Goodbye, snow days. Hello, babies: 6 ways COVID will continue to change Kansas City Eric Adler, The Kansas City Star
Dec. 31 Predicting the future is an iffy game.
Few people before 2020, after all, seriously believed that a pandemic, generated by a virus from bats in China, would end up hobbling world commerce and in only nine months kill 1.7 million people, more than 300,000 in the United States.
Yet vaccines hold the promise that in 2021 the COVID-19 virus will begin to be tamed.
What might the new normal look like then? Will everyone discard protective face masks or might they become a lasting part of the U.S. wardrobe? Will you ever really return to an office full time?
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Forgive me for a bit of self-promotion, but I wanted to flag an amicus brief that a group affiliated with UNC Law filed with the Supreme Court supporting a petition for cert. by the Plaintiff in Torres v. Texas Department of Public Safety. The question centers on war powers abrogation, specifically whether state employers retain sovereign immunity in the face of congressional war powers legislation. In Torres, that legislation is USERRA, which prohibits employment discrimination based on military service and provides leave and other benefits for servicemembers called to active duty or attending training for, e.g., National Guard. Given the huge number of active and reserve servicemembers, this is an important statute even in normal times. But it s especially so now in a year that saw the greatest mobilization of National Guard troops since Wold War II.
Avril Chick is pictured in a white jacket to the left of then Hertsmere MP James Clappison. Full caption: (left to right) Jimmy Hipwell, Arthur Jones, Daphne Raymond, Ann Goddard, Avril Chick, Mrs Davies and James Clappison MP. A pioneering campaigner who successfully fought to save green belt land from being developed has died. Avril Chick was chairman of the Elstree & Borehamwood Green Belt Society, playing an important role in protecting much loved open space from developers. Mrs Chick left Borehamwood 15 years ago with her husband Doug, but is remembered fondly by those who knew her. Ann Goddard, current chairman of the green belt society, remembers the life of Mrs Chick who passed away in November, with the following memoir.
To Be a Man might contribute to
conversations about gender relations:
I wanted to find
in this book a kind of perspective on masculinity that I haven’t found in the
past years in the shadow of the #MeToo movement. Trying to think about the
aspects of manhood that that movement couldn’t address because it had so many
other things to address. The vulnerability of men and the complexity of what is
asked of them in terms of strength both by their societies and personally.
One thing her collection seems keen
to emphasize is the role the women’s desires play in exposing them to the
Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas
For a sheer mind-boggling scenario it’s hard to beat the movie “Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas.”
How about serenading a roomful of predominantly Jewish customers by a group of Chinese waiters singing “Walking in a Winter Wonderland” in Yiddish, yet at a Canadian restaurant on Christmas Eve?
Or that “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” is an allegory of the Jewish immigrants with prominent noses who swarmed into New York and were derided as “Orientals” by the “real” Americans.
The launching pad for the film’s shenanigans and weighty analyses is the simple fact that almost all popular Christmas songs were the works of Jewish composers and writers, many of whom like the pioneer moguls of Hollywood were emigrants from Russia.