Census Rates Ignore Critical Factor That Over 160,000 New Mexico Households Not Yet Invited To Participate
STATE News:SANTA FE — The suspension of field operations by the U.S. Census Bureau in response to Covid-19 has left nearly 18 percent of New Mexico without the ability to easily participate in the 2020 Census. This has resulted in artificially lower-than-average response rates and poses yet another burden for our state to overcome for a complete count in the decennial effort. “New Mexico is shouldering a disproportionate share of the national burden when it comes to the impact that Covid-19 has had on the census,” said Olivia Padilla-Jackson, Department of Finance and Administration Cabinet Secretary and Chair of the state Complete Count Commission. “When you consider that so many New Mexican’s haven’t even received an invitation to participate, it’s no surprise we lag in responses.” As of mid-April, 37 percent of New Mexico households had responded to the census, compared to a national average of 48 percent. Due to Covid-19, the U.S. Census Bureau suspended all field operations just four days after they began. This included efforts by census workers to hand-deliver forms to households that don’t have standard addresses or receive their mail at P.O. boxes. Nationwide, only five percent of the population fall into this category, but in New Mexico 17.8 percent of all households rely on a hand-delivered form. Only Alaska, West Virginia and Wyoming have a higher percentage. “When we take into consideration the households that haven’t even been given the tools they need to participate in the census, the New Mexico response rate is on par with the national average,” state demographer Robert Rhatigan said. “Nationwide, there is a direct relationship between low response rates and areas that should have, but weren’t able to, receive a hand-delivered packet.”Counties where hand-delivery is not a major consideration are responding at or above the national average and we continue to make strides in those areas. Bernalillo, Chavez and Los Alamos counties all have participation rates more than 45 percent. Conversely, Catron, Mora and Rio Arriba counties have response rates of six percent or less but are almost entirely reliant on hand-delivered forms. “Where people can respond, they are,” Secretary Padilla-Jackson said. “I’m confident that when all New Mexican’s are given the tools they need to participate, they will.”Responding online or by phone without a unique Census ID is not an ideal option for some as it can be difficult, especially for households with a non-city style address. “The bottom line is, if you have received your invitation, take your census as soon as possible,” Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said. “If you haven’t received anything from the Census Bureau, wait to receive your census invitation, and respond as soon as possible once you receive the form. We will ensure, all together, New Mexico is counted.”The U.S. Census Bureau recently announced that they plan to resume field operations on June 1, 2020. The 164,000 New Mexico households who are supposed to receive a hand-delivered census form should receive that packet no later than July 9th, 2020. Until census field operations officially resumes, self-response rates for New Mexico will remain artificially low. The decennial Census helps determine allocation of billions of dollars in federal funding. Research suggests that each New Mexico resident not counted results in a loss of $3,700 per resident, per year.
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Martin Langan is a former practising solicitor and founder of Legal Workflow Limited providing services tailoring practice and case management systems and legal IT strategy and operational advice and assistance. The MoJ RTA web portal continues to suffer from bad planning, implementation and a failure to consult. One legal software company has sent this communication to its clients: ‘We are pleased to announce that we can now provide Phase 1* …The MoJ RTA web portal continues to suffer from bad planning, implementation and a failure to consult. One legal software company has sent this communication to its clients: ‘We are pleased to announce that we can now provide Phase 1* of our solution which will allow IRIS Law Enterprise, IRIS Legal Office and IRIS Evolution users to integrate using the A2A (application to application) interface with the low value RTA claim portal. “However, at this time, it is proving impossible for us to complete phases two and three, which would see further integration with the RTA Portal. The inability of the RTA portal team to either acknowledge or answer our queries regarding the A2A interface, coupled with the numerous problems already experienced with the implementation of the A2A interface itself, has meant we have no option but to cease any further development. We now plan to leave any further development until the portal team resolve the current known issues and failings, and until they can provide a timely support service to allow us to complete the work. We have consulted with a number of clients who are heavily involved with the RTA Portal and we are pleased to know that they wholehearted support our decision.’ The portal was forced onto claimant solicitors with effect from 30 April. Despite the scandalously short notice period, and failure to provide sufficient information, many firms undertook a great deal of work at huge expense to ready themselves for launch, only to be badly let down by those who dreamed up the process in the first place. This is not an isolated incident, where government, its agencies, or large commercial interests who seem to have great sway over government of whatever hue (block or two-tone) raise the hoops and require the profession to jump through them – only to pull away the prize on landing. Any thought that ‘things can only get better’ with a change of administration has probably been dashed by announcements of cuts in IT expenditure. Brave new world anyone?
Pembroke, Florida headquartered Shoreline Foundation tendered the lowest and best bid for the construction of the dock, USD20.92 million.The project is funded in part by a US Department of Transportation TIGER grant amounting to USD12 million. The Port of Brownsville will contribute the remainder of the funds for a total estimated cost of approximately USD26.7 million. The money will be used to build a general cargo dock, as well as delivering road and lighting improvements. “First and foremost, I would like to thank the Port of Brownsville Board of Commissioners and staff for putting their trust and confidence in us,” stated Tony Royo, president, Shoreline Foundation. “I am sure that they will be very pleased with the quality and outcome of our work. We look forward to a successful project that the Port of Brownsville can be proud of for years to come.” Cargo Dock 16 will serve as the Port of Brownsville’s second heavy load capacity dock, increasing the gateway’s efficiency by minimising potential vessel delays. The gateway says that the development will also expand its ability to handle containerised cargoes and keep up with demand for the handling of bulk commodities. www.portofbrownsville.comwww.shorelinefoundation.com
The stop zones will be located between Zeanuri and Bedia and will be able to accommodate specialised vehicles, said the port.The widths of the lay-bys will range between 5.5 m and 13 m, while the lengths will be between 107 m and 243 m.The local county council will handle construction and will be responsible for tendering the contracts. The port authority will take charge of financing. Works are expected to begin in February 2021, with a construction lasting for 19 months.According to the port of Bilbao, the N-240 is widely used by special transport vehicles and is the main route between companies that manufacture heavy components, such as wind energy equipment.www.bilbaoport.euswww.uniportbilbao.es
More than half a million tourists flock to Livingstone town yearly to see the gushing waters of one of the world’s largest waterfalls. Victoria falls, which is on the Zambezi River, the fourth largest river in Africa and defines the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe, remains one of Africa’s greatest attractions.“This is our tourist center or our tourist capital as Zambia. It does deserve to be called so because it summarizes what Zambia has to offer to a tourist.” Said Joseline Mutita, Zambia Tourist BoardAs the falls have slowly become a choice destination for both local and international tourists, Livingstone town, which has a population of over 100,000 people, has seen its residents, from the farmer to the hotel owner, greatly benefit from the obvious economic and social significance of the falls.“The whole economy of Livingstone is anchored on tourism. Because of the same activities that are around obviously people when they come they want to eat as a result we have our surrounding farmers needing to grow more to supply to the hotels, to the lodges and guest houses.” added Ms. MutitaThe town is embroiled in the history of this natural wonder. Historians claim the falls were discovered by David Livingstone in 1844, but locals here strongly disagree, saying Shungu na Mtitima, as they know it, was a sacred place ages before Livingstone set foot in the country.There are spots around the Victoria falls where the local people of Mukuuni consider very sacred because they do many rituals there. They carry out all their traditional ceremonies or when they want to consult the spirits at the Victoria Falls.The locals here maintain that the deep cultural heritage is a big part of the Victoria falls experience, with the Maramba cultural village and Mosotunya National Park offering a look into the historical significance of this natural wonder.
“I know my fans are disappointed and if you know me, you know I don’t just show up. I show up and I am also there,” she wrote.“[Monday] didn’t go as planned but, lesson learned and gratitude given to God for my journey so far…”Nigeria’s medals hopes in the women’s 100m which comes up today, Tuesday, 27 August now rests on Joy Udo-Gabriel who advanced to the final with a time of 11.47s and Aniekeme Alphonsus who placed fourth with 11.82 secs in the semi-finals’ heat 2 to make the final.Alphonsus and Udo-Gabriel will contend the final against Ivorian favourite Marie Ta Lou, Kenya’s Maxmila Imali and Ngoye Natacha of Congo.Gina Bass of The Gambia, Basant Hemida of Egypt and Tebogo Mamathu of South Africa complete the lineup for the women’s 100m final.Related Olympic Silver medalist Blessing Okagbare’s has moved to dispel any suggestions that her disqualification from the women’s 100m on Day 1 of the athletics events at the ongoing 12th African Games was intentional.The sprint queen who’s yet to win an individual gold medal in the 100m at the African Games got disqualified for a false start in Heat 1 of the women’s 100m semis. The athlete had been embroiled in a dispute with the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) over training grants for athletes for the Games and there were speculations that she might choose to skip the Games altogether.And following her disqualification for a false start, Okagbare took to microblogging platform Twitter to dispel any suggestions that her actions were deliberate. 
NORTH SOUND, Antigua (CMC): West Indies Women survived a massive umpiring blunder in a tense final over to pull off a dramatic one-run victory off the last ball, in the opening One-Day International against India Women under lights here late Friday. With India requiring nine runs from the final over with one wicket intact at the Vivian Richards Cricket Ground, veteran off-spinner Anisa Mohammed snatched wickets off the first and last delivery to finish with her sixth five-wicket haul in ODIs, as the hosts took a vital 1-0 lead in the three-match series. Mohammed removed Ekta Bisht without scoring, caught at short backward point off the first delivery but tail-ender Jhulan Goswami eased the tension when she lofted the next ball to the cover boundary. Goswami was kept scoreless off the third delivery before controversy unfolded off the next ball when she swung to deep midwicket and hurried back for the second. Kyshona Knight’s excellent throw to Mohammed found Poonam Yadav short of her ground at the non-striker’s end, only for umpire Patrick Gustard to astonishingly rule not out. Captain Stafanie Taylor remonstrated openly with Gustard over the decision and tensions were further heightened when television replays showed Poonam had been indeed run out by some distance. With three runs needed off the last two balls, Windies Women regained their composure to restrict Goswami to one run off the penultimate delivery and with two runs needed from the last ball, Poonam holed out to Stacy-Ann King at point. Mohammed finished with five for 46 while fellow off-spinner Stafanie Taylor (2-30) and teenage pace bowler Shabika Gajnabi (2-25) grabbed two wickets apiece. Six fours They combined to lead a West Indies comeback after opener Priya Punia top-scored with 75 to put India Women in command of the run chase at 170 for two in the 40th over. Punia faced 107 deliveries and struck six fours, posting 78 for the first wicket with Jemimah Rodrigues (41), 46 for the second wicket with Punam Raut (22) and a further 46 for the third wicket with captain Mitjhali Raj (20). Once Mohammed removed Punia in the 40th to a catch at mid-off by replacement player Gajnabi and then drew Raj from her crease and had her stumped in her next over, India Women lost their last eight wickets for 54 runs. Taylor had earlier produced a Player-of-the-Match 94 as the hosts rattled up 225 for seven off their 50 overs, after winning the toss. The right-hander blossomed after a slow start to stroke eight fours and two sixes in a 91-ball innings, before holing out at long off to a magnificent leaping one-handed catch by Harmanpreet Kaur on the ropes, to fall agonsingly short of three figures. Crucially, she put 78 for the fourth wicket with Chedean Nation who struck 43 from 51 balls with five fours, to pull the innings around after three wickets tumbled for 26 runs to leave the Windies on 77 for three in the 26th over. Natasha McLean had given West Indies a strong start, belting six fours and a six in an 82-ball 51, adding 51 for the first wicket with King (12). Scoreboard WEST INDIES N McLean c Raj b Poonam Yadav 51 S King c wkp Bhatia b Deepti Sharma 12 +S Campbelle lbw b Deepti Sharma 0 *S Taylor c Kaur b Bisht 94 C Nation c Raut b Goswami 43 K Knight b Pandey 5 C Henry b Pandey 4 S Grimmond not out 7 Extras (lb5, w4) 9 TOTAL (7 wkts, 50 overs) 225 Fall of wickets: 1-51, 2-51, 3-77, 4-155, 5-181, 6-193, 7-225. Did not bat: A Alleyne, S Hector, A Mohammed, S Gajnabi. Bowling: Goswami 10-1-46-1, Pandey 9-0-38-2, Bisht 8-1-45-1, Deepti Sharma 9-0-41-2, Poonam Yadam 10-2-36-1, Harmanpreet Kaur 4-0-14-0. INDIA Priya Punia c (sub) Gajnabi b Mohammed 75 Jemimah Rodrigues c wkp Campbelle b Taylor 41 Punam Raut run out 22 *Mithali Raj st Campbelle b Mohammed 20 Harmanpreet Kaur c wkp Campbelle b Gajnabi 5 Deepti Sharma c Knight b Mohammed 19 +Taniya Bhatia b Gajnabi 5 Jhulan Goswami not out 14 Shikha Pandey c McLean b Taylor 5 Ekta Bisht c King b Mohammed 0 Poonam Yadav c King b Mohammed 0 Extras (lb5, w12, nb1) 18 TOTAL (all out, 50 overs) 224 Fall of wickets: 1-78, 2-124, 3-170, 4-176, 5-189, 6-195, 7-209, 8-215, 9-217, 10-224. Bowling: Henry 6-1-23-0, King 8-0-36-0, Alleyne 7-0-29-0, Hector 2-0-19-0, Taylor 10-2-30-2, Mohammed 10-0-46-5, Grimmond 3-0-11-0, Gajnabi 4-0-25-2. Result: West Indies won by one run.
Auto (360p) The Twins beat the New York Yankees 6-5 in the Bronx Wednesday night. Minnesota scored 4 runs in the first inning of Hiroki Kuroda and Jason Marquis did just enough to get the win. Marquis in his Twins debut threw 5 innings with 4 earned runs allowed to get the win. Justin Morneau led the offense going 3-4 with 2 homeruns, 3 runs scored and 3 RBIs. Alexi Casilla added 3 hits and Chris Parmelee chipped in 2. Matt Capps allowed a solo homerun to Derek Jeter in the 9th inning to get the save.The Twins are 4-8 and will play the Yankees in New York again tonight at 6:05, pregame on WJON at 5:35. Righthander Anthony Swarzak (0-2) gets the start on the mound for the Twins and righthander Phil Hughes (0-2) toes the rubber for the Yankees. About Connatix V56892 1/1 Visit Advertiser website GO TO PAGE Skip About Connatix V56892 720p HD 1080p HD 360p
With Shoya Nakajima’s situation at Portimonense becoming quite a saga in the past few weeks, he could be playing his last game for the club this Wednesday. Portimonense are ready to face Benfica for the Portuguese league, and Nakajima will say goodbye to his teammates to join the Japanese national team, where he’s featuring in the Asian Cup.Newspaper Record has a short story about it today, saying it’s the player’s ‘farewell’ from the club. Now they wait to know if that’s permanent, as he could be back after the international tournament or not.Speaking of the interested sides, Record takes previous claims which suggested Southampton are ready to make a bid, while Leicester City and Wolverhampton Wanderers are the other clubs in the race.Embed from Getty ImagesThe Foxes and Wolves were both heavily linked to Nakajima recently. First reports from Japan said Leicester were ready to bid for the player, and then Portimonense confirmed that a deal with Wolverhampton was ‘80% agreed’. Now with the race open again, the Portuguese press doesn’t have a clue who will land Nakajima in January. But the chance of a move can’t be ignored.by Taboolaby TaboolaSponsored LinksSponsored LinksPromoted LinksPromoted LinksTrending TodayForge of Empires – Free Online GameChallenge Your Brain With This Must-Play Strategy Game. No Install.Forge of Empires – Free Online GameUndoRaid: Shadow Legends | Free DownloadEven Non-Gamers Are Obsessed With This RPG Game (It’s Worth Installing!)Raid: Shadow Legends | Free DownloadUndoKeto减肥1個簡單的妙招一夜「融化」腹部贅肉（今晚試試）Keto减肥UndoPerfect-Dating.comReveal Tung Chung As The Best City to Date for Love & RomancePerfect-Dating.comUndoDating.comWhere do attractive singles meet in Tung Chung?Dating.comUndoCoworking Space | Search AdsThe cost of shared office in Hong Kong might surprise youCoworking Space | Search AdsUndoTheTopFiveVPNEnjoy Netflix Now Without Any RestrictionsTheTopFiveVPNUndoStanChart by CNBC CatalystWill Blockchain Reduce the Global Trade Finance Gap to Reach the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals?StanChart by CNBC CatalystUndo熱門話題小心會長過頭…網友推爆:「真的長得超誇張!」熱門話題Undo