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Trump to raise fuel economy standards by 1.5% per year through 2026
The Trump administration is making a concession on its proposed minimum fuel economy requirement for new vehicles, but environmental groups and a key Democratic senator complain it does not go far enough, and still falls well below the requirements set under the Obama administration.
Fuel economy standards would increase 1.5% per year from 2021 through 2026 under the new proposal. That's a reversal from the Trump administration's proposal in 2018, which sought to freeze the standards at 2020 levels.
Environmentalists and Delaware Senator Tom Carper hardly cheered the move, which doesn't come close to the 5% annual increase mandated by the Obama administration.
Carper, who is the senior Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee, released some details of the latest fuel-standards proposal in a letter Wednesday urging the administration to scrap its new mileage proposal as ineffective and costly.
"My office's review of the draft final rule indicates that it utterly fails to provide any demonstrable safety, environmental or economic benefit to consumers or the country," Carper wrote in a letter to the Office of Management and Budget.
Carper also said that the draft rule documents sent by the Trump administration, which "had been characterized as close to ready to be finalized," appear to consist only of the Transportation Department's preamble, and includes "some apparent typographical and other errors, and placeholders for analysis and narrative sections that have seemingly not yet been written." He noted that there were also no drafts of the regulatory or environmental impact analyses.
The office reviews proposed regulations before they are finalized and printed in the Federal Register. The administration hasn't released the numbers, but they are detailed in Carper's letter to Paul Ray, a management and budget administrator.
The Trump administration has billed its mileage standards as safer and less costly to motorists, but there's a growing chorus of critics disputing that, including the Trump EPA's own scientific advisory board. The mileage rollback has become one of the most fiercely contested rollback efforts by the administration, prompting legal battles with California and other states and splitting loyalties of top automakers.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which develops fuel economy rules, wouldn't comment Thursday. It reissued a statement saying the rule will improve fuel economy, cut pollution and make vehicles more affordable.
When the Trump administration released its proposed "Safer Affordable Fuel-Efficient Vehicles Rule" in 2018, it calculated that the rule would save 12,700 lives in car crashes through model year 2029. The logic was that relaxed fuel mileage standards would cut the cost of vehicles, making them more affordable and increasing sales. Since new vehicles are safer, lives would be saved.
The proposal pegged the cost of meeting Obama-era requirements at $2,700 per vehicle and said buyers would save that much per car by 2025.
But Carper wrote that the administration's final proposal claims total savings of 474 lives through 2029. That number doesn't include deaths associated with increased air pollution from less-efficient vehicles, Carper wrote.
"Those 470 prevented traffic fatalities are nowhere near enough to offset the premature deaths related to the 80 billion gallons of additional gasoline consumption in the administration's proposal," Dave Cooke, senior vehicles analyst for the Union of Concerned Scientists, said in a separate statement.
Under calculations in the proposal, the purchase price would drop by $1,083 per vehicle under the revised standards, Carper wrote. But that would be erased by the cost of operating vehicles with lower fuel economy, which adds $1,423 to the cost, Carper wrote.
"Adding hundreds of dollars to the cost of each vehicle would seem to be the opposite of the more 'affordable' vehicles the SAFE rule promised," his letter said.
Last year, the administration's proposed fuel economy freeze touched off a huge legal fight with California, which has authority under the Clean Air Act to set its own greenhouse gas emissions, and by extension, gas mileage standards. Trump revoked California's authority, and the state challenged the decision in court.
Later, the auto industry split on the matter with four companies, Ford, BMW, Volkswagen and Honda, siding with California. Most other automakers went with Trump.
Many automakers have been lobbying for a rollback from the Obama standards, but say they're willing to support a smaller increase. They contend that buyers have shifted so quickly to trucks and SUVs that they are having trouble meeting the current standards.
President Obama remarked on the Trump administration's efforts to roll back the standards he put in place. "I instituted higher fuel-efficiency standards on cars, and the subsequent administration has now tried to actively reverse them," Obama said Thursday in Toronto, according to the National Post. "If we can't even do that, where we're going to say, 'We're not going to drive gas guzzlers' when other countries don't even have cars, then it's going to be almost impossible to solve the problem."
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How to Lubricate an Ignition Key Lock
by Matthew FortunaKey lock cylinders are used on almost any car around the world to access your car. These cylinders are on most car doors and allow you to insert your key. In most cases, this is a thoughtless process, but not always. If your key will not insert into your lock, or if it gets stuck in there, you may have to lubricate the lock cylinder to rectify the situation.
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Soak your key in water to clean the key off. A dirty key might be creating extra friction and will not insert into the lock properly.
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Spray the key with a lubricant like WD-40, and be sure the entire key is covered with a light coat.
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Spray the lock cylinder with the lubricant. Be sure to hold the lubricant six to eight inches away from the cylinder so that the WD-40 does not all get sprayed into one spot.
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Insert the key into the lock and turn it in both directions to spread the lubricant over the cylinder.
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Matthew Fortuna is a full-time freelance writer with a journalism degree from Wayne State University, living in the Detroit metropolitan area. He has written about a wide range of topics across varying publications, including Demand Studios, wiseGEEK.com and Suite101.com, among others. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in journalism from Wayne State University.


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Queen guitarist Brian May is making headlines this week for his angry outburst towards an Australian news cameraman in Brisbane. May felt the journalist was shoving the camera in his face and purposely winding him up to get a negative reaction. As you can see above, a negative reaction is what happened indeed. Afterward, May took to Instagram (below) to reveal that the incident left him struggling with depression, but that he was grateful for fans' support.
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Dressed in her festive pink shoes and rosette in her hair, this heart-yielding Snowbaby reminds us to love 'big'. To love with all our hearts.
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TPG joins Gurals, Northwind on FiDi office redevelopment
Private equity giant takes majority stake in 7 Hanover Square
TPG Real Estate Partners is joining the Gural family and the Northwind Group as the majority stakeholder on their deal to purchase and reposition the 7 Hanover Square office tower in the Financial District, sources told The Real Deal.
The real estate investment arm of private equity firm TPG Capital signed an agreement last week to form a joint venture with the Gural's GFP Real Estate and Ran Eliasaf's Northwind Group on their $308.5 million purchase of the 1980s era building, which is expected to close later this year.
"They believe in the business plan to redevelop 7 Hanover and they believe in Lower Manhattan and the east side of the Financial District," GFP co-CEO Brian Steinwurtzel told TRD.
TPG's stake – the exact size of which was not immediately clear – values the redevelopment project at $600 per square foot, or about $585 million.
A spokesperson for TPG declined to comment.
A Cushman and Wakefield team of Doug Harmon, Adam Spies, Kevin Donner, Adam Doneger and Josh King marketed the stake on behalf of GFP and Northwind. The brokers declined to comment.
The same team negotiated the sale of the property to GFP and Northwind on behalf of owner/occupier Guardian Life Insurance, which is vacating the building and relocating to Hudson Yards.
The new owners plan to upgrade the building and reposition it as two separate addresses: 50 Water Street at the base of the building and a tower section called 100 Pearl Street.
GFP and Northwind have already negotiated a deal with the NYC Health + Hospitals Corporation to take 500,000 square feet at the 50 Water Street portion of the redevelopment.
TPG, meanwhile, announced in March that it had closed a $3.7 billion real estate opportunity fund. TPG remains a major shareholder in Cushman & Wakefield, which it purchased for $2 billion in 2015 and led to an initial public offering last year.


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The ADA EZ is a powered door operator designed for use doors at institutions and other high traffic areas that are manual opened and closes but occasionally require automatic operation. Upon installation, the unit determines the door's size and weight and automatically tune its controller to operate within ANSI 156.19 and 117.1 standards for door openers and closers. The ADA EZ also has adjustable speed, hold-open time, and opening/closing force. On-board diagnostics continually maintain control of door speed in wind or abusive environmental conditions. When operated manually, a clutch mechanism disengages the motor gearbox assembly upon opening, then re-engages during the closing cycle to control the spring force for even and smooth operation throughout the entire opening and closing cycle. The unit closes the door without any external power supplied. Upon meeting an obstruction during the opening cycle, the door remains under power for 2 seconds and then closes under force of the spring. If the door meets an obstruction while closing, the door maintains a closing force of 8 pounds or less. The unit can operate doors up to 48 inches wide, weighing up to 250 pounds. It comes with two wireless, jamb mounted, stainless steel push button transmitters and required signage. The push button transmitters have circuit boards coated to resist moisture and humidity, making the electronics resistant to rain, humidity and other adverse weather conditions. The ADA EZ has an integral heavy duty cast aluminum shock absorbing arm, which is in full tension when fully extended. The arm utilizes a triangular hardened steel output shaft to connect with a two piece coupling tapered for slip resistance. Other features include architecturally finished dress covers and adhesive mounting templates for installation. POWER: When the door is opened manually, the regenerative drive system charges an onboard battery pack. When used 25 percent or less in the automatic mode, the unit self-generates all the power it needs to keep its replaceable, onboard, battery pack charged for up to 12 years. DIMENSIONS: Push button transmitters are 1.75x 4.75 inches. COLOR: Dress covers are black, dark bronze, or aluminum; frame, arms, and mounting brackets are powder coated black. WARRANTY: Mechanical, electrical, and battery components are warranted against defects in material and workmanship for a period of 1 year from the date of invoice
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A parent dressed as the Easter Bunny handed out condoms to elementary-school children Friday in Austin, Texas.
In a letter to parents Thursday, Gullett Elementary School Principal Tammy Thompson insisted that the school played no role in the event.
"This afternoon during dismissal, a Gullett parent visited campus dressed as the Easter Bunny and handed out plastic eggs. Some of those eggs contained candy, and some students were also given unopened condoms," Thompson wrote in the missive obtained by Fox7 Austin.
"Please know that this was not a planned event, nor sanctioned by the school, and we have spoken with the parent about the inappropriate nature of their activity. We value parent participation and always request that you work with campus staff to best support our students," the letter.


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This was the home of Major General Clarence Churchill Mann. Mann purchased 16 farms in an area of Ontario known today as Joker's Hill. Mann was a World War II soldier who had taken part in the Dieppe raid and invasion of Normandy. He along with his wife consolidated the land into a horse farm that included a race track, barns and pasture area.
The property was sold in 1969 to the wealthy Koffler family who owned the popular chain of Shopper's Drug Mart stores. They retained noted architect Napier Simpson to expand and remodel the estate house, first built by the Manns. Pierre Trudeau has even stayed at this mansion as have Prince Phillip and Princess Margaret
The property was used by the family seasonally until they chose to donate the entire parcel of the University of Toronto in 1995. The property is now used for nature studies. The surrounding land is active, and you should avoid being on it due to the environmental studies that take place. There are cameras and the police will ticket you if you park nearby.
Note: The mansion has since been demolished to keep people from entering this sensitive environmental space.


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The Studio Smart Table Will Hold Your Stuff, Charge Your Phone and Rock Your World
Spy Findsis a daily series that unveils the coolest, under-the-radar products that you havent heard of until now. Each product is curated by our editors who want to help you discover cool finds you didnt know you needed.
Your accent table has just gotten that much cooler and infinitely more useful. The Sierra Modern Home Studio Smart Table brings incredible full stereo sound, charging capabilities, and elegant good looks to any room of your house.
For a table that takes up such a tiny space (its 25 inches tall by 16 wide), the Sierra Modern smart table delivers massive, rich sound and incredible functionality. Beneath the grey heather fabric are four state-of-the-art speakers, tweeters, and a sub. The 360 effect delivers massive yet crystal-clear audio to the entire room regardless of the size.
The tables connectivity means you can deploy that awesome sound from your phone, tablet, laptop or any device you would normally pair with a portable speaker. And if you want to hardwire something instead, theres an aux port too.
The function comes from the Sierra Modern Home Studio Smart Tables charging power. Two USB ports (one 5V/1A and one 5V/2.1A) allow you to charge your phone, tablet, or any other USB-cable charging devices. And heres the real kicker: the rich black walnut wood tabletop conceals a Qi wireless charger. Just set your wirelessly enabled device on the Qi symbol at the center of the table (without a protective case) and it will automatically begin to charge.
The USB, aux ports and the DC power input port are conveniently and neatly tucked into the side of the table. Theyre easily accessed and, with a simple turn of the table, hidden from view.
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The huge sound potential, incredibly useful wireless abilities and USB charging stations are easily enough to sell the Sierra Modern Home Studio Smart Table on their own. But this is, quite simply, a really attractive piece of furniture you would want even if it couldnt play music or charge devices. The rich black walnut wood of the tabletop and legs and the gray heather fabric surrounding the speakers make this a gorgeous table, yet one thats neutral enough to blend in beautifully in almost any setting.
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Last Will and Testament Matthew Brust Town of Brunswick |
The Last Will and Testament of MATTHEW (MATTHIAS) BRUST, deceased,
I, Matthew Brust, of the Town of Brunswick, in the County of Rensselaer
and State of New York, do make and publish this my last Will and
Testament, in manner and form following, that is to say:
First: I give and bequeath unto my beloved wife Mary [
I give and bequeath to my son Joseph BRUST the sum of one hundred dollars.
I give and bequeath unto three of my daughters, Caty SHAVER, Christeen KLICKNER, and Eliza, the sum of three hundred Dollars, equally to be divided between them, share and share alike. I give and bequeath my wearing apparel to my two sons Joseph and William. I give and bequeath to my daughter Eliza one cow, one heffer, two years old, and three sheep, when thereunto requested by her the said Eliza; which said several Legacies or sum of money, I will and order shall be paid to the said respective legatees, within ten years after my decease, if not by me paid, or articles advanced for that purpose, which legacies are to be paid in the following manner: Forty Dollars yearly and every year which will make ten Dollars to each of the above named legatees yearly. I also give and bequeath to my daughter Eliza the sum of seventy Dollars worth in household stuff for house keeping, if not by me advanced.
I give and devise to my daughter Sarah HOWARD the one equal half of the farm whereon I now reside, being that part which has lately been surveyed by Martin Springer at the request of Peter HOWARD, her husband, containing abought (sic) Thirty-six acres of land to have and to hold to her, the said Sarah, her heirs and assigns forever, subject however to the payment of three hundred Dollars to be paid within ten years after my decease Thirty Dollars yearly and every year.
I give and devise to my friend Adam FILE the other half of the farm whereon I now reside, situate in the Town of Brunswick, in the county of Rensselaer, which will include all the buildings on said farm, to hold to him, the said Adam File, his Executors and assigns in trust for my son William; and after the decease of him, the said William, I give and devise the same to the children of him, the said William, to hold to them the said children, their heirs and assigns forever, share and share alike. And in case the said William should die leaving no lawful issue, then and in that case, my will is that the land devised to my son William shall be held in fee by the survivors of the above named legatees, share & share alike, subject however, to the payment of one hundred Dollars within ten years after my decease, ten Dollars to be paid yearly and every year. As to all the rest residue and remainder of my Estate, goods and chattels, lands, and Tenements whatsoever and wheresoever the same may be situated, I give and bequeath the same to my six children above named, to hold to the said children, their heirs and assigns forever, share and share alike, subject however, to all demands against my Estate and the payment of the above named legacies.
It is my will that my daughter Eliza shall and may have her home at my dwelling house, and in case of sickness, be supported out of my Estate, until she, the said Eliza, shall arrive at the age of twenty-one years, or change her condition by marriage.
I do hereby authorize and empower my Executors or either of them hereinafter named, to grant, bargain, sell, release and convey in due form of law of Deed or Deeds the above resited (?) lands devised to my son William and when sold, apply the sales thereof to satisfy the above named legacies according to their rights respectively. I hereby appoint Mallikate M. FILE, Esquire and Andrew HANER Executors of this my last Will and Testament, hereby revoking all former wills by me made. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal, the seventh day of April, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven.
Signed, sealed, published, and declared by the above named Matthew Brust to be his last Will and Testament in the presence of us who have
hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses in the presence of the Testator.
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Yes, and it's GitHub. GitHub is an explorer and a search engine for the git protocol, and so most of the data I submit to it or edit is replicated locally. I edit most of my work on my computer's command line - but GitHub is often useful when navigating to bits of code "far away" from my command line's cursor. It has a slightly nicer syntax highlighting, a fantastic internal search, and an integration with a search engine like Google.
Given that git isn't opinionated about the editor I use to write texts or manipulate my Unix-based file system, I've optimized my workflow by using a pro tool called vim - a special text editor. But I use a flurry of other Unix tools too, and they're all well-documented, free of charge, and non-proprietary.
Also, they don't track me. They're generally rather secure and aren't targeted for cyber attacks as much as consumer apps are. Files are a beautiful and versatile abstraction and integrate well with git, my operating system, and GitHub.
Most importantly, by voluntarily opting into GitHub's features besides their git remote hosting, I can customize my user interfaces to a very high degree. See, having to work many hours a day with GitHub and git, I've found that even slight flaws or mismatches in the user interface I use for working can significantly impact my mental health. So having the freedom to customize, style, and use the tools I prefer to manipulate the fundamental data structure on GitHub is, in my opinion, the key to why people like me love to use it.
And I would like to generalize this further than GitHub and say that I also use other websites where this metaphor for interaction is executed, where the website is merely a collection of "immutable" documents and is meant to explore and not to edit.
It's because editing and manipulating on the web is so painful. Website state can be lost, there are many rendering issues, and website structures sometimes get re-rendered under my cursor; login state is fragile, and I'm being tracked and observed everywhere by giant global corporations stealing my data to enrich themselves and their shareholders.
The best websites I use are explorers and not editors.
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ESG Regulation and Initiatives Outside of the U.S.
The SEC's interest in environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues as they relate to corporate disclosures and private fund investment strategies is well documented. The CFTC has also expressed interest in climate-related financial risk relevant to the derivatives markets and the underlying commodities markets. U.S. regulators, however, are not alone in their interest in this area; in fact, the regulation of ESG-related issues in the investment management context has been driven by foreign regulators in many ways. For example, the E.U.'s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation, which imposes new disclosure obligations for asset managers, took effect on March 10, 2021. In addition, some of the key ESG-related standards and frameworks for fund managers have been developed in a global context. Therefore, as the U.S. is celebrating Thanksgiving today, this issue of the Hedge Fund Law Report features five articles on ESG regulation and initiatives around the world. These articles present two global ESG standards and discuss the regulation of ESG in the E.U., Hong Kong and Luxembourg. We will resume regular biweekly publication on Thursday, December 8, 2022, and the issue will feature the second article in our series analyzing the comments submitted to the SEC on its proposed private fund reforms. See "Morgan Lewis Attorneys Discuss the Global ESG Landscape" (Aug. 19, 2021).
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The Coronavirus Era has disrupted 'business as usual' for companies producing consumer goods and providing consumer services. This has led to a rapidly changing operating and consumer environment and left the appetite for experimentation diminished.
With retailers and consumers becoming increasingly risk averse, what could this mean for craft brands, new product development and the innovation pipeline? What are the new core set of values and features that brands will refocus on? Most importantly what will be the shopping trends..?
As per the report shared by Euromonitor International on latest consumer trends Shopping will also be conducted largely from the home, and remote learning, gaming, cashless and proximity payments will all either ramp up or become the norm. Consumers' mindsets will switch to reduced consumption of non-essential items and anti-ostentation, a focus on self and family and on preventative and immune health.
Companies will focus on maintaining value sales as consumers find themselves in a recessionary era with reduced discretionary income.
How consumers work, shop, eat, drink and play will be driven by lingering home seclusion and 'risk dread'. An increase in working-from-home will be matched with an increase in hometainment – cooking, eating and socialising at home.
Following are the trends to look forward as highlighted in the report..
The new normal: What is here is stay…
Health beauty and fashion
New attitudes toward physical distance, health and remote working will create opportunities related to therapeutic. properties and mental wellbeing. Companies will work to diversify supply chains, while continuing to invest in digital tech and virtual experiences to maintain engagement.
Social distancing knocks the very concept of group consumption. We had witnessed a shift in traditional drinking rituals and occasions pre-COVID-19, and this will become more pronounced. Consumers will be jaded, less prone to want to post on social media about their drinking preferences; discretionary income will be spent on things that make them healthy in the first instance, happy second.The report does not expect to see a new normal for packaged food; the industry is doing well and expects to return to normal in most cases, with a residual impact of stockpiling bringing purchases forward in some cases.
Home and Technology
As consumers cut down on discretionary purchases, tech brands that focus on low-cost strategies will benefit by proving to offer the biggest bang for buck. However, technology companies operating in traditionally more premium spaces like Apple will not likely be impacted as much due to their loyal bands of affluent diehard fans.
Services and Payments
Retailers will focus on their value proposition and technology. As the technology gap grows between laggards and adopters, sales will disproportionately go to the adopters, resulting in a more consolidated retail landscape globally. Shopping centres, inherently social, will have to work hard to draw shoppers.


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Since the major labels discovered that a large YouTube following didn't guarantee pop stardom and chart success, they've been much more cautious about signing YouTuber-musicians. However, it can still be a smart move when the artist actually has what it takes, regardless of their online popularity, such as in the case of Troye Sivan and Alessia Cara. I'm not sure yet which side of that line Alex Aiono sits on, but I do think he has pop star potential if he can avoid falling into the cheese trap. Alex moved from Phoenix to LA to pursue his music career at age 14, and was discovered while busking. He released a few singles, including Young & Foolish (written by John Legend), and some cringey music videos, and acted in Awesomeness TV series Royal Crush. He was just another cute YouTube singer making sub-par pop until he had his 2016 breakthrough moment, his self-produced mash-up of Drake's One Dance and Nicky Jam's Hasta el Amanecer, which now has almost 60 million views. The viral video put him among the top ranks of YouTube stars, and earned him a deal with Interscope. His latest single for the label is a strong pop tune called Question, and while I'm not sure it has the edge or originality to be a hit, it finally connects the dots and shows the charismatic, fun pop star he could be.


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I used the adorable little snowman from PTI's Tremendous Treats set, I decided to stamp him in a light color for the 'no lines' effect. Quickly colored with some Copics, a couple of layered circles...
I ran across an awesome resource for sheet music you can print out, Free Scores.com. You can find tons of sheet music for any kind of song, which is cool because I wanted 'Jingle Bells', and print it out to use on your projects. And you don't have to feel guilty for cutting up the real thing. There are some really cool old, aged looking ones too for those vintage cards.
The background paper was an experiment with the 'shadow stamping'. I've never tried it until now, but I love it. I'm pretty sure it's not called shadow stamping, but that's what it looks like to me and I can't remember the official name of the technique. I stamped all over the paper with dye ink slightly darker than the cardstock color, then went over it with white ink, slightly off center. That's what makes it look like a shadow, or embossing. Maybe it's called Faux Embossing?? I don't know...
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The Children That Are Changing The World
Jaylene Arnold - Public Speaker and Anti-Bullying Educator Activist
Jaylene Arnold's story is an interesting one but nonetheless, easily relatable. The future founder of the Jaylens Challenge Foundation was bullied at the early age of 8 for having Tourette's Syndrome. Instead of using his fist in retaliation, Jaylene decided to take the higher road and devised a plan. With the help of a few adults, he created a website to educate the public about his disorders and the prevalence of bullying in schools and workplaces across the globe. Jaylene's efforts made him the voice for millions of other children who have been bullied for being different. Creating the slogan "Bullying No Way!" began a movement and Jaylene turned that movement into the Jaylens Challenge Foundation.The foundation's program has been taught to over 100,000 children on how to recognize bullying and how to appreciate the differences in children. The anti-bullying activist and his supporters carry the "Bullying No Way!" message around the country where Jaylene speaks at schools using presentations that are designed to inform, educate and inspire. His story has been featured on the Ellen show, CNN, and Katie Couric.
Malala Yousafzai - Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest Nobel Prize
This young woman's story is a real inspiration for overcoming the major hurdles that life gives. In 2009 and at the age of 11, Malala Yousafzai began blogging for the BBC about living under the Taliban's threats to deny her an education. Yousafzai demanded that girls be allowed to receive an education despite the fact that her life was in constant danger. Unfortunately for the Pakistani activist, the terrorist organization kept true to their word and she was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman in 2012 but survived.The shooting resulted in a massive outpouring of support for the advocate, which continued during her recovery. Nine months after recovering from her injury, Yousafzai gave a speech at the United Nations on her 16th birthday in 2013. She spoke on the importance of education, women's rights, and urging world leaders to change their policies on the matter. She was quoted, "The terrorists thought that they would change our aims and stop our ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear, and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage were born."
Yousafzai would go on to be acknowledged for her work and awarded the European Parliament award which is the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought in October 2013. Later on, in April of 2017, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appointed Yousafzai as a U.N. Messenger of Peace to promote girls' education. Malala Yousafzai's efforts to fight for education have not slowed down and she will continue to be a strong voice and inspiration for many other youths that strive to make a difference.
Greta Thunberg - Environmental Activist on Climate Change
This 16-year-old climate and environmental activist with Asperger's has been in the news since making a huge impact at the 2019 UN Climate Conference. Born in Stockholm Sweden in 2003, Thunberg began a solo climate protest by taking weeks off from school to demonstrate outside the Swedish parliament at the age of 15. Her protests were inspired by US students who staged walkouts to demand better gun controls in response to multiple school shootings. These efforts got global attention with #FridaysForFurture and started an international movement in 2018.
Thunberg led potentially the largest climate rally ever before her 2019 UN Summit trip. Millions of people around the world took part in September's Global Climate Strike, and estimates of total crowd sizes reached between an estimated 4 million to 7.6 million people. Thunberg marched in New York City, where she addressed thousands of strikers, exclaiming to the crowd, "This is an emergency. Our house is on fire."
In September 2019 she condemned world leaders in an emotional speech at the UN, "You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words," she continued on, "Since our leaders are behaving like children, we will have to take the responsibility they should have taken long ago. We have to understand what the older generation has dealt to us, what mess they have created that we have to clean up and live with. We have to make our voices heard."
In the same month of her visit to the 2019 UN Summit, Thunberg was one of the witnesses to testify in September before a joint hearing of two House committees on the "global climate crisis." She had a simple message for the American lawmakers, "Do something." She would go on to offer a copy--to the committee--of the 2018 global warming report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as evidence of the severity of our world issues.
These children--along with so many more--will continue their fight against injustice that has filled this world. We should be proud of their efforts for a better future and stand with them at every opportunity. With more and more people speaking up for a cause that will benefit humanity and all creatures, the changes are coming. It's time to join their efforts.


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In this episode, Darren Matt and Paul discuss a story containing a Legion traitor. You know the one? It's the one with the Legion traitor! Adventure Comics 330 and 331 are the topics of discussion this week. The art of Jim Mooney gets discussed, as we wait for Curt Swan to start drawing the Legion.
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Every Sunday, after a Saturday full of college football, we'll take a look at some of the top story lines around the Big Ten. We'll follow every team throughout the bizarre eight-week season all the way up through Champions Week.
Here are the top storylines from Champions Week:
No. 4 Ohio State becomes four-peat conference champs
In a game with a much different feel from two years ago, the 'Cats became the first team to contain Ohio State quarterback and Heisman candidate Justin Fields this season, holding him to 12-of-27 completions for 114 yards and two interceptions, including this Odell Beckham-esque one-handed grab by Brandon Joseph.
WHAT A PICK @NUFBFamily's @BrandonJoseph_1 snatched it out of the air with one hand! pic.twitter.com/6bNAsaLl9r
— FOX College Football (@CFBONFOX) December 19, 2020
Northwestern actually held a 10-6 lead at the half, but Ohio State coach Ryan Day eventually remembered his team has another option besides passing the ball. Running back Trey Sermon totaled 331 yards and two touchdowns on the day, breaking Ohio State's single-game rushing yards record in the process, and the Buckeyes held Northwestern scoreless in the second half as they ran to a 22-10 victory.
Paul Bunyan's Axe stays in Madison
This one meant a lot to both teams, who have each suffered their own COVID problems this tumultuous season. It was a very B1G punt fest, and Wisconsin jumped ahead 14-10 at the end of the third quarter, even with starting quarterback Graham Mertz leaving due to an upper-body injury. Backup quarterback Chase Wolf threw a touchdown pass on his first play from scrimmage. Wisconsin then kicked a field goal to make it 17-10, but a solid late-game drive from Tanner Morgan tied the game and sent it to overtime.
Minnesota missed a field goal in the first overtime, and Wisconsin made its field goal try to win 20-17 and win an emotional, rescheduled rivalry game. Badgers running back Garrett Groshek ran for 154 yards and a touchdown on just 24 carries, while his Minnesota counterpart Mohamed Ibrahim ran for 151 yards on 26 carries. Tough luck for Minnesota, as the Gophers have won the Axe just three times in the last 20 meetings.
Adrian Martinez has a moment
My Nebraskan friend texted me at the halftime of Friday night's game, bemoaning how bad the Huskers were playing. She had a point—although they were only down 14-7, Adrian Martinez had turned the ball over three times. But Martinez came out a new man in the second half. He turned the ball over once more, but he also threw 24-for-28, 255 yards and a touchdown, while adding 157 yards rushing. Did I mention he "pooch" punted a 45-yard kick on a fourth-and-4 to pin Rutgers at its own 2-yard line?
The pooch punt, for those unaware, is one of the dumbest plays in all of football, where you make your quarterback punt it when the defense isn't expecting it so they don't have their return man on the field. Here's Tom Brady doing one as an example.
Nebraska gained over 600 yards on the night and won 28-21, securing Scott Frost's third straight year winning just three conference games.
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Penn State 56, Illinois 21
What surprises me is that Illinois actually managed to keep this game close for a bit, even without now ex-head coach Lovie Smith. The game was tied at 21 after a quarter. Unfortunately for the Illini, they would never see the end zone again, and Penn State just slowly ran away, scoring a total of eight touchdowns on the day. The Illini started dual-threat quarterback Isaiah Williams, who led the Illini in both rushing and passing yards, but even if you combine those numbers he gained fewer yards than Sean Clifford's passing totals. The Penn State quarterback completed 16-of-22 attempts, good for 285 yards and two touchdowns. He was largely boosted by wide receiver Jahan Dotson, who caught 6 of those passes for 189 yards and both touchdowns. I'll do the math for you, it's 31.5 yards per catch.
No. 12 Indiana - Purdue canceled
Condolences to fans of the Old Oaken Bucket, as No. 12 Indiana and Purdue could not play for the first time in a century due to a COVID-19 outbreak at Indiana. Give them credit for trying, though, as this was the second week in a row the game was scheduled and then canceled. The last time the two teams didn't play? 1918 and 1919, during the Spanish flu pandemic. History likes to repeat itself.
No. 16 Iowa - Michigan canceled
Maryland - Michigan State canceled
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LONDON — Britain's defense secretary has attempted to calm frayed nerves amid claims that the country's decision to exit the European Union will provoke financial meltdown and leave the world a more dangerous place.
Last week a majority of U.K. voters – worried about uncontrolled immigration, loss of democracy and sovereignty, and concerns over a nascent European superstate with its own army – turned their backs on the E.U., deciding in a national referendum to quit the Brussels-based bloc by a margin of 51.9 percent to 48.1 percent.
It was a devastating blow for Prime Minister David Cameron, who led the campaign to stay in the E.U. – with support from Barack Obama and other world leaders – amid dire warnings that leaving would make Britain poorer and less safe.
In renouncing its membership of what was once little more than a tariff-free trading zone, the U.K. will become the first country to leave a burgeoning political and economic union that in recent years has played a leading role in maritime security operations off Libya and Somalia as well as land-based stabilization missions in war-torn countries across Europe, Africa and Asia.
Obama hoped that Britain would serve as a bridge between NATO and the 28-nation E.U., as the latter looked to shoulder more of the burden of protecting its own borders and as the two organizations discussed how to reduce inefficiencies in procuring military equipment. The strategy would have allowed Washington to focus its own resources more effectively on trouble spots elsewhere, such as Afghanistan and the South China Sea.
In the House of Commons on Monday, defense secretary Michael Fallon – who supported Cameron's 'remain' campaign – attempted to steady the ship as fellow parliamentarians digested the enormity of the popular "Brexit" vote.
A member of the Scottish National Party, which campaigned vociferously to stay in the E.U., claimed that senior figures in NATO such as the former Supreme Allied Commander Europe, Adm. James Stavridis, now regarded the U.K. as an "ineffective, unreliable partner in global affairs".
With the pound sterling plunging in value against the dollar, another SNP member warned lawmakers that the cost of equipping the Royal Navy (RN) and Royal Air Force with Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning II strike fighters and Boeing P-8 Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft "will undoubtedly soar".
Fallon told the Commons that "membership of the European Union complements our membership of NATO" and that the RN would deploy an additional ship on the E.U.-led mission to disrupt people-trafficking activities in the Mediterranean Sea. Operation Sophia was, he said, saving the lives of migrants who were being smuggled in unseaworthy craft from Libya to southern Europe and the RN "will continue that task."
However, he accepted that Britain's ability to influence the sanctions imposed by the E.U. on Russia, as punishment for the annexation of Crimea, would be "slightly diminished" post-Brexit.
And while he emphasized Britain's "very important" ties with individual European countries – notably the Lancaster House treaty with France and "growing co-operation" with Germany – Fallon admitted that the U.K. would "have to work hard to ensure that these bilateral relationships are kept in good repair.
"We have strong defense relationships and defense sections in these embassies across Europe, and we will have to look at them independently and make sure in the Brexit negotiations that none of that co-operation – the joint training, the exercising and the co-operation on capabilities – is put at risk."
Nevertheless, Fallon described NATO as the "bedrock" of U.K. defense and said his government "is committed to strengthening co-operation within NATO and collective defense across the alliance."
He told lawmakers that the UK remained part of a "united alliance that is adaptable, transparent, and capable of planning for and responding to the full range of threats that we face today."
The minister said: "I hope that we can further reassure NATO members on the eastern flank that we stand by our commitment in the face of Russian aggression." This would likely include "additional deployments" to the region.
"I hope that we continue to make the alliance more flexible to deal with the new threats we face, particularly from cyber and hybrid warfare, and that through British leadership we will encourage other allies to meet the 2 percent commitment [the proportion of GDP spent on defense] that we are already meeting this year.
"Because we are withdrawing from the European Union, it will be all the more important to reinforce our commitment to NATO and the obligations of NATO membership."
With the British government pledging to boost the defense budget by 0.5 percent above inflation every year to 2020-21, Fallon reaffirmed the government's commitment to replace the RN's four Vanguard-class ballistic nuclear missile submarines (SSBN) – at a cost of up to £41 billion ($54 billion) – and said he hoped that Parliament "will be able to endorse the principle of that replacement shortly.
"Our allies can rest assured that our commitment to NATO and our commitment as a nuclear power to NATO are not altered by the result of the referendum."
As far as the purchase of nine P-8 aircraft from Boeing and an as yet undefined number of F-35Bs from Lockheed Martin were concerned, the minister said he hoped that procurement negotiations "will be concluded reasonably soon".


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Last week, I attended keynotes and sessions at the RSA conference hosted at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, taking notes as furiously as possible and sprinting back and forth between rooms – leaving little energy and time left to live-blog coherently after. As a result, I'll be blogging about some of the more interesting talks this week as a retrospective.
True, many of the keynotes are available as videos online, but here's my summary and top takeaways from some of the speeches from the Microsoft and Intel leaders:
Enhancing Cloud Trust
Scott Charney, Corporate VP of Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing, gave a keynote on Tuesday, April 21 following RSA President Amit Yoran's speech on security's age of enlightenment.
His talk centered on the need for transparency and control as we move into the cloud. Despite improving security innovations, threat models have gotten worse. In order to build a more preventative infrastructure, we need to deal with the identity problem. Credentials are often harvested by attackers in order to look like a legitimate user, logging into our cloud infrastructure.
The threat model is changing – attacks have become more destructive. Charney questions how we can protect the fabric of VMs (virtual machines) from attackers, since it's not only users that are signing up for cloud subscriptions – attackers are also signing up and leveraging the same technology to launch malicious attacks.
Charney also mentioned that in a "post-Snowden world, we're concerned about each other." This was not the first and only mention of the insider threat, which seemed to be a new theme this year at the RSAC conference among speakers. Threats are changing and taking on new threat actors, including not just external actors, but also potentially your own employees.
He made a good point that customers are happier when they feel like they're in control – while its not necessarily safer to drive than fly, people still feel like they have more control when they're behind the wheel.
Cloud providers need to think differently when it comes to control and transparency. Not everything is in the cloud – some things are still on-premises. And we're still dealing with identity management problems.
There are two major areas cloud providers and organizations that use cloud services should focus on:
- How you authenticate to your device
- Personal computing – when a machine recognizes you based on your behavior, devices and location
For more control, cloud services should also allow people to manage their encryption better, by giving them the functionality to deny cloud providers access to their environment and cloud if needed, for any reason.
When you're on-premises, you get to decide which logs and what to deploy, but when you move technology to the cloud, you lose some of that control.
Charney made the point that "sophisticated" attackers harvest credentials and move laterally across networks – making domain authentication a major problem. He suggests updating regularly and better management of domain list authentication. People also need to know what's happening to their data on the network, and they need to see a list of who has access to their data.
With the recent high-profile destructive attacks in the media, the world has finally woken up. That means the markets have woken up – and when the markets create demand, people that build technology must rise up and meet the demand.
Security on Offense
Christopher Young, Senior VP and GM of Intel Security Group, gave a keynote with a sports metaphor twist. While in pro sports, defense is said to win championships, without offense it's hard to score the points needed to triumph. Young claims the same holds true for information security.
He made the point that we need to use big data to inform and prioritize our actions, based on analyzed insights, as well as to map threats and alerts into a threat campaign. Ok, I admit I wrote "something something moneyball sportsball metaphor" in my notes, but he did use the great example of Moneyball – a baseball movie that featured the use of big data to monitor an athlete and team's actual performance.
He even brought Oakland Athletic's general manager, Billy Beane, who was played by Brad Pitt in Moneyball, onstage to share a few words, which appeared to be a crowd-pleaser. Beane was a major proponent and leader of the use of big data in changing the game of baseball.
Please read the rest of this article on Duo Security's blog here.
By Thu Pham, Information Security Journalist, Duo Security | @Thu_Duo
Thu Pham covers current events in the tech industry with a focus on information security. Prior to joining Duo, Thu covered security and compliance for the infrastructure as a service (IaaS) industry at Online Tech. Based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, she earned her BS in Journalism from Central Michigan University.
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If you thought the wait for live music was tough enough as is, it may get a lot worse.
Former WME global head of music/Lollapalooza co-founder Marc Geiger said on the Bob Lefsetz Podcast that he doesn't expect live music to resume "late '21, more likely '22" when the host asked him the timeframe for when concerts would resume, adding that "the whole thing is a shit show."
"It's my instinct, that's going to take a while because super-spreader events – sports, shows, festivals…aren't going to do too well when the virus is this present," he said.
Geiger added that "the next six months may be more painful than the last six months, and maybe the next six months after that are even more so," and adds that if he's right about the timeframe, there will be "massive amount of bloodshed, bankruptcies, and won't be good for the majority of the industry."
His reasoning is that there are "probably 20" hurdles that need to be solved before it resumes, include the virus itself, and insurers willing to cover events.
If Geiger is right, this would be a tremendous blow to the touring business. A few months ago, experts said that it would be at least until the middle of next year until the shows resume. Promoters have also been planning for a late 2021 restart, but a lot of things, it seems, need to go right before that happens. Add to that most Americans won't consider returning to attending live music events (despite several alternatives and other things have happened so far) until there's a vaccine, well, things aren't great.


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I don't know if this is a photoshop job – I haven't tested it yet. But I will.
Update – I tested these phrases in the autocomplete searchbar in Chrome. It seems they're legit.
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Guided Response: Review at least two of your classmates' posts and suggest an additional theoretical justification to support the proposed challenge or offer real-life examples to illustrate implementation.
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Barriers that a professional could experience would depend if the student is Stage 1 or 2 of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development (1976). Students in the first stage, may simply opt not to participate with the class or teachings. They might not interrupt or say negative comments, but they will not add to the class either. In this Heteronomous Morality stage, they will not cause harm to the group or facilitators, but they feel that they are not harming the class if they do not participate either. Their participation and persistence may be nonexistent. They may not realize that collaboration between students benefits all involved.
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The barriers that a professional could experience would depend on the student. I chose the Heteronomous Morality stage. As a second-grade teacher I face this barrier but I get parents involved to prevent the situation early. I have a few students do just enough to get by and stay out of trouble. As a grade school teacher, my students still get report cards so their goal is to have a grade that their parents will approve. This becomes a barrier for the instructor when the student only pays attention enough to briefly grasp the lesson and wing the rest of the assignment.
The strategy I would use as a higher learning instructor is to ask questions during the lesson when I notice the student is not paying attention. I would also inform the student that I will have surprise quizzes and will put random questions on them.
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