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Q: ER diargam for many-to-many relations Styding DB architecture and can't understand how to build correct relations between two tables.
As I understood from articles to build relation between 2 tables we need third table - junction (join) table.
I have two variants of architecture.
First variant with PK in junction table
ER with PK in film_rates
Second var without PK and stands just with FKs:
ER without PK in film_rates
What variant is correct for developers community?

A: The second variant, as it stands, is not entirely correct as the junction table should have a pk defined as consisting of both columns.
Given that change, neither option is right or wrong. Whether either is a better solution would depend on your own specific set of circumstances

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While the Curtain Stays Down, Portland Theaters Pivot to Audio
Profile, Artists Rep, and PETE are rethinking theatrical intimacy with a slew of new sound-based projects.
By Conner Reed July 16, 2020
"I love the idea of listening to a story as you're taking a walk in Forest Park or while you're making dinner as opposed to staring at a screen," says Josh Hecht, artistic director of Profile Theatre.
Image: Brian Breneman
I'm in a dark corner of my linen closet with an old pillowcase draped over my eyes. "The sound is present, but it is also a feeling in your body," whisper my AirPods. "HMS Terror 1840," reads my most recent Google search. Thirty minutes of foreboding, immersive sound art jet directly into my skull: sawing synths, creaking wood, enigmatic dialogue that balances Cronenbergian body horror with banal 19th-century seafaring speak. I reemerge, a little wobbly, and try to make dinner, but can't quite shake a phantom seasickness.
"I was really interested in what happens if you take away one of our primary senses—sight," says Mark Valadez, an associate artist with the Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble. In 2015, Valadez developed All Well for the company: a sound installation inspired by the HMS Terror's tragic 1840 Arctic expedition that placed audiences in hammocks in the basement of the Imago Theatre. The show featured a lobby-level maritime museum and saw Valadez cuing a cornucopia of sound elements in a darkened performance space, responding to the energy he received from the assembled audience each night.
Amber Whitehall in PETE's 2015 production of All Well
Image: Owen Carey
Now, Valadez and company have adapted All Well into All Well (Alone), an interactive at-home experience that retains the audio from the original production and presents listeners with a list of eight "ingredients" to guide their interactions with the material, from a preshow cocktail to the cloth-covered experience I chose. The piece, accessible on PETE's website, dovetails with an emerging trend in Portland theater: with curtains down for the foreseeable future, local companies are turning to audio projects as a storytelling stopgap.
"We talked about streaming some stuff we have video of, we thought about doing Zoom stuff," says Rebecca Lingafelter, one of PETE's co-artistic directors. "But we felt like, as much as I loved watching Hamilton the other night, it doesn't get at the thing PETE is interested in, which is this experiential reciprocity between performer and audience."
"With audio, there's an opportunity to get really immersive. I love the idea of listening to a story as you're taking a walk in Forest Park or while you're making dinner as opposed to staring at a screen," says Josh Hecht, artistic director of Profile Theatre, which was in the middle of a two-season program exploring the plays of Pulitzer winner Paula Vogel before the COVID shutdown. "With video recording, at the end of the day it's always just reminding us of the better thing."
Profile, too, is pushing out audio content right now, but compared to PETE, the company has its sights set on more straightforward audio drama. Told in nine scenes arranged into five episodes, Claudia, a Viral Love Story (released in June) takes its inspiration from a prompt on Vogel's website, and "straightforward" is probably a little misleading. Set at the dawn of COVID, the story hops characters and continents to follow a French-speaking pangolin named Claudia as she falls into the hands of everyone from a closeted Iranian café owner to an employee at Mar-a-Lago.
Hecht rounded up nine playwrights from around the country (one per scene, with several frequent Profile collaborators among them) to piece the project together. Each had two days to work—one to "read and dream," one to write—before they passed the baton, and after all nine scenes had been drafted, Hecht fielded notes and the writers tweaked the finished product. Once the script was locked, he assembled a cast, held some Zoom meetings for table work, and then started recording (also on Zoom, so the actors could see each other's faces).
"Spring was so full of strategy meetings and rebudgeting and cash-flow forecasting and survival that there was something so joyous for us about getting back into a room and making something again," Hecht says. "It was really clear that a) you can work really quickly and make something you're proud of—a writer can write something in 48 hours that has real heft and delight in it—and b) we can get together and produce something in a month and a half, and we can be sort of ingenious about it. I think about TV shows like Top Chef or Project Runway, where the constraint is what creates the genius. That was a real lesson for us."
It's a lesson shared by Dámaso Rodríguez, artistic director of Artists Repertory Theatre. Planning to utilize the funds ART received from the Paycheck Protection Program to develop and bank future content, Rodríguez approached Portland playwright E. M. Lewis (who also contributed a scene to Claudia) about adapting her five-hour epic Magellanica—Rodríguez directed the original 2018 production—for the podcast set. The company reassembled the original cast, built a makeshift, distanced recording studio in ART's temporary rehearsal space on the South Waterfront, and recorded the project in 11 days. Lewis would pull the script up live on her screen during video calls with Rodríguez and sound designer Rodolfo Ortega, and they would adapt scenes as they went.
Allen Nause and Vin Shambry in ART's 2018 production of Magellanica
Image: Russell J Young
"One of the opportunities and scary parts of recording, of doing an audio drama, is that you're kind of documenting the script and the performances in a sense," Rodríguez says. "You're archiving them." Buoyed by the process of making something again (he was just as burnt out on COVID-19 strategy meetings as Hecht), Rodríguez started tapping other frequent ART collaborators like writer and drag performer Anthony Hudson (a.k.a. Carla Rossi) and playwright-in-residence Andrea Stolowitz for more projects. Ambitions ballooned to encompass site-specific performances, short film, and more. On June 30, ART announced the Mercury Company, a name Rodríguez and his team developed to encompass all the work they commissioned that nods to Orson Welles's Mercury Theatre radio dramas, including his infamous War of the Worlds broadcast.
Rodríguez and his cohort worked, literally, until the last moment. "We finished the final recording on the last day we were eligible for protection funds, with three minutes to spare," he says. Magellanica will come out sometime in the early fall, and beside it, a reworked version of Stolowitz's autobiographical two-person show The Berlin Diaries, which is scheduled to premiere off-Broadway in March. Rodríguez and Ortega plan to dot the audio version with podcast-y, narrative-journalism-style production.
Next season, Profile will adapt three plays it had planned to perform live as audio dramas. PETE is considering a stationary, site-specific piece with scheduled viewings, or maybe even a traveling production. Like ART, PETE and Profile have utilized funds from the CARES Act and the Paycheck Protection Program to stay afloat for the last few months, and Rodríguez, Hecht, and Lingafelter all stress the importance of continued funding to keep their doors open (in the increasingly limited capacities that they are).
Hecht points to the arts' economic weight—"arts and entertainment" comprise about 4.5 percent of US GDP. Lingafelter is frustrated by what she calls the "false binary between safety and economic strength" that's led relief policy, but says that sharing All Well (Alone) has kept her hopeful about the future. PETE recently held a Zoom happy hour with patrons who'd experienced the piece at home, and Lingafelter reveled in their feedback.
"It really has made me double down on sharing space with people," she says. "There are these long-standing conversations about the death of theater and how theater is irrelevant and it doesn't matter. If anything, the pandemic is showing that with our art form, there's something so fundamental about bodies breathing and experiencing storytelling together in time and space. It's just a really special thing, and I think we all crave it. And I don't think it's gonna go away."
Theater, Podcasts, Arts and Culture
Get Ready for Portland's First Full-Blown Theatrical Season since 2019
01/26/2023 By Matthew Trueherz
Northwest Children's Theater Finds a New Home in Downtown Portland
Ripping the City with Amanda Mailey

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9780814405031 | Amacom Books, May 1, 1999, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: This is the classic sales book that has boosted profits--for salespeople and for their customers--for more than two decades!
9780814414699 | 7 edition (Amacom Books, December 10, 2003), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Over 100,000 copies sold!
9780814402481 | Amacom Books, March 1, 1996, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Hanan reminds readers that the old style of selling has always been based on comparison, but as competitive products and services have achieved parity in performance and quality, there's no longer any need for a cadre of sellers to compare them, nor is there any way to avoid such a sales force.
9780814403037 | Amacom Books, September 1, 1995, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The classic sales book that has boosted profits--for salespeople and their customers--for over 20 years has been totally revised.
9780814402573 | Amacom Books, October 1, 1994, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Written by the author of "Consultative Selling" and "Key Account Selling", this book shows managers how to: fit their project to a top strategic priority; position themselves as "partner" to top management; think like a money manager, not an operational manager; apply the author's format, the "profit improvement proposal", to their budget presentations; manage like an "outsourcer" to reduce costs; and follow a seven-step project management process to make sure their operations are as successful as they've promised.
9780814451120 | Amacom Books, April 1, 1994, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: A new approach to effective divisional management - how to run a division as though it were a company you owned.
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Customer Satisfaction: How to Maximize, Measure, and Market Your Company's "Ultimate Product"
9780814450369 | Amacom Books, March 1, 1991, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: This book analyzes the strategic implications of the shift in focus for the US Armed Forces from regular to irregular war.


With Petra reachable within 1.5 miles, The Old Village Hotel & Resort is situated overlooking the Shahara Mountains, home to the fabled UNESCO world heritage site of the rose-red city of Petra. Each room offers the usual hotel comforts, but these rooms are furnished to reflect the history and culture of the area and showcase local handicraft skills. Throughout the resort you'll find seating areas where guests can relax and enjoy a refreshing cup of mint tea or Arabic coffee whilst enjoying the view over the terraces and catching the spectacular sunset over the mountains. The spacious restaurant set around a courtyard, offers an international a la carte with some local Jordanian features – from mansaf to knafeh. The resort is one of only a handful of hotels in Petra who have an indoor swimming pool, so you can swim year round. Finally, their sauna is the perfect place for some relaxation after a busy day exploring Petra.
Price: from £150 per person per night.


Over the past 15 years, JNTP has trained over 1,000 beginning teachers and mentors in Jewish day schools across North America to be more effective in their roles. Most remain classroom teachers; others have moved on to day school administration, positions at other educational institutions and even careers outside of education. In celebration of our 15th year, we felt it would be interesting and instructive to ask some of our alumni how their JNTP training has impacted their careers long-term.
Toward the end of Shifra's second year of being mentored, a group of people from the first school she taught in came to observe her new school. In the course of their observations, they saw Shifra teach a lesson in which the students did complex work eagerly and with good behavior. Afterwards, one of her former colleagues said to Shifra, "I thought for sure after that first year you were going to leave classroom teaching and I can't believe you're the same teacher they talked about back there – none of those things people said are true about the class I saw!" Shifra attributes much of the dramatic improvement and her continued commitment to teaching to the mentoring, help and trust she experienced from her JNTP mentor.
In her classroom, Jen still uses the reflection tools and rubrics from her mentee days, in addition to a number of other teaching techniques and skills she learned through JNTP. She points specifically to the enhanced vocabulary she gained through mentoring; Jen's mentor taught her to reframe what she is experiencing in ways that meaningfully change the way she relates to her students and what she is teaching. This, in turn, changes the way students relate to that content. "For example," Jen says, "since the middle of my first year in JNTP I have never called an assignment 'hard' or 'tricky.' That is not a label that I give the work for a student. Rather, I will say things like, 'Wow, it is really making you think differently.'" Jen also continues to use a tip from her mentor that helps guarantee she is truly seeing and acknowledging the contributions of each of her students. Every month Jen writes down a list of her students in the order that she thinks of them. Then, for the upcoming weeks, she focuses on the students whose names appear at the bottom of the list, ensuring that they receive the attention they deserve.
As for JNTP's ultimate impact: Tamar made her decision to remain teaching at the high school level — which for her first two years of teaching was not the plan — because it became a love and a passion that she discovered through her work with JNTP.
Now the CEO and President of Straight Path Communications, Davidi says that he laughs when asked how he deals with investors, who "can be cantankerous, offensive, probing, asking questions that make you uncomfortable, trying to get you to share information you don't want to." He responds to people: "Are you kidding? I dealt with high school students for two years! High school students really teach you how to respect boundaries!" Joking aside, Davidi shares that, at the end of the day, everything is about relationships, whether in teaching or in business. And, many of the critical skills he learned as a teacher were "really about how to connect with people, how to convey an idea that makes it palatable and understandable, how to anticipate what questions could arise and have answers." Davidi believes that these very skills have helped him in business.
It would be impossible to interview all 1,000+ participants and alumni from the past 15 years, to collect their personal stories about the long-term impact of JNTP mentoring on their careers. As a sample, these profiles represent the type of impact JNTP hopes for: for the mentoring experience to be transformative; for the skills, techniques and approaches learned to continue in the classroom long after the two years of active mentoring are finished; and for those skills to be transferable outside of the classroom, whether to roles that impact the whole school or even other professions. We are honored to have been part of shaping the career paths of these talented individuals and look forward to helping other educators achieve professional excellence for many more years to come.


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Kim Kardashian Twitter: Star and Baby North West Attacked? [VIDEO], Kanye West's Girlfriend Keeks Paparazzi Trespassing
By Cortney Drakeford ,
Jul 30, 2013 05:19 PM EDT
Although she has not been seen Kim Kardashian has certainly been heard in her latest Keek video as paparazzi suck onto her mother's, Kris Jenner's property in an attempt to get photos of the famous family.
The "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" star is living at her mother's house with her and Kanye West's baby girl North West. The reality star has yet to release pictures of her little girl making everyone a tad bit anxious to see the famous baby.
E! News reported that a photographer was trespassing on the Jenner's private property on Monday and the matriarch actually attempted to chase the paparazzo away.
In a Keek video posted by Kardashian the star's younger sister, Kendall Jenner can be seen tracking the paparazzo's movements from inside the house and as Kris can be seen running out of the house to defend her family.
In the video Kardashian can be heard saying, "OK, there is a paparazzi in that snuck into our gated community..."
She then hands her phone to someone named Julian, saying, "Take my phone, because I don't want to go outside."
Julian then asked, "And video him?" But before Kanye West's girlfriend can answer Kris Jenner is on the move, barefoot, and chasing down the trespasser.
The shaky footage show Kim's mother running across the yard, in the grass, and making her way through bushes in search of the photographer.
However, it seems like there was no luck in catching the shutterbug.
Kardashian tweeted, "#Tresspassing #GatedCommunityBreakin #Dangerous #CopsCalled #WOW," Kim tweeted, along with her Keek video.
What do you think of the Kim Kardashian and Jenner household paparazzi scare? Have photographers taken things too far? Leave us a comment below.
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The change from a largely one-teacher approach in primary to a system based on a weekly timetable offering a wide range of subjects with different teachers and change of classrooms is a major feature of the transfer from P7 to S1. As a result, schools give a high priority to areas of pastoral and curricular liaison between primary and secondary.
The primary school years and the early years of secondary are now seen as a continuum in terms of what and how children learn. This is called the Broad General Phase of education under Curriculum for Excellence. There is a great deal of contact between primary and secondary to ensure a smooth transition from one system to another. Our subject departments, especially English and mathematics, liaise regularly with their colleagues in primary when planning their S1 and S2 courses.
In first year, pupils are allocated to register classes of roughly equal size (max. 30 per class). Information from our partner primary schools is used to achieve gender, ability and geographical balance within each class. These mixed-ability classes are further sub-divided into practical classes (max. 20 per class).
Pupils are taught either by register class for certain subjects such as history, geography and modern languages or by practical class for other subjects such as science, art, music, computing, home economics and craft, design and technology.
The standard approach in S1 to S3 is that of mixed-ability teaching, deploying such techniques as direct teaching, group-work, active learning and resource-based learning. Setting according to ability takes place in mathematics. Regular assessments are used to diagnose how each pupil is progressing and whether pupils can advance to more demanding work or whether further supportive work is required. Our curriculum takes full account of the guidelines issued under Curriculum for Excellence. The experiences and outcomes outlined are fully embraced, giving all pupils the opportunity to respond to the challenge of learning and applying their skills and knowledge across the curriculum. Literacy, numeracy and health & wellbeing are embraced in all departments. We also aim increasingly to give pupils opportunities to develop choice within their curriculum, and to create increasingly personalised programmes of study.
Our S1 course consists of English (four periods), French (three periods), mathematics (four periods), geography, history and modern studies (four periods), science (three periods), physical education (two periods) and one period each of craft, design & technology, home economics, art & design, music, computing, RME and PSE.
In the second term of S2, each pupil is asked to make a choice of subjects to follow during S3. As this choice is of importance for the rest of the pupil's school life, and indeed for later life as well, it is necessary for the choice to be based on the best available information. The S3 Curriculum has been designed to provide all of our pupils with a broad and balanced educational experience as they come to the end of the Broad General Education phase.
In the second term of S3, each pupil is asked to make a further choice of subjects to follow into S4, the first year of the Senior Phase.
· A Course Choice Booklet is issued to pupils. This gives details of National Qualifications, as well as information about careers and advice about the choice process.
· This Booklet is studied with pupils as part of the S2 PSE programme.
· Pupils are encouraged to seek further information from class teachers.
· Principal Teachers explain the courses to the pupils.
· A Parents' Information Evening is held in the school to provide background information and advice to parents in supporting pupils with course choice.
· Reports are sent to parents from subject departments.
· A Parents' Evening enables parents and teachers to discuss the most suitable choice of subjects.


The way we once learned history is now history.
Representations editorial board members David Henkin and Rebecca McLennan have just published a new US history survey, Becoming America: A History for the 21st Century.
Developed for students and instructors of the twenty-first century, Becoming America excites learners by connecting history to their experience of contemporary life. You can't travel back in time, but you can be transported, and Becoming America does so by expanding the traditional core of the US survey to include the most contemporary scholarship on cultural, technological, and environmental transformations. At the same time, the program transforms the student learning experience through innovative technology that is at the forefront of the digital revolution. As a result, the Becoming America program makes it easier for students to grasp both the distinctiveness and the familiarity of bygone eras, and to think in a historically focused way about the urgent questions of our times.


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Q: Open an XML with a QTReport.exe I am writing a Javascript code. In which I have to open an XML file with QTReport.exe. QTReport.exe is made up of to read the xml file and to show the QTP execution results. I am able to do the following in windows explorer. I did, right click on an XML file and choose the option "Open with" and specify the program as "C:\Bin\QTReport.exe".
My question is, is there any API or function that I can specify as open an XML file with QTReport.exe?

A: Use the following command line arguement with the qtreport.exe:
bin_dir\qtreport.exe -r path_to_xml_file


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Q: Present date setting in android showing one month extra I want to set the present date in the Activity(by default) and the user can configure the date by clicking on Date picker. But some devices showing one month extra, Date picker dialog also  showing  one  month extra. Can you please help me to solve this problem
public void setCurrentDateOnButton()
{
    Log.d(LogActivityTagNames.SCHEDULE_ACTIVITY," Entered into setCurrentDateOnButton()");
    final Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance();
    myear = c.get(Calendar.YEAR);
    mmonth = c.get(Calendar.MONTH)+1;
    mday = c.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);
    String month  = QuickeRideAppUtils.formatDateTime(mmonth);
    String day = QuickeRideAppUtils.formatDateTime(mday);
    date.setText(new StringBuilder()
    .append(day).append("-").append(month).append("-")
    .append(myear).append(" "));
}

...
private DatePickerDialog.OnDateSetListener datePickerListener = new DatePickerDialog.OnDateSetListener()
{
    public void onDateSet(DatePicker view, int selectedYear,int selectedMonth, int selectedDay)
    {
        myear = selectedYear;
        mmonth = selectedMonth;
        mday = selectedDay;
        String month  = QuickeRideAppUtils.formatDateTime(mmonth);
        String day = QuickeRideAppUtils.formatDateTime(mday);
        date.setText(new StringBuilder().append(day).append("-").append(month).append("-").append(myear).append(" "));

    }
};

A: remove +1 from this line mmonth = c.get(Calendar.MONTH)+1; just write it like

mmonth = c.get(Calendar.MONTH)

date.setText(new StringBuilder()
    .append(day).append("-").append(month).append("-")
    .append(myear).append(" "));