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Best Sports Movies Ever
The winners cover baseball, football, basketball, bicycling, hockey, boxing, wrestling and mixed martial arts. Yes, a lot of punches are thrown.
Good movies click when the conflict is convincing, and nothing draws out conflict like competitive sports.
There have been hundreds of sports movies made, and picking the best ones was a challenge. The choices here include films that focus on baseball, football, basketball, bicycling, hockey, boxing, professional wrestling and mixed martial arts. Yes, a lot of punches are thrown.
Whether the teams or individuals are professionals or amateurs, all these films feature some version of a story that includes an underdog, redemption or reaping the benefits of long hours training, practicing and perfecting a craft. You may have your own picks for sports flicks that deserve top billing, but you'll be hard-pressed to disagree with the movies listed (alphabetically) here.
The title of the film is the uniform number worn by Jackie Robinson, the African-American baseball player who broke Major League Baseball's color barrier in 1947 by playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Robinson (Chadwick Boseman) is signed by Branch Rickey (Harrison Ford) and has to deal with racism and degradation from fans as well as his own teammates.
The film authentically depicts Robinson's daily struggle with keeping his temper in check while he dealt with the small-mindedness of hecklers all over the country. Robinson rose above the situation, of course, and it's fitting that today his jersey number has been retired by every team in the league.
A professional baseball league for women? It became a reality in 1943 when World War II threatened to shut down Major League Baseball.
Many thought the idea was a joke, including Tom Hanks' movie character Jimmy Dugan, a former MLB star who's convinced to manage the Rockford Peaches. The pitcher-catcher combination for the Peaches are sibling rivals played with palpable angst by Geena Davis and Lori Petty.
Madonna turns in her best-ever screen appearance as outfielder "All the Way" Mae Mordabito, palling around with chum Doris Murphy (Rosie O'Donnell).
Hanks gives us one of sports moviedom's all-time one-liners as he reprimands his right fielder for making a bad throw while she tears up: "There's no crying in baseball!"
Bang the Drum Slowly (1973)
This baseball movie and another 1973 film release, "Mean Streets," launched the career of Robert De Niro.
He plays dimwitted catcher Bruce Pearson on a (fictional) team with his best friend and batterymate Henry Wiggen (Michael Moriarity). Henry is a star. Bruce kinda sucks.
But we learn that Bruce is terminally ill with Hodgkin's disease. Henry makes a deal with team management — he'll sign a new contract as long as the deal also includes Bruce.
Nobody knows why Henry would make such a deal, but when the truth comes out, it rallies the team, even as Bruce sinks deeper into the clutches of Hodgkin's.
Bend It Like Beckham (2002)
The title refers to British soccer (football) superstar David Beckham and his ability to curl the ball into the back of a net.
He makes a cameo at the end of the film, but the story centers on 18-year-old Jess Bhamra (Parminder Nagra) a British-Indian daughter of strict parents who forbid her from playing the sport. She joins a team behind their backs.
Egged on by her teammate (Keira Knightley) and coach (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) Jess plays well enough to earn a scholarship to an American university. Jess' conservative parents are faced with dual dilemmas — giving their blessing to letting a female play sports and having her face a racially charged situation that once stymied her cricket-playing father.
Breaking Away (1979)
An Oscar winner for Best Original Screenplay, the coming-of-age story of four Indiana 19-year-olds brings bicycle racing into the fold of best sports movies.
Based on a true story, a climactic competition unfolds in the "Little 500" four-man bike relay race as talented underdog Dave Stoller (Dennis Christopher) takes on all the other teams by himself. Then there's a crash, and he has to yield to teammates who slowly lose the lead Dave had built.
Injured, Dave decides to get back in the race by taping his feet to the pedals of his bike. "Breaking Away" pits Dave's working-class Cutters team versus the frat boys of Indiana University. Rent it on Amazon to see who wins.
Brian's Song (1971)
There's so much to unpeel here.
First, the Emmy-winning original first aired as an ABC Movie of the Week, and totally outshines the 2001 big-screen remake.
It's a story of an unlikely interracial friendship between pro football players Gale Sayers (Billy Dee Williams) and Brian Piccolo (James Caan). After joining the Chicago Bears, Piccolo is stricken with terminal cancer and dies at the young age of 26.
Even if you watch this movie with your hard-as-nails father or the guys from your flag football team, have a box of tissues handy. It's one of the top all-time "guy-cry" movies ever made.
Bull Durham (1988)
Kevin Costner has acted in five baseball-themed movies, two of which made this list. "Bull Durham" is the silver screen's most accurate portrayal of baseball's minor leagues.
Costner plays "Crash" Davis, a veteran catcher who's brought in to the Durham Bulls to prepare talented space case "Nuke" LaLoosh (Tim Robbins) for the big leagues. A love triangle develops between Davis, LaLoosh and team groupie Annie Savoy (Susan Sarandon, who met her future and now ex-hubby Robbins on the set).
Memorable on-field scenes include: Davis telling a batter what LaLoosh is about to throw to teach the pitcher a lesson in listening to his catcher and an oddball pitcher's mound meeting where half the team discusses cursed gloves, wedding gifts and a host of non-baseball-related topics.
Who'd expect a sports movie to star comedians Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, Ted Knight and Bill Murray? Directed by Harold Ramis, "Caddyshack" is an irreverent look at the world of country club golf.
There's a young caddie (Michael O'Keefe), who tries to secure a scholarship by sucking up to a judge (Knight), who's a stuffy regular at Bushwood Country Club.
Meanwhile, an unhinged groundskeeper (Murray) wages a war on a gopher infestation.
The climactic ending features a doubles golf match with big money, reputations and college education on the line. Just when you think the good guys aren't going to win, fate — and a series of explosions set off by Murray's character — steps in.
Field of Dreams (1989)
The year after Kevin Costner made "Bull Durham," he starred in "Field of Dreams," an adaption of the W.P. Kinsella book "Shoeless Joe."
Costner plays Ray Kinsella, an Iowa farmer who hears a voice that whispers "if you build it, he will come." That leads him to plow under part of his corn field and build a baseball diamond. His neighbors think he's crazy. Then his unorthodox field is visited by deceased major league baseball players, beginning with "Shoeless" Joe Jackson (Ray Liotta).
It's a lot of fun to have dead baseball players in your corn field, but meanwhile, the bank is ready to foreclose. Things get heady when Ray's dead father appears at the field, and the whispering voice turns out to be prophetic — people from all over begin to flock to Ray's Field of Dreams (which is a real-life tourist attraction in Dyersville, Iowa).
For Love of the Game (1999)
A die-hard sports fan might find a little too much soap opera here. But there is genuine insight into pitching a major league baseball game through Kevin Costner's portrayal of Billy Chapel.
Costner is on the mound for the Detroit Tigers, closing out a losing season but on the brink of hurling a perfect game against the New York Yankees.
The movie flashes back and forth between Costner clearing his mind to get batters out and his love affair with Jane Aubrey (Kelly Preston).
The authenticity of the game situation is supported by the play-by-play calling of iconic former Los Angeles Dodgers announcer Vin Scully.
Goon (2011)
You probably didn't see this one in a theater, but "Goon" became a cult classic after showing up on Netflix. (Streaming success helped launch a sequel, "Goon: Last of the Enforcers." Don't bother.)
The original movie stars Seann William Scott as Doug Glatt, a kindly but dimwitted bar bouncer who goes to a hockey game and winds up beating up one of the players. His fighting skills land him a job on the team as a "goon" — the guy whose primary job is to hurl fisticuffs. Doug "The Thug" is tasked with protecting the team's leading scorer from veteran enforcer Ross "The Boss" Rhea (Liev Schreiber).
There's real heart in this surprisingly moving story, albeit a lot of blood and broken bones. Yep, in the end, it all comes down to an on-ice, bare-knuckled brawl between The Thug and The Boss.
Hoosiers (1986)
Loosely based on the Milan High School basketball team that won the 1954 state championship, "Hoosiers" chronicles the season of a small-town Indiana team.
New coach Norman Dale (Gene Hackman) is a disciplinarian who comes with a checkered past. The town of Hickory is insane about its hoops squad — which only has seven players. Dale's rules are too tough for the townspeople, who were used to being given voice in how the team was managed. But Dale asserts command, and the underdog team winds up in the state finals.
Best scene: The team arrives wide-eyed and overwhelmed for its first practice for the final in the huge, big-city gym. Dale directs one of his players to measure the height of the rim. "Ten feet," the player reports. Replies Dale: "Ten feet … the exact same measurement as our gym back in Hickory."
I, Tonya (2017)
Life was anything but smooth sailing for Olympic figure skater Tonya Harding. Margot Robbie shines playing the hardscrabble athlete. Allison Janney won an Oscar for playing Harding's mother, LaVona Golden.
The film portrays Harding as misunderstood by the public — in part because she came from the wrong side of the tracks and was more of an athletic skater than an artistic, feminine one.
The real-life Harding was found guilty by association of an attack on her rink rival Nancy Kerrigan.
The film doesn't sugarcoat that part of the story but does suggest that she wasn't the mastermind by any means, and certainly suffered from the situation.
Jerry McGuire (1996)
Tom Cruise plays the title role, which was inspired by the career of real-life sports agent Leigh Steinberg. In this romantic comedy-drama-sports hybrid, Jerry has an epiphany about the dishonesty in sports management and quits his big agency.
He starts over with a secretary (Renee Zellweger), who joins him in a startup company with one client, a wide receiver for the Arizona Cardinals played by Cuba Gooding Jr.
The movie sent many a memorable one-liners into the popular lexicon, including the weepy, "You had me at hello," the cute and funny, "Did you know the human head weighs eight pounds?" and the oft-shouted, "Show me the money!"
Clint Eastwood was the star, producer and director of this saga about a female boxer hoping to turn professional.
Maggie Fitzgerald (Hilary Swank) shows up in Frankie Dunn's gym (Morgan Freeman works there, too) and sets about to impress everybody with her work ethic. Frankie is reluctant, but Maggie is a natural, and she begins winning most of her fights by knockout. Then comes the $1 million title fight with the WBA women's welterweight champ.
The champ lands an illegal sucker punch that causes Maggie to land on her corner stool in a way that breaks her neck. With her career over, the ending revolves around Maggie's desire to have Frankie put out of her misery. Oh, baby.
"Million Dollar Baby" won four Academy Awards, including best picture, best actor, best actress and best supporting actor.
No No: A Dockumentary (2014)
Dock Ellis was a flashy and colorful Major League Baseball pitcher who had a prolific career, but he also was addicted to alcohol and methamphetamines. He claimed to throw a no-hitter for the Pittsburgh Pirates while under the influence of LSD.
Outspoken about what he considered the second-class treatment of black athletes, Ellis was at the front of the 1970s civil rights movements. Some called him the Muhammad Ali of baseball.
After retiring from the game, he spent the last decade of his life using his blunt honesty as a counselor for others living with addictions.
North Dallas Forty (1979)
Professional football was a different game in the late 1960s, but the behind-the scenes-decadence hasn't changed all that much in 50 years.
"North Dallas Forty" focuses on the friendship between wide receiver Phil Elliott (Nick Nolte) and quarterback Seth Maxwell (country singer Mac Davis, in his first movie role). Elliott is nearing the end of has playing career and manages to make it from game to game with help from immense amounts of painkillers (no, there wasn't a concussion protocol back then). Nolte has an affair with the owner's fiancé, and team management turns the law onto his drug issues.
The movie is based on a semi-autobiographical novel by former Dallas Cowboys receiver Peter Gent.
Raging Bull (1980)
Shot in black and white and directed by Martin Scorsese, "Raging Bull" is the adaptation of middleweight boxing champ Jake LaMotta's memoir.
Robert De Niro gained 60 pounds to play the lead in this story of a man whose obsessive rage, jealousy and self-destructive tendencies wrecked his personal life and alienated his wife and family.
LaMotta's brother was played by Joe Pesci, a widely unknown actor at the time.
De Niro won a Best Actor Oscar for the portrayal, and Scorsese won Best Director.
The movie was added to the National Film Registry in its first year of eligibility.
Remember the Titans (2000)
Everybody wondering how races in America can live together with common respect should set aside 113 minutes to watch "Remember the Titans."
The movie depicts the fortunes of a desegregated Virginia high school football team, whose administration chooses black coach Herman Boone (Denzel Washington) to run the team. The white players won't participate unless white coach Bill Yoast is named as the top assistant. There's racial disharmony in training camp and into the beginning of the season.
While nobody's completely colorblind on the team or in the town, the Titans advance to the state championship through teamwork, commitment and friendship. Worth remembering.
Before it spawned six sequels, there was the raw, charming, rags-to-riches original story of a working-class boxer from the Philadelphia slums.
Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone, who starred in and wrote the movie) is a club fighter who's not the brightest bulb and works as a debt collector for a loan shark. He's discovered by the champ, Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers), and gets a last-minute shot at a heavyweight boxing title fight. The Italian Stallion has heart. He can't be put down in the ring and has a seemingly unlimited ability to absorb punches.
Kudos to Stallone's storyline, which doesn't exactly include a Hollywood ending. Winner of the Oscar for Best Picture, Rocky was made for $1 million and earned $225 million in global box office receipts.
Reggie Dunlop (Paul Newman) is the player/coach of a small-town minor league hockey team with lagging attendance. When he discovers the team is about to be disbanded, he resorts to a tactic of violent and thuggish play to draw and excite fans.
The approach is enthusiastically adopted by the team, especially a trio of recent acquisitions, the bespectacled and constantly brawling Hanson brothers.
The Charleston Chiefs make it to the finals, but Dunlop has a change of heart and wants to win the game clean, with "old-time hockey!" But the opposing team has another strategy in mind and beats the tar out of the Chiefs in the first period. This prompts a wild ending that amusingly calls into question the double standard to which violence is held in hockey.
The Bad News Bears (1976)
Little League baseball gets turned on its head when beer-swilling pool cleaner Morris Buttermaker (Walter Matthau) is paid to manage a team of misfits.
The awkward and foul-mouthed youngsters are the outcasts not picked to play on other teams. They can't win a game or barely score a run until Buttermaker recruits two other players.
His daughter Amanda (Tatum O'Neal) is an ace pitcher. Kelly Leak (Jackie Earle Haley) is a local hooligan who hits home runs and seals up the defense.
Suffice it to say, the team gets better and makes it to the championship game, but the celebratory scene afterward is a far cry from a typical Hollywood ending.
Mark Wahlberg got into tiptop physical shape to play Mickey Ward, a tough-nosed boxer from Massachusetts whose career isn't exactly aided by an offbeat and cantankerous family.
Mickey's brother Dickey (Christian Bale) is a former fighter of minimal acclaim who's become addicted to crack.
Their mother (Melissa Leo) makes a deal for Mickey to fight on an undercard against a boxer 20 pounds heavier, and Mickey proceeds to get his butt kicked.
Nonetheless, Mickey gets a shot at a welterweight title belt, and the family manages to come together to support the effort.
The Karate Kid (1984)
Daniel LaRusso (Ralph Macchio) is picked on by the neighborhood bullies until he's befriended by Mr. Miyagi (Pat Morita), who teaches him to defend himself with karate. This leads to the big All-Valley Karate Championships with Daniel and the Cobra Kai team's biggest bad guy, Johnny, in the final match.
Daniel's knee is injured via an unethical move by Johnny, but Daniel recalls Mr. Miyagi's "Crane" stance and utilizes it to defend himself against his nemesis.
Despite being utterly predictable, the film works thanks to an on-screen sincerity mastered by Macchio and Morita. Far too many sequels sprung up in theaters and on television, but the original still holds up.
Don't be misled to believe this movie originated in 2005 — that was a remade piece of schlock starring Adam Sandler. No, no, no. The original classic starred Burt Reynolds as Paul Crewe, a former NFL quarterback who is sent to jail and cajoled into starting a team made up of prisoners.
The Mean Machine prison squad plays the guards to a standoff at halftime, when the prison warden threatens Crewe with a longer sentence unless he throws the game. A conflicted Crewe agrees, but gets riled when the warden backs out of his promise to make sure none of the prisoners gets hurt in the game. He goes back in and sparks a rally that brings them to the brink of victory on the one-yard-line with seconds left.
Personal redemption versus being on the bad side of the warden. Which would you choose?
Roy Hobbes (Robert Redford) is a mysterious, 35-year-old "rookie" saddled onto the midseason roster of the New York Knights.
Finally given a chance to play, and using a special "Wonderboy" bat, he literally knocks the cover off the ball and leads the Knights out of the cellar.
We eventually find out that a 19-year-old Hobbes had been shot by a sports groupie and dropped out of sight for 15 years.
Against the backdrop of a dishonest owner trying to throw games, Hobbes rediscovers his childhood sweetheart (Glen Close) and a son he never knew he had.
With the season on the line and down to his last strike, even with a serious stomach wound bleeding through his jersey, Hobbes manages to smash a ball into the stadium lighting system, thus winning the pennant.
The Pride of the Yankees (1942)
Subtitled "The Life of Lou Gehrig," this film starring legendary Gary Cooper is an homage to a stoic, much-loved sports figure whose premature death from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (later dubbed Lou Gehrig's disease) affect hometown fans in New York and all over the country.
Gehrig played first base for the Yankees — and for decades his record 2,130 consecutive games played was the benchmark for longevity, earning him the nickname Iron Horse.
Real-life teammates Babe Ruth, Bob Meusel, Mark Koenig and Bill Dickey play themselves.
The climactic moment is Gehrig's 1939 fan farewell speech, where he declares, "Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth."
The movie is based on the true story of Jim Morris (Dennis Quaid), a 35-year-old high school baseball coach who discovers he still has the arm strength to be a pitcher in the major leagues. An injury had ended his fledgling career in the minors years ago.
As life moved on, Morris got married, started a family and took on a coaching role in Big Lake, Texas. His players noticed that Morris could still throw a heater, and they encouraged him to try out for the bigs.
He made a deal: win the district championship and he'd give it a go. To his surprise, Morris was signed to a deal with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays.
In real life, he appeared in 20 games before his arm injury recurred.
The Wrestler (2008)
Randy "The Ram" Robinson (Mickey Rourke) is a past-his-prime professional wrestler whose star has waned but can't give up the "sport." Old age and steroid use lead to a heart attack and The Ram is forced to leave the limelight. He struggles to re-engage with his estranged daughter, but is beckoned back to the ring for an anniversary rematch with an old opponent.
Despite having a stripper with a heart of gold (Marisa Tomei) as a girlfriend, life outside the ring's not working out well. Heart condition and all, The Ram takes the match. During the bout, the chest pain returns, and he's got to decide whether to bow out or finish with his climactic diving head-butt called the Ram Jam.
In tears, he salutes and makes his decision.
Warrior (2011)
Watching this action-filled movie in a theater is like participating in full-contact combat.
Two estranged brothers find themselves in a high-stakes mixed martial arts tournament and wind up pitted against each other in the final. U.S. Marine Tommy Riordan (Tom Hardy) is a stone-cold assassin in the ring. Older brother Brendan (Joel Edgerton) is a high school physics teacher with mortgage problems.
Their divisive, alcoholic father (Nick Nolte) resurfaces, and everybody tries to reconcile their personal differences — though it's hard to reconcile anything while you're trying to beat somebody's brains in.
Seriously, you'll lose two pounds sweating out the conclusion to this heart-pounding film.


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Foundry Networks, Inc. was a networking hardware vendor selling high-end Ethernet switches and routers. The company was acquired by Brocade Communications Systems on December 18, 2008.

History

The company was founded in 1996 by Bobby R. Johnson, Jr. and was headquartered in Santa Clara, California, United States. In its first year the company operated under the names Perennium Networks and StarRidge Networks, but by January 1997 the name Foundry Networks was adopted. Foundry Networks had their initial public offering in 1999, during the Internet bubble, with the company reaching a valuation of $9 billion on its first day of trading on NASDAQ with the symbol FDRY.

Foundry Networks designed, manufactured and sold high-end enterprise and service provider switches and routers, as well as wireless, security, and traffic management solutions. It was best known for its Layer 2 & 3 Ethernet switches.  Foundry Networks was the first company to build and ship a gigabit Ethernet switch in 1997; to build a Layer 3 switch, also in 1997; to build the first Layer 4-7 switch in 1998 and to include 10 Gigabit Ethernet single connectors in its boxes (since 2001).

Foundry Networks early product lines consisted of the Workgroup, Backbone, and ServerIron products. The TurboIron all GigE switch and then router models were later introduced. Foundry Networks' later product lines consisted of the BigIron, EdgeIron, FastIron, IronPoint, NetIron, SecureIron, and ServerIron. After the early BigIron modular chassis, the Mucho Grande (MG) series chassis were introduced. Later the RX series in 4, 8, 16, and 32 slot versions. The largest and final product, the XMR was a full rack sized switch/router. Their software products included IronView and ServerIron TrafficWorks.

According to a Dell'Oro report published in 1Q2006, Foundry Networks ranked number 4 in a total market share of over US$3,659 million, and its ServerIron application switch ranked first for total port shipments.

Acquisition
On July 21, 2008, Foundry management agreed to allow the company to be acquired by storage networking company Brocade Communications Systems for approximately $3 billion in cash and stock. On November 7, they agreed to a reduced purchase price of roughly $2.6 billion in an all-cash transaction when Brocade was unable to come up with a $400M tranche of financing required to complete the original deal. A meeting was scheduled for December 17, 2008, where shareholders approved the amended agreement.

The acquisition was completed on December 18, 2008.

Qatalyst Partners advised Brocade on financial matters, and Cooley Godward Kronish LLP was Brocade's legal adviser.

Brocade sold Foundry's FastIron Campus portfolio to Arris(Ruckus Networks) and SRA portfolio to Extreme Networks in 2017.

See also

 3Com
 Brocade Communications Systems
 Cisco
 Extreme Networks
 HP ProCurve
 Ruckus Networks
 Nortel

References

External links

 Article on Foundry Networks' market position
 Dell Oro Group take on Foundry and Brocade merger

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Networking hardware companies
Technology companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area
Companies based in Santa Clara, California
Electronics companies established in 1987
Technology companies established in 1987
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Locking Down the Bathrooms
Devious licks making an appearance on West High's campus…
Ashlyn Balanon, Opinion Editor
It seems like there's always some trend that's got us in a chokehold, and the devious licks trend is the most recent one. It's caused so much uproar that it's even got administration turning heads; so much that they're locking up the bathrooms. But is all this really that necessary?
Recently, all the bathrooms excluding the ones in the cafeteria and the G building are being locked throughout the school day due to the devious licks, and many West High students have reacted differently to it.
When asked if they believed if the bathrooms being locked was reasonable consequence for the devious licks, the answers varied. One of our Sophomore students believed it was unnecessary saying, "The whole point of the thing wasn't steeling the soap it was just anything someone could get their hands on, so the fact that they had to close the bathrooms it just doesn't make sense because not everyone is doing it."
In contrast to this another sophomore, Sadol Osario, believes that locking the bathrooms is the right course of action. "If we didn't lock all the bathrooms, we wouldn't have anything in the bathrooms." He later adds on "We have no more soap dispensers, we're missing a door now and they're taking parts from the sink, too."
Now each student witnessed a different degree of severity with this trend. Another male junior says, "I've seen small things like whiteboard erasers or teachers pens and such. I haven't noticed anything too big missing."
In the girl's bathroom, missing items haven't been a huge problem. A senior told me "There's writing on the mirrors and wet toilet paper thrown on the ceiling but that's it." Further, a sophomore adds, "I think the only thing I saw was like the soap out, but that not even a rare occurrence because sometimes the soap is out because they need to replace it. So, you can't really tell if people are really doing devious licks; it's just that people are talking about it."
Despite the difference in extremity of the trend that each person witnessed, they were all affected by the lockdowns in a negative way. A sophomore student voices her frustration saying, "It takes out my whole lunch time. I literally cannot eat because I'm waiting in a line for a bathroom with three stalls."
Similarly, another student says, "I would use the bathrooms during lunch time and even if I try to go early during lunch, there's a lot of people."
A junior at West High says the situation hasn't been all that bad for him as using the school restrooms isn't something he does too often but when he does "It's locked, and I've had to walk to practically the other side of campus."
Aside from new lunch lines and inconveniences another problem has risen, it's cutting into class time. Osario demonstrates this saying, "I have to walk halfway across campus if I want to use the bathroom during class, which sucks because it makes me miss class, and I don't have as much time to do my work."
Now no action is taken by the district without reason. When asked whether the bathrooms being locked was a direct consequence of the trend, principal Annabelle Lee said "Yes it was, we had multiple bathrooms being vandalized. There was soap and paper towel dispensers torn off the wall, a ton of vandalism with red Kool-Aid." She adds, "With the girls, it was more of the writing and the messiness. The clogged the toilets and there was Kool-Aid."
Now any promotion is stressful enough, especially when this promotion is being the principal of a public high school. On top of this Lee, had a troublesome trend shaking things up. When asked about how the trend has impacted the day-to-day routine of being a principal, Lee responded "It's just another facet of the job because usually facilities like the buildings and the maintenance of the buildings run pretty well, so when this trend comes it's like 'Okay now we have to use the manpower. How are we going to ask the teachers to monitor the bathrooms?' Now we're at a point where we would hope that the students could take care of our school, that's my goal. This is our school, it's not just my school it's ours, teachers, staff and students." She then added on "How can I help build that culture of this is ours not just mine."
If Lee could reach out to the student body about this trend she'd say, "Start another trend destroying school property is not a positive trend. Let's do things that help each other, our school and make students want to be here. I want students to want to be here, and it's not everyone who's doing so it's sad for those who have to suffer the consequences of it. So, to our student body take care of each other and our school."
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Q: Rails - how to set default values in a model for quantity I'm trying to allow a User to book events for more than one space at a time, so if one space at an event costs £10 and a User wants to book four spaces then they would need to pay £40.
I've implemented a method in my Booking model to cater for this -
Booking.rb
class Booking < ActiveRecord::Base

    belongs_to :event
    belongs_to :user

    def reserve
    # Don't process this booking if it isn't valid
    return unless valid?

    # We can always set this, even for free events because their price will be 0.
    self.total_amount = quantity * event.price_pennies

    # Free events don't need to do anything special
    if event.is_free?
      save

    # Paid events should charge the customer's card
    else
      begin
        charge = Stripe::Charge.create(amount: total_amount, currency: "gbp", card: @booking.stripe_token, description: "Booking number #{@booking.id}", items: [{quantity: @booking.quantity}])
        self.stripe_charge_id = charge.id
        save
      rescue Stripe::CardError => e
        errors.add(:base, e.message)
        false
      end
     end
  end
end

When I try to process a booking I get the following error -
NoMethodError in BookingsController#create
  undefined method `*' for nil:NilClass
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self.total_amount = quantity * event.price_pennies

I need to check/make sure that quantity returns a value of 1 or more and event.price_pennies returns 0 if it is a free event and greater than 0 if it is a paid event. How do I do this?
I did not set any default values for quantity in my migrations. My schema.rb file shows this for price_pennies -
 t.integer  "price_pennies",      default: 0,     null: false

This is whats in my controller for create -
bookings_controller.rb
def create
# actually process the booking
@event = Event.find(params[:event_id])
@booking = @event.bookings.new(booking_params)
@booking.user = current_user

    if @booking.reserve
        flash[:success] = "Your place on our event has been booked"
        redirect_to event_path(@event)
    else
        flash[:error] = "Booking unsuccessful"
        render "new"
    end
end

So, do I need a method in my booking model to rectify this or should I do a validation for quantity and a before_save callback for event?
I'm not quite sure how to do this so any assistance would be appreciated.

A: Just cast to integer, in this case you seem to be done:
self.total_amount = quantity.to_i * event.price_pennies.to_i

A: Migrations are used to modify the structure of you DB and not the data.
In your case I think you need to seed the DB with default values, and for that purpose you use 'db/seeds.rb' file which is invoked once every time your application is deployed.
You would do something like this in seeds.rb
Booking.find_or_create_by_name('my_booking', quantity:1)

So when the application is deployed the above line of code is executed. If 'my_booking' exists in the table then nothing happens, else it will create a new record with name='my_booking' and quantity=1.
In your localhost you'll execute 'rake db:seed' to seed the DB.

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Q: Infinite sets' partition. And their cardinality. What has to be proven is:
If $\mathit X$ is any infinite set, then there exists two disjoint subsets $\mathit Y$ and $\mathit Z$ of $\mathit X$ such that$|\mathit X|$=$|\mathit Y|$=$|\mathit Z|$ and $\mathit X$=$\mathit Y \cup\mathit Z$.
I have used contrapositive to successfully proved the existence of A to be subset of an infinite set X such that A and its complement set A$^c$ on X to be both infinite, which is $\bf {if}$ for all subset of X, say A, A or its complement A$^c$ are finite, $\bf then$ X is finite.
It suffices to prove that there exists A such that cardinality of A and A$^c$ to be same. Since by cardinal arithmetic, |X|=|A$\cup$A$^c$|=|A|+|A$^c$|=big one in {A,A$^c$}. If I proved the existence of such an A, then it follows that |A|+|A$^c$|=|A|=|A$^c$|,which indicates |A|=|A$^c$|=|X|, then proof can be finished. However, I have no idea how to prove the existence of these two sets whose cardinality are the same. Could someone give me a hint?

A: So suppose that $\varphi : X \times X \mapsto X$ is a bijection. Take $a \in X$. Then $Y=\varphi[X \times \{a\}]$ and $Z=\varphi[X \times (X \setminus \{a\})]$ answer your question.


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NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS ET AL. v. FINLEY ET AL - 524 U.S. 569
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS ET AL. v. FINLEY ET AL.
CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
No.97-371. Argued March 31, 1998-Decided June 25,1998
The National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 vests the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) with substantial discretion to award financial grants to support the arts; it identifies only the broadest funding priorities, including "artistic and cultural significance, giving emphasis to ... creativity and cultural diversity," "professional excellence," and the encouragement of "public ... education ... and appreciation of the arts." See 20 U. S. C. §§ 954(c)(1)-(10). Applications for NEA funding are initially reviewed by advisory panels of experts in the relevant artistic field. The panels report to the National Council on the Arts (Council), which, in turn, advises the NEA Chairperson. In 1989, controversial photographs that appeared in two NEA-funded exhibits prompted public outcry over the agency's grant-making procedures. Congress reacted to the controversy by inserting an amendment into the NEA's 1990 reauthorization bill. The amendment became § 954(d)(1), which directs the Chairperson to ensure that "artistic excellence and artistic merit are the criteria by which [grant] applications are judged, taking into consideration general standards of decency and respect for the diverse beliefs and values of the American public." The NEA has not promulgated an official interpretation of the provision, but the Council adopted a resolution to implement § 954(d)(1) by ensuring that advisory panel members represent geographic, ethnic, and esthetic diversity. The four individual respondents are performance artists who applied for NEA grants before § 954(d)(1) was enacted. An advisory panel recommended approval of each of their projects, but the Council subsequently recommended disapproval, and funding was denied. They filed suit for restoration of the recommended grants or reconsideration of their applications, asserting First Amendment and statutory claims. When Congress enacted § 954(d)(1), respondents, now joined by the N ational Association of Artists' Organizations, amended their complaint to challenge the provision as void for vagueness and impermissibly viewpoint based. The District Court granted summary judgment in favor of respondents on their facial constitutional challenge to § 954(d)(1).
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The NEA's enabling statute contemplates a number of indisputably constitutional applications for both the "decency" and the "respect" prongs of § 954(d)(1). It is well established that "decency" is a permissible factor where "educational suitability" motivates its consideration. See, e. g., Board of Ed., Island Trees Union Free School Dist. No. 26 v. Pico, 457 U. S. 853, 871. And the statute already provides that the agency must take "cultural diversity" into account. References to permissible applications would not alone be sufficient to sustain the statute,
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Sharleen Spiteri, Scottish songwriter and lead singer with Texas chats with Kevin Cooper about her solo projects, how she cries to Amy Winehouse's Back To Black, Texas' latest album Jump On Board and their forthcoming tour of the UK.
Sharleen Spiteri is a Scottish singer and songwriter from Finnieston, Glasgow, and she is a founder member and the lead singer of the rock band Texas. Founded in 1986 with Johnny McElhone they made their performing debut in March 1988 at the University of Dundee.
From their debut album Southside they released the single I Don't Want A Lover in 1989 which was an instant international hit. With the album reaching number three in the UK charts, their subsequent releases, Mothers Heaven and Ricks Road were not quite so commercially successful.
In 1997 their fortunes changed when they released White On Blonde which entered the chart at number one and became their biggest seller. Other albums followed and in 2005 Texas went on hiatus and Spiteri launched a solo career by releasing two solo albums. Finishing their break in 2013 the group has since then been releasing albums and touring regularly.
Whist taking a well earned break, Spiteri took some time to have a chat with Kevin Cooper and this is what she had to say.
Sharleen good morning how are you?
Hi Kevin I'm not too bad thank you, how are you?
I'm very well thank you and let me just thank you for taking the time to speak to me today.
And just how is life treating you?
Life is treating me very well I have to be honest. It's no hardship making records and releasing them; it's very enjoyable and things are going well, so yes I am currently in a good place.
I have been playing the new studio album Jump On Board for a few days now and I have to say that I absolutely love it.
Thank you, I am so glad that you like it.
In my opinion there are lots of positive messages to take from the album. Would I be correct in saying that?
Yes you would, very much so. I feel that it is a very positive, upbeat record and that is what we really wanted to create. There is also a little bit of escapism for us where we just wanted to make a record where you could just put your hands in the air and forget about real life for a minute.
I think that we all need that at this moment in time.
Trust me we need it now more than ever.
And the title Jump On Board, is that an invitation for the fans to join you on the journey?
Yes it is, I think that what happens a lot of the time is that these things are always about the band and us on our own but you have to remember that the fans and the public are so very important to what we do as well as the band. It's a bit like 'come on get with this, it's going to be fun. Why not just throw caution to the wind and enjoy it', which is exactly what we have wanted to do.
Were you happy with the response that the album received?
Yes I was, unbelievably happy. The reaction to the album has simply been amazing. The album went straight into the UK album charts at number six and after thirty years in the music business that is extraordinary. The album went to number one in France and was top ten all over the rest of Europe. Someone recently pointed out to me that it was number fifteen in Thailand which even I have to admit is crazy (laughter).
It must make you feel good whenever your work is received so well by the fans and public alike?
It does, it really does. I love what I do and my band love what we do as well. When I was seventeen years old and I had just started out in Texas I still to this day feel like that seventeen year old going 'oh my god this is so exciting' (laughter). I truly do still feel so excited by the whole thing. I simply thoroughly enjoy it.
You mention that you and Texas have been in the business now for some thirty years. When you formed the band could you ever envisage that you would still be doing it today?
No not at all. What you have to remember is that we were all young kids at the time and as such none of us really had any concept of time. So if someone had have told me that I would still be in the business in thirty years' time I would have screamed "thirty years" (laughter). When I was seventeen I couldn't even imagine being thirty years old so for me to still be doing this after thirty years is mad.
The two standout tracks on the album for me at the moment are For Everything and Tell That Girl. I really do think that they are fantastic.
That's great and obviously whist I love both of those songs For Everything is for me a great song because it says everything about who I am and where we are as a band at this moment in time. There is a line in the song that says 'for now when I am old I have a peaceful mind' and believe me I couldn't have written that song ten years ago. However, I think that as you get older you find it very easy to show the flaws as well as the good stuff which is the stuff that you try to hide when you are younger. You don't really want to show anybody your weaknesses but as you get older it's like 'hell yeah, this is who I am. I don't always get it right but there you go' (laughter). I think that it is easier to say that as you get older because you finally get to see the bigger picture.
A lot of your fans are saying that it is your best work to date. Would you agree with that?
(Laughter) really, are they really saying that, I like that. In all honesty I would have to agree with them. I think that this is a great album. It's that thing where you always want to make great records, you don't always get it right but hell you try. Every time that we make a new record we try to make it our best work and always try to improve on the last record. Certain things happen in your life; you are in a certain headspace, you make certain records that are maybe more insular, but the great thing about this record is that there is not a moment of that within this record.
Are you looking forward to playing the new album live?
Yes I am and I have to tell you that we have actually played quite a bit of it live already. We have played a couple of pub gigs around the country just around the release of the album where you simply couldn't move. The drum kit was literally up my backside (laughter). It was truly an amazing moment where we literally went back to our beginnings. There were no flashing lights, no seventy metre stage, it was just like 'hello, I'm in your face' (laughter). Having said all of that it was great fun. It was lovely to see how well the new songs stood up against the big hits. Sometimes we will put up a song against the likes of Inner Smile, Black Eyed Boy or I Don't Want A Lover and you think does this really work, but with the new songs they literally all work within the set. In fact they worked really well.
So just how many of the new songs have actually found their way onto the set list for the forthcoming tour?
Well we will normally play a two hour show but because the shows that we have been doing have been about an hour, let me try and work it out. I'm trying to think what is on the album, my brain has turned to mush (laughter). I tell you what, let me log onto Amazon and get Texas up so that I can look at it while I am talking to you and I will then be able to literally tell you what is in the set (laughter). How unbelievable is that, I can't even remember the tracks on my own album. We are playing five new songs when we do an hour's set so I would think that there will be a few more added in there when we start the full tour later this year.
Will it change your thinking regarding a set list when you play the summer festivals?
Yes it will and again we will most probably put about five new songs into the festival set list. What you have to remember is that whenever we play at a festival it is not the full Texas show. It is usually sixty minutes of literally 'there you go, this is what we are about. Why not jump on board and come with us' (laughter).
Is touring the best part of the job for you?
If touring was the job all of the time then I think that I would get bored with it but then again, if I was in the studio all of the time then I would get bored with that. I love the fact that my job gets switched about day in and day out. At the moment my job involves me promoting the album and the forthcoming tour so I find myself doing TV shows, radio shows, interviews and all that kind of thing. I will be travelling all over the world doing that. Then I will go into touring and whenever you come out of promotion and into touring it is like 'yes' (laughter). You talk so much shit that eventually it always turns into the me, me, me show. I literally get so fed up with the sound of my own bloody voice. It also becomes mind-numbing simply because it feels so self-indulgent sometimes (laughter).
It's like 'yes I'm amazing, play my record because it is great; we really are a fantastic band' and that just seems to go on and on. What I find frustrating is that a lot of the time you are talking about the music and the truth is as a singer and a songwriter I made music because I wasn't that good at talking. And then suddenly you are back to doing something that you really are not comfortable with. Someone will say to me "so tell me about the record' and I will be like 'just what the fuck do you want me to tell you. Surely the record tells you about the record". So really it is all one of those weird contradictions. When I finally get to go out on tour it will be like… 'and breathe' (laughter).
You will be bringing the tour to the Royal Concert Hall here in Nottingham on Monday 2nd October. What can we expect; any surprises?
That maybe I will be a bit arseier than I normally am, I don't know. If you hadn't noticed Kevin I can and do get a bit arsey when I am on stage (laughter).
On the subject of being arsey, I was lucky enough to photograph you the last time that you were here in Nottingham in 2015. I got some great photographs but there is one in particular where you are looking straight at me with a look on your face that screams 'just what the fuck are you doing here' (laughter).
(Laughter) really, well all that I can say is that I am so sorry about that but what you have to remember is that when I am on stage I am so in the moment. I love being on stage, I love singing and I love performing. Being on stage is where I feel the most comfortable in my life so all that I can say is that I am sorry if I frightened you in any way (laughter).
I will forgive you then (laughter). On the subject of music and more specifically making music, you released your debut solo album Melody in 2008, and then followed it up with a second solo album The Movie Songbook in 2010. Are there any thoughts to release any more solo work?
No not at this moment in time. They were just two projects that I undertook back to back. I asked the rest of the band if they were all okay with me doing that and they all said that if I felt that I had to make a solo record then I should go and do it. It's quite hard to explain to people because I guess that there are not that many bands like Texas as in we will always be Texas. Texas is first and foremost within all of us; that is always our number one priority. And if anyone else wants to do something outside of Texas then everybody is always okay with that and they go and do it. Every one of us supports each other especially when one of us is off doing something else.
That is the way that we work. We all like each other and more importantly Texas has never been a job to us and it has never become a job. Lots of bands start off doing something and they say 'this is what we do and it's amazing' but then eventually it becomes a job to them. But I have to say that it has never become a job at any moment to us. Admittedly there are times that are a wee bit harder than others but seriously it's not exactly rocket science.
What was the first record that you bought?
That's easy it was Oliver's Army by Elvis Costello And The Attractions.
Who did you first see playing live in concert?
That was Simple Minds at Tiffany's in Glasgow on Sunday 1st March 1981. I was only fourteen years old but that concert helped me to decide that was what I wanted to do with my life.
What was the last song or piece of music that made you cry?
I think the song that always makes me cry from the very first time that I heard it and when I felt really emotional and I continue to feel emotional whenever I hear it, is Back To Black by Amy Winehouse. It is a song that I wish that I had written. I love the way that Amy poignantly delivers the words, you just know that is exactly how she feels. I think that we have all felt those words at some point when she sings 'we only said goodbye with words, I died a hundred times you go back to her and I go back to black'. That has hurt everybody at some point in their life and everyone has felt that at some point.
On that note Sharleen let me once again thank you for taking the time to speak to me today, it's been fantastic. I will see you here in Nottingham.
Thanks Kevin, you take care and please do come and say hi in Nottingham. Bye for now.
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Funny Or Die is a comedy video website that combines user-generated content with original, exclusive content. The site is a place where celebrities, established and up-and-coming comedians and regular users can all put up stuff they think is funny. At the same time, the site hopes to eliminate all the junk that people have to pick through to find videos. That means around here you get to vote on what videos are funny and what videos deserve to die. Funny Or Die was created by the guys at Gary Sanchez Productions (Will Ferrell, Adam McKay and Chris Henchy) and a bunch of Silicon Valley dudes and ladies. Michael Kvamme, an aspiring young comedian, came up with a concept for a new kind of comedy site and told his dad, Mark Kvamme of Sequoia Capital to write a check. Randy Adams, a Silicon Valley serial entrepreneur, signed on to handle design and implementation. Now, Funny Or Die has offices in Japan, Madagascar and Bahn, nine full time lobbyists in Washington and an elite private security force consisting of four hundred soldiers and six attack helicopters.
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I have been invited to contribute a column to the Mosquito about gardening in Carlisle. Although I have no formal credentials in horticulture, I have been gardening in Carlisle since I moved here in 1980. As a long-time member of the Carlisle Garden Club and one-time owner of Trade Secret Gardens, I am a self-taught hands-on gardener of vegetables, herbs, annuals, perennials, shrubs and trees. I like to do most of the work on my landscape myself, although tree and masonry work I leave to the professionals. I'll write about what interests me, or try to answer reader questions if asked (saylorfarm-@comcast.net). Although I am almost exclusively organic in my practices, there are a few times when I resort to chemicals. If an organic poison ivy control exists, I would buy it in an instant. Using chemical fertilizers for potted annuals is my other non-organic exception (see below).
Cheerful colorful annuals in a pot are wonderful near the private or public entrance to your home. They say, "Welcome!" They say, "It is summer!" They say, "This is the door!"
This year I have far too many planters requiring almost daily watering because my daughter Carly was married at home on June 24. Normally I content myself with a planter or two near the front door and a large one at the end of our driveway. This year they are scattered along the driveway, near the garage, alongside the chicken house and under the maple tree. They served their purpose during the wedding celebrations by keeping guests from parking in our driveway (so much more elegant than orange traffic cones!) and highlighting the entrances to the two large tents that kept our guests dry during all that rain. Now they seem to be rather a burden — pretty reminders of our happy wedding festivities, but somewhat annoying in their demands for pinching off shriveled flower heads, and their constant need for fertilizer and water.
It is useful to have a plant in a mixed planter that faints dramatically to indicate its thirst. In my case my self-seeded Perilla, a burgundy frilly annual that looks rather like a coleus, flops over in a very theatrical way to let me know that all the other plants are suffering from severe drought too, but are too macho to let me know it. I'll continue to care for these mixed pots of annuals, but anyone who stops by to drink some cool lemonade and walk around my gardens is welcome to go home with one.
For window boxes, whiskey barrels and planters of any size to really flourish, frequent pinching-off of spent flowers and the seed pod forming below the withered petals (to give a chemical signal to the plant that says, "Yikes, you didn't make any seed — try again!") plus daily watering with a diluted water-soluble fertilizer is very helpful. I use Schulz Bloom Plus ($2.69 at Market Basket). I add 1/4 teaspoon for each gallon every time I water. Others may prefer to use a stronger dose once or twice a month. If using slow-release fertilizer pellets, which I often do, some purists think that Nutricote is better than Osmocote. I learned that Home Depot sells Nutricote under the brand name, Dynamite.
Perhaps this is arbitrary, but I tend to use fast-acting water-soluble fertilizer for my flowery annuals in pots, and slow release fertilizer for perennials and shrubs that might need a boost for their first years. Ninety-nine percent of my ornamental gardens receive no fertilizer at all.
Of course a dedicated organic gardener could probably heap a pot with organic fertilizer and get good results too. There is a famous story in our family of my grandmother visiting Germany, admiring the lush flowers in a window box, bending over to get a whiff of the anticipated sweet fragrance...to be greeted by the strong smell of fresh pig manure!
If you plan to go away for a week or two and cannot find a kind neighbor to water your plants you might try hauling them under the shade of a tree, cutting them back by half and hoping for some thundershowers to keep them alive while you're gone. If that does not work, you can always plunk some fake silk flowers in the pot and wait for the Philippos on East Street to be ready with their fabulous collection of mums for the fall.


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Pope Francis on Holocaust Remembrance Day: Memory and Vigilance
Christopher R. Altieri
Pope Francis on Wednesday condemned the systematic murder of six million Jews in the Holocaust, calling on the Catholic faithful worldwide and all persons of good will to protect the memory of the dark chapter in human history.
"Remembering is an expression of humanity," Pope Francis said. "Remembering is a sign of civilization," he continued. "Remembering is a condition for a better future of peace and fraternity."
The Holy Father made his remarks during his weekly General Audience on Wednesday, 27 January, which is International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
The United Nations officially declared the Day in the year 2005, to ensure the memory of the six million Jewish victims of Nazi terror is never extinguished and teach future generations of the horror.
Five years before, in January 2000, representatives of forty-six governments worldwide met in Stockholm and issued a declaration establishing the day in their respective countries.
"The magnitude of the Holocaust, planned and carried out by the Nazis, must be forever seared in our collective memory," the Stockholm Declaration proclaims. "The selfless sacrifices of those who defied the Nazis, and sometimes gave their own lives to protect or rescue the Holocaust's victims, must also be inscribed in our hearts."
"The depths of that horror," the Declaration goes on to say, "and the heights of their heroism, can be touchstones in our understanding of the human capacity for evil and for good."
The date of 27 January marks the anniversary of the Red Army's liberation of Nazis' Auschwitz-Birkenau camp complex.
"Remembering also means being careful," said Pope Francis on Wednesday, "because these things could happen again, beginning with ideological proposals intended to save a people and ending by destroying a people and humanity."
Anti-Semitic violence and harassment has been on the rise in recent years, including a mass murder at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh in 2018. One of the rioters who stormed the US Capitol was wearing a "Camp Auschwitz" t-shirt. A similar article was being sold on e-commerce site Etsy until the company pulled the offering in the wake of outrage.
In Germany in October of 2019, a man armed with firearms and explosives and equipped with a camera attempted to carry out a massacre on a synagogue in Halle during services on Yom Kippur, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar.
"If I fail and die but kill a single Jew, it was worth it," the 27-year-old attacker wrote in a manifesto. "After all, if every White Man kills just one, we win."
Unable to gain entry to the house of worship, he shot and killed a woman on the street near the synagogue door, then drove to a nearby kebab shop and killed another man. He shot and wounded two other people.
In his remarks on Wednesday, Pope Francis urged vigilance, saying we must be attentive "to how this path of death, of extermination, and brutality begin."
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Those of you still on campus have probably noticed the new street signs put in place yesterday. The signs, just in time for Sunday's commencement, have white lettering on a green background and are supposed to be easier to read.
These signs are so nice. They make our campus look so much classier. Kudos to B&G!


In a report jointly brought out by apex industry chamber, Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) and ICRA Management Consulting Services Limited (IMaCS) a fully-owned subsidiary of ICRA Limited, one of India's leading credit rating agencies says that 20 industrial sectors, most of them under the category of small and medium enterprises (SMEs), are likely to drive the growth of the economy and play an important role in creating employment opportunities in the country.
The report has identified SME dominated sectors like transportation and logistics, gems and jewellery, textiles, auto and auto components, food processing, information technology (IT), organized retail, electronics and IT hardware.
"With about 12 million persons expected to join the workforce every year, and an existing skill development capacity of about 3.4 million, the report emphasizes that it is imperative to enhance the skilling and technical education capacity to about 15 million (considering that even sections of the existing workforce would have to be trained)" the release said.
The release highlighted that India faces a challenge of producing a skilled workforce of 500 million to cater to the requirements of an estimated compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 8% of GDP by 2022.


Diamond ring in 18k white gold.
To create the Kwiat Vintage collection, on the occasion of our 100th anniversary, we looked to our archives and the intricate designs of a bygone era to reinterpret heirloom designs with today's most sophisticated jewelry-making techniques. The result, an artful fusion of timeless design with modern craftsmanship.
Sparkling diamonds, rubies, blue and pink sapphires, emeralds and black onyx draw on a century of design inspiration. Whether you're shopping for a unique vintage-inspired engagement ring, or looking for the perfect statement piece to hand down to the next generation, the Kwiat Vintage collection brings the past, present and future together with exquisite beauty.


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1959-1961 MG Magnette Mark III
The Mark III of 1959 drew mixed reviews. US based publications heralded the Magnette's arrival, while the UK publications tended towards "damning with faint praise". It was nearly identical to the Riley version (the 4/68) of the new Pinin Farina-designed midsize BMC saloon line. All versions (including the Austin A55 Cambridge Mark II, Morris Oxford series V and Wolseley 15/60) were produced by the British Motor Corporation (BMC). The car featured BMC's 1489 cc B type engine, but in the MG Magnette III (and it's Riley sibling) performance was enhanced by fitting twin S.U. H.D.4 carburetters.[5] The experience from the driver's seat was enhanced by the walnut veneer facia panel and door cappings as well as by the leather upholstery, and presumably by the safety glass windows.[5] A Mark III was tested by The Motor magazine in 1959. They recorded a top speed of 85.5 mph (137.6 km/h), acceleration from 0-60 mph (97 km/h) in 19.7 seconds and a fuel consumption of 31.4 miles per imperial gallon (9.00 L/100 km; 26.1 mpg-US). The test car cost £1012 including taxes.[6]
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Q: Show covariance of random variable and an increasing function is increasing with respect to the mean Suppose I have a continuous random variable $Y$ with $\mu=E[Y]$ and $g(Y)$ is strictly convex and increasing in $Y$. Does it follow that $\frac{\partial}{\partial\mu}Cov(Y,g(Y))>0$?
To me, it makes intuitive sense, but I can't prove it mathematically.
Here's my reasoning. Since $g(Y)$ has a positive slope (i.e., it is increasing), $Cov(Y, g(Y))$ is positive, and a larger slope for $g$ implies a larger covariance. Moreover, since $g(Y)$ is strictly convex, then $\frac{\partial}{\partial\mu}Cov(Y,g(Y))$ should also be positive because the slope of $g$ is larger when $Y$ is larger (and $Y$ should be larger when $\mu$ is larger).
Any ideas on how to proceed? Alternatively, a counterexample where the above is not true would also be greatly appreciated.

A: I've an answer to this question (thanks to the discussion with Leander).
In general, it does not follow that $\frac{\partial}{\partial \mu}Cov(Y, g(Y))$ if $g$ is increasing and convex.
Here is a counterexample. Let $Y=\frac{Z}{\mu}+ \mu$, and $Z$ follows standard normal distribution. Moreover, let $g(y)=y^2$ which is convex and increasing (when $\mu$ is relatively large). Then:
$Cov(Y, g(Y))=Cov(\frac{Z}{\mu}+ \mu, \frac{Z^2}{\mu^2} + 2Z + \mu^2)$
$=\frac{1}{\mu^3} Cov(Z, Z^2) + \frac{2}{\mu} Cov(Z,Z)$
$= \frac{2}{\mu}$
Then:
$\frac{\partial}{\partial \mu}Cov(Y, g(Y))=-2\mu^{-2}$
Which is negative.

That said, the statement is true when $Y$ can be decomposed into a location parameter and a random variable that is independent of the location parameter.
Let $Y=\mu + X$, where $X$ is a random variable that does not depend on $\mu$ and for which $E[X]=0$. Then:
$Cov(Y, g(Y))=Cov(X, g(X+\mu))$
And we have that:
$\frac{\partial}{\partial \mu}Cov(X, g(X+\mu))$
$=\frac{\partial}{\partial \mu}E[Xg(X+\mu)]-E[X]\frac{\partial}{\partial \mu}E[g(X+\mu)]$
$=E[Xg'(X+\mu)]-E[X]E[g'(X+\mu)]$
$=Cov(X,g'(X+\mu))$
$=Cov(Y,g'(Y))$
Which is positive because: $g$ is strictly convex, so $g'$ is increasing in $Y$, and the covariance of a random variable and an increasing function is positive.


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Turkish Flour Production Company Başer
BAŞER GIDA SANAYİ VE TİCARET A.Ş.
Turkish flour production company Başer was established on December 15, 1983. Initially, it started its working life with a capacity of 80 tons/day. In the following years, it increased its production capacity by making various investments. As a result of new investments, the company succeeded in increasing its production capacity to 300 tons/day later on. This did not satisfy the firm, so it made new expenditures to expand its manufacturing capacity. It has built a total of 9,000 tons of steel silos to improve its wheat storage capacity.
Turkish flour production company Başer adheres to the idea of constant innovation. Therefore, it desired to transition to full automation and has been working toward this goal. In the following years, the firm has purchased 700-ton flour silos. Simultaneously, it constructed a sacks packaging machine capable of processing 1,000 flour sacks per hour, totaling 50 kg.
Further Info about Turkish Flour Production Company Başer
In addition to its current assets, Başer Flours has undertaken additional steel and concrete silos investments. As a result, it now can hold 20,000 tons of raw materials and finished goods. Başer Flours is acting in line with the principle of continuous quality. It also focuses on laboratory and R&D studies. The company has technically become one of the few firms in the field, thanks to all of its existing investments.
In addition to these, Başer Flours offers flour products to its customers under its own sub-brands. It has Başer Aha, Başer Aha Platin, Başer Fırın Mavi, Başer Fırın Yeşil, and Başer Esmer/Andırbaşı flour groups. On the other hand, Turkish flour production company has many quality certificates from ISO 9001 to ISO 14001, Halal Certificate to ISO 10002, and so on. Therefore, it has proven that it produces at international standards.
Please visit Başer Flours company for more information about their products. Further, if you want to know more about food companies in Turkey, visit our website.
Products:Başer Aha
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Başer Fırın Mavi
Başer Fırın Yeşil
Başer Esmer/Andırbaşı
Halal Certificate
ISO 10002:2015 – Quality Management Customer Satisfaction System
Başer Un Gıda San. ve Tic. A.Ş., Kızılcıkorman Köyü E5 Karayolu Üzeri, 54400 Akyazı/Sakarya
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Dallas sport event NHL Stanley Cup Playoff first round game 4. Contest date hockey game Wednesday, April 17, 2019. Schedule start time at 7:00 pm. Purchase tickets here best prices and seat selection. Hockey game location American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas.


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Q: SSIS Package Execution Error under AppId Credentials I've got a weird problem. I have a stored procedure that is kicking off my ssis packages. It gets kicked off via our scheduler system. Here is the snip-it of the stored procedure:
--Kickoff the package/report
IF @ReportType = 'SSIS'
Set @Sql = 'Exec dbo.SSIS_ExecPackage @PackageName = ''Package1.dtsx'''
--Set @Sql = 'Exec dbo.SSIS_ExecPackage @PackageName = ''' + @DeliverySsisPackageName + '.dtsx' + ''''

--Exec the report
Exec sp_executesql @Sql

When I hard code the Package Name like this:
Set @Sql = 'Exec dbo.SSIS_ExecPackage @PackageName = ''Package1.dtsx'''

It works fine. But when I use the variable, like this:
Set @Sql = 'Exec dbo.SSIS_ExecPackage @PackageName = ''' + @DeliverySsisPackageName + '.dtsx' + ''''

It fails. The even weirder thing is that when I run this under my own credentials both ways work.
When I look at the ssis execution on the server, I see the attempt. So Know it's being executed. The AppId has all the appropriate rights. This is the error on the SSIS Server:

Unable to create the type with the name 'DTS.ConnectionManagerOleDb.5'.;   at Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Runtime.ManagedWrapper.SetManagedObject(String assemblyName, String className)
     at Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Runtime.Interop.ProjectInterop.AddConnectionManagerFromXml(XmlNode xmlNode, IDTSEvents events)
     at Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Runtime.ConnectionManagerItem.LoadInternal(Stream stream, IDTSEvents events)
     at Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Runtime.ConnectionManagerItem.Load(IDTSEvents events, Stream stream)
     at Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Runtime.ConnectionManagerItem.Load()
     at Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Runtime.Project.EnsureConnectionsAreLoaded()
     at Microsoft.SqlServer.IntegrationServices.Server.Shared.ServerProject.LoadProject(SqlConnection connection)
     at Microsoft.SqlServer.IntegrationServices.Server.Shared.ServerProjectLoader.GetServerProject()
     at Microsoft.SqlServer.IntegrationServices.Server.ISServerExec.ProjectOperator.StartPackage()
     at Microsoft.SqlServer.IntegrationServices.Server.ISServerExec.ProjectOperator.PerformOperation()