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Ryan Dalziel Aims To Turn Up The Heat After Pain In The Rain
THE PLOT: On-form Ryan Dalziel is planning to soak up the sun in New Jersey this weekend after two weeks as the rain man on both sides of the Atlantic.
Ryan, from Windermere in Florida, can't wait to dry his gear out after getting soaked in the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Series Grand Prix of Miami then again in the FIA World Endurance Championship at Spa in Belgium.
And he is aiming to turn up the heat after those two results failed to match the performance of the Starworks Motorsport cars.
A win for Ryan – originally from Lanarkshire in Scotland – and Venezuelan Enzo Potolicchio in the #8 Ford Riley will catapult the Fort Lauderdale-based team back to the top of the Daytona Prototype rankings and get their dream season back on track after a couple of hiccups.
At Spa, the team had already been hit by an engine problem in the Honda Performance Development LMP2 car that cost them 30 laps when Ryan climbed behind the wheel. He produced a series of blistering laps, despite having never raced on the legendary Ardennes circuit before and showed just why he has become one of the most highly-rated drivers around at the moment.
He equalled the times set by former Peugeot works driver Sarrazin as they pulled back an incredible two laps on the field in the closing stages and boosted their FIA World Endurance Championship chances by grabbing some vital title points. Ryan, 30, is now just two points behind the Oak team and seven points behind ADR.
Now he hopes to take that form into the New Jersey Motorsports Park…once his boots have dried.
THE QUOTES: Ryan looks ahead to New Jersey: "My boots are still wet from two weekends in the rain. New Jersey is notoriously hot so, hopefully, we will get the chance to go up there and dry out a little bit. It is a little bit easier for me to jump back into Grand-Am racing because I know the racing, the tracks and the cars. That is very natural whereas the WEC is still a bit alien. I am looking forward to getting back to my natural habitat. We have had a couple of disappointing weekends in both series, so now it is time to regroup and go after it.
"The unfortunate thing is that we have been stronger in the past two weekends than we were earlier in the season. In Sebring, we weren't the best car but we did the best job. In Spa, I think we were the best car. It was the same at Homestead, we were dominant in the rain and had a bad result. We know we have the pace, we just have to get back to winning ways."
Ryan looks back on Spa: "What an incredible place. It reminds me of why Europe has the best tracks in the world. A lot of people were shocked to hear that it was my first time there because I am from Europe, and it is so difficult. I struggled in the first few days because I wanted to maximize track time and not make any mistakes.
"Then I started pushing and that worked for me. My race pace was really good. It was the first time I have matched Stephane. At Sebring, I was a little bit behind him, but we left Spa with joint fastest lap.
"Enzo did his job and, with Stephane and I, we were definitely good. We still got eighth place points so there are positives. If we get the right result at Le Mans, we are right back up there.
"When we got back out after the engine trouble, we were 30 laps down and when we finished we were 28 laps down so, by far, we were the best car. We are still pretty confident. We were lucky that other cars also had issues.
"We are continuing to learn and we move on to the next one. The team has grown a massive amount.
"For Enzo and I, the challenge was to learn the track, but for the team, they had gone up a level from Sebring. It was an incredible job, seeing where we are now to where we were at Sebring. I know we are happy with the job we did as a team, but there are still things we can work on. We will get stronger at each event."
THE FACTS: The Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series Global Barter 250 at New Jersey Motorsports Park will be on May 13. It will be live on Speed TV at 1pm (ET).
The next race for Ryan and Starworks Motorsport in the 2012 FIA World Endurance Championship campaign will be the Le Mans 24 Hours on June 16-17. They started with an LMP2 class win and third place overall at Sebring in Florida.
He also grabbed an LMPC class win and third place overall in the CORE autosport car at Long Beach in California in the American Le Mans Series earlier last month.
Ryan had four Rolex Grand-Am podiums in 2011 – a win at mid-Ohio and third at Barber, Lime Rock and Watkins Glen. He also had three fourth-place finishes.
Ryan also gave Starworks Motorsport its first DP victory, at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, in 2008.
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Q: Reflection Optimization I've recently implemented reflection to replace the more tedious aspects of our data retrieval from a SQL database. The old code would look something like this:
_dr = _cmd.ExecuteReader (_dr is the SQLDataReader)
        While _dr.Read (_row is a class object with public properties)
                _row.Property1 = Convert.ToInt16(_dr("Prop1"))
                _row.Property2 = Convert.ToInt16(_dr("Prop2"))
                _row.Property3 = Convert.ToInt16(_dr("Prop3"))
                If IsDBNull(_dr("Prop4")) = False Then _row.Prop4 = _dr("Prop4")
...

Since my code base has a lot of functionality like this, reflection seemed like a good bet to simplify it and make future coding easier. How to assign datareader data into generic List ( of T ) has a great answer that was practically like magic for my needs and easily translated into VB. For easy reference:
Public Shared Function GenericGet(Of T As {Class, New})(ByVal reader As SqlDataReader, ByVal typeString As String)
    'Dim results As New List(Of T)()
    Dim results As Object

    If typeString = "List" Then
        results = New List(Of T)()
    End If

    Dim type As Type = GetType(T)

    Try
        If reader.Read() Then
            ' at least one row: resolve the properties
            Dim props As PropertyInfo() = New PropertyInfo(reader.FieldCount - 1) {}
            For i As Integer = 0 To props.Length - 1
                Dim prop = type.GetProperty(reader.GetName(i), BindingFlags.Instance Or BindingFlags.[Public])
                If prop IsNot Nothing AndAlso prop.CanWrite Then
                    props(i) = prop
                End If
            Next

            Do
                Dim obj = New T()
                For i As Integer = 0 To props.Length - 1
                    Dim prop = props(i)
                    If prop Is Nothing Then
                        Continue For
                    End If
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                    Dim val As Object = If(reader.IsDBNull(i), Nothing, reader(i))
                    If val IsNot Nothing Then SetValue(obj, prop, val)
                Next

                If typeString = "List" Then
                    results.Add(obj)
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    Catch ex As Exception
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    End Try
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End Function

The only caveat with this is that it is somewhat slower.
My question is how to optimize. Sample code I find online is all in C# and does not convert neatly into VB. Scenario 4 here seems like exactly what I want, but converting it to VB gives all kinds of errors (Using CodeFusion or converter.Telerik.com).
Has anyone done this in VB before? Or can anyone translate what's in that last link?
Any help's appreciated.

A: Couple ideas for you.

*

*Don't use the DataReader when reading ALL records at once, it is slower than using a DataAdapter.

*When you use the DataAdapter to fill a DataSet, you can iterate through the rows and columns which does NOT use reflection and will be much faster.

*I have a program I created (and many other programmers do this too) that generate the code from a database for me. Each table and row is a class that is specifically named an generated in such a way that I can use intellisense and prevents many run-time errors by making them compile-time errors when data changes. This is very much like the EntityFramework but lighter because it fits MY specific needs.

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Q: Opposite of FLAG_KEEP_SCREEN_ON I have A fragment which plays videos. On this fragment I wish that the user will bbe able to rotate screen and keep screen always on. I have set the flag FLAG_KEEP_SCREEN_ON but how do I revert it to the default/previous state?
override fun onPause() {
    super.onPause()
    mainHandler.removeCallbacks(updateTextTask)
    requireActivity().requestedOrientation = ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT
    //requireActivity().window?.addFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_KEEP_SCREEN_ON) //revert this
}

override fun onResume() {
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    requireActivity().requestedOrientation = ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_FULL_SENSOR
    requireActivity().window?.addFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_KEEP_SCREEN_ON)
}

A: It's described at Docs

You don't need to clear the FLAG_KEEP_SCREEN_ON flag unless you no longer want the screen to stay on in your running application


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Q: Can't access public class from web service I have a very weird scenario which I can't seem to figure out what's going on. I have a web service which is written in C# and the target framework is 3.5. I have many Classes and Methods but for simplicity I will make use of only two classes in the question.
public class PathNames
{
   private string _pathA = "Some Path";
   private string _pathB = "Another Path";
   public string BaseDirectoryPath
   {
        get
        {
            return Path.Combine(_pathA, _pathB);
        }
   }
}

The second class is as follows:
public class UserInformation
{
   public string UserName { get; set; }
   ...//more properties
}

Both of the above classes are in the same namespace.
The web service is referenced in a WebForm Application with the target framework being 4.0. Everything seems to be working fine and I can see the UserInformation class when I view it in Object Browser. However the PathNames class does not seem to be visible in the Object Broswer.
Both of the source files in question are set to Compile in the File Properties windows. I have 5 classes similar to that of UserInformation and same settings in the File Properties window where they are just simple POCO and only have public auto propteries. These all seem to be coming through and I can access them and see them in the Object Browser. For some strange reason I cannot PathNames class to come through. I have tried to add some new dummy classes and have the same issue as PathNames class. Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong please.

*

*The web service old ASMX

*Web service client is being created through VS add service reference

*Using VS 2017 pro - version 15.6.7.

*After publish if I de-compile the dll then the PathNames class is there. So it's clearly in the dll.

*I have look at this but still no luck.

A:
Using Data Contracts in web service

Service can't expose private/read-only properties. DataMember attribute is used for marking public members or properties (with public getter and setter) of class marked with DataContract attribute. DataContract can be used as parameter or return value of operation.
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) uses a serialization engine called the Data Contract Serializer by default to serialize and deserialize data (convert it to and from XML), and XML serialization (by default) doesn't serialize read=only properties.
For More Information you can read the MS Docs for Data Contracts :- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/wcf/feature-details/using-data-contracts
To understand the various Limitation of Data Contracts please refer : -https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/wcf/feature-details/types-supported-by-the-data-contract-serializer

Solution :

Anyway. What are you trying to do? Exposing properties means that you expect some stateful behavior. If you going to use this property in operation contract, which is seems to be, then you you must define the properties with public getter and setter so it can be serialized.
As the @Nikosi stated in previous answer, you have to define public setter for your BaseDirectoryPath property.

A: The only difference based on the example provided that one property is readonly while the other can be modified.
In order to make the class serializable consider rafactoring the property
public class PathNames {
    private string _pathA = "Some Path";
    private string _pathB = "Another Path";

    public PathNames() {
        BaseDirectoryPath = Path.Combine(_pathA, _pathB);
    }

    public string BaseDirectoryPath { get; set; }
}

You can use a default constructor to set the default value of the property
or just have an empty setter on the property
public class PathNames {
    private string _pathA = "Some Path";
    private string _pathB = "Another Path";

    public string BaseDirectoryPath {
        get {
            return Path.Combine(_pathA, _pathB);
        }
        set {
            //No OP
        }
    }
}

A: You can see how creating a Custom ASP.NET Web Service.
Might you need to rebuild web service ASP.Net and add your assembly to the global assembly cache (GAC).
I hope this help you.


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By Political Parity on March 19, 2015
In celebration of Women's History Month, we spoke with history maker Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, who at age 30 is the youngest woman ever elected to Congress. The freshman Republican representative opened up about her journey from campaign to Capitol Hill, the collaborative power of women, and how we can reach parity sooner by better supporting female candidates. Listen in as this pioneering leader shares her story and inspires others on the #MarchtoParity.
"Women work really well with one another. If you look at the dealmakers overcoming Washington gridlock, for example in the Senate, it's often the female senators. The more women we have in Congress, the more effective our Congress will be."

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edited by William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir John Murray IV, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle)
in his diocese, he adds, 'my poor opinion is, that the matter is inter minutiora legis, and we should make the best of it; and happily in these times of opposition it is not amiss to follow that wise direction of the greatest council of Christendom, the first of Niçe, Let ancient customs be observed.' 'In our opinion, there needs neither Synod, nor Convocation, nor royal interposition to heal all our present feuds — it is enough to repeat, Let usages be observed.'
We can appreciate, however, though we cannot approve the sedative and plausible motives that so long kept some of our prelates altogether silent on these subjects, and induced Bishop Blomfield and Archbishop Howley and others to endeavour to deal with them by concessions and compromises that decided nothing and dissatisfied every body. They felt themselves trammelled by the letter of what had long been admitted to be the law, and of which, though never practised, they were reluctant to dispute the theoretic authority. The bold strides which Popery had made under this hesitation have at last overcome all minor motives, and the Address of the twenty-four Prelates assembled at Lambeth has re-established the early and just principle, " Let acknowledged usages be observed.' It now remains for their Lordships, and particularly the Metropolitans, by their vigilance, activity, and resolution, to ensure its early and complete adoption. There is no doubt that, during so long a delay, the mischief may in some places have acquired considerable tenacity, but since the Bishops, we may say as a body, have at last spoken out—if they do not act to the full scope of their engagements, they will find that they have only increased their difficulties. The time is gone by for endeavouring to propitiate refractory innovators, by permission to preach in whites in the morning, if they will consent to preach in blacks in the evening, and to set up candles on the altar, provided they are not lighted. We trust that we have all now arrived at a better appreciation both of our danger and our duties; and that in short, we shall have, all and speedily, returned with increased gratitude and zeal to the decent seriousness and sober splendour-alike removed from puritanism and
poperywhich the practice of, certainly two, and, we believe, of three centuries had established, and, till recently, preserved with surprising uniformity in the United Church of England and Ireland.
QUARTERLY REVIEW.
Art. I.— The History of British India, from 1805 to 1835. By
Horace Hayman Wilson, M.A., F.R.S. Vol. iii. 8vo. 1848. ON the 30th of August, 1838, the princely city of Oodypore was
the scene of a terrible solemnity. About mid-day a prolonged discharge of artillery from the fort announced the unexpected decease of Maharána Juwan Singh ; and, as is usual in tropical climates, preparations for his obsequies immediately commenced. The palace-gate was thronged with the expectant populace. Something, however, in the excitement of their voices and gestures, boded the approach of a spectacle more thrilling than mere pomp could render even a royal funeral. It was not the dead alone whom the eager crowd were waiting to see pass from among them. Sculptured in startling abundance on the tombs of their rulers, the well-known effigies of women's feet * gave ghastly assurance that a prince of Oodypore would not that day be gathered to his fathers without a wife, or a concubine, sharing his pyre. The only question was—how many ? It was known that the youngest of the two queens came of a family in which the rite was rarely practised; while the suddenness of the Maharána's death had given but scanty time for any of his inferior women to mature so tremendous a resolution. Great, therefore, was the admiration of the multitude when they learnt that immediately on the fatal tidings reaching the Zenána, both the queens and six out of seven concubines had determined to burn. The seventh, a favourite, had excused herself on the plea—which, characteristically enough, was at once admitted —that "she felt none of the inspiration deemed necessary to the sanctity of the sacrifice.'
It next became the duty of the chief nobles to address the ladies with the forms of dissuasion. But to these they quickly put an end by an act that rendered retreat impossible:—loosening their hair, and unveiling their faces, they went to the gate of the Zenána, and presented themselves before the assembled populace.
• The distinctive memorial of a Suttee. The feet of each victim are represented in relief, with the soles outwards, on the face of the mausoleum.
VOL, LXXXIX, NO, CLXXVIII.
All opposition to their wishes now ceased. They were regarded as sacred to the departed monarch. Devout ejaculations poured incessantly from their lips. Their movements became invested with a mysterious significance; and their words were treasured up as prophetic.
Meantime the pile had been prepared. The eight victims, (ressed in their richest attire, and mounted on horseback, moved with the procession to the cemetery. There they stripped off their ornaments and jewels, distributed gifts to the bystanders, and lastly, mounting the pile, took their places beside the corpse. As the Maharána had left no son, his nephew, the present Sovereign, applied the torch. The crash of music, the chanting of the priests, and the cries of the multitude arose simultaneously, and the tragedy was consummated. • The father of one of the queens' (concludes the native report) " had been present during the whole. He is here immersed in contemplation and grief, and his companions are comforting him.'
Perhaps at this point some of our readers may feel puzzled by the recollection that Lord William Bentinck is celebrated in numberless works as having put down all atrocities of this kind some twenty years ago.
And true it is that he did so as far as his authority extended; but within that limit, as Mr. Wilson's clear narrative shows, the operation was necessarily confined. In other words, out of about 77 millions of souls, this prohibition reached directly only the 37 millions who were British subjects; indirectly, perhaps about 19 millions more, consisting of the subjects of native princes in whose internal management we had some voice; while there remained not less than 21 millions, the subjects of states which, though our allies, could be in no degree reached by the legislation of 1829. The kingdom of Oodypore, or Meywar, was of the last class. The only notice, therefore, that the Governor-General of 1838 (Lord Auckland) could take of the horrors above detailed was by way of private communication. The Resident at Oodypore was instructed to explain unofficially the horror with which the British Government had heard of the tragedy, and of the prominent part in it played by the new Sovereign himself. The Resident's opinion was at the same time asked, as to the most suitable compliment to be paid to those nobles who had sought to dissuade the ladies from their resolution, and the answer was noteworthy. Lord Auckland was informed that the personages in question would simply feel disgraced' by any tribute which should imply that their dissuasions had been meant for aught but decorous forms !
Such was the veneration in which up to a date so recent the sacrifice of Suttee was held by a vast proportion of our
allies,
allies, and such the acquiescence with which the British Go-' vernment perforce regarded its celebration. Within the last seven years, however, the rite has occasioned one of the most remarkable movements recorded in Eastern annals. Never before, within historical memory, had the Hindoos exhibited the phenomenon of religious change. During that brief period an agitation has sprung up which has led more than half the great independent states to repudiate a sacrifice regarded by their forefathers, not only as sacred, but as a standing miracle in attestation of their faith. So extraordinary an exception to the inveterate tyranny of tradition would demand investigation, were it only as a psychological problem ; but how much more is this the case when the wonder is known to be the work of a single British officer! We owe to the late lamented Chairman of the Court of Directors the means of presenting our readers with the first authentic account of this triumph of skill and energy.
Strange to say, the movement originated in the very stronghold of the rite. Among the states who gloried in the readiness of their women to brave this supreme test of conjugal devotion, none exercise a wider influence over Hindoo opinion than the small knot of powers on the north-west frontier, who occupy the provinces known collectively as Rajpootána.
The respect paid throughout India to the blood of the Rajpoots-(literally the progeny of princes)—is well known. Matrimonial alliances with their chiefs are eagerly sought by princes of thrice their territorial importance. A race of soldiers and hunters, their figures and faces are eminently handsome and martial; their voices loud ; and when they laugh, it is with a hearty burst like Europeans — in broad contrast to the stealthy chuckle of the Bengálee, or the silent smile of the reserved Mussulman. Unlike those, too, they scorn the pursuits of the desk; and even agriculture has only become common among them since the tranquillization of the frontier has diminished their opportunities of obtaining military service among their feudal lords. Whatever a Hindoo knows of chivalry or nationality, he deems to be exemplified in this model race. Since, therefore, Rajpoots were renowned for the frequency of their suttees, the great independent states thought it beneath their orthodoxy to return any other answer to the remonstrances of the British Government against the rite, than that it would be time enough for them to prohibit it, when Rajpootána led the way.'
This they doubtless thought was to postpone a change indefinitely. Many, in truth, and pitiful were the instances which seemed to forbid the hope that Rajpoots would ever consent to take the lead in such a course. One of these has already been
given.
given. A second—the last with which we shall pain our readers ---must be added, because it illustrates the chief difficulty with which the friends of abolition had to contend. It was the belief of those officers who had acquired the longest experience in Rajpoot affairs, that every attempt on the part of the British Government to remonstrate against Suttee had been followed by an increase in the number of the sacrifices. This opinion -which, whether right or wrong, naturally carried weight with the Government, and had caused the discouragement of any active interference in the matter--was supposed to receive a further corroboration in the occurrence we are about to narrate.
Early in 1840 the Political Agent, or chargé d'affaires, at the Rajpoot court of Kotah had ventured on his own responsibility to break through the cautious reserve thus prescribed, by apprising the chief of that state, that the British Government would be greatly gratified to hear that his Highness had abolished Suttee throughout his dominions. My friend,' replied the prince, the customs alluded to have been handed down from the first fathers of mankind. They have obtained in every nation of India, and more especially in Rajpootána; for whenever a sovereign of these states has bidden farewell to life, the queens, through the yearnings of the inward spirit, have become Suttees, notwithstanding that the relatives were averse to the sacrifice, and would have prevented it altogether. It is not in the power of a mortal to nullify a divine, though mysterious, ordinance.' With true Oriental complaisance, however, his Highness proceeded to promise his best efforts to undertake the impossibility. Since,' he concludes, it will afford the English Government peculiar pleasure, I shall take such measures as lie in my power to prohibit the practice.' It appears that nobody except the officer to whom it was addressed attached any value to this plausible assurance. The veteran diplomatist who at that time superintended our relations with the Rajpoot states was even led to augur from it some fresh outbreak of religious zeal in favour of the rite.
About 3 P.m. on the 29th October, 1840, a Brahmin, by name Luchmun, died at Kotah, and his widow declared her intention of burning with the corpse. The permission of the reigning prince had in the first instance to be obtained. Now, therefore, was the time for testing the value of the pledge which he had given to the chargé d'affaires. His Highness absolutely declined to use his authority. The chief constable was, indeed, sent to address the
The term ttee, or ati, is strictly applicable to the person, not the rite ; meaning a pure and virtuous woman ; and designates the wife who completes a life of uninterrupted conjugal happiness by the act of Saha-gamana, accompanying ber husband's corpse. It has come in common usage to denote the act.'—Wilson, iii. p. 265.


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The Man From UNCLE: The Suburbia Affair
Oh dear, I'm starting to heap up the draft posts (& ideas for posts a bit, but since I'm watching Series 3 of TMFU, & this one came on, I just had to post about it. Like The Off-Broadway Affair, I feel this episode is best watched as a satirical comment both on suburban life (perhaps in a similar vein to the way Bewitched satirised suburban life) & the spying industry.
Of course the nature of the satire is that Peaceful Haven is crawling with power-crazed megalomaniacs & spies. Of course they're deranged. Of course the plot is deranged. Of course the attempts to kill the UNCLE agents are deranged.
There are two familiar faces - to me - in this show, & just for a change they're not the usual round of actors who appeared in every British series in the sixties. Victor Borge - we had some of his records when I was a child - does a surprising turn as a 'straight' actor, although clearly with a nod to his normal self, since he plays a musician. Reta Shaw makes a wonderfully megalomaniac baddie: 'You're too old for a spanking.'
This show is also (perhaps unintentionally) a comment on what happens when the American dream goes wrong, almost in the vein of certain X-Files episodes thirty years later. Even fifty years later what most strikes my British eyes about Peaceful Haven (sounds like a retirement home, or even cemetery) is how prosperous it looks, & particularly how large everything is. This is pre-oil crisis American dream at its best, & the irony is that it's rotten to the core.
Visually the episode looks just like so many other 1960s series (to me, don't forget). This is relieved by the sheer eccentricity of the characters & unlikeliness of the plot. You don't need scenery that's a riot of colours when you have the cast playing this one. Even the scenes of domesticity, with Solo & Kuryakin acting like an old married couple within hours of setting up home, sparkle with a chemistry that isn't in every Man From UNCLE episode.
I have one criticism of the plot. Once you know there's a musician around, the plot falls flat on its face, since to me it is so obvious that musicians are often mathematicians also. The fact that he is also Danish is every so slightly a giveaway.
I have two favourite bits. The first is Solo pulling the estate agent's caravan with an ice cream van, still playing the music. The other is the two patrolmen sitting down to watch the 'old film' on television, which is actual torture broadcast by CCTV from within the house they are in.
Posted by John
Labels: 60s TV, The Man from UNCLE
Chicago Calling:
In an earlier post I mentioned "The Major Get", i.e. when a star who didn't normally do episodic TV would turn up in a "dramatic" role.
Victor Borge's appearance here is a classic example; his TV appearances were mainly on musical or variety shows. The music angle in the UNCLE story was a given; many of the "Major Get" shows during this time were usually tailor-made for the Guest Star in this fashion.
Atually, this practice was never more commonplace than during the mid-'60s, when Color took over and everybody went wild all at once.
The two UNCLE shows*, with MGM as their home base, were avid participants in this craze (so were just about every other filmed series in the USA, comes to that).
I noted that the only other actor you IDed by name was Reta Shaw, who was spoofing her typecast as a "jolly grandma" in almost every sitcom from that time. Most of the other "suburbanites" in this episode were doing the same thing here, sending up their images from other shows.
(I'll make the guess that American situation comedies didn't figure much in UK TV programming back then.)
'66-'67 was UNCLE's comedy year; Norman Felton and his crew made a point of using popular comedians in guest roles on both The Man and The Girl quite frequently. On top of that, Felton also encouraged his most serious Guest Stars to go over the top, most notably in one Girl episode with Raymond Massey as "B. Elzie Bubb" - a long way from Abe Lincoln (or Dr. Gillespie ...).
Another UNCLE "Major Get"show that I can think of (that you haven't written up here) was "The Concrete Overcoat Affair", one of the two-part shows that got edited together into "features" for overseas theatrical release.
Not only two Major Gets - Jack Palance and Janet Leigh - but as a bonus for older fans, a "reunion" of '30s movie gangsters: Eduardo Ciannelli, Allen Jenkins, Jack LaRue, Elisha Cook Jr., Vince Barnett, Slapsie Maxie Rosenbloom - and Joan Blondell as "Mrs. Fingers Stiletto".
OK, maybe not "high satire", but it was a lot of fun to watch in '66 - and today, it still is.
(I think so, anyway ...)
Back with more later ...
And of course I would have to agree with you, Mike. Your comments show how differently audiences would view shows. Of course you're right that UK audiences wouldn't get the sit com reference here, although it all falls inro place now, although Victor Borge was very popular. Thank you for commenting again.
This is the blog of my love for cult TV, mostly 1960s & British. The Avengers were my first love, but I like any show which is a little weird or otherwise speaks of the age.
50s TV 60s jobbing actors 60s TV 70s TV 80s TV 90s TV Adam Adamant Lives! Allegory in The Prisoner Apartheid in The Prisoner BBC vs ITV Beasts Callan Columbo Danger Man Department S Doctor Who Doomwatch Gideon's Way Hazell Honor Blackman Jason King John Drake seen as the Prisoner Man in a Suitcase Me Not TV Patrick Cargill Paul Temple Peaky Blinders Peter Cushing Petunia Winegum Police Surgeon Probably not Cult TV Public Eye Railways on TV Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) Rik Mayall Sapphire and Steel Sherlock Holmes Spyder's Web Steed's Library Strange Report Target The Avengers The Baron The Champions The Comic Strip Presents & Others The Corridor People The Man from UNCLE The New Avengers The Omega Factor the pr The Prisoner The Professionals The Protectors The X-Files The Young Ones Thriller Venus Smith was an Avengers Girl
The Man From UNCLE: The King of Diamonds Affair
Public Eye: Works with Chess, Not with Life
The Man From UNCLE: The Hula Doll Affair
Public Eye: The Morning Wasn't So Hot
The Man From UNCLE: The Off-Broadway Affair
Department S: A Cellar Full of Silence
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased): The Man From Nowhere...


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147 F. 3d 751 - Coleman v. Reed R J
Federal Reporter, Third Series
147 F.3d
147 F3d 751 Coleman v. Reed R J
127 Ed. Law Rep. 583, 14 IER Cases 440
Jo-Anne E. COLEMAN, Appellee,
Katrina REED, sued as Katrina R. Reed, as an individual and
in her official capacity; Betty J. Webb, as an individual
and in her official capacity; Daniel Loewenson, as an
individual and in his official capacity, Appellants.
No. 97-2331.
Eighth Circuit.
Argued March 12, 1998.
Decided June 26, 1998.
Rehearing and Suggestion for Rehearing En Banc Denied July 30, 1998.
Timothy James Pawlenty, Minneapolis, MN, argued (Daniel Q. Poretti, on the brief), for Appellants.
Roger C. Alderson, St. Paul, MN, argued, for Appellee.
Before BEAM and HEANEY, Circuit Judges, and KOPF1, District Judge.
BEAM, Circuit Judge.
Three government officials who were sued in their individual capacities under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, appeal the district court's denial of their claim of qualified immunity.
Because we find that the suit fails to allege that the officials violated a clearly established constitutional right, we reverse.
I. BACKGROUND
Because this appeal is before us on a motion for summary judgment, we view the facts in the light most favorable to the non-moving party. See Kraft v. Ingersoll-Rand Co., 136 F.3d 584, 586 (8th Cir.1998). In December of 1992, Jo-Anne Coleman was hired by the Minneapolis Public School District as principal of Lincoln Elementary School (Lincoln). After she had worked there for about five months, the school district received an anonymous telephone call alleging that Coleman had a prior felony record and had served time in prison. School officials investigated and discovered that Coleman had been convicted of several counts of Medicaid fraud and had served eighteen months in prison. School officials also examined Coleman's employment application which asked, "Have you ever been convicted of a misdemeanor or felony?" Coleman wrote "N/A."
On June 7, 1993, Daniel Loewenson, the school district's human resources director, telephoned Coleman and asked her to attend a meeting the next day with Katrina Reed, one of the school district's associate superintendents. Loewenson did not tell Coleman the purpose of the meeting, but did tell her that she could bring a union representative. Coleman attended the meeting accompanied by an attorney. Reed confronted Coleman with the conviction and Coleman's failure to reveal it on the application. Coleman acknowledged both. Reed then offered Coleman the opportunity to resign. Coleman refused and requested a formal hearing. Reed responded that Coleman was not entitled to any additional hearing, and informed her that if she did not resign, she would be terminated at that evening's meeting of the Minneapolis Public School Board of Education (Board).
That evening, Reed presented evidence of Coleman's conviction and employment application to the Board at an executive session, which was closed to the public. Following the executive session, the Board held its regular public meeting. Both Coleman and her attorney attended this meeting, but, although several members of the public voiced support for Coleman, neither Coleman nor her counsel sought to address the Board. The Board voted to discharge Coleman effective July 12, 1993. Coleman appealed her discharge to the Minnesota Court of Appeals. The court denied the petition, and the Minnesota Supreme Court summarily denied her petition for further review.
After Coleman's discharge, the Lincoln Elementary School community was in an uproar. A flier circulated speculating about the "true reason" for Coleman's discharge. In response to this confusion, the school district distributed a statement to all Lincoln elementary students informing them that, "Jo Coleman was convicted of a felony prior to being employed by the district and served time at the Shakopee Women's Reformatory." In a letter accompanying the statement, Betty Webb, another associate superintendent for the district, explained that the statement was "issued by the Minneapolis Public Schools with the knowledge and approval of the Human Resources Department and my office."
Coleman sued Webb, Reed and Loewenson (collectively, "the administrators") in both their official and individual capacities under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. She alleged that the administrators deprived her of property and liberty interests without due process of law.2 The administrators moved for summary judgment based on qualified immunity. The district court denied the motion and the administrators appeal.
II. DISCUSSION
The administrators assert that they are entitled to qualified immunity as a matter of law. In assessing that claim, we first consider whether Coleman has alleged the violation of a constitutional right. See County of Sacramento v. Lewis, --- U.S. ----, 118 S.Ct. 1708, 1714 n. 5, 140 L.Ed.2d 1043, (1998); Siegert v. Gilley, 500 U.S. 226, 232, 111 S.Ct. 1789, 114 L.Ed.2d 277 (1991). Coleman asserts that the administrators failed to provide her with procedural due process, claiming that her discharge deprived her of a property interest in continued employment with the school district and that dissemination of the statement approved by Webb deprived her of a liberty interest in her good name and reputation.3
A. Property Interest Claim
Coleman argues that her employment contract entitled her to be discharged only for cause. The administrators respond that Coleman was a probationary employee, terminable at will. This is a question of state law which we will leave to the Minnesota state courts. See Board of Regents v. Roth, 408 U.S. 564, 577, 92 S.Ct. 2701, 33 L.Ed.2d 548 (1972). We will assume that Coleman had a property interest in her job. However, even assuming the deprivation of a protected interest, we find that Coleman has not alleged a constitutional violation because she was provided adequate pre-termination process.
In Cleveland Board of Education v. Loudermill, the Supreme Court held that a "hearing" was necessary prior to the termination of a tenured public employee. 470 U.S. 532, 545, 105 S.Ct. 1487, 84 L.Ed.2d 494 (1985). This hearing is intended to serve as "an initial check against mistaken decisions--essentially, a determination of whether there are reasonable grounds to believe that the charges against the employee are true and support the proposed action." Id. at 545-46, 105 S.Ct. 1487. Rather than prescribe a set format for pre-termination hearings, the Court emphasized that "[t]he essential requirements of due process ... are notice and an opportunity to respond," and that "[t]he tenured public employee is entitled to oral or written notice of the charges against him, an explanation of the employer's evidence, and an opportunity to present his side of the story." Id. at 546, 105 S.Ct. 1487.
The pre-termination procedure afforded Coleman by the administrators satisfied the requirements established in Loudermill. See Powell v. Mikulecky, 891 F.2d 1454, 1459 (10th Cir.1989) (finding that confrontation in which employee was asked and answered two questions was sufficient pre-termination hearing under Loudermill). Coleman received oral notice of the charge against her when Reed confronted her face-to-face in the June 8 meeting. See, e.g., Riggins v. Board of Regents, 790 F.2d 707, 711 (8th Cir.1986) (holding that employee did not have to be notified of charges prior to meeting). She was represented by an attorney at that meeting. Coleman had an opportunity to rebut the charge, but chose instead to admit to it. Contrary to Coleman's assertion, Loudermill does not imply that there must be a delay between the "notice" and the "opportunity to respond" accorded to a public employee. See, e.g., Demming v. Housing and Redevelopment Auth., 66 F.3d 950, 953 (8th Cir.1995) (rejecting plaintiff's claim that she was "ambushed" by charges and needed time to prepare an adequate response). Finally, Coleman has not identified "any information she would have used in rebuttal had she had more notice." Riggins, 790 F.2d at 711.
In addition to her meeting with Reed, Coleman had a second opportunity to respond to the charge against her. The evening session of the Board occurred after Coleman became aware of the charge.4 However, Coleman did not utilize this second opportunity to "present [her] side of the story." Loudermill, 470 U.S. at 546, 105 S.Ct. 1487. Although she had counsel present to speak for her, and even after the Board heard from several members of the public regarding her proposed termination, Coleman remained silent. The administrators cannot be faulted for Coleman's failure to take advantage of this additional opportunity to be heard. See Riggins, 790 F.2d at 711.
Accordingly, Coleman has not alleged a violation of her constitutional right to procedural due process and the administrators are entitled to summary judgment on her property interest claim.
B. Liberty Interest Claim
Coleman asserts that the administrators deprived her of a liberty interest without due process. A liberty interest may be implicated when a governmental employer makes statements that may seriously damage the employee's good name. Roth, 408 U.S. at 573, 92 S.Ct. 2701. A deprivation of constitutional magnitude may occur if such an employee is not granted the opportunity to clear his or her name. Id. Therefore, in order to state a claim under section 1983 for denial of due process based on the loss of a protected liberty interest, Coleman must establish three things. First, she must show that the reason for her discharge stigmatized her. See Shands v. City of Kennett, 993 F.2d 1337, 1347 (8th Cir.1993). Second, she must show that the administrators made those reasons public. See Merritt v. Reed, 120 F.3d 124, 126 (8th Cir.1997). The district court found that Coleman had met these two elements of her liberty interest claim, and we are inclined to agree.5 Finally, Coleman must establish that she denied the charges for which she was terminated. See Codd v. Velger, 429 U.S. 624, 627, 97 S.Ct. 882, 51 L.Ed.2d 92 (1977) (per curiam). Coleman has not satisfied this third requirement.
The district court, citing Pollock v. Baxter Manor Nursing Home, held that the truth of these charges was irrelevant to Coleman's liberty interest claim. 716 F.2d 545, 546-47 (8th Cir.1983) (per curiam). In Pollock, the majority held that an employee is not required to prove that the stigmatizing charges are false in order to be entitled to a name-clearing hearing. Id. However, this court has always required a plaintiff to at least deny the substantial truth of the charges. See Hogue v. Clinton, 791 F.2d 1318, 1322 n. 4 (8th Cir.1986); Seal v. Pryor, 670 F.2d 96, 99 (8th Cir.1982). In Pollock, the discharged employee also contested the accuracy of the allegations. Pollock v. Baxter Manor Nursing Home, 706 F.2d 236, 237 (McMillian, dissenting), rev'd on reh'g, 716 F.2d 545 (8th Cir.1983). There is no purpose in holding a name-clearing hearing if the charges are uncontroverted. In Codd, the Court explained that an employee's failure to assert that an allegation "was substantially false ... is fatal to [his] claim under the Due Process Clause that he should have been given a hearing." 429 U.S. at 627, 97 S.Ct. 882.
In this case, Coleman has never denied that she has a felony record, that she served time in prison, and that she failed to apprise the school district of these facts. These are the only charges published in the statement approved by Webb. Therefore, Coleman was not entitled to a name-clearing hearing.
Even if Coleman were entitled to a name-clearing hearing, procedural due process was satisfied because she received not one, but two. The due process requirements pronounced in Loudermill apply equally to liberty and property interests. See Schleck v. Ramsey County, 939 F.2d 638, 642-43 n. 5 (8th Cir.1991). Coleman had a chance to explain the allegations in her meeting with Reed and before the Board. This is more than the administrators were constitutionally required to provide.
Coleman has failed to allege the deprivation of a constitutional right. The administrators are therefore entitled to summary judgment on her liberty interest claim.
For the foregoing reasons, the decision of the district court is reversed. The administrators are entitled to summary judgment on the claims discussed above. The case is remanded for proceedings consistent with this opinion.
HEANEY, Circuit Judge, dissenting.
I respectfully dissent. Viewing the facts in the light most favorable to Coleman, I believe that the district court correctly denied the administrators' motion for summary judgment. While I do not quarrel with the brief statement of facts set forth by the majority, I believe it is necessary to supplement them to underscore the administrators' bad faith.
It is, of course, undisputed that Ms. Coleman was convicted of Medicaid fraud in 1985. Nonetheless, six months into serving her eighteen-month prison sentence, she received approval from the Minnesota Board of Teaching to resume her career as a teacher. While serving her sentence, Coleman obtained employment with the Shakopee School District and worked in that district for five years.6 Nothing in this record indicates that her service with the Shakopee School District was anything other than satisfactory.
In 1990, Coleman applied for and was hired by the Minneapolis School District as an assistant principal intern. The record is silent as to whether Coleman was asked at that time if she had a prior felony conviction. She served the full year as an assistant principal intern. Again, there is nothing in this record to indicate that her service was anything other than satisfactory. The following year, Coleman was hired as an assistant secondary principal with the Osseo Public Schools. Again, there is nothing in the record to indicate that her service was anything other than satisfactory.
In 1992, Coleman returned to the Minneapolis School District as a principal at Lincoln Elementary School. Notably, Coleman was Lincoln's fifth principal in just four months. When the Minneapolis School Board hired Coleman, there was significant opposition to her hiring. Several people sent letters urging that Coleman be removed as quickly as possible. One letter stated: "GET THAT GOD DAMN BLACK WIDDOW [sic] OUT OF THERE AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE!" [sic] (Appellee's App. at 17.)
After serving as Lincoln's principal for several months, on June 7, 1993, Coleman was contacted by Daniel Loewenson, the district's human resources director. Loewenson asked Coleman to attend a meeting the next day with Associate Superintendent Katrina Reed and refused to disclose the purpose of the meeting. Loewenson did say, however, that Coleman could bring a union representative. Coleman brought her attorney. At the meeting, Reed told Coleman that someone "anonymously" informed the school district that Coleman had a prior felony conviction. Reed stated that she researched Coleman's criminal record and confirmed the conviction.
Coleman did not dispute the criminal conviction or the fact that she wrote "N/A" on her employment application. Rather than respond to the trial by ambush, Coleman's attorney requested a hearing on the matter. Reed allegedly responded that Coleman "had no right to any type of hearing."7 Reed informed Coleman that absent a resignation, Coleman would be terminated that evening at the Board meeting.
That evening, the Board met privately and voted to suspend Coleman for thirty days with pay and terminate her employment on July 12, 1993. After the private meeting ended, the Board then held a public meeting and announced that Coleman would be terminated. It is important to note that the Board's agenda was printed on June 3, 1993, five days before the meeting actually took place, and specifically referred to Coleman's "release." At the public meeting, the Board did not specify the basis for Coleman's termination and neither Coleman nor her attorney addressed the Board. Eventually, the Board publicized its "true" reasons for terminating Coleman and circulated an unsigned notice to over 600 Lincoln elementary families and staff. It read:
STATEMENT RELATIVE TO JO COLEMAN,
Minneapolis Public Schools received and confirmed information that Lincoln Elementary Principal, Jo Coleman was convicted of a felony prior to being employed by the district and served time at the Shakopee Women's Reformatory related to this conviction. The District was not made aware of the conviction by Mrs. Coleman at the time Mrs. Coleman was employed. The District has suspended Mrs. Coleman with pay while these and other matters are being further reviewed and addressed.
(Appellee's App. at 31.) Because of confusion as to the source of the notice, the Board circulated a second notice, printed on Board letterhead. The second notice explained that the human resources office erroneously disbursed the first notice without first copying the notice onto official letterhead. Thereafter, Coleman brought suit. The district court denied the administrators' motion for summary judgment on Coleman's constitutional law claims.
The majority concludes that the administrators provided Coleman with sufficient pretermination process. I disagree. The majority cites Riggins v. Board of Regents, 790 F.2d 707, 711 (8th Cir.1986), for the proposition that an employer need not notify an employee prior to a pretermination hearing. Riggins is easily distinguishable. In Riggins, there was no doubt that the employee was aware of the allegations to be discussed at her pretermination hearing. See id. at 709. In this case, however, Coleman had no idea what the June 8 meeting would involve. Not only was Coleman "ambushed,"8 but the administrators failed to follow their well-established policies for disciplining and/or terminating employees. The record reveals that whenever disciplinary action was contemplated, seven-day advance written notice was required. While the required notice was supposed to reflect the nature of the allegations and provide an opportunity for one to respond, the administrators did not comply with these requirements.
The record reveals an even starker display of bad faith in that the Board had already decided to terminate Coleman prior to the June 8, 1993 meeting. The Board's agenda was printed on June 3, 1993, and it specifically referred to Coleman's "release." Moreover, the administrators' bad faith is bolstered by Reed's alleged comment that Coleman "had no right to any type of hearing." "Even where the facts are clear, the appropriateness or necessity of the discharge may not be; in such cases, the only meaningful opportunity to invoke the discretion of the decision-maker is likely to be before the termination takes place." Cleveland Board of Education v. Loudermill, 470 U.S. 532, 543, 105 S.Ct. 1487, 84 L.Ed.2d 494 (1985) (citations omitted).
In my view, a reasonable jury could conclude that Coleman was not provided proper pretermination notice, nor was she allowed to "present [her] side of the story." Id. at 543, 105 S.Ct. 1487. The majority states, however, that "[i]n addition to her meeting with Reed, Coleman had a second opportunity to respond to the charge against her.... However, Coleman did not utilize this second opportunity to 'present [her] side of the story.' " Ante at 754, (quoting Loudermill, 470 U.S. at 546, 105 S.Ct. 1487). Reed allegedly told Coleman that if Coleman did not immediately resign, she would be terminated at the Board meeting. Loudermill contemplates "proposed action" against an employee before termination. 470 U.S. at 546, 105 S.Ct. 1487. While Coleman may not be entitled to the hearing of her choice, the Constitution demands that she be given meaningful notice and an opportunity to respond. Consequently, because a reasonable jury could conclude that the administrators had decided to terminate Coleman before providing a proper pretermination hearing, the district court properly denied the administrators' summary judgment motion.
I also believe that there is a fact issue as to whether the appellants deprived Coleman of a liberty interest without due process. Coleman argues that the administrators distributed two notices concerning her conviction, prison term, and employment termination, to over 600 Lincoln elementary families and staff, without providing her prior notice or a meaningful opportunity to respond.
In my view, there is no question that the administrators made "charge[s] against [Coleman] that might seriously damage [her] standing and associations in [her] community." Board of Regents v. Roth, 408 U.S. 564, 573, 92 S.Ct. 2701, 33 L.Ed.2d 548 (1972). "Where a person's good name, reputation, honor, or integrity is at stake because of what the government is doing to [her], notice and an opportunity to be heard are essential." Wisconsin v. Constantineau, 400 U.S. 433, 437, 91 S.Ct. 507, 27 L.Ed.2d 515 (1971). The majority concedes that the reasons given for Coleman's discharge stigmatized her and that the administrators made those reasons public. The majority concludes, however, that Coleman had an affirmative obligation to deny the charges.
The problem with the majority's reasoning is that Coleman did not have an opportunity to deny the charges. The administrators released two notices about Coleman's past after they provided Coleman with her so-called pretermination hearing. Without informing Coleman, the administrators released the first stigmatizing notice about Coleman on June 9, 1993, the day after Coleman was informed that she would be terminated. On June 10, 1993, the appellants released the second stigmatizing notice. The fact that the administrators released the damning notices after they had already decided to terminate Coleman is no great surprise since the administrators apparently did not believe that Coleman was entitled to any type of process in the first place. Although their actions come as no great surprise, they are still unconstitutional and I would affirm the district court.
Finally, the majority determined that it need not decide whether the administrators were entitled to qualified immunity because Coleman's suit failed to allege that they had violated a clearly established constitutional right. Having already concluded that the administrators violated Coleman's constitutional rights, I now turn to whether the officials are entitled to qualified immunity.
Generally, qualified immunity is available for "government officials performing discretionary functions ... insofar as their conduct does not violate clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known." Harlow v. Fitzgerald, 457 U.S. 800, 818, 102 S.Ct. 2727, 73 L.Ed.2d 396 (1982) (citations omitted). In determining whether the administrators' conduct entitles them to such immunity, we look to whether it was objectively reasonable. Schleck v. Ramsey County, 939 F.2d 638, 641 (8th Cir.1991) (citation omitted). In this regard, I agree with the district court when it stated:
The evidence in this case suggests that the individual defendants were quite familiar with the Loudermill notice and hearing requirements; they had actually participated in such proceedings during the ... period of time that plaintiff was employed with the District. In fact, just one month earlier in May, 1993, the individual defendants had provided plaintiff with these same protections during disciplinary proceedings against her. Any assertion by the individual defendants that they did not know plaintiff was entitled to such protections upon termination are simply incredulous in light of their prior actions.
Coleman v. Reed, 959 F.Supp. 1112, 1121-22 (D.Minn. 1997). Applying the standard of objective reasonableness to the administrators' actions in this case clearly compels the conclusion that they do not enjoy qualified immunity.
For the reasons stated above, I believe that there are fact issues warranting a trial and the administrators are not entitled to qualified immunity. Therefore, I would affirm the district court and allow Coleman to proceed with a trial on the merits.
The Honorable Richard G. Kopf, United States District Judge for the District of Nebraska, sitting by designation
Coleman also alleged breach of contract and intentional infliction of emotional distress. Those claims are not before us on appeal
As an initial matter, the administrators argue that they are not proper defendants in the property interest claim because the Board, not they, actually terminated Coleman. Loewenson and Reed also argue that they were not involved in the liberty interest claim. Our holding makes it unnecessary to reach these arguments
We note that Coleman's case differs from Winegar v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, because unlike Winegar, Coleman had the opportunity to address the administrators who made the termination recommendation, and the Board members who made the discharge decision. 20 F.3d 895, 901 (8th Cir.1994)
We do find it odd, however, that Coleman has maintained that her criminal record was public knowledge and was generally known within the community of educators, while simultaneously claiming that publication of this information impaired her employment opportunities in education
The Shakopee School District was, of course, fully aware of Coleman's conviction since it hired Coleman while she was in prison. When Coleman applied for the principal position at Lincoln, she listed Shakopee Public Schools as a reference. Specifically, she listed Joane Block as her Shakopee reference. (See Appellant's App. at 31.) The record is silent as to whether Minneapolis school officials ever contacted Ms. Block or anyone in the Shakopee school system. Thus, we do not know whether Minneapolis school officials, including the administrators, knew about Coleman's previous incarceration. If they had contacted Shakopee officials as part of their "due diligence" before hiring Coleman, it is hard to imagine that this subject did not come up
The record indicates that whenever the school board and/or school administration contemplated disciplinary action, such actions were preceded by seven day advance written notice. The notice stated the nature of the allegations and provided an opportunity for a response. For example, on May 7, 1993, Associate Superintendent Betty Webb sent Coleman a notice of deficiency indicating that Coleman had not handled herself properly when disciplining a student. Coleman was provided the above-mentioned procedural safeguards as they relate to the May 7, 1993 deficiency notice
The majority cites Demming v. Housing & Redevelopment Authority, 66 F.3d 950, 953 (8th Cir.1995), in support of its conclusion that Coleman was not "ambushed." Demming is inapposite. In Demming, similar to Riggins, the employee was well aware of the hearing subject matter. For example, Demming "knew the board was in the process of reviewing her performance" before her pretermination hearing. Demming, 66 F.3d at 953. Unlike the employees in Demming and Riggins, the majority is unable to show that Coleman was even remotely aware of the reason for the June 8 "pretermination hearing."


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Sean Scales molds game after role models
The senior infielder supports a .373 batting average this season.
Will Schneiderhan Staff Writer
Iona College senior infielder Sean Scales grew up admiring former MLB All-Star Nomar Garciaparra, who slashed his way to the American League batting title in 2000 when he was with the Boston Red Sox. Scales has done his best trying to mimic his childhood idol as he supports a .373 batting average through 26 games with the Iona baseball team.
The Weymouth, Massachusetts native grew up watching the Boston Red Sox and learning the game from his dad. His love for the sport took off from there.
"This is baseball, anything can happen and that's why I love this game," Scales said through an email interview.
Scales' father has worked with him to get to this point in his career. Scales credits the development of his game to his father and watching Garciaparra.
"I loved watching Nomar growing up and he is one of my favorite shortstops," Scales said. "But, I try to mold my game after my father because he's the one that has worked with me my whole life."
Scales brought his consistent hitting and hard working mentality to the field this season. However, the Gaels have struggled as they support an 8-21 record. This has no effect on Scales, who just rolls with the ups and downs.
"I'm not a big believer in strengths or challenges," Scales said.
Scales channels his inner Red Sox grit by ignoring the sound around him and focusing on the job that needs to be done.
"My goals are just to win baseball games," Scales said. "Just like everybody else on my team."
While Scales plays it cool, his hot start cannot be ignored. This is something that can be attributed to his clear mind while in the box. Some players will look for a pitch, seek a ball on a specific part of the plate or just flat out guess.
Not Scales. He tries to see what the pitcher is throwing and goes from there.
"I'm just trying to stick to my game and hit the ball hard every at bat," Scales said. "I always go up there with a plan based off of what kind of pitcher is throwing."
Of course, in pure baseball fashion, none of this success would be possible without superstitions and routine.
Scales may not be stepping out of the box and fixing his batting gloves after each pitch like Garciaparra, but he still has his own fixes.
"My routine is pretty long as it starts right when I wake up on game day," Scales said. "But I'd say my biggest superstition is showering before my game."
Scales showers because he knows one of the keys to playing any sport is looking good.
"You go to look good to play good," Scales said.
Whatever Scales has been doing is working, and he looks to keep up his torrid pace as the Gaels finish out the season.
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Top 10 House Accomplishments in 109th Congress
Robert Bluey
10. Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act (HR 748). Makes it a federal crime to transport a minor across state lines in an attempt to circumvent parental consent laws. Passed, 270-157, on April 27, 2005.
9. Henry J. Hyde United Nations Reform Act (HR 2745). Requires a withholding of 50% of the United States' regular assessed dues to the UN if the agency doesn't make specified reforms. Passed, 221-184, on June 17, 2005.
8. Budget Resolution for Fiscal 2006 (H.Con.Res. 95). Passed a budget that includes $35 billion in mandatory savings and $70 billion in tax cuts over five years.
7. Tax Relief Extension Reconciliation Act (HR 4297). Saved taxpayers $56 billion over five years. Passed, 234-197, on Dec. 8, 2005.
6. Threatened and Endangered Species Recovery Act (HR 3824). Reformed the Endangered Species Act, offering greater protection for private property owners. Passed, 229-193, on Sept. 29, 2005.
5. Private Property Rights Protection Act (HR 4128). Eminent domain reform following the Kelo v. New London decision. Passed, 376-38, on Nov. 3, 2005.
4. Death Tax Repeal Permanency Act (HR 8). Permanently repeals the estate tax. Passed, 272-162, on April 13, 2005.
3. Point-of-Order Protection. Change in House rules allows members to bring a point of order against any appropriation bill that exceeds its 302(b) spending limits. Agreed to on March 16, 2005.
2. Border Protection, Antiterrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act (HR 4437). Provides border and interior measures, including a 700-mile fence, additional Border Patrol agents and workplace enforcement. Passed, 239-182, on Dec. 16, 2005.
1. Deficit Reduction Act (HR 4241). Reconciliation bill that saved taxpayers a net of $50 billion over five years. Passed, 217-215, on Nov. 18, 2005.
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Written By Robert Bluey
Mr. Bluey, a contributing editor to Human Events, is director of the Center for Media & Public Policy at The Heritage Foundation. He maintains a blog at RobertBluey.com.


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Zaya, D. N. (Creator), Leicht-Young, S. A. (Creator), Pavlovic, N. (Creator), Hetrea, C. S. (Creator) & Ashley, M. V. (Creator), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Dec 4 2017
Data for "Ammonia Flux Measurements above a Corn Canopy using Relaxed Eddy Accumulation and a Flux Gradient System"
Nelson, A. J. (Creator), Lichiheb, N. (Creator), Koloutsou-Vakakis, S. (Creator), Rood, M. J. (Creator), Heuer, M. (Creator), Myles, L. (Creator), Joo, E. (Creator), Miller, J. (Creator) & Bernacchi, C. (Creator), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Dec 1 2018
Data for: Identifying marginal land for multifunctional perennial cropping systems in the Upper Sangamon River Watershed, Illinois
Mattia, C. (Creator), Lovell, S. T. (Creator) & Fraterrigo, J. M. (Creator), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Oct 5 2018
Data for: Effects of an invasive perennial forb on gross soil nitrogen cycling and nitrous oxide fluxes
Portier, E. (Creator), Silver, W. (Creator) & Yang, W. (Creator), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Aug 16 2018
DairyCoinfection
Smith, R. L. (Creator), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Dec 15 2017
CyberGIS-Jupyter HAND Example Notebook
Yin, D. (Creator) & Wang, S. (Creator), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Dec 13 2018
Current data of the Wax Lake delta
Correlation Between Tier 2 Soil Quality Indictors β-glucosidase, Fluorescein Diacetate Hydrolysis and Permanganate Oxidizable Carbon and Plant Productivity and Greenhouse Gas Emissions
COPUS observations for NSF WIDER study
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Constraining a Historical Black Carbon Emission Inventory of U.S. for 1960 to 2000 data
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Conceptual novelty scores for PubMed articles
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Comparison of data extraction on 6 clinical trial papers, extraction by RobotReviewer, by 3 novice data extractors, and from a published Cochrane review.
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Citation context analysis of RobotReviewer core papers circa 2018-06
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Castilleja coccinea fruit set and seed set data from Illinois Beach State Park
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BIBFRAME Transformation Data
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Bathymetry data of the Wax Lake delta (late 2012)
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Author-ity 2009 - PubMed author name disambiguated dataset
Torvik, V. I. (Creator) & Smalheiser, N. R. (Creator), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Apr 19 2018
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Emiliano Martinez Got In Yerry Mina's Head Before Saving Colombian's Penalty
Josh Lawless
Published 10:37, 07 July 2021 BST
| Last updated 15:05, 25 September 2021 BST
Emiliano Martinez got in Yerry Mina's head by unleashing a whole lot of trash-talking prior to saving his penalty.
The Aston Villa goalkeeper was Argentina's hero in the Copa America semi-final shoot-out win over Colombia, saving three spot-kicks to set up a huge final with Brazil.
Image: PA
In the previous round against Uruguay, Mina had dispatched his spot-kick and celebrated by throwing some shapes despite it not even being the winning penalty.
But from the moment he stepped up on Wednesday morning, Martinez did everything he could to put him off.
The former Arsenal man told Mina: "You're nervous, eh? I can tell you're nervous" "I know where you're going to shoot. Watch and see how I'm gonna eat you up."
And the former Barcelona defender was unable to block out the trash-talking. Looking extremely nervous when he placed the ball, Mina saw his strike from 12 yards saved by Martinez.
The 28-year-old celebrated saving a second consecutive penalty with a bizarre thrusting action.
Lionel Messi's reaction was also one that went viral. The Argentina captain appeared to scream, "How about dancing now?" at his former Blaugrana teammate
Argentina went on to win 3-2 on penalties, with Messi calling Martinez "a phenomenon" for his heroics less than a month after making his debut with the national team.
"We have Emi, who is a phenomenon," Messi said, as per Goal.
"We trusted him. We achieved the goal of being able to play all the games and now we are going to the final."
Topics: Emiliano Martinez, Colombia, Football, Lionel Messi, Argentina, Copa America
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2018: Kul Chandra Gautam
Mr. Gautam is a distinguished diplomat, public policy expert and peace advocate. Currently, he serves on the Boards of several international and national organizations, charitable foundations and public private partnerships as chairman, member or advisor. Previously he served in increasingly senior managerial and leadership positions with UNICEF in several countries and continents in a career spanning over three decades. He rose to become Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF and Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations, the highest-ranking Nepali in the UN system in early 2000s.
After retiring from the UN, Mr. Gautam was briefly Special Advisor to the Prime Minister of Nepal on International Affairs and the Peace Process. He continues to informally advise his country's senior political and civil society leadership on the peace process, consolidation of democracy, human rights, and socio-economic development.
Kul Gautam's connections to Peace Corps are extensive and deep, starting with his 7th grade teacher in Nepal I in 1962 through his speech at the 55th anniversary of Peace Corps Nepal in 2017. In the years in between, he dedicated his career to improving lives and working towards peace in all corners of the globe.
To learn more about Gautam, please see the announcement of his award and read his acceptance speech.
2017: Siotame "Drew" Havea
Siotame "Drew" Havea has spent his life striving to eradicate poverty through a 'community first' approach to development and to create safe spaces to voice opinions for the historically underrepresented groups of young people and women in Tonga. In the Kingdom of Tonga's recent transition to democracy, Havea was instrumental in ensuring that common people - not just nobility and royalty - held leadership positions in the fledgling democracy.
For Havea, the Peace Corps connection is a lifelong one. When Havea started junior high school, there were five Peace Corps volunteers teaching at his school. After attending college and graduate school in the United States, he joined the Peace Corps staff in Tonga and served as Associate Peace Corps Director (APCD) for twenty years, from 1985-2005. He credits Peace Corps Volunteers with instilling in him a sense of idealism as well as showing him the importance of equality, gender sensitivity, and volunteerism.
Havea's leadership roles include chairperson of the Civil Society Forum of Tonga, president of the Tonga National Youth Congress, chair of the Tonga National Leadership Development Forum, and member of the board of Tonga Red Cross Society.
To learn more about Havea, please see the announcement of his award and read his acceptance speech.
2016: Ibrahima "Bara" Sankare
Ibrahima Sankare is the director and founder of Delta Survie, a non-governmental organization (NGO) committed to fighting for the integration of marginalized populations, promoting health and education, developing schools in pastoral villages, and opening centers for women suffering from obstetrical fistula. He started small – just in his village – but is now expanding services beyond Malian borders to cover large portions of the West African Sahel. With his enthusiastic yet humble passion, Sankare is able to bridge the gap between staying true to his nomadic past while developing the changes necessary for the future of Mali.
2015: Berhane Daba
Berhane Daba is the president and founder of Ethiopian Women with Disabilities National Association (EWDNA), an organization that works to empower women with disabilities with the skills and confidence they need to become economically independent.
Diagnosed with polio at the age of four, Daba was left abandoned at the Princess Teshai Hospital. There she met Peace Corps Volunteer Mary Myers-Bruckenstein, who took her home and provided her with an education. This gave her an opportunity to live an independent lifestyle and defy social norms, which has allowed her to help others with disabilities and fight for equal access and opportunities.
Daba founded the Ethiopian Women with Disabilities National Association in 1995, an organization with a member base of over 2,100 which provides technical and vocational training, counseling, and guidance services to members so they can learn necessary and helpful skills, gain the confidence and motivation to successfully enter the workforce. In addition, EWDNA operates a bakery where its members can work, using a sustainable business model and fostering socio-economic empowerment for women.
To learn more about Daba, please see: 2015's Harris Wofford Award Winner, An Interview with Daba, Berhane Daba's Acceptance Speech
2014: Dr. Surin Pitsuwan
A native of Nakhorn Sri Thammarat province in southern Thailand, Dr. Pitsuwan is the former Secretary General for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). He was first influenced by Peace Corps Volunteers David and Phyllis Johnston, who recognized his drive and ability. They were able to help him obtain an American Field Service scholarship to travel and study in the United States, launching a career of domestic and international public service.
Dr. Surin has served both his country and the world in a number of highly influential posts, including as a member of Parliament, a member of the Commission on Human Security of the United Nations, advisor to the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty, member of the International Labour Organization's World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization, and advising the peace negotiations between the Acehnese Independence Movement and the Government of the Republic of Indonesia.
To learn more about Dr. Pitsuwan, please see: A Proud Peace Corps Product, Dr. Pitsuwan's Acceptance Speech PDF and Video
2013: Dr. Mohamud Sheikh Nurein Said
Dr. Mohamud Said is a distinguished Kenyan volunteer, philanthropist and humanitarian engaged in a wide range of medical service and human rights activities on the local, national and international levels. A long time volunteer with the 70,000-member Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS), he rose through the ranks and currently serves as its Governor (President). He has devoted himself to assisting displaced persons and has been responsible for overseeing the largest refugee camp in the world with over 600,000 persons from the Somali crisis. Dr. Said represented Africa on the board of the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims (IRCT), headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, and was later elected president of the IRCT, the first African to hold this position. The IRCT treats over 100,000 torture victims in its 150 centers in 75 countries in all the regions of the world.
A life-long member of the Kenya Medical Association (KMA), he founded and chaired the KMA Human Rights Committee, and is a member of the KMA Medical Camp and the Continuous Professional Development Committee. Dr. Said is also vice chairman of the Independent Medico-Legal Unit Kenya, a nongovernmental organization that seeks a torture-free society by promoting the rights of torture victims, advocating for policy reforms, monitoring government adherence to human rights, and rehabilitating victims of torture.
Over the last seven years, as the coordinator of the Pedro Cavadas Foundation, headquartered in Valencia, Spain, Dr. Said's team has performed reconstructive surgery for poor children and adults from eight East African countries. Dr. Said is a practicing medical doctor who operates his own private hospital and pharmacy in Bungoma County, Kenya. He graduated from medical school in 1979.
He attributes the Peace Corps, who helped with his secondary education, with instilling in him the idea that humanitarian aid and volunteering are worthwhile and honorable pursuits.
To learn more about Dr. Said, please see: Dr. Said's Acceptance Speech
2011: Atiku Abubakar
Atiku Abubakar — a Nigerian politician, businessman and philanthropist — was the first recipient of the Harris Wofford Global Citizen Award, which was presented at the Promise of the Peace Corps Gala in September 2011.
A successful businessman and vice president of Nigeria from 1999 to 2007, Abubakar has a long history of philanthropy, having given more than $300 million to support educational and health-related organizations in Nigeria, including founding the American University of Nigeria in 2005 through a partnership with American University in Washington, D.C.
"As a young, poor student from the northeast of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar was inspired by Peace Corps teachers to pursue education and public service. After a successful career, he founded the American University of Nigeria, the best private university in sub-Saharan Africa," said Dr. Robert Pastor, who as vice president at American University in Washington, D.C., worked with Abubakar.
You can read more about Abubakar, his Peace Corps connection, and the American University of Nigeria here and here.
Mr. Glenn Blumhorst and Mr. Kul Chandra Gautam holding the 2018 Wofford Global Citizen Award
Drew Havea delivers his acceptance speech at Peace Corps Connect 2017 in Denver.
Ibrahima Sankare with his famous Shepard hat
Berhane Daba showing off her 2015 Wofford Global Citizen Award
Dr. Pitsuwan accepting his award at Peace Corps Connect 2014
Dr. Said and his Peace Corps teacher, Dr. Russell Morgan
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Continuing our pre Xmas theme our LCM #TrackOfTheDay is a lovely mash-up of 'Mary Did You Know' and 'Away In The Manager' by Maddie Wilson and Tiffany Alvord. We really like this one at LCM. :.
Tiffany Alvord is an American singer and songwriter. She has been cited as one of YouTube's first "home-grown celebrities". She has a large social presence on YouTube with over 500 million video views and over 2.9 million subscribers, making her channel among the top 50 most subscribed music channels on YouTube. Tiffany also has a strong following on social media sites including more than 2.6 million Facebook fans and over 350 thousand Twitter followers. In December 2012, Alvord performed in Times Square on the Nivea stage with Carly Rae Jepsen, Train, PSY and Taylor Swift as part of the 2012 New Year's Eve celebration.


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SUBJECT: CFI awards more than $600,000 to Memorial University researchers
Several Memorial researchers have received more than $600,000 in funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) for a series of diverse projects.
The announcement was made on Thursday, Nov.15, in Ottawa.
In total, five Memorial researchers have received $618,284.
• Dr. Ivan Saika-Voivod [SAI-KAH-VOY-VOHD], assistant professor, Department of Physics and Physical Oceanography, Faculty of Science, received $97,074 for a project entitled Computer Simulation of Liquids, Soft Systems and Biomaterials.
• Dr. John Weber, assistant professor, School of Pharmacy, received $172,647 for the development of a neuroscience laboratory.
• Dr. Thomas Chapman, assistant professor, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, received $133,397 to set up an Insect Behaviour/Molecular Biology (IBMB) Research Laboratory.
• Dr. Bing Chen, assistant professor, Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, received $184,689 in funding to establish a Northern Region Persistent Organic Pollution Control Laboratory (NRPOP).
• And, Dr. Maria Mathews, associate professor of health policy/health services with the Division of Community Health in the Faculty of Medicine, received $30,477 to help set up a Physician and Medical Practice Registry.
"We can say with conviction that Canada has become a place where world-class researchers want to be," said Dr. Eliot Phillipson, president and CEO of the CFI.
"This CFI investment will further develop Memorial University of Newfoundland's global reputation as a place where outstanding research and training is being conducted."
In total, the CFI announced $28 million in new funds to support 149 projects at 35 institutions across Canada. A total of $23.3 was awarded under the Leaders Opportunity Fund, a program designed to provide infrastructure to attract researchers to Canadian institutions at a time of intense international competition for knowledge workers, as well as to retain the very best of today and tomorrow's leading researchers for Canada. The remaining $4.6 million was awarded under the Infrastructure Operating Fund, an accompanying program which assists universities with the incremental operating and maintenance costs associated with new infrastructure projects.
This week's announcement builds on Memorial's reputation as a top-ranked research institution. Research and other scholarly activities have grown substantially at Memorial with research income now reaching about $90 million per year.
At Memorial alone, the CFI has invested more than $31 million in 91 projects, helping the university gain an international reputation for excellence thanks to projects such as the Atlantic Computational Excellence Network, Landmark Graphics Visualization Laboratory, Digital Research Centre for Qualitative Fieldwork, Ocean Observatory at Bonne Bay Marine Station and the Dr. Joe Brown Aquatic Research Building.
A complete list of the projects awarded this week, by university, can be found online at www.innovation.ca.
The Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) is an independent corporation created by the Government of Canada to fund research infrastructure. The CFI's mandate is to strengthen the capacity of Canadian universities, colleges, research hospitals, and non-profit research institutions to carry out world-class research and technology development that benefits Canadians.
For further information, please contact Ivan Muzychka, associate director (communications), Memorial University, at 737-8665 or ivanm@mun.ca.