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Q: How to give Touchable Opacity for each item in grid view in React Native? I am using react-native-super-grid for grid view in React Native. I want to give touchable opacity for each item. How do I do that. I want to navigate to corresponding page on each click of grid item. Following is my code.
render(){
    return(

      <View style={{flex: 1}}>
      <SuperGridSectionList
  itemDimension={130}
  sections={[
    {
      title: 'Home Page',
      data: [
        { name: 'New Work Request', code: '#8e44ad' }, { name: 'Worker', code: '#2c3e50' },
        { name: 'Report', code: '#f1c40f' }, { name: 'Complaints', code: '#e67e22' },
        { name: 'User', code: '#e74c3c' }
      ]
    },
  ]}
  style={styles.gridView}
  renderItem={({ item }) => (
  <TouchableOpacity onPress={console.log("clicked")}>
    <View style={[styles.itemContainer, { backgroundColor: item.code }]}>
      <Text style={styles.itemName}>{item.name}</Text>
    </View>
  </TouchableOpacity>
  )}
  renderSectionHeader={({ section }) => (
    <Text style={{ color: 'green' }}>{section.title}</Text>
  )}
/>

A: Assuming item has a type or similar property to distinguish where to navigate to, something like this should get you at least partway there:
const getNavigation = (item) => {
  switch (item.type) {
    case 'firstPage':
      return Actions.firstPage(item.id);
    case 'secondPage':
      return Actions.secondPage(item.id);
  }
}

render() {
  // ...
  <TouchableOpacity onPress={() => this.getNavigation(item)}>
  // ...
}

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namespace Apache.Ignite.Core.Tests.Common
{
    using System;
    using Apache.Ignite.Core.Common;
    using NUnit.Framework;

    /// <summary>
    /// Tests the <see cref="IgniteGuid"/>.
    /// </summary>
    public class IgniteGuidTest
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Tests the <see cref="IgniteGuid"/>.
        /// </summary>
        [Test]
        public void TestIgniteGuid()
        {
            var guid = Guid.NewGuid();

            var id1 = new IgniteGuid(guid, 1);
            var id2 = new IgniteGuid(guid, 1);
            var id3 = new IgniteGuid(guid, 2);
            var id4 = new IgniteGuid(Guid.NewGuid(), 2);

            // Properties.
            Assert.AreEqual(guid, id1.GlobalId);
            Assert.AreEqual(1, id1.LocalId);
            Assert.AreEqual(id1.GetHashCode(), id2.GetHashCode());

            // Equality.
            Assert.AreEqual(id1, id2);
            Assert.IsTrue(id1 == id2);
            Assert.IsFalse(id1 != id2);

            // Inequality.
            Assert.AreNotEqual(id1, id3);
            Assert.IsFalse(id1 == id3);
            Assert.IsTrue(id1 != id3);

            Assert.AreNotEqual(id4, id3);
            Assert.IsFalse(id4 == id3);
            Assert.IsTrue(id4 != id3);
        }
    }
}

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Люк Брауэрс (; род. 3 мая 1998 года, Хелмонд) — нидерландский футболист, полузащитник клуба «Утрехт».

Клубная карьера
Брауэрс — воспитанник клубов «Брабант Юнайтед» и «Ден Босх». 10 апреля 2015 года в матче против дублёров ПСВ он дебютировал в Эрстедивизи составе последних. 7 апреля 2017 года в поединке против «МВВ Маастрихт» Люк забил свой первый гол за «Ден Босх». Летом 2020 года Брауэрс перешёл в «Гоу Эхед Иглз» на правах свободного агента. 30 августа в матче против «Дордрехта» он дебютировал за новый клуб. 23 октября в поединке против НЕКа Люк забил свой первый гол за «Гоу Эхед Иглз». В 2021 году Брауэрс помог клубу выйти в элиту. 13 августа в матче против «Херенвена» он дебютировал в Эредивизи.

22 марта 2022 года подписал пятилетний контракт с клубом «Утрехт».

Примечания

Футболисты Нидерландов
Игроки ФК «Гоу Эхед Иглз»
Игроки ФК «Ден Босх»

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The Murray-Darling: Death by capitalism
By John Passant | 4 February 2019, 7:00am | comments
One of Australia's most vital environmental regions is being destroyed by corporate greed (Image via Wikipedia - edited)
The environmental and ecological disasters occurring at the Murray-Darling Basin are driven by capitalism, writes John Passant.
ABOUT 2.6 MILLION Australians live in the Murray-Darling Basin. Three million get their drinking water from it.
The Basin covers 1 million square kilometres and produces $24 billion worth of agricultural products. With about one-third of our food supply, it is arguably Australia's food bowl.
Six governments have jurisdiction over parts of the basin: Queensland, New South Wales, the A.C.T., Victoria, South Australia and the Commonwealth. The Murray-Darling Basin Authority and its plan are a carefully-crafted compromise between their competing interests and the competing interests of their residents.
The Murray-Darling Basin (Image courtesy of the Murray-Darling Basin Authority)
With over one million fish dying, something is seriously wrong with the Murray-Darling. According to the recently-released South Australian Royal Commission report into the system, that something is not prioritising the environment.
As Professor Jamie Pittock put it in The Conversation:
'The commission found that the Basin Plan breached Federal water laws by applying a "triple bottom line" trade-off of environmental and socioeconomic values, rather than prioritising environmental sustainability and then optimising socio-economic outcomes.'
It is too glib to say that we should focus solely on the environmental needs of the river system. In the present circumstances, it is too glib to say that we should focus on the triple bottom line – economic, social and environmental – of the river system. They are not separate, they are all part of the warped version of humanity we live under — capitalism. It is capitalism which separates them and us.
(Image courtesy of Chris 'Roy' Taylor)
The Murray-Darling disaster seems intractable, reflecting the essence of capitalist society and its divorce (or metabolic rift) from nature.
The metabolic rift is the idea, taken from Marx that there is an 'irreparable rift in the interdependent process of social metabolism'. This has created a rift between the way capitalism operates and the natural environment. The relationship is antagonistic, not cooperative. In a nutshell, the problem is profit and the capitalist system, which is built on this drive for more and more money.
Under capitalism, it is either profit or the environment. As the Murray-Darling Basin experience suggests, (and so, too, the obsession with coal and underwriting coal-fired power stations, the destruction of the Great Barrier Reef, logging and similar activity killing koalas and other animals, the ongoing extermination of species, the record temperatures across the country, or huge fires in the south and once-in-a-century floods in the north, to name a few), it cannot be both.
The results are a litany of errors.
As Adam Connors and ABC Rural reporters write:
The Murray-Darling Basin Royal Commission has cited gross maladministration, negligence and unlawful actions by Commonwealth officials as just a handful of the failures in its multi-billion-dollar effort to save Australia's largest river system.
The scathing report has gone as far to accuse the Murray-Darling Basin Authority (MDBA) of negligence and being "incapable of acting lawfully".
All this to justify profit by particular groups.
The problem is that, if under capitalism, you ignore the triple bottom line approach – environmental, economic and social considerations – and concentrate on the environment, you end up possibly destroying the current living situation of many people in the Basin. These are the people who work in the agricultural and other industries, and the communities surviving because of that activity.
How sick is that? It is the logic of capitalism. The system pits the environment against the economic and social if there is a quick buck in it. It is like watching a drug-addicted relative die. They cannot live with the drug; they cannot live without it.
The Royal Commission says that politics determined that the amount to be released into the river to help save it, the sustainable diversion limit, should be set at 2.750 gigalitres (GL) of water, rather than the science, which suggested a figure of between 4,000 and 7,000 GL. That much lower figure means more water upstream for irrigators for their crops and livestock, and less for South Australia and other sections below those gifted this extra water.
Why rice and cotton growing exist, let alone receive incredibly generous water allocations, is beyond me, other than that there are powerful capitalist interests and big big money behind them. Where big business goes, politicians often follow.
It took Rex Patrick, a Centre Alliance Senator for South Australia, to photograph the thousands of gigalitres of water that cotton farmers on the Moonie River in Southern Queensland have stored away for their water-intensive farming.
Photographs taken by Centre Alliance senator Rex Patrick of cotton farms on the Moonie River in southern Queensland. The South Australian royal commission into the Murray Darling Basin plan is expected to deliver a scathing assessment of the plan that was meant to save the river system from ecological disaster. (Photograph: Rex Patrick)
I ask again — why are we growing such water-hungry products as rice and cotton on the driest continent? Profit, profit and more profit is part of the answer. So, too, is the fact that individual businesses do not see themselves in co-operation with the rest of business, but rather in competition either directly or indirectly. They win (profit) by destroying, figuratively and, in this case literally, others.
Rice and other farmers do not pay for the environmental destruction they create or contribute to. These "external" costs are ignored in calculating the bottom line. They are borne directly or indirectly by the rest of society. Much like greenhouse gas emissions or smoking.
Is there a solution? The responses to the Royal Commission suggest not. All the sides are digging in, defending their part of the current profit arrangements, even though those current arrangements will likely destroy future flows of profit.
Sometimes the state steps in and imposes solutions on capital that are in its longer-term interests. There are no signs the current government or future Australian governments will do anything like this.
To impose "solutions" that impact severely on the lives, livelihoods and living standards of millions economically is not a solution. That is not to defend capitalism, but to argue that workers are forced to sell their labour power to survive under capitalism. This means any radical state-imposed changes to the arrangements under which workers are forced to survive could destroy their lives, as well as those of their families and communities.
And yet change will come — either under the hand of government, long-term, market forces, or, more ominously, natural environmental forces responding to capitalism's destructive bent.
This assumes that we see capitalism as natural. The alternative is a society in which we work with nature to produce the goods and services that could make life liveable and enjoyable for all of us on the planet. Such a society can only come about by getting rid of the profit motive and organising ourselves democratically to satisfy human need. This requires a revolution against the established order and their ongoing destruction of our planet. There is no Planet B.
(Image courtesy of Ecowatch)
You can follow Canberra correspondent John Passant on Twitter @JohnPassant. Signed copies of John's first book of poetry, Songs for the Band Unformed, are available for purchase from the IA store HERE.
Murray-Darling disaster This needs criminal charges lodged & cotton & rice growing to cease in the basin Return flows & save the rivers #AUSpol @mdba https://t.co/STF0o2765T
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Why You Should Visit the BYU Museum of Art in Provo
Do you love art? Do you dream of standing in front of culturally important pieces, trying to interpret them? Then, take a moment to savor some of the best artwork in the West when you visit the BYU Museum of Art. The museum is one of the best attended in the area and offers a fascinating schedule of exhibits and an impressive array of permanent displays. You're going to enjoy the fabulous displays at this cultural gem in Provo!
Find out more about all of the great things to do near Hines Mansion when you download our free Vacation Guide. It's full of the best recommendations for things to see and do like enjoying a day at the BYU Museum of Art!
The BYU Museum of Art Holds an Important Place in Provo Culture
The museum on BYU's campus is a bastion of history, art, and culture for the city of Provo and for art itself. At the BYU Museum of Art, heart and mind come together in the pursuit of knowledge, values, self-affirmation, and spiritual understanding. Nurture your soul with their wonderful exhibits. Immerse yourself in the deeper inquiry that the museum proffers. Because of its strong commitment to excellence and integrity, you'll leave with a greater appreciation for others and their ideas.
And, that's the goal.
Since the museum's inauguration, the curators strive to bring high-quality, insightful exhibits for the viewing public and BYU students. As a university museum, the BYU Museum of Art exists first and foremost to provide the school with subject matter available for research and study. In addition to this, the museum seeks to make the connection to broader community audiences. It does this through its exhibitions and educational programming opportunities.
Inside the Museum
The design of the museum was commissioned to Los Angeles architect, James Langenheim. To create a museum that housed some of the most meaningful art, the building itself needed to be a work of art. This commitment to form inspired the enlistment of the former directors of lighting from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, LeMar Terry and Stuart Silver. With their expertise, the museum architecture became a constant change of size, direction, form, and light. The articulated triangular shape of the museum is designed to be a work of art. As a result, it offers the best lighting in which to view the art.
In addition to its architectural and artistic prowess, the expansive BYU Museum of Art houses 10 exhibition galleries, an auditorium, classrooms, a print study room, a small theater, gift shop, and administrative offices. It also has cutting-edge fabrication, registration, imaging, and storage areas all for research and study purposes.
During the Year
The BYU Museum of Art plays host to a number of school events, special exhibitions, speakers, musicians, and more. Most notable is famous activist and Civil Rights Movement icon, Ruby Bridges, who came to lecture students and the public alike. The museum seeks to feature artists who break the mold of norms and traditional culture. Gabriel Dawe is one of those. His Plexus no. 29 is on display as soon as you walk in the door. His artwork explores the concept of light as a language of symbolism. Using colored filament, Dawe has created a huge masterpiece of light worthy of your visit.
While admission is free to the public, there are events through the year that require a ticket. The BYU Museum of Art hours are Monday, Tuesday, and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Wednesday-Friday from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Just Minutes Away from the Best Place to Stay
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Online Movie World
Remarks by President Biden on Fighting the COVID-19 Pandemic
Reporters slam White House for shouting down questions from the press pool
We've never initiated an attack on any country; we want peace: interview of the Armenian Ambassador to US to Al Arabiya
Frank Pallone congratulated on Independence Day, emphasizing significant progress made by Armenia
We have decided to establish Park of Life, where trees symbolizing lives of all victims of Artsakh wars will be planted: Pashinyan
Queen Elizabeth II congratulates Armenia on Independence Day
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Անցած անգամ ասեցի՝ ինքը բոզ ա, հիմա ավելացրել եմ եւս մի կոչում՝ բիճ, բիճ Նիկոլ. Գեւորգ Պետրոսյան
Russian peacekeepers organized the transfer of humanitarian aid to refugees and large families of remote settlements of Nagorno-Karabakh
Susan Templeman MP supporting Australian recognition of Armenian, Assyrian and Greek Genocides
Pashinyan, Aliyev Hold Another Conversation
05:47 10 December 2018
Armenia's Acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev held another conversation on the sidelines of an informal CIS Summit held Thursday in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Pashinyan discussed the conversation with reporters saying that the discussion centered around exchange of captives—or prisoners of war—for which Baku has proposed an even exchange of prisoners being held captives on both sides.
"We didn't reach an agreement, but we will continue discussions," Pashinyan told reporters on Thursday.
"As you know, they [Azerbaijan] have proposed the 'all for all' principle, but we have a problem here. We must discuss it also with the Artsakh authorities. We have also talked about the previous episodes of the negotiations process," added Pashinyan. He was referring to a similar conversation the two had on the sidelines of a CIS Summit in Dushanbe, Tajikistan in November, when they agreed to set up communications mechanism between the two and pledged to significantly curtail cross border attacks.
The OSCE Minsk Group co-chairmen, meeting with Armenian and Azerbaijani foreign ministers on Thursday in Milan hailed the sides' adherence to the Dushanbe agreement by pointing out the significant drop in cross-border incidents.
As for the prisoner exchange, the authorities in Artsakh have unequivocally rejected Baku's "all for all" proposal, citing that two of the prisoners identified by Azerbaijan are currently serving sentences in Artsakh for murder after a court there found them guilty of killing civilians once they crossed into Artsakh territory.
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Remarks by President Biden on Fighting the COVID-19 Pandemic 16:27 22 Sep 2021
Reporters slam White House for shouting down questions from the press pool 16:23 22 Sep 2021
We've never initiated an attack on any country; we want peace: interview of the Armenian Ambassador to US to Al Arabiya 16:20 22 Sep 2021
Frank Pallone congratulated on Independence Day, emphasizing significant progress made by Armenia 16:19 22 Sep 2021
We have decided to establish Park of Life, where trees symbolizing lives of all victims of Artsakh wars will be planted: Pashinyan 16:18 22 Sep 2021
Queen Elizabeth II congratulates Armenia on Independence Day 16:17 22 Sep 2021
Test news 00:00 24 Aug 2021
Անցած անգամ ասեցի՝ ինքը բոզ ա, հիմա ավելացրել եմ եւս մի կոչում՝ բիճ, բիճ Նիկոլ. Գեւորգ Պետրոսյան 14:13 1 June 2021
Russian peacekeepers organized the transfer of humanitarian aid to refugees and large families of remote settlements of Nagorno-Karabakh 09:43 26 May 2021
Wearing masks in open-air areas will not be mandatory in Armenia from June 1 09:38 26 May 2021
No incidents were registered in Sisian section of border: Defense Ministry 09:35 26 May 2021
Tete-a-tete meeting of Ara Aivazian and Mohammad Javad Zarif commenced 09:30 26 May 2021
Tensions on Armenian-Azerbaijani border demand immediate measures: CSTO Deputy Secretary General 09:25 26 May 2021
President, Human Rights Defender discuss situation on Armenian-Azerbaijani border 09:25 26 May 2021
Susan Templeman MP supporting Australian recognition of Armenian, Assyrian and Greek Genocides 08:39 26 May 2021
President Armen Sarkissian received the Ambassador of France to Armenia Jonathan Lacôte 07:02 26 May 2021
Armenian-Iranian business forum held in Tehran 06:00 26 May 2021
Armenian Genocide Commemorative Committee Announcement 12:25 19 Mar 2021
Billboards Call on President Biden to Recognize Armenian Genocide 12:22 19 Mar 2021
Azerbaijan Destroying and Falsifying Historical Facts of Armenian Monuments in Occupied Territories of Artsakh 12:16 19 Mar 2021
14:13 1 June 2021 Անցած անգամ ասեցի՝ ինքը բոզ ա, հիմա ավելացրել եմ եւս մի կոչում՝ բիճ, բիճ Նիկոլ. Գեւորգ Պետրոսյան Ասում է՝ հպարտ եմ, որ պարտվել ենք: Ոչ մի մեղսունակ մարդ այսպիսի բան չի կարող ասել: Արա, դու հպարտ ես, որ 7 հազար երեխու գլուխ ես կերե՞լ, արա:
08:12 19 Mar 2021 Human Rights Watch: Armenian POWs abused in Azerbaijani custody Human Rights Watch interviewed four former POWs who detailed their ill-treatment in custody as well as the ill-treatment of other POWs with whom they were captured or shared cells.
08:24 14 May 2019 Դեմ եմ բռնությանը, բայց նաև պրովակացիային եմ դեմ. Լևոն Քոչարյան «Չեմ տեսել, թե ինչ միջադեպ է եղել, հետո ինչ-որ բաներ կարդացի»։
07:49 6 Sep 2018 Franchise Conference Connects U.S. Businesses with Armenian Investors The United States Embassy in Yerevan and the U.S. Commercial Service in Moscow, in partnership with IDBank, organized a one-day conference focused on franchise business opportunities on September 5 in Yerevan.
07:30 25 Aug 2018 Transport Minister instructs to put more effort in North-South Highway The construction works delayed in Talin-Lanjik and Lanjik-Gyumri section of the North-South Highway should be continued faster.
05:40 9 November 2017 Family Living In Fear Of Landmines In Artsakh Inspires HALO Crowdfunding Campaign An innovative crowdfunding campaign to clear a minefield in Harar village in Artsakh launched on Friday.
16:18 22 Sep 2021 We have decided to establish Park of Life, where trees symbolizing lives of all victims of Artsakh wars will be planted: Pashinyan The Tree of Life, symbolizing the martyrs and their lives sacrifices for the homeland will crown the park.
09:43 26 May 2021 Russian peacekeepers organized the transfer of humanitarian aid to refugees and large families of remote settlements of Nagorno-Karabakh In addition to goods and products, families were given individual medical kits, which include a small set of the most essential medicines and dressings.
09:25 26 May 2021 Tensions on Armenian-Azerbaijani border demand immediate measures: CSTO Deputy Secretary General
Speaking at the meeting of the joint headquarters of the organization, Semerikov noted that the prospect of a long-term peace is strengthened by the activities of the Russian peacekeeping troops and the ongoing negotiation process.
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Ticker - Seven Buckeyes drafted into the NFL in 2018 - WBNS-10TV Columbus, Ohio | Columbus News, Weather & Sports - Ticker
Seven Buckeyes drafted into the NFL in 2018
Seven Buckeyes drafted into the NFL in 2018 | WBNS-10TV Columbus, Ohio | Columbus News, Weather & Sports
Ohio State Buckeyes and Urban Meyer - 2017 (Photo: Dave McMannis)
COLUMBUS – The 2018 NFL Draft came to its conclusion Saturday at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, but not before two additional Ohio State Buckeyes were selected in Rounds 4 through 7, giving the program a total of seven picks in this year's draft.
This year's seven draft picks gives Ohio State a total of 40 draft picks under coach Urban Meyer in his six seasons as coach. The seven were tied for second-most from one school in this draft and were the most from one school in the Big Ten Conference.
Denzel Ward at Ohio State
Ward played three seasons with the Buckeyes before electing to forego his senior season to make himself available for the draft. He had an outstanding junior season in 2017, earning consensus All-America honors and first-team all-Big Ten accolades after recording 17 passes defended with 15 pass break-ups and two interceptions, including one interception in the Big Ten championship win over Wisconsin. The 17 passes defended is the fourth-highest single season total in school history.
Billy Price at Ohio State
Price is one of the great offensive linemen in Ohio State's storied history. A two-time All-American, including a unanimous All-American in 2017, Price is one of just six Buckeye offensive linemen to win a major national award, joining Jim Parker, John Hicks, Orlando Pace, LeCharles Bentley and Pat Elflein with that honor when he was named the recipient of the Rimington Trophy in 2017 as the nation's outstanding center. Price also was named the Big Ten's Rimington-Pace offensive lineman of the year in 2017. The two honors capped an outstanding career for Price, who not only was a two-time team captain but who also set the record for starts and consecutive starts as a Buckeye with 55. He joined Elflein and Tyquan Lewis for the school record for games played, as well, at 55.
This Nov. 11, 2017, photo shows Ohio State offensive lineman Billy Price playing against Michigan State during an NCAA college football game in Columbus, Ohio. (AP Photo/Jay LaPrete)
Tyquan Lewis at Ohio State
Lewis, who graduated in December 2016 with his degree in sociology was a two-time team captain who started 36 times and finished his career with 112 tackles, including 36.5 tackles-for-loss and 23.5 sacks. He was honored by the Big Ten three times, including twice being named first-team all-Big Ten by both the coaches and the media. In 2016 he was named the league's defensive lineman of the year. Lewis was a leader of Ohio State defenses that ranked in the Top 10 nationally in total defense three times: No. 6 nationally in total defense in 2016 and No. 9 in both 2017 and 2015.
Jerome Baker at Ohio State
A big-play maker, Baker was a two-year starter for the Buckeyes who elected to bypass his fourth and final season of eligibility to enter the 2018 NFL Draft. A true junior in 2017, Baker played in 33 games and started 25 times. He led the Buckeyes in tackles in 2017 with 72 total stops, and he finished his career with 158 tackles. Included were 17.5 tackles-for-loss and seven sacks. He also had two interceptions, three fumble recoveries, and two pass break-ups. He was second on the team in tackles in 2016 with 83 total stops.
Ohio State linebacker Jerome Baker (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)
Sam Hubbard at Ohio State
Hubbard graduated from Ohio State in December of 2017 with his degree in finance and elected to bypass his fourth and final season of eligibility to enter the 2018 NFL Draft. He was a first-team Academic All-American in 2016 and played in 40 games for his career and made 22 starts at defensive end. He ranks 15th all-time at Ohio State in both sacks, with 17, and tackles-for-loss, with 154. He contributed 29.5 tackles for loss during his career and 116 tackles. In addition to his Academic All-America honor, Hubbard was a three-time Academic All-Big Ten honoree and OSU Scholar-Athlete.
Sam Hubbard tackles Saquan Barkley (Photo: Dave McMannis)
Jalyn Holmes at Ohio State
Holmes, a true senior for the Buckeyes in 2017 and a team captain, played in 51 games and made nine starts in 2017 along a defensive line overflowing with talent. Holmes played in 11 games during the Buckeyes' 2014 national championship season and he was a part of bowl victories over Alabama (Sugar Bowl), Oregon (CFB national championship game), Notre Dame (Fiesta Bowl) and USC (Cotton Bowl). He also was on Big Ten title-winning teams in 2014 and 2017. A two-time all-conference honoree, Holmes racked up 84 career tackles along with 14 tackles-for-loss and 5.5 sacks. He is nearing completion of his degree in family resource management.
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Jamarco Jones at Ohio State
Jones graduated with his degree in family resource management in December 2017, in less than four years. His work in the classroom mirrored his work on the field, where he was a leader along the offensive line and a two-year starter who played in 50 games and started 27 consecutive games at left tackle as a junior and senior. He was an all-conference honoree twice, including first-team all-Big Ten in 2017 by both the coaches and the media polls. His play also helped the Buckeyes rank among the Top 20 rushing teams in the nation four consecutive years, including 11th in 2016, 11th in 2015, ninth in 2014 and 17th in 2017 at 243.2 yards per game. The Buckeyes led the Big Ten in rushing three consecutive years between 2015 and 2017.
Ohio State offensive lineman Jamarco Jones during the Fiesta Bowl | AP Photo/Rick Scuteri
FREE AGENT SIGNINGS
According to Ohio State's official football twitter page, several Buckeyes have been signed in free agency.
Safety Damon Webb was signed by the Tennessee Titans.
Tight End Marcus Baugh was signed by the Oakland Raiders.
Linebacker Chris Worley was signed by the Cincinnati Bengals.
Defensive Lineman Tracy Sprinkle was signed by the Carolina Panthers.
Defensive Lineman Michael Hill was signed by the Detroit Lions.
Quarterback J.T. Barrett was invited to the Indianapolis Colts Minicamp.


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Almost Every September I Cannot Help But Think of What I Wrote Years Ago
September 12, 2022 Brett
Thirteen years ago I wrote a sports column titled "Of Preseason Polls and Prejudicial Christians." The column was published nationally through BP Sports (a division of Baptist Press) and was featured in several newspapers across the country. While it remained archived online for several years, Baptist Press eventually closed BP Sports. As a result, that column, along with several others of mine that they had published, is no longer available online.
As a sports fan who loves college football, one of my pet peeves is preseason polls. Each year it seems that as the season progresses we are reminded that ranking teams before the season even starts is an exercise in both arrogance (to think they are smart enough to know how good a team is before they have even played a game) and futility (every year we see how badly the "experts" judge teams before the season begins.
So, in light of the so-called "stunning" upsets across the college football landscape this past weekend, I thought I would dig up the column and republish it here on my blog. While some of the examples are dated, and the BCS Bowl system is no longer a reality (replaced by the playoff system) I think you will find that the basic thesis remains as relevant as ever….
"Of Preseason Polls and Prejudicial Christians" by Brett Maragni (originally published by BP Sports in October of 2009)
I strongly dislike preseason polls. They are meaningless and end up causing more damage than they are worth. Early season polls are not worth much either. Until a team has played four or five games, it is arrogant to assume where a team deserves to be ranked.
Early this season top five teams are losing at a record pace. Last year, the preseason favorite, Georgia, ended up #13 in the final AP poll while the Utah Utes went from unranked to #2. In 2007, twelve top five teams had lost to unranked opponents by the end of November. In 2006…well, three words: Boise State Broncos.
The problem is that a team that starts the season unranked has a lot more to overcome to get into a BCS bowl game than a team that was ranked in the top five in the preseason. If polls were not taken until five, or even better, six weeks into the season, the bowl assignments would be more fair because the polls would be based more upon performance on the field than preseason prognostications. Even the BCS rankings, which do not begin until later in the season, are impacted because they utilize the polls that started in the preseason, thus making them skewed by the prejudgment of the polls.
But before I get too sanctimonious in my denunciation of the current ranking system, the reality is that we Christians can be even worse about prejudging people. We sometimes prejudge new people coming into our churches by the version of the Bible that they use or the kind of church they came from. If someone is not in our theological "camp" we assume that they are either naïve or close-minded to the truth.
Sometimes our prejudice works the other way as well. Sometimes we are too quick to favor those who dress the way we do and look the way we look. Leaders say to one another, "They seem like a sharp couple," meaning, "They look like us." So sharp-looking couple starts the season off in our church ranked higher than the single lady who is currently without a job. The reality is that Miss Unemployed might be more spiritually mature and ready to lead a ministry than Mr. or Mrs. Sharp.
God's Word addresses our tendency toward prejudicial favoritism:
My brothers, show no partiality as you hold the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory. For if a man wearing a gold ring and fine clothing comes into your assembly, and a poor man in shabby clothing also comes in, and if you pay attention to the one who wears the fine clothing and say, "You sit here in a good place," while you say to the poor man, "You stand over there," or, "Sit down at my feet," have you not then made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts? (James 2:1-4)
Bottom line for sports: wait until later in the season to start up the polls. Bottom line for us: get to know a person for who they are instead of making early assumptions.
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Tall order for academies
by Elizabeth Duffrin June 5, 2006 August 15, 2016
Ten years ago, when CPS decided to end social promotion, it quickly faced a dilemma: a backlog of 15-year-olds who were far behind academically and too old for elementary school.
The board quickly tried to resolve the problem by creating nine small regional centers (called academic prep centers) to work intensively with overage elementary school students, with the goal of raising their math and reading skills. The hope was that by the end of the concentrated tutorial, students' academic deficiencies would be addressed and they would achieve the test scores needed to move on to high school.
The program failed. Kids made almost no standardized test score gains in math and reading. Even those who eventually hit the targets needed to enter high school typically dropped out before earning enough credits to complete their sophomore year, the CPS Office of High School Programs reported.
Administrators went back to the drawing board. In 2003, CPS scrapped its free-standing centers and established achievement academies, now in nine high schools. The academies' two-year program, based on a national model developed at Johns Hopkins University, is designed to help smooth the transition into high school coursework.
Students are expected to earn their 8th-grade diplomas in the first semester. They enroll in three double period courses: math, reading, and a seminar that teaches study skills and life skills such as conflict resolution and goal-setting. All three courses count toward elective high school credits.
Those who pass all three courses earn an elementary diploma. Those who don't pass still move onto 9th-grade coursework in their second semester and, if they pass, will still earn their 8th-grade diploma. Kids continue in the program through 10th grade and then move on to 11th grade in a regular high school.
Unlike the old academic prep centers, the academies are as much about acceleration as remediation. Instead of working to get overage elementary school students to hit certain test scores in order to be promoted, the objective is to equip students with the skills to do high school work. To do so, the district spends $8,250 per academy student, compared to $6,250 for other high school students, officials say. (That figure, however, does not include the costs of additional professional development and classroom coaching for teachers provided by the Office of High School Programs.)
But now in their third year, the jury is still out on whether achievement academies can put kids on a path to success in high school, based on data analyzed for Catalyst Chicago by the Consortium on Chicago School Research. Academy students are less likely to drop out within two years compared to kids who attended the academic prep centers, but their attendance is still poor. Students, on average, are earning too few credits to meet the academy program's goal of earning 14 credits before 11th grade, or to make adequate progress toward graduating from high school on time.
Academy teachers who spoke with Catalyst predict that many of their students—estimates range from 30 to 90 percent—will not be ready for 11th-grade work. Lack of motivation, disruptive behavior and personal issues, they say, are even bigger obstacles than low academic skills. Daniel Nicky, a biology teacher at Chicago Vocational Achievement says that some of his students "envision a life for themselves where they're going to end up selling drugs or a victim of gang violence. You hear things like, 'I'm probably not going to live past 21.'"
In addition, teacher turnover at academies is high, and a substantial number of academy teachers have minimal experience, according to a Catalyst analysis of data provided by CPS. (See related story)
'Evidence looks good'
Overall, the first two groups of students to enter achievement academies have posted lower dropout rates than students in the shuttered academic prep centers.
In 2002, the last group of students to enter the prep centers posted a one-year dropout rate of 19 percent, according to the Consortium's analysis.
The following year, the first students to enter the revamped academies had a one-year dropout rate of 12 percent. The rate rose slightly for students entering in 2004, to 14 percent.
Despite the recent bump-up in one-year dropout rates, "that seems like a substantial amount of improvement in a short amount of time," says Elaine Allensworth, an associate director at the Consortium who has studied dropout trends in Chicago. A more rigorous analysis of the data is still needed, she adds, but "the preliminary evidence looks good."
Propelling kids into high school coursework keeps students motivated and less likely to drop out, suggests Melissa Roderick, a Consortium director. The academies have provided extra support as students transition into a full load of 9th-grade courses, a big advantage over the prep centers, she says.
Teachers and students say small class sizes—capped at 20 for freshmen—and double period schedules provide time for individual attention, which helps keep kids in school.
With 90 minutes instead of 45 minutes per period, kids have time to start homework in class and get help, vastly improving the chances that they'll complete it at home, says math teacher Muhie Tabbara. "I want them to do five or six problems in front of me."
Academy staff find that dozens of juniors who graduated from their program last year still drop by to visit—some almost daily. One former student at Chicago Vocational Achievement Academy phones the school from Texas. Many who spoke with Catalyst say they miss the attention.
Nina Doston, now a junior at Chicago Vocational, says she still comes by student advocate Malann Marshall's office because she hasn't found other adults to talk to. "Some teachers don't even explain the work," she says. "They just give it to you and go back to their desks.
Academy staff members, by contrast, appear much more attentive both inside and outside of class. Teachers are available before and after school for tutoring. Many hand out their cell phone numbers.
At Clemente Achievement Academy, algebra teacher Monica Roach sits beside a desk cluster, carefully leading three freshmen as they solve an equation. In the hallway, director Sally Hill spots one of her worst-behaved students and hugs him.
At Robeson, academy leader Loretta Young-Wright stands at the entrance with a box full of prizes such as pencils and fingernail polish for students who arrive on time to their Friday morning classes.
When one young man repeatedly skipped school, two teachers hopped in their car and went out to find him, says English teacher Gerdlyn Hyman. Spotting him on the corner, "We pulled him into the car," she says. "He was a little embarrassed, but he came."
Few credits, many absences
While more kids are staying in the academies, few are earning enough credits to have a shot at graduating on time.
Freshmen academy students earned an average of only four credits last year, putting them on track to earn only 16 throughout all of high school. CPS requires 24 credits for graduation, an average of six credits per year. Academy freshmen can earn up to seven credits with electives; they are also given a chance to retake failed classes in summer school.
Assessing the instructional program is difficult. The Office of High School Programs declined to release the results of specially administered standardized tests it uses to track students' annual progress in math and reading, but student performance on the PLAN, the 10th-grade precursor to the ACT, is not encouraging. Only a third of sophomore academy students who took the PLAN in the 2005 school year earned scores that would predict a good chance at earning admission to a four-year college, according to Consortium data.
A major reason for poor performance, teachers say, is poor attendance.
Academy attendance rates are lower than those for the district as well as the old academic prep centers. Average attendance for the academies last year was 76 percent, according to a Catalyst analysis, compared to the district-wide high school average of 86 percent. The year prep centers were closed and academies were launched, attendance was 78 percent, a decline from the previous year's rate of 80 percent.
A case in point: One recent afternoon, Lynn Peterson's 7th-period algebra class at Chicago Vocational Achievement Academy contained more empty desks than students: Only eight of 17 kids showed up. Of those absent, three were not in school, three were suspended for fighting or skipping Saturday detention, two cut classes starting earlier in the day, and one, Peterson believes, was sent home for an infraction of school rules during a fire drill.
"I work with the ones who are here," Peterson says simply.
The distance some students have to travel is part of the problem. CPS could only place academies in schools that had space, which eliminated most on the Northwest and Southwest sides and forces some students to make long commutes, says Edward Klunk, a consultant with the Office of High School Programs. In some cases, high schools with available space had reputations as unsafe and kids did not want to enroll there, he acknowledges.
With two student advocates each, academies are better equipped to tackle truancy than most high schools, which typically have no staff assigned to combat the problem. Sometimes, the effort pays off.
At Tilden Achievement Academy, one boy who stayed out of school after an assault on the way home was finally lured back by student advocate Rosa Hernandez. She visited his home, phoned him each time he skipped school and even offered a ride home when he felt unsafe. "He was reassured," she says.
But sometimes there is still little recourse for dealing with teenagers who simply refuse to attend school. Edwin Brown, leader of Chicago Vocational's academy, says that one mother told him her son wouldn't come to school because his shoes were too small. "She bought him some new shoes. He still won't come."
Real test yet to come
Even though their results have been mixed, some say that the new academies are still an improvement over the academic prep centers they replaced. The old centers were staffed with "very good, caring people," says Roderick at the Consortium on Chicago School Research, who was part of a team that evaluated the prep centers. "But they weren't transitioning kids into high school [work]."
In 2002, a small team at central office began to rethink the centers. Surfing the Internet at home late one night, Barbara Eason-Watkins, the district's chief education officer, ran across a model designed by researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Md. The Talent Development High School model had a strong track record in raising student achievement in schools in other urban districts, including Philadelphia and New Orleans.
The model was a blueprint for reorganizing a low-performing high school rather than one intended specifically as a program for at-risk kids. Still, Eason-Watkins thought it seemed like a good match.
Talent Development enrolled kids in double periods of math and reading, emphasized cooperative learning, and organized small teams of teachers to share the same group of students and meet frequently to discuss their progress.
Invited in, the Johns Hopkins consultants urged CPS to cut back on the time spent reviewing basic skills, Roderick recalls. "They were unwavering about how important that was. Kids needed to feel like they weren't going to be in remedial courses for the rest of their lives."
The key component of the academy model is student support—a smaller setting, smaller class size, and slower-paced classes with more individual attention. Chicago added its own twist with two student advocates at each school to counsel kids and monitor their attendance.
Teachers say the extra support keeps kids coming to school. "It's more personalized because there are fewer kids in the classroom," says Susan Koca, a 10th-grade English teacher at Chicago Vocational Achievement Academy. "They know if they aren't there, the teacher will follow up, [ask them] 'Where were you?' and nag them."
"If you take more time with any kid they're going to be appreciative and want to come to your class more," Koca adds.
To sharpen teachers' skills, CPS designated a team of subject area coaches to observe classrooms and provide feedback on instruction. Academy teachers also receive two hours of professional development monthly. But these efforts get mixed reviews: New teachers are more likely to find the guidance helpful, while veterans may well consider it repetitive and a waste of time.
Helping kids stay in school, attend regularly and graduate may require an even more expensive investment, teachers say, such as full-time social workers. Many students' mental health needs are overwhelming, due to past abuse or other traumas, teachers say. "I do not cry easily, but some of [their] stories would make you cry," says Sally Hill, leader of Clemente Achievement Academy.
It remains to be seen whether the first crop of academy students will persevere through 12th grade, says Klunk, who helped design the academies with the Office of High School Programs. "This coming year will be a telling year. If there's a real test of the program, it's to see how many of these kids graduate."
Mallika Ahluwalia contributed to this report.
To contact Elizabeth Duffrin, call (312) 673-3879 or send an e-mail to duffrin@catalyst-chicago.org.
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Kim Cannon: How Firstmac survived the GFC
Non-bank veteran reveals how a car ride to the airport secured this lender's future
By Kate McIntyre
For Kim Cannon, COVID-19 has been "a walk in the park" compared to the GFC. MPA spoke with the founder and managing director of Australia's largest non-bank lender Firstmac Limited about his early years in business and the car ride that secured Firstmac's future.
The dawn of a new era
It was the year 1979. Cannon and his soon to be wife Sia launched Lease National Finance, an equipment finance business that serviced mines and other enterprises in regional Queensland.
"I used to do trucks and earth moving equipment and I'd hang around outside the quarry gates and go for drives with truck drivers and find out who needed finance," said Cannon. "They always had intel. They would say, 'no, I'm not buying a new truck at the moment but such and such is', so I'd ring them up."
Kim Cannon in the early days of business
Using his sales bible, the Yellow Pages, Cannon would put his people skills to work and find leads the good old-fashioned way – in an era when telemarketing wasn't even a thing. Before long, the business had invested in a fax machine, which they also used to source clients.
"You go to school and they tell you what your career should be based on profiles that they do but nobody ever tells you that you could end up being a salesman," he said. "It takes a while once you leave school and get out in the real world to find out you have a few sales skills that come naturally that you didn't know about. I think that's the major thing that moved me into the business."
The transition to lending
Travelling around regional Queensland, Cannon said he met a lot of colourful characters – an aspect of his early business he misses to this day. But by the second half of the 80s, finance broking had changed and the banks he was dealing with were often inconsistent.
"I didn't want to be a broker forever," he said. "I made up my mind that I wouldn't mind getting into lending."
Thanks to the secondary mortgage market, an innovation of Queensland Premier Joh Bjelke-Peterson, Cannon started to move away from equipment finance and became a mortgage originator. He decided to learn as much as he could about securitisation and attended several conferences in the US for inspiration.
In the early 90s the business negotiated its own home loans program, becoming Nationale Home Loans, and from there grew in strides until 2007, when the GFC started to threaten its future.
The car ride that secured Firstmac's future
Cannon recalls a car ride back to the airport following an investors conference where he and his CFO James Austin decided the course of action they would take.
"On the way back to the airport to fly home James and I were in the car together and I said to James, 'what do you think?' And he said, 'I think we should hedge our portfolio'," said Cannon. "I said, 'oh, what does that mean?' And he said, 'well, if I'm wrong, you might lose $3 million but if I'm right you won't go broke.'
"And I went, 'oh, OK, hedge it.' He hedged our portfolio of $4 billion over the phone on the way back."
From there, the company "rolled itself up into a ball," he said.
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John E. Lawrence, a lifelong resident of Ypsilanti is one of Michigan's most talented and respected guitarists. Mr. Lawrence credits his musical talents first and foremost to God, then to the late Dr. Morris J. Lawrence Jr. (no relation). Dr. Lawrence was an instructor and chair of the Music Department at Washtenaw Community College (WCC). Under the tutelage of Dr. Lawrence, John was challenged and inspired to continuously improve his skills as a guitarist.
John Lawrence has published 16 instructional guitar books (three by Mel Bey Publishing), produced four DVDs and recorded 10 CDs. Mr. Lawrence was employed by WCC in Ann Arbor, MI for 36 years, retiring on May 4, 2015. He served as Chair of the Performing Arts Department, Head of the Music Performance Program, and was an instructor in the department. Within the first two years as department head, he developed 25 new courses and three Certificate Programs (Guitar Studies, Piano Studies, Music Production and Engineering). He also published a textbook for a course that he developed entitled "Self-Management for the Working Artist," which educates students on how to make a living in the music business.
A hallmark of Mr. Lawrence's tenure at WCC is his creation of the "Living Legends Series," which provided a stage for famous recording artists to be interviewed and share their life stories in front of a live audience followed by a question-and-answer period. The evening culminated with a concert. The program provided WCC students firsthand knowledge from musical legends. The series hosted artists such as Mavis Staples, The Four Tops, Ashford and Simpson, Earl Klugh and The Temptations.
In the realm of performance, John served as musical director and lead guitarist for vocalist Carl Carlton, who was the opening act for such famed artists as Smokey Robinson, Chaka Khan, Lionel Richie and the Commodores, Rick James, Teena Marie, Frankie Beverly and Maze. He has made television appearances on three nationally syndicated programs: Kelly & Company, PM Magazine and Good Morning America.
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STOCKHOLM/PARIS (Reuters) - Mercedes-Benz is set to unveil its much-anticipated electric SUV on Tuesday, marking the start of a German onslaught against Tesla's (TSLA.O) dominance of the fast-growing market for premium battery cars.
Daimler-owned (DAIGn.DE) Mercedes, BMW (BMWG.DE) and Volkswagen's (VOWG_p.DE) Audi and Porsche divisions are all gunning for the $52 billion Californian upstart, with early publicity efforts emulating its tech-industry halo.
The Mercedes EQC - whose launch programme in Stockholm features yoga in a direct appeal to the Millennials who have flocked to Tesla - is the first production model under the carmaker's electric EQ sub-brand. It will be closely followed by similarly hyped debuts for BMW and Audi.
The EQC softens its higher-riding proportions with sporty curves and a distinctive full-width rear light, while the interior resembles that of the Mercedes C-Class - a reminder of economies of scale that electric-only Tesla cannot match.
The launch is the centrepiece of a three-day event that features DJ sets and yoga with a YouTube star - almost literally bending over backwards to telegraph 21st-century kudos.
Not to be outdone, BMW has hired a Lufthansa cargo jet to fly its electric Vision iNext - still just a concept car - from Munich to Beijing via New York and, of course, San Francisco. Events are planned in all four cities over five days.
In another Tesla-inspired move, the three German carmakers are developing their own network of fast-chargers along major highways in a partnership with Ford (F.N).
Tyler Martin, a Tesla owner in Tucson, Arizona, said he had yet to decide whether to buy a Model 3 next - after his current Model S suffered from "build quality" issues requiring several trips to the repair shop each year.