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☆ Why Should Charles III Be King?
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-05 | by ( Tanya Gold | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +7 min

King Charles(Francis Xavier,Professor X) III Prof. King Charles III, a telepath and the leader of the X-Men, is powerfully gifted, like the real Charles III (a noted gardener and watercolorist). King Charlize (Theron) III Charlize III is a gifted actor, which all good monarchs need to be, and an extraordinarily beautiful woman. King Charles III, theMadame Tussauds waxwork Wax Charles III lives in Madame Tussauds on Baker Street, and more people met him in 2022 — 2.5 million — than the real king will meet during his whole reign. King Charlie (Sheen) III Another actor, who has the advantage of already being from a famous dynasty: his father played Jed Bartlet, the philosopher king from “The West Wing.” King Charlie (Sheen) III would be handsome but not as handsome as King Charlize (Theron). King Charles (Dickens) III could not function in a country with failing public services and a system that taxes earnings, not wealth.

☆ Eli Lilly’s golden ticket is a regrettable winner
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-03 | by ( Robert Cyran | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

NEW YORK, May 3 (Reuters Breakingviews) - Eli Lilly’s (LLY.N) Mounjaro might turn out to be the biggest selling drug ever. The pharmaceutical giant is maximizing the diabetes treatment’s gain by using a golden ticket to speed its U.S. approval for use in a possibly bigger market, obesity. Lilly’s peak sales for treating obesity might be about 10 times as high, Jefferies analysts estimate. At the industry multiple of 5 times revenue, that would pad its $535 billion market value by $30 billion. Lilly may have secured a Willy Wonka-like golden ticket that allows its obesity drug to reach customers quicker.

☆ Inside the Rise and Fall of Kittyhawk, Larry Page's Failed Flying Car Company
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-16 | by ( Hugh Langley | Rob Price | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +22 min

Killing off projects had become something of a tradition at Kittyhawk, the secretive flying-car startup launched by the Google cofounder Larry Page. Larry Page has used his Google money to found a series of flying car companies with one common goal: "to free the world of traffic." "When Bloomberg did their original exposé, that's when urban air mobility became a thing," a former Kittyhawk employee recalled. Everyone thought: If Larry Page is in this space, there must be something here." Interpreting "Larry-isms" or "learning to speak Larry" were essential skills for any Kittyhawk employee who wanted to retain their sanity.

☆ A brewery CEO says he had to pay out over $500,000 to competition winners who found 'solid gold' beer cans that were actually just gold-plated
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-10 | by ( Sawdah Bhaimiya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

The CEO of a Scottish brewery said he paid over $500,000 to competition winners over a misleading advert. Brewdog claimed winners of a competition would get "solid gold" beer cans in social media posts. Some of Brewdog's tweets during the competition claimed that the beer cans were "solid gold," a claim that was incorrect. At least 25 winners complained to the Advertising Standards Agency after realizing the cans were not made of solid gold, but mostly composed of brass. "When I contacted them they told me the 'solid gold' claim was an error," he said.

☆ Larry Page, Sergey Brin Post-Google Lives: Investments, Yachts, Islands
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-11 | by ( Hugh Langley | Rob Price | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +33 min

Even before their retirement from Google, Page and Brin relied heavily on their respective family offices to bring order to their worlds. The Bay Area headquarters of Koop, Larry Page's family office, is nondescript and gives little indication of the billionaire's empire. Insider; Marianne Ayala/Insider Show less Bayshore Global Management, Sergey Brin's family office, is based in Palo Alto and has a bit more of a public face. Insider; Marianne Ayala/Insider Show lessThe difference in styles holds true for Brin's family office, Bayshore Global Management. The CEO of Page's family office is Wayne Osborne, a former elder in the Presbyterian Church who attended Princeton Theological Seminary.

☆ Trump's legal team should have known better than to ask for a special master
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-05 | by ( Randy Zelin | Randy Zelin Is A Noted Trial Attorney With A Concentration In White Collar Criminal Defense As Well As Complex Civil Litigation Matters. He Is Also An Adjunct Law Professor At Cornell University. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +7 min

Wanting a special master was right out of Trump’s stalling, obstructing and using the time to play the victim circus act. Team Trump could not muster the strength to jump over the first hurdle. Now that we know that Trump’s defense had no ground to stand on the first standard of proof, what about the other three? Well, the Trump Team could fare no better with the second or third one. Team Trump’s arguments were a sideshow.

☆ Elon Musk’s Boring Company Ghosts Cities Across America
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-28 | by ( Ted Mann | Julie Bykowicz | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

ONTARIO, Calif.—The unsolicited proposal from Elon Musk’s tunnel-building venture arrived in January 2020. To the local transportation authority, it felt like finding Willy Wonka’s golden ticket. Officials had started planning for a street-level rail connection between booming Ontario International Airport and a commuter train station 4 miles away, with an estimated cost north of $1 billion. For just $45 million, Mr. Musk’s Boring Co. offered to instead build an underground tunnel through which travelers could zip back and forth in autonomous electric vehicles.

Fewer job openings may sound bad, but in this moment it's a good sign for the economy. But chairs started being pulled away at a much faster pace in August, which could give job seekers a wake-up call. "If there are 100 chairs and 50 workers, workers are cool, man!" Companies are putting up record job openings, but they're not saying when — or even if — they'll fill them. That's frustrated some job seekers as they apply to multiple roles and never hear back.

☆ Cryptovoxels is an artist-dominated metaverse featuring wearable blunts and eclectic locales like the Temple of Doge. Here's why OpenSea CEO Devin Finzer named it one of his favorite growing NFT proje
▼ + stars: | 2022-04-25 | by ( Lisa Kailai Han | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +18 min

As the self-described "first non-engineer hire" to join Cryptovoxels, Robinson was brought on to fix these kinds of user nuisances. As part of the next rollout of features, Robinson tells me that Cryptovoxels will allow users to sell custom dances. According to Robinson, users can make money in other ways, like selling mini-game scripts and renting land for events like dances or NFT collection releases. For some reason, the Cryptovoxels world is also abundant with shrines, like the ancient Greece-inspired Frenetik Temple and the Jedi-themed Dark Junction. It's reminiscent of attending a presentation in the real world, except instead of pinning name tags to our shirts, they're superimposed over our heads in large white letters.

☆ 50 classic films that flopped when they were first released
▼ + stars: | 2021-07-30 | by ( Meghan Cook | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: 1 min

"Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" did poorly when it premiered in 1971. Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka in "Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory." "Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory"/Paramount PicturesThe whimsical movie based on Roald Dahl's classic novel has become a must-watch over time. It didn't fare well at the box office when it first premiered in 1971, making only $4 million, which was not much more than its $3 million budget. After Paramount Pictures reportedly failed to renew its distribution deal for "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory," Warner Brothers bought the film rights and brought it to TV where it found new appreciation.

Persons: Willy Wonka, Gene Wilder, Roald Dahl's Organizations: Paramount, Paramount Pictures, Warner Brothers

(foto, video) Ce filme trebuie să vizionezi dacă vrei să înțelegi cele mai populare meme-uri care circulă pe internetȘtim că ai văzut aceste imagini de multe ori, poate un prieten a făcut o glumă utilizând una dintre ele într-un anumit context. Noi am selectat câteva, cele mai cunoscute astfel de meme-uri și îți spunem din ce filme sunt, în caz că nu le-ai privit deja. A început de jos și a avut o ascensiune fulgerătoare, iar lăcomia corporatistă, succesul în exces și puterea dobândită l-au transformat din broker onest în infractor implicat în scandaluri de corupție, înșelăciune și crimă. De aceea, se gândește la un plan infailibil și își forțează ciudații vecini să intre în joc. Aventura începe cu Frăția inelului, care prezintă publicului spectator minunata lume a Pământului de Mijloc și pe locuitorii săi memorabili: oameni, hobbiți, elfi, pitici, vrăjitori, troli și orci.

Persons: Jordan Belfort, Django, Jamie Foxx, King Schultz, Christoph Waltz, Brittle, Schultz, Rick Dalton, Leonardo DiCaprio, Cliff Booth, Brad Pitt, Sharon Tate, Margot Robbie, Dalton, Charles Mason, Baz Luhrmann, F . Scott Fitzgerald, Fitzgerald, Gatsby, David, Rose, Jennifer Aniston, Casey, Emma Roberts, Kenny, Will, Buster, Coen, Iron Man, Captain, Thor, Nick, Samuel L . Jackson, Loki, Tony Stark, ROBERT DOWNEY Jr, Stark Industries, Tony, Frodo, Sauron, Henry Hill, Ray, Jimmy Conway, Robert de Niro, Tommy, Vito, Joe Pesci, Henry, Neo, Keanu Reeves, Morpheus, Laurence Fishburne, Teddy Daniels, Chuck, Peter Pan, Finding, Jack Bruno, Dwayne Johnson, Jack, Woody, Andy, Buzz, Willy Wonka, Charlie, Arthur Slugworth, Bill, Alex Winter, Ted, Socrate, Napoleon, Sigmund Freud, Abraham Lincoln, John Hammond, Jeff, Walter, Peter, El Organizations: Marvel, Iron, Black, US, Jurassic Park Locations: Statelor Unite, Hollywood, Mexic, Vest, Captain America, Hawkeye, Mordor, Nevada, Mountain

☆ (video) Te pierzi în culori și personaje neobișnuite. 10 filme și animații din lumea ireală a lui Tim Burton
▼ + stars: | 2020-11-17 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: +5 min

Copiii anilor ’90 cunosc prea bine opera maestrului, pe când celor mai mici poate că le-a scăpat aceste capodopere cinematografice. # BatmanAn: 1989Gen: acțiune, fantasticNotă IMDB: 7,5Gotham City, un oraș întunecat și periculos, „protejat” de un departament de poliție în mare parte corupt, are mare nevoie de un erou. # Edward Scissorhands (1990)An: 1990Gen: dramă, fantasticNotă IMDB: 7,9„Edward Mâini-de-foarfecă” este o poveste despre toleranță, diversitate și creativitate, dar și despre anevoioasa maturizare a unui tânăr (tânărul în cauză e, bineînțeles, un monstru). Edward trebuie să-și găsească locul nu numai în lumea ironică și suprarealistă a micii comunități în care locuiește, dar și în lumea largă. Filmul abundă în culori, personaje interesante și o atmosferă de poveste.

Persons: Tim Burton, Edgar Allan Poe, Edward Scissorhands, Edward, Ed, Edward D . Wood, Willy Wonka, Charlie Bucket, Wonka, Victor, Edward Bloom, Sweeney, Sweeney Todd, Benjamin Barker, Alice, Viktor Frankestein, Viktor, Margaret Keane, Walter Keane . Artista Organizations: Fleet, Bull Terrier Locations: Gotham City, Moartă, Victoria, Fleet Street, Londra, Țara Minunilor, Reginei, Sparky, americană

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