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☆ This man is walking the UK coastline with his partner and baby
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-02 | by ( Tamara Hardingham-Gill | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +15 min

“We’re a tight knit little group.”Life-changing journeyChris Lewis met his partner, Kate Barron, while walking the UK coastline. Courtesy Chris Lewis and Kate Barron“So this lady just kind of wanders down all bubbly and chirpy,” he recalls. I never went home.”The couple, along with Jet, continued on, walking down the east coast of Scotland together, and then into England. According to Barron, Lewis tends to walk ahead on these occasions. Unsurprisingly, walking and camping with a baby has been a totally different experience for both of them.

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☆ CFO Journal Summer Reads: 10 Book Recommendations
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-27 | by ( Anna Mutoh | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Author Michael Lewis makes WSJ CFO’s summertime reading list with his book, ‘The Premonition.’ Photo: Getty ImagesIt has been a tumultuous first few months of 2023 for finance chiefs, who have had to grapple with inflation and high interest rates, a banking crisis and a fitful return to work as the pandemic moves to the rearview mirror. The rest of the year doesn’t figure to be much smoother, considering the debt-ceiling standoff, looming climate-disclosure regulations and an economic slowdown that has seemed just around the corner for months now.

☆ 30-year-old started his business with a website, sewing kit and Pizza Hut salary—now he's a billionaire
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-26 | by ( Megan Sauer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Ben Francis didn't become wealthy through a family inheritance or business school connections. Originally, Francis and co-founder Lewis Morgan launched Gymshark as a website selling fitness supplements, he told CNBC Make It in 2021. "CEO was not the right role for me when I was in my early 20s," Francis told CNBC Make It. "Just because I'd started a business that had grown very quickly didn't mean I was the most competent chief exec." "I really think Gymshark can be the U.K.'s answer to those brands," Francis told CNBC Make It.

☆ A 30-year-old university dropout and former Pizza Hut delivery driver is now worth $1.1 billion — 3 times more than Ed Sheeran
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-21 | by ( Sam Tabahriti | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Ben Francis is a university dropout and former Pizza Hut delivery driver who founded Gymshark. The 30-year-old is up seven places to 184th on this year's Sunday Times Rich List. He's now worth £900 million, or $1.1 billion, putting him up seven places to 184th on this year's Sunday Times Rich List. After leaving Aston University in Birmingham, England, Francis cofounded the sportswear company Gymshark. The pair were turning over about £300 a day at that time, Francis wrote.

☆ A remote worker loves the lifestyle so much she's locking it in by starting her own business so she can work from home forever
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-09 | by ( Jacob Zinkula | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Dawn-Michelle Lewis loves remote work, but not her remote job. Many researchers have found a correlation between remote work and happier employees. The share of remote postings could fall to 10% by the end of 2023, Nick Bloom, a leading work-from-home researcher and Stanford economist, previously told Insider. Remote work also saves them money on transportation — they sold one of their two vehicles — and allows them to live almost wherever they want. I want to give people the same opportunity of remote work I have been fortunate enough to have."

☆ Who should play Sam Bankman-Fried, Caroline Ellison, and his parents when the FTX implosion gets made into a movie or TV show
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-31 | by ( Travis Clark | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: 1 min

Michael Lewis, author of "The Big Short" and "Moneyball," has reportedly interviewed disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried multiple times for an upcoming book. Sam Bankman-Fried outside at the federal court in Manhattan on Thursday. Jeenah Moon/ReutersThe Hollywood trade The Ankler reported in November that Lewis had been interviewing Bankman-Fried for six months, and the New York Post followed up on Tuesday, reporting that Lewis met with Bankman-Fried for "several hours" soon after the latter was put under house arrest at his parents' home in Palo Alto. Bankman-Fried was released on bail last week from a New York federal court after being extradited to the US from the Bahamas. He's facing several fraud-related charges after the implosion of FTX, the cryptocurrency firm he founded and of which he was formerly CEO.

☆ Sam Bankman-Fried was reportedly visited by 'Big Short' author for 'several hours' while under house arrest
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-27 | by ( Travis Clark | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

"The Big Short" author Michael Lewis met with Sam Bankman-Fried for "several hours" last week, The New York Post reported. Lewis visited Bankman-Fried's parents' home where he is under house arrest. Author Michael Lewis met with Bankman-Fried for "several hours" soon after the latter was put under house arrest at his parents' home in Palo Alto, The New York Post reported on Tuesday. "The Big Short" won the Oscar for best adapted screenplay. In November, the Hollywood trade The Ankler reported that Lewis had been interviewing Bankman-Fried for six months.

☆ Polish counter-terrorism police help Santa Claus
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-08 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

[1/3] Polish counter-terrorism police officers hang outside windows to deliver presents to patients on Saint Nicholas Day, as they abseil down from the roof of a children's hospital in Rzeszow, Poland December 6, 2022. Podkarpacka Policja/Handout via REUTERSWARSAW, Dec 8 (Reuters) - Santa Claus got some help from Polish counter-terrorism police on Saint Nicholas day as the officers absailed down from the roof of a children's hospital in the southern city of Rzeszow to deliver presents to patients. Saint Nicholas day falls on Dec. 6 and children in Poland and many other countries receive chocolates or other small presents ahead of the main Christmas celebration later in the month. "The visit of the police officers caused a great stir among the little patients," police said in a statement. Having succeeded in entering the building through the windows, officers dealt with the challenge of distributing the gifts around the wards by using a bomb disposal robot.

☆ Alex Murdaugh's banker convicted for role in alleged scheme to steal money from clients' legal settlements
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-23 | by ( The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +5 min

Former Palmetto State Bank CEO Russell Laffitte was allowed to remain free on bail as he awaits sentencing at a later date. Former Palmetto State Bank CEO Russell Laffitte exits federal court in Charleston, S.C. on Sept. 6. Laffitte loaned Murdaugh and himself money from those settlements, diverting that money from personal injury or death cases. An employee at Laffitte’s bank testified she confronted Murdaugh about missing fees from one of his cases hours before the killings. More than a third of the witnesses in Laffitte’s trial were his relatives, with most of them testifying for prosecutors.

☆ Remaking the River That Remade L.A.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-10 | by ( Michael Kimmelman | Photographs Adali Schell | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +33 min

Remaking the River That Remade L.A.February 1938 was a wet month in Los Angeles. Reservoirs overflowed, dams topped out and floodwaters careered down Pacoima Wash and Tujunga Wash toward the Los Angeles River. The Los Angeles River was never a storybook river of the kind that, like the Hudson or the Seine, we associate with great cities. Among the naysayers is a venerable organization called Friends of the Los Angeles River, founded by the Texas-born poet and performance artist Lewis MacAdams. “With all the problems L.A. is facing,” he said, “even if it costs $50 billion to fix the river, we should just effing do it.”The headwaters of the Los Angeles River aren’t easy to find.

Jerry Lee Lewis, the rock ’n’ roll trailblazer and piano virtuoso who electrified audiences with his raucous, free-wheeling performances but attracted scandal after he married his 13-year-old cousin, died Friday, his publicist said. Jerry Lee Lewis in 1957. He is a defiant, reckless, indefatigable wild man that can rock you into oblivion,” the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame said when he was inducted in 1986. Jerry Lee Lewis with Myra Gale Brown in 1962. Jerry Lee Lewis performs in 1986.

☆ Big cat cubs rescued from Ukraine reach Poland
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-27 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

WARSAW, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Four lion cubs and a black leopard cub from war-torn Ukraine have found safety in a Polish zoo, the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) said, after surviving drone attacks and bombing in the first few months of their lives. The cubs were transferred to animal rescue organisations in Kyiv and Odessa after a crackdown on the exotic pet trade in Ukraine, and are now in Poznan zoo in western Poland awaiting onward travel. IFAW said it had partnered with a sanctuary in the United States and one in Europe to care for the cubs, who were bred in captivity and cannot be released into the wild. The Wildcat Sanctuary (TWS) in the United States will take care of the lion cubs. Reporting by Lewis Macdonald, writing by Alan Charlish; Editing by Hugh LawsonOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Haitian gangs have for a month prevented the distribution of diesel and gasoline, crippling businesses and hospitals and creating shortages of basic goods including water just as the country is struggling with a new outbreak of cholera. The State Department has created a new visa restriction policy targeting those who support the gangs and has sent a Coast Guard vessel to patrol Haitian waters. Sporadic looting and gun battles between gangs and police have become increasingly common in recent weeks as the shortages have led to mounting desperation. Another Biden administration official during the phone briefing said the travel bans were meant to hold accountable those who are linked to the gangs. "Our intent in doing so is to demonstrate that there are consequences for those who fund and foment violence in Haiti," the official said.

☆ Buy this defensive consumer stock as recession fears grow, Atlantic Equities says
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-12 | by ( Samantha Subin | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

As recessionary fears mount and economic growth concerns persist, Atlantic Equities says investors should put their money in resilient consumer names such as Kimberly-Clark . Analyst Edward Lewis upgraded shares of the Huggies and Kleenex maker to overweight, citing an attractive entry point for the stock following the recent market pullback. "At the same time, cost pressures are likely to ease supporting margin expansion and EPS recovery. Lewis also thinks cost pressures from Kimberly-Clark's exposure to pulp, resin and energy, which have hit gross margins, should ease into 2023. Lewis maintained the firm's $135 price target on Kimberly-Clark, suggesting a 21% upside for shares from Tuesday's close despite falling 22% this year.

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