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In the first stop on his tour of the state of Ohio, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell joined with Ohio State Football coach Urban Meyer Thursday for the 2013 Moms Football Safety Clinic at the Woody Hayes Athletic Center. Goodell said the goal of the ... ...
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Those who believe weddings to be exorbitant, empty spectacles have a fair-weather friend in writer-director Victor Quinaz, whose inventive debut, Breakup at a Wedding, attempts an aloof, smirking pose but surrenders to sentimentality in the end. The setup is rom com meets reality TV: Over 28-some hours, a cynical wedding videographer (Quinaz) narrates and records the disintegrating nuptials of aspiring yuppies Alison (Alison Fyhrie) and Phil (Philip Quinaz). The resulting mockumentary is suitably ugly, with the jerky rhythms, awkward close-ups, and palm-rubbing schadenfreude so common to TLC programming. Thankfully, no Bridezillas abound; instead, the pair believably break up during the rehearsal dinner, with the bride-to-be confessing she's just been going through the motions in their relationship. But Alison and Phil are loath to let their expenses be for naught, so they hatch a scheme to throw the wedding without ever signing the marriage license, leaving their friends and family none the wiser. This darkly funny premise leads to an intermittently amusing middle section where the couple's charade is overshadowed by low-stakes cringe comedy involving eccentric guests. Though Phil's an oblivious boor?early in the film, he explains he loves his future wife because "she's got really great posture, which is really awesome considering how chest-heavy she is"?he's touched enough by Alison's surprise present, a four-foot-long iPhone cake, to try to win her back. Quinaz shot the film days before his own wedding, and perhaps that explains Breakup's soft, squishy heart: It can't help but melt.
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U.S. researchers say they've found security weaknesses in Apple's iOS operating system that could let hackers compromise an iPhone through apps 
or peripherals.
"Apple utilizes a mandatory app review process to ensure that only approved apps can run on iOS devices, which allows users to feel safe when using any iOS app," Paul Royal, director of the Georgia Tech Information Security Center, said in a Georgia Tech release Wednesday. "However, we have discovered two weaknesses that allow circumvention of Apple's security measures."
Researchers at the center determined malware can be installed onto iOS devices via Trojan Horse-style applications and peripherals such as chargers.
The technique, developed as part of a proof-of-concept attack dubbed Jekyll, hides malicious code that would otherwise get rejected during the Apple review process, they said.
"We were able to successfully publish a malicious app and use it to remotely launch attacks on a controlled group of devices," research scientist Tielei Wang said. "Our research shows that despite running inside the iOS sandbox, a Jekyll-based app can successfully perform many malicious tasks, such as posting tweets, taking photos, sending email and SMS, and even attacking other apps -- all without the user's knowledge."
Researcher Billy Lau created a proof-of-concept malicious charger using a small, inexpensive single-board computer made to resemble a normal iPhone or iPad charger that, once plugged into an iOS device , stealthily installs a malicious app.
Both Wang and Lau notified Apple upon the discovery of these security weaknesses, Georgia Tech said.
Apple has implemented a feature in its upcoming iOS 7 that notifies users when they plug their mobile device into any peripheral that attempts to establish a data connection, and is working on ways to address the weaknesses revealed through Jekyll, the school said.
"These results are concerning and challenge previous assumptions of iOS device security," Royal said.
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Bradesco Asset Management (Bram) has established a US subsidiary and has begun to build relationships with distribution managers in the US and Canada to sell Bram?s proprietary funds to north American institutional investors.
Despite outflows from emerging markets funds in recent weeks, Bradesco expects that Bram US (which was registered with the SEC as an investment adviser in the first quarter of 2013) will be able to tap into US appetite for Latin American assets, especially at a time when the continent?s currencies, which are falling against the dollar as global markets anticipate higher interest rates in the US, are creating an attractive entry point to the region.
"We are going to create funds domiciled for the US and Canadian investors," says Luiz Osorio, head of international business development at Bram. "The idea is to bring funds that we already have in the local market in order to be able to show a track record to investors." The funds are expected to be available to investors in north America in the fourth quarter.
Four alternatives
Osorio says Bram US will begin with four fund alternatives: one will be a hard-currency fixed-income fund and the other three will be equity funds. Bram already has a hard-currency fixed-income fund for its European clients, which is 70% invested in Latin American corporates (mainly investment grade) and 30% in sovereign bonds. In the past year the fund returned 9.7% in dollar terms.
Osorio also says the equity funds should attract interest because he believes the sell-off in Brazilian equities generally has been overdone, as well as there still being opportunities for stock-picking fund managers to generate alpha.
The Bovespa has become increasingly split in the past year between consumer- and infrastructure-focused stocks that are performing well and the index, which is dominated by poorly performing commodity-oriented stocks. Despite the high valuations of many of the former type of equities, Osorio says there are still opportunities that should attract US investors.
"The PE multiples are high but there are still companies that our research team thinks will see growth. We have to be really selective ? it?s not all consumer-oriented companies ? but there are a number that we think will grow 30% this year and maybe 20% next year," says Osorio. "In the next two years we?re expecting 50% to 60% growth that hasn?t yet been priced in." He adds that Bram also has a fund focused on the small-mid cap theme in Brazil.
Bram?s US initiative builds on its growth in Asia, and specifically in Japan, where the Brazilian asset manager has a marketing relationship with Mitsubishi UFJ Asset Management.
However, Bram?s regional diversification is in part a result of the lower growth opportunities in this market in the medium term.
Bram offers only local-currency funds in Asia because the investors in the region have typically liked the currency-risk element of Brazilian investments.
"When we first started going to Japan four years ago I was surprised by the amount of currency exposure there was to the real," says Osorio. "They had about R$30 billion [$13.5 billion] in real assets and another R$50 billion in other assets swapped to our currency. This is one of the reasons why [recently] they have reduced interest in Brazil ? they are overweight in Brazil and some have suffered a lot with the [recent devaluation]."
Joaquim Levy, CEO at Bram, says it is important that the asset manager, which has $144 billion under management, can present itself as a genuinely pan-regional institution in order to attract new funds from the international markets.
"Our product is Brazil and Latin America. We understand that we will find it difficult to focus only on Brazil ? except in the case of Japan and [those interested in a niche, Brazilian] product," says Levy. "That?s one of the reasons why we are focusing on a Latin American fund (which launched in early 2013). Bradesco has opened and is growing in Mexico, for example, and that is something that will derive a lot of value, because within a Latin American-wide fund there are some things that are not so correlated. You have Brazil, Chile and Mexico. One is driven by the US, another by copper and the other by a lot of other things."
International appeal
As well as trying to broaden its regional base to capture international capital flows to asset managers in Latin America, Bram is broadening its international assets to appeal to Brazilian investors that want to diversify a portion of their portfolios to assets outside Brazil.
Bram established a Brazilian depositary receipts (BDR) fund in January 2012 that has already attracted R$200 million. The fund gives Brazilians investors (and Bram reports private banking clients have been the early adopters, rather than institutional clients) exposure to US equities through local onshore investment vehicles.
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ST. CHARLES ? On Wednesday, Ralph Mueller of St. Charles was expecting his usual delivery of meals from a volunteer with The Salvation Army?s Golden Diners Senior Nutrition program.
But this delivery came with an extra perk ? a small bag of food for his dog, Giusseppe, a maltese-poodle mix.
?I appreciated the dog food,? he said, noting that it?s one trip to a store he won?t have to make.
This week, The Salvation Army launched its latest initiative by delivering pet food to 111 seniors and their 187 pets. A $2,500 grant from Banfield Charitable Trust helped launch the program, allowing Salvation Army volunteers to deliver pet food to seniors four times a year.
Maj. Ken Nicolai, director of the Golden Diners Program, said a few years ago, a couple of volunteers raised concerns because they saw seniors sharing some of their meals with their pets.
?In this one case, it was a cat, and the cat looked pretty hungry. And the senior was at risk of malnutrition,? he said. ?That kind of alerted us.?
Nicolai said for the past two years, The Salvation Army has distributed pet food around Christmas time to seniors, which they?ll continue to do, but the recent grant helped them expand the frequency of the program.
He said The Salvation Army conducted a survey of the seniors asking whether they had pets, and if they had trouble feeding or caring for their pets. He said more than 100 seniors responded that they needed extra help feeding their pets.
?People say, ?Why don?t they just give their animal to somebody else?,? ? Nicolai said. ?You?re talking about people who live alone, and without that pet, they?d be even more lonely than they already are. The pets are just such good companions for them.?
He said pets also can keep seniors alert by giving them some responsibility.
?We?re just hearing back from seniors [about] how grateful they are,? Nicolai said. ?They really do care about their pets. Sometimes, they might even put their pets before themselves.?
For information about the Golden Diners Senior Nutrition Program or to volunteer, call 630-232-6676.
Source: http://www.kcchronicle.com/2013/07/31/pets-benefit-from-salvation-army-nutrition-program/am0s5n9/
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