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Three Electric S.U.V.s With Tesla in Their Sights An electric trickle is turning into a flood: As many as 100 new E.V. models are coming to showrooms by 2025. Heavyweights including Volkswagen, General Motors and Ford are floating promises of all-electric lineups within a decade. The end times of gasoline can almost seem a fait accompli, except for one pesky issue: Even given Tesla’s strides, we’re still waiting for the first genuine E.V. sales hit, let alone a mass exodus from unleaded. In 2014, Nissan sold a mere 30,200 Leafs, and that’s still the American record for any non-Tesla model. Ford routinely sells more than 800,000 F-Series pickups. A single gasoline sport utility vehicle, the Toyota RAV4, finds well over 400,000 annual buyers, compared with roughly 250,000 sales last year for all E.V.s combined — 200,000 of which were Teslas. Automakers insist we’re “this close” to a tipping point. E.V. market share is expected to grow to as much as 50 percent by 2032, from just 1.7 percent last year, said Scott Keogh, president and chief executive of Volkswagen of America. While Tesla captured 80 percent of the U.S. market for electric vehicles in 2020, VW and other global giants — with war chests built on internal-combustion engines and unmatched scale and manufacturing know-how — are well positioned to take a piece of Tesla’s pie. “There’s never been a competitive consumer product that sits at 80 percent market share” for long, Mr. Keogh said. Globally, Volkswagen is poised to pass Tesla as the world’s biggest electric vehicle seller as early as next year, according to Deutsche Bank, with Europe and China its key markets. In America, where the brand remains an underdog, VW and other legacy automakers are concentrating fire on the sales fortress of compact S.U.V.s: Models like the RAV4, which deliver roughly four million annual segment sales. The idea, as ever, is to drive down prices and charging times of E.V.s, while bolstering driving range, until consumers see no reason to stick with polluting gasoline models whose energy-and-operating costs exceed the plug-in alternatives. Like the Rolling Stones pushing the Beatles, Mr. Keogh said, healthy competition will ultimately benefit all E.V. fans and creators. And when consumers sees E.V.s proliferate in their neighbors’ driveways, and take their first test drive, there will be no going back. “When you drive one, you’re driving the future, and that’s what people are going to want, no debate,” Mr. Keogh said. The latest electric-S.U.V. hopefuls to reach showrooms are the VW ID.4, Ford Mustang Mach-E and Volvo XC40 Recharge. The Nissan Ariya, BMW iX and Cadillac Lyriq are set to arrive between late 2021 and next March. I drove the VW, Ford and Volvo to see which might knock Tesla’s Model Y S.U.V. down a peg — or at least outsell the 2014 Leaf. Ford Mustang Mach-E Ford has branded its fabled Mustang name on an electric S.U.V., inflaming some boomers in the process. But the Mach-E seems the most straight-up rival yet to Tesla’s Model Y, in not only price and performance but also the Ford’s maximum 300-mile driving range. Consumers have noticed: Ford sold 3,729 Mach-Es in February, the first full month of sales, almost single-handedly chopping Tesla’s dominant E.V. share to 69 percent, from 80 percent. If Ford could maintain that pace for a full year, the Mach-E would easily set a sales record for an E.V. not built by Tesla. Tesla’s 326-mile Model Y Long Range still squeezes a few more miles from each onboard kilowatt-hour, owing to the carmaker’s expertise in aerodynamics, motor and battery efficiency, and to “simple” stuff that’s anything but: Its 4,416-pound curb weight undercuts the Ford by about 400 pounds. And Tesla rules the public charging space, with its Supercharger network that has rivals — now with a potential infrastructure lift from the Biden administration — racing to catch up. The Ford fires back with a sculpted exterior versus the dad-bod Model Y, a tech-savvy interior with superior materials and craftsmanship, and winning performance of its own. With 346 horsepower from dual motors, the Mach-E Premium A.W.D. that I drove shot to 60 miles an hour in 4.8 seconds. Even the new Shelby GT500 — history’s mightiest Mustang, with 760 horsepower — won’t equal the 3.5-second 0-to-60 m.p.h. blast of this summer’s Mach-E GT Performance version. The Shelby would shame the Mach-E or Tesla on any winding road, of course. Yet the Mach-E is reasonably fun through the curvy stuff, and glides with addictive thrust and confidence. A cinema-scale, 15.5-inch touch screen sneaks past the Tesla’s 15-inch unit. Like other E.V.s, the Ford broadcasts its presence below 20 m.p.h., a throat-clearing hum to alert pedestrians. Inside, in its driver-selectable “Whisper” mode, the Ford would please the most persnickety librarian. Dial up “Unbridled” mode and the Mach-E trades glorious silence for an overwrought, faux-engine sound: Think a V-8, remixed by Kraftwerk. The soundtrack is apparently for people who need to be weaned off gasoline’s combustive beat, but it can be shut off with a screen switch. E.V. shoppers can whistle over the Ford’s price, as little as $36,495, or $48,300 for the extended-range A.W.D. model. Those prices include a $7,500 federal tax credit that’s denied to buyers of Tesla (or General Motors) E.V.s, because those automakers have sold too many to qualify. So despite Tesla’s major, defensive price cuts for 2021, the most-affordable, 230-mile-range Mach-E undercuts Tesla’s 244-mile Standard Range by $6,700. A Mach-E Premium A.W.D. saves $2,900 versus a Model Y Long Range. In a surprisingly taut, compelling matchup with the Tesla, credit the government for what may be the Ford’s most alluring advantage: a $7,500 discount. Volkswagen ID.4 No, Volkswagen is not changing its name to Voltswagen, as the company briefly convinced some media and car fans in a marketing stunt gone bad. Regarding historic names, VW calls the ID.4 its most significant model since the original Beetle. But where the Beetle was a revolutionary leader, the ID.4 feels like a follower. Based on my drive, the VW can easily top its 250-mile range rating, with 275 miles within reach. A rear-drive, 201-horsepower model rolls to 60 m.p.h. in 7.6 seconds. That’s on a par with gasoline sport utilities like the Honda CR-V, but pokey by E.V. standards. Dual-motor, all-wheel-drive models arrive later this year, promising 60 m.p.h. in under six seconds. From a company famed for fun-to-drive German cars, the ID.4’s generic performance and styling are letdowns. Its infotainment system is even more disappointing: The clunky, vexing touch screen can’t touch the onscreen wizardry of the Ford, Volvo or Tesla. The VW’s snappiest performance came during a fast-charging session at a Target in New Jersey, replenishing its 77 kilowatt-hour battery from 20 to 80 percent in an impressive 31 minutes. That growing network of Electrify America chargers is funded by VW’s $2 billion, court-ordered penance for its diesel emissions scandal. And VW is offering indulgences to ID.4 buyers, with three years of free public charging. Thrifty virtues include a $41,190 base price, or $33,690 after the $7,500 federal tax break. That’s $2,800 less than the most-affordable Mach-E. It’s also less money, after credits, than a smaller Chevrolet Bolt. The more powerful ID.4 with all-wheel drive will start at $37,370, postcredit. Still, as Tesla’s triumph and Chevy’s lukewarm Bolt have proved, there’s more to electric success than an attractive price. VW is aggressively investing $80 billion to develop E.V.s, but the ID.4 feels less like a market splash and more like a toe in the water. We’ll see if VW erred by not kicking off with a recognizable design that truly connects its nostalgic, weed-hazed past to today’s green virtues: the electric ID.Buzz Microbus, due in 2023. Volvo XC40 Recharge Volvo seems such a natural fit for E.V.s. And the progressive-minded brand brings us the XC40 Recharge, an electrified take on its gasoline XC40. The Recharge is like that perfect dining table in a shelter magazine: You’re not sure why it costs so much, but you want it anyway. The Recharge’s wedgy Scandinavian styling tops every S.U.V. in this group, as does its lovely interior. That includes soft Nappa leather, versus the ascetic “vegan” materials of many E.V.s. The drive is similarly breezy, with 402 horses and a quicksilver, 4.7-second flight to 60 m.p.h. The biggest tech talking point may be Android Automotive OS: The Recharge (and Volvo’s electric Polestar 2) introduces a cloud-based Google operating system that works like a dream, with Google Maps, search, an ultra-capable voice assistant and more. (Don’t confuse this with the ubiquitous Android Auto, which simply mirrors phone apps on a car’s screen.) Several major automakers, including G.M. and Ford, plan to make Android Automotive the nerve centers of coming cars. If only the Volvo itself were as efficient. The Recharge is an electron guzzler, with a 208-mile range that seems optimistic in real-world use. I drove the Recharge in frigid New York weather, which explained some but not all of its hunger for power: No matter how I babied the throttle, the Volvo stayed on a pace for 190 miles, at best, covering about 2.4 miles for each kilowatt-hour in the batteries. I can achieve 3.6 miles per kilowatt-hour with little effort in the Tesla Model Y and above 3.2 in the Ford. Environmental Protection Agency numbers bear that out: Despite having virtually the same-size battery, the Tesla brings 326 miles of maximum range, 118 more than the Volvo. The Recharge is also expensive for its intimate size: $54,985 to start, and nearly $60,000 for the model I drove. That $7,500 federal tax break softens the blow. Yet if the Volvo indulges bourgeois buyers, they’ll also need to indulge its profligate ways. Source link Orbem News #Electric #Sights #SUVs #Tesla

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tohidulislam2129-blog · 5 years ago

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The Freeway Face-Off is an ice hockey competition between the National Hockey League (NHL's) Anaheim Ducks and Los Angeles Kings. The arrangement takes its name from the enormous turnpike framework in the more prominent Los Angeles metropolitan zone, the home of the two groups; one could go from one group's field to the next basically by going along Interstate 5. The term is similar to the Freeway Series, which alludes to gatherings between the Los Angeles metropolitan zone's Major League Baseball crews, the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Los Angeles Angels. The Kings and Ducks are matches because of geographic closeness. The two groups are arranged in a similar metropolitan zone and offer a TV advertise. The competition began with the Ducks' debut season in 1993–94 and has since proceeded. The Kings' first appearance in the Stanley Cup Finals came in 1993. As of the finish of the 2016–17 season, they have arrived at the Stanley Cup end of the season games multiple times in establishment history (10 appearances since the Ducks joined the NHL). The Ducks have made the end of the season games multiple times, arriving at the Stanley Cup Finals twice: in 2003 and winning in 2007. The Kings and the Ducks didn't meet in the end of the season games until the 2014 Western Conference Semifinals. Ducks fans have done likewise for away games at the Kings' home ice, Staples Center. Games between the two groups are frequently extremely physical, ordinarily including various battles and punishments. The competition was exhibited for the NHL debut at the O2 Arena in London toward the beginning of the 2007–08 season with two games between the groups. The Ducks and Kings split the two games 4-1 each. The Kings dominated the principal match and the Ducks dominated the subsequent match. [2] [3]It was additionally exhibited as a component of a 2014 NHL Stadium Series coordinate at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, where Anaheim reigned successful in a 3–0 shutout. The contention was additionally warmed during the 2010 NHL Entry Draft, which was facilitated by the Kings at Staples Center. At the point when the Ducks made that big appearance to report Cam Fowler as their first-round, twelfth in general pick, the crowd dominatingly comprising of Kings fans, let out boos.[4] Before 2007, there was no official name for the standard season gatherings between the Ducks and Kings. The "Road Face-off" name was picked by a survey of 12,000 nearby hockey fans. Different names being considered were "Freeze-way Series" and "Ice-5 Series. About los angeles kings The Los Angeles Kings are an expert ice hockey group situated in Los Angeles. They contend in the National Hockey League (NHL) as an individual from the Pacific Division of the Western Conference. The group was established on June 5, 1967, after Jack Kent Cooke was granted a NHL development establishment for Los Angeles on February 9, 1966, getting one of the six groups that started have as impact of the 1967 NHL expansion.[3] The Kings played their home games at The Forum in Inglewood, California, a suburb of Los Angeles, for a long time, until they moved to the Staples Center in Downtown Los Angeles toward the beginning of the 1999–2000 season. During the 1970s and mid 1980s, the Kings had numerous years set apart by great play in the standard season just to be cleaned out by early season finisher exits. Their features in those years incorporated the solid goaltending of Rogie Vachon, and the "Triple Crown Line" of Charlie Simmer, Dave Taylor and Hall of Fame player Marcel Dionne, who had a celebrated vexed of the uprising Edmonton Oilers in a 1982 season finisher game known as the Miracle on Manchester. In 1988, the Kings exchanged with the Oilers to get their commander Wayne Gretzky, prompting an effective period of the establishment that brought hockey's fame up in Los Angeles, and helped raise the game's profile in the American Sun Belt region.[4] Gretzky, individual Hall of Famer Luc Robitaille and defenseman Rob Blake drove the Kings to the establishment's sole division title in 1990–91, and the Kings' first Stanley Cup Final appearance in 1993. After the 1993 Finals, the Kings entered monetary issues, with a chapter 11 of every 1995, which prompted the establishment being obtained by Philip Anschutz (proprietor of Anschutz Entertainment Group, administrators of Staples Center) and Edward P. Roski. A time of average quality resulted, with the Kings just resurging as they broke a six-year season finisher dry spell in the 2009–10 season, with a group that included goaltender Jonathan Quick, defenseman Drew Doughty, and advances Dustin Brown, Anze Kopitar and Justin Williams. Under mentor Darryl Sutter, who was employed right off the bat in the 2011–12 season, the Kings won two Stanley Cups in three years: 2012, over the New Jersey Devils, and 2014, against the New York Rangers while Quick and Williams separately won the Conn Smythe Trophy. At the point when the NHL chose to grow for the 1967–68 season in the midst of thunderings that the Western Hockey League (WHL) was proposing to transform itself into a significant class and seek the Stanley Cup, Canadian business visionary Jack Kent Cooke paid the NHL $2 million to put one of the six development groups in Los Angeles.[5] Following a fan challenge to name the group, Cooke picked the name Kings since he needed his club to take on "a demeanor of sovereignty," and picked the first group shades of purple (or "Discussion Blue", as it was later formally called) and gold since they were hues generally connected with eminence. A similar shading plan was worn by the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA), which Cooke likewise owned.[6][7] Cooke needed his new NHL group to play in the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena, home of the Lakers, yet the Los Angeles Coliseum Commission, which dealt with the Sports Arena (and still deals with the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum today), had just gone into a concurrence with the WHL's Los Angeles Blades (whose proprietors had additionally attempted to land the NHL extension establishment in Los Angeles) to play their games at the Sports Arena.[8] Frustrated by his dealings with the Coliseum Commission, Cooke stated, "I am going to fabricate my own arena...I've had enough of this jibber jabber About anaheim ducks The Anaheim Ducks are an expert ice hockey group situated in Anaheim, California. They contend in the National Hockey League (NHL) as an individual from the Pacific Division of the Western Conference. Since their origin, the Ducks have played their home games at the Honda Center. The club was established in 1993 by The Walt Disney Company as the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, a name dependent on the 1992 film The Mighty Ducks. Disney offered the establishment in 2005 to Henry and Susan Samueli, who alongside then-head supervisor Brian Burke, changed the name of the group to the Anaheim Ducks before the 2006–07 season. The Ducks have made the end of the season games multiple times, won six Pacific Division titles (2006–07, 2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17), two Western Conference titles (2002–03 and 2006–07), and one Stanley Cup The Mighty Ducks of Anaheim were established in 1993 by The Walt Disney Company. The establishment was granted by the NHL in December 1992, alongside the rights to a Miami group that would turn into the Florida Panthers. An extra charge of $50 million was required, half of which Disney would pay legitimately to the Los Angeles Kings so as to "share" Southern California.[3] On March 1, 1993, at the fresh out of the box new Anaheim Arena – found a short separation east of Disneyland and over the Orange Freeway from Angel Stadium – the group's name was declared. The group's name was enlivened by the 1992 Disney film The Mighty Ducks, about a battling youth hockey group who, with the assistance of their new mentor, become champions.[4] Philadelphia-field the executives master Tony Tavares was picked to be group president,[4] and Jack Ferreira, who recently made the San Jose Sharks, turned into the Ducks' general manager.[5] The Ducks chosen Ron Wilson to be the primary lead trainer in group history.[6] The Ducks and the development Florida Panthers group rounded out their lists in the 1993 NHL Expansion Draft and the 1993 NHL Entry Draft. In the previous, an emphasis on protection prompted goaltenders Guy Hebert and Glenn Healy being the principal picks, trailed by Alexei Kasatonov and Steven King.[7] In the last mentioned, the Ducks chose as the fourth by and large pick Paul Kariya, who just started play in 1994 however would end up being the essence of the establishment for some years.[8] The subsequent list had the most reduced finance of the NHL at just $7.9 million.[9]

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Bryan Levine, the senior captain of the Essex County school team, said his group lost the first two of the 11 rounds of competition but rallied to win eight of the next nine for the top spot. It's the first New Jersey team to win the international competition.

"We couldn't believe that it was actually our name being called on that big screen right as it was being announced. That was amazing," Levine said after Saturday's win.

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It’s Time for Philly to Create Its Own Amazon, Says Richard Florida

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The urbanist behind all that “creative class” ideology will spend the next year fulfilling a research fellowship in Philly. Here’s why he calls the city fortunate.

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This week, Drexel University, Thomas Jefferson University and the Science Center announced that urbanist Richard Florida is the inaugural recipient of the new Philadelphia Fellowship. The program, an initiative of the three institutions, wants to address some of Philly’s biggest issues like affordable housing and human capital deficits. The goal: Make Philadelphia’s rise equitable and inclusive. From The Rise of the Creative Class published in 2002 to 2017’s The New Urban Crisis, Florida’s thinking on what ails cities and how to fix them has evolved. BizPhilly caught up with Florida to find out how he’ll get started and what he hopes to find. Here are some of his observations so far and his candid take on Philly “losing” Amazon.

BizPhilly: Why Philadelphia and why now? Florida: I’ve been a huge fan of Philly for four decades. I went to Rutgers. Half my friends are from North Jersey. Half my friends are from South Jersey. I really started coming to Philadelphia in the mid to late 70s. I watched this whole transformation in real time. I remember when Stephen Starr opened the Continental Club. I remember when Buddakan opened. Last night I went to Friday, Saturday, Sunday. I’m just amazed by this transformation. I also lived in Pennsylvania for nearly 20 years. I lived in Pittsburgh and worked and served under Governor Ridge. I worked with Governor Rendell. I know Mayor Nutter. I was very close to Judy Rodin when she was at Penn.

I think this [fellowship] really came from one of the talks I gave here when I launched my latest book The New Urban Crisis a few years ago and from my conversations with John Fry. We began talking about doing more sustained work. As Drexel, the Science Center and Thomas Jefferson University have become engaged, the idea of the fellowship came up and low and behold I’m a fellow. Pretty cool.

BizPhilly: What’s your outlook on Philly now and what do you hope to accomplish? Florida: Philly has been very fortunate. Last time I was here, I went to Vernick. I was at the bar, and I say to the guy, “There are so many young people in here.” He goes, “Yo, bro, it’s affordable.” That’s a big perk. Philly is part of this great Boston, New York, Washington megalopolitic region. And in that megalopolitic region, it has been relatively affordable. But now, of course, as housing prices are beginning to rise, Philadelphia is vexed. Maybe not by the levels of class division and economic inequity that vex San Francisco, Los Angeles or New York. But these cities are now dealing with a new urban crisis. It’s a crisis of success and of urban revitalization that brings division, gentrification, and other issues of housing and affordability. Maybe Philadelphia can be a place that can try to address all of this proactively.

BizPhilly: You watched the Amazon HQ2 competition very closely. What did you learn about Philadelphia during the process? Florida: Philly is a great center of corporate headquarters. The whole East Coast corridor has the largest concentration of corporate headquarters in the world. From day one, I said it was going to be Washington, D.C. because it’s the center of political power. Bezos owns the Washington Post and has a house there. When the shortlist came out, I said it’s going to be either New York or Washington, D.C., but little did I know it would be Washington, D.C. and New York. And this wasn’t to denigrate Philly. I put Philly in my next list along with Boston, Chicago and Toronto. These were the cities where it was possible.

Philly should be happy it didn’t get Amazon. The incentives are just astounding. Why would you want to bankrupt your community? Or to Amazon, your new hometown. The most important thing you can do is create your own Amazon. [Philly] has grown enough of an ecosystem. [Philly] has enough startups. [Philly] is now one of the probably 25 leading startup hubs in the world. And if you take the whole New York, Washington corridor, that’s one of the two or three leading startup hubs in the world along with the San Francisco Bay area. Philadelphia has to continue to build its own ecosystem.

What’s interesting is West Philadelphia, with Drexel, Penn and the Science Center. This is the heart and soul of the ecosystem. But things need to be done in a way that’s more inclusive and less divisive. That said, I do think everyone is on a shortlist that Amazon is looking at for something. I never thought this was a process about selecting an HQ2. This was a process of vetting a whole variety of sites for different functions.

BizPhilly: Anything stand out to you about Philly that distinguishes it from the other finalists? Florida: Philadelphia, because of its urbanity and because it attracts talent and is a more affordable alternative, my colleague and I always say we like it better than New York. And it’s not BS. We don’t say that in a BS way.

This city has an incredible urban character built up over centuries. It’s still real. It hasn’t gone through this second level of the new urban crisis where things get a little bit overly polished, where too much of the grit comes off. Philadelphia still has that edge to it. That’s why Philly has to plan for the future and plan for success. If you grew up in a place like Philadelphia — I grew up in Newark — back then you planned for urban failure. [Laughs] Now we have to plan for success. That’s what my work here has to try to do. I don’t have the answers. I’m not the Mayor of Philadelphia. I’m not head of the Chamber of Commerce. I’m just an urbanist who has some observations. And you have to throw those observations into the mix and work with really good people. Maybe out of that comes strategies that folks in Philadelphia can use to proactively make this city highly innovative, economically prosperous and more equitable and inclusive.

BizPhilly: What does inclusive growth and prosperity look like? Florida: That it benefits everyone. Right now, we have winner-takes-all systems and cities. I would put Philadelphia on that list. Even Pittsburgh is now on that list. New York, Boston, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. are on that list. Then there are smaller cities in more outlying areas like the Rust Belt, heartland and Sun Belt that are being left behind. And within the winner-takes-all cities, there are winner groups, which I call the creative class. Their salaries are rising. Even when you factor in housing costs, they have more than enough to live. Then there’s the working class, or the service class, the people who do food preparation, clerical work, medical services and work retail jobs. These people make maybe $25,000 or $30,000 a year doing multiple jobs. And when you factor in housing costs, they have $15,000 left to live on over the course of an entire year. A shared and inclusive prosperity would benefit everyone.

BizPhilly: As you embark on this fellowship, do you have any initial ideas about solutions? Florida: In the 1930s and 40s we made a commitment to making manufacturing high-paying work. We have to make a similar commitment today to make service work good paying work.

What will be interesting about this fellowship here is there is an organized group of anchor institutions, the same anchor institutions that helped to build urban revitalization by investing in neighborhoods, bringing back West Philly, bringing back the downtowns and the areas around the universities and the hospitals. Those institutions could become a very important lever for inclusivity. They could begin to provide options for affordable housing. They could work with local government to provide new ways of more inclusive housing development. They could work to upgrade their own service jobs and develop pathways for upgrading people. If you teach at NYU, Harvard or Stanford, you get paid very well and you get your own affordable housing. But if you work in the kitchen or take care of the grounds, you don’t get any of that. So maybe the answer is those institutions can begin to work together in a unique American way of public-private partnerships to forge this.

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Democrats vow to tackle drug prices after midterm victory

Drug companies could come under increased pressure to lower prices in the US, after the opposition Democrat party won control over the lower house in midterm elections.

All the seats in the House of Representatives and a third of the seats in the Senate were up for grabs in the vote seen as a referendum on Donald Trump’s controversial presidency.

The Democrats secured a majority in the Senate, but did not manage to win control of the Senate after the Republican party kept key seats in Indiana, Texas and North Dakota.

During the presidential elections two years ago, the traditionally more left-leaning Democrat party was almost aligned with Trump when he called for tough action against the price of drugs in the US.

The issue is particularly vexed in the US, where patients may have to contribute to the cost of their medication out of their own pocket, depending on their insurance arrangements.

Despite some strong rhetoric from Trump, tough legislative measures against drug companies have failed to materialise.

Trump last month signed two pieces of legislation including measures requiring pharmacists to tell patients if there is a low-cost alternative to a branded drug.

These measures were part of Trump’s blueprint published in May to lower drug prices by increasing competition, cutting regulations and changing incentives for those in the pharma industry.

But the Democrats think that the plan is not sufficient, and aim to fight some of the measures introduced by Trump’s American Healthcare Act, which partially repealed healthcare reforms introduced by his predecessor Barack Obama.

Democrat Nancy Pelosi, leader of the House of Representatives, said: “It’s about stopping the GOP and (Republican Senator) Mitch McConnell’s assault on Medicare and Medicaid, the Affordable Care Act and the healthcare of 130 million Americans living with pre-existing medical conditions. Let’s hear it for pre-existing medical conditions!”

She added: “We will take real, very strong legislative action to negotiate down the price control of prescription drugs that is burdening seniors and families across America.”

President Trump’s press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said the president will “work with whoever comes into office” ahead of the announcement of the results.

One result of interest to the pharma industry was in New Jersey – Bob Hugin, former CEO of Celgene, was running to become Republican Senator there, but was beaten by Democrat rival Bob Menendez.

Shares in major US drug companies such as Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, and Merck & Co. ticked down slightly in pre-market trading following the results.

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Hey, what about a Grogildan ice skating au? Just hear me out, okay.

Modern AU (although let’s say they’re all still gnomes, half-elves, etc. idk I really like taking the fantasy stuff and making it modern, but anyway) where Grog is a hockey player, and a pretty damn good one at that, but he hasn’t had much luck in terms of teams.

Pretty much the only person he consistently plays with is Pike (who’s also kick ass at hockey, she has a homemade jersey with “MONSTAH” on the back) She’s the one who’s always telling him that, even when he’s not crashing into people, he’s a pretty good skater. They like to just goof off and try little spins and jumps at the local rink

That’s where they meet Scanlan. He’s coming in early for a time slot he’s reserved for his daughter and watches Grog and Pike actually land some pretty tricky jumps. He introduces himself rather spectacularly (because of course he does) and tells them that he’s got the ring booked again later for some of his friends who are practicing for a figure skating competition. Grog is a little hesitant (What’s the point in a skating competition where you don’t get to punch anyone?) but Pike agrees

So they show up that evening and okay, Grog’s a little impressed when he watched the two pairs out on the ice

Keyleth and Percy are practicing lifts (Keyleth doing the lifting because she’s surprisingly buff and Percy’s a string bean) and jumps and just messing around, but clearly having a great time doing so. And then there’s the twins. They’re so in sync it’s almost scary, sometimes when they pick up speed it’s hard to tell which one’s which (Grog and Pike are also a little blown away at just how pretty everyone is like??? How is that fair????)

So Scanlan introduces Grog and Pike (calling them his new recruits, which they really need to talk about later) And he casually mentions how Vex is looking for a new pairs partner (she and Vax are trying to get better about skating with other people) for the upcoming competition. It takes some convincing, but Grog decides to at least try

He’s not ready for waking up at four in the morning to go to the rink with Pike and the twins, but he adjusts (slightly grudgingly) Vex and Vax trade off practicing with him, arguing that he needs the most time on the ice, which is probably true. He and Vex get long well enough (they even kiss at a few parties here and there because the group has officially adopted him and Pike) but Vax is another matter. Grog is pretty sure Vax isn’t a fan of him skating with his sister, so they start messing with each other (Grog ties Vax’s hair to things while he’s not paying attention, Vax switches Grog’s skates for a pairs that are slightly too small or too big, etc.)

Eventually though, they kinda bond (Vax still seems surprised the first time Grog goes for a real hug) And Vax decides that if Vex has to skate with anyone, it’s okay if it’s Grog. With the competition coming up, they don’t switch out anymore, cause Vex and Grog have to get this down (and Vax definitely doesn’t miss skating with Grog at all)

But then! Vex has an accident, nothing life threatening, but she’s gonna be out of competitions for a while. And the competition is just a few weeks away. And Grog is most disappointed than he wants to be?? He just... he worked really hard on this??? And now it’s just not happening??? Pike’s the one that has to point out the obvious (Why don’t you do the competition with Vax?)

So they start practicing again, and they basically live at the rink for a few weeks (there’s a looooot of time to make up for) And it’s surprisingly not terrible??? When they’re not messing with each other, Vax actually likes hanging out with Grog. He’s funny and easy to talk to and he’s really started caring about the skating thing (and Vax definitely doesn’t think too much about how Grog’s giant hands feel on his hips)

The competition date arrives and Grog and Vax (dressed as Vex, which is a little weird, but the judges didn’t notice a difference) skate their hearts out and it goes really well. They’re not sure why they’re holding hands as the scores are announced and totaled up, but they’re in first! And Grog goes for a hug, but Vax has other ideas and just plants one on him (he’s not really sure why, it just seems like the thing to do)

After they get done making out, they watch the other skaters (they end up coming in second, which is still pretty good) They head off to party, totally planning on talking about that kiss later, but then they wake up in bed together the next morning and figure they’ll just work it out as it goes

Just trust me, it would be great okay

#grogildan #critical role #grog #vax #long post #dumb skating au #i may have watched too much yoi the other day oops #this got so much longer than i meant it too oops #but hey! finally some grogildan!

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Your Wednesday Briefing – The New York Times

Hong Kong limits travel to curtail outbreak

As the number of known cases of the Wuhan coronavirus rose by nearly 60 percent on Monday night into Tuesday, Carrie Lam, Hong Kong’s chief executive, said the territory would strictly limit travelers from mainland China starting on Thursday.

The move followed days of rising pressure from health care workers, experts and even lawmakers who support Mrs. Lam’s government, and reflected distrust of the mainland as evidenced both from recent protests and the 2003 SARS crisis, in which nearly 300 people died in Hong Kong alone.

Elsewhere, officials in Germany and Japan reported the first known cases of human-to-human transmission of the virus — meaning countries now have to worry not only about quarantining infected travelers, but also about keeping the virus from spreading within their borders.

Toll: At least 106 people have died, China said on Tuesday, and the number of cases increased to 4,515 on Tuesday, from 2,835 on Monday, according to the National Health Commission. The youngest confirmed case is a 9-month-old girl in Beijing.

What’s next: China has extended the Lunar New Year holiday to Feb. 3, and some major cities have gone further, telling businesses not to open until the next week.

Britain declines to bar Huawei

The Chinese telecommunications giant can be part of Britain’s new high-speed 5G wireless network, the British government said, despite intense American arguments that Huawei could be used by the Chinese government as a channel for control and surveillance.

Both the U.S. and China, vying for tech supremacy, had tried to sway Britain’s decision. A Trump administration official said the U.S. was “disappointed.”

The decision did not name Huawei, specifying instead that “high-risk vendors” posing “greater security and resilience risks to U.K. telecoms networks” would be able to provide equipment in some portions of the network, like antennas and base stations, but not parts of the nerve center like servers.

Implications: Britain’s membership in the so-called Five Eyes intelligence-sharing group, along with Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the U.S., gives the decision added significance. And it comes as Germany is also deciding whether to work with Huawei.

Boris Johnson’s balancing act: The prime minister is risking a rift with President Trump ahead of negotiating a new trade deal with the U.S., but the potential of 5G makes the gains from a deal look paltry.

How an N.B.A. star dazzled Asia, too

Over his two-decade career with the Los Angeles Lakers, Kobe Bryant played an important role in the basketball league’s international expansion.

His stature as an international celebrity, honed by both the N.B.A. and Nike, crystallized during the opening ceremony of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, when he was swarmed by fellow athletes. In China, he routinely had the highest sales of shoes and jerseys.

Bryant was a frequent visitor to China for basketball camps and promotional stops, and he appeared in commercials, like one with the Taiwanese pop star Jay Chou. He was also popular in the Philippines.

The investigation: All possible causes for the helicopter crash on Sunday that killed Bryant and eight others are still being considered, but the hillsides around the flight’s destination near Los Angeles were enveloped in a nearly blinding fog at the time. The helicopter was not carrying a cockpit voice recorder, and federal investigators aren’t expected to reach a conclusion for months. Here are the latest updates.

Another angle: We spoke to a high school teacher that Bryant considered a mentor and “muse” about their remarkable friendship: “He has left such a void behind,” she said.

Long awaited, Trump peace plan favors Israel

President Trump unveiled his Middle East peace plan on Tuesday in the presence of only one party to the conflict, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel.

What Mr. Trump called a “win-win” proposal would give Israel most of what it has sought and create a Palestinian state with limited sovereignty. The Palestinian leadership immediately rejected the plan, which discards the idea of a full-fledged Palestinian state.

Analysts saw the document as a distraction offered by a president under impeachment working with a prime minister under criminal indictment.

The details: The plan would guarantee Israeli control of a unified Jerusalem as its capital and not require it to uproot any West Bank settlements. Mr. Trump promised to provide $50 billion in international financing for the new Palestinian entity and to open an embassy there.

At the impeachment trial: The president’s legal team made its last oral arguments on Tuesday. Senators will now have 16 hours to ask questions of each side.

A vote on whether to hear witnesses in the trial is expected on Friday, with a few Republican senators appearing to favor calling John Bolton, the former national security adviser whose book manuscript corroborates a central accusation: that Mr. Trump tied Ukraine’s military aid to politically motivated investigations.

If you have 6 minutes, this is worth it

Japan’s skateboarders roll out of the shadows

Japan has an Olympic skateboarding team that is likely to win more medals than that of any other country in the first such competition. But most of its members would not dream of taking out their boards on Japan’s streets, where the sport has long been seen as a pastime of unruly children.

This year’s summer Olympics could give its Japanese adherents something new: everyday acceptance.

Here’s what else is happening

India: A state visit by President Trump is planned for late February, according to Indian officials. The visit could be seen as an endorsement of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent policies that have deeply divided India and set off deadly nationwide protests.

Belgian king: After a court-ordered DNA test to resolve a decade-long paternity claim, King Albert II, 85, conceded that he was the biological father of the artist Delphine Boël, 51, who has long said she was conceived during an affair between her mother and Albert before he ascended the throne.

Snapshot: Above, a Syrian asylum seeker at a migrant camp in the Turkish-controlled part of Cyprus. The tiny island now hosts the most refugees per capita in the European Union, the result of a loophole within its vexing political situation.

What we’re looking at: These photos in The Atlantic of the locust swarms in East Africa. “For those keeping track of the plagues hitting the planet,” writes Andrea Kannapell, the Briefings editor.

Now, a break from the news

Go: Momcations, a getaway designed for tired mothers, are on the rise. While some see it as profiteering, others say it’s a sign of “the mainstream telling moms they deserve a break.”

Smarter Living: Breaking up with a therapist can be nerve-racking. But doing it with these tips in mind can turn it into an opportunity for growth.

And now for the Back Story on …

Reporting in Wuhan

Chris Buckley, our chief China correspondent, is reporting this week from the city of Wuhan, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak. Mike Ives, on the Briefings team, spoke with Chris by phone.

What is it like with these unprecedented restrictions in place?

It may be difficult to envisage just how thoroughly people have retreated from the streets and from public life. I had to cross one of the big bridges across the Yangtze for my reporting. And there I was, on one of these Chinese share bikes that are everywhere, on an almost completely empty bridge, spanning one of China’s biggest cities, crossing its biggest river. And there were just two other people on the bridge.

A lot of people wonder how long the shutdown can last. Even now people are worrying about the jobs they may lose, the businesses that will close, the school semesters that they might miss.

You’ve reported that the anger on Chinese social media is intense.

Yes, and you hear that here as well. People erupt with a kind of anger and exasperation over how it was that this dangerous pathogen was among them but they didn’t understand, in many cases, how serious it was or what was going on until the city was shut down.

But that’s leavened by a sense among many people that the most pressing thing is to get through this crisis — so that as few people die as possible and life can return to a kind of normality as soon as possible.

What else are you seeing there?

You see a combination of reactions when you approach people to talk. First of all, there’s a natural wariness about getting close to anybody. But once you reassure them — you’re outside, at a distance of a good 10 feet — they can be very open and also very generous.

How does that compare to the response you normally get?

The reaction you get as a foreign reporter varies quite a bit across China. But I think these circumstances, where people feel that they — and, in a sense, we — are all in this together, and that you’re there somehow experiencing this as well, make it easier to create that connection.

That’s it for this briefing. See you next time.

— Melina

Thank you To Mark Josephson and Eleanor Stanford for the break from the news. You can reach the team at [email protected].

P.S. • We’re listening to “The Daily.” Our latest episode is about the ripple effects of John Bolton’s coming book. • Here’s our Mini Crossword, and a clue: What causes Pinocchio’s nose to grow (five letters). You can find all our puzzles here. • Jason Polan, a New York sketch artist, produced hundreds of illustrations for the print edition of The Times. He died on Monday at age 37.

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Original Post from SC Magazine Author: victorthomas

As companies fall victim to increased insider threats, one of the greatest casualties has become trust in coworkers. Where one used to think primarily about threats to network security as coming from external intruders, today CISOs need to contend with the increasing likelihood that the threat actor might be a colleague — perhaps someone close to the IT staff, a disgruntled executive or other employees, a contractor or maybe just someone trying to do their job. Sometimes the threat actors are not even aware that they are doing anything wrong.

In light of recent, high-profile breaches, it might well be getting easier to convince the C-Suite to take threats from within more seriously. In 2018, insider threats have become one of the most pressing worries at a time when executive management across many industries is finally realizing the potential enormity of security breaches. That awareness, though, comes at the cost of attacks that are only increasing in scale and complexity. Securing against insider threat is a process that requires immediate attention. That said, companies are still trying to sort out what is a real threat and what is just an employee doing their work.

The non-malicious insider — perhaps the employee who downloads a confidential file to a thumb drive to work on it at home — might or might not be aware they are violating security policies. Sometimes the pressure of getting a job done on time takes precedence over an obscure security policy if the company is not proactive in training staff about what is and is not an acceptable use of resources. Sometimes it is just easier to ignore the rules for efficiency’s sake.

Robert Olson, technical director of the Rochester Institute of Technology Security Assessment and Forensic Examination Lab, begins his investigations of insider threats using threat modeling designed to profile potential attackers by understanding their malicious motivations.

“The two models I point [students] at are MICE (money, ideology, coercion, and ego) and RASCLS (reciprocation, authority, scarcity, commitment, linking, and social proof),” he explains, noting that these detailed explorations of what motivates spies and attackers have become standard in the CIA and other investigative circles.

Olson argues that regardless of the attacker, a lack of strictly enforced organizational policies plays into adversaries’ hands. “Insider threats are only possible when employees can access confidential or proprietary information or systems with impunity,” he says. “Organizations with strong access control policies, which are enforced with technical controls that also monitor for violations, should be reasonably resilient to attacks from insiders.”

Eric B. Levine, co-chair of the Cybersecurity & Data Privacy Group for Lindabury, McCormick, Estabrook & Cooper P.C., a Westfield New Jersey law firm that works primarily with closely held companies and their executives, focuses primarily on the rogue employee when he thinks of the most pressing insider threats.

Levine identifies rogue insiders as “those insiders who are unhappy with the organization, seem disgruntled and appear poised to leave.” He cautions security people to take notice of insiders who engage in unexpected activity on the network, such as downloading large numbers of files. “These are warning signs that your organization’s data may be subject to an unauthorized access.”

Motorola Mobility CISO Richard Rushing agrees with Levine, noting that the insider threat is one best identified early through close consultation with human resources. Rushing says that if he can get copies of employees’ performance reviews, it provides a fast track to being able to identify potential insider dangers.

“People who are on a work-improvement plan or a needs-improvement plan are probably the biggest risk for insider threat,” he says. But if HR will not share those documents, it is a matter of using the tools you have in front of you to assess how workers seem to feel about the organization, and how they express those feelings in actions, as evidenced by time and attendance records or badge access passes logged in the security information and event management (SIEM) system to show who is coming to work on time and staying the whole day.

Eric B. Levine, co-chair, cybersecurity & data privacy group, Lindabury, McCormick, Estabrook & Cooper P.C

Considering the quandary of insider threats, Robert J. Hudock, a member of Washington, D.C., law firm Epstein Becker Green, recalls a quotation from Russian Nobel Prize winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago, who wrote: “The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?” That is the challenge every organization faces, he says.

An employee who today might never have considered stealing data might reconsider tomorrow when he gets a pink slip, while a disgruntled employee thinking about how she could profit from her access to data may be brought back on board the team tomorrow with the right encouragement. What matters, Hudock says, is understanding that both types of employees are equally dangerous at different times in their careers.

“The blind spot for many organizations here is the realization that anyone can become an insider threat to an organization,” he notes, “so it is in the best interest of all to implement an effective insider threat program.”

Aside from the malicious insider and outsider, one threat actor who hangs in that gray area between the two is the employee who is being laid off and want to take their work with them when they go, Rushing notes. This might not be a deliberate malicious attack; instead it might simply be an employee who wants to keep copies of their work without the intension of harming their employer deliberately.

“Whether it be source code, marketing presentations, customer lists, or anything else,” he says, “people are just taking their stuff. They figure, ‘I’ll grab my documents and email and all those things, copy it to my USB drive and walk out the door with it.’”

Rushing stresses that the majority of these people likely do not see what they are doing as exfiltration. However, when they find a new job working for the competition, they discover they have migrated to the new company with a portion of their former employer’s confidential data.

They are not acting with malice, he says, but “They maybe need to be reminded of this during the process and told, ‘Hey, you really shouldn’t be taking things that are company specific.’”

Another prominent form of insider threat actor is the wholly unwitting one, entirely unmotivated by any goal. Gavin Mead, principal in KPMG LLP’s Cyber Security Services, explains, “Unwitting insiders are now equipped with capacities and opportunities to do inadvertent harm on a more frequent basis, from posting sensitive materials to cloud storage, to wrongly sharing sensitive data with suppliers, to using information in a way that violates regulation, to enabling an outside attacker to take over their credentials.”

The rise of third-party logical and physical access to data, networks, and facilities — whether contractors, vendors, or contingent labor — concerns Mead, who notes that because they are less known, vetted, and monitored, they present an even bigger risk than employees.

Mead says that there is a tendency to focus too much on the malicious insider and as a result, organizational problems might neglect the potential harm of the unwitting actor, though a well-crafted program for defending against insider threat should contain provisions for confronting both eventualities.

The Data

Unwitting insiders vex loanDepot CISO and Senior Vice President Billy Spears. “Organizations should be concerned about insiders that are unaware of appropriate requirements,” Spears says. “These are folks that want to do the right thing, and definitely are policy followers, but have a business need to use or share information without guidance on the appropriate methods to safeguard this data.”

Spears notes that this group is the biggest problem because they cannot be readily detected, require additional training, and almost never think about data safeguards as they go about their daily business. For that reason, he says, once- or twice-a-year training is insufficient.

“That never really keeps the risks fresh or top of mind,” Spears warns. “I think it is important to communicate at the level of your audience via an appropriate channel that makes sense. This is something that needs to happen weekly to assure that people understand what to do if they recognize a risk or need advice.”

Ultimately, it is up to the security and IT teams, as well as the owners of the business data, to ensure that confidential data is not only protected but that it also is clearly identified. If the company does not know what data it has, what level of confidentiality it requires and how it is protected, it is difficult to ensure that it will not be exfiltrated, accidentally or otherwise.

Richard Rushing, CISO mobility, Motorola

“It is critical that an organization consider and understand what types of data might be vulnerable to attack in order to understand the implications of responding to unauthorized accesses of that information and how to prevent such access from occurring,” Levine says. He notes regulations like Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) or the Gramm Leach Bliley Act help organizations understand what information must be protected.

Of course, he says, organizations are presented with the challenge of determining which classes of their information are protected by law. However, they also must protect valuable data not subject to regulation.

“An organization should assume that all of its data is vulnerable,” Levine says. “Whether the data is personally identifiable information, protected health information, or something more general like a client list, a company should assume that some third party may find some improper use for obtaining that information. The better approach is to build your defense around all of your data.”

Mead says that the first step of any insider threat program is determining a formal definition of the organization’s business drivers and its crown jewels.

“When taking a threatdriven risk scenario approach, understanding the data at risk is a critical consideration,” he explains. “This includes assets and information as well as business functions that are at risk: moving money, changing reporting structures, creating new employees and changing employee direct deposit information, destroying production capability, damaging reputation and others.”

However, he says, it is tricky to tighten access to data without becoming unnecessarily restrictive — and a restrictive attitude can strike at the values of team collaboration necessary to protecting data.

“While restricting access to some data is a strong control, it is critical for an organization to understand the spread of sensitive data and of privileged access,” says Mead. “The failure to understand what constitutes sensitive data, failure to manage sensitive access and review its appropriateness, and the constantly-changing nature of peoples’ jobs and technology enablement leads to access drift over time.”

Managing The Data

Rushing is a proponent of establishing a high standard for granular-level access control because those who cannot access the data cannot remove it or transfer it where it does not belong. This is a nearly end-to-end process; it is not enough to mandate it but it needs to be enforced continually.

Like all good ideas, Rushing says, access control starts out pristine, but once it is left to wither, it can cause problems. “It has to be a continual environment,” he says. “There’s some level of responsibility you want to bestow upon whoever’s the custodial person responsible for managing that data, and you really want to empower them to make decisions.”

Classification, he says, is a key element of prevention. Footers, headers, and metatags allow CISOs to track data that has turned up where it should not be, where it has been, and how it is moving around the organization. “If there’s nothing in it then it becomes really hard for any [tracking]to actually work,” Rushing says. “If you know where all your data are and the repositories of your data are, you then have an idea of here’s what I need to protect. If you haven’t gone there yet, it’s like boiling the ocean.”

to actually work,” Rushing says. “If you know where all your data are and the repositories of your data are, you then have an idea of here’s what I need to protect. If you haven’t gone there yet, it’s like boiling the ocean.”

Gavin Mead, Principal, cyber security services, KPMG LLP

One reason so many organizations allow too much access is simple convenience, says Levine. Securing sensitive company information is initially time-consuming to classify the data. It also requires time to authenticate the users each time they want to access the data. A compounding problem in organizations occurs when there is no clear record of what data they have, where it is stored, and who has access to it, he notes.

“Organizations need to adopt practices that provide that they secure all data upon its creation or initial acquisition, meaning that the files are secured, password protected or accessible only to limited people who have authorized credentials,” Levine says. “Organizations also need to invest the time and resources to map their data in order to learn what data they possess, where on their computer network the data is located, and who can access it. Investing the time and resources at the upfront and then adopting it as a routine practice is a substantial undertaking, but one that will create a more secure environment on an on-going basis.”

(Much of what Levine says about protecting data became mandated on May 25 if the data contains private information about European citizens. That was the day the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went into effect. Among its requirements is knowing exactly where data on EU citizens resides on the network, on every corporate or personal device, and in every backup or archive, regardless of where in the world the data resides.)

However, the process of recording all this information is a complex project, says Olson, who notes that lax security is rarely due to laziness on the part of system administrators, network administrators, or programmers. “

“Time and financial constraints make [security] a challenge for many organizations,” he says, and the problems become exacerbated by organizational cultures that allow such constraints to spread. “If respect for data privacy isn’t baked into strategic security policies set at the executive level, technical controls preventing unauthorized — or unethically authorized — access will receive less or little priority and employees are less likely to protect data privacy in day-to-day activities.” Even conscientious staff members can engage in risky behaviors, such as cloudbased file-storage, when they have not been properly prepared to adhere to rules and best practices while still running the business effectively.

Billy Spears, CISO and SVP, loanDepot

“Once this mentality sets in, monitoring for malicious behavior becomes even more difficult, as it is often comingled with innocently motivated, but still out-of-policy actions,” Mead says. “Insider threat programs have to work to be positively perceived by the employees they monitor. Employees must understand that the program is designed to protect everyone’s job and livelihood and not perceive it as ‘Big Brother’ driven by employer mistrust. Programs that fail to create this positive perception with employees can actually be the cause of disgruntlement, becoming part of the problem they are attempting to solve.”

The Program

The way an insider-threat program portions out its defenses to detection, deterrence, and post-breach forensics is determined by what kind of data it is defending.

Rather than counsel for a percentage split on each approach, Rushing says it is better to keep asking questions of the data: “How do I track it? How do I see it in transit? How do I trust it at a third party or anything else that’s doing something with it? What kind of controls can I put around it and keep wrapping it? It’s kind of like an onion,” he says. “You want to put layers of controls around [it]. The more layers of controls that I can put around it the better I can maintain that kind of structure.”

Mead says each means of control — detection, deterrence, and post-breach forensics — has a varying role to play. “If dealing with an unwitting insider, DLP (data loss protection), coupled with easy-to-use encryption tools, may mitigate the scenario leaving a limited role for IDS (intrusion detection systems) or post-breach forensics,” he says. “When looking at the actions of an outsider impersonating an insider, particularly one with privileged IT administrative access, detection and forensics will likely play a very strong role. Understanding the relative risk to a particular organization of each scenario should help dictate the right level of emphasis on each category.”

However, defenses need to be tested in threat-driven risk scenarios in order to determine how effective they would be for any one organization’s needs, he notes.

“When focused on the unwitting insider, prevention defenses can be very powerful,” he says. “From training and awareness to controls that prevent a user from taking the wrong path while simultaneously pointing them to the right one, these approaches can keep those who have good intentions on the right path. Preventative defenses for malicious insiders are more problematic, particularly as many of the insiders in this category are aware of the gaps in prevention and take advantage of them.”

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Olson believes organizations need to prioritize detection and prevention ahead of post-breach forensics, since these are the controls that provide the most formidable obstacle to those wishing to do the organization harm.

“Many organizations are rapidly becoming better at both of these tasks,” Olson explains. “Anti-virus … is improving, monitoring is becoming more common, as is patch management planning. The net result is that adversary dwell time, the amount of time an attacker has access to a host before they are noticed, is decreasing.”

Winning over the C-suite is the necessary precursor to all of this, however. Olson says that if you do not have high-level approval, bolstering data privacy and fighting insider threats simply will not be a priority.

“Having executives establish high-level security and privacy policies is important to setting the tone for the organization, which will translate into data and privacy protecting controls and behaviors being implemented at the lower levels of the organization.”

Once you understand the motivations of the company’s executives, you can talk to them about the importance of thinking of their data as something that needs to be secured. Some of the most important information in many companies, he notes, takes the form of unstructured data, because those who write it and save it are thinking only of the ideas, and not of protecting them.

Rushing notes, “I can talk to them and say, ‘Could you add this meta field into the properties so that we can track it?’” But that works best if they understand what is at stake.

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Robotics competition fields teams from across three states

QUEENSBURY — Over 40 teams from across three states duked it out at a VEX Robotics competition at Queensbury High School on Saturday. New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts were all … Powered by WPeMatico

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9 things to know about Florida’s horrible swamp alternate uniforms

Yes, the Gators are really dressing up like actual alligators.

Florida’s wearing some very unfortunate, alligator-colored alternate uniforms against Texas A&M on Saturday night. It’s not exactly the best way to bounce back from a one-point loss to LSU on Homecoming, but hey, you gotta try something! Anyway, here are some things to know about these, uh, things.

1. They’re pretty damn bad

OK look, I get what Florida was trying to do here — get some unique uniforms that are both new, but respecting a traditional part of the program. This didn’t accomplish either of those things.

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The idea behind these, per Florida specifically, was to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Steve Spurrier naming Ben Hill Griffin Stadium “The Swamp.”

Twenty-five years after Ben Hill Griffin Stadium became "The Swamp," the University of Florida football team will take the look of a Gator when they take the field on Saturday. As the only Division I school in the country named the Gators, UF and Nike officials saw a unique opportunity that has been in the works for over two years.

2. The color on these things is supposed to be “swamp green,” but...

It looks more, like, grey? Ugh, this color with the orange numbers is just terrible.

3. This is the first true alternate for Florida that isn’t orange and blue.

This. This is it. The only alternate uniform Florida should ever wear. Full stop. End of discussion. http://pic.twitter.com/CKcpZa24bW

— Richard Johnson (@RJ_Writes) October 10, 2017

Florida also wore these Nike alternates against Florida State in 2009:

Photo by Sam Greenwood/Getty Images

There were also these worn during the Florida-Georgia game in 2010:

Photo by Sam Greenwood/Getty Images

Those aren’t the only alternates the Gators have worn, but they did win all three of those games!

4. The “hype” video releasing these things wasn’t even good.

Pairing what appears to be the growl of a Gator with hype music and a player coming out of a tunnel to an empty stadium isn’t the best look, to be honest.

W E A R E T H E F L O R I D A G A T O R S #GoGators @Nike #TheSwamp http://pic.twitter.com/99AHMLBfeL

— Gators Football (@GatorsFB) October 10, 2017

5. Florida wanted to make it clear that this wasn’t a spur-of-the-moment combo.

After the internet’s horrified reaction, Florida said:

This one-time alternate uniform was the culmination of an 18-month process. https://t.co/10dzUpfgSU

— Gators Football (@GatorsFB) October 10, 2017

6. At least some players like them?

The new uniforms we wearing Saturday #LoveEm

— Jawaan. T 6️⃣5️⃣ (@jawaan_taylor74) October 10, 2017

Jealous of the @GatorsFB uniforms ‍♂️ ‍♂️

— Jon Halapio (@Jhalapio67) October 10, 2017

Offensive lineman Fred Johnson said there were a few players who didn’t like them at first.

“There was a couple people. You can’t please everybody,” Johnson said via SEC Country. “You can’t please 100 percent of the people. … The majority of people have come around to it,” he said. “Then again, we only have the helmet and the shoes on today. When the whole ensemble comes together I think we’re going to be really happy about it.”

Cornerback Chauncey Gardner Jr. echoed my first reaction to them.

“My first impression, I thought they were gray,” Gardner said. “I thought they were gray. I didn’t like them, I thought they were gray. And then we seen it today, I was like, ‘Oh, they’re green,’ ” he said. “So it’s kind of a cool, like different look [for] Gators uniforms. You know, we always go orange or blue or white. … The green is a nice way to spice things up. … I kind of like it. I like it a lot.”

7. Alligator Army has some thoughts:

The jerseys look like someone was assigned to create olive drab cycling uniforms for a bad Tour de France team. They look like a tire tread became a shirt. They look like hunting apparel from Kmart — not even Walmart, Kmart.

The jersey pattern not continuing down the pants is a major mistake because of how good Nike patterns like this can actually look when applied to a full uniform. The helmet’s left side either being genuinely blank or left for some other unspeakable horror is vexing.

The color is an unappealing shade of dead nature — and I don’t even know whether it’s actually olive green or gray-green or gray. It clashes with the blue and orange on the number — and it makes me think, every time I look at these uniforms, how much better a simple palette swap making “swamp green” “Gator black” and using the traditional orange and blue as accents would have looked.

The shoes aren’t even good. Do you know how hard you have to try to make Nike shoes look genuinely bad, instead of just meh, given three decades of great Nike design? It’s hard. It’s really, really hard.

8. As does Every Day Should Be Saturday:

To date, Florida has lost badly to Michigan, lost dumbly to LSU, beaten Vanderbilt convincingly, narrowly avoided blowing a lead against Tennessee, and even more narrowly avoided the end of the win streak against Kentucky. The Gators face a Texas A&M team that was competitive against Alabama and would prefer that you not dig into those other games. They were sent to Archives Subbasement G, and you do not have the security clearance required to access Archives Subbasement G.

Florida probably won’t win the East this year, which is fine. Florida almost certainly won’t be catastrophically bad either, which is also fine. This season is neither Florida’s wedding day nor Florida passing out in its own prime rib vomit at someone else’s wedding. This season is just a sick day. Can we not let Florida just stay home, not shower, eat a bunch of cereal, and download workout apps it’ll never use for more than a week? BY THIS TIME IN FOUR MONTHS FLORIDA WILL DO A HUNDRED PUSHUPS!

Nope. Just haaaaad to break out the Island of Dr. Moreau Pro Combats and get roasted on the timeline. Wonderful.

9. And Good Bull Hunting has some better ideas.

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RugbyU: Confident Springboks put Wallabies to the test

Australia's Wallabies face an acid test against the rejuvenated Springboks in the Rugby Championship on Saturday to gauge whether they are on the rise after taking the All Blacks to the limit.

The world champion New Zealanders had to pull out all the stops to overcome Australia 35-29 with a try two minutes from time in Dunedin a fortnight ago.

The Wallabies have already lost the trans-Tasman Bledisloe Cup series, but take on the regenerated Springboks in Perth, with the South Africans yet to lose in 2017.

Fly-half Bernard Foley said every member of the Wallabies' squad knew the importance of not undoing all their good work from Dunedin against the South Africans.

"I think that's probably been a hurdle of Wallaby teams in the past, is not being able to be consistent," Foley said.

"We've definitely spoken (about) that and challenged every player to go up a level from where he was in Dunedin."

While the Springboks have vanquished Argentina and France over five internationals this year they have not beaten the Wallabies in Australia since their 38-12 romp in Brisbane in 2013.

It has been a torrid year for Australia, winning only two of their five internationals and coming off a miserable Super Rugby season climaxed by the contentious axing of Perth-based Western Force from next year's competition.

There have been reports that the Perth rugby public may boycott the Test on Saturday as a way of protesting against the Australian Rugby Union's vexed decision to cull the Force, or wear their blue Western Force jerseys instead of the Wallabies' gold.

"Playing in your home town in front of your club team fans and Wallaby fans, it's a very special occasion," Wallabies and Force lock Adam Coleman said.

"The fans in Western Australia are amazing. I'm sure they'll turn out in numbers."

- Desire to get better -

The Wallabies are looking to stifle the Springboks playmaker and fly-half Elton Jantjies, who has been impressive in his team's two wins over Argentina so far in the Rugby Championship.

"For us shutting him down is not allowing him momentum, doing the job up front, pushing him backwards and that probably takes down his time and space," Foley said of his opposite number.

Scrum-half Ross Cronje has overcome an ankle injury and partners Jantjies with Francois Hougaard dropping back to the reserves.

In the only other change to the starting team, Pieter-Steph du Toit comes in at lock for Franco Mostert.

"Even though we travelled to three continents in 10 days, this group has the desire to get better, and learn from previous experiences," coach Allister Coetzee said Thursday.

"The Wallabies are a well-coached side, with great deception on attack. Their playmakers and strike runners complement each other very well and we will have to be very sharp on defence.

"If you look at their performances against New Zealand, you will see how well they have functioned in scoring nine tries and 63 points in two matches."

Wallabies coach Michael Cheika made four changes to his starting XV with Tatafu Polota-Nau at hooker, Sekope Kepu at tight-head prop, Adam Coleman at lock and Reece Hodge on the left wing.

The Australians are without their 122-Test hooker Stephen Moore, back at home awaiting the birth of his third child, while winger Dane Haylett-Petty is out for three months following biceps surgery.

Teams (15-1)

Australia - Israel Folau; Henry Speight, Tevita Kuridrani, Kurtley Beale, Reece Hodge; Bernard Foley, Will Genia; Sean McMahon, Michael Hooper (capt), Ned Hanigan; Adam Coleman, Rory Arnold; Sekope Kepu, Tatafu Polota-Nau, Scott Sio.

Replacements: Jordan Uelese, Tom Robertson, Allan Alaalatoa, Rob Simmons, Jack Dempsey, Nick Phipps, Samu Kerevi, Curtis Rona

South Africa - Andries Coetzee; Raymond Rhule, Jesse Kriel, Jan Serfontein, Courtnall Skosan; Elton Jantjies, Ross Cronje; Uzair Cassiem, Jaco Kriel, Siya Kolisi; Pieter-Steph du Toit, Eben Etzebeth (capt); Coenie Oosthuizen, Malcolm Marx, Tendai Mtawarira

Replacements: Bongi Mbonambi, Steven Kitshoff, Trevor Nyakane, Lood de Jager, Jean-Luc du Preez, Francois Hougaard, Handre Pollard, Damian de Allende

Referee: Glen Jackson (NZL)

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