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Heritage Foundation Research on Coronavirus
Find more Heritage Foundation research and commentary on the coronavirus—and public policy solutions—by visiting our collection page at heritage.org/coronavirus.
>>> COVID-19: Lessons Learned and Path Ahead
A New Strategy for Equipping Medical Providers to Cope with the Next Pandemic or Infectious-Disease Outbreak
By Amy Anderson, DNP, RN and Daniel Johnson Jr., MD, FACR
Policymakers and the public are re-examining the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on medical professionals and their patients, as well as the heavy financial damage to hospitals incurred by state shutdowns. In preparation for a possible second wave of infection or the next pandemic, policymakers should designate certain hospitals to care for pandemic patients to ensure routine medical care treatment—and medical workforce training—can continue to be delivered uninterrupted. Preparation could also include drills, coordinated by local and state policymakers, to ensure smooth execution when needed. Given ongoing patient fears over being able to receive routine care, and the very real possibility of a second COVID-19 wave of infection, the need to act is urgent.
Spain's Economic Freedom Improves—But Post-COVID Risks Are Enormous
By James Roberts and Daniel Lacalle
The Spanish economy is under serious threat. The Sánchez Administration is using the excuse of a serious health crisis to enact policies that undermine investor and business security and restrict personal and economic freedom. Such interventionism will trap the economy by increasing fiscal imbalances—Spain's historical mistake—and put the country on a destructive track that will erode freedom and result in excessive spending, more debt, and rigidity. The long-term social and economic consequences of these mistakes can be enormous. Instead, the government should implement serious measures to enhance economic freedom and allow a strong recovery soon.
Achieving Consensus: A Commonsense Approach for Testing in a Pandemic
By Amy Anderson, DNP, RN and Daniel Johnson
To combat COVID-19, state public health officials should deploy both diagnostic and serological testing in the most efficient and effective way possible and build public consensus by explaining the rationale of their testing programs. Specifically, public officials should address the goals of their testing program, the reasons why certain persons should be tested, when persons should be tested, and how many persons should be tested. Using both diagnostic and serological tests, random sampling of the population can more accurately determine the prevalence of the coronavirus. Such random sampling can be carried out by federal, state, and local public health officials, working together in complementary roles.
How States Can Address Their COVID-19 Budget Shortfalls without Federal Bailouts
By Rachel Greszler
Many governors and federal lawmakers are calling for a nearly $1 trillion federal bailout for state and local governments amid COVID-19 shortfalls. Instead of aiding the recovery and encouraging responsible budgeting, socializing state budgets would likely delay the economic recovery, cause blatant inequities, and result in higher costs for everyone. Instead of relying on the federal government, state and local governments can and should use kitchen-table budgeting to address COVID-19 shortfalls, as well as long-term budget gaps. States can do this by safely re-opening parts of society, scaling back recent spending increases, making their public employee compensation and pension systems more efficient and more competitive with the private sector, and creating favorable tax and work environments. The federal government can help by freeing states from unfunded federal mandates.
Potential Long-Term Economic Consequences of the Federal Response to the COVID-19 Lockdowns
Norbert Michel, Paul Winfree, and Doug Badger
Government imposition of widespread lockdowns in response to the COVID-19 pandemic have produced profound economic dislocations. Congress has sought to mitigate this economic damage by enacting a series of bills that have raised federal spending, deficits, and debt to extraordinary levels. Current deficits and debt are instructive, but insufficient, measures of a government's financial sustainability. There are, however, ominous signs in these current levels. Unlike in previous eras, federal fiscal policy—largely because of health care entitlement spending—has not normalized after recent economic recessions. The Federal Reserve has doubled down on the unprecedented monetary policy that it instituted after the Great Recession of 2008, and never unwound. This combination of exotic fiscal and monetary policy is moving the federal government into dangerous waters. Policymakers can make a favorable outcome more likely by reconsidering the widespread use of lockdowns, pausing before authorizing more COVID-19 spending, normalizing monetary policy, and reforming entitlement programs.
Clear Lines of Responsibility Would Facilitate Implementation of the National Biodefense Strategy
By Frederico Bartels and Peter Brookes
Amidst a global pandemic that has seen tens of thousands of Americans lose their lives and tens of millions lose their jobs, there is little discussion of the current National Biodefense Strategy, which should be serving as the foundation for the federal government's preparedness and response to the pandemic. That may be because its implementation is frustrated by the lack of clear lines of accountability and responsibility. Now is the time to create better budgetary visibility and better lines of authority over the federal biodefense enterprise.
Reducing Federal Barriers for the Sale of Meat
By Daren Bakst and Jeremy Dalrymple
Federal meat-inspection laws have created barriers for farmers to find meat-processing plants whose products can be sold in interstate and foreign commerce—and even in intrastate commerce. Meat and poultry products from state-inspected facilities are generally prohibited from being sold across state lines. Custom-slaughtered meat is prohibited from being sold even in intrastate commerce. Congress should remove these prohibitions. The New Markets for State-Inspected Meat and Poultry Act would address the state-inspected prohibition, and the Processing Revival and Intrastate Meat Exemption Act (PRIME) Act would address the custom-slaughtered meat prohibition. These reforms would likely create more options for farmers, increase meat-processing capacity, and help to address any meat-supply problems connected to a possible second wave of COVID-19 or future pandemics.
The G-7 White House Summit: President Trump Must Lead a Post-COVID Economic Partnership
By James Carafano, Nile Gardiner, and Ambassador Terry Miller
The G-7 countries have been hit hard by the coronavirus in loss of life and a hugely damaging impact on many of the world's biggest economies. American leadership matters today more than at any time since the end of the Cold War, and this year's summit will be a reminder of the importance of America's role as the world's superpower. The U.S. must be clear in its message and its principles based on the foundations of economic liberty and freedom. The solution to rebuilding the world's economies rests in advancing free-market policies that can create the conditions for job creation, economic regeneration, and a spirit of renewal at a time of immense global challenges.
Policymakers Should Adapt COVID-19 Responses to the Evidence
By Norbert Michel and Doug Badger
Widespread lockdowns were instituted when little was known about COVID-19, largely to prevent hospitals from being overwhelmed. While much about the virus remains unknown, it is now clear that the disease is not evenly disbursed geographically; that death rates are highest among the elderly, uncommon among young adults, and extremely rare among children; that nearly 90 percent of COVID-19 deaths are among people with comorbidities; that as many as half the deaths are nursing-home-related; and that hospital acute care and intensive care capacity is robust. Policymakers should adapt their interventions to these facts—which suggest that broad-based lockdowns are counterproductive in most areas among the non-elderly population. Public policy should evolve with these facts, relying less on lockdowns where infection rates are low, and relying more heavily on traditional public health interventions (isolation, contact tracing, and targeted travel restrictions) where infection rates are high. Except in hotspots, policymakers should not place healthy Americans under age 55 on restrictive lockdowns. Separate interventions are required to protect nursing home residents.
The COVID-19 Pandemic Underscores the Necessity of a Renewed U.S. Effort to Promote Economic Freedom in Africa
By Anthony Kim and Joshua Meservey
The COVID-19 pandemic is just starting in African countries, but it has already wounded many of their economies. The fragility of the health systems and economies is a reminder that the U.S. should focus its Africa initiatives on promoting economic freedom, the long-term solution to the continent's weak health security capacities and many of its other problems. To do so, the Trump Administration and Congress should speed the implementation of the Prosper Africa initiative, plan another U.S.–Africa leaders forum focused on promoting American and African private sectors' contribution to economic recovery, and prioritize advocating for and helping with regulatory reform in any American economic recovery initiatives designed for Africa.
Holding the Chinese Communist Party Accountable for Its Response to the COVID-19 Outbreak
By Olivia Enos
Since the start of the pandemic, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has obfuscated important facts and information about COVID-19. The Chinese government has silenced whistleblowers, forcibly disappeared citizen journalists, and misreported the rate of COVID-19 infection and number of deaths, among other concerning actions. The CCP's decision to limit knowledge about the novel coronavirus significantly hampered other countries' abilities to respond to their own domestic outbreaks. The international community is now interested in taking measures to hold the CCP accountable. The U.S. government should lead the way in pressing for a level-headed, apolitical investigation into the CCP's mishandling of COVID-19. It should also consider levying sanctions on individuals and entities responsible for the cover-up.
The Quad Should Promote Economic Freedom for a Quick COVID-19 Recovery
By Riley Walters
The Quadrilateral Strategic Dialogue between the U.S., Australia, Japan, and India (the Quad) is not just an important diplomatic and strategic relationship, but has the potential to be an even greater economic partnership in the Indo–Pacific region. Collaborating now will be essential for a quick economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. Already, the Quad-plus partners South Korea, Vietnam, and New Zealand are communicating ways to deal with the spread of the COVID-19 virus. In the same way that the devastatingly tragic 2004 tsunami triggered the Quad, the global COVID-19 crisis should give birth to a new era of Quad cooperation that includes the expansion of economic freedom.
Eliminating Tariffs Would Free Up to $6 Billion a Month for Americans
By Riley Walters and Tori Smith
By May 12, 2020
Before the economic slowdown caused by the COVID-19 containment measures, Americans paid an average of more than $6 billion a month in customs duties. Tariffs increase the cost of doing business, which suppresses employment. They make common household products more expensive. Frequent changes in tariff rates create supply-chain uncertainty. Temporarily deferring tariff payments on some imports was a positive step, but the Administration and Congress should seriously consider extending the deferral of tariff payments to more products and for a longer period of time. And, the Administration should permanently eliminate the tariffs imposed since 2018.
The U.S.–European Economic Partnership Recovery Plan
By James Carafano, Luke Coffey, Nile Gardiner, Ambassador Terry Miller, Klon Kitchen, Theodore Bromund, and Daniel Kochis
Europe is being devastated by the coronavirus pandemic, and the economic situation in the United States is not much better. The U.S. and Europe need each other more than ever in order to pull each other out of the post-COVID-19 economic crisis. This Special Report has identified seven areas of potential transatlantic community cooperation between the U.S. and Europe: (1) economic freedom, (2) a U.S.–EU Free Trade Agreement, (3) a U.S.–U.K. Free Trade Agreement, (4) the Three Seas Initiative, (5) the Visa Waiver Program, (6) Europe's energy security, and (7) Europe's approach to China 5G technology. Cooperation on these seven areas offers a realistic and meaningful approach for Americans and Europeans to help each other.
A U.S.–Mexico-Canada (USMCA) Economic Partnership Recovery Plan
By Ana Quintana, James Roberts, and Anthony Kim
The ongoing coronavirus pandemic represents the greatest health, social, and economic challenge of the past century. U.S. leadership, both at home and with its Mexican and Canadian trade partners, will be essential to achieving a market-based economic and health recovery. North America's economic comeback hinges on adhering to the principles of economic freedom that launched the region's prosperity, alleviating Mexico's health crisis, and using the new U.S.–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA) as a framework for economic growth. This Special Report provides policymakers and the private sectors of the United States, Mexico, and Canada with a recovery plan to restart the leading North American economies.
The False Promise of Stimulus Spending: Lessons from the Great Recession
By Adam N. Michel, PhD
The economic damage following COVID-19 has already led to bipartisan calls for more aggressive federal stimulus programs to jump-start economic recovery. A program of stimulus spending would be misguided. Estimates of the effectiveness of fiscal stimulus show that it does not boost private activity or increase total output. Following the Great Recession, stimulus policy experiments illustrate how direct transfers and government purchases fail to jump-start the recovery—and may even slow it. Individuals and businesses react to new government programs by scaling back their personal spending and shifting—rather than expanding—production, canceling out any theoretical benefits. Instead, Congress should allow the private sector to drive the recovery by removing barriers preventing businesses from expanding, hiring, and creating new products.
NATO's Role in Pandemic Response
By Daniel Kochis and Luke Coffey
The responsibility for maintaining the health and safety of their armed forces lies with individual member states, not with NATO. That is not to say that NATO does not have a role to play in pandemic response, and member states heavily affected by COVID-19 quickly turned to the Alliance for assistance. NATO's response to the coronavirus pandemic thus far has shown that the Alliance can indeed play a positive supporting role in helping member states respond to health emergencies, especially in the transatlantic community. The lessons of COVID-19 also underscore that pandemics pose a risk to the health and safety of service members and their families, while posing a challenge to maintaining military readiness.
Liability Protections Are Critical to Ensuring Economic Recovery
By Brian E. Finch
For America's economic recovery to move forward with relatively few hitches, liability limits are essential. History has shown how easily the mere threat of lawsuits by aggressive tort lawyers can derail critical recovery efforts. The White House and Congress should therefore work together to establish effective and appropriate liability limits. By modifying existing statutes that limit liability in a way that assures both fewer frivolous tort suits and effective pandemic mitigation and recovery policies, Washington will have done its part to prevent unscrupulous lawyers from needlessly hindering the economic recovery that Americans so desperately need.
COVID-19 and Ebola: What We Can Learn from Prior Elections
By Hans von Spakovsky and J. Christian Adams
There is unprecedented pressure being brought to bear on election officials by the media, liberal advocacy organizations, and legislators like Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D–CA) to hold an all-mail election in November. Even assuming that COVID-19 will still be an issue six months from now, states will have the funds and resources needed to implement all protective health protocols recommended by experts for polling places. The recent Wisconsin elections and the Liberian elections during the Ebola outbreak are successful examples of how this can be done. We should not put the ballots of all Americans into the hands of the U.S. Postal Service—at least not if we want to have faith in the security and integrity of the outcome.
How Congress Can Enable the Great American Economic Recovery
By Romina Boccia and Adam N. Michel, PhD
The COVID-19 pandemic and resulting public policy responses are unprecedented. Intentionally shutting down economic activity deemed non-essential by state governors to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus has had dramatic effects on the livelihoods of millions of Americans. As the public health threat abates, and shutdown orders and stay-at-home measures are lifted, people will return to work and drive the economic recovery, as long as bad policy does not get in their way. Congress should remove barriers to employment, business expansion, entrepreneurship, capital formation, and supply chains in order to enable the great American economic recovery. The most pressing barriers to economic activity include those that unnecessarily increase costs, restrict access to crucial resources, and limit people's ability to work. Removing barriers to economic activity, not stimulating new spending or further federal bailouts of state and local budgets, is key to getting America back to work.
The Apple–Google Partnership to Fight COVID-19: Understanding the Promises and Perils of Digital Contact Tracing
By Klon Kitchen
On April 10, 2020, Apple and Google announced a partnership to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. Mobile devices manufactured by the two tech giants will support digital contact tracing in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This digital tracing promises to increase the scale and speed of tracing the contacts of those who test positive for the virus, and also provokes questions about security and privacy. This Issue Brief answers basic questions about how the—voluntary—use of this technology will work, and how privacy can be protected.
The Impact of Additional Unemployment Insurance Benefits on Employment and Economic Recovery: How the $600-per-Week Bonus Could Backfire
By Drew Gonshorowski and Rachel Greszler
Congress's creation of an additional $600 per week in unemployment insurance benefits allows a majority of Americans to earn more from unemployment than employment. Economic studies show that higher unemployment benefits translate into higher levels of unemployment claims and longer durations of unemployment, which translate into lost goods and services. Two Heritage Foundation economists estimate that the impact of the additional $600 bonus will cause 13.9 million more people to file unemployment claims and reduce GDP by between $955 billion and $1.49 trillion. To prevent unnecessary losses and to allow the economy to recover more quickly, policymakers should cap unemployment benefits at no more than 100 percent of workers' wages and tighten eligibility requirements for claiming benefits to prevent misuse and abuse.
The Cost of Coronavirus Shutdown Orders
By Norbert J. Michel, PhD and David Burton
Although decisions have been made by state and sometimes local officials, the United States is effectively subject to a national lockdown. States representing 95 percent of the economy are subject to statewide public health–motivated shutdowns. Under lockdown orders lasting eight weeks, economic output could fall by as much as $2 trillion (about 9 percent), employment is likely to decline by around 9.5 percent, and the unemployment rate could reach between 16 percent and 23 percent. The economic losses from shutdown orders accelerate over time because employers exhaust their financial reserves and fail. Policymakers should consider these costs and the public health costs of severe economic slowdowns when determining the breadth and duration of public health–motivated shutdowns and restrictions.
Financial Crisis Looming for K–12 Schools? Flexibility Needed, Not Bailouts
By Jonathan Butcher
Nearly every economic indicator, from the stock market to unemployment and beyond, suggests that a global financial crisis is imminent. While an economic downturn may affect every parent, family, and taxpayer, education special-interest groups are demanding that Washington bail them out now, regardless of future tax or spending implications. These groups have a record of making financial demands that are incommensurate with school needs or taxpayer resources. Policymakers should reject such demands and renegotiate union contracts that would interfere with flexible learning solutions such as online instruction and continuing the school year into the summer. Federal lawmakers should extend the waivers offering more budgetary discretion to schools during the pandemic so that educators can direct resources to areas of need.
State Bailouts Create Poor Incentives, Do Not Fix Underlying Problems
The federal response to the COVID-19 pandemic has already provided hundreds of billions of dollars to state and local governments to cover unforeseen shortfalls. Further, bailing out state budgets with unrestricted federal dollars would grow states' budgets, increase future funding shortfalls, further undermine local decision making, and set a dangerous precedent that could lead to additional federal bailouts of the most irresponsible states. Instead, Congress should provide more flexibility to states by lifting unfunded mandates.
Coronavirus: Policymakers Should Augment Hospital Capacity Where Needed, Not Mandate Permanent Excess Capacity
By Norbert J. Michel, PhD and Doug Badger
Although all U.S. states have reported cases of COVID-19, the distribution is so far concentrated in a small number of counties. Challenges to medical capacity posed by the contagion can thus be expected to be localized and episodic. The U.S. has no structural shortage of hospital capacity; its ICU bed capacity per 100,000 population is about two to three times that of European countries. Its excess capacity of acute-care beds, measured as unoccupied beds per 1,000 population, is near the median for highly developed countries. The U.S. should not permanently increase its hospital excess capacity. Instead, public health officials should prepare for forthcoming, localized outbreaks, executing a comprehensive strategy that temporarily enhances the surge capacity of the medical system.
Why Expanding Obamacare is Not the Answer
By Robert Moffit, Edmund Haislmaier, and Nina Schaefer
Most policymakers agree that the Affordable Care Act has failed to achieve its promised objectives. Some progressives argue for a more radical government intervention in health care through Medicare for All. Other liberals support a public option or massive bailouts. These approaches miss the point. The ACA has failed to reduce insurance costs, increase choice, or bend the cost curve down because it depends on a centralized, top-down approach that is insulated from the real-life problems most Americans face in health care. The Health Care Choices Proposal offers a plan that would move the resources and regulatory control to the states, guarantee protections for the poor and those with preexisting conditions, and give individuals more affordable health plan options.
Recent Trump Administration Venezuela Initiatives—and Next Steps
By Ana Quintana
The Trump Administration should be commended for its commitment to Venezuela's democratic aspirations. No other country has dedicated as many resources to this effort. It would be naïve to assume Nicolás Maduro would wittingly play a productive role absent external influence. Washington is wise to wield leverage to incentivize change. It would also be prudent for the U.S. and regional partners to apply those same principles with COVID-19 assistance. Maduro cannot be allowed to politicize foreign assistance for his criminal benefit.
The Challenges of Forecasting the Spread and Mortality of COVID-19
By Kevin D. Dayaratna, PhD, and Norbert J. Michel, PhD
A number of attempts have been made to forecast the spread and mortality of COVID-19. Two Heritage Foundation analysts examine one common model for doing so. As all epidemiological models are grounded in assumptions, the analysts examine the model's sensitivity to a variety of important assumptions, about which there is currently little knowledge. They find tremendous variability in the associated forecasts, and discuss how state-level and county-level heterogeneity make these modeling exercises even more challenging. They conclude that in order to make well-informed decisions, policymakers must use a range of forecasts, and fully understand how sensitive models are to the smallest changes in assumptions.
President's 2021 Budget Trims Federal Government, but Bolder Reforms Needed
By Romina Boccia and David Ditch
The President's annual budget proposal serves as a road map to Congress for how the executive and legislative branches can work together to secure the nation and increase individual freedom and economic prosperity for all Americans. Out-of-control federal spending threatens that freedom and prosperity for current and future generations. Much has happened since the President introduced his budget with the nation confronting an exceptional public health crisis, including with legislative measures that are projected to triple the annual deficit this year. A pro-growth budget that right-sizes federal spending and focuses the federal government on national responsibilities will be critical to returning the nation to a path to fiscal sustainability and to avert a public debt crisis once the immediate public health crisis is contained. President Trump continues to lead the way in proposing bold reforms to balance the budget and adopt a path to long-term sustainability. Heritage Foundation experts have analyzed the President's 2021 budget and offer their insights on a wide range of policy issues in an "immediate reaction" piece. This Special Report is based on their contributions.
Responding to COVID-19 in Southeast Asia
Countries in Southeast Asia have mobilized a wide range of responses to the COVID-19 pandemic—with some better-prepared than others. Without a swift response, countries in the region risk a severe outbreak, especially among the more vulnerable refugees and internally displaced persons. The U.S. should examine its current aid portfolios—especially for poorer countries in the region—and consider whether it can offer additional assistance to its friends in Southeast Asia. It should also seek to safeguard liberty in the midst of a crisis that some countries could see as a carte blanche to expand government power.
The U.S. Should Focus on Targeted and Temporary Tools to Ensure Access to Medical Supply Chains
By Tori K. Smith, Edmund F. Haislmaier, and Maiya Clark
The Trump Administration has taken pragmatic steps to shore up the domestic supply of mechanical ventilators and other critical medical equipment in response to challenges faced by the nation during the coronavirus crisis. Congress and the Administration are also proposing policies that would reduce imports of these products from China. Unfortunately, the proposals could worsen the supply issues being faced today and undermine America's ability to innovate and bring Americans the best treatments and cures. These supply chains are being analyzed by Congress and the Food and Drug Administration, but the process requires careful deliberation independent of the pandemic. Should a pharmaceutical or further medical equipment shortage occur amidst the crisis, the Administration could make use of the Strategic National Stockpile or the Defense Production Act in a targeted and temporary manner.
Defeating COVID-19—What Policymakers Can Do to Change the Conditions on the Ground
By Robert Moffit and Doug Badger
COVID-19 cases are growing in the United States, and Americans are in the midst of a nationwide public health crisis. Every state faces different challenges, and the conditions for success vary greatly, based on demography, public compliance, and the capacity of medical professionals and health workers to cope with the surge in demand for medical care. While the President and federal health officials should provide vital information, guidance, and material support, state leaders can and will take the lead in combating this virus. As more tests become available, state officials will be able to adopt a broader variety of strategies than social distancing, while learning from both domestic and international experience, including the comparative performance of Italy and South Korea. Such measures can stop the spread of this virus with the help of medical professionals, and, with the cooperation of the public, reverse the rising caseloads.
How the Chinese Government Undermined the Chinese People's Attempts to Prevent and Respond to COVID-19
By silencing whistleblowers and sidelining charitable organizations, the Chinese government exacerbated the human toll of SARS, earthquakes—and now COVID-19. To aid the Chinese people and to mitigate the global impact of COVID-19 and any future infectious diseases, the U.S. government should press the Chinese government to respect freedom of speech, freedom of association, and freedom of religion so that citizens and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) can contribute their information, expertise, and resources. The U.S. is already the top single-country donor to China to counter the spread of COVID-19. As such, it should also press for better access for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, as well as international aid organizations, including faith-based NGOs.
COVID-19 and the Provisional Licensing of Qualified Medical School Graduates as Physicians
By Paul Larkin
Each level of government has its own peculiar responsibilities to address the COVID-19 pandemic. The states are responsible for licensing physicians who can treat the affected people. Each year, a large number of American and foreign medical school graduates do not find a residency position in the United States. Medical school graduates who have passed the qualifying examination have acquired a considerable amount of education and training during their medical studies, far more than physician assistants, nurses, military corpsmen and medics, and civilian paramedics or emergency medical technicians. They comprise a pool of talent that could be immensely useful in ameliorating the shortage of physician care throughout the country during the pandemic. State lawmakers should allow those graduates to receive a provisional license so that they can provide emergency medical care under the supervision of a licensed physician to help treat the ever-increasing number of COVID-19 patients we will see throughout the near future, or those patients who suffer from more common illness and injuries.
Congress Should Focus on Pandemic Control and Fix the CARES Act for an Economic Rebound
By Romina Boccia, Lindsey Burke, PhD, David Burton, Rachel Greszler, Adam N. Michel, PhD, Norbert J. Michel, PhD, Jude Schwalbach, Parker Sheppard, and Paul Winfree
A stimulus package designed to increase spending will have limited effect in the face of sweeping mitigation measures that have shut down most economic activity deemed nonessential. Nor will stimulus spending on unrelated projects reduce the spread of the novel coronavirus, which is the primary cause of economic contraction. Lawmakers must stay focused on containing the pandemic through targeted, timely, and temporary measures that keep workers attached to their employers and avert widespread business failures. These policies will enable the economy to rebound once the pandemic response allows for it. Congress should fix problems introduced in the hastily drafted CARES Act, not introduce poorly targeted stimulus measures that will confuse public communication, undermine pandemic mitigation, and distort an eventual economic rebound.
Public-Private Virtual-School Partnerships and Federal Flexibility for Schools During COVID-19
As the pandemic forces schools to innovate, Americans will get a glimpse into what the future of learning looks like. Such a perspective could change education content delivery forever, making instruction more flexible and suited to the needs of each individual student. In the coming weeks, schools should continue to attempt to teach students, and they should be able to do so without fear of reprisal from federal or state officials over regulatory
The Senate's Coronavirus Bill: Bailouts, Missed Opportunities, and Positive Reforms
By Lindsey Burke, PhD, David Burton, Marie Fishpaw, Rachel Greszler, Adam N. Michel, PhD, Norbert J. Michel, PhD, Parker Sheppard, and Paul Winfree
Any action that Congress takes should be targeted, temporary, and linked directly to the coronavirus epidemic in order to address the source of the economic shock while limiting any political abuse that can develop in a moment of crisis. Unfortunately, the Senate's coronavirus bill, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act misses this mark by including special benefits to specific industries that will exceed $200 billion. We have specified a number of proposals in other papers that would do more to help workers continue to receive paychecks while mitigating the economic effects associated with the coronavirus pandemic. Congress must resist the urge to provide special benefits to select industries and give the robust fiscal and monetary policy response that has already been enacted time to work.
Schooling During the COVID-19 Pandemic: How Emergency Education Savings Accounts Can Meet the Needs of Every American Child
By Lindsey Burke, PhD
The coronavirus pandemic is acutely affecting the delivery of K–12 education. As of March 19, 2020, 44 states had closed 104,000 schools, affecting nearly 48 million students, turning millions of families into accidental homeschoolers. This homeschooling trial by fire for families across the United States has hastened the need for district, state, and federal officials to implement policies that can ease the transition to learning at home. In order to address this immediate challenge, policymakers should provide families with emergency education savings accounts (ESAs), in order to enable them to access virtual tutors and to pay for online learning options, so that students can continue learning to the greatest extent possible during this difficult time.
The 'Third Inning' Next Steps for Congress in Address the Coronavirus
By Michel Burton, Marie Fishpaw, Norbert J. Michel, PhD, Parker Sheppard, and Paul Winfree
Congress has taken and can still take a number of steps to mitigate the economic effects associated with the coronavirus epidemic. Any action that Congress takes should be targeted, temporary, and linked directly to the coronavirus epidemic in order to address the source of the economic shock while limiting any political abuse that can develop in a moment of crisis. This paper outlines several specific reforms that Congress should consider to achieve these goals. However, Congress must also resist the urge to overreact while giving the robust fiscal and monetary policy response time to work.
Sound Policy Responses to the Economic Consequences of the Coronavirus
By David Burton, Norbert J. Michel, PhD, Parker Sheppard, and Paul Winfree
The economic effects associated with the coronavirus epidemic are potentially significant. Moreover, in the United States, these effects represent an economic shock to an otherwise healthy economy. The response to the coronavirus should be targeted, temporary, and transparent. Any emergency fiscal policy response should link directly to the coronavirus in order to address the source of the economic shock while limiting any political abuse that can develop in moments of crisis. The epidemic tax credit outlined in this paper would achieve these purposes. Should policymakers want to improve the underlying fundamentals of the economy, they should look to other pro-growth policy tools.
The 2019 Coronavirus: How to Think About It and How to Respond
By Peter Brookes
On January 9, the United Nations' specialized agency, the World Health Organization, announced an outbreak of a new—or novel—coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in the large, central China city of Wuhan. In the weeks since the announcement, the virus has intensified in China, infecting thousands there, and is now spreading across the globe, far beyond its origin in Hubei Province. In dealing with an emerging crisis such as this one, the fundamentals apply, including keeping the crisis in context, pushing for full transparency, seeking international coordination and cooperation, employing a "whole of government" approach, enhancing epidemic indications and warning, prioritizing the development of treatments, and supporting all elements of the U.S. health care system.


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An article called Are Book Trailers Effective? at what is now Build Book Buzz quoted a Wall Street Journal article on the subject. "There is scant evidence . . . that the average book trailer actually has much impact on book sales."
Hey, but that post and that article are both four years old. Everything's changed since then, right? Besides, my book trailer will be above average. And that article wasn't about above average book trailers, now was it?


Some of you might remember the little challenge-et when I attempted to move my 10" rotary table off of the shelf and on to the bed of the Harrision. For those of you forget it went something like: Table at 400mm from floor, needed to slide out off the shelf and be lifted to a height of 1m. So clear the way.. bend knees properly… slide table forward off of shelf, say :censored: as it rapidly reduced the distance to the floor to zero narrowly missing any parts of my anatomy. I should mention at this point it weighs in at about 60Kgs :facepalm: I did finally get it on the bed of the mill and since then it has been perched on a shelf round the back of the mill so I don't have to try lifting it again.
Mr Silky in turn came with a little Dividing head which weighs in at 75Kgs and it sounds like I may be getting another dividing head which will weigh 65Kgs (one cannot have too many dividing heads 8) ).
Problem with the scissor lifts and TEs is that you still need to get them up quite a height onto the lift, its OK for Locos that go from lift to car to steaming bay. If I ever do the Superba I'd be looking at a high lift pallet truck which go down a lot lower.
And yes, I'm one too.
I like the looks of that smaller lift table Jo, seems it is lacking a few inches though in the height direction though, or you can lower the table to its maximum height and just slide the vice/rotab onto the mill. Will it handle all the weight you need safely? With the smaller footprint its definitely going to be topheavy when extended!!
It is not bad wheeling it around extended but safety first it will be left down when not actually lifting.
This looks similar. Small enough footprint, even for my shop. The rotab and the 6" Kurt seem to get heavier with time. Raise this lift, lower Bridgeport table to the lift table, hmmm.
Yes same one but in red.
There is another which has cast iron wheels while mine has a solid neoprene rubber and it has a lever for letting the jack down which I was not sure about.
Many of the reviews did mention bleeding the hydraulic line and checking the oil.
Looks to be a much better deal in the UK. About 60 USD more expensive here.


What happened at the Deepwater Horizon rig is a tragedy on many levels – from the terrible loss of life involved, to the ongoing impact of the spill on the environment, communities and businesses of the Gulf Coast. Everyone at ExxonMobil shares in the concern over the accident and spill, and we have contributed personnel and equipment to help with the response.
The Presidential Commission's investigation and others underway will help us determine what happened and what needs to be done going forward. This devastating chain of events is far from the industry norm. We all need to understand what occurred on this occasion that did not occur at the 14,000 other deepwater wells that have been successfully drilled around the world.
ExxonMobil and others have, over the course of many years, developed and implemented procedures and equipment that have proved very effective in safely managing our offshore wells. What we do know is that when you properly design wells for the range of risk anticipated; follow established procedures; build in layers of redundancy; properly inspect and maintain equipment; train operators; conduct tests and drills; and focus on safe operations and risk management, tragic incidents like the one in the Gulf of Mexico today should not occur.
We need to understand the events that led to this unprecedented accident, and take corresponding steps to further reduce the likelihood of a similar event ever occurring again. An expert and thorough approach to understanding what happened is crucial because this incident represents a dramatic departure from the industry norm in deepwater drilling.
Gulf of Mexico deepwater activity accounts for about 24 percent of U.S. oil production.
Overall, oil and gas activities in the Gulf account for about 170,000 direct and indirect jobs.
Last year, the oil the United States produced from the Gulf was more than the oil it imported from any single country except for Canada.
Within five years, global deepwater production is expected to rise to 10 million barrels per day — the amount of crude and liquids that Saudi Arabia produces every day.
Energy consumers around the world need the oil and natural gas resources found in offshore and deepwater regions, but they expect it to be done safely and in an environmentally sensitive way.


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Q: How to measure close distance between two iphone devices using bluetooth? Can you work out if another iphone is say ~5 horizontal meters away?
This question has been asked here almost identically but a decade is a long time in tech. I have no interest in direction.
How to measure distance between two iphone devices using bluetooth?
Current solution attempts
GPS - This is too inaccurate for <10m
Bluetooth - iBeacon a potential solution for iphones. Similarly, may be too inaccurate due to BT signal interference. At least as SO claims 5 years ago. (How to measure the distance between an iPhone acting like an iBeacon and an Android device)
Have we made any progress here?

A: There have been no significant changes in the past 5 years. I wrote a blog post with a deep dive into the current state as of 2020.  Mobile phones in 2020 have newer bluetooth chipsets than in 2015, and may support Bluetooth 5, but there are no significant new capabilities that improve the reliability distance estimates.  Indeed, there are no new proximity sensors on iOS and Android phones (other than NFC, which only measures proximity of a few centimeters away), so it is inappropriate for this use case.  What's more, 5 years has made things worse by adding fragmentation, especially on the iOS side.  Back in 2015, there were only a few Apple handset variants in common circulation.  Now there are over a dozen.
To recap the current state of affairs that is mostly unchanged:  you can use one phone to transmit over BLE and another to measure the signal strength and estimate distance.  For known transmitters and approximately line of sight conditions (e.g. phones are not in a pocket or purse) measuring whether two phones are 5 meters apart is possible with perhaps a 60 percent confidence interval.  Where this falls apart is with three important variables:

*

*Phones and especially Android phones are quite fragmented.  Transmitter power and receiver sensitivity are quite unpredictable between models and have a large variance.  Apple has much less variance between models, but you still see differences that noticeably affect results.

*People often put phones in a case, a purse or a pocket.  This throws things off considerably further.

*When clear line of sight conditions are not present, results are unreliable as you have said.

Bluetooth 5.1 does offer Angle of Arrival and other features that may improve this, but as of October 2020, neither Android 11 nor iOS 14 support any of these features, making the features unusable with almost any mobile phone.

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It's not unusual to find that a family has changed its name since coming to America. Some do it to leave the past behind. Some have their names changed by immigration officials. Some change their names to avoid the latest fad in ethnic hatred.
I suspect my family was the second, but it could also be that we're more German than we think. But speaking of secret Germans: Anthony Weiner.
Once upon a time his family went by a common German name: Weimar, which is German for "German equivalent of smith". Then came the world wars, in which Germany took on the entire world, more-or-less single-handed*, but lost, due to not being America. In the process Germans became a little tiny bit unpopular in America, or perhaps a little tiny bit more so, considering Prohibition was partially driven by a desire to crush the Irish and German populations in America. Under these circumstances, the name Weimar was not a good one to have. Less so when Germany became known as the impressively incompetent (and mention economically oppressed) Weimar Republic, which gave us the face of hyperinflation (more media-savvy than Zimbabwe). So his family did the only sensible thing: changed its named to Weinar.
All might have been okay, but it appears that a prankster at the Department of Giving Ethnics Less Ethnic Names (DoGELEN (pronounced D-o-gellen, not dog-ellen)) decided to go one step further and change the name to Weiner. Since they still didn't speak English, they were unable to see the different between e and a, and did not question the change. It helped that at the time, while not many or for very long, there were still some German-Americans being interned during WWII.
He got the name Anthony after his equally-not-English-speaking parents (equal to his grandparents) mistakenly thought that Italians were not discriminated against.
*Austria hardly counts and whatever gains Japan gave for the Axis powers were lost by pulling the US into the war directly. Hence the now-corrupted phrase: "don't mess with Hawaii."
In related news, Texas Representative Ron Paul is refusing examination by doctors to confirm if he is actually 105 year old Ayn Rand.
Italy was the biggest millstone round Germany's neck during WW2. Well, apart from Hitler of course.
Hitler: Ve Vill crush ze inferior Slavs!
Mussolini: Uh, I guess we can crush some Slavs. Yea. Uh, how about the Croatians? Yea. We'll crush them. But this is a bit difficult. Could you give us a hand here? This Balkans place is really tricky.
Weimar isn't a very common name in Germany .. at least not that I know. It's a famous city with lots of culture, you can wiki it, if you're interested. And, of course, the Weimar Republic was founded there after the first world war.


Given our current economic recession and the poor parcelization of properties in Grandview that's taken place over the past 18 months, Assistant Director of City Planning Tim McHarg said at a meeting Monday that the City cannot help provide the ailing subdivision's infrastructure.
Instead, the City has decided to use its limited resources in a more strategic and focussed approach to ensure that the historic downtown Durango area remains vibrant and healthy, he said.
In the joint City and County study session, McHarg laid down the realities of the City not having the financial or staff resources to implement the Grandview Area Plan, as adopted in 2003.
"It was expected that the City, the County and CDOT would provide that infrastructure, but that's not the way the city has historically done business," McHarg said.
McHarg also highlighted using a map and words the tremendous amount of parcelization that's recently taken place in Grandview, especially just east of Three Springs Boulevard.
Additionally, there's no system in the Grandview Area Plan to establish a special improvement district to get property owners in the area to help fund the infrastructure, McHarg said. Also, the City cannot establish any special improvement districts in the county, as only the County can do that, City Planning Director Greg Hoch said.
Providing a transition buffer between different-sized parcels of development became another falter of the Grandview Area Plan, McHarg said.
By the end, the Grandview connection was not discussed at the meeting, but I'll keep you updated once I hear anything further about it.


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var _classnames = require('classnames');

var _classnames2 = _interopRequireDefault(_classnames);

var _react = require('react');

var _react2 = _interopRequireDefault(_react);

var _lib = require('../../lib');

var _ItemHeader = require('./ItemHeader');

var _ItemHeader2 = _interopRequireDefault(_ItemHeader);

var _ItemDescription = require('./ItemDescription');

var _ItemDescription2 = _interopRequireDefault(_ItemDescription);

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var _ItemExtra2 = _interopRequireDefault(_ItemExtra);

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var _ItemMeta2 = _interopRequireDefault(_ItemMeta);

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 * An item can contain content
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      description = props.description,
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      meta = props.meta,
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  /** Content can specify its vertical alignment */
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Informants, Munster: Mike Bán Conraoi, Ballinskelligs.
Informants, Munster: mother of Mike Bán Conraoi, Baile an Sceilg.
Informants, Munster: Tadhg Ó Murchú, he is leaning against dry stone wall with bicycle and fields visible in background. There are two packages on bike front and back.
Informants, Munster: Séamus 'An Gilder' Ó Súilleabháin, Cloch Bhuaile, An Coireán.
Informants, Munster: Micheál Ó Súilleabháin, Féith na Muirí, An Coireán.
Informants, Munster: Domhnal Batt Ó Séaghdha, An Coireán.
Informants, Munster: Domhnall Ó Murchú, Uíbh Ráthach.
Informants, Munster: Néilí (Neily) Ó Séaghadha agus Diarmuid Ó Seácháin, Glenmore.
Informants, Munster: Séamus 'An Gilder' Ó Súilleabháin, Waterville - dwelling house and fields.
Informants, Munster: Máire Bean Uí Ailíosa, Na Túiríní, Gleann Mór, Cathair Domhnaill.
Informants, Munster: Liam Bradley, Cinn Eich near Waterville.
Informants, Munster: Seán Ó Conaill, Cill Rialaig.


Here are some snazzy birthday facts about 23rd of July 1992 that no one tells you about. Don't wait a minute longer and jump in using the content links below. Average read time of 9 minutes. Enjoy!
What day was my birthday Jul 23, 1992?
July 23, 1992 was a Thursday and it was the 205th day of the year 1992. It was the 30th Thursday of that year. The next time you can reuse your old 1992 calendar will be in 2020. Both calendars will be exactly the same! This is assuming you are not interested in the dates for Easter and other irregular holidays that are based on a lunisolar calendar.
There are 92 days left before your next birthday. You will be 27 years old when that day comes. There have been 9,769 days from the day you were born up to today. If you've been sleeping 8 hours daily since birth, then you have slept a total of 3,256 days or 8.92 years. You spent 33% of your life sleeping. Since night and day always follow each other, there were precisely 331 full moons after you were born up to this day. How many of them did you see? The next full moon that you can see will be on May 18 at 21:13:00 GMT – Saturday.
Fun stat: Your first one billion seconds (1,000,000,000) will happen sometime on March 31, 2024.
If a dog named Pascha - a Stabyhoun breed, was born on the same date as you then it will be 137 dog years old today. A dog's first human year is equal to 15 dog years. Dogs age differently depending on breed and size. When you reach the age of 6 Pascha will be 42 dog years old. From that point forward a medium-sized dog like Pascha will age 4.5 dog years for every human year.
Scanian War: Denmark–Norway captures the harbor town of Marstrand from Sweden.
The Holocaust: The Treblinka extermination camp is opened.
The post-war legal processes against Philippe Pétain begin.
Three bombs explode in the Naama Bay area of Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, killing 88 people.
NASA announces discovery of Kepler-452b by Kepler.
What does my birthday July 23, 1992 mean?
Your birthday numbers 7, 23, and 1992 reveal that your Life Path number is 6. It represents justice, nurturing and responsibility. You possess great compassion and seek to be of service to others.
The following celebrities also have the same life path number: Jacqueline Aguilera, Eva Gabor, Tuomas Holopainen, John Cassavetes, Michael Cerveris, Eddie Velez, Laura Wright, David Warner, Aaron Russo, Julian Barratt.
What is the birthday horoscope for Jul 23, 1992?
The Western zodiac or sun sign of a person born on July 23 is Leo ♌ (The Lion) – a fixed sign with Fire as Western element. The ruling planet is Sun – the center of our universe. According to the ancient art of Chinese astrology (or Eastern zodiac), Monkey is the mythical animal and Water is the Eastern element of a person born on July 23, 1992.
Ruby is the modern birthstone for the month of July while Ruby is the mystical birth stone (based on Tibetan origin). The zodiac gemstone for Leo is onyx. Lastly, the birthday stone for the day of the week 'Thursday' is sapphire.
Fun fact: The birth flower for 23rd July 1992 is Larkspur for haughtiness.
The number-one hit song in the U.S. at the day of your birth was Baby Got Back by Sir Mix-a-Lot as compiled by Billboard Hot 100 (July 25, 1992). Ask your parents if they know this popular song.
How many babies were born on July 23, 1992?
Base on the data published by the United Nations Population Division, an estimated 135,687,063 babies were born throughout the world in the year 1992. The estimated number of babies born on 23rd July 1992 is 370,730. That's equivalent to 257 babies every minute. Try to imagine if all of them are crying at the same time.
What is the popular baby name on 23 Jul 1992?
Here's a quick list of all the fun birthday facts about July 23, 1992. Celebrities, famous birthdays, historical events, and past life were excluded.
Try another birth date of someone you know or try the birthday of these celebrities: July 7, 1984 – Yousuke Itou, Japanese actor and singer; October 24, 1950 – Karen Austin, American actress; April 15, 1922 – Michael Ansara, Syrian-American actor (d. 2013).


Back in May 2008 I wrote a post titled "Talbots = Fashion Hell?" where I debated on if you could find redeemable clothing at the chain retailer. I would link, but most the images and links are broken. At the end of the post I stated "While very preppy, Talbot's isn't just for old people! Plus, they get extra points for having most things in petite and plus sizes too. Talbot's, you are officially upgraded to fashion purgatory in my mind!"
Unfortunately for them, most shoppers have yet to change their mind about Talbots. In fact, I just read that their chief executive, Trudy Sullivan, said " Its image had gotten so old that in a customer survey a couple of years ago, women 65 years of age and older said the brand was for "someone older." When you're too old for new retirees, you gotta be in trouble. And, yes, they had reported more than a year of losses a little more than a year ago. So they decided to revamp their image.
Hmm, looks like thier commitment is waffling. The clothing I see above looks like the strange love child of Cold Water Creek and Oscar de la Renta (after getting REALLY drunk on martinis at the Algonquin Hotel and picking up a midwestern tourist that wandered in lost). Perhaps their sales went down for fall and they decided they were alienating their current customer base? I mean, I know we're having a ladylike revival right now, but the clothing has fallen distinctly back into "old lady" territory.
All I have to say is, wasn't that the plan? Talbots, if you can't stick to your guns for more than a season you'll never attract the 25-45 market you desire. Because I know none of my friends even knew they were trying anything besides mom jeans and the like! It takes awhile to reach a new market, especially when you fail to really publicize your new look in the first place. Or maybe they decided it would be too hard to compete with the J. Crews and LOFTs of the world so set their sites lower... maybe Chico's or Jones NY. Either way, Talbots needs to find their identity stat!
Vyque I completely agree with you. There were several items I was really interested in purchasing from the Fall line, but their extremely high pricing is always an issue for me. You can't put a complete look together for under $300. Why bother, I say. I did like what they did with their denim line though. Either way, it's going to really take a major push on their part to change their image. I just don't see it happening.


Oppps! we post again, same position I like we're not satisfied with the first shot so we requested our dear friend to captured again. Here's the result it's still the same but more closer than the first shot. I shop that red t-shirt and white jacket of mine at Clifton hills during the day, the wash it in the hotel that we stayed then wear it during the night. It's beautiful and I love it. Also that yellow t-shirt of my friend she bought there like mine same shopping store at Niagara.


All files must have a minimum resolution of 300 dpi (dots per inch). Images with a resolution less than 300 dpi will reproduce poorly on press (the image will look fuzzy and/or pixilated). If you took your images from a website on the internet, there is a 90% chance that they will not be a high enough resolution for printing (unless the images came from a stock photography house and are designated high resolution).
The internet displays images at 72 dpi, so that the images appear quickly over an internet connection, but under no circumstances should they be used for printing. If you submit low-resolution files for printing, you will not be happy with the quality of your printing.
Below are examples of a low resolution (72 dpi) file and a high resolution (300 dpi) file. Please review these examples to ensure that you submit your files the correct way and you get the best quality possible.
Please review the example above. This is an example of a 4" x 6" postcard or flyer with low resolution (72 dpi). Notice that all the text and graphics look blurry, fuzzy, and pixelated. There is no process with printing that will make this look good. Your print will come out as bad as it looks on your screen. To see an example of a high resolution (300 dpi) file, refer to the last example on this page.
Please review the example above. This is an example of a 4" x 6" postcard or flyer with low resolution (72 dpi) that has been blow up or changed to high resolution (300 dpi). Notice that all the text and graphics still look blurry, fuzzy, and pixelated. Don't believe everything you see on TV! There is no way to increase or "enhance" the resolution of an image. The only way to fix this is to redesign the file from start to finish at 300 dpi. To see an example of a high resolution (300 dpi) file, refer to the last example on this page.
Please review the example above. This is an example of a 4" x 6" postcard or flyer at high resolution (300 dpi). Notice that all the text is clear and sharp. By keeping to these standards and being cautious about how you create your design, you will be very pleased with the end results.


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Q: prevent script execution on load (or parsing) in jQuery i have an "ajax engine" based on jQuery. And after receiving the response i must manipulate the response before inserting in page. But I need the response as an jQuery object.
I do this with:
tmpActualResult = $( '<span/>' ).html( actualResult );

But at this time jQuery (or browser itself?) execute the scripts which are included in response - and exactly this shouldn't occur. I will execute the scripts manual later.
in particular I will:

*

*parse response (get access to the tags/elements which are included)

*insert the elements into page (DOM manipulating)

*execute possible scripts (which are received)

in thanks
Edit:
If someone is interested too, i've created a more general solution by extending the jQuery.domManip function, as suggested in first answer.
(function($, oldDomManip) {
// Override the core domManip function
$.fn.domManip = function() {

    function evalScript(i, elem) {
        jQuery.globalEval(elem.text || elem.textContent || elem.innerHTML || "");
    }

    var scripts = [];
    // let jQuery build the fragments
    var results = jQuery.buildFragment(arguments[0], this, scripts);
    // change parameter to created fragments
    arguments[0] = results.fragment.childNodes;
    // do what jQuery will do - without scripts
    oldDomManip.apply(this, arguments);
    if (scripts.length) {
        // if connection is active
        if (jQuery.active != 0) {
            $(this).bind("ajaxStop.scriptCache", function() {
                $.each(scripts, evalScript);
                $(this).unbind("ajaxStop.scriptCache");
            });
        } else
            $.each(scripts, evalScript);
    }
    return this;
};
})(jQuery, jQuery.fn.domManip);

it will not execute scripts before ajax request is completed. worked for me.

A: You can't prevent script execution of scripts that are part of a string of markup you're trying to add using .html() or .append(). At least not without extending the domManip function of jQuery. It extracts all scripts in html markup that you're trying to add using .html() or .append() and evals it.
You could, however, extract the script tags with their inner text (js) from the string yourself, add only the markup via .html() or .append() and then eval the scripts yourself when you need to.

A: Try this:
var container = document.createElement('div');
container.innerHTML = "<div> i am html with script tag <script type="text/javascript">alert('Script executed');</script>end</div>"
$(container).doSomething()


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package com.manning.hsia.dvdstore.ex12_1;

import org.apache.lucene.index.Term;
import org.apache.lucene.search.Query;
import org.apache.lucene.search.TermQuery;
import org.hibernate.Transaction;
import org.hibernate.search.FullTextQuery;
import org.hibernate.search.FullTextSession;
import org.hibernate.search.Search;
import org.hibernate.search.store.FSDirectoryProvider;
import org.testng.annotations.BeforeClass;
import org.testng.annotations.Test;

import java.io.File;
import java.util.List;

import com.manning.hsia.test.ch12.SearchTestCase;
import com.manning.hsia.test.Product;

public class TestSalesmanSearch extends SearchTestCase {

	@Test(groups="ch12")
	public void searchProduct() throws Exception {
		FullTextSession session = Search.getFullTextSession(openSession());
		Transaction tx = session.beginTransaction();

		try {
			Query query = new TermQuery(new Term("description", "salesman"));
			System.out.println(query.toString());

			org.hibernate.search.FullTextQuery hibQuery =
				session.createFullTextQuery(query,
					Product.class);

			hibQuery.setProjection(FullTextQuery.DOCUMENT,
				FullTextQuery.SCORE,
				FullTextQuery.DOCUMENT_ID,
				FullTextQuery.EXPLANATION);

			List<Object[]> results = hibQuery.list();

			assert results.size() > 0 : "no results returned";
			for (Object[] result : results) {
				System.out.println("score => " + result[1]);

				System.out.println(hibQuery
					.explain((Integer) result[2]));
			}
			for (Object element :
				session.createQuery("from " + Product.class.getName()).list())
				session.delete(element);
			tx.commit();
		}
		finally {
			session.close();
		}
	}

	protected Class[] getMappings() {
		return new Class[]{
			Product.class,
		};
	}

	@BeforeClass(groups="ch12", alwaysRun=true)
	protected void setUp() throws Exception {
		File sub = locateBaseDir();
		File[] files = sub.listFiles();
		if (files != null) {
			for (File file : files) {
				if (file.isDirectory()) {
					delete(file);
				}
			}
		}
		copyIndexes();
		buildSessionFactory(getMappings(), getAnnotatedPackages(), getXmlFiles());
	}

	protected void configure(org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration cfg) {
		super.configure(cfg);
		cfg.setProperty("hibernate.search.default.directory_provider", FSDirectoryProvider.class.getName());
		cfg.setProperty("hibernate.search.default.indexBase", locateBaseDir().getAbsolutePath());
//		cfg.setProperty("hibernate.search.use_query_cache", "true");
	}
}


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Alexandra Plesner
The History of Coliving
A collection of research findings, by no means complete.
Today's modern coliving movement is the latest iteration of a recurring human trend. The act of communally sharing space and resources while benefiting from a supportive community is something we've seen time and time again throughout history.
Yet each time a coliving or cohousing community arises, it's often for a completely different reason than the last. This is because societal, economic, spiritual, and technological shifts significantly impact our lifestyle choices and force us to constantly redefine our idea of "home".
I have been interested in the future of living space for many years, given my personal experience that taught me how much the environment we live in matters to how much we are able to live and not survive.
In January this year, I started looking into contemporary coliving communities with my fellow co-founders from our project Domus -, driven by the sharing economy, a manifestation of a renewed cultural movement towards resource-sharing. Criticism of the sharing economy often involves regulatory uncertainty, lack of government oversight, and bias in algorithms (gender, race).
Long ago, humans were hunter-gatherers that lived in large, mobile camps together. These nomadic people relied on one another for everything from food to protection to child care assistance. It is a romantic idea but actually when we look closer, especially fueled by the pandemic — it just makes so much sense.
The agricultural revolution around 10,000 BC made it possible for humans to stay in one place and build long-term settlements. So why did we humans choose to live in communities?
Psychology says that part of human nature's default mode is to be social. One theory: people have an innate (and very powerful) need to belong. Research dating back to the 1970s suggests people with weaker social networks actually die younger (due to any cause) than people who have more extensive social networks. A more recent review of 148 studies concluded that on average having stronger social ties increased the likelihood of an individual's overall survival by as much as 50 percent.
Communal living can be traced back to the earliest days of human cohabitation, historians Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels argued that hunter-gatherer societies were traditionally based on egalitarian social relations and common ownership. The act of the tribe sharing resources equally — is something that predates even the written word.
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Historian John Gillis claims that medieval homes consisted of a mix of friends and extended family and that single-family households were uncommon in most of the world. It wasn't until the 12th century that households became organized around monogamous couples and their children in Western Europe. However, they were far from the nuclear family, with various townspeople, poor married couples, other children, orphans, widows, elderly people, and tenants often living alongside them in communal housing.
It wasn't until the 1800s that divisions were drawn between who would live with whom, and towards the end of the 19th century the so-called "godly family" started to take shape, that of single families living in individual homes. Industrialization made extended communities less necessary and communal living was mostly lost.
In 1750, before the Industrial Revolution in Britain, only about 15% of the population lived in towns or cities. By 1900, it was 85%. This meant that thousands upon thousands of people suddenly needed food and shelter in cities, which led to an outbreak of poverty.
Ghettos were constructed for poor people who couldn't afford to pay for their own housing, but the conditions were often deplorable. Meanwhile, the wealthy built private homes for themselves. This was a massive shift in how society defined what was socially appropriate in terms of housing.
It gradually became the norm to live with family or people in the same class. Because we no longer needed to rely on communal living to prosper, we placed a higher value on privacy and individual success over group needs. The industrial revolution completely transfigured the idea of women and men working in similar roles in an agricultural commune. With women in the lower class, childbearing and raising, full-day labor, running the household — suffering deeply.
Today people are placing a value on figuring out who they are and what they want in life as opposed to having to instinctively accept the expectations and situations of the previous generation.
There have been numerous attempts for co-living and a new society over the course of history, especially since Sweden experimented with many different models from the early 1900.
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Historic examples of co-living:
Plato: about 2,400 years ago, the Greek philosopher described an ideal community where everything was organized collectively.
Thomas More's "Utopia: published in 1506. In his ideal, a community of people live in neighborhood groups with common dining rooms and various shared leisure facilities
Robert Owen's "Parallelogram": Robert Owen was a social reformer and wealthy industrialist who made his fortune from textile mills in New Lanark, Scotland. He had an idea that would combine the best of the agricultural and industrial society. Each community would be limited to 2000 inhabitants, who would collectively own the means of production. Men and women would have equal rights. The Parallelogram would have generous dining halls, schools and kindergartens, libraries, and sports grounds, while the individual dwellings would be modest. And he tried to make it happen.
New Harmony, Indiana, US: Owen, his twenty-two-year-old son, William, and his Scottish friend Donald McDonald sailed to the United States in 1824 to purchase a site to implement Owen's vision for "a New Moral World" of happiness, enlightenment, and prosperity through education, science, technology, and communal living. Owen believed his utopian community would create a "superior social, intellectual and physical environment" based on his ideals of social reform.
Owen bought the town Harmony, in 1825, in order to prove his theories were viable and to correct the troubles that were affecting his mill-town community New Lanark. He renamed the town New Harmony and invited "any and all" to join him there. It became known as a center for advances in education and scientific research. Town residents established the first free library, a civic drama club, and a public school system open to men and women. but it disintegrated after a few years.
Charles Fourier's Phalanstère (or Falanstere): a type of building (very much looking like the Royal Palace of Versailles, the most famous piece of architecture at that time), designed for a self-contained utopian community, ideally consisting of 500–2000 people working together for mutual benefit, and developed in the early 19th century. In France Fourier's followers were forbidden to realize his ideas.
Familistere (the industrial Google Campus): The iron stove manufacturer Jean André Baptiste Godin, as a leading industrialist and member of the Senate, finally was granted permission to build what he called the Familistere, where everyone would live as in a huge family; in northern France 1858. He built a factory and large multi-family dwellings, interconnected under a huge glass roof. However soon individual family kitchens were built because women were not allowed to work in the factory and were said to have nothing to do and the Familistere gradually lost its collective character. However, the factory continued to operate successfully even after Godin's death and the whole complex is today part of the national building heritage.
Smaragden: built-in 1938 in Sweden for unmarried women.
Marieberg cohousing unit: built-in 1944 by contractor Olle Engkvist, who spearheaded the development of collective housing in Sweden from the 1940s. He introduced a system of 24 meal tickets per adult each month, to be paid as part of the rent. This would keep meal prices low and secure that only people interested in collective services would move in. Tenants could either take their meals in the dining hall or carry the food in a basket to their flat. The English philosophy included uniformed staff, which secured an order in the house, besides serving the tenants. Some of the employees lived in the unit themselves.
The Marieberg unit was designed by architect Sven Ivar Lind, who, despite the corridor, solution created much appreciated communal and private living spaces. Besides a pre-school nursery, there was an afternoon kindergarten for school children. There is ample evidence that the children's environment was both stimulating and secure. When larger families left the building, more and more single mothers moved in, thus maintaining the unit as "a paradise for children". This process also meant that the upper-class character of collective housing was weakened.
The Hässelby "family hotel": built in the mid-1950s and was Olle Engkvist's last and biggest cohousing project. There were 328 apartments, a restaurant kitchen, a large dining hall on several levels, a smaller dining room, a room for parties, a club-room with its own cafeteria, a staffed reception, a shop that was open in the evenings (which was rare in the 1950s), a kindergarten, a laundry, a sauna, a prayer-room and a gymnastic hall shared with the adjacent school. The dining hall was run like a restaurant, with a manager who decided the menu. The staff wore uniforms and the guests dressed smartly. If they paid a little extra, they could have a specially-laid table with special dishes for guests. In other words, the family hotel was for privileged families.
The Hässelby family hotel was not designed so that those who lived there should cook meals or do anything else together. As the name "family hotel" implies, the objective was to support families where the mother was working outside the home.
In the late 1960s, a new attitude could be seen, reflecting radical developments in the rest of society. The family hotel attracted tenants who were inspired by movements among students, international solidarity, and feminist movements. People began to dress less formally in the dining hall. The radical women's "Group 8" had its meetings there. The tenants began to question the landlord's numerous rules.
Kibbutz: is a collective community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture. The first kibbutz, established in 1909, was Degania. It began as utopian communities, a combination of socialism and Zionism. In recent decades, some kibbutzim have been privatized and changes have been made in the communal lifestyle. In 2010, there were 270 kibbutzim in Israel.
Siheyuan: is a historical type of residence that was commonly found throughout China, most famously in Beijing and rural Shanxi. Throughout Chinese history, the siheyuan composition was the basic pattern used for residences, palaces, temples, monasteries, family businesses, and government offices. In ancient times, a spacious siheyuan would have an inner courtyard and be occupied by a single, usually large, and extended family, signifying wealth and prosperity. Today, remaining siheyuan are often still used as subdivided housing complexes, although many lack modern amenities.
The central kitchen idea: In the first decades of the 20th century several so-called Central Kitchen Buildings were put up in the European capitals. A group of families could share the task of preparing food by organizing a central kitchen from which they could order meals for the family apartments. Examples are the Fick's Collective in Copenhagen 1903 and the Hemgården Central Kitchen in Stockholm 1905–07.
BIG: In the late 1970s the group BIG, Bo I Gemenskap, presented similar ideas, with financial support from the Swedish Building Research Council. In its final report, BIG presented the idea of a "Working together model" which inspired a number of new cohousing projects.
Hacker houses: With the advent of the Internet, the flexibility to work wherever you had a computer and a connection was intriguing. There was no longer a need to go sit in an office all day. Original hacker homes, which began popping up in and around San Francisco in the 2000s, housed teams of computer engineers living and working together to build tech startups. Being in close quarters all the time bred business productivity and creativity in a whole new way.
Chicago's "Eleanor Clubs": was designed to give young, working women affordable and congenial places to live. The club system also included various other services. The Central Eleanor Club downtown provided space to rest, make a cup of tea, or read the paper after work before going out to enjoy Chicago's nightlife. It offered lessons including gymnastics, English, and millinery. By 1920, it had 2,400 members. Robinson also created Eleanor banking facilities, an Eleanor Camp where young women could spend summer holidays, and the Eleanor Record, a magazine by and for club members. Source: https://daily.jstor.org/co-living-the-hot-new-trend-of-1898/
Contemporary coliving takes the form of businesses offering community-hosted living spaces to people who are determined to learn and grow from each other. Residents live, work, socialize, network, eat, play and create together in units that have both private and shared rooms, communal spaces, and sometimes even coworking spaces.
Coliving operators often have several locations within the same city and many have spaces scattered around the world. Many also offer unique business networking opportunities that are designed to give members exclusive access to founders and investors that they can potentially learn from and partner with.
Similar to the Danish cohousing communities, modern coliving communities with intention have spurred out of both a need and a desire. But, they differ in that they are run by businesses that provide a plethora of perks and amenities, as well as social and business networking opportunities, to incite both personal and professional prosperity for their members.
The modern coliving movement is the first time we've seen cohousing operate with the underlying impetus to give people a convenient and flexible space to learn, share and grow to better their future.
Coliving spaces are seen not as permanent cohousing communities, but rather as temporary (avg. 6 months to 2 years) dwellings for people to enhance their life skills while motivating and being motivated by a network of inspiring people. Coliving spaces for startups, artists, freelancers, remote workers, entrepreneurs, young professionals, and students are just some of the examples of niche coliving trends that exist today.
These subsets of coliving spaces allow for more structured networking opportunities between people that share professional and personal interests.
As the sharing economy continues to grow, coliving communities with intention are on track to skyrocket to new heights in the next few decades. The coliving movement is on fire and showing no signs of slowing down with many coliving companies having their eye on global expansion.
Our generation of creatives is moving so much, we do not have the resources to build a new "home" and would like to step right into a community. It takes at least 3 years to get to know a city you live in and if it is a city of the scale and pace of London, then after 6–10 years you do start to get to know where to find what and when.
New ideas need exchange — and a big city is still the ideal platform for creative encounters. The very density that became troublesome during a pandemic also holds the key to solutions going forward. And as the months of lockdown have shown, we can't deal with isolation. We crave connection to others. But we grew to embrace remote work and our private space, showing up in the world on our own terms.
Examples: Common, The Collective, Quarters
Long ago, humans were hunter-gatherers that lived in large, mobile camps together. These nomadic people relied on one another for everything from food to protection to child care assistance.
Psychology says that part of human nature's default mode is to be social. One theory: people have an innate (and very powerful) need to belong.
On average having stronger social ties increased the likelihood of an individual's overall survival by as much as 50 percent
The acts of the tribe sharing resources equally — is something that predates even the written word.
It wasn't until the 12th century that households became organized around monogamous couples and their children
In the 1800s that divisions were drawn between who would live with whom, and towards the end of the 19th century the so-called "godly family" started to take shape, that of single families living in individual homes.
Models of co-living have been explored through philosophical means by the upper class since Plato.
Various models have been tested but never endured time. Due to several factors.
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Q: Expected value of probability of intersection. let's assume we choose at random two subsets $A$ and $B$ of a finite set $X$ (i.e. $|X|=n$). By randomness I mean that $Pr[x\in A] = \frac1{n}$ for each $x\in X$, the same for $B$. What will be the average size of their intersection? More formally, I would like to compute:
$$E[|A \cap B|\ |\ |A|, |B|]$$
I tried to write it as a sum of expected values with additional condition about the size of $A\cap B$, but it leads me to a result which is not necessarily less than $1$, so either I've made a mistake or my whole reasoning has been wrong. Is there any tricky computation of this expression?

A: The number of elements $|A\cap B|$ in the interesection of $A,B$ given the values of $|A|$ and $|B|$, i.e. $|A\cap B \mid |A|, |B|$ is a random variable that takes values in $$\max\{0, |A|+|B|-|X|\},\ldots, \min\{|A|,|B|\}$$
Then $|A\cap B| \mid |A|, |B|$ follows the hypergeometric distribution (and not the binomial as in my initial effort) with parameters $|X|=n$ the population size, $|A|=a$ the number of successes in the population and $|B|=b$ the sample size.  The roles of $|A|$ and $|B|$ are interchangeable! Hence the expected value of $|A\cap B|\mid |A|,|B|$ is equal to $$E[|A\cap B|\mid |A|, |B|]=\frac{|A||B|}{|X|}=\frac{ab}{n}$$

Another way to see this, is that the probability that any given element of $X$ lies in $|A\cap B|$ given the values of $|A|,|B|$ is due to independece equal to $$P(x\in A\cap B)=P(x\in A)P(x\in B)=\frac{a}{n}\frac{b}{n}=\frac{ab}{n^2}$$ So \begin{align}E[|A\cap B|\mid |A|,|B|]&=E\left[\sum_{i=1}^{n}\mathsf 1_{\{x_i\in A\cap B\}}\right]=\sum_{i=1}^{n}E\left[1_{\{x_i\in A\cap B\}}\right]\\&=\sum_{i=1}^{n}P(x_i\in A\cap B)=n\cdot \frac{ab}{n^2}=\frac{ab}{n}\end{align}


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Funds will aid long-term unemployed
Jim Totten
Livingston County is expected to receive a slice of federal funds to help resolve a nagging situation: long-term unemployment.
Despite some improvements in the economy, labor statistics show employment has remained flat in the area.
"We are still seeing there are a large number of people who have been out of work for a long time," William Sleight said.
Sleight, director of the Livingston County Michigan Works! office, said local resources are still needed to address this problem. He said his office has continually been working to help train people for work since the economy slumped into the Great Recession.
He said the county will receive an estimated in $100,000 for training and support of long-term unemployed. The funds will be available over a two-year period.
"The length of unemployment is increasing," Sleight said. "This recovery is missing a big pool of workers who had been working."
He $150 million in Job-Driven National Emergency Grants was available, and a significant portion of those funds hadn't been used. After some brainstorming, Sleight said, states were allowed to apply for a portion of those funds to assist the long-term unemployed.
"We know companies are hiring," Sleight said.
He said his workforce development agency has helped train residents to give them the skills to get hired.
Despite these programs and a slight improvement in the economy, labor statistics show little movement in the labor force.
Michigan received an estimated $6 million in federal funds, and this amount will be divided among several regions in the state.
The six-county region that includes Livingston will receive a total of $700,000.
"It does reinforce what we're already been doing," Sleight said
The Livingston County Board of Commissioners is expected to finalize the grant acceptance at its meeting tonight.
Contact Daily Press & Argus reporter Jim Totten at 517-548-7088 or at jtotten@gannett.com.