In June, 2013, the Whittier courthouse closed, but before doing so, it transferred all its criminal cases to the Downey and Bellflower courthouses, depending upon the location of the arrest. The following cases may have originated in the Whittier area, and some cases were filed in the Whittier courthouse, but the cases were later transferred to either Downey or Bellflower.
Our results from these courthouses are no guarantee of future results. Over time, prosecutors change and the general approach toward domestic violence matters also changes.
For a sample of some of our better results from these three courthouses, click on the following case summaries for a detailed description of each case.


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Fallon v. Mercy Catholic Med. Ctr., No. 16-3573 (3d Cir. Dec. 14, 2017)
by Paul Mollica | Dec 14, 2017 | Daily Developments in EEO Law |
In a rare federal court of appeals opinion in this area, the Third Circuit has occasion to decide whether a hospital employee manifested a religious (versus an ethical) objection to getting a flu shot that would be protected by Title VII's religious-accommodation provision, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e(j).
Fallon v. Mercy Catholic Med. Ctr., No. 16-3573 (3d Cir. Dec. 14, 2017): plaintiff Fallon began working at the hospital performing patient intake in 1994. In 2012, the hospital began requiring employees to get flu shots, unless exempt for religious reasons. The hospital granted Fallon a waiver for the first two years, in deference to his personal objection to vaccinations.
In 2014, the hospital reportedly tightened its requirements for an exemption, and found that Fallon didn't qualify. "Mercy Catholic requested a letter from a clergyperson to support his request for an exemption. Fallon could not provide one." He was then fired for failing to comply. Fallon commenced suit, alleging that the hospital discriminated and failed to reasonably accommodate his religious beliefs under Title VII.
The Third Circuit affirms dismissal of the case at the complaint stage. While acknowledging that courts must be highly circumspect when defining what is meant by "religion," the panel holds that the employee – as a matter of law – never advanced a religious objection to vaccination.
To evaluate the claim, the panel adopts a definition of religion adopted in Africa v. Com. of Pa., 662 F.2d 1025, 1031 (3d Cir. 1981):
"First, a religion addresses fundamental and ultimate questions having to do with deep and imponderable matters. Second, a religion is comprehensive in nature; it consists of a belief system as opposed to an isolated teaching. Third, a religion often can be recognized by the presence of certain formal and external signs."
Fallon's opposition to vaccination failed to meet this test. It constituted, at most, the plaintiff's moral imperative not to do harm to his own body. It was not part of a fundamental or comprehensive belief system, as the Africa decision would require:
"Generally, he simply worries about the health effects of the flu vaccine, disbelieves the scientifically accepted view that it is harmless to most people, and wishes to avoid this vaccine. In particular, the basis of his refusal of the flu vaccine-his concern that the flu vaccine may do more harm than good-is a medical belief, not a religious one. He then applies one general moral commandment (which might be paraphrased as, 'Do not harm your own body') to come to the conclusion that the flu vaccine is morally wrong. This one moral commandment is an 'isolated moral teaching'; by itself, it is not a comprehensive system of beliefs about fundamental or ultimate matters."
Fallon's belief also failed to manifest itself in outward signs, such as services or ceremonies. In sum, "Fallon's beliefs do not occupy a place in his life similar to that occupied by a more traditional faith. His objection to vaccination is Therefore not religious and not protected by Title VII."
Tha panel recognizes that valid religious opposition to vaccination may be protected by Title VII as part of a broader belief system, citing Christian Science, but that a singular objection to flu shots without more did not pass muster.

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Link Active Directory, LDAP, or SAML groups from an IDP
Shared update groups
Groups are collections of items, often related to a specific region, subject, or project, that are created and managed by the group owner. If you have privileges to create groups, you decide who can find your groups, whether others can request to join, whether members can update items shared with the group, who can contribute content, and the type of items (for example, maps or layers) displayed by default in the group. You also have control over items shared with the group and can invite others to join, even if your group doesn't accept membership requests. Default administrators can also restrict who can see the list of group members and restrict members from leaving the group (administrative groups).
Organization administrators also use groups to configure the portal website. These site configuration groups contain the organization's featured content, basemaps, and templates.
To create a group, complete the following steps:
Verify that you are signed in and have privileges to create groups.
Click Groups at the top of the site and click Create group on the My Groups tab.
Upload a thumbnail image to represent the group.
You can drag an image or browse to a file. For best results, add an image that is 400 by 400 pixels or larger with an aspect ratio of 1:1 in a web file format such as PNG, JPEG, or GIF. Pan and zoom to what you want to appear in your thumbnail. Depending on the size and resolution of your image file and how far you zoom in to customize the thumbnail, the image may be resampled and scaled when it's saved. If you add an image in GIF or JPEG format, it will be converted to PNG when it's saved.
Provide a group name and tags. You can also add a short summary.
For Who can view this group?, select one of the following:
Only group members—Only members of the group can find and view the group. Members must be invited to join the group.
All organization members—Only members of the organization or a partnered organization can find and view the group. Members can be invited to the group or apply to join.
Everyone (public)—Anyone with access to the portal, even if they are not a member of the portal organization, can search for and view the group and access any content that is shared with both the group and the public. This is the default.
If your group will contain curated content to feature on your organization's Gallery page, select the option most appropriate for your intended audience. If you expect public visitors to view the gallery, select Everyone (public). Select People in the organization if you expect organization members to visit. Whether content items appear in the gallery also depends on how the items are shared.
For How can people join this group?, select one of the following:
By invitation—Only members who are invited by the group owner or a group manager can join the group.
By request—Only members who request to join the group and are approved by the group owner or a group manager can join the group.
Members of an Active Directory, LDAP, or SAML group—Membership is controlled outside of the portal by an Active Directory, LDAP, or SAML group. This option is only available if the portal is configured to use Active Directory, LDAP, or SAML groups and if you are an administrator of the organization or have the privilege to link built-in groups to Active Directory, LDAP, or SAML groups. The exact process to configure this depends on whether your IDP is AD/LDAP based or SAML based; see the About linking Active Directory, LDAP, or SAML groups section below.
By adding themselves—Any organization member can join the group without being invited or approved. Members who click Join this group on the group page are instantly granted membership in the group.
The options you see depend on the option you select under Who can view this group?.
For Who can contribute content?, select one of the following:
All group members—All group members can contribute content to the group.
Group owner and managers—Only you (the group owner) and group managers can contribute content to the group. If you choose this option, members can view and access your items, but they can't share their own items with the group. This type of group is a good way to share your authoritative maps and data to a targeted audience. You control what items appear in the group and who can view them.
For Who can see the full list of members on the group's Members tab?, choose one of the following:
This setting is only available to default administrators.
Anyone who can view the group—Anyone who can view the group can see the list of group members.
Group owners and managers—Only the group owner and managers, and those with administrative privileges to view all members and groups, can see the full list of group members. Other members of the group will only see the group owner and group managers listed on the Members tab. Choose this option for public groups, such as community and crowdsourced groups, for which you want to protect the privacy of group members.
The item owner will still be displayed on the item page of individual items in the group. This option only applies to the Members tab of the group page. Organization members will be able to see the group as a filtering option when inviting members to a group or when managing members from the organization page Members tab.
Enable any of the following group designations:
Shared update—Allow items that are shared to the group to be editable by all group members. Enabling shared update restricts group membership to your organization and organizations you are in a partnered collaboration with.
Some actions on the item can only be performed by the item owner (or administrator). For example, only the owner (or administrator) can perform the following actions (not all actions apply to all item types): delete, share, move, change owner, change delete protection, register an app, delete fields, add fields, edit fields and overwrite data in hosted feature layers, and manage tiles in hosted tile layers. However, members of this shared update group have other types of administrator privileges depending on the item type and the app used to access the item.
This setting is only available if you have privileges to create groups with update capabilities. Updates to an item include changes to the item details and updates to the content. This setting is only available when creating new groups and when membership in the group is only open to those who are invited or request and are approved to join.
Administrative—Only group managers and owners can remove members. This option is only available if you are a default administrator.
This setting is only available when creating new groups. It is not available for SAML-based groups or groups that allow users to join the group without being invited or approved. Only users in your organization can be members of a group with this setting enabled.
Your new group is created with the basic information and properties you specified. It is recommended that you add a brief summary about the group (if you have not already done so), as well as an in-depth description.
Your group is ready to be used. As the group owner, you can share items with the group using the Add items to group button on the group page. You can edit group properties on the Overview tab and group settings on the Settings tabs. Use the Invite users button on the Overview tab or the Members tab to search for and invite members to the group.
This option is only available if you are an administrator of the organization or have the privilege to link built-in groups to Active Directory, LDAP, or SAML groups.
If you have a Windows AD-, LDAP-, or SAML-based IDP that manages Active Directory, LDAP, or SAML groups for your organization, you can link these groups to new groups you create in your ArcGIS Enterprise portal. When selecting who can join your new group in the above workflow, note these additional steps:
AD- or LDAP-based IDPs
If your portal is configured with an organization-specific identity store, and metadata has been provided about the Active Directory, LDAP, or SAML groups in the identity store, you can set membership in a new portal group to members of an existing Active Directory, LDAP, or SAML group. To define an Active Directory, LDAP, or SAML group, type all or part of the group name in the text box and click Search for Group. Select the desired group from the list of results and click Select Group.
Any of the organization-specific accounts in this Active Directory, LDAP, or SAML group that are already portal members are added to the portal group as soon as it is created. If your organization-specific accounts and groups are from a Windows AD server, this includes accounts from nested Active Directory groups.
The AD group Domain Users should not be used as an Active Directory group. This is because it is considered the primary group for most AD users and is not listed in the memberOf attribute for most users.
SAML-based IDPs
To link SAML groups from a SAML-based IDP to new groups created in your portal, check the Enable SAML based group membership box when setting your IDP in the portal's settings. To ensure that a group is successfully linked to an external SAML group, the creator of the group must enter the exact value of the external SAML group as it is returned in the attribute value of the SAML assertion. View the SAML assertion response from your SAML IDP to determine the value used to reference the group. The Search for Group option is not available when Enable SAML based group membership is selected.
The supported (case-insensitive) names for the attribute defining a user's group membership are as follows:
member-of
https://wso2.com/claims/role
http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/claims/Group
http://schemas.microsoft.com/ws/2008/06/identity/claims/groups
urn:oid:1.3.6.1.4.1.5923.1.5.1.1
urn:oid:2.16.840.1.113719.1.1.4.1.25
For example, suppose a user signing in is a member of the SAML groups FullTimeEmployees and GIS Faculty. In the SAML assertion received from the IDP, as shown below, the name of the attribute that contains group information is MemberOf. In this example, to create a group linked to the SAML group GIS Faculty, the group creator would need to enter GIS Faculty as the group name.
<saml2p:Response>
<saml2:Assertion>
<saml2:AttributeStatement>
<saml2:Attribute Name="MemberOf">
<saml2:AttributeValue>FullTimeEmployees</saml2:AttributeValue>
<saml2:AttributeValue>GIS Faculty</saml2:AttributeValue>
</saml2:Attribute>
</saml2:AttributeStatement>
</saml2:Assertion>
</saml2p:Response>
The following is another example using ID values to identify the groups:
<saml2:Attribute Name="urn:oid:2.16.840.1.113719.1.1.4.1.25" FriendlyName="groups">
<saml2:AttributeValue>GIDff63a68d51325b53153eeedd78cc498b</saml2:AttributeValue>
<saml2:AttributeValue>GIDba5debd8d2f9bb7baf015af7b2c25440</saml2:AttributeValue>
For SAML groups obtained via the IDP's SAML assertion response, each user's group membership is only updated each time the user signs in to the portal.
After creating a group, you or others you designate, including administrators with group privileges, can edit its properties and settings. For example, you can modify the group title or description, as well as change settings such as who can contribute content. For more information on working with groups you own, including managing group content and members, see Own groups.
Verify that you are signed in as an owner, group manager, or administrator with group privileges.
Click Groups at the top of the site, and use the tabs, filters, sort options, and search as needed to find the group you want to edit.
On the Overview tab, click Edit next to the property you want to edit (for example, the description or tags), make your changes, and click Save to save your changes. You can edit the group name, summary, description, thumbnail, and tags.
On the Settings tab, modify the group settings (for example, how group content is sorted, who can view the group, who can join the group, or who can contribute content). You can also specify the type of items (for example, maps or layers) you want to display by default on the group's Content and Overview tabs.
Your ability to edit some settings depends on your privileges and group role. With existing groups, you cannot change the What items in the group can its members update? setting and the Administrative group setting that restricts members from leaving the group. These settings are only available for new groups. If you want to change any of these settings, you must delete the group and create a new one with the option you want.
Organization administrators can create groups that allow members to update items that are shared with the group. These shared update groups are useful in collaborative situations in which multiple people need to update the same item—for example, shift workers in operations centers who need to update the maps underlying their apps and dashboards.
When members share an item with a shared update group, they remain the owner of the item. Other group members can update the item. Updates to an item include changes to the item details and updates to the content. For example, they can add layers to a map and save the map with the updated content.
To make your group a shared update group, enable the Shared update group designation when creating the group.
At this time, shared update groups are intended for updating item details and the contents of maps, apps, and scenes. Some updates are reserved for the item owner or administrator (such as moving, sharing, or deleting an item and changing ownership). However, members of this group also have elevated privileges, such as the ability to edit the contents of hosted feature layers, alter editor tracking settings, enable or disable attachments, and alter the layer's schema. Therefore, proceed with caution when adding members to this type of group. Currently, most ArcGIS apps do not support updating items shared with a shared update group. To determine whether this capability is supported in a specific ArcGIS app, refer to its product documentation.


A quick and lovely swatch for you today! We're looking at Zoya Faye which was originally released as part of the Sunshine Collection in Summer 2011. :) This is one I picked up pretty recently and I'm so glad I did - look at that gold shimmer! Drool!
Faye is a polish unlike any others I have in my collection, which is really nice! It's a soft pink-leaning plum shade with a gorgeous bold gold shimmer when the light hits it at the right angle.
It took three coats to build this one up to full opacity, but I really don't mind since it's really really lovely when it's got full coverage.
Is Faye a shade you own or would pick up? Looking at it now I think it's definitely one I'll have to pull out again in the spring when the flowers are starting to peek out! It just gives me that vibe!
Its gorgeous! That bold gold shimmer in it is awesome.


Controversy and art are by no means strangers. As a photographer, it is difficult to avoid it, especially since most subjects worth photographing are by nature controversial, or reveal a provocative narrative. The challenge in undertaking a touchy subject then, is to present it tastefully without censorship. Although, whose taste is the artist serving ultimately… and who determines what is "tasteful"?


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Would monitoring our media stop another Sunrise panel?
BY CAROLYN FERNANDEZ
With the increasing importance of isolationist populism globally – and we need look no further than Brexit or the election of Donald Trump as examples – it is easy to assume that media attention given to racist causes is on the rise. Recently, it would appear as though mainstream and leftist media outlets have more readily given a platform to those on the far-right, as an inevitable result of the growth of these political movements globally. Channel 7 [1], Triple J [2], and even NPR [3] in the US have all come under fire online for hosting members of alt-right movements, which are closely related to right-wing populism.
This view is held by the Australian Race Discrimination Commissioner, Tim Soutphommasane, who at the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination in Geneva commented: "And, unfortunately, there are signs that racial intolerance and prejudice are on the rise. There has been a deterioration of public discourse in Australia on matters concerning race and immigration. There has been, if you like, a normalisation of bigotry and discrimination that is beginning to creep into the Australian civic culture […] And, we have found in recent years that far-right political groups are enjoying regular and sympathetic platforms on mainstream media."[4]
However, the normalisation of racism and bigotry are not "just beginning" to creep into civic culture. The declaration of Terra Nullius in 1788 normalised racism within Australian law, politics, and our social environment. It took over 200 years for Terra Nullius to be rejected by the High Court [5], yet Indigenous Australians continue to fight for their basic human rights. This ongoing struggle was seen in the Northern Territory intervention in 2007, in which the operation of the Racial Discrimination Act 1976 (Cth) was suspended. This move was deemed discriminatory by UN Special Rapporteur James Anaya [6], and considered unnecessary even by Indigenous groups in support of the intervention[7].
Within our media too, racism appears to be part of our "normal". Even our most mainstream media sources have seriously infringed professional codes of conduct. In 2015, when 4,000 protesters rallied at Flinders St. Station against the closure of Indigenous communities, the Herald Sun dismissed them as a "Selfish Rabble"[8]. A more recent instance was the Sunrise 'debate' about the adoption of Indigenous children, in which commentators favourably called for a second stolen generation, detailed by Masrur Jordan in Tharunka's Viral issue. Another recent example was the Uluru Statement of the Heart, a missed opportunity for the Government to create a strong, Constitutionally-protected platform for dialogue with First Australians.
Public discourse on race and immigration can't be characterised as "deteriorating" if it was never healthy, and it should come as no surprise when our elected officials fail to lead us into more constructive dialogue. So where do we go from here? How can we repair our public discourse after years of bigotry and fake news? Is that even possible?
One answer comes from an organisation called All Together Now, a not-for-profit which seeks to combat racism in Australia through "innovative, evidence-based and effective social marketing that is positive, provocative and courageous."[9] One of their most recent projects involved the development of a media monitoring methodology, in partnership with the University of Technology Sydney (UTS).
Media monitoring has been theorised as a way to counter discrimination and promote a more equal society. In the 1980s and 90s, media theorist Tuen A. van Dijik wrote about media monitoring as a way to promote standards of conduct within the media in how it deals with minorities:
"[…] media monitoring is not a form of control, let alone a limitation of the freedom of the press. Its aim is not to impose or advocate prohibitions, but to persuade media workers to adopt or enact recognised professional standards of quality, balance, fairness and social responsibility […] such standards have become especially important if the media are to play a positive role in the development of egalitarian multicultural societies in which the human rights of immigrants and minorities are respected."[10]
Following the work undertaken by other NGOS such as Race Forward and Haas Institute in the United States of America (USA), and the Runnymede Trust in the United Kingdom (UK), All Together Now aims to gain a better understanding of race-related reporting in the Australian media. The organisation defines racism as "unjust covert or overt behaviour towards a person or a group on the basis of their racial background. This might be perpetrated by a person, a group, an organisation, or a system." The theoretical basis for their research was inspired by Haney Lopez's research on racial bias and coded racism:
"Coded racism works by invoking racial stereotypes— for instance, that whites are innocent, hardworking, endangered, and the "real" Americans; and that people of color are predatory, lazy, dangerous, and perpetual foreigners. The coded part comes in that politicians deploy these stereotypes without expressly mentioning race."[11]
Following these theories, All Together Now ran a media monitoring project to assess race-based reporting in Australia. The project sampled 124 opinion-based reports from The Australian, Sydney Morning Herald, Herald Sun, Daily Telegraph, A Current Affair, 7:30 Report, 60 Minutes, and The Project. This included both online newspapers and TV programs, from mid-January 2017 until mid-July 2017.
The project categorised these reports as depicting either positive, neutral and negative perceptions of race:
"Race is a social construction, and these constructs are used by those in power — and through the media — to generate a social hierarchy. Given that the media is often the only interaction people have with racial backgrounds other than their own, these interactions are powerful instances in which perceptions of race are formed and shaped. They could be positive, neutral or negative perceptions."[12]
It's important to note the obvious gap in this analysis — non-traditional news and reporting avenues, such as social media, were not analysed. The basis for this decision was that traditional media and mainstream news sources are known to be strongly preferred by the public. Australia wasn't exempted from the fake news phenomenon, and according to the Edelman Trust Barometer, Australians are more skeptical than ever of their newsfeeds and are more willing to trust traditional media as a result[13]. While our trust in the media as a whole is at just 31%, our trust in 'traditional news media and journalism' is on par with the rest of the world at 61%[14]. There has been a spike in public trust in traditional media – last year it was only at 46%[15]. Given that the public recognises the difference between trustworthy sources of information and a rogue Twitter thread, it's important that these well-known and credible publications are meeting these increasingly high expectations.
The main findings of All Together Now's media monitoring study, however, showed that many of these mainstream sources are not meeting these expectations — 62 out of 124 race-based reports analysed had negative depictions of race, meaning that the report's title, content, images, or tone of voice expressed racist views. Although the definition of racism used by the organisation is known (and detailed above), it is unclear how these were judged to be present or absent in a particular report, and whether a consistent, or objective, approach was taken across all 124 analysed articles.
News Corp online newspapers (like the Daily Telegraph, The Australian and the Herald Sun) were reported to have the most negative portrayals of race. Over the six-month period, A Current Affair broadcasted nine negative race-related reports. Muslims were the most mentioned group in opinion pieces and were portrayed negatively in 63 percent of reports. Western superiority, fear-inductive narratives (such as "us vs them"), and denial of Islamophobia were all themes heavily present in the opinion pieces analysed. "Nationalism" was also included in negative race-related reporting, but what the organisation means by 'nationalism' isn't defined by the report, so it is unclear whether the term implies superiority over other nations.
The recommendations stemming from the report mainly focus on reprimanding journalists and publications that publish negative depictions of race. The report recommends strengthening media regulations and giving audiences the ability to make complaints. It also suggests that news agencies should support journalists who discuss race respectfully.
Can this solution actually work as a preventative measure to improve public discourse, or is this merely a punitive alternative? In other words, would journalists be more cautious in the articles they produce if they, and the publications they work for, faced consequences for poor race-based reporting? The answer to this is unclear. It is also unclear, given the opacity of All Together Now's media monitoring methodology, how we can define the parameters within which we would determine whether a report had a "negative" portrayal of race.
It should be noted that complaints are already taken into account by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA). However, the approach of the ACMA has been to investigate matters of community concern, whilst All Together Now appears to be calling for a wider range of complaints to be taken seriously. It was recently reported that the ACMA is finally investigating whether Sunrise breached the Commercial Television Industry Code of Practice 2015 after NSW Greens MP David Shoebridge lodged a formal complaint. The ACMA said that "a significant amount of community concern has been expressed about that broadcast,"[16] and it had commenced a formal investigation.
How Sunrise is reprimanded for their conduct may influence how they treat Indigenous and race issues in the future. Given that it took six days of protests and community outrage for Sunrise to try and fix the issue by hosting an Indigenous panel of experts on the issue (the closest Sunrise has come to a genuine apology), the idea that strengthening regulations on, and monitoring of, the media is the solution to much more covert expressions of racism seems far-fetched. Nevertheless, while it might not be a quick solution to negative depictions of race, given how much trust we put into our mainstream sources of media, it's important to stay vigilant and critical of the narratives we are told.
1. B Carmody, 'Channel Seven 'crossed a line' with neo-Nazi interview', in The Sydney Morning Herald. 15 January 2018, viewed on 7 April 2018, https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/channel-seven-crossed-a-line-with-neonazi-interview-20180115-h0iidf.html
2. S Langford, 'People are furious that Triple J decided to give airtime to a white nationalist', in Junkee. 15 August 2017, viewed on 4 April 2018, junkee.com/triple-j-white-nationalist/118108
3. K Mcevers, 'We're Not Going Away': Alt-Right Leader On Voice In Trump Administration', in NPR. 17 November 2016, viewed on 4 April 2018, https://www.npr.org/2016/11/17/502476139/were-not-going-away-alt-right-leader-on-voice-in-trump-administration
4. T Soutphommasane, 'Remarks at UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination Thematic Discussion on Racial Discrimination in Today's World', in Australian Human Rights Commission. 29 November 2017, viewed on 4 April, https://www.humanrights.gov.au/news/speeches/fighting-racism-australia
5. Mabo v Queensland (No 2) (1992) 175 CLR 1.
6. 'UN human rights envoy James Anaya: NT intervention is racist', in The Weekend Australian. 28 August 2009, viewed on 22 April 2018, https://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/un-human-rights-envoy-james-anaya-nt-intervention-is-racist/news-story/2ba7b5f5f563b3c6da28060ad4f3db89?sv=dd65816bd16146bd211ec86ed553487f&nk=d88f9f186b31c63d6de4dc7f2aa026de-1524291925
7. Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation (Dulwich Hill) 2011, Support NT communities to shape their own development, viewed on 22 April, https://antar.org.au/sites/default/files/nt_community_development_future_8_september_2011.pdf
8. M Watson, 'The Herald Sun Has Dismissed 4,000 Indigenous RIghts Protesters As A "Selfish Rabble", in Junkee. 11 April 2015, viewed on 10 April, junkee.com/the-herald-sun-has-dismissed-4000-indigenous-rights-protestors-as-a-selfish-rabble/54833
9. 'Our Vision', in All Together Now, viewed April 7, http://alltogethernow.org.au/about-us-2/
10. T.A Dijk (1999) 'Media, Racism and Monitoring' in K. Nordentreng and M.Griffith (eds) International Media Monitoring. Cressmll, NJ: Hampton Press, p 312.
11. H Lopez (2016) Race and economic jeopardy for all: a framing paper for defeating dog whistle politics. Washington: AFL-CIO, p 15
12.All Together Now (2017) Who Watches the Media? All Together Now, Sydney, accessed 7 April 2018, p 9. http://alltogethernow.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/ATN-Who-Watches-The-Media-FINAL.pdf
13. Edelman Trust Barometer, '2018 Edelman Trust Barometer Global Report', in Edelman. January 2018, viewed on 7 April 2018, https://cms.edelman.com/sites/default/files/2018-01/2018%20Edelman%20Trust%20Barometer%20Global%20Report.pdf
16. E Reynolds, 'Sunrise under investigation for 'racist' segment', in news.com.au. 30 March 2018, viewed 4 April 2018, http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/morning-shows/sunrise-under-investigation-for-racist-segment/news-story/4f527c6fece509d5d438916c52fa2c39?from=rss-basic
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import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from astropy.io import ascii
import sys, os, string
import pandas as pd
from astropy.io import fits
import collections
from astropy.cosmology import WMAP9 as cosmo
from astropy.stats import biweight_midvariance

#Folder to save the figures
figout = '/Users/blorenz/COSMOS/Reports/2018/Images/'

#The location with the file for all of our data
fluxdatapath = '/Users/blorenz/COSMOS/COSMOSData/lineflux_red.txt'

#Location of the equivalent width data
ewdata = '/Users/blorenz/COSMOS/COSMOSData/lineew.txt'
#Read in the ew of the lines
ew_df = ascii.read(ewdata).to_pandas()

#The location to store the scale and its stddev of each line
qualdatapath = '/Users/blorenz/COSMOS/COSMOSData/dataqual.txt'
#Read in the scale of the lines
dataqual = ascii.read(qualdatapath).to_pandas()
d = {'True': True, 'False': False}

#File with the error array
errdatapath = '/Users/blorenz/COSMOS/COSMOSData/errs.txt'
#Read in the scale of the lines
err_df = ascii.read(errdatapath,data_start=1,header_start=0,format='csv').to_pandas()

#Read the datafile:
fluxdata = ascii.read(fluxdatapath).to_pandas()

#File with the structural properties
spropdatapath = '/Users/blorenz/COSMOS/COSMOSData/struct_prop.txt'
#Read in the scale of the lines
sprop_df = ascii.read(spropdatapath).to_pandas()
sprop_df = sprop_df.rename(columns={'id':'OBJID'})
fluxdata = pd.merge(fluxdata,sprop_df)

#Fontsizes for plotting
axisfont = 24
ticksize = 18
ticks = 8
titlefont = 24
legendfont = 16
textfont = 16

#Division function
def divz(X,Y):
        return X/np.where(Y,Y,Y+1)*np.not_equal(Y,0)

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ylabel = ''

ms=12
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fig,ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(8,7))

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ax.set_ylabel('Multiples of dust disk',fontsize = axisfont)
ax.set_ylim(0,20)
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fig.tight_layout()
fig.savefig(figout + 'Inclination.pdf')
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Q: 'function' object has no attribute 'get_extra_actions' on new endpoint I am attempting to set up a new endpoint in my Django project:
router.register(
    r"v1/alert-summary/(?P<alert_id>[^/]+)/page/(?P<page>[^/]+)", alerts_views_v1.alert_summary, basename="Alerts"
)

Alerts is my model, and the method alert_summary is in the alerts.views.py file BUT IS NOT IN THE AlertViewSet class.
@api_view(["GET"])
def alert_summary(request):
    data = "hello world"
    return Response(data=data, status=status.HTTP_200_OK)

However, when I test this endpoint I keep getting this error:
'function' object has no attribute 'get_extra_actions'

Google searches and StackOverflow scrolling have proven fruitless, I have tried this answer with no success, and this one doesn't apply as the method isn't inside the ViewSet class.
What should I do?

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Rob Zombie reveals "Shadow of the Cemetery Man" video
Posted by Mark Zapata on September 9, 2021
Rob Zombie hit us with The Lunar Injection Kool Aid Eclipse Conspiracy in March of 2020, and now has released a music video for "Shadow of the Cemetery Man." Anyone who has followed Zombie over his long and storied career, spanning nearly 40 yrs (since 1985), knows that the heavy metal maniac, filmmaker is not one to mince words, saying that "Lunar Injection" is the best Rob Zombie album yet.
Here is what Zombie had to say about that statement,
"It can be a very hollow statement because everybody says that [when they release a new album]. What are they supposed to say? But I feel the last three records have really been on an upward trajectory. When you have a career that's long — it started in 1985 — you kind of have peaks and valleys, not just sales-wise or whatever, but just even creativity-wise. You kind of tap into a vein of something, and then that kind of expires and you're, like, 'Oh, where are we going now? I don't want to just like keep repeating ourselves.' And sometimes you get stuck. Even if you're still making good records, you don't feel inspired.
"The 'Venomous Rat' record was the record that felt re-inspired," he added. "It was the record when Ginger Fish joined the band, and it seemed like for the first time we had a solid band. Up until then, there was always somebody coming or going, and it really fucks with the chemistry of the band. Even if the new person is a great person and they're an amazing musician, sometimes the chemistry is not there. So that's why I think the last three records have really locked into a vein of, 'Okay, this is who we are and what we do, and it's really been working.' So, I think that's why we felt that way about the new record."
Watch "Shadow of the Cemetery Man" below.
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Q: load page and iframe simultaneously through javascript I had a page(Home.aspx) containing menu on the top and another master page, with same menu on the top.
Now, when i have to move from Home page to master page, i use
window.location = 'test.aspx';

Now, when i need to move from master to main(Home) page, i need to call a function with a parameter, containing control url, which has to be loaded to the iframe in the Home page.
Can anybody suggest how can i load Home page and iframe within simultaneously using javascript.

A: If you don't want the user interact with the page until the iframe is loaded, you can disable the page with javascript (onLoad of the page <body onload="disablePage()">) and enable again when the Iframe is loaded (onLoad of the Iframe <iframe onload="enablePage()"... )
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La escuela histórica de economía política alemana () fue una escuela de pensamiento histórico y económico iniciada en el , principalmente formada por alemanes, que argumentó que el estudio de la historia es la principal fuente de conocimiento sobre las acciones humanas y las cuestiones económicas, dado que la economía depende de la cultura y no se pueden tomar una y otra separadas en el espacio o en el tiempo. Así, la escuela alemana rechazó la idea de que las «leyes» o teoremas económicos podían ser tomados como universalmente válidos. Marcó las ciencias sociales en lengua alemana alrededor de un siglo, entre 1850 y 1950, y tuvo una fuerte influencia no solo en Alemania, sino también en otros países de su órbita económica como Austria, Hungría y Suiza, extendiéndose también al Reino Unido y Estados Unidos.

Abordó numerosas cuestiones de la economía, como la teoría del valor o la naturaleza del interés, pero se ocupó, en especial, de problemas prácticos, caso de la incipiente cuestión social. Sus representantes intentaron realizar una ciencia práctica y encontrar soluciones para los problemas de su tiempo. En términos doxográficos, se distinguieron por la crítica de la teoría clásica y pueden considerarse precursores directos de la economía institucional. Además, dio lugar a dos debates enriquecedores en el mundo académico germanófono: la disputa del método de economía política (alemán: Methodenstreit der Nationalökonomie), en la que se discutió sobre la necesidad y la utilidad de la investigación inductiva y deductiva; y la disputa del juicio de valor, en torno a la cuestión de cómo podía y debía ser la economía normativa.

Doctrina
La escuela histórica intentó anclar sus hipótesis en la realidad. Para ello, era necesario afianzar los propios estudios mediante sondeos empíricos, o bien recurrir a los conocimientos de la ciencia histórica (alemán: Geschichtswissenschaft). Dado que todas las leyes de desarrollo así elaboradas dependen de su contexto en el espacio y el tiempo, no son de aplicación universal; sin embargo, es posible trazar varias «etapas de desarrollo», similares a pesar de su distancia espacial o temporal.

La economía, para esta escuela, es una ciencia dedicada al análisis riguroso de la realidad, y no a la deducción de teoremas de acuerdo con la lógica. Sus representantes veían el desarrollo del conocimiento económico como resultado de estudios empíricos e históricos rigurosos, en lugar de basarse sobre desarrollos intelectuales o teóricos autorreferenciales. En consecuencia, se preferían estudios sobre la realidad social en toda su complejidad, incluyendo aspectos históricos, psicológicos, legales y éticos; además de políticos y económicos, en lugar de buscar la creación de modelos matemáticos. Estas ideas se oponían a las de la economía clásica, basada en el análisis individualista, utilitario y determinista.

En general, sus integrantes defendían una concepción básica común: entender todos los sucesos vitales como hechos históricos. Las personas no están solo motivadas a actuar por interés propio, sino también por otros factores culturales. Puesto que la cultura cambia y la economía se ocupa de las personas, solo puede ser una ciencia social (alemán: Sozialwissenschaft), no una ciencia natural (alemán: Naturwissenschaft), como la entendían los clásicos. Entonces, su objetivo no era comprender y registrar las leyes naturales de la economía, sino sistematizar y generalizar los datos históricos para concluir enunciados sostenibles a nivel empírico.

Max Weber les criticó el descuidado de ciertos problemas lógico-metodológicos elementales en su ensayo «Roscher y Knies y los problemas lógicos de la economía política histórica», apoyado sobre todo en la formación conceptual científica —contra la lógica emanática, propia de la dialéctica de Hegel— y en la separación entre «ciencias de leyes» (alemán: Gesetzeswissenschaften) y «ciencias de la realidad» (alemán: Wirklichkeitswissenschaften), teorizadas por los neokantianos de la escuela de Baden (Heinrich Rickert, Wilhelm Windelband, Emil Lask).

Historia y desarrollo teórico
Además de sus influencias y precursores, la escuela historicista puede ser dividida en tres estadios o tendencias.

Precursores
Friedrich List y Adam Müller prepararon, con su crítica de la economía política clásica, los postulados de escuela histórica. Defendían la idea de que no podía haber leyes económicas válidas universales; debía tenerse en cuenta siempre las circunstancias específicas, como el nivel de desarrollo de una economía.

Primera generación (1848-1878)

Representantes
La primera generación o escuela histórica más antigua estaba compuesta por tres miembros principales: Wilhelm Georg Friedrich Roscher (1817-1894), su director; Bruno Hildebrand (1812-1878); y Karl G. A. Knies (1821-1898). Su actividad puede fecharse entre 1848, año en que Hildebrand publicó La economía política del presente y el futuro, y 1878, con el fallecimiento del mismo, síntoma de reemplazo generacional.

Su labor cobró especial ímpetu durante las décadas de 1850 a 1870, cuando Roscher comenzó los cinco volúmenes de su manual Sistema de la economía nacional, Knies escribió el grueso de su obra —en especial La estadística como ciencia independiente (1850), La política económica desde la perspectiva del método histórico (1853) y Sobre la doctrina del transporte de mercancías económico nacional, el dinero y el crédito (1862)—, y Hildebrand realizó sus estudios estadísticos sobre el estado de Kurhessen (1853 y 1860), la antigua Italia (1861 y 1862), el cantón de Berna (1863) y Tubinga (2 vols., 1867-78).

Crítica de la economía clásica
Estos concordaban en su rechazo de la economía clásica; veían con gran escepticismo su pretensión de formular leyes naturales —es decir, independientes del tiempo y el espacio—. En particular, se oponían a la idea de una economía «ideal», erigida sobre la pluralidad de ideales y la diversidad del comportamiento humano. Así, para ellos, la economía política no era una ciencia natural, sino una ciencia social.

Roscher, principal representante de la escuela, quería explorar las condiciones económicas y las ideas de diferentes épocas y áreas geográficas. De esto —esperaba— se podría derivar, a través del análisis empírico, leyes del desarrollo que, aunque no fuesen adecuadas por sí para la previsión, podrían ayudar a comprender mejor los desarrollos actuales. Hildebrand incluso explicó que la economía era el núcleo de una teoría de la cultura en general.

Fruto de su actividad investigadora, se realizaron numerosos estudios detallados: desde el desarrollo de los talleres artesanales municipales hasta el surgimiento de sectores económicos al completo. También les corresponde el mérito de haber introducido en la economía política el concepto de cultura (alemán: Kultur) como factor de cambio.

Segunda generación (1871-1917)

Representantes
Los representantes más conspicuos de la segunda generación o escuela histórica más joven fueron  Adolph Wagner (1835-1917); Gustav von Schmoller (1838-1917), figura central; Georg Friedrich Knapp (1842-1926); Lujo Brentano (1844-1931); y Karl Bücher (1847-1930). También se considera integrantes de esta a los prominentes defensores de la política social de Estado, como Étienne Laspeyres (1834-1913), estudiante de Roscher, y Wilhelm Lexis (1837-1914).

Los mayores, como Wagner o Schmoller, iniciaron sus trayectorias en la década de 1860, mientras que los más jóvenes, caso de Brentano o Bücher, lo harían en la siguiente. Su influencia empezó en ese decenio de 1870, coincidiendo con la proclamación del Imperio alemán y el avance de la cuestión social, para hacerse máxima en términos bibliográficos durante el de 1890. Tras esto, la escuela languidecería en vísperas de la Gran Guerra, cuyo impacto —junto a la subsecuente revolución— y los decesos de Schmoller y Wagner en 1917 terminarían por desintegrarla.

Esta escuela histórica más joven criticó a la precedente, sobre todo, por su impulso a la teoría. En su opinión, antes que intentar deducir leyes de desarrollo, debería ampliarse la base empírica. De esta manera, sus investigaciones también se extendieron en gran medida a estudios más detallados sobre el desarrollo económico.

El elemento unificador de los representantes de la segunda generación se encuentra, sobre todo, en su concepción del método, la sociedad y la economía. El Estado y la economía estatal tienen la tarea de perseguir objetivos macroeconómicos, en especial el bien común y llevar el sector privado a una acción moral. Consideraban el proceso económico como social-orgánico, evolutivo, y no como un ciclo eterno. Finalmente, incluían los intereses grupales y la investigación de las relaciones entre derecho y economía.

Crítica de la economía clásica
Los representantes de la escuela histórica siguieron un enfoque metodológico diferente a la economía clásica británica y, en consecuencia, se vieron como su opuesto. Las principales críticas a la economía política británica pueden resumirse como sigue.

Su primera objeción fue al enfoque individualista, punto de partida teórico e idea rectora de los economistas clásicos (Adam Smith, David Ricardo y James Mill). Si en ellos el individuo estaba en primer plano de la investigación, con sus necesidades individuales y su voluntad autónoma, Schmoller adoptó un enfoque orgánico: en un primer plano no estaba el individuo, sino la comunidad (alemán: Gemeinschaft), cuyas experiencias históricas se reflejaban instituciones y órganos sociales que, a su vez, determinan el campo de acción del individuo. Así, la ética de la sociedad resultaría de las experiencias históricas de la vida comunitaria, y no de la referencia al beneficio del individuo.

En estrecha relación con ello, rechazaban el uso de términos abstractos como instrumento de análisis teórico; pues Schmoller era crítico con el método deductivo aplicado a las ciencias sociales.

En tercer lugar, la escuela histórica discrepaba con la clásica en torno al papel Estado. Esta última proclamaba el principio del liberalismo económico, mientras que los historicistas abogaban por una mayor responsabilidad estatal —no en vano, serían caricaturizados como «socialistas de cátedra» (véase abajo)—. Schmoller, en particular, se ocupó de las investigaciones con notable ahínco. Al interés propio —impulso clásico de la conducta humana—, añadió el deseo por actuar de manera ética, el reconocimiento, el miedo al castigo y las costumbres vitales; todas ellas manifestadas en las instituciones del derecho y la moral.

Compromiso social y debates
Para iluminar mejor las cuestiones sociales, los representantes y otros científicos comprometidos en el ámbito sociopolítico fundaron en 1872 la Asociación de Política Social (alemán: Verein für Socialpolitik). Esta fue escenario de grandes debates teóricos, como la disputa del método de la economía política (alemán: Methodenstreit der Nationalökonomie) y el debate de los juicios de valor (alemán: Werturteilsstreit).

En la disputa del método, la escuela historicista y Karl Lamprecht, asociado cercanamente, estuvieron involucrados con representantes de lo que llegaría a ser conocida como escuela austríaca, cuyas orientaciones eran más teóricas y apriorísticas.

Discípulos
Tras la paulatina desaparición de los miembros de segunda generación, les sucedieron varios estudiantes que, más o menos críticos con su método, recogieron sus ideas básicas junto con otras influencias. Este fue el caso del algo anterior Georg Simmel (1858-1918), Werner Sombart (1863-1941), Max Weber (1864-1920), Franz Oppenheimer (1864-1943), Kurt Breysig (1866-1940), Alfred Vierkandt (1867-1953), Alfred Weber (1868-1958) e incluso el otro tanto posterior Leopold von Wiese (1876-1969). De ellos, se doctoraron en Berlín, entre 1881 y 1902, todos menos Vierkandt; este y Max Weber fueron los dos únicos que no se consideraron de manera explícita alumnos de Gustav von Schmoller.

Socialismo de cátedra
La mayoría de los miembros de la escuela fueron también, políticos sociales (alemán: Sozialpolitiker) o «socializantes»; es decir, estaban preocupados por la reforma social y mejorar las condiciones para el hombre común durante un período de rápida y profunda industrialización. En consecuencia, han sido denominados despectivamente «Kathedersozialisten» o «socialistas de cátedra» (compárese con 'revolucionario de sillón'), debido a su condición de profesores universitarios.

Los representantes de la escuela histórica más joven fueron con frecuencia activos. Pensaban que su tarea consistía en, compometidos con la ética, asesorar para la resolución de problemas políticos y, sobre todo, sociales. Atribuían muchos de estos problemas a efectos secundarios de la economía de mercado y exigían la intervención en el mercado. La libertad, etcétera, era necesaria, pero no suficiente para conseguir el bienestar. Además, debía haber un Estado que pudiera corregir efectos no deseados, como los procesos de concentración industrial o la creciente desigualdad de riqueza. Este punto de vista tuvo una influencia considerable en la configuración de la economía social de mercado en Alemania después de 1945.

Citas y referencias

Bibliografía
 BERUMEN ARELLANO, Sergio A. et al: Introducción a la economía internacional. Ed. ESIC, Madrid 2006. ISBN 9788473564601 pp.96-109.
 Landreth, H y Colander D. (2006): Historia del Pensamiento Económico. Editorial: Mc Graw Hill, España.
 Stanley L Brue y Randy R Grant; (2008): Historia del pensamiento económico. Editorial: Cengage Learning, México.

 Eugen Böhm-Bawerk: Historische und theoretische Nationalökonomie. En: Franz Xaver Weiß: Gesammelte Schriften von Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk. Volumen 1. Viena/Leipzig, 1924, pp. 157-188.
 Karl Brandt: Geschichte der Volkswirtschaft. Band 2: Vom Historismus bis zur Neoklassik. Friburgo, Haufe, 1993, ISBN 3-448-02633-6.
 Gottfried Eisermann: Die Grundlagen des Historismus in der deutschen Nationalökonomie. Stuttgart, Enke, 1956.
 Hans Georg Schachtschabel: Geschichte der volkswirtschaftlichen Lehrmeinungen. Stuttgart/Düsseldorf, 1971.
 Nicolas Diefenbach: Historische Schule der Nationalökonomie in Deutschland. Marburgo, 2002.
 Mario Candeias y Thomas Marxhausen: «Historische Schule der Ökonomie». En: Historisch-kritisches Wörterbuch des Marxismus, vol. 6/I, Hamburgo, Argument-Verlag, 2004, pp. 367-375.
 Birger Priddat: Die andere Ökonomie: über G. v. Schmollers Versuch einer »ethisch-historischen« Ökonomie im 19. Jahrhundert. Marburgo, Metropolis, 1995, ISBN 3-926570-85-7.
 ——: Produktive Kraft, sittliche Ordnung und geistige Macht. Denkstile der deutschen Nationalökonomie im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert. Marburg, Metropolis, 1998, ISBN 3-89518-034-3.

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This radar image, captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission, shows us the only city-island-nation – Singapore – and one of the busiest ports in the world. Credit: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021-22), processed by ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
This radar image, captured from space by the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission, shows us the only city-island-nation – Singapore – and one of the busiest ports in the world.
Singapore, officially known as the Republic of Singapore, is the world's only island city-state. Given its small geographic size and population of about 5.6 million people, it is the second most densely populated country in the world after Monaco. (Monaco has just a tiny fraction of the population, but an even smaller land area.)
Singapore has four official languages; English, Malay, Mandarin, and Tamil. According to their constitution, Malay is the national language, but English is the lingua franca.
Singapore is located just off the southern tip of the Malayan Peninsula, between Malaysia and Indonesia, around 84 miles (135 km) north of the equator. It consists of the 270 square mile (710 sq km) Singapore Island, visible in the top-center of the image, as well as some 63 satellite islands and small islets.
Nearly two-thirds of Singapore Island is less than 50 feet (15 m) above sea level. The highest summit, Timah Hill, has an elevation of only 538 feet (165 m). Changi Airport, one of the largest transportation hubs in Asia, can be seen at the eastern end of the island.
Singapore Island is separated from Peninsular Malaysia to the north by the Johore Strait, a narrow channel crossed by a road and train causeway, while the southern end faces the Singapore Strait, where the Riau-Lingga Archipelago (part of Indonesia) extends.
Singapore is home to the largest port in Southeast Asia and one of the busiest in the world. The port offers connectivity to more than 600 ports in 123 countries. It owes its growth and prosperity to its position at the southern extremity of the Malay Peninsula, where it dominates the Strait of Malacca, which connects the Indian Ocean to the South China Sea.
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In this episode of the Earth From Space program, the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission takes us over Singapore, the only city-island-nation and one of the busiest ports in the world. Credit: ESA – European Space Agency
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What are the top Communications Schools in Hanover, IN?
With an overall population of 2,834 and a student population of 938, approximately 938 of Hanover students attend one of Hanover's schools that offer communications programs.
Of the 1 communications schools in Hanover, the largest communications school, by student population, is Hanover College. In 2010, approximately 14 students graduated from the Communications program at Hanover College.
In 2010, 14 students graduated with a communications degree from one of Hanover's communications schools. In 2009 tuition at communications schools in Hanover was $26,350 per year, on average.
You should also anticipate spending about $900 for communications related books and supplies every year. And if you live on campus, you will face an additional expense of $7,900 per year, on average, for room and board. If you live at home, you can cut this cost down to approximately $0.
After graduating with your credentials in communications, if you decide to work as a communications professional in Hanover, your job prospects are average. In 2010, 1 out of every 23 communications professionals in Indiana were working in the greater Hanover area. Hanover's communications professional workforce is projected to increase by 9% by the year 2018. This anticipated change is faster than the projected nationwide trend for communications professionals.
The average salary you can expect to earn as a communications professional in Hanover is $28,450 per year. This is lower than the state-wide average salary for communications professionals.


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Position: Professor in Social Science
Email: rob.watts@rmit.edu.au
Robert (Rob) Watts is Professor of Social Policy at RMIT University.
At a time when the critical role and work of a public university is under attack from so many quarters, Rob believes that university teachers work out what being a good teacher demands of them while being actively engaged in socially valuable research and writing. This requires first of all showing what ought to be done rather than just talking about it, and a passionate engagement with the activities which define a university's role. Passion here is understood as Nietszche once put it less in terms of intensity and more in terms of duration.
Rob's work as a teacher and a writer has been driven by an abiding and deep intellectual curiosity and a desire to better understand ourselves and our world as a prelude to doing better so that we can all lead flourishing lives. As a teacher, he wants to inspire all of his students especially first year students and to show them something of the delights that come from thinking well, and why that has everything to do with doing well as professionals employed across the whole range of community services and public policy where our graduates work. He continues to teach and to supervise students doing higher degrees by research.
He has never seen any virtue in narrowly defined research projects or in teaching the same stuff year after year and continues to write and teach across any number of disciplinary and intellectual traditions. Cowardice, laziness and a persistent capacity to either deny the obvious or flee into fantasies of one sort or another especially when inspired by risk-averse managerialism are the only obstacles to having good universities or a good society. That modern universities, governments, the corporate sector (including the mass media) and the community sector all provide examples of both the constraints on and the possibilities of thinking better and doing better provide a constant source of provocation for all his work.
He continues to care about clarity of thought, speaking and writing, still loves the music of J.S. Bach, and adores his many grandchildren.
Applied Human Rights
Organisational Studies
Explorations in good practice
Beyond the law; developing a human rights culture
Children, young people and a new political imaginary
The legitimacy of law and politics: beyond Habermas and Schmitt
States of Illegality: asylum seekers and legal black and gray holes
The crisis of authority in the Australian university
Research income and prizes
2009 – Australian Learning and Teaching Council Citation Award ($10,000)
2009–2012 – ARC Institutional Linkage Grant ($156,000) – 'Auditing The Victorian Charter of Human Rights'
2007 – Grant of $110,000 from H. Macpherson Smith Trust to fund human rights research
2006 – Competitive grant of $300,000 from World Mate Foundation to establish the Australian Center for Human Rights Education at RMIT
2004 – Research grants – Media reports and young heroin users ($15,000)
2003 – ARC Institutional Linkage Grant ($77,000) (with Dalton, T.)
2001 – RMIT University Teaching Award – Research Supervision
2001 – AHURI Research Grant ($112,000) (with Bessant, J. & Dalton, T.)
2000 – RMIT Postgraduate Association Supervisor of the Year (Masters)
1999 – Large ARC Grant ($80,000) (with Bessant, J., Dalton, T. & Smyth, P.) for project 'Social Policy and Globalization: the Hawke-Keating Governments 1983-1996'
1998 – Small ARC Grant ($12,000) (with Bessant, J. & Webber, R.) for project on: 'Interpreting Youth Violence: New Approaches'
1989–1990 – Canadian Studies Association Travel Grant for Travel and Research in Canada at National Archives, Ottawa ($2,500)
1975–1978 – Commonwealth Postgraduate Award for work on PhD Thesis 'The Light on the Hill The origins of the Australian Welfare State, 1930-1945'
MA, Dip Ed La Trobe University
PhD, University of Melbourne
Bessant, J.,Pickard, S.,Watts, R. (2020). Translating Bourdieu into youth studies In: Journal of Youth Studies, 23, 76 - 92
Bessant, J.,Watts, R. (2019). Public Administration, Habermas and the Crisis of Legitimacy in the Youth Justice System: An Australian Case Study In: Administrative Theory & Praxis, , 1 - 18
Bessant, J.,Watts, R. (2018). Uncomfortable knowledge and the ethics of good practice in Australia's offshore refugee detention centers In: The SAGE Handbook of Youth Work Practice, Sage, United Kingdom
Bessant, J.,Watts, R. (2018). Child Prisoners, Human Rights and Human Rights Activism: Beyond 'Emergency' and 'Exceptionality' - An Australian case study In: Human Rights as Battlefields: Changing Practices and Contestations Human Rights Interventions, Springer Nature Switzerland AG, Cham, Switzerland
Watts, R. (2018). The Crisis Of Democracy In Hong Kong: Young People's Online Politics And The Umbrella Movement In: Young people re-generating politics in times of crisis, Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, Switzerland
Bessant, J.,Watts, R. (2017). Indigenous digital art as politics in Australia In: Culture, Theory and Critique, 58, 306 - 319
Bessant, J.,Farthing, L.,Watts, R. (2017). The precarious generation: a political economy of young people, Taylor and Francis, London, United Kingdom
Emslie, M.,Watts, R. (2017). On technology and the prospects for good practice in the human services: Donald Sch�n, Martin Heidegger, and the case for phronesis and praxis In: Social Service Review, 91, 319 - 356
Bessant, J.,Watts, R. (2017). Globalisation and predatory corporations In: Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance, Springer International Publishing, New York, United States
Bessant, J.,Watts, R. (2016). Children and the law: An historical overview In: Children and The Law in Australia, Lexis Nexis, Chatswood, New South Wales, Australia
19 PhD Completions and 2 Masters by Research Completions2 PhD Current Supervisions
Labour market restructuring and social security policy in the 21st century. Private investment in public infrastructure. The history of social theory in Australia. The history of eugenics in Australia. Youth culture and bodgies and widgies. Youth policy.
Auditing the Victorian Charter: Australian and international perspective on applied human rights. Funded by: ARC Linkage Project 2008 Round 1 from (2009 to 2012)
Ethnographies of housing: exploring the role of housing officers in public housing service provision.. Funded by: ARC Linkage Projects 2003 Round 2 from (2003 to 2007)
Heroin users, housing and social participation: Attacking social exclusion through better housing. Funded by: AHURI National Housing Research Program Grants pre-2010 from (2001 to 2002)
Watts, Professor Rob


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Pisa | Sant'Agata Chapel
Info: 050.550100
Pisa Tourist Office
It seems that the cult of Saint Agata arrived in Pisa probably with the liberation of Catania from the Saracens. The first document to attest to this is that of Pope Honorius II (21 July 1126), who allowed the Archbishop of Pisa to celebrate the feast of St Agatha on 5 February. On that date and for the next two days, the saint's alleged skull was exhibited and is still preserved in the church of San Paolo a Ripa d'Arno. At the end of the 19th century, its display still aroused great devotion on the part of nursing mothers. The importance of the cult is also testified by the octagonal oratory dedicated to her, built within the monastic complex around the middle of the 12th century.
Small in size, it has an equilateral octagonal plan, surmounted by a pyramid-shaped spire made entirely of bricks. The rest of the structure is also made of bricks, the sides of which are marked by pillars and blind round arches on a square stone base, the height of which gradually increases from east to west, indicating a probable reconstruction of the original structure.
The entrance is on the westernmost side facing the Church of St. Paolo, while the four façades have three-mullioned windows with columns and marble capitals supporting brick arches surmounted by an oculus.
In Pisa, the Church of the Santo Sepolcro (Holy Sepulchre), on the Lungarno Galilei, also has an octagonal plan and has been documented since 1138. In fact, the shape of the two buildings recalls both the Templum Domini – as the Crusaders called the Dome of the Rock on the Temple esplanade in Jerusalem – and the aedicule above Christ's tomb. They were joined by the Baptistery in Piazza dei Miracoli, which repeats the measurements and number of supports of the Anastasis in Jerusalem, the place of Christ's burial and resurrection.
In Pisa alone, therefore, we can admire three buildings closely linked to Jerusalem, most likely built by the Pisan architect Diotisalvi, which show how relations with the Holy Land, often seen from an exclusively commercial point of view, also involved cultural and religious spheres.


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Biz & IT —
Desktop apps make their way into the Windows Store
The Project Centennial "bridge" for Win32 apps is now ready for production.
Ars Staff - Sep 14, 2016 4:00 pm UTC
Sean Gallagher
175 with 66 posters participating
Traditional desktop Windows applications can now be distributed and sold through the Windows Store, with note-taking application Evernote being one of the first to use this new capability.
Until now, applications built for and sold through the Windows Store in Windows 10 have been built for the Universal Windows Platform (UWP), the common set of APIs that spans Windows 10 across all the many devices it supports. This has left one major category of application, the traditional desktop application built using the Win32 API, behind.
Announced at Build 2015, codename Project Centennial—now officially titled the Desktop App Converter—is Microsoft's solution to this problem. It allows developers to repackage existing Win32 applications with few or no changes and sell them through the store. Applications packaged this way aren't subject to all the sandbox restrictions that UWP applications are, ensuring that most will work unmodified. But they are also given the same kind of clean installation, upgrading, and uninstallation that we've all come to expect from Store-delivered software.
Centennial is designed to provide not just a way of bringing Win32 apps into the store; it also provides a transition path so that developers can add UWP-based functionality to their old applications on a piecemeal basis. Evernote, one of the launch applications, uses UWP APIs to include support for Live Tiles and Windows' notification system. In this way, developers can create applications that work better on Windows 10 but without having to rewrite them entirely for Windows 10.
The big downside to Centennial applications is, of course, that they're not universal. They'll only run on desktop Windows systems with x86 processors. What this means for UWP going forward isn't clear. On the one hand, it means that developing a UWP for Windows' primary audience, the desktop, is now unnecessary. UWPs still have a role if a developer really wants to reach Mobile, HoloLens, the Internet of Things, or Xbox, but if those are unimportant, there is now little need to create a full UWP app. On the other hand, by allowing developers to incrementally add support for UWP rather than forcing them to build an entirely new program from scratch, UWP as an end goal becomes a great deal more attainable. Devs can add support at their own pace, focusing on the UWP features that offer most value (such as notifications or Cortana integration) before building out more complete support.
Simultaneous with this, the Desktop App Converter has itself been published to the Store as a Store app. Direct support for the App Converter is also being included in commonly used third-party installation products such as InstallShield and WiX, to streamline the process of turning a desktop app into a Store one.
175 Reader Comments
Uxorious Ars Praefectus et Subscriptor
Will Win32 apps go through an evaluation process to ensure they meet MS security requirements before being allowed in the Windows Store? I've come across some pretty noncompliant apps over the years (installing executables into roaming profiles, etc.).
Last edited by Uxorious on Wed Sep 14, 2016 11:13 am
4989 posts | registered Sep 1, 2012
theoilman Ars Praefectus
On the one hand this makes app distribution easier. On the other hand it sounds like the death knell for UWP apps. Who's going to make a UWP app when they can get the same distribution with more rich development options under win32?
javalsu Seniorius Lurkius
I know a lot of people are going to freak out with this news and consider it one step closer to Windows being a completely closed system.
I actually like this news. Given the option of downloading an app from an unknown publisher from the web or from the store, I'll choose the store every single time. I know that it will be sandboxed and have limited access to my system.
22 posts | registered May 14, 2010
theoilman wrote:
If and when the surface phone gets released it'll be an incentive for UWP apps. As well as the xbox and hololens.
squawkingVFR Ars Praetorian et Subscriptor
I'm assuming Project Centennial apps will also be subject to the profit sharing Microsoft gets with selling UWP apps through their store?
417 posts | registered Jul 16, 2011
GreetingsEarthling Seniorius Lurkius et Subscriptor
Uxorious wrote:
The win32 apps that are packaged using the Desktop Bridge are restricted in terms of which areas they can access. Roaming profiles are an example of an area they cannot. More restrictions here:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/windows/uwp/ ... o-uwp-root
Infinity4011 Ars Scholae Palatinae et Subscriptor
My utility is transitioning to enterprise-managed Win10 machines over the next several months, which includes new laptops and tablets for field workers. As part of that, all of our line-of-business programs are being rewritten so they are Win10 compatible, corporate app store distributable, and 64-bit.
This will probably help that initiative, as legacy does not even begin to describe some of our DOS based software and handhelds that are being replaced by tablets.
onceuponatime Seniorius Lurkius
javalsu wrote:
No it won't.
"Applications packaged this way aren't subject to all the sandbox restrictions that UWP applications are"
25 posts | registered Oct 20, 2015
Fritzr Ars Legatus Legionis et Subscriptor
Wickwick wrote:
So the Universal part of UWP has gone from meaning "lowest common denominator" to meaning "Desktop."
That didn't take long.
If you ever looked at the fine print in the previous store offerings you would know that systems restrictions are not new. They already noted the CPU type as a requirement, so that an app could be x86 only or ARM only. Maybe they note the type of CPU on the logged in computer and offer only compatible apps, but the requirement is still seen in the store listing.
Also, not mentioned in the article. This announcement includes support for Android/C++ & iOS/Objective C apps in addition to Win32. Look at the slide displayed.
Last edited by Fritzr on Wed Sep 14, 2016 11:42 am
daneren2005 Ars Tribunus Militum
After basically throwing in the towel on Windows Phones, MS is going to have to prove it's worth anyone's time to give a crap about the upcoming Surface Phone. People are going to be wary wasting their time again after MS gave up as their market share was rising. And I would argue that Hololens and XBox are still out of the reach of most developers simply because you still have to ask to be allowed in.
The only comment is what took them so damn long? The biggest software company could not make the App Store available to all their supported OS until now.
Shows how bad their bet with Mobile + Tablet was, they went all in on those App store but kept neglecting their desktop OS market which is still universally used at businesses.
sidran32 Ars Tribunus Militum
Fritzr wrote:
They can list apps that don't meet requirements. I can't download Halo 5 Forge onto my Surface Pro 4 because it doesn't meet the minimum system requirements. (Not that I'd want to anyway, but I did check to see if it was listed, anyways.)
RickyP784 Ars Tribunus Militum et Subscriptor
They'll only run on desktop Windows systems with x86 processors.
x86? or x86-64?
1991 posts | registered Dec 20, 2011
GreetingsEarthling wrote:
Excellent information, thank you @GreetingsEarthling!
dskiller1 Seniorius Lurkius
I have a vb app that I converted over to the platform and the app wont run correctly. because it needs to copy files after install to finish setting it self up for running. but it crashes because the sandbox is refusing to let the app have access to read and copy its own files. so now I have to actually right a C# universal app to do it. because the copy commands in vb are denied.
3 posts | registered Sep 14, 2016
RickyP784 wrote:
x64 chips support x86 and AMD64
As long as your system has a CPU that supports x86 or x64 or x86/AMD64, then 32bit Intel is supported. (Itanium is the exception )
Right, I know that x64 is backwards compatible with x86. But, the way it was phrased made it sound like 32-bit, and I just wanted clarification since software-wise, they're different animals. All 32-bit will run in 64-bit, but the reverse is not true.
rick*d Ars Legatus Legionis
Infinity4011 wrote:
OTOH, our company makes software medical devices, and we have a couple that run on Windows desktops and tablets. We (well, management) chose Windows in part because iOS and Android apps would have to be installed (and thus sold) through their respective app stores, and A) we can't afford to give them 30% of our business, and B) we're a medical device, so the FDA won't let just anyone buy our product -- how do you restrict who can see our product in the app store to just our known customers? If Microsoft go to a close garden business model, it will drive us off Windows tablets and force us to make HTML5 apps that run on the tablet's browser. (We've already gone that direction for one product).
10855 posts | registered Aug 2, 2011
rabish12 Ars Legatus Legionis
As a general rule, most application developers don't care about "more rich development options" unless those options are actually useful (read: almost never, for the vast majority of Windows applications). The real questions are usually more along the lines of:
- What platform makes it easiest for me to do the things that I want my application to do? For most developers, the answer here is UWP - it's not saddled with decades-old design decisions and it's pretty heavily geared towards modern apps.
- What platform makes it hardest for me to completely and utterly screw myself? Again, the answer here is UWP - there are a lot more ways to screw up a Win32 app in ways that would cause damage to the overall system that it's on than there are with UWP apps, largely because they're more heavily sandboxed.
- What platform gives me access to the most customers? The answer here is going to be Win32 until all the older versions of Windows are broadly abandoned, and that's not going to happen for a while.
That third question always - always - takes precedence over the other two, which means that UWP had no chance of gaining any real traction in the short term. That's why Microsoft bothered with Centennial in the first place: it makes it easier to bring non-UWP applications to the Store, which makes the Store more attractive to consumers and accelerates OS adoption as a result. That's the plan, at least.
16983 posts | registered Nov 25, 2009
I'll believe the surface phone will do better than the lumia devices when I see it. I'm not holding my breath.
Elindalyne Ars Centurion
rick*d wrote:
By default you can sideload apps in Windows 10. Additionally, you can create your own storefront that shouldn't incur the 30% penalty. I'd say your worries are pretty moot.
267 posts | registered Mar 29, 2015
Head Pirate Ars Tribunus Militum
This shows a clear divide (maybe even ignorance) about how a dev looks are install base and how most people THINK they do.
It's not binary. You're never thinking "I want to build this app for this system, for these people, and NO ONE ELSE", but you're also never thinking "I want to build this app for EVERYONE".
It's all about development cost and return on investment. If it costs you some money to build the app for a device and you can expect to recover that cost ... then you build it. If you're not likely to recover your costs, you don't. That's what Microsoft is doing here. The cost of rebuilding something in WUP didn't offer a great ROIC when you looked at the expect return from Window's phone and Xbox sales. But that return isn't zero. Now it costs a LOT less to build some features and sell a limited product on Xbox and Windows phone which in a lot of cases can be recovered with very marginal sales. Plus, it lets Microsoft say "there is a Twitch App on Windows phone". Sure, they wont be able to say "there is a FULL FEATURED Twitch App on Windows phone" … but that's still better then having to day "there isn't one".
2021 posts | registered Jan 6, 2016
rabish12 wrote:
With the likes of Google, Mozilla, and steam all publicly criticizing depreciation of win32 because they can't support their current feature sets on UWP I'd say it's about more than audience size. Part of the issue is lack of new APIs that allow the same functions as win32, and part of the reasons is developer laziness, but in the end the reason doesn't matter. A lot of devs will pick win32 over UWP for a variety of reasons, and that choice to stick to win32 just got easier.
Surface Phone? Really? I know the Surface is cool and all, but how do they propose I carry one in my pocket?
Mr_Cynical Ars Scholae Palatinae
If and when the surface phone gets released it'll be an incentive for UWP apps.
No it won't. Windows Phone is a rounding error - its share of the cellphone market is less than the margin of error of market share surveys.
arcadium Ars Praefectus
I haven't done any serious Win development, but I'd imagine that Win32 lacks the ability to handle the modern form factors Windows is now available on with the ease UWP would.
Is there any reason for any new dev to pick up Win 32 over UWP?
I'm pretty sure Win32 hasn't actually been deprecated yet. I also haven't seen any criticisms of it from Google or Mozilla, and the only criticisms from Steam (or rather, from Gabe Newell) were of an earlier application platform and over issues that it doesn't really share with UWP. I'm also not sure which features of Chrome or Firefox couldn't be replicated under UWP.
This is just Microsoft's attempt at taking a 30% cut of everyone's business. Mark my words, the day will come when Windows is a walled garden, and you won't be able to buy AutoCAD or Word Perfect anywhere but the Windows Store - and shortly after that, the only office suite you'll be able to get at any price will be Microsoft Office.
Fuck that shit, I'm moving half my PCs to Mint Linux and I'm probably moving my primary PC there once my warranty expires. My 13 year old does everything for school on Google Docs, so I'm going to give her a Mint Linux laptop to see if she even notices a difference in what she can do. Given that all her social and gaming is on her phone, I don't think it will be a big change for her.
I don't think we have to worry about that, most software vendors would not want to piss off their customers doing that.
The bigger threat is that more and more software will be SaaS based like Office 365 where you no longer can install it offline. You have to remain connected to keep the software functional all the time. Adobe is attempting to do that with their creativesuite. This will ensure they cannot be blocked off by App Store like what Apple is doing and helps them control piracy too.
metalliqaz Ars Scholae Palatinae
New Windows features will only be made available to UWP apps. This has already happened with parts of DirectX 12. As the Windows platform moves on, Win32 apps will be left behind. They will fail to interoperate with all the cool new stuff, they will run slower, and they will look old-fashioned. Thus, even if they are available, they will die out.
901 posts | registered Sep 6, 2011
Voldenuit Ars Praefectus
Very well reasoned post (truncated your post for readability).
I think MS originally intended for UWP to be more "universal", but with WinPho and SurfaceRT flopping hard have been forced to reevaluate their original plans for World Domination.
I wonder if XBone being opened up to UWP apps was originally planned, or is a desperation move due to the above.
And really, if they had left the snooping/telemetry features out of Win10 RTM, they would have 90% Win10 OS share right now. And then patched it in after the fact using some EULA loophole clause.
Really, MS, if you want better Evil Dictator-ing, sign up for my workshop.
arcadium wrote:
Are devs actually seeing any uptake of tablet apps on windows anyway? Is that big enough to be an actual incentive? Tablets in general are in a big downswing.
The store already lists CPU and other requirements for Apps on the UWP because hardware changes rather quickly.
My 2 year old cell phone can't run Pokémon go. I would still say Google Play is a pretty universal marketplace.
ChrisSD Ars Praefectus
Elindalyne wrote:
This is technically true but I've yet to hear of anyone making a third party store front or even release example code for creating a store front. Has Microsoft even released a best practice document for doing this?
Well, that's a really stupid move. Even Office 365 doesn't require a 24/7 internet connection. I'd give any software that requires an internet connection a snowball's chance of surviving in the long term. Once you can't do your job because you lost internet, you'll find another tool that works offline.
Voldenuit wrote:
The frustrating thing is that regardless of their intentions for it, UWP is a really solid and reasonably well-designed platform from what I've seen of it. The problem is that rather than trying to push it as something that could more broadly advance software quality on the PC, they've been using it as a marketing tool. I'm not about to act like I don't understand why, but it's still disappointing given that it seriously hampers the platform's adoption.
The ideal kind of "universal" platform is one that runs on all currently popular devices and operating systems, not one that runs on a single company's PC OS, their gaming console, and some of the absolute least popular phones on the market.
Last edited by rabish12 on Wed Sep 14, 2016 12:20 pm
Since windows 8 both have criticized limits of win32 apps from the now dead (ish?) windows rt and from the windows store, and have said they won't be able to make their browsers outside of win32.


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Amazon casual game download service lacks Mac support
2/04/2009 digital distribution, mac, online retail sales, PC gaming
Amazon.com has quietly launched a new Game Downloads Web site, where users can purchase and download more than 600 casual video games priced at $9.99 or less. For the moment, though, Mac users are excluded from the fun.
It's the latest effort from Amazon.com to offer more digital content for download. The company has seen success with its MP3 store, where users can download music without any DRM restrictions for Macs and PCs, iPods and other portable media players; Amazon also offers e-books compatible with its Kindle reader and other content.
The Game Downloads site is described as a beta version, specifically. As such, it is "a project or process that is being tested," according to Amazon, which said that it will be testing different features and gathering input from users about how to develop the new service.
The Game Downloads section sports hundreds of popular casual games available for download from other casual game portals, and in some cases also available for sale in brick and mortar retail stores.
Unlike Amazon.com's MP3 files, which eschew any sort of digital rights management technology, the games available for download from the Game Downloads service do require activation, through the use of a product key. A Windows-based "Amazon Games & Software Downloader" is also required to download and install the software; it's compatible with Windows XP and Vista.
In a FAQ posted to the Amazon.com Web site, the company indicates that it is "currently working on adding software titles to the Games & Software Downloads store and developing a version of the Amazon Games & Software Downloader that will be compatible with Mac OS. The exact date for when Mac OS compatible products will be available is unknown at this time"
via macworld
Tags: digital distribution, mac, online retail sales, PC gaming