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Getting cyber security math right is key to preventing ransomware attacks
In his June column for Digital Health, our cyber security columnist, Davey Winder gives his thoughts on the on-going incident happening in the Republic of Ireland.
The Irish health system is still, more than two weeks on, in recovery mode from the ransomware attack launched by the Conti cybercrime group. While there have been many headlines announcing the criminals had somehow 'bailed out' the Health Service Executive (HSE) by handing over the data decryption tool free of charge, I'm not going to join in group hug for the threat actors. Beyond the obvious small matter that these are criminals to be viewed with the greatest contempt, Conti has not let the Irish HSE, or the patients it serves, off the hook. Like most of the current crop of ransomware threat actors, Conti doesn't just encrypt data to lock down networks: it steals it as well.
That data is still being held to ransom, with Conti demanding the HSE "try to resolve the situation" through paying an unknown amount (the original ransom was in the region of £14 million) and threatening to publish or sell patient data if this doesn't happen. This, I should add, in addition to the sample that has already been published relating to 520 patients which includes correspondence and what the HSE described as 'sensitive data.' The legal injunction that the HSE obtained prevents that, and any other data from the attack, being shared, processed, published or sold. This is, if you'll excuse my French, akin to 'p***ing in the wind' and won't prevent potentially highly-valuable health data being sold to the highest criminal bidder.
Ransomware business model is a symptom, not the disease
The DarkSide group, behind the recent Colonial Pipeline attack that disrupted oil supplies in the United States, tried (and failed) to shift responsibility to affiliates who broke the rules. The most successful, in terms of attack rate and ransom returns, ransomware threats are conducted on a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) model. This works by the main criminal group, behind the coding of the malware itself, to focus on developing the attack code and the systems around it; affiliates are brought on-board to carry out the actual attacks, and supplied with a control console for payment negotiations, to launch further attacks (such as denial of service to add pressure to pay) and so on.
DarkSide blamed a rogue affiliate for targeting critical infrastructure, and promised to moderate all targets before any attack was authorised in future. That was before it aptly went dark, with bitcoin being emptied from cryptocurrency wallets it controlled, the servers it employed going down and the major Russian-language criminal forums banning advertising for ransomware affiliates. I don't believe this will be the end of DarkSide for one minute. It may rebrand itself, the code may change in an attempt to obfuscate the origins, but the people behind it all will likely carry on.
Ransomware gangs have no moral compass
I mention DarkSide so as to bring the affiliate model into the discussion as Conti operates on a similar RaaS basis. I have yet to see these criminals claim a rogue affiliate targeted a country's health service, which is just as well because this was no mistake. Indeed, the FBI has identified no less than 16 ransomware attacks carried out by the same Conti operators that targeted healthcare and so-called 'first-responder' networks. The decision to release the decryptor tool without any ransom being paid was more about public opinion and self-preservation than any sudden discovery of a moral compass in my never humble opinion.
What I'm saying here, to finally get to the point, is simply this: ransomware attacks against healthcare are here to stay. Which means everyone has to get better at preventing a targeted attack from becoming a successful one.
I'm sure that, with the benefit of time when the recovery process dust has settled, we'll get a better insight into what went wrong to allow Conti to deal such damage in the Irish HSE case. What I'm not going to do is try and pre-empt the inevitable enquiry and map out the threat map with likely entry point markers. Doing so accomplishes nothing: everyone involved with cybersecurity already knows the most common attack methodologies, the weaknesses are not going to be a surprise to anyone.
Instead, I want to focus on strengths.
Investment in protecting healthcare infrastructure is key
Chris Vaughan, the technical account manager at cybersecurity systems management company Tanium, says his message is "you can't always stop a sophisticated cyber-attack, but by having a good standard of IT hygiene and training in place you can certainly make it more difficult for the attackers to be successful." I don't disagree with any of that, nor for that matter with Jamie Moles, a senior security engineer with detection and response experts ExtraHop, who says "until investment is made in protecting IT Infrastructure these problems will continue to plague national healthcare providers worldwide".
All of which makes a report from back at the end of March, based on freedom of information requests made by cyber services outfit Redscan, essential and encouraging reading.
The report compared results of this one with a previous look at how prepared the NHS is to tackle the latest security threats from 2018. The key findings are not only encouraging, but helps to explain why the NHS itself has suffered very few successful ransomware in the last couple of years.
"On average, trusts now have nearly twice as many employees (47%) with professional IT security qualifications (2.8 per trust in 2020, compared to 1.9 in 2018)" and "one in four trusts had no qualified IT security professionals in 2018 (23%), a figure which has now fallen to one in seven (15%)" are perhaps among the most relevant. But the fact that 83% of NHS trusts had also contracted at least one external penetration test last year should not be overlooked either.
The cybersecurity equation that's paying off for the NHS
Fewer data breaches and successful ransomware attacks a rarity when more qualified security staff are being hired cannot be a coincidence. Only 15% of trusts were found to have no qualified security staff in 2020. Still too big a number, but down from almost a quarter (23%) in 2018.
There is no room for complacency, of course, but the NHS is, it would seem, at least moving in the right direction.
"With more and more healthcare organisations being targeted by attackers, every NHS trust needs to ensure it is prepared for the challenges ahead," Mark Nicholls, CTO of Redscan said, "to deliver an effective service, organisations must continuously improve their defences to protect the patient data and infrastructure they rely on to save lives."
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Asetek A/S Announces Transactions Carried Out Under the Current Share Buyback Programme in Accordance With the 'Safe Harbour Method'
OSLO, Norway, Nov. 25, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- On October 23, 2020, Asetek A/S launched a share buyback programme, as described in company announcement of October 23, 2020. According to the programme, Asetek A/S will in the period until March 5, 2021 buy back own shares up to a maximum value of USD 4 million and with a maximum of 381,000 shares. The share buyback programme will be implemented in accordance with Regulation (EU) no. 596/2014 of 16th April 2014 of the European Parliament and Council and ommission Delegated Regulation (EU) no. 2016/1052, also referred to as the Safe Harbour rules.
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With the transactions stated above, the Company owns a total of 939,113 shares as treasury shares, corresponding to 3.55% of the share capital. See the enclosure for information about the individual transactions made under the share buyback programme.
About Asetek
Asetek is the global leader in liquid cooling solutions for gaming and enthusiast PCs, data centers and servers. Founded in 2000, Asetek is headquartered in Denmark and has operations in California, Texas, China and Taiwan. Asetek is listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange (ASETEK.OL).
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Q: How to clear selection in JTable and JList if no item is clicked? I was looking for this answer in here but didn't find it, so I'm writing my own answer below if someone need it.
Feel free to correct anything if needed.

A: So, in order to make a solution for both cases (JList and JTable) I made a custom listener that will be applied to the lists and table in question.
The listener is :
public class DeselectOnClickListener extends MouseAdapter
{
    @Override
    public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent e) {
        super.mouseClicked(e);
        clearselection(e);
    }

    @Override
    public void mousePressed(MouseEvent e) {
        super.mousePressed(e);
        clearselection(e);
    }

    @Override
    public void mouseReleased(MouseEvent e) {
        super.mouseReleased(e);
        clearselection(e);
    }

    public void clearselection (MouseEvent e){
        if (e.getComponent() instanceof JTable){
            Point pClicked = e.getPoint();
            JTable table = (JTable) e.getSource();
            int index = table.rowAtPoint(pClicked);
            if (index == -1){
                table.clearSelection();
            }

        } else if (e.getComponent() instanceof JList){
            Point pClicked = e.getPoint();
            JList<?> list = (JList<?>) e.getSource();
            int index = list.locationToIndex(pClicked);
            Rectangle rec = list.getCellBounds(index, index);
            if (rec==null || !rec.contains(pClicked)){
                list.clearSelection();
            }
        }
    }
}

Notice that this works well in SINGLE_SELECCTION, but if we want to use MULTIPLE_INTERVAL_SELECTION or SINGLE_INTERVAL_SELECTION I would recommend not to override mouseReleased(MouseEvent e) as it will clear selection if the mouse button is released outside the selection range.
PD: for this last point I've done the following fix:
@Override
    public void mouseReleased(MouseEvent e) {
        super.mouseReleased(e);
        if (! isIntervalSelectionMode(e)){
            clearselection(e);
        }
    }

    public boolean isIntervalSelectionMode (MouseEvent e){
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            isIntervalSelection = ((JTable)e.getSource()).getSelectionModel().getSelectionMode()
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            isIntervalSelection = ((JList<?>)e.getSource()).getSelectionModel().getSelectionMode()
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Like the beatles said all those years ago, "come together."
In September of 2016, Conservation Hawks had an incredible opportunity to spend time with Hilary Hutcheson and her daughters Ella and Delaney, with Travis Swartz (aka "Hank Patterson"), with Simon Perkins, Els Van Woert and their daughter Pippa, and with Pippa's grandfather (and Orvis CEO) Perk Perkins. CONVERGENCE is the story of these incredible anglers and their collective passions: their love for wild trout; for healthy landscapes; for clean, cold waters, and for family and friends. The film also shares their concerns about the future, their desire to protect our fisheries, and their unease with our changing climate and our rapidly warming planet. Please take a few minutes to watch, and enjoy, CONVERGENCE.
Climate change is the single largest threat to our children and our fisheries. If you care about our landscapes and our kids & grandkids, please contact your U.S. Senators and Representative today and tell them to Act On Climate.
Call congress now. Tell them to act on climate.
CONVERGENCE is another collaborative effort between Conservation Hawks and the exceptional cinematic team at Conservation Media. It follows on the heels of our two previous short films, COLD WATERS and CHROME, and will be part of the 2017 Fly Fishing Film Tour (F3T). To find out when F3T and CONVERGENCE are visiting your area, please click here.
CONVERGENCE was made possible by financial support from Orvis, Scientific Anglers, Fishpond, Costa, Adipose Boatworks, TroutHunter, Hatch Magazine, Trout Unlimited, National Wildlife Federation, American Fly Fishing Trade Association, American Rivers, Backcountry Hunters & Anglers, California Trout, Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership, Protect Our Winters, Flathead Valley Trout Unlimited, ConservAmerica, RepublicEn and the Flathead Lake Brewing Company. Please support these respected businesses, brands and organizations.
Hilary, Ella & Delaney float Montana's Flathead River.
Travis playing a nice rainbow for the camera on Silver Creek.


Hey All! I hope you are enjoying the series! The idea to do this photoshoot actually came from the series of designer Hillary Clinton tshirts I have and the different ways I style them into my everyday wardrobe. Fifteen high end fashion designers each made a design for a tshirt to be sold for profit on the Hillary for America website in 2016 (Marc Jacobs, Public School, Tory Burch, -soon followed by- Rag & Bone, Altuzarra, Diane von Furstenburg, Tanya Taylor, Pamela Love, Eva Fehren, Monique Pean, and Marchesa) and I owned most of them. When the election ended, the conversation kept going took off. So now we have tshirts raising awareness and funds for every type of group or cause that opposes injustice. Here's another way to incorporate them into any dress code.


Blossoms and Gloom — The People's Paper & Make A Scene!
and its inescapable cold grasp will squeeze my residual joy into vacuous doom.
from my dim den of feigned emotional decadence and Zen.
My cadence brightens with the afternoons I once adored.
Light rekindles the lost flame of happiness I could no longer afford.
to gaze upon the trickling snow awaiting its inevitable fate.
and the numbing emptiness within me leaves.
at what was and what is, regardlessly giving me bliss.
bringing relief to my isolating mental womb.


When you are staying at The Square and need a place to work, relax or enjoy a glass of wine before exploring the night life then you can use our Executive lounge on the 6 floor. If the weather allows it you can enjoy the view of the city from the terrace in the lounge.
When you book an Executive room, junior suite or junior suite deluxe lounge access is included in the price. If you stay in a different room type it is possible to buy lounge access.
*23-26 December the lounge will be closed but do you have a room including lounge access in this period of time you will get a fruit basket, snacks and wine in the room. December 31 the lounge is closing at 6.30 am after the queens new year's speech.


A wedding compliment to Paul Seaman and Ann Smith on the eve of their wedding at this church.
Peal band for Paul's wedding.
First submitted Friday, 6 April 2018 at 16:30:30 by Michael G Purday.
Sent for publication in The Ringing World on Sunday, 8 April 2018 at 12:19:12, and printed in issue 5582, page 374.
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The LaSalle Street Tunnel was Chicago's second traffic tunnel under the Chicago River. It was started November 3, 1869, and completed July 4, 1871. It was designed by William Bryson who was the resident engineer for the Washington Street Tunnel. It was 1,890 feet (576m) long, from Randolph Street north to Hubbard (then Michigan) Street, and cost $566,000.

History

As built
Originally built with one lane for pedestrians and 2 lanes for horse-drawn traffic, by the 1880s it was in poor condition. On March 23, 1888, the North Chicago Street Railroad leased the tunnel. If they repaired it and made other local improvements they could use the tunnel exclusively for cable car service.

The reversing of the Chicago River in 1900 exposed the roof of the tunnel in the new riverbed and in 1904 the Federal government declared it a hazard to navigation. The tunnel was closed to cable cars on October 21 1906.

Reconstruction
The approaches were deepened to a new lower tunnel level. The grades were aligned for the cars to enter from a shallow subway just below street level. The subway was not built, concrete ramps raised the tracks up to street grade.

The tunnel section under the river was removed and a two tube steel plate replacement built in a drydock on Goose Island was lowered into a trench in the riverbed. The tunnels connecting the approaches and the tubes were dug through and under the original tunnels.

After lowering
The deepened tunnel was opened to electric streetcar service on July 21, 1912. It was in use until November 27, 1939, when it was closed during the construction of the Milwaukee-Lake-Dearborn-Congress subway, the Lake & LaSalle (now Clark & Lake) station of which intersected the tunnel's south ramp under Lake Street. By 1950 the south approach had been covered, the tunnel and the north approach were filled and covered by 1953.

See also
Washington St. Tunnel

References

Railroad tunnels in Illinois
Transportation in Chicago
Buildings and structures in Chicago
Tunnels completed in 1871
Transportation buildings and structures in Cook County, Illinois


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Pinotta is located on the corner of Best Street and St Georges Road, in between Piedimontes and the Library.
Pinotta would like to show our respect and acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land, the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation, of elders past and present.
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Pinotta supports the Responsible Service of Alcohol. Under the Liquor Control Reform Act 1998 it is an offence to supply alcohol to a person under the age of 18 years (penalty exceeds $17,000), for a person under the age of 18 years to purchase or receive liquor (penalty exceeds $700).
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Well it's the new year…2017… another 365 days filled with fun and physical therapy! With the spring semester under way it brings two new students on their final clinical internships to my clinic. If you've read much of my writing you know that I LOVE to have students in clinic. I take very seriously pouring everything I can into my students in order to push our profession forward. I think it is of the utmost importance to consistently read and engage in meaningful and thought provoking dialogue. Usually when I have students in clinic with me there is a steady stream of text messages containing blogs, research articles, and podcasts that I feel would help the student to critically think, start discussion, challenge beliefs, and progress forward building an improved framework for clinical care. For a student's learning and average thought processes, I find evidence based blogs and podcasts to really be the optimal learning medium.
Eventually, I got tired of scrolling through my phone and googling web addresses all the time, and decided to start writing down on these links in a word document for easier access. What I have linked below is a rough reading list that I expect my students to tackle in the course of 8 weeks in clinic with me. This is not an exact science, nor is everything that we will read listed as there will be new articles and hot topics that arise in the time the student is on rotation with me. However, I have what I think is a very good list of readings that start to lay a concrete foundation in critical thinking, research understanding, and where the current practice of the profession is/should be.
Darlow: The enduring impact of what clinicians say to people with low back pain.
Cormack: PAIN IS IN THE BRAIN' – IS IT A LOAD OF S**T?
Cormack: CORRECTIVE EXERCISE: WHAT ARE WE CORRECTING?
Rayner and Smale: CAN THE RISK OF VERTEBRAL ARTERY DISSECTION BE DETERMINED WITH PRE-MANIPULATIVE SCREENING?
Goom: Is hip strength a risk factor for patellofemoral pain?
Rayner and Smale: ARE WE UNDERESTIMATING THE IMPORTANCE OF SLEEP?
Rayner and Smale: CAN WE PICK THE CLINICAL SIGNS OF EXCESSIVE SLEEPINESS & SLEEP DISORDERS?
Goom: Snap Crackle and Pop – Why does my knee click?
Goom: Pain in runners: Why do I hurt?
Are You a Responsible Pain Modulator?
Lehman: FASCIA SCIENCE: STRETCHING THE POWER OF MANUAL THERAPY.
Are You Financing a Sham?


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Dr. Chloe Brandon Charlton is very happy to finally be back home in Scottsdale. Dr. Charlton spent half of her childhood in New York and half in Arizona, before obtaining her undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania. She attended Oklahoma State University for veterinary school, where she honed her passions for preventative medicine, business, and surgery.
Dr. Charlton knew she wanted to be a veterinarian ever since she was a little kid. Dr. Charlton formerly practiced in Little Rock, Arkansas (where her husband Andrew is from), in both emergency and general medicine.
The Charltons have rescued and fostered many animals in their home over the years, and currently own three wonderful dogs: Winston (a one-eyed doodle), Stella (a retriever mix) and Bisoux (a French Bulldog). Chloe and Andrew are also the proud parents of a two-year-old daughter named Rose. Outside of work, Dr. Charlton enjoys yoga, swimming, and hiking with her dogs.


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Pangadegan is een bestuurslaag in het regentschap Sumedang van de provincie West-Java, Indonesië. Pangadegan telt 4733 inwoners (volkstelling 2010).

Plaats in West-Java


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«Хрестові походи очима арабів» () — історичний нарис ліванського письменника Аміна Маалуфа, що був написаний французькою мовою.

Зміст
Як випливає з назви, книга є наративним переказом першоджерел, взятих з різних арабських хронік, що має на меті надати арабський погляд на хрестові походи, і особливо на хрестоносців, яких вважали жорстокими, дикими, неосвіченими й культурно відсталими.

Від першого вторгнення в XI столітті до загального краху хрестових походів у тринадцятому столітті, книга будує наратив, який є протилежним тому, що поширений у західному світі, описуючи основні факти як войовничі та показуючи ситуації в химерному історичному оточенні, де західні християни розглядаються як «варвари» і не знають найелементарніших правил честі, гідності та суспільної етики.

Джерела

Книги про хрестоносців
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Ulu Tiram Lawyer and Law Firm List
Find the best lawyer in Ulu Tiram from our law firm list and get all the necessary information to help you choose the most suitable Ulu Tiram lawyer for your need.
Click on the list of law firms below to find detailed information on the phone number, website, address, and other essential information. We even listed the lawyer's qualification and admission date to help you decide the best lawyer for you.
All the Ulu Tiram lawyers and law firms on this website are registered with the Malaysian Bar Council to ensure legitimacy. The bar was created under the Legal Profession Act 1976. It is an independent Bar to protect the interest of the legal profession and the public.
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Aida Anisa & Associates, Ulu Tiram
No. 30-01 Jalan Bestari 51/2, Taman Bestari Indah, 81800 Ulu Tiram, Johor
Cheng & Partners, Ulu Tiram
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Khairin-Nisa & Co., Ulu Tiram
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M. Kasinadan & Partners, Ulu Tiram
No. 7A, Jalan Raya, Taman Tiram Baru, 81800 Ulu Tiram, Johor
W K Tan & E G Lee, Ulu Tiram
No. 7A, Jalan Sasa 1, Taman Gaya, 81800 Ulu Tiram, Johor
This website brings together lawyers from various fields such as real estate, syariah or syarie, family, employment, civil, crime, and so on. In addition, there are lawyers from listed law firms that provide services in legal fields such as banking, bankruptcy, finance, commercial, corporate, and contract. There are also lawyers that provide legal and legal services in taxation, government, arbitration, litigation, and many more.


A. M. Sayeed and B. Aazhang, "Joint multipath-Doppler diversity in fast fading channels," vol. 6, no. 6, 1998.
We present a new framework for code-division multiple access (CDMA) communication over fast fading mobile wireless channels. The performance of the RAKE receiver, which is at the heart of existing CDMA systems, degrades substantially under fast fading encountered in many mobile scenarios. Due to the time-varying nature of the fast fading channel, we employ joint time-frequency processing, which is a powerful approach to time-varying signal processing. Whereas the RAKE receiver exploits multipath diversity to combat fading, our framework is based on joint multipath-Doppler diversity facilitated by a fundamental time-frequency decomposition of the channel into independent flat fading channels. Diversity processing is achieved by a time-frequency generalization of the RAKE receiver which can be leveraged into several important aspects of system design. Performance analysis shows that CDMA systems based on the time-frequency RAKE receiver, due to their inherently higher level of diversity, can potentially deliver significant performance gains over existing systems.


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What We're Doing About What It's Like
making things better for women in philosophy
Tell us what you're doing!
What Early Modern Scholars are Doing: Mentoring
July 7, 2014 § Leave a comment
Jackie Taylor writes:
I am organizing the third annual mentoring workshop for early career women in early modern and Hume studies. The workshop will be held in conjunction with the international Hume Conference, July 22-26. This year we have mentees from three different continents, and a great group of mentors. The workshop fosters important networking that has helped advance the careers of early career women.
For more, go here.
What UC Irvine is doing about what it's like (and a CFP!)
May 25, 2014 § 2 Comments
The graduate women in the department's of Philosophy and Logic and Philosophy of Science at UC Irvine have organized the Hypatia Society, a group working to improve the retention of (and experience for) graduate women in our departments. Most recently, we have organized a major conference on gender at UCI (the first for our departments), set for this October – our confirmed invited speakers are Azizah al-Hibri (Richmond), Claudia Card (UW-Madison), Ann Cudd (U Kansas), and Helen Longino (Stanford). There will also be eight contributed talks, and on the second day, there will be an hour-long round-table discussion of the status of women in philosophy. Find out more here. Please, share widely and feel free to submit an abstract! We hope to make this a spectacular event.
What the University of Melbourne is doing about what it's like
May 21, 2014 § Leave a comment
From Antonia Smyth:
I am a Masters student in Philosophy at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and I wanted to share with you a project that I and some fellow students have been working on. Female mentors for undergraduate women are few and far between here, and although a few of us have pursued philosophy, women are greatly outnumbered in our programs, as you might expect.
We created a group called WIPUM (Women in Philosophy at the University of Melbourne) as a supportive environment for women considering continuing with philosophy to share their experiences. So far, we have run several successful events, including social get-togethers, as well as a reading and discussion group. With the support of the faculty's fantastic Dr. Karen Jones, we now run a weekly session where we discuss women's representation in philosophy, focusing on texts such as Sally Haslanger's "Changing the ideology and culture of philosophy: not by reason (alone)" and the books "Singing in the fire: Stories of women in philosophy" and "Women in philosophy: What needs to change?"
We are also hosting a drop-in tutoring workshop for women undergraduates, as a number of them have expressed to us a reluctance to speak in class or to approach lecturers for essay advice. Next semester we also hope to start a lecture series featuring work from women philosophers at the university, both students and staff. We also have a facebook page where we post relevant news, papers, and articles of interest (www.facebook.com/wipum.melb in case you'd like to have a look!)
I just wanted to let others know that setting up WIPUM was not as difficult as I first thought it would be, and that if you're thinking of doing something like this, you should definitely go for it! Running most of these events was really just a simple matter of booking a room, choosing readings, and publicising them online and in classes. We have received some very positive feedback from both women and men, faculty members and alike, and it has really helped us to bring women philosophers together on campus to come up with strategies for increasing their participation.
We haven't been running for long, but I have already made a lot of new friends, and have begun to feel less frustrated with the culture present in philosophy than when I started my degree. I would really encourage women in philosophy departments everywhere to try something like this if possible!
What someone did to help a sexual assault survivor
April 16, 2014 § 2 Comments
After being ostracized in 2005 for reporting sexual harassment and assault from my dissertation adviser–which he admitted to doing–I am considering going back and finishing my Ph.D.
Yesterday, I spent an hour-and-a-half on the phone with a tenured professor at a well-known university. She had read my story and through a mutual friend, ended up exchanging emails. This exchange lead to the phone call.
She took time out of her day to essentially mentor me and brainstorm what she can do to help secure my "return".
There is so much hope right now, hope I haven't felt in years. I keep thinking, "Someone who's never read my work believes in me."
She also (unfortunately) understands all too well the PTSD that sometimes haunts you after being harassed and assaulted. It was nice to talk to someone who understood.
What someone did to help a PhD student
This is a tale of a small thing that someone in my department did to support me, a woman in philosophy. I'm a PhD student at a well-regarded UK institution where there is very good awareness of inclusion issues. At the weekly visiting speaker seminar, I asked a question – the last or next-to-last question in the session. The speaker, though very polite and friendly, didn't engage at all with my question, instead using his response as an opportunity to discuss something that he'd mentioned in his talk that he'd like to be asked about (but hadn't been). As far as I could tell, his answers to other questions had all been very much to the point. I'd been really curious to hear what the speaker had to say about the point I raised, but I thought that I must have asked the question badly, or that there was after all nothing interesting in what I was asking, or that I'd misunderstood the answer. Immediately the talk finished, a senior member of staff (male) who I don't know especially well came up to me and said 'I thought your question was really interesting, and I don't think the speaker addressed your point at all. Why don't you ask him about it now?' Heartened, I put my question to the speaker as we walked to the pub, he responded enthusiastically and pertinently, and a very interesting and productive conversation ensued. It turned out that I had been raising a worthwhile point, and the issue is one I may write about in my thesis. If I hadn't received this active encouragement from a senior member of my department, I'd have gone away without an answer to my question, and feeling a bit stupid. Little things like this really make a difference to how I feel about being in philosophy – and I know they make my work better, too.
The Extreme Badness of Silence
March 25, 2014 § Leave a comment
What University of Chicago is Doing About What it's Like
March 9, 2014 § Leave a comment
UChicago started an Undergraduate Women in Philosophy group last year. We've been keeping a record of our meetings and projects at our website. This might be a good resource for other departments to know about.
Workshop on the Recruitment and Retention of Female Undergraduates in Philosophy, UNC – Chapel Hill, Department of Philosophy, April 25-26, 2014
The department of philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will be hosting a workshop this April 25-26 on the recruitment and retention of female undergraduate philosophy majors. Among the speakers at the conference will be philosophers, psychologists, experts in gender studies and education, as well as graduate and undergraduate students who have been working hard in the past couple of years to make a difference for women at their home institutions as well as for women in the field more generally.
The two day workshop will address the impact of implicit bias, evaluation bias, and stereotype threats on departmental and classroom climates, and how to counteract them; the influence of female role-models in the recruitment and retention of female students in male-dominated fields; potential differences in male and female philosophical intuitions; and the importance of teaching classes about women, gender, and the body in philosophy departments and/or of including (more) women philosophers in syllabi of philosophy courses. We hope that this workshop will identify some much-needed best practices and will subsequently be helpful to philosophy departments across the country.
For more information about the workshop, please contact Mariska Leunissen (mleunissen AT unc.edu).
Speakers list: Ellen Feder (American University), JJ Lang & Olivia Branscum (UNC); Julie Huh & Sabina Bremmer (University of Chicago); Laurie McNeil (UNC); Yena Lee (Princeton University); Toni Adleberg (USCD) & Morgan Thompson (Pittsburgh University); Bonita London (SUNY Stony Brook); Cheshire Calhoun (Arizona State University); Bryce Huebner (Georgetown University); Yolonda Wilson (Howard University); and Silvia Tomášková (UNC).
The workshop is funded by the UNC Philosophy Department, the Institute for Arts and Humanities at UNC-Chapel Hill, and the College of Arts and Sciences at UNC-Chapel Hill.
Holding a workshop on the recruitment and retention of UG women!
February 27, 2014 § 1 Comment
For more information about the workshop, please contact Mariska Leunissen (mleunissen@unc.edu).
Speakers list: Ellen Feder (American University), JJ Lang & Olivia Branscum (UNC); Julie Huh & Sabina Bremner (University of Chicago); Laurie McNeil (UNC); Yena Lee (Princeton University); Toni Adleberg (USCD) & Morgan Thompson (Pittsburgh University); Bonita London (SUNY Stony Brook); Cheshire Calhoun (Arizona State University); Bryce Huebner (Georgetown University); Yolonda Wilson (Howard University); and Silvia Tomášková (UNC).
What feminists and friends are doing about what it's like
February 11, 2014 § 8 Comments
Thanks to Anne Jacobson, Amy Olberding, Neil Sinhababu, Hilde Lindemann, Tom Dougherty, Sally Haslanger, Laurie Schrage, Elizabeth Harman, Sabrina Bano Jamil, Annaleigh Curtis, Ned Markosian, and Alison Reiheld, for adding to efforts to do something about What It's Like!
Why I'm thanking them: At Leiter Reports, a set of criticisms of the APA's CSW Site Visit team was featured, which gave more prominence to deploring the feminism of our colleagues as viciously biasing than I'm accustomed to witnessing. Philosophers Peggy DesAutels and Carla Fehr worked to create a Site Visit program, and with Valerie Hardcastle wrote the report resulting from their visit to CU-Boulder. The critic of their work ended on the following note: " There are plenty who wish to end sexual harassment in the profession despite having a very low opinion of 'feminist philosophy': I am one of them. Departments bringing in a CSW team deserve to have at least one team member whose ideological commitments will not be furthered by making a finding against the department."
This really dropped my jaw, and I'm glad to see I was not alone. Philosophers, including many women, have replied to defend DesAutels, Fehr, and Hardcastle as women who are working so hard to contribute to ameliorating sexism in the profession, and many have argued against the cartoonish characterization of feminism. My reply was this:
Kate Norlock said…
I am mildly surprised to see the statement [from a reader*], "There are plenty who wish to end sexual harassment in the profession despite having a very low opinion of 'feminist philosophy.'" If there are plenty, and if the Physics colleagues have been successfully doing similar site visits for decades, then why didn't the 'plenty' of philosophers who deplore feminists start a site-visit program? Indeed, feminist philosophers including Peggy DesAutels and Carla Fehr started the site visit programs in part because of their concern for women and gender issues. Now that they've done most of the work, it is somewhat insincere to argue that only one member of a site visit team can/should have such a view, and that the effort should be more "balanced." The philosophy profession, on the whole, seems to have been content to let a few hard-working colleagues do a very unbalanced share of the work of improving this aspect of the profession.
Last, as a feminist and philosopher, I'm somewhat appalled to see the criticism that my colleagues on the Site Visit team have their "ideological commitments … furthered by making a finding against the department." This seems a clearly hostile statement imputing determined unfairness to Hardcastle, DesAutels and Fehr as the report authors, and borders on a smear.
*Note that the statement which shocked me so was by a correspondent of the blog host, and not written by the blog host.
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It was just their ability to make plays, and we didn't. Our guys made some plays, and we missed a couple tackles, but I love our heart.
After the first 15 minutes were scoreless, Washington (1-1) erupted for 28 points in the second quarter and 21 in the third.
The Huskies' first score came with 13:13 left in the first half on a three-yard run by freshman Myles Gaskin.
After Sac State sophomore quarterback Daniel Kniffin threw an interception in Huskies territory, Washington capitalized with some big plays from Browning, including a 19-yard pass on third down and a six-yard read-option run up the middle to set up another touchdown.
In the second half, Browning showed off his arm to the announced crowd of 55,010.
With 9:57 remaining in the third quarter, he launched a 78-yard pass that was tipped over the Sac State secondary to senior wide receiver Marvin Hall for his first collegiate touchdown pass.
Browning then found freshman wide receiver Chico McClatcher for a 49-yard score.
Browning left the game with five minutes remaining in the third quarter and was replaced by K.J. Carta-Samuels.
For most of the game, Sac State was unable to move the ball.
Senior kicker Brad Cornish missed a 44-yard field-goal attempt in the first quarter and had a 48-yard try blocked late in the second half.
Despite the Hornets' struggles on special teams, Sears is not worried.
The Hornets passed for 74 yards and converted four first downs in the first quarter but finished with only 212 total yards (11 rushing).
You have to tip your hat to (Washington), but from a coaching standpoint, we have to do a good job of putting our kids in positions to make plays.
Kniffin completed 18 of 35 passes for 181 yards with one interception. He said he learned a great deal about his team before next week's game against Weber State in Ogden, Utah.


PLEASE READ THIS AND CONSIDER THE IMMENSE VALUE OF THAT NEW ARIZONA LAW.
Did you know that immigrants from Mexico and other non-European countries can come to this country and get preferences in jobs, education, and government contracts? It's called affirmative action or racial privilege. The Emperor of Japan or the President of Mexico could migrate here and immediately be eligible for special rights unavailable for Americans of European descent. Recently, a vote was taken in the U.S. Congress to end this practice. It was defeated. Every single Democratic senator except Ernest Hollings voted to maintain special privileges for Hispanic, Asian and African immigrants. They were joined by thirteen Republicans. Bill Clinton and Al Gore have repeatedly stated that they believe that massive immigration from countries like Mexico is good. They have also backed special privileges for these immigrants.
According to a New York Times article dated May 19, 1994, 20 years after the great influx of legal immigrants from Southeast Asia, 30% are still on welfare compared to 8% of households nationwide.
A Wall Street Journal editorial dated December 5, 1994 quotes law enforcement officials as stating that Asian mobsters are the "greatest criminal challenge the country faces." Not bad for a group that is still under 5% of the population.
When I was young, I remember hearing about the immigrants that came through Ellis Island. They wanted to learn English. They wanted to breath free. They wanted to become Americans. Now too many immigrants come here with demands. They demand to be taught in their own language. They demand special privileges–affirmative action. They demand ethnic studies that glorify their culture.
On July 6, the federal government announced it was suing the State of Arizona over its Senate Bill 1070, due to go into effect July 29. This bill is part of Arizona's efforts to defend itself against the illegal immigration pouring over its southern border shared with Mexico, and the multitude of problems and dangers this has ensued both locally and nationally.
Kris W. Kobach July 6, 2010 4:30 P.M.
From the June 7, 2010, issue of NR.
A law that basically makes a few small, carefully considered changes in police procedure, Arizona's S.B. 1070, has inspired a vastly disproportionate response. Few laws have ever been so grossly mischaracterized by so many leaders on the left. From President Obama on down, they rushed to the microphone after it was enacted to hyperventilate about an impending police state in Arizona. Excitable bloggers invoked Jim Crow, apartheid, and the Nuremberg laws of Nazi Germany.
Their charges are completely false. Most stem from misunderstandings, perhaps willful and perhaps merely ignorant, of what the law is about and how it works. The false charges have been numerous, but the three most common are the following.
First, and most outrageously, critics incorrectly claim that the law would promote racial profiling. Rep. Raul Grijalva (D., Ariz.) said this, along with Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D., Ill.), Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (D., D.C.), and the rest of the race-baiting caucus in Congress. But since so many members of Congress don't bother to read bills anymore, their error was hardly unexpected. More surprising was the commentary from the country's top lawyer. Attorney General Eric Holder sternly warned the nation on Meet the Press that the law "has the possibility of leading to racial profiling." A few days later, when pressed about his comments in a House of Representatives committee hearing, Holder admitted that he hadn't actually read the law. Another S.B. 1070 opponent, secretary of homeland security Janet Napolitano, says she has not read the law either.
If they had read it, Holder and Napolitano would have seen that S.B. 1070 expressly prohibits racial profiling. In four different sections, the law reiterates that a law-enforcement official "may not consider race, color, or national origin" in making any stops or determining an alien's immigration status. With this language, S.B. 1070 goes to extraordinary lengths to protect against racial profiling; most state and federal statutes do not include such special protection in their text. In addition, all the normal Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment protections against racial profiling will continue to apply.
Second, critics have declared that the law will require aliens to carry documentation that they weren't otherwise required to possess. President Obama claimed, "Now, suddenly, if you don't have your papers . . . you're going to be harassed." The president would do well to familiarize himself with current federal immigration laws. Since 1940, it has been a federal crime for aliens not to keep certain registration documents on their person or not to register with the federal government. The Arizona law prohibits aliens from violating these federal statutes (8 U.S.C. §§ 1304(a) and 1306(e)). In other words, the Arizona law simply adds a layer of state penalty to what was already a crime under federal law.
For legal permanent resident aliens, the relevant document is a green card. For short-term visitors from a visa-waiver country (one of 36 countries whose citizens may visit the United States for up to 90 days without a visa), the relevant document is an I-94 registration receipt, which is placed in their passport at the port of entry. The consequences of violating the Arizona law are the same as the consequences of violating the federal law: a fine of up to $100 and/or imprisonment for up to 30 days. Any American who has traveled abroad knows that just about every country in the world imposes similar documentation requirements on U.S. citizens. It is hardly unfair or unusual to enforce our own laws on the subject.
There's nothing new about police officers' taking illegal aliens into custody, in Arizona or elsewhere. The documentation provisions of S.B. 1070 simply give Arizona law enforcement one more option in how to deal with them. Previously, when officers encountered illegal aliens in the course of their normal duties enforcing other laws, they could turn them over to ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) for handling under federal procedures, or else make a case under Arizona's human-smuggling statute. Now S.B. 1070 offers a third course of action: Illegal aliens without documentation can be jailed under state law even if human-smuggling provisions do not apply. If a local police department prefers to turn all illegal aliens that it encounters over to ICE, it can certainly continue to do so.
The original wording made reference to "lawful contact"; this was revised to "lawful stop, detention, or arrest" to make clear that officers could not stop someone simply on suspicion and ask for his papers. So in President Obama's example, S.B. 1070 might come into play if the person came running out of the ice-cream shop with a gun in one hand and a bagful of money in the other (and then only if race-neutral indicators that the person was an illegal alien came to light). But an officer could not demand identification without the initial lawbreaking that justified the stop.
The law operates in straightforward fashion. If a police officer, during a detention to investigate another offense, develops reasonable suspicion that the subject is an illegal alien, then the officer must take specific steps to verify or dispel that reasonable suspicion. And contrary to the claims of critics, "reasonable suspicion" is a well-defined concept. Over the past four decades, the courts have issued more than 800 opinions defining those two words in the context of immigration violations.
The most common situation in which S.B. 1070 will come into play is during a traffic stop. Suppose a police officer pulls over a minivan for speeding. He discovers that 16 people are crammed into the van and the seats have been removed. Neither the driver nor any of the passengers have any identification documents. The driver is acting evasively, and the vehicle is traveling on a known human-smuggling corridor. Courts have held that those four factors can give an officer reasonable suspicion to believe that the occupants are aliens unlawfully present in the United States.
At that point, S.B. 1070 kicks in and requires the police officer, "when practicable, to determine the immigration status of the person" by verifying it with the federal government (ICE maintains a 24/7 hotline for exactly that purpose). Indeed, many police officers in Arizona were already regularly contacting ICE before S.B. 1070 was enacted. Critics of the law evidently think police officers should turn a blind eye to any violations of federal immigration law that they come across. The Arizona legislature and the people of Arizona felt otherwise.
In sum, the law does not make any radical changes. Rather, it gives Arizona police officers a few additional tools to use when they come into contact with illegal aliens during their normal law-enforcement duties. It also ensures that local cooperation with ICE will occur more regularly. Other provisions that have received less media hype prohibit Arizona cities from restricting enforcement of immigration laws (for example, by preventing their officers from contacting ICE), and make it a misdemeanor for an alien who lacks work authorization to solicit work in a public place.
S.B. 1070 was drafted in the full expectation that the ACLU would sue, as indeed it has. In anticipation of a challenge, S.B. 1070 was designed to withstand any argument that the ACLU lawyers can throw at it — regardless of whether they happen to be working inside the Holder Justice Department or outside of it. Let's consider their available arguments one by one.
Opponents of the law have been raising a hue and cry about racial profiling, but that argument is a non-starter. Because the initial legal challenge was filed before the law was actually applied, the challenge is a "facial" one — asserting that S.B. 1070 is unconstitutional on its face. Consequently, the challengers are basing their claims on speculation: They hypothesize that police officers might act in bad faith and violate the express terms of S.B. 1070.
The Supreme Court has held that such speculation cannot serve to strike down a law as unconstitutional. In the 1987 case of United States v. Salerno, the Court made clear that a "facial challenge to a legislative Act is, of course, the most difficult challenge to mount successfully, since the challenger must establish that no set of circumstances exists under which the Act would be valid." Here, Arizona need only point out that if its police officers follow the clearly stated terms of S.B. 1070, no racial profiling will occur.
The ACLU's only remotely plausible argument is that the law is unconstitutional through preemption — meaning that legislation passed by Congress prohibits the State of Arizona from enforcing S.B. 1070. The problem here is that no such legislation exists. While controlling immigration is a job of the federal government, Congress has never enacted a statute that expressly bars states from assisting it in the manner contemplated by the Arizona statute. Without any express preemption to rely on, the challengers must resort to making a more difficult "implied preemption" argument. This is a claim that the Arizona law conflicts with federal law, and therefore interferes with the fulfillment of congressional objectives. However, the numerous judicial precedents supporting the Arizona law will make this an uphill climb.
The U.S. Supreme Court has long recognized that states can enact statutes to discourage illegal immigration without being preempted by federal law. In the landmark 1976 case of De Canas v. Bica, the Supreme Court upheld a California law that prohibited employers from knowingly hiring unauthorized aliens. The Court rejected preemption arguments, since "respondents . . . fail to point out, and an independent review does not reveal, any specific indication in either the wording or the legislative history of the [Immigration and Nationality Act] that Congress intended to preclude . . . state regulation touching on aliens in general." States and cities can enact laws discouraging illegal immigration, and can assist the federal government in enforcing federal immigration laws in other ways, as long as their actions don't conflict with federal law.
If the documentation section of the Arizona law isn't preempted, what about the rest of the law — for example, the section requiring police officers to contact the federal government when they develop reasonable suspicion that a person they are investigating for violating another law is an illegal alien? Here too, Arizona's law is on solid legal ground. The Fourth, Fifth, Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth Circuits of the U.S. Court of Appeals have all recognized the inherent authority of state and local officers to make immigration arrests.
In Gonzales v. Peoria, the Ninth Circuit specifically held that local police could make such arrests: "The general rule is that local police are not precluded from enforcing federal statutes. . . . Federal and local enforcement have identical purposes — the prevention of the misdemeanor or felony of illegal entry." And in 2005 a unanimous Supreme Court in Muehler v. Mena recognized the authority of local police officers to inquire into the immigration status of individuals who have been lawfully detained.
Moreover, since the Gonzales v. Peoria decision, Congress has taken numerous steps to promote, not discourage, assistance by state and local police in making immigration arrests. As the Tenth Circuit observed in the 1999 case of United States v. Vasquez-Alvarez, federal law "evinces a clear invitation from Congress for state and local agencies to participate in the process of enforcing federal immigration laws." In 1996, as part of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act, Congress wisely put in place a federal statutory requirement that federal officials must respond whenever a state or local police officer requests verification of an alien's immigration status (8 U.S.C. § 1373(c)).
Congress also began appropriating funds in 1994 for the Law Enforcement Support Center (LESC), which operates the 24/7 hotline for requests from local police. The purpose of the LESC is to assist law-enforcement agencies in determining whether persons they have contact with are illegal aliens. In fiscal year 2005, the LESC responded to a staggering 504,678 calls from state and local police. That's an average of 1,383 calls per day. This high volume reflects the fact that police in all 50 states are already arresting illegal aliens, and in most cases transferring them to federal custody. S.B. 1070 does not create state and local arrest authority; it makes that existing authority more systematic and efficient.
In summary, we've heard all these arguments before. Many of the people and organizations that are now declaring S.B. 1070 to be unconstitutional made the same claims regarding previous Arizona statutes: Arizona's last three major laws concerning illegal immigration were all challenged in court — Proposition 200 in 2004, the Human Smuggling Act in 2005, and the Legal Arizona Workers Act in 2007. (I assisted in the defense of the last two.) In every case, the Arizona law in question was sustained. Most recently, in 2008 Arizona won an impressive victory in the Ninth Circuit when the Legal Arizona Workers Act was upheld against a preemption challenge. I expect that when the dust settles after S.B. 1070 is litigated, Arizona will still be undefeated in defense of its immigration laws.
— Kris W. Kobach was one of the principal drafters of Arizona S.B. 1070. He is professor of law at the University of Missouri (Kansas City) and senior counsel at the Immigration Reform Law Institute. From 2001 to 2003, he served at the U.S. Department of Justice as Attorney General John Ashcroft's chief adviser on immigration law and border security. He is currently a candidate for Kansas secretary of state. This article originally appeared in the June 7, 2010, issue of National Review.


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Little Rock Police Officer Shot In Red Lobster Robbery
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A police officer with the Little Rock Police Department in Arkansas has been shot while off-duty after three men entered a local Red Lobster restaurant with the intent of robbing the joint.
The three suspects then exchanged gunfire with the off-duty officer, whose name has not yet been released. In the flurry of bullets, the officer and one of the suspects were shot.
The other two suspects involved in the robbery attempt fled and according to ABC News, are still at large.
All three suspects involved in the robbery attempt are male.
None of the injuries sustained in the ordeal were life-threatening. Both the injured suspect and officer were transported to a hospital.
The Little Rock Police Department shared a status update on the injured officer via Twitter which indicated that the officer was not only "alert and talking," but that his injuries were "NOT life threatening."
The officer is alert and talking and his injuries are NOT life threatening. Please continue to pray for a speedy recovery. #LRPD #OIS
— Little Rock Police (@LRpolice) January 10, 2016
Shortly before the tweet, the department indicated that Crime Scene Units (CSU) were "processing the scene" of the shooting.
The suspect who was injured in the shootout was taken into custody.
Following the shooting, the local police department indicated that the officer was "in stable condition" following the shooting incident.
On scene at an officer involved shooting. Officer was struck but is in stable condition pic.twitter.com/xrJzihxaYL
The shooting occurred just after 10 p.m. on Saturday.
Saturday was National Law Enforcement Appreciation Day.
According to Little Rock Police Chief Kenton Buckner, the injured office interrupted the robbery attempt.
One of the suspects is a black male who was wearing a tan jack and dark colored pants during the attempted robbery, according to the LRPD.
The suspect who was shot, according to Chief Buckner, was located a few blocks from the Red Lobster at which he was shot.
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package info.archinnov.achilles.internals.dsl.query.select;

import com.datastax.driver.core.querybuilder.Select;

import info.archinnov.achilles.internals.dsl.SchemaNameAware;

public abstract class AbstractSelectColumns implements SchemaNameAware {

    protected final Select.Selection selection;

    protected AbstractSelectColumns(Select.Selection selection) {
        this.selection = selection;
    }

}


Ohio is home to seven cities with a population of approximately 80,000 or higher. The following guide offers population, cost of living, living wage, salary, and hiring trend data for Ohio's eight largest metropolitan areas.
Columbus is Ohio's largest city and home to the highest number of educators. On the elementary, middle and high school side of the education employment spectrum, educators can find work with several local districts but namely with Columbus City Schools, which employs over 3,000 full-time teachers in 117 local schools. Jobs with Columbus City Schools can be found on the district's recruitment site. On the postsecondary side, educators can look for work at Ohio State University and Columbus State Community College. Ohio State University posts jobs on its human resources site and Columbus State Community College hosts a recruitment site. Private colleges and universities, including the Columbus College of Art and Design and Franklin University, are among the many other options for postsecondary educators. Local public school educators meet the region's living wage and postsecondary educators exceed the region's living wage for a family of four, making Columbus a good place to work whether one is teaching at the elementary, middle or high school level or at a state or private college or university.
Cleveland Metropolitan School District is Cleveland's largest employer of public school teachers; jobs with the district can be found on their recruitment site. Teachers at the elementary, middle and high school levels can also find work in the city's many local private schools. On the postsecondary side, major employers include Case Western Reserve University, which posts jobs on its recruitment site, and Cleveland State University, which posts jobs via its human resources homepage, as well as Cuyahoga Community College, which also hosts a job search page. With living wages and public school teacher salaries on par and postsecondary educators exceeding the local living wage, educators at all levels can expect to have enough money to support a family of four on a single income and dual-income families can expect to have money left over to save for the future.
Educators in Cincinnati can find work with Cincinnati Public Schools, which posts jobs on its website. However, the district also has one of the highest private school attendance rates in the United States, making its private schools another major source of employment. Both secular and affiliated with Christian, Catholic and Jewish faiths, the area's private schools cater to the needs of thousands of the city's children and young adults. To find jobs, visit the Ohio Association of Independent School's job board. On the postsecondary side, educators can search for work at the University of Cincinnati, which posts jobs on their career site, and Xavier University, which also hosts a career site. Antonelli College and Chatfield College are among the local colleges. With local educator salaries meeting or exceeding the local living wage, Cincinnati is another recommended destination for educators.
Toledo Public Schools and the Washington Local School District are the two major employers of public school teachers in Toledo. Jobs with Toledo Public Schools are posted on the district's recruitment site. The Washington Local School District also hosts a recruitment site. On the postsecondary side, educators can find work at the University of Toledo, which posts available jobs on its human resources site. Davis College is another employer of local educators. In Toledo, educators can expect to meet or exceed the living wage, even if supporting a family of four on a single income.
In Akron, major employers of educators include the Akron City School District and the University of Akron. Jobs with the Akron City School District can be found on the district's career page. The University of Akron posts jobs via is human resources site. In Akron, public school teachers' salaries currently outpace the city's living wage estimates, which means that Akron is one of the few cities in the United States where teachers at all levels can reasonably expect to easily support a family of four on a single income and to have ample money to save if in a dual-income household.
Dayton is served by Dayton Public Schools, which operates 34 schools and serves more than 16,000 students. Jobs with Dayton Public Schools are posted on the district's website. Dayton is also home to several Christian and Catholic schools and to over 30 charter schools. The University of Dayton, which posts jobs on its careers page, and Wright State University, which posts available jobs for faculty on its human resources site, are also located in Dayton. Sinclair Community College is another local employer of educators at the postsecondary level. With educator salaries generally exceeding the local living wage, Dayton is a recommended place to work and live for educators at all levels.
In Parma, educators can look for work with the Parma City School District, which posts jobs in its recruitment site, or with one of the area's many private schools. On the postsecondary side, the largest employer is the local branch of Cuyahuga Community College. Cuyahuga Community College also hosts a recruitment site. With educator salaries meeting the region's living wage, Parma has much to offer educators as a place to work, live and raise a family.
Canton's primary employer of educators it the Stark County School Board. Available jobs with the board can be found on their recruitment page. There are no major postsecondary institutions in Canton. For public school teachers, Canton has much to offer with annual average salaries edging just over living wage estimates for the region. This puts Canton's teachers supporting a family of four on a single income in a much better position that most educators nationwide and dual-income educator families in the position to save for the future.


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Things to know ahead of the 2019 SCL Semifinals
2019 Scotiabank Concacaf League
Only one defender, Juan Pablo Montes (at center in the picture) of FC Motagua vs. Tauro, in the 2018 edition has scored in the semifinals, the rest were nine forwards and nine midfielders.
MIAMI.- The 2019 Scotiabank Concacaf League semifinals kick off on Thursday with an intriguing first leg clash between CD Olimpia of Honduras and Deportivo Saprissa of Costa Rica at the Estadio Olimpico in San Pedro Sula, Honduras.
The same day, Alianza FC of El Salvador will square-off FC Motagua of Honduras at the Estadio Cuscatlan in San Salvador.
Before the Thursday whistle, here some things to know ahead of the 2019 SCL Semifinals.
- So far eight semifinal matches of the Concacaf Scotiabank SCL League have been played where 19 goals have been scored (10 assists)
- The home teams have scored ten goals against nine of the visitors. The average goal is 2.4.
- A total of 14 different players scored in the SCL semifinals. Eleven of the 19 goals came from open play, four headshots, three penalties, and one free-kick.
- The starting players scored 95% of the goals. The only substitute player who scored is Jesús Marcelo Canales of CD Olimpia, against Plaza Amador in 2017 and is, at the same time, the only free throw goal scored in the Semifinals.
- Only one defender, Juan Pablo Montes of FC Motagua vs. Tauro, in the 2018 edition has scored in the semifinals, the rest were nine forwards and nine midfielders.
- Honduras is the country that contributed the most scorers in the Semifinals (10). Panama follows it (4), Costa Rica (3), Colombia, and Paraguay (both with 1).
- CD Olimpia (HON) is the team that has scored the most goals in the SCL semifinals (8), followed by FC Motagua (3).
- In the semifinals, there were five wins for local teams, 1 for visitors (Plaza Amador 1-7 Olimpia in 2017) and 2 draws (Arabe Unidos 0-0 Santos de Guápiles and Olimpia 1-1 Plaza Amador, both in 2017)
- The winner of the semifinals has never been defined from the penalty kicks.
- Roger Rojas (CD Olimpia) is the top scorer in the SCL semifinals history (3). With two goals, Edwin Aguilar (Tauro FC), Michael Chirinos (Olimpia), and Yendrick Ruiz (Herediano).
- Ervin Zorrilla -PAN- was the youngest scorer in SF of SCL (21 years and eight months), he played for Plaza Amador -PAN-. Meanwhile, Carlo Costly -HON- with Olimpia, was the oldest player to score (35 years and three months).
- Total goals in the history of the SCL since the first edition in 2017, there has been 211 goals scored, average of 2.2.
See also: 2019 Scotiabank Concacaf League FC Motagua (HON) CD Olimpia (HON) Deportivo Saprissa (CRC) Alianza FC (SLV) Juan Pablo Montes Ervin Zorrilla Carlo Costly


In a village called "Kota Bumi" or "Center of the Earth", Lampung Black Pepper vines climb high up the trunk of thorny Dap-Dap trees. The elders claim this is where black pepper was first planted when Hindu colonists migrated to Indonesia from India as early as 100BC. This village is one of the last shade-grown Lampung Black Pepper planting systems in the world…a cutural relic and culinary gem. The farmers of Kota Bumi pick only the most mature of peppercorns, coming back twice daily to their smallholdings over the period of a 3-month harvest, sometimes reaping no more than a few hundred grams of ripe fruit. We believe this to be the very greatest black pepper on earth…fitting then that it was planted in Kota Bumi the "Center of the Earth".


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Duo burglarizes Nederland Burger King on Easter
Published 11:40 am Tuesday, April 14, 2020
By Mary Meaux
Burger King at 3619 Nederland Ave. in Nederland was burglarized over the weekend. (Candace Hemelt/The News)
NEDERLAND — Nederland Police are looking for two people who burglarized Burger King on Easter Sunday morning.
Police Chief Gary Porter said authorities were called at 7:24 a.m. to Burger King, 3619 Nederland Ave., and noted the drive-thru window was busted out.
"Officers found the drop box had been cut open with a grinder and an undetermined amount of money stolen," Porter said, adding the assailants tried to get into the safe but were unsuccessful.
Security video showed two people entering through the drive-thru window wearing black hoodies, jeans and surgical masks.
The business was closed at the time of the burglary.
Porter said he doesn't believe there have been any other burglaries at this Burger King before.
No arrests were made and the case remains under investigation.
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Reduce the age of voting
@PaulJRobinson edited democracy.md - over 5 years ago
To deter time wasters, the current requirement of 10 nominations from the electorate to obtain candidacy will be increased to 20.
Reduce the age of voting at General, Scottish, and European Elections (ie to legislative bodies) and all national and local referenda to those aged 16 years and above.
Reduce the age of voting at Local Elections and to the Welsh Assemby (ie to non-legislative bodies) to those aged 15 to encourage youth participation in democracy prior to enjoying full voting right at 16.
Limit all donations and loans to political parties, campaign, lobbying and interest groups to a maximum of £5,000 from individuals and groups.
Devolve all legislative powers currently enjoyed by the Scottish Parliament to equivalent devolved Parliaments in England, Wales and (eventually) Northern Ireland. The UK Parliament to retain control over macro-economic, foreign, and defence policy.
👍 but with a question - why 15 and 16? Seems arbitrary. @dangerousbeans would say that anyone can vote (any age). I would suggest that at 15 and 16 hormone-filled teens may not actually make sound decisions.
However - at age 18, there are a lot more interesting things going on than being able to vote (for the majority of folk), so a reduction is definitely favourable. Get (Empower!) 'em while they're young, ay?
👍 there are lots of good reasons for reducing voting age to 16+. Dropping to 15+ for local elections is an interesting idea too.


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Бейкър Сити () е град в Орегон, Съединени американски щати, административен център на окръг Бейкър. Основан е през 1866 и е наречен на политика Едуард Дикинсън Бейкър. Населението на града е 9783 души (по приблизителна оценка от 2017 г.).

В Бейкър Сити е роден писателят Деймън Найт (1922 – 2002).

Източници

Градове в Орегон


To help educate members about Maintenance of Certification (MOC), the American Psychiatric Association created a webpage that outlines the APA's role in MOC.
While the APA does not have the authority to ban or stop MOC, the APA is continually working on behalf of members to reform Maintenance of Certification, advocate against additional requirements, ensure requirements are relevant to psychiatric practices and establish a fair process for psychiatrists who demonstrate meaningful learning and improvement.
Early Career Psychiatrists also receive a free online subscription to FOCUS: The Journal for Lifelong Learning in Psychiatry, which meets many of the requirements of MOC. Simply call 888-357-7924 each year to subscribe.


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January 22, 2013 12:00AM EST
Italy: Summary Returns to Greece Violate Rights
Unaccompanied Children, Asylum Seekers Should Not Be Turned Away
A 14-year-old unaccompanied migrant boy from Afghanistan stands outside the abandoned house in which he lives with 25 other Afghan migrants in Patras, Greece. Like many other migrants, he is trying to stow away on ships to Italy to claim asylum. © 2012 Human Rights Watch © 2012 Human Rights Watch
(Rome) – Italy is summarily returning unaccompanied migrant children and adult asylum seekers to Greece, where they face a dysfunctional asylum system and abusive detention conditions, Human Rights Watch said in a report published today. Stowaways on ferries from Greece, including children as young as 13, are sent back by Italian authorities within hours without adequate consideration of their particular needs as children or their desire to apply for asylum.
The 45-page report, "Turned Away: Summary Returns of Unaccompanied Migrant Children and Adult Asylum Seekers from Italy to Greece," documents the failure of Italian border police at the Adriatic ports of Ancona, Bari, Brindisi, and Venice to screen adequately for people in need of protection, in violation of Italy's legal obligations. Human Rights Watch interviewed 29 children and adults who were summarily returned to Greece from Italian ports, 20 of them in 2012.
"Every year hundreds of people risk life and limb hiding in or under trucks and cars on ferries crossing the Adriatic Sea," said Judith Sunderland, senior Western Europe researcher at Human Rights Watch. "Too often Italy sends them straight back to Greece despite appalling conditions and treatment there."
Placed in the custody of the captains of commercial ferries, adults and children alike are confined on board ships during the return journey to Greece in places such as makeshift holding cells or engine rooms and sometimes denied adequate food.
Back in Greece, unaccompanied children and asylum seekers, like all migrants, are vulnerable to law enforcement abuse, degrading conditions of detention, and a hostile environment marked by xenophobic violence, Human Rights Watch said. Ali M., an Afghan boy who was 15 when he was returned from Italy to Igoumenitsa, Greece, in March 2012, said Greek police took him to a detention facility outside the port and detained him for over two weeks with unrelated adults in squalid conditions without adequate food.
Italian and international law prohibit the removal of unaccompanied children without a determination that it is in their best interest. Yet, Human Rights Watch met with 13 children ages 13 to 17 who had been summarily returned to Greece. None of them were given access to a guardian or social services, as required by Italian and international law.
Although Italian government policy is to give an individual who claims to be a child the benefit of the doubt, Human Rights Watch research indicates that this policy is not being followed. Only one of the children interviewed had any kind of age determination examination, in his case a wrist x-ray. Ali M., for example, was returned without an age determination: "I told them I was 15, they didn't listen. They put me in the ticket office and then on the boat."
Best practices require a multi-disciplinary approach to evaluating age and that any medical testing be non-intrusive. Access to a guardian and social services and proper age assessments can only be carried out when children are admitted to the country.
"Most of those we met were Afghan boys fleeing danger, conflict, and poverty," said Alice Farmer, children's rights researcher at Human Rights Watch. "Italy needs to take responsibility for providing them the special protection to which they are entitled as children."
Sending adult migrants back to Greece without giving them the opportunity to lodge asylum claims also violates national and international obligations. While Italy has the right to enforce its immigration laws, asylum seekers must be allowed to exercise the right to lodge asylum claims, and no one returned should be exposed to risks of torture or ill-treatment.
Overwhelming evidence of chronic problems with Greece's asylum system and detention conditions has led to landmark European court rulings barring returns to that country under the Dublin II Regulation, which generally requires the first EU country of entry to process an asylum claim. Numerous EU countries have suspended transfers of asylum seekers to Greece as a result.
Italy has not suspended Dublin transfers to Greece but claims to assess the risk of rights violations when considering whether to do so. But its summary returns from the ports contradict this policy.
Most people interviewed said they had not had a chance to express their desire to apply for asylum, while five said their pleas to do so were ignored by port police officers. According to Bari border police, only 12 out of almost 900 migrants detected at the port between January 2011 and June 2012 were allowed to remain in Italy.
"Some asylum seekers may not want to apply for asylum in Italy, even if given the chance, because they are convinced that their prospects for protection and integration are better in other European countries," Sunderland said. "But those who do want to apply for asylum should not be turned away."
Nongovernmental organizations with contracts to provide services and information to migrants detected at the ports do not have systematic access to them, leaving decisions about who is allowed to remain in Italy in the hands of border police. None of those interviewed had been given access to nongovernmental groups or information about their rights and about applying for asylum. Only seven had been assisted by an interpreter.
"The whole point of authorizing nongovernmental groups to provide services at the ports is to ensure that migrants' rights are respected," Sunderland said. "But they can't do their job if they don't have access to all arriving migrants, and those in need are falling through the cracks."
The European Court of Human Rights is expected to issue a judgment soon in the case of Sharife and Others v. Italy and Greece involving the 2009 summary return of 25 adults and 10 children who contend that the return violated their right to life and to protection against torture or ill-treatment, and to an effective remedy. The Council of Europe commissioner for human rights, Nils Muižnieks, and the UN special rapporteur on the rights of migrants, François Crépeau, have both urged Italy to refrain from summary returns to Greece.
Human Rights Watch recommended a number of changes in Italy's procedures, including:
Suspend immediately the summary returns to Greece;
Permit those reaching Italy who claim to be unaccompanied children, without exception, to stay and benefit from the specific protections guaranteed under Italian law, pending a properly conducted age determination;
Properly screen adults to identify those with special vulnerabilities and those who wish to apply for asylum or otherwise have protection needs;
Provide full access to all arrivals for authorized nongovernmental organizations so they can provide legal and humanitarian assistance;
Provide ferry companies with clear guidelines for shipmasters on humane and safe treatment of stowaways when discovered on board and during returns to Greece.
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<?php

namespace lukisongroup\warehouse\models;

use Yii;
use yii\base\Model;
use yii\data\ActiveDataProvider;
use lukisongroup\warehouse\models\TypeSrcDes;

/**
 * TypeKtgSearch represents the model behind the search form about `lukisongroup\warehouse\models\TypeKtg`.
 */
class TypeSrcDesSearch extends TypeSrcDes
{
    /**
     * @inheritdoc
     */
    public function rules()
    {
        return [
            [['ID', 'TYPE', 'SRC_DEST'], 'integer'],
            [['TYPE_NM', 'DSCRPT'], 'safe'],
        ];
    }

    /**
     * @inheritdoc
     */
    public function scenarios()
    {
        // bypass scenarios() implementation in the parent class
        return Model::scenarios();
    }

    /**
     * Creates data provider instance with search query applied
     *
     * @param array $params
     *
     * @return ActiveDataProvider
     */
    public function search($params)
    {
        $query = TypeKtg::find();

        // add conditions that should always apply here

        $dataProvider = new ActiveDataProvider([
            'query' => $query,
        ]);

        $this->load($params);

        if (!$this->validate()) {
            // uncomment the following line if you do not want to return any records when validation fails
            // $query->where('0=1');
            return $dataProvider;
        }

        // grid filtering conditions
        $query->andFilterWhere([
            'ID' => $this->ID,
            'TYPE' => $this->TYPE,
            'TYPE_KTG' => $this->TYPE_KTG,
        ]);

        $query->andFilterWhere(['like', 'TYPE_NM', $this->TYPE_NM])
            ->andFilterWhere(['like', 'DSCRPT', $this->DSCRPT]);

        return $dataProvider;
    }
}