iva Activation in the Passive World of Video By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 14:46:03 +0000 “Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I may remember. Involve me and I learn.” – Ben Franklin But what does it mean to be involved in […] The post Activation in the Passive World of Video appeared first on e-Learning Feeds. Full Article eLearning Software Blog eCommerce News Product Info
iva Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp reveals private meetings with Steven Gerrard during lockdown By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 16:41:00 +0100 Jurgen Klopp never got to manage Steven Gerrard at Liverpool but the pair still have a strong relationship given their connections to the club. Full Article
iva Man Utd to rival Jose Mourinho for transfer, Werner to Liverpool, Newcastle instruction By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 16:20:00 +0100 The summer transfer window is nearly upon us as Manchester United, Chelsea, Liverpool, Arsenal and the rest of the Premier League look to strengthen for whenever the new season starts. Express Sport brings you the latest updates throughout the day. Full Article
iva NASA astronaut Kathryn Sullivan on zero G dreams and fixing Hubble By www.newscientist.com Published On :: Wed, 15 Jan 2020 18:00:00 +0000 The first US woman to spacewalk flew on three shuttle missions and says nothing beats space flight – but her proudest achievement is helping to repair the Hubble Space Telescope Full Article
iva First private space rescue mission sees two satellites latch together By www.newscientist.com Published On :: Thu, 27 Feb 2020 19:39:13 +0000 A private satellite that is low on fuel could survive five more years because another satellite has come to its rescue – a technique that could be used by future service spacecraft Full Article
iva Why People Demanded Privacy to Confide in the World’s First Chatbot By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Mon, 18 Nov 2019 14:00:00 GMT In 1966, the Eliza program couldn’t say much—but it was enough Full Article robotics robotics/artificial-intelligence
iva Doctor Sleep’s Mike Flanagan to Breathe Life Into Stephen King’s Revival By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 19:24:34 -0400 If Stephen King keeps writing ‘em, we’ll keep seeing ‘em. Full Article mike flanagan stephen king adaptations movies horror revival
iva Ausenco falls to private equity By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Tue, 14 Jun 2016 14:00:00 GMT Former engineering high flyer Ausenco has become the latest mining services company to be swallowed by private equity. Full Article
iva RPGCast – Episode 360: “Talk Like A Pirate With The Privateers” By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Sat, 19 Sep 2015 19:32:18 +0000 Alice delivers missiles and then takes a shower. Anna Marie crosses her exes and upgrades her goggles. Chris kickstarts all the games and laments over... Full Article News Podcasts RPG Cast
iva RPGCast – Episode 399: “You Activated My Trap Chocobo” By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Sat, 01 Oct 2016 18:12:25 +0000 Square Enix comes up with an incredibly innovative idea to make money. Kickstarter proves itself to be the answer to everyone’s needs once again. And... Full Article News Podcasts RPG Cast
iva You, in your bedroom, with your laptop. That's not the future of film festivals | Peter Bradshaw By www.theguardian.com Published On :: 2020-04-28T10:50:27Z In the wake of Covid-19, We Are One: A Global Film Festival is taking the experience online. But cinema is a bigger encounterEvery year, at Cannes (and other festivals) there’s a plaintive argument about what Cannes (or other festivals) are really all “about”. Some Savonarola-type person will dash the glass of rosé out of your hand, throw your canape into the Med and tell you Cannes is not about red-carpet narcissism, not about stars preening in the flashbulb glare of celeb-worship, not about L’Oréal sponsorship, not about getting drunk at a million late-night parties. It’s about the movies, about cinema itself.Of course. And that’s what the new Covid-19-related We Are One: A Global Film Festival appears to offer: the 10-day online festival, beginning 29 May, curated by Jane Rosenthal of the Tribeca film festival, featuring arthouse films (though not the big-ticket Hollywood items) from Cannes, Venice, Berlin and many more, streaming for free in return for an optional donation to the World Health Organization’s Covid-19 fund. So there you have it. A festival with all the frills and extras and flummeries stripped away. Just you, in your bedroom, with your laptop, communing with cinema. Isn’t that what it’s all about? Continue reading... Full Article Film Festivals Cannes film festival Venice film festival Tribeca film festival Culture Coronavirus outbreak World news YouTube Technology
iva 'First petri dish': Sundance film festival may have been Covid-19 incubator By www.theguardian.com Published On :: 2020-05-07T11:21:49Z The Hollywood Reporter says numerous attendees returned from the late-January festival with coronavirus symptomsA new report suggests that January’s Sundance film festival, the annual gathering of cinephiles in Park City, Utah, may have been a key early hub for coronavirus in the US. The article, in the Hollywood Reporter, cites numerous attendees who experienced Covid-19-like symptoms either during or immediately after the festival. None were believed to have been tested for the disease.Sundance this year attracted about 120,000 people to the small mountain resort, to watch films and party in confined spaces. The snowy conditions that make Park City perfect for skiing mean that socialising indoors is common, as are some flu-like symptoms as a result of the low temperature and high altitude. Continue reading... Full Article Sundance 2020 Film Culture Sundance film festival Festivals Utah US news World news Coronavirus outbreak Film industry Business
iva Van Dijk sounds ominous warning to rivals as Liverpool star claims he can get even better By in.news.yahoo.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 08:47:00 -0500 The Netherlands international has become a talismanic presence for club country, but the commanding centre-half believes there is more to come Full Article
iva Chris Martin and Mike Shinoda set for mental health awareness festival By www.music-news.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 14:30:00 +0100 Fans can check out the event, which kicks off at 8.30am PT each day, on 320 Festival's Facebook Live and YouTube Live pages. Full Article
iva How To Become A Private Detective By www.mansworldindia.com Published On :: Sat, 02 May 2020 09:44:35 +0000 It is quite exciting to think about private investigation as... The post How To Become A Private Detective appeared first on Man's World India. Full Article Current Edition Pop Culture
iva The Beyonce Effect: OnlyFans Sees Massive Traffic Surge After Diva Drops Name By www.mansworldindia.com Published On :: Wed, 06 May 2020 13:38:52 +0000 Remember that time Mrs Carter aka Beyonce aka the reigning... The post The Beyonce Effect: OnlyFans Sees Massive Traffic Surge After Diva Drops Name appeared first on Man's World India. Full Article Pop Culture Beyonce Megan Thee Stallion OnlyFans Savage Remix
iva Israel’s food safety inspections found equivalent to USA for poultry exports By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 07 May 2020 04:04:35 +0000 Israel exports ready-to-eat fully cooked and not shelf-stable poultry products to the United States. And those exports may continue, according to a report by the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service. That’s because Israel has passed its latest foreign equivalency audit by the United States. The audit did not turn up any deficiencies that might... Continue Reading Full Article World Foreign equivalency audit Israel poultry exports to U.S.
iva The Complicated Legacy of Herbert Spencer, the Man Who Coined 'Survival of the Fittest' By www.smithsonianmag.com Published On :: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 11:00:00 +0000 Spencer's ideas laid the groundwork for social Darwinism, but scholars say there was much more to the Victorian Age thinker than that Full Article
iva Blood thinners may improve survival among hospitalized COVID-19 patients By www.sciencedaily.com Published On :: Thu, 07 May 2020 19:49:07 EDT Treating hospitalized COVID-19 patients with anticoagulants -- blood thinners that slow down clotting -- may improve their chances of survival, researchers report. The study could provide new insight on how to treat and manage coronavirus patients once they are admitted to the hospital. Full Article
iva 'Open golf courses and private playing fields for safe exercise during coronavirus lockdown' By www.standard.co.uk Published On :: 2020-04-09T08:56:00Z Follow our live coronavirus updates here Coronavirus: the symptoms Full Article
iva New NHS contact tracing app 'must be open for scrutiny' over protecting user privacy, main opposition parties say By www.standard.co.uk Published On :: 2020-04-12T19:05:00Z Read our live coronavirus updates HERE Full Article
iva Prince Charles records special message for Sikh community on festival of Vaisakhi amid 'challenging times' By www.standard.co.uk Published On :: 2020-04-13T14:06:06Z Follow our live coronavirus updates HERE Coronavirus: The symptoms Full Article
iva Bernie Sanders endorses former Democratic rival Joe Biden for president By www.standard.co.uk Published On :: 2020-04-13T19:44:00Z The backing is a crucial development for former Vice President Mr Biden, who must bridge the Democratic Party's ideological divide to unify voters against Republican leader Donald Trump. Full Article
iva Government 'working to resolve' delays to Turkish PPE shipment as Rishi Sunak confirms arrival of 140k gowns for NHS By www.standard.co.uk Published On :: 2020-04-20T15:34:00Z Chancellor Rishi Sunak said the Government had faced some unexpected delays to the delivery of personal protective equipment from Turkey. Full Article
iva Meghan Markle privacy claim case against Mail on Sunday kicks off with first court hearing By www.standard.co.uk Published On :: 2020-04-24T06:50:00Z Meghan wrote in her letter: 'Your actions have broken my heart into a million pieces' Full Article
iva Meghan Markle claims Mail on Sunday 'exploited' her father and 'caused' rift between them as privacy case begins By www.standard.co.uk Published On :: 2020-04-24T10:26:00Z Mr White also took issue with the duchess's allegation that the publisher "acted dishonestly" when deciding which parts of her letter to her father to publish. Full Article
iva 'Inconceivable' that schools will reopen as normal after lockdown, Dominic Raab says By www.standard.co.uk Published On :: 2020-04-26T12:18:07Z It comes after headteachers warned the earliest date they could reopen is June 1, and planning would need to begin "very soon" to achieve it. Full Article
iva Airbus warns it is 'bleeding cash' during coronavirus lockdown and survival is in doubt By www.standard.co.uk Published On :: 2020-04-27T08:39:59Z The boss of Airbus has warned that it is "bleeding cash" at such a rapid rate during the coronavirus lockdowns that its survival is in doubt. Full Article
iva City in Sweden to dump chicken manure on park to prevent festival gatherings during coronavirus outbreak By www.standard.co.uk Published On :: 2020-04-30T07:51:02Z A Swedish city plans to cover its main park with a tonne of chicken manure to discourage people from going there during the coronavirus outbreak. Full Article
iva High Court to rule on first stage of Meghan Markle's privacy claim against Mail on Sunday By www.standard.co.uk Published On :: 2020-05-01T06:20:00Z The High Court is due to give its ruling on the first stage of the Duchess of Sussex's privacy claim against Mail on Sunday today. Full Article
iva Meghan Markle loses first stage of High Court privacy action against Mail on Sunday By www.standard.co.uk Published On :: 2020-05-01T10:34:00Z The publisher of the Mail on Sunday has won the first High Court skirmish in the Duchess of Sussex's privacy claim against it over publication of a letter to her estranged father. Full Article
iva Food For London Now: Family takes on 813 mile walking challenge equivalent to John O' Groat's to Lands End By www.standard.co.uk Published On :: 2020-05-03T13:03:00Z The Budd family hopes to raise £20,000 for charities including The Felix Project You can donate at virginmoneygiving.com/fund/FoodforLondonNOW Full Article
iva Charity warns of privacy concerns over coronavirus contact-tracing app By www.standard.co.uk Published On :: 2020-05-04T19:26:00Z The UK public's right to privacy could become "another casualty" of the coronavirus crisis through the use of a contact-tracing app, Amnesty International UK has warned. Full Article
iva Arrivals in UK airports and sea ports 'to enter enforced quarantine for two weeks' By www.standard.co.uk Published On :: 2020-05-09T06:22:00Z One trade body said the quarantine period would have a devastating impact on the UK aviation industry and wider economy Full Article
iva COVID-19 tracing apps come with privacy risks to Canadians, watchdogs warn By globalnews.ca Published On :: Thu, 07 May 2020 18:48:00 +0000 Federal privacy commissioner Daniel Therrien says the health crisis calls for some flexibility when it comes to the application of privacy laws. Full Article Canada Tech contact tracing contact tracing alberta contact tracing canada contact tracing coronavirus Coronavirus coronavirus canada COVID covid canada COVID-19 Privacy privacy Canada Privacy Commissioner What Is Contact Tracing
iva Google data suggests Canadians following COVID-19 rules, but experts wary over privacy By globalnews.ca Published On :: Thu, 07 May 2020 19:27:57 +0000 While location-tracking technology is nothing new, privacy and ethics experts have been wary about its use on such a large scale — especially by governments. Full Article Canada Health Politics Science Tech Canada Coronavirus Canada COVID-19 Coronavirus coronavirus canada Coronavirus In Canada COVID-19 google coronavirus google mobility data google tracking coronavirus google tracking COVID-19 google tracking data Privacy privacy google
iva First at-home saliva test to detect coronavirus authorized by U.S. FDA By globalnews.ca Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 19:45:00 +0000 Rutgers received the U.S. FDA's permission last month to collect saliva samples from patients at test sites and Friday's decision expands the permission to sample collection at the convenience of people's homes. Full Article Health Science Tech World corona virus Coronavirus coronavirus saliva test Coronavirus testing Coronavirus US COVID COVID-19 COVID-19 Testing FDA FDA authorizes saliva test Rutgers Testing US FDA virus testing
iva Inactivated PiCoVacc vaccine found safe, efficacious in animal study - The Hindu By news.google.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 14:55:22 GMT Inactivated PiCoVacc vaccine found safe, efficacious in animal study The HinduChina conducts first successful coronavirus vaccine test on monkeys Times of IndiaCOVID-19 vaccine test on animals successful | Under test since mid-April WIONPromising coronavirus vaccine candidate from China in talks to be tested globally Times NowUS may suffer major blow if China produces vaccine against Covid-19 first Hindustan TimesView Full coverage on Google News Full Article
iva Evidence Builds Linking Anticoagulation to COVID-19 Survival - Medscape By news.google.com Published On :: Thu, 07 May 2020 23:33:55 GMT Evidence Builds Linking Anticoagulation to COVID-19 Survival MedscapeBlood thinners may boost survival rates of Covid-infected patients: Study ETHealthworld.comCoronavirus blood-clot mystery intensifies Nature.comCoronavirus: Blood thinners could boost survival chances of patients The IndependentBlood thinners may help COVID-19 patients ABC27View Full coverage on Google News Full Article
iva Worried Amitabh Bachchan fans pray to Lord Shiva for his recovery By economictimes.indiatimes.com Published On :: 2012-02-20T16:27:34+05:30 Hundreds of worried fans of ailing Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan today performed a yagna here to pray for his speedy recovery. Full Article
iva Revival in smartphone demand in India expected from Q3: IDC By economictimes.indiatimes.com Published On :: 2020-05-08T19:05:57+05:30 The smartphone market registered 1.5 per cent year-on-year growth in the March quarter with shipments touching 32.5 million units, IDC said in a statement. Despite the low figure, India was the only country among the top three nations to see any growth. Full Article
iva Virtual music festival Common Roots kicks off on May 9 By www.thehindu.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 11:04:02 +0530 The fest, featuring Indian and international artistes, aims to raise money through donations for Give India, India Foundation for the Arts and Voice of Stray Dogs Full Article Music
iva The Quarantine + Pandemic Survival Map: 'It's escapism, with a lot of humour' By www.theguardian.com Published On :: 2020-05-06T05:30:03Z No longer able to walk hundreds of miles to create his hand-drawn maps, the Beijing-based artist Fuller is charting his thoughts – and the global crisis – while stuck indoorsI’m interested in the psychology of a place and how it makes you feel. So I don’t really see myself as a map-maker – even though I draw maps. It’s about the process of travelling through a place to capture a sense of it. First, I walk for hundreds of miles and make all sorts of notes, and then take thousands of photos to use as triggers for my memory.I walked more than 840 miles around Beijing when researching the map that became part of my Purposeful Wandering series. I circumnavigated the city and then walked around each ring road. Beijing (where I’ve lived for three years) is built on a Central Axis, and the map is, too. A lot of the drawing is literal, but I also built in personal experiences, references, visual puns and semiotics. Continue reading... Full Article Maps Walking holidays Travel
iva Carrie Symonds' pregnancy timeline: From when she and Boris Johnson announced the news to the arrival of their baby boy By www.standard.co.uk Published On :: 2020-04-29T15:54:00Z It seems like a lifetime ago that Boris Johnson announced that he and his partner were engaged and expecting a baby. Full Article
iva The Economic Damage Is Barely Conceivable - Issue 84: Outbreak By nautil.us Published On :: Wed, 22 Apr 2020 15:30:00 +0000 Like most of us, Adam Tooze is stuck at home. The British-born economic historian and Columbia University professor of history had been on leave this school year to write a book about climate change. But now he’s studying a different global problem. There are more than 700,000 cases of COVID-19 in the United States and over 2 million infections worldwide. It’s also caused an economic meltdown. More than 18 million Americans have filed for unemployment in recent weeks, and Goldman Sachs analysts predict that U.S. gross domestic product will decline at an annual rate of 34 percent in the second quarter. Tooze is an expert on economic catastrophes. He wrote the book Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World, about the 2008 economic crisis and its aftermath. But even he didn’t see this one coming. He hadn’t thought much about how pandemics could impact the economy—few economists had. Then he watched as China locked down the city of Wuhan, in a province known for auto manufacturing, on January 23; as northern Italy shut down on February 23; and as the U.S. stock market imploded on March 9. By then, he knew he had another financial crisis to think about. He’s been busy writing ever since. Tooze spoke with Nautilus from his home in New York City. INEQUALITY FOR ALL: Adam Tooze (above) says a crisis like this one, “where you shut the entire economy down in a matter of weeks” highlights the “profound inequality” in American society.Wikimedia What do you make of the fact that, in three weeks, more than 16 million people in the U.S. have filed for unemployment? The structural element here—and this is quite striking, when you compare Europe, for instance, to the U.S.—is that America has and normally celebrates the flexibility and dynamism of its labor market: The fact that people move between jobs. The fact that employers have the right to hire and fire if they need to. The downside is that in a shock like this, the appropriate response for an employer is simply to let people go. What America wasn’t able to do was to improvise the short-time working systems that the Europeans are trying to use to prevent the immediate loss of employment to so many people. The disadvantage of the American system that reveals itself in a crisis like this is that hiring and firing is not easily reversible. People who lose jobs don’t necessarily easily get them back. There is a fantasy of a V-shaped recovery. We literally have never done this before, so we don’t know one way or another how this could happen. But it seems likely that many people who have lost employment will not immediately find reemployment over the summer or the fall when business activity resumes something like its previous state. In a situation with a lot of people with low qualifications in precarious jobs at low income, the damage from that kind of interruption of employment in sectors notably which are already teetering on the edge—the chain stores, which are quite likely closing anyway, and fragile malls, which were on the edge of dying—it’s quite likely that this shock will also induce disproportionately large amounts of scarring. What role has wealth and income inequality played during this crisis? The U.S. economic system is bad enough in a regular crisis. In one like this, where you shut the entire economy down in a matter of weeks, the damage is barely conceivable. There are huge disparities, all of which ultimately are rooted in social structures of race and class, and in the different types of jobs that people have. The profound inequality in American society has been brought home for us in everyone’s families, where there is a radical disparity between the ability of some households to sustain the education of their children and themselves living comfortably at home. Twenty-five percent of kids in the United States appear not to have a stable WiFi connection. They have smartphones. That seems practically universal. But you can’t teach school on a smartphone. At least, that technology is not there.Presumably by next year something like normality returns. But forever after we’ll live under the shadow of this having happened. President Trump wants the economy to reopen by May. Would that stop the economic crisis? Certainly that is presumably what drives that haste to restart the economy and to lift intense social distancing provisions. There is a sense that we can’t stand this. And that has a lot to do with deep fragilities in the American social system. If all Americans live comfortably in their own homes, with the safety of a regular paycheck, with substantial savings, with health insurance that wasn’t conditional on precarious employment, and with unemployment benefits that were adequate and that were rolled out to most people in this society if they needed them, then there wouldn’t be such a rush. But that isn’t America as we know it. America is a society in which half of families have virtually no financial cushion; in which small businesses, which are so often hailed as the drivers of job creation, the vast majority of owners of them live hand-to-mouth; in which the unemployment insurance system really is a mockery; and with health insurance directly tied to employment for the vast majority of the people. A society like that really faces huge pressures if the economy is shut down. How is the pandemic-induced economic collapse we’re facing now different from what we faced in 2008? This is so much faster. Early this year, America had record-low unemployment numbers. And last week or so already we probably broke the record for unemployment in the United States in the period since World War II. This story is moving so fast that our statistical systems of registration can’t keep up. So we think probably de facto unemployment in the U.S. right now is 13, 14, 15 percent. That’s never happened before. 2007 to 2008 was a classic global crisis in the sense that it came out of one particular over-expanded sector, a sector which is very well known for its volatility, which is real estate and construction. It was driven by a credit boom. What we’re seeing this time around is deliberately, government-ordered, cliff edge, sudden shutdown of the entire economy, hitting specifically the face-to-face human services—retail, entertainment, restaurants—sector, which are, generally speaking, lagging in cyclical terms and are not the kind of sectors that generate boom-bust cycles. Are we better prepared this time than in 2008? You’d find it very hard to point to anyone in the policymaking community at the beginning of 2020 who was thinking of pandemic risk. Some people were. Former Treasury Secretary and former Director of the National Economic Council Larry Summers, for example, wrote a paper about pandemic flu several years ago, because of MERS and SARS, previous respiratory illnesses caused by coronaviruses. But it wasn’t top of stack at the beginning of this year. So we weren’t prepared in that sense. But do we know what to do now if we see the convulsions in the credit markets that we saw at the beginning of March? Yes. Have the central banks done it? Yes. Did they use some of the techniques they employed in ’08? Yes. Did they know that you had to go in big and you had to go in heavy and hard and quickly? Yes. And they have done so on an even more gigantic scale than in ’08, which is a lesson learned in ’08, too: There’s no such a thing as too big. And furthermore, the banks, which were the fragile bit in ’08, have basically been sidelined. You’ve written that the response to the 2008 crisis worked to “undermine democracy.” How so, and could we see that again with this crisis? The urgency that any financial crisis produces forces governments’ hands—it strips the legislature, the ordinary processes of democratic deliberation. When you’re forced to make very dramatic, very rapid decisions—particularly in a country as chronically divided as the U.S. is on so many issues—the risk that you create opportunities for demagogues of various types to take advantage of is huge. We know what the response of the Tea Party was to the ’08, ’09 economic crisis. They created an extraordinarily distorted vision of what had happened and then rode that to see extraordinary influence over the Republican party in the years that followed. And there is every reason to think that we might be faced with similar stresses in the American political system in months to come.The U.S. economic system is bad enough in a regular crisis. In one like this, where you shut the entire economy down in a matter of weeks, the damage is barely conceivable. How should we be rethinking the economy to buffer against meltdowns like this in the future? We clearly need to have a far more adequate and substantial medical capacity. There’s no alternative to a comprehensive publicly backstopped or funded health insurance system. Insofar as you haven’t got that, your capacity to guarantee the security in the most basic and elementary sense of your population is not there. When you have a system in which one of the immediate side effects, in a crisis like this, is that large parts of your hospital system go bankrupt—one of the threats to the American medical system right now—that points to something extraordinarily wrong, especially if you’re spending close to 18 percent of GDP on health, more than any other society on the planet. What about the unemployment insurance system? America needs to have a comprehensive unemployment insurance system. It can be graded by local wage rates and everything else. But the idea that you have the extraordinary disparities that we have between a Florida and a Georgia at one end, with recipiency rates in the 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 percent, and then states which actually operate an insurance system, which deserve the name—this shouldn’t be accepted in a country like the U.S. We would need to look at how short-time working models might be a far better way of dealing with shocks of this kind, essentially saying that there is a public interest in the continuity of employment relationships. The employer should be investing in their staff and should not be indifferent as to who shows up for work on any given day. What does this pandemic teach us about living in a global economy? There are a series of very hard lessons in the recent history of globalization into which the corona shock fits—about the peculiar inability of American society, American politics, and the American labor market to cushion shocks that come from the outside in a way which moderates the risk and the damage to the most vulnerable people. If you look at the impact of globalization on manufacturing, industry, inequality, the urban fabric in the U.S., it’s far more severe than in other societies, which have basically been subject to the same shock. That really needs to raise questions about how the American labor market and welfare system work, because they are failing tens of millions of people in this society. You write in Crashed not just about the 2008 crisis, but also about the decade afterward. What is the next decade going to look like, given this meltdown? I have never felt less certain in even thinking about that kind of question. At this point, can either you or I confidently predict what we’re going to be doing this summer or this autumn? I don’t know whether my university is resuming normal service in the fall. I don’t know whether my daughter goes back to school. I don’t know when my wife’s business in travel and tourism resumes. That is unprecedented. It’s very difficult against that backdrop to think out over a 10-year time horizon. Presumably by next year something like normality returns. But forever after we’ll live under the shadow of this having happened. Every year we’re going to be anxiously worrying about whether flu season is going to be flu season like normal or flu season like this. That is itself something to be reckoned with. How will anxiety and uncertainty about a future pandemic-like crisis affect the economy? When we do not know what the future holds to this extent, it makes it very difficult for people to make bold, long-term financial decisions. This previously wasn’t part of the repertoire of what the financial analysts call tail risk. Not seriously. My sister works in the U.K. government, and they compile a list every quarter of the top five things that could blow your departmental business up. Every year pandemics are in the top three. But no one ever acted on it. It’s not like terrorism. In Britain, you have a state apparatus which is geared to address the terrorism risk because it’s very real—it’s struck many times. Now all of a sudden we have to take the possibility of pandemics that seriously. And their consequences are far more drastic. How do we know what our incomes are going to be? A very large part of American society is not going to be able to answer that question for some time to come. And that will shake consumer confidence. It will likely increase the savings rate. It’s quite likely to reduce the desire to invest in a large part of the U.S. economy. Max Kutner is a journalist in New York City. 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iva Google and Apple place privacy limits on countries using their coronavirus tracing technology By news.yahoo.com Published On :: Mon, 04 May 2020 16:23:33 -0400 The tech giants shared details Monday about the tools they’ve been developing to help governments and public health authorities trace the spread of the coronavirus. Full Article
iva COVID-19: Ontario reports 59 more deaths; Tulip Festival is now camera friendly By ottawacitizen.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 15:32:51 +0000 The province is reporting 346 new cases of COVID-19 Saturday, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 19,944. There were 59 more deaths reported, for a total of 1,599. Of those, 775 involved residents in the troubled long-term care system. There are now 237 outbreaks in the province’s care facilities, increase of three. After […] Full Article Local News Coronavirus
iva What is contact tracing? Here's what you need to know about how it could affect your privacy By www.cbc.ca Published On :: Thu, 7 May 2020 04:00:00 EDT Health experts agree contact tracing is a key measure to contain a pandemic. But is the answer a contact tracing app? Full Article News/Canada
iva Canada's privacy commissioners offer guidance on COVID-19 contact-tracing apps By www.cbc.ca Published On :: Thu, 7 May 2020 22:22:47 EDT As New Brunswick and other provincial governments contemplate launching COVID-19 contact-tracing apps, privacy watchdogs from across the country have issued joint guidelines on what they are describing as an "extraordinary" measure, urging transparency and accountability. Full Article News/Canada/New Brunswick
iva Talking Heads: Jodie Comer and Martin Freeman to star in Alan Bennett's BBC revival By www.independent.co.uk Published On :: 2020-04-28T07:52:00Z 'Talking Heads' was first broadcast in 1988 and 1998 Full Article