Month: September 2020

Black Widow delayed to 2021, pushing back The Eternals and other Marvel movies – The Verge
23Sep By No Comments
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Black Widow delayed to 2021, pushing back The Eternals and other Marvel movies – The Verge

In a predictable fashion, Disney is delaying Black Widow to 2021 as the company continues to navigate the current theatrical landscape during the COVID-19 pandemic. This marks the first time since 2009 that a Marvel Cinematic Universe movie hasn’t been released in a calendar year. Black Widow will now open on May 7th, 2021 — more than one year after it was originally scheduled to be released. Like with other Marvel delays, Black Widow’s new date pushes Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings back from its May 7th, 2021 release date to July 9th, 2021. The Eternals, which was supposed to follow Black Widow is moving from February 12th, 2021 to November 5th, 2021. A number of other Disney films, including West Side Story and The King’s Man, were also moved around as part of the shuf...
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Arizona reports 438 new coronavirus cases, 27 additional deaths – KTAR.com
23Sep By No Comments
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Arizona reports 438 new coronavirus cases, 27 additional deaths – KTAR.com

(Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images) This is a regularly updated story with the latest information, news and updates about the coronavirus and its impact in Arizona and beyond for Wednesday, Sept. 23. PHOENIX – Arizona health authorities reported 438 new coronavirus cases and 27 more deaths on Wednesday morning. That put the state’s documented totals at 215,284 COVID-19 infections and 5,525 deaths, according to the Arizona Department of Health Services. Multiple key metrics about the severity of Ariz...
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5 potential coronavirus treatments see major advancements – Business Insider – Business Insider
23Sep By No Comments
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5 potential coronavirus treatments see major advancements – Business Insider – Business Insider

When people came into the ICU with the coronavirus in March, doctors were hamstrung. As patients faced life-threatening respiratory issues and organ damage, healthcare workers' only option was to make them as comfortable as possible until they either recovered or died. "We didn't have a cure," Dr. Panagis Galiatsatos, a pulmonary physician at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, told Business Insider. "We didn't really have anything other than supportive therapy, which would be giving them oxygen if their oxygen was low, breathing devices if they were struggling to breathe, fluids if they were dehydrated. That was it." But treating those patients is getting easier now that a few therapies have been approved for severe cases, he said. For the sickest indivi...
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Vietnamese factory busted recycling hundreds of thousands of used condoms – New York Post
23Sep By No Comments
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Vietnamese factory busted recycling hundreds of thousands of used condoms – New York Post

So much for “protection.” A factory in Vietnam was busted washing and reselling more than 320,000 used condoms to pass them off as new, according to police who raided the dangerous operation. To “recycle” the dirty rubbers, Pham Thi Thanh Ngoc, 32, allegedly had roughly 1,000 of them delivered per month to the facility in Tan Uyen Town, where she cleaned and reshaped them, according to the Vietnam Insider. Pham, who rented the facility, remolded the jimmies with a wooden shaft to make them look fresh again — then placed them in new packaging, the local outlet reported. During the raid on Saturday, local police seized a total of 324,000 used condoms, officials said. Thousands more had already been sold to unsuspecting customers. “Condoms are classified as medical items...
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Ashley Graham joins Eva Herzigova and Yasmin Le Bon at Milan Fashion Week – Daily Mail
23Sep By No Comments
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Ashley Graham joins Eva Herzigova and Yasmin Le Bon at Milan Fashion Week – Daily Mail

It's one of the most important events in the annual fashion calendar, attracting the industry's top models and designers.  And Ashley Graham looked radiant as ever as she took to the runway for Fendi at Milan Fashion Week on Wednesday. The beauty, 32, was joined on the runway by her fellow A-list models including Yasmin Le Bon and Eva Herzigova for the high fashion event.  Ashley wore a black mini dress under a sheer garment which featured a floral embellishment and a deep v-neckline while she added height to her frame with a pair of baby blue heels. The model styled her brunette locks into a chic updo for the show while she also wore a pair of gold hoop earrings. Ashley, who previously served as a judge on America's Next Top Model, completed her look with a light pallet of makeup.  Yas...
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The Metropolitan Opera Won’t Reopen for Another Year – The New York Times
23Sep By No Comments
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The Metropolitan Opera Won’t Reopen for Another Year – The New York Times

The Met, whose budget of roughly $300 million in a normal season makes it the biggest performing arts organization in the nation, is taking a series of steps to try to ensure its survival and adapt to a changed world. It is publicizing its entire 2021-22 season, months ahead of schedule, partly in the hopes that people who bought tickets to canceled performances — roughly $20 million in tickets has already been sold — can be persuaded to exchange them for the newly announced operas. “Fire Shut Up in My Bones” will be one of three contemporary works at the Met next season — the most since 1928. (The others are Matthew Aucoin’s “Eurydice” and Brett Dean’s “Hamlet.”) The Met will stage the original five-act, French-language version of Verdi’s “Don Carlos” for the first time, in a new product...
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Swedish health expert blames COVID-19 deaths on mild flu season – New York Post
23Sep By No Comments
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Swedish health expert blames COVID-19 deaths on mild flu season – New York Post

Sweden has a high COVID-19 death toll because fewer people were killed off by the flu this year, according to its top infectious disease expert. Anders Tegnell, chief epidemiologist at Sweden’s Public Health Agency, argued that countries with lower death rates from the flu ended up seeing more people die from coronavirus, the Times of London reported. “When many people die of the flu in the winter, fewer die in heat waves the following summer. In this case, it was COVID-19 that caused many to die,” he told the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter, according to the Times. “What has now been seen is that the countries that have had a fairly low mortality for influenza in the last two, three years, such as Sweden, [also] have a very high excess mortality in COVID-19.” He claimed ...
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Plastic face shields dont stop coronavirus spread, study claims – Fox News
23Sep By No Comments
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Plastic face shields dont stop coronavirus spread, study claims – Fox News

Plastic face shields are all but useless when it comes to defeating the spread of the coronavirus, according to a new Japanese study. The clear coverings were tested in a simulation by Fugaku, the world’s fastest supercomputer, which found that nearly 100 percent of airborne droplets less than 5 micrometers in size escaped through the shields, the Guardian reported Tuesday. One micrometer is the equivalent of one-millionth of a meter. The shields, typically used by workers in the restaurant industry, were also ineffective at trapping larger droplets measuring 50 micrometers — about half of which were also able to escape. The study was conducted by Riken, a government-backed researcher center in Kobe, Japan. In order to reach its results, the Fugaku simulation combined ai...
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Zendaya Made History at the 2020 Emmys With Her Euphoria Win – Showbiz Cheat Sheet
23Sep By No Comments
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Zendaya Made History at the 2020 Emmys With Her Euphoria Win – Showbiz Cheat Sheet

At only age 24, it seems like nothing can stop Zendaya. The former Shake It Up star more than proved her dramatic acting chops in the HBO series Euphoria — and recently, the Emmys awarded or for it. Here’s how the actor made history with her Emmy win in 2020. Zendaya won an Emmy for her performance on the HBO series ‘Euphoria’ — and made history Zendaya reacting to winning Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series at the 72nd Emmy® Awards on Sept. 20, 2020 | ABC via Getty ImagesIn a win for Gen Z, former Disney Channel star Zendaya snagged the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress In A Drama Series. Zendaya beat out some seasoned performers — Oscar-winners among them — in her category. Laura Linney, Sandra Oh, Olivia Colman, Jennifer Aniston, and Jodie Comer all went ho...
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