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Loving Tells the Story of America’s
First Inter-racial Married Couple
By Ryan Rojas for cinemacy.com
As seen in a recurring set of events
throughout the film Loving, Richard Loving
(Joel Edgerton) strives to build a house for
his soon-to-be wife, Mildred (Ruth Negga).
At first, his brick-laying is fast and sloppy,
slapping cement in between bricks at a
thoughtless speed. It’s not long after Richard
and Mildred – an inter-racial couple in 1950s
Virginian South – move to Washington D.C.,
and encounter profound racism against them
over their relationship. In building this new
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Richard now lays the bricks and measures
much more concertedly, much more aware
and precise of how he must live overall to
ensure his and Mildred’s safety if they choose
to be together, and as a married couple.
Based on the true story of Richard and
Mildred Loving, Loving tells the real-life
story of America’s first interracial married
couple, a romance that invited jail time and
threatened their civil liberties. As a film,
Loving doesn’t intend to falsify sentiment,
or play to vapid conventions. The quiet yet
committed path of love that Richard and
Mildred Loving take while their enemies
– being the local townspeople, state police
department, or Supreme Court – hurl at them,
is a road paved with grace and dignity, and
serves as a template for how one can live
in this day and age.
Writer and director Jeff Nichols crafts this
movie to play like a love story unlike most;
it’s not a sweeping Hollywood romance like
The Notebook, and it’s not a suspenseful
courtroom drama, either. Nichols shows
how this pure-hearted love pushes all other
struggles to the periphery. It’s as if even the
film itself is an unwarranted intrusion of their
own relationship, and whose judgments and
opinions they wouldn’t care for.
Of course, the real magic in Loving comes
from the performances between Joel Edgerton
and Ruth Negga, who compliment each other
wonderfully as Richard and Mildred Loving
With his bleached hair and yellowed teeth, Joel
(in a career-best performance), tenderly shapes
the character of Richard to be a pure-hearted
Southerner, whose puppy-dog innocence
doesn’t consider that choosing to be with a
woman whose skin colors will threaten his
life as well. Ruth Negga as Mildred captivates
the screen with her enormous watering eyes
and total grace. Every moment of commitment
between them – whether whispering nighttime
love admissions to each other, building
a house together, or just the quiet looking
into each others eyes, shows how love will
always win in the end.
Loving is rated PG-13 for thematic elements.
Available to stream on HBO and to
rent on Amazon. •
Film Review
Loving courtesy Cinemacy.com
Ryan Rojas
Pandemic Spurs Innovation For
Small - To Mid-Sized Businesses
(BPT) - As COVID-19 continues to disrupt
normal day-to-day operations of small - to
mid-sized businesses and nearly half of the
U.S. workforce hangs in the balance, employers
are taking creative measures to reset
their go-to-market strategies and offerings.
By changing their operations to meet the
demands of their customers, businesses can
not only stay relevant but keep their staff
employed and thrive in the new economy.
This pandemic offers business owners,
investors and solopreneurs the opportunity to
take a critical look at their overall business
model, offerings and operations and reset
the entire business structure, creating new
opportunities to serve and prevail. This is the
perfect time to explore new legal solutions
to the most common business obstacles to
help companies preserve and protect their
brands and prosper for generations to come.
There are great examples of resets happening
within many industries.
With the pandemic closing summer camps
throughout the country, ACA-accredited Adventure
Links, a 23-year-old summer camp
in Virginia, has found a way to replace its
usual summer adventure camp programs with
The CampCloud(TM), an experiential online
alternative. The company is now offering
its virtual camping programs to individuals
and employers to assist employees working
from home by keeping their kids engaged,
learning and delighted all day from virtually
anywhere. The program is being offered to
other camps as a customizable, online option
for their campers.
Ensuring the health and safety of employers
when stay-at-home orders are lifted, and
business resumes, is critical. Thanks to a team
of entrepreneurs, Disinfect & Shield(TM),
an FDA-registered, EPA-approved and ecofriendly
disinfectant used in surgical suites
for the last decade, is now available to
businesses worldwide to kill SARS-CoV-2,
the virus that causes COVID-19 and other
dangerous organisms. It works by creating
a permanent anti-microbial shield, preventing
the virus from attaching to surfaces
where it has been applied without risk to
humans, animals or crops. With Disinfect
& Shield(TM), employees, customers and
visitors can feel safe knowing that their space
has been properly disinfected and treated for
optimum health and safety.
Clint Coons, founder of Anderson Business
Advisors, offers 5 financing and entity
creation tips to help entrepreneurs and small
business owners:
• Know how to use loans: CARES Act loans
have specific guidelines like having to use
at least 60% of the loan within 24 weeks of
receipt for payroll expenses. Concerned that
money would dry up, many small business
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How To Help Older Adults Avoid Fraudsters
During The COVID-19 Pandemic
(BPT) - Crises and upheaval have a way
of bringing out the best - and, sometimes the
worst - in society. That’s why, during this
month focused on Elder Abuse Awareness and
in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is
important to protect the online information of
senior and vulnerable friends and loved ones.
The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center
has seen an increase in online extortion attempts
as state governments have issued “stay-at-home”
orders in response to the crisis. That comes
at a time when The Better Business Bureau
says fraudsters are targeting older populations
in particular.
“Our elderly population are the wisest and
most treasured members of our communities,”
says DJ Johnson, Charles Schwab’s Senior
Vice President of Corporate Risk Management.
“However, they’re at a higher level of risk, not
only due to possible physical complications
with the virus, but also by being targeted by
online scammers who have increased their efforts
to defraud this susceptible group. As the
senior population is confronted with challenging
decisions, whether about visiting stores for
groceries or isolating themselves from loved
ones, criminals can prey on vulnerability from
several fronts.”
Scammers have deployed several methods
intended to trick individuals into sending money,
disclosing personal information or downloading
malicious software. At Schwab, teams are
trained to pay attention to behavioral cues that
might be the result of an attempted scam.
While fraud can come in many forms, here
are a few specific schemes that can be more
targeted at the senior population:
Emergency scams: Schemers misrepresent
themselves as a family member requesting
money for care, or requesting supplies to
“stay afloat.”
Social Security: Scammers pose as someone
from the Social Security Administration requesting
payment or personal information to prevent
benefits from being suspended or reduced.
Investment scams: Fraudsters promote investments
in companies that claim to prevent,
detect or provide a cure for COVID-19.
So now, more than ever, it’s important to
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