Secret Sexy message?...or more like an older Irish ditty? Men of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square perform "You Raise Me Up" in the "Golden Days" concert celebrating the 85th birthday of LDS Church President Thomas S. Monson
As tens of millions of people have been laid off, while their employers collect subsidies and 'forgivable loans' from the government to drive up their stock price and shareholder revenue, the 'gig economy' is booming.
But even that is about to go away...
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After three months of nightly protests in the city, Aaron J. Danielson was shot dead in a confrontation on Aug. 29 that police were investigating as a homicide.
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For Immediate Release: August 3, 2020Media Contact: Steve Elliot
Phone: 602-542-1025
ADHS Welcomes Steve Elliot as new Communications Director
Former AP Bureau Chief and Cronkite Professor joins ADHS
The Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS) is pleased to welcome Steve Elliott as its new Communications Director. As Director of Communications, Elliott leads the department’s communications, media relations, and messaging efforts.
“We are excited to have Steve join our team of professionals,” said Dr. Cara Christ, director of the Arizona Department of Health Services. "Steve's expertise will help us provide critical information to Arizonans during the COVID-19 pandemic and continue to communicate all the great work we do to advance public health in Arizona."
Elliott joins the department with more than 30 years of experience in journalism and public information, including work in Honolulu, New York City, Milwaukee, San Francisco, and Arizona, where he founded a news wire at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
Most recently, he worked as the Assistant Communications Director for Public Information at the Arizona Department of Transportation.
Elliott, along with the rest of the ADHS communications team, can be reached by email at pio@azdhs.govor by phone at (602) 542-1025.
External links found in this content or on Department of State OIG websites that go to other non-Department websites should not be construed as an endorsement of the views or privacy policies contained therein.
As the nation has a conversation about policing, what governments spend on law enforcement and incarceration is under a microscope.
Data from more than 88,000 local governments shows how communities allocate funding for law enforcement, child and social services, and aid to low-income families.
The largest spending category for local government budgets is education, followed by law enforcement. The proportion of spending varies by county, however. The above chart illustrates how Maricopa County in Arizona, home to Phoenix, allocates spending.
The data cited in this report is an aggregation of the US Census Bureau’s 2017 State & Local Government Finance Historical Datasets. The dataset breaks down spending and revenue of city governments, county governments, school districts, and special districts. Each government has multiple line items related to different categories of spending. These line items were categorized based on coding in the census data.
Pension payments are separated from other categories.
These 25 counties spend an average of $573 per resident on law enforcement. Of these counties, Broward County, Fla, home to Fort Lauderdale, spends the highest share of its local government budgets (18.2% or $723 per person) on policing.
Typically, more populated counties spend more per person on law enforcement. But there are exceptions: St. Louis is an independent city that functions as its own county. With a population of just 308,000, St. Louis spends $795 per person on law enforcement.
Click here to see the report and sort the charts by population, poverty rate, median income, and more. __________________________________________________________
SAME-SEX MARRIAGE IN THE US
For the first time in the US Census Bureau’s history, the decennial survey will give couples living together the option to define their relationship as “same-sex” or “opposite-sex.”
The Census’ 2018 American Community Survey, however, did estimate the number of same-sex couples in the nation.
In 2015, the Supreme Court ruled on Obergefell v. Hodges and guaranteed same-sex couples the right to marry.
At the time of the ruling, the number of US same-sex married couples and same-sex unmarried couples was about equal: 425,357 married couples and 433,539 unmarried couples.
Since then, married same-sex couples increased to 592,561, while the number of unmarried couples decreased to 402,589.
Compared with opposite-sex couples, same-sex couples are more likely to have higher incomes and have both partners employed. In 31.8% of same-sex households, both partners have earned a bachelor’s degree compared with 26.3% of opposite-sex households.
State data shows that Delaware has the highest share of same-sex households, both married and unmarried: 1.6%. Wyoming ranks lowest at 0.4%. However, 92.4% of those same-sex couples are married, meaning Wyoming has the highest proportion of married same-sex households of any state.
VARYING COVID-19 DEATH RATES COVID-19 was initially called an “equalizer” since it could strike people of any age or background, but data sheds light on how specific populations in America are more likely to die from the virus than others.
Death rates for Black and Hispanic people are higher than those of white and Asian people in every age group.
The gap in death rates between Black and Hispanic people and white people is highest in younger age groups. The above chart shows deaths per 100,000 people.
Hispanic people have faced the largest proportion of COVID-19 deaths: coronavirus is responsible for nearly 20% of all deaths for Hispanic people between the ages of 45 and 74 in the past four months.
COVID-19 has also made up almost 20% of all deaths for Asian people aged 55-74.
Some also have varying racial disparities in COVID-19 deaths. In Wisconsin, the death rate for Black people aged 55-64 is 69.6%, while it’s 3.7% for white people. In some states, the gap is much narrower. Yet in Ohio, the death rate for Black people the same age is 1.6 times the death rate for white people.
New Observations Show Planet-forming Disc Torn Apart by its Three Central Stars
A team of astronomers have identified the first direct evidence that groups of stars can tear apart their planet-forming disc, leaving it warped and with tilted rings.
This new research suggests exotic planets, not unlike Tatooine in Star Wars, may form in inclined rings in bent discs around multiple stars.
The results were made possible thanks to observations with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA).
Our Solar System is remarkably flat, with the planets all orbiting in the same plane. But this is not always the case, especially for planet-forming discs around multiple stars, like the object of the new study: GW Orionis. This system, located just over 1300 light-years away in the constellation of Orion, has three stars and a deformed, broken-apart disc surrounding them.
“Our images reveal an extreme case where the disc is not flat at all, but is warped and has a misaligned ring that has broken away from the disc,” says Stefan Kraus, a professor of astrophysics at the University of Exeter in the UK who led the research published today in the journal Science.
The misaligned ring is located in the inner part of the disc, close to the three stars.
The new research also reveals that this inner ring contains 30 Earth-masses of dust, which could be enough to form planets.
“Any planets formed within the misaligned ring will orbit the star on highly oblique orbits and we predict that many planets on oblique, wide-separation orbits will be discovered in future planet imaging campaigns, for instance with the ELT,” says team member Alexander Kreplin of the University of Exeter, referring to ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope, which is planned to start operating later this decade.
Since more than half the stars in the sky are born with one or more companions, this raises an exciting prospect: there could be an unknown population of exoplanets that orbit their stars on very inclined and distant orbits.
To reach these conclusions, the team observed GW Orionis for over 11 years. Starting in 2008, they used the AMBER and later the GRAVITY instruments on ESO’s VLT Interferometer in Chile, which combines the light from different VLT telescopes, to study the gravitational dance of the three stars in the system and map their orbits. “We found that the three stars do not orbit in the same plane, but their orbits are misaligned with respect to each other and with respect to the disc,” says Alison Young of the Universities of Exeter and Leicester and a member of the team.
They also observed the system with the SPHERE instrument on ESO’s VLT and with ALMA, in which ESO is a partner, and were able to image the inner ring and confirm its misalignment.
ESO’s SPHERE also allowed them to see, for the first time, the shadow that this ring casts on the rest of the disc. This helped them figure out the 3D shape of the ring and the overall disc.
The international team, which includes researchers from the UK, Belgium, Chile, France and the US, then combined their exhaustive observations with computer simulations to understand what had happened to the system.
For the first time, they were able to clearly link the observed misalignments to the theoretical “disc-tearing effect”, which suggests that the conflicting gravitational pull of stars in different planes can warp and break their discs.
Their simulations showed that the misalignment in the orbits of the three stars could cause the disc around them to break into distinct rings, which is exactly what they see in their observations. The observed shape of the inner ring also matches predictions from numerical simulations on how the disc would tear.
Interestingly, another team who studied the same system using ALMA believe another ingredient is needed to understand the system. “We think that the presence of a planet between these rings is needed to explain why the disc tore apart,” says Jiaqing Bi of the University of Victoria in Canada who led a study of GW Orionis published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters in May this year.
His team identified three dust rings in the ALMA observations, with the outermost ring being the largest ever observed in planet-forming discs.
Future observations with ESO’s ELT and other telescopes may help astronomers fully unravel the nature of GW Orionis and reveal young planets forming around its three stars.
Source: European Southern ObservatoryDate: Sep 3, 2020
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