4/29/2021
In this documentary composed only of YouTube videos, Udi Nir and Sagi Bornstein follow seven Gen Z vloggers during the unprecedented year that was 2020.
To appreciate the roving, sometimes gauche nature of
Viral, a new documentary following seven YouTube vloggers in 2020, one must consider its experimental form. Premiering at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, the film, directed by Udi Nir and Sagi Bornstein, is entirely composed of YouTube videos. This means it is at the mercy of its source material, which privileges authenticity, skews confessional and doesn’t lend itself to an orderly narrative.
Nir and Bornstein specialize in this kind of experimentation. For their previous documentary,
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The ceremonial ringing of a bell concluded the reading of 119 names during a virtual memorial Wednesday names of people who left for work one day and never came home.
Each year, the state Department of Labor & Industries pays tribute to the workers who died on the job. L&I resumed its Worker Memorial Day tradition despite the pandemic, which forced the closure of the event in 2020.
But last year was unlike any other since the tradition started more than two decades ago. The pandemic brought new risks to frontline and essential workers and contributed significantly to work-related deaths. Of the 119 deaths on the job last year, two dozen of them resulted from workers contracting COVID-19 while working in hospitals, long-term care facilities and other workplaces. That amounts to about 20 percent of the workplace deaths in 2020.
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SAN FRANCISCO, March 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Landed, which provides the first mobile app connecting hourly food and retail workers with local employers, announced today that Apple American Group, the largest Applebee s Neighborhood Grill & Bar franchisee in the U.S., has turned to Landed to streamline and accelerate hiring amid strong growth as locations reopen.
Apple American operates 444 restaurants across 26 states. Restaurant industry turnover is very high - typically 130 percent - meaning that General Managers (GMs) need to be constantly recruiting for all roles. Apple American GMs were spending more than a dozen hours per week on this task. With so many other pressing priorities for GMs - such as new health & safety protocols - Apple American sought a way to bring in a higher number of great quality candidates and do a better job screening and engaging those candidates to improve its interview-to-hire ratio.
Few Blacks receiving COVID vaccine than whites
ZANESVILLE - Reflecting disparities statewide, Black Muskingum County residents are being vaccinated against COVID-19 at a fraction of the rate of white residents.
Approximately 8% of African Americans in the county have received at least one dose of a COVID vaccine at 265 people, the Ohio Department of Health reported Monday. White residents have been inoculated at nearly twice the rate at around 15%, 11,971 people.
About 6.3% of Black Ohioans have been inoculated for COVID compared to 13.8% of white Ohioans. Public health officials said this could also be due to how many Blacks are eligible to receive the COVID vaccine in the state s phased approach.
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The COVID-19 vaccination rate for white residents of Guernsey County is nearly double the rate of Black residents.
The disturbing vaccination rate is nearly the same across Ohio where 11.80% of whites have started vaccinations compared to only 5.22% of Black Ohioans.
The Ohio Department of Health reported 1,474,872 million Ohioans or 12.62% of the state’s population had started receiving vaccinations.
In Guernsey County, 4,092 white residents (11.02%) have begun receiving COVID-19 vaccinations, according to ODH statistics released Tuesday. Only 36 Black residents, or 5.93% of the Black population, have received vaccinations. A large part is the history of vaccines and a distrust of science, said Dr. Dinah Meyer, chair and professor of psychology at Muskingum University, when asked why minority residents are choosing to not get vaccinated.