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Deprecated names and features

As the library evolves over time, names sometimes
change or old features are removed to make way for new features. To ease transition, Boost.Filesystem deprecates
the old names and features, but by default continues to provide many of them.
The deprecated names and other workarounds can be suppressed by defining macro
BOOST_FILESYSTEM_NO_DEPRECATED, and this is recommended for all new code.

In the table, ✔ indicates a synonym or other
workaround is provided unless
BOOST_FILESYSTEM_NO_DEPRECATED is defined.

    Component or location

Old name, now deprecated

    ✔

New name

    class path
    branch_path()
    ✔
    parent_path()

    class path

    canonize()

    Function removed

    class path

    default_name_check()

    ✔

    Function removed

    class path

    default_name_check(name_check)

    ✔

    Function removed

    class path

    default_name_check_writable()

    ✔

    Function removed

    class path
    directory_string()
    ✔
    string

    class path
    external_directory_string()
    ✔
    native()

    class path
    external_file_string()
    ✔
    native()

    class path
    file_string()
    ✔
    string()

    class path
    has_branch_path()
    ✔
    has_parent_path()

    class path
    has_leaf()
    ✔
    has_filename()

    class path
    is_complere()
    ✔
    is_absolute()

    class path
    leaf()
    ✔
    filename()

    class path

    native_directory_string()

    ✔

    string()

    class path

    native_file_string()

    ✔

    string()

    class path

    normalize()

    ✔

    Function removed

    class path

    path(const string_type& str, name_check)

    ✔

    Function removed. Workaround ignores name_check
    argument.

    class path

    path(const string_type::value_type* s,  name_check)

    ✔

    Function removed. Workaround ignores name_check
    argument.

    class path

remove_leaf()

    ✔

remove_filename()

    path.hpp

    template<class String, class Traits>

  class basic_path;

    Class template basic_path is replaced by class path.
    No workaround for an explicitly coded basic_path is provided,
    but see the next row - path.

    path.hpp

    typedef basic_path<std::string, path_traits> path

    ✔

    class path

    path.hpp

    typedef basic_path<std::wstring, wpath_traits> wpath

    ✔

    Removed; use class path instead. Workaround provides
    typedef path wpath

    operations.hpp

    initial_path()

    ✔

    Function removed

    operations.hpp

template <class Path>

    Path complete(const Path& p,

 const Path& base=

   initial_path<Path>())

    ✔

path absolute(const path& p, const path& base=

  current_path())

    operations.hpp

    is_regular(file_status f)

    ✔

    is_regular_file(file_status f)

    operations.hpp

    symbolic_link_exists(const path& ph)

    Function removed

    class directory_entry

    filename()

    ✔

    Function removed, use path().filename() instead.

    class directory_entry

    leaf()

    ✔

    Function removed, use path().filename() instead.

    class directory_entry

    string()

    ✔

    Function removed, use path().string() instead.

    Macro definitions

    BOOST_WINDOW_API

    No longer supported; API selection is always automatic.

    Macro definitions

    BOOST_POSIX_API

    No longer supported; API selection is always automatic.

    Macro definitions

    BOOST_WINDOW_PATH

    No longer supported; native path format selection is always automatic.

    Macro definitions

    BOOST_POSIX_PATH

    No longer supported; native path format selection is always automatic.

Deprecation rationale

initial_path function

Full implementation of initial_path() would require
support from the C++ runtime startup code, and that doesn't seem likely to
happen. Depending on the user to call initial_path() at the
beginning of main() is too error prone.  An equivalent
function can trivially be provided by a user.

Revised
29 December, 2014

© Copyright Beman Dawes, 2002-2005, 2010

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License, Version 1.0. See
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Conference Highlights » World Sleep 2019
Pitolisant Reduces Excessive Daytime Sleepiness and Cataplexy in Patients With Narcolepsy
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Researchers analyzed data from patients enrolled in the HARMONY-1 and HARMONY-CTP trials with narcolepsy who reported excessive daytime sleepiness and cataplexy.
Treatment with pitolisant, a potent and highly selective histamine 3 (H3)-receptor antagonist/inverse agonist, reduces excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) and cataplexy in patients with narcolepsy, according to study results presented at World Sleep 2019, held September 20 to 25, in Vancouver, Canada.
The study was an analysis of the safety and efficacy of the HARMONY-1 and HARMONY-CTP trials, which enrolled patients with narcolepsy who reported excessive daytime sleepiness and cataplexy. In the HARMONY-1 trial, patients were randomly assigned to receive flexible doses of pitolisant (n=32), modafinil (n=33), or placebo (n=30) for an 8-week treatment period.
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Patients in the HARMONY-CTP trial were randomly assigned to either pitolisant (n=54) or placebo (n=52) for a total of 7 weeks. The analysis of the 2 trials focused on improvements in excessive daytime sleepiness as assessed by the Epworth Sleepiness Scale as well as improvements in cataplexy as assessed by patient diaries.
Significantly greater improvements in mean Epworth Sleepiness Scale score were observed with pitolisant vs placebo in HARMONY-1 (treatment effect, -3.0; P =.022) and HARMONY-CTP (treatment effect, -3.4; P <.0001). The percentage patients who responded, and had a final scored of <10 on the Epworth Sleepiness Scale, was significantly greater among patients who received pitolisant compared with placebo: HARMONY-1 (45.2% vs 13.3%; P <.001) and HARMONY-CTP (39.2% vs 18.0%; P =.035).
Patients in the HARMONY-1 trial who were receiving pitolisnat experienced a 65% reduction in the daily rate of cataplexy vs 9% reduction among those in the placebo group (rate ratio [RR], 0.38; 95% CI, 0.15‒ 0.93; P =.034). Similarly, patients in the HARMONY-CTP experienced a 75% reduction in the weekly rate of cataplexy from baseline with pitolisant vs a 38% reduction with placebo (estimated RR, 0.51; 95% CI, 0.44‒0.60; P <.001). Headache and nausea were the most common adverse events associated with pitolisant in both trials.
Researchers concluded that these trials demonstrate that a "reduction in the cardinal symptoms of narcolepsy—excessive daytime sleepiness and cataplexy—was significantly greater in patients treated with pitolisant compared with those who received placebo."
Disclosure: This study was funded and sponsored by Bioprojet Pharma and Harmony Biosciences, LLC. Please see the original reference for a full list of authors' disclosures.
Dauvilliers Y, Schwartz JC, Davis C, Dayno J, et al. Efficacy and safety of pitolisant in patients with narcolepsy: a review of clinical trials. Abstract presented at World Sleep 2019; September 20-25, 2019; Vancouver, Canada.
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Anoushka Shankar needs to do some soul searching. After repeatedly listening to her new album Breathing under Water, a collaboration with electronica artist Karsh Kale, it becomes apparent that she's not sure what she wants to communicate musically. As the undeniably gifted daughter of sitarist Ravi Shankar, she has graced concert stages around the world, playing traditional Indian music with her father. Hearing the two of them perform together is a rapturous experience. She plays the sitar with the sorts of poise, grace, and fluidity that speak of a lifetime spent in rigorous practice. Her intuitive understanding of the various raga forms is evident in the gorgeous melodies she seems to coax effortlessly from her instrument. If she had contented herself with continuing to explore traditional sitar music, she undoubtedly would continue to expand upon her reputation as a serious musician who is worth following and hearing in concert. From the beginning of her career as a recording artist, however, she has let the world know that she has other things on her mind.
Breathing under Water is Shankar's third solo album of non-traditional material, and like her previous efforts, it is a schizophrenic mixed bag. There are moments of brilliance on all of her records, but too often they are bogged down when she reaches in a multitude of directions with no discernable purpose in mind. The poise and assurance that she demonstrates on stage when playing traditional music is rarely in evidence on Breathing under Water. Nevertheless, there certainly is nothing wrong with her playing. She is so comfortable with the complexities of Indian classical music that one suspects she is simplifying her approach when she plays her own compositions. Like Pavarotti's attempts at recording pop material, there is a sense of discomfort when listening to most of Shankar's original songs. It is often the aural equivalent of running in shoes that are too tight. Throughout Breathing under Water, Shankar often sounds like she wants to take off and dazzle her audience, but the constricted length and modest reach of the selections give the impression that she is holding something back. One wishes that she had granted herself the room to stretch out and improvise in the manner that Indian raga allows. In fact, one wishes that she had given herself permission to follow any direction at all.
The overriding problem with Breathing under Water is that Shankar has thrown too many irons in too many different fires, and as a result, all of her ideas have come back sounding half-baked. The most troubling selections are those in which she attempts to walk down the middle-of-the-road, such as her duets with Sting as well as with Norah Jones, her half-sister. Both of these songs — Sea Dreamer and Easy, respectively — are pale and underdeveloped, yet they contain enough of an aura of Indian music that they also aren't terribly effective forays into attracting Celine Dion's audience. The pieces that sound the most like true collaborations with Kale — Slither and Ghost Story — are by far the most interesting tracks on the endeavor.
Some of the best modern electronic music being recorded these days comes from the Indian diaspora. The raga form and electronic trance music share many of the same sensibilities. One would have thought that, given his collaborations with artists like dub pioneer Bill Laswell, Kale would have been able to coax a beautiful dance album out of Shankar. He almost succeeds. The loops and sped-up sitar layered over tabla and electronic drums on Slither are guaranteed to make anyone's feet move. The complexity of the beats and the fluidity of the overlain sitar are breathtakingly gorgeous. Nevertheless, it's all over too soon, and by the next track, Shankar is struggling again with whether to embrace the electronic rhythms with which she obviously is having fun performing or to retreat into a neo-Bollywood orchestral ballad.
It is this indecision combined with the timid sequencing of the songs that makes Breathing under Water so frustrating to hear. Each individual composition demonstrates musicianship and performance of the highest caliber. However, as the set moves from track to track, there is no consistency, and there is no flow. By positioning syrupy love ballads between dance tunes, any momentum that Shankar and Kale had hoped to build is lost before it can make an impression.
Shankar is without a doubt one of the greatest, young, traditional musicians performing in the world today. She is not the first classically trained artist to want to branch out into other forms of music, and there is no reason why she couldn't do this and achieve a high level of artistic success. Whatever a person's musical taste, one must admit that Shankar's ability to write across genres is formidable. At this point, though, she lacks the ability to sequence an album in such a way that her diverse influences can be heard in a sympathetic light. If Breathing under Water had stuck to the challenging Raga-driven electronica pieces that Shankar and Kale obviously enjoyed recording, it could have been an epic and enduring endeavor. Conversely, if Shankar had composed an album of Bollywood film-style ballads, she would have found a large, albeit different audience.
As it stands, there is a great album lurking just beneath the surface of Breathing under Water. Shankar, however, is in a difficult position. Her musical choices demonstrate that she isn't completely satisfied with being a classical musician like her father. Yet, her training and upbringing haven't allowed her to completely let go and embrace becoming a populist musician in the manner of her more famous sister. In truth, she probably wants to make music that falls on both sides of the family's musical spectrum as well as a lot of places that lie in between. If Shankar can take control of her muse and if she follows her heart, the brilliant outing that so far has eluded her will reveal itself. If it does, the world will be all the richer for it.


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Alone among Democrats, Sinema stays silent on GOP Supreme Court push
By: MacKenzie Belley and Caroleina Hassett Cronkite News	September 29, 2020
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., waves as she departs after the impeachment acquittal of President Donald Trump, on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020 in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
Almost every Senate Democrat has come out against President Trump's plan to rush through a replacement for the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, saying the nomination should wait until after the looming elections.
Every Senate Democrat but one – Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema.
While other Democrats were using language like "shameful," "brazen hypocrisy," "horrible precedent" and "theft" of a Supreme Court seat in what they called a power grab, Sinema has only commented on Ginsburg's legacy after the justice's death Sept. 18.
Political analysts said Sinema's silence is not surprising given her carefully cultivated image as bipartisan and moderate.
"If you're going to be a Democrat that wins in a traditionally red state, you're not going to be a super-progressive liberal democrat, you're probably going to be more moderate," said Frank Gonzalez, an assistant professor at the University of Arizona School of Government and Public Policy.
He said Sinema is a politician who wants to be viewed as an "independent thinker," a posture echoed by Garrett Bess, vice president of government relations at the Heritage Foundation.
"I think it tracks with sort of her … quasi maverick-type record," Bess said.
But it did not sit well with some progressive Democrats in Arizona.
"This is going to affect the country for another 30, 40 years," said Signa Oliver, co-lead for Desert Progressives Indivisible. "Open your mouth.
"Those of us that knocked on doors for her to get her elected, have been very disappointed several times with her inability to, you know, step forward and represent the Democratic Party principles that we elected her to do," Oliver said.
Sinema's office did not respond to requests for comment on her position – or lack thereof – leaving her weekend tweet expressing "gratitude and service to our country" as her only comments on Ginsburg and the court vacancy she left behind.
Within hours of Ginsburg's death last Friday, by contrast, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell released a statement promising a Senate vote on Ginsburg's replacement.
"We pledged to work with President Trump and support his agenda, particularly his outstanding appointments to the federal judiciary," McConnell's statement said. "President Trump's nominee will receive a vote on the floor of the United States Senate."
Most Republicans, including Arizona Sen. Martha McSally, rushed to agree with McConnell. But Democrats were livid.
Judge Amy Coney Barrett, President Donald Trump's nominee to the Supreme Court, meets with Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, not pictured, at the Capitol, Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2020 in Washington. (Stefani Reynolds/Pool via AP)
Trump announced Sept. 25 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Amy Cooney Barrett as his nominee.
Democrats have repeatedly brought up McConnell's refusal in 2016 to even grant a hearing to President Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee, Merrick Garland, because it was an election year. McConnell, who delayed action for almost the entire year, said then that voters should have a say in who makes the choice.
"Unfortunately, Sen. McConnell has decided to go against Justice Ginsburg's dying wishes and is cementing a shameful legacy of brazen hypocrisy," Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, said in a tweet the night of Ginsburg's death. "The right thing to do here is clear, and Senate Republicans know it. We should let voters decide. Period."
Even moderate Democrats jumped to criticize McConnell and the White House for rushing to fill the seat, an appointment that could give conservatives an unassailable 6-3 majority on the court.
"The American people deserve to choose the president who will fill this vacancy," said Sen. Tom Carper, D-Del., the co-chair of the Moderate Democrats Working Group. "I will oppose any Supreme Court nominee until after Inauguration Day, and I will do everything I can to fight for fairness."
Oliver said Sinema needs to speak up.
"They stole Merrick Garland's seat, and you're going to be silent or possibly vote with them to give them another seat? That's unacceptable," she said.
But political experts say it is not surprising that Sinema is in no rush to be grouped in with the Democratic establishment.
In her 2018 campaign for Senate, Sinema ran as a middle-of-the-road independent. Since taking office she has voted in line with the Trump administration 26.3% of the time, toward the upper end of the votes by moderate Democrats, according to a FiveThirtyEight vote tracker.
But that is not necessarily a liability for Arizona politicians, analysts said, invoking the late Republican Sen. John McCain who was often at odds with his party.
Voters in Arizona do not seem to be as bound by national party ideology as voters in other states, said Samara Klar, an associate professor at the University of Arizona School of Government and Public Policy.
While she and others said they would be surprised if Sinema voted for Trump's nominee, Klar said Sinema is probably making a safe bet by not coming out against a Republican nominee now.
"The safer play for Arizona politicians generally is to try to straddle the middle as much as they can given how voters here see themselves," Klar said.
Gonzalez said that taking a hard stance against Senate Republicans now would not be "worth the risk of giving a Republican challenger a talking point in four years" when Sinema will be up for re-election.
And by taking her time and hearing how Arizonans are feeling about the process before making a statement, Sinema is also reinforcing her brand, Bess said.
"The advantage for holding back a statement is to continue showing that she is willing to listen, willing to hear," Bess said.
But Oliver said the people Sinema should be listening to are "the people that put her in office" or they will find someone else to support.
"If she does the wrong thing on this important issue, I will never knock on another door, I will not have another petition signed for her, I won't do anything else for her," Oliver said.
Amy Cooney Barrett Barack Obama Democrats Garrett Bess Kyrsten Sinema Merrick Garland Mitch McConnell president trump Republicans Ruth Bader Ginsburg Samara Klar Senate Signa Oliver U..S. Supreme Court 4:39 pm Tue, September 29, 2020 Arizona Capitol Times
MacKenzie Belley and Caroleina Hassett Cronkite News
Issue: Amy Cooney Barrett Barack Obama Democrats Garrett Bess Kyrsten Sinema Merrick Garland Mitch McConnell president trump Republicans Ruth Bader Ginsburg Samara Klar Senate Signa Oliver U..S. Supreme Court
The irony in this whole thing is that if the tables were turned, the Dems would be doing EXACTLY the same thing: nominating a replacement justice and not waiting until after the elections. Talk about hypocrisy.
bradley hudson
Sinema is doing the right thing here. Democrats are famous for screaming "bloody murder" and then doing nothing about it. What is the point, after decades of political neglect, leaving Republicans to control the courts, to now have a temper tantrum about it. The problem is not those evil Republicans. In the words made famous by Pogo "we have seen the enemy, and it is us". I say, quit complaining and do something. Sinema is doing something.
marc schwabinger
A very sensible Senator , who won an election not appointed
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Olivia Rodrigo reflects on how far she's come since driving "around my neighborhood crying"
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Olivia Rodrigo is still processing the year she's had, saying that she went from driving "around my neighborhood crying" to blasting her number one hit while behind the wheel.
In a new interview with Apple Music 1's Zane Lowe, the Grammy nominee reflected on how much her life has changed since releasing her debut single "drivers license" on January 8, 2021.
While Olivia says it's "pretty amazing" to have suddenly gone from just being known for the Disney+ series High School Musical: The Musical: The Series to one of the biggest singers of 2021, she still hasn't "really processed that sort of immediacy."
Although the 18-year-old doesn't believe "my success, by any means, was overnight"," she does admit, "My whole life is just like changing in an instant."
The teenager says releasing her debut album SOUR in May is what started to help her adjust to her newfound fame.
"I remember there was a distinct moment in my life when that album went from something that was really depressing and sad to me to something that represented like triumph and that was really special," she explained, "I remember actually putting out 'drivers license' and it had actually just gone number 1 — or something like that — and I was driving around. I was blasting the song and I had like obviously driven around my neighborhood crying to like other songs that I wrote about in the song."
Olivia said what she remembers most in that standout moment was "smiling and feeling such intense joy and like pride in like the work that I created."
And if becoming a famous singer wasn't enough, Olivia can also call herself a smartphone case designer. She's collaborated with Casetify and will launch the Hardened Hearts Collection on Wednesday, December 15.


TOKYO -- Unprecedented times are upon South Korea, where for the first time in its history a democratically elected president has been booted from office. As the nation grapples with its problems, many are asking the same question: What lies on the other side of this tumultuous period?
On Tuesday morning, at 23 minutes past 9, Park Geun-hye appeared at the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office. Amid a constellation of camera flashes, the ousted president told journalists she was "sorry to the people" and "will sincerely face the questioning." She then quickly disappeared into the building and hopped into a public elevator.
It was a symbolic moment; as the elevator doors closed, so too, it seemed, did the nine-year reign of two consecutive conservative administrations.
The front-runner in the race to succeed Park is Moon Jae-in, former head of the major opposition Minjoo Party of Korea. Polls show he has a big gap on his rivals.
Moon is not free of controversy. In a book published in January, he said South Korea needs to be able to say no the U.S. The words raised eyebrows stateside when they were quoted in an interview published in The New York Times on March 11.
In 2012, Moon narrowly lost the presidential election to Park. During his campaign, he pledged to seek a summit between the two Koreas in his first year if elected. When he called North Korean leader Kim Jong Un a "partner for dialogue," conservative critics slammed him as being a North Korean sympathizer.
Moon's parents hail from what today is North Korea. They were among those who fled to the South Korea after the Korean War erupted in 1950. Moon himself was born during a break in the hostilities. While studying law at university, he devoted himself to the democracy movement. His ideologies landed him in jail during that period, but he went on to pass the bar exam and become a human rights lawyer, defending workers' rights.
Moon's desire for dialogue with the North is rooted in his belief that if South Korea takes the lead in solving issues on the Korean Peninsula, it will give the country greater leverage in talks with the U.S. and Japan.
The repeated cycles of political corruption in South Korea -- including the recent case involving Park and her longtime confidante -- is a subject Moon often talks about. Corruption persists, Moon argues, because even after South Korea's liberation from Japanese rule all those years ago, the country is still run by pro-Japanese forces disguised as conservatives.
When a local government temporarily removed a statue commemorating "comfort women" set up outside the Japanese consulate general in Busan late last year, Moon attributed it to lingering pro-Japanese sentiment. In January, he visited the statue, which had since been put back, and called on people to join him in "continuing to be interested in the subject and protecting the statue."
On March 13, a group of academics and a left-wing former minister who headed foreign and security policy during the reformist administrations of presidents Kim Dae-jung and Roh Moo-hyun, issued a statement. They called on the government to halt the deployment of the U.S. Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system, or THAAD, in South Korea. They also urged the interim government to suspend any political decision making.
They pushed for engagement with North Korea under the two presidents who served from 1998 to 2008. Should a reformist win, the North-South relationship and other foreign policy issues will unquestionably be impacted. The Chosun Ilbo, South Korea's largest right-leaning daily, accused them of acting like occupiers giving orders to a defeated nation.
Moon has softened his language from outright opposition to the THAAD deployment to calling it something to be decided by the next government. In a recent report on the presidential election, the U.S. Congressional Research Service said, "On some issues, Moon has adopted a more centrist position." By contrast, the report said those left-wing candidates "support policies toward North Korea, China and Japan that differ in significant ways from U.S. approaches," adding that, "Park's removal from office is likely to have short- and medium-term implications for U.S. interests in Northeast Asia."
With less than 50 days to go before the May 9 election, Washington is scrambling to get a better understanding of who stands where on the various issues. The U.S. representative for the six-party talks on ending Pyongyang's nuclear weapons program requested meetings with the reformist candidates and their campaign officials on the sidelines of the meeting in South Korea.
In a televised debate on March 13, Moon started off by saying the lessons learned from the successes and failures of participatory government -- as the Roh administration was called -- had been carved into his heart. Roh is credited with breaking with authoritarianism, but he lost support due to economic policy failures, such as a sharp fall in property prices. Moon served as Roh's chief secretary, among other important posts.
Roughly a decade later, Moon is primed to take center stage. But these are not easy times for him.
On March 12, two days after Park was impeached, Moon's face was unusually rigid as he stood before journalists. South Korea finds itself caught between the U.S. and a China angered by the THAAD issue. If Moon fails to deliver on his primary goal of creating a "fair" society, he may fall victim to the same public anger that toppled Park.
Moon looked like a man aware of the stakes and feeling the pressure.


Woohoo! Barry is going to do the crawfish boil like he did last year Saturday (March 3). Should be fun. Please let Barry know by Thursday if you intend to be there and if you're bringing anyone so he can get the right amount to cook for everybody. Apparently this is intended for mid-afternoon like last time. Good times!
Season's over! Time to Get Stands Untied, etc.
The following is a letter from ATCO regarding jaw bones, stands etc.
Brian is wanting us to come to the camp to get stands untied and other work during the few weekends, starting this weekend, Fri 2/9/2018.


How do I book the appropriate hotel so I'm not 548987 miles from the event? Is there is a deal on hotels hosting the event or something?
I'm wanting to bring my spouse, anything I should know about that?
Dress code or can I show up in my birthday suit? Anything else I should know? I plan on staying for the entire dang thang.
Hey! First off, check out the SpiceBuddies website at http://spicebuddies.info. We're a group of SpiceHeads that help first-time attendees get the most out of the conference.
The $199 price covers your conference pass and gets you in to all the after parties.
Closer to SpiceWorld, Spiceworks will post in this forum with a list of hotels they have group rate blocks available for, as well as how far they are from the Austin Convention Center.
Personally, I recommend going through Airbnb because it generally comes out cheaper (especially if you split with other SpiceHeads). You can center the map around ACC on Airbnb and look at what's close by. I prefer to stay across the street in the Railyards condos, because when you have a bunch of swag you wanna drop back at your room it's super nice for it to be so close.
The cost does not include your spouse. They would need to buy their own ticket or if they just wanted to go to the evening events, then there is a guest pass for that. There is usually some vendor thing going on at a bar after hours that doesn't require admission.
100% casual at Spiceworld. Be comfortable. I'd say shorts or jeans depending on weather or bring one of each just in case. In fact you could pack 1 shirt and be good to go because you will probably get 10+ vendor t-shirts.
Get your hotel/airbnb done fairly early as it tends to fill up.
There is a breakfast and lunch at Spiceworld. You may or may not like what they have to offer. I'm a picky eater, most of what they have usually doesn't appeal to me but there's plenty of stuff nearby in walking distance. I have never rented a car to go anywhere other than Uber to/From the airport.
1) You get the conference badge which included all sessions, breakfast and lunch on the days that they had those meals, the big party on the 2nd night, and the happy hours on the 1st and 3rd day.
2) I stayed at the Wyndham Garden which I've heard people call the "noobie" hotel since it's usually the cheapest that is offered through Spiceworks but, I thought it worked pretty well for me. If you can plan your travel times well and don't want to go out every night, you'll be fine. Some people say they like to drop their swag in their rooms throughout the day. I had no need or desire to return to the hotel until the day was finished.
3) I'm not married so I don't have those problems but, I believe that you can purchase a guest pass for the party and maybe the happy hours, too.
4) Don't show up in your birthday suit. Some folks wear pants and a polo. I wear shorts and t-shirts.
Definitely the dress code is casual and since this will be in September in 2019, it will be kind of hot.
For the hotel, look for hotels within walking distance of the Austin COnvention Center as it will be much much better experience.
Hope to see you there. Worth the time and effort.
I have stayed at one right across the street 2 years in a row.
And you will meet great people like TerranceR! I stayed at the Hyatt Place, it's quite nice and VERY close. Your spouse will be comfortable there. If you can show up a day early, there is plenty to do before the conference begins. I figure to come in Saturday for 2019, equivalent to Sunday in 2018.
There are a LOT of good Airbnb options in downtown Austin. But the pricing is not horribly cheaper than a hotel unless you splitting a decent number of ways.
The Courtyard across the corner from the convention center was $239/night on the SpiceWorld group rate in 2018. Splitting the room with 1 person my bill was $552.58 after taxes for 4 nights.
That comes out to $140/night.
Airbnb rooms are showing $150 (3 beds) to $400 ((6 beds). But that is before the cleaning and service fees and taxes. With all that added, those two rooms are $195/night and $530/night.
But more than 2 "beds" so you get to divide it out more depending on how many people go in on it.
But wait, there's more! That $150 one? It is actually only 1 bed, plus a sofa bed, plus an air mattress.
That cuts the appeal drastically.
The $400 one is better. It is all real beds. 1 King, 3 queen, 2 single. But personally, I do not want to share a place with 5 other people.
The $150 one is also on Rainey St. That is 4-5 blocks from the convention center. Not far, but not "next door"
The $400 one is in the "Rail Yards" i believe it is called. On 4th between San Jacinto and Trinity. This is one of the best locations ever for SpiceWorld attendees.
$195 / 3 "beds" = $65 per person per night, but eww not real beds.
$530 / 6 beds = $89 per person per night, but 6 people is a lot.
There are certainly more options in between. Just go in with the blinders off.
Leave the spouse at home. I pondered taking mine last year. Glad i didn't. Find an IT buddy to go with. That's my intention for this year. If he bails out, everyone at SpiceWorld is super friendly and cool so no big deal. But unless your other half is heavy into IT geekdom - they will be board out of their minds.
Austin has a ton of things for a non-IT spouse to do during the day. The spouse/guest pass is only a $99 add. That gets them into all the after party stuff.
So that actually just depends on the person IMO.
Same here, going to spice world for the first time, and going there solo.
I saw the convince your boss letter and just knew my boss would not be for it... filled it out anyway, and instantly got approved to go (all expenses paid).
To whomever came up with that letter, i gotta give props for its effectiveness... He actually thought i came up with it and suggested i forward it to spice works for their use. LOL!
Same here, going to spice world for the first time, and going their solo.
I must have missed that letter... where is it?
I just sent that template to my boss... as it is. I didn't fill anything out.
I'm hopefully headed to my first SpiceWorld in 2019 also, I checked out the website but it's still showing 2018 stuff. Would you happen to know when it will get updated with the 2019 stuff?
Ditto! i'm in the same boat.
But you can always tag Cyali to see if she knows. she may be too busy plotting the next SpiceDuck invasion but never hurts to ask.
Whaaaaaaat I have no idea what you're talking about, I'm completely innocent!
Is there a badge if we show up in our birthday suit? Or should I stick to the kilt badge?
I'll echo what damon said. If your spouse isn't geeky/nerdy they may feel out of place.Especially after you've been shmoozing with your new buddies all day and she joins up for after parties..
If possible book a day or two extra so you can enjoy the weirdness Austin has to offer.


2017 The Year of the Mobile!
In 2017, the SMB (Small to Medium Businesses) will be dominating the mobile app workspace. Its anticipated that 50% of small businesses will be adhering to mobile apps.
Location Based Services (LBS) will be able to offer consumers immediate/real time deals based on their locations alone.
Googles new technology will allow apps to run instantly when they are needed—no downloading, no installing. Simply search, have your app turn up and do its job, then move on. Instant apps are the perfect solution for a quick mobile experience.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) apps has become more common within the development community. AI features can provide algorithms that help track habits, shopping and behaviors. Imagine a personal shopper and trainer all in one!
As more gadgets, household necessities, and "things" continue to connect to the internet, more apps are needed to control them remotely. IoT in 2017 will contribute substantially to mobile's success.
Mobile Security is a top priority for Developers. The more apps that combine mobile purses and wallets will further expose Developers and consumers alike. As such, Developers are making enhanced security features their top priority.
Mobile App revenues are expected to exceed $70+ Billion in 2017. The numbers for mobile speak for themselves. It's predicted that in 2017, there will be over 260 million apps downloaded; and those downloads will translate to over $70 Billion in revenue for businesses. Keep in mind; that revenue is not just generated strictly by the app's download. Apps are marketing tools and that means that the revenue is coming not as a result of what the app does but how the app helps to market what your business does.
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Can You Teach an Old Surgeon New Tricks?
Leaders of the Michigan Bariatric Surgery Collaborative have developed a way to teach practicing surgeons how to perform their operations better.
Abigail Gaies|April 17, 2017
Two of Michigan's bariatric surgeons meet at one of the sessions. They discuss techniques on how to better perform a laparoscopic surgery on the stomach.
Photo Courtesy Justin Dimick
The Oxford dictionary defines a coach as "an instructor or trainer in sport." Atul Gawande, M.D., M.P.H., surgeon, writer and public health researcher at the Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), provides a broader definition of coaching in his New Yorker article, "Personal Best": "The concept of a coach is slippery. Coaches are not teachers, but they teach. They're not your boss, but they can be bossy. They don't even have to be good at the sport. The famous Olympic gymnastics coach Bela Karolyi couldn't do a split if his life depended on it. Mainly, they observe, they judge and they guide." Using Gawande's description, the title of "coach" could apply to those practicing professions beyond sports—including surgery.
Justin Dimick, M.D., M.P.H., George D. Zuidema Professor of Surgery and Chief of the Division of Minimally Invasive Surgery at the University of Michigan (U-M) have been working with fellow surgeons in the Michigan Bariatric Surgery Collaborative (MBSC) to improve the quality of the operations they perform.
Currently, there are many programs in place that focus on improving care processes before and after the surgery, "but we thought it was time to start focusing on the surgery itself," Dimick said.
The key question was: "For surgeons already in practice, already out there on their own, how do they learn new things, and how do they improve themselves?" Dimick and the other leaders of MBSC found that "what many [surgeons] recommend as the safest and the best way to learn things, and the things that they are actually doing aren't the same."
Before they could figure out how to improve surgery, they needed a method to measure the quality of an operation. Although measuring the skill of a surgeon seems simple enough, a study like this had never been performed before.
Dimick and the other MBSC leaders collected videos of bariatric surgeries around the state. The surgeons looked at each other's videos and rated the other surgeons' skills. Dimick then linked the rating to the outcomes of the surgeries, as well as the complications that arose during or after. When he analyzed the data, he was not surprised to find a strong correlation between the rating of the surgeons and the surgical outcomes: surgeons with higher skill rating had fewer complications and better outcomes.
Having discovered the bariatric surgeons with the best technical skills in the state was a strong start, but they still did not know how to—or if they could—improve the skills of other surgeons. Dimick was familiar with Gawande's article. "[In it] he raised this issue of why is it that professional musicians and professional athletes who are the best in the world have coaches, but surgeons, who also rely on peak physical or technical performance, don't have coaches," Dimick said.
This idea formed the basis of their plan to improve surgical skill among MBSC surgeons. "We wrote a grant to the National Institute of Health and they funded it to develop a coaching program and have surgeons from around the state coach each other on their technical performance," Dimick said. He compared it to a post-game video review for sports like football: "You video yourself operating, you sit down with somebody who's one of the best performers in the state and you get feedback on your performance."
Caprice Greenberg, M.D., M.P.H., Associate Professor of Surgery and Director of the Wisconsin Surgical Outcomes Research Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, launched a pilot that was tested at BWH, Gawande's hospital, in Boston. The pilot program was a small group of surgeons focusing on the feasibility of a coaching program, trying to see how it would work and what it would look like. After the initial pilot at BWH, Greenberg tested the concept in Wisconsin in what she called the Wisconsin Surgical Coaching Program.
However, Dimick's program in Michigan is the largest surgical coaching program to date. The 12 surgeons who had received the highest ratings in the original videos were trained to be coaches. "We didn't train them in how to do the operation better, because they already knew how to do the operation well," Dimick said. "We trained them on how to give feedback well and how to sit with a peer. You have two fully trained surgeons, these aren't residents, these aren't trainees, these are people that are all done, out on their own, and you have to give them feedback."
At the start of each meeting, the coaches sit down with their "coachees" for two hours. During this time they go over the video that the coachee submitted, and the coach gives them tips, tricks and techniques for improvement.
There are two main things that Dimick is hoping to accomplish through the surgical coaching program. "One is to improve care for the patients that are undergoing bariatric surgery in our collaborative—improve the technical skills, up everybody's game a little bit," Dimick said. "But I think there's a much bigger goal than that, and that is to develop a scientific understanding of how to do coaching like this so that other places in the country, and other procedures, can adopt it. I think that it's a model that can be used for almost any procedure or intervention, and someone has to do the scientific work to figure out how it should be done and what it should look like."
In other words, there is the short-term goal of improving the specific bariatric surgery that they are focusing on, but a long-term goal of fully understanding how to create a coaching program like this for other physicians around the world.
This program is right up Dimick's alley. All of his projects focus on improving care for surgical patients in two ways. "One is to directly implement projects like this one that are innovative ways of improving care," he said. Dimick's other specialty is evaluating medical care public policies put in place to improve care. He tries to understand whether they lead to better outcomes or save money.
Although similar to many of the other projects he is involved in, the surgical coaching program is different in that "it's an implementation project," Dimick said. "We're not just evaluating things, we're not just analyzing data, we actually have to do something, put something into motion."
It generated tremendous national attention in the scientific and mainstream press. Although the project has been successful, there have been challenges along the way. Surgeons were hesitant to join this program in the beginning because it is often challenging for them to come to terms with the fact that their technical skills are below that of their peers. Furthermore, accepting coaching from a peer is not easy for most people—let alone an accomplished surgeon.
Getting past this barrier "is really not an exercise in research, it's an exercise in leadership—developing relationships with people and convincing them that it's a worthwhile thing to participate in," Dimick said.
Luckily, there have been no major setbacks. "I think the best way to overcome an obstacle is to see it coming and prevent it," Dimick said. "We've been pretty good at preventing things, partly through paranoia, partly through the fact that we had a good leadership team."
MBSC has been a great asset. "If I didn't know them through the collaborative and if the team didn't know them through the collaborative, this never would've happened," Dimick said. "Those relationships, those preexisting relationships, enabled this."
Relationships have played a central role in this program's success. "We spent a lot of time developing relationships in a way that they feel like they're going to get value out of it and that we're not wasting their time," Dimick said. "[That is] the biggest barrier in getting people to participate in anything: if you're going to waste their time."
Ultimately, surgeons and other physicians will accept peer coaching, even if it is hard, because they want to do what's best for their patients. "You can do great things if you can convince people that you're making the world a better place."
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My best worst film: Pink Flamingos – "one of the most vile, stupid and repulsive films ever made"?
In a new series by The Conversation, writers explore their best worst film. They'll tell you what the critics got wrong – and why it's time to give these movies another chance.
While some may know John Waters through his family friendly Hairspray (1988) – adapted into a stage musical in 2002 and back to the screen in 2007 – many know him as the Prince of Puke, the King of Bad Taste or the Pope of Trash.
Perhaps his most notorious film is the exploitation comedy Pink Flamingos (1972), the first in his "Trash Trilogy", which also includes Female Trouble (1974) and Desperate Living (1977).
Pink Flamingos is emblematic of Waters' camp aesthetic, juxtaposing grotesque subject matter against pastel colours, kitsch props and bubblegum pop music.
Waters' muse Divine is Babs Johnson, the "filthiest person alive." She lives with her mother Edie (Edith Massey), who dresses as a baby, sits in a crib and screams for eggs; her ghoulish lover Cotton (Mary Vivian Pearce); and her son Crackers (Danny Mills), who, in a particularly gruesome moment, has sex with a woman while a live chicken is crushed to death between their two bodies.
But Babs' title of "filthiest person alive" is at stake, and she must rival Raymond (David Lochary) and Connie Marble (Mink Stole), who kidnap women, imprison and forcefully impregnate them, and sell their babies to lesbian couples.
Variety's first review is now famous, calling it "one of the most vile, stupid and repulsive films ever made."
Banned for indecency
It wasn't just the critics who were unimpressed. When distributors tried to bring the film to Australia in 1976, it was banned for "indecency". A cut version was given an R rating and released that year theatrically.
The film's full version was eventually granted an X18+ rating, for pornographic, non-simulated sexual activity, restricting sale and hire of the film to the ACT and some regions of the NT.
In 1997, for a 25th anniversary cinematic re-release, the uncut film was again refused. The classification board said films could receive an R rating when sexual activity was "realistically simulated" – but not when it was "the real thing".
Films with unsimulated sexual activity, such as Catherine Breillat's Romance (1999) and John Cameron Mitchell's Shortbus (2006) have since been awarded R18+ classification, allowing the category to include them.
But the full version of Pink Flamingos maintains an X18+ rating. Even the National Film and Sound Archive's 2017 screenings of banned films showed a cut version rated R18+.
Stupid? No: it was groundbreaking
Despite this reception, Pink Flamingos is now heralded as groundbreaking. It shaped the boundaries of bad taste and gross out humour.
There are several shocking scenes in the film. One sees Divine and Crackers break into the Marbles' home where, after licking all the furniture, Divine fellates her son. Another sees a shot of a man flexing his prolapsed anus so it looks like it's miming the words to "Surfin' Bird".
But perhaps the most notorious is where, in the final scene, Divine eats dog faeces to the song "How Much is the Doggy in the Window?".
Just how much can you stomach when watching something disgusting?
The characters in Pink Flamingos challenge normative ideas around sexuality, gender and family. Confronting perceptions of "good taste", Pink Flamingos attacked an elitist culture that excluded many communities, such as queer folk and punks.
Unlike the respectable queer characters palatable to a broad audience in Love, Simon (2018) or Will & Grace (1998–2005, 2017–), Pink Flamingos allows us pleasure in others' disgust at these mad characters.
The film draws on a queer rage that channelled the discontent many viewers felt with assimilationist politics. Babs Johnson and her family were disgusting and broke the law – and the audience loved her for it.
Pink Flamingos contributed to a camp aesthetic that is imbued in many popular queer films, such as But I'm a Cheerleader (1999) and Raspberry Reich (2004), and Waters' rage became a key part of queer cinema, seen elsewhere in the New Queer Cinema movement of the early 90s and beyond.
In an era when films depicted queer folk as painfully banal, such as The Boys in the Band (1970), or offensive, such as Cruising (1980), Waters' films were a funny and crude counterpoint.
They were a promise of a brighter and queerer future.
As I have argued elsewhere, Waters' films do not make explicit political statements. His ideology is conveyed through humour.
Through co-opting the plastic, pink flamingo lawn ornament, Waters makes fun of middle class respectability. Before carrying out the punishment of the Marbles (for "asshole-ism", no less), Babs Johnson proclaims:
Kill everyone now! Condone first degree murder! Advocate cannibalism! Eat shit! Filth is my politics! Filth is my life!
The humour lies in the absurdity of the situation.
When Variety dubbed the film "one of the most vile, stupid and repulsive films ever made", Waters used this on the posters promoting it. Waters wanted to offend people with Pink Flamingos – and if you can stomach to look past the offence, you will find a biting and hilarious film, as shocking and politically relevant as ever.
But in revisiting Pink Flamingos, there is one scene that still doesn't sit right with me. The on-screen deaths of the chicken (purely for the sake of comedy) are a cruelty and grotesquery that goes beyond my own sense of good taste. Everyone has their limits.
Written by Stuart Richards, University of South Australia. Republished with permission of The Conversation.
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Liz is having a crazy DIY week (I was happy to help; I'm learning loads from that gal) with lots of tutorials you for sure need to check out.
Like this poncho made from a thrifted blanket?? Genius.
…aaaand these super cute thrifted-turned-diy-project distressed jeans!
Are you sick of me showing up on the SYTH blog yet?? Sorry for the repetitive post, if you're visiting from there! Hope to see you around here again.
Also….check back tomorrow, for an uhhh-mazing veggie food post (I've already seen pictures and they look MMmm good) from the one and only Brooke Kunz. FYI, she just posted some design-magazine-worthy pictures of her SLC apartment, filled with plenty of sunshine and homemade goods. Check it out.
wow thanks for all the shout outs! and you could never do too much promotion of your modeling skills. haha. i love that last outfit with the jacket/boots/heart sweater.
Love that poncho from the first photo! Amazing.


So, here's the thing, I'm very much a "pinch of this" and "dash of that" or "whoops, too much this so I should add a little of that" type of cook. When I have recipes, I'm not slavishly following them (which explains why I don't bake too often ; ). When I don't have a recipe, I just pour and dump with abandon, believing that all will turn out well.
As I've learned, I've come to love the task of cooking. I love buying new cookbooks. I love making menus. I love shopping for food.
But mostly, I love feeding people.
In many ways, cooking has been a type of therapeutic activity for me, especially this past year. Switching from guard to active duty was emotionally draining and sometime my kitchen became the place I retreated to in order to cope. Yes, I spent alot of money this year trying new recipes and exploring new groccery stores and food markets. [And, as a quick aside to my OH friends; have you been to Dorothy Lane Market?! Go. Soon. It's amazing(ly expensive…as Paul would say : ) but totally worth it.] Cooking has also been a way for me to make new friends and serve my fellow Air Force families. It has given me an easy way to have purpose and feel useful during a time when life was a little chaotic.
Isn't desperation the best way to come up with recipes?
Since that time, I've fiddled with this dish alot. I tend to do that with many things – mac and cheese, pies, soups, short ribs, BBQ – you name it. This is fun, but it makes sharing my recipes a little difficult. Nonetheless, I've had many people ask for this particular recipe so last week I finally took pictures of the process. Now I have something to send to people who want it.
Half-package of bacon if eating at home, package of bacon bits if giving it away.
3) Next, combine the fresh corn and the chicken broth in a large (very large! I love my dutch oven for this!!) pot on the stove. Turn to medium heat. You want the fresh corn to be cooking.
4) While the broth and corn are heating, shred the chicken and dice the meat into an eatable size and then add it to the broth and corn base.
5) Next, add the drained potatoes to the base.
6) Now, add your two cans of corn. Don't drain the cans as that water has alot of "corny" flavor to add!!
7) Once that is all mixed together, add the heavy cream, caynne pepper, salt and ground pepper. You can go nuts with the ground pepper, but have an easy hand with the salt. Taste as you go, I've made the mistake of over salting. And remember you serve this soup with (very salty, very wonderful) bacon.
8) Let the soup come to a very low boil, while stirring. You don't want the cream to get bubbly (I don't know the correct term for this – but you shouldn't turn your back at the boiling heavy cream stage!) Once it has simmered for, oh, 1-2 minutes, bring the temp down to low and let it sit until everything tastes right : ) No crunchy potatoes, no raw corn, perfectly seasoned. Then chop up your chives and add it right before you want to put the soup into the mason jars.
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Welcome to our News section. In this area you will find articles about hearing loss, new developments in hearing research, hearing instruments, and related devices.
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have identified four types of neurons in the peripheral auditory system, three of which are new to science. The analysis of these cells can lead to new therapies for various kinds of hearing disorders, such as tinnitus and age-related hearing loss. The study is published in Nature Communications.
When sound reaches the inner ear, it is converted into electrical signals that are relayed to the brain via the ear's nerve cells in cochlea. Previously, most of these cells were considered to be of two types: type 1 and type 2 neurons, type 1 transmitting most of the auditory information. A new study by scientists at Karolinska Institutet shows that the type 1 cells actually comprise three very different cell types, which tallies with earlier research showing variations in the electrical properties and sonic response of type 1 cells.
"We now know that there are three different routes into the central auditory system, instead of just one," says Francois Lallemend, research group leader at the Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, who led the study. "This makes us better placed to understand the part played by the different neurons in hearing. We've also mapped out which genes are active in the individual cell types."
The team conducted their study on mice using the relatively new technique of single-cell RNA sequencing. The result is a catalog of the genes expressed in the nerve cells, which can give scientists a solid foundation for better understanding the auditory system as well as for devising new therapies and drugs.
"Our study can open the way for the development of genetic tools that can be used for new treatments for different kinds of hearing disorders, such as tinnitus," says Dr Lallemend. "Our mapping can also give rise to different ways of influencing the function of individual nerve cells in the body."
The study shows that these three neuron types probably play a part in the decoding of sonic intensity (i.e. volume), a function that is crucial during conversations in a loud environment, which rely on the ability to filter out the background noise. This property is also important in different forms of hearing disorders, such as tinnitus or hyperacusis (oversensitivity to sound).
"Once we know which neurons cause hyperacusis we'll be able to start investigating new therapies to protect or repair them," explains Dr Lallemend. "The next step is to show what effect these individual nerve cells have on the auditory system, which can lead to the development of better auditory aids such as cochlear implants."
The researchers have also shown through comparative studies on adult mice that these different types of neurons are already present at birth.
Article originally appeared on Hearing Review.
Find helpful articles about hearing loss, new developments in hearing research and much more!
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Characterization is one of the 30 MicroLessons (mini lessons) available in the series, Language Arts Presenter.
Just connect your computer to a digital projector or SMART Board, select a student to operate the mouse and let Becky, the avatar, teach your kids Characterization.
Characterization, Full Version comes with a word search, and a crossword puzzle.
Both of the screenshots below are samples from the instruction portion of Characterization.
Here is the word search activity for Characterization.
Both versions of Characterization are accessible with any of the major web browsers, including Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome, and Safari. As a result, these apps are compatible with all versions of both Windows and Mac.
If purchased individually, the total cost for Characterization along with its 6 companions would be $34.65. The bundle is now available for the much lower cost of $16.95--a savings of over 50%!
MicroLesson 5: Characterization, Full Version by Chad Manis is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.


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public class SchedualServiceHiHystric implements SchedualServiceHi{

    @Override
    public String sayHiFromClientOne(String name) {
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Q: SQL repeating exists subquery I'm trying to write a query that pulls multiple columns from two tables and then also looks to see if there is another instance containing the same kind of data within the last 28 days.
I've got the query working and it looks something like this:
SELECT
     a.col_a
    ,a.col_b
    ,a.col_c
    ,b.col_a
    ,b.col_b
    ,CASE WHEN EXSISTS (SELECT a_sub.col_a
                        FROM a_sub
                        INNER JOIN b_sub
                          ON a_sub.x = b_sub.x
                        WHERE
                          b.col_a = b_sub.col_a
                          AND b.col_b <> b_sub.col_b
                          AND a.date > a_sub.date
                          AND a.date <= DATEADD(d, 28, a_sub.date)
                          AND a.col_c = a_sub.col_c
                          AND (a.col_d IS NULL OR a.col_d <> 7)
                          AND (a_sub.col_d IS NULL OR a_sub.col_d <> 7)
                        ) THEN 'Yes'
                          ELSE 'No'
                          END AS IsRepeat28
FROM a
INNER JOIN b ON a.x = b.x

This isn't particularly quick, but nor is it too slow to be a problem. The issue is I need to repeat the above WHEN EXISTS subquery but for 21, 14, 7 and 1 day periods as well making 5 repetitions - the query time then goes from roughly 15 seconds to about 10 minutes.
I also need to adjust the dates so as well as flagging rows that are "IsRepeat" there is also a version for "HasRepeat" which is based on
AND a_sub.date > a.date AND a_sub.date <= DATEADD(d, 28, a.date)

instead of the original
AND a.date > a_sub.date AND a.date <= DATEADD(d, 28, a_sub.date)

This then means having 10 of these EXISTS subqueries and it takes almost 45 minutes.
My question is really twofold; is there a more efficient way of writing this subquery, and is there a better way of repeating it rather than having virtually the same code written out 10 times?

A: I call any query which produces data a problem. SQL should only be used to query data. You don't need execution plans if you understand your process and the work it does.
First, separate your main projection as a step 1, either into a temporary table or table variable depending on how many records you have. Caching each set you need in your production query allows you to gauge the load size as a select count(*).
    insert into @mytablevariable values
    SELECT
       a.col_a,
       a.col_b,
       a.col_c,
       b.col_a,
       b.col_b
       -- build this column later
    FROM a
    INNER JOIN b ON a.x = b.x

Next, cache the result of that nested query so the inner join isn't conducted every iteration.
    insert into @mysub values
    SELECT a_sub.col_a
    FROM a_sub
    INNER JOIN b_sub
       ON a_sub.x = b_sub.x
       AND b.col_b <> b_sub.col_b

We created waste deliberately so we can manage it by remodeling @mysub by your processing requirements. Our objective is to eliminate work by fetching the correct data in the correct order.
What stands out the most in this process is the WHERE clause that a date field is within a date range.
    AND a.date > a_sub.date AND a.date <= DATEADD(d, 28, a_sub.date)

Naturally tables are not indexed by date column values and therefore this WHERE comparison must conduct a full table scan, or what we call an Extractor. An extractor pulls a portion (subset) of data from a set. Because this extractor is in a subquery which is executed for each outer record result like any other nested process, the whole table is checked over and over. We always want to minimize extraction to one pass, which is only done when we finish organizing criteria on the extractor. Never nest extractors.
First, minimize the size of the @mysub extractor results by the range of date values needed in the outer @mytablevariable query.
    insert into @mysub values
    SELECT a_sub.col_a
    FROM a_sub
    INNER JOIN b_sub
       ON a_sub.x = b_sub.x
       AND b.col_b <> b_sub.col_b
       and a_sub.date <= DATEADD(d, 28, select min(a.date) from @mytablevariable)
       and a_sub.date > (select max(a.date) from @mytablevariable)

You can then project @mysub into your 21 day subset, and the smaller set again for the others. For the rest of the WHERE clause, expand @mysub with the columns you're comparing. To build your final product, select everything from the first table and conduct one lookup per record as follows.
    select
        *,
        case
            when b.col_a in (select col_a from @mysub28) then 'Yes'
            else 'No'
        end as IsRepeat28,
        case
            when b.col_a in (select col_a from @mysub21) then 'Yes'
            else 'No'
        end as IsRepeat21
        -- rinse, repeat
    from
    @mytablevariable

Any time you have a production process, separate out your components and work on your extractors' selection criteria so they only make one pass.

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