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Duncan says two million high paying jobs are unfilled right now, many in the STEM fields.
The lab isn’t just for honors students—Wheeling’s goal is to get every student to use it. “Some of these kids might go on to be technicians, where they could get a living wage job right when they get out of high school,” says Heintz. Others will go on to study engineering, biology, or chemistry at high levels.
Wheeling students are already working with the entomology lab at the University of Illinois. They’re examining silk produced by silkworms in Madagascar, and comparing it to silk made by domesticated silk worms.
Many colleges don’t have the sort of technology Wheeling High does.
“I’m planning on studying nanotechnology in college. This class really drove me to choose that for my career,” says senior Stephanie Maglaris, who plans to combine nanotechnology with civil or mechanical engineering. “It’s really interesting—and it’s gonna open up a whole new field of jobs and studies,” says Maglaris.
Duncan touted Wheeling as a school that had set high standards for students. The school has seen a big demographic shift in the past decade. Half of students are Latino, around 40 percent are low-income.
At a separate townhall event sponsored by the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics, Duncan highlighted another priority of the administration, the Common Core learning standards.
The standards have been adopted by a total of 45 states—including Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin, and are debuting in many schools this fall.
During a townhall style forum, Duncan was challenged by audience members about where the arts and critical thinking fit in the standards.
Many in the audience applauded when economist and education expert Fred Hess suggested it’s a mistake to introduce high-stakes teacher evaluations at the same time states are rolling out new standards and tests.
Tesla announced Monday plans to expand its charging network worldwide.
Ahead of the highly-anticipated release of its Model 3, Silicon Valley startup-turned-automaker-turned-energy conglomerate Tesla announced Monday that it will double its number of charging stations worldwide, with a 150 percent increase in North America.
Announced in a blog post, Tesla’s network of 9,000 “Destination Chargers,” or Level 2 chargers and 5,400 “Superchargers” will expand to 15,000 and 10,000, respectively, by the end of the year.
Expansion of its EV charger network coincides with the anticipated release of the mass-market Model 3, which is slated to achieve 215 miles of range for only $35,000 before federal tax credits.
Tesla's planned Supercharger network expansion includes charging stations able to charge dozens of vehicles at the same time.
Some of these Supercharger stations will be able to accommodate “several dozen Teslas Supercharging simultaneously,” according to the post. Photos on the automaker’s website depict Supercharging stations that look similar to gas stations, with a large solar panel powering the chargers. Tesla said many of these sites wi...
In the New York area, Tesla plans on bringing three Supercharger stations to Manhattan, one to Queens, two to Brooklyn, one to Jersey City, one to Newark and three to Long Island.
The automaker hopes to get charging stations up and running ahead of both the release of the Model 3 in July and the upcoming summer travel season.
While Destination Chargers, which can add 100 miles of range in less than 2 hours, can be used by most EVs in need of power, Tesla’s Superchargers, which can add up to 170 miles of range in a half hour, are only compatible with Tesla vehicles.
Two people were arrested in Rehoboth after a domestic dispute spiraled into a car crash and a struggle over a gun, according to Delaware State Police.
Two people were arrested in Rehoboth Beach after a domestic dispute spiraled into a car crash and a struggle over a gun, according to Delaware State Police.
Delilah Boyer, 21, of Harrington, and her boyfriend, Marvin Burton, 21, of Rehoboth Beach, were both arrested and charged.
Police said Boyer and Burton showed up at her mother's place, where Burton got into a fight with Boyer's 19-year-old brother. Burton went back to the vehicle and the driver, Boyer, accelerated toward her 19-year-old brother, missing him and two other brothers, ages 22 and 15. She then hit a tree, shattering the front w...
Boyer got out, screaming and yelling, and Burton got a gun from the glove box. He and the 19-year-old struggled over it, and Burton hit him in the head. During the struggle, the gun went off, but the brother was able to get the gun's magazine, according to police.
While this was happening, Boyer got into a fight with her mother, who had come out of the house. Eventually, Boyer and Burton fled the scene, police said.
Police said they found Boyer alone in the vehicle in the Aspen Meadows subdivision in Rehoboth, and they arrested Burton at his residence on East Atlantic Circle.
The 19-year-old brother was treated at a local hospital. The mother had minor injuries but declined treatment, police said.
Police said they found a loaded .40 caliber handgun magazine at the scene, and .40 caliber ammunition and a holster at Burton's residence.
Burton was charged with possession of a firearm during a felony, two counts of possession of a firearm or ammunition by a person prohibited, second-degree assault, first-degree reckless endangerment, and second-degree conspiracy. He was held at Sussex Correctional Institution on $100,000 cash bond.
Boyer was charged with three counts of possession of a deadly weapon during a felony, three counts of aggravated menacing, second-degree conspiracy, and third-degree assault. She was held at the Baylor Women's Correctional Institution on $80,000 secured bond.
Azerbaijan’s draft state budget for 2019 envisages an increase in the funds allocated for defense purposes, Trend reports.
In total, it is planned to allocate 3.037 billion manats for military spending.
Out of these funds, it is planned to allocate 1.494 billion manats for defense forces and 156.989 million manats for national security.
There are plans to allocate 2.8 million manats for carrying out applied research in the field of defense and security, and it is also envisaged to allocate approximately 1.4 billion manats for expenses not related to other categories.
Defense expenditures amount to 2.9 billion manats in 2018.
For years, investigating the American media’s influence on discourse has required studying the conversations we have at homes, in the public square and in office corridors, to try to understand what prompted them.
But a paper published Thursday in the journal Science offers a new, albeit unorthodox, method: The authors brought the media in on the experiment, persuading more than 30 outlets to agree to time publication of some stories so researchers could track how the pieces affected discussion online.
What they found is that even a handful of stories by mostly small publications can boost Twitter traffic on topics such as race or climate by 63 percent over the course of a week, relative to a typical day’s traffic on that subject.
“Journalists, even at small papers, appear to have quite a substantial power to affect the national conversation about politics and policy,” said Gary King, the paper’s lead author and the director of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University.
To study the media’s influence, the researchers persuaded news outlets to publish related stories on one of 11 broad policy topics during randomly assigned weeks. They then studied the Twitter conversation on that topic in the days that followed, compared to the week before or after.
Dr. King and his colleagues, Benjamin Schneer, of Florida State University, and Ariel White, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, spent almost five years on the study, with the first three years dedicated to observing, learning from and building trust with journalists. Key to getting them on board, he said, wa...
“In some sense, you’re flipping the coin already,” he said, noting that for many non-breaking stories, publication timing is subject to the whims of editors or the news cycle.
At all times, the publications retained the right to bow out of the experiment, shelve the stories or publish them when they wanted.
The study is not without its critics. Creative as it may be, the paper overstates its conclusion, said Kathleen Hall Jamieson, who studies political communication and is the director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania.
“Is this methodologically ingenious? Yes. Do we know whether or not the findings are substantively important? Not based on the disclosed information,” she said.
Twitter is just one social media platform and social media itself is only one venue in which the national conversation takes place. Tweets also hardly amount to discussion, Ms. Jamieson said. Many people simply share links on Twitter, offering, at best, a few lines of commentary.
To those who participated, though, the experiment offered a chance to better understand their influence, a crucial issue for media organizations.
“When we had the opportunity to actually measure impact in a new way, we were really, really excited. This is core to our mission,” said Jo Ellen Green Kaiser, executive director of the Media Consortium, a network of independent news outlets whose members accounted for the majority of those involved in the study.
While most of the outlets the researchers worked with were small, independent publications, such as Truthout or In These Times, the study included some more well-known outlets, too, including The Nation, The Progressive, Ms. Magazine and Yes! Magazine, according to the authors. In all, 33 outlets participated in the fi...
The researchers were principally involved at only two points in the publication process: the beginning and the end.
Each experiment began with them choosing from one of 11 broad policy areas, such as food, immigration, reproductive rights or jobs, which had been identified as already being of interest to the news organizations.
The researchers then asked a handful of outlets to volunteer to collaborate, in groups of two to five, on stories of their own choosing related to the topic. For example, the authors said, with technology as a topic, the group might decide to write pieces about how Uber drivers feel about driverless cars.
The researchers then chose a two-week window in which to study discussion online, asking the outlets to publish the stories during either week, chosen at random. They would then compare the discussion on Twitter related to that topic in the week in which the pieces ran to the week in which they did not.
The stories, typically published on Tuesday, could come in any form, be they straight news, investigations, interviews, opinion pieces, videos or podcasts. The outlets treated them no differently and the researchers said that, as far as they were aware, their involvement went unnoticed by readers. Awareness of the stud...
“We really had to get whole editorial teams on board, and then often the reporters knew, too,” Ms. Kaiser said.
In the end, the authors conducted 35 experiments for the study over a year and a half beginning in October 2014.
The authors tried to anticipate some criticisms, too. Many tweets are created by bots, they acknowledged, but they found that bot traffic was consistent each week, making it essentially background noise. The researchers also avoided weeks when known world events, say a planned presidential speech on immigration, might ...
Security guards walking the South Lawrence Street campus heard the gunfire and called it in at 2:06 a.m.
Three Montgomery County Courthouse windows were shattered by gunfire Friday morning.
In 34 years as a Montgomery law enforcement officer, Montgomery County Sheriff's Office Chief Deputy Kevin Murphy has never seen anything like it.
"And even talking to some of the folks that have been here longer than me, they've never heard of something like this happening," Murphy said. "It's pretty extraordinary for someone to open fire on the courthouse for crying out loud."
Murphy said "three or so" bullets were fired from a car, which was driven off after the shooting.
Security guards walking the South Lawrence Street campus heard the gunfire and called it in at 2:06 a.m., Murphy said.
"They were just down the street so they discovered it very quickly. They walked up to the main courthouse and found a couple of the front windows shattered," Murphy said.
The guards didn't see anybody, but the Sheriff's Office is currently reviewing security footage.
Murphy said there was a "small piece of damage" on the outside of the courthouse but no damage seen inside.
"Hopefully we can find some video. This is someone who needs to be held accountable. Someone bold enough to shoot at the courthouse needs to be put in jail," Murphy said.
The chief deputy said security has not been heightened at the courthouse for Friday, saying, "There's always good security every day."
"This was a cowardly act. They shot at the building under cover of night and took off. We haven't beefed up security during the day. There's already adequate security to begin with," Murphy said.
The last known shooting near the courthouse was October 2017, when 31-year-old Kelvin Cooley was shot while driving at the intersection of South Lawrence and Scott streets. Cooley had testified that day against Jaquees Boone, who was convicted in February 2015 for the March 2014 shooting of Cooley's brother Alondre Coo...
Cooley was allegedly shot by Boone's brother Josephus Boone; Cooley later died from the gunshot wounds.
Murphy said changes were made to the security protocol for the handling of witnesses after the incident but said those security changes had nothing to do with incidents like what happened Friday morning.
"But this is an entirely different element. This is security for the building and obviously we have security in place. They're the ones who heard the shots and discovered it. This wasn't discovered in the morning. This was discovered right as it occurred," Murphy said.
NBC 7 reports on the identification of one of those sailors missing in the collision involving USS John S. McCain. Since this report, officials have identified all 10 sailors killed in the collision.
A second victim of the collision between the USS John S. McCain and an oil tanker near Singapore was identified by the Navy on Friday.
The 7th Fleet said Navy and Marine Corps divers recovered and identified remains of 26-year-old Electronics Technician 3rd Class Dustin Louis Doyon on Thursday night. He is from Suffield, Connecticut.
More divers and equipment arrived overnight to continue the search inside flooded compartments of the ship for eight others still missing. The Navy had called of the search of the seas on Thursday.
Divers earlier recovered the remains of 22-year-old Electronics Technician 3rd Class Kenneth Aaron Smith from Cherry Hill, New Jersey.
The USS Fitzgerald collided with a merchant vessel from the Philippines off the coast of Japan, causing major damage and flooding.
The collision Monday ripped a gash in the McCain hull, flooding crew berths and machinery and communications rooms. The destroyer is now in port in Singapore.
The commander of the 7th Fleet was fired this week after four accidents this year raised questions about its operations. The firing of Vice Adm. Joseph Aucoin, a three-star admiral, was a rare dismissal of a high-ranking officer for operational reasons.
Eight sailors remain missing. They are: Charles Nathan Findley, 31, from Amazonia, Missouri; Abraham Lopez, 39, from El Paso, Texas; Kevin Sayer Bushell, 26, from Gaithersburg, Maryland; Jacob Daniel Drake, 21, from Cable, Ohio; Timothy Thomas Eckels Jr., 23, from Manchester, Maryland; Corey George Ingram, 28, from Pou...
UNLV forward Mike Moser reacts after a score against Cal State-Bakersfield during their game Thursday, Jan. 5, 2012 at Rabobank Arena in Bakersfield.
Monday, Jan. 30, 2012 \| 10:11 a.m.
Mike Moser was simply unstoppable last week for the UNLV basketball team.
In a pair of overtime victories, Moser averaged 22.5 points and 16.5 rebounds per game, leading the Rebels to tough road wins in games they arguably should have lost.
For his efforts, the 6-foot-8 sophomore forward was named the Mountain West Conference Player of the Week for the week ending Jan. 29. Not bad for someone who played both games while battling an illness.
In a 77-72 victory at Boise State last Wednesday, Moser posted 14 points and 14 rebounds after halftime, and blocked a potentially game-winning three-point attempt at the end of regulation. This despite a head cold, a sore throat and throwing up earlier in the day.
Against Boise, he recorded a career-best 21 rebounds — the second time this year he’s had 20 or more boards.
He posted double figures in rebounds and points the last four games, and has recorded a double-double in 12 of the Rebels’ 20 games. This was the third time he’s won the player of the week award, taking the honor in consecutive weeks in late November.
Against Air Force, he scored 27 points and grabbed 12 rebounds, including making 10 of 17 field goal attempts in UNLV's 65-63 victory. For the week, he shot 52-percent from the field.
In the 12 weeks the league has selected a player of week, a UNLV player has won the award five times. Junior guard Anthony Marshall won last week; senior forward Chace Stanback won the last week in December.
Mike Moser is The Man.
Gritty doesn't sound impressive enough.... just saying.
Moser is a beast. Sick or not, he has been destroying opponents.
Ever wonder if UCLA wonders what they let get away? Mike is just awesome. This team just plays with such desire.
I think UCLA KNOWS what Howland let get away...Moser, Stanback, Gordon, and Carlino just off the top of my head. The only thing I wonder about in that regard is whether he will still be coaching at UCLA next year, because that's quite an all-star team he let get away. So glad! Congrats, Mike!
Alex, your scenario would be irony in its purest form. The Wooden award given to a UCLA transfer. The Coach at UCLA "wood" have to be unemployed at that point.
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