Dead journal revived in KU to publish backdated papers
National
April 19, 2021
KARACHI: It is a matter of common sense to believe that any article cannot cite works that came into existence after its date of publication. However, this logic has been defied by the research journal of the University of Karachi’s (KU) history department as a large number of its issues, which are also available online, contain research papers that cite news stories, internet articles and other papers that had not existed when those issues were produced.
Clearly, those biannual issues of the Journal of History and Social Science (JHSS) were published in some dates much later than the six-month period written on them. According to some faculty members of the KU, the purpose of backdating around a dozen issues of the journal was to help promote some teachers through unfair means.
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I), a taxpayer seeks an injunction against the Secretary s allegedly unlawful expenditure of public funds to enforce the gender quota as an allegedly invalid classification in violation of the Equal Protection clause of the California Constitution.[12]
In June 2020, the superior court overruled the Secretary s demurrer and upheld the taxpayer plaintiff s statutory standing to challenge an allegedly illegal use of public funds.[13] The case is headed for trial in late 2021. The same plaintiff and law firm filed a nearly identical action,
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II, on the heels of the 2020 diversity mandate legislation.[14]
In both cases, the lead issue for trial will be whether the quota-like board mandates violate the California Constitution, which provides: The State shall not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or pub
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âIâll see you in heaven.â
It was the last thing Al Braccolino, 90, of Crown Point, told one of his daughters as paramedics loaded him into an ambulance Nov. 16. COVID-19 forced him into the final fight of his life.
Ten days later, the chair Al usually occupied at the Thanksgiving table would sit empty. The husband to his wife of 70 years, father of three and grandfather of six died on the holiday.
Alâs daughter, Sandra Noe, was herself suffering from COVID-19, which she contracted while caring for her sick parents, when the virus forced Alâs hospitalization.
Noe, 66, is no stranger to helping elderly shut-ins weather isolation.
North Carolina Department of Public Safety
Originally published on March 31, 2021 5:12 pm
Pamela Brewington Cashwell, a veteran North Carolina state agency administrator and former federal prosecutor, was appointed on Wednesday by Gov. Roy Cooper as the Department of Administration secretary.
Cashwell, a chief deputy secretary and senior policy adviser at the Department of Public Safety, will become the first Native American woman to lead a Cabinet agency in North Carolina, Cooper s office said.
Cashwell will succeed Machelle Sanders, whom Cooper named in February the next Commerce Department secretary. Cashwell and Sanders are subject to state Senate confirmation.
The Administration Department oversees many internal business affairs, including purchase and contracting, the state’s motor fleet and government buildings and property.