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AstraZeneca (NYSE:AZN) is starting Phase 3 trials of its experimental coronavirus vaccine in the U.S., becoming the third company to start late-stage trials to prevent COVID-19. Trial centers across the nation are recruiting up to 30K adults aged 18 years or over. AstraZeneca’s vaccine, known as AZD1222, was developed in partnership with Oxford University and has the backing of the U.S. government. Rivals Moderna (NASDAQ:MRNA) and Pfizer (NYSE:PFE)/BioNTec (NASDAQ:BNTX) already have Phase 3 trials under way, also with federal funding.
Musk was worth $111.3 billion Monday after Tesla’s stock split. 40.4 million Tesla shares owned by Elon Musk are worth $87 billion.
As of 10: 33 AM Tesla shares are up at Tesla, Inc. (TSLA) Nasdaq at 487.55. Nothing changes in the outlook for a stock that splits, it just lets smaller investors get in on the action who formerly shied away from the stock. Tesla’s stock split 5-for-1.
Tesla Will make new technology announcements on “Battery Day” Sept. 22,2020 After it announces third quarter earnings .
Reaching the heights of professional sports is not an easy feat and requires extraordinary talent. But even the finest athletes have a shelf life, and most retire before they reach 40. Retirement is challenging, and the life they led before is a tough act to follow. However, the following athletes made it big in their endeavors creating an excellent sequel to their success story.
The name is worth plenty on its own, but apart from endorsements and brands, he owns 90% of the Charlotte Bobcats, which are now worth $780 million. The player also has a lifelong deal with Nike that generates $3 billion a year in annual revenue.
The global heartthrob has been building his brand and has conquered the world of fashion, mass media, and entertainment to launching his very own fragrance line. He pockets $50k a day with his current business and brand endorsements. His transition from a sports star to model has earned him the title of the wealthiest sportsman of all time.
A Wimbledon champion at the young age of 17 and the world number one at 18, this Russian sports star founded a premium candy line by the name of Sugarpova. This venture turned out to be just as sweet as expected and made her a load of money in the initial year; and is now a globally recognized brand. She has pretty lucrative endorsement deals with top brands such as Porsche, Nike, and Evian.
Tony Hawk, aka The Birdman, is undeniably the most famous skateboarder who was a whizz kid turned pro at the age of 14. He founded the birdhouse skateboard company and a clothing line, Hawk Clothing. In 1999 he struck gold when he created the Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater video game franchise in partnership with Activision. It took the market by the storm and was a bestseller in the action sports category.
Venus Williams’ tennis skills redefined the sport, but the tennis superstar proved to be equally talented in the business field by launching her interior design company and her own fashion line in 2007. The brand is more than just a celeb project, and Williams is heavily engaged in planning, design, logistics, PR, and marketing.
Apart from the budget, starting a business takes courage. Your chances of launching a successful business are the same whether you’re a professional athlete or a coin collector. So take the plunge!
Fortune.com reports” On Monday, Berkshire Hathaway, the giant holding company chaired by Warren Buffett, announced it had acquired a roughly 5% stake totaling approximately $6 billion in five of Japan’s largest trading houses. The purchase is the latest of Buffett’s bids to expand overseas, as his $520 billion investment firm remains heavily U.S.-weighted. Source : Fortune.com
NASDAQ: AAPLCWEB Analysts view the stock as a long term growth and a great addition to your investment portfolio with an upward momentum of $900 by 2021
“I think it’s going to blow your minds,” Musk said. “It’s like a Fitbit in your skull with tiny wires.”I’m excited to announce that we received a breakthrough device designation from the FDA in July.” Elon Musk reports.”I want to be clear, “We’re working closely with the FDA. We’ll be extremely rigorous. We’ll significantly exceed the FDA guidelines for safety. We will make this as safe as possible.”
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
If you’ve solved hard problems with phones / wearables (sealing, signal processing, inductive charging, power mgmt, etc), please consider working at engineering@neuralink.com
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) are set to take effect this morning. Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) 4-for-1 stock split set off a cascade of changes as it shrank the weighting of formerly the most important Dow member to 3% from around 12%, and the overall technology representation in the index to around 20% from 27%. The new addition of Salesforce (NYSE:CRM) to the Dow will bring the share of tech in the index to about 23%, and will also see Amgen (NASDAQ:AMGN) and Honeywell (NYSE:HON) replace iconic Exxon Mobil (NYSE:XOM), Pfizer (NYSE:PFE) and Raytheon (NYSE:RTX).
Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) begins trading today (at $125/share) following a 4-for-1 split, while Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) starts trading (at $443/share) on a 5-for-1 split-adjusted basis. While the market caps of the companies will remain the same, some are saying the moves will make shares more accessible to a broader base of investors.
EDINBURG, Texas — U.S. Border Patrol agents working with their K-9 partners continue to prove effective against hard narcotic smuggling attempts at the Rio Grande Valley checkpoints.
Yesterday morning, agents at the Javier Vega, Jr. Border Patrol Checkpoint referred a passenger car to the secondary inspection area due to a K-9 alert. During the secondary inspection, Agents located several bundles of methamphetamine inside the gas tank. The bundles weighed nearly 20 pounds, with an estimated street value of $632K. Agents arrested the 17 year-old driver and turned the case over to the Kenedy County Sheriff’s Office for prosecution.
Packages containing more than 180 pounds of
methamphetamine seized by U.S. Border Patrol agents
at Falfurrias Checkpoint.
Later that day, agents working at the Falfurrias Border Patrol Checkpoint referred a tractor-trailer to the secondary inspection area after a Border Patrol K-9 alerted to the tractor. During the secondary inspection, agents discovered liquid methamphetamine inside one of the tractor’s gas tanks. Agents arrested the driver and notified the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) of the discovery. Agents requested a hazardous material team to extract the dangerous drug.
That same afternoon, Falfurrias Checkpoint agents sent another tractor-trailer to the secondary inspection area after a Border Patrol K-9 alerted. During the investigation, agents located over 60 bundles of methamphetamine weighing more than 180 pounds and worth an estimated $4.5M. Border Patrol turned the case over to DEA for federal prosecution.
Similarly this morning, Falfurrias Checkpoint agents referred a Ford F250 to the secondary inspection area after a Border Patrol K-9 alerted to the vehicle. During the inspection, agents located more than 50 bundles of cocaine. The narcotics weighed over 130 pounds and are worth an estimated $4.4M. Agents arrested the driver and have referred the case to DEA.
The Rio Grande Valley Sector currently has multiple campaigns focused on rescues and danger awareness, such as “Operation Big Rig” and “No Se Arriesgue” to combat smuggling and ultimately save lives. Call 911 to report suspicious activity; “They’re humans, not cargo!”
Even with the spread of the COVID-19 virus, human smugglers continue to try these brazen attempts with zero regard for the lives they endanger nor to the health of the citizens of our great nation. The U.S. Border Patrol agents of the Rio Grande Valley Sector will continue to safeguard the nation and community against these criminal elements.
Please visit www.cbp.gov to view additional news releases and other information pertaining to Customs and Border Protection. Follow us on Twitter @CBPRGV, @USBPChiefRGV and @USBPDepChiefRGV.
New never before seen footage of the shooting of the Trump supporter in Portland, Oregon on August 29.
1080P video. I slowed it to 90% to make out what is said easier. “Here, here, we got a couple right here.”
Second man: “here?”
“Yeah, he pulled it out.”
Photo By: Petty Officer 1st Class Melissa Leake Department of Defense
By weather.com meteorologists
August 06 2020 12:50 PM EDT
weather.com
Far From Louisiana, Laura Has Brought Smelly Beaches to Florida
Hurricane Laura has washed thousands of sea creatures onto Florida’s Gulf Coast beaches, and they’re starting to stink.
At a Glance
NOAA and Colorado State University have both increased their hurricane season forecasts this week.
NOAA’s forecast calls for 19 to 25 named storms, including 7 to 11 hurricanes.
CSU predicts there could be 24 named storms, including 12 hurricanes.
These forecasts include the 9 named storms and two hurricanes that have already formed this season.
If the forecast holds, 2020’s tropical storm and hurricane names would be used up and require use of the Greek alphabet
The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season, already busy through early August, could be one of the most active on record, according to two separate outlooks released this week by NOAA and Colorado State University (CSU).
“This year, we expect more, stronger, and longer-lived storms than average, and our predicted ACE range extends well above NOAA’s threshold for an extremely active season,” said Gerry Bell, Ph.D., lead seasonal hurricane forecaster at NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center.
The ACE index — short for Accumulated Cyclone Energy — takes into account not just the number, but also the intensity and longevity of storms and hurricanes.
CSU’s outlook released Wednesday calls for 24 named storms, 12 of which are expected to become hurricanes, and five of those hurricanes becoming major hurricanes — Category 3 or higher (115-plus-mph winds) on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale.
The CSU forecast is almost double the 30-year (1981-2010) average of 13 named storms, seven hurricanes and three major hurricanes and is four storms, three hurricanes and one major hurricane more than its last outlook issued in early July.
If the forecast holds, 2020 would have the second most number of storms in any season, just behind 2005’s 28 storms. It would also tie both 1969 and 2010 for the second most hurricanes in any season, again trailing only 2005’s 15 hurricanes.
The CSU and NOAA outlooks include the nine named storms and two hurricanes that have already formed.
Named storms tracks of the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season through August 5 are shown above. (Notes: The black segments correspond to post-tropical or remnant phases of each storm. The green track with Isaias denotes its time as a potential tropical cyclone.)
(Data: NOAA/NHC)
If the forecast number of named storms from CSU and the upper-end of the NOAA’s outlook happen, it would use up the entire list of 2020 tropical storm and hurricane names and require use of the Greek alphabet for the remaining named storms. That’s only happened once before in the record-smashing 2005 hurricane season.
Here is the list of 2020 Atlantic tropical storm and hurricane names. As of August 5, the next named storm will be “Josephine”. If all 21 names are used, subsequent storm names will be named after Greek letters, starting with “Alpha”. If there are 24 named storms, the final name would be “Gamma”.
During the record-breaking 2005 season, CSU’s August forecast predicted 20 named storms, 10 hurricanes and 6 major hurricanes.
Here are the factors CSU, NOAA and other seasonal forecasters are keying on for a very active season.
Trending Toward La Niña
El Niño/La Niña, the periodic warming/cooling of the equatorial eastern and central Pacific Ocean, can shift weather patterns over a period of months. Its status is always one factor that’s considered in hurricane season forecasting.
ENSO conditions are expected to remain either neutral — neither El Niño nor La Niña — or trend toward La Niña by fall.
La Niña typically corresponds with a more active hurricane season because the cooler waters of the Eastern Pacific Ocean end up causing less wind shear along with weaker low-level winds in the Caribbean Sea.
In fact, Colorado State University tropical scientist and lead author of seasonal forecasters, Phil Klotzbach, noted that July wind shear over the Caribbean Sea was second lowest in 41 years, behind only the record 2005 hurricane season’s July shear. Wind shear rips apart developing tropical cyclones and can at least disrupt or weaken active tropical storms and hurricanes.
La Niña can also enhance rising motion over the Atlantic Basin, making it easier for storms to develop.
The La Niña years of 2010 and 2011 are among several tied for the third-most-active Atlantic seasons on record. Both years had 19 named storms.
The next La Niña year, 2016, was also active, with 15 named storms that included Category 5 Hurricane Matthew and three other major hurricanes. La Niña conditions developed midway through the hyperactive and catastrophic 2017 season that produced Harvey, Irma and Maria.
Warm Ocean
One of the other ingredients that meteorologists consider in hurricane season outlooks is current sea-surface temperatures across the Atlantic Ocean.
Klotzbach noted that water temperatures between the Lesser Antilles and the west African coast in early August were the fourth warmest since the early 1980s, exceeded only by three notoriously active hurricane seasons: 2005, 2010 and 2017.
Furthermore, climate models suggest that most of, if not the entire, Atlantic Basin will be warmer than average the remainder of the hurricane season.
An above-average number of tropical storms and hurricanes is more likely if temperatures in the main development region (MDR) between Africa and the Caribbean Sea are warmer than average.
Assuming other atmospheric factors are favorable, warmer waters in this MDR allow tropical waves — the formative engines that can eventually become tropical storms — to get closer to the Caribbean and the U.S.
The active West African monsoon is expected to produce both stronger tropical waves migrating west off Africa and a more conducive environment for development in the tropical Atlantic Basin in 2020, Klotzbach noted.
What Does This Mean for the United States?
While there have been nine named storms already this season, much of the hurricane season still lies ahead.
Using the ACE index mentioned earlier, there is roughly 90 percent of the hurricane season still ahead as of early August. This includes what is typically the most active stretch from late August into September.
While a higher number of named storms and hurricanes raises the odds of more landfalls, there is no strong correlation between the number of storms or hurricanes and U.S. landfalls in any given season.
One or more of the remaining named storms predicted to develop this season could hit the U.S. or none at all. That’s why residents of the coastal U.S. should prepare each year no matter the forecast.
For example, the 2010 Atlantic season tied for the second most hurricanes (12) and third most named storms (19) of any season since 1851.
Despite all those, only one tropical storm, and no hurricanes, made landfall in the mainland U.S.
Hurricane Earl made an unnerving tease of the East Coast, brushing the Outer Banks of North Carolina before recurving away. Hurricane Alex made landfall in northeast Mexico, but did bring some flooding rain into Deep South Texas.
So the season was active, but the U.S. mainland impact was relatively low, as winds steering each storm or hurricane acted to keep them largely away.
Tracks of all storms and hurricanes in the 2010 Atlantic hurricane season. Only one tropical storm – Bonnie – made a continental U.S. landfall in 2010, despite the high number of both storms and hurricanes. Track segments in black indicate when each storm became a remnant low, or was in its pre-depression phase.
(Data: NOAA/NHC)
We’ve also seen seemingly inactive seasons deliver the one big landfall.
The 1992 hurricane season produced only seven storms. However, one of those was Hurricane Andrew, which devastated South Florida as one of only four hurricanes to landfall in the U.S. at Category 5 intensity, easily the nation’s costliest hurricane, at the time.
HURRICANE ANDREW (1992)
Aerial view of a mobile-home community in Dade County, Florida, devastated by Category 5 Hurricane Andrew in August 1992.
(Bob Epstein/FEMA)
And 1983 was even quieter than 1992.
Only four named storms — less than half the named storms already in 2020 — developed that entire season, the least of any Atlantic hurricane season since 1930.
But one of those four was Alicia.
This Category 3 hurricane pummeled the Houston metro area with high winds that shattered glass in the city’s skyscrapers, claimed 21 lives and was, itself, a billion-dollar disaster.
Named storm tracks of the 1983 Atlantic hurricane season. Despite only four named storms, one of them, Alicia, was a billion-dollar disaster in Texas
A hurricane season can deliver many storms but have little impact, or deliver few storms, but one or more slamming into the U.S. with major impact.
That’s why residents in the hurricane zone should prepare each year no matter what the seasonal forecast is.
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The Weather Company’s primary journalistic mission is to report on breaking weather news, the environment and the importance of science to our lives. This story does not necessarily represent the position of our parent company, IBM.
Everyone has been clamoring about the importance of physical fitness, but have you ever thought of them as life-saving? Do competitions get your blood pumping? What about the opportunity of meeting new people or just the sheer exercise that accompanies the fun? These just scratch the surface of how sports can save your life. Explore greater details here!
Disease Prevention
The far-reaching effects of sports on disease prevention are clearly apparent. By playing sports regularly, you can sidestep several diseases such as diabetes, cancer, obesity, depression, and cardiovascular disorders. Sports require you to be physically fit and help you maintain your optimal body weight, which lowers the risk of developing conditions consequent to obesity.
Enhance Psychosocial health
Many patients have an underlying psychosocial disorder, which is often left undiagnosed and untreated. Studies have proven that sports play a therapeutic role in many psychological disorders. Physical self—esteem is a vital aspect of mental health, and those who get involved in sport from a young age find it motivating and inspiring and carry it well into adulthood.
Healthy Discipline
A positive change in the environment can bring about a new perspective. This has a significant influence on future opportunities, and one is forced to make choices that are beneficial for overall health, such as eating healthy or drinking more water. Playing sports requires discipline, which is then carried over to other areas of life as well.
Improves Sleep
The connection between the quality of sleep and sports is still unclear, but research shows that playing regularly does boost sleep quality after a few months. The basic premise is to stick to it for that period so you can gain all the benefits and hope that this becomes a habit.
Impacts Relationships
We may not realize it, but our physical health affects our mental health, which takes a toll on our relationships. This could lead to depression and anxiety. Exercise releases endorphins, which make us feel good about ourselves, and this is exhibited in all our life areas, whether personal or professional.
Final Thoughts
Playing sports regularly is an amazing gateway to all other healthy life choices. It connects you with people interested in the same things that keep you motivated and on the right track. Don’t wait for another day to pick up a sport as a hobby.
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