Lonely Planet is to close its Melbourne production facility and London offices “almost entirely”, as well as its magazine and Trade and Reference division.
Source: Lonely Planet Closes Major Offices But Plans to Keep Publishing Guidebooks – Skift
Author: Robert Richardson
Lonely Planet Closes Major Offices But Plans to Keep Publishing Guidebooks – Skift
First manned SpaceX Crew Dragon flight set for May 27 liftoff
The date for SpaceX’s first manned Crew Dragon flight has been set. NASA announced that the Demo-2 mission will lift off atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 27, 2020, at 4:32 pm EDT with NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley aboard.
Source: First manned SpaceX Crew Dragon flight set for May 27 liftoff
Takin’ care of people at Rock for Relief, 8 tonight on CHEK | Times Colonist
Even the smallest charity fundraisers take several months to organize. CHEK-TV pulled one together in a matter of weeks — and a big, starry one at that. Rock for Relief: A Living Room Concert for. . .
Source: Takin’ care of people at Rock for Relief, 8 tonight on CHEK | Times Colonist
Why Epidemiologists Still Don’t Know the Death Rate for Covid-19 – The New York Times
Determining what percentage of those infected by the coronavirus will die is a key question for epidemiologists, but an elusive one during the pandemic.
Source: Why Epidemiologists Still Don’t Know the Death Rate for Covid-19 – The New York Times
Wayne Gretzky retires 1999
MOMENT IN TIME – Gretzky retires
New York Rangers Wayne Gretzky pauses by the boards under a fans sign asking him not to retire during the pre-game warmup to what was rumoured to be his last Canadian NHL game in Kanata, Ontario Thursday April 15, 1999. (CP PHOTO/Tom Hanson) Wayne Gretzky announces his retirement April 16, 1999: After a Rangers game in Ottawa, a fading 38-year-old hockey superstar hinted at retirement, saying it would take a “miracle” for him to change his mind. One day later, no supernatural phenomenon having occurred, Wayne Gretzky officially called it quits after 20 seasons in the National Hockey League and one (as a 17-year-old phenom) in the World Hockey Association. “Sunday will be my last game,” hockey’s all-time leading scorer and one of Canada’s greatest natural resources confirmed at a New York news conference, after a week of skating around the question. “I know in my heart I’m making the right decision.” His general manager, John Davidson, had tried to get Gretzky to reconsider, but arguing against the instincts of such a sublime playmaker and cerebral athlete was a mug’s game. Two days later, the product of a backyard rink in Brantford, Ont., played his last contest, tallying one assist in a 2-1 loss to the Pittsburgh Penguins at Madison Square Garden, after which he shed tears and his home-blue uniform. The man they called the Great One was done.– Brad Wheeler RG Richardson Interactive Banking-Financial Literacy
RG Richardson Interactive Banking – Multi-language.
Financial literacy is the ability to understand and effectively apply various financial skills, including personal financial management, budgeting, and investing. Financial literacy helps individuals become self-sufficient so that they can achieve financial stability.
This is all about no more typing with over 9900 preset searches for 8 Search Engines! These guides never go out of date due to the power of the internet! Translate in your language through your browser. You can now avoid spelling mistakes and language difficulties making guide simple enough for even for those with learning disabilities to use. Stop using paper!Andrea Bocelli Will Perform Live From Milan’s Duomo Cathedral
Legendary opera singer Andrea Bocelli will be doing a live performance from the Duomo Cathedral in Milan, Italy on Easter Sunday, April 12.
The Great Gatsby
MOMENT IN TIME
The Great Gatsby is published April 10, 1925: It has often been called the Great American novel, but when F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby was first published it was met with decidedly mixed reviews. The New York Times called it “a curious book, a mystical, glamorous story of today.” While The New York World ran a review with the headline: “F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Latest a Dud.” Set in the Roaring Twenties, it told the tragic story of Jay Gatsby, a self-made man who profited – as so many did at the time – on the sale of black-market liquor during Prohibition. It was a novel that perfectly encapsulated the heady Jazz Age of lavish parties and social climbing, an era Fitzgerald himself described as a “whole race going hedonistic, deciding on pleasure.” A gripping love story, told with finesse, it nevertheless fell flat. The 20,000 copies of its first printing sold slowly, and there were still copies unsold from its second printing when Fitzgerald died in 1940. It is now required reading in English literature classes around the world and the story has been retold in film, theatre, ballet, opera, video games, TV movies and radio plays. Gayle MacDonald Opinion | America Will Struggle After Coronavirus. These Charts Show Why. – The New York Times
America’s economy has almost doubled in size over the last four decades, but broad measures of the nation’s economic health conceal the unequal distribution of gains. A small portion of the population has pocketed most of the new wealth, and the coronavirus pandemic is laying bare the consequences of the unequal distribution of prosperity.Consider first the most commonly quoted measure of the nation’s success — gross domestic product — in the chart below:
Source: Opinion | America Will Struggle After Coronavirus. These Charts Show Why. – The New York Times
Ottawa had a playbook for a coronavirus-like pandemic 14 years ago. What went wrong? – The Globe and Mail
A pandemic sweeps across Canada in one or two months. It is spread not only by the sick, but by people who show no symptoms. There are shortages of medical supplies and the health system struggles to keep up. The peak won’t come for months, and it will be accompanied by a surge in deaths. Soon after, the country will brace for a second wave.All of this is now true for the COVID-19 crisis, but the aforementioned scenario – a warning – comes from a 2006 federal report on pandemic preparedness. Fourteen years later, its words are eerily accurate.Long before COVID-19 emerged, top health authorities from across Canada put together a playbook to prepare for a situation strikingly similar to the one the country now finds itself in.
