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Newsweek
21-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Newsweek
Nike's Perfect Scottie Scheffler Ad Has Fans on the Floor Laughing
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. If Scottie Scheffler won the PGA Championship, his main sponsor, Nike, won (again) in its promotional image of the event. The company, which sponsored Tiger Woods for more than 25 years and currently has Rory McIlroy and Nelly Korda, among others, in its catalog, did not disappoint in congratulating Scheffler. The image posted by Nike on all of its social media profiles shows the World No. 1 executing a driver swing with his famous "Scheffler Shuffle". But the real gem that has fans cracking up is the caption that goes with it. "Best player in the world? Guilty," it reads. The verdict is in. World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler is the PGA Champion. — Nike (@Nike) May 18, 2025 The reference is, of course, to Scheffler's arrest almost exactly a year ago. It is both obvious and amusing. As you may recall, the now three-time major winner was arrested outside Valhalla on his way to play in the second round of the 2024 PGA Championship. In that bizarre incident, Scheffler spent several hours in jail and was released on charges of allegedly assaulting a police officer. The charges were dropped almost as fast as they were filed. A year later, it's not just Nike that has joined the trend of joking about it. Scheffler himself wore orange several times during the week at Quail Hollow, referencing the infamous uniform he wore during his time in prison. Many fans joined in the fun and made fun of the trend in social media: Scottie Scheffler is such a great story. Got out of jail, turned his life around and hasn't reoffended. The system works. — Mike Beauvais (@MikeBeauvais) May 18, 2025 One year ago, Scottie Scheffler was sitting in a Kentucky jail cell. Today he won the PGA Championship. What a redemption story. Shows you can always turn your life around. Congrats, champ. — ahoy_there (@ahoy_there_) May 18, 2025 Nike has made an art out of congratulating the players in its catalog for their successes in professional golf: Nike says goodbye to Tiger Woods after a 27-year partnership. — Front Office Sports (@FOS) January 8, 2024 Four majors made @McIlroyRory great. Completing a career Grand Slam, legendary. — Nike (@Nike) April 13, 2025 Nike's ad for Nelly Korda—who just won a record-tying FIFTH tournament in a row on the LPGA Tour 🏆 — Front Office Sports (@FOS) April 21, 2024 Scottie Scheffler has been sponsored by Nike since 2022 and is one of the main faces of the brand, especially after the exit of Tiger Woods. Other players joining him in the catalog are Rory McIlroy, Nelly Korda, Brooks Koepka and Tommy Fleetwood. The World No. 1 won the PGA Championship at 11-under par, five shots ahead of Bryson DeChambeau, Harris English and Davis Riley. Scheffler shot rounds of 69, 68, 65 and 71 to win the Wanamaker Trophy for the first time in his career. Scottie Scheffler of the United States celebrates with the Wanamaker Trophy after winning the 2025 PGA Championship at Quail Hollow Country Club on May 18, 2025 in Charlotte, North Carolina. Scottie Scheffler of the United States celebrates with the Wanamaker Trophy after winning the 2025 PGA Championship at Quail Hollow Country Club on May 18, 2025 in Charlotte, North Carolina. Getty Images/Jared C. Tilton It was his 15th PGA Tour victory and third major championship title. Scheffler now has five top-10 finishes in six career starts at the PGA Championship. More Golf: Bryson DeChambeau's 7-Words for Scottie Scheffler at PGA Championship
BBC News
19-05-2025
- Business
- BBC News
Investment Scam Checks
Here are Nick Stapleton's top tips for checking your investments aren't a scam. Check the FCA Register , external– Make sure the firm you're considering is authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). This ensures they are regulated and meet certain standards. If you invest in an unauthorised firm, wherever they may be, you will have far fewer protections if things go wrong. For example, you will not be able to refer your case to the Financial Ombudsman Service, external (FOS) or the Financial Services Compensation Scheme, external (FSCS).Check the FCA Warning List , external– The FCA maintains a list of unauthorised firms and individuals known to be operating illegally in the UK. If a name appears on that list, avoid it more information from the Financial Conduct Authority, external about how to protect yourself from scams click here.
Yahoo
12-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
NatWest customer offended by Pride flags told to bank online
A NatWest customer who complained about an LGBT Pride campaign at his local branch was told to bank online, documents show. The customer, known only as 'Mr J', went into NatWest last July and was upset by the Pride materials on display. He claimed that the paraphernalia distressed him both because of his disabilities and religious beliefs but NatWest refused to take them down. The bank pointed out most of the services he required could have been done online. Mr J escalated his complaint to the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) in November, alleging the bank had failed to make adjustments required by the Equality Act 2010. The Act prohibits discrimination on a number of personal characteristics. Investigators ruled in NatWest's favour, adding the bank offered 'multiple ways' for customers to carry out their banking which do not involve visiting a physical branch. Ombudsman Danielle Padden wrote: 'NatWest is a bank that has chosen to display Pride materials along with other paraphernalia at certain times of the year. As a service, we wouldn't be able to tell them not to do that, as they are entitled to celebrate and raise awareness of the communities they serve.' Ms Padden added: 'I'm not able to decide that NatWest have acted unfairly here. They have provided alternative methods of banking and are entitled to decide what materials they display in their branches at certain times of the year.' To challenge NatWest's right to display Pride materials in its branches, Mr J would have to take them to court, the ombudsman said. The FOS told Mr J that he could use ATM machines outside the branch or a Post Office nearby to avoid the paraphernalia, or that he could use telephone or online banking. Records shared by NatWest showed that most of the activities he visited the branch to do between July and August 2024 could have been done online. The bank said Mr J – who claimed he needed to visit the bank in-person – could appoint a third party to visit the branch while Pride materials are prominently displayed. In the bank's 2024 annual report, it says that it 'celebrates Pride across the UK', and was ranked number 45 in the Top 100 Employers in charity Stonewall's UK Workplace Equality Index. On its website, NatWest states that it aims to 'continue to deliver a better LGBT+ colleague and customer experience through continuously challenging the status quo.' The rainbow 'Pride' flag was created in San Francisco in the 1970s, and has been adopted by pro-LGBT supporters worldwide. In 2018, an updated version, known as the 'Progress Pride Flag' was designed by Daniel Quasar, with a chevron added to represent trans and non-binary people. It comes after students at the Oxford Union refused to mandate the annual flying of the Pride flag in the month of June. At a meeting of the Union's standing committee on May 5, president Anita Okunde said that the rule requiring the flying of the flag had mysteriously been removed. But a motion to restore the rule, and to allow presidents to waive it in cases of national mourning, was rejected by seven votes to four, with critics fearing it would open a 'Pandora's box' of demands for other flags to be flown. NatWest was contacted for comment. Broaden your horizons with award-winning British journalism. Try The Telegraph free for 1 month with unlimited access to our award-winning website, exclusive app, money-saving offers and more.
Yahoo
12-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
NatWest customer offended by Pride flags told to bank online
A NatWest customer who complained about an LGBT Pride campaign at his local branch was told to bank online, documents show. The customer, known only as 'Mr J', went into NatWest last July and was upset by the Pride materials on display. He claimed that the paraphernalia distressed him both because of his disabilities and religious beliefs but NatWest refused to take them down. The bank pointed out most of the services he required could have been done online. Mr J escalated his complaint to the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) in November, alleging the bank had failed to make adjustments required by the Equality Act 2010. The Act prohibits discrimination on a number of personal characteristics. Investigators ruled in NatWest's favour, adding the bank offered 'multiple ways' for customers to carry out their banking which do not involve visiting a physical branch. Ombudsman Danielle Padden wrote: 'NatWest is a bank that has chosen to display Pride materials along with other paraphernalia at certain times of the year. As a service, we wouldn't be able to tell them not to do that, as they are entitled to celebrate and raise awareness of the communities they serve.' Ms Padden added: 'I'm not able to decide that NatWest have acted unfairly here. They have provided alternative methods of banking and are entitled to decide what materials they display in their branches at certain times of the year.' To challenge NatWest's right to display Pride materials in its branches, Mr J would have to take them to court, the ombudsman said. The FOS told Mr J that he could use ATM machines outside the branch or a Post Office nearby to avoid the paraphernalia, or that he could use telephone or online banking. Records shared by NatWest showed that most of the activities he visited the branch to do between July and August 2024 could have been done online. The bank said Mr J – who claimed he needed to visit the bank in-person – could appoint a third party to visit the branch while Pride materials are prominently displayed. In the bank's 2024 annual report, it says that it 'celebrates Pride across the UK', and was ranked number 45 in the Top 100 Employers in charity Stonewall's UK Workplace Equality Index. On its website, NatWest states that it aims to 'continue to deliver a better LGBT+ colleague and customer experience through continuously challenging the status quo.' The rainbow 'Pride' flag was created in San Francisco in the 1970s, and has been adopted by pro-LGBT supporters worldwide. In 2018, an updated version, known as the 'Progress Pride Flag' was designed by Daniel Quasar, with a chevron added to represent trans and non-binary people. It comes after students at the Oxford Union refused to mandate the annual flying of the Pride flag in the month of June. At a meeting of the Union's standing committee on May 5, president Anita Okunde said that the rule requiring the flying of the flag had mysteriously been removed. But a motion to restore the rule, and to allow presidents to waive it in cases of national mourning, was rejected by seven votes to four, with critics fearing it would open a 'Pandora's box' of demands for other flags to be flown. NatWest was contacted for comment. Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
The Hindu
05-05-2025
- Science
- The Hindu
Hubble's 35-year journey is a blueprint to understand the cosmos
From breathtaking snapshots of distant galaxies to game-changing discoveries about the universe's expansion, the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has dazzled humankind for 35 years. After launching on April 24, 1990, Hubble overcame early flaws to become one of NASA's greatest triumphs. Its vivid images and countless scientific breakthroughs have reshaped our understanding of the cosmos, inspiring new generations of telescopes and astronomers. To celebrate Hubble's majestic journey for more than three decades, NASA recently released a collection of striking images captured by the HST. The US astronomer Lyman Spitzer proposed the idea of the Large Space Telescope in the 1940s. NASA and the US Congress approved the project in 1969 but faced budget pressures. Then the European Space Agency chipped in with 15% of the LST's cost in exchange for 15% of its observation time. The HST, named for astronomer Edwin Hubble, was planned in 1979 and built by 20 companies, universities, and the European Space Agency. It was initially scheduled to be launched in 1986 but that was delayed until 1990 due to technical difficulties and the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. The HST first had two cameras: the Wide-Field and Planetary Camera (WFPC) and the Faint Object Camera. It also had two spectrographs: the Goddard High-Resolution Spectrograph (GHRS) and the Faint Object Spectrograph (FOS). A high-speed photometer onboard detected light from high-energy sources. Three fine-guidance sensors installed in 1990 made high-precision measurements of the positions of celestial objects. The WFPC was the most popular. It consists of two cameras. The Wide-Field camera covered large sky areas while the Planetary Camera magnified and improved image resolution. The Faint Object Camera captured light from distant celestial objects with help from an image intensifier. Scientists and engineers took several weeks to check the HST's control and communication systems before astronomers working at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore could see its first images. Shortly after launch, the HST's photos were blurred, later found to be because the telescope's mirror had been ground to the wrong shape. Ground team members soon came up with a corrective device: a series of smaller mirrors called COSTAR to compensate for the primary mirror's defect. Astronauts launched in 1993 implemented this fix on the HST, by that time in earth orbit. They removed the high-speed photometer to make way for COSTAR, as well as replaced the WFPC with the WFPC 2, among other upgrades. The telescope experienced a similar problem in 1997. The analysis of light is of great importance in space research. Blue light has a shorter wavelength and red light has a longer wavelength. If the frequency of incoming light bluer, it means the light source is moving towards the observer. If the frequency is becoming redder, the object is moving away. The HST's GHRS and FOS devices, which perform this analysis, worked well until 1997. NASA subsequently replaced them with the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph that year. This device can analyse frequencies of light from the ultraviolet to the infrared. The telescope's antenna transmits approximately 150 Gb of data a week. According to NASA, the HST has observed almost 52,000 stellar objects in 1.6 million observations since launch. One of the HST's most significant achievements was to get scientists the data with which they estimated the universe's age. Before the telescope came along, astronomers didn't know if the universe was 10 billion years old or 20 billion. To get the answer, astronomers looked at the Cepheid variable stars — a type of star that pulsed in a steady way, its brightness varying over periods of days or months. Astronomers could determine the distance to such a star using its luminosity and pulsation rate. Based on that measurement, they could then estimate the distances to various other, more distant celestial objects. Finally, based on all the data, astronomers could estimate how fast the universe was expanding, and work back from there to the universe's age. With the HST's keen observations, they identified more than 800 Cepheid stars in 24 galaxies and thereon that the universe was around 13.8 billion years old. Astronomers have also created a 3D map of dark matter using data from the HST and other telescopes. The telescope has also found that gamma-ray bursts, the universe's most energetic explosions, occur in galaxies with rapid star formation and a low proportion of elements heavier than helium. Numerous galaxies had supermassive black holes at their centres — or so astronomers believed by the early 1990s, and the HST the belief's underlying assumptions. Closer home, the HST helped find two additional moons of Pluto (Nix and Hydra) and observed seasonal alterations on Pluto's surface. Its data helped estimate the mass of Eris, the solar system's heaviest dwarf planet, and based on that indicated the existence of more such objects in the Kuiper Belt and beyond. The HST also first studied the atmosphere of an exoplanet: HD 209458-b, a.k.a. Osiris, a hot world located 150 lightyears away. Osiris was found to be within 6.4 million km of its host star and thus a surface temperature of around 1,100° C. The HST was initially expected to operate for 15 years but it has consistently delivered over the last 35 years and continues to do so. Astronomers commemorated the anniversary of its launch with a stunning image of NGC 1333, a star-forming area located 967 light-years away in the Perseus molecular cloud. It is impossible to overstate the HST's pride of place in our understanding of the cosmos. Every pixel of its images has revealed whole new worlds in the great beyond, helping us understand our own place in the cosmos. Shamim Haque Mondal is a researcher in the Physics Division, State Forensic Science Laboratory, Kolkata.
