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Economic Development is my number one priority and job creation is at the forefront. I feel that the best way to improve our community is to pursue better jobs for our community. Our standards are too low for our community to really grow. We have grown to accept low to medium skill jobs for low to medium pay. This is not good enough for our community. The integrity of our community is at play here; who in the last 8 years has really pushed and brought the required jobs we need for our community – the answer is no one. I feel that it will be my job to push for those jobs that we badly need in our community.
And how will I do this? I have a true understanding of the border economy and our interdependence with Ciudad Juarez. My business sense aids me with seeking to bring jobs to El Paso and to help small local business growth. My vision for El Paso is to continue to move El Paso forward in a pragmatic and deliberate manner. In order to move forward we need to strengthen our small business community. The largest employer of our community is the small businesses. They have a difficult time getting help from our city departments, and this needs to be streamlined and changed. The departments need to have a better attitude towards assisting the small business owner. With my experience in business and my 42 years of working in the maquiladora industry, I have seen what will make our community successful. Aside from having a good quality of life infrastructure I have experienced with other communities that they have a department or an organization that is dedicated to economic development. Our department of economic development is a good department but I feel that the department is lacking in the corporate recruitment area. The city funded REDCO to pursue corporate recruitment for the region and they have been highly successful, but not for our city. They have done a great job for the Ciudad Juarez, but not for El Paso. According to the Federal Reserve Bank, for every seven jobs created in Ciudad Juarez one is created in El Paso. That's a good figure but the reality is that it is not true. For every plant built in Ciudad Juarez there are a specific number of jobs that help create the Federal Reserve Bank numbers, but what is not counted are the small business that grow around the plant. Think of the restaurants, the convenient stores and the small mom and pop stores that don't get counted. A plant has a multiplier factor that is not in the figures. So what is really happening, in my opinion, is that the figure is more like, for every 15 jobs created in Ciudad Juarez, 1 is created in El Paso. So, while I am a council member, my goal is to make certain that our economic development department creates an El Paso First corporate recruitment program, that focuses on bringing high skill, high wage jobs to El Paso. We will need to revisit our relocation incentives and become a friend to business government. But I will emphasize that giving away the house on incentives is not the way to go. The first few that decide to move into our market will benefit greatly, but the ones that come afterwards will receive a smaller but good benefit. As for our small businesses we need to create and fully support and fund a small business incubator that walks these important small businesses through the hardship of working for themselves.
I believe my work experience really sets me apart. I worked for the same company for 52 years and in that time I missed two scheduled days of work, so what you are getting is a PROVEN responsible and reliable person who truly understands the meaning of commitment.
Also raising a family is also important, my wife and I raised six children. I love them all and I am proud of them. They are so successful in their careers, three in law enforcement, one in the health field, one in the education field and one who graces our home every day.
Lastly, I run 4 to 5 miles a day, seven days a week. I do this to stay healthy and to keep an alert mind. I don't believe that any of my opponents are as healthy as I am.
My relevant experience comes first as a taxpaying resident of the City of El Paso for over 42 years. If you have owned a home as long as I have and lived through the LEAN years as well as the growth explosion of the last years, then you know what it like to have your taxes raised or your property valuation go up every year. As for my commitment to the position of City Representative for District 7, I will follow my example that I set with the company I worked for 52 years. I missed only two unscheduled days of work and I created the market place for my specific field of work. I started with the company at the lowest position possible and rose to the ranks to sales manager for the company. When I arrived in El Paso in 1971 from Los Angeles, California, the company I worked for was the first company to produce corrugated boxes for the maquiladoras in El Paso. I and another person were the only salesmen for the company; we had to create the market for our company and expand the business. By the time it was said and done I was the top salesman for the company and I had created the market place and expanded the business. But for a few years during the period from 1971 to 2009, I remained the top salesman. I had to make commitments to the managers of the factories in Ciudad Juarez and had to make certain that they were realized. People's careers were at stake when I made those commitments and at the front end of my career I couldn't afford to make a mistake. After I began to build my portfolio of successes in the market I could not rest on my laurels, I had to continue the effort. Striving for better is what I do best. I will do the same as the next City Representative for District 7. I am my own man, beholden to no one but when elected I will be beholden to the good people of our great city.


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FINA-523 – Summer 2011 - First Quiz – Chapters 1 thru 4 1. You need to review your progress, reevaluate, and revise your plan (step 5) because A) your financial needs change over your lifecycle B) your employment situation changes from time to time C) your net worth will change over time D) your family situation may change from time to time E) all of the above are good reasons to periodically review your financial plan 2. Claudia has $4,500 automatically deducted for insurance from her annual salary of $60,000. Additionally $7,500 is deducted each year in taxes. When preparing her personal income statement, what figure should Claudia enter for her income? A) $55,500 B) $48,000 C) $52,500 D) $60,000 3) Your money grows faster as the compounding period becomes longer. TRUE/FALSE 4. How much can you borrow today if you can make payments of $3,600 a year for the next five years and the interest rate is 10%? A) $13,646.83 B) $12,235.32 C) $18,978.36 D) $15,797.84 E) $17,949.67 5. You and your spouse have earned salary and wages of $41,750. In addition you have municipal bond interest income of $600 and savings account and certificate of deposit interest income of $800. You paid a total of $600 in interest on your car loan. Using only this information, what is your total income for tax purposes? A) $43,150 B) $42,550 C) $42,350 D) $41,750 E) none of the above 6. If your liabilities are greater than the value of your assets you are considered A) unstable. B) bankrupt. C) insolvent. D) unbalanced.
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The Only Thing Standing in the Way of Arizona's Pac-12 Coronation is ArizonaPosted by Mike Lemaire on January 24th, 2015
For the first half of Thursday night's battle for first place in the Pac-12 against Stanford, Arizona looked like the team that could only muster 56 points in a losing effort against Oregon State. But in the second half, the Wildcats showed why there is no other team in the conference that can hang with them when they are at full strength and minimizing their mistakes. The Wildcats actually jumped out to an early lead as the Cardinal's thin frontcourt had absolutely no answer for Brandon Ashley and Rondae Hollis-Jefferson inside. But Ashley also picked up three cheap fouls in the first 12 minutes of the game and teammate Stanley Johnson picked up two of his own, and when they left the court, things started to fall apart. Without their two biggest offensive mismatches on the floor, Arizona struggled to take advantage of its distinct size advantage and instead settled for contested jumpers. On the other end of the floor, the Wildcats' stout defense made things difficult for Stanford, at least when they weren't fouling Cardinal players. Stanford made 13 free throws in the first half and star guard Chasson Randle scored six of his 14 first half points from the charity stripe. As a result, a first half that any casual observer would think Arizona should have won ended with Stanford up two points.
Of course slow starts and early mistakes have become something of Arizona's modus operandi this season, and nobody expected the Wildcats to go away. Ashley and Johnson returned to the floor in the second half and immediately made an impact, combining for 10 points in the first six minutes as Arizona slowly but surely took the lead for good. Even more importantly, the Arizona defense decided to start moving its feet and quit picking up cheap fouls, and all of a sudden, their suffocating defense returned in earnest. Once Randle made a difficult layup to bring Stanford within three points with just under 10 minutes to play, the Wildcats' put the clamps down and the Cardinal didn't make another field goal for more than eight minutes. By that point, the game was well in hand and Arizona was on its way as the odds-on favorite to run away with the conference regular season title.


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Three specially commissioned oil on canvas paintings, each signed by Mickey Mantle in either blue or black Sharpie. All of the paintings were created by noted sports artist Wayne Prokopiak and are signed and dated (1991 to 1995) by the artist in the lower right. Two of the paintings depict Mantle in a bust-length image (8 x 10 inches and 10.5 x 13.5 inches, respectively) and the third features Mantle in a bat-on-shoulder pose (10.5 x 13.5 inches). The signatures average "8/9" in grade. Each painting has been framed to slightly larger dimensions. LOAs from James Spence/JSA and Steve Grad, Mike Gutierrez & Zach Rullo/PSA DNA. Total: three paintings. Reserve $500. Estimate $1,000+. SOLD FOR $2,610.00
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Peter Finch
Australian Actor
Born Sep 28, 1916
Frederick George Peter Ingle Finch was a British-born Australian actor. He is best remembered for his role as "crazed" television anchorman Howard Beale in the film Network, which earned him a posthumous Academy Award for Best Actor, his fifth Best Actor… Read More
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1916 Birth Born on September 28, 1916.
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Alicia Finch married "Jock" Campbell in 1922.
1926 9 Years Old In 1926 he was sent to Australia to live with his great-uncle Edward Herbert Finch at Greenwich Point in Sydney.
1929 12 Years Old He attended the local school until 1929, then North Sydney Intermediate High School for three years.
1933 16 Years Old After graduating, Finch went to work as a copy boy for the Sydney Sun and began writing. However he was more interested in acting, and in late 1933 appeared in a play, Caprice, at the Repertory Theatre. … Read More
1935 18 Years Old Finch's first screen performance was in a 1935 short film, The Magic Shoes, an adaptation of the fairy tale Cinderella.
1938 21 Years Old He made his feature film debut in 1938 with a supporting role in Dad and Dave Come to Town for director Ken G. Hall, who went on to cast Finch in a larger role supporting Cecil Kellaway in Mr. Chedworth Steps Out (1939).
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He produced and performed Army Concert Party work, and in 1945 toured bases and hospitals with two Terence Rattigan plays he directed, French Without Tears and While the Sun Shines.
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1954 37 Years Old Towards the end of 1954 Finch's contract with Laurence Olivier was about to expire and he instead signed a seven-year contract with the Rank Organisation worth £87,500 to make one film a year for them. "We are going to build Peter into a major British star", said Earl St. John, Rank's head of production, at the time.
1956 39 Years Old Finch's first roles for Rank under the new arrangement were undistinguished: Passage Home, Make Me an Offer, Josephine and Men and Simon and Laura. However in 1956 he appeared in two major hits, A Town Like Alice (1956) and The Battle of the River Plate (1956), which saw exhibitors vote him the seventh most popular British star at the box office; the following year his ranking went up to third, being the fifth most popular regardless of nationality. … Read More
1976 59 Years Old At the time of Finch's death, he was doing a promotional tour for the 1976 film Network in which he played the television anchorman Howard Beale who develops messianic pretensions. … Read More
1977 60 Years Old After suffering a heart attack in the lobby of the Beverly Hills Hotel, Finch died on 14 January 1977, at the age of 60; he is interred in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. … Read More
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Hart on Judicial Discretion
Roger A. Shiner
University of British Columbia Okanagan
September 30, 2011
Problemas, Forthcoming
H.L.A. Hart's The Concept of Law (Hart 1994) contains many passages that have become iconic for legal theory. This essay focuses on Chapter 7, sections 1 and 2, and Hart's comments about judicial discretion in the context of Ronald Dworkin's well-known attack on the idea of judicial discretion in his essay "The Model of Rules." Specifically, the paper undertakes three projects. The first project is to defend the importance of the fundamental picture that Hart presents in Concept, Chapter 7 of common-law judicial rule-making. Hart represents such rule-making as a balance of certainty and flexibility, and he is correct to do that. The second project is to argue that Dworkin's attack on the positivist model of common-law judicial rule-making as an exercise of "strong discretion" fails. The idea, central to the meaning of "strong discretion" that courts are not "not bound by standards set by the authority in question" cannot be established. The third is to argue that Hart is his own worst enemy. The language, metaphors and images he uses to present his account of common-law judicial rule-making open the way to Dworkin's critique. They also reveal Hart, if the language, metaphors and images are taken seriously, to be precisely the kind of formalist or deductivist about adjudication that he is ostensibly in Concept Chapter 7 criticising.
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I could really recommend to download and install a newer version of MINIX,
for multiple reasons:
- 3.1.2 and up have support for packman
- some system design since 3.1.0 has been changed. Although this makes
newer versions less compatible with the book (but only slightly so), it is
important to keep up-to-date if you want to _do_ something with MINIX.
Alos, most people in this group use either 3.1.2 or 3.1.3, so help for
those versions is much more available.
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Student Computer Science | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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Tip of the Week
Looking to take a road trip but dread hearing the infamous "Are we there yet?" or "Can we please, please stop for fast food?" questions? Never fear, registered dietitian, author and mother, Pamela Nisevich Bede, offers creative ways to keep your family (and you) satisfied and entertained while traveling.
• Who cares if we're there yet? In addition to today's technological offerings, equip your pint-sized passengers with books and travel board games, and play no-equipment-needed games, such as license plate bingo, I Spy, or 20 Questions.
• Energy to burn. You've got their minds exercised now, but what about their bodies? Do a little research ahead of time and plot your stops at rest areas that have green space. When you get there, do a quick round of jumping jacks or a 10-minute game of tag.
• Plan ahead. There's nothing worse than being buckled in the car for hours with nothing healthy to snack on. For your next trip, avoid feeling trapped by packing all-natural, healthful snacks, such as nuts and dried fruit.
• Drink up. Make sure you and your family stay hydrated during road trips by packing refillable water bottles for the long ride. Visit your local dollar store to stock up on different colored water bottles to assign to each person. If you're feeling crafty, have your kids decorate their own bottles with markers, stickers, puffy paint and anything creative from the craft store.
• Don't fight it. When planning your next road trip, work with your child's schedule and not against it. Put them to bed at their regular time and feed them breakfast as you always would. For example, leave before the sun comes up so your child is still able to sleep during part of the ride. Once it's time for a rest stop, you'll be able to gas up and give your kids a proper, healthy breakfast at their regular time.
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LINQ to SQL & Entity Framework Understanding Similarities and Differences
Entity framework is Microsofts latest data access technology and is considered a replacement for ADO.NET. However, there are still plenty of features where ADO.NET beats entity framework, but developers are now switching to Entity Framework owing to its strong decoupling and separation of concerns between the business and data access logic. This article is not focused towards explaining ins and outs of entity framework; this article explains that how LINQ can integrate with entity framework to achieve the desired data access feature. We will first start with our article by explaining how LINQ to SQL and then we will move towards LINQ to Entity framework. If you are not much familiar with foundations of LINQ, I would advise you to first have a look at my other tutorials on Getting Started with LINQ and Interpreted LINQ queries.
Basically both LINQ to Entity Framework and LINQ to SQL are object-relational mappers on which LINQ queries can be executed. The major difference between LINQ to SQL & LINQ to EF is in the coupling between the database scheme and the classes that are used to query that database via LINQ. The coupling in case of LINQ to SQL is very strong between the database schema and query classes, whereas in case of LINQ to EF, the coupling between underlying database and the querying classes is loose because you query database using Entity Data Model which introduces another layer abstraction between the database and querying classes. LINQ to SQL or commonly called L2S was developed by the C# team of developers at the Microsoft, while EF was developed by the team that developed EF. L2S was released with .NET Framework 3.5 and EF was released in the first service pack to that framework. Currently, ADO.Net team has also taken over L2S and all of its features.
LINQ to SQL
You can use any ordinary class for querying database using LINQ to SQL if you include proper markup to that class. Let us suppose that we have a School database where we have a table named Student. This table has three attributes: ID, Name & Age. We want to query that database table via LINQ to SQL class; we can do this by creating an ordinary C# class, and decorating it properly with some attributes that are required to convert an ordinary C# class to a LINQ to SQL Entity Class. Let us first design an ordinary class that maps to the table in the database.
We can create an ordinary class; we can name this class Student, similar to the name of the corresponding table. Inside our student class, we can have an integer type variable ID, a string type variable Name and an integer type variable which Age. Closely pay attention that here in our Student class, we have an ID variable which corresponds to ID attribute, a Name variable which corresponds to Name attribute & and an Age variable that corresponds to the Age attribute of the Student table in School database.
Note: To see how we can create a database and table via Visual Studio 2010, refer to this tutorial.
Coming back to our tutorial, let us first create a simple class in C# that can correspond to the Student table of the school database. Have a look at following class.
public class Student
[Table (Name="Student")]
Now, come inside the Student class; Like [Table] attribute that corresponds to a table in database, we have [Column] attributed that refers to a column in the corresponding table. Have a look at the first [Column] attribute in our class which is referring to ID in the database. In this [Column] attribute we have specified that this variable refers to the primary key in the table. This is particularly useful because we can uniquely identify object based on this member variable. Also, when we are updating a record in the database, we can use this primary key column attribute to update the correct row in the database via entity class.
Like, the [Table] attribute, you can also specify the name of the column to which you want to refer in the [Column] attribute. It will eliminate the need for an exact match between your member variable and the corresponding column attributes in the table. For instance:
[Column (Name= "Age")]
Apart from have public fields, you can use public properties with private fields. As with all the properties, this allows you to embed validation logic while accessing your code. However, you specify the name of the corresponding column in the Column attribute, the property would be bypassed and L2S would write directly to the private filed while populating data from the database.
You dont have to worry about writing these complex LINQ to SQL entity classes yourself because, Visual Studio lets you create one if you right click on the project name, click on add new item and find LINQ to SQL classes in the list of items that appear. You however, need to click on Data option on left in the type of items. A complete code sample on how we can use LINQ to SQL to query tables in the database has been presented in this article. Look at the last two examples of that. For now on, our main focus will be LINQ to Entity Framework, which are Microsofts most advanced and probably the most fascinating data access technology. However, you can query entity frame work classes using LINQ 2 SQL as well with slight modification such as by using DataContext object instead of ObjectContext etc.
LINQ to Entity Framework
We mentioned earlier that in case of entity framework, the coupling between a database schema and the corresponding query classes is loose due to the introduction of a new layer between them i.e. Entity Data Model, or more commonly referred as the entity framework. An entity data model basically has three parts.
Now, I will tell you that how you can add an ADO.NET Entity Frame Work in your project. Follow these steps:
1. Right click on the project, Click, Add => New Item.
2. From the list of items, chooseADO.NET Entity Data Model and name it SchoolEDM.edmx. If you cannot find ADO.NET Entity Data Model option in the list of items, Click, on Data, under Installed Templates on the left section of the visual studio. Have a look at this figure for better understanding
3. Click on the Add button and you will see a screen appear, that will ask you to choose Model Contents. Click on Generate from database option and click next button. See following figure
4. The screen that appears would ask you to choose your data connection. Select, School.sdf database. If you cannot find it right away, click on the drop down menu and you will find it there, (Provided you have created one as I mentioned earlier). Do not change anything on that screen and click Next button. The following figure explains this screen.
5. On the next screen, you will be asked to select your database objects. For now, just check tables, and click finish button. Consider following figure.
6. A new window opens, that will show your tables in the database, since we only added tables.
Now, when you have done this, come back to our class that contains the main method. This will be our first example of this code. Have a look at our first example.
using System;
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
var connection = ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["SchoolEntities"].ConnectionString;
But question here arises that why do we need entity connection string here? Remember that in case of LINQ to SQL, we used a DataContext object that gives us an entry point to LINQ classes. See this tutorial, In case of LINQ to Entity framework, we require an ObjectContext object to have an entry to the entity framework classes. The DataContext object required a data connection but an ObjectContext object requires an entity connection. It is for this reason that we have to write logic to get entity connection from the App.Config file.
Another important thing to specify here is that we also need to specify DefaultContainerName of the ObjectContext type. This is normally same (unless specified otherwise) as the name of the connection string which is SchoolEntities in our case. We specified that to our EFContext object of the ObjectContext type.
Now coming towards getting data from the table, In case of DataContext type, you call GetTable<Table>() method. However, in case of ObjectContext, you will have to call CreateObjectSet<Table>(). In order to get the data from our Student table and store it in ObjectSet type. We wrote following line of code in Example1.
ObjectSet<Student> students = EFContext.CreateObjectSet<Student>();
IQueryable<Student> stud = students.Where(s => s.ID > 1);
In our last tutorial, we used DataContext object for LINQ to SQL, here we used ObjectContext object for LINQ to EF; there is a reason behind this. Apart from providing us with entry points to the databases by creating objects that we can execute our query upon, these objects keep track of any modifications that are made to the entities they control. Consider a scenario where we want to update the Age of a student with ID 3, we can make changes to the database via DataContext and ObjectContext objects. To see, how we can do this, have a look at our second example.
using System;
The magic begins with these lines:
Student stud = students.Single(s => s.ID == 3);
An interesting thing to note here is that EFContext object which is of type ObjectContext, keeps track of all the entities that are referring to the database. So, when we store a record in stud object of type Student, the EFObject will store the information that this object is also interacting with the entity framework store model. In the next line, we stored value 15 in stud.Age variable. Finally, we called SaveChanges() on the EFContext object. When SaveChanges is called on the EFContext object, it will check that if any entity has made any change to the underlying database, it will find that stud has updated the Age, the EFContext will save changes and the change will be made in the underlying database.
Now if you again display all the records of the Student table by iterating over the Students ObjectSet object, you will see that, the student with ID, 3 have an updated Age i.e. 15. The following is the output of the code in Example2.
Associations using LINQ to Entity Framework
In this section, till now we have been discussing databases that contains single table. We had a School database that contained a student table. In real life scenarios you might have such a huge database that contains hundreds of tables. I expect you have basic knowledge of database and have an idea that how tables are related to each other. Just to revise the concept, tables are related to each other via primary and foreign keys. A primary key is basically that field in a record by which you can uniquely identify that record and no two records in any table can have same primary key. This key acts as a foreign key in the table to which the table has relationship of one to many.
This concept is best explained with the help of an example. For instance in a School database, you have another table named Report. Report basically refers to exam report of a particular student. One student can have many exam reports. For example, there can be mid-term examination, final examination or any other academic report. But one report has to belong to one student. It is evident from this scenario that there exists a relation between the Student table and the Report table and this relation is one to many. Means, one student can have many exam reports.
In such scenarios where we have one to many relation, the primary key of the table which is on side 1 acts as a foreign key of the table which is on many side. For instance, the primary key of the Student table, which is ID, will be passed as foreign key to the Report table, we will show you how to do this, but first follow these steps.
1. Create a new table in the School database and name it Report.
2. Create following columns in the table.
3. From the server explorer on the left, right click on the Report table and click Table Properties as shown in the following figure:
4. From the window that appears, click on the Add Relations from the options on the left, a window will appear. Fill the window exactly as in the following figure and then I will explain what is actually happening here.
In the above figure, first we have named the relationship StudentReport. You can give any name but I prefer to use this convention: Name of the table with primary key, followed by the name of the table with foreign key, in Pascal case. Update Rule and Delete Rule, I prefer them to be cascade because this way if an independent record is updated or deleted in one table, all the records depended on this record are also deleted. You can change these setting if you want. The next two options are self-explanatory. The left one is the table which contains the primary key and the right table contains foreign key. Our left table is Student since it contains the primary key ID while right table is the Report since it has a foreign key. Next we again have two options. On the left, we have to specify that which table column would act as a primary key. You can select ID from the drop down table because this is Primary key of the Student table. On the right, you will select StudentID from the list of columns because the ID from Student table will be stored as foreign key in StudentID columns. Click on Add Column button below the options and you should see ID on the left and StudentID on the right in the Selected Columns for Relations. Click ok and the relationship would be added in the database.
5. Next, click on the SchoolEDM.edmx and right click on the SchoolModel.Store and click on the first option i.e Update Model from Database. You will see automatically generated relationship of one to many between the Student and Report tables, as shown in the following figure:
6. Next, right click on the Report table and click on show table data to view the data in the Report table. At the moment, there will no data in the table. Add some records Report table as shown in the following figure.
Now comes the concept of referential integrity. We said earlier that the StudentID will contain the ID of the student from the Student table. Therefore, if you try to add some value in the StudentID column of the Report table, which is not present in the ID column of the Student table, you will not be able to add that value. You can only add those values in the StudentID column of Report table that are already present in the ID column of the student table since a report has to belong to some students and you cannot add any report that doesnt belong to any student.
Now come towards the code again. We can easily take advantage of these relationships between tables via LINQ. For instance, we can get all TotalMarks and ObtainedMarks of the student, named Mark along with remarks. In our next example, we are going to explain that how we can do this.
using System;
context.ContextOptions.LazyLoadingEnabled = true;
Next, in our example, we have created a Student entity object which we have named stud and in this object we are storing the record of the student whose name is Mark. We have simply use a Single operator to select the item from the data set where name is Mark. Now we have a student entity. Real magic begins now. According to our database schema, one student can have many reports and one report belongs to one student. This scenario is handled internally by entity framework.
Actually in our scenario, entity framework will internally create an EntityCollection class, which will hold the collection of all reports belonging to a particular student. Therefore, though we do not have any direct entity object to hold the reports in our class, but we can access collection of all reports that belong to a student through that students entity. It seems absolutely logical. A student having many reports, and if you have the record of that student, you can access all his reports. This is what we did in our code at following line.
foreach (Report rep in stud.Reports)
In our previous example, we enumerated on all the reports of Mark, what if we want to do other way around. We have explained that how you can access reports via student entity, what if we want to access a student entity via report. For instance, we want to see who has got the highest obtained marks. First we will have to see all the reports to find highest obtained marks and then we print the name of the student who has got the highest marks. To see how we can do this via associated entities in LINQ, have a look at our fourth example of this tutorial.
using System;
So, how we would refer to Student entity from Report entity? Do you think, we need an EntityCollection class of type Student in Report entity so that we can refer to the student to whom the report belongs? The answer is a big NO; but why? The answer to this WHY lies again in the type of relationship. Students can have many reports, therefore we had a collection in Student entity, which could store all of those reports. But a report belongs only to a single student, therefore in Report entity, instead of having a collection of Student entities, we just have one Student entity to whom the report actually.
Now come back to our code. Consider the following line of code:
long max = reports.Max(s => s.ObtainedMarks);
Next, in our code we declared a Report type object which we named reps and in this report type object we stored the report whose obtained marks matched to that of maximum marks. Though there can be more than one reports with same maximum marks, we can use Where operator in that scenario. But here in this case we use Single operator which would give us one report in which the obtained marks are maximum. This is done in following line of code
Report reps = reports.Single(s => s.ObtainedMarks == max);
Console.WriteLine("Highest Marks are " + max + ", obtained by " + reps.Student.Name +".");
In the output, we simply displayed the obtained marks and the name of the student which got highest marks. Like simple queries and sub-queries, both LINQ to SQL and LINQ to EF follow the principle of deferred execution and unless numerated or accessed, actually doesnt execute.
Entity framework itself is an extremely vast concept and cannot be covered in single article. You can find hundreds of website devoted solely to entity framework and its features. People have written heave books on entity framework, let alone .NET and LINQ. However, the purpose of this article was to introduce you to LINQ to SQL and LINQ to entity framework. But, we also covered some additional topics in this article. I showed you that how you can create tables in SQL Server compact using VS2010. And apart from creating tables, we learned that how we can define relationships between them. And finally we execute LINQ to EF queries to achieve desired result. I would advise to try insert & delete queries using LINQ, you can use InsertOnSubmit and DeleteOnSubmit data methods of the context object to achieve these results. For more interesting and useful C# tutorials, keep visiting this site.
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They are somewhat similar, and can be used in a very similar way, code-wise, but they have some important differences. Note that "LINQ" is not the same thing as "LINQ to SQL"; the EF also uses LINQ. Some notable differences are:
LINQ to SQL is largely SQL Server only, not so much by design as by implementation. The EF is designed to support, and does support, multiple DBs, if you have a compatible ADO.NET provider.
Out of the box, LINQ to SQL has a very poor story for DB metadata changes. You have to regenerate parts of your model from scratch, and you lose customizations.
The EF supports model features like many-to-many relationships and inheritance. LINQ to SQL does not directly support these.
In .NET 3.5, LINQ to SQL had much better support for SQL-Server-specific functionality than the EF. This is mostly not true in .NET 4; they're fairly similar in that respect.
The EF lets you choose Model First, DB First, or Code First modeling. LINQ to SQL, out of the box, really only supports DB First.
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Hitchens never mentioned along with other Muslims hopes and dreams ~ is that non-Muslims should live under their protection as second class citizens. The Arabic word is Dhimmi. Those with limited status in any Islamic society. If you listen the moderate Muslims aren't complaining.
The main argument to support Islam ~ is that all opposition to Islam has to be racist ~ and so the child-like=talks-called-articles appear to guide Islam's critics along the right path. But the belief that all opposition to Islam is based on race or is racism, creates a cosy shield from Islam's reality. So shielded some of Islam's supporters might even be reluctant to lay their eyes on a human rights report that spell out in no uncertain terms Islam's religious Apartheid. That people can't change their religion is real. That non-Muslims live as second class or non-citizens in virtually every Muslim country on earth is real. This is not a fantasy and it is not going to go away by calling the critics of it racists and bigots. Although it also creates a cosy nook for Muslims - in particular those in the west ~ who tag on to their unwitting protectors to push their Islamic agendas. That being the loss of religious and other basic freedoms ~ like exists in the Islamic world ~ in the name of having respect for their Arabian God. Humbled ~ domesticated, either one will do!
Another thing is the whole way the word Islamophoobia is used ~ is worrying. It seems if you disagree with the tenets of Islam or you question what Muslims claim to be true about them ~ then you are Islamophobic. This is dangerous. Those supporters of Islam should be a little bit more careful how their support is being used.
A recent blizzard of liberal columns has framed the debate over American Islam as if it were no more than the most recent stage in the glorious history of our religious tolerance. This phrasing of the question has the (presumably intentional) effect of marginalizing doubts and of lumping any doubters with the anti-Catholic Know-Nothings, the anti-Semites, and other bigots and shellbacks. So I pause to take part in a thought experiment, and to ask myself: Am I in favor of the untrammeled "free exercise of religion"?
No, I am not.
Now to Islam. It is, first, a religion that makes very large claims for itself, purporting to be the last and final word of God and expressing an ambition to become the world's only religion. Some of its adherents follow or advocate the practice of plural marriage, forced marriage, female circumcision, compulsory veiling of women, and censorship of non-Muslim magazines and media. Islam's teachings generally exhibit suspicion of the very idea of church-state separation. Other teachings, depending on context, can be held to exhibit a very strong dislike of other religions, as well as of heretical forms of Islam. Muslims in America, including members of the armed forces, have already been found willing to respond to orders issued by foreign terrorist organizations. Most disturbingly, no authority within the faith appears to have the power to rule decisively that such practices, or such teachings, or such actions, are definitely and utterly in conflict with the precepts of the religion itself.
Reactions from even "moderate" Muslims to criticism are not uniformly reassuring. "Some of what people are saying in this mosque controversy is very similar to what German media was saying about Jews in the 1920s and 1930s," Imam Abdullah Antepli, Muslim chaplain at Duke University, told the New York Times. Yes, we all recall the Jewish suicide bombers of that period, as we recall the Jewish yells for holy war, the Jewish demands for the veiling of women and the stoning of homosexuals, and the Jewish burning of newspapers that published cartoons they did not like. What is needed from the supporters of this very confident faith is more self-criticism and less self-pity and self-righteousness.
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Tuscola County Prosecuting Attorney Mark Reene said charges for escape were authorized shortly after officials learned that Thomas Howard had left the minimum security facility in Caro.
Howardvis "the primary person of interest" in a motor vehicle theft that occurred shortly after he left the facility, Reene said.
"There is a strong likelihood that he will be charged with unlawfully driving a vehicle," Reene said.
The escape charge and vehicle theft charge are both 5-year felonies and Howard could also be charged as a habitual offender because of the felonies he had already been convicted of, Reene said.
Thomas was arrested Monday in a collaborative effort between Detroit police and Michigan Department of Corrections Metro Region Absconder Recovery Unit, public information specialist John Cordell said.
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Although anorexia nervosa is diagnosed with increasing frequency, a casual survey of books written for families of chronically ill pediatric and psychiatric patients uncovers very little information on this striking condition. Hilde Bruch, MD, whose articles on the subject are cited in every bibliography, has written a highly readable monograph on anorexia nervosa, addressed according to its jacket "to physicians, teachers, school counselors, and parents—to all who are in a position of observing these youngsters before a chronic and often irreversible state develops." It is not a detailed scientific review, but a compendium of her impressive experience and a summary of her therapeutic philosophy. Practitioners who consider it for its designated audience should review the text themselves to see if it reflects their own views and to decide how useful it might be for its intended purpose.
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NEW YORK — A woman who threatened to jump from the George Washington Bridge this afternoon was subdued by a Port Authority police officer, the second time in two days and the sixth time this month police have prevented potential suicides, an agency spokeswoman said.
The 44-year-old woman, who is believed to be homeless, was on a stairway that leads to the north walkway on the bridge's New York side about 2:30 p.m., when Officer Theresa Jeffery approached, the spokeswoman, Erica Dumas, said.
As Jeffery got closer, the woman, who was intoxicated, screamed "leave me alone" and started crying. Jeffery, though, was eventually able to restrain the woman and keep her from leaping from the roughly 200-foot span.
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A relation is simply a set of ordered pairs. Usually, we talk about relations
on sets of numbers, but not always.
Easy Example:
You could have a relation between the set of all names and the set of whole
numbers. A name N is related to a number x if and only if N has
fewer than x letters.
So, (Raj, 5) is in the relation, but (Abdullah, 7) is not.
Here is a relation on the set of real numbers. Suppose x is
related to y if
The following table shows some ordered pairs which are in the relation, and
some which are not.
One way in which relations are commonly displayed is in an input-output table.
The idea is, you input some number x, and you get out some y.
This table describes a relation containing the ordered pairs (0, 0), (1, 3),
(2, 6), (3, 9), (10, 30), (–5, –15).
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is not a function. The relation in the table above is a function (it is okay
if two different inputs give the same output). The relation in the table below
is not a function because the same input 1 gives the output 5 the first time
and 0 the second time.
If you have a graph of a relation, you can use the vertical line test to decide
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which intersects the graph in more than one point, then the relation is not
a function.
The domain is the set of all input values that make "sense";
the range is the set of all possible output values.
We can call the input x, the rule f,
and then the output is f(x) .
This DOES NOT mean "f times x " , it's just a
notation device to record the input and output. For example, if f(x)
= x2, then f(3) = 32 = 9, not f times
3 (meaningless).
Think of f(x) = x2 as f (
) = ( )2; that way you can safely plug in negative numbers
or even other expressions. For example:
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f (x + h) = (x + h)2
Draw a mapping diagram and a graph of the following relation.
{(6, 1), (3, 1), (6, –5), (2, 7), (–8, 3)}
{(5, 0), (5, –2), (2, –1), (4, –1)}
Does the graph represent y as a function of x? Explain.
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Check whether the graph in the figure represents a function. Explain your reasoning.
Consider the following relation on the set of whole numbers between 1 and 10.
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If x divides evenly into y, then x is related to y.Otherwise it is not.
When you roll two six–sided dice, there are 36 possible outcomes. The outcomes can be written as ordered pairs, e.g. (2, 5).
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Women wrestlers Medina Gray and Hubbard read to children at hospitalAthletes Jessica Medina, Adeline Gray, Anna Palmer and Alicia Hubbard pose with child after reading to her at Memorial Hospital. Medina, Gray and Hubbard are women's freestyle wrestlers. Photo by Riley Steinmetz/USOC
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Jack Palance (February 18, 1919 - November 10, 2006) was an Oscar-winning American film actor. With his rugged facial features and gravelly voice, Palance was best known to modern movie audiences as both the characters of Curly and Duke in the two City Slickers movies, but his career spanned half a century of film and television appearances.
Palance, one of five children, was born Volodymyr Palahnyuk (Ukrainian: Володимир Палагнюк) in the Lattimer Mines section of Hazle Township, Pennsylvania, the son of Anna Gramiak and John Palahnyuk, an anthracite coal miner. Palance's parents were Ukrainian immigrants, his father a native of Ivane Zolote in Southwestern Ukraine and his mother from the Lviv region. He worked in coal mines during his youth before becoming a boxer.
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Ebenezer is a 1997 Canadian television production re-telling of Charles Dickens' classic A Christmas Carol with Jack Palance giving a performance as Ebenezer Scrooge, a la western genre. Palance, after a half-century of screen presence, in one of his final projects before retirement.A TV film with high production value, it debuted in the United States on Turner Network Television. Otherwise, a somewhat obscure and rarely-seen title.Ebenezer Scrooge is the most greedy, corrupt and mean-spirited crook in the old West and he sees no value in "Holiday Humbug." But when the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future open his eyes, Scrooge discovers that love and friendships are the greatest wealth of all.At least 2 DVD pressings/packagings have been produced, but not believed to be in general release at this time....
City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold (1994) is a comedy directed by Paul Weiland. It is the sequel to City Slickers. Although a huge success, it was not as well received as the original.
It is the 40th birthday of Mitch Robbins (Billy Crystal), and he is welcoming it. The extraordinary cattle drive vacation he took has had a lasting effect which allows him a much more satisfying life. For instance, his career is going well and he regularly jogs with Norman, the calf he helped deliver who has grown into an adult bull.
As a present, Mitch's wife is going to have the kids sleep at their aunt's house so that they can have sex alone. But prior to making love, Mitch finds an old map in the hat of his now deceased friend, Curly (who was played by Jack Palance), and sees that it is a treasure map, but it has a small corner missing. After researching over a few days about the legend of the 1908 gold theft led by Lincoln Washburn, Curly's father, Mitch, along with his best friend...,
Cops and Robbersons is a family comedy movie released in 1994 starring Chevy Chase, Dianne Wiest, and Jack Palance.When police discover that a mob hitman has moved in next door to the Robbersons, they want to find out what he is up to. So they set up a stakeout in the Robberson's home. Hard-nosed, tough-as-nails Jake Stone (Palance) is assigned to the stakeout. But now it's a question of whether Jake can last long enough to capture the bad guys. The Robbersons want to help so they are driving him crazy....,
As children, Prince Derek and Princess Odette are forced to spend their summers together by their widowed parents, who hope that the two will eventually fall in love and marry, so that the kingdoms of the two will be united. As children and adolescents, Derek (McGillin) and Odette (Nicastro) can't stand each other, but as young adults they begin to see each other in a different light and fall in love with each other. But one night things take a bad turn when Derek unintentionally offends Odette, who then refuses to marry him if he can't prove that he loves her for who she is and not just her beauty. Odette and her father are then attacked by Lord Rothbart (Palance), a vengeful sorcerer who was cast out of William's kingdom when he plotted against the king; Rothbart kills William and kidnaps Odette, placing a spell on her that turns her into a swan during the day, and she can only regain her human form when the moonlight touches the lake to which she is bound. Only a vow of everlasting...
Cyborg 2 is a 1993 science fiction action film directed by Michael Schroeder. It is the direct sequel to the 1989 film Cyborg. It is notable as the first film to feature Angelina Jolie in a starring role (she had previously made one earlier film as a child actress). It was followed by the 1994 direct-to-video release Cyborg 3: The Recycler.
City Slickers is a 1991 comedy film directed by Ron Underwood and starring Billy Crystal, Daniel Stern, Helen Slater, Jack Palance and Bruno Kirby. Palance won the year's Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for this film.
Three years later, the sequel City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold was released. With Jon Lovitz taking the place of Kirby, it was not received as well as the original.
This film is number 73 on Bravo's "100 Funniest Movies" and number 86 on AFI's 100 Years... 100 Laughs.
Mitch Robbins, Phil Berquist, and Ed Furillo are three men in their late 30s or early 40s, each going through his own mid-life crisis. Mitch (played by Crystal) is unmotivated at work and depressed about getting older. Phil (Stern) is browbeaten both by his wife and his father-in-law, who owns the grocery store Phil manages. Ed (played by Kirby) is newly married to a woman with supermodel looks and faces the pressure of being a father.
At Mitch's birthday party, Phil and Ed show him a brochure...,
Solar Crisis is a 1990 science fiction film from Japan America Picture Company. The screenplay was written by Joe Gannon and Crispan Bolt, based on the novel Kuraishisu niju-goju nen by Takeshi Kawata, and directed by Richard C. Sarafian credited as Alan Smithee. The cast featured Tim Matheson as Steve Kelso, Charlton Heston as Adm. 'Skeet' Kelso, Peter Boyle as Arnold Teague, Annabel Schofield as Alex Noffe, Corin Nemec as Mike Kelso and Jack Palance as Travis. Executive producer Takeshi Kawata, Takehito Sadamura. Producer Richard Edlund. Cinematographer Russell Carpenter. Music composed by Maurice Jarre.
This film received a MPAA rating of PG-13, and was filmed in color with Dolby SR stereo sound. Estimated budget was about $55,000,000. It had a very limited theatrical release.
A huge solar flare is predicted to fry the Earth. Astronauts aboard the spaceship Helios must go to the Sun to drop a bomb equipped with an Artificial Intelligence (Freddy) and a Japanese pilot (as a back up...,
Batman is an American Academy Award-winning superhero film based on the DC Comics character Batman created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger. It is the first entry in the original four-part Batman film series, the first directed by Tim Burton and the first to star Michael Keaton as Bruce Wayne/Batman. It also starred Jack Nicholson as the Joker. Inspired by the original work of Finger and Kane from the late thirties and forties and also by the darker Batman comics of the 1980s (including the work of Frank Miller and Alan Moore), the film moved the franchise toward Batman's dark roots and away from the campy 1960s interpretation of the character. The movie was both a box office success and critically acclaimed by both critics and audiences.
It is often referred to as Batman 1989 or Tim Burton's Batman by fans, so as not to cause confusion with films of a similar name, such as the original 1966 film, Batman: The Movie starring Adam West and Burt Ward.
Approaching its 200th anniversary, ...,
Tango & Cash is a 1989 American action/comedy film directed by Andrei Konchalovsky (Albert Magnoli took over in the later stages of filming), starring Sylvester Stallone, Kurt Russell, Teri Hatcher and Jack Palance.
Ray Tango (Stallone) and Gabriel Cash (Russell) are two highly successful Los Angeles-based narcotics cops, who work in different precincts and cannot stand each other because of their vastly different styles. Tango is a smooth, organized businessman who spends the morning with the Wall Street Journal, while Cash is a sloppy bachelor in the tradition of Martin Riggs. Between the two of them, they have seized millions of dollars of drugs and weapons that belong to crimelord Yves Perret (Palance).
The movie starts with Ray Tango in his car, driving down a desert highway, pursuing a tractor trailer. When Tango tries to pass the truck, the truck blocks the pass. Eventually, Tango gets around, and drives a far enough distance ahead of the truck. He pulls out his .357...,
Young Guns is a 1988 action/western film directed by Christopher Cain and written by John Fusco.
Its stars include Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Charlie Sheen, Dermot Mulroney, and Casey Siemaszko. It also features Terence Stamp, Terry O'Quinn, Brian Keith, and Jack Palance. Young Guns is a fictionalized retelling of the adventures of Billy the Kid (Estevez) during the Lincoln County War, which took place in New Mexico during 1877-1878. It was filmed in and around Los Cerrillos, New Mexico.
John Tunstall, an educated Englishman and cattle rancher in Lincoln County, New Mexico, hires wayward young gun men to live and work on his ranch. Tunstall's ranch is heavy competition for another well-connected rancher named Murphy and their men clash on a regular basis. Tunstall recruits Billy and tensions escalate into the murder of Tunstall. Billy (Estevez), Doc (Sutherland), Chavez (Phillips), Dick (Sheen), Dirty Steve (Mulroney), and Charley (Siezmasko), consult...,
Bagdad Café (also known as Out of Rosenheim) is a 1987 German film directed by Percy Adlon.
The film runs 95 minutes in the U.S. and 108 minutes in the German version). It is a somewhat surreal comedy set in a down-at-heel truck-stop café and motel in the Mojave Desert. An ill-assorted cast of characters are assembled, including a plump German tourist (Sägebrecht as Jasmin) who has left her husband after a row in the middle of the desert, the short-tempered owner of the café (Pounder as Brenda) who has just thrown her husband out, Brenda's two children and grandchild, a strange ex-Hollywood set-painter (Palance), and a glamorous tattoo artist (Kaufmann). Through a passion for cleaning and for magic tricks, Jasmin transforms the café and all the people in it.
In 1990 the film was turned into a television series starring James Gammon, Whoopi Goldberg, Cleavon Little, and Jean Stapleton, with Stapleton as Jasmin and Goldberg as Brenda. In the TV version, Jasmin was no longer German....
Hawk the Slayer (1980) is a swords and sorcery movie directed by Terry Marcel and starring John Terry and Jack Palance. The protagonist is Hawk, a hero in the Dark Age, where the Evil ruled the world.
In the terrible time of Evil, the wicked Voltan kills his own father. However, before the old man dies, he bequeaths to his other son, Hawk, a sword with magical powers. Hawk then vows to avenge his father and to kill Voltan. Voltan's evil touches the whole countryside, and in time, there comes to a solitary convent one Ranulf, a man who has survived the attack of Voltan, an evildoer described as a son of Satan.
Ranulf reports to the nuns of Voltan's attack on his people, who have been "hacked to pieces", even the women and children. Ranulf's injured arm is saved, but his hand is beyond saving. He is nursed back to health.
Before long, Voltan appears at the convent. He kidnaps the Abbess, demanding as her ransom all the gold of the convent and the local Abbey. Voltan again injures...
Angels Revenge was a 1979 movie made by Arista. Directed by Greydon Clark, it is also known as Angels' Brigade and Seven from Heaven.
Angels Revenge has major roles for Peter Lawford and Jack Palance as the leaders of a drug cartel, and gives minor roles to famous character actors Jim Backus, Alan Hale, Jr., Pat Buttram and Arthur Godfrey (playing himself). Of the actresses who played the movie's seven female protagonists, however, the closest any had come to major fame was Susan Kiger, who had been the Playboy Playmate of the Month for January 1977. Kiger played singer Michelle Wilson; her co-stars were Sylvia Anderson as stuntwoman Terry Grant, Lieu Chinh as martial arts instructor Keiko Umaro, Jacqueline Cole as high-school teacher April, Noela Velasco as model Maria, and Robin Greer as policewoman Elaine Brenner. Her younger sister Liza Greer plays high-school student Trish, who invites herself into the team.
The movie focuses on seven women who decide to fight the local drug...,
L'Infermiera is a 1975 film starring Ursula Andress, Jack Palance and Luciana Paluzzi, also known by the titles I Will If You Will, The Nurse, The Sensuous Nurse and The Secrets of a Sensuous Nurse.
As an aging widower begins suffering from heart trouble, his greedy heirs hope to speed him on his way by hiring a seductive nurse (Andress) to get his pulse racing. Their plan eventually backfires as the young beauty begins to fall in love with the old man.
Torture Garden is a 1967 horror film made in the UK by Amicus Productions. It was directed by Freddie Francis and scripted by Robert Bloch. It stars Burgess Meredith, Jack Palance, Michael Ripper, Beverly Adams, Peter Cushing, Maurice Denham, Ursula Howells, Michael Bryant and Barbara Ewing.
It is one of producer Milton Subotsky's trademark "portmanteau" films, an omnibus of short stories linked by a single narrative.
Five people visit a fairground sideshow run by the sinister Dr. Diabolo (Meredith). Having shown them a handful of haunted-house-style attractions, he promises them a genuinely scary experience if they will pay extra. Their curiosity gets the better of them, and the small crowd follows him behind a curtain, where they each view their fate through the shears of the female deity Atropos.
In "Enoch", a greedy playboy (Bryant) takes advantage of his dying uncle (Denham), and falls under the spell of a man-eating cat. In "Terror Over Hollywood", a Hollywood starlet (Adams)...,
The Professionals is a 1966 Western movie directed by Richard Brooks. A late setting kidnap-rescue story, it has a small group of experts heading into Mexico to rescue the wife of a wealthy Texan from several hundred bandits. The professionals are Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan and Woody Strode; the bandits are led by Jack Palance; the kidnapped wife is Claudia Cardinale and her husband is played by Ralph Bellamy.
The film was written and directed by Richard Brooks, who was nominated for Academy Awards for directing and writing. The cinematography, by Conrad Hall, was nominated for an Oscar.
It was filmed partly in Death Valley and Valley of Fire showing the latter prominently.
The railroad scenes were filmed on Kaiser Steel's Eagle Mountain Railroad. The locomotive seen in the movie currently resides on the Heber Valley Railroad.
The Professionals was based on the novel A Mule for the Marquesa by Frank O'Rourke.
Contempt (French: Le Mépris) is a 1963 film directed by Jean-Luc Godard, based on the Italian novel Il disprezzo (1954) by Alberto Moravia.
American film producer Jeremy Prokosch (Jack Palance) hires respected Austrian director Fritz Lang (playing himself) to direct a film adaptation of Homer's The Odyssey. Dissatisfied with Lang's treatment of the material as an art film, Prokosch hires Paul Javal (Michel Piccoli), a novelist and playwright, to rework the script. The conflict between artistic expression and commercial opportunity parallels Paul's sudden estrangement from his wife Camille Javal (Brigitte Bardot), who is mysteriously aloof with him after being left alone with Prokosch, a millionaire playboy.
While founded on Moravia's story of the progressive estrangement between a husband and wife, Godard's version also contains deliberate parallels with aspects of his own life: while Paul, Camille, and Prokosch correspond to Odysseus, Penelope, and Posiedon, they also correspond in...,
Barabbas is a 1962 film expanding on the career of Barabbas, from the Christian Passion narrative in the Gospel of Mark and other gospels. It starred Anthony Quinn as Barabbas, with Silvana Mangano, Katy Jurado, Arthur Kennedy, Harry Andrews, Ernest Borgnine, Vittorio Gassman, and Jack Palance, and was distributed by Columbia Pictures. The film, conceived as a grand Roman epic, was based on the Nobel-Prize winning novel Barabbas (1950) by Pär Lagerkvist. A previous film version of the novel, in Swedish, had been made in 1953.The 1962 film version of Lagerkvist's novel was directed by Richard Fleischer and shot in Rome under the supervision of producer Dino De Laurentiis. It included many spectacular scenes including a battle of gladiators in a Cinecittà mock-up of the Colosseum, and a final crucifixion shot during a real eclipse of the sun. The music score, by Mario Nascimbene, contained a stark experimental component -- what the composer himself called 'new sounds', in order to...,
Austerlitz is a 1960 film directed by Abel Gance and starring Jean Marais, Rossano Brazzi, Jack Palance, Claudia Cardinale, and Elvire Popesco. Pierre Mondy portrays Napoleon in this film about his defeat of the Russians at Austerlitz considered one of his greatest victories of the Napoleonic Wars....
The Big Knife is a 1955 film noir made by The Associates & Aldrich Company and released by United Artists. It was directed and produced by Robert Aldrich from a screenplay by James Poe based on the play by Clifford Odets.The film stars Jack Palance, Ida Lupino, Wendell Corey, Jean Hagen, Rod Steiger, Shelley Winters, Ilka Chase and Everett Sloane.Jack Palance plays Charles Castle, a Hollywood A-list actor who refuses to renew his contract, enraging his studio boss, Stanley Shriner Hoff (played by Rod Steiger and reputedly based on Harry Cohn). His boss has knowledge of a very damaging secret about the star, and Hoff is willing to do anything to make the actor resign even if that means destroying his career. The film is a ruthless and poignant look at fame and the movie business.The film was nominated for the Leone d'Oro for Robert Aldrich at the Venice Film Festival and won the Silver Lion....,
Man in the Attic is a 1953 thriller film directed by Hugo Fregonese. It was released in the United States on December 23 by Twentieth Century Fox. The movie, based on the novel The Lodger by Marie Belloc Lowndes, fictionalizes the Jack the Ripper killings.The story takes place in London, 1888. On the third night of the Jack the Ripper killings, a man rents out an attic from an older couple in need of extra income. The man (Jack Palance), a research pathologist, begins working on his experiments in the rooms. Helen Harley, the landlady (Frances Bavier), becomes suspicious of the man, especially when her niece shows an interest in him....,
Shane is a 1953 western film made by Paramount Pictures. It was produced and directed by George Stevens from a screenplay by A.B. Guthrie Jr., based on the 1949 novel of the same name by Jack Schaefer. The cinematography was by Loyal Griggs, the music score by Victor Young and the costume design by Edith Head.The film stars Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur and Van Heflin with Brandon De Wilde, Elisha Cook Jr., Jack Palance and Ben Johnson.
A mysterious gunslinger named Shane (Alan Ladd) drifts into a quiet western town, and quickly finds himself drawn into a conflict between simple homesteader (sodbuster) Joe Starrett (Van Heflin) and powerful cattle baron Rufus Ryker (Emile Meyer), who wants to force him and every other homesteader in the valley off his land. Shane accepts a job as a farmhand, but finds Starrett's young son Joey (Brandon DeWilde) drawn to him for his strength and skill with a gun. Shane himself is uncomfortably drawn to Starrett's wholesomely charming wife, Marian (Jean Arthur...,
Sudden Fear is a 1952 film noir which tells the story of an actor who attempts to seduce a successful Broadway playwright in order to prove to her that he can play a romantic lead. It stars Joan Crawford, Jack Palance, Gloria Grahame, Bruce Bennett, Virginia Huston and Mike Connors.
Marlon Brando was originally offered the role of Lester Blaine (Palance's role). The film was shot in San Francisco, California.
The movie was adapted by Lenore J. Coffee and Robert Smith from the novel by Edna Sherry. It was directed by David Miller.
Sudden Fear was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Jack Palance), Best Actress in a Leading Role (Joan Crawford), Best Cinematography, Black-and-White and Best Costume Design, Black-and-White.
Writer Spencer Selby calls Sudden Fear "Undoubtedly one of the most stylish and refined woman-in-distress noirs."...,
Panic in the Streets is a black and white, 96-minute film directed by Elia Kazan and released in 1950 by 20th Century Fox. It is film noir semidocumentary shot exclusively on location in New Orleans, Louisiana and featuring numerous New Orleans citizens in speaking and non-speaking roles.
The film tells the story of Clinton Reed, an officer of the U.S. Public Health Service (played by Richard Widmark) and a police captain (Paul Douglas) who have only a day or two in which to prevent an epidemic of pneumonic plague after Reed determines a waterfront homicide victim is an index case. Co-stars include Barbara Bel Geddes (as Reed's wife Nancy), Walter Jack Palance (in his film debut) and Zero Mostel — the latter two play associates of the victim who had prompted the investigation. The film was also the debut of Tommy Rettig, who played the Reeds' son.
The film won an Academy Award for Writing (Motion Picture Story) in 1950. The script (adapted by writer Daniel Fuchs) was based on...,
Jack Palance was born


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Wal-Mart: Many of Tested Bangladesh Plants Had Safety Woes
Company Said Many of the Plants Failed Safety Audits
More than 15% of the factories in Wal-Mart Stores Inc. WMT 1.97 % 's initial round of safety inspections in Bangladesh failed their audits and had to make improvements to keep doing business with the giant retailer.
Wal-Mart said most of the three dozen factories were able to correct the problems or are in the process of doing so. One seven-story factory, for example, had to knock down an illegally built eighth floor, the retailer said.
The company stopped doing business with two factories that failed the safety audits and couldn't sufficiently fix the problems discovered. One factory had to be closed completely.
Wal-Mart will release the results of 75 inspections on its website and add others as they are completed, a step no other major Western retailer has taken. The company currently does business with more than 200 factories in Bangladesh, and has pledged to inspect all of them. It previously said it would begin posting results of the inspections by last June.
Wal-Mart is making the moves to get a handle on its supply chain in the wake of deadly disasters at factories that did work for the company and other retailers. The company, based in Bentonville, Ark., is among the largest buyers of apparel made in Bangladesh, and its relentless focus on cost has made it a target for critics of working conditions in the impoverished nation.
In the past the retailer hadn't regularly named the factories from which it buys clothing. But an April building collapse that killed more than 1,100 Bangladesh garment workers and deadly fires at other facilities focused international attention on the way Western retailers obtain cheap clothing.
"We've spent $4 million on these audits, and we're not done yet," Jay Jorgensen, Wal-Mart's global chief compliance officer, said in an interview. "There's a lot of progress left to be made."
During an October safety audit at Epic Garments Manufacturing Co., a factory near Dhaka, engineers hired by Wal-Mart checked on new red fire doors and outside staircases that had been installed to make evacuation easier in case of a fire and to prevent flames from spreading from stock rooms to factory floors.
"Fireproof doors and materials weren't even available in Bangladesh," Epic Group Chief Executive Ranjan Mahtani said in an October interview at his plant "We had to fly them in from abroad and teach local manufacturers how to make them." He said he had already spent $300,000 on safety improvements to meet standards set by Wal-Mart and other Western retailers.
The published audits won't offer specific findings about conditions at the factories, such as whether there are too few exits or if a building's columns are capable of bearing the weight of the structure. Rather, they will give a general risk assessment based on a letter grade that ranges from A through D.
Wal-Mart said it would stop production at factories that receive a D rating, though the factories have a chance to correct the problems and go through another assessment.
Critics say the disclosures don't provide enough information to workers and others who want to keep tabs on factory improvements.
"I am struck by how little real information they are providing," said Scott Nova, executive director of the Worker Rights Consortium, a Washington labor-monitoring group. "They offer no specifics whatsoever as to the dangers workers face in these factories, all we get is a scoring system that is largely opaque."
Wal-Mart said the letter-grade system aims to help give people an easily understandable overview of the safety situation in a given factory.
Jan Saumweber, Wal-Mart's head of ethical sourcing, said she plans to increase her staff by 40% this year and add a team of 10 engineers to the company's Bangladesh sourcing office to regularly inspect factories. Ms. Saumweber took over the ethical sourcing job in September when Rajan Kamalanathan stepped down after a decade-long tenure at Wal-Mart.
Wal-Mart said it will also start to incorporate safety standards into merchants' incentive-based compensation and train buyers to take safety into account when placing orders with factories.
"These are big changes, and the company takes this very seriously," Ms. Saumweber said.
Wal-Mart has said it would put up $50 million in low-interest loans to help factories make building improvements. No factories have tapped the financing offer so far, the company said.
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More than 15% of factories in Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s initial round of safety inspections in Bangladesh failed their audits and had to make improvements to keep doing business with the giant retailer. An earlier version of this article said nearly half the factories had failed.


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Former Lehigh University linebacker Tom McGeoy was unanimously approved as the new Pottsville Area High School head football coach on Wednesday night, according to the Republican Herald.
McGeoy, 30, is a 2000 Pottsville graduate who played football and basketball at the school before playing football for the Mountain Hawks from 2000-03.
The geography and American history teacher at the D.H.H. Lengel Middle School was a 2010 inductee into the Pottsville Area High School All-Sports Hall of Fame.
McGeoy was an assistant football coach under Kevin Keating, who he replaces, for the past eight seasons and has served as the JV boys' basketball coach at Pottsville under Dave Mullaney for the past six seasons, according to the article.
The Crimson Tide went 2-8 in 2012 after qualifying for the postseason in each of the last eight seasons.


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Some actors polish their skills in class, others onstage, but Rebecca Miller's training ground was the 350-acre Connecticut farm where she grew up. When her father, playwright Arthur (Death of a Salesman) Miller, and her mother, photographer Inge Morath, were busy, their only child would make herself weird headdresses, go into the woods and tell herself stories. Or she would corral friends to put on a Chekhov or a Giraudoux play, with sets and costumes, in the barn. "My father thought I was a bit of an eccentric," says Miller, 25. "But because I worked very hard, it was fine with him."
This week she makes her TV acting debut in the NBC miniseries The Murder of Mary Phagan, which tells the true story of Leo Frank, a Jewish factory manager in Atlanta and victim of anti-Semitism who was convicted of murder in 1913. Peter Gallagher, who plays Frank, was instantly charmed by newcomer Miller in the role of Frank's loyal wife. "She was a little anxious at times," he says, "but it was always about the substance of the scene, rather than 'How can I look best?' "
Similarly impressed when he met Miller at an audition last fall, director Peter Brook cast her as Anya in his highly touted production of Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, now in a three-month run at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Considering that this was Miller's first stage role since a high school production of her father's play The Crucible, she does seem to inspire an unusual amount of confidence. About a year ago top theatrical agent Sam Cohn met Miller at dinner with her parents and persuaded her to try acting. "As a painter, I had been a hermit, and I thought it was time for a different kind of life," says Miller, who won her TV role at her second audition.
One of Rebecca's greatest challenges as an actress has been stepping out of her 72-year-old father's long shadow. Miller was married to Marilyn Monroe before he wed Morath, 64, his third wife, in 1962. Talk of MM leaves Rebecca visibly annoyed. "The subject of Marilyn Monroe does not interest me," she says. Rebecca continues, "People want to think that my father could pick up the phone and get me a job. He wouldn't do it if you had him hanging by his toenails."
Even if Arthur did want to meddle, chances are his daughter wouldn't allow it. "Someone asked me if I thought she should become an actress," Rebecca's father recalls. "And I said, 'It's about 20 years too late to answer.' She's always been very independent." In any case, he does approve: "Apparently she has a terrific sense of where the truth lies in a scene. And she looks marvelous. That doesn't hurt either."
Rebecca credits her mother for training her to be at ease before a camera. "It was as if her nose were a lens," Rebecca says. "It felt natural to pose for her." In fact Rebecca was more comfortable with her parents than with other children. They encouraged her artistic bent.
She studied painting at Yale, graduating in 1984 and later winning a four-month visiting artist fellowship from the Munich Ministry of Culture. She spent the next three years creating odd-shaped oil paintings and altarlike cabinets that house video screens showing rhythmic film clips. "I'm fascinated by dream images," says Miller, who will open a one-woman show in August at a Connecticut gallery. "Sometimes the images are difficult to decipher, but the texture, color and movement make them compelling."
In the shabby Manhattan hotel room where she lives, Rebecca looks more like an art student than an actress. She wears paint-spattered duck boots, sweatpants, a baggy mohair sweater and no makeup. Having ended a five-year relationship with a musician last fall, Miller keeps to herself except for occasional visits with other artists or Yale friends. "When I come home from work, I need to have thinking time," she says, though she doesn't plan on a lifetime alone. "I want to have a brood, but not right now."
One of the subjects Miller ponders during her solitary nights is whether or not she will continue with her acting. "I think primarily she wants to be a painter and will stick with it," says her dad. His daughter concurs. "It's not as though I'm making a career out of acting," says Rebecca, who clearly finds self-sufficiency more of a lure than fame. "My parents taught me that success in terms of other people's opinions of you is a fickle thing. My tiny little successes—I welcome them. But I don't give them too much weight. Tomorrow they could be gone."
Her TV and Stage Debuts Lead Arthur Miller's Daughter Rebecca to Trade Oils for Greasepaint
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•originally published 02/01/1988 AT 01:00 AM EST