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Fahadh Faasil’s best performances that are a treat to watch if you loved him in Pushpa & Vikram – PINKVILLA

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Fahadh Faasil, is the one such name that comes to mind as soon as anyone says the Malayalam film industry. He is one of the most talented actors in the South film industry, who has a power of a magician to captivate audiences with his fine acting. Be it as protagonist, antagonist, or supporting actor, he has the skill to transform into the character completely, making the process look easy at the same time.

In his career span, Fahadh Faasil managed to give the best with his film and performances. Although he shot national fame with his award-winning performance in the 2012 sleeper hit 22 Female Kottayam, his stardom has only risen in the past few years because of his villainy act in Allu Arjun's Pushpa: The Rise and Kamal Haasan's Vikram. But there is much more of Fahadh than Bhagawat, if you loved him Pushpa, and Vikram, take a look at his noteworthy performances that totally deserve your attention.

Today, we list the his best performances of the actor, which make him a cut above the rest.

Bangalore Days

One of the first films that brought Fahadh to a pan-Indian audience, Bangalore Days. Even though Fahadh Faasil appears in bits and pieces, he totally managed to steal the light amid the star-studded cats Nazriya Nazim, Dulquer Salmaan, and Nivin Pauly.

Remember the scene in which Das visits Natasha's house? That single scene is simple enough to show the brilliance of the actor. Watch it for sure to know what a fine actor Fahadh is, we bet you will fall in love.

Maheshinte Prathikaaram

It's only Fahadh who can make a simple storyline intriguing with his acting skills. Fahadh in Maheshinte Prathikaaram is a treat to watch, his performance to seek revenge for public humiliation and also became a critical and commercial success. The film also won the National and Kerala State Film Awards.

Thondimuthalum Drikasakshiyum

Fahadh Faasil doesn't care about screen time, screen space, or anything, you give him a role and he will ace it and director Thondimuthalum Drikasakshiyum is one such movie. Fahadhs versatility comes to the fore as he convincingly plays a petty thief named Prasad, who swallows a gold chain and is almost caught in the act. He won the National Award as Best Supporting Actor in 2018 for the film.

Kumbalangi Nights

Kumbalangi Nights is one of the best Malayalam movies. While the film is a delight to watch, one should definitely not miss Fahadh's performance in the role of Shammi - an unhinged MCP. It is called one of his finest performances ever.

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One of the most engaging thrillers during the COVID-19 lockdown, a missing fiance and her mysterious background is at the heart of the story. Faasil plays a cyber specialist who gets involved in all of it. Shot completely on iPhone, its also Indias first computer screen film.

Trance

Fahadh as a motivational speaker who transforms into an influential Christian preacher and performs hoax miracles and hoodwink the public. He take the audience on a heady, psychedelic journey. It also makes Trance an unforgettable experience and is one of his career-best performances ever.

Super Deluxe

It is dark-comedy anthology that revovles around four parallel stories that are interwoven. One of the best films of 2019, if you haven't watched this one yet then you're truly missing out. Fahadh's role can't be missed too as he shared screen space with Samantha Ruth Prabhu and Vijay Sethupathi.

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Britain will pay a heavy price for falling into a net zero trance – The Telegraph

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Thousands of families will spiral into debt, once-affluent households will be forced to watch the pennies, savings will be devoured and spending will dry up. Recession is inevitable.

Could our country have done anything to prevent it? The wholesale cost of power will have risen five-fold by next year, driven up by supply issues exacerbated by Russias war on Ukraine. Yet we are not just paying for pricey power.

Our bills have been inflated by repeated regulatory failures and expensive government eco-vanity projects. The 13bn smart meter roll-out bumped up our bills over the years, while the collapse of tiny firms that were allowed to take on hundreds of thousands of customers has added 94.

The Government has put the cost firmly on our shoulders by triggering a countdown to net zero. We are told we should all be driving electric cars and warming our well insulated homes with farcical heat pumps, but we are expected to pay for it at a time when family finances face unprecedented strain.

The British people have been neglected while the Government dropped everything in its trance-like pursuit of net zero. As a result, our household wealth is being used to pay for our countrys unforgivable dependency on foreign energy, failure to invest in self-sufficiency and exploit our own natural resources.

And its too late for the Government to do anything meaningful about it. Households will get 400 off their bills, but the Treasury may well have to dig deeper. We will all end up paying the price for net zero folly, whether it is as energy bill payers or taxpayers.

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OK, You Need to See Jamie Campbell Bower Sing Lizzo’s About Damn Time in His Stranger Thing Vecna Voice – Seventeen

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A Stranger Things x Lizzo crossover is not something we had on our 2022 bingo cards, but now that its happened, we couldnt be more grateful.

On August 3, Jamie Campbell Bower the actor behind Stranger Things season 4s sinister villain, Vecna made an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. During the interview, host Jimmy Fallon asked Jamie to recite several iconic phrases from pop culture in Vecnas menacing voice.

For you, Jimmy, anything, Jamie said, before repeating Julia Robertss famous Im just a girl line from Notting Hill, the Cocoa Puffs slogan, and Roses passionate declaration to Jack in Titanic, I want you to draw me like one of your French girls.

Then, to our absolute delight, Jamie delivered a spine-chilling rendition of Lizzos summertime bop, About Damn Time.

In a minute I'm a need a sentimental man or woman to pump me up. Feeling fussy, walkin' in my Balenci-ussy's, tryna bring out the fabulous, he sang in his demonic tenor. Yes, weve watched it a dozen times over. Yes, we need him to recite the whole song. And yes, we cannot believe how seamlessly he drops his voice to the unhuman level of Vecnas.

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Earlier in the interview, Jamie detailed the process of creating the monsters unforgettable roar.

It took a few months to get right, he shared. We did the read-through, and I was there kind of at the table reading with everyone. I sat behind Millie [Bobby Brown] and I was doing the voice, and it started in this like very kind of like nasally kind of area, kind of more like Freddie Kreuger and it just wasnt landing.

He went on to explain that he researched past horror villains such as Hellraiser and the actor behind Pinhead, Doug Bradley. From there, he landed on the deep, booming voice that seems to come out of the darkness.

I loved it, it was amazing, Jamie added. So I just kind of worked on that, and Im a singer so I kind of just relaxed myself, relaxed my larynx.

In any case, About Damn Time is most definitely a song that could snap us out of Vecnas trance just as long as hes not the one singing it.

Leah Campano is an assistant editor at Seventeen, where she covers pop culture, entertainment news, health, and politics. On the weekends, you can probably find her watching marathons of vintage Real Housewives episodes or searching for New York Citys best almond croissants.

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‘Gone In The Night’ Ending, Explained: What Happens To Kath And Max? | DMT – DMT

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Gone in the Night is a shaky, imbalanced thriller mystery film that seems somewhat lost in its own tale. Setting out to tell the story of a couple who go through an awkward time on their weekend getaway, the narrative shifts between timelines and ultimately ends itself not so satisfactorily. Surprise twists are left too late to have much effect, and there is hardly much to watch here other than Winona Ryders performance, maybe.

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Kath and Max have been in a relationship for around a year now, and the two set out for a getaway trip to a remote house in the woods that Max has booked for themselves. As Kath drives and discusses the suddenness of the trip with her boyfriend, it seems that Maxs haste in pushing for the vacation was because of his girlfriends love for nature and the outdoors. Finally, when Kath is tired of the long drive and the endless navigation instructions that she has had to follow, the two reach their destination much later in the evening. However, the scene that greets them is very unlike the romantic trip they had imagined for themselves, as the couple spots another car already parked in front of the house. Even before they can process such information, a man, visibly quite younger than them, walks out onto the porch looking at their car. Sure that there is some sort of confusion going on, as he had booked the house online and paid for it in full as well, Max goes over to have a word with the man, and Kath follows in a few moments.

The man argues that he and his girlfriend are occupying the house from before, and is quite dismissive of Max and Kath when they try to tell him of their booking. As a minor argument goes on for some time, a woman, quite clearly the strangers girlfriend, walks out of the cabin and offers the protagonist couple to spend the night inside the property along with them. Despite the plight that they would fall into if they drive away from the cabinthere are no hotels anywhere nearby, and Kath is clearly tired of all the driving and would herself have to drive again as Max does not know how to; Kath does not wish to intrude and wants to drive away. But when Max goes over and has a word with her, particularly about her already having had a lot of adventures, Kath quickly changes her mind and decides to stay at the cabin. The two couples get to know each other, and Al and Greta (the other couple) are not just much younger than our protagonists, but their choices and likes in life are also very different. Gradually, as they spend the night drinking and playing suggestive board games together, Kath feels that the easy-going Greta is trying hard to flirt with Max, and Max, too, is responding to it. Already tired of the journey and also a bit weirded out by this new happening, she retires to her room early and goes to sleep by herself.

When Kath wakes up the next morning, she notices that she is still alone in her bed, and then, stepping out of her room, she sees that she is alone in the whole house. With no cellular network at the place and also remembering about a walking trail that apparently goes over to a nearby beach from the house, she takes the path in search of her boyfriend. Within a few minutes, she runs into Al, who looks very disturbed, sitting with his face in his hands, and the young man claims that Greta and Max have actually romanced each other and have run away together. Shocked at the act of her partner, who is indeed nowhere to be seen, Kath runs back to the house and then drives back home on her own.

By now, Kath is already established as a woman who is rather shaky and under-confident about herself, especially about her growing age. The fact that her boyfriend, Max, is a few years younger than her does not help too much either. The woman had been a teacher to Max in a continuing education class when the two had developed an interest in each other and had then started their relationship. Despite starting off on very good terms, possibly, their differences had started to show as Max was more into getting themselves into seemingly dangerous, or as he calls it, adventurous, situations, while Kath did not really enjoy these. After Maxs disappearance, due to his apparent whirlwind romance with Greta, Kath wanted to let the matter be initially, as she tells her close friend that the situation was perhaps a boon as her relationship with Max was not going well. But within some time, curiosity catches up with her, and she tries searching for Greta on the internet but finds nothing. She then finds out about the owner of the property, the house in the woods where they had gone, and she calls the number up. The call is answered by a man named Nicholas Barlow, who insists that he cannot give out private details of any guests to anyone, and decides to meet Kath about her inquiry instead.

The two meet the next day, and Barlow seems a serious but helpful man who rather enjoys his conversation with Kath. The woman comes clean about what exactly has happened to her and why she wants to track Greta down, and Nicholas does not mind helping her. During their conversation, Kath also learns, through a stranger who walks into the caf they are in, that Nicholas Barlow had actually been a pioneer in a biotech startup in partnership with this stranger. This startup was being bought over by GlaxoSmithKline for a lot of money, but Barlow ultimately made his way out of it and lived a reclusive life from then on. As Kath and Barlow keep meeting over time, and eventually share a lot about themselves, the man says that his father had passed away from a genetic disease of the nerves called synaptic hypertropia just before the deal was signed, and this made him wonder about his own life. Having decided that he did not want a usual life just chasing financial checkpoints, Barlow had given up his professional career, had bought the cabin in the woods and moved in there to spend life by himself.

Going over to the address mentioned by Greta in her booking details, Kath finds the young woman entering an underground music performance and follows her there. Facing Kath, Greta awkwardly apologizes to her for being a home-breaker, so to speak, but her words do not seem too genuine. She kind of suggests that Max has started a relationship with her and does not really care about Kath anymore, and it appears like she has a sense of rubbing it in Kaths face. The young woman then drops her phone, and Kath takes a glance at the wallpaper, which is Gretas face beside the sleeping face of Max. Heartbroken and feeling rather disrespected, Kath drives over with Barlow, and the man now shares his lifes wisdom with her, talking about how he fears his fathers nervous system disease is bound to pass on to his body soon, as it is genetic. Kath asks whether he is doing fine so far, and the man reveals that he has, in fact, been researching the illness for thirty years, trying to come up with a transfusion therapy treatment against it. Once back at her home, Kath goes through the process of getting over her lover, who had clearly ditched her, and it does not seem to take her too much effort either, as she burns off Maxs hat, signifying that she wants to get over it. She then drives over to Barlows house in the woods one afternoon, hoping to meet him and spend some time together, possibly even wanting to turn their friendly relationship into a romantic one.

Along with all these things happening, Gone in the Night also spreads scenes of flashbacks over the course of its narrative, which reveal past incidents in Maxs life before their getaway trip, and the film builds up its tension and mystery in this manner. Only a day before they had driven to the woods, Max and Kath were hosting a few of Kaths friends for dinner, and Max was quite visibly detached from the serious conversations that they were having. He did try his best but felt rather ridiculed when his girlfriend made fun of his habit of wearing limited-edition, hard-to-find clothes. Leaving the party, pretending to buy some more wine, Max went over to a grocery store where he ran across a young couple having some sort of disagreement. This couple was the same that was earlier shown, that of Al and his girlfriend, Greta. Exchanging rather judgmental comments at first, Max agreed to go have a drink with the couple, perhaps, because of Gretas flirtatious questions towards him, which continued throughout the evening that the three spent together. The couple had then told Max about a music show that was about to take place two days later, and asked him to drive down to the cabin in the woods the next day, where they would spend the night and go over to the show the following morning.

Max returned home with this idea, and instead of going alone, he decided to take Kath along. When the couple arrived at the house the next evening, Al and Greta were initially shocked, and even a bit scared, especially Al, as it seemed that they had some ill intentions in mind, but Greta insisted her boyfriend play along with the whole scene. Max spoke to Al in private, telling him that he had decided to surprise his girlfriend by bringing her here, and Greta then let them stay. However, with the information now having been established that the house was actually not a place rented out, but rather Al and Greta had invited Max there, it raises a number of questions about Nicholas Barlows involvement in all this and what his real intentions are. At present, when Kath appears at Barlows door, he politely asks her in and then excuses himself, saying that he needs to gather firewood and walks into the forest area.

As Kath spends time by herself inside Barlows house, she goes around casually looking at things, and now stumbles upon a photograph of Barlow and Al, which clearly suggests that the two are father and son. The entire atmosphere changes into one of tension as Kath spots a locked door and opens it up with Barlows set of keys, which he had left on the counter. She then walks out into the woods and sees a large cargo container, and once again uses Barlows keys to get in. Here, she receives the shock of her life as she sees Max lying on a makeshift operation table, alive but with multiple medical incisions made on his body through which his blood is being pulled out into blood bags. She tries to wake him up, but Max only replies with gibberish, in a drugged trance. On the other hand, Al and Greta had been inside Barlows house when Kath had knocked, which made the young couple run out and hide in the woods. When Barlow excuses himself to go gather firewood, he actually meets them, and when they return to the house, they find that Kath has opened up the locked room leading to the section of the woods where they had abducted and kept Max. They, too, now go to the cargo container, and things fall into place through their confrontation.

Al had been convinced that his father, Nicholas Barlow, had the same synaptic hypertrophy that had killed his grandfather, and was desperate to help his father recover from the illness. He knew of his fathers research into a blood transfusion treatment and also knew that they needed fresh blood, meaning a donor, to carry out the transfusion. He and his girlfriend, Greta, had planned the entire scheme to lure Max into their house, and Kaths presence only slightly affected this plan. They had managed to get Max out of the house, and had then abducted him and handed him over to Barlow. The father keeps insisting that he did not have any idea about his son and his girlfriends twisted plans before they had actually carried them out, but Greta now makes a grave revelation about the man. She produces a medical document that shows that Barlow did not actually have the neurotic disease and was essentially doing the whole transfusion therapy to renew his blood cells with that of a younger man, trying to lengthen his already natural life. Greta also admits that she had actually played along with the whole plan because she herself wanted to lengthen her own life in the same manner, and her character turns out to be a rather evil one who insists that they should now kill Kath. Al, who genuinely believed that his father was dying, confronts the man, saying that he should have told him the truth, and Al ultimately sides with his father rather than his girlfriend. Kath had earlier tried to stop the blood transfusion process and pull out the IV channels on Maxs body, but Barlow claimed that doing so would not help him as the blood of their two bodies (Max and Barlows) now shared a single blood supply source, and Max would have to stay in this process forever. Kath now suddenly claims that she wants to receive this transfusion herself, saying that she too had unfairly used Maxs young age in a slightly different manner as she tried to feel young herself through Max, and essentially bought some unattended time for herself. During this short time, she decides to take the chance of rescuing Max and pulls out all the IV channels from his body, and walks him towards the exit. Greta tries to get in the way, but she is stopped by Al, on the instructions of Barlow, who does not want to do any harm to Kath. However, in an even more surprising twist, Max, in his delusional trance, rips out a tube attached to his throat, spitting out blood everywhere, and the man dies quickly from extreme blood loss. Kath leaves the container alone and locks it up from the outside with Barlow, Al, and Greta still in it. She then rushes to her car, looks at her aging skin once again in the rearview mirror, and comes out again to enter the empty cabin. Kath goes over to a window and looks out towards the woods, and Gone in the Night rolls its end credits here.

The director has evidently kept a mystery, or at least an air of uncertainty, with the ending, as Kath first decides to leave and then suddenly decides against it. Whether her decision to enter the empty cabin again was to take a breather from all the sudden emotional and physical shocks that she faced over the last few minutes, or whether her intentions were something else, is left to ones imagination. However, with the sort of characterization that Kath has been given throughout the film, her issues about her growing age and its physical manifestations are real. Now that her boyfriend is also dead, she probably has very little to lose and might actually force Barlow to transfuse blood for her, which would then stop her aging process. Gone in the Night keeps away its crux for far too long and then presents all of it so rapidly that it hardly has any effect. The twists, in the end, do not convince at all, and ultimately make the film a disappointing watch.

Gone in the Night is a 2022 Drama Thriller film directed by Eli Horowitz.

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DakhaBrakha will perform a live soundtrack rooted in Ukrainian folk music to silent film ‘Earth’ at PS21 – Berkshire Eagle

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CHATHAM, N.Y. On the silver screen at PS21s bucolic open-sided pavilion theater on Aug. 11, the 1930 Ukrainian silent film Earth by Oleksandr Dovzhenko will show peasants farming amid scenes of extraordinary natural beauty from a long-forgotten, utopian world.

What: DakhaBrakha (Ukrainian ethno-chaos band) provides live soundtrack to Oleksandr Dovzhenkos silent film Earth (1930)

Where: PS21 open air pavilion theater, Performance Spaces for the 21st Century, 2980 NY-66, Chatham, N.Y.

When: 8 p.m., Aug. 11 at 8 p.m. Doors open 7 p.m.

Admission: $35

COVID policy: Proof of full vaccination with booster or negative PCR test within 72 hours required, masks optional.

Tickets and more information: 518-392-6121, ps21chatham.org

Accompanying these images in elaborate folk costumes complete with tall black lambskin hats, the four musicians and singers of Ukrainian band DakhaBrakha will form harmonies evoking a distant time and place, steeped in the ethnic and regional roots of their beleaguered country.

But this is no historically defined folklife presentation. The mesmerizing, dynamic sound is brought emphatically into the present by influences, instruments and rhythms from around the world and across time, that the band describes as a trans-national sound rooted in Ukrainian culture. Even the costumes are chimeras of expected tradition.

The globe-trotting Ukrainian ensemble is one of seven international productions, out of 18 presentations at PS21 this season, that include performers from South Korea and Nigeria, said PS21 director Elena Siyanko by phone.

Since they broke into the Global Fest scene they just exploded and became darlings of global music, Siyanko said. Its their incredible cosmopolitanism in both the aural and visual experience. They use polyphonic harmonies of traditional Ukrainian songs and transform them using African, Australian, Arabic, Indian instrumentation, alongside punk, hip hop, trance, dance influences, which makes them very appealing to contemporary audiences.

This incredibly important Ukrainian modernist masterpiece film is our tribute to Ukraine, to modernism and to the Earth. It is an adoration of land, and we are in an apple orchard on 100 acres of land. A lot of our programming is about environmental stewardship and sustainability, and we look for artists who really shift the boundary of form and genre with a relation to the landscape.

Banned almost immediately on release by Stalinist officials, Earth only became widely celebrated in the 1950s after Dovzhenkos death.

They were expecting the glorification of collectivization, of tractors, Siyanko said. [Instead] they got the modernist beauty of close-ups on a sunflower, field of grain, apples. Dovzhenko used collectivization as a narrative device to express his love of both nature and Ukrainian culture.

It also includes realities of peasant life such as passion, rebellion and even a murder within its sylvan scenes.

DakhaBrakha member Nina Garenetska plays the cello.

The soundtrack is an avant-garde cinema theater of sound, blending different cultures and musical practices of [multiple] regions of Ukraine into this incredible sonic soundscape, Siyanko added.

DakhaBrakha manager Iryna Gorban explained by email how the band came to be.

The band was founded in Kyiv in 2004 by Dakh Theater director Vladyslav Troitskyi, who suggested experimenting with Ukrainian folk music, Gorban said. At first, we created music exclusively for theatrical performances, but later realized we could work both as an independent band and in theater.

The four musicians Marko Halanevych, Iryna Kovalenko, Olena Tsybulska and Nina Garenetska all provide vocals and play multiple diverse instruments, including conventional keyboard, cello, percussion, trombone, accordion; international djembe, tabla and didgeridoo; and traditional Ukrainian zgaleyka, darbuka, bugay, garmoshka.

The name DakhaBrakha means to give and take, Gorban said. We used two old Ukrainian words and made them into one, emphasizing the circulation of energy between us and the audience, our roots, and things that surround and affect us today.

The band describes its musical style as ethno-chaos.

Chaos is the first basis of everything, where different pieces of sound, instruments and genres create our musical universe, Gorban said.

They have been on the road for more than a dozen years, performing in Ukraine and around the world. We feel like weve been touring all our lives, Gorban said. Now we are in the USA on our 20th North American tour.

They are not a folkloric ensemble, said band member Marko Halanevych by email.

Those large hats we wear on stage, women never wear such hats, theyre just something we came up with, Halanevych said. We didnt want to perform in traditional folkloric costumes, so we came up with our own look. We didnt want to be literal with our ethnic garb, just like we don't play straightforward folk music, our instrumentation is mixed with a lot of influences.

Earth is the bands first full-length film soundtrack. We thought about what songs in our repertoire we can use for the film, and what other music needs to be composed, Halanevych said. In most places we were looking for a specific sound.

Our music is used quite a lot by Ukrainian and international film projects, he added, we even had one song used by the film series Fargo.'

Ivan Kozlenko, former director of the Dovzhenko Center in Kyiv, suggested they create a soundtrack for Earth, he said.

The Center restores old Ukrainian archival films created in the '20s and '30s, and musicians are commissioned to create soundtracks. We were glad to collaborate because Earth is one of the most powerful early films of Ukrainian cinema, filmed in Ukraine by a Ukrainian director and about Ukraine.

Their accompaniment is full of singing, he noted. The women in our group trained as singers and also studied history of Ukrainian and other folklore. Our material is drawn from authentic sources, most recorded in different parts of Ukraine. Some of the sounds carry the character of pre-Christian songs and later periods, and have undergone many changes through transmission from people to people.

While they have recorded a half dozen albums over the years, Halanevych said, right now the focus is to communicate with the world through concert appearances.

When war broke out we were in Ukraine, we heard the explosions, it was very close. We realized our lives had changed irrevocably. We decided to continue with concerts, to give interviews, travel and tell the world what's happening in Ukraine.

This solidarity with the world is extremely important to us and we are very grateful. We convey this sense of support to our friends in Ukraine. We transfer money from touring to friends and different causes in Ukraine, to displaced people, military, and medical help, anything to support our country in this difficult time.

When not touring, the band and family members are currently based in France. Some have children with them, others left parents and families behind, in Western Ukraine or in a safe country in Europe, Halanevych said.

The war is a big tragedy for us, he added. We want to remain a free and democratic country, we cherish our independence. Every day the best of ours in Ukraine are doing their best to preserve these freedoms. We believe in victory, that we will overcome.

As Ukrainians on a democratic path, we don't want to go back to the Soviet Union, he explained, an autocratic and despotic place where people live without basic freedoms, with no Independent courts, no rule of law, freedom of belief, freedom of speech and expression.

We Ukrainians cannot withstand the onslaught without the help of others, he stressed. This support with military weapons is extremely important so we can protect our families, our country, and defend our country from occupation.

The performance is deeply personal for Siyanko, who is also Ukrainian. Raised in her native Ukraine and also in Moscow where her maternal grandparents lived, she came to the United States at age 20 as a student.

Her mother still lives in Kyiv. At first when people started running and train stations were flooded with people, she said 'well, Im already old, let the mothers and kids escape first.' Then she said, 'the city is well protected,' so she feels she is safer there and prefers to be in her own apartment.

Without cars, Kyiv is very tranquil, a very green city full of parks, Siyanko said.

Siyanko has experienced a surge of interest in Ukrainian culture. At PS21, she maintains a focus of the arts in the midst of nature. Through DakhaBrakha and Earth, she brings the voice of tormented Ukraine to a peaceful place.

What:DakhaBrakha (Ukrainian ethno-chaos band) provides live soundtrack to Oleksandr Dovzhenkos silent film Earth (1930)

Where:PS21 open air pavilion theater, Performance Spaces for the 21st Century, 2980 NY-66, Chatham, N.Y.

When:8 p.m., Aug. 11 at 8 p.m. Doors open 7 p.m.

Admission:$35

COVID policy:Proof of full vaccination with booster or negative PCR test within 72 hours required, masks optional.

Tickets and more information:518-392-6121, ps21chatham.org

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What Are the Different Types of Gambling? – Programming Insider

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Gambling has been very popular for ages. Originating from China, people used to gamble on board games back in the days, and play two-player card games or rolling dice for a win. With time, as everything else, even gambling evolved into something much bigger. With the internet and digital era, we have witnessed so many developments in the world, and one of them is gambling. There is a pretty good reason for its popularity it is so much fun, when done responsibly!

When we take its popularity into consideration, it is only logical for gambling to be diverse, in order to satisfy different needs. Below we will take a look at different types of gambling and how they have taken over the world.

Good Old Casino Games

At the top of the list, we have the standard casino games. They have become so popular that now we have cities developed around them. One of the most popular casino cities are Las Vegas, Monte Carlo, Macau, Singapore, San Jose, Atlantic City and London. Not only do these cities attract millions of tourists every year, but they have an incorporated gambling infrastructure within them. Try walking down the Vegas Strip and lets see if you can resist entering into the sparkly, shiny casinos that are all around you! They have a full range of casino games: poker, blackjack, roulette, slot machines and baccarat.

In 2022, gambling reached its peak by conquering the online world. Now, you can find all of these games online. You can even get free bonuses to start playing, line in the best Michigan online casinos. The online gambling era brought so many people in, who previously couldnt get to these famous cities or even at a casino in their own city, and can now enjoy playing in the comfort of their own home.

Lottery Games

There is no doubt that every person has played the national lottery at least once in their life! Or if not the national lottery, then one of the many lotto games that are out there. Unlike many other types of gambling, these games are always down to pure chance and luck. There is no way a person can alter anything in order to win or improve their odds. You get them at the supermarket, or lotto booths at the mall, they are cheap and colorful, with different themes and stories. Games we can put under this category are: scratch-offs, keno, lottery, bingo etc.

Sports Betting

Probably one of the oldest forms of betting, starting from cave fights and horse racing, now to stadiums full of sport professionals, sports betting has become the elite of any type of gambling. One of the most popular sports for betting are soccer, American football, basketball, combat fights and horse racing. With the evolution of the internet, you can now bet in real time, i.e., you can actually bet on the outcome of a penalty kick that the soccer team gets in the game.

Basically, there is an option to bet on anything that is sport related, which just adds even more fun and excitement to the sport, if possible!

Betting Shops

Same as above, these are meant for sports betting. The only difference is that they are physical shops where you can go and place your bet for your favorite team. Betting shops exist all over the world. In many countries they are equipped with tables to sit around, get a drink and watch the game live.

No matter the location you are in, there are certain rules about gambling and you must follow them. If you travel to a different country, check the age limit for gambling, so you can enjoy and have fun on the safe side.

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Pro teams deliver new pitch for sports gambling to NC lawmakers – WRAL News

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By Brian Murphy, WRAL sports investigative reporter

Raleigh, N.C. North Carolinas major professional sports teams pushed hard for state lawmakers to legalize online sports gambling before its narrow defeat earlier this summer. They wrote letters, held in-person meetings with lawmakers and brought famous faces around the legislative building.

Now with the legislation likely to return next season, the teams are applying more pressure, explaining to key lawmakers that failure to act could punish their bottom lines and their ability to compete.

Before I think it was more of encouragement and how this would be helpful, said Sen. Jim Perry, a Kinston Republican, who co-sponsored the primary sports gambling bill. I think the follow up conversations have been, Hey, do you understand youre putting us at a competitive disadvantage against other teams, other states, other locations? Im not positive that the first round of conversations were in that manner.

Carolina Hurricanes general manager Don Waddell has been the pro hockey franchises point person on the gambling issue. He met with lawmakers in their offices throughout the past year. Waddell, a former player and coach, said hes learned more about politics in the past six months than he ever thought he would. He said online sports gambling is a competitive issue.

Compared to a lot of teams, were already way behind, he said. We cant compete with all the Canadian cities, the New Yorks, Bostons. We cant continue to fall further behind.

The Hurricanes, who advanced to the second round of the NHL playoffs last year, signed a five-year lease extension to remain at Raleighs PNC Arena through the 2028-29 season. The National Hockey League has a hard salary cap based on a 50-50 split of hockey-related revenue between the players and owners.

As revenues go up in the league overall, the cap goes up, Waddell said Thursday after a board meeting of the Centennial Authority, which owns PNC Arena. But if our revenues dont increase, now that 50-50 split starts to tilt the other way. For us, it might be 60% going to the players, only 40% going to us.

The Hurricanes, the NFLs Carolina Panthers and the NBAs Charlotte Hornets backed the online sports gambling legislation. Popular former Hornets players Mugsy Bogues and Dell Curry and Hornets team president Fred Whitfield visited with lawmakers previously.

The legislation would have allowed the teams arenas, plus Charlotte Motor Speedway and golf courses that host PGA Tour events, to operate sports lounges on or near their premises. Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro is hosting the PGA Tours Wyndham Championship this week, and Charlottes Quail Hollow Club hosts the Wells Fargo Classic annually.

I dont think it was in a threatening manner, Perry said. They have to be competitive. They need to monetize as much of their facilities as possible.

Senate Bill 688, Perrys bill, failed 51-50 in the state House in June, marking the end of a long, contentious process to legalize online sports wagering in the state. A companion bill that contained many changes, Senate Bill 38, passed 51-50 just moments before. An amendment to that legislation stripped college sports gambling out of the legislation, a significant blow to supporters. The vote was not along party lines.

The result surprised some lawmakers.

I thought the bill was on its way to passage, said Rep. Kelly Hastings, a Cleveland County Republican who voted against both bills. I kind of knew where my gut was. I knew where a lot of my constituents stood.

Sports gambling is legal in North Carolina, but only at tribal casinos. The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians owns two casinos in far-western North Carolina, where the first legal sports bet was accepted in March 2021. The Catawba Indian Nation is building a resort and casino in Kings Mountain in Cleveland County and currently operates a temporary casino, where it will begin taking sports bets this football season.

Hastings said he didnt receive pressure from the tribe or House leadership to vote for or against the bills. He said he informed the bills supporters of his intention to vote no ahead of time.

Everyone expects online sports wagering legislation to resurface next year. Will it meet a different fate?

Im confident, Waddell said. Weve got time now where everybodys heard it. Its been [at the] forefront. Now weve got the next three or five months to make sure everybody understands.

The state Senate passed the original bill in 2021 with Republicans and Democrats voting for and against the measure. Perry said new legislation would have to start in the House.

As the guy that sponsored the bill on the front end and navigated it through the Senate, Ive done my part, said Perry, who said he is not a gambler but sees the business impact of the legislation. If the topic comes up again, I think its reasonable that it needs to come back from their side back to us.

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Aug. 4DANVILLE The Danville Area Planning and Zoning Commission will meet at 5:15 p.m. Thursday at city hall to act on a zoning petition requested by the city's zoning administrator regarding gambling.

The city's Zoning Administrator/Community Development Administrator Logan Cronk is requesting approval of a text amendment to the city's zoning ordinance for definitions and addition to a table of uses.

Cronk said this is in anticipation for when the Illinois General Assembly does further expansion of gaming activity that would be regulated by the Illinois Gaming Board.

Casino will be added to the definitions, defined as: "A facility with a main floor level of at least 10,000 contiguous square feet that is authorized by the Illinois Gaming Board to conduct gambling games pursuant to the Illinois Gaming Act."

Casino also would be added to the table of zoning district uses in B-3 business zoning and I-2 industrial zoning districts. Off-street parking spaces required: 1/400 square feet of floor area.

According to a memo from Cronk and Corp. Counsel James Simon to the zoning commission: "The city would like to be in a position to respond quickly if and when the Illinois Gaming Board approves other forms of gaming within the State of Illinois. Such other forms might include greater or an unlimited numbers of video gambling terminals, expanded off-track betting parlors (OTB), expanded college and professional sports wagering, and/or a combination of these and other possible forms of gambling."

"The commission, as well as the city council, must be mindful that rezoning and zoning text amendments may have an impact on one or more properties in the effected zoning districts. Zoning places limitations on how property owners may use their properties that may, in turn, diminish the value of their properties."

Casino-type activity could be located in other B-3 and I-2 zoning districts other than the ones located on the city's southeast side, such as the Stoney Creek area and East Fairchild Street in terms of I-2 districts, and along U.S. 150 but south of the North Gilbert and Main streets intersection in terms of B-3 districts.

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The city already has 33 establishments with 180 video gaming terminals in operation.

"Consistent with the city's interest in promoting economic development and redevelopment and in anticipation that new forms of gambling activity may be authorized by the Illinois General Assembly beyond video gaming and traditional casino activity, allowing gambling activity in the B-3 and I-2 zoning districts could facilitate the further economic development of these districts as well as go towards eliminating blight and filling vacant structures within those districts."

The B-3 zoning district already provides for cultural, entertainment and recreation facilities as permitted uses. However, inclusion of the casino definition and including casino on the use table will clarify the city's position on where new gaming activity could be developed, according to city officials.

This change would not create any new restrictions on property use in B-3 and I-2 zoning districts, but would increase the number of uses permitted in order to expand opportunities for future economic development.

City staff spoke with Joliet planning staff who said: Joliet's Harrah's Casino was developed within a blighted and low property value area. Property values increased greatly after construction and development of Harrah's Casino. Joliet's planning staff attribute the significant increase in property values in and about Harrah's Casino to that project.

Also, Hollywood Casino & Hotel was constructed and developed in an industrial corridor in Joliet. Joliet planning staff told Danville officials that following completion of that casino, the corridor has remained predominantly industrial. The construction and development of that casino had had no negative impact on adjacent and nearby industrial property values.

"(Danville) city staff see no reason to believe that an expansion of gaming activity within a B-3 and/or an I-2 zoning district would have any negative impact on the values of adjacent and nearby properties," according to Cronk and Simon.

To date, the city hasn't received any noise complaints from neighbors of establishments that make video gaming available where such complaints relate to the gaming function in those facilities.

Also in discussions with city planners in other casino communities, they've reported their casinos and video gaming locations have had no appreciable impact on crime within the facilities' areas and they've had a positive influx of visitors enjoying the casinos and spending money elsewhere in their communities, according to Cronk and Simon.

"The future revenue that the city hopes to gain from allowing additional lawful gaming activity in the city can be used for further improvements to infrastructure, blight reduction and additional economic development separate from that which could be generated by adoption of the city's proposed text and table of uses amendments," Danville staff state.

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Gambling Sponsorships in UK Sports on the Rise, New Study Finds – Casino.Org News

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An effort to ban gambling sponsorships of sports teams in the UK has a lot of momentum. However, a new study by Caytoo, a sponsorship relations company, shows an increase in sponsorship deals.

The English Premier League (EPL) will likely sign off on a voluntary front-of-shirt sponsorship ban, even as some of its clubs sign new deals. This would appease gambling opponents everywhere and respond to what the league says is overwhelming support from its fans.

However, in other sports, sponsorships are on the rise. Caytoo reports that rugby, cricket, and others are embracing the gambling industry more than before.

Over the past few years, the number of gaming companies holding prime real estate on sports jerseys dropped by 48%. This has been particularly evident in the EPL. Most league clubs reportedly support the idea that sports and sports betting dont mix well.

However, beginning last year, the number of gaming-related sponsorships grew, according to the surveys findings. Caytoo looked closely at 226 soccer, rugby, and cricket teams across England and Wales before finding the surprising results.

Gambling is the fourth-most prevalent front-of-shirt sponsor and the third-fastest growing sector in sports sponsorships. However, even with a growth rate of 9.2% and a 7.5% penetration, it still only holds a small piece of the market.

[Deals] in rugby and cricket have resulted in a mini comeback which will surprise many as publicity on gambling sponsorship centres on football. So, the big questions are: will the Premier League voluntary ban happen and if so, will other divisions or sports such as rugby and cricket follow suit? reads the Caytoo report.

Gaming regulators, certain politicians, and gambling opponents have been behind a campaign to eliminate all forms of gambling advertising in the UK, including sponsorships. However, recent rumors indicate that the governments forthcoming white paper on gambling wont include a mandatory sponsorship ban.

Instead, it may suggest a voluntary ban, which the EPL will likely vote on in September. Eight of the leagues 20 teams still have gaming-related front-of-shirt sponsorships.

Previously, financial services, construction, and travel and tourism sectors took prominent positions on sports shirts. However, these sponsors have fallen by at least 4.4%.

Last year, the financial services sector was second in sports sponsorships. However, it has now dropped from 8.4% to 6.1%. Liquor and alcohol deals are also down, going from 3.1% to 1.3%.

Even with the increase in gambling sponsorships, they still have their preferred segments for cricket and rugby. For cricket, automotive companies now control 17.7% of the shirts. This is up from 13.1% a year ago. Alcohol took its biggest loss, going from 9.8% to just 3.2%.

In rugby, for both the rugby union and the rugby leagues, retail is the leader. It moved up from 7% to 13.3%. In addition, financial services plummeted from 15.8% to 5%.

It still isnt clear what the future holds for gambling in the UK. There are a lot of unanswered questions that the white paper will address. However, continued delays in its release only make it more difficult for gaming operators to make long-term plans.

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Gambling addiction in teens a key focus for MDHHS – WOODTV.com

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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) While we work through the dog days of summer, lots of sports fans are gearing up for football season. High schoolers are working through two-a-days, college teams are preparing for their openers and the NFLs preseason kicks off Thursday night with the annual Hall of Fame game.

The rush toward football season also means a spike at sportsbooks across the country and more stress for people who deal with gambling addictions.

While soccer is the most popular sport for gamblers across the world, football is tops in the U.S. According to the Sports Encyclopedia, NFL wagers make up nearly half of all sports bets in the country and the Super Bowl is the most commonly bet sports event in the nation.

According to the National Council on Problem Gambling (NCPG), one out of every 100 Americans has a severe gambling addiction. In the four years since gambling restrictions were overturned in 2018, researchers have noticed a sharp rise among gambling addiction in teens and young adults.

The world of gambling was thrown off its axis in 2018 when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act. The federal anti-gambling law was signed in 1992 and took effect in 1993. The law banned sports betting outside of four states: Delaware, Montana, Nevada and Oregon. Those states were grandfathered in because they already had an established sports betting industry.

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie started the movement, challenging the law in 2014. His successor, Phil Murphy, took office in 2018 and continued the push. The Supreme Court ultimately declared the law unconstitutional with a 6-3 vote, allowing other states to implement its own laws for sports gambling.

Business boomed. By May 2022, 35 states including Michigan had legalized some form of sports betting or online gaming. Sportsbooks are taking bets in 30 of those.

According to the American Gaming Association, approximately $57 billion was spent on sports bets in the United States in 2021, up 177% from the 2020 haul of $21.6 billion. Sports betting alone accounted for more than $4 billion in revenue last year for American casinos and sportsbooks.

In 2021, the NCPG released the results of a massive survey on the public attitudes toward gambling. More than 28,000 people were surveyed and the study was able to break down more than 170 data points.

Some of the biggest takeaways were that people under the age of 35 were at a higher risk to develop a gambling addiction and that sports bettors were more likely to exude problematic behavior.

The NCPG included four common problematic gambling behaviors in the survey: the need to place larger bets to generate excitement, feeling restless or irritable when actively trying to stop gambling, relying on others to pay gambling debts or lying or hiding gambling habits.

According to the survey, 93% of people 75 years and older said no to all four signs of problematic gambling. For the 55-64 age group, the response dropped to 79%. For people between the age of 18 and 35, that number was only 48%.

Thats why for Alia Lucas, the gambling disorder program manager for the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, the focus on educating the public on gambling addiction is centered on teens and young adults. The main tool? A gambling disorder prevention curriculum called Stacked Deck.

Right now, we are disseminating that curriculum and training for that curriculum to different leaders in the state, to community facilitators, community partners to have it promoted amongst the youth within their regions, Lucas told News 8.

Lucas is also working to get the curriculum integrated into school systems because of another set of data points. According to the NCPG survey, between 60% and 80% of high school students admitted to gambling for money in the past year and an estimated 4% to 6% of high schoolers are considered gambling addicts.

Detroit Public Schools, along with Shiawassee, Genesee and Lapeer counties, are serving as a pilot program to teach the Stacked Deck curriculum in classrooms and Lucas is in talks with the state education coordinator on expanding it.

Lucas says its important that the teachers using the curriculum can connect with students in a way that transcends the classroom.

When you were in school, who were the cool teachers? The gym teachers, drivers ed, were thinking along the lines of where the relationships lie, Lucas said. So were working at the state level to strategically focus our messaging and create opportunities for relationships that allow us to get the information into the schools, or at least in front of the prominent authorities that will then be more amenable for us to get it into the schools.

Virginia has taken a similar tactic. A bill there requiring all public schools to teach students about gambling risks received nearly unanimous support in the state legislature and was signed into law by Gov. Glenn Youngkin in April.

State Delegate Sam Rasoul, who introduced the bill, told Stateline that the rise in youth gambling addiction is a problem that needs to be addressed.

I had some Virginia families contact me saying, This is a problem, what should we do about it? Rasoul told Stateline. (This) is a great step for Virginia.

There is no bill on gambling addiction curriculum up for consideration in the Michigan Legislature.

Lucas is set to launch another tool that she hopes will help teens and young people dealing with gambling addiction: an anonymous text and chat line.

The state already has a toll-free hotline for people struggling with a gambling addiction, connecting them to trained counselors 24 hours a day. Lucas hopes that by introducing a less personal text-based platform, more people will feel comfortable enough to reach out.

I think we can all agree that when you think about text and chatting, the demographic thats going to take advantage of those opportunities are younger adults. It also provides a greater amount of anonymity. It might be easier for someone to simply sit there on their phone and text and chat, Lucas said.

The platform is set to launch Oct. 1, though there are still some problems to be worked out.

They have the platform. They are going through implementation training now. Theyre developing the way theyre going to disseminate the program, Lucas said. But are we going to use the current helpline staff and in their downtime have them answering texts and chats? Or will it be necessary to hire additional staff solely to address that aspect of service delivery.

If you or someone you know has a gambling problem and needs help, you can reach the Michigan Problem Gambling Helpline at 1.800.270.7117.

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Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation, diversifying beyond gambling and entertainment at Foxwoods, acquires government contracting firm – Hartford Courant

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The parent company of Foxwoods Resort Casino announced Wednesday its latest business acquisition intended to generate revenue regardless of business conditions and pandemics.

Command Holdings, the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nations holding company with expertise in government, health care, facilities management and technology, acquired WWC Global, a Tampa, Florida-based government contracting firm focusing on federal agencies. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

[Connecticuts two casinos generate $175M million in online and sports gambling revenue; foot traffic slows as gas hits $5 a gallon]

The tribe definitely was intentional about diversifying its economy in industries that can weather different economic downturns and cycles and away from gaming, said Angelina Casanova, a Mashantucket Pequot Tribal member and chairwoman of the Command Holdings board of directors.

With a little less than $100 million in annual revenue and 350 employees, WWC Globals portfolio of customers includes the departments of Defense, Homeland Security and State and Agency for International Development.

WWC Global is a professional services contractor, working on the business side of government, including financial management, budgets, training and other programs. Jon Panamaroff, chief executive officer of Command Holdings, said federal contracting is more sustainable than seasonal type businesses that are exposed to up and down cycles.

WWC Global was founded by women who were barred from working with their husbands on overseas military bases, Chief Executive Officer Lauren Weiner said.

We had come out of professional level careers ourselves, she said. We were told that we basically needed to sit home and enjoy being military spouses overseas and not work. It was not what we wanted to hear. It was not what we wanted to do.

Tribal leaders decided to focus on diversifying the Mashantucket Pequot business following the Great Recession, Casanova said. Slot revenue was off nearly 11% in 2008, a loss of $88.7 million from before the recession in 2006.

More than a decade later, the pandemic and a nearly three-month shutdown of Foxwoods in 2020 to slow the spread of COVID-19 led to a collapse in revenue. It began to climb back slowly as the pandemic receded.

But even before COVID-19, revenue was under pressure as casino competition intensified in the Northeast. MGM Springfield opened in August 2018 and Wynn Resorts Encore Boston Harbor opened the following year, drawing gamblers and visitors from Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun and adding to an already crowded market in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York and Rhode Island.

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Slot revenue at Foxwoods fell in each of the three years before the pandemic, from $468 million in 2017 to $431.3 million in 2019, a nearly 8% decline.

Foxwoods, which the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation needs to support its credit, creates vulnerability to competition and an inability to sell assets to repay debt, Moodys Investors Service analysts John E. Puchalla and Keith Foley wrote in an April 21 note.

Casino competition and the clear field in sports betting and online gambling that some states enjoyed were critical issues in negotiations last year with the administration of Gov. Ned Lamont to craft legislation authorizing sports betting and expanded gambling on phones, tablets and laptops.

Nationally, tribal enterprises are economic engines, locally and regionally, according to a report by the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. As of January 2020, tribes provided more than 1.1 million jobs in the U.S., most of which were held by nontribal members. Tribes are active in numerous industries, including hospitality, tourism, energy, manufacturing and development and financial services, the report said.

The recent acquisition by the Mashantucket Pequots is not the first for Command Holdings, which wrapped up two other deals in July 2021. It acquired CeLeen Inc., a St. Louis-based information technology company, and Quattro Consulting in Washington, D.C.

It owns a fourth company, Copperhead Technologies, a computer programming and systems design company.

Stephen Singer can be reached at ssinger@courant.com.

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‘Will he be gambling instead?’: Knut explains why xQc is a D-tier possible Camp Knut addition – Dot Esports

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While ranking potential future Camp Knut prospects with Nmplol, Norwegian bodybuilder and livestreamer Knut predicted that Twitchs most viewed streamer, xQc, would likely not fair well at the fitness boot camp.

Camp Knut is a month-long fitness event spearheaded by coaches Knut and Wake Wilder, training various OTK members in weightlifting, dieting, and other forms of physical wellness. Two weeks into the boot camp, Camp Knut has drawn a significant following and led to notable bumps in viewership for nearly every participant. The lucrative success of Camp Knut so far, both in terms of viewership and results, has already led to speculation about future fitness events and potentially new streamer rosters.

While on stream with OTK co-founder and Camp Knut participant Nmplol, the multi-time bodybuilding champion ranked a wide array of streamers in regards to how he believed they would do at his intensive workout camp. Knut showed an interest in recruiting different streamers for any future iteration of the camp, with some ambitious requests.

When it came time to rank Twitchs single most-viewed English-speaking streamer, Knut explained why he would eventually place him at the D category in a tier list of potential Camp Knut attendees. Knut referenced xQcs notorious dependabilityor lack thereofin regards to collaborative streaming events, citing his concerns that xQc may suddenly stop showing up or fail to respond.

The thing is about xQc, you would never know. Thats the problem, Knut said. Will he show up? Will he respond? Will he be there playing some random game? He will show up the first day and then get stuck playing games. We dont know. Will he be gambling instead? Who knows? Maybe Jubilee will post a new video that he had to react to, might happen as well.

After listing his barrage of concerns for the Twitch star, Knut solemnly placed xQc in the D tier, amongst the likes of Mitch Jones, Forsen, and Sodapoppin. Still, it was not the worse possible placement for xQc, as he stood mere centimeters above the F tier.

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Singapore’s New Gambling Regulatory Authority Became Operational as of August 1 – European Gaming Industry News

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The Indian government requested Apple and Google to remove Battlegrounds Mobile India (BGMI) from their app stores on July 28th, one year after it launched in the country. Our research shows that the popular battle royale game, published by South Korean firm Krafton, is no longer available for download. The request comes in the wake of several allegations made against the game for being a rebranded version of PUBG Mobile, which was banned in September 2020 due to national security concerns. These concerns were recently raised in the Indian Parliament, with the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) stating that BGMI was a different app to PUBG Mobile, suggesting it was not a national security concern. Its unclear what changed to cause MeitY to pull the app.

While the government has not issued a statement to confirm the game is permanently banned, Reuters reported that the title was pulled by MeitY using Section 69A of the Information Technology Act, the same act that was used to justify the ban of 321 mobile apps since June 2020. BGMI is the 57th game pulled due to this regulation. The bans have primarily targeted mobile apps from China, primarily citing national security risks. BGMIs takedown comes just 5 months after the ban of Garena Free Fire, the most popular battle royale game in India until then.

Krafton launched BGMI after PUBG Mobile was banned

MeitY originally banned PUBG Mobile in September 2020 due to national security and data privacy issues following, though not necessarily as a result of border tensions with China. While the PUBG IP is owned by Krafton, PUBG Mobile was developed and published in India by Chinese gaming giant Tencent. At the time of its ban,PUBG Mobile was the #1 game in Indiaby both revenue and downloads and had been a key driver of mobile gaming growth in the country. The ban had a profound impact on the battle royale segment and broader gaming ecosystem, with the unserved demand satiated by Garena Free Fire over time.

Krafton announced in November 2020 that it would bring its core battle royale experience back to India, with BGMI launching in July 2021. Krafton fully committed to the Indian market by self-publishing the title, introducing local servers to store user data securely and in country, and by announcing it would invest over US$100 million in the Indian gaming, esports, entertainment and IT industries, which it has done. The game saw significantly high uptake at launch given the popularity of battle royale games in the country, with 40 million registrations prior to launch and 16 million daily active users in its first 10 days.

BGMI had over 100 million downloads in its first year

BGMI has been a huge success for Krafton and the title was on track to reach the 200 million download mark that PUBG Mobile had achieved prior to its September 2020 ban. The title had quickly become the #2 highest grossing mobile game in India and its 2022 revenue was set to exceed that of PUBG Mobiles peak year. BGMI has also become the leading esports title in India with Krafton investing heavily in the space to set up the Battlegrounds Mobile India Pro Series, an official league for Indian teams with a prize pool of US$260,000.

According toNikos Asia Esports Tracker,BGMI is the #1 title by prize pool in India, with its total 2022 prize pool accounting for 35% of total prize pool revenue for all local and regional esports tournaments. The game also saw massive endorsement from streamers, esports organizations, and teams with high participation across key events. The BGMI Masters Series LAN event was also the first tournament to be televised live on Indian TV, reaching 12.3 million viewers.

How this impacts Indias mobile game market

If BGMI does not return to app stores, we believe it may have a material impact on the short-term growth rate of Indias mobile game market and the esports ecosystem. Battle royale is the most popular mobile game genre by player spending in India according to data from Sensor Tower, accounting for over 1/3 of total mobile game spending in 2021. BGMI and Free Fire accounted for over 95% of total spend on mobile battle royale games in 2021 and H1 2022, but both titles have been removed from app stores this year. However, Nikos research shows that Free Fire MAX, a high-end version of Free Fire from Garena, remains available on Google Play. Its unclear how MAX is still operating on Google Play, but the MAX version was not specifically included in the ban list where Free Fire was banned.

There will also be a negative impact on the broader BGMI ecosystem, especially within esports and live streaming. Everyday players will now be looking for a new title to play, and we expect most to shift over to Free Fire MAX assuming the title continues to operate. Call of Duty: Mobile (Activision Blizzard) may also benefit given its strong position in the market as an established shooter game with a battle royale mode that consistently ranks in the top ten game revenue chart. Apex Legends Mobile (Electronic Arts), New State (Krafton Title was formerly PUBG New State) and Farlight 84 (Lilith Games) are core battle royale games that may also benefit, but we note that these titles are not as established as Call of Duty Mobile and Free Fire MAX.

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Casino Games Studio 4ThePlayer Launches In New Jersey after receiving transactional waiver from NJ DGE – Gambling Industry News

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Game developer 4ThePlayer.com has announced today that it has been granted a transactional waiver by the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement (DGE) and is live across New Jersey, with its partnered gambling operators.

This allows 4ThePlayer.com to launch its top-performing titles at licensed operators in the state of New Jersey, the first of many US states into which 4ThePlayer.com will enter this year.

The first game to be launched is 9k Yeti followed by 6 Wild Sharks and 3 Secret Cities in the coming months. Each title has a player-centric innovation that sets it apart from other titles on the market, as well as Big Reel Portrait Mode, 4ThePlayers proprietary mobile display mode that overcomes the challenges of portrait mobile play to create an immersive player experience.

Chris Ash, Business Development Director of 4ThePlayer.com, said,

We are delighted to be granted our transactional waiver and to be live in the USA this is a milestone for 4ThePlayer and our first step into the exciting US market. We cannot wait for players in New Jersey to enjoy our games and we look forward to further US expansion in additional states soon!

The games are available on Gaming Realms, via a platform distribution deal that was announced in 2021.

4ThePlayer.com is a leading challenger brand game supplier with a focus on innovation and player entertainment! Their games include 9k Yeti, 4 Fantastic Fish, 90k Yeti, 3 Secret Cities and 6 Wild Sharks.

Their mission is to create the most exciting games for players with concise, engaging game mechanics and the best math profiles for big-win potential. Using innovation to create new gambling-focused entertainment experiences!

The London based supplier was founded in 2018 by industry veterans Andrew Porter, Chris Ash, Thomaz Scalzilli, and Henry McLean to create player-centric games that enhance the iGaming industry and champion the player! The team are players themselves and have over 50 years of industry experience, as well as a proven track record having already created success in start-ups and FTSE 250 companies.

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To Protect Free Speech, Social Media Platforms Must Stop their Overreach – The Ripon Society

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Assaults on the culture of free speech grow by the day. Unfortunately, much of the assault is coming from the major social media platforms.

The power of our democracy and the genius of our First Amendment is our recognition that no single authority can dictate what is true. We work out our disagreements through speech, publishing, and organizing into groups.

For centuries, reaching others with our views was difficult work, and in many respects it still is. But thanks to social media, most Americans can publish anything and theoretically reach millions of fellow citizens and even much of the world.

As noted by the U.S. Supreme Court, social media platforms for many are the principal sources for speaking and listening in the modern public square, where Americans share vital information and express their opinions.

Social media allowed more Americans to engage in public speech than ever before, but like past revolutions in communications technology, it also triggered a backlash. Politicians, media outlets, or activists increasingly pressure companies to censor speech they deem false or misleading, or simply oppose. Lately, much of this speech concerns issues related to elections and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Certainly, you can find false claims about both topics online (and off) with ease. Yet the platforms judgments are far from infallible, and their heavy hand threatens to stifle important debates about unsettled issues. In fact, this has already happened.

Early in the pandemic, Facebook and YouTube censored claims that the SARS-CoV-2 virus originated from a lab leak in China, a theory that remains plausible to this day. And, of course, Twitter and Facebook restricted the New York Posts reporting about emails on Hunter Bidens laptop in the leadup to the 2020 election, claiming they were the product of foreign misinformation. After the election, the emails proved to be authentic.

Many Democrats have encouraged this trend towards censorship. Recall that then-White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki urged faster action against harmful posts and suspension of accounts across all platforms. The Biden Administration created the so-called Disinformation Governance Board before disbanding it in response to public outrage.

Many Republicans say they oppose censorship but want to repeal Section 230, which immunizes social media companies from liability for posts by users. That would likely result in even more censorship from platforms eager to avoid costly litigation. It would also make it effectively impossible for new social media companies to take down the incumbents.

What to do?

Lets stipulate that there are no easy answers. But many of the actions taken now pose real threats to free speech while doing little to stop misinformation and may enable more of it.

Some of the wealthiest corporations in the world operate social media sites, and their mission is to maximize profits. Getting on the wrong side of government officials is bad for business. This creates terrible incentives for the platforms to censor based on the views of the party in power.

Politicians who attempt to influence platforms speech policies are a menace to free speech. Platforms should focus on empowering their users, not their critics or the government, to control what content they see.

The government has a role to play in protecting free speech on the internet. We can create ethics laws and rules preventing government officials from using threats against platforms to get them to censor. And we should consider creating a legal defense against government enforcement actions against social media platforms if the government initiates action based on its interest in retaliating against a platforms refusal to censor or silence itself or its users.

Throughout history, free speech and open debate have been societys best tools for discovering the truth and managing our disagreements.

We also need more information on how the platforms use algorithms to promote and suppress content. Right now, all we get are random information dumps from whistleblowers. If no one knows how social medias black box algorithms are working and failing, how can we come up with sensible government policies?

Ultimately, the solution must come from the platforms themselves. They should return to the more speech-friendly mindset embraced before 2016. Taking on the role of a private sector Ministry of Truth has been a disaster for their reputations with no clear benefit to the public. And it is especially dangerous given the threats wielded by government officials against the platforms.

Throughout history, free speech and open debate have been societys best tools for discovering the truth and managing our disagreements. The technology that we use to express ourselves has changed many times, from the printing press to the telegraph to radio and television and now, to social media. The underlying principles of the First Amendment will always stand the test of time.

David Keating is the president of the Institute for Free Speech in Washington, DC.

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How are book bans connected to free speech?

Those who are banning or limiting access to books often try to ensure that people dont think in certain ways, and that they dont speak in certain ways, or about certain topics. Banning books is an effort to make sure that difficult topics dont come up, especially in schools. This is an aspect of a broader political and cultural struggle over who belongs, or what values prevail in American society.

In your view, why are book bans and challenges increasing now?

The issue of book banning within the context of the broader culture wars has two different dimensions. One is the electoral, partisan, political-power-play aspect: Its a way to get peoples attention, to get people riled up and angry, to get them to pay more attention to politics and come out to vote. Books, curricula, teachers, schools, these are everywhere in every community. Close to 90% of American kids go to public school. So, if you find something in school that really angers people, is upsetting, its easy to get attention. The other aspect is more substantive, and that is the struggle to define the boundaries of the political community in America. In other words, who belongs? Whose voices should be heard? And today again the two most salient aspects of this are race, along with gender and sexuality; these are the main topics of books that are being questioned or pulled out of the libraries in different ways, being censored, being cancelled.

The struggle over race is a really a response, or a push back, to the racial justice wave that we have seen after the murder of George Floyd two years ago. I think the growing perception around the country is that a broad coalition of people who were very angry, who were awakened to aspects of racial injustice that maybe they were unaware of, or just didnt pay attention to, or previously didnt care too much about, especially non-Black people, this broad coalition joined with Black Americans and was looking to schools and to cultural artifacts like books to sustain this attention and commitment to preventing these injustices from happening. Curricula and books and schools and teachers were a way to sustain this effort, to say: We cant go on like this, we have to change the way that certain institutions, like the police, are treating Black people, but also more broadly the racial injustice seen for a very long time in this country. An effort to say, Lets use this moment to train teachers, to expose children to these issues, to make sure that we are making a difference here. Book banning is a backlash to that movement.

And the backlash is similar regarding sexuality and gender expression. We have seen the legal recognition of marriage equality. We are seeing the proliferation of books and materials in classrooms and libraries in celebration of Pride Month, and the greater visibility and cultural acceptance of transgender, and nonbinary, and diverse-gender-expression individuals in books and movies and society. We are seeing more recognition of equal rights, or the demand for equal rights and equal representation, of individuals with diverse forms of gender expression and diverse identities in the domain of gender and sexuality.

Book banning is a pushback against these efforts to expand our vision of our community, to try to entrench and limit again the scope of what is appropriate and what is desirable.

What is next?

I assume this struggle will continue at the local and national levels, especially in schools. Books in schools and in libraries are just easier to regulate. Its harder to regulate which characters you have on a Netflix show, but its pretty easy, relatively speaking, to elect people to state and local government, to school boards, who say, for example, These books are corruptive, or These are not age-appropriate, or We are reviewing these books, and creating processes for approving books that end up impoverishing libraries and curricular material in the presentation of diverse people. Which obviously is a disconcerting, because people have diverse identities, and theyre here, in our neighborhoods and classrooms, theyre not going anywhere, so trying to erase them from our cultural materials, from a book, from our teaching materials, does nothing to make them disappear. In reality, it makes them hide. It makes them shameful and uncomfortable and feel rejected. The book bans are telling them that they are not accepted as equal members of our community. I am encouraged by the efforts at the local and national levels to organize and to push back against book bans.

What is the effect of these book bans?

My worry is that at least in the areas where these efforts gain ground, you will see people who are not aligned with this conservative vision of appropriate behavior, of being proper and respectable people, just not finding room for themselves. You will see people from diverse racial and ethnic groups, gay and trans people, recognize that some prominent members of their community would prefer that they not be there. I think thats a terrible message to send to anyone, and definitely to young children.

This is not new to LGBTQ folks, who are being pushed back into the closet through the mechanism of erasing their presence in the public domain with the message: You shouldnt be out as an individual, and We shouldnt encourage you to be out by representing you positively in a book, or a TV show, or a film.

Regarding the racial issue, its a little different. Those who are seeking to ban books about racial history and relations, about injustice or inequality, are trying to minimize both the history of slavery and discussion on injustices today. Its an effort to represent history since the Civil Rights movement as having fixed any issues Black Americans face. It is an effort to cleanse the public discourse from references to unpleasant, uncomfortable truths, about American history and current reality, a discussion that is deemed uncomfortable for white people, and in particular white children. This effort, which is represented by banning books, for example about Martin Luther King Junior or Ruby Bridges, is really at the heart of book banning. I dont think thats a good goal for educators. Complex, complicated, age-appropriate conversations are hard, but the fact that its hard does not means that it needs to be scrubbed away. Teachers need to be supported in having these conversations, and books are a great aid for that.

Do book bans really make much of a difference, with access to just about anything via cell phone or computer?

What you read at school is very nice and good and important, but its definitely not the main avenue through which you get your information, and your understanding of your society. Of course, a lot of the same people who are banning books are also trying to regulate social media and the Internet. So, while the effort to censor is not focused only on books, I am very concerned about the limitations on books, I think about children and young people who live in less-affluent areas, or where theres less diversity, and where you don't always have broadband, and not every kid has an iPhone in their pocket. What do you do if youre the one Muslim kid in your school? What do you do if you are 13 and think that you are gay?

I also worry culturally about the message that were sending, because even if you can get information through your phone, the book ban lets you know that those in your communitymaybe your own teachers or elected officialssee these aspects of your reality and identity as something to be ashamed of, to be embarrassed about, to be silent about, something that doesnt belong. Kids get this message, which is both personally difficult and socially chilling.

How can higher education be involved?

Truth and inclusion should, in my view, serve as the guiding principles for organizing the public discourse around difficult topics.

We need tools for assessing the effort to cancel or silence different forms of expression, through banning books and other means. What is a reasonable argument about a book being inappropriate for a classroom? Can we agree about criteria for selecting books and teaching materials? Truth and inclusion are the two main dimensions of assessing the arguments. One, we need to refer to evidence, as accepted by relevant studies, to assess what should or should not be a part of our teaching materials. The second is a question of inclusion: We need to ensure that people who are within our community can properly see themselves as belonging, as positively represented. How do you create equal standing for everyone who lives here, and ensure that they have their voices heard?

Institutions of higher education are important for developing evidenced-based tools for assessment. They can also help advocate for using truth and inclusion as the guiding principles for learning in K-12 schools. Similar struggles are taking place on college campuses, and the culture wars over the boundaries of speech are familiar to us. Higher education is already setting the expectations for what children should learn in school, through our admissions policies and what we expect high school graduates to know. We should support schools by calling for inclusive learning environments, reliance on evidence-based decisions about teaching materials, and above all, free thought and free inquiry.

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Tesla was founded in 2003 by a group of engineers who wanted to prove that people didnt need to compromise to drive electric that electric vehicles can be better, quicker and more fun to drive than gasoline cars. Today, Tesla builds not only all-electric vehicles but also infinitely scalable clean energy generation and storage products. Tesla believes the faster the world stops relying on fossil fuels and moves towards a zero-emission future, the better.

Launched in 2008, the Roadster unveiled Teslas cutting-edge battery technology and electric powertrain. From there, Tesla designed the worlds first ever premium all-electric sedan from the ground up ModelS which has become the best car in its class in every category. Combining safety, performance, and efficiency, ModelS has reset the worlds expectations for the car of the 21st century with the longest range of any electric vehicle, over-the-air software updates that make it better over time, and a record 0-60 mph acceleration time of 2.28 seconds as measured by Motor Trend. In 2015, Tesla expanded its product line with ModelX, the safest, quickest and most capable sport utility vehicle in history that holds 5-star safety ratings across every category from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Completing CEO Elon Musks Secret Master Plan, in 2016, Tesla introduced Model3, a low-priced, high-volume electric vehicle that began production in 2017. Soon after, Tesla unveiled the safest, most comfortable truck ever Tesla Semi which is designed to save owners at least $200,000 over a million miles based on fuel costs alone. In 2019, Tesla unveiled Model Y, a mid-size SUV, with seating for up to seven, and Cybertruck, which will have better utility than a traditional truck and more performance than a sports car.

Tesla vehicles are produced at its factory in Fremont, California, and Gigafactory Shanghai. To achieve our goal of having the safest factories in the world, Tesla is taking a proactive approach to safety, requiring production employees to participate in a multi-day training program before ever setting foot on the factory floor. From there, Tesla continues to provide on-the-job training and track performance daily so that improvements can be made quickly. The result is that Teslas safety rate continues to improve while production ramps.

To create an entire sustainable energy ecosystem, Tesla also manufactures a unique set of energy solutions, Powerwall, Powerpack and Solar Roof, enabling homeowners, businesses, and utilities to manage renewable energy generation, storage, and consumption. Supporting Teslas automotive and energy products is Gigafactory 1 a facility designed to significantly reduce battery cell costs. By bringing cell production in-house, Tesla manufactures batteries at the volumes required to meet production goals, while creating thousands of jobs.

And this is just the beginning. With Tesla building its most affordable car yet, Tesla continues to make products accessible and affordable to more and more people, ultimately accelerating the advent of clean transport and clean energy production. Electric cars, batteries, and renewable energy generation and storage already exist independently, but when combined, they become even more powerful thats the future we want.

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Tesla just filed its annual proxy statement with the SEC and revealed it plans a three-for-one stock split, and that board member Larry Ellison does not plan to stand for re-election.

Shares of Tesla were up by more than 1% after-hours having closed at $696.69 on Friday.

In the filing, the company wrote of the proposed stock split, "Our success depends on attracting and retaining excellent talent," and that "highly competitive compensation packages," offering every employee an option to receive equity, helped Tesla to do that. "We believe the Stock Split would help reset the market price of our common stock so that our employees will have more flexibility in managing their equity."

A stock split is cosmetic and could mean that smaller investors feel they can afford the stock, but those investors are minuscule compared to major institutions. Many brokerages already offer investors fractional trading, allowing small investors to buy a slice of seemingly expensive stocks.

In its 2022 proxy filing, the electric vehicle and renewable energy business, also revealed that board member Larry Ellison currently owns 1.5% of Tesla shares. Ellison plans to relinquish his duties as a member of Tesla's board of directors.

The filing also says that Tesla CEO Elon Musk currently holds 23.5% of Tesla shares and Vanguard holds 6% of Tesla shares. Musk sold a considerable chunk of his Tesla holdings since late 2021, in part to shore up a stake in Twitter, the social networking giant he agreed to acquire for around $44 billion.

Tesla announced a similar five-for-one stock split in August 2020.

In thirteen different proposals suggested by shareholders,Teslais being asked to examine and disclose more about its: anti-harassment and discrimination efforts, lobbying practices, supply chains and labor, and details about its own water use and water-related climate impacts and risks.

The company plans to hold its annual shareholder meeting online and with a limited number of shareholders invited to attend in person at the new Tesla factory in Austin, Texas on August 4, 2022.

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SI unit of magnetic field strength

The tesla (symbol: T) is a derived unit of the magnetic B-field strength (also, magnetic flux density) in the International System of Units.

One tesla is equal to one weber per square metre. The unit was announced during the General Conference on Weights and Measures in 1960 and is named[1] in honour of Serbian-American electrical and mechanical engineer Nikola Tesla, upon the proposal of the Slovenian electrical engineer France Avin.

The strongest fields encountered from permanent magnets on Earth are from Halbach spheres and can be over 4.5T. The record for the highest sustained pulsed magnetic field has been produced by scientists at the Los Alamos National Laboratory campus of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, the world's first 100-tesla non-destructive magnetic field.[2] In September 2018, researchers at the University of Tokyo generated a field of 1200T which lasted in the order of 100 microseconds using the electromagnetic flux-compression technique.[3]

A particle, carrying a charge of one coulomb, and moving perpendicularly through a magnetic field of one tesla, at a speed of one metre per second, experiences a force with magnitude one newton, according to the Lorentz force law. As an SI derived unit, the tesla can also be expressed as

(The last equivalent is in SI base units).[4]

Where A = ampere, C = coulomb, kg = kilogram, m = metre, N = newton, s = second, H = henry, V = volt, J = joule, and Wb = weber

In the production of the Lorentz force, the difference between electric fields and magnetic fields is that a force from a magnetic field on a charged particle is generally due to the charged particle's movement,[5] while the force imparted by an electric field on a charged particle is not due to the charged particle's movement. This may be appreciated by looking at the units for each. The unit of electric field in the MKS system of units is newtons per coulomb, N/C, while the magnetic field (in teslas) can be written as N/(Cm/s). The dividing factor between the two types of field is metres per second (m/s), which is velocity. This relationship immediately highlights the fact that whether a static electromagnetic field is seen as purely magnetic, or purely electric, or some combination of these, is dependent upon one's reference frame (that is, one's velocity relative to the field).[6][7]

In ferromagnets, the movement creating the magnetic field is the electron spin[8] (and to a lesser extent electron orbital angular momentum). In a current-carrying wire (electromagnets) the movement is due to electrons moving through the wire (whether the wire is straight or circular).

One tesla is equivalent to:[9][pageneeded]

One tesla is equal to 1 Vs/m2. This can be shown by starting with the speed of light in vacuum,[11] c = (00)1/2, and inserting the SI values and units for c (2.998108m/s), the vacuum permittivity 0 (8.851012As/(Vm)), and the vacuum permeability 0 (12.566107Tm/A). Cancellation of numbers and units then produces this relation.

For the relation to the units of the magnetising field (ampere per metre or Oersted), see the article on permeability.

The following examples are listed in ascending order of field strength.

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Tesla, Inc. is an American multinational automotive and clean energy company headquartered in Austin, Texas. Tesla designs and manufactures electric vehicles, battery energy storage from home to grid-scale, solar panels and solar roof tiles, and related products and services. Tesla is one of the world's most valuable companies and remains the world's most valuable automaker with a market capitalization of more than US$760 billion. The company had the most worldwide sales of battery electric vehicles and plug-in electric vehicles, capturing 21% of the battery-electric market and 14% of the plug-in market in 2021. Through its subsidiary Tesla Energy, the company develops and is a major installer of photovoltaic systems in the United States. Tesla Energy is also one of the largest global suppliers of battery energy storage systems, with 3.99 gigawatt-hours installed in 2021.Tesla was incorporated in July 2003 by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning as Tesla Motors. The company's name is a tribute to inventor and electrical engineer Nikola Tesla. In February 2004, via a $6.5 million investment, Elon Musk became the largest shareholder of the company. He has served as CEO since 2008. Wikipedia

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