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  Money talks, and that's why environmental activists—and, more specifically, indigenous peoples —have been pressuring banks for years to stop throwing their money toward fossil fuel extraction projects. Finally, major banks are starting to listen. Goldman Sachs announced Sunday that it's finally listening and won't fund new coal projects globally or any extraction projects in the Arctic, including in the pristine Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Advertisement This is a big freaking deal. Goldman Sachs is one of the world's top funders to the oil and gas industry, according to an annual report by the Rainforest Action Network . This is the first time a major U.S. bank—think JPMorgan Chase, Citi, and Bank of America—has responded to environmentalist pressure to stop funding extraction projects. Environmental groups have been cranking up the heat on banks since at least the early 2000s, and the efforts really ratcheted up during the indigenous-led Standing …
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  December 16, 2019 by gizmodo.com Leave a Comment
  A coach's job is to train amateur as well as professional athletes and to teach them the fundamental skills of the sport they play. A coach's goal is to improve and perfect the athlete's form, technique and stamina. Coaches prepare athletes for competitions by arranging practice sessions when they can point out the areas of correction the athlete needs. Besides refining individual skills, the coach is also responsible for instilling good sportsmanship and team spirit, which are crucial during a competition. Before a match, the coach will plan the team's strategy. He may amend the plan and change players during the match. Here's how to become a high school football coach. Training and Education There are no specific educational requirements for becoming an entry-level coach. However, if you would like to be a head coach or instructor, you will need to earn a college degree, usually in sports science, physiology and physical education . High school coaches are often teachers …
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  March 25, 2011 by money.howstuffworks.com Leave a Comment
  Men At Work's "Who Can It Be Now?" blurs the line between private and crazy
  In We're No. 1 , The A.V. Club examines an album that went to No. 1 on the Billboard charts to get to the heart of what it means to be popular in pop music, and how that concept has changed over the years. In this installment, we cover Men At Work's "Who Can It Be Now," which went to No. 1 on the Hot 100 on October 30, 1982. Advertisement From a cynic's perspective, American history is the story of people who just want to be left the hell alone. That's partially what brought colonists here in the first place, and to some extent, it's what drove their descendants to the frontier, then to the Pacific, then to the suburbs and ultimately the moon. "Don't tread on me" begat "Westward ho" begat "Stay off my lawn." Or, as Men At Work put it on the band's 1982 debut single, "Who can it be knocking at my door? Go away. Don't come 'round here no more." The band wasn't American, but its home country of Australia has its own reputation for …
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  January 6, 2015 by www.avclub.com Leave a Comment
  Even the Supreme Court can see through the NCAA's B.S.
  For years, the NCAA has British private schools , where wealthy competitors were able to exclude the unwealthy by refusing payment and calling it amateurism. Advertisement At one time, the idea of amateurism might have been useful, but in the last 30 years, the system has been flooded with network money, with athletes generating millions for schools and the NCAA, many of them arriving from families too poor to even travel to attend games. Students were cut from teams for tiny infractions, while the obvious inequities in the system grew larger. The system has been broken for a long time, and legal precedent is now admitting that reality. It was a 9-0 blowout on Monday, when the Supreme Court ruled against the association in NCAA vs. Alston. Technically, this was a narrow decision — limited in scope — that goes to whether or not the collegiate sports governing body can limit compensation when it comes to education-related benefits. But reading the …
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  June 21, 2021 by deadspin.com Leave a Comment
  How Elizabeth Warren Plans to Cancel Student Loans With or Without Congress
  Ask any political science professor and they'll tell you that presidential candidates have ambition beyond their means. A president can only do so much to change policy, thanks to our system of checks and balances. They need Congress to pass laws that initiate dramatic policy shifts. Advertisement Senator Elizabeth Warren, however, has so many plans for her potential presidency that she's starting to outline how she'll work around the entire legislative branch to accomplish her goals. Warren says that the Department of Education already has the power to start cutting down our collective student loan debt and reform the higher education system. She presented her plan in two key bullet points on her site yesterday. Let's take them one by one. First, about the debt: I'll direct the Secretary of Education to use their authority to begin to compromise and modify federal student loans consistent with my plan to cancel up to $50,000 in debt for …
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  On some level, all of us are waiting for the big one—the hack that downs the internet, paralyzes infrastructure, maybe launches a couple nukes. If that day never arrives, it will be largely thanks to the legions of malefactors who, over the years, have hacked this or that government or corporation and thus forced those institutions to plug up their vulnerabilities, or at least try to. Some of these hacks have been staggering in scope—acts of sabotage and/or theft inconceivable in an unconnected world. But which of these can lay claim to being the most destructive? What was, in other words, the most significant hack of all time? For this week's Giz Asks , we reached out to a number of experts to find out. Advertisement Thomas J. Holt Director and Professor, Criminal Justice, Michigan State University, whose research focuses on computer hacking and malware, among other things The first that comes to mind is the Morris worm, from 1988. A college …