![]() These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. ![]() Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. “This was a contract with the United States and therefore enforceable by the United States,” a spokesperson for the DOJ said at the time. The Department of Justice (DOJ) – when Donald Trump was still in the White House – sued Winston Wolkoff for publishing the book, saying that she violated a non-disclosure agreement by not submitting a draft of the book for pre-publication review. No longer a friend of the family, Winston Wolkoff wrote a tell-all book in 2020 about the inauguration called Melania and Me: The Rise and Fall of My Friendship with the First Lady and shared recordings of Melania Trump, including her infamous declaration: “Who gives a fuck about Christmas stuff and decorations?” “I’ve been working with prosecutors for over 3 years.” “I never went along with their grift or lies so they punished me by making me the covergirl of their graft for the Presidential Inauguration,” Winston Wolkoff tweeted yesterday. She claims that the Trumps were behind that article. The New York Times reported in 2018 about how a company she is associated with, WIS Media Partners, got $26 million. ![]() She said that the Trump family tried to make her a scapegoat for their alleged misuse of funds at the inauguration. “The Trump Organization being involved in any way and getting the PIC to pay any sort of balance anywhere on their behalf? It just doesn’t seem legitimate.” She is also the lead witness in Racine’s case. The bill “should never have been sent to the PIC,” Winston Wolkoff told The Daily Beast, referring to the hotel.
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![]() A flood of AI-generated pitches is expected. Hsiang cites an HHS website called that takes submissions for thousands of funding applications. But like it or not, the AI boom has to be dealt with. She cites concerns that AI bots might infect services with bias. “We’re looking at it very carefully,” she says-a line currently mandatory for those in her line of work. I ask Hsiang how USDS regards generative AI because, well, my license as a tech pundit would be revoked if I failed to do that. “He brings us in and ensures that programs are running the right way,” Hsiang says. On the other hand, Biden’s current chief of staff, Jeff Zients, is deeply familiar with USDS, since he was once in charge of the rescue. ![]() “It would definitely be better to have an incredible partner in that office,” Hsiang concedes. One missed opportunity is the failure of the Biden Administration to fill the post of chief technology officer of the United States. “One of our superpowers is our ability to work between multiple agencies.” One problem, she notes, is that getting help often requires a citizen to access programs from multiple agencies that are poorly coordinated. “I think a lot about the opportunity for technology to reduce that administrative burden,” says Hsiang. Matthew Desmond, in his book Poverty by America, describes how millions of Americans don’t take advantage of vital programs because they are difficult to access. “We can restore trust by having a thing that operates as you would expect it to, that looks more like the products we all choose to use every day, rather than the ones we have to use.” “It was a phenomenal example of the partnership between USDS and agencies and the White House and the US Postal Service-of how we can all work together,” says Hsiang. Two-thirds of American households ultimately participated, with over 755 million tests distributed. ![]() Yes, there was a speed bump when the site couldn’t parse some addresses for citizens who lived in multifamily residences, but that was quickly resolved. Instead of asking people dozens of questions before they could sign up, the drop-dead simple form just asked where to send the darn things. Or consider the website that allowed Americans to order home delivery of free Covid tests. One radical idea: “In all sectors, services should reduce burdens, not increase them.” It also helped that late in 2021, Biden issued an executive order making human-centered design a key part of the federal government’s digital interface with citizens. So it was, ‘OK, how do we rebuild, scale, and up level,’” says Hsiang. “There was just a ton of demand across government. That enabled USDS coders and designers to work with more agencies and start new programs. Biden’s 2021 American Rescue Plan directed an astonishing $200 million to the USDS, ballooning its previously modest budget. Hsiang took over just as things were looking up. “The last administration had done a lot to undermine staffing,” she says. Nonetheless, USDS wasn’t thriving when Hsiang returned. They managed to thread that needle, in part, because Jared Kushner was at one point infatuated with the concept. The team survived through a combination of lying low and doing productive work. During the Trump years, the agency had to scramble just to stay alive, no easy task when a target was tacked onto anything even tangentially related to Obama. I spoke to Hsiang this week about how the USDS is faring after two years under her leadership. The tiny team of idealistic rescuers not only helped design a cleaner avenue to health insurance, but charmed the lifers at Health and Human Services (HHS) into enlisting them to fix up digital government more broadly. Those six- or seven-figure contracts seldom demanded benchmark performances and often took years to complete, or were never finished at all. Their methods flew in the face of typical arrangements in federal agencies, which would contract out digital operations to legacy firms with Beltway connections. Hsiang was a key member of the scrappy rescue team that turned things around, using principles of web design that were common in Silicon Valley operations but underutilized in government. The organization had sprung from the infamous debacle in 2013, when the website for selecting insurance plans under the new Obamacare law crashed badly. ![]() Upon her return, Hsiang worked on Covid response, and in September 2021, she became the third administrator of the USDS. She was one of the group’s founding members but had spent the past few years working for a health care startup. Mina Hsiang returned to the United States Digital Service, the US government's rapid digital fix-it squad, on January 26, 2021, when the streets of Washington, DC, had hardly been cleared after Joe Biden’s inauguration. ![]() Residents of this county should be impressed with the commitments made by the county and commerce to make a tangible difference in housing the unsheltered in this community,” Cronmiller added. “We intend to make Commerce proud of their selections for Jefferson County. “Washington Commerce was critical in providing the money for the 7th Haven project and now they have come through for Caswell-Brown Village.” “I was confident that the agency would be competitive in acquiring funding to bring this project to fruition,” she said. ![]() ![]() It was just a year ago that Cronmiller made a presentation to the Jefferson County Board of County Commissioners on the phased approach for the Mill Road property. The facility will have a commercial kitchen that will be used by other organizations to provide meals to residents of the shelter and village, and will be available for residents to use for simple meal preparations. Two common rooms have been included in the design that could also be used to shelter people on cots in the event of an emergency. “There’s an unseen crisis of families breaking up,” Cronmiller said, when parents lose their housing.Ĭhildren are often sent to live with other relatives, she said, while the parents sleep in cars, emergency shelters, tents, or other improvised accommodations. The shelter will have three emergency family rooms, with their own entrances and bathrooms. The new shelter is meant to provide permanent supportive housing with the benefit of private space a door people can close when they go to bed at night. Several people have been calling the emergency shelter in the basement of the Port Townsend American Legion home for years. These rooms are for people who need to live in a congregate shelter environment that offers 24-hour-a-day monitoring. There will be 13 private rooms for permanent supportive housing. The shelter will have a minimum of 24 emergency beds for persons who need temporary shelter before they find transitional or permanent housing. Washington Commerce acknowledged that the proposed project responded to a lack of shelter space in the county. More than $150,000 has been spent in predevelopment costs to get the project through the application process. Predevelopment and project management has been done through the Office of Rural & Farmworker Housing and architectural design is by SMR Architects. Jefferson County entered into a 43-year lease with Ol圜AP granting the nonprofit control of the site and the ability to apply for funding to build the new shelter. Special COVID community services block grant money has helped pay for operating expenses at the open air shelter, according to Ol圜AP. Jefferson County committed funds to purchase the parcels of land off Mill Road and committed stimulus funding to providing critical infrastructure at the Open-Air Shelter site. ![]() Rural areas struggle for operating dollars for emergency and supportive housing, by combining populations at one site, there is a cost savings. “This village is a unique design that allows for lower operations cost by combining shelter services at one location.” said Cherish Cronmiller, executive director of Ol圜AP. Organizers said the goal is to break ground as soon as possible and open the shelter by late summer 2024.įacing increased rent at the current shelter space and acknowledging the need for a longer-term solution, Ol圜AP started planning for a permanent congregate shelter more than two years ago. Cate Community Action Program will receive $5.5 million from the Washington State Department of Commerce to fund construction of a single-room occupancy, permanent shelter at the Caswell-Brown Village in Port Townsend. ![]() ![]() Note: For Instagram, when it's time to post, you'll need to open the notification via the SmarterQueue Mobile App.Your posts will then publish with the cool bold and italic options you've added! 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![]() Where can I test my 10 key typing skills? What is a good 10 key speed? A ten key speed above 8,000 KPH (Keystrokes Per Hour) is higher than the average score, and over 10,000 KPH is usually considered a high speed (when it is achieved with zero errors). What’s the average speed of a 10 key key? 10500 KDPH means you have pressed average 10500 keys per hour. It means how many key you press in one hour during typing test. It is used to major speed of typing which is known as Typography Speed. KDPH is stands for Key Depressions Per Hour. 45 – 50 will be considered fast by most average observers. 40–45 will be above average or a good typist. ![]() Is 35 wpm fast?ģ0–35 wpm will be considered slow. Although 8,000 KPH is a good 10 key speed a good typist should have minimum 10,000 to 12,000 KPH speed with 98% accuracy. It is measured in Keystrokes per Hour(KPH). Ten key typing is a vital part of typing and every typist should know 10 key typing. WPM (words per minute) can also be transformed into keystrokes per hour (kph) using these general guidelines: 40 wpm = 10,000 kph 50 wpm = 12,500 kph 60 wpm = 15,000 kph. TYPING TEST FOR LDC (1750 KEYS 10 MINUTES), 35 WPM,This time 2025 Key Strokes in 10 Minutes – Text Practice –. Competitive speeds for numeric data entry are generally around 10,000 KPH and often as high as 12,000 KPH. Numeric data entry using a 10-Key Pad is generally expected to be much faster, as no thought has to be put into the meaning or formatting of the text. If you ever hear the term ’10 key by touch’, this just means that you are able to type without looking at the keys, this is important because if you have to look at the keys every time it will slow you down. A good accuracy score is around 98% or higher. It is measured by how many errors that you make per minute.
![]() Any time spent in The Alibi Room or near the Gallaghers is likely to bring out her now-dormant wild side pretty quickly, so her possible return in the final season of Shameless could be even more explosive than anticipated. Perhaps the comforts of married life changed her, and she's no longer the totally unhinged Russian prostitute that viewers have come to be familiar with. Alternatively, Svetlana could come back a changed woman. It's entirely within the realm of the Shameless reality that Svetlana could get bored of her old husband and try to sneak her way back into being in a polyamorous relationship with Kev and V. What exactly her re-entrance into the series would specifically mean for her storyline (and the characters she affects) still remains unknown. We want to leave the door open because you never know what can happen.'" With showrunner John Wells' seal of approval, it's possible that Svetlana (along with Fiona Gallagher, played by Emmy Rossum) could make a grand return in season 11 of Shameless. She was involved in gymnastics as a child, and it is likely that the athletic discipline and attitude she was taught at the time still guides her life. ![]() The good-looking actress is obviously very conscious about maintaining a fine body structure. Goresther added, "John Wells was like, 'No, no, no, no. Isidora Goreshter is about 6 inches taller than 5 feet (1.70 m). I really wanted to have this gruesome death scene and just thought that would be appropriate for Svetlana." Apparently, Shameless writers didn't quite know where to go with Svetlana, an extra-violent death was not on the table. "I don’t really know what they have in store," Goreshter said, "I asked them to kill me. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, actress Isidora Goreshter revealed what exactly happened to her iconic character. 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Even in his early works, Cézanne broke painting conventions. Anyone who steps closer and seeks to connect this fluttering cloud to specific plants - with the eye of realism, and ascribing to color its traditional function in describing concrete subjects - is doomed to failure. This is in striking contrast to the wildly flickering, extremely varied shades of green, which indicate multifarious foliage. Together with the vertical axes provided by diverse trees, the horizontal lines of the building and its surfaces provide the picture with its tectonic structure. The picture’s title indicates that it is near Pontoise, a small town not far from Paris where Cézanne liked to go to paint during this period. 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Popularly known as “Gridlock Sam,” thanks to his coining of the term, he can be found online at . read No One at the Wheel: Driverless Cars and the Road of the Future by Samuel I. He has authored a number of books, most recently the critically-acclaimed “No One At the Wheel: Driverless Cars and the Road of the Future.” He is the Municipal Engineers of the City of New York 2019 Industry Leader. He has been an adjunct professor at Cooper Union, Long Island University, and Brooklyn College. There are six stages of automation in automobiles, ranging from fully unassisted manual driving at stage 0 to fully automated self-driving cars at stage 5. ![]() Schwartz was the Inaugural Ted Kheel Fellow at Roosevelt House at Hunter College. autonomous vehicle, also called self-driving car or automated vehicle, automobile that employs driver assistance technologies to remove the need for a human operator. In this book, which closely follows the city government’s decision to rein in Uber and Lyft drivers, the author emerges as a not-entirely-uncritical advocate of autonomous vehicles, which promise to do all kinds of good things for crowded roadways, with a lot of ifs attachede.g., if governments everywhere ensure that people are. He started his transportation career in the late 1960’s as a NYC cabbie and joined the Traffic Department, as a junior engineer, in 1971. Schwartz was New York City’s Traffic Commissioner and was the Chief Engineer of the NYC Department of Transportation. Our research at McKinsey suggests that highway pilots involving the next generation of autonomous vehicles will occur in the near future, with rollout to volume or mass-market platforms coming later. Hive Waterstones WHSmith Wordery Hardcover / ISBN-13: 9781610398657. Buy Now: Amazon Blackwells Foyles See All. He also writes a column on traffic for The New York Daily News. Light blue Hachette logo with icon and text. Schwartz is Founder of Sam Schwartz Consulting, LLC. Venir (To come): the past participle for this verb is venu.Īller (To go): the past participle for this verb is allé. Sortir (To go out): the past participle for this verb is sorti. Retourner (To return): the past participle for this verb is retourné. Monter (To climb): the past participle for this verb is monté. Revenir (To come back): the past participle for this verb is revenu. Here is a trick for you! If the verb is within this acronym ( DR MRS VANDERTRAMP), you must use the verb être:ĭevenir (To become): the past participle for this verb is devenu. The conjugations always match with the subject and never change.Īt this point, you’re probably wondering when to use “avoir” or when to use “être” for the auxiliary verb. The other 10% of verbs use the verb “ être” (to be) to form the passé composé in French. Step 4: Put the two pieces together: J’ai choisi, Ils ont choisi, Nous avons choisi Step 3: Use the past participle of the verb you want to put in the past tense (choisir = choisi) ![]() Step 2: Conjugate avoir according to the subject (Ex. Step 1: Determine the subject (Je, tu, il/elle/on, nous, vous, ils/elles) Now that you know how the regular and irregular verbs are conjugated, you can make the past tense with “avoir” in French! Here is how you do it: The bolded word is the verb and the past participle is in the regular font. You must memorize them to be able to correctly form the past tense in French. Here is a list of verbs that DON’T follow the regular rules above (irregulars). The vast majority of verbs follow this rule. These verbs always change their endings in the same way (other than the exceptions that will be discussed later).ĮR verbs change to é. In French, there are three types of verbs: ER verbs, IR verbs, and RE verbs. The same thing goes for French! Here is an example: For the past tense, we say “I liked that movie” to indicate the past tense. For example, in English, we say “I like that movie” to indicate the present tense. The past participle is the past tense form of a verb. “vous” is always conjugated with “avez” to say “you have”) The conjugations always match with the subject and never change. This verb must be used in the passé composé to form the past tense.Īpproximately 90% of verbs use the verb “ avoir” (to have) to form the passé composé in French. ![]() The “J’ai” part is called the auxiliary verb. Let’s split this top example into two parts: the “J’ai” part and the “aimé” part. ![]() Here is a verb conjugated in the passé composé that translates to “I liked” or “I have liked”: J’ai aimé. Stick with me if you want to relieve yourself from your stress! You’re overwhelmed to the point where you just want to give up… UNTIL you found this blog! Let’s get your confusion right out of you. You learn that there are two verbs that are used before the actual verb and verb endings change in so many different ways. So you’re learning French and you started the past tense in class. ![]() Because tankless water heater parts cost more and repairs tend to be more complex, the cost may increase. ![]() Tank repairs are typically more simple and cost less than tankless repairs. ![]() The type of water heater you have also affects the cost of repairs. The more difficult and time-consuming the water heater repair is, the more you will pay overall.Ĭost Factor #2: The type of water heater you have (tank or tankless)
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