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CBSN: On Assignment

Network: CBS . Episodes: Four (hour) . Seasons: One .

TV show dates: July 31, 2017 — August 21, 2017 . Series status: Cancelled/ended .

Performers include: Reporters Charlie D’Agata, Adam Yamaguchi, and Vladimir Duthiers, as well as other CBS news correspondents .

TV show description: A primetime, summer news magazine series, the CBSN: On Assignment TV show features reports from new perspectives on stories from around the globe. The series is also available on CBSN, the Tiffany network’s streaming news platform. Viewers can also stream it on  the CBS News website , as well as the network’s paid subscription streaming service, CBS All Access .

Each episode features multiple reports. Topics include grassroots movements to end inner-city gun violence, political corruption, and new terrorist threats .

In the series premiere, reports include a dispatch from Mosul, Iraq, about how ISIS has indoctrinated a whole new generation of children. The segment includes interviews with a worried mother, as well as aid workers in dire need of assistance.

Reporting from Japan, the series explores the culture’s unique response to a declining population, as well as how the issue is affecting everyday life. Some people are now using eerily realistic robots as friends and roommates. Meanwhile, schools are closing, because there are not enough students to justify keeping them open.

From Europe comes a report regarding how foreign contractors are committing visa fraud to expand automobile factories in the USA.

CBS says, “Each hour-long edition of the series will feature multiple stories and highlight CBSN’s distinctive storytelling style, as reported by more than a dozen CBS News correspondents.”

Series Finale: Episode #4 — CBS News correspondent Reena Ninan goes to the front line of cyber warfare – the nation’s hospitals. The broadcast also explores the life-and-death job of journalists in Mexico and how beautiful islands are being lost because of climate change.

Ninan investigates the growing number of cyberattacks on hospitals around the country, where, if successful, hackers can hold hostage some of America’s most vulnerable residents. It’s a battle not fought in the emergency department, but one that could render them inoperable in a crisis. Ninan also travels to India and talks with some of the “white-hat” hackers trying to keep American companies and your personal information safe.

From Mexico, Manuel Bojorquez looks at the staggering number of journalists being gunned down by drug gangs across the country as the cartel war escalates. Bojorquez embeds with the many reporters risking their lives to bring the truth about this violence and government corruption to the world.

Also, Seth Doane travels to the South Pacific island of Kiribati where more than 100,000 residents may soon become the world’s first “climate change refugees” as ocean levels rise and their nation is at risk of disappearing forever. (Courtesy CBS.) First aired: August 21, 2017.

What do you think? Do you like the CBSN: On Assignment TV series? Should this TV show have been cancelled or renewed for a second season on CBS?

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United Airlines adds extra step to get refund for seat fees

Airlines around the world are bleeding cash in light of the near-zero demand for air travel .

So the cash-strapped carriers are attempting to save as much money as possible. One way they've gone about this is by circumventing the refund rules outlined by the Department of Transportation .

Though you're eligible for a refund when an airline cancels your flight , carriers have tried to wiggle their way out of giving your money back. Many will proactively give you a voucher when they cancel your flight to discourage you from requesting a refund.

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Of the U.S. carriers, United is the worst offender here. It has made multiple updates to its schedule-change policy at the outset of the coronavirus pandemic before landing on its current version: If your flight is canceled, you can only get a refund if the re-accommodated flight departs or arrives more than six hours before or after your original flight.

And now, the Chicago-based carrier is back with a change to the process for claiming a refund for seat fees. Previously, if United couldn't accommodate a Premium Plus , Economy Plus or Preferred seating purchase, you'd be automatically refunded for that ancillary purchase. This made it easy for passengers to be reassured that they'd be getting all the money back that they deserve.

Well, United has made a change to that policy. Though you're still entitled to a refund for the seat fee, you now need to manually request your money back.

As noted in the carrier's updated Contract of Carriage , "the Passenger is eligible for a refund of this fee upon request" (emphasis mine). A United spokesperson confirmed to TPG that these changes are effective immediately.

To request your seat fee refund, you'll need to fill out United's refund form . You'll end up getting your money back within seven business days of when UA approves the claim (which anecdotally has been taking weeks).

Related: United updates its schedule policy, again, amid coronavirus pandemic

Though this is certainly annoying, at least the carrier isn't changing the refund policy like it did with schedule changes . As a reminder, you'll need to request your seat fee refund within 90 days of the date the seats were purchased or flight date, whichever is later.

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Project Resource Assignment

Service to operate on an assignment of a resource to a project. Project resource assignment involves information such as resource name, project name, project role, and assignment dates. For example, Amy Marlin is assigned to the Implementation project as a Technical Lead from June 2 to June 30, 2014.

Life Cycle Status: Active

QName: {http://xmlns.oracle.com/apps/projects/resourceManagement/assignment/resourceAssignmentService/}ProjectResourceManagementAssignmentService

Service WSDL URL: https://servername/fscmService/ProjectResourceManagementAssignmentService?WSDL

Logical Business Objects

Projects : Project Management : Project Enterprise Resource

Relationships

The following table describes how this service data object is related to other service data objects or business object services.

createResourceAssignment

Findassignmentbyproject, findassignmentbyresource, cancelresourceassignment, confirmresourceassignment, updateresourceassignment, getdfltobjattrhints, getservicelastupdatetime, getentitylist.

Creates project resource assignments.

Request Payload

Response Payload

Reads project resource assignment information.

Cancels a resource assignment from a web service.

Confirms a resource assignment from a web service.

Updates a resource assignment from a web service.

Retrieves user interface hints, such as the service data object label and object attribute labels, for the specified service data object and locale. As a prerequisite, invoke the getEntityList operation defined on this service to get the list of possible values for the viewName request payload element.

Returns the date and time when the schema files referenced in the service definition last changed.

Gets the list of service data objects defined on this service.

The following tables list the privileges required to perform the service operations, and the duty roles that each privilege is granted to.

Service Operations to Privileges Mapping

Privileges to Duty Roles Mapping

Duty Roles to Duty or Job Roles Mapping

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Dodgers Add Yohan Ramirez to Roster, Designate Eduardo Salazar for Assignment

The Dodgers added Yohan Ramirez to their 26-man roster ahead of Monday night’s game against the Arizona Diamondbacks. The right-handed pitcher was a late addition after being acquired earlier in the day from the New York Mets for cash considerations.

Ramirez, 29, is 0-1 with a 6.91 ERA in 10 appearances this season with the Mets and Baltimore Orioles. He’ll provide relief depth as the Dodgers look to keep their momentum going following three consecutive wins against the Cincinnati Reds.

The Dodgers optioned Landon Knack to Triple-A Oklahoma City to make room for Ramirez on their active roster. Knack is 1-1 with a 2.61 ERA in four starts this season, including a 4.2-inning outing Sunday against the Reds.

In a corresponding 40-man roster move, pitcher Eduardo Salazar was designated for assignment. Salazar threw two scoreless innings in his only major league appearance this season with the Dodgers. The 26-year-old right-hander went 1-2 with a 5.61 ERA in seven starts with Triple-A Oklahoma City this season.

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College graduation canceled due to anti-war protests? It's happened before.

When societal upheaval stretches to affect colleges’ end-of-year celebrations, it’s often an indicator that the country is navigating an important political and cultural moment, experts say..

As protests continue to disrupt campuses, college leaders across the country have begun asking themselves a difficult question while they scramble to plan graduation ceremonies: Should we cancel?

It’s not a decision they take lightly, though many have likely tackled the conundrum before. Natural disasters, public health concerns and security risks occasionally prompt school leaders to consider altering or nixing commencement ceremonies out of an abundance of caution. 

The bar is high. But campus protests over the Israel-Hamas war appear to be meeting it – at least at some schools, including New York's Columbia University, which has been the nexus of student activism and demands for college administrators to sever economic ties with Israel. On Monday, Columbia canceled its main graduation event, which was slated for mid-May. It will hold smaller, school-based ceremonies instead.

“These past few weeks have been incredibly difficult for our community,” Columbia’s administrators wrote in an update Monday. 

College protests live updates: Columbia cancels main commencement; universities crackdown on encampments

The University of Southern California made a similar call last month, following dozens of arrests and the cancelation of the Los Angeles campus' valedictorian speaker . Emory University in Atlanta this week relocated its festivities.

This year is by no means the first time commencement ceremonies were thrown into disarray. Throughout American history, social unrest, including mass anti-war protests, has impeded the traditional pomp and circumstance that marks the culmination of college for students and their families. Experts say when cultural upheaval on campus hinders colleges’ ability to hold end-of-year celebrations, it can be an indicator that society is experiencing an important political and cultural moment.

But anyone who calls the recent tumult "unprecedented" is missing the mark, said Marybeth Gasman, a professor at Rutgers University who studies the history of higher education in the U.S.

“This has happened over and over and over,” she said. 

Pandemic aftershocks reverberate

The COVID-19 pandemic was the last major disruptor of college graduations. As the virus spread, social-distancing became the norm, and many schools scrapped their ceremonies to prevent mass infections. In the early 20th century, when higher education was much less widely available to people in the U.S., the Spanish flu similarly derailed graduation ceremonies and college sporting events. 

Many seniors set to graduate from Columbia and USC – and other campuses contemplating cancelation – never got to cross a stage in a cap and gown to receive their high school diplomas. Instead, they marked the end of 12th grade with drive-through and Zoom ceremonies. Though the pandemic upended the traditional college-going experience for broad swaths of American students, the Class of 2024 has been hit hardest, sandwiched in between two highly unpredictable chapters in American society – a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic and a new war in the Middle East, both of which have caused profound cultural fracturing. 

Natural disasters have plagued the commencement tradition, too. In 1972, Hurricane Agnes drenched central Pennsylvania in 19 inches of rain. The calamitous flooding that year forced Penn State Harrisburg to cancel the event, according to the school's website . Hurricanes Irma and Harvey in 2017 had the same impacts for some students.

Echoes of another anti-war era

Public reaction to U.S. involvement in armed conflicts has long interfered with college graduations, dating back to World War I and during World War II . Historians have also drawn throughlines between today’s anti-war movement and young people’s opposition to the Vietnam War and South African apartheid. 

Student demonstrators at Columbia, an Ivy League school, took over the Manhattan campus in 1968 to protest the university’s ties to a war-connected think tank (and plans for a gym that would have been functionally segregated). The demonstrations led to mass arrests, not unlike those seen in recent weeks on the same campus. 

The Columbia situation, explained: Alumni pressure and a crime-fighting mayor helped set the stage for another round of arrests

Administrators eventually capitulated to the students' demands and Columbia’s commencement ceremony took place that year, though it was held several blocks from campus. Instead of the school’s then-president addressing the crowd, a history professor gave the keynote speech . 

Then came the Kent State shootings. In May 1970, National Guardsmen shot and killed four students at the public university in Kent, Ohio, during demonstrations over the Vietnam War. Nine others were wounded, including a freshman who was paralyzed as a result of the shooting. 

Kent State shootings: Paralyzed by a bullet, he still loves Kent State, urges others to be 'good citizens'

The ordeal ultimately gave rise to a widespread student strike that closed hundreds of colleges and worsened already-souring public sentiment over the war.

Graduation ceremonies were another casualty of the Kent State shootings. New York's Hunter College scrapped its end-of-year event and invited the Class of 1970 back to walk the stage nearly a decade later, the New York Times reported in 1979. On May 5, 1970, Boston University's school council also voted to cancel exams and skip commencement . Those students ultimately walked the stage 40 years afterward.

In the ensuing decades, colleges started to decentralize their graduation ceremonies, according to John Thelin, a higher education historian and the author of “Going to College in the Sixties.” Many schools began to hold smaller, more intimate events for students to receive their diplomas alongside classmates enrolled in similar degree programs. It's a trend that has continued and will likely make it possible for many Columbia graduates to don their robes and still have a somewhat traditional send-off.

Despite the historical parallels, college campuses are far more diverse and inclusive than they were five decades ago. On the whole, that's a good thing, Thelin said. But it also has created new challenges for administrators when it comes to navigating issues as complex and personal as the war in the Middle East.

“An irony is that with diversity, in addition to harmony, you also have a chance for disagreement,” Thelin said. “The chances for some spark of tension within the ranks of a campus are greater than they were.”

Zachary Schermele covers education and breaking news for   USA TODAY. You can reach him by email at [email protected]. Follow him on X at @ZachSchermele .