud Light plunge for six consecutive weeks.
In order to reignite interest in the brand, Bud Light is offering generous rebates for Memorial Day that in some cases amount to free beer.
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Bud Light’s sponsorship of the event was first flagged by conservative critics on social media.
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Cincy Light is an alternative beer, I think. I remember Little Kings as the Cincinnati brewery back in the day.
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Ah yes Super..Little Kings Cream Ale along with Hudepole - "Get Moody with Hude." They even had a hot air balloon with Hudepohl lettering. Local commercial played a version of the 5th Dimension "Up, Up and Away." They changed the lyrics to "Up, Up and away in my Hudepohl balloon" Don't think they dropped any turkeys though..
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Tennessee Cream Ale cooked on dirty cement and hot dog mustard was the aroma of Cleveland Municipal Stadium in my memory. My best friends dad was partial to Black Label and Balentine. Another neighbor drank Weideman’s. It was cheap and he was convinced that it all came out of the same vat. My dad drank Foster’s Lager because he was the size of Andre the Giant and the cans scaled correctly in his hand.
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Genessee- autocorrects to Tennessee
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I wonder what Miller Light thinks about Old Frofingslosh’s babe. I suspect I saw her at Cleveland Municipal Stadium.
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Buffoonery.
Retired my North Face pack of howmany years, 4 legit climbs, a number of trails, and hundreds of miles of bicycle.
Corporate doesn't define who I am. I am also not going to wear a bozo wig.
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Something I find amusing in a sinister way is the nonstop re-iteration in stories of the "marketing executives on leave" or just "executives on leave" as if that's at once the best they can do and maybe a way of saying "we have our hair shirt on, it's time to let up."
How bout some good old fashioned fired for cause?
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It is personal leave for a voyage of self discovery where the inner voices instruct them how to search and possibly find their hinter parts with both hands.
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^ The best some of that sort can do is get their head far enough up their Heineken that they can see daylight coming in through their mouths.
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Around here, Bud Light is referred to as tranny fluid, and you’re advised to check the expiration date.
[PJMedia] For the last, oh, I don’t know... forever... ranchers and farmers large and small have taken care of their livestock with antibiotics and antimicrobials that were available at farm stores. These medicines treat common illnesses and infections that people who own large animals and livestock are very familiar with and qualified to treat. They have been trusted to do so for as long as these medicines have been available. The first chicken antibiotics were introduced in 1948. Since then, there has been no call nor reason to regulate these items. Many farmers and ranchers tend to many of their animals’ veterinary needs, which is a part of being a responsible animal handler who needs to keep costs down. Another power move by unelected officials.
It would be ridiculous to take a chicken to the vet. When chickens are sick, you consult with other chicken owners and go buy the needed items to make them well again. It was a good system.
But NOW, the unelected, unaccountable, faceless, nameless, power-hungry monarchs at the FDA have decided that none of our farmers, ranchers, or hobbyists will be allowed to have those medicines anymore without visiting the vet for a prescription. This will cost the farmers tens of thousands of dollars a year in added vet bills, which they will then pass onto the consumer, forcing prices even higher during a time of record inflation.
There was no debate in Congress, no federal law passed, no chance for a town hall or public debate, no reading of a bill, no commercials warning the public so they could stop this encroachment on liberty and sanity. We have been informed by federal decree that this is now our new reality. Much more at the link. Several years ago here in Tennessee I was no longer able to get penecilian at my Farmers' CO-OP. Had to get a veterinarin to prescribe it.
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Full effect in June. I expect a run on available inventory at Rural King and Tractor Supply in the next few days. I’ll buy what’s available for sure
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...At the risk of sounding ever so slightly conspiratorial...I wonder how much of this is a quiet desire on the part of Certain Bureaucrats to make sure that there will never be another repeat of the ivermectin challenge.
Can't have the Baldricks finding something that works better the next time they're told to sit down, shut up, take their plague and like it.
Mike
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This is the Supreme Court to resolve the government overreach. There are probably vets who will help work sound this in the mean time.
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Curious.
Same failed strategy for tractor repair.
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The ivermectin humiliation probably plays into it short term. But in terms of the long project, I suspect it's to create another choke point for independent food production as much as anything else. To paraphrase the Road Warrior, 'if you want to eat, you talk to me'.
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The time for nullification is now, followed by a national divorce.
I also wonder if the likes of Monsanto and Bill Gates aren't lurking, ready to scoop up more farmland as more farmers possibly have to give up their land as they find it hard to meet increased regulatory costs.
On a related note, here's some good news (but that it had to come to this in the first place is pathetic enough):
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The Deere fight was against a corporation trying to sell you stuff and leveraging that into additional cash, by tying you into proprietary service to maintain your warranty. The FDA stuff is government overreach. Deere is in the marketplace. The FDA is screwing with the marketplace similar to what the EPA does on the regular. The FDA needs to be disassembled and replaced with something less corrupt- i.e. use different people and rules.
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"Since then, there has been no call nor reason to regulate these items."
On the contrary, I've been hearing for decades about how antibiotics are overused and are inducing drug resistance in organisms that also infect humans. (Drug resistance would develop naturally without overuse too, but it would take a lot longer--long enough for us to develop new antibiotics.)
I'm told that putting antibiotics in the feed encourages faster weight gain, and also am told that farmers now understand the risks and that most of them don't do that anymore.
Maybe it is still an issue, and maybe not, but it seems disingenuous to pretend it hasn't been a worry.
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The FDA garners so much goodwill on a daily basis being in bed with Big Pharma, so in the end, this shouldn't be a huge surprise.
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The ivermectin humiliation probably plays into it short term. But in terms of the long project, I suspect it's to create another choke point for independent food production as much as anything else.
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A snapshot of veterinary medicine availability in the very horsey (my wife's ) and very cattle rich Carson Valley, NV may point towards another reason. Large animal vets are very hard to find and younger/middle-aged vet are leaving large animal practices. The reason is simple, long hours, often bad weather conditions, heavy workload( both literal and figurative), need for mobile equipment and often slow pay. Small animal (essentially pets) clinics are more comfortable, higher rate of clientele service, immediate payment, equipment on-site and weekends off. Large animal vets are in huge demand and seem to usually have a calling to it, especially for horses. So maybe this is about getting a better revenue stream to the evaporating large animal vet practices?
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I purchase all my meat from local farmers. They all tell me they don’t use antibiotics unless the animal is sick. They usually slaughter their animals while they are young. My pork is slaughtered at six months. The farmers have practices to keep their livestock healthy naturally.
— Sahara Reporters (@SaharaReporters) May 26, 2023
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“Are you physically able and willing to boot a crazed dummy out the open door if directed by a crew member in an emergency, or would you like to be reseated?”
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"The aircraft was about 250 metres above the ground when the passenger opened the door opened.
The flight attendants were unable to stop the suspect because the plane was about to land, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported, citing officials. [bull shit]
None of the passengers fell out [were sucked out] of the plane or were hurt, but 12 people panicked and showed symptoms of breathing difficulty and some of them were taken to a hospital right after landing.
The suspect, in his 30s, was travelling alone.
He refused to explain why he did so, according to Yonhap, citing police. [Just 'cuz?]
Witnesses said the suspect attempted to jump out after opening the door, said Yonhap. [So, what stopped him if the flight attendants were "unable to stop [him]", change of heart?]
[NYPOST] JPMorgan Chase is cutting about 500 employees this week across its various departments, according to a person familiar with the situation who asked not to be identified discussing personnel matters.
The layoffs will affect employees across the bank’s main businesses — consumer, commercial banking, asset and wealth management — as well as technology and operations, the source said. JPMorgan is the largest US lender.
There are more than 13,000 current job openings at the bank, the source added.
JPMorgan declined to comment.
On Thursday, a JPMorgan source said the lender was laying off nearly 1,000 First Republic Bank employees after acquiring the failed bank earlier this month.
First Republic became the largest US lender to fail since 2008 after it was seized by regulators and sold to JPMorgan in early May.
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The fruit of acquisition is layoff.
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^^^Exactly right. I worked on a couple of acquisitions in my career, and the pressure to achieve cost savings in order to justify the price paid for the acquired company is intense.
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1,000 First Republic Bank employees after acquiring the failed bank earlier this month
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And funny how we haven't heard a peep about those company execs at Silicon Valley bank who were selling shares a few weeks before its collapse. Nothing like insider trading. But given their political [woke] connections, figure the odds of anything happening.
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First Republic, Silicon Valley, PacWest (in big trouble) and (albeit for different reasons), Silvergate. All California banks and all under the purview of the Federal Reserve's San Francisco bank. Oh, and who is a former president of the Fed's bank in San Fran? One Janet Yellen.
It's not about banking and risk management (Signature Bank in New York). It's trying to be the most woke and buddying up with rich woke friends such as whiny bitch Bill Ackman.
There might be a few smelly rats at Stanford Univ. as well.
[PM News] A new report from the Media Research Center (MRC) has revealed that Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has associated Turning Point USA, Prager U, and other conservative organizations with terrorist and Nazi groups.
The Targeted Violence & Terrorism Prevention Grant Program under the Biden administration gave a total of 80 grants, costing taxpayers just under $40 million, per the report by Luis Cornelio and Tim Kilcullen.
One of these grant recipients was the University of Dayton, which MRC stated was "among the most radical grantees," and was awarded $352,109 to create the PREVENT-OHS program, "Which promised to draw on the expertise of the University of Dayton faculty to fight domestic violent extremism and hate movements."
The university’s grant application, approved by the Department of Homeland Security, contained a graphic placing Turning Point USA, the Make America Great Again movement, Quillette, Prager U, and the Heritage Foundation on a "Pyramid of Far-Right Radicalization."
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Other way around - Antifa uses Democrat propaganda in order to justify their violence.
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It is a PDCA cycle towards destruction.
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This is Hitlerian. You end up calling your various enemies, anyone who questions, speaks out against or resists the evil. Note that many of the organizations in the pyramid are fairly mainstream. Many of us would be in or interact with many of these organizations in some way. Note also that some these center or center right organizations are lumped together with some radical groups such as the Nazis. The Biden government is engaging in projection IMHO. They also are demonizing a majority of the population. It makes it easy to sell their nonsense. Groups like Antifa were used like Brownshirts. Not much happened to this group during their year of rage, violence and destruction across our country. They acted with impunity.
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Antifa was treated as if they did not exist. They were an idea. That position became more and more untenable like when they kept saying that the vaccines prevented Covid. The adage about repeating a lie until it is believed doesn’t seem to work in the internet age. You lie repeatedly or have all the talking heads spout the same talking point and somebody else turns it into a supercut. All the people who jumped into the “defund the police” Winnebago, can’t walk it back because the tape doesn’t go away.
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It was said by many back in the day that what killed the Soviet Union was FAX machines. Once information unregulated by the central authorities became available, it was game over, or so the conjecture goes.
Everyone's mileage may vary on that, but it sure does seem that our current central authorities are struggling to get toothpaste back in the tube every time you turn around.
Story in that somewhere.
The adage about repeating a lie until it is believed doesn’t seem to work in the internet age.
Man, we can sure hope so...
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The disinformation boards are an attempt to wrangle the cats back into the corral. I don’t think their plan will work. They were only able to get 65% of us vaccinated and less will take tge next vaccine. Fonzi is throttling up his Harley.
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Moscow , May 26, 2023, 21:30 - IA Regnum. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) called on the US Congress to immediately raise the national debt ceiling and start discussions on the 2024 budget.
As the IMF said in a written statement following the results of the annual review of the US economy, the current situation may create additional risks for the US and global economy at a time when there is already noticeable tension in it.
It also follows from the review that the IMF slightly improved the forecast for US GDP growth in 2023, which will be 1.7%. The fund previously predicted that the US economy would grow by 1.6% in 2023.
As reported by IA Regnum , on May 10 , US President Joe Biden announced the possibility of a default in the event of the failure of negotiations to raise the national debt ceiling. Then he called this development of events destructive for the economy.
Later, the head of the US Treasury, Janet Yellen , said that within two weeks she would be able to name the exact timing of a potential economic collapse. She warned that without a decision on the national debt, the government would be unable to fulfill its financial obligations .
It was reported that the debt crisis that began in the United States would not survive about 250 regional banks, five of them had already gone bankrupt.
Economists at Goldman Sach believe that US Treasury reserves could run out by June 9th.
The debt of the United States at the end of last year amounted to 31.42 trillion dollars, the next 13 countries in the world list owed a total of 31.4 trillion dollars. At the same time, the state of Russia for 2022 amounted to about 295 billion dollars, which is 107 times less than the American, 33 times less than the Japanese, 13 times less than the Chinese.
During a speech at the G7 summit in Japan on May 20, Biden asked reporters to "shut up" when they asked him to answer a question about the US default.
WASHINGTON, May 26 - RIA Novosti. The US Treasury changed the expected deadline for the government's default on obligations from June 1 to June 5, follows from a letter from US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to congressional leaders.
"Based on the latest available data, we now expect the Treasury to have insufficient resources to fulfill government bonds on June 5 unless Congress raises or suspends the government's debt limit," the letter said.
Earlier, the Treasury Department warned in letters to Congress that by June 1, the US would probably be unable to fully service obligations if lawmakers did not authorize the expansion of borrowing limits by that time.
The current US debt ceiling is $31.4 trillion. It was reached back in January, when the government, in order to avoid a default, took "extraordinary measures" - the suspension of contributions to social funds for state employees.
Usually Congress increases borrowing limits almost automatically, but this time the Republican opposition, which controls the House of Representatives, demanded in return to reduce budget spending by several trillion dollars. The Republican bill has passed the House of Representatives but has no chance in the Democratic Senate and President Joe Biden, who has signaled he will veto the bill if it comes to that.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[NY Post] Warner Bros Television Group secretly ended a multi-platform deal with Patrisse Cullors, the former leader of Black Lives Matter, The Post has learned.
...the transexual 
[NYPOST] JPMorgan Chase is cutting about 500 employees this week across its various departments, according to a person familiar with the situation who asked not to be identified discussing personnel matters.
