As part of the mission, Avtar, fondly known as Tari, is leading 22 young and thriving Sikh junior hockey players and team officials from Kenya to watch the Junior World Cup now going in Kuala Lumpur. At the same time, the team is also playing some friendly matches.
Avtar, 85, played hockey for Kenya at four Olympic Games, from 1960-72. He captained the team in 1964, 1968, and 1972, and was also the Kenyan captain at the 1st World Cup of hockey in Barcelona in 1971. He as also involved in one Olympic as head coach and another Olympic as a FIH judge.
Early this year, Matador Club of Malaysia had taken veteran and Junior teams to Nairobi to participate in the Vaisakhi Cup Hockey Tournament. The two Clubs have now decided for regular exchange of visits for promoting hockey at sub junior and junior level.
Almost all members of the visiting Sikh Union Club are turban wearing boys with 12-year-old Harwinder Singh as while youngest while two members of the Kenyan team that played in the Junior World Cup qualifier are also accompanying the delegation.
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Fantastic tribute to Kenyan hockey team, past and present associates/members accordingly.
Congratulations to Esq Avtar Singh Sohal for leading the future legacy of hockey at large in particular. A History to cherish of all participants and gratitude to all contributors to bring this to light.
This month we begin our annual review of the past year, looking for any possible trends and emerging items. This is a good time to remind our readers of the purpose of Case in Point. Our goal in this publication is to encourage proactive risk management. We believe it is much less painful to proactively manage a risk than deal with a crisis.
While it may be clich, it really is important to remember that if you ''see something, say something.'' Many of the events you see linked in our publication each month could have been prevented - or at least the impact dramatically reduced - had certain steps been taken. The risks we face in higher education are extremely diverse, and we believe it takes all stakeholders working together to help create a proactive culture we all benefit from.
During 2016, we linked to 449 stories. The breakdown among categories was as follows:
We again invite you to review the events occurring throughout higher education with a view towards proactive risk management. If you see areas of concern or risks you have influence over, take action before you become the crisis. As always, we invite your comments and suggestions.
Feb 24, 2017: Vanderbilt University Medical Center will be sending letters to more than 3,000 patients whose personal information was inappropriately accessed by a pair of patient transporters. An audit of electronic patient files conducted by the VUMC Privacy Office found that two people who worked as patient transporters looked at 3,247 medical records between May 2015 and December 2016, according to a release from VUMC. The employees accessed information from adult and pediatric records, including names, birth dates, and medical record identification numbers. In a few instances one person had the ability to see social security numbers. (link)
Feb 20, 2017: More than 1.4 million emails--some divulging Harvard students' grades, financial aid information, and at least one individual's Social Security number--sent over Harvard Computer Society email lists were open to the public until Monday. Teaching fellows, resident tutors, College administrators, and thousands of undergraduates have used the email list service--which the student group made private Monday--for years. Emails sent over HCS lists contained the membership of certain BGLTQ undergraduate groups, bank account numbers for some student organizations, advance copies of a final exam, and answer keys to problem sets. At times, teaching fellows used the lists to discuss students' grades--a move some legal experts say may violate the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, a federal law designed to protect students' privacy. (link)
Feb 15, 2017: Rasputin, a Russian-speaking and notorious financially-motivated cyber criminal, continues to locate and exploit vulnerable web applications via a proprietary SQL injection (SQLi) tool. Rasputin's latest victims include over 60 (combined total) prominent universities and federal, state, and local U.S. government agencies. In November 2016, Rasputin penetrated the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) via SQLi.15 plus years of SQLi attacks, and going strong; this prolific vulnerability remains one of the most popular exploits for opportunistic actors due to its ongoing success rate. (link)
Feb 13, 2017: It sounds like a sci-fi movie. Over 5,000 connected devices, including light bulbs and vending machines, were hacked to slow internet service at a university to a crawl. Poorly secured internet of things (IoT) devices have become gold mines for hackers looking to launch DDoS attacks to take websites and services offline. But this latest case, detailed in Verizon's Data Breach Digest 2017, is the rare example of gadgets attacking their own network. (link)
Feb 11, 2017: A wave of nationwide phishing scams is targeting college students, according to reports from Louisiana State University, University of Wisconsin-Platteville, Amherst College, Wellesley College, Dartmouth College and more. At Dartmouth College, several thousand students received emails that appeared to be from President Phil Hanlon. The messages included links to websites with malware. Recipients were advised not to click on the links. (link)
Feb 08, 2017: A 41-year-old Chicago man pleaded guilty Monday in federal court to using personal information obtained by hacking into Bradley University's computers to obtain about $770,000 in false tax refunds. Gbadebo Adebiyi pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud, a felony that could send him to prison for up to five years. His sentencing is set for May 3 in the courtroom of Senior U.S. District Judge Joe B. McDade. A second man, Idris Akande, 35, also of Chicago, remains a fugitive. (link)
Feb 07, 2017: Tuesday night, at least three racist emails were sent out to University of Michigan Computer Science and Engineering undergraduate students. The subjects of the first two emails was "African American Student Diversity" and the third read "Jewish Student Diversity." The emails were sent by three separate University uniqnames -- all of which are administrators of the listservs, potentially indicative the listservs via the University's online contact server, MCommunity, may have been hacked. (link)
Feb 23, 2017: The former Assistant Director of Operations for the Nebraska Transportation Center has been charged with stealing more than $11,000 from the University of Nebraska. The Nebraska Transportation Center connects University of Nebraska researchers, industry leaders, and government entities. Court documents reveal Laviania Thandayithabani is accused of stealing $11,335.73. The investigation determined Thandayithabani bypassed approval processes and paid for plane tickets using University funds. (link)
Feb 13, 2017: Two former Texas Southern University employees are accused of stealing more than $500,000 from the Houston college, according to authorities. Kennith Darden Jr. and Ashley Velasquez are each charged with felony aggregate theft after prosecutors say they worked together to squirrel away $534,379.71 stolen from the school in a little under two years, a Harris County District Attorney's Office spokesman confirmed Monday night. Authorities say the scheme started in January 2012, when Darden allegedly began submitting fake invoices through a shell company - and Velasquez, a senior administrative assistant, approved the fraudulent paperwork. (link)
Feb 11, 2017: A pharmacology professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine will no longer conduct research there after eight of his articles were retracted by a major scientific journal for inaccuracies. The publisher of the Journal of Biological Chemistry retracted six articles written by Anil K. Jaiswal in early January, said Kaoru Sakabe, data integrity manager for the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, which publishes the journal. (link)
Feb 10, 2017: A Galveston College instructor, who is also the director of electrical and electronic technology program at the schools, has resigned after a student alleged the instructor sent him tests and answers to those tests. Robert Shields earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Houston in 2011, according to his online school bio. "Very troublesome. Mr. Shields, head of the electrical electronics program voluntarily resigned," Dr. W. Myles Shelton, president of Galveston College, said. (link)
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