Thursday, September 24, 2020
"Top Twenty Lessons Learned In 2020"
"Job Losses 'Stunning'”
"Of All Tyrannies..."
"The Internet Archive: The Resurrection Of Running 'Cause I Can't Fly"
- https://web.archive.org/web/20131001000000*/http://coyoteprime-runningcauseicantfly.blogspot.com/
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About the Internet Archive
The Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, the print disabled, and the general public. Our mission is to provide Universal Access to All Knowledge.
We began in 1996 by archiving the Internet itself, a medium that was just beginning to grow in use. Like newspapers, the content published on the web was ephemeral - but unlike newspapers, no one was saving it. Today we have 20+ years of web history accessible through the Wayback Machine and we work with 625+ library and other partners through our Archive-It program to identify important web pages.
As our web archive grew, so did our commitment to providing digital versions of other published works. Today our archive contains:
- 330 billion web pages
- 20 million books and texts
- 4.5 million audio recordings (including 180,000 live concerts)
- 4 million videos (including 1.6 million Television News programs)
- 3 million images
- 200,000 software programs
Anyone with a free account can upload media to the Internet Archive. We work with thousands of partners globally to save copies of their work into special collections.
Because we are a library, we pay special attention to books. Not everyone has access to a public or academic library with a good collection, so to provide universal access we need to provide digital versions of books. We began a program to digitize books in 2005 and today we scan 1,000 books per day in 28 locations around the world. Books published prior to 1923 are available for download, and hundreds of thousands of modern books can be borrowed through our Open Library site. Some of our digitized books are only available to the print disabled.
Like the Internet, television is also an ephemeral medium. We began archiving television programs in late 2000, and our first public TV project was an archive of TV news surrounding the events of September 11, 2001. In 2009 we began to make selected U.S. television news broadcasts searchable by captions in our TV News Archive. This service allows researchers and the public to use television as a citable and sharable reference.
The Internet Archive serves millions of people each day and is one of the top 300 web sites in the world. A single copy of the Internet Archive library collection occupies 45+ Petabytes of server space (and we store at least 2 copies of everything). We are funded through donations, grants, and by providing web archiving and book digitization services for our partners. As with most libraries we value the privacy of our patrons, so we avoid keeping the IP (Internet Protocol) addresses of our readers and offer our site in https (secure) protocol. You can find information about our projects on our blog (including important announcements), contact us, buy swag in our store, and follow us on Twitter and Facebook. Welcome to the library!
"Market Fantasy Updates 9/24/20"
Greg Hunter, "Next 6 Months Most Perilous in US History"
Join Greg Hunter as he talks to radio host, filmmaker and top selling author Steve Quayle as he talks about his upcoming video conference called “Final Warning, Brace for Impact.”
"'Let Me Explain What Happens Next...' - A Reader Sums It All Up Very Ominously"
"Covid-19 Pandemic Update 9/24/20"
The coronavirus pandemic has sickened more than 31,861,800
people, according to official counts, including 6,959,409 Americans.
Wednesday, September 23, 2020
Timely Repost: “Neuroscience Says Listening to This Song Reduces Anxiety by Up to 65 Percent”
"Hotel Industry Apocalypse Getting Worse: 2 Of 3 US Hotels Say They Wont Last Six More Months!"
"A new Big Short is being formed due to a catastrophic meltdown on the hotel industry sector. The CMBS short that once pointed to malls, now shifted its concerns to hotels, and hedge funds are already pilling up into the Big Short 3.0. Today, we will scrutinize a recent study that shows 74% of US hotels expect to lay-off even more employees, while two-thirds of them are likely to close their doors for good within the next six months. As of now, it's been clear that a real recovery is out of the horizon, so let's dive into another investigation to get a better grasp of the new unfoldings of the economic collapse. Stay with us and don't forget to like this video, share it with your friends, and subscribe to our channel to keep updated with the next chapters of the 21st-century Great Depression.
Since the sanitary outbreak struck America, shaking the grounds of the fragile economy, the hospitality industry has been reeling and constantly needing federal relief. The American Hotel and Lodging Association (AHLA) released a research disclosing alarming new data pointing to a downfall in the sector. Right now, 68 percent of hotels have less than half of their normal staff working full time, and more than two-thirds of hotels revealed they would not be able to last six more months at the current projected revenue and occupancy levels, while half of the hospitality owners surveyed affirmed they are in risk of foreclosure. Additionally, 74 percent of hotels said they would be forced to lay off more employees if they don't receive further government assistance.
A month ago, another poll published by the AHLA showed that the unemployment rates within the hospitality and leisure sector was at 38 percent, which configures almost four times that the national average of 10.2 percent. In an attempt to save the industry, the organization is appealing to lawmakers for an urgent pass on additional federal relief. Chip Rogers, president and CEO of the AHLA, said "it's time for Congress to put politics aside and prioritize the many businesses and employees in the hardest-hit industries. Hotels are cornerstones of the communities they serve, building strong local economies, and supporting millions of jobs. Every member of Congress needs to hear from us about the urgent need for additional support, so that we can keep our doors open and bring back our employees."
The AHLA survey found that urban hotels have been particularly affected and their occupancy rates are increasingly dropping, having only 38 percent of their capacity in use. Meanwhile, the hospitality-data provider STR released a study that indicates the average occupancy rate for all US hotels last month was 48.6 percent, marking a minor upturn of 1.6% compared to July. That signaled the lowest occupancy rate for any August since the STR started recording this data in 1985, and the company declared to believe that US hotel demand will not fully recover until 2023.
"Our industry is in crisis. Thousands of hotels are in jeopardy of closing forever, and that will have a ripple effect throughout our communities for years to come. We need help urgently to keep hotels open so that our industry and our employees can survive and recover from this public-health crisis," said Rogers on a recent note. The CEO also warned that if by the end of this month business travels don't resume and funding from the Paycheck Protection Program runs out, over 8,000 hotels are in danger of closure.
According to the latest Manhattan Lodging Index from PricewaterhouseCoopers, almost 60% of Manhattan hotels are still closed. As a result, the report indicated that roughly 61,450 hotel rooms in Manhattan had not reopened until early September, and nearly 2,700 of these are likely to be shuttered permanently.
The current collapse boosted by the health crisis was fast becoming the most significant event to ever impact their business; that includes the 12-month period after 9/11 and the financial crisis of 2009. At the point, he noted that the development pipeline has not ground to a complete halt. "We’ve been signing deals and we have development committees that are meeting monthly. The volume is lighter and the numbers will be lower than we anticipated but they won’t be zero," he said.