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The article features sleep-tracking technologies to discover the best sleep patterns. It discusses analytics developed to discover the nature of sleep by companies including Fullpower Technologies founded by Philippe Khan, Fitbit co-founded by James Park and Reset Therapeutics co-founded by Steve Kay and Ross Bersot. It also explores concepts of chronotype, sleep-wake cycles and sleep efficiency.

Russell Simmons has been slapped with two lawsuits in three days from women who say they were victims of sexual assault. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the shooting death of nine people at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church in Charleston, South Carolina, on June 17, 2015. Topics include the racist motives of alleged shooter Dylann Roof, the victims, including pastor and South Carolina state senator Clementa Pinckney, reverend Sharonda Coleman-Singleton, and recent college graduate Tywanza Sanders, and the reaction of the Charleston community.

Harris County's sheriff said the guards "betrayed my trust and the trust of our community." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports on the creation of the Citizens Advisory Commission to examine the quality of schooling in California. It mentions that the Commission recommends to change an 1872 law requiring instruction in manners and morals to eliminate time-consuming ceremonies such as the Susan B. Anthony Day. It also demands that two-thirds of class time in elementary schools be spent on basic subject, and science and foreign languages should begin no later than sixth grade.

A list of National League and American League baseball team winners and players is presented, including Brooklyn and Cleveland.

The article focuses on the craze in Canadian colleges called bed pushing. It states that college students from Nova Scotia to British Columbia were mounting beds on wheels and pushing them over highways, prairies, and frozen lakes. It adds that a team from Ontario's Queens University, which kept its Simmon's rolling twenty four hours for a week, holds the world record of 1,000 continuous miles.

Simmons is implementing two marketing strategies for it BackCare line of furniture products in partnership with grocery stores and physicians. The physician program includes the distribution of Back Health, the company's publication that deal with back care. Each copy contains a coupon that gives a $100-discount for every purchase of a BackCare Ultimate sleep set. The grocery store program, which is being implemented at Omaha, NE-based Nebraska Furniture Mart's locations, awards $50-coupons to consumers who purchase products that include Motrin, Advil, Healthy Choice and Lean Cuisine.

Sealy manufactured bedding volume worth over $1 billion in the U.S. during the 2001 year. This makes it the market share leader in the country with a 23.08% share. Coming in second was Serta with $724 million in yearly sales and a 15.77% market share. Third place went to Simmons with $672 million with a 14.63% market share.

Mark Parrish has been appointed as Simmons' new executive vice-president and chief operations officer. Parrish formerly worked as an executive with Harley Davidson.