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Ban the Box is an American campaign by advocates for ex-offenders aimed at removing the check box that asking applicants about their potential criminal record from hiring applications. Its purpose is to enable ex-offenders to display their qualifications in the hiring process before being asked about their criminal records.
In 1990, the Earth Communications Office, a coalition formed within the US entertainment industry focused on the environment, launched a movement called “Ban the Box” in an effort to eliminate longboxes. [5] [6] The satirical band Spinal Tap's 1992 studio album Break Like the Wind was sold in an "extra-long box" (an 18 inches (46 cm) longbox).
The name kōban derives from the name of the earliest structure built in 1874, which were simple boxes meant for standing watch (立番, tachiban) in rotation (交替, kōtai), thus creating a compound word consisting of kō (交) and ban (番). [8]
Jun. 29—Kristy Laschober was an undergraduate student at Southern Oregon University in the spring of 2019 when a professor advised her, in the form of an assignment, to sign up for Twitter.
Box gacha is "pulling, without replacement". There is a slate of items in the box or banner, in specific quantities rather than via "with replacement", each-roll-is-independent probability. Over successive rolls, the set of possible "draws" shrinks until the player has all of the items.
Mock-up image of opening a loot box in a video game. In video game terminology, a loot box (also called a loot crate or prize crate) is a consumable virtual item which can be redeemed to receive a randomised selection of further virtual items, or loot, ranging from simple customisation options for a player's avatar or character to game-changing equipment such as weapons and armour.
The Onion Futures Act is a United States law banning the trading of futures contracts on onions as well as "motion picture box office receipts". [1]In 1955, two onion traders, Sam Siegel and Vincent Kosuga, cornered the onion futures market on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.
Ban (Internet), the banning of individual users from websites; Body Area Network, a wireless network of wearable computing devices; IP ban, a block set up by a server or website that blocks requests originating from particular IP addresses or ranges of addresses; Shadow ban or stealth ban, a practice used in managing online communities