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Cyber stalking and It's Legal Provision in India
By Tanya Singh / October 5, 2020 December 28, 2020
Stalking is the act which allow person to follow them for a longer time and the internet has created a channel that has made communication and sharing of data so easier. Social media allows people to connect with each other and to access other's information in a single dick. The harassment faced by the women online is the harassment faced by them in their physical world. A survey conducted by the feminism of India stated that the 50 % of women faced the harassment of online abuse, and the expert opinion is that the ratio of 50: 50 is the instance of cyber stalking are faced by both men and women. The stalking are mainly spotted in 2 major states of India, first one is Maharashtra with 1399 cases and second one is Delhi around 1130 cases has been filled against stalking. Cyber stalking in India.
"They don't like you but they will be checking your page religiously"
What is Cyber Stalking?
Types of Cyber stalking
Legal Provision for Cyber stalking in India
Information Technology Act, 2000
Virtual Reality of Cyber stalking in India
How to report cyber stalking in India
The word stalking means continuously follow person for a longer period of time. The stalker continuously follow the person in every place whether its home, market etc, and the word cyber stalking is an activity in which a person stalks or harass any other person by misusing the access of internet or electronic media. To harass a person a stalker may post message, pictures about a person and same may also track the location of the persons or online activities.
The cyber stalkers do adopt all types of technological and digital instruments, assault but it is an emotional assault and harassment which is carried out of social media. However, the provision provided to them is different from the real life situations.
Women in India whether they are college student, housewife and professional used to get stalked on daily basis. Stalking itself is a criminal offence and is punishable with 1 to 3 years Jail. Now we should talk about different kinds of stalking in this world:
Cat fishing: In this stalker used to make fake accounts on social media to approach victims. They used to copy user account as it is so that it looks like real one.
Monitoring location check on social media: stalker keep the eye on activities of victim on social media such as facebook and instagram.
Visiting virtually via Google maps street view: if the stalker has discover victim address then it's not difficult to find its area, neighborhood and surrounding area of the victims by this street view. They can discover the victim places from the posts or photos posted on social media.
Hijacking Webcam: webcam hijacking is one of the most disgusting methods of cyber stalking to invade victim privacy, stalker used to push malware infected files into victim's computer which gives them access to the webcam.
Installing stalker ware: it is a kind of software or spyware which keeps tracking the location and enables access to text and browsing history and can make audio recording also, and most important thing that it can run without any kind of knowledge to the victims
Looking to geo tags to track location: mostly digital picture contains geo tags having the information about the time and location and when the short in the form of medatata. It comes in EXIF format embedded into an image and it is readable only by special apps by stalkers. By this way stalkers keep the eye on the victims and get all the details.
Section43 A Compensation for Failure to Protect Data: if firm or the company transmit sensitive information about the person then such body or corporate will be liable to pay the damage by the compensation
Section 66A Punishment for sending offensive messages through communication service etc. Any information which is grossly offensive or which false to cause any type of annoyance, inconvenience, danger, obstruction, insult, injury, criminal intimidation, enmity, hatred or ill will. Any email or electronic mail message to cause annoyance or inconvenience, mislead the addressee or recipient about the origin of such message, then person shall be punishable for imprisonment up to 3 years and fine.1
Shreya Singhal vs. Union of India2 In this case the Supreme Court of India cancelled Section 66A of the Information Technology Act of 2000 in its entirety. Section 66A of the Information Technology act reads: "Any person who sends by any means of a computer resource any information that is grossly offensive or has a menacing character; or any information which he knows to be false, but for the purpose of causing annoyance, inconvenience, danger, obstruction, insult shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years and with fine."
Sharat Babu Digumarti v. Government of NCT of Delhi3 In this case Supreme Court quashed the proceedings against appellant and ruled that if an offence involves an electronic record, then IT Act alone would apply since such was the legislative intent. It is a settled principle of interpretation that special laws would prevail over general laws and latter laws would prevail over prior legislation.
Section 67 Punishment for publishing or transmitting obscene material in electronic form: Any obscene material is published, transmit or caused to get published in any of the electric form then it will be called as a crime obscenity, then punishment for that is imprisonment up to 3 yr and fine of 5 lakhs and if subsequent conviction happened then imprisonment up to 5 yrs and fine of Rs 10 lakhs.
Section 67B: The section focuses on when stalker targets children below the age of 18 years and publishes material in which children are engaged in sexual activities in order to terrorize the children.
Cyber stalking in India
Section 292 obscenity: If any stalkers sending obscene materials to the victim on a social domain, emails or messages etc. Where the stalker attempts to deprave the other person by sending any obscene material on internet with the intention that the other person would read, see or hear the content of such material then he shall be guilty of the offense.4
Section 354C Voyeurism : Any man who watches, or captures the image of a woman Engaging in a private act in circumstances where she would usually have the expectation of not being observed as a perpetrator or by any other person or disseminates such image then that person shall be punished5
Section 354D Stalking: Any man who follows a woman, or attempts to contact such woman to foster personal interaction repeatedly despite of a clear indication of disinterest by woman; or monitors the use by a woman of the internet, email or any other form, commits the offence o then he shall be imprisonment up to 3 years and fine in first conviction and in second conviction imprisonment up to 5 years and fine.
Section 500 defamation: if the stalker forges the victim's personal information to post an obscene message or comment on any electronic media and publishing any false statement against a person or harming the person's reputation then the person shall be imprisonment up to 2 years, fine or both.
Section 507 criminal intimidation by anonymous communication: This section states that if any stalker tries to hide his identity so that the victim should remains unaware of the source from where the threat comes, which amounts to an offence. The stalker shall be guilty under this section if he attempts to conceal his or her identity.
The internet has created a channel which has made communication and sharing of data so easier. Social domain allows people to connect with each other and to access each other's information. However, on the other hand technology allows criminals to misuse this liberty of access, leading to a rise in cyber crimes. The internet has created a channel that has made communication and sharing of data easier. Platforms of social media allows people to connect with each other and access each other However, on the flip side, technology has certain loopholes which allow criminals to misuse this liberty of access, leading to a rise in the rate of cyber crimes.
Cyber stalkers use multiple methods to stalk a person over the internet like SMS, phone calls, emails, etc., the most common being social media platforms. Social media websites and mobile apps have access to user personal information like pictures, address, contacts and whereabouts. Stalkers are able to misuse this information by blackmailing or physically contact the victim. A stalker may access to a person's email account through hacking and use it for sending threatening or obscene messages. Some emails have computer malware or viruses attached to them in order to render the email useless to the owner. Laws are continuously amending to keep the changes in mode of crimes.
In the Priyanka Sharma case, the Supreme Court missed an opportunity to reprimand State Government and the Police officers responsible for pressing charges under Section 66A despite of the fact which has been declared unconstitutional, then apex court in this case would have sent a very strong message in lower echelons of administration regarding unconstitutionality of Section 66A of IT Act,2000.
Cyber Cell or FIR: one must register a complaint in cyber cell in the city and if cyber cell is not there then the person can file F.I.R. in a local police station.
Magistrate or Commissioner: in case of non acceptance one can file complaint to commissioner or judicial magistrate of the city.
Legal assistance: if a women approach to a police station with the allegation of cyber stalking imposed on her then she is entitled to legal counsel to help her in filling a case.
Privacy: victim statement should be taken down private. Often the cyber police station has a women police officer or constable who will help the victim to fill a complaint.
Cyber stalking is a newly coined term. It has gain attention of the legislature and judiciary recently. There have been many instances where the need for effective legislation was felt as it becomes very difficult for the enforcement agencies to deal with such cases. Cyber stalking is proved to be a grave offence. It has very far-reaching impact on the mental and physical health of the victim.
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Website Referred:
https://www.tripwire.com/state-of-security/security-awareness/what-cyberstalking-prevent/
https://us.norton.com/
https://cyberbullying.org/cyberstalking
Books Referred
Mishra S.N " Indian Penal Code" 13th Edition, Page No.345
Duggal Pawan " Textbook on Cyber Law" 1st Edition, Page No.150
Indian Penal Code,1860
The Information Technology Act,2000
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Q: My Laravel Routing doesnt work anymore, it shows 404 I have an adminmodul, where I can edit or delete some user profiles and i can activate or deactivate an user profile.
Everything works perfect. But suddenly my routes doesnt work anymore. Now I got the error 404 - page not found.
I dont know what the problem is, because I dont change anything in the code.
I think my routes doesnt working. Does anyone know why?
I tried to change my routes.
<?php

Route::get('/', 'AdminController@index');

Route::get('/{id}',[
    'as' => 'adminmodul.deactivate',
    'uses' => 'AdminController@deactivate'
]);

Route::resource('/adminmodul', 'AdminController');

Route::get('/{id}/edit', 'AdminController@edit')->name('adminmodul.edit');

this is my web.php
i have a AdminController.php where I have methods: index, create(dont use this), edit, update, destroy and deactivate
for example:
public function destroy($id)
    {
        $user = User::find($id);
        $angebot = Angebot::where('firma', $id);
        $angebot->delete();
        $user->delete();

        return redirect('/')->with('success', 'Nutzer wurde erfolgreich gelöscht');
    }

    public function deactivate($id)
    {
        $user = User::find($id);
        if ($user->verified == 1){
            $user->verified = 0;
            $user->save();
            $angebot = Angebot::where('firma', $id);
            $angebot->delete();
            return redirect('/')->with('success', 'Nutzer wurde erfolgreich deaktiviert');
        }

        if($user->verified == 0){
            $user->verified = 1;
            $user->save();
            return redirect('/')->with('success', 'Nutzer wurde erfolgreich aktiviert');
            }

    }

the index page is working. My views are located in resources/views/adminmodul and then, create.blade.php, edit.blade.php, show.blade.php and index.blade.php
if i hover over the Link, it shows me the right link /1/edit but if I click on this link it goes to /edit
i tried this:
public function test()
{

   return 'test';
}

Route::get('/test', 'AdminController@test');
but it doesnt work either and shows me 404
Why do I get 404 page not found?

A: Put your edit route above Route::resource
Route::get('/{id}/edit', 'AdminController@edit')->name('adminmodul.edit');
Route::resource('/adminmodul', 'AdminController');

Note that your new methods have to go above the Route::resource

A: I think because of wildcards you should try this order to avoid conflict

Route::get('/', 'AdminController@index');

Route::get('/{id}/edit', 'AdminController@edit')->name('adminmodul.edit');

Route::get('/{id}',[
    'as' => 'adminmodul.deactivate',
    'uses' => 'AdminController@deactivate'
]);

Route::resource('/adminmodul', 'AdminController');

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Sometimes in the commercial art field we put a lot of heart and soul into a project that just never quite makes it to fruition. I used to ride bikes with the guy who handles swag production for Carlos Santana and one day he invited me to submit an idea for an upcoming Santana album release. The art would be used for the CD cover, promotional posters, online promotions, t-shirts and various other uses. A small fee was all I was guaranteed but, hey, who wouldn't want to be the artist for Santana's next release?! I didn't get chosen but Dan did say Carlos (who chooses all his own graphics) looked long and hard at my submission. I take that as a win.
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...and here are several composites for the bathroom cleaner label including a couple of flower scented variants. These with their type were printed out and attached to the actual product bottles for review.
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11-year old Girl Gives Birth To 14-year-old Brother's Baby
Mothers identity has not been disclosed for her own privacy
The birth has prompted an investigation by authorities
An 11-year-old Spanish girl has shocked hospital staff after she gave birth to her 14-year-old brothers baby according to reports from police.
The birth has prompted an investigation by authorities who had determined that the baby's father was the girls older brother, who was just 13-years old when he got her pregnant.
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Local reports said there was no evidence to suggest the two siblings had not had consensual sex.
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We accidentally planted some more trees today.
Not accidentally, per se. It wasn't an accident to plant them, but buying them and putting them in was a spur of the moment sort of thing.
Early on Sunday morning I started digging out the trenches where we are putting the pier blocks for the deck. Dana came out, saw me digging, and said "We need to rent a tool." We rented a little Kubota excavator for the day, 8 hours of engine time in a 24 hour period. Since we only had an hour or so of digging for the patio, we looked around and said, "What else can we use a digger for?"
We came up with three things. Digging in a water line from the hose bib in the middle of the front to the chip shed, digging in an electrical line to the front gate, and digging the holes for the trees. Two of the projects meant leaving ditches across part of the place for a while; putting in the trees seemed like a one-time use of the digger. So that's what we did.
I waited for the excavator to be delivered. Dana headed down to Woods Creek Nursery to buy flowering plum trees. You remember a couple of weeks ago when we planted a flowering plum we bought the smaller trees? This time they didn't have smaller trees, we ended up with three enormous (20-feet tall) flowering plums to plant along the driveway.
Digging the holes with an excavator was easy. I loaded the dirt into the back of the truck and Joey and I unloaded it into the stock pile that I'm building over next to the compost bins. Last time when I planted a tree I used the tractor to mix dirt and compost, and then to haul the mixture to the planting hole. This time I moved one load, and then the front left tire on the tractor blew out. We ended up moving compost the old fashioned way -- shoveling it into the truck and then shoveling it back out.
Putting the trees in the holes was harder than we expected, but in the end we had the three trees planted along the driveway. It looks kinda elegant, the tree-lined driveway up to our house. It's a look that I really like, it's gonna be nice each spring when the trees flower.
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What is the approximate on-road price of Datsun Redi-GO?
On-road price of Datsun Redi-GO?
The Datsun Redi-Go would be available with an on-road price starting from INR 2.8 lakh, going up to INR 4 lakh for the fully loaded top spec model. The car uses the same 800 cc engine as the Renault KWID while returning a equal 25.17 kmpl of fuel mileage, despite of being 25 kg lighter than the same. It is based on a different design language where headroom has been given a more significant place than the overall length of a car. It will launch on 1st June 2016 while the same month may have the launch of the 1000 cc KWID.


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How Chris Pratt Got Jacked To Play Star-Lord
By Sarah Szabo/Updated: April 23, 2018 3:24 pm EST
As the spacefaring superhero adventure-comedy Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 readies its rollout into theaters this May, we're finding we've gotten a little used to the entity known as Jacked Chris Pratt. Every year, it gets harder and harder to remember that his big break was playing slovenly, chubby (but nonetheless lovable) Andy Dwyer on NBC's Parks and Recreation. But Pratt's career has always been about defying expectations—for one example, the role that made him famous in Parks wasn't supposed to last very long at all. How did this one-time avatar of the dadbod drop down from nearly 300 pounds and get so shredded? Here's a look back.
He built up to it
Impressive as the transformation was, playing Star-Lord wasn't the first time Pratt modified his body for a role. His bulbous weight as Andy was a deliberate choice, and he lost a lot of it to develop a believable baseball player's physique for Moneyball. Then he burned fat and bulked up even more to play a tier-one operator for Zero Dark Thirty, and after that, he gained 60 pounds of pure gut to play opposite Vince Vaughn in 2013's Delivery Man.
"I just like to gain weight and lose weight," he told Vulture in 2012. "It's a rollercoaster. I just want to do this. I want to touch God." But after that marathon binge, he started cutting down again for Marvel, and now that he's in Star-Lord shape, it looks like he intends to stay there—at least for awhile.
He quit beer cold turkey
Anyone who drinks knows that one of the lousiest side effects of alcohol, besides the occasional hangover, is the hit to your waistline from all the empty calories—they add up fast, and too much even has a chance of inhibiting muscle growth. (Not to mention how unappealing the gym looks when you wake up with a foggy head.) So it's no surprise that Pratt's weight started to fall off once he cut beer out of his diet, which he did until the first Guardians of the Galaxy was complete.
We believe him when he says it was a struggle. "I didn't drink for seven or eight months, which was really not that difficult for me," he said during an interview with Jay Leno. "I'm not like a huge alcoholic or anything, but I always prided myself on being in a pretty good mood. And then I stopped drinking alcohol for eight months, and I realize from time to time I got grumpy." Well, there's always the gym to work out that aggression. Also, that first beer after eight months must have tasted amazing.
He worked—and ate—smarter
When it comes to working out, it's about quality over quantity. Good form, good nutrition, and a workout plan will get you farther than trying to run ten miles every day on an empty stomach with no strategy. But Pratt, like a lot of people, had to learn this the hard way, spending a lot of time doing it wrong.
While preparing for his role as a Seal Team 6 member in Zero Dark Thirty, Pratt tried to brute-force his way to a ripped physique while starving himself, and while it worked in the short term, it definitely wasn't good for him. "I was doing 500 pushups a day, working out at the gym, running five miles a day, but with no food, and I tore my body apart," he told People in 2014. "I felt terrible afterwards, had to get shoulder surgery, and I wore myself down doing that because I didn't have the proper coaching."
Worse, after all that effort, once Pratt started eating again, the weight just came right back. It wasn't until he started eating properly and following a plan he could sustain that he found a sweet spot. No more yo-yo dieting for this guy.
But his workout regimen was still insane
Dropping 60 pounds in six months—and keeping it off—is no walk in the park. It takes everyday focus and determination, or as Pratt has put it, "Three or four hours a day of just consistent, ass-kicking hard work." But he wasn't on his own. Marvel producers hand-picked a personal trainer for Pratt: Duffy Gaver, a former Navy SEAL who's made a specialty out of getting actors into ass-kicking shape.
"It's less about the workout and more about what you bring to the workout—your will, your desire, your discipline," Gaver has described his philosophy. "If it was easy, everyone would be in shape." So what kinds of workouts was he doing? Well...all of them. Heavy lifts, swimming, mountain biking, cardio, rowing, calisthenics—four to six workouts a week, with extra solo exercises on top of that. It's enough to make your body ache just thinking about it.
He ran an Ironman triathlon for the first time
File this one under "why not?" In 2015, Pratt competed in his first Ironman 70.3, a grueling 70.3 mile triathlon that saw Pratt swim 1.2 miles in 47:55, bike 56 miles in 3:07:25, and run 13.1 miles in 2:53:42, for a total of just over seven hours of pain. Though fine-tuning his physique was surely a part of the reason he took the challenge, his main motivation was to support fellow participant Mike Day, a retired Navy SEAL who was once severely wounded in combat. "Mike Day's story is just so incredible," Pratt said after the race. "I figured if a guy who's been shot 27 times can tough this race out I had no excuse." What got him through the training and the race? "Competing against myself for times," he said. "And listening to books on tape while I run."
He did P90X and Crossfit
Most people, when picking a workout regimen, will choose one and stick with it, but Pratt seems determined to try just about everything. Along with the rest of his gym work, Pratt dabbled in P90X and Crossfit, two programs that emphasize high-intensity interval work with lots of reps and not much rest. These programs, like all high-intensity interval workouts, help you melt fat off your body by keeping it constantly in a fat-burning mode. It's just as painful as it sounds, but when it comes to the time spent working out, you get a lot of bang for your buck—studies have shown that working hard and fast is much more effective in a much shorter timeframe than a long, consistent jog.
He was focused on the role
Anybody who's ever tried to diet or maintain a workout regimen knows it's an easy train to fall from. A couple of skipped days, a cheat meal or two, and before you know it you're right back where you started. But Pratt had a pretty singular incentive to show up for his workouts. "All you have to do is just book a Marvel movie and have a deadline," he said. "Then it's like if you don't, and you get fat, you get fired."
Of course, this understates how seriously Pratt took the exercise. After all, for a while, working out was basically his job, and his goal was to excel. "Chris' athleticism is amazing," said his trainer, Duffy Gaver. "He is incredibly disciplined and his work ethic is phenomenal. [...] He isn't the client you have to push; he's the type of client you have to pull down. If you were to walk into the gym when he was training, you would have thought for sure you've got a guy getting ready for the NFL Combine."
Intense and focused, Pratt came into his training knowing exactly what he wanted: to entertain filmgoers as the best Star-Lord he could be. "He wanted more muscle, to be much leaner, and to be more fit," said Gaver. "He wanted to do justice to the role."


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The true story of the modern latke – a shocking timeline
Latkes have not always been made of potatoes. (Shutterstock)
The latke is one of those Jewish foods that feels steeped in tradition, as if it's been made the same way since the days of the Maccabees.
But in a revelatory article, Atlantic senior editor Yoni Appelbaum explains that the latke as we know it — grated potatoes fried in olive oil — is a relatively new culinary invention. Here, in brief, is the Hanukkah staple's origin story.
Warning: This timeline may be upsetting to traditionalist latke lovers.
As early as the 14th century: Deep-fried ricotta cheese
That's right. Latkes were originally an Italian cheese dish.
According to Appelbaum, they were inspired by The Book of Judith, set hundreds of years before the Maccabean Revolt. The book, from the Catholic Bible, tells the story of a daring widow who seduced and killed the Assyrian general Holofernes to save Israel from invaders.
In an obscure Hebrew version of the story, Judith distracted Holofernes in part by feeding him pancakes "salted and mixed with cheese." Italian Jews adopted the custom of deep-frying cheese pancakes on Hanukkah to honor the story, which they apparently conflated with that of the Maccabees.
Up to the 19th century: Grain pancakes
Appelbaum notes that potatoes were originally cultivated in South America and weren't introduced to Europe by Spanish explorers until the second half of the 16th century. Potatoes weren't widely grown and consumed in Eastern Europe — the Old World from which many Jews emigrated to the United States — for a couple more centuries.
Until the early 19th century, Eastern European Jews made pancakes from grains, such as buckwheat and rye, according to food historian Gil Marks. Those were among the few crops available to them during the frosty early winter, when Hanukkah is celebrated.
The 19th century: Potatoes fried in schmaltz, not oil
In the 1800s, even after potatoes took root in Eastern Europe, latkes were still not fried in olive oil (as they are today, providing a convenient link to the oil-rich story of Hanukkah). Olive trees were uncommon in the region, and people cooked with schmaltz, fat rendered from chickens, geese or beef.
In fact, schmaltz remained a traditional latke ingredient well into the 20th century. Appelbaum cites a stipulation from a 1927 issue of The American Mercury magazine (which he says includes the first mention of the word "latke" in English) that the potato pancakes be "fried in schmaltz."
From the 20th century: Today's latke — potatoes fried in oil
The advent in 1911 of Crisco, the first shortening made entirely of vegetable oil, changed the way latkes (and many other fried foods) were made. Kosher, Crisco was once marketed as the miracle for which the "Hebrew race had been waiting 4,000 years."
When Crisco "fell from favor," as Appelbaum writes, olive oil took its place at the Hanukkah table — and the modern latke was born.
"So what's a latke?" asks Appelbaum.
Simple: "It's a shredded Andean tuber, fried like a buckwheat pancake, which was substituted for Italian cheeses, once eaten to honor a mistaken reading of obscure variants of an apocryphal text."
But it's cool if you want to keep making the oil connection.
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CFP: 2017 Junior Theorists Symposium
Montréal, Québec, Canada, August 11, 2017
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: February 20, 2017
We invite submissions of extended abstracts for the 11th Junior Theorists Symposium (JTS), to be held in Montréal, Québec, Canada, on August 11th, 2017, the day before the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA). The JTS is a one-day conference featuring the work of up-and-coming sociologists, sponsored in part by the Theory Section of the ASA. Since 2005, the conference has brought together early career-stage sociologists who engage in theoretical work, broadly defined.
It is our honour to announce that Richard Biernacki (University of California - San Diego), Julian Go (Boston University), and Joey Sprague (University of Kansas) will serve as discussants for this year's symposium. We are also pleased to hold an after-panel entitled, "Theory, the Good Society, and Positionality." The panel will feature Gabriel Abend (New York University), Seth Abrutyn (University of Memphis), Hae Yeon Choo (University of Toronto), and Claire Decoteau (University of Illinois at Chicago).
We invite all ABD graduate students, postdocs, and assistant professors who received their PhDs from 2013 onwards to submit up to a three-page précis (800-1000 words). The précis should include the key theoretical contribution of the paper and a general outline of the argument. Successful précis from last year's symposium can be viewed here. Please note that the précis must be for a paper that is not under review or forthcoming at a journal.
As in previous years, in order to encourage a wide range of submissions, we do not have a pre-specified theme for the conference. Instead, papers will be grouped into sessions based on emergent themes and discussants' areas of interest and expertise.
Please remove all identifying information from your précis and submit it via this Google form. Shai Dromi (Harvard University) and katrina quisumbing king (University of Wisconsin - Madison) will review the anonymized submissions. You can also contact them at juniortheorists@gmail.com with any questions. The deadline is February 20. By mid-March we will extend up to 12 invitations to present at JTS 2016. Please plan to share a full paper by July 21, 2017. Presenters will be asked to attend the entire symposium and should plan accordingly.
Finally, for friends and supporters of JTS, we ask if you might consider donating either on-site, or through PayPal at this link or to the juniortheorists@gmail.com account. If you are submitting a proposal to JTS 2017, we kindly ask that should you wish to donate, you only do so after the final schedule has been announced.
Short Manuscript Submissions Welcome at Sociological theory
Mustafa Emirbayer,
Univ of Wisconsin, Madison
Editor, Sociological Theory
Ideas don't always come in standard-size packages, so why should journal articles always be the same length? At Sociological Theory, we welcome manuscripts as short as 4,500 words and as long as 14,500 words. (In a few cases, papers may even be allowed to exceed that upper limit, but only after an initial review.)
Short articles used to be the norm in sociology. Papers in the core journals of the discipline typically were ten pages in length or less, growing to the current standard length, roughly double that size, only after mid-century. Some papers, like one of my favorites, Herbert Blumer's "Race Prejudice as a Sense of Social Position," barely reached 4,500 words and filled up a mere four or five published pages.
We need to recover the lost art of writing brief, densely packed journal articles. We need more flexibility, a greater range of acceptable, legitimate options, one that reflects the wide diversity of ways in which good theorizing can be done. Sometimes good ideas fail to come out because authors feel they need to produce a standard-length paper in order to get them published. Sometimes good ideas would be better served by short, focused pieces than by articles that follow the conventional guidelines.
As editor of ST, I encourage you to give me your best theoretical ideas. If the most appropriate vehicle for doing so is a manuscript of no more than 4,500 words, then so much the better! It's the ideas that matter, not the format in which they're delivered.
Also, publishing the occasional short paper will allow us occasionally to publish longer pieces, on the model of AJS or Theory and Society. Again, something for everyone.
CONFERENCE & BOOK SERIES ANNOUNCEMENTS
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The ISA Forum of Sociology seeking papers for "The Futures We Want: Global Sociology and the Struggles for a Better World." WebForum of the same name presents essays from prominent sociologists.
ASA miniconference on "Psychodynamics of Self & Society"
A book series seeking proposals for Decolonial Options for the Social Sciences
The ASA Rose Series in Sociology seeking books that offer synthetic analyses of existing fields, challenge prevailing paradigms, and/or offer fresh views on enduring controversies
The 2016 Junior Theorists' Symposium
Seattle, Washington, August 19, 2016
We invite submissions of extended abstracts for the 10th Junior Theorists Symposium (JTS), to be held in Seattle, WA on August 19th, 2016, the day before the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA). The JTS is a one-day conference featuring the work of up-and-coming sociologists, affiliated with the Theory Section of the ASA. Since 2005, the conference has brought together early career-stage sociologists who engage in theoretical work, broadly defined.
We are pleased to announce that Mounira Charrad (UT Austin), Ann Mische (Notre Dame), and Tukufu Zuberi (UPenn) will serve as discussants for this year's symposium. In addition, we are pleased to announce an after-panel on the relationship between theory and method featuring Christopher Bail (Duke), Tey Meadow (Harvard), Ashley Mears (Boston University), and Frederick Wherry (Yale).
Theory Section Open Sessions at ASA 2016
Open Paper Session 1: Directions in Relational Sociology: Theory, Method and Practice
Session Organizer: Emily Erikson (Yale University), email: emily.erikson@yale.edu
Relational sociology provides a large-scale theoretical framework for the social sciences. This panel is will address the following types of questions: How do you practice a relational sociology? Are some methods inherently more relational? What is the pay-off to using relational concepts, theory, or methods in empirical research -- particularly relative to other theoretically driven research programs? What makes research relational?
Open Paper Session 2: Abduction and the Craft of Theorizing
Session Organizer: Iddo Tavory (New York University), email: iddo.tavory@nyu.edu
The past few years have seen increasing attention to early pragmatism, and a resurgent interest in abduction: the imaginative recasting of the world in terms of surprising observations. We invite papers that develop or critically assess this move, linking it to explanation, causality, and the craft of theorizing.
Open Paper Session 3: Theorizing Perception
Session Organizers: Joseph Klett (University of California, Santa Cruz) and Terence McDonnell (University of Notre Dame), email: jklett@ucsc.edu
This session welcomes research that builds theory for the sociological study of sense perception. Cognition and materiality are hot topics in theory these days. New research on the sociology of perception and sensory experience can bring these important theoretical contributions into conversation. To further close this gap, this panel seeks papers that push forward sociological theorizing on perception, including papers that consider perception beyond the visual to hearing, taste, smell, and touch. How are the senses made and remade in everyday life? What does perception "do" to interaction and interpretation? And how might we test these theories using qualitative methods? We encourage authors to submit papers that address the social production and reproduction of perception, the roles of perception in interaction, and/or the methods which researchers might use to study perception. We welcome a broad range of perspectives including but not limited to theories of culture, cognition, embodiment, and practice. Of particular interest are papers that contribute to material-semiotic or hermeneutic analysis, papers that critically engage affordance theory/ecological psychology and/or cognitive science, and papers that address perception at work in collective action.
Theory Section Refereed Roundtables
Session Organizer: Achim Edelmann (University of Bern), email: achim.edelmann@soz.unibe.ch
CFP: Critical Realism: Reimaging Social Sciences
Critical Realism: Reimagining Social Sciences
Notre Dame, IN (USA)
Submission Deadline: April 1, 2015
Conference Dates: July 28-30, 2015
Conference Website: http://csrs.nd.edu/events/iacr2015/
"What difference does critical realism make for how we do our empirical work?" That is the question that many social scientists who hear about critical realism initially ask, especially in the United States. This is an honest question that needs good answers.
How does the alternative meta-theory of critical realism change the kinds of scholarly research we conduct and the ways we conduct it? What real differences does critical realism make analytically and methodologically? How would social science that was primarily informed by critical realism, instead of some other background philosophy, look and act differently?
Critical realism makes a big difference, in fact. Some of these differences are subtle, others more profound. Yet more work must be done to think through and spell out specifics on how critical realism already does and might continue to re-orient scholarly research in practical ways.
"Critical Realism: Reimagining Social Science" is the theme of the 2015 Annual Meeting of the International Association of Critical Realists (IACR), to be held at the University of Notre Dame, July 28-30, 2015. Papers on all topics relevant for critical realism are invited for submission for presentation in a session at IACR 2015, but papers that focus on the practical analytical and methodological implications of critical realism are especially welcome.
To submit a paper for consideration, please prepare an abstract of no more than 500 words and send it by email -along with your paper title, name, contact info, and organizational affiliation- to Nicolette Manglos-Weber at nmanglos@nd.edu. Submissions must be received by April 1 for full consideration for inclusion on the program.
Registration costs are only $400 USD, which includes full room and board from the evening of July 27 to the evening of July 30. All participants must register for the conference by May 30. After that date, an additional fee of $40 USD will be applied.
Conference costs are supported with generous grants from the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts at Notre Dame University and the Templeton Religion Trust.
Calls for Papers & Conferences
Two Calls for Abstracts:
2015 Junior Theorists Symposium
Deadline: Feb 13, 2015
Call for Abstracts: Symposium for Early Career Theorists (SECT)
Deadline: Feb 2, 2015
University of Ottawa, in Ottawa, Ontario
June 1 – 5, 2015.


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Book: In Our Power
I recently completed the art and cover design for an exciting new book by Nora Barrows-Friedman on the U.S. student movement for Palestine Solidarity including the rich history of Palestinian-American activism for justice and equality for nearly a century in this country.
In the years following Israel's 2008–9 "Operation Cast Lead" assault on the Palestinians of Gaza, a new kind of student movement emerged on US campuses, in support of the idea that Palestinians should gain the full exercise of their human and political rights within their historic homeland. This new movement of students for justice in Palestine has helped to put "BDS," the worldwide campaign supporting the Palestinian call for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions of Israel until it abides by international law, firmly onto the national map.
In 2013 and early 2014, journalist Nora Barrows-Friedman crisscrossed the United States interviewing the young activists who form the core of this movement, and their voices ring out strongly from every page of her new book. In Our Power reveals the rich political legacy these students are building. This new student movement in support of Palestinian rights faces many challenges from on and off-campus opponents. But the strength and intelligence of the voices revealed in the pages of In Our Power show us that truth, justice, and "people power" are capable of withstanding such attacks and continuing forward to victory.
Pre-order the book here http://justworldbooks.com/in-our-power/
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New York taxi drivers launch campaign to save their industry following suicides
In response to the recent string of suicides by drivers, the New York Taxi Workers Alliance has launched a campaign for regulation and released its own proposal to re-establish driving as a viable occupation.
Skanda Kadirgamar	May 8, 2018
New York Taxi Workers Alliance's executive director Bhairavi Desai addressed drivers and the press outside of City Hall on April 25. (WNV/Skanda Kadirgamar)
Over the past four months, four New York City taxi drivers have been pushed to suicide in an industry that is becoming increasingly dangerous. In response to the recent deaths, the New York Taxi Workers Alliance has launched a campaign for regulation and released its own proposal to re-establish driving as a viable occupation.
On April 25, the Taxi Workers Alliance demanded that city leaders address the lethal impact of lax regulation of app-based, ride-hailing services at a press conference in front of City Hall. The conference preceded a hearing on April 30 concerning regulations for app-based companies.
The business model offered by Uber and Lyft, they argued, has been instrumental in lowering labor standards so that drivers from across the taxi industry — whether they are behind the wheels of yellow cabs, green cabs or black cars — are literally working themselves to death. Ride-hailing companies have gained notoriety for being able to put an unlimited number of vehicles on the road, underpaying drivers and even going so far as to not recognize them as employees. This has created a "race to the bottom" with severe repercussions.
Before shooting himself at the gates of City Hall Park, Douglas Schifter called the industry in which he'd been working for decades "the new slavery." Schifter wrote this in a suicide letter he posted on Facebook and blamed the Taxi and Limousine Commission, the Mayor's Office and Gov. Andrew Cuomo for promoting deregulation without regard for the impact on workers.
Joined by fellow founders Biju Matthews, Beresford Simmons and Taxi Workers Alliance organizer Mohammed Tipu Sultan, the NYTWA's executive director Bhairavi Desai addressed the assembled drivers and members of the press. "No matter what Uber wants to claim," she said, "this is a struggle about the workers trying to defend a full-time job in a gig economy that offers nothing but poverty pay." Founded in 1998, the alliance currently represents over 50,000 drivers throughout the city and has affiliates across the country. It has played a pivotal role in defending workers' rights and livelihoods from the impacts of deregulation.
According to Matthews, the situation created by Uber and its peers has taken a broad psychological toll on drivers. It is a situation that became even more dire due to Uber clogging city streets and shrinking worker income by constantly adding new vehicles. He hopes this is the last spate of suicides, noting that the alliance regularly refers drivers to suicide prevention services.
Danilo Castillo Corporan leapt from the window of his Manhattan apartment in December of 2017 after being told by the Taxi and Limousine Commission that he could lose his license for picking up an illegal hail. Charges against him were dropped the day after his death. Castillo penned his suicide note on the back of his summons, citing the "disastrous state" of the industry. Corporan had been a Bronx-based driver, as was Alfredo Perez who also committed suicide earlier this year.
On March 16, yellow cab driver and medallion owner Nichanor Ochisor hung himself in the garage of his Maspeth home. He, like so many other drivers, found himself starved of fares after Uber led the charge in flooding the streets with vehicles. Ochisor and his wife both worked but found their combined income to be half of what he had been making individually before app-based cars flooded the streets with the blessing of both Gov. Cuomo and the mayor's office. Last year there were a total of 83,000 app-linked cars, which outnumbered the city's remaining yellow and green cabs. Increasingly burdened by mortgage payments and mounting debts on his medallion, Ochisor saw no way out.
In response to these tragic suicides, the Taxi Workers Alliance has gathered drivers from all sectors and their allies for repeated demonstrations in front of City Hall. They demand action to address the wide reaching harm caused by ride-hailing companies' dominant position in the gig economy and their antipathy to regulation. These are not limited to promoting hazardous labor conditions or normalizing inconsistent and low pay. Companies like Uber and Lyft have also ensnared drivers in a web of predatory financial relationships and have been accused of discriminating against disabled passengers. City council member Ruben Diaz Sr. and members of Disabled In Action Metro NY, a group fighting for civil rights of disabled people, are among those who have joined the taxi drivers in this fight.
Working incessantly while earning very little is a norm across the industry. According to one study, 41 to 54 percent of Uber drivers make less than minimum wage. According to Taxi Workers Alliance member Bigu Haider, it's common to work 70-80 hours a week and have nothing left over after paying rent and other living expenses. "If you want to save, you have to add 100 hours," he said. Before taking his life, Douglas Schifter wrote he had regularly been working 100-120 hours per week.
The activists of Disabled In Action, who have been allies of the Taxi Workers Alliance since 1998, point out that the impact of ride-hailing companies' allergy to regulation extends beyond worker abuse. Uber, Lyft and Via took the Taxi and Limousine Commission to court over whether or not they have an obligation to provide vehicles that disabled passengers can access. Starting this July, commission rules will mandate that 5 percent of outgoing trips from taxi bases be wheelchair accessible. This is part of a broader effort to ensure that half of all New York City taxis are able to accommodate passengers with disabilities. Uber, Lyft and Via filed a petition with Manhattan's Supreme Court in early April to have the same Taxi and Limousine mandate "vacated and annulled." "They should just bite the bullet and stop fighting the system," Disabled in Action's president Edith Prentis said. "You don't want to follow the rules in New York? Then get out."
In response to these companies' intransigence when it comes to being regulated, Ruben Diaz Sr. is backing a measure that would require the city to vet new app-based services. Only those that fulfill an "actual need" would be allowed to operate. Additionally, this legislation would require drivers to work with only one company. Battling against diminishing incomes, many drivers currently shift from driving the city's cars to working under one or more ride-hailing companies on a regular basis.
The Taxi Worker's Alliance has put forward its own position, though. Their plan offers a model for fair labor standards that would also check the power ride-hailing companies have gained in New York. A cap on the number of ride-hailing vehicles, a wage floor based on the yellow and green taxi meters, an increase in fares, industry caps on drivers' expenses and an end to predatory leasing practices are among the key points of the plan.
"We are asking for an immediate moratorium on new cars," Biju Matthews explained. "Then, through attrition we have to bring the numbers down." The cap itself, however, will not provide a solution to drivers' woes concerning pay and saving. That is why Matthews says the wage floor is crucial. The plan also demands the city's congestion pricing scheme, which would fund maintenance of the MTA, not burden drivers and that the city implement the health and wellness fund, which is the product of Taxi Workers Alliance victories in 2012 and 2013.
Biju Matthews is optimistic about the prospect of pushing regulations through despite Gov. Cuomo's longstanding support of Uber and its model. "I think there's enough support in city council that we'll be able to see this through … there at least eight or 10 city council members that openly come out to say they openly support the alliance."
Skanda Kadirgamar
Skanda Kadirgamar is a writer based in New York City who follows anti-war and anti-racist activism. Skanda's writing has appeared in The Nation and Truthout.
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libanar says:
I agree with all the comments about the need to regulate the gig economy corporations who undermine regulation, health and living standards. However as a model of non-violent action NY taxi drivers illustrate an important point. You need mass support to combat the powerful and wealthy, so your industry needs to have integrity and social value to persuade the non-involved. In our city in another country, exactly the same is happening and I see Uber succeeding because the taxi industry had previously not behaved well towards its customers in essentially a monopoly situation. So the broader sympathy you need for a campaign has to overcome the notion that change might be an improvement. My quintessential NY story is of arriving at the airport and being given a leaflet on my rights as a taxi customer and having to win a tug-of-war with the driver on the way into town as he tried to pull it from my hands. The more stories like that in people's minds the harder to build a campaign. Non-violence is not going to be easy, it has to be built on a secure bedrock of social values. Liberal (#metoo) Hollywood and the union movement are other examples where attention to values internally is as important as an external focus. Nevertheless I wish the taxi drivers well.
Carol Moore says:
When you are using the violent power of the state to stifle competition you are not waging nonviolence. You are waging war. Withdraw your power and money from the state whose laws help the rich get richer at the expense of the poor. Workers can start their own "Uber" type services. Taxi cab owners already have been screwed by the state by thinking their state-violence-enforced monopoly would last forever.
crlody says:
This makes NO SENSE and your use of hyperbolic language with NO FACTS leaves your "argument" with no foundation. Uber is not "the poor", they are a multinational, multi-billion dollar company that wants to undercut smaller businesses like the worker-owned co-op where I work by not paying for the proper permits and insurance. They want to drive us our of business just like Wal-Mart did to so many small businesses. Uber marginalizes the poor by refusing to service large segments of our city and not providing service for those with disabilities. And too bad if you're too poor to have a smart phone. The only people getting"screwed" are those getting assaulted by un-permitted Uber drivers. Sounds like a "violence-enforced" monopoly to me.
Allen stewart says:
I'm sorry, but it is just an accepted fact that Uber and Lyft provide taxi service – they are taxi companies. Through partners they lease vehicles to drivers. They set rates and charge fares by measuring distance and time. If you can just get a court or authority to admit it, that will resolve lots of troubles
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Over the past four months, four New York City taxi drivers have been pushed to suicide in an industry that is becoming increasingly dangerous. In response to the recent deaths, the New York Taxi Workers Alliance has launched a campaign for regulation and released its own proposal to re-establish driving as a viable occupation.

On April 25, the Taxi Workers Alliance demanded that city leaders address the lethal impact of lax regulation of app-based, ride-hailing services at a press conference in front of City Hall. The conference preceded a hearing on April 30 concerning regulations for app-based companies.

The business model offered by Uber and Lyft, they argued, has been instrumental in lowering labor standards so that drivers from across the taxi industry — whether they are behind the wheels of yellow cabs, green cabs or black cars — are literally working themselves to death. Ride-hailing companies have gained notoriety for being able to put an unlimited number of vehicles on the road, underpaying drivers and even going so far as to not recognize them as employees. This has created a "race to the bottom" with severe repercussions.

Before shooting himself at the gates of City Hall Park, Douglas Schifter called the industry in which he'd been working for decades "the new slavery." Schifter wrote this in a suicide letter he posted on Facebook and blamed the Taxi and Limousine Commission, the Mayor's Office and Gov. Andrew Cuomo for promoting deregulation without regard for the impact on workers.

Joined by fellow founders Biju Matthews, Beresford Simmons and Taxi Workers Alliance organizer Mohammed Tipu Sultan, the NYTWA's executive director Bhairavi Desai addressed the assembled drivers and members of the press. "No matter what Uber wants to claim," she said, "this is a struggle about the workers trying to defend a full-time job in a gig economy that offers nothing but poverty pay." Founded in 1998, the alliance currently represents over 50,000 drivers throughout the city and has affiliates across the country. It has played a pivotal role in defending workers' rights and livelihoods from the impacts of deregulation.

According to Matthews, the situation created by Uber and its peers has taken a broad psychological toll on drivers. It is a situation that became even more dire due to Uber clogging city streets and shrinking worker income by constantly adding new vehicles. He hopes this is the last spate of suicides, noting that the alliance regularly refers drivers to suicide prevention services.

Danilo Castillo Corporan leapt from the window of his Manhattan apartment in December of 2017 after being told by the Taxi and Limousine Commission that he could lose his license for picking up an illegal hail. Charges against him were dropped the day after his death. Castillo penned his suicide note on the back of his summons, citing the "disastrous state" of the industry. Corporan had been a Bronx-based driver, as was Alfredo Perez who also committed suicide earlier this year.

On March 16, yellow cab driver and medallion owner Nichanor Ochisor hung himself in the garage of his Maspeth home. He, like so many other drivers, found himself starved of fares after Uber led the charge in flooding the streets with vehicles. Ochisor and his wife both worked but found their combined income to be half of what he had been making individually before app-based cars flooded the streets with the blessing of both Gov. Cuomo and the mayor's office. Last year there were a total of 83,000 app-linked cars, which outnumbered the city's remaining yellow and green cabs. Increasingly burdened by mortgage payments and mounting debts on his medallion, Ochisor saw no way out.

In response to these tragic suicides, the Taxi Workers Alliance has gathered drivers from all sectors and their allies for repeated demonstrations in front of City Hall. They demand action to address the wide reaching harm caused by ride-hailing companies' dominant position in the gig economy and their antipathy to regulation. These are not limited to promoting hazardous labor conditions or normalizing inconsistent and low pay. Companies like Uber and Lyft have also ensnared drivers in a web of predatory financial relationships and have been accused of discriminating against disabled passengers. City council member Ruben Diaz Sr. and members of Disabled In Action Metro NY, a group fighting for civil rights of disabled people, are among those who have joined the taxi drivers in this fight.

Working incessantly while earning very little is a norm across the industry. According to one study, 41 to 54 percent of Uber drivers make less than minimum wage. According to Taxi Workers Alliance member Bigu Haider, it's common to work 70-80 hours a week and have nothing left over after paying rent and other living expenses. "If you want to save, you have to add 100 hours," he said. Before taking his life, Douglas Schifter wrote he had regularly been working 100-120 hours per week.

The activists of Disabled In Action, who have been allies of the Taxi Workers Alliance since 1998, point out that the impact of ride-hailing companies' allergy to regulation extends beyond worker abuse. Uber, Lyft and Via took the Taxi and Limousine Commission to court over whether or not they have an obligation to provide vehicles that disabled passengers can access. Starting this July, commission rules will mandate that 5 percent of outgoing trips from taxi bases be wheelchair accessible. This is part of a broader effort to ensure that half of all New York City taxis are able to accommodate passengers with disabilities. Uber, Lyft and Via filed a petition with Manhattan's Supreme Court in early April to have the same Taxi and Limousine mandate "vacated and annulled." "They should just bite the bullet and stop fighting the system," Disabled in Action's president Edith Prentis said. "You don't want to follow the rules in New York? Then get out."

In response to these companies' intransigence when it comes to being regulated, Ruben Diaz Sr. is backing a measure that would require the city to vet new app-based services. Only those that fulfill an "actual need" would be allowed to operate. Additionally, this legislation would require drivers to work with only one company. Battling against diminishing incomes, many drivers currently shift from driving the city's cars to working under one or more ride-hailing companies on a regular basis.

The Taxi Worker's Alliance has put forward its own position, though. Their plan offers a model for fair labor standards that would also check the power ride-hailing companies have gained in New York. A cap on the number of ride-hailing vehicles, a wage floor based on the yellow and green taxi meters, an increase in fares, industry caps on drivers' expenses and an end to predatory leasing practices are among the key points of the plan.

"We are asking for an immediate moratorium on new cars," Biju Matthews explained. "Then, through attrition we have to bring the numbers down." The cap itself, however, will not provide a solution to drivers’ woes concerning pay and saving. That is why Matthews says the wage floor is crucial. The plan also demands the city's congestion pricing scheme, which would fund maintenance of the MTA, not burden drivers and that the city implement the health and wellness fund, which is the product of Taxi Workers Alliance victories in 2012 and 2013.

Biju Matthews is optimistic about the prospect of pushing regulations through despite Gov. Cuomo's longstanding support of Uber and its model. "I think there's enough support in city council that we'll be able to see this through … there at least eight or 10 city council members that openly come out to say they openly support the alliance."


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Q: Getting Calendar weekday symbols consisting of no more than two letters I need to get weekday symbols but in their shortest format (two letters). I use Calendar's shortStandaloneWeekdaySymbols property, however this returns days of week with three letters:
Calendar.current.shortStandaloneWeekdaySymbols

And the result:
["Sun", "Mon", "Tue", "Wed", "Thu", "Fri", "Sat"]

I would like to get something like this (for English):
["Su", "Mo", "Tu", "We", "Th", "Fr", "Sa"]

It is possible to remove the last character by hand, via String's removeLast() method, however, I think, for some locales the result would be wrong.
So, is there a way to return two-letter weekday symbols from Calendar.

A: Calendar does not provide built-in properties for getting the two-letter abbreviation for weekday names. However, the Unicode standard for date formatting does provide what you need. The format EEEEEE gives a two-letter weekday name and cccccc gives a two-letter standalone weekday name.
Here's a Calendar extension that gives you these values:
extension Calendar {
    var shorterWeekdaySymbols: [String] {
        return symbolsFor("EEEEEE")
    }

    var shorterStandaloneWeekdaySymbols: [String] {
        return symbolsFor("cccccc")
    }

    private func symbolsFor(_ format: String) -> [String] {
        let df = DateFormatter()
        df.locale = self.locale
        df.calendar = self
        df.dateFormat = format
        let weekdays = self.range(of: .weekday, in: .year, for: Date())!
        return weekdays.map {
            let date = self.nextDate(after: Date(), matching: DateComponents(weekday: $0), matchingPolicy: .strict)!
            return df.string(from: date)
        }
    }
}

Example usage:
print(Calendar.current.shorterWeekdaySymbols)
print(Calendar.current.shorterStandaloneWeekdaySymbols)

And an example for Spain:
var calES = Calendar.current
calES.locale = Locale(identifier: "es_ES")
print(calES.shorterWeekdaySymbols)
print(calES.shorterStandaloneWeekdaySymbols)

This has been tested with every locale for every calendar and none of the force-unwraps caused an issue.


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The emergency lowering device recently introduced by J D Neuhaus for their EH range of air operated hoists can now also be supplied as a standard feature on their Profi Ti line from 25 to 60 tonnes lift capacity.
Hoists incorporating the emergency lowering device option are equipped with a separate air tank, with two additional buttons also incorporated into the hand controllers. This air reservoir is automatically maintained at the full working air pressure during normal hoist operations. This ensures the availability of a positive emergency braking system when required, and the air tank is also protected by a check valve. Certification by Det Norske Veritas can also be provided on request, to comply with safety requirements involving applications for offshore cranes as well as power driven hoists.
The device becomes operable in the event of a severe reduction or total loss of mains air pressure. It then provides practical two-handed operation to avoid unintentional lowering. One of the control button switches then selects between normal hoist operation and emergency lowering. The second control button opens the integrated operational brake to facilitate a controlled lowering of the suspended load under the action of its own dead weight. Where the Profi hoists are equipped with trolleys for lateral movements, the reservoir air tank can be mounted on the chain box container. For static hoists, the reservoir can be mounted anywhere convenient within the surrounding working area.
The Profi Ti range of JDN products are suitable for all engineering applications throughout a wide range of industries including oil and gas exploration and processing, mining, shipbuilding, foundries, the chemical industry and heavy plant construction.
They are designed to comply with Ex operating ratings, suitable for working in hazardous areas or potentially explosive environments. They are insensitive to humidity and dust laden atmospheres, and can operate at temperatures from -20°C to 70°C. Instant starting, minimum maintenance and low air consumption are their positive features, coupled with compact low-headroom design. Other standard features include emergency shut-off valve together with both anti-climb and anti-drop devices. Optional accessories include increased spark protection (and higher Ex rating), overload protection, rack and pinion trolley drive with two speed travel control and filter silencers.


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Only One Copy of the Prison Escape Game 'A Way out' Is Needed to Play Online with a Friend
Jordan Jones March 23, 2018 1 Comment
The co-op cinematic adventure A Way Out was released today, and Hazelight Studios wants to make sure every player gets the most out of the highly-cooperative prison escape simulator.
From the developers behind Brothers – A Tale of Two Sons, A Way Out maintains the studio's trend of immersive cooperative adventures. A Way Out follows the story of Leo and Vincent, as they work together to escape prison and reach salvation. No matter how you play, the game's compelling story is always presented as a split-screen story. Leo and Vincent will have to coordinate task and conflicting personalities as they work towards reclaiming their freedom. Due to the extremely cooperative effort that it takes to accomplish something like escaping from prison, writer and director Josef Fares wanted to make the cooperative experience as accessible as possible.
Confused about how the Friend Pass works for A Way Out? Here's Josef Fares to explain: pic.twitter.com/anlCIrCqv6
— Electronic Arts (@EA) March 23, 2018
Through the use of Friends Pass, players will be able to invite their friends to share the full experience of A Way Out with them. Friends Pass will allow players to participate in a premier couch co-op experience, anywhere in the world.
"We designed A Way Out as a dynamic narrative experience best played on the couch with a friend and as a co-op only game, I wanted people to play with their friend without gimmicks or a high cost, so we came up with the free Friends Pass offer" said Josef Fares, Writer and Director at Hazelight. "The game is designed so that players will need to build trust with one another by talking and making decisions together as they play. Intense moments and more meaningful points in the game build the relationship between both the characters and the players. On top of that, A Way Out has no repeated gameplay activities which creates a truly unique experience unlike anything played before."
A Way Out is out today on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC. Look forward to our review coming later next week! Want to play but can't find a P2? Head over to our Discord and find the Vincent to your Leo!
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Q: Foreign key creation in one-to-one table-per-concrete-class structure TL;DR How can I enforce the Hibernate schema creation to create a foreign key constraint in a table-per-concrete-class setup from AbstractProperty.ownerId to Owner.ownerId for the structure displayed below, without adding a Owner property to the AbstractProperty?
I'm working on a project where I have the following class structure:

The Owner has a one-to-one mapping to an AbstractProperty, which is extended by the ConcreteProperty class (and others like AnotherProperty, but that's not really relevant for the rest of this question).
The AbstractProperty really has only one property, the abstractPropertyId. Therefor, we want to use the table-per-concrete-class structure, ending up with the tables Owner, ConcreteProperty, and tables for the other AbstractProperty extending classes (AnotherProperty).
To this end, I created the following mapping for Owner:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE hibernate-mapping PUBLIC
    "-//Hibernate/Hibernate Mapping DTD 3.0//EN"
    "http://www.hibernate.org/dtd/hibernate-mapping-3.0.dtd">
<hibernate-mapping package="com.example">
    <class name="Owner">
        <id name="ownerId">
            <generator class="identity"/>
        </id>
        <property name="ownerProperty"/>
        <one-to-one name="abstractProperty"/>
    </class>
</hibernate-mapping>

And for the AbstractProperty:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE hibernate-mapping PUBLIC
    "-//Hibernate/Hibernate Mapping DTD 3.0//EN"
    "http://www.hibernate.org/dtd/hibernate-mapping-3.0.dtd">
<hibernate-mapping package="com.example">
    <class name="AbstractProperty" abstract="true">
        <id name="ownerId">
            <generator class="foreign">
                <param name="property">ownerId</param>
            </generator>
        </id>
        <union-subclass name="ConcreteProperty">
            <property name="concreteProperty"/>
        </union-subclass>
        <union-subclass name="AnotherProperty">
            <property name="anotherProperty"/>
        </union-subclass>
    </class>
</hibernate-mapping>

This works.
However, and here is my question, using this mapping and having Hibernate create the schema for me (<property name="hbm2ddl.auto">create</property>), it does not create a foreign key constraint from the ConcreteProperty.ownerId database field to the Owner.ownerId field. It does when I create the inverse constrained one-to-one field from the AbstractProperty to Owner using this mapping for AbstractProperty (where the owner field is of type Owner in the AbstractProperty java class):
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE hibernate-mapping PUBLIC
    "-//Hibernate/Hibernate Mapping DTD 3.0//EN"
    "http://www.hibernate.org/dtd/hibernate-mapping-3.0.dtd">
<hibernate-mapping package="com.example">
    <class name="AbstractProperty" abstract="true">
        <id name="ownerId">
            <generator class="foreign">
                <param name="property">ownerId</param>
            </generator>
        </id>
        <one-to-one name="owner" constrained="true"/>
        <union-subclass name="ConcreteProperty">
            <property name="concreteProperty"/>
        </union-subclass>
        <union-subclass name="AnotherProperty">
            <property name="anotherProperty"/>
        </union-subclass>
    </class>
</hibernate-mapping>

How can I enforce the creation of a foreign key from AbstractProperty.ownerId to Owner.ownerId without this Owner field in my AbstractProperty?

A: Simple answer: Never let Hibernate create the schema for real applications.
Hibernate is an object relational mapper and one should treat it as this.
That Hibernate additionally creates schemas is at most kind for the first time. But in environments after the first release you don't want to have Hibernate control over the schema. After all you have to handle SQL to have migrations scripts (manually or tool support). After the first release you will have data in the database. To ensure data migration on the production system with less problems you should consider schema and data migration the same way in the production environment as you do in your development environment.
Exceptions of that can be any application that has rarely changing data that may be reconstructable fast on data loss.

A: We use standard JPA (no hibernate-specific hacks) and had the same problem, and we did not find a nice solution.
Assumptions:

*

*AbstractProperty is a class in a package that is reusable/shared in different applications, and that you don't want a reference to an application specific Owner Class.

*ConcreteProperty & AnotherProperty is application specific.

In this case, the solution would be to put references in ConcreteProperty to the Owner (with foreign keys), eventually both with AnotherProperty extending the same ApplicationProperty, and making the abstractPropertyId private, so that on setting the Owner, it is set automatically.

A: Wouldn't it work automatically if you define the Owner attribute on Abstract Property as "transient"?

Variables may be marked transient to indicate that they are not part of the persistent state of an object.

And if you implement your own manual serialization you could check for the Modifier on a field and just ignore it --> cyclic serialization problem avoided.
The only other way I see is to push the Owner attribute to each of the concrete Property classes and change your mapping to
<class name="AbstractProperty" abstract="true">
    <id name="ownerId">
        <generator class="foreign">
            <param name="property">ownerId</param>
        </generator>
    </id>

    <union-subclass name="ConcreteProperty">
        <property name="concreteProperty"/>
        <one-to-one name="owner" constrained="true"/>
    </union-subclass>
    <union-subclass name="AnotherProperty">
        <property name="anotherProperty"/>
        <one-to-one name="owner" constrained="true"/>
    </union-subclass>
</class>

which creates the following sql:
create table AnotherProperty (
    ownerId integer not null,
    anotherProperty varchar(255),
    primary key (ownerId)
)

create table ConcreteProperty (
    ownerId integer not null,
    concreteProperty varchar(255),
    primary key (ownerId)
)

create table Owner (
    ownerId integer generated by default as identity,
    ownerProperty varchar(255),
    primary key (ownerId)
)

alter table AnotherProperty
    add constraint FK_ceq89n6x2i1ax18bb4gqpq4m5
    foreign key (ownerId)
    references Owner

alter table ConcreteProperty
    add constraint FK_i41buhvtxxtpsim2cc0ur1gxr
    foreign key (ownerId)
    references Owner

A: First : Hibernate/JPA is capable of handling a lot of scenarios - if there really was a lot of folks trying the same approach as you, I would think that it would have been addressed by now - it's no spring chicken.  ** that's a clue ;-) **
Second : Having a table called 'Owner' with a 'ownerProperty' is another clue.  The names infer a built in relationship.
Third : Simply by stating that you don't want an owner property within the AbstractProperty table, this sets the stage for a logical fallacy commonly referred to as a catch-22 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma).
My point -> This seems to be more of a modeling/design issue than a technical/framework issue.
My suggestion would be to take a step back from the problem, and re-evaluate it.  For example, if you were just writing straight queries with spring-jdbc, how would you expect to interact with the data for SELECT, UPDATE, and DELETE operations? ... if you work through those, your solution/needs would likely present themselves more clearly.  To be even more pointed, what would you expect the behavior to be on a cascading-delete?  If I issue a DELETE statement on a single Owner record, would you like for the database to automatically delete the records from the child tables? recursively?  Once you have that isolated, you can figure out how to tell Hibernate what to do - don't allow team members to put the cart before the horse by prematurely restricting the solution.
For example, (case 1 ) if you're really dealing with a 'property' of an owner, it would be reasonably foreseeable that you would need to store multiple properties about an owner (aka: OneToMany).
Alternatively, (case 2 ) if you're dealing with a 'type' of owner ( as in a discriminator field ), then your 'AbstractProperty' table should be extending Owner ... in which case you may be able to reduce your solution down to 3 tables ( Owner with a discriminator, Concrete1 w/ ownerId, Concrete2 w/ ownerId ).
Proposed Solution 1 : In either of those cases, it would still make sense for the 'AbstractProperty' table to have a reference to it's parent/Owner.  And if it did, I think Cascading DELETES may work the way that you would prefer.
Proposed Solution 2 : If however, in a cascading delete scenario of an Owner record, you would prefer that the row(s) in AbstractProperty stick around as reference-data, then it could be argued that you should put an additional table between Owner and AbstractProperty to protect your reference data ... as a mapping table that has a unique composite key.
Focus on the business needs and user-stories, and that should hopefully guide your choice of available solutions.