In Senior School and Sixth Form, all students have curriculum games lessons on their timetables. Sport and physical education is taught throughout the school by an energetic team of PE specialists who encourage all students to have an active interest in a wide range of sports. Sport is an integral part of every student's life at TPS and all students are encouraged in a very positive ethos to be actively involved and represent the school or houses from Key Stage 2 right through to the Upper Sixth. All students are selected to play in a representative fixture in these years, even if it is not at elite level. The emphasis within extra-curricular activities is to develop the individual whilst engendering sportsmanship and discipline, ensuring the development of skill is not replaced by a win at all cost ethos.
Main sports for girls are netball, indoor rowing, tennis, dance, trampolining and rounders, whilst the boys follow the traditional disciplines of rugby, football, cricket, basketball, indoor rowing and tennis. An inclusive curriculum allows students to also participate in other activities such as cross-country, girls' tag rugby, girls' football and indoor climbing. There is also an extensive range of extra curricular clubs led by specialist coaches, ranging across fencing, tennis, badminton, cricket and yoga.
At GCSE, students have the option to take the EDXCEL course – which involves a 60% practical/coursework element where they have to excel in four practical areas of their own choosing. In addition, students also study the theoretical elements of influences in sports, opportunities in sports, methods and principles of training, sports injuries and the physiological aspects effecting sports performance.
Sports scholarships are awarded when students join Year 7 and can be competed for those who are at an elite level in either individual or team sports. For more information please see the Scholarships and Bursaries page.
In the Senior School we run a Performance Plus scheme in which elite performers can increase both the knowledge of fitness plans and their aerobic and anaerobic fitness levels.
The 15 Mile Challenge is an annual charitable running event which has raised over £3,000 for the school's designated charities since its inception in 2011.


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June 28th was the opening reception of my solo show at the Union League Club of Chicago, "Stone and Water: Layered works in meaning and method". the reception was well attended and I was happy to give an artists talk during the evening.
Here are a few Photos taken during the evening by photographer Doug Vanderhoof.
Overall, it was a festive evening and I am deeply grateful to Susan Aurinko and her committee for inviting me to show at this historic venue. Thanks also to Doug Vanderhoof for his documentation, to my friends and family as well as the ULCC members who came to support me, and to Sally Metzler, the director of the ULCC collection for her enthusiastic and successful sales efforts.
The news this summer is completed by my acceptance in to the South Shore Arts 75th Annual Salon Show, at the South Shore Arts Center, 1040 Ridge Road; Munster, Indiana . My painting, "Shoreline (Dark Water)" will be hung along with the work of over 60 other artists from the region.
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Alleged Illegal Forex Trading: Court Freezes Aquashield Oil and Marine Services Accounts
A Federal High Court has ordered the management of Jaiz Bank Plc to freeze four accounts belonging to Aquashield Oil and Marine Services upon claim by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) that the accounts are being used for illegal foreign exchange trading.
Justice Inyang Ekwo gave the order while ruling on an ex-parte motion filed by the CBN and argued by its lawyer, Michael Aondoakaa (SAN), a former Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice.
In the ruling given on February 3, 2021, a copy of which The Nation saw on Monday, Justice Ekwo gave a mandatory order empowering the CBN to direct the head office of Jaiz Bank Plc "to freeze forthwith, all transactions on the under-listed bank accounts of the defendant/respondent (Aquashield Oil and Marine Services) for a period of 180 days."
The CBN identified the affected accounts as: 0004763990, 0004755887, 0004763983 and 0004763969.
In documents it filed in court, the CBN stated that the freezing order was required to halt further debit transactions on the affected on the accounts pending the outcome of its on-going investigation and to preserve the balance on the accounts from being dissipated.
It added that the freezing Aquashield Oil and Marine's accounts would also enable the CBN to pursue its investigation into the activities of the oil firm to a logical conclusion.
The apex bank added that the decision to apply for the order was informed by its on-going investigation of Aquashield Oil and Marine Services in relation to its "role in illegal foreign exchange trading, accessing/procuring of foreign exchange via their bank accounts from the Nigerian Foreign Exchange Market via Bureaux De Change (BDCs), International Money Transfer Operators (IMTOs) and Commodity Exporters contrary to provisions of extant laws and regulations."
It stated that the "illegal foreign exchange trading being undertaken through the bank accounts of the defendant/respondent (Aquafield Oil and Marine) has continually undermined the CBN's efforts to maintain a stable foreign exchange regime which has caused and is causing a significant economic and financial loss to investors as well as the financial system in particular and the Nigeria economy in general if not curtailed."
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"The aforesaid transactions undertaken by the defendant, using their bank accounts, can cause significant financial loss to members of the public if left unchecked."
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Wolf School with Chris Darimont
Join us for the last episode of this season's Wolf School.
ByRoss Dixon September 22, 2020 June 7, 2021
The last episode of this "semester's" Wolf School looks toward existing and emerging solutions to the conservation of wolves in British Columbia. Raincoast's Director of Science, Dr. Chris Darimont, will also look back to share how his mentor, Chester "Lone Wolf" Starr, influenced him, all of our wolf research and the direction of Raincoast's conservation work on BC's coast. You can learn more about Chester via memories shared by some of his Raincoast-affiliated friends. Our wolf school is dedicated to his memory.
In 2004, the International Fund for Animal Welfare recognized Chester and Chris with a Compassion in Science Award for their research that treated wolves with respect and compassion. Respect and compassion are fitting context for our last episode (in this series) where we will also explore solutions for the conservation of wolves in BC.
Since beginning field work with Chester 20 years ago, Chris has gone on to lead Raincoast's Applied Conservation Science Lab at the University of Victoria. Recognized as one of the top large carnivore scientists in Canada and internationally, Chris's research spans numerous contemporary topics in coastal conservation.
Beyond his seminal works to identify the distinct genetic make-up and behavioural ecology of coastal wolves, since 2009, Chris has led Raincoast's salmon carnivore program which is focused on understanding the relationship among bears, salmon and people in the Great Bear Rainforest. Chris has also written and published extensively on aspects of ethics as they pertain to wildlife conservation and non-invasive research, including research of direct relevance to wolves.
As we close the last in this current series on Wolf School with our partners at the Wolf Conservation Center, I encourage you to make yourself comfortable for this last episode that will explore what wolves have taught Raincoast and, most importantly, how we can respectfully co-exist.
In memory of Chester Starr
We are so excited to share our annual report – Tracking Raincoast Into 2023 – with you! Tracking gives you highlights from the year, our science, flagship projects, as well as a peek at what's in store for the coming year.
Dive into Tracking and learn more about our work safeguarding coastal carnivores in the Southern Great Bear Rainforest tenure. We are currently raising funds to stop commercial trophy hunting in more than a quarter of the Great Bear Rainforest in British Columbia. Now is a good time to sign up and stay connected to our community of researchers and change-makers.
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Are Vocational Education Programs Failing Arizona Students With Special Needs?
Amy Silverman and her daughter, Sophie.
MARK BRODIE: As state lawmakers and the governor debate funding and policies for education in the upcoming year, a local journalist has uncovered a disturbing trend in some vocational programs for students with disabilities in Arizona schools. Amy Silverman's piece in Phoenix Magazine is called "Food, Flowers and Filth" and she joins me. And Amy, what did you find is happening in these programs?
AMY SILVERMAN: The vocational education programs do not tend to be a student's entire day. So while that program might include busy work, there's an expectation that there's academic work going on at the same time. But when kids reach 16, according to federal law, they need to be in some sort of transition program, that's kids with an IEP who have special needs. And it's going to vary from kid to kid. You know, there's such a dramatic difference. So it's a challenge for sure. And that's why they call it an Individualized Education Plan because the idea is to come up with something that works for each individual kid, and what a lot of people don't know is that job training and voc rehab is required by law as part of the IEP.
BRODIE: So are the schools equipped to have the kids doing the kind of training that would be most helpful, most enjoyable, most instructive to them?
SILVERMAN: It's impossible to tell. I called the Arizona Department of Education after I had heard a few horror stories, and I said, "I'd like to know school by school what kind of programming our public schools are providing for kids with special needs who are in transition." And they said, "Oh yeah, well we get federal money for that and I believe state money too," but there is absolutely no requirement for schools to report to the Department of Education what they're doing or not doing.
BRODIE: So you mentioned that you'd heard a few horror stories, like what kinds of things are these students doing?
SILVERMAN: The main character in my story is Sophia Landay. She recently left a high school in Scottsdale, her senior year; I believe it was the first semester. Her mother checked in on her classes, and her schedule had been moved around a little bit. And Sophia, out of, I believe, seven class periods, was working at least three in the cafeteria, and most of what she was doing was counting and reorganizing bags of potato chips.
BRODIE: I imagine that's not exactly what Sophia or her mom wanted her to be doing during her school day.
SILVERMAN: No, Sophia wants to work with animals and that was expressed repeatedly to the school. But the only programming they had for her was in the cafeteria, which, and I interviewed both Sophia and her mother, and her mother mentioned that Sophia puts her fingers in her mouth quite a bit, and that probably working around food was the worst possible job choice. Certainly not something she aspires to do in any way.
BRODIE: So why is this happening? I mean, I know the schools don't always have a good sense and the state doesn't really have a good sense of what's going on. But were you able to find out why this sort of thing happens?
SILVERMAN: This is a national problem and it goes back decades. It's kind of one of those under-the-rug situations where we talk a lot about kids being included in the classroom and in schools. But when you take a deeper look to see what's actually going on, there are not being included in the right ways. So being asked to empty the recycling trash while your typical peers look on, cleaning the cafeteria table again while your peers look on, that is not any sort of meaningful inclusion and it's not meaningful job training and yet it's been going on for so long that I think that's all a lot of school personnel know to do.
BRODIE: So if you're a parent and you see this going on and Sofia's mom saw this was going on, like, what can you do about it?
SILVERMAN: Well, you can certainly talk to school officials and open up your kids IEP and try to get things changed, but it's not always that easy. And ultimately Sofia's mother, Sharon, did get Sofia's class schedule changed, and then she had her pulled from the school.
BRODIE: So we should mention that this is not just sort of an abstract concept to you. You have some personal experience in this area. Have you witnessed any of this sort of thing firsthand?
SILVERMAN: So I'm getting ready to have some personal experience. We just had the very first meeting for my own daughter, Sophie's, transition team. She is 15 and a half. And so when she turns 16, the school will start working on a vocation-related transition for her. Sophie told them at this meeting that she wants to attend community college and she wants to be a dance teacher. And we've been able to do in our family something a lot of families aren't able to do and that's hire a private lawyer and advocate who comes to the meetings.
BRODIE: And so what is that person's role exactly?
SILVERMAN: What's great about our advocate is that she understands the law better than anyone in the room including me, including Sophie, frankly including the school personnel and the district's lawyer, from what I can tell, and she's able to say, look, here are the opportunities, here are the things that could be done for Sophie and that legally should be done. The very first thing that needs to happen is that you have to ask the kid what it is they want to do and then you have to put together a plan that helps implement it.
BRODIE: How important are resources in this conversation? Because I would imagine that you know not every school has probably even a dance program. So if Sophie were at a school for example that didn't have a dance program even if the school wanted to help her and wanted to do right by her, I would imagine in some cases they just wouldn't physically be able to do it.
SILVERMAN: I believe there are a lot of creative ways that you can do it. Somebody could talk to a local dance school about Sophie coming over and helping in the afternoons. They have a childcare center on campus at Sophie's high school. They could come up with a plan where Sophie helped lead dance classes for those kids. There are a lot of different ways you can be creative about this, that's what I learned by talking to a lot of different lawyers and advocates.
BRODIE: Amy Silverman is a local journalist and author. Her piece called "Food, Flowers and Filth" appears in Phoenix Magazine.


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Mapping the American spirit
In the spirit of Alexis de Tocqueville and of John Steinbeck's 'Travels With Charley,' a writer sets out to discover the heart of America – and what it means to be American in the summer of 2002.
By Ron Bernthal Special to The Christian Science Monitor
September 4, 2002 | LIBERTY, N.Y.
During the past year I read countless news stories about the American spirit, American values, and what Americans supposedly would be doing and thinking about this summer, almost a year after the terrorist attacks. I began to wonder: Just who are all my fellow Americans that are mentioned in these polls and statistics? What are their names? Where do they live? What do they look like?
In July I decided to find out. I grabbed a tape recorder and a digital camera and racked up almost 8,000 miles driving across the country, talking to average Americans wherever I found them.
Looking at the US through the small oval window of an aircraft is great for appreciating the contours and topography of this land. But I wanted to taste and smell the middle of the country, to see if Americans – and if America itself – had changed in any dramatic fashion, not only since my last big extended trip in the 1960s, but since Sept. 11, 2001. I wanted to find out what working Americans were thinking – and doing – this summer of 2002, and how they felt about being American.
In my rented El Monte RV I hit the road, trying to avoid the big cities.
It is no secret that the semiotics of the American interstate system are the same all over the country: well-lit signs soaring into the sky, announcing another Subway, McDonald's, Wal-Mart, Exxon-Mobil, Pizza Hut, or Hampton Inn at the next exit.
So, whenever possible, I tried to get off the Interstates and onto the less-predictable roads.
There, the change I noticed in America was not so much in the physical layout as in the subtle ways people were relating to one another.
Sure, cities have changed physically, renovating downtowns with historic districts, parks, Starbucks or cappuccino cafes, a new Borders bookstore, a farmers market. But in most areas America's scenic beauty has not been diminished. The Blue Ridge Mountains, the Tetons, and the Southwestern desert are all spectacular. The summer winds in the Dakotas still smell like a field of wild flowers, and sun-splashed southern California is, as always, all sunglasses, Porsches, palm trees, and ocean fog.
But in speaking with Americans this summer I was stunned by our newfound ability to communicate with one another, despite our lingering social and political differences. The issues that unite us, at least during the summer of 2002 – foreign terrorism, corporate greed, child abuse in the church, kidnappings, high gasoline prices – have superceded the issues that used to divide us – race, politics, capital punishment, abortion.
Thus, this was a good season for a wandering journalist to be invading backyard barbecues, urban stoops, Main-Street benches, and lakeside beaches, talking with locals about American ideals we could, finally, all agree on.
I felt at home. I had a sense that in these small towns and villages across America I could communicate, one on one, with anyone I spotted outside the windows of the RV.
Perhaps I could have done this years ago. But last year all of us shared an experience that brought us closer and, in some ways, has given us a sense of being part of an American family.
Writer Richard Todd once wrote that the soul of America can be found in a Happy Meal. I am not so sure. The American soul is more complex than that, almost impossible to describe. But it can be experienced talking to average Americans and witnessing simple American pleasures: watching families gather in the outfield for the fireworks display after a minor-league ballgame at BellSouth Field in Chattanooga, Tenn. Listening to children during a Pledge of Allegiance contest at the Piggly Wiggly grocery store in Meridian, Miss. Even spotting the red neon glow of a Sonic Drive-In in Fort Stockton, Texas, against the wide prairie sky as it turned purple at sunset.
What made my trip so stimulating is that, while there is no quintessential American experience, it seemed that every person I met was so quintessentially American.
So, as I traveled I asked questions: What does it mean to you to be an American? And what are you doing this summer?
Out of a possible 287 million answers, here are a few of them – just a small part of the spirit of America.
Epes, Ala.
Sylvester Pratt, farmer
Summer 2002: Traditional African-American farming in the Southeast can be traced back to the post-Civil War years, when slave land grants provided rural Southern blacks with a certain amount of farmland.
In the early 1900s there were more than 1 million black farmers in the southeastern United States. Today, that figure is less than 18,000, and only 175 of these black farmers are under the age of 60. One of them is Sylvester Pratt, 46 years old. On a brutally hot July day he was cutting weeds that threatened the new growth of kale on his 249-acre vegetable farm, which is on land leased from a neighbor. "I've been farming my entire life," he said, stopping his tractor long enough to talk to a stranger leaning against his fence.
"Farming has been in my family for generations, back when my ancestors were slaves here in Alabama. Nothing ever comes easy here in this part of country," he said, pulling the brim of his hat down low over his eyes as he started back to work.
Being an American: "Well, it means everything, a lot. I can't think of anyplace else I would rather be. No sir, there's nowhere else I would rather be but right here in America."
Roanoke, Va.
Jennifer Pitts, law student and Miss America contestant
Summer 2002: In its early years the town was called Big Lick, after the many salt "licks" that surrounded the Roanoke River. This summer, the downtown convention center is where Jennifer Pitts was crowned Miss Virginia 2002. For the third-year law student at George Mason University, winning the state pageant means going on to Atlantic City in September and competing in the Miss America contest. "I've being doing pageants for the past five years, mainly as a way to earn college money," she said in the hours preceding her talent part of the pageant, a contemporary ballet performance. If she hadn't won, she would have worked this summer for a local attorney, who's running for the state Senate.
Being an American: "Right now, especially with what's happening in our country, to be an American means you look outside of yourself, and you give back to society. Martin Luther King Jr. once said that everybody has the opportunity to be great because everyone can serve. I think that's what being an American is all about."
Lafayette, La.
Mitchell Reed, Cajun fiddle player
Summer 2002: Bandols is a dance hall in Lafayette, La., the center of Cajun culture in the United States. On hot summer nights, with the dance floor packed with locals and the soft-shell crabs overflowing the long wooden tables, the atmosphere is truly electric. Mitchell Reed is the lead fiddle player for the house band, the Lafayette Rhythm Devils. "I come from a family of musicians, mostly accordion players, and they needed a fiddle player for their band, so my dad took me to the older fiddle players around here, and I would hang out with them and learn tunes from them," Mr. Reed said between breaks in the music. He studied classical music for a few terms at the University of Louisiana, but then dropped out to concentrate fully on the fiddle and folk singing, Cajun style. He planned to spend a few weeks this summer in Denmark teaching Cajun music to children.
Being an American: "I come from a military family: My grandfather fought in World War II, my dad fought in Vietnam, so I will always stand by this country."
Josephine Rey, office worker
Summer 2002: Josephine Rey was born in southern Mexico and moved with her family to Juarez when she was 20. There she met the man who became her husband – an American citizen – and moved to El Paso, Texas, two years later, working as a cashier in a grocery store. She studied English, earned a two-year degree at a local community college, and has spent the past several years working for Firestone Tire Co. "I already took my vacation this year," she said, "so this summer I will just be working in the office every day, which is OK, because it is very hot here during the summer, so the office is a cool place to be."
Being an American: "I became an American citizen five years ago, and it means a lot. I have all the rights of an American citizen, including jury duty and the right to vote, which is very important. I feel part of the country, like a regular American."
Yuma, Ariz.
David Rangel, officer, Yuma County Sheriff's Department
Summer 2002: Yuma has a reputation as an old-time Western gun-slinging town that has left its cowboy past far behind. The only guys who tote guns these days are at the nearby Marine base or law enforcement officers such as David Rangel, who has worked for the sheriff's department for the past 15 years. "My wife and I tried living in California when we first got married," Mr. Rangel said, "but we both missed the Yuma area and decided to come back home because of the lifestyle here."
Being an American: "It's more than just being born here. I believe that America offers its people the opportunity to express themselves in whatever way they feel suitable and also in their freedom to choose a religion, political beliefs.... I'm proud to be here."
Amy Warren, dancer
Summer 2002: Twice a night, every week for the past several years, tourists have packed the theater at the Stratosphere Casino in Las Vegas to watch American Superstars, a musical revue of talented but unknown performers who imitate famous singers such as Elvis, Madonna, Charlie Daniels, and Ricky Martin. Amy Warren is the lead dancer in the show, a major production that involves more than 30 costume changes and several hours of exhausting routines.
Born and raised in Olympia, Wash., Warren took her first dancing lessons at age 6 and hasn't stopped dancing since. "I knew since I was 8 years old that I wanted to be a professional dancer," she said during the short break between performances of a patriotic-themed show. She dances six nights each week, which is tiring, she admits, but she's happy to be doing what she loves.
Being an American: "I think being an American is having the freedom to choose to do and be who you want to be, and not have to follow anyone else's rules and ideas on what you want to become. I think what happened on Sept.11 changed a lot of people's ideas and made them realize how important – and special – it is to live where we have that freedom."
Marlow Imlay, barber
Summer 2002: Born in Cedar City, Marlow Imlay has not ventured far from his roots. "This was a great little town to grow up in," he said as he finished up a customer's haircut in his one-chair barber shop on Main Street. "We created our own fun here, got part-time jobs through high school. I thought barbering looked like a good opportunity to make a decent living, so I've been doing this since I was 19 years old. I've been around long enough to quit, but I don't know what I would do if I did stop."
Mr. Imlay has seen Cedar City grow from 5,000 residents to 22,000. His barbershop continues to draw steady customers, mainly middle-aged men who started sitting in Imlay's chair as children, and now return weekly to keep their thinning hair looking neat. Many of the town's young kids go to the new chain salons in the strip malls outside of town, where prices are lower and the stylist is apt to wear a ponytail and play 'N Sync CDs.
Being an American: "I feel that we're in the best place in the world."
Crazy Horse Memorial Site, S.D.
Donovan Sprague, native American craftsman and historian
Summer 2002: When it is finally completed, the Crazy Horse Memorial, near Custer, S.D., will be the world's largest sculpture, measuring 641 feet long and 563 feet high. Crazy Horse's head alone will be 87 feet high. (The heads on Mt. Rushmore, just 10 miles away, measure 60 feet.) Established by the Lakota Indians to honor their great warrior, Crazy Horse, the project was started in earnest by Chief Standing Bear, who commissioned a sculptor named Korczak Ziolkowski to begin the construction in 1947. Donovan Sprague's great-great-great-grandfather was the Sioux warrior known as "Hump," who once saved Crazy Horse's life, and became his lifelong friend.
Being an American: "We all know that we were the first Americans here, and everyone came later. Our tribe didn't have good relations with the original English settlers who came here, but we did get along with the French, who came solely for the fur trade. [Now] we are all here together, even the European groups, all somewhat like indigenous nations.
"To be a warrior was always one of the most outstanding things a native American could do in our society, and we also feel that way about defending the United States. Native Americans turned out in record numbers to defend the country in World War I, and because of that we were allowed to become official citizens of the country. More than [190,000] native American men are veterans, which far surpasses any other group."
Norfolk, Neb.
Brandi Bolte, National Polled Hereford Queen
Summer 2002: As a little girl growing up on a Nebraska farm, Brandi Bolte was introduced to cattle ranching and breeding at the age of 3, helping her father feed the heifers and then being given the job of naming the newborn calves. Her parents encouraged her to get involved in everything at school – sports, quiz bowls, debating clubs – but her favorite activity was working with the animals. After winning the National Polled Hereford Queen competition last January, Ms. Bolte is spending the summer working on her parents' farm, and traveling to cattle and breeding events around the country as a spokeswoman for the industry.
Being an American: "Being an American and a farmer is very important in my life. I have the freedom to choose what I want to do in my life ... to raise cattle, to sell them, opportunities to show them."
Tyrone Pendergrass, center fielder, Sioux Falls Canaries
Summer 2002: "Growing up in South Carolina, that's about all I did, play sports, especially baseball. I played ball in college, and then signed with the Braves organization, and have been playing in the minors for the past six years," said Tyrone Pendergrass, center fielder for the Canaries, who play their home games in a stadium nicknamed "the Bird Cage."
Playing minor-league baseball, despite its surge in popularity among fans, is not an easy job. Locker rooms are often no more than steel lockers and concrete floors. Long bus rides connect small towns, there are few days off, and the pay isn't great. But the dream, to make "the show" – the big leagues – is as strong among ballplayers today as ever. Perhaps even stronger, considering the salaries that major leaguers make these days.
Mr. Pendergrass plays his heart out in every game, hoping for his big break – that one big-league scout who might see something special in his swing or the way he chases fly balls. That keeps him going.
Being an American: "It means a lot. I'm free. I see other cultures, other places, and I'm just glad to be here."
Chattanooga, Tenn.
Shani Hedden, singer
Summer 2002: The Chattanooga Theatre Center is located on the banks of the Tennessee River, with beautiful views of the city's revitalized downtown just across the water. One of its shows this summer was "Always Patsy Cline."
Shani Hedden, a young singer from nearby Harrison, Tenn., starred in the show as Patsy. "I always loved to entertain my friends when I was growing up," she said during a July rehearsal session. "I would stand on the couch with a stick microphone and try to make everyone laugh."
She moved to Nashville a few years ago, singing country-western in little clubs around town. "Honoring Patsy Cline's memory is very important to me," Ms. Hedden said. "In her short life she opened up doors for so many women country singers."
Being an American: "I absolutely love the sense of community that Americans have with each other. And the fight to end racism, sexism, homophobia – that is super important. Sure, there are excesses in America, like consumerism and corporate fraud, but there is no magic system anywhere. In America I feel comfortable and safe, and here I can go after my dreams...."
S.S. Badger, Lake Michigan Ferry
Dean Hobbs, ship captain
Summer 2002: At 3 a.m., Capt. Dean Hobbs stands in the pilot house of the 410-foot S.S. Badger, staring at Lake Michigan's dark waters. Tonight the ferry is carrying 125 passengers, 27 cars, several RVs, and a few tractor-trailers. "I grew up along the St. Mary's River in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and left high school to work on the Mississippi," he said. But it didn't take long for Hobbs to figure out that a captain had a better life than an ordinary seaman. "One winter day, in Peoria, Ill., the temperature was about 10 below, and I'm working on the deck of a ship, wearing every piece of clothing I own, watching the captain standing in the pilothouse, nice and warm, drinking a cup of coffee. The next day I ... enrolled in the Great Lakes Maritime Academy...."
When the lake freezes and the ship suspends service, Hobbs takes the winter off, but can't wait to get back. "By the end of October I'm ready to leave the lake, but by spring I'm thinking of the crew, and the sound of the gulls, and the pure excitement of taking the ship across this big lake."
Being an American: "I've spent a good deal of my life traveling around the country ... and I am always impressed by the magnitude of this country and how diverse we really are. I'm proud to be ... part of a people [who] tamed this country. When you get on the Mississippi River, and see parts of the river that are several miles wide – and it keeps churning with so much energy – and you see the seawalls that were built all along the river, and how the people keep rebuilding after floods – all that impressed me as a young man, and it still does. The fact that we, and all those people living in the river towns, are still here is a testament to me about what it means to be an American."
Idlewild, Mich.
John Meeks, motel owner and town promoter
Summer 2002: "I came here for the first time in 1954, at the invitation of other black Americans, who said this was the only place where we could go for a weekend of fun and entertainment without feeling any kind of racial prejudice," said John Meeks, as he stood outside his motel in this quiet, rural, lakeside village. Idlewild was started by middle- and upper-class blacks as a place to bring their families for summer weekends. "Visitation to Idlewild declined after the civil rights era, when individual blacks could then travel and stay anywhere they wanted. The village lost a lot of its luster, so I bought this motel because I want to revitalize Idlewild and make it a prosperous and fun place again for everyone. I think it will come back, because I see that lots of new people, blacks and whites, are buying lots near the lake and putting up their own cottages. Our goal is to keep planning activities every week so the kids and the families will enjoy Idlewild as much as we used to."
Being an American: "To be an American, to me, means the greatest freedom, the greatest opportunity. This is the only country in the world that you can come to and make all the money you have the knowledge and time to make."
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World women's beach volleyball event kicks off in Quang Ninh
The Tuan Chau-Ha Long Open 2018 of the FIVB World Tour kicked off at the Tuan Chau international tourism and entertainment site in Ha Long city, northern Quang Ninh province, on May 10.
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Asian women's beach volleyball tourney kicks off in Tuan Chau
Fanny Lindstrom and Sara Malmstrom (of Sweden) advance to the main draw of the FIVB Tuan Chau Ha Long Open (Photo: fivb.org)
Hanoi (VNA) - The Tuan Chau-Ha Long Open 2018 of the FIVB World Tour kicked off at the Tuan Chau international tourism and entertainment site in Ha Long city, northern Quang Ninh province, on May 10.
The three-day event draws 18 teams from 12 countries, including Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Israel and Vietnam.
A match between Vietnam and the Czech Republic took place after the opening ceremony in the morning.
This is the 15th time a women's beach volleyball championship has organised on Tuan Chau island.
The tournament has been recognised as a World Tour event this year after being an Asian competition for many years.-VNA
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The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has issued a document, calling for response to the World Wetlands Day 2023, celebrated annually on February 2.
PM urges faster progress of expressway projects in Mekong Delta
Coach Park Hang-seo to hold event thanking fans for support
Right after his contract with the Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) expires, coach Park Hang-seo will hold a meeting with fans to thank them before he bids farewell to Vietnam and returns to the Republic of Korea.
Thousands of visitors, both local and foreign, flocked to the traditional horse racing festival in Go Thi Thung in Xuan An commune, Tuy An district, Phu Yen province on January 30, the ninth day of the first lunar month.
Provinces organise activities to lure tourists over Tet holiday
The ritual at Princess Huyen Tran Temple in the central city of Hue is underway at the Ngu Phong Mountain Complex, about 7km southeast of Hue.
Hoa Binh's Khai Ha festival thrills visitors
The 2023 Khai ha (going down to the field) festival, the biggest traditional folk event of the Muong ethnic group in the northwestern province of Hoa Binh, took place at the provincial level for the first time from January 27 – 29 (the sixth to eighth day of the lunar new year).
The Long Tong (going to the field) Festival opened in Chiem Hoa district of the northern mountainous province of Tuyen Quang on January 29 after a three-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


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Are South Bend schools overidentifying for special ed? Recent state audit draws debate
Allie Kirkman
SOUTH BEND — A recent state audit of South Bend schools' special education department reveals problems that range from insufficient documentation on how students are identified for services to individualized education plans that don't address students' unique needs and contain no measurable goals.
The data in the report has also led one school board member to question whether or not the district has made any strides in the last seven years to fix the disproportionate number of black students being labeled as special education.
Today, roughly 19% of South Bend students have been identified as having a disability.
This school year, 20.2% of black students have been identified as having a disability, slightly higher than the rate for their white classmates.
Superintendent Todd Cummings, who requested the Indiana Department of Education's procedural audit last fall, said the entire special education department "needs to be reworked."
To that end, he's put the department director, Matt Johns, on notice that his job is being terminated at the end of the school year and the job description for the director is being rewritten to be a "broader position with a greater supervisory role."
There is also a possibility that the special education department could have an assistant director, Cummings said, which would result in salary changes. Johns, who has served in the role since 2015, currently has a salary of $100,000.
Johns is welcome to apply for the new job, Cummings said. The position, which is still being written, will be posted sometime this month.
But some teachers say the director is not the problem.
At a school board meeting last month, special education department staff praised Johns' work over the years and questioned the reasoning behind the administrative shift.
Fred Goldstein, a speech language pathologist at Clay High School and Clay International Academy, told the board he's concerned about John's dismissal.
"You have a lot of students who come in with complex disabilities and if you don't have somebody who's managing that specifically, it could become a burden to the corporation," Goldstein said. "You could have parents suing the corporation if you don't meet student's needs, because somebody didn't know what the requirements were. We could end up paying money back to the state or federal government. … I think, specifically, Matt Johns has done a wonderful job."
Also praising Johns are state education officials who listed him as a 'strength' in the audit.
Cummings said he can't discuss personnel in detail, but he said the upcoming changes in the department weren't caused by Johns' performance in the director position.
"Had it been performance," Cummings said, "it would have been a whole other conversation."
Johns said he's unsure exactly what the new position will look like next school year, but said he plans to reapply for his job if it fits his qualifications.
The state's findings
Over two days in February, 179 special education student files were reviewed by the state.
Additionally, four parents, 23 teachers and other support staff and five administrators were interviewed. All of the interviewees were selected by Johns.
Some concerns highlighted in the audit include:
There is confusion and inconsistencies among staff on district policies and procedures.
Many of the Individualized Education Plans (IEPs) reviewed were too general and didn't address student's individual needs. The goals listed in IEPs were also not measurable.
Federal law mandates that all students with identified disabilities have an IEP.
Johns, who spoke with The Tribune last week, said "there are various factors that go into IEPs" and support can look different for every student. Some may range from consultation and support in the general education classroom to direct instruction in special education classes.
He said a student's documents must be checked and updated annually to meet compliance, which the state found to be lacking.
"We have mandatory training around IEP and plan to continue to look at how we are utilizing our systems," Johns said, "and what our IEPs look like compared to other school corporations across the state."
The state team detailed "suggested next steps" within the report that range from hiring additional staff to updating existing polices.
But IDOE spokesman Adam Baker said they are only recommendations made as "technical assistance" and are not binding. So, if the school corporation doesn't follow through, there are no immediate consequences despite state and federal dollars being tied to the special education department.
State educational funding for students with disabilities ranges from $500 to $9,156 per student, depending on the severity of his or her disability.
Disproportionality in special education
In 2013, South Bend schools was cited by the state for over-identifying African American students with emotional and cognitive disabilities between 2010 and 2012.
During the 2010-2011 school year, when the total student population was about 20,000, 2.4% of all South Bend students were labeled with an emotional disability. Of that group, 23.4% were black students. Around 2.7% of all students were labeled with a cognitive disability and 4% were black students.
During the 2011-2012 school year, 3.4% of black students were labeled with emotional disabilities and 3.6% were labeled with cognitive disabilities.
The sanction for the disproportionality issues required that 15% of the district's $6.1 million federal special education grant be spent on early intervention services for struggling students in an effort to ultimately avoid labeling them as special education in the future, according to a previous Tribune report. The district also had to regularly report the number of black students being newly identified with cognitive disabilities.
By 2014, data showed that the district was no longer disproportionately labeling black students with emotional and cognitive disabilities. As a result, school officials were no longer being monitored monthly by the state.
But School Board Member Oletha Jones, who was previously the education chairperson of South Bend's branch of the NAACP, always questioned if much really changed.
"How did we go from non-compliance to compliance?" Jones asked. "I have stressed that I am optimistically cautious about that. Change just doesn't happen that easily and quickly."
At that time, Donna Krol was the director of special education for South Bend schools. She pointed to changes to procedures for identifying students as to how the district came into compliance. Before black students were identified with either an emotional or cognitive disability, Krol said a second special education staff member was required to review each case.
But recent state data shows that African Americans are still one of the largest demographic of students being identified as special education.
Around 37% of the total student population during the 2019-2020 school year is made up of black students, with whites at around 28%, Hispanics at 23%, multiracial at 10% and Asian at 1%.
Native American students, who make up .3% of the total student population, have the highest special education rate at around 27%. Black students follow at 20% with whites at 19%.
The special education rates have remained relatively the same compared to where the district was seven years ago. During the 2013-2014 school year, 26% of Native American students were identified as special education. Black students followed at around 21% with whites at 19%.
"If we turned things around, why are we still seeing these high numbers?" Jones asked.
Jones said it's important that the students who need it do receive special education services. But it's also critical that mislabeling isn't happening, she said.
"We know these things have been plaguing our students – specifically our African American kids – for years. Sometimes I wonder, if this was happening to any other demographic, would we be so confident in relying on it dragging on so long?" Jones said. "We already have two generations of students that have been affected in a negative way. We have to get this right."
Additionally, Jones said she has heard comments by school staff who "were concerned that in an effort to be compliant, we might not be serving all the kids we need to," resulting in underidentification.
Johns said procedures with identifying and assisting special education students has "drastically changed" compared to what was being practiced years ago, to ensure that the department is meeting requirements to not overidentify certain disabilities.
Psychologists have worked with buildings to educate staff about the various disability categories and what the eligibility criteria would be for each disability, he said.
General education interventions are examined prior to testing, Johns said. And now the department takes a "team approach" to testing of and multiple people are responsible for evaluations.
"I don't think students are being overidentified," Johns said. "The way we look at it is, is the testing valid and are we doing good, comprehensive tests for these students? We don't look at it from a demographic standpoint. It's really about whether or not a student need is there."
Baker said the anecdotal information collected from IDOE interviews and the limited data reviewed also doesn't support a finding of over-identification.
But Cummings said he is aware of the historical trend and believes it's an area that district officials still need to improve.
"We know that we have students who are over identified. I don't think that's a secret," the superintendent said. "We need to ensure that we're correctly identifying students, we're following compliance as (IDOE) recommended, and we're supporting the parents, teachers and students in special education."


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Kieran Mulvaney
Last week, my friend and mentor, Sidney Holt was laid to rest in the village of Paciano, Umbria, Italy. He was 93, and had passed away on December 22.
There are so many things to say about Sidney: that he was a pioneer of fisheries management, that he was one of the first scientists to urge the International Whaling Commission to drastically reduce commercial whaling, that he was a key driving force behind the 1982 IWC commercial whaling moratorium and the 1994 Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary, among so many other things.
But there was so much more. Sidney was an inspiration. His intellect remained fierce, and his knowledge broad and deep, until the end, and he loved to share both - whether asked to or not. (All of us who worked with him have memories of being caught up in the dreaded Holt mass email chain, or receiving unsolicited criticism of published works that invariably began along the lines of: "Enjoyed your piece on X. But ... " and continued on for multiple paragraphs or even pages. In later life, as his vision failed him, he continued sending those correctives, except that now they were largely misspelled simply because he couldn't quite see what he was writing.)
Put simply, Sidney was a damn rock star, even to the end. He must have been about 85 when I was with him at a conference in Boston and a young grad student haltingly approached him and asked if he would sign her copy of his landmark 1957 treatise on fisheries management. A year or two later, he was holding forth in London's Fishmongers Hall on the characteristics of the sigmoid curve.
When I was a cub wannabe whale-saver in 1985, I was immensely honored when Sidney, in response to my request for information on whaling, sent me offprints of his most recent articles. In 1987, when Sean Whyte and I founded the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society, his very public support was not only of immense value, it affixed to us an imprimatur of authority we would not otherwise have earned.
Sidney could be an irascible old sod, but he was at heart profoundly kind and gentle. He would dismissively refer to me as "the Irishman," (sometimes "that bloody Irishman") but with a twinkle in his eye. It always made me proud when he asked me to work with him on something, and nothing made me more so than, thanks to diligence of Patrick Ramage and Leslie Busby, helping shape his memoirs into a printed product. We were working on a new version when he passed; I deeply regret we could not finish it in time, but as Leslie says, "what matters is that we have his remarkable story to share, I think as a posthumous tribute it will be remarkable and appreciated by so many."
So, yes: scientist, conservationist, inspiration, mentor, rock star - Sidney was all these things. But to me he was one thing above all others: he was my friend. And I have never in my life been more proud to be able to say that of anybody.
(Here is a lovely obituary by Paul Brown in The Guardian.)
New Book Proposal, Day One
Every marathon begins with a single step. Time for a new project ...
What Happened to the Franklin Expedition?
The disappearance of the Franklin Expedition shortly after it left port in search of the Northwest Passage in 1845 is one of the enduring mysteries of the Arctic. The wreck of one of the expedition's two ships, HMS Erebus, was discovered in 2015, and that of HMS Terror two years later. And two years after that, I and the passengers of Ocean Endeavour were the first visitors to either site, courtesy of Adventure Canada. But the ships' discoveries have muddied the waters as much as they have cast light on the expedition's fate. Here's a piece I wrote about it for the History Channel website.
The Great White Bear: A Natural & Unnatural History of the Polar Bear
The world's largest land carnivore is officially classified as a marine mammal. But it can only survive on the sea ice of the Arctic. This is its story.
The Whaling Season: An Inside Account of the Struggle to Stop Commercial Whaling
The inside story of the campaign against commercial whaling, as told by the leader of four Greenpeace voyages to confront the Antarctic whaling fleet.
At the Ends of the Earth: A History of the Polar Regions
The story of how the Arctic and Antarctic have influenced, and in turn been affected by, human history.
Witness: Twenty-Five Years on the Environmental Front Line
A photographic history of Greenpeace, with introductory text by me, and a foreword by the Dalai Lama.
A tribute to the undoubted media darling of the Iraqi war
Ken Caron: my former neighbor in Alaska
© 2018 Kieran Mulvaney


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Q: How to Rename the filename before uploading to s3 bucket ?angular file upload I have set file to be uploaded in s3 bucket,I need to add timestamp before file extension. I m working this code in angular 8 .
this is the method I'm using.
onFileChange(files: FileList) {

for (let fItr in files) {
if (fItr != 'length' && fItr != 'item') {
// var fileExtension = '.' + files[fItr].name.split('.').pop();
// files[fItr].name= Math.random().toString(36).substring(7) + new Date().getTime() + fileExtension;
this.attachment.push(files[fItr]);
this.fileToUpload.push(files.item(parseInt(fItr)));

}
sample input
crawlling.php
fileupload.csv
fileupload.pptx
loading.mp4

sample output (i need the files to be uploaded like this)
crawlling_20180215022222.php
fileupload_20190419062612.csv
fileupload_20200419082612.pptx
loading_20180910081329.mp4

A: try to append to blob and create new file and push this
onFileChange(files: FileList) {
      for (let fItr in files) {
          if (fItr != 'length' && fItr != 'item') {
              var fileExtension = '.' + files[fItr].name.split('.')[1];
              var prefix=files[fItr].name.split('.')[0];
              var name= prefix+this.convertDate()+ Math.random().toString(36).substring(7) + new Date().getTime() + fileExtension;
              var blob = fItr.slice(0, fItr.size, fItr.type);
              var newFile = new File([blob], name, {type: fItr.type});
          }
       }
 }
convertDate(){
    var date=new Date();
    day=date.getDate();
    month=date.getMonth();
    month=month+1;
    if((String(day)).length==1)
    day='0'+day;
    if((String(month)).length==1)
    month='0'+month;
    return date.getFullYear()+""+month+""+ day;
}

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Germany: Football legend Franz Beckenbauer under investigation
Sep 2, 2016 | Fraud, Sports | 0 |
Swiss authorities have started criminal investigations into Franz Beckenbauer and three others over Germany's bid for the 2006 World Cup. they are suspected of fraud, criminal mismanagement, money laundering and misappropriation. In March this year world football governing body FIFA started investigations into six men for their part in Germany getting the rights to host the 2006 cup. Swiss investigations were linked to FIFA's investigations.
Swiss prosecutors named four suspects yesterday:
(1) Franz Beckenbauer was formerly vice-president of the German Football Association (DFB), president of the 2006 World Cup local organising committee (LOC) and a member of the FIFA executive committee.
(2) Wolfgang Niersbach was formerly president of the DFB, vice-president of the LOC and is currently a member of the FIFA and UEFA executive committees.
(3) Theo Zwanziger was formerly president of the DFB, vice-president of the LOC and a member of the FIFA and UEFA executive committees.
(4) Horst Rudolf Schmidt was formerly secretary-general of the DFB and vice-president of the LOC.
The Swiss federal prosecution office said yesterday that "Searches of premises or searches on a cooperative basis for the collection of evidence were carried out in eight separate locations (in Austria and Germany) at the same time today." Beckenbauer's home in Austria was also included in the above raid.
Swiss authorities said that, "Swiss jurisdiction in the proceedings is based on the fact that certain of the alleged criminal acts were carried out in Switzerland, which is also the suspected place of unlawful enrichment."
Beckenbauer, now 70, was the captain of the West Germany team that won the 1974 World Cup and was coach when Germany won again in 1990.
In February, the German football federation released a 361-page report explaining a complex trail about payments of 6.7 million euros ($7.3 million) and 10 million Swiss francs ($10 million). The report said the payment by the German football federation to FIFA on April 27, 2005, was declared by the World Cup organizing committee for an opening gala. But it was intended to repay a debt that was not owed by the DFB to Louis-Dreyfus. An investigation conducted by law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, found that it could not rule out the possibility of vote buying. It also found out that a slush fund money ended up in an account of the former FIFA executive committee member Mohamed bin Hammam.
Update
The German newspaper Bild reported last week that Beckenbauer, 70, underwent open heart bypass surgery on Saturday, 4 September 2016, just days after Swiss authorities filed criminal proceedings against him. When the authorities carried out a two-hour search on the previous day he was stll at gome in Salzburg, Austria. Later that day he travelled to a clinic in southern Germany to prepare for the surgery on the following day.
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Q: Howto implement an Android view model inherited from AndroidViewModel with additional parameter in constructor? I have a fragment which shows images and possible sub-albums of an album. The fragment has a single argument which is the ID of the album to show. The ID is a POD long. For navigation incl. proper navigation history and passing arguments to the fragment, I use the navigation graph and the SafeArgs library.
Clicking on a sub-album navigates to the same fragment with the ID of sub-album to show. The loading of images and sub-albums is done in a view model.
Question: How do I pass the ID of the album as an argument of the constructor to my view model.
Here are some code snippets which might help to understand the problem
The fragment
public class AlbumFragment extends Fragment implements Observer<List<AlbumEntry>> {
  private AlbumViewModel viewModel;
  private long albumID; /*< The ID of the album which is shown by this instance of the fragment */

  public static AlbumFragment newInstance( final long albumID ) {
    AlbumFragment fragment = new AlbumFragment();
    // The class `AlbumFragmentArgs` is auto-generated by the SafeArgs library
    fragment.setArguments(
      (new AlbumFragmentArgs.Builder()).setAlbumID( albumID ).build().toBundle()
    );
    return fragment;
  }

  @Override
  public void onCreate( Bundle savedInstanceState ) {
    super.onCreate( savedInstanceState );
    albumID = AlbumFragmentArgs.fromBundle( getArguments() ).getAlbumID();
    // TODO: We somehow need to pass the ID of the album to the view model
    viewModel = new ViewModelProvider( this ).get( AlbumViewModel.class );
  }

  @Override
  public View onCreateView( LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container,
                            Bundle savedInstanceState ) {
    // Inflates the view from XML layout file, skipped here
    return view;
  }

  @Override
  public void onViewCreated( @NonNull final View view, final Bundle savedInstanceState ) {
    // PROBLEM: The list of album entries actually depends on the current album
    // The ID of the current album should have been passed when then model was created
    LiveData<? extends List<AlbumEntry>> liveAlbumEntries = viewModel.getAlbumEntries();
    liveAlbumEntries.observe( this.getViewLifecycleOwner(), this );
  }

  // Methods for observing live data skipped here

  protected void onClick( final View view ) {
    // The code how the ID of the target album is obtained from the
    // clicked view is left out here
    // The variable is targetAlbumID
    NavGraphDirections.ActionToAlbumFragment action = NavGraphDirections.actionToAlbumFragment();
    action.setAlbumID( targetAlbumID );
    Navigation.findNavController( this.getView() ).navigate( action );
  }
}

The view model
public class AlbumViewModel extends AndroidViewModel {

  private long albumID; /*< The ID of the album which is shown by this instance of the fragment */

  public AlbumViewModel( Application application /*, final long albumID */ ) {
    super( application );
    // TODO: How to write a constructor which gets an Application object and an albumID?
    /* this.albumID = albumID */

    // Remaining code, esp. initialization of the repository, is left out
  }

  public LiveData<? extends List<AlbumEntry>> getAlbumEntries() {
    // Code left out, but depends on `this.albumID`
  }
}

Some final remarks
Of course, it might be possible to not pass the ID of the current album to the view model, but always pass the album ID explicitly as an additional argument to each method of the view model, for example  LiveData<? extends List<AlbumEntry>> liveAlbumEntries = viewModel.getAlbumEntries( albumID ).
However, having one instance of the view model for each album ID would be much easier especially with respect to caching. If a single instance of the view model is bound to a particular album ID, the view model only needs to deal with the album entries of this album. If the corresponding fragment for the same album ID ends its life-cycle permanently, the corresponding view model will be destroyed and hence the album entries are removed from memory. If the fragment is only re-created (due to configuration changes) the corresponding view model is kept in memory and so are the album entries.
Contrary, if I only had one application-wide global instance of AlbumViewModel for all albums and all instances of the fragment and if the album ID is passed explicitly to each method of AlbumViewModel I would never know, when a particular fragment is destroyed and when the album entries can be removed from memory.

A: You should create a ViewModelFactory, like:
public class AlbumViewModelFactory implements ViewModelProvider.Factory {
    private Application application;
    private long id;

    public AlbumViewModelFactory(Application application, long id) {
        this.application = application;
        this.id = id;
    }

    @Override
    public <T extends ViewModel> T create(Class<T> modelClass) {
        return (T) new AlbumViewModel(application, id);
    }
}


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Intl. Notebook Apr 6 2019
French magazine celebrates essential American film genre.
A few years ago we used this image of German actress Dorothée Blanck as a femme fatale, but didn't scan the rest of the magazine in which we had found her. By now you know why—the pages of these old film mags are large and we have to scan them in halves and put them together in Photoshop or GIMP, which is time consuming, something that's a real problem for lazy people like us. But here we are three years later and we've finally done it. Above is the full cover of the issue of Cinémonde—"cineworld" in English—from which Blanck came.
Cinémonde was first published in October 1928 and ran until being interrupted by World War II in 1940. Post hostilities the magazine reappeared, running from 1946 until 1968, taking another pause, running again from 1970 to 1971, and finally folding for good. This issue hit newsstands today in 1965. Like other European magazines of the era, the main attraction with Cinémonde is that its photos generally have not been seen online before. This issue was devoted to the American western, and the subjects include some of the biggest cowboy stars in cinema history, including John Wayne, Glenn Ford, Clint Eastwood, and Jimmy Stewart.
That's the first half of the issue. Afterward editors move outside the western milieu, and you get Marlon Brando, David Niven, Francois Dorleac, Barbara Bouchet, Serge Gainsbourg, hair secrets of the stars, the top ten Don Juans of French cinema, and more. Do we have other issues of this magazine? You bet. We own a group that includes Cinémonde, Ciné-Revue, and others. Will we ever scan them? Well, we make no promises at this point, but you never know—maybe we'll splash out for a bigger scanner and solve the problem with money instead of effort. Seems to work for everyone else. Thirty plus images below.
FranceGermanyCinémondeDorothée BlanckMarlon BrandoJohn WayneJames StewartGlenn FordClint EastwoodPamela TiffinBurt LancasterDavid NivenFrançois DorléacBarbara BouchetSerge GainsbourgSophie HardyAnnie GirardotMicheline PresleMichèle MorganFrank Alamocinema
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1912—International Opium Convention Signed
The International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague, Netherlands, and is the first international drug control treaty. The agreement was signed by Germany, the U.S., China, France, the UK, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Persia, Portugal, Russia, and Siam.
1946—CIA Forerunner Created
U.S. president Harry S. Truman establishes the Central Intelligence Group or CIG, an interim authority that lasts until the Central Intelligence Agency is established in September of 1947.
1957—George Metesky Is Arrested
The New York City "Mad Bomber," a man named George P. Metesky, is arrested in Waterbury, Connecticut and charged with planting more than 30 bombs. Metesky was angry about events surrounding a workplace injury suffered years earlier. Of the thirty-three known bombs he planted, twenty-two exploded, injuring fifteen people. He was apprehended based on an early use of offender profiling and because of clues given in letters he wrote to a newspaper. At trial he was found legally insane and committed to a state mental hospital.
1950—Alger Hiss Is Convicted of Perjury
American lawyer Alger Hiss is convicted of perjury in connection with an investigation by the House unAmerican Activities Committee (HUAC), at which he was questioned about being a Soviet spy. Hiss served forty-four months in prison. Hiss maintained his innocence and fought his perjury conviction until his death in 1996 at age 92.
1977—Carter Pardons War Fugitives
U.S. President Jimmy Carter pardons nearly all of the country's Vietnam War draft evaders, many of whom had emigrated to Canada. He had made the pardon pledge during his election campaign, and he fulfilled his promise the day after he took office.
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The statement strongly condemns the execution of Nimr Baqir al-Nimr in Saudi Arabia and renewed its demand for Saudi Arabia to support the United Nations resolution on a global moratorium on the death penalty and to abolish the death penalty in national legislation.
The Coalition against the Death Penalty and the human rights organizations undersigned expresses shock and utter condemnation of the massacre of mass executions which claimed the lives of 45 Saudi nationals and one Egyptian in addition to another Chadian, which were carried out in Saudi Arabia at the beginning of the year 2016.
They express great concern at the growing phenomenon of the political use of the death penalty, which befell the political opposition Nimr Baqir al-Nimr who was a prisoner of conscience and was executed on political background after he announced an opposition point of view against the political authority of Saudi Arabia. Many human rights organizations and bodies, which has been demanding the humanization of the criminal justice, ensuring of the right to life, and signing of the United Nations Declaration moratorium on the death penalty pending the effective abolition of the death penalty from national legislation, have been appealing and calling to release him or submit him to a fair and equitable trial, but Saudi authorities ignored all that, executed him, and the confiscated his body.
Our organizations call for the countries that resort to execution, Saudi Arabia in particular, to abandon the policy of elimination and deliberate exclusion of political opponents and the adoption of unfair trials under their names and weak arguments, like fomenting sedition and disturbing public order. At a time when Nimr Baqir al-Nimr demanded from within his country for political rights of Saudi citizens and that the people be the source of authorities, and he expressed his opinion calling for the right of the people to choose their rulers, and such views cannot be included within the crimes punishable by law.
Our organizations also express their deep regret that the majority of the official international community ignored the deterioration of the human rights situation in Saudi Arabia, for many years, either in anticipation of its natural resources, its oil reservoir, or unjustified exploitation of its major financial capabilities. we considers that the policy of double standards in the rights of peoples human rights issues in this country, or other countries, is a real threat to international peace and security, and it is one of the core causes of the growing phenomenon of terrorism in the world, and we call on the international community to shoulder full responsibility in drying the sources of intellectual, financial, and colonial racism and other.


Hi all, I haven't led a ride in a long time, so please be gentle with me lol. The 12 14 will be heading to Avon Mill cafe via Ivybridge, Ermington and Loddiswell. Our return journey is via Gara Bridge, Wrangaton and Ivybridge. Distance is about 50 miles. I'm looking forward to leading a ride once again. See you all on Saturday.


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There are times when we change only few files in Sage and needs to be reflected in Sage 300 ERP. Always running REGACC is not viable as Sage 300 takes few minutes to few hours depending on the modules installed in the system.
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Step 2: Register a DLL/OCX file using regsvr32 command with regsvr32 followed by the path of the DLL/OCX file.
Step 3: Unregister a DLL/OCX file using regsvr32 command with regsvr32 followed by the path of the DLL/OCX file.
Now the DLL/OCX has been successfully added to the windows registry and it ready to be used.


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publications / reports / 2002
Opening Up The Usual Channels
This 2002 report lays bare the operation of one of the most distinctive, mysterious and critical features of the Westminster Parliament: the 'usual channels' - that is, the relationships between the government and opposition parties through which Parliament's business is organised.
Although the initiative in arranging the parliamentary agenda at Westminster lies largely with the government of the day, in practice the government negotiates with the opposition parties - particularly the official Opposition - to arrange parliamentary business through what are euphemistically known as the 'usual channels'.
The 'usual channels' operate differently in certain respects in the House of Commons and the House of Lords, but across both Houses few records are kept of what has been agreed, and the system operates entirely informally and privately.
The operation of the 'usual channels' in the Westminster Parliament contrasts with the practice in many other legislatures, including the Scottish Parliament, National Assembly for Wales and Northern Ireland Assembly, where parliamentary business is arranged through a Business Committee.
In 2010 the House of Commons backed the creation of a House Business Committee to take charge of business in the Lower House, but the 2010-2015 coalition government did not bring forward proposals to establish one. Accordingly, the 'usual channels' continue to operate in the Commons as well as the Lords, so the findings of this 2002 report remain current. Indeed, with renewed attention focusing on the control of business in the House of Commons as a result of the Brexit process, it is more valuable than ever to understand how the current process works.
The report explains what the 'usual channels' are, how they came into existence, how they work, and who the key figures are in the 'usual channels' system. The report also asks how effective the 'usual channels' are, and whether Parliament should have greater control over its own agenda.
The Usual Channels
What are the Usual Channels?
Who are the Usual Channels?
What do the Usual Channels Do?
A History of the Usual Channels
A Week in the Life of the Usual Channels - the House of Commons
The Usual Channels in the House of Lords
Government Domination of Parliament
The Importance of Personality in the Usual Channels
Programme Motions
The Usual Channels Outside the Usual Channels
A Critique of the Usual Channels
A Westminster Business Committee?
Banner image: 'John Bercow takes the Chair and expresses his thanks to the House of Commons', by UK Parliament
Opening Up The Usual Channelspublications / reports


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Informing ethical consumers
Hannah Berry, Morven McEachern
It is generally accepted that awareness of environmental and social issues is rising, driven by a growing volume of easily accessible information, in which the advent of the internet, and increased media engagement with the issues, have played an important role (Beck, 1999: 102; Langerak et al., 1998; Nicholls, 2002; Peattie, 1992; Thøgersen, 1999). Prior awareness of ethical issues in turn affects a consumer's response to product information: 'The main mechanism for labels (or brands) to work is not to change or make up the mind of the consumer in a shop, but to confirm an earlier decision made outside the market place influenced by marketing, the media, and crucially, civil processes' (Zadek et al., 1998a: 35).
But while studies ...
The Ethical Consumer
Rob Harrison, Terry Newholm, Deidre Shaw
SAGE Publications Inc.
https://doi.org/10.4135/9781446211991.n6
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Berry, H., & McEachern, M. (2005). Informing ethical consumers. In R. Harrison, T. Newholm, & D. Shaw (Eds.), The Ethical Consumer (1st ed., pp. 69-88). SAGE Publications Inc.. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781446211991.n6
Berry, Hannah ; McEachern, Morven. / Informing ethical consumers. The Ethical Consumer. editor / Rob Harrison ; Terry Newholm ; Deidre Shaw. 1st. ed. SAGE Publications Inc., 2005. pp. 69-88
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