The Louisiana Tech University Mathematics and Statistics program held its fifth annual Integration Bee April 19.
Each Integration Bee begins with a qualification round, consisting of a timed 25-question paper test, after which the top 16 scoring participants move to a tournament round. The 2021 tournament consisted of five rounds, in which students competed for Amazon, Chili’s, Chick-Fil-A, and Starbucks gift cards in one-on-one challenges. For each challenge, a pair of students stood at whiteboards and each worked to quickly solve complex integrals in a high-pressure atmosphere.
This year’s Master Integrator was Elizabeth McDowell, physics and aviation freshman and first-ever female Integration Bee champion.
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Sacramento Report: Lawmakers Zero in on Police Hiring and Training
Two competing bills in the Legislature are seeking to raise the standards for police recruitment and hiring. Meanwhile, police training efforts are also getting a fresh look.
Two competing bills in the Legislature are seeking to raise the standards for police recruitment and hiring.
Both bills are driven by the belief that more education makes for better police officers. But they differ in whether higher education should merely be incentivized or an actual requirement. One is backed by police unions and wouldn’t impose any hard education requirements; the other would require officers to either be 25 or have a college degree.
Not only did Santa Monica police lose control of public order during a chaotic day of looting last May, according to new information that has surfaced since
Los Angeles published a detailed expose of the debacle, the oceanside city has made a considerable mess of the aftermath, too.
Documents obtained via public records requests and new interviews reveal that Santa Monica hired two seasoned veterans of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, now working as private consultants, to conduct a postmortem and recommend corrective action within weeks of the police department ceding control of large swaths of the city to opportunists who ransacked hundreds of storefronts with impunity. An underprepared and understaffed police department had focused its attention on a largely peaceful Black Lives Matter protest near the oceanfront and failed to respond to emergency calls from hundreds of panicked residents elsewhere who were fearful for their property and their personal safety.
Panic shopping before the holidays? Don’t forget your security [Tampa Bay Times]
So you’re last-minute panic shopping. That’s okay, no judgment here.
But while you’re making hasty online purchases, consider your digital security so you don’t get more than you bargained for this holiday season.
Here’s what Tampa Bay cybersecurity experts recommend to keep you safe from scams and hackers looking for an easy target even after the holidays wrap up.
Start with the basics
Before you start making any purchases, let’s warm up. Update your device’s operating system software to the most recent version to avoid falling victim to any known software issues that someone might take advantage of, said security firm A-LIGN’s Joseph Cortez. Next, update your web browser to avoid the same kind of issues there. And when you go to a website to make a purchase, check that the site’s address has “https” in front of it the “s” indicates that your connection to the websit
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