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Westfield health director excited to return to normal duties with pandemic in lull
WESTFIELD — As case counts, hospitalizations, and deaths from COVID-19 remain low after the omicron wave in the winter, Westfield’s public health director said he is happy to be back to normal, sometimes mundane tasks of the city Health Department. Joseph Rouse said that after two years of dealing almost exclusively with the pandemic, he …
US and allies set to revoke normal trade relations with Russia over Ukraine war, says Biden – follow live | US news
12.05pm EST 12:05 Julian Borger The UN security council hearing is underway. We have this dispatch from our world affairs editor, Julian Borger. The UN security council is holding a hearing called for by Russia to make its allegations about a Ukrainian biological weapons lab. The UN high commissioner for disarmament, Izumi Nakamitsu, has been …
technology: New normal: Being tech driven in a post Covid world
In a year of lockdowns, each one of us experienced the power of technology at a fundamental level. With the world shifting enmasse to virtual, technology helped us take care of loved ones, get healthcare, access essential services, get work done and keep our businesses running. It took a pandemic to bring home the power …
Real Virtuality: Creating the next normal with the crutches of technology | Forbes India
We are blaming it on the virus. But it seems, in hindsight, as if we were anticipating this moment in time, when we could be forced to withdraw from other fellow beings. The proof is the technologies and devices we invented. On the surface, they may have seemed to be about more …
Watch now: Facial recognition technology was tested by Normal police in training | Local News
“Clearview violates that right to a massive degree,” said Rebecca Glenberg, senior supervising attorney at the ACLU of Illinois. “It essentially creates a face template, which is a biometric identifier, for every person whose image is publicly available on the internet — whether they posted it themselves, someone else posted it. Whether they even know …
Mainers head north for COVID-19 vaccines in reversal of normal health care trends
Michael Margolies’ job as a delivery driver often has him on the road. But the 24-year-old from Portland found himself on an unusual four-hour round trip to Bangor early Thursday morning for his first COVID-19 vaccine. He did not want to waste time hunting for a shot after Gov. Janet Mills opened vaccine eligibility to …
Navigating the Next Normal: How Technology Can Fuel Your Business Growth
The pandemic has changed how we do business. What things are here to stay and what things will go back to the way they were? How is your business planning to evolve? We’ll talk with local businesses to see what they have learned during the pandemic that will improve their businesses going forward. Topics:• How …
Tech Frontiers For The Next Normal: The Best Of The OPEN MINDS Technology & Analytics Institute
Tech Frontiers For The Next Normal: The Best Of The OPEN MINDS Technology & Analytics Institute | OPEN MINDS By Monica E. Oss Vladimir Lenin said, “There are decades where nothing happens and there are weeks where decades happen.” For the past 50+ weeks of the pandemic, a lot has happened …
Texans face drinking water shortage as power grid returns to normal
5:13 PM / February 19, 2021 Texas governor says about 165,000 households don’t have power Texas Governor Greg Abbott said about 165,000 households across the state don’t have electricity because of downed power lines or because residences need to be manually reconnected to the power system. “There are no longer any residential power outages …
Technology trends to thrive in the new normal
Every year around this time we make our annual digital transformation predictions for the coming year, but this time it’s different as we have not only witnessed a global pandemic disrupting lives and upending industries, but also a wave of digital transformation like never before. Businesses have fast-tracked their digitisation journey and operations by at …
