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Time of India
24-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Did Ben Affleck just reveal Jennifer Lopez drove him crazy? 'The people you love...'
Ben Affleck , always in the spotlight, recently shared that Jennifer Lopez 'drove him crazy.' Although their love story started like a fairytale, the couple's romantic journey came to an end in 2024 when they divorced after just two years of marriage. Affleck's Subtle Reference to Lopez on MSNBC While promoting The Accountant 2 on MSNBC's Morning Joe, Ben Affleck hinted that the people closest to you can often be the most challenging. As he spoke about his character's dynamic with Jon Bernthal, many viewers felt he was subtly referencing his relationship with Jennifer Lopez. Rekindling Romance: The Challenges of "This Is Me... Now" by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Upto 15% Discount for Salaried Individuals ICICI Pru Life Insurance Plan Get Quote Undo After their engagement in the early 2000s ended, Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez rekindled their romance. However, their relationship began to face challenges again while filming Lopez's passion project, This Is Me... Now: A Love Story. Lopez Opens Up About Overwhelming Pressure in Documentary In the documentary The Greatest Love Story Never Told, Jennifer Lopez tearfully opens up about the pressure of her demanding workload, expressing guilt for missing a scheduled event with Ben Affleck, according to a report by Daily Mail. Just last week, Ben Affleck praised Jennifer Lopez as "spectacular," according to Entertainment Tonight. He emphasized her positive relationship with his kids, stating, "For the record, Jennifer Lopez is spectacular, great to my kids, great ongoing relationship with them." Affleck Reflects on Lopez's Integrity and Importance Affleck also expressed his admiration for Lopez, calling her "an enormously important, tremendous person of a lot of integrity" and adding that he "adores her" and is "grateful" to her. Encouragement to Date Again and Focus on Sobriety According to the Daily Mail, Luciana Barroso, the wife of Matt Damon , has been encouraging Ben Affleck to start dating again. An insider revealed that while Affleck has been on a few low-key dates, he hasn't found the right connection yet. Affleck, who has faced challenges with alcohol addiction and undergone multiple rehab stints, is reportedly being advised by his recovery support system to date someone within the recovery community. An insider shared with Radar Online that being with someone who drinks would not be beneficial to his sobriety. In the same interview, the father of three expressed, "I'm genuinely a happy person." Best Hindi Movies | Best Tamil Movies | Best Telugu Movies | Best english Movies | Best Malayalam Movies |
Mid East Info
27-03-2025
- Business
- Mid East Info
Transparent metrics that measure economic impacts will be critical to unlock smart city potential
Titled 'Solving the Challenges of Smart Cities: An Integrated Approach to Realizing Urban Potential', JLL and Honeywell's latest whitepaper outlines practical recommendations to create more cohesive and effective smart city environments. Dubai, United Arab Emirates – Acknowledging that the journey towards creating efficient, sustainable and citizen-centric urban environments is complex, JLL and Honeywell today released a new whitepaper providing a practical blueprint for navigating the complexities of smart city development and building truly transformative urban spaces. Titled 'Solving the Challenges of Smart Cities: An Integrated Approach to Realizing Urban Potential', the whitepaper identifies organizational fragmentation, technological integration and workforce readiness as key challenges hindering smart city progress. In response, JLL and Honeywell recommend an integrated approach, leveraging enterprise agility, data-driven decision-making, and advanced technologies such as digital twin simulations to create more cohesive and effective smart city environments. As rapid urbanization continues to reshape the global landscape, these actionable insights will significantly empower cities to achieve genuine, measurable gains. The paper underscores the importance of establishing rigorous performance metrics to measure the success of smart city initiatives. By focusing on outcomes and data-driven insights, organizations can ensure that investments are aligned with strategic goals and deliver measurable value. Dr Matthew Marson, Managing Director EMEA, Technology Advisory at JLL, said: 'Smart cities are crucial in addressing critical urban challenges of resource management, citizen well-being and city-scale attractiveness. Realizing this potential requires a fundamental shift in how we approach such initiatives. Our new white paper provides an action-oriented roadmap for organizations to overcome the barriers in this journey, ensuring that their smart city projects deliver tangible benefits to both the enterprise and the city's inhabitants.' Mohamed Moselhy, Global Smart Cities Director at Honeywell Building Automation, said: 'The future of smart cities hinges on breaking down silos and fostering seamless integration between advanced technology, governance, and human capital. Our collaboration with JLL underscores the importance of an enterprise-wide approach—leveraging digital twins, IoT-driven insights, and agile governance models to enhance operational efficiency and citizen experience. By implementing transparent performance metrics, we ensure that smart city investments not only help drive sustainability and economic growth, but also create truly connected, responsive urban environments that evolve with societal needs.' Outlining an integrated approach in the whitepaper, JLL and Honeywell emphasize the need to break down departmental silos in organizational structures through unified governance and cross-functional collaboration among stakeholders as internal fragmentation leads to redundant expenditure on overlapping systems, lower adoption of city services by end-users, prolonged deployment timelines, and reduced adaptability to new technologies or business environments. To address these internal silos, organizations must embrace enterprise agility, focus on value-stream alignment and adopt an architectural approach that fosters modular, easily reusable solutions. A similar approach is recommended to address technological and construction complexities and to seamlessly integrate IoT sensors that monitor air quality, energy consumption, or occupancy with building management systems, analytics platforms, and occupant engagement apps. Additionally, adopting digital twin technologies to create virtual replicas of buildings and infrastructure will enable organizations to predict outcomes, reduce risk, and accelerate learning. The whitepaper also highlights that investing in training and skills development will be critical to equip the workforce with the necessary tools to navigate the evolving smart city landscape. This includes formal upskilling programs such as workshops, mentorships or certification pathways to allow knowledge to flow across departmental boundaries and facilitate best-practice sharing. A significant challenge would also be to retain and motivate talent, and to support this, JLL and Honeywell recommend implementing strategies that enhance career progression, flexible work arrangements and recognition of innovative contributions. Since traditional construction project management strategies are often ill-suited to technology environments, JLL and Honeywell suggest adopting agile and realistic project management practices such as phased rollouts and proofs-of-concept to test new solutions in a controlled setting. A structured risk management framework is further recommended to anticipate supply chain delays, policy changes, or occupant pushback, paving the way for continuous improvement and adaptation based on real-world feedback. The paper calls upon smart city organizations to assess progress and deliver real value via robust, transparent metrics that measure economic impacts including job creation, foreign direct investment, and operational efficiencies alongside environmental benefits, social outcomes, and citizen experience. It concludes by urging organizations to adopt an operational model similar to streamlined multi-product corporations with experts recommending agility in responding to changing urban needs and maintaining focus on integrated, scalable, and user-centric solutions. About JLL: For over 200 years, JLL (NYSE: JLL), a leading global commercial real estate and investment management company, has helped clients buy, build, occupy, manage and invest in a variety of commercial, industrial, hotel, residential and retail properties. A Fortune 500® company with annual revenue of $23.4 billion and operations in over 80 countries around the world, our more than 112,000 employees bring the power of a global platform combined with local expertise. SEE A BRIGHTER WAYSM. About JLL MEA: Across the Middle East and Africa (MEA) JLL is a leading player in the real estate and hospitality services markets. The firm has worked in 35 countries across the region and employs over 2000 internationally qualified professionals across its offices in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Riyadh, Jeddah, Al Khobar, Cairo, Casablanca, Cape Town, Johannesburg and Nairobi. About Honeywell: Honeywell is an integrated operating company serving a broad range of industries and geographies around the world. Our business is aligned with three powerful megatrends – automation, the future of aviation and energy transition – underpinned by our Honeywell Accelerator operating system and Honeywell Forge IoT platform. As a trusted partner, we help organizations solve the world's toughest, most complex challenges, providing actionable solutions and innovations through our Aerospace Technologies, Industrial Automation, Building Automation and Energy and Sustainability Solutions business segments that help make the world smarter, safer, more secure and sustainable. For
Sharjah 24
12-02-2025
- Business
- Sharjah 24
Galeries Lafayette owner Ginette Moulin dies aged 98
Moulin, who passed away on Sunday, was the granddaughter of Théophile Bader, co-founder of the Galeries Lafayette store established in 1894. Family wealth and status The net worth of Moulin and her family is estimated at 4.05 billion euros ($4.18 billion), placing her 34th on the list of France's richest individuals according to the magazine Challenges. A legacy of leadership Throughout her life, Moulin witnessed six generations of leadership at the Galeries Lafayette flagship store located in the Opera district of Paris. Described as "a committed benefactor and a patron of artists," the Galeries Lafayette praised her belief in the power of culture and creativity. Family history Moulin's father, Max Heilbronn, was arrested in 1943 and sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany, where he befriended Etienne Moulin, who later married Ginette. The couple had three children. Beyond its flagship store, the Galeries Lafayette group operates 56 outlets in France, with 18 managed directly and 38 run as franchises. The shift towards online shopping, accelerated by COVID-19 restrictions, has negatively impacted Galeries Lafayette's business model, which relies heavily on in-store foot traffic. Store closures and future plans Due to ongoing losses, the group plans to close two stores in Marseille. In 2023, they also spun off the iconic Bazar de l'Hôtel de Ville (BHV) located near the Marais district. Despite these challenges, the group expressed hope last year to restore sales volumes to pre-COVID levels.
Yahoo
11-02-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Galeries Lafayette owner Ginette Moulin dies aged 98
The majority owner of the emblematic Parisian department store Galeries Lafayette, Ginette Moulin, has died aged 98, the company told AFP Tuesday. Moulin, who died on Sunday, was the granddaughter of Theophile Bader, who co-founded the store in 1894. The net business worth of Moulin and her family is estimated at 4.05 billion euros ($4.18 billion), putting her in 34th place on the list of France's richest people compiled by the magazine Challenges. Over her lifetime, Moulin saw six leadership generations running the Galeries Lafayette flagship store situated in the Opera district of the French capital. She was "a committed benefactor and a patron of artists who believed in the power of culture and creativity," the Galeries Lafayette said about her Tuesday. Her father, Max Heilbronn, was arrested in 1943 and taken to the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany, where he became friends with Etienne Moulin who later married Ginette. The couple had three children. Beyond the main store, the Galeries Lafayette empire counts 56 other outlets in France, of which it runs 18 itself and 38 are managed as a franchise by partners. But a shift towards online shopping, accelerated by Covid restrictions, has hurt Galeries Lafayette's business model that relies on footfall in bricks-and-mortar stores. The group is planning to close two stores in the southern port city of Marseille because of recurring losses. In 2023, it spun off another mythical Paris store, the Bazar de l'Hotel de Ville (BHV), situated near the capital's Marais district. However, the group said last year that it hoped to bring sales volumes back to pre-Covid levels. max-jfg-cda/jh/yad
