Huawei's EMS Dev Entity Framework class for Next Generation Network (NGN) entity model.
11:      /// Huawei's EMS Dev Entity Framework class for Next Generation Network (NGN) entity model.
35:           * The DEV (IP address of an optical line terminal) and ONULOCATEINFO parameters can be used as the location information. Before using these two parameters as the location information, make sure that the DEV parameter indicates the device IP address. For details, see C.7 How to Locate a Device According to the IP Address.
54:          /// DID INTEGER - Indicates the device ID.
59:          /// DEV OCTET STRING SIZE (192) Indicates the device name.
64:          /// DEVIP IPADDRESS - Indicates the IP address of the device.
69:          /// DT OCTET STRING See Supporting Device. Indicates the device type. When you query information about an MA5683T, DT in the response message is related to the TL1_SHOW_MA5683T_S WITCH configuration item setting. For details about the meaning and setting method of the configuration item, see Table 8-1.
74:          /// DVER OCTET STRING SIZE (252) Indicates the device version.
79:          /// DSTAT OCTET STRING l Connecting l Disconnecting l WarningFault l MinorFault l MajorFault l CriticalFault l Loop l Test l Unknown Indicates the status of the device.
89:          /// AdminStat OCTET STRING l UNKOWN l Plan l Install Indicates the management status of the device.
94:          /// WorkMode OCTET STRING l CMSAN l AMSAN Indicates the working mode of the device. Only the UA5000 (IPMB) supports this parameter. The meanings of the options are as follows: l CMSAN: It is short for copper multi-service access node. l AMSAN: It is short for aggregator multi-service access node.
99:          /// ADDITIONALINFO OCTET STRING SIZE (252) Indicates the location of the MDU. The format of the value is OLT device name/subrack ID of the PON port/slot ID of the PON port/number of the PON port/MDUID (ONTID), such as 10.71.35.172/0/14/0/0.
104:          /// CRTID OCTET STRING SIZE (255) Indicates the ID of an NE creator.
109:          /// CRTADDR OCTET STRING SIZE (255) Indicates the address of an NE creator.
114:          /// CRTTEL OCTET STRING SIZE (255) Indicates the telephone number of an NE creator. The parameter value is a character string in any format that represents a telephone number.
119:          /// CRTDATE OCTET STRING SIZE (255) Indicates the time when an NE is created. l the value of configuration item BMS_LST_DEV_CRT DATE_SHOW_GMT is set to 0. Format: yearmonth-day hour:minute:second. For example, 2010-12-16 07:22:57. l the value of configuration item BMS_LST_DEV_CRT DATE_SHOW_GMT is set to 1. Format: yearmonth-day hour:minute:second time zone. For example, 2010-12-16 07:22:57 GMT. For details about the meaning and setting method of the configuration item, see Table 8-1.
124:          /// REMARK OCTET STRING SIZE (255) Indicates remarks.
134:          /// NERATELIST OCTET STRING l 155 M/620 M/1000 M/10000 M l 1000 M/10000 M Indicates the upstream port rate supported by an NE. Options are as follows: l 155M, 620M, 1000M, 10000M: An OLT or another device supports the upstream port rate of 155 Mbit/s, 620 Mbit/s, 1000 Mbit/s, or 10000 Mbit/s. l 1000 M, 10000 M: An ONU supports the upstream port rate of 1000 Mbit/s or 10000 Mbit/s at s.
139:          /// NEPROV OCTET STRING HUAWEI Indicates the NE vender name.
144:          /// TOPXY OCTET STRING SIZE (255) Indicates the relative coordinate of an NE in the Main Topology. Format: (horizontal coordinate, vertical coordinate). For example, (106, 225).
149:          /// EMSID OCTET STRING HUAWEIEMS Indicates the ID of an EMS.
154:          /// ALIAS OCTET STRING SIZE (255) Indicates the NE alias.
159:          /// PCBVER OCTET STRING SIZE (255) Indicates the hardware version of an NE, that is, the control board version.
164:          /// MAINTAINID OCTET STRING SIZE (255) Indicates the ID of an NE maintenance engineer.
169:          /// MAINTAINADDR OCTET STRING SIZE (255) Indicates the address of an NE maintenance engineer. The parameter value is an email address. For example: w11@huawei.com.
174:          /// MAINTAINTEL OCTET STRING SIZE (255) Indicates the telephone number of an NE maintenance engineer. The parameter value is a character string in any format that represents a telephone number.
179:          /// REGISTERSTAT OCTET STRING l registered l unregistered Indicates the registration status of an ONU. Options are as follows: l registered: The ONU has been registered. l unregistered: The ONU has not been registered.


* For the euro area, the real effective exchange rate of the euro vis-à-vis 19 trading partners is displayed. For euro area countries, the table shows the harmonised competitiveness indicators calculated vis-à-vis the same 19 trading partners plus the other euro area countries. A positive change points to a decrease in price competitiveness. For further information please refer to the explanatory note.


Ted Bauman is one of the few business executives that believe in financial freedom — through sustainable investments. Bauman approach to investment is unique since his focus is on natural gas, minerals, and oil — these niches are under-invested and have low investment risks. He is fortunate to have unmatched experience in these niches. Bauman has active interests in these niches, and he has an academic background on natural resources. These qualifications make him one of the most qualified professionals in advising people — on how to invest and when to invest. Also, he has been to many countries, and his traveling experiences have been instrumental in reshaping his perception of the industry.
In the last six years, Ted Bauman has also been an active writer — on business-related topics. One of his favorite topics is investments. 'The Bauman Letter' one of the pieces he is passionate about, is one of the most trusted pieces in on the financial circles. In less than a decade, Bauman has successfully created a loyal fan base — who apart from leading his pieces religiously have benefited from his pieces of advice. Ted Bauman believes that this organic following is an indication that his work and researches are relatable and they are objective. In addition to being one of the most relatable columnists, Bauman believes that he has the obligation of telling his readers the truth. In addition to writing his column, he is part of the editing team that ensures Banyan Hill Publishing continues to be objective and home to financial truths.
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The governor defended his decision by arguing that it is in keeping with the state's founding in 1636 by religious dissident Roger Williams as a haven for tolerance – where government and religion were kept separate.
Instead of arguing over the tree, the governor called on lawmakers to focus their energy on feeding the poor.
"I would encourage all those engaged in this discussion – whatever their opinion on the matter – to use their energy and enthusiasm to make a positive difference in the lives of their fellow Rhode Islanders," Chafee told the Associated Press.
Costa said the governor's rebuff has become her line in the sand.
So Costa has decided to erect her own Christmas tree – at the State House. And she plans on lighting it on Dec. 6 – the same day Chafee plans to host the official "holiday" tree lighting event.
Costa said her yuletide defiance has generated lots of buzz in the state.
The 17-foot Colorado blue spruce was donated to the state by Big John Leyden's Christmas Tree Farm. Leyden told the AP he's disappointed with the governor's choice of words.
But the opposition tree won't be as nearly as big. Costa said she's got a tiny car – and the tree will have to fit on the roof.
"It may only be a little Charlie Brown Christmas tree but at least it will be a Christmas tree," she told the AP.


A fund-raiser this weekend will raise money to buy two custom handcycles so Austin triathlete Laurie Allen can return to racing.
Allen, 44, was soaking in a hot tub with friends last February when she got out to cool off. The side was icy, and with no railing behind her she fell 10 feet, fracturing a vertebrae and tearing ligaments in her neck.
She underwent neck surgery the morning after the fall. Initially she couldn't move anything below her shoulders, but now she can move her arms and has sensation in her right leg and trunk.
The accident has meant an abrupt change for Allen, who has finished about 75 triathlons, including nine Ironman distance events, plus a slew of ultra distance runs, cyclocross bike races and adventure races.
Despite the challenges, Allen radiates positivity. She's back at work at a software company. She makes laps around the track at Anderson High School in her wheelchair and has taken a few tennis lessons.
Allen had another surgery last week, but already she's thinking about returning to racing.
Proceeds from the Grill and Chill for Laurie Allen this Saturday will raise money to buy her two customized handcycles. The event is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Travis County Exposition Center, 7311 Decker Lane, outside the expo for the Ironman 70.3 Austin triathlon.
The menu will include hamburgers ($4), sausage wraps ($3), hot dogs ($2) and chips or drink ($1). A $50 donation buys the Laurie Combo – a meal with chips and a drink.
Those who can't go to the expo can support Allen via a virtual cookout. The menu? A virtual hamburger for $100, a virtual sausage wrap for $50, a virtual hot dog for $25 or a virtual drink for $10. To donate go here.


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News / Virgin Islands / May 27, 2019
ST. CROIX — A fire confined to the stage area of the cafetorium at the shuttered Charles H. Emanuel Elementary School building on Sunday has been extinguished, and is under investigation by local fire and law enforcement officials, the Department of Education has announced.
Victor Somme III, deputy superintendent of schools in the St. Croix District, was informed by police that a report of a fire at the vacant school, located near the Auero Diaz Heights housing community on St. Croix, was called in at around 3:15 p.m.
Mr. Somme said fire department personnel were called to the scene and quickly extinguished the blaze. The cause of the fire has not yet been determined and remains under investigation, D.O.E. said.
The Charles H. Emanuel School building, which housed Elena Christian Junior High School during the 2016-17 school year and the early part of school year 2017-18, has been closed since September 2017 after sustaining significant damages from Hurricanes Irma and Maria.
St. Croix students and teachers are not affected by Sunday's fire. The territory's public schools will reopen on Tuesday, May 28 following the Memorial Day holiday on May 27.
Successful St. Croix-Born Jockey Euclyn 'Pede' Prentice Dies From Injuries In Car Accident
We Remember: Honoring The Lives Of The Fallen On Memorial Day

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Sušany jsou obec na Slovensku v okrese Poltár. Žije zde  obyvatel, rozloha katastrálního území činí 12,94 km².

Je zde farní úřad Římskokatolické farnosti Sušany.

Poloha
Obec leží v severozápadní části Rimavské kotliny v údolí Sušianského potoka, který je levostranným přítokem řeky Suchá. Nadmořská výška se pohybuje v rozmezí 210 až 360 m, střed obce je v 220 m n. m. Převážně kopcovité území je tvořeno mladšími třetihorními jíly, písky, pískovci, uloženinami poltárské formace a zbytky sopečných tufů s pokryvem různorodých čtvrtohorních hlín. V severní části se nachází minerální pramen. Území je ze dvou třetin využíváno k zemědělství, zbytek v severní a východní části tvoří smíšený les s převahou dubu.

K obci náleží místní části: Jelené, Svätá Túteň, Hrb, Kederka a Sušiansky mlyn.

Historie
Na území obce archeologické nálezy ukazují na nagyrévskou sídlištní kulturu z mladší doby bronzové.

První písemná zmínka o obci pochází z roku 1407, kdy je uváděná jako Swsanfewide. Další názvy: v roce 1773 Susány, 1920 Sušany.

Patřila do majetku Mikófalvyovců, později do panství Ožďanů. V roce 1828 zde bylo 53 domů a žilo 474 obyvatel.

V roce 1902 byl založen Sušianský katolický hudební a čtecí kroužek (Sušianský katolícký hudobný a čítací krúžok), který byl základem knihovny. V meziválečném období byl postaven kulturní dům a v něm měla sídlo i knihovna, která má v současnosti na 2269 knižních titulů.

V roce 1936 se osamostatnila místní část Kružino.

Hlavní obživou bylo zemědělství a až do poloviny 20. století hrnčířství a výroba střešních tašek.

Památky

 V obci se nachází římskokatolický kostel Narození svaté Anny z let 1835–1844.
 V přízemí kulturního domu se nachází pamětní jizba hrnčířství.
 V parku je památník padlým v první a druhé světové válce.

Odkazy

Reference

Literatura
 KROPILÁK Miroslav, ed. Vlastivedný slovník obcí na Slovensku III, Bratislava : Veda, 1978, 532 s.

Externí odkazy

 Najkrajší kraj - Sušany

Obce v okrese Poltár
Obce v regionu Poiplí

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Here are some common questions and concerns that people may have about counseling. If yours is not on the list, just let me know and I'll answer it.
Who can benefit best from your counseling?
As the counselor, what part do you play?
Isn't counseling just a sign that I am too weak to take care of myself?
If I do start counseling, will I have to tell everything about myself?
What if I start crying and can't stop?
People normally seek out counseling because they are confused and unable to make sense of their lives. After a major loss, many people experience a feeling of despair that life seems futile. They find that the world as they once knew it, or envisioned how it would be, is no longer valid. It is as if the world they believed in, trusted in, and assumed existed has been shattered into a thousand pieces, and there seems no way to put it back together. They begin to ask questions such as "Who am I?" "Where am I going?" "What happened to justice and fairness?" and "Why did this happen to me?" Those who can benefit from counseling are those who have the courage and willingness to address these questions and to engage in an exploration of what can make their life meaningful in light of their loss. This quest will only be successful for those who are prepared to examine and question their core assumptions about life and about themselves.
In my practice, those who will NOT benefit from counseling are those who are looking to solve a particular problem related to bereavement without being willing to address the other aspects of their existence. As I explain on the page Grief Reactions, loss, and especially the death of a loved one, affects all aspects of who we are, and each one deserves its own consideration. Obviously, this description implies that people need to come to counseling of their own free will.
* to encourage you to face what seems negative and difficult so you can discover the positive implications of it.
I'm not here to make your life easier; I'm here to help you find a new place in your heart for your deceased loved one and to make your life easier to live.
Simultaneously, my role is to ensure that you have a trusting, safe, confidential, non-judgmental, and objective place to freely express whatever you need or want to. This is where you can discuss and work out those things that you can't talk about and work out anywhere else.
Throughout life, there are always times when each of us has run into something we need someone else to show us how to manage. We spend our entire lives learning about our environment, ourselves, and how we interact with that environment. Courage is the requirement to explore the uncharted waters that reside within us, to face who we are, and to learn to live a rich and full life instead of to exist through life and wonder "Is this all there is?" Not seeking help when a person needs it is not so much an issue of weakness as it is a lack of courage. Strength comes not from running from our problems, it comes from facing them and working through them. It takes strength and courage to seek out counseling, not weakness!
No, you don't have to tell everything or "be put on the hot seat" because the bottom line is that you are always in control of what, how much, and when to share. In fact, keeping some things private may actually be more helpful, but that's your call.
This is a common concern of someone who never received counseling before. In all my years of experience, I've never seen that happen because during our hour together, we only explore as far as you are comfortable. I don't force you to go somewhere you don't want to go, and I don't let you leave the office until you can take care of yourself.
It is impossible to put a time frame on how long we will meet. I am a big believer that the length of time is a false indicator of progress. Time itself doesn't make anything different or better. It's what you do with the time that matters. Thus, we will meet as long as we feel we need to.


Some parents may find it very difficult to discover their child is homosexual. Common reactions on learning that your child is homosexual include shock, disbelief, disappointment, sorrow, guilt and confusion.
Furthermore, parents also may also feel as though they have done something wrong, that their way of parenting was inappropriate or that they have failed in some way. Some feel embarrassed about other people finding out, or worried about how others will react.
On the other hand, parents may feel joy, proud and contentment with the good communication with the family.
Why did my child choose to be gay?
Being gay is not a simply a choice. Sexual orientation comes from within a person, and is part of a person's whole being. It is not caused by anything parents have done, and can't be changed by anything parents do. The choice your child has made to come out means that he is ready to accept who he is and live happily.
It is a normal part of development for a child or teenager to feel unsure about their sexuality. However, if your child tells you he or she is gay, then he or she is usually sure that is how he or she is. When they tell you 'I am sure', they need you to believe and support them.
Why didn't our child tell us earlier?
For a child to tell his parent that he is gay takes great courage. He may feel worried about hurting you or feeling guilty about you losing some of your dreams, such as natural grandchildren. The main reason young people withhold this information for so long is fear of rejection by parents, or other family and friends. The longer it takes to come out, the more this fear grows.
Is my child different now?
Your child has not changed just because she has told you about her sexuality. There are many parts to your child that you know and love that have not changed, such as what she does, what she likes, and the many things that make up the person that she is.
Whatever your response is, you will be grieving in some way because every change involves some loss (as well as some gain).
You might find it helpful to talk it over with people who understand what you are going through.
Coming to grips with this information and accepting it takes time and there are no hard and fast rules as to how long it will take. It is different for everyone and there is no one right way.
The number one thing is to make sure that your kids are safe and accepted no matter what they do – it's that unconditional love that they need. Try not to become too attached to the future in terms of the fulfilment of your own hopes and dreams. Be supportive of the individual choices your children make, and just see what happens.
The Quirky Kid Clinic can help parents and families with communication strategies as well as dealing with common issues that may arise when a family member communicates his sexuality. For more information, book to our 'Sort it out' workshop or please contact us for more information or to schedule an appointment.
Kimberley O'Brien, our principal child psychologist, discussed sexual identity and homosexuality amount children with reporter Justine Davies from Essential Baby. You can find more information on how to discuss sexuality with your children by visiting our resources page or discussing it on our forum.
The Quirky Kid clinic runs a workshop called 'Sort it out" that discuss sexuality and family communication. You can book online.


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The curious incident of the co-endorsement in the Capitol
David Shribman
This much is certain: America's political parties are in transition. What is uncertain is what they are evolving into, and whether the changes now underway are provisional or permanent.
Here is an oversimplification: The Republicans are becoming a Donald Trump party, and the Democrats are becoming a Bernie Sanders party. There are plenty of reasons to dispute that, and I might agree with most if not all of them. But it is a generalization, and it surely is what each of the parties says about the other party.
At the same time, there are curious subterranean streams in each party. A rump of the Republican Party remains skeptical if not contemptuous of Trump. The former president calls them RINOs, an acronym for "Republicans in Name Only," which is not quite (or even remotely) accurate, because they represent what the party was only a few years ago.
There remains a rump of the Democratic Party that is skeptical of the leftward lurch of the most prominent members of the party, especially Sen. Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York. Democratic leaders treat those skeptics as recalcitrants, but they are making a serious error by believing that that group consists only of the senators from Arizona and West Virginia.
The movement toward the extremes is an aberration in American politics that doesn't even have an antecedent in the runup to the Civil War, a reference that today is thrown around the American commentariat with promiscuous abandonment. In that long-ago, fraught era, the Republicans treated the gathering crisis as one of the endurance of the Union rather than what it was: a cultural conflict over the endurance of slavery. The Democrats treated it as a matter best attended to with the doctrine of its leading figure, Stephen A. Douglas, though his "popular sovereignty" in the end produced only chaos and bloodshed.
Where the current dysfunction and dystopia go is beyond the ken of any analyst, though Sen. Joe Manchin, the West Virginian who has caused so much agita among his fellow Democrats, and Sen. Lisa Murkowski, the Alaska Republican who has caused so much aggravation in Trump's camp, did an interesting thing the other day. They said they would endorse each other.
Let's lay that out for what it is: an unusual but perhaps revealing development. A Democratic senator endorsed his Republican colleague, and a Republican senator said she would back a Democrat. This does not happen every day, though Manchin did endorse Sen. Susan Collins of Maine — the Republican lawmaker whom Democrats nationwide rallied, unsuccessfully, to defeat — in her 2020 reelection battle.
Party regulars hate this sort of thing, and in a way congressional tradition militates against it (though according to a new book by Irwin Gellman, John F. Kennedy once quietly gave Richard Nixon a $1,000 contribution for his 1950 Senate race). American parties have few elements of discipline, but one of them is to stick with their elected incumbents. The Senate itself has even fewer elements of discipline, but one of them is that members do not get involved in colleagues' races. That is why Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist's 2004 campaign visit to South Dakota to defeat his majority-leader predecessor, Democrat Tom Daschle, created an uproar.
But here we have one dynasty aiding another. Manchin's father and grandfather were both mayor of his hometown of Farmington, West Virginia, and his uncle was a member of the state's House of Delegates and its secretary of state. Murkowski's father was a senator, governor and state economic-development commissioner. Disrupters — that's what Trump is, and what Democratic progressives seek to be — have no taste for dynasties, though the progeny of Trump may test that.
This mutual cross-endorsement — a double toe loop of politics — is a political oddity. But mainstream politicians have had a grudging openness to embracing their rivals as a way of healing the political body politic.
Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee, hoped to lure Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona onto his ticket. McCain, the GOP nominee four years later, gave serious thought to inviting Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut, the Democrats' 2000 vice-presidential nominee, to take the same role on the Republican ticket; he had earlier endorsed Lieberman for the Democratic nomination in 2008, which might have made him his general-election opponent. Biden said in his 2020 presidential campaign that he was open to considering a Republican running mate.
None of that happened. The American political scene might be different if it did.
Now Biden is president during a period of unusual uncertainty and peril, democracy itself in the balance — a notion shared by both Republicans and Democrats, though for vastly different reasons and with vastly different views of how to address the crisis. Biden said last month that Kamala Harris would be his running mate again should he seek a second term. Yet there are some voices who believe that he, or another Democratic nominee if the president doesn't run for reelection, should consider a Republican running mate, someone along the lines of Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah, who was the GOP presidential nominee in 2012. (The notion raised a chorus of dissent among Democrats, including the argument that one precedent, Abraham Lincoln's selection of the Democrat Andrew Johnson in 1864, was a disaster.)
Nor is the United States likely to reach for the 1931 British example, when, amid the Great Depression, political leaders assembled what was known as the National Government, drawing together Conservatives, some Liberals and a handful of Labour members. Its advantage: It provided political stability at a time of great social and economic instability and kept political extremism at bay. Its disadvantage: It opened wounds that festered for years — and in the end failed because it was too orthodox in economic matters, it didn't address social collapse in the shipbuilding, coal and steel sectors of industrial Britain, and it was all but blind to the Nazi threat in Europe.
Loads of Republicans and Democrats at the extremes would feel they were filtered out for a centrist coalition in that eventuality. But small gestures of inter-party outreach might be refreshing. What Democrat isn't quietly rooting for Murkowski? What Republican isn't covertly rooting for Manchin?


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In 1963, Sid Smith graduated as a fledgling chemical engineer. He had only one problem – his next dream was to practice medicine. So, he opted to pursue the Hippocratic Oath, and the young honors student, also an all-star high school football player, used his chemical engineering (ChE) degree from Virginia Tech as a stepping stone to attend Yale Medical School.
Today, he makes each of his alma maters proud as a former (1995) President of the American Heart Association (AHA) and the first person to hold the title of AHA's Chief Science Officer (2001-03). He's met in the Oval Office with two sitting Presidents of the United States on health matters, and with national leaders such as Tommy Thompson, Secretary of Health and Human Services, on such topics as the standards of cardiac care that should be provided nationally by the medical profession and funding of prescription drugs for the Medicare population.
He is also prominent in world health matters, serving as Chair of the World Heart and Stroke Forum, and as a member of the Executive Committee of the World Heart Federation. "I am throwing my heart and soul into the forum," Dr. Smith says today. This forum is drafting guidelines, based on a mix of cultural norms and scientific evidence, to reduce risk of heart disease and stroke, now the leading causes of mortality worldwide. Strategies vary drastically from countries such as Ethiopia to China to the U.S.A. Cardiovascular disease in developing nations is on the rise due to the Westernization of their life styles and, in fact, 80 per cent of cardiovascular mortality occurs in developing economies, not in economically advanced western societies. Dr. Smith is quick to point out that groups, such as the World Bank, not traditionally associated with medical issues, are keenly interested in this burgeoning problem because "a country crippled by medical problems cannot enter into the world economy."
He was a child in Wilmington, Delaware, when he first considered the two professions. His father, a Virginia Tech graduate, was an engineer at Dupont, but several of his neighbors were physicians, and he had great respect for both careers. Recognizing his interest in science, he pursued his undergraduate degree in ChE. Counseled by one of his father's colleagues, the esteemed Fred Bull, Chairman of Virginia Tech's ChE Department, he added some biology courses to his academic load. Yale's Admissions Office liked what they saw on his transcript, and he was on his way to making medical history. By 1993, Dr. Smith would be selected Physician of the Year by the AHA.
In his early 20s when entering medical school, breakthroughs were occurring with artificial heart valves, transplants, and a variety of new diagnostic techniques used to treat heart disease. These advances allowed Dr. Smith to appreciate the value of his engineering background. "I realized it would be a true resource, particularly with cardiovascular work," he reflects.
After graduating from Yale Medical School, and completing his residency and fellowship at Harvard University's Brigham Hospital, Dr. Smith entered the U.S. Navy where he spent two years as a cardiologist at the U.S. Naval Hospital in Norfolk, Virginia. In addition to serving as Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, his duties included caring for returning prisoners of war from Vietnam. In 1973, he moved to Denver to direct the University of Colorado's Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory.
As part of his effort to be responsive to the area's citizens, he established cardiac clinics in rural areas of Colorado. He recalls rising at 6:00 a.m., getting on a Frontier Airline prop plane, traveling to an outreach clinic on the western slope, and seeing patients all day.
Four years later, he moved to San Diego to head the Department of Cardiology at Sharp Memorial Hospital. He also directed the San Diego Cardiac Center that grew into one of the three busiest cardiac centers in the state. He continued his work in interventional cardiology, participated with the team performing San Diego's first heart transplantation, and initiated innovative programs aimed at preventing heart disease.
During his 17 years in San Diego, he was active in community and civic affairs that included serving as President of the Board of Trustees for LaJolla Country Day School and Fleet Surgeon for the San Diego Yacht Club where the America's Cup Races were held.
Dr. Smith and his wife Lucy returned to the East Coast in 1994 when he was recruited to the position of Chief of the Cardiology Division at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 2001, he became the Chief Science Officer for the AHA.
In 2003, he returned to a full-time role at UNC to serve as Director of the Center for Cardiovascular Science and Medicine. "There is a tremendous need for the academic environment to keep pace with medical changes. The Center for Cardiovascular Science and Medicine at UNC reaches well beyond cardiology. We combine strategies to study the translation of findings from basic science to clinical therapies that improve patient care. A major focus is on the development and evaluation of guidelines for cardiovascular care which are implemented at the national and international level," Dr. Smith says.
Among his additional credentials, he was a member of the AHA's national board of directors from 1991 to 1997. He served on the AHA's Science Advisory and Coordinating Committee and chaired the International Program Committee and the Clinical Science Committee. He is Vice President of the Inter-American Society of Cardiology and is a primary author of The Principles for National and Regional Guidelines on Cardiovascular Disease Prevention and more than 200 scientific articles and book chapters.
In June of 2000, he was awarded the AHA's prestigious Gold Heart Award. In 2003, he received an Award of Special Recognition from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
At Virginia Tech, he is a member of Ut Prosim and the Committee of< 100, and a past member of the ChE and the college-wide Advisory Boards. In 1996, he accepted an adjunct professorship with Virginia Tech's ChE Department, and he was honored with the Virginia Tech Distinguished Achievement Award.
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It was New York City, 1949. Unable to find quality artists' linen on this side of the Atlantic, artist Norman Gulamerian began importing fine linen from Europe with his brother, Harold. The two fledgling art supply sellers named their venture Utrecht Linens, Inc., and dedicated themselves to supplying artists with the highest-quality art materials for the best value.
The brothers' art supply business grew quickly. In 1957, Norman and Harold developed their revolutionary acrylic gesso for priming canvas. By the end of the early 1960s, they had expanded the Utrecht line to include professional-grade oil paints, acrylics, and watercolor supplies, which they sold at direct-from-manufacturer prices. In subsequent years, the company added painting accessories, brushes, drawing supplies, easels, presentation products, and more to its line of high-quality Utrecht brand products.
In 2007, Madison Parker Capital acquired Utrecht and systematically assisted management refreshing the Utrecht brand, expanding the retail footprint, and redesigning, then launching a new e-commerce platform. Having significantly raised the awareness and appeal of the brand and platform, in 2013, Utrecht was acquired by Blick Art Materials, the largest provider of art supplies in the United States.
The Utrecht paints that have been manufactured in the same Brooklyn, New York, facility for more than 60 years will now be sold in Blick and Utrecht retail stores across the U.S. Over time, Blick's broader array of branded products will also begin appearing in Utrecht stores. Many of these stores will eventually carry the Blick name, as their breadth of product offerings expands to equal that offered in Blick retail stores.
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NBC Sports RNs To Air Mental Health Documentary
"Former NFL wide receiver, Brandon Marshall will be the documentary's executive producer"
NBC Sports Regional Networks announced a partnership with Religion of Sports and Brandon Marshall to develop and produce a mental health documentary. Titled Head Strong: Mental Health and Sports, the hour long special will launch nationwide next month.
The documentary will cover a wide range of mental health issues including anxiety, depression and addiction. Men's health issues will also be highlighted as its November launch coincides with Men's Health Awareness Month.
"Mental health issues have been pushed to the forefront of our national conversation," said Ted Griggs, President, Group Leader and Strategic Production & Programming, NBC Sports Regional Networks, in the press release. "Thanks to athletes like Brandon Marshall, Kevin Love, Michael Phelps, and Missy Franklin, and executives such as NBA commissioner Adam Silver, we know that our sports heroes face mental health challenges, just like so many others. We hope this project will advance that conversation and show people that resources and assistance are available to everyone."
Former NFL wide receiver, Brandon Marshall will be the documentary's executive producer as he partners with NBC Sports Regional Networks and Religion of Sports, an Emmy winning media company founded by Tom Brady, Michael Strahan and Gotham Chopra. Diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder, Marshall, a six-time Pro Bowler has been open about his dealings with mental health illness and the importance of spreading its awareness.
"This project hits home for me," said Marshall. "Through HeadStrong, I hope to use my voice to encourage others to talk openly on this subject."
The mental health initiative will extend beyond the one-hour documentary. Short-form videos, articles, podcasts and other content will be published across NBC Sports Regional Networks digital platforms throughout November.
Brandon Contes is a freelance writer for BSM. He can be found on Twitter @BrandonContes. To reach him by email click here.
Brandon Contes is a former reporter for BSM, now working for Awful Announcing. You can find him on Twitter @BrandonContes or reach him by email at Brandon.Contes@gmail.com.
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University and Career Counseling
Methods & Resources
At Berlin Metropolitan School we seek to offer our students the best preparation for university and vocational pursuits, based on highly personalized and experienced advice for both students and families. Through individual meetings with students, workshops, and a series of special events, we support our students through the process of choosing both study programs at international or national universities as well as the selection vocational pursuits of their specific interest and ability.
With support from a full-time counselor, our students are coached on subject choices for university entry within the IGCSE years (Grades 9-10) as well as during the IBDP years (Grades 11-12), with a high degree of focus on entry into the International Baccalaureate Program and the university admissions process during Grade 11 and 12.
University Admissions Support
We support our students one-to-one in Grade 11 to choose subjects that offer them the most flexibility and success for their initial university choices both in Germany and abroad. We also hold informational events for our parent community to outline specific selection criteria so that they too can make the best choices for their child and be included meaningfully in the application process. To best meet these goals, we host a variety of university representatives from across the globe throughout the academic year to speak with our students directly and to outline their university's mission and culture. Our goal is to empower our students to take ownership of their applications process, in order to not only have many options to choose from but also to feel as if they have succeeded in designing their own future.
We seek to match the student's interest, aspirations, needs, and academic ability to the best suited course of life and study after Secondary school. We also support our students during the entire application process, by assisting with writing letters of intent, meeting deadlines, and helping in the coordination of admissions testing where needed.
In addition, students are provided with advice and recommendations on the best-suited summer programs (link summer program prep document) to prepare for university as well as advice on developing key study skills (link study skills document) in the senior secondary years so as to provide a smooth transition to university academics.
Vocational training within the secondary years is also a main area of focus, with support provided to our students already in Grade 9 when choosing their first internship placement in Berlin or throughout Germany. With the assistance of our university and career counselor, students choose an institution or business to complete a six-week internship, compiling key practical skills in a field of their choice and testing potential areas of career focus.
With the first vocational experiences collected, students can then gauge their International Baccalaureate Diploma Program subject selection with more confidence but also have greater ability in choosing Creativity Action and Service (CAS) (link CAS) activities as part of their Core IB Diploma requirement. BMS students also seek out the experience of our university and career counselor for tailored advice on seeking admissions to business training programs, business schools, and direct placement programs in a business either in Germany or at an international firm. As a whole, vocational pursuits are met with personalized support from our counselor so that our students continue to flourish and succeed beyond their years at Berlin Metropolitan School.
University Placements
Members of the Class of 2019 were admitted to universities both in Germany and across the globe, with programs of study ranging from medicine, international relations, international law, to economics, computer sciences, and design. 83% of our students were accepted to the university placement of their first or second choice from the Class of 2019. These university choices reflect the commitment to a student-centered approach to learning both within BMS and for life beyond Secondary school.
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Current Research and Scholarly InterestsOur lab applies biochemical and engineering principles to the development of protein-based tools for investigating biology in living animals. Topics of investigation include fluorescent protein-based voltage indicators, synthetic light-controllable proteins, bioluminescent reporters, and applications to studying animal models of disease.
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy laboratory is interested in understanding the metabolic pathways and bioactive small molecules that control mammalian energy homeostasis. Our research program spans three main areas: 1) discovery of new metabolic pathways, 2) identification of genetically-encoded factors that control metabolite signaling, and 3) development of animal models for characterizing the role of metabolic pathways in physiology and disease. To achieve these goals, we use a multidisciplinary approach that combines classical biochemistry, mass spectrometry, organic chemistry, and mouse genetics. While our main disease interests include obesity and type 2 diabetes, our research has applications to other disorders associated with metabolic dysfunction such as neurodegeneration and certain cancers.
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsThe laboratory is focused on the relationship between injury, wound healing, and cancer. Esophageal, gastric, and pancreatic cancers are a focus. We are particularly interested in the regulation of cell signaling by EGFR, the EGF receptor. In addition to cancer pathogenesis, active projects include the development of new diagnostic assays and drugs.


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Lady Gaga Height, Bio, Body Measurements, Net worth, Family, Boyfriend, Facts
Lady Gaga American Singer, Songwriter, Actress
Lady Gaga Bio Data
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Some Interesting Facts About Lady Gaga
Lady Gaga is the most stunning American songwriter, actress, singer, dancer, philanthropist and a fashion designer. She was born in Manhattan, New York on 28th March, 1986 to Joseph Anthony Germanotta and Cynthia Louise. Gaga's father is of Italian ancestry, and her mother is of half French-Canadian and half Italian, German, Scottish and English ancestry. Lady Gaga was proficient enough in singing and play piano since her childhood. She joined Convent of the Sacred Heart when she was 11 years of age where she was tormented for her appearance and weird habits.
By age 14, she was performing on open mike nights in bars and clubs. Lady Gaga had gained admission at Tisch School of the Arts in New York University. Along with sharpening her songwriting abilities, Gaga composed a number of analytical papers and essays on art, social issues, religion and politics. When Lady Gaga was 19 years old, she left her studies and settled with her parents' home with the intention of pursuing a melodic career. In this time she commenced a band which started to get local attention.
In the year 2008, Lady Gaga released her very first musical album 'The Fame' to lukewarm radio play; she toured to Europe and in gay bars and clubs in USA in order to promote her album, though it was not till her first super hit 'Just Dance' came to attention in the year 2009 that she exploded on music scene.
Since that time, Lady Gaga has gained a number of awards as well as nominations for a cord of hits; her first music album hatched some more mega hits 'Love Game', 'Poker Face' and 'Paparazzi'; once touring the album she wrote 'The Fame Monster', an EP exploring the blacker side to her new-found recognition. The Fame Monster was released in the year 2009 and received manifold awards, hatching her most iconic single 'Bad Romance', 'Alejandro' and 'Telephone'.
In the year 2011, Lady Gaga released her second album 'Born this Way'; this music album received massively more critically in comparison with her previous two albums for touching on politics, religion and sexuality themes. She composed her 3rd album, ARTPOP, released in the year 2013. Lady Gaga made her first acting debut in Robert Rodriguez's Machete Kills, and also performed in Rodriguez's sequel Sin City – A Dame to Kill For.
Name Lady Gaga
Full Name Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta
Nickname/Alternative Name GaGa, Germ, Loopy, Sucra, Mother Monster
Date of Birth March 28, 1986
Religion Roman Catholicism
Hometown New York City, United States
Lady Gaga Academic Profile
School Convent of the Sacred Heart, New York
College/University New York University's Tisch School of the Arts
Lady Gaga HD Photos
Lady Gaga Career and Net Worth
Profession Singer, Songwriter, Actress
Debut TV Series/Movie
Singing Debut: The Fame (Album)
Movie Debut: Monster Ball Tour: At Madison Square Garden
TV Show: The Sopranos
Husband/Boyfriend Christian Carino (2017-Present)
Father Joseph Germanotta
Mother Cynthia Germanotta
Sister Natali Germanotta
Ex Boyfriends
Lüc Carl (2007-2008)
Speedy (2009)
Taylor Kinney (October 2011 – 2016)
Height in Feet 5 feet 1 inches
Height in Meter 1.55 m
Body Measurements 36-26-37 inches
Dress Size 6 (US)
Body Type Hourglass
Bra Size 34B
Hips 37 inches
Waist 26 inches
Chest 36 inches
Shoe Size 8.5 (US)
Hair Color Blonde
Eye Color Hazel
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Favorite Actress Britney Spears
Favorite Book(s) Romeo and Juliet (By William Shakespeare)
Favorite Food Cheeseburger
Favorite Color Purple, Black, White
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Website Official Website
Lady Gaga's name was stirred by Queen Song, 'Radio Gaga'.
Her nicknames are Loopy, Gagaloo, Rabbit Teeth, Mother Monster and Little Mermaid.
Lady Gaga's most favorite colors are lavender and black.
Lady Gaga's most favorite cartoon character is Bugs Bunny.
Her favorite movie director is Martin Scorsese.
Lady Gaga was one time mentioned by Chicago cops for licentious exposure for wearing hot jeans in public.
Gaga used to be part of a duet with performance star Lady Stardust. They were named 'Lady Gaga And Starlight Revenue'.
Lady Gaga signed a deal on her 20th birthday with Interscope Records.
Her natural hair shade is brown.
The Fame Monster was the top-selling album of the year 2010 worldwide.
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Need to Know: August 29, 2019
Fresh useful insights for people advancing quality, innovative and sustainable journalism
OFF THE TOP
You might have heard: The New York Times created an "Obits Diversity Analysis Tool," to help it track and increase obituaries written for women (Daily Beast)
But did you know: Obituaries help keep local newspapers afloat (Axios)
Obituaries are one of the last consistent revenue streams for local newspapers. According to data from local obituary and advertising placement firm Adpay, about $500 million in total annual revenue comes from obituaries, with more than a million paid obituaries created annually. For context, the newspaper market in the U.S. brings in roughly $25 billion in advertising and subscriptions combined. However, digital and social media increasingly present an alternative to newspaper obituaries. To stave off any loss in obit revenue, some newspapers have begun condensing death notices to just a few short words for free, in the hopes that people would pay extra for fuller obituaries.
+ Earlier: "Why aren't we treating the obituary pages, from a design and editing perspective, as one of the most important sections of the newspaper? We might joke about it, but what could be more important than the deaths of loyal readers' contemporaries?" Hearst VP Matt DeRienzo on "radically serving" print's most loyal audience (Editor & Publisher); The Greeley Tribune in Colorado has a daily (digital) obit newsletter that it says has more than 1,000 subscribers with a 50 percent open rate, the highest at the paper
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+ Noted: Funders have given Facebook a deadline to share data with researchers or they're pulling out (BuzzFeed News); The Washington Post introduces new Spanish-language opinion section (Washington Post); Administrators of the Slack group Journalists of Color win ONA Community Award (ONA19); Google moves to simplify, standardize content policies for publishers (Search Engine Land)
API RESOURCES
Make the transition from advertising to reader revenue
In our report "What it takes to shift a news organization to reader revenue," we examine the critical elements that must be in place to build and maintain a successful subscription program. Find out what you're doing — or not doing — that could be hindering reader revenue.
Making journalism more 'memberful' (Membership Puzzle Project)
Crowdsourced reporting projects are great, but what about finding ways to regularly incorporate your audience's knowledge and expertise into your journalism? The Membership Puzzle Project compiled examples from news organizations that do this well at each stage of the publishing process: planning, research and reporting, editing and fact-checking, and distribution. "We're seeing it's possible that a unique style of journalism can be built from these and other routines," write Emily Goligoksi and Jay Rosen. "It's also possible that your organization can grow faster. Really. And produce better stories."
+ How to succeed in a temporary news leadership role (RTDNA)
News site offers readers a chance to win £3,000 for pledging not to use phone at wheel (Hold the Front Page)
A local news site in Belfast, Ireland, has partnered with a local insurance company to launch #LeaveThePhoneAlone, a campaign that urges readers to pledge not to use phones at the wheel. Those who take the pledge are entered into a prize draw to win £3,000. The campaign idea was born after Belfast Live conducted a reader survey in which 88% of readers said they had seen someone using a mobile phone while driving within the previous week, and 30% admitted to looking at their own phones while driving. "From our initial reader survey, the scale of this issue was apparent, and we felt we needed to try to make a change amongst people's attitudes to using their mobile in any way when driving," said editor Chris Sherrard.
Overlaying text on images helps draw reader attention (Medium, UX Collective)
Eye-tracking studies show that readers pay more attention to information loaded with visual elements. In a recent experiment at the ride-sharing company Uber, researchers placed a headline over a cover image and found that users spotted it more quickly and spent more time on the first fold than they did when the headline was placed underneath or alongside the image. In fact, in the latter placement, 10% of users did not focus their gaze on the headline, even for a moment. Newsroom web developers could consider presenting headlines this way not only for journalistic content, but for product landing pages as well.
How writing off the working class has hurt the mainstream media (Nieman Lab)
The drastic decline of the labor beat at most U.S. news outlets set the conditions for the deeply partisan media we have today, writes Christopher R. Martin. Over the last half-century, newspapers began to pursue higher-income audiences that typically worked in white-collar jobs, covering their upscale lifestyles and neglecting the working class. This marketing pivot left us with two problems, says Martin: "First, the news media usually look at the working class only through the lens of a political news story, not through the lens of a labor or workplace story. Second, the news media typically consider the 'working class' not in its entirety, but just in the stereotypical white male form, which nicely serves the purposes of divisive politicians who seek to exploit this image and divide working-class people on every other dimension: race, gender, sexual orientation, disability, and citizenship."
+ Earlier: Covering poor and working-class communities: What to avoid and how to get it right (Journalist's Resource)
A solutions approach to photojournalism (Journalism.co.uk)
In partnership with the Solutions Journalism Network and the Message in a Photo Foundation, the World Press Photo Foundation has launched the Solutions Visual Journalism Initiative, which helps journalists take a solutions approach to a visual project. "For 65 years, we have run an annual photo contest and what is often selected as the best, particularly for say, Photo of the Year, often deals only with the problem," says David Campbell, director of programs and outreach at WPPF. "If you can capture all the problems with a photo, why can't you capture the solutions?"
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Q: Best ways to find out the reasons behind Spring Boot application is slowing down in Production environment We are running multiple Spring Boot applications on Production servers. In recent time, we observed slowness in production to that workflow where Spring Boot applications are running.
We are using Spring Actuator to check health and processes but didn't find any solution.
We also have thread dumps backups with us for debugging.

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text: Q: Stacking Images in Python For Multiple Days I have a series of images over five days. Each day has 10 images with a dimension of (160,160). These images are ordered in time. The first minute has an image associated, and so does the second, and so on. This holds for all five days. I'm trying to create a matrix of some sort, where the first row has the ten images from the first day, and the second has the images for the second day. The same for the third, fourth, and fifth days. I can do this for just one day using np.hstack, but I can't figure out how to add the second row underneath for the next days. Any help regarding this would be appreciated.


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Q: Querying COUNT(*) over many tables takes more than half a second per row I have the following database structure:
projects

id
name

1
Test

2
Test 2

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `projects`
(
    `id`                  bigint unsigned                         NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
    `name`                varchar(255) COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci              DEFAULT NULL,
    PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
    ) ENGINE = InnoDB
  AUTO_INCREMENT = 5772
  DEFAULT CHARSET = utf8mb4
  COLLATE = utf8mb4_unicode_ci;

participant_subscriptions

id
project_id
alternative_project_id
deleted_at

1
1
null
null

2
null
2
null

3
null
null
null

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `participant_subscriptions`
(
    `id`                      bigint unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
    `project_id`              bigint unsigned      DEFAULT NULL,
    `alternative_project_id`  bigint unsigned      DEFAULT NULL,
    `deleted_at`              timestamp       NULL DEFAULT NULL,
    PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
    KEY `participant_subscriptions_project_id_foreign` (`project_id`),
    KEY `participant_subscriptions_alternative_project_id_foreign` (`alternative_project_id`),
    CONSTRAINT `participant_subscriptions_alternative_project_id_foreign` FOREIGN KEY (`alternative_project_id`) REFERENCES `projects` (`id`) ON DELETE SET NULL,
    CONSTRAINT `participant_subscriptions_project_id_foreign` FOREIGN KEY (`project_id`) REFERENCES `projects` (`id`) ON DELETE CASCADE ON UPDATE RESTRICT
) ENGINE = InnoDB
  AUTO_INCREMENT = 15050
  DEFAULT CHARSET = utf8mb4
  COLLATE = utf8mb4_unicode_ci;

participant_subscription_project

id
participant_subscription_id
project_id
alternative_project_id

1
3
1
null

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `participant_subscription_project`
(
    `id`                          bigint unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
    `participant_subscription_id` bigint unsigned NOT NULL,
    `project_id`                  bigint unsigned NOT NULL,
    `alternative_project_id`      bigint unsigned DEFAULT NULL,
    PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
    UNIQUE KEY `participant_subscription_project_unique` (`participant_subscription_id`, `project_id`),
    KEY `participant_subscription_project_project_id_foreign` (`project_id`),
    KEY `participant_subscription_project_alternative_project_id_foreign` (`alternative_project_id`),
    CONSTRAINT `participant_subscription_id_foreign` FOREIGN KEY (`participant_subscription_id`) REFERENCES `participant_subscriptions` (`id`) ON DELETE CASCADE ON UPDATE RESTRICT,
    CONSTRAINT `participant_subscription_project_alternative_project_id_foreign` FOREIGN KEY (`alternative_project_id`) REFERENCES `projects` (`id`) ON DELETE SET NULL,
    CONSTRAINT `participant_subscription_project_project_id_foreign` FOREIGN KEY (`project_id`) REFERENCES `projects` (`id`) ON DELETE CASCADE ON UPDATE RESTRICT
) ENGINE = InnoDB
  AUTO_INCREMENT = 4066
  DEFAULT CHARSET = utf8mb4
  COLLATE = utf8mb4_unicode_c

subscription_details

id
option
confirmed
participant_subscription_id
participant_subscription_project_id

1
null
null
1
null

2
1
1
2
null

3
0
1
null
3

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `subscription_details`
(
    `id`                                  bigint unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
    `option`                              tinyint(1)                              DEFAULT '0',
    `confirmed`                           tinyint(1)                              DEFAULT '0',
    `participant_subscription_id`         bigint unsigned                         DEFAULT NULL,
    `participant_subscription_project_id` bigint unsigned                         DEFAULT NULL,
    PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
    UNIQUE KEY `subscription_details_participant_subscription_id_unique` (`participant_subscription_id`),
    UNIQUE KEY `subscription_details_participant_subscription_project_id_unique` (`participant_subscription_project_id`),
    CONSTRAINT `subscription_details_participant_subscription_id_foreign` FOREIGN KEY (`participant_subscription_id`) REFERENCES `participant_subscriptions` (`id`) ON DELETE CASCADE ON UPDATE RESTRICT,
    CONSTRAINT `subscription_details_participant_subscription_project_id_foreign` FOREIGN KEY (`participant_subscription_project_id`) REFERENCES `participant_subscription_project` (`id`) ON DELETE CASCADE ON UPDATE RESTRICT
) ENGINE = InnoDB
  AUTO_INCREMENT = 28198
  DEFAULT CHARSET = utf8mb4
  COLLATE = utf8mb4_unicode_ci;

And I would like to know the total amount of subscriptions of a single project. So made the following sub-query:
SELECT `projects`.*,
(
            (
                SELECT COUNT(*) FROM `participant_subscriptions`
                LEFT JOIN `subscription_details` ON (
                    `subscription_details`.`participant_subscription_id` = `participant_subscriptions`.`id`
                    AND`subscription_details`.`option` = 1 AND `subscription_details`.`confirmed` = 1
                )
                WHERE `projects`.`id` = `participant_subscriptions`.`project_id` AND
                    `participant_subscriptions`.`deleted_at` IS NULL AND
                    # Exclude optional
                    `subscription_details`.`id` IS NULL
            ) +
            (
                SELECT COUNT(*) FROM `participant_subscriptions`
                LEFT JOIN `subscription_details` ON (
                    `subscription_details`.`participant_subscription_id` = `participant_subscriptions`.`id`
                    AND `subscription_details`.`option` = 1 AND `subscription_details`.`confirmed` = 1
                )
                WHERE `projects`.`id` = `participant_subscriptions`.`alternative_project_id` AND
                    `participant_subscriptions`.`deleted_at` IS NULL AND
                    # Exclude optional
                    `subscription_details`.`id` IS NULL
            ) +
            (
                SELECT COUNT(*) FROM `participant_subscription_project`
                JOIN `participant_subscriptions` ON `participant_subscriptions`.`id` = `participant_subscription_project`.`participant_subscription_id`
                WHERE `projects`.`id` = `participant_subscription_project`.`project_id` AND
                    `participant_subscriptions`.`deleted_at` IS NULL
            ) +
            (
                SELECT COUNT(*) FROM `participant_subscription_project`
                JOIN `participant_subscriptions` ON `participant_subscriptions`.`id` = `participant_subscription_project`.`participant_subscription_id`
                WHERE `projects`.`id` = `participant_subscription_project`.`alternative_project_id` AND
                    `participant_subscriptions`.`deleted_at` IS NULL
            )
        ) AS `participants_count`
FROM `projects` WHERE `projects`.`id` = 1

id
select_type
table
partitions
type
possible_keys
key
key_len
ref
rows
filtered
extra

1
PRIMARY
projects
NULL
const
PRIMARY
PRIMARY
8
const
1
100.00
NULL

5
DEPENDENT SUBQUERY
participant_subscription_project
NULL
ref
participant_subscription_project_unique,participan...
participant_subscription_project_alternative_proje...
9
const
1
100.00
NULL

5
DEPENDENT SUBQUERY
participant_subscriptions
NULL
eq_ref
PRIMARY
PRIMARY
8
participant_subscription_project.part...
1
10.00
Using where

4
DEPENDENT SUBQUERY
participant_subscription_project
NULL
ref
participant_subscription_project_unique,participan...
participant_subscription_project_project_id_foreig...
8
const
3
100.00
NULL

4
DEPENDENT SUBQUERY
participant_subscriptions
NULL
eq_ref
PRIMARY
PRIMARY
8
participant_subscription_project.part...
1
10.00
Using where

3
DEPENDENT SUBQUERY
participant_subscriptions
NULL
ref
participant_subscriptions_alternative_project_id_f...
participant_subscriptions_alternative_project_id_f...
9
const
1
10.00
Using where

3
DEPENDENT SUBQUERY
subscription_details
NULL
eq_ref
subscription_details_participant_subscription_id_u...
subscription_details_participant_subscription_id_u...
9
participant_subscriptions.id
1
10.00
Using where; Not exists

2
DEPENDENT SUBQUERY
participant_subscriptions
NULL
ref
participant_subscriptions_project_id_foreign
participant_subscriptions_project_id_foreign
9
const
1
10.00
Using where

2
DEPENDENT SUBQUERY
subscription_details
NULL
eq_ref
subscription_details_participant_subscription_id_u...
subscription_details_participant_subscription_id_u...
9
participant_subscriptions.id
1
10.00
Using where; Not exists

This query takes about 480 ms. As this query could also be used in a paginated result, I tried to make the query faster with the following result:
SELECT `projects`.*,
(
           SELECT COUNT(*) FROM `participant_subscriptions`
            LEFT JOIN `participant_subscription_project` ON `participant_subscription_project`.`participant_subscription_id` = `participant_subscriptions`.`id`
            LEFT JOIN `subscription_details` ON
               `subscription_details`.`participant_subscription_id` = `participant_subscriptions`.`id` OR
               `subscription_details`.`participant_subscription_project_id` = `participant_subscription_project`.`id`
           WHERE
               `participant_subscriptions`.`deleted_at` IS NULL
             AND COALESCE(
                 `participant_subscriptions`.`project_id`,
                 `participant_subscriptions`.`alternative_project_id`,
                 `participant_subscription_project`.`project_id`,
                 `participant_subscription_project`.`alternative_project_id`
             ) = `projects`.`id`
             AND NOT (`subscription_details`.`option` = 1 AND `subscription_details`.`confirmed` = 1)
       ) AS `participants_count`
FROM `projects` WHERE `projects`.`id` = 1

id
select_type
table
partitions
type
possible_keys
key
key_len
ref
rows
filtered
extra

1
PRIMARY
projects
NULL
const
PRIMARY
PRIMARY
8
const
1
100.00
NULL

2
DEPENDENT SUBQUERY
participant_subscriptions
NULL
ALL
PRIMARY
NULL
NULL
NULL
13416
10.00
Using where

2
DEPENDENT SUBQUERY
participant_subscription_project
NULL
ref
participant_subscription_project_unique
participant_subscription_project_unique
8
participant_subscriptions.id
1
100.00
Using where

2
DEPENDENT SUBQUERY
subscription_details
NULL
ALL
subscription_details_participant_subscription_id_u...
NULL
NULL
NULL
25617
0.04
Range checked for each record (index map: 0xA)

However, this query is even slower taking at least 500ms. My question is, is it possible to make this sub-query faster.

A: These INDEXes might help
subscription_details:  (confirmed, option, participant_subscription_id)
participant_subscriptions:  INDEX(project_id, deleted_at, id)
participant_subscriptions:  INDEX(deleted_at, alternative_project_id, id)
participant_subscription_project:  INDEX(project_id, participant_subscription_id)
participant_subscription_project:  INDEX(alternative_project_id, participant_subscription_id)


text:
Q: Best way to perform string validation with user input in Python 3.4? I have got a string as is:
line = 'City' /* City can be in 2 or 3 parts */

----> 2 parts: first char of each part is a capital letter.
----> 3 parts: first char of 1st and 2nd part is a capital letter.
The line I get is always valid because I check it with a regex already,
I now would like to know what is the best way to ask the user for a character, then check if the input is the same as the City's first character (no matter what part of the city), if it is, print the City name to the output.
I am doing this for now but I'm learning Python for 2 days now and I'm kind of struggling right now.
line_ = "Mont de Marsan"

while True:
    inp = input('')
    if 'ABORT' in inp:
        inp = False
        sys.exit(0)
    else:
        inp = input('')
        for c in line_:
            if inp == c:
                print (line_)
            else:
                inp = False
                sys.exit(0)
                break

I hope the description of my problem is straight forward because it's getting messy in my mind :)
Could you please help me find the best way to perform such things in real time and for a lot of strings ?
 /* EDIT */

expected behaviour of programm if City is 'Pont de Marsan'
<---- d
----> Mont de Marsan
<---- P
----> Pont de Marsan
<---- M
----> Mont de Marsan
<---- l
 program exit.

Here's some more explanation:
I have a list of City, some can be 'Paris', some can be 'Mont de Marsan' or even 'Pont Neuf'. I now have to ask the user for a single character, if he enters P, I have to print 'Paris' and 'Pont Neuf', if he enters 'd' I have to print 'Mont de Marsan'. It's the same behaviour as the GPS system in cars.

A:
"(...) if the input is the same as the City's first character (no matter what part of the city)"

You can split the city name by space using the string method split() to get a list of its parts:
>>> "Mont de Marsan".split() == ["Mont", "de", "Marsan"]
True
>>>

split() defaults to splitting by space but can split one string by any other string, e.g.
>>> "abc".split("b") == ['a', 'c']
True
>>>

You can then go through each part of the city name and check what it starts with using the startswith() method or string indexing if you only want a specific number of letters; e.g. "Paris"[0] to match only the first letter "P".
You didn't mention it but I assume you also want case-insensitive matching so that both "p" and "P" will match "Paris", "Pont Neuf" and "pont neuf". To do this, you could simply convert your city names and the user input to the same case using lower() or upper() but since you're using Python 3.x, you might as well take advantage of the casefold() method that's made for this purpose. From the docs:

Casefolding is similar to lowercasing but more aggressive because it
  is intended to remove all case distinctions in a string. For example,
  the German lowercase letter 'ß' is equivalent to "ss". Since it is
  already lowercase, lower() would do nothing to 'ß'; casefold()
  converts it to "ss".

In the snippet below, you're converting the user input to a boolean (it starts out as a string). There's nothing technically wrong in it - Python won't complain - but is it really what you want?
inp = input('')      <-- a string
if 'ABORT' in inp:   <-- still a string
    inp = False      <-- a boolean

Maybe you wanted to break the while loop using a boolean? In that case, you could do the following:
done = False

while not done:
    inp = input('')
    if 'ABORT' in inp:
        done = True
    ...

sys.exit(0)

The code above also eliminates the need to repeat sys.exit(0) throughout the code.
An edited version of your code. I might have changed it a bit too much but just use what you can:
import sys

cities = {"Mont de Marsan", "Pont Neuf", "Paris"}

done = False

while not done:
    inp = input('> ')
    if any(inp):
        if 'ABORT' in inp:
            done = True
        else:
            inp = inp.casefold()
            for city in cities:
                city_casefold = city.casefold()
                if city_casefold.startswith(inp):
                    print(city)
                else:
                    for part in city_casefold.split():
                        if part.startswith(inp):
                            print(city)
                            break
    else:
        done = True

sys.exit(0)

I saved the code in a script called suggestions.py. Testing it...
$ python3 suggestions.py
> p
Pont Neuf
Paris
> P
Pont Neuf
Paris
> PAR
Paris
> AR
> DE
Mont de Marsan
> de
Mont de Marsan
> d
Mont de Marsan
> D
Mont de Marsan
>

A: My strategy is to create a dictionary of sets of city names, with the initial letter of each word in a city name as the key. It doesn't take long to create this dictionary, but it makes finding the matching cities very fast.
My input loop ignores empty strings and leading or trailing blank spaces, and it prints "Nothing matches" if it can't find a match because I find it very annoying when a program closes just because I gave it bad input.
from collections import defaultdict

# Create list of city names
cities = '''\
Aix en Provence
Bordeaux
Clermont Ferrand
Le Mans
Le Havre
Limoges
Lyon
Marseille
Mont de Marsan
Montpellier
Nantes
Nice
Nîmes
Paris
Pont Neuf
Saint Denis
Saint Étienne
Strasbourg
Toulon
Toulouse
Tours
'''.splitlines()

# Build a dictionary of cities keyed by the
# 1st letter of each word of the city name
city_index = defaultdict(set)
for city in cities:
    for word in city.split():
        city_index[word[0]].add(city)

# Display the city index
for k in sorted(city_index.keys()):
    print(k, city_index[k])
print()

print('Select cities by an initial letter, or ABORT to quit')
while True:
    s = input('? ')

    #Remove leading or trailing whitespace
    s = s.strip()

    # Ignore empty input
    if not s:
        continue

    if s == 'ABORT':
        break

    #We only want a single leter, so discard anything after the first letter
    s = s[0]

    # Get matching cities
    matches = city_index.get(s)
    if matches:
        print(matches)
    else:
        print('Nothing matches')

Test run
A {'Aix en Provence'}
B {'Bordeaux'}
C {'Clermont Ferrand'}
D {'Saint Denis'}
F {'Clermont Ferrand'}
H {'Le Havre'}
L {'Le Mans', 'Limoges', 'Lyon', 'Le Havre'}
M {'Le Mans', 'Mont de Marsan', 'Marseille', 'Montpellier'}
N {'Pont Neuf', 'Nice', 'Nantes', 'Nîmes'}
P {'Pont Neuf', 'Aix en Provence', 'Paris'}
S {'Strasbourg', 'Saint Étienne', 'Saint Denis'}
T {'Toulon', 'Tours', 'Toulouse'}
d {'Mont de Marsan'}
e {'Aix en Provence'}
É {'Saint Étienne'}

Select cities by an initial letter, or ABORT to quit
? S
{'Strasbourg', 'Saint Étienne', 'Saint Denis'}
? T
{'Toulon', 'Tours', 'Toulouse'}
? A
{'Aix en Provence'}
? C
{'Clermont Ferrand'}
? K
Nothing matches
? d
{'Mont de Marsan'}
? F
{'Clermont Ferrand'}
? M
{'Le Mans', 'Mont de Marsan', 'Marseille', 'Montpellier'}
? E
Nothing matches
? É
{'Saint Étienne'}
?   Silly
{'Strasbourg', 'Saint Étienne', 'Saint Denis'}
? ABORT


text:
Get the Fainting Salts, Trump Used a Bad Word!
The effete dandies in Washington and the media got a collective case of the vapors on Thursday when reports came out about a bipartisan immigration meeting President Trump held in the Oval Office. It was there where Trump, irritated by the prospect of spending so much American treasure on protecting immigrants from Haiti, El Salvador, and African counties, reportedly asked a simple question: "Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?"
Cue shock. Cue outrage. Cue a thousand editorials calling Trump a racist bigot. Oh the humanity!
Trump went on to tell lawmakers that the U.S. should spend more of its immigration resources bringing in people from countries like Norway and the Pacific Rim. "Why do we need more Haitians?" he asked. "Take them out."
According to the New York Times, even politicians from the GOP side of the aisle were simply shocked – SHOCKED – by the president's remarks:
Lawmakers were taken aback by the comments, according to people familiar with their reactions. Sens. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) and Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.) had proposed cutting the visa lottery program by 50 percent and then prioritizing countries already in the system, a White House official said.
Rep. Mia Love (R-Utah), whose family is from Haiti, said in a statement that Trump's remarks were "unkind, divisive, elitist, and fly in the face of our nation's values. This behavior is unacceptable from the leader of our nation."
Look, nothing against Ms. Love and Mr. Graham, but get a life. The American people, who voted for Trump in overwhelming numbers, are not shocked and outraged by these comments and the Republicans who are taking a stand right now are just falling right into one of the left's usual traps. Stop pretending like this is the worst thing you've ever heard someone say and get real. If these countries are so fantastic, then why are their protected immigrants so desperate to avoid going back there, huh? Explain that, and then we'll listen to your oh-so-sincere arguments about why Trump is a terrible person for using this kind of language.
Frankly, we'd rather have a leader who speaks in this sort of plain, get-to-the-point language than someone who carefully shrouds what he's thinking in sixteen layers of politically correct nonsense. Take away the exact verbiage Trump used (if he even used it) and you have nothing more than a common-sense sentiment shared by tens of millions of Americans – even if they won't admit it in public. Let's grow up, collectively grow a pair, and stop fainting on our couches every time Trump fails to be "presidential."
Democrats Suddenly Want Us to Forget About the Trump Dossier
Trump Warns Allies: Fix Iran Deal or the U.S. Will Withdraw
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Q: rails: link_to to pass list of selected checkboxes into params I am not sure what the correct approach is for my situation:
I want to create a link_to pushing all checkboxes with value="1" into an array, or individually if array is not possible, but I am at a loss of how to express that?
<% @cards.each do |card| %>
    <%= check_box("#{card.name}", card.id, {checked: true}) %><%= "#{card.name}" %>
<% end %>

(Rails 4.2)

A: After a long time of dead ends, trying to make it a 'clean' solution I ended up with this very dirty approach. But as they say, done is better than perfect:
Create a link_to that would include all the cards, but add one additional params: user_selected_cards = "".
Create a javascript that listens to for checking/unchecking of the checkboxes and reads the id associated with that specific checkbox. Then take that incoming info and add or remove it to the actual url that the link_to generates by finding the user_seletected_cards= portion in the url and add or remove the id depending on if isn't or already is added to the list after the equal sign.


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