If you've ever had to buy oil for your car, motorcycle, lawn mower, snowmobile, or any other internal combustion engine, you've likely encountered the SAE acronym — or what used to be an acronym, anyway. You may have even wondered what SAE stands for. After all, some automotive acronyms you probably already know , such as ABS, CVT, EV, SOHC, and DOHC, are prevalent in today's society. It turns out, however, that SAE no longer stands for anything in particular, according to a blog posted by the organization at SAE.org entitled "2023 Reflections: It's Actually Just 'SAE.'" However, when the organization was formed in 1905, the letters stood for Society of Automobile Engineers. Early automobile manufacturing pioneers like Henry Ford and Andrew Riker, among others, saw the need for standardized methods in the burgeoning automotive industry. As the use of the Society's standards spread to other mobility industries, such as aeronautics, engineers of those disciplines joined the organization. It became apparent that the Automobile in SAE excluded some of the organization's brightest prospects, so in 1917, it changed its meaning to the Society of Automotive Engineers in an attempt to include all forms of "self-propelled vehicles." In 2006, in light of the ever-changing landscape of manufacturing and the global reach of the organization, the Society once again updated its name. The new name, SAE International, seems likely to stand the test of time, at least for some time. Your first encounter with SAE might occur on the engine oil aisle of your local auto parts store, but you'll see it again when buying wrenches and sockets for your DIY garage mechanic toolbox . The threaded fasteners that hold the majority of mechanical components together have standardized hexagonal heads in fractional-inch or metric sizes. While the inch sizes are often referred to as SAE, in reality, nearly all common threaded fasteners adhere to SAE International standards. Among SAE International's newest endeavors is Sustainable Mobility Solutions, an effort to standardize EV charging connections across North America. Another partnership in the autonomous technology sector earned recognition from industry leaders like former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates. While Gates applauded SAE International for its work to standardize the Levels of Driving Automation , he inadvertently called the organization the Society of American Engineers. Yet another reason to stick with, "just SAE." In today's global economy, standardized manufacturing processes are more important than ever. Imagine the complex mechanics involved with stopping your car on a rain-slick highway as an animal steps onto the roadway. It's critical that the myriad of sensors, cameras, actuators, and assemblies manufactured around the world work together for safe motor vehicle operation. It'll be even more critical as we depend on the cars of the future to navigate our roads safely without human intervention.Trump selects longtime adviser Keith Kellogg as special envoy for Ukraine and Russia

The U.S. Census Bureau and a growing number of states are starting to gather more detailed information about Americans’ race and ethnicity, a change some advocates of the process say will allow people to choose identities that more closely reflect how they see themselves. Crunching and sorting through those specific details — known as data disaggregation — will help illuminate disparities in areas such as housing and health outcomes that could be hidden within large racial and ethnic categories. But some experts say the details also might make it harder for Black people from multiracial countries to identify themselves. Racial data gleaned from the census is important because local, state, tribal and federal governments use it to guide certain civil rights policies and “in planning and funding government programs that provide funds or services for specific groups,” according to the Census Bureau. The form will have checkboxes for main categories — current census groupings include “Asian,” “Black,” “African American” and “White,” among others — followed by more specific checkboxes. Under Asian, for example, might be Chinese, Asian Indian, Filipino, Vietnamese, Korean or Japanese. And then there will be an empty box for people to write in more specific subgroups. Collecting more detail by allowing free-form answers, for example, will make it possible for people to identify themselves as part of more racial and ethnic subgroups — such as “Sardinian” (an autonomous region within Italy) instead of simply “Italian” — and include alternative names for certain groups, such as writing “Schitsu’umsh,” the ancient language for “Coeur D’Alene Tribe.” And the Census Bureau will for the first time include Middle Eastern/North African as a separate racial/ethnic category for respondents with that heritage. Until now, Middle Eastern people who did not choose a race were treated as a subcategory under “white,” based on a 1944 court ruling intended to protect Arab immigrants from racist laws banning U.S. citizenship for nonwhite immigrants. Under new federal guidelines approved in March, the bureau also will give people the option to check no race at all if they identify as Hispanic or Middle Eastern/North African. The Census Bureau already has decided to use more open-ended questions in both the 2027 American Community Survey and the nation’s 2030 census. But the agency is seeking public comment on the way write-in responses will be categorized. The bureau wants to hear how people are likely to identify themselves, said Merarys Ríos-Vargas, chief of the bureau’s Ethnicity and Ancestry Branch, Population Division, in a recent webinar. The agency also is interested in whether there are missing or incorrect entries in its proposed list of possible responses. ‘It’s about people’s lives’ Nancy López, a University of New Mexico sociology professor, said she and other experts in Black Hispanic culture think the census should have a “visual race” or “street race” question, so people can communicate how others see them as well as how they identify themselves. The answer might be “Black” or a yet-unrecognized racial category such as “brown.” “A separate question on race as a visual status helps illuminate the kind of things we are interested in — discrimination in housing, discrimination in employment, discrimination in education and accessing health care in public spaces,” said López, who is the daughter of Dominican immigrants and a co-founder of the university’s Institute for the Study of “Race” & Social Justice. “It’s about people’s lives, it’s about the future, it’s about children, it’s about access to opportunities and it’s about fairness,” she added, noting that even if the federal government doesn’t add such questions to surveys and the decennial census, state and universities can still do it on their own as they collect data for health care, student enrollment and other topics. The NALEO Educational Fund, an organization representing Latino elected and appointed officials, supports the decision to make a race choice optional for Hispanics. “Many Latinos did not see themselves in any of the categories for their racial identity,” said Rosalind Gold, NALEO’s chief public policy officer. “There’s a large number of Latinos who feel that identifying as Latino is both their racial and ethnic identity.” Gold said NALEO understands the concern some have that failing to require a race designation will obscure racial information on Black Hispanics. But her group argues that the census can get what it needs by educating the public on how to respond and by including prompts on the questionnaires to guide race choices. Black Hispanic people often see themselves as having a single racial and ethnic identity, according to several experts in Hispanic identity who spoke at a Census Bureau National Advisory Committee meeting Nov. 7. “They conceptualize themselves as belonging to one [group],” said Nicholas Vargas, an associate professor of ethnic studies at the University of California, Berkeley, speaking at the committee meeting. “They check ‘Black’ and they check ‘Dominican’ — and don’t want to be counted as two or more,” he said. In response, Rachel Marks, an adviser for the Census Bureau on race and ethnicity, said the bureau will consider that issue and other “feedback on how people want to be represented” before making a final decision on survey details. The bureau may recognize a term, Afro-Latino, that could be used to indicate both Black race and Hispanic ethnicity, according to a proposed code list from the agency, as well as “Blaxican” for Black Mexican and “Blasian“ for Black Asian. The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, a coalition of civil rights groups, called the more detailed questions“a step forward” but also suggested more guidance on the forms to ensure people are categorized the way they want to be. In its comment on the changes, the group noted that in 2020, some people who wrote in “British” under the Black checkbox were categorized as partly white even if they didn’t mean that. The group also said it is “concerned about a conflation of the concepts of race and ethnicity,” and it asked for more research to make sure people understand how to respond. State actions Some states are acting on their own to gather more detailed data about identity. New Jersey is among the latest states to pass a law requiring more detailed race and ethnic data collection for state records such as health data and school enrollment. A similar bill in Michigan would require state agencies that gather information to offer “multiracial” and “Middle Eastern or North African” as choices; the bill remains in committee. And advocates in Oregon, which already has a law requiring detailed ethnic data collection, are asking the state for more details on Asian subgroups who face education challenges. A December 2023 report by The Leadership Conference Education Fund identified 13 other states with laws requiring more detailed state data on ethnic and racial groups, including laws passed last year in Hawaii, Illinois, Massachusetts and Nevada. The states of California, Connecticut, Minnesota, New Mexico, New York, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island and Washington already had such laws, the group found.

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The Mumbai Police received death threats against Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday while the Samajwadi Party announced that it was quitting the Maha Vikas Aghadi alliance in Maharashtra. An ISKCON temple was set ablaze in Dhaka amid continued communal unrest in Bangladesh. Meanwhile the stock market indices logged their best week in six months after RBI cuts CRR by 50 bps. PM Modi threatened The Mumbai Police received a threat message against Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday via WhatsApp. The text was sent to the traffic police helpline and mentioned two ISI agents and a plot to carry out a bomb blast to target Modi. The development comes less than two weeks after the Mumbai Police received an anonymous call threatening to assassinate the senior politician. Bangladesh unrest An ISKCON temple in Dhaka district was set ‘ablaze’ early on Saturday. Officials based out of Kolkata indicated that deities of Sri Sri Laxmi Narayan and all items inside the ISKCON Namhatta Centre were 'burned down completely'. Samajwadi Party quits MVA The Samajwadi Party pulled out of the Maha Vikas Aghadi alliance in Maharashtra on Saturday over ‘communal’ jibes from the allied Shiv Sena (UBT). Controversy arose earlier this week after MLC Milind Narvekar — a close aide of Uddhav Thackeray — hailed the demolition of the Babri Masjid and a newspaper advert congratulating those behind the incident. The Shiv Sena (UBT) secretary also posted images of Uddhav Thackeray, Aaditya Thackeray and himself alongside the endorsement message. Syria crisis Syrian rebels entered the key city of Homs from the north and east on Saturday — days after capturing Hama. Insurgents — led by the jihadi Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group — said they had seized most of the south. Meanwhile government forces dug in to defend the key central city of Homs in a bid to try and save the 24-year rule of President Bashar al-Assad. The militants now plan to march towards Damascus — the seat of power for Assad. Sensex, Nifty soar Domestic equity benchmarks Sensex and Nifty 50 logged their best week since June in the previous session. The surge was mainly due to financials after the Reserve Bank of India boosted liquidity by cutting the cash reserve ratio by 50 basis points in its December monetary policy committee meeting. (With inputs from agencies)

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Saquon Barkley and the Philadelphia Eagles make their second-to-last road trip of the regular season Sunday to face Derrick Henry and the Baltimore Ravens. The NFC East-leading Eagles (9-2) have won seven in a row and play four of their final six games in Philadelphia, traveling only about 125 miles to visit the Ravens (8-4) this weekend and the Washington Commanders in Week 16. Sunday's game features the NFL's two leading rushers. Barkley (1,392 yards) and Henry (1,325) are far ahead of Green Bay's Josh Jacobs (944) in third place. Henry leads the league with 13 rushing touchdowns. Barkley (10) is tied for fourth and Philadelphia quarterback Jalen Hurts (11) tied for second. The matchup also features two of the top candidates for Most Valuable Player honors entering Week 13 in Barkley and Baltimore quarterback Lamar Jackson, who won his second MVP award last season. Their competition includes quarterbacks Josh Allen of Buffalo and Jared Goff of Detroit, with Allen widely considered the favorite. "Lamar Jackson and Derrick Henry are phenomenal football players that help their team win football games, and Jalen Hurts and Saquon Barkley are phenomenal football players that help their team win football games," Eagles coach Nick Sirianni said. "Excited about the opportunity this week because it's our next one. It will be a really good opponent, really well coached, good players, good atmosphere that will be there. Excited about the opportunity this week. And we're going to have to be on it against a really good team." The showdown at M&T Bank Stadium also pits Baltimore's No. 1 offense (426.7 yards per game) and No. 2 scoring offense (30.3 points per game) against Philadelphia's No. 1 defense (274.6) and No. 6 scoring defense (18.1). The Eagles have held seven consecutive opponents to under 300 total yards, while the Ravens have gained at least 329 yards of offense in all 11 games. Philadelphia is coming off a 37-20 road win over the Los Angeles Rams on Sunday night in which Barkley smashed the franchise record with 255 rushing yards. Baltimore also earned a prime-time win in Los Angeles, defeating the Chargers 30-23 in the "Harbaugh Bowl" on Monday night behind Jackson's three touchdowns (two passing, one rushing). Jackson said he's looking forward to the Barkley and Henry show. "I've known Saquon from high school. We were in the all-star game together and he jumped over somebody's head," Jackson recalled Wednesday. "So I've pretty much seen him before I even got to the league, college, anything. I've been knowing about Saquon, but Derrick Henry -- King Henry -- I'm with him every day and I'm seeing what he's capable of, so it's going to be a great matchup." Ravens linebacker Roquan Smith practiced Wednesday after sitting out Monday with a hamstring issue. Nose tackle Michael Pierce (calf) was designated to return from injured reserve. Tight end Charlie Kolar (broken arm) is out for several weeks and cornerback Arthur Maulet (calf) did not practice. The Eagles lost veteran defensive end Brandon Graham to a season-ending triceps injury Sunday. Wideout DeVonta Smith (hamstring) missed the win over the Rams and did not practice Wednesday. Neither did cornerbacks Darius Slay (concussion) or Kelee Ringo (calf). Philadelphia is 5-1 away from home this season -- 6-1 if you count their season-opening "home" victory against the Packers in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Baltimore is 4-1 at home. The Ravens hold a 3-2-1 lead in the series with the Eagles. They haven't met since Baltimore's 30-28 win in Week 6 at Philadelphia in 2020. --Field Level Media

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