DENVER—With one year remaining in the Trump administration’s first term, the Center for Western Priorities identified the remaining policy changes sought by the Interior Department based on plans outlined in federal websites and databases. A new Center for Western Priorities tracker, which will be updated throughout 2020, finds 74 policies Interior is seeking to implement, including efforts to expand fossil fuel development on public lands and further weaken protections for wildlife. The analysis also identified 17 proposed U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service actions to remove or downgrade protections for plants and animals under the Endangered Species Act—more than the 14 proposals to list new species.
“The clock is ticking on the Trump administration’s first term, and Interior Secretary Bernhardt knows it. Policy changes in the works show that the former oil lobbyist is doing everything in his power to expand drilling and mining while reducing protections for wildlife,” said Center for Western Policies Director Jesse Prentice-Dunn. “The question is, how many new policies will Secretary Bernhardt add to his destructive legacy in 2020?”
The full list can be viewed and downloaded.
The tracker also highlights 10 of the most consequential policies Interior Secretary David Bernhardt hopes to implement in the remaining 12 months of the Trump administration’s first term. Some of these policies are in the process of being implemented while others have been identified for action by Interior Department agencies.
More information on the Trump administration’s past environmental rollbacks:
Scoring the Trump Interior Department’s deregulatory hit list
For more information, visit westernpriorities.org. To speak with an expert on public lands, contact Aaron Weiss at 720-279-0019 or aaron@westernpriorities.org. Sign up for Look West to get daily public lands and energy news sent to your inbox.
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January 21, 2020
BY PAUL D. CLEMENT AND JEANNE ALLEN
Friends,
We are one day away from the most significant Supreme Court case involving education in over 60 years – Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue. As we all continue to work hard to spread lead plaintiff Kendra Espinoza’s important story, we are sharing a new piece co-written by Paul Clement and CER’s Jeanne Allen and published in TIME magazine.
This piece is extremely important for highlighting the case’s stakes and reminding Americans of the biggest issue at hand: protecting parents’ rights to make the best education choices for their children. Please be sure to share it with your supporters and on your social media sites. You can find @TIME on Twitter and reshare from there, or from @edreform.
As the case begins tomorrow, Jeanne will join Fox & Friends at 7:50 am ET on Fox News Channel to preview the case’s arguments – be sure to tune in!
For the latest information about this historic Supreme Court case, please take a look at CER’s online resource bank here.
Also, stay tuned to CER’s Newswire as we will be following and sharing the oral arguments taking place at the Supreme Court, and engage with us on social media. Please tag us in your posts and use these key hashtags:
#Espinoza
#BlaineAmendments
#BlaineAmendment
#SCOTUS
#EducationOpportunity
Let’s continue to stay strong, share our stories, and push hard to protect choice in education!
The CER Team
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Founded in 1993, the Center for Education Reform aims to expand educational opportunities that lead to improved economic outcomes for all Americans — particularly our youth — ensuring that conditions are ripe for innovation, freedom and flexibility throughout U.S. education.
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Market research indicates that by 2022, the global gamification market worldwide will reach $22.9 billion. It’s become widely recognized that gamification is a powerful way to increase engagement and motivation in learners. Seppo, a Finland based company, has developed an easy-to-use tool that enables teachers to turn lesson plans into motivating, interactive games that students can play on mobile devices while getting real time feedback from their teachers.
In a new interview with C.M Rubin, Founder of CMRubinWorld, Riku Alkio, the CEO of Seppo, states that “more learning happens outside of the classroom in the real world environment solving real-world problems.” Seppo can add physical movement to any school subject. Currently all teachers based in Helsinki, the capital of Finland, have a Seppo license. “We want to engage not only students but teachers as well,” says Alkio. Gamification is also proving to be an important learning tool with underachieving students. “Offering students different ways to express themselves helps especially those who have difficulties to show their learning outcomes in traditional ways,” adds Alkio.
Read the full article here
Riku Alkio, CEO of Seppo, believes that learning improves when it’s fun and motivating. Alkio was inspired to create Seppo while he was in Rome, on a trip with students. To make the trip more enjoyable, the students came up with the idea of making a game in the Roman city center. The game was called “Amazing Race Church Edition.” This led to the creation of Seppo, which now has thousands of games available in a content library that are shared and created by teachers.
CMRubinWorld’s award-winning series, The Global Search for Education, brings together distinguished thought leaders in education and innovation from around the world to explore the key learning issues faced by most nations. The series has become a highly visible platform for global discourse on 21st century learning, offering a diverse range of innovative ideas which are presented by the series founder, C. M. Rubin, together with the world’s leading thinkers.
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200 Million New IPv4 Addresses to Enter Market: What to Expect?
At the end of 2019, the US government passed a new bill authorizing the Department of Defence to sell around 200 million Internet Protocol 4th version addresses. Several blocks of IPv4 addresses are planned to be sold out in ten years. Vincentas Grinius, CEO of Heficed, explains how these changes might affect the IP address market
January 22, 2020. The US Department of Defence announced the sale of around 200 million IPv4 addresses in multiple large and medium blocks. According to Vincentas Grinius, CEO of Heficed - the IP address infrastructure service provider, the new addresses would decrease the current IPv4 pricing, but would not solve the IPv4 shortage for certain market players.
How would this Department of Defence sale affect the IP address market in the upcoming years?
Potential Buyers - Do Small Companies Stand a Chance?
New release of IPv4 addresses will be sold in big and medium-sized blocks, and since the Department of Defence has a deadline, they are focusing on large buyers. Large companies such as Amazon, Microsoft, or Google are always looking to grow their IP address databases, which would make them potential buyers.
“The biggest incumbents in the market are always looking to buy more IP addresses. As the number of IPv4 addresses is facing depletion, and we are slowly transitioning to IPv6, corporations are more eager to collect as many IPv4s as possible. At the same time, released addresses are contained in large bulks, which doesn’t give many chances for smaller buyers and brokers to obtain their fair share. Therefore, I believe that we will end up with a few major corporations acquiring everything.” - Vincentas Grinius expressed his concerns.
With new releases entering the market, companies are promised to see lower IPv4 prices. However, if only a few major buyers acquire it, the market might not face significant price changes.
“Due to IPv4 address exhaustion, prices have been rising for a while now. As the average price in 2015 was around 6 dollars, in 2018, the price for a single IPv4 address reached 17 dollars, and it’s predicted that this number will only grow and double in upcoming years. It’s possible that the Department of Defence bill could bring positive changes and lower IPv4 prices, yet if these addresses are shared only among a few big corporations, we probably wouldn’t even notice it.” - said Vincentas Grinius.
Many IP addresses are linked to spamming, hacking, and similar vicious activities. Companies create blacklists to contain abuse, but the more addresses enter the internet, the more difficult it gets. Vincentas Grinius believes that potential buyers - large corporations could help solve the issue, “Although every address holder can abuse their usage rights, it becomes more challenging to control it with the surge of new addresses. However, if only large and well-known corporations obtain new IPv4 addresses, the chances of IP address abuse can be monitored easier.”
New IPv4 release might shake up the market. However, it possesses both positive and negative outcomes. New IPv4 addresses postpone the transition to IPv6 and give us more time to prepare. Yet with more affordable and accessible options, the chances of IP address abuse might increase. And if large incumbents acquire most of the blocks, we might not see significant changes.
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ABOUT HEFICED
With its headquarters in London and server locations in every continent, Heficed is a network engineering and infrastructure service offering IP Address Market platform, including cloud solutions and bare-metal servers. At the core of Heficed‘s business is its world‘s first automated IPv4 address infrastructure engineering platform, which streamlines the process of leasing and managing IP addresses. www.heficed.com
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Hi Jim
Please feel free to publish all or portions of the following article. If you’d like an interview with Dr Sholes-Douglas, please let me k now and I will coordinate.
Best,
Terry
5 Signs That You’re Entering Menopause
Menopause is a natural part of aging for women, but there is no predictable pattern or timeline for the symptoms, doctors say.
While hot flashes, irritability and weight gain are generally well known, symptoms like anxiety, hair loss, and incontinence can catch a woman by surprise and cause concern, even though they’re normal, says Dr. Arianna Sholes-Douglas (www.drarianna.com), author of The Menopause Myth: What Your Mother, Doctor, And Friends Haven’t Told You About Life After 35..
“Many myths exist about what to expect when going through menopause,” says Dr. Sholes-Douglas, founder of Tula Wellness Center in Tucson, Ariz. “It’s important to know your body well enough to know what’s happening and get reassurance that what’s going on is normal.”
Dr. Sholes-Douglas explains five normal menopausal symptoms women can watch for:
Anxiety/depression. Depression and anxiety shouldn’t be ignored; they can appear as your body changes, and need to be treated. “If you have a history of anxiety and/or depression, you are likely to experience it again in perimenopause – the menopause transition,” Dr. Sholes-Douglas says. “Decreasing progesterone and overactive adrenals may be partially responsible for the anxiety you’re feeling, and progesterone has been implicated in depression, too. So, don’t think depression and anxiety are just ‘all in your head.’”
Hair loss and hair growth. “Hormone changes can cause hair growth where you least want it,” Dr. Sholes-Douglas says. “At the same time, these hormone changes – specifically, decreasing estrogen and the changing ratio of estrogen to testosterone – are responsible for thinning hair on the scalp, especially on the crown and near the forehead.”
Behavioral changes. Behavior can tip off a woman to menopausal symptoms. If you’re not feeling like yourself and your partner has complained about you treating them differently, Dr. Sholes-Douglas says it could be an indication of lower estrogen levels. “Estrogen is actually a key driver of women’s nurturing behavior and desire to take care of others,” Dr. Sholes-Douglas says. “When levels decline in perimenopause, women can find themselves thinking, feeling and behaving in a way that’s unfamiliar. This biological change can have huge consequences for family dynamics.”
Appearance of vagina. “Age and hormones affect the appearance of the vagina,” Dr. Sholes-Douglas says. “The pubic hair can go gray, thin, or disappear altogether; the skin can change color; and the labia minora can lengthen or sag. All of these changes are completely normal.”
Incontinence. “Decreasing estrogen is responsible for the thinning of the vaginal walls,” Dr. Sholes-Douglas says, “and that means the urethra doesn’t have the support it used to in order to hold urine in. Urine leakage is very common; around 50% of women will experience some form of incontinence in their lifetime.
“Every woman is different, but there’s no need to worry and suffer in silence,” Dr. Sholes-Douglas says. “Talk with your gynecologist to learn more about the symptoms, discuss what you’re experiencing, and ways to treat them.”
About Dr. Arianna Sholes-Douglas, MD, FACOG
Dr. Arianna Sholes-Douglas (www.drarianna.com), author of The Menopause Myth: What Your Mother, Doctor, And Friends Haven’t Told You About Life After 35, is the founder and visionary of Tula Wellness Center, a unique medical practice in Tucson, Ariz., focusing on women’s health and beauty. Dr. Sholes-Douglas has dedicated her career to helping women through the stages of life but currently focuses on treating women experiencing perimenopause and menopause. She is board certified in Obstetrics and Gynecology and Maternal-Fetal Medicine. Dr. Sholes-Douglas, who has practiced medicine for 29 years, specializes in integrative women’s health, a subspecialty of gynecology that incorporates evidenced-based alternative medical therapies to promote healing. She has served as clinical faculty at UCLA, the University of Maryland, and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Dr. Sholes-Douglas has made numerous media appearances on the Discovery Health Channel and served as the “Woman’s Doctor” on Baltimore’s NBC news affiliate. Her writing has been published in Good Housekeeping and Essence, and she’s also appeared in Yahoo! News and Prevention.
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Hi Dawn,
With STEM jobs projected to grow at a faster rate than other careers until at least 2028, the personal-finance website WalletHub followed up on its Best Places to Find a Job report with an in-depth analysis of 2020’s Best & Worst Metro Areas for STEM Professionals as well as accompanying videos.
To determine the best markets for STEM workers, WalletHub compared the 100 biggest metro areas across 21 key metrics. The data set ranges from per-capita job openings for STEM graduates to annual median wage growth for STEM workers.
Best Metro Areas for STEM Professionals
Worst Metro Areas for STEM Professionals
1. Seattle, WA
91. North Port, FL
2. Boston, MA
92. Memphis, TN
3. Austin, TX
93. Lakeland, FL
4. Atlanta, GA
94. McAllen, TX
5. Pittsburgh, PA
95. Deltona, FL
6. San Francisco, CA
96. Toledo, OH
7. Raleigh, NC
97. Stockton, CA
8. Madison, WI
98. Jackson, MS
9. Minneapolis, MN
99. Little Rock, AR
10. San Diego, CA
100. Cape Coral, FL
Best vs. Worst
To view the full report and your metro area’s rank, please visit:
https://wallethub.com/edu/best-worst-metro-areas-for-stem-professionals/9200/
