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A Growing Resource During Pandemic, the COVID Help Network

The COVID Help Network continues to grow as state governments, facilities, businesses and organizations across 32 states have been utilizing the platform.
“It’s to help connect folks within the medical community, to hospitals directly, to governors directly,” said filmmaker Mark Kassen. “We were able to build a piece of technology that could handle a lot of traffic.”
Working with engineers, Kassen’s production company, Like Minded Media, is behind the operation in partnership with Masimo, a medical technology company, and the Patient Safety Movement, an organization working to eliminate “preventable harm and death in health care” globally. By linking health-care establishments and state governments with companies, the endeavor is facilitating communication and aid during the coronavirus pandemic.
“We were at the center of a couple of communities that wanted to help each other, and so we started off just referring people from one industry who could help people in another industry and that started to grow,” he said. Kassen’s mother is a nurse, and his father was a pharmacist. “I have a soft spot for health-care workers, as we all, I’m sure, do in our own way.”
Using covidhelpnetwork.com, governments, facilities and businesses are able to search by state or need, depending on the objective.

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Marvel and Jewelry Label GLD Enter Licensing Agreement

Fans can now proudly show off their allegiance to Spider-Man or Captain America, thanks to a new deal between jewelry lifestyle label GLD and Marvel Entertainment.
As per the terms of the multiyear licensing agreement, Marvel has granted GLD access to its catalogue of intellectual property, including characters from the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The GLD x Marvel collection will range in price from $79 to $99 and will be comprised of pendants featuring Marvel characters on designs in solid gold and precious stones.
GLD is also offering fans the opportunity to vote for which 10 characters or groups should be released first among Iron Man, Spider-Man, Captain America, Hulk, Thor, Black Panther, Captain Marvel, Black Widow, Doctor Strange, Gamora, Groot, Loki, Vision, Venom, Hydra and Thanos.
Characters like Iron-Man, Spider-Man, Black Panther, Gamora and Groot will be represented by their faces, while the remaining characters are represented by their weapon or symbol.

Black Panther, one of many Marvel superheroes that may appear in the first GLD x Marvel collection. 
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According to the brand, the partnership had been in discussion for one year. The license covers all characters from the Marvel Universe, including comics, television shows and video games.
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A Romance Novelist Wrote About Killing Her Husband—Then He Was Found Murdered

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Everything We Know About The Live-Action Hercules Movie

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Valentino’s Fall 2020 Campaign Will Raise Funds for the Spallanzani Hospital

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Gigi Hadid Breaks Her Silence and Confirms Her Pregnancy in First Interview

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Normal People Makes Small But Significant Changes To Sally Rooney’s Novel

The Hulu adaptation lifts lines directly from the book. But the changes the show makes are what will stick with you.

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Virtual Concert Apparel Collections – Travis Scott Has Dropped New ‘Astronomical Tour’ Merchandise (TrendHunter.com)


(TrendHunter.com) Following his Fortnite Astronomical Tour, Travis Scott has dropped new merch for his virtual concert.

Earlier this month, rapper Travis Scott held a virtual concert called the Astronomical Tour on…

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Dior Celebrates Lily of the Valley With New Homewares Line

PARIS — Tradition has it that on May 1, Dior gifts its employees a sprig of lily of the valley — a French custom said to date back to the 16th century, symbolizing good luck and happiness.
This year, due to the coronavirus outbreak, the May Day custom has been put on hold as most of Dior’s staff continues to work from home. Instead, the French fashion house is celebrating the bloom, which founder Christian Dior turned into a brand signature, with a new homewares collection designed by Cordelia de Castellane.
Currently holed up in her country house some 45 minutes from Paris, the artistic director of Dior Maison has revisited the emblematic house motif with a selection of porcelain plates, hand-painted or engraved glasses, and blown-glass decorative baubles and decanters.
“It was one of Mr. Dior’s favorite flowers,” de Castellane said. “He was extremely superstitious, so lily of the valley was his good-luck charm.”
In addition to gifting the flower to his seamstresses and clients on May 1, the public holiday that is France’s equivalent of Labor Day, Dior insisted that his florist grow it for him year-round in a greenhouse. That way, he could always wear a sprig in his buttonhole, or

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Susanne Bartsch Welcomes All to Thursday Night Virtual Parties

PARTY OF ONE: The “Queen of the Night” Susanne Bartsch is working to support the nightlife community by hosting “On Top” Thursday night Zoom parties.
”Who would have thought that I’d be taking the nightclub to the couch?” Bartsch said of her On Top live parties, which are in its 10th year.
Knowing many DJs, hosts and others in the nightclub sector are out of work, she wanted to create something that would allow her to pay people. “At the same time, I wanted to let people know that we are united, we can see each other on the screens since we are not allowed to meet, and to give the community hope and joy,” she said.
After the first one, so many people wrote and DM’d Bartsch that she decided to make the virtual party a regular thing. “People were telling me, ‘Thank you so much for doing this. I feel so much better. I felt so isolated and hopeless. It’s giving me hope, fun and reason to dress up,’” she said.
Through ticket sales, each week’s performers are paid for their efforts and others from around the world have reached out about getting involved. The Paris-based Allanah Starr will be part of Thursday’s

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