Ms. Penney, 81, and Mr. Livingston, 88, were found dead at their home in Sarasota, Fla., poisoned by carbon monoxide, according to preliminary tests by the local medical examiner. Susan Livingston said that after the car — which had a keyless ignition — pulled into the garage attached to theweir house, the engine had continued to run.
study conducted over 30-month period: March 2007 to September 2009
search of daily newspapers: "carbon monoxide poisoning"
837 news reports involving 4,365 poisonings
Research specific to residential carbon monoxide poisoning in motor vehicles
59 incidents resulted from leaving a motor vehicle
running in a garage with resultant poisoning of the occupants
within the attached residence. (A telling statistic: 17, or 29%, involved people older than 80 years old)
175 people poisoned, 63 of whom died
reasons for intentionally running engine in garage
charging vehicle battery
warming vehicle before going out into cold weather
Keyless ignition systems first began appearing on production cars in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and like many tech and convenience features, they were initially available only on luxury models and other high-end vehicles. The Mercedes-Benz S-Class is generally recognized as the first mass-produced car with keyless ignition, followed by models from Acura, Cadillac, Lexus and Rolls-Royce. Keyless ignition has become increasingly common in cars. In 2008, keyless ignition was standard on 11 percent of the vehicles sold in the U.S. By 2018, it was standard equipment on 62 percent of vehicles sold. [emphasis added]
Henry Kerner was a model conservative. A member of the Federalist Society, he clerked for a Reagan-appointed judge. As a Republican staffer, he led House and Senate inquiries into the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of conservative groups, Obamacare and the “Fast and Furious” gun-running program. Trump rewarded him by naming him head of the Office of Special Counsel.
Then, Kerner went after White House counselor Kellyanne Conway — and everything changed.
Clayton has been a surprisingly steady performer, rolling along almost exclusively within the 150 to 300 range. His best decades were the 1980s and 1990s, when he peaked at #147 in 1988 and 1997 and also spent two years at #149 (1994, 1996).
Last week, Foxconn began pouring a concrete foundation at the Mount Pleasant site. But just what Foxconn is building remains unclear.
Before work began, Foxconn submitted floor plans to Wisconsin’s Department of Safety and Professional Services, which The Verge obtained through a records request. The plans are partially redacted, but according to Willy Shih, a Harvard Business School professor who consulted in the screen industry, the foundations and structural support more closely resemble an assembly facility than an LCD fab.
“If you wanted to build the actual LCD fab, you’d need a lot of steel, and you’d need a deep, deep foundation to support it,” Shih says. His guess is the building would receive LCDs made elsewhere, then attach electronics and assemble them into finished devices.
Foxconn Technology Group appears to have delayed the opening of its manufacturing plant in Racine County.
In March, the tech manufacturing company announced construction on the Mount Pleasant Gen 6 fabrication facility would begin in summer and would be operational by the end of 2020.
But Thursday morning, an email sent out by WEDC with the subject line: "Special Bulletin: Wisconn Valley News" updating bid opportunities said the factory was now set for completion in early 2021.
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A spokeswoman for Foxconn said Thursday afternoon that there is no delay but offered few additional details. [emphasis added]
Meanwhile, the Foxconn Place locations in Eau Claire, Green Bay, Madison, Milwaukee, and Racine aren't even stuck in neutral. According to Merriam-Webster, the first known use of 'pipe dream' occurred in 1890. Other coinages from the same year include:
Welcome to North Carolina, “ground zero” for gerrymandering. North Carolina is a purple state. Politically, the state is about 50 percent Democrat and 50 percent Republican — it went for Barack Obama in 2008 but for Republicans in 2012 and 2016 (although voters elected Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper). In a competitive election year like 2018, Democrats should have the opportunity to pick up plenty of congressional seats.
But if you look at its congressional maps, Republicans have an incredibly lopsided advantage. That’s intentional; Republican state Rep. Dave Lewis admitted as much in 2016, during the redistricting process.
In a year in which Democrats picked up as many as 41 House seats elsewhere, including in places as conservative as Oklahoma and Utah, they appeared to lose all three of their targets for pickups in one of the nation’s most closely divided states. Democrats in North Carolina earned 48.3 percent of the total vote cast in House races but appeared to win only three seats; Republicans had 50.4 percent of the vote and won at least nine seats.
Chris, it all started with your accepting the deal. (Apparently, no one asked him about what those "several elements" are, as they are not identified in this story.)
Democratic Rep. Evan Goyke of Milwaukee questioned Kapenga naming his business Integrity Motorsports.
"Conflict of Interest Motorsports?" said Goyke, who sits on the Legislature's budget committee.
"If this is above board and if there are no problems, then why not do it in the light of day? Why try to sneak it in? To me, where there’s smoke, there’s fire. To me it's problematic and I hope he doesn’t get away with it."
Original 6/26/2019 post, "The two faces of Chris Kapenga", starts here.
Though she did not publish her first book until she was 50, Ms. Krantz reigned for decades afterward as the international queen of poolside reading. Her 10 novels — beginning with “Scruples” in 1978 and ending with “The Jewels of Tessa Kent” in 1998 — have together sold more than 85 million copies in more than 50 languages.
I'm thinking of buying a couple of these to put in my yard along the roadway soon. What are the OT's thoughts on these signs? Would I be being an arse to do this or would I be justified?
Some of the responses:
Trashy.
Go buy a house on a less busy street.
Better than the signs about slow children in the area.
Spike strip them.
You admitted to there being a problem with people driving down the road, and continue to let your child play in the front yard. If something happens, that's on you.
There's a house in my neighborhood that has those. Seems like a douche move but whatever floats your boat.
