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R.I.P. Chef Floyd Cardoz, Top Chef Masters season 3 winner
Photograph: Kris Connor (Getty Photos) Floyd Cardoz, beloved chef and season three winner of Top Chef Masters, has died on the age of 59. On March 18, Cardoz was admitted to a New York hospital with a fever; he examined posted for the coronavirus shortly after. The Mumbai-raised chef, who helped reinvigorate the Indian meals
Comcast Joins Disney In Raising Cash, Selling $4 Billion In Debt Securities
Comcast has raised $four billion from the sale of debt securities, based on an SEC submitting within the midst of an escalating financial disaster, following Disney, which raised $6 billion final Friday. “This goes to the saying that use elevate cash when you possibly can, not whenever you want it. Disney and Comcast are the
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Michael Jackson Estate Donates $100,000 To Broadway’s COVID-19 Emergency Assistance Fund
The Michael Jackson property, co-producers of the upcoming Broadway jukebox musical MJ The Musical, will donate $100,000 to the Broadway Cares/Fairness Fights AIDS’ COVID-19 Emergency Help Fund established yesterday, the Property stated at the moment. The donation is one-third of the $300,000 donation the Property introduced at the moment, with the opposite recipients being MusiCares
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‘CBS This Morning’ Co-Host Anthony Mason Working From Home As Precaution During Coronavirus Crisis
CBS This Morning co-host Anthony Mason has joined a rising checklist of morning information anchors who’re broadcasting from residence amid the coronavirus pandemic. Signing on Wednesday morning from his Manhattan condominium, Mason mentioned he was staying residence out of an abundance of warning after a member of the family started to exhibit doable coronavirus signs.
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Ted Koppel, In a Return To ‘Nightline,’ Warns Of Misinformation During Coronavirus Crisis
Ted Koppel returned to ABC Information’ Nightline on Tuesday to supply some perception into the risks of the coronavirus to folks with pre-existing medical situations — in addition to a warning concerning the unfold of misinformation on social media. “It’s time greater than ever on this nation to come back to the belief that what
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What The $2 Trillion Coronavirus Relief Bill Means For The Entertainment Industry
The textual content of the large, $2 trillion coronavirus aid bundle reached early on Wednesday on Capitol Hill has but to be launched, however it’s anticipated that the bundle will deal with a significant concern of the leisure business workforce. So many staff — on movie initiatives, TV exhibits, Broadway productions — work on a
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China-Russia trade grows despite coronavirus pressure but braces for shrinking Russian demand
A subway employee cleans the handrails as part of the disinfection process in Moscow, Russia, on March 16, 2020. (Photograph by Evgeny Sinitsyn/Xinhua) The buying and selling quantity between China and Russia has proven sturdy progress within the first two months of this yr regardless of the coronavirus outbreak which is ready
Prince Charles tests positive for coronavirus
Picture: Victoria Jones – WPA Pool (Getty Photographs) In line with CNN, Prince Charles is without doubt one of the newest main figures to check constructive for novel coronavirus. Clarence Home launched an announcement saying that his signs are delicate and that the Prince Of Wales, who is in any other case “in good well being,”
Don’t Let Trump Get Away With His Coronavirus Response
Regardless of his claims that the novel coronavirus was a hoax and pretend information; regardless of his insistence that covid-19 was identical to the flu and would go away; regardless of his refusal to just accept any accountability for the following unfold of coronavirus all through america; regardless of his kneecapping of the federal authorities’s
BBC Pauses Plans To Slash 450 News Jobs Amid Coronavirus Pandemic
The BBC has shelved plans to axe 450 jobs underneath a radical restructuring of its information division, because it battles to maintain providers on-air amid the spiraling coronavirus pandemic. BBC director normal Tony Corridor advised workers on Wednesday that the deliberate £80M ($94M) of cuts can be paused after being introduced in January. The modifications
Beijing adopts full quarantine and testing for inbound travelers
Epidemic management workers disinfect a world arrival on Monday evening within the Pudong district of Shanghai. The town has established no less than 18 quarantine facilities for worldwide arrivals’ medical statement. Twenty imported COVID-19 instances have been reported within the metropolis. Photograph: cnsphoto All individuals getting into Beijing from abroad are requested to bear quarantine
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British Government Set To Unveil Coronavirus Bailout For Freelancers On Thursday
British chancellor Rishi Sunak is getting ready a coronavirus rescue package deal for 5M self-employed folks in UK — a transfer that may throw a life-line to 1000’s of freelancers within the inventive industries. Sunak is predicted to stipulate the measures at a press briefing on Thursday after pledging this week that he’s “decided to
Epidemic control measures help company locate ‘ghost employees’
A employees member at a manufacturing unit in East China’s Jiangsu Province works on a photovoltaic product for export after resumed to work. Photograph: cnsphoto A non-public firm in Kunshan, East China’s Jiangsu Province, found greater than 20 “ghost staff” when it was checking 180 employees’ private data and whereabouts earlier than making use of
Coronavirus: UAE Cinema Staff Being Retrained To Help In Supermarkets
Greater than 1,000 leisure trade employees within the United Arab Emirates are being retrained to assist meet the rising demand in native supermarkets as a result of to the coronavirus outbreak. A press launch from Emirati retailer Majid Al Futtaim mentioned that leisure, leisure and cinema employees have been being reskilled to affix the Carrefour
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Series Mania: Oscar-Nominated Producer Alexander Rodnyansky on Crime Thriller ‘Frozen Land’
Twice Oscar-nominated producer Alexander Rodnyansky is to current the Russian crime drama “Frozen Land” on the Co-Professional Pitching Classes at Sequence Mania (March 25 to April 7), which is an all-digital affair this yr. Rodnyansky spoke to Selection concerning the present. The eight-part sequence, written by Sergey Kaluzhanov (pictured proper) and directed by Dasha Zhuk
‘Avengers,’ ‘Avatar’ Tipped to Join China’s Coronavirus Recovery Re-Release Lineup
All 4 of the Disney-owned “Avengers” films and James Cameron’s “Avatar” are being lined up for re-release in China when cinemas start to re-open after the coronavirus outbreak dies down. China Movie Group, the state-owned large that controls distribution of all revenue-sharing Hollywood films, and likewise dominates bodily distribution within the Center Kingdom, final week
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Coping With COVID-19 Crisis: UK TV Freelancers Share Their Stories From The Frontline Of The Shutdown
Editors’ Observe: With full acknowledgment of the big-picture implications of a pandemic that already has claimed hundreds of lives, cratered international economies and closed worldwide borders, Deadline’s Coping With COVID-19 Disaster sequence is a discussion board for these within the leisure area grappling with myriad penalties of seeing a fantastic business screech to a halt. The hope is
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Channel 4 To Host A ‘Wedding In Lockdown’ As Part Of Coronavirus Content Action Plan
Britain’s Channel Four has set out a plan of motion to maintain British viewers entertained throughout three weeks of coronavirus lockdown, together with internet hosting an web wedding ceremony. The broadcaster detailed 12 exhibits that may type the spine of its “artistic response to the disaster.” They embody a mixture of newly-commissioned titles, in addition
Prince Charles Tests Positive For Coronavirus
Prince Charles has change into the primary British royal to check constructive for COVID-19. In a press release, Clarence Home stated the 71-year-old Prince of Wales is “displaying delicate signs” of coronavirus, however “stays in good well being” and has been working from residence in current days. His spouse Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, has
White House & Senate Leaders Strike Deal On Historic $2T Coronavirus Bailout
The White Home and Senate leaders have lastly agreed to a sweeping $2T stimulus package deal for the U.S. financial system because the nation grapples with the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic. “Eventually, we now have a deal. After days of intense discussions, the Senate has reached a bipartisan settlement on a historic reduction package
Justice minister dismisses accusations unrest due to unsanitary conditions
Rioting that swept via a crowded jail in a single day within the Colombian capital Bogota left 23 inmates useless Sunday amid rising tensions over the unfold of the coronavirus within the penitentiary system. Kinfolk of inmates wait subsequent to a spiritual poster and flowers are put exterior the Modelo jail in Bogota, Colombia after
US orders first shutdown of website over coronavirus fraud
The US Division of Justice introduced on Sunday it had shut down a web site claiming to promote a coronavirus vaccine, in its first act of federal enforcement towards fraud in reference to the pandemic. Photograph taken on March 16, 2020 reveals the White Home in Washington DC, america. Photograph: Xinhua Lawsuits had been filed
German chancellor had contact with virus-infected doctor
German chancellor Angela Merkel went into quarantine on Sunday after coming into contact with a coronavirus-infected physician shortly after asserting extra curbs on social interplay to sluggish the unfold of the illness. German Chancellor Angela Merkel addresses MPs on the Bundestag in Berlin on Wednesday. She had not been advised about Chinese language authorities making threats
Trump’s trillion dollar US economic rescue package crashes in Senate
A trillion greenback Senate proposal to rescue the reeling US financial system crashed to defeat on Sunday after receiving zero help from Democrats, and with 5 Republicans absent from the chamber due to virus-related quarantines. US President Donald Trump solutions a query through the each day briefing on the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, on the White