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Gambling is defined as a game of chance or skill in which the individual places an item of value at risk, in hopes of gaining more value than one has already lost. Special populations that are at higher risk of gambling include adolescents, veterans, and the Latino and Asian communities. This article will discuss the signs and symptoms of problem gambling and the various treatment options. This article focuses on the problem gambling and disordered gambling. While the definitions for gambling and disordered gambling differ, there are some similarities and differences.
“Problem gambling” is a broad term used to describe a pattern of excessive or uncontrolled gambling. The urge to gamble can lead to poor mental health, financial devastation, and relationships with family and friends. It is estimated that six to eight million Americans experience problem gambling. Problem gamblers often lie about how much time they spend gambling, and they spend more time planning the next opportunity than they do on their own. In order to get help, they should consider seeking professional advice.
There are different ways to treat problem gambling, but most involve counseling, step-based programs, self-help, and peer-support. Fortunately, there are now several medical treatments for this disorder, including medications. These treatments are available and vary in their efficacy. Unfortunately, no one treatment is effective for every problem gambler. Regardless of your age, problem gambling may lead to serious financial and social consequences. If you have a loved one with a problem gambling behavior, it is important to seek help.
Pharmacological treatments for disordered gambling are available, but few studies have been designed to test their effectiveness in the treatment of the condition. The most promising treatments are opioid antagonists, mood stabilizers, and ecopipam. These agents can be prescribed in conjunction with cognitive interventions and may reduce the severity of global gambling in bipolar disorder. The efficacy of these treatments depends on further research, and more comprehensive studies are needed to assess their safety and effectiveness in treating disordered gambling.
The study protocol was approved by the Cambridge South Research Ethics Council and participants provided written informed consent to participate. They were reimbursed for travel and time expenses, and were asked to complete a general screening questionnaire. The questionnaire collected demographic information, gender, ethnicity, employment status, relationship status, and handedness. It also collected information about family history of disordered gambling. Lastly, the questionnaire collected data on how much time participants spend playing games.
Symptoms of problem gambling
If an employee engages in problematic gambling, he or she may be a danger to the company and his or her reputation. Symptoms of problem gambling include increased tardiness, decreased productivity, and financial difficulties. In some cases, an employee may become depressed, lose interest in other activities, or even engage in criminal behavior. If not treated promptly, these problems can lead to increased debt and diminished productivity. Problem gamblers may also become argumentative and may resort to stealing or other illegal behaviors to fund their gambling habit.
The risk of problem gambling is also increased with fast-paced games, such as slot machines. As gambling continues to spread worldwide, increased awareness of the risks and consequences of problem gambling is crucial. The Gambling Commission in the UK recently announced a significant change in gambling policies. And the World Health Organization (WHO) has officially labeled gambling a disease. The 72nd World Health Assembly, held on Saturday, added excessive gaming to its list of diseases. Its revision of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases (ICD) adds gambling to the list of disorders.
If you’ve decided that you need help to overcome your gambling addiction, there are a number of treatment options. Some of these are outpatient programs, while others are inpatient and are for people with a mental illness. Regardless of the treatment type, you should find a treatment option that suits your needs. A good therapist can help you overcome your gambling addiction through psychotherapy and other forms of treatment. Psychotherapy can help you identify triggers for gambling, identify harmful gambling thoughts and behaviors, and reframe your perspective on the game. Oftentimes, psychotherapy can produce the same benefits as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.
One of the first steps in seeking help for your gambling problem is to visit your primary care physician. Your doctor will likely ask you about your gambling habits and may even ask to speak to family members. If the gambling problem is accompanied by substance use, it is critical to seek treatment that addresses both issues at the same time. Otherwise, you run the risk of relapsing or completing treatment sooner than expected. You should also consider taking the time to visit a mental health professional to learn about the treatment options available to you.

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These 10 Dollar Store Christmas Decor Ideas are THE BEST! I'm so glad I found these AMAZING ideas! Now I have some cute and affordable ways to decorate my home! Definitely repinning!
Decorate (and Redecorate) this Adorable Velcro Gingerbread House! Fun Christmas activity for preschoolers.
Glistening Baubles | 20 + DIY Christmas Cards for Kids to Make
Christmas Tree Craft...paint with pom poms. Easy craft for toddlers!
Super easy reindeer hat craft for kids.
Holiday Party Games - Jingle Bell Toss Perfect for Preschool
Christmas items Christmas coloring pages
Perfect solution for that ONE sock that is missing its partner! #upcycle
Cutting out snowflakes is one of our favorite holiday traditions! Learn how to cut snowflakes with this video tutorial and free snowflake templates. Easy Christmas or winter craft for kids.
A simple DIY Christmas card craft for kids and adults.

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Student Sues to Win Fighter Jet Shown on Pepsi Commercial
SEATTLE (AP) _ A 21-year-old business student sued PepsiCo Inc. on Tuesday, demanding that the soft-drink maker give him a Harrier fighter jet like the one pictured in a promotional TV ad.
John Leonard’s lawsuit, filed by his Miami lawyers in Dade County, Fla., Circuit Court, accuses Pepsi of breach of contract, fraud, deceptive and unfair trade practices, and misleading advertising.
Pepsi maintains the commercial was a spoof and says it has a perfect right to use humor in its advertising.
``We are confident that Mr. Leonard’s claim has no merit,″ Pepsi spokesman Jon Harris said. ``If we have to put disclaimers on spots that are obviously farces, where does it end?″
The dispute began in October, when Leonard, a student at Shoreline Community College, saw a television ad as part of a Pepsi Stuff promotion in which customers who had racked up points on beverage containers could claim a variety of prizes. As a joke, the company also ``offered″ the $70 million fighter jet for 7 million points.
To avoid having to drink that much Pepsi, Leonard called the company and said he was told he had the option of buying Pepsi points for 10 cents each.
Leonard, of suburban Lynnwood, rounded up five investors from the East Coast, who committed to put up the $700,000 he needed to claim his prize. The investors were friends Leonard had met on mountain-climbing trips.
On March 28, Leonard delivered to Pepsi 15 original Pepsi Points plus a check for $700,008.50 for the remaining 6,999,985 points, ``plus shipping and handling,″ the lawsuit says.
``Surprisingly, on May 7, 1996, Pepsi ... failed and refused to process the items, ... and more importantly failed and refused to provide the new Harrier jet to Leonard,″ the suit says.
Two more attempts to submit the Pepsi Points and check also were rebuffed, the suit says.
After Leonard threatened to sue, the company filed a pre-emptive suit July 18 in federal court in New York, seeking to have his claims declared frivolous and seeking reimbursement for the company’s legal fees.
Leonard has denied his actions are a publicity stunt or an attempt to get Pepsi to settle out of court. He saw the plane as an entrepreneurial venture, saying perhaps he could take customers on thrill rides.
``I am simply trying to take Pepsi up on an offer it made to the public,″ Leonard said.
The two sides met last week to try to resolve the dispute, but nothing was settled.


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Output frequency potentiometer L1 on CSV2215-3 (R3
dication of 400 Hz.
on CSV1186-1), and R5 on 4B93-1-A is used to estab-
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between no load
lish the 400 Hz ac output current. Follow the procedure
and full load conditions. A variation of less than 8 Hz is
below for adjustment.
e. Disconnect power test set prods, and replace
This procedure can be carried out in the
aircraft if the inverter can be reached easily.
a. Remove the regulator cover.
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level to accept the 4B93-1-A regulator. These units can
be identified by the letter "M" stamped on the data
These testing procedures have been prepared for use by
plate. For a listing of recent MWO's refer to DA Pam
direct support maintenance shops to determine the ac-
ceptability of repaired equipment. These procedures
set forth specific requirements that repaired equip-
3-13. Tests and Procedures
ment must meet before being returned to the using
Equipment which meets the performance standards in
tables 3-2 and 3-3
may be considered acceptable for
3-12. Modification Work Orders (MWO's)
service. Perform each step in sequence. For each step,
perform all the actions in the Control settings column,
At the time of this publication, there were no printed
then perform the specific procedure and verify it
MWO's pertaining to this equipment. However, inver-
against its performance standard.
ters, as they are received, are being modified at depot
Table 3-2. Physical Tests and Inspections
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cles on surfaces.
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From Rebecca Newburn, here is the link to the NBC News story about Richmond Grows and the seed movement. Huge thanks to Catalin (who helped start the library), all the Richmond Grows volunteers, Kelli for agreeing to open her garden to the world, especially in winter ;), BASIL for their inspiration, Urban Tilth for all the good work they do and for being our fiscal sponsor, the amazing library staff at the Richmond Public Library. The library has been a success due to the help of these folks.
Richmond Grows Seed Lending Library
Planting seeds for the just and sustainable future.

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Treat yourself with a good night’s sleep and a tasty breakfast. In Helsingborg, there is accommodation options for all tastes and budgets. Whether you choose to stay in a luxury suite or camping cabin, we have something to suit you. Here you can book your accommodation or read more about the city’s hotels, hostels, campings and guest harbors.
Book and start longing. Welcome to Helsingborg!
Bike approved accommodation
Do you want to discover by bike on holiday? Then you should choose a Bike approved accommodation.
Safe storage of bicycles
Possibility to clean the bike
Offers water to the water bottle
Contact list of “bicycle rescuers” for puncture or other bicycle problems

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Andaman Nicobar islands was the last step of my trip. Its very difficult to choose one leg to say that it’s the best because every single leg of this trip has been simply awesome! I reached Port Blair early morning after a long flight fron New York and after a half day tour of the city, I was to take the ferry to Havelock where my next 3 nights were booked at the sea facing resort of Barefoot Scuba.
Port Blair is a quaint little hill town and contrary to popular belief that the only food available there is seafood, there are lot of vegetarian options available here. There population mostly consists of tamilians and bengalis. Since the prisoners from the independence struggle were from all over the country, hence Port Blair is quite a cosmopolitan city but conservative too. There are many south indian udipi style pure veg restaurants so being a vegan is delightfully easy.
Havelock island was absoutely breath taking, better than most beaches I have ever visited including the popular ones in Thailand. The water is clear blue and sand pure white. We used to start for the scuba diving trip early morning after breakfast of poha/upma/paratha and carried snacks and lunch for the boat. It was a cruel joke that the very spot where we were going to dive to see the fishes was where people also fish for seafood.
I had four diving trips in all, two each day. We covered a wrecked ship, the wall twice and lighthouse. It’s a different world all together down there. I had experienced it in snorkelling and fascinated by it had resolved to explore this field of scuba diving. Padi endeavours to protect sealife and certifies its resorts with green stamp if they take special care for propagating under water life. In our diving trips, we were careful not to touch anything, not disturb any object or life but just be a silent observer and admier. Wish everyone would do that on the surface of the earth too.


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StatsLC is pleased to announce its first tabletop game - The Dragon Games.
The Dragon Games is an opportunity for dragon wranglers of all ages to show their skills. Put dragons through their paces to win gold medals over four events. Each event requires different skills in dragon wrangling. Dragon wranglers from around the world compete for the esteemed title of champion dragon wrangler.
Educational Family Game
Playing time: 10 minutes (single event) to 2 hours (grand tournament)
48 unique dragon cards
12 attribute cards
12 gold medal tokens
5 reference cards
Using beautifully designed dragon cards, The Dragon Games appeals to all ages with four different easy-to-learn events: Formations, Matches, Connection and Battle. The events are fun to play. Each one is different.
Formations: Organise unruly dragons into ranks and groups.
Wranglers compete to organise their dragons quickly. A revealed attribute indicates the order or groups required. The fastest wrangler in each round increases their stock of dragons. False claims can lose dragons. Speed and accuracy win the day. The first wrangler to grow their stock to nine dragons wins.
Matches: Pair dragons with common attributes.
Wranglers compete for attribute cards by finding attributes that match in pairs of dragons. A wrangler claims the attribute card for one matching attribute. Attribute cards can be claimed from the pool in the middle or taken from other wranglers. Simple tactics and luck are needed. The first wrangler to collect enough attribute cards wins.
Connections: Finesse your dragons into their social network.
Wranglers compete to be the first to weave all of their dragons into a growing social network. Pairs of dragons connect according to relationships based on their attributes. These relationships are reflected by the connectors. Wranglers take turns placing connectors and a dragon, if they can, to form a complex social network. Tactics are essential - block other wranglers while enabling your dragons. The first wrangler to place all of their dragons wins.
Battle: Pit your dragons head-to-head with the other dragons.
Wranglers compete dragon-on-dragon. One wrangler chooses the type of battle Strength, the strongest wins. Height, the tallest wins. Age, the oldest wins. Breath, fire beats acid beats ice beats no dangerous breath. Behaviour, dangerous beats changeable beats friendly. The winner collects the cards to score. A draw sees all cards kept in the middle to jackpot for the next winner. Choose your battles wisely. The wrangler with the most cards when all battles are done wins.
Play a single event for a quick game, all events as a Tournament or take your time on a Grand Tournament to determine the Dragon Grand Champion of the world.
The Dragon Games is more than just a single game. With The Dragon Games you get even more…
Creators: The Dragon Games is game and game kit in one. It is easy to use The Dragon Games to develop your own games. The unique dragons, attribute cards and connectors let you adapt events or create entirely new ones.
Parents: The Dragon Games is not only fun, it also helps practise math skills. The Dragon Games was designed and created by Dr Nic educator, innovator, YouTube statistics celebrity, and inventor. She based the game on Statistics Learning Centre’s award winning Dragonistics Data Cards used for engaging students in learning statistics.
Inquisitors: The 48 unique dragon cards beg to be organised … to be sorted … to be analysed. Which is the best? Are red or green dragons taller? Are males or female dragons stronger? Can dangerous dragons breath ice? Are any green dragons dangerous?

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*Department of Medicine and Bioregulatory Science, Kyushu University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Fukuoka, Japan.
†Department of Gastroenterology, Aso Iizuka Hospital, Fukuoka, Japan.
‡Department of Internal Medicine, Saiseikai Fukuoka General Hospital, Fukuoka, Japan.
§Center for Gastroenterology, Kyushu Medical Center, Fukuoka, Japan.
∥Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Fukuoka-Higashi Medical Center, Fukuoka, Japan.
¶Department of Gastroenterology, Hara Sanshin Hospital, Fukuoka, Japan.
Antithrombotic/nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drug (NSAID) therapies increase the incidence of upper gastrointestinal bleeding. The features of hemorrhagic peptic ulcer disease in patients receiving antithrombotic/NSAID therapies were investigated.
We investigated the medical records of 485 consecutive patients who underwent esophagogastroduodenoscopy and were diagnosed with hemorrhagic gastroduodenal ulcers. The patients treated with antithrombotic agents/NSAIDs were categorized as the antithrombotic therapy (AT) group (n=213). The patients who were not treated with antithrombotics/NSAIDs were categorized as the control (C) group (n=263). The clinical characteristics were compared between the groups.
The patients in the AT group were significantly older than those in the C group (p<0.0001). The hemoglobin levels before/without transfusion were significantly lower in the AT group (8.24±2.41 g/dL) than in the C group (9.44±2.95 g/dL) (p<0.0001). After adjusting for age, the difference in the hemoglobin levels between the two groups remained significant (p=0.0334). The transfusion rates were significantly higher in the AT group than in the C group (p=0.0002). However, the outcome of endoscopic hemostasis was similar in the AT and C groups.
Patients with hemorrhagic peptic ulcers receiving antithrombotic/NSAID therapies were exposed to a greater risk of severe bleeding that required transfusion but were still treatable by endoscopy.

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Pink Bead Bamboo Skewers
- Brand: the spring shop
- Collection: Soft Spoken
Pass out bite-sized foods at your event with impeccable presentation! Pink Bead Bamboo Skewers feature thin bamboo picks with faceted pink beads at their tops. Stick these skewers in cheese, fruit, truffles, small cuts of meat, sushi, and more, and pass around platters of food that will delight your guests as they socialize in style!
- Length: 4 3/4"
- Width: 3/8"
- Pick Diameter: 1/16"
Package contains 100 skewers.
Item not available in Hobby Lobby Stores.
Check your local store for availability.
Warning: CHOKING HAZARD: Small Parts. Not for children under 3 yrs.

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The purpose of this study is to determine whether modified CI therapy treatment is suitable and effective in the early rehabilitation after stroke, and to compare early CI intervention with a later CI intervention group.
Trial Stopped: The study was extended for 2.5 years. A further extension could not be funded. When the study was halted in June 2012, 47 subjects were included.
- Modified CI therapy Procedure
Other Names: Constraint induced movement therapy; Modified constraint induced movement therapy; CIMT; mCIMT; Forced use therapy Intervention Desc: 10 treatment days 3 hours a day: Shaping exercises 2 hours. Task practice 0,5 hours. Behavioral therapy (Transfer package) 0,5 hour. Encouragement to wear a restraining mitt on the least affected arm for all safe activities. ARM 1: Kind: Experimental Label: Early intervention Description: Modified CI therapy starting between 7 and 28 days post stroke. ARM 2: Kind: Experimental Label: Delayed intervention Description: Modified CI Therapy starting 6 months post stroke
- Allocation: Randomized
- Masking: Single Blind (Outcomes Assessor)
- Purpose: Treatment
- Endpoint: Efficacy Study
- Intervention: Parallel Assignment
|Type||Measure||Time Frame||Safety Issue|
|Primary||Wolf Motor function test||6 months post inclusion||No|
|Secondary||Arm use accelerometry||6 months||No|
|Secondary||Fugl Meyer Motor Assessment||6 months||No|
|Secondary||Nine hole peg test||6 months||No|

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Orientalism refers to the depiction or imitation of aspects of Eastern cultures in the West by writers and artists, and can also imply a sympathetic stance towards the region. Since the 1979 publication of Edward Said‘s book Orientalism, the term has arguably taken on a pejorative meaning, becoming shorthand for prejudiced views towards cultures of the East. Said claimed that “every European (and similarly American), in what he could say about the Orient, was . . . a racist, an imperialist, and almost totally ethnocentric.”
Luckily for Gustav Bauernfeind (born in Sulz am Neckar, Germany 1848 – died in Jerusalem, 1904 and buried in the Templer cemetery on Emek Refaim Street; on his tombstone is the first verse of Isaiah 43 …I have redeemed thee, … thou art mine!) he lived before Said’s volley against Europeans who were sharing their impressions of the exotic Orient.
Bauernfeind was a German Orientalist painter, illustrator and architect. After completing his architectural studies at the Polytechnic Institute in Stuttgart, he studied painting. He first visited the Levant from 1880 to 1882, living and working in Palestine, Lebanon and Syria. He became interested in the Orient and returned repeatedly, moving to Palestine in 1896 with his wife and son and settling in Jerusalem in 1898. For a time, Bauernfeind lived upstairs in the house at 6 Cremieux Street named for the French statesman and founder of Alliance Française that was inhabited by August Bienzle, blacksmith, who did most of the ironwork of the German Colony.
An album of Bauernfeind’s watercolor paintings of the German Colony was presented to the German Kaiser Wilhelm II when he visited Jerusalem and the German Colony in 1898.
Bauernfeind’s work is characterized primarily by architectural views of Jerusalem and the Holy Land. His oil paintings, of cityscapes and recognized holy sites, are meticulously crafted, intricately composed and almost photographically accurate, at a time when travel photography was already becoming popular. During his lifetime he was the most popular German Orientalist painter but fell into oblivion after his death. Since the early 1980s, Bauernfeind has been gradually rediscovered, with his paintings appearing at auctions and garnering high prices.
In 1992 his oil painting The Wailing Wall was sold at Christie’s in London for €326.000. When the painting was auctioned at Sotheby’s in London in 2007 it fetched €4.5 million. Note that there is no mehitza (separating the area into men and women sections), this happened only after 1967.
In 1997, another oil painting of Bauernfeind, The Port of Jaffa, was sold at the Van Ham Kunstauktionen in Cologne for 1.510.000 DM, thus becoming the most expensive 19th century painting ever sold in Germany.
If you are interested in exploring the various German Colonies, in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv-Jaffa and Haifa where the German Templers settled in the late 1800s contact me for a guided tour.

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Microsoft reportedly making Xbox dynamic background editor | Eurogamer.net
Microsoft is reportedly developing an Xbox and PC app to let you create your own dynamic backgrounds. As spotted by not…
Microsoft patent application may allow disc owners to access digital games | GamesIndustry.biz
Document suggests Xbox Series S owners would be able to validate their ownership of games via another device.
Xbox Leak: Microsoft Likely Working on 'Dynamic Backgrounds Editor' — Here's How it Works
Microsoft's Xbox Series X (black) and series S (white) gaming consoles are displayed at a flagship store of SK Telecom in Seoul on November 10, 2020.
Upcoming Microsoft app could help make custom dynamic Xbox, Windows wallpapers
… are reporting that Microsoft is working on a new application that will allow users to create custom dynamic wallpapers for Windows and Xbox.
Xbox is working on custom Dynamic backgrounds, but they might only be for devs – GamesRadar
It looks like Microsoft is currently developing a custom Xbox Dynamic backgrounds editor tool, but there's a chance it could just be for game …
Xbox Series X Is Finally Bringing a Crucial Feature to the Console Pretty Soon! – EssentiallySports
Microsoft has always delivered its best with its Xbox consoles. First released in 2001, it has become a vying competitor to the likes of Sony and …
Nintendo's Next-Gen Worries, Xbox Gaming Outage, Duke Nukem Forever 2001! – YouTube
Nintendo's worried about the next-gen transition, Xbox online DRM … Introductions 00:01:04 News 01: Microsoft says it will solve Xbox Live …
The next Xbox Series X update could unlock a slew of new customization options | TechRadar
A new leak suggests Microsoft is working on a “Dynamic Backgrounds Editor” for Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S.
Has the time finally come to move on from the PS4 and Xbox One? – App Trigger
BERLIN, GERMANY – NOVEMBER 21: Guests attend the Microsoft Xbox One launch party at the Microsoft Center on November 21, 2013 in Berlin, Germany.
Microsoft to Bring Xbox Dynamic Backgrounds to Windows – WinBuzzer
Microsoft to improve Xbox Dynamic background with new custom animated wallpapers for consoles and Windows 11.


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A Clarks Valley, Dauphin County, man was killed and his son-in-law injured Thursday night in a second anthracite mine accident this week, when a drill apparently angled and set off an unexploded blasting charge.
James J. Shober of Nesquehoning R.1, anthracite regional mine safety director, said yesterday that Earl Romberger, 60, mine foreman at the Mountain Top Coal Co. Buck Mountain slope mine, was killed and his son-in-law, Roger Koons, 32, of Tower City R.1, was injured in the Williams Township, Dauphin County, explosion. According to the Department of Environmental Resources, the mine is owned by Steven Reho of Tower City. The mine is about 10 miles west of Hegins, where an apparent methane gas explosion Wednesday killed three miners at the M.S.& W. Coal Co., Barry Township.
Koons was listed in critical condition in the intensive care unit of Polyclinic Medical Center, Harrisburg. He received head injuries. Koons lived with his father-in-law.
Shober said, "It is assumed that the steel drifted off angle, or course, in the rock as it progressed deeper and came in contact with the powder in one of the holes, which caused the powder explosion and the accident.
"Again, it's assumed that the nature of the rock structure could have changed from soft to hard, causing the steel to drift off toward the partially charged hole.
"The workmen were sinking an additional emergency outlet from the surface to make a connection with a wing slope off the main slope, 375 feet from the surface. The outlet was advanced 325 feet on a 15-degree pitch.
Shober said a charge was fired about 6 p.m. at the rock face. Later, "The atmo- sphere was tested with a safety lamp and found to be adequately ventilated and free from powder fumes," he said. A visual inspection followed, he said.
He said Romberger noticed that "two of the center holes were not detonated the same depth as the others, and some of the dynamite did not explode."
"The supervisor decided to drill another hole a safe distance from these two that were partially charged to complete the cut," he said.
Romberger's daughter, Kathy, was operating the hoist and went to S&S; Anthracite, a nearby mine, for aid.
Ken Drum of Williamstown, DauphinCounty, an S&S; miner, said he his brother, Jim, and another man, Greg Showers, returned to the mine with her. "We tried to reach them on the phone and couldn't," Ken Drum said. "We went down to the other mine to see if by chance they had come down there." He said three mines are located in close proximity and are not interconnected. Two other miners, Jerry Lucas of Joliett and Greg Underkoffler of Lykens, Dauphin County, returned with them to the Mountain Top mine.
Ken Drum said, "She (Romberger's daughter) heard the shot (explosion) over the communication system, and the air compressor kept running freely, like it was taking a lot of air. She went to the mine opening and could smell powder smoke."
He said Underkoffler and his brother remained on the surface to operate the hoist and to comfort the daughter while he, Showers and Lucas went into the mine.

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- Girls' top features long sleeves & "Life Is Good In The Coop" embossed on the front
- Bell bottoms feature an allover floral and stripe print
- Ultra soft material for comfort & ease
- Mix and match these two pieces to create many Fall looks
Add sweet fluttery style to her look with this "Life Is Good In The Coop" Bell Bottom Set. This girls' set is styled with a white long bell sleeve top making it a staple addition to her everyday wear. The top is paired with matching floral stripe print bell bottoms. The stretch waistband provides a secure fit and allows for all day comfort. She can pair this set with booties or our fun bows for the perfect look!
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The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has left millions in need of financial relief, including many frontline caregivers who worked tirelessly through this unprecedented health crisis and now face unexpected hardships of their own.
In response to this need, Greenwich Hospital has established a COVID-19 Employee Disaster Relief Fund to support those frontline workers who sacrificed to save lives in our region. The O’Malley Family Foundation has generously donated $500,000 to launch the new fund and has also committed to doubling each additional dollar contributed.
“The staff at Greenwich Hospital has performed extraordinary service for our community. They’ve put themselves in harm’s way to make sure the residents of Greenwich and the surrounding area receive the care necessary during this pandemic. We think it’s incredibly important to recognize their contribution and assist those staff members who have suffered physical and financial damages,” said Mary Alice O’Malley about the establishment of the disaster relief fund.The new fund provides assistance to employees of Greenwich Hospital as well as other frontline employees from across Yale New Haven Health who traveled to Greenwich Hospital to help during the height of the pandemic in this region. Greenwich Hospital saw its first COVID-19 patient on March 14 and to date has had 653 COVID admissions.
For many, the financial stress stemming from the pandemic includes the loss of household income, increased childcare costs and COVID-related critical care expenses, to name a few. The new program empowers Greenwich Hospital to provide flexibility around what the disaster relief fund can cover and lower the burden for employees after a difficult time that impacted people in many ways.
“Greenwich Hospital is profoundly grateful to our frontline heroes who, thrust into the epicenter of Connecticut and Westchester County’s COVID-19 pandemic, met this challenge and worked tirelessly for our patients and their families. Every healthcare professional and all support staff – from the nursing assistant and respiratory therapist to environmental services and transport – selflessly committed themselves to the demands of this crisis,” said Diane P. Kelly, Greenwich Hospital’s president.
“It is the intent of Greenwich Hospital to continue to show our employees that we are committed to caring for the caregiver and frontline workers,” she said.
Supporters wishing to make a donation to the employee disaster relief fund – and have their contributions doubled – can visit https://giving.greenhosp.org/giving/covid-19-disaster-relief.

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established general practice dental office 1100 sq.feet, located in sheepshead bay
area brooklyn new york for sale.2 operators and plumbing for the third room.Digital
X-rays and panoramic. Fee for service only with a lot of opportunity due to huge
amount of patients with private and government insurances.
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Around 50 groups have filed amicus briefs in a coming Supreme Court case pitting charities against the state of California in a fight over donation disclosures. The Capitol riot on Jan. 6 put a spotlight on corporations’ direct and indirect political donations; justices agreed on Jan. 8 to hear the case and arguments will take place later this month.
Business interests want to create a “broad expansion of dark money rights,” according to a new brief from 15 Democratic senators, referring to untraceable donations that are often routed via nonprofit groups. The court case is an influence campaign disguised as a technical legal fight, the senators said. The case pits California against a charity, the Koch-affiliated Americans for Prosperity Foundation, over private access to tax documents. The Chamber of Commerce and National Association of Manufacturers are among the trade groups supporting the foundation’s demand for anonymity.
Anonymous donors work like covert intelligence operations, the senators wrote. The donors give millions annually to “social welfare” groups that spend it in an effort to influence politics and policy. The senators pointed to congressional appropriations rules blocking disclosure efforts by the I.R.S. and S.E.C. over the past decade as evidence that the groups have swayed lawmakers behind the scenes. The case is the latest attempt “by powerful interests to both cement and obscure their influence over the public sphere,” the senators argued.
The federal government is with California, more or less, telling the justices in a brief that the nonprofits’ constitutional claim is wrong but that the case should be sent back to the lower courts for more analysis.
Get to know social tokens
As the “suits” finally get into Bitcoin, the crypto crowd has moved on to the next big thing: BitClout, a “polarizing” open-source crypto social network that monetizes influencers via personalized tokens that can be traded by users, essentially quantifying a person’s reputation.
BitClout’s recent launch has generated outrage because the company didn’t ask permission from people featured on the platform, instead launching with “reserved” currencies linked to celebrities like the Tesla founder Elon Musk, the pop star Katy Perry and about 15,000 others. Influencers can claim their coins, which requires buying in, but in the meantime fans can still buy and trade their tokens, BitClout’s white paper explains.
Silicon Valley bigwigs have backed BitClout, including Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Social Capital, Coinbase Ventures, Winklevoss Capital and the Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian. A crypto wallet on the platform reportedly holds more than $150 million worth of Bitcoin, thought mostly to have been raised from these A-listers.
The company’s founder goes by “DiamondHands,” a reference to investors who steadfastly hold speculative assets, popularized during the meme-stock frenzy.His true identity is an open secret among crypto insiders; signs point to Nader al-Naji, a former Google software engineer who has not denied the claim. Brandon Curtis of the exchange Radar Relay recently sent a cease and desist letter to Mr. al-Naji, protesting the commercialization of his persona without permission, and his counsel confirmed to DealBook that his profile was removed after that letter was sent.
“BitClout is trying to create ownership through code instead of law” but may find itself “throttled,” said Michael Heller, a Columbia law professor. “People don’t much like strangers messing with their reputations,” he added, and the “right of publicity” lets them police who can profit off their clout.
On March 11, Delta Air Lines dedicated a building at its Atlanta headquarters to Andrew Young, the civil rights leader and former mayor. At the ceremony, Mr. Young spoke of the restrictive voting rights bill that Republicans were rushing through the Georgia state legislature. Then, after the speeches, Mr. Young’s daughter, Andrea, a prominent activist herself, cornered Delta’s chief executive, Ed Bastian.
“I told him how important it was to oppose this law,” she said.
For Mr. Bastian, it was an early warning that the issue of voting rights might soon ensnare Delta in another national dispute. Over the past five years, corporations have taken political stands like never before, often in response to the extreme policies of former President Donald J. Trump.
After Mr. Trump’s equivocating response to the white nationalist violence in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017, Ken Frazier, the Black chief executive of Merck, resigned from a presidential advisory group, prompting dozens of other top executives to distance themselves from the president. Last year, after the killing of George Floyd, hundreds of companies expressed solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement.
But for corporations, the dispute over voting rights is different. An issue that both political parties see as a priority is not easily addressed with statements of solidarity and donations. Taking a stand on voting rights legislation thrusts companies into partisan politics and pits them against Republicans who have proven willing to raise taxes and enact onerous regulations on companies that cross them politically.
Major League Baseball pulled the All-Star game from Atlanta in protest, and more than 100 other companies spoke out in defense of voting rights.
The groundswell of support suggests that the Black executives’ clarion call will have an impact in the months ahead, as Republican lawmakers in more than 40 states advance restrictive voting laws. But already, the backlash has been swift, with Mr. Trump calling for boycotts of companies opposing such laws, and Georgia lawmakers voting for new taxes on Delta.
eliminate a tax break for Delta, costing the company $50 million.
Yet as 2021 began and Mr. Bastian focused on his company’s recovery from the pandemic, an even more partisan issue loomed.
In February, civil rights activists began reaching out to Delta, flagging what they saw as problematic provisions in early drafts of the bill, including a ban on Sunday voting, and asking the company to use its clout and lobbying muscle to sway the debate.
Delta’s government affairs team shared some of those concerns, but decided to work behind the scenes, rather than go public. It was a calculated choice intended to avoid upsetting Republican lawmakers.
In early March, Delta lobbyists pushed David Ralston, the Republican head of the Georgia house, and aides to Gov. Brian Kemp to remove some far-reaching provisions in the bill.
followed the same script, refraining from criticizing the bill.
That passive approach infuriated activists. In mid-March, protesters staged a “die in” at Coca-Cola’s museum. Bishop Reginald Jackson, an influential Atlanta pastor, took to the streets with a bullhorn and called for a boycott of Coca-Cola. Days later, activists massed at the Delta terminal at the Atlanta airport and called on Mr. Bastian to use his clout to “kill the bill.” Still, Mr. Bastian declined to say anything publicly.
Two weeks to the day after Delta dedicated its building to Mr. Young, the law was passed. Some of the most restrictive provisions had been removed, but the law limits ballot access and makes it a crime to give water to people waiting in line to vote.
The fight in Georgia appeared to be over. Days after the law was passed though, a group of powerful Black executives frustrated by the results sprang into action. Soon, Atlanta companies were drawn back into the fight, and the controversy had spread to other corporations around the country.
spoke with the media. “There is no middle ground here,” Mr. Chenault told The Times. “You either are for more people voting, or you want to suppress the vote.”
“This was unprecedented,” Mr. Lewis said. “The African-American business community has never coalesced around a nonbusiness issue and issued a call to action to the broader corporate community.”
Mr. Bastian had been unable to sleep on Tuesday night after his call with Mr. Chenault, according to two people familiar with the matter. He had also been receiving a stream of emails about the law from Black Delta employees, who make up 21 percent of the company’s work force. Eventually, Mr. Bastian came to the conclusion that it was deeply problematic, the two people said.
accused Mr. Bastian of spreading “the same false attacks being repeated by partisan activists.” And Republicans in the Georgia house voted to strip Delta of a tax break, just as they did three years ago. “You don’t feed a dog that bites your hand,” said Mr. Ralston, the house speaker.
Senator Marco Rubio of Florida posted a video in which he called Delta and Coca-Cola “woke corporate hypocrites” and Mr. Trump joined the calls for a boycott of companies speaking out against the voting laws.
Companies that had taken a more cautious approach weren’t targeted the same way. UPS and Home Depot, big Atlanta employers, also faced early calls to oppose the Georgia law, but instead made unspecific commitments to voting rights.
declared their opposition to proposed voting legislation in that state. And on Friday, more than 170 companies signed a statement calling on elected officials around the country to refrain from enacting legislation that makes it harder for people to vote.
It was messy, but to many activists, it was progress. “Companies don’t exist in a vacuum,” said Stacey Abrams, who has worked for years to get out the Black vote in Georgia. “It’s going to take a national response by corporations to stop what happened in Georgia from happening in other states.”
We’re a Georgia-based company. That’s going to be certainly our starting point. I don’t see us having the wherewithal to understand every nuance in every other state. I think there will be energy directed at the federal level. If you go back historically, federal oversight of changing the voting processes in the states has been an important process to make sure that things move forward, not backward.
Do you see a double standard between the way in which companies are engaging with the issue of voting rights and how they’ve engaged with other issues, be it L.G.B.T. bills or climate change, or immigration, in the past?
It’s not that the corporate community was not involved. We were perhaps not as public as some people wish we had been, or perhaps would have made more difference.
You’ve got this tension of getting companies involved — the tension of dragging, or having companies pulled, into politics. When do I get involved? You can’t possibly be involved in every issue. So getting clear on what are the most important things to your company is what we go back to.
We’re very clear on the importance of diversity and inclusion to the Coca-Cola Company, which aspires to be a brand for everyone, and particularly in the South, given its history. We stand for diversity and inclusion in Georgia above all else, and that’s why we came to the table on this issue. We tried to affect change. It didn’t work. But we have not given up by any stretch of the imagination.
You had lots of senior roles before becoming C.E.O. What is the biggest difference as C.E.O.?
When you become C.E.O. you think you’ve got this organizational pyramid and you’ve come at the apex, and now everyone works for you. But then you find out there’s another pyramid, but it’s upside down, and you’re the one person at the bottom.
There’s a huge number of stakeholders who want to tell you what to do, and many of them don’t work in the business. So you deal with the board, the media, the investors, the analysts, the NGOs, the government. You have this whole galaxy of people you need to deal with in a way that was never true for any of the other jobs. If you haven’t gotten really clear on what are the few things that I want to tell people about and prioritize things this, it can be quite destabilizing.
For two weeks, Delta Air Lines and Coca-Cola had been under pressure from activists and Black executives who wanted the companies to publicly oppose a new law in Georgia that makes it harder for people to vote. On Wednesday, six days after the law was passed, both companies stated their “crystal clear” opposition to it.
Now Republicans are mad at the companies for speaking out. Hours after the companies made their statements, Gov. Brian Kemp, a Republican, took aim at Ed Bastian, the chief executive of Delta, accusing him of spreading “the same false attacks being repeated by partisan activists.” And Republicans in the Georgia state legislature floated the idea of increasing taxes on Delta as retribution.
On Thursday, Senator Marco Rubio of Florida posted a video in which he called Delta and Coca-Cola “woke corporate hypocrites.” Senator Roger Wicker of Mississippi said Coca-Cola was “caving to the ‘woke’ left.” And Stephen Miller, an adviser to former President Donald J. Trump, said on Twitter, “Unelected, multinational corporations are now openly attacking sovereign U.S. states & the right of their citizens to secure their own elections. This is a corporate ambush on Democracy.”
It was another illustration of just how fraught it is for big companies to wade in to partisan politics, where any support for the left draws the ire of the right, and vice versa.
Other big Georgia companies have managed to stay on the sidelines. UPS, which is based in Atlanta, also refrained from criticizing the new law before it was passed. On Thursday, the company said it “believes that voting laws and legislation should make it easier, not harder, for Americans to exercise their right to vote.” It made no mention of the law.
Announcing phony news on April Fools’ Day is one of corporate America’s favorite occasions for shameless publicity stunts. But when stonks, Dogecoin and $69 million JPG files are real things that warrant serious business coverage, the risk of jokes being taken seriously could hardly be higher. Some say that’s a good reason to skip them, not to mention the gravity that a pandemic has cast over things.
With that in mind, can you spot the prank among these recent announcements? (Scroll to the bottom for the answer.)
A: To celebrate National Burrito Day today, Chipotle is giving away $100,000 worth of Bitcoin.
B: Volkwagen’s U.S. operation is changing its name to “Voltswagen” to emphasize the company’s push into electric vehicles.
C: Robinhood is nixing a confetti animation when app users make a stock trade to reduce “distraction.”
complaints about burnout.
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Business groups challenge President Biden’s proposed corporate tax increases. The Business Roundtable and U.S. Chamber of Commerce were among those that praised Mr. Biden’s plan to spend trillions on infrastructure. But they rejected his idea to pay for it by raising taxes, saying that doing so would endanger the economic recovery.
delay future shipments of its vaccine after a mix-up at a manufacturing plant. A top E.U. official said the bloc would allow “zero” shipments of AstraZeneca’s vaccine to Britain until the drugmaker fulfilled its commitments to Brussels. And France announced a third nationwide lockdown as its cases mount and inoculation efforts lag.
A tough day for initial public offerings. As Deliveroo had “the worst I.P.O. in London’s history,” other offerings also struggled. In the U.S., the SoftBank-backed real estate brokerage Compass priced at the bottom of a reduced range, while the low-cost airline Frontier sold at the low end of expectations. And in Canada, the space tech company MDA priced below its range.
Microsoft wins a huge contract to make augmented-reality headsets for the U.S. Army. The tech giant will receive up to $22 billion for equipping soldiers with sensors based on its HoloLens technology. It’s another big defense contract for Microsoft, which beat out Amazon to provide a $10 billion cloud computing system for the Pentagon.
Executives get a ‘sense of urgency’ in Georgia
A day after 72 Black executives signed a letter calling on companies to fight restrictive voting bills more forcefully, executives have begun speaking out more directly about laws that limit ballot access. But their statements came too late to affect a sweeping law passed last week in Georgia that added new requirements for absentee voting, limits on drop boxes and other restrictions that have an outsize impact on Black voters.
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Delta and Coca-Cola reversed course. Ed Bastian, Delta’s C.E.O., told employees, “I need to make it crystal clear that the final bill is unacceptable and does not match Delta’s values.” James Quincey, Coca-Cola’s C.E.O., said he wanted to be “crystal clear” that “the Coca-Cola Company does not support this legislation, as it makes it harder for people to vote, not easier.”
The statements by the Atlanta-based companies angered local politicians, including Gov. Brian Kemp. In the past, corporate stands on controversial issues have led to political retribution: In 2018, Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle stripped a tax break proposal from a bill that would benefit Delta after the airline ended a promotional discount for N.R.A. members. The State House passed a similar measure yesterday, but the Senate didn’t take it up before the chambers adjourned for the year.
Retaliation also goes the other way: In an interview with ESPN, President Biden said he would “strongly support” moving Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game from Atlanta, scheduled for July.
“It is regrettable that the sense of urgency came after the legislation was passed and signed into law,” said Darren Walker, the Ford Foundation president, who is a board member at Pepsi, Ralph Lauren and Square.
said the company stood “ready to continue to help in ensuring every Georgia voter has the ability to vote.” A spokesperson for Home Depot reiterated the company’s stance that it believes “all elections should be accessible, fair and secure.” A spokesperson for Inspire Brands, the owner of Dunkin’ Donuts and Arby’s, said that it “values inclusivity” and believes that “every American should have equal access to their right to vote.”
“The argument is they are recruited, they’re used up and then they’re cast aside without even a college degree. So they say, how can this be defended in the name of amateurism?”
— Justice Samuel Alito, assessing the “stark picture” painted by college athletes in an antitrust case against the N.C.A.A. that the Supreme Court heard yesterday.
The Red Sox sold a stake to private equity. Now what?
RedBird Capital Partners confirmed its deal to buy a stake in Red Sox parent Fenway Sports Group, a transaction that values the company at $7.35 billion. DealBook spoke with RedBird’s founder, Gerry Cardinale, and Fenway’s chair, Tom Werner, about what happens next.
Buy and build. RedBird plans to acquire more teams: Mr. Cardinale noted that his company doesn’t own teams in the N.B.A., N.H.L. or M.L.S. For its part, Fenway plans to tap new opportunities in ticketing, sponsorship and media. (As part of the RedBird deal, the N.B.A. star LeBron James bought a stake in Fenway.) In media, Fenway controls NESN, and RedBird owns a stake in the YES network. “You should expect that we’re going to continue to look for ways to innovate in that area,” said Mr. Cardinale, who helped create the YES network.
Deepening ties with online gambling is also on the table. “We do have an excellent relationship with DraftKings,” Mr. Werner said, “and we’ve already had some conversations with them about partnerships.”
The deal was a better fit for the private market instead of a SPAC, the executives said, after talks to take Fenway public via a blank-check firm fell through. “In the middle of Covid, with the mandate to re-underwrite the next wave of growth for Fenway Sports Group, we probably would be better off doing that privately and then give ourselves the option down the road,” Mr. Cardinale said of going public. He also called the current SPAC market “very frothy.”
announced a deal last week to go public by merging with a blank-check firm that valued it at roughly $8 billion.) A new documentary, “WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn,” tries to find lessons among the ups and downs. It streams on Hulu, starting tomorrow.
Jed Rothstein, the director, told DealBook that he believes what’s most compelling about WeWork isn’t what went wrong, but how it initially succeeded by turning strangers into a kind of tribe. “We still need that,” he said.
“The core idea of WeWork met a real need for community,” Mr. Rothstein said. “The voids people were trying to fill have only become more real.” After a year of social distancing, he likes the notion of curated communal spaces, which is what WeWork offered. Talking to early WeWorkers who bought the vision and later felt betrayed, he was surprised to find how much the company gave its devotees, notably a feeling that they were part of something bigger. That is worth acknowledging in a world where people will increasingly work remotely and for many different companies in their careers, Mr. Rothstein said.
WeWork’s co-founders, Adam Neumann and Miguel McKelvey, both had communal childhood experiences. Mr. Rothstein said he thought they sincerely wanted to replicate the good in group life and inspired people who hadn’t seen that before. But Mr. Neumann also focused on what he didn’t like — sharing equally — and emphasized an “eat what you kill” mentality. Ultimately, his hunger turned the community dream into a nightmare for many.
After the director talked to people who followed the initial vision, his perspective changed. “People in the film experienced real growth and fulfillment mixed with their anger,” he said. “I realized the story is much more nuanced.”
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The media conglomerate Endeavor filed to go public for a second time, while raising $1.8 billion to buy full control of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. It also added Elon Musk to its board. (WSJ, CNBC)
Vice Media is reportedly in talks to go public by merging with a SPAC. And the S.E.C. issued two notices for companies looking to go public via SPAC. (The Information, S.E.C.)
Junior bankers aren’t the only ones feeling burned out. Young lawyers are, too. (Business Insider)
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New York became the 15th state to legalize recreational marijuana. (NYT)
Efforts by aides to Gov. Andrew Cuomo to hide New York State’s Covid-19 death toll coincided with his efforts to win a multimillion-dollar book deal. (NYT)
An accidental disclosure by the I.R.S. revealed a $1 billion tax dispute with Bristol Myers Squibb. (NYT)
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The ad agency Deutsch is doubling referral bonuses for Black job candidates. (Insider)
Amazon wants its employees mostly back in its offices, while the Carlyle Group and IBM favor hybrid working models. (Insider, Bloomberg)
Paul Simon is the latest musician to sell his entire back catalog: Sony Music Publishing will buy the collection, including classics like “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” for an undisclosed amount. (NYT)
Feeling burned-out? As more workers consider a return to the office, our colleague Sarah Lyall is writing about late-pandemic anxiety and exhaustion. Tell her about how you’re coping.
April Fools’ Day quiz answer: B. If you were fooled by Volkswagen’s prank, you’re in good company. Volkswagen reportedly told journalists that a draft of the announcement was not a stunt. It later called the stunt just “a bit of fun.”
In the memo, Mr. Bastian said it was only after the law was passed that he truly understood the degree to which it would impose restrictions on Black voters.
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“After having time to now fully understand all that is in the bill, coupled with discussions with leaders and employees in the Black community, it’s evident that the bill includes provisions that will make it harder for many underrepresented voters, particularly Black voters, to exercise their constitutional right to elect their representatives,” he said. “That is wrong.”
Mr. Bastian went further, saying the new law was based on false pretenses.
“The entire rationale for this bill was based on a lie: that there was widespread voter fraud in Georgia in the 2020 elections,” he said. “This is simply not true. Unfortunately, that excuse is being used in states across the nation that are attempting to pass similar legislation to restrict voting rights.”
Several other companies also weighed in on the issue on Wednesday.
Larry Fink, the chief executive of BlackRock, issued a statement on LinkedIn saying the company was concerned about the wave of new restrictive voting laws. “BlackRock is concerned about efforts that could limit access to the ballot for anyone,” Mr. Fink said. “Voting should be easy and accessible for ALL eligible voters.”
Mark Mason, the chief financial officer of Citi, in a post on LinkedIn, called out the Georgia law as discriminatory.
“I am appalled by the recent voter suppression laws passed in the state of Georgia,” said Mr. Mason, who is Black. “I see it as a disgrace that our country’s efforts to keep Black Americans from engaging fully in our Constitutional right to vote continue to this day.”
Chuck Robbins, who is the chief executive of Cisco and grew up in Georgia, said on Twitter that “voting is a fundamental right in our democracy” and that “governments should be working to make it easier to vote, not harder.”
Companies were quick to speak out during the racial justice protests last year, putting out statements of solidarity and posting black squares on Instagram. But after Georgia Republicans passed broad voting restrictions, Atlanta’s corporate giants have been much more muted — and activists are now talking boycotts, The Times’s David Gelles writes.
Among the targets:
Delta, which has publicly defended gay rights and said it stood with Black people after the police killings of George Floyd and others. But on the voting legislation, the airline has only issued a statement about a need for broader voter participation. It told employees that it had “engaged extensively” with lawmakers in creating the legislation, and that the measure had “improved considerably” during the process, though it noted that “concerns remain.”
Coca-Cola, which pledged last summer to “invest our resources to advance social justice causes.” When it came to the recent bill, Coke said that it was aligned with local chambers of commerce, which also spoke mainly of increasing voter participation and avoided sharp criticism. (Late yesterday, Coke said it was “disappointed” in the new law, but added, “We don’t see this as the final chapter.”)
“It’s not as though corporations are unwilling to speak powerfully about social justice issues,” Sherrilyn Ifill, the president of the NAACP Legal Defense, told David. Companies spoke out forcefully against bills on gender and bathroom access, even threatening to pull out of states like Indiana and, yes, Georgia.
What changed? Companies may be shying away from political fights, after spending four years speaking out against the Trump administration. And the Georgia laws were spearheaded by mainstream Republicans, making executives less eager to cross lawmakers they may need on other issues.
Ms. Ifill raised a provocative third potential reason. “Why is it that corporations that could speak so powerfully and unequivocally in opposition to discrimination against the L.G.B.T.Q. community and immigrants are not speaking as clearly about the disenfranchisement of Black people?” she said. “This is a race issue.”
For activists, the next step is calling for boycotts on companies with big Georgia presences, including Coke, Delta, Home Depot and UPS. If “Coca-Cola wants Black and brown people to drink their product, then they must speak up when our rights, our lives and our very democracy as we know it is under attack,” Bishop Reginald Jackson of the African Methodist Episcopal Church told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
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The Suez Canal is clear. Now what? The 224,000-ton Ever Given was freed from the vital shipping passage days after being stuck, hindering global trade. After the celebrations will come two big questions: What happened, and how can the disruptions be sorted out?
prevented 90 percent of Covid-19 infections by two weeks after the second shot. But President Biden and the head of the C.D.C., Dr. Rochelle Walensky, urged Americans to maintain virus safety measures in the face of “impending doom” from a potential fourth wave of cases.
The White House pushes for tax increases to pay for its infrastructure and jobs plan. As it rolls out its multitrillion-dollar spending initiative, the Biden administration is likely to call for about $3 trillion in new taxes, The Washington Post reports.
President Tayyip Reccip Erdogan of Turkey fired another top central bank official. The removal of Murat Cetinkaya, a deputy governor, was announced with no explanation. It came 10 days after Mr. Erdogan fired the bank’s chief, setting off a sell-off in Turkey’s currency.
The Supreme Court wonders what to do in an investor fraud lawsuit against Goldman Sachs. Justices noted that both sides agree that general statements about professional integrity could be the basis for a lawsuit, and that their positions had moved closer over the course of litigation.
huge stock sales tied to Archegos Capital Management, one thing has become clear: Cooperation is not the finance industry’s strong suit.
Archegos’ main lenders met on Thursday to discuss an orderly wind-down of the firm’s trades, according to The Wall Street Journal. The idea was to limit the damage from several banks dumping huge blocks of stock in ViacomCBS and other companies, potentially tanking prices and hurting their own balance sheets.
You can guess what happened next. Credit Suisse and Morgan Stanley sold small amounts of stock after that meeting. But Goldman Sachs opened the floodgates the next day, quickly followed by Morgan Stanley. By market close, the two had sold nearly $20 billion worth of Archegos assets.
That left Goldman and Morgan Stanley with relatively little damage to their businesses, while banks that didn’t move as quickly — notably Credit Suisse and Nomura — warned investors that they could suffer huge hits. As one banker involved told the FT, “The reality is in a fire sale, if you’re not first out the door you’re going to get burned.”
What a SPAC believer thinks of SPAC mania
Kevin Hartz, the founder of Eventbrite, believes in the value of SPACs: In February, his first SPAC (named “One”) acquired the industrial 3-D printing company Markforged in a $2.1 billion deal. His second blank-check fund — named “Two,” of course — raised $200 million yesterday. Still, he told DealBook that he believes some SPACs pose risks to retail investors.
Below are edited excerpts from their conversation.
On why S.E.C. scrutiny is needed:
Because people are getting hurt. “For some millennial family to invest in a SPAC, or invest in a SPAC merger, and then see that crater is why we need the S.E.C. to be more involved here,” he said.
What could happen next:
Mr. Hartz pointed to the dot-com bubble as a warning: “We still kind of point to 1999, 2000 as an indicator of what SPACs will need to go through, unfortunately, and that is kind of extreme euphoria, followed by the reality of most losing money for investors.”
corporations and governments has grown in recent years. Yet when it comes to the Supreme Court, some are resisting efforts to allow more sunlight into the institution, as demonstrated in the debate over a bipartisan bill that aims to televise the court’s proceedings.
No Supreme Court hearing has ever been filmed, though Congress has been trying to get cameras in federal courts since 1937. Most state courts allow cameras, and some federal circuit courts permit video with limits. But Chief Justice John Roberts and the five other veterans on the bench have said they fear that the presence of cameras would transform oral arguments into showy performances. (The court’s three most recent appointees have said they would consider it.)
Seeing arguments in “monumental cases” shouldn’t be a privilege of the few, said Senator Dick Durbin, the Democratic chairman of the Judiciary Committee, who is sponsoring the Sunshine in the Courtroom Act. Adding cameras “opens our democracy and gives millions of Americans a window into the room where decisions are made that have lasting effects for generations,” he told DealBook.
Then again, the court has adapted during the pandemic, allowing live audio feeds of arguments. Justices may clamp down on the public’s access to the court when the pandemic lifts, but the tech precedent may make that more difficult.
replace President Andrew Jackson on the bill. “The primary reason currency is redesigned is for security against counterfeiting,” Lydia Washington, a representative for the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, told DealBook. “The redesign timeline is driven by security feature development.”
The Obama administration said it would unveil a design “concept” by 2020, to coincide with the centennial of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote. Extensive redesign work was reportedly done, but in 2019 President Trump’s Treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin, said the project would be delayed until at least 2026. (Insiders said they had always doubted that the 2020 deadline could be met).
It turns out that the complex design and testing process for currency can’t be hurried. “No final images have been selected,” Ms. Washington said. (The Treasury Department did not respond to a request for comment).
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Recent trades in the private markets reportedly valued ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, at more than $250 billion. (Bloomberg)
The food service Deliveroo lowered the high end of valuation expectations for its forthcoming I.P.O., to £7.85 billion ($10.8 billion). (Reuters)
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Goldman Sachs said its interns would work out of its offices this summer. (Bloomberg)
If the minimum wage had grown at the same rate as Wall Street bonuses since 1985, workers would be paid $44 an hour today. (Insider)
Take a peek at the potential offices of the future: hot desks, Zoom rooms and more. (NYT)
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As Black Lives Matter protesters filled the streets last summer, many of the country’s largest corporations expressed solidarity and pledged support for racial justice. But now, with lawmakers around the country advancing restrictive voting rights bills that would have a disproportionate impact on Black voters, corporate America has gone quiet.
Last week, as Georgia Republicans rushed to pass a sweeping law restricting voter access, Atlanta’s biggest corporations, including Delta, Coca-Cola and Home Depot, declined to weigh in, offering only broad support for voting rights. The muted response — coming from companies that last year promised to support social justice — infuriated activists, who are now calling for boycotts.
“We are all frustrated with these companies that claim that they are standing with the Black community around racial justice and racial equality,” said LaTosha Brown, a co-founder of Black Voters Matter. “This shows that they lack a real commitment to racial equity. They are complicit in their silence.”
On Thursday, hours after the Georgia voting restrictions were signed into law, Ms. Brown joined protesters at the Atlanta airport calling for a boycott of Delta, Georgia’s largest employer. In front of the Delta terminal, they lobbied for employees to pressure their employer and urged the airline’s chief executive, Ed Bastian, to use his clout to sway the debate.
said the company would “invest our resources to advance social justice causes” and “use the voices of our brands to weigh in on important social conversations.”
But last week, rather than take a position on the then-pending legislation, Coca-Cola said it was aligned with local chambers of commerce, which were diplomatically calling on legislators to maximize voter participation while avoiding any pointed criticisms.
said. “Now, when they try to pass this racist legislation, we can’t get him to say anything. And our position is, if you can’t stand with us now, you don’t need our money, you don’t need our support.”
Senator Raphael Warnock of Georgia, a Black pastor who was elected in January, called out companies for their muted responses in an interview with CNN on Sunday.
“I’ve seen these corporations falling over themselves every year around the time of the King holiday, celebrating Dr. King,” Senator Warnock said. “The way to celebrate Dr. King is to stand up for what he represented: voting rights.”
Corporate America’s guarded approach to the partisan issue of voting rights stands in stark contrast to its engagement with other social and political issues in recent years. When legislatures advanced “bathroom bills” that would have discriminated against people who are transgender, many big companies threatened to pull out of states like Indiana, Georgia and Texas.
And over the past four years, many big companies spoke out against President Donald J. Trump on issues including climate change, immigration and white supremacy.
“It’s not as though corporations are unwilling to speak powerfully about social justice issues,” said Sherrilyn Ifill, the president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Inc. “It seems to me perfectly legitimate for Black voters in Georgia to expect them to speak just as powerfully and directly about what is an unwarranted attack on the ability of Black voters to participate in the political process.”
on Twitter. Criticizing an early version of the Georgia bill, it added: “Georgia H.B. 531 would limit trustworthy, safe & equal access to voting by restricting early voting & eliminating provisional ballots. That’s why Salesforce opposes H.B. 531 as it stands.”
Patagonia, which has worked to increase voter participation, condemned the new bills and called on other companies to get more involved.
“Our democracy is under attack by a new wave of Jim Crow bills that seek to restrict the right to vote,” Ryan Gellert, the chief executive of Patagonia, said in a statement. “It is urgent that businesses across the country take a stand — and use their brands as a force for good in support of our democracy.”
Those were the exceptions. For the most part, big companies declined to comment on the Georgia legislation as it came together. Even chief executives who have made names for themselves by championing diversity chose not to get involved. Tim Ryan, the senior partner at PwC and a founder of CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion, declined to comment for this article.
“The voice of individual leaders is oddly muted,” said Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, a professor at the Yale School of Management who regularly gathers chief executives to talk about controversial issues. “For the most part, they are not yet taking the same courageous stands they have taken on election ballot counting and the election results this fall, let alone on immigration, gun safety and the infamous bathroom bills.”
After four years of responding to the often extreme policies of the Trump administration, many companies are seeking to stay out of political fights.
And the voting bills are being driven by mainstream Republican lawmakers, rather than lesser-known right-wing figures. Companies that take a stand might have a harder time currying favor with those lawmakers on other issues down the line.
“This is not the fringe members trying to push bathroom bills,” said Lauren Groh-Wargo, the chief executive of Fair Fight, a voter-rights group founded by Stacey Abrams. “This is a priority for the party at the national level. For companies to speak out and work against these bills is very different.”
Ms. Ifill of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund said there was another factor at play as well: race. “Why is it that corporations that could speak so powerfully and unequivocally in opposition to discrimination against the L.G.B.T.Q. community and immigrants are not speaking as clearly about the disenfranchisement of Black people?” she said. “It’s the same thing. This is a race issue.”
Companies have effectively squashed bills at the state level before. In 2016, when lawmakers were advancing the bathroom bills, major corporations said they would move jobs out of states that adopted such measures. Responding to one such bill in Georgia in 2016, the Walt Disney Company said, “We will plan to take our business elsewhere should any legislation allowing discriminatory practices be signed into state law.”
The tactic was effective. Many of those bills were tabled as lawmakers responded to the threats of lost business.
This time around, however, the entertainment industry has taken a more guarded approach.
When asked for comment, Disney, Netflix, NBCUniversal, Sony Pictures Entertainment and ViacomCBS either said they had no public comment or did not respond to queries. The Motion Picture Association, Hollywood’s lobbying organization, declined to comment, as did Amazon Studios, which six months ago released “All In: The Fight for Democracy,” a documentary about efforts by Ms. Abrams and other activists to tear down voting barriers in Georgia and elsewhere.
The fight in Georgia is likely a preview of things to come. Lawmakers in dozens of states have proposed similar voting bills, and activists are planning to ramp up the pressure on corporate America as the battle over voting rights goes national.
Companies, meanwhile, are trying to maintain a delicate balancing act. Though the Georgia law passed Thursday was less stringent than initially proposed, it introduced more rigid voter identification requirements for absentee balloting, limited drop boxes and expanded the state legislature’s power over elections.
After its passage, Delta and Coca-Cola appeared to take some credit for helping soften the bill’s restrictions. Delta said it had “engaged extensively with state elected officials” in recent weeks and that “the legislation signed this week improved considerably during the legislative process.”
Coca-Cola issued a similar statement, saying it had “sought improvements” to the law and that it would “continue to identify opportunities for engagement and strive for improvements aimed at promoting and protecting the right to vote in our home state and elsewhere.”
Those words were cold comfort to activists who had worked against the efforts to curb voter rights.
“They have made soft statements rather than stepping out,” Ms. Groh-Wargo of Fair Fight said. “It’s ridiculous.”
Brooks Barnes and Nicole Craine contributed reporting.

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The first cold-hardy, yellow –flowered Lycoris seem to have arrived here in the US back in the 1930s. That plant (or those plants, I’m not sure if they were clonal or not) was never widely distributed. I’ve heard that it eventually grew in the local garden of Bethesda lawyer Frederick Lee, chairman of the Advisory Council of the U.S. National Arboretum back then, although by the time I learned that, the garden had passed into new hands.
When China began to open up again about twenty-five years ago, yellow-flowered Lycoris began to trickle in again - and, they proved to be hardy. My plants came from Jim Waddick in 2008, and some of them answer to Lycoris chinensis. Some are L. longituba, and some are intermediate in their characteristics.
After this post was originally published, I've come back to add more images: the flower color has intensified each day and is now a strong chrome yellow. When I first noticed the inflorescence, I was not sure what color the flowers would have. The early buds were white at first, then a very vague flush of pale yellow appeared. You can see in the images above what finally happened.
Throughout the twentieth century there was (and still is) a plant in commerce which is a very bright yellow flowered Lycoris; but it is not hardy. This is Lycoris aurea, and you can read more about it here:

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‘Hacktivist’ TV Series: Alyssa Milano’s Graphic Novel Adaptation In The Works With ‘Covert Affairs’ Creators
The CW is bringing Alyssa Milano's hit comic "Hacktivist" into the small screen. "Covert Affairs" creators are at the helm in developing a TV series based on the Anonymous hackers-inspired graphic novel. Will Alyssa Milano play a character?
"Mistresses" star Alyssa Milano has teamed up with "Covert Affairs" creators/executive producers Matt Corman and Chris Ord, BOOM! Studios and CBS TV Studios, to bring "Hacktivist" in the TV arena, Deadline reported. Corman and Ord write the script.
"Hacktivist" tells the story of two lead characters, Nate Graft and Ed Hiccox, who run a successful social media company during the day and are hackers by night. The CIA recruited Ed and Nate with the aim of influencing global social change. The conflict now would be whether Nate and Ed can be trusted given their powerful technical skills, or whether they can trust the CIA.
There are not details yet related to "Hacktivist" series cast and production, and if Alyssa Milano is going to act herself. In addition to Milano, Corman and Ord, Ross Richie and Stephen Christy are executive producers, and Josh Levy is a co-executive producer.
The "Project Runway" host Alyssa Milano came up with the idea of creating the comic book "Hacktivist" in 2013 when she "became obsessed" with how social media play a crucial role in today's society, particularly as a tool for protest.
"At the same time, Anonymous was using hacking skills to empower people," Alyssa Milano told The Daily Dot in an earlier interview. "And I thought, 'What if Anonymous wasn't a group but one person?' And that spiraled into, 'What if Anonymous was one guy? What characteristics would he have?' He'd have to be socially aware, a coder, have access, be compassionate."
"Hacktivist" will join the ranks of the likes of "Mr. Robot," which has been a wildly popular TV show. Stay tuned for more updates on when the "Hacktivist" is going to kick off.


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I have a whole lot to get through here, so in the interests of shorter-than-Moby-Dick length blog posts, I will try to be brief.
Getting skin ready involves three steps…wash, scrub and oil control (using either Cebatrol Oil Control Pads™ and TE pads). If there is excess oil on the surface or wrong PH this means products will not penetrate. The aim of these steps is correction of skin PH, normalise the skin activity, remove excess oil, restore keratinocyte cycle and finally get rid of dead cells that will act as a barrier to key ingredients.
Think about it like this, we all originated from apes with hair and prominent oil glands which produced oil to lubricate the hair. Evolution occurred and there was loss of hair, however the oil glands persisted resulting in excess oil which gets trapped and is detrimental and causes havoc on the skin. Oil is not meant for the skin meant for hair. This oil causes disease such as acne, rosacea, pigmentation and even ageing. In particular with acne this excess oil can cause rancid pustules and nodular cystic acne. When treating acne we need to free the road block of oil retention so the oil can come to the surface.
Cebatrol Oil Control Pads™ are one of my favourite things in the ZO Medical range. For those of you who like products which feel like they are working rather than products which look and feel nice this is the product for you.
If you have sensitive skin, be warned…this product really does sting and tingle the first few weeks. However this does settle, I promise. To use, simply take a pad and apply like you would a toner to your face morning and evening. Do not apply to your upper eyelids. This feels weird, I’m not gonna lie as you are literally hopping around the bathroom. At the end of a few weeks of this routine, I was pretty darn impressed with the improvement in my pores.
Cebatrol oil control pads are revolutionary in the treatment of acne and can prevent outbreaks. The key ingredients include 2% salicylic acid effectively exfoliate or remove dead skin cells, mandelic acid helps reduce skin inflammation that cause irritation. Finally tricolasan has proven antibacterial benefits.
Image of skin before using Cebatrol
Image of skin after using Cebatrol
Here are the pads, you will be surprised how much grime and oily is visible on the pads even after cleansing and exfoliating particularly if your skin is oily. These pads can also be used on chest and back in acne prone individuals.


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March 18, 2020, Modern Healthcare, Rachel Cohrs – The federal government’s Medicaid matching funds will increase across the board by 6.2%. Hospital groups including the Greater New York Hospital Association, Federation of American Hospitals and America’s Essential Hospitals supported the payment bump. Similar policies were enacted in two previous bailout packages in the 2000s. Padding states’ Medicaid budget could help head off provider reimbursement cuts in a time when providers will be squeezed by having to delay high-margin procedures and an increase in uncompensated care. States receiving the funds will not be able to change eligibility requirements or raise premiums.


While I’m waiting for the fan controllers to arrive for the new cooling fans, I figured I’d get them fitted into the cases of the supplies & just have them run at minimum speed for now.
After removing the original small fan, I cut a larger square hole in the panel to fit the 60mm version. These fans only fit with some minor adjustment to the top & bottom mouldings, but the look isn’t too bad once the covers are back on. The wiring is routed through a small hole next to the fan itself.
I’ve also upgraded on the fans again – these are PFC0612DE, with a higher airflow of ~70CFM at 12,000RPM.
To get the fans to run at minimum speed, the PWM control wire is connected directly to GND.
More to come when the controllers arrive!


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Up until now no filmed footage has been seen from the Wonder Woman sets, but recently an Italian news station showed footage from the sets of Themyscira and it looks pretty good.
The local Italian new station didn't show any of the actual filming, but it did show that Themyscira will be filmed on a real location and not in a green screen room. It did also show viewers what they can expect from the home of the Amazons. Viewers can get a good look at the architecture, some weapons, and something that looks like a market.
Those who understands the Italian language might get more of a glimpse into the new Wonder Woman movie, but those of us who don't just gets to enjoy what we can see in the video above.
The Wonder Woman film is scheduled to come out June 23 in 2017
Quite a few new trailers have been released over the week and the latest to come out is the second trailer for TMNT 2. Luckily for us, it's packed with glorious action!
Two years ago the world got the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film and this summer the world will get to go a second round with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in Out of the Shadows. If the new trailer is anything to go on then the second installment of the TMNT movie franchise will be filled with action, explosions, one-liners, and Megan Fox. What more can the viewers ask for from a TMNT movie?
The new trailer also shows a bit more of Stephen Amell's character Casey Jones and it looks like his training as the Green Arrow paid of.
TMNT 2 is scheduled to release June 3.
Rumors suggested that the reshoot for the next DC film Suicide Squad was to add more humor to the film, but according director David Ayer it is NOT the case.
With Batman v Superman getting surprisingly low scores in the US, rumors surfaced that the reshooting of Suicide Squad was to add more humor to lighten up the film up and make it a bit less serious than Batman v Superman.
Apparently, that is not the case. David Ayer took to Twitter to officially state that the reshooting has nothing to do with adding more humor and making it a lighter film.
#SuicideSquad “reshoots for humor” is silly. When a studio loves your movie and asks what else you want, go for it! #ThanksWB #moreaction
— David Ayer (@DavidAyerMovies) 11 april 2016
This is also backed up by actor Jai Courtney, Captain Boomerang, in an interview with Entertainment Tonight. "I wouldn't say we're going back to make it funnier, there's some additional action stuff that we've been doing. Which is pretty dope," revealed Courtney.
Basically, they are just going back to add more to the film because the studio said they could if they wanted to.
A new trailer was released today as well showing more of what fans can expect for the Suicide Squad film.
The film itself is scheduled for release August 5.
A recent interview with Variety and AMC Entertainment's CEO, Adam Aron, has brought up some interesting talking points for the future of moviegoers and their theaters.
The biggest and strangest, answers Aron gave was involved with texting being allowed in certain theaters. Now as this is appalling to most moviegoers, including myself, Aron justifies his belief of this "allowed texting" with the fact that 'millennials' can't be told, "to turn off their cellphone."
Yes. When you tell a 22-year-old to turn off the phone, don’t ruin the movie, they hear please cut off your left arm above the elbow. You can’t tell a 22-year-old to turn off their cellphone. That’s not how they live their life.
Movies typically run 1:30 – 2 hours long, which means if someone can't put their phone away for that long, if the specific theater allows it, you will be seeing a lot of little bright lights popping up all over the theater. However, Aron understands that this most likely annoy most consumers.
At the same time, though, we’re going to have to figure out a way to do it that doesn’t disturb today’s audiences. There’s a reason there are ads up there saying turn off your phone, because today’s moviegoer doesn’t want somebody sitting next to them texting or having their phone on.
Aron also notes that these texting allowed theaters probably won't be certain sections in the theater, but rather specific auditoriums altogether.
That’s one possibility. What may be more likely is we take specific auditoriums and make them more texting friendly.
If these texting allowed theaters are to come to AMC, you could expect a lot of people being upset. This is where the recent news of the Screening Room would kick in pretty effectively.The service is supported by many of the big Hollywood directors including Peter Jackson, Steven Spielberg, the Ron Howard/Brian Grazer team, Martin Scorsese, J.J. Abrams, Taylor Hackford, and Frank Marshall
The service will offer users the ability to stream movies that are still in theaters in the comfort of your home. But of course, it comes with a caveat, the price for a single movie will cost you up to $50 and you will need a $150 specific stream box to make it happen. However, you will be able to get the movies on day one of its release and have access to it for 48 hours.
How would you guys feel about texting being allowed in theaters? Would you want the Screening Room to become an official thing? Let us know in the comments below!
It may still be two years away, but The Flash movie has just hit a major snag. The movie's Director Seth Grahame-Smith has left the project citing "creative differences" as the cause.
Grahame-Smith is known for his work on Pride & Prejudice & Zombies and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter as an author and screenwriter but The Flash was due to be his directorial debut. Ezra Miller's role remains unchanged as the movie is still two years away from release on March 16, 2018.
The movie will still use Grahame-Smith's script which features Barry Allen as "The Fastest Man Alive", who made a brief cameo in Batman v. Superman.
Source: [The Hollywood Reporter]
The hype for the Warcraft movie is real. Legendary's epic movie releases on June 10 and now they have started releasing short character trailers. First up is Durotan from the Frostwolves.
"The peaceful realm of Azeroth stands on the brink of war as its civilization faces a fearsome race of invaders: Orc warriors fleeing their dying home to colonize another. As a portal opens to connect the two worlds, one army faces destruction and the other faces extinction. From opposing sides, two heroes are set on a collision course that will decide the fate of their family, their people and their home."
This is where it all began, this is before Warcraft and World of Warcraft. These are the events that forever changed Azeroth.
There will surely be more of these character trailer before the release of the Warcraft movie.
If you were among the many who were disappointed by 2011's Green Lantern movie, nobody would blame you if your trust was shaken. But the bridge may be slowly being rebuilt with this latest rumor, if it is indeed true. According to Umberto Gonzalez, co-host of Heroic Insider, George Miller is allegedly rumored to be directing DC's Green Lantern Corps movie.
The Green Lantern Corps is due to release in 2020 with many other movies including both Justice League movies, The Flash, Aquaman and Cyborg releasing in between. No doubt Ryan Reynolds left a sour taste in many fans mouths, so it's clear that DC is steering the attention towards other heroes until they feel confident enough in the brand to reintroduce it to the public.
The Green Lantern Corps movie was revealed back in January during a primetime special event called DC Films: Dawn of the Justice League. My gut tells me that since DC can't afford another meltdown like 2011's Green Lantern movie, they will look to snag an established and respected name to help return the Green Lantern to prominence.
Source: [Cinema Blend]
There are still those who are skeptical towards DC's Suicide Squad, however the latest trailer should eliminated at least some of that skepticism.
Those who follow the TV show Arrow know what sort of person Amanda Waller is, since Arrow already gave its viewers a taste of what a Suicide Squad film could look like. It is fair to say that the latest Suicide Squad trailer looks promising, it also gives viewers an awaited second glimpse of The Joker who looks like a madman.
Perhaps even critics will like this DC film since it seems to be closer to the average Marvel film instead of the dark and gritty DC universe many of us are used to.
Some fans may be skeptical about having Will Smith as Floyd Lawton after Michael Rowe's portrayal of the world's most deadliest and most accurate sharpshooter in Arrow. Take a look for yourself and decide.
While waiting for Suicide Squad's August 5 release fans can go watch the animated Batman: Assault on Arkham film to prepare for the overdose of bad guys in a single sitting.
He's most likely stating the obvious here, but in an interview with Nightline on ABC News, Iron Man himself, Robert Downey Jr. admitted he'd be up for doing Iron Man 4. The interview took place during a piece on Captain America: Civil War and ABC's Nick Watt managed to get it out of him (though I imagine it wasn't that hard).
"I feel like I could do one more" said Robert Downey Jr.
Check out the full piece below. The chatter about the possibilities for Iron Man 4 begin at 3:55.
We haven't seen an official Iron Man movie for almost three years now since 2013, though the character has been kept relevant through The Avengers films and cameos through various Marvel movies. Iron Man is confirmed to appear in the upcoming Spider-Man: Homecoming movie, so it's already clear that Robert Downey Jr. has no plans of letting his take on Tony Stark go any time soon.
Source: [ABC News]
It recently came to light that AMC Entertainment was considering allowing texting in their theaters. The reasoning behind the move was the belief that "You can’t tell a 22-year-old to turn off their cellphone. That’s not how they live their life."
The statement came by CEO Adam Aron, who is now backtracking on that thought.
That idea has quickly been shut down by avid movie goers. AMC has released a statment saying that they were going to listen to their audience and keep the texting ban active.
NO TEXTING AT AMC. Won't happen. You spoke. We listened. Quickly, that idea has been sent to the cutting room floor. pic.twitter.com/JR0fo5megR
— AMC Theatres (@AMCTheatres) April 15, 2016
Instead of looking to ban texting, AMC will be investing $1 billion to enhance their theaters by offering more large screens, better seating, new food and beverage options, a "more engaging AMC Stubs program, as well as an enhanced website and "more functional smartphone app."
AMC theaters will be staying dark after all.


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2017 Fair Play Award winner announced
11:40 | 16/03/2018 Sports
Striker Nguyen Van Toan of Hoang Anh Gia Lai FC won the 2017 Fair Play Award at an annual event organized by the Ho Chi Minh City Law newspaper, in Ho Chi Minh City, on March 14.
VGA Cup to be held in Dong Nai
11:19 | 07/03/2018 Sports
The third VGA Union Cup is scheduled to take place at the Long Thành Golf Course in the southern province of Đồng Nai on March 21.
V.League to begin on March 10
16:38 | 05/03/2018 Sports
V.League 2018 will begin at Tam Ky Stadium on March 10, with a match between defending champions Quang Nam FC and Saigon FC.
FIFA pledges support for Vietnam’s football development
16:20 | 09/02/2018 Sports
President of the world football governing body FIFA Gianni Infantino pledged to support Vietnam’s football development programmes in the coming time during a working session with representatives from the Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) in Hanoi on February 8.