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In May 2021, Jim Gosler, known as the Godfather and commander of US agencies' cyber offensive capability, said, ''Either the Intelligence Community (IC) would grow and adapt, or the Internet would eat us alive.'' Mr Gosler was speaking at his retirement only several months before the terrorist attacks of 9/11. He possibly did not realise the catalyst or the tsunami that he and his tens of thousands of US IC offensive website operatives had created and commenced. Over the last two decades, what Mr Gosler and his army of Internet keyboard warriors created would become the modus operandi for every faceless, nameless, state-sponsored or individual cybercriminal to replicate against an unwary, ill-protected, and ignorant group of executives and security professionals who knew little to nothing about the clandestine methods of infiltration and weaponisation of the Internet that the US and UK agencies led, all in the name of security. This book covers many cyber and ransomware attacks and events, including how we have gotten to the point of massive digital utilisation, particularly during the global lockdown and COVID-19 pandemic, to online spending that will see twice the monetary amount lost to cybercrime than what is spent online. There is little to no attribution, and with the IC themselves suffering cyberattacks, they are all blamed on being sophisticated ones, of course. We are witnessing the undermining of our entire way of life, our economies, and even our liberties. The IC has lots to answer for and unequivocally created the disastrous situation we are currently in. They currently have little to no answer. We need--no, we must demand--change. That change must start by ensuring the Internet and all connections to it are secure and no longer allow easy access and exfiltration for both the ICs and cybercriminals.

Lebanese society and politics from the Shi'ite Muslim perspective.

Beginning with the last review of gender and crime that appeared in the Annual Review of Sociology (1996), I examine the developments in the more traditional approaches to this subject (the gender ratio problem and the problem of theoretical generalization), life course research, and feminist research (gendered pathways, gendered crime, and gendered lives). This review highlights important insights that have emerged in this work on gender and crime, and it considers how this work might be further enriched by drawing on sociological theories that can address how gendered lives shape the impetus and opportunities for offending. This includes work on the context of offending, the learning and expression of emotions, and identity theory.

Child welfare services around the world deal with families and family complexities. The study from Chile, Lithuania and Norway explores how social workers define family and more specific the position of extended families within child welfare and thus indicate contextual differences and similarities. In the data collection, five focus groups were included: one Lithuanian (eight participants), two Chilean (with two and two participants) and two Norwegian groups (with seven and eight participants). The analysis reveals significant and thematic differences and similarities between the countries related to the fluid and varied concept of family. The results also show variations across contexts in which families that are targeted by the services, the involvement of children and nuclear and extended family members. A dilemma between children's need to keep family bonds and the states responsibility to protect children, can be exemplified with the position of the extended family. We can identity a difference between Norway, with comprehensive state involvement that can be framed as they are dealing with a public family, and both Chile and Lithuania, which put more of an emphasis on problem-solving within families, and thus look at the family as more of a private sphere.

Introduction: Land and Liberty -- Progress and Poverty: Land and Inequality in the Liberal Tradition -- The Prophet of San Francisco: Confronting the Modern Metropolis -- The Truths of Smith and Proudhon: Crafting a New Liberalism -- Labor Omnia Vincit: Crafting the Movement -- The Democracy of Henry George: Joining the Democratic Mainstream -- A Great and Glorious City: The Single Tax and Urban Reform in Ohio -- Seeing the Cat: Ideology and Movement Culture -- The Good Ship Earth: The Global Single Tax -- Justice Not Charity: The Fels Fund and the Implementation of Land Value Taxation -- Conservation for the People: Land Nationalization and Conservation -- The Point of Least Resistance: Woodrow Wilson and the Single Tax Movement -- The Will to Believe: The Decline of the Single Tax Movement and the Rise of Regional Planning -- Back to the Land: The New Deal, Land Policy, and the Single Tax Movement -- Conclusion: Henry George and the Promise of Liberalism.

Staying in Hollywood and the Big Apple: The Effectiveness and Design of Film Production Tax Credits in New York and California, 2016 Colum. Bus. L. Rev. 426 (2016). Film production tax credits have become an increasingly common feature of the state tax system. These tax credit programs were originally a response to worries about "runaway production" of films to foreign jurisdictions offering similar incentives. Now, even states with a historical comparative advantage in film production and strong in-state talent and expertise offer sizeable tax credits. This Note will focus on the film production tax credits offered in states with a historical comparative advantage in filming, specifically New York and California. The Note begins by examining the evolution and expansion of the Empire State Film Production Credit and the California Film and Television Production Credit. Then, it compares the current design of these two tax credit programs, and discusses and critiques economic impact analyses used to evaluate these programs. The Note concludes by addressing whether it is advisable for a state with a historically strong film industry to offer a film tax credit, and which tax design features are appropriate for such a state, paying special attention to how a program determines eligibility for the tax credit, whether the credit can be refunded or transferred, and the credit's allocation mechanism.

Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this book raises new questions and provides different perspectives on the roles, responsibilities, ethics and protection of interpreters in war while investigating the substance and agents of Japanese war crimes and legal aspects of interpreters' taking part in war crimes. Informed by studies on interpreter ethics in conflict, historical studies of Japanese war crimes and legal discussion on individual liability in war crimes, Takeda provides a detailed description and analysis of the 39 interpreter defendants and interpreters as witnesses of war crimes at British military trials against the Japanese in the aftermath of the Pacific War, and tackles ethical and legal issues of various risks faced by interpreters in violent conflict.The book first discusses the backgrounds, recruitment and wartime activities of the accused interpreters at British military trials in addition to the charges they faced, the defence arguments and the verdicts they received at the trials, with attention to why so many of the accused were Taiwanese and foreign-born Japanese. Takeda provides a contextualized discussion, focusing on the Japanese military's specific linguistic needs in its occupied areas in Southeast Asia and the attributes of interpreters who could meet such needs. In the theoretical examination of the issues that emerge, the focus is placed on interpreters' proximity to danger, visibility and perceived authorship of speech, legal responsibility in war crimes and ethical issues in testifying as eyewitnesses of criminal acts in violent hostilities. Takeda critically examines prior literature on the roles of interpreters in conflict and ethical concerns such as interpreter neutrality and confidentiality, drawing on legal discussion of the ineffectiveness of the superior orders defence and modes of individual liability in war crimes. The book seeks to promote intersectoral discussion on how interpreters can be protected from exposure to manifestly unlawful acts such as torture.

Examines the effect on the informal economy of state policies relating to the agricultural & industrial sectors of Trinidad & Tobago, arguing that formal & informal processes are intricately interconnected. It is suggested that multiple forms of production have been an essential feature of capitalist development, with the informal sector expanding simultaneously, & often dialectically, with formal capitalism. The evolution of capitalist development in Trinidad & Tobago is traced, along with the role of the state in developing small businesses, & the 1965 creation of the Crown Lands Development Project intended to establish efficient full-time family farms. The project had ambiguous results, as did state efforts to revitalize small business, & the participants were part of the wage-labor force engaged in multiple economic activities involving seemingly contradictory forms of production & work. It is contended that the academic dichotomy of the formal & informal economy in capitalist development needs to be reconceptualized as intertwined, fluctuating tendencies in the relations of people & the state. 48 References. J. Lindroth

Judith Hallett illuminates a paradox of elite Roman society of the classical period: its members extolled female domesticity and imposed numerous formal constraints on women's public activity, but many women in Rome's leading families wielded substantial political and social influence. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Background: The construct of insight in psychosis assumes congruence between patient and clinician views of the meaning of symptoms and experience. Current definitions and measures of insight do not give systematic attention to the impact of interpersonal, cultural and socio-economic contexts. Aims: We hypothesized that socio-cultural factors influence insight in patients with schizophrenia. Methods: We tested this hypothesis through comparison of insight in 18 triads, each composed of a patient, a family member and a clinician. The sample consisted of patients who were first diagnosed with psychosis in the last two years, and who were either immigrants from Africa or the Caribbean Islands, or Canadian born. Insight was assessed by analysis of narratives collected from patients, family members and clinicians for a research project on the negotiation of treatment. Each narrative was scored for insight along multiple dimensions with the Extracted Insight Scale (EIS), developed for this project. Results: There was a significant correlation of insight on the EIS between patients and family members ( r = 0.51, p = 0.03) but not between patient and clinician or family and clinician. The mean levels of insight across the three groups were comparable. Qualitative analysis of the illness narratives suggested that insight was based on the meanings constructed around psychotic experiences and that the process of interpreting and attributing psychotic experiences reflected each person's cultural background, life experiences, and other social determinants, especially stigma. Conclusion: Forms of insight can occur in the context of discordance or disagreement with the clinician's opinion. We present a testable model of the socio-cultural determinants of insight that can guide future studies.

The defences available to an agent accused of wrongdoing can be considered as justifications (which render acts lawful) or excuses (which shield the agent from the legal consequences of the wrongful act). This distinction is familiar to many domestic legal systems, and tracks analogous notions in moral philosophy and ordinary language. Nevertheless, it remains contested in some domestic jurisdictions where it is often argued that the distinction is purely theoretical and has no consequences in practice. In international law too the distinction has been fraught with controversy, though there are increasing calls for its recognition. This book is the first to comprehensively and thoroughly examine the distinction and its relevance to the international legal order. Combining an analysis of State practice, historical, doctrinal and theoretical developments, the book shows that the distinction is not only possible in international law but that it is also one that would have important practical implications.

Objective: to contextually analyze the phenomenon of nursing practice from the Community for Integrative Therapy by the summarization of Brazilian productions. Method: this is an integrative review associated to the theoretical reference of Hinds, Chaves and Cypress to discuss the phenomenon from their contexts. Results: there were contexts emerged about the nursing Integrative Community Therapy, Implementation of complementary and integrative practices, the Production of knowledge about this therapy and the proposed emerging paradigm. Conclusion: the application of Integrative Community Therapy emerged as a new performance practices of health professionals on the experience of the new paradigm proposal, which requires breaking with the model of modern science focused on biologicism, deconstruction of perception and formulation of new forms thinking.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Editions of Texts Used with Abbreviations -- Aristotle -- Kant -- Nietzsche -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Nietzsche's Literary Gift of Friendship: Reading Nietzsche as a Joyful, Agonistic, and Bestowing Friend -- On how to read Nietzsche -- The central texts on friendship -- Nietzsche's expectations of the reader -- Nietzsche as agonistic psychologist -- Chapter 2: Nietzsche's Re-evaluation of Friendship -- Lower and higher forms of friendship -- The development of Nietzsche's agonistic ethics of friendship -- The practice of agonistics -- Friendship, Redlichkeit, and the Overhuman -- What threatens friendship? -- Knowing when to leave a friendship -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3: On Becoming What One Is: Nietzsche's Therapeutic Concept of the Self -- The self is the body -- The body is a great reason -- The socialization of identity and self-consciousness -- Nietzsche's psycho-ontological conception of the self and the will to power -- A textual analysis of the meaning of self-overcoming -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4: Nietzsche and Aristotle on Character, Virtue, and the Limits of Friendship -- On flourishing, virtue, and self-love -- Aristotle's great-souled man, Nietzsche's bestowing friend, and the meaning of nobility -- Character as an impasse to friendship -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5: Women, Love, and the Gendered Troubles of Friendship in Nietzsche and Irigaray -- Nietzsche on love and the gendered troubles of friendship -- Women in Beyond Good and Evil -- Irigaray on love of the same and friendship -- Reading Irigaray with Nietzsche on wonder and assimilation -- Beyond Nietzsche and Irigaray: Thoughts on the future of friendship -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6: Abducting Woman? An Agonistic Reception of Nietzsche's (and Derrida's) Gifts -- Conclusion: Further Re-evaluations