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Q: Maximum size of a subset S of $\{1,2,...,9\}$ such that sum of each of two members are distinct
What is the maximum size of a subset S of $\{1,2,...,9\}$ such that sum of each of two members of it  are distinct?

I considered the following partition: $\{1,9\},\{2,8\},\{3,7\},\{4,6\},\{5\},$ and since these subsets have equal sum I deduced that  $S$ has at most 5 members,am I right?

A: I do not follow your deduction but 5 is right because there is a subset of size 5 such as: $\{2, 5, 7, 8, 9\}$ and, on the other hand, 6 will not work.
Proof:

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*There are 15 pairs of numbers from a set of size 6.

*The smallest and largest sum of a pair from $\{1, 2,, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9\}$ are 3 and 17.

*There are 15 different integers in the range from to 3 to 17 inclusive.

*So if a set of size 6 works, call it T, T's sums must consist of all 15 integers from 3 to 17.

*In order to get the sums $3, 4,\text { and } 6$, T must contain $1, 2, 3,\text { and } 4$ or $1, 2, 3,\text { and } 5$.  In the first case $1+4=2+3$ so T must contain $1, 2, 3,\text { and } 5$.

*Similarly in order to get a sum of $9$ we must have $8 \in T$ so $T=\{1, 2, 3, 5, 8\}$.

*The only numbers left that could be added to T are $4, 6, 7, \text { and } 9$ but each of them would give T non-unique sums. $1+4=2+3;\; 1+6=2+5;\;1+7=3+5;\;1+9=2+8$. So T cannot have 6 elements.

EDIT: Simpler version, same approach.
New step 5. In order to get sums $3 \text { and } 17$, T must contain $1, 2, 8, 9$. But then $1+9=2+8$ so T cannot have 6 elements.
Delete steps 6 and 7.

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This beer was inspired by a homebrewer I follow on Twitter, Jamey Barlow (@barlowbrewing). My original intention was to follow his recipe exactly, but that didn't really happen. He gave me some advice based on the results of his Sour Saison experiment when he heard I was going to make it. Also, I like mucking with stuff, so I changed up some of the ingredients for better or worse; we'll see.
The first problem I had, my mash tun will only hold 12-13lbs of grain, recipe had about 15lb. So I had to make a couple of adjustments. I'll talk about this later on.
For this beer I made a two-step starter, first 1000ml with White Labs WLP566 Saison II yeast then doubled it to 2000ml. For those of you who have worked with Saison yeast, you know it can be notoriously finicky and often times will not fully ferment or get stuck. After 48 hours in the primary I spiked the Saison yeast with a packet of dried Safale US-05 yeast to really dry out the beer before letting the Wyeast Brettanomyces (5112) at the beer in the secondary fermentor.
This was a single step infusion, mashed the grains out at 147° for 60 minutes. Then sparged at 170° for 60 minutes resulting in ~6 gal of preboil wort.
The boil was for 70 minutes.
I used honey to boost up the gravity of the beer and the original recipe from Jamey Barlow used 1 pound of cane sugar and an additional pound of Golden Promise. Some how I only ordered 1lb of Golden Promise, so that was an easy way to reduce my grain bill to fit my mash tun. And boiling honey for 15 minutes or longer you really kill off most of the flavor, especially with a mild honey.
Great walkthrough. Looking forward to seeing how it turns out.
not sure if it is common, but the maxfermentable starch conversion range is 148-154 deg. The lower side I believe (and may be wrong) would result in a slightly low efficiency and a dryer beer. I'll be adding the brett in a couple of days. I'm really excited!
According to Jamey, The 147 mash is standard for saisons. You want to mash low and long & with simple sugars to have a shot of getting below 1.010. So my Guess earlier was somewhat accurate.
I actually like mashing at these lower temperatures when going for many belgian and french style beers as it makes for a pleasantly thin (and like you said, "dry") final body…also, highly fermentable.
This sounds like a fantastic beer, great idea!
Forgot to ask, Peter…how long are you going to keep this in secondary?
nate, I'll probably be keeping it in for a month. Also I'll probably stir up the sediment from the secondary and bottle condition for a couple of months. Have you worked with brett before?
Gotcha. It makes sense for that style given the reasons you and Nate mentioned. Good stuff.
this is why it is good to brew outside what you know and often, always learning something new. I learned a whole lot with this beer. Including acid malt, mashing temp(obviously), and the absolute max grist my mash tun can hold. No matter how the beer turns out this was a great brew, if only for the knowledge.
I'm planning a new version of my roggenbier with a significant rye increase(from 3 to 5lbs). I was also considering adding some acid malt(.125lb) to create a 'super tart' roggenbier. What do you think, overkill or interesting?
Just once…although I have a pack of brett/lacto blend in my fridge that I am going to use in the next few month or two. I wanted to brew a couple of beers that I wouldn't have to wait so long for first.
I have another pack of brett (5112) that I'm going to use on another brew… was thinking of the wit I have planned.


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package zmaster587.advancedRocketry.inventory.modules;

import net.minecraft.client.Minecraft;
import net.minecraft.client.gui.FontRenderer;
import net.minecraft.client.gui.inventory.GuiContainer;
import net.minecraft.client.renderer.BufferBuilder;
import net.minecraft.client.renderer.GlStateManager;
import net.minecraft.client.renderer.Tessellator;
import net.minecraft.item.ItemStack;
import net.minecraft.tileentity.TileEntity;
import net.minecraft.util.ResourceLocation;
import net.minecraft.world.World;
import net.minecraftforge.fml.relauncher.Side;
import net.minecraftforge.fml.relauncher.SideOnly;
import org.lwjgl.opengl.GL11;
import zmaster587.advancedRocketry.client.render.ClientDynamicTexture;
import zmaster587.advancedRocketry.satellite.SatelliteOreMapping;
import zmaster587.libVulpes.inventory.modules.ModuleBase;
import zmaster587.libVulpes.render.RenderHelper;

import java.nio.IntBuffer;

@SideOnly(Side.CLIENT)
public class ModuleOreMapper extends ModuleBase {

	ClientDynamicTexture texture;
	Thread currentMapping;
	TileEntity masterConsole;
	boolean merged = false;
	private static final int SCREEN_SIZE = 146;
	private static final int MAXZOOM = 128;
	private static final int MAXRADIUS = 16;
	private static final int FANCYSCANMAXSIZE = 57;
	private int fancyScanOffset;
	private long prevWorldTickTime;
	private int prevSlot;
	private int mouseValue;
	private int scanSize = 32;
	private int radius = 1;
	private int xSelected, zSelected, xCenter, zCenter;
	private static final ResourceLocation backdrop = new ResourceLocation("advancedrocketry", "textures/gui/VideoSatallite.png");
	int[][] oreMap;
	World world;
	SatelliteOreMapping tile;
	ItemStack selectedStack;

	public ModuleOreMapper(int offsetX, int offsetY) {
		super(offsetX, offsetY);
		world = Minecraft.getMinecraft().world;

		prevSlot = -1;
		this.tile = tile;
		//masterConsole = tile;
		//xCenter = tile.getBlockCenterX();
		//zCenter = tile.getBlockCenterZ();

		prevWorldTickTime = world.getTotalWorldTime();

		fancyScanOffset = 0;
	}

	//Create separate thread to do this because it takes a while!
	Runnable mapper = new Runnable() {
		@Override
		public void run() {
			oreMap = SatelliteOreMapping.scanChunk(world, xCenter, zCenter, scanSize/2, radius);
			if(oreMap != null)
				merged = true;
			else merged = false;
		}
	};

	//Create separate thread to do this because it takes a while!
	class ItemMapper implements Runnable {
		private ItemStack myBlock;

		ItemMapper(ItemStack block) {
			//Copy so we dont have any possible CME or oddness due to that
			myBlock = block.copy();
		}

		@Override
		public void run() {
			oreMap = SatelliteOreMapping.scanChunk(world, xCenter, zCenter, scanSize/2, radius, myBlock);
			if(oreMap != null)
				merged = true;
			else merged = false;
		}
	};

	private void runMapperWithSelection() {
		currentMapping.interrupt();
		resetTexture();
		if(prevSlot == -1) {
			currentMapping = new Thread(mapper);
			currentMapping.setName("Ore Scan");
		}
		else {
			//currentMapping = new Thread(new ItemMapper(inventorySlots.getSlot(prevSlot).getStack()));//TODO
			currentMapping.setName("Ore Scan");
		}
		currentMapping.start();
	}

	//Reset the texture and prevent memory leaks
	private void resetTexture() {
		GL11.glDeleteTextures(texture.getTextureId());
		texture = new ClientDynamicTexture(Math.max(scanSize/radius,1),Math.max(scanSize/radius,1));
	}

	@Override
	public void renderForeground(int guiOffsetX, int guiOffsetY, int mouseX,
			int mouseY, float zLevel, GuiContainer gui, FontRenderer font) {
		super.renderForeground(guiOffsetX, guiOffsetY, mouseX, mouseY, zLevel, gui,
				font);

		BufferBuilder buffer = Tessellator.getInstance().getBuffer();

		//Draw fancy things
		GlStateManager.disableTexture2D();
		buffer.color(0f, 0.8f, 0f, 1f);
		buffer.begin(GL11.GL_QUADS, buffer.getVertexFormat());
		buffer.pos(-21, 82 + fancyScanOffset, (double)zLevel).endVertex();
		buffer.pos(0, 84 + fancyScanOffset, (double)zLevel).endVertex();
		buffer.pos(0, 81 + fancyScanOffset, (double)zLevel).endVertex();
		buffer.pos(-21, 81 + fancyScanOffset, (double)zLevel).endVertex();
		buffer.finishDrawing();

		buffer.begin(GL11.GL_QUADS, buffer.getVertexFormat());
		buffer.pos(-21, 82 - fancyScanOffset + FANCYSCANMAXSIZE, (double)zLevel).endVertex();
		buffer.pos(0, 84 - fancyScanOffset + FANCYSCANMAXSIZE, (double)zLevel).endVertex();
		buffer.pos(0, 81 - fancyScanOffset + FANCYSCANMAXSIZE, (double)zLevel).endVertex();
		buffer.pos(-21, 81 - fancyScanOffset + FANCYSCANMAXSIZE, (double)zLevel).endVertex();
		buffer.finishDrawing();

		GlStateManager.enableBlend();

		GlStateManager.blendFunc(GL11.GL_SRC_ALPHA, GL11.GL_DST_ALPHA);
		buffer.color(0.5f, 0.5f, 0.0f,0.3f + ((float)Math.sin(Math.PI*(fancyScanOffset/(float)FANCYSCANMAXSIZE))/3f));
		buffer.begin(GL11.GL_QUADS, buffer.getVertexFormat());
		RenderHelper.renderNorthFace(buffer, (double)zLevel, 173, 82, 194, 141);
		buffer.finishDrawing();

		GlStateManager.enableTexture2D();
		GlStateManager.disableBlend();

		if(world.getTotalWorldTime() - prevWorldTickTime >= 1 ) {
			prevWorldTickTime = world.getTotalWorldTime();
			if(fancyScanOffset >= FANCYSCANMAXSIZE)
				fancyScanOffset = 0;
			else
				fancyScanOffset++;
		}

		//If a slot is selected draw an indicator
		int slot;
		if((slot = tile.getSelectedSlot()) != -1) {

			GL11.glDisable(GL11.GL_TEXTURE_2D);
			GL11.glColor3f(0f, 0.8f, 0f);

			buffer.begin(GL11.GL_QUADS, buffer.getVertexFormat());
			RenderHelper.renderNorthFaceWithUV(buffer, zLevel, 13 + (18*slot), 155, 13 + 16 + (18*slot), 155 + 16, 0, 1, 0, 1);
			buffer.finishDrawing();
			GL11.glEnable(GL11.GL_TEXTURE_2D);
		}
	}

	@Override
	public void renderBackground(GuiContainer gui, int x, int y, int mouseX,
			int mouseY, FontRenderer font) {
		super.renderBackground(gui, x, y, mouseX, mouseY, font);

		//int x = (width - 240) / 2, y = (height - 192) / 2;

		//If the scan is done then
		if(merged) {
			IntBuffer buffer = texture.getByteBuffer();
			int scanWidth = Math.max(scanSize/radius,1);

			for(int yt = 0; yt < (texture.getImage().getHeight() * texture.getImage().getWidth()); yt++) {
				buffer.put(yt, oreMap[yt % scanWidth][yt / scanWidth] | 0xFF000000);
			}
			buffer.flip();
			texture.setByteBuffer(buffer);
			merged = false;
		}

		//Render the background then render
		GL11.glColor4f(1.0F, 1.0F, 1.0F, 1.0F);
		Minecraft.getMinecraft().renderEngine.bindTexture(backdrop);
		gui.drawTexturedModalRect(x, y, 0, 0, 240, 192);

		//NOTE: if the controls are rendered first the display never shows up
		//Draw the actual display
		int zLevel = 100;
		GL11.glBindTexture(GL11.GL_TEXTURE_2D, texture.getTextureId());
		BufferBuilder buffer = Tessellator.getInstance().getBuffer();
		buffer.begin(GL11.GL_QUADS, buffer.getVertexFormat());
		RenderHelper.renderNorthFaceWithUV(buffer, zLevel, 47 + x,  20 + y, 47 + x + SCREEN_SIZE,  20 + y + SCREEN_SIZE, 0, 1, 0, 1);
		buffer.finishDrawing();

		//Render sliders and controls
		Minecraft.getMinecraft().renderEngine.bindTexture(backdrop);

		gui.drawTexturedModalRect(197 + x, 31 + y, 0, 192, 32, 14);

		//TODO replace with thing
		//gui.drawVerticalLine((int)(32*VulpineMath.log2(scanSize-1)/8F) + 199 + x, 34 + y, 45 + y, 0xFFC00F0F);

		gui.drawString(font, "Zoom", 198 + x, 22 + y, 0xF0F0F0);

		gui.drawString(font, "X: " + xSelected, 6 + x, 33 + y, 0xF0F0F0);
		gui.drawString(font, "Z: " + zSelected, 6 + x, 49 + y, 0xF0F0F0);
		gui.drawString(font, "Value: ", 6 + x, 65 + y, 0xF0F0F0);
		gui.drawString(font, String.valueOf(mouseValue), 6 + x, 79 + y, 0xF0F0F0);
	}

}

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GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Race report
Buhk is crowned Blancpain Endurance Pro Cup Champion at Nurburgring
Marc VDS takes team crown; Ordonez and Nissan GT Academy RJN celebrate double title at the conclusion of the Blancpain 1000 season finale.
A frantic finale to the 2013 Blancpain Endurance Series played out in thrilling style at the Nürburgring today with fresh champions in Pro Cup and Pro-Am being crowned. Maximilian Buhk (DEU) is the new Pro Cup title holder as he finished the season off in style with a maximum 33-point score to seal the drivers' championship.
A tense finale to the race was set in the penultimate hour when the HTP Motorsport Mercedes SLS AMG GT3 that Buhk shared with fellow TOTAL 24 HOURS OF SPA winners – Bernd Schneider (DEU) and Maximilian Götz (DEU) was forced in to a brake-pad change. That led to a fascinating final hour, as title challengers – the #3 Marc VDS Racing Team BMW Z4 – driven at the time by Maxime Martin (BEL) took the lead, with the Belgian defending the prized lead valiantly.
The HTP run Mercedes SLS AMG had earlier stretched out a seemingly unbeatable margin; only for their concerns about the brakes ensured a change of pads, offering a glimmer of hope for a late Marc VDS Racing Team title double win. Despite several sensational wheel-to-wheel moments between Martin and Buhk, it was the German who won out with a brave overtaking manoeuvre with just 40 minutes of the race remaining.
For German racing legend, Bernd Schneider, it was a particularly memorable victory as he became the only driver in history to win both a 1000 kms billed GT race and the Nürburgring 24 Hours in the same season. Maximilian Götz again enhanced his growing reputation with faultless stints in the race to set a comfortable foundation for a famous victory.
Rounding out the podium was the ART Grand Prix-run McLaren MP4-12C driven by Andy Soucek (ESP), Antoine Leclerc (FRA) and Mike Parisy (FRA). Although they also started third on the grid, the team were satisfied with their performance, which ensured that they book-ended the 2013 with another podium appearance, after they started the campaign off with a 2nd position at Monza in April.
Other pre-race title protagonists that ended the season with difficult races included Belgian Audi Club Team WRT and Kessel Racing. The #13 Audi R8 LMS ultra driven by Frank Stippler (DEU), Christopher Mies (DEU) and René Rast (DEU) ran as high as 2nd for part of the six-hour endurance race but ultimately fell back after suffering with brake problems and an incident with the 3rd placed ART McLaren, to eventually be classified 16th in Pro Cup.
Kessel Racing had an eventful race at the Blancpain 1000 with several incidents throughout the event. After fighting back from a Free Practice accident on Saturday morning, the Swiss team served two penalties, the first of which was for unavoidable contact with the Hexis Racing McLaren.
It was a day of celebration for the Nissan GT Academy Team RJN as they toasted Lucas Ordonez (ESP) as he became the 2013 Pro-Am driver's champion. As well as this honour the British based team also took home the Pro-Am team silverware. It was achieved the hard way as several incidents for both their #32 and #35 Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3 entries ensured team boss Bob Neville was busy calculating the points during the last hour of the event. It was a richly deserved success for the team after showing consistency and pace throughout 2013.
Ordonez and the Nissan GT Academy saw their closest rivals retire early from the race with reigning champions – Niek Hommerson (NDL), Louis Machiels (BEL) being ruled out of the action when their team mate, Fabio Babini (ITA), caused a safety-car deploying accident. TDS Racing also retired with accident damage to end Henry Hassid (FRA) and Ludovic Badey's dreams of capturing the Pro-Am title.
Winning the Pro-Am category was Kirill Ladygin (RUS), his younger brother – Anton Ladygin (RUS) and Victor Shaitar (RUS). The all-Russian driving squad converted their pole position to enjoy a comfortable final two hours and seal the win in their Ferrari 458 Italia.
Scoring their best result of the season was the ROAL Motorsport entered BMW Z4 driven by Michela Cerruti (ITA) and Stefano Comandini (ITA). The Roberto Ravaglia-run team held off the Black Falcon Mercedes SLS AMG GT3 of Adam Christodoulou (GBR), Klaas Hummel (NDL) and Steve Jans (LUX) who claimed the final podium position at their home track.
In the Gentlemen Trophy class the points and champagne went to the Sport Garage/Eric Cayrolle team. Cayrolle (FRA) himself was partnered by Bruce Lorgere Roux (FRA) and Venezualan racer – Justino Azcarate in the #52 Ferrari 458 Italia. All three drivers drove a faultless race and came home two laps ahead of the Boutsen-Ginion pairing of Karim Ojjeh (SAU) and Marlène Broggi (FRA) who secured their best result of the season. Completing the Gentlemen Trophy podium was the new GT Corse entrant of Pierre Ehret (FRA), Alexander Mattschull (DEU) and Christian Kohlaas (DEU) in a Ferrari 458 Italia.
Final Pro Cup Drivers Points
1. Maximilian Buhk 81pts
2. Bernd Schneider/Maximilian Götz 71pts
3. Bas Leinders/Maxime Martin/Yelmar Buurman 71pts
Final Pro-Am Cup Drivers Points
1. Lucas Ordonez 65pts
2. Kiril Ladygin/Victor Shaiter 63pts
3. Peter Pyzera 61pts
Final Gentlemen Trophy Drivers Points
1. Patrice Goueslard/Jean-Luc Blanchemain/Jean-Luc Beaubelique 111pts
2. Leonardo Gorini 66pts
3. Beniamino Caccia 56pts
Final Pro Cup Team Points
1. Marc VDS Racing Team 99pts
2. Belgian Audi Club Team WRT 60pts
3. Kessel Racing 54pts
Final Pro-Am Team Points
1.Nissan GT Academy Team RJN 86pts
2. AF Corse 79pts
3. SMP Racing 69pts
Final Gentlemen Trophy Teams Points
1.SOFREV-ASP 117pts
2.Sport Garage 107pts
3.Kessel Racing 66pts
Stephane Ratel, CEO and Founder of SRO Motorsport Group "The dramatic conclusion to what has been an excellent 2013 Blancpain Endurance Series. The Blancpain 1000 at Nürburgring today saw some incredible GT3 supercar action throughout the field. The usual depth of variety in brands, drivers, teams and nationalities is unique in motorsport and it is wonderful to see new champion teams and drivers crowned. The anticipation is already building for an even more spectacular edition in 2014."
Maximilian Buhk #84 HTP Motorsport Mercedes SLS AMG GT3 (Pro) – 2013 Pro Cup Driver Champion "It is just amazing. We did great job in Spa, so it helped us a lot in the championship table and we came here with the aim to do well again. And today's race was perfect. Actually, when I came out of the pits at the end of the race, I was a bit angry to see that Maxime Martin was in front of me because I did not expect that. I was really fighting hard to follow him because he was quick and then I managed to pass him and it was easier for me to keep the lead. But I am thrilled with the result and really happy to be the Champion."
Bas Leinders, #3 Marc VDS Racing Team BMW Z4 (Pro) – 2013 Pro Cup Team Champion "We knew that 2013 would be more difficult for us than last year, and we also knew that race wins and championships would be harder too, but before coming here we were in position to win both the titles. So, it was great that we had to fight to the "last minute" for these two championships. Congratulations to Maximilian Buhk and HTP Motorsport, who did an excellent job. I would like to say thank you to Marc Van den Straten (team owner) who could not be here today but who is overjoyed by the result. Thank you to all the members of Marc VDS Racing team, without who, we would not be champions today."
Maxime Martin, #3 Marc VDS Racing Team BMW Z4 (Pro) – 2013 Pro Cup Team Champion "The battle with Maximilian was very good, I fought hard to stay in front but I knew that when we reached the traffic it would be hard to keep the position and it was! Max's move was good and fair and it was nice to fight in a safe way. I think that this is a very good result for the team. Last year, we fought for both championships too but we just lost the title so at least this year we won one, which is very good for the team. They did a great job during the season and during this race."
Andy Soucek, #11 ART Grand Prix McLaren MP4-12C (Pro Cup) "I must say that the top two teams and drivers were on different planets today. At some stage I asked my engineer if they were close and he answered: "Don't even think about trying to catch them because they are too far away and too quick". They were really too good for us. But in total it was a good race because we started third and we finished third but actually at some stage we were P6 so it was not easy at all. So, big thanks to everybody who helped us to get here. "
Victor Shaitar, #71 SMP Racing Ferrari 458 Italia (Pro Am) "I feel good about this race and about the year, which we can consider as our first season because last year we did not do well. But racing with the Ferrari this year was good and being among a lot of talented drivers and teams has been a great experience for me."
Lucas Ordonez, #35 Nissan GT Academy Team RJN (Pro Am) – 2013 Pro-Am Driver Champion "It has been a really tough race for us but finally we did it. We are really proud. We struggled a bit with the set-ups of the car during the weekend but it was a six-hour race, so just like in Spa, you have to be patient and wait to find the way to go. I am thrilled to win the championship for Nissan, for GT Academy and the RJN Team. Alex Buncombe has been a really tough team competitor, he was unfortunate today and deserved this (title) too."
Justino Azcarate, #52 Sport Garage Ferrari 458 Italia (Gentlemen Trophy) "I really want to thank Sport Garage, my teammates and my government (of Venezuala), for their support during the season. I must say that the team was absolutely perfect this weekend, and it was amazing. Eric (Cayrolle) did a great job this weekend, Bruce (Lorgere Roux) was very good and we all did our job properly. We managed to do only four stops and did not do any mistakes. I thank everybody who helped us win today."
Jérôme Policand, #10 & #20 Team Manager SOFREV-ASP (Gentlemen Trophy) – 2013 Gentlemen Trophy Team Champion "This year was a big challenge with a Gentleman line-up in the team. There were very strong cars on the track and when you are gentlemen driver you just try to keep going and finish the race. Today we lost two cars (that retired), which is a shame, but at the end we are happy because we are Teams and Drivers champions. It is a good finish for us. I really want to thank all my drivers, Jean-Luc Beaubelique, Jean-Luc Blanchemain, and Patrice Goueslard. It is a great story and a great feeling at the end."
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Give c1,c2,Nr columns
How to add a total column to output that give sum of Yes/No for A and B?

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A: You can use window functions:
SELECT c1, c2, count(*) as Nr,
       SUM(COUNT(*)) OVER (PARTITION BY c1) as Total
FROM db
GROUP BY c1, c2
ORDER BY c1, c2;

A: This should achieve your desired output:
SELECT db.c1, db.c2, count(*) Nr, db2.total
FROM db
LEFT JOIN (SELECT c1, count(*) total FROM db GROUP BY c1) db2
ON db.c1 = db2.c1
GROUP BY db.c1, db.c2
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A: You can use COUNT() window function twice, without GROUP BY:
SELECT DISTINCT c1, c2,
       COUNT(*) OVER (PARTITION BY c1, c2) Nr,
       COUNT(*) OVER (PARTITION BY c1) Total
FROM db
ORDER BY c1, c2;

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force !! Because of the fact I tried to record our inspection, I was targeted. OSHA looked up our name on local permits and have targeted our small business job sites. One officer climbed up on our ladder, AFTER he was asked to leave our site. He refused to get off our ladder stating "I just need a minute to check the pitch of this residential roof." An OSHA officer recently fell and was hurt in our area and she is suing the developer. I don't want OSHA on my equipment!! I speak for myself and most local business owners when I say we fear OSHA and its group of shock and awe inspectors. The violations are just revenue generators, not problem solvers. I am wiling to fly anywhere and testify and show my real time video to everyone that needs to see it. Someone out there please join me in this cause. I feel as if I am in this alone and not even the police can help, even when OSHA repeatedly breaks the law.
I am afraid to comment on this public forum. I am only doing so, that their may be others. You should not post here, but know that I am alone, asking for all of us, these questions. I am legal, but I also do avoid some permit fees, for the potential fall out that may follow. I really think the municipality would like to have those funds. As a remodeler, I am being regulated out of business. From OSHA to LEAD PAINT RENOVATIONS, I am sincerely afraid of our government today.
I am a remodeler, and the fines are huge for my small business. I also avoid pulling permits for the Lead Paint Renovation Rules and excessive related fines.
I don't operate illegally, but those agencies have so much power, and they have flaunted it, that I am worried about losing my business.
Anti-fall at just 6′ is a realistic evaluation of new construction needs for OSHA. For remodeling, I would want 1st story anti-fall restrictions. A single worker, replacing a ceiling fan, could be in violation of OSHA rulings, as I understand it today.


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Q: xyz coordinates from reprojectImageTo3D opencv OpenCV's reprojectImageTo3D is supposed to provide xyz coordinates from a disparity image and a Q projection matrix.  It returns a 3-channel unsigned char image, _3dImage. Each element of _3dImage(x,y) contains 3D coordinates of the point (x,y) computed from the disparity map.  How is one supposed to access the xyz coordinates from the image?

A: oh, wait, it's not a 3-channel unsigned char image, but a 3-channel float image
Point3f p = _3dImage.at<Point3f>(row,col);
// p.x
// p.y
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What does Hang mean?
Matchbox 20: Hang Meaning
Hang Lyrics
She grabs her magazines
She packs here things and she goes
She leaves the pictures hanging on the wall, she burns all
Her notes and she knows, she's been here too few years
To feel this old
He smokes his cigarette, he stays outside 'til...
Cementfrog
Aug 8th report
Everyone is going to have an opinion on what they think this and every song means and they aren't wrong. The beauty of music is that it get the listener. It understands them and the song means something personal to them.
Music has been the 1 and only constant in my life and has saved me and broken me many times. With that being said I'll tell you my opinion of what the song means, bit understand this is only my personal opinion. I've never met any members of Matchbox20 or any of the original composters or authors of the music they've recorded.
It's about a breakup, yes. It's also about feeling so low that are considering suicide, but the song is recorded in a way that the listener doesn't know if it's the man or the woman considering suicide. 1 is considering suicide and the other is just going to hang (remain where they are and not deal with it right now)
"She got reasons he don't" this could be reasons to live or reasons to die. I think this was written beautifully, but if I ever met Rob or any other member of the band the first question I'd ask is if it were the man or the woman that wanted to die. I guess I'll never know.
May 21st 2021 report
It's a sarcastic suicide note written into a thoughtful acoustic song. There are many different personal interpretations of this song that could greatly differ from the artist's own definition.
Jan 23rd 2021 report
To me, this song is all about complacency in a relationship. They had all these aspirations and hopes but eventually it fell into a cycle that they couldn't escape. So they hanged.
She then makes a change in her life and moves on from the routine, trying to achieve those things that their relationship was indirectly or directly getting in the way of.
And concurrently, the guy in the relationship is hurt. Saying you're okay to just leave me behind while you chase what we had envisioned together. He is bitter in the end saying, "well if it's the same for you, I'll just hang". Go live your life while I settle for what I'm comfortable with.
He had mentioned on TV that this song was about his mother having cancer and on her way to the hospital to deal with it, and his going through it with her. "Hang" refers to him hanging out with her while she goes through," if it's all the same with her".
Nov 5th 2018 report
You find someone you think you want , but you don't take the time to really get to understand her so you just hang .. because your to self centered to .. find yourself
I was at his concert a few weeks agai and he said that the song was about "Some friends of his, a couple, that were more effed up than him."
Oct 5th 2017 report
Its a
About your comfort zone..or where do u go when its not here. ? Is it real? The pain we feel? Or how we digest it as it comes??
the_striking_surface
I think this song might be about Thomas' parents' divorce. They divorced when he was young, and the fact that there is both a "he," a "she," and an "I" who all seem very upset in this song. I think the "I" refers to Thomas himself when he was younger, as evidenced by the fact that he feels as though he is being left to hang, forgotten and victimized, in the wake of his parents' conflict.
This song has nothing to do with suicide. It is about 2 people breaking up that everyone thought would last forever. They were the "couple" that every circle of friends has...you think they will always be together no matter what. The girl got sick of always being put on the back burner and finally had enough and broke up with him. FYI....they got married and have 2 little boys now :)
Feb 3rd 2013 report
she grabs her magazines to go to her chemo treatment
He cannot smoke there he stays outside
she is dying
he cannot change that
they hang the chemo... he hangs out
If its the same to you...
She got reasons.... He don't... she is the one dying but the chemo is hanging... maybe .. and he will stay and hang with her.
She is too young to die
she leaves alright but when the lyrics speak of hang it is not literal, it refers to him staying, I do not think it is about the end of a rope but that he will be hanging out & be there if or when she decides to come back.
Mar 21st 2012 report
It's about them fighting and the girl leaving.while the guy sits there and watches her leave hes thinking that they've been through too much to let it all go to waste. "Funny how I didn't see it all..until she grabbed up her coat and she goes" he didn't know what he had till it was gone.
Mar 23rd 2010 report
She packs her things and she goes
To me this part is about the end of a relationship. She left and he just watched her go.
He smokes his cigarette, he stays outside 'til it's gone
If anybody ever had a heart, he wouldn't be alone
He knows, she's been here too few years, to be gone
This reinforces my thought from before.
And we always say, it would be good to go away, someday
But if there's nothing there to make things change
If it's the same for you I'll just hang
To me, this is saying that they always spoke about going away and maybe fixing the relationship but never did, and now she's gone, and he becomes depressed and hangs himself.
The trouble understand, is she got reasons he don't
Funny how he couldn't see at all, 'til she grabbed up her coat
And she goes, she's been here too few years to take it all in stride
But still it's much too long, to let hurt go(you let her go)
This is him blaming himself for her leaving, further convincing me that this song is about him committing suicide.
The same for you
Well I always say, It would be good to go away
But if things don't work out like we think
And there's nothing there to ease this ache
Well, obviously its a song about breaking up... And she's moving out. "shes been here two few years to feel this old" means that she/they have been through A LOT in the past few years.."and we always say it would be good to go away someday" they always talked about getting away from it, whether for a short or long period of time "if its the same for you I'll just hang" but instead they just stay there and stay stuck in their relationship. "well if ots the same to you I'll just hang" says to me he seems comfortable with the relationship being stagnant.
newyorkloveaffair
Beautiful song, whether it was autobiographical or written for someone else. Rob is one of the more talented writers and singers of the 90's.
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The Best Cover and Tribute Albums of 2016
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Follow all our Best of 2016 coverage (along with previous year-end lists) here.
We've done a Best Cover Albums list every year since 2009. That list usually ends up being a reasonably even mix of various-artist tributes and single-artist records. But in all those lists, our number-one pick has been, without fail, a single-artist album (for those keeping score at home, we've awarded The Lemonheads, Peter Gabriel, Baaba Kulka, Neil Young and Crazyhorse, Xiu Xiu, Andrew Bird, and Bob Dylan – who didn't turn up to accept our prize either).
This single-artist streak is no coincidence. It is naturally easier for one artist, if he/she/they are good enough, to maintain consistent quality control over 10 or 15 tracks. Whereas even the best mixed-artist tribute records usually have one or two dud tracks. Take the National-curated Day of the Dead, certainly this year's highest-profile tribute album. Some of these Grateful Dead covers were so good they'll appear on next week's Best Cover Songs of 2016 list. Many others were dreck, filler, or superfluous. So we ranked the record – spoiler alert – at #20, sort of an honorable-mention position.
Even various-artist tributes comprised of uniformly good covers typically don't add up to more than the sum of their parts. For example, we ranked MOJO Magazine's Blonde on Blonde tribute pretty high this year because we liked just about every one of the Bob Dylan covers on offer. But there's little common ground between an aggressive electronic "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" and a tender folk "I Want You." The record is more a bunch of great cover-song fodder for mixes and playlists than a truly great and unified album.
I sound like I'm being critical, but again, these are among the best cover albums of the year. This is usually the most a various-artist tribute album can aspire to: more good covers, few bad ones.
But this year, for the first time in our eight years making these lists, a various-artist tribute album rose so all the way to the top. This album was not only good top to bottom, but it felt like a real album, not just a collection of covers. It ably walked the finest of lines: showcasing diverse approaches to the source material while just remaining cohesive enough to stand together as a complete listen.
I don't want to give away what that number-one album is just yet. We'll get there, and there's already enough of a tendency with year-end lists to skip straight to #1 and ignore the rest. I no doubt have not helped by hyping this magical album that broke our eight-year streak. But every one of the twenty albums we picked offers something worth hearing.
We've got jazz-sax forays through prog-rock and twee-pop covers of vintage punk tunes. There's a '60s New York icon honoring her then-competitors in the British Invasion, and a band from that same British Invasion honoring their American inspirations. There are tributes to great musicians who died this year, and tributes to long-dead musicians who there's no news hook for honoring now, just great songs.
This list itself is as "various artists" as it can get, a whole array of genres and styles with one common thread: musicians honoring their inspirations and influences. Let's dig in.
– Ray Padgett, Editor-in-Chief
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Katy Goodman and Greta Morgan Team Up To Cover The Replacements' "Bastards of Young"
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The Replacements' "Bastards of Young" is an undeniable indie-punk anthem and the worst song you could cover. Walk into any opening set at Baby's All Right and some hyped up indie-new-wave, Simpson-wave, or I-want-fall-asleep-this-is-so-meh-wave band will butcher this classic and will sound almost as bad as your lame alternative folksinger friend trying to cover "Skinny Love" with a tuba. If you're going to cover The Replacements, pick a better song off Tim.
However, Katy Goodman (La Sera and formerly Vivian Girls) and Greta Morgan (Springtime Carnivore) covering "Bastards of Young" is newsworthy and worth your time for two reasons. One, it's off the duo's upcoming covers album, Take It, It's Yours (August 26 via Polyvinyl Records), featuring covers of punk and new wave songs from The Stooges, The Jam, Blondie, Bad Brains, and more – check out Pitchfork for the full tracklist. Two, Goodman and Morgan actually manage to do something interesting with a song that's been covered to death. They take out the yells and and the fight-or-die guitars and bring in poolside tremolo guitars and keyboards and soothing harmonies to highlight the surprisingly strong lyrics. It sounds like a Real Estate song in the best way possible, and it's an example of one of the golden rules for covering songs: If you're going to cover a massively beloved hit, it's best to do something different and interesting.
Here's Goodman in a statement about the upcoming album:
"On the surface a song like [Bad Brains'] "Pay to Cum" seems really masculine, but to me, the lyrics are really more about freedom. You have the right to sing, you have the right to dance. When you have two girls harmonizing on these songs, they take on a new meaning, because you're listening in a different way. … These songs helped shaped who we are. They gave us the songs, and now we get to give them back as our thank you."
Pre-order the album here. Photo by Julia Brokaw.
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Review: Various Artists, 'Sing For Your Meat: A Tribute to Guided by Voices'
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Guided by Voices are a truly influential band in the indie music sphere. Their 20+ year run provided the sonic groundwork for the lo-fi, DIY aesthetic so prevalent in today's indie music scene. So it comes as no surprise that so many artists would be willing to provide covers from all eras of Guided by Voices work for the tribute album, Sing For Your Meat. Ranging from veterans such as The Flaming Lips, Thurston Moore (of Sonic Youth fame), and Lou Barlow, to artists more recently making names for themselves like La Sera and Blitzen Trapper, the bands on this 23-track tribute pay loving homage to a band without whom they might not exist.
Things kick off with a slightly sped up, straight forward rock cover of "Scalding Creek" by Kelly Deal and Buffalo Killers. The vocals keep the simple two part harmony. When they take a break, the lead guitar comes wailing through for a simple, yet effective solo, until the song pulls back on the reigns a little and comes to an abrupt halt. Things keep moving along quite swiftly, since, keeping true to the spirit of Guided by Voices, most songs clock in around two minutes or so, and indie star power like Thurston Moore and Lou Barlow is nicely mixed in with lesser known artists like Western Civ. Continue reading »
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La Sera Gives Guided by Voices a Beautiful Makeover
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The Guided by Voices tribute album comes out this weekend, and as we approach its Record Store Day release, we're hearing more and more of what we can look forward to. We've already played you covers by Thurston Moore, Cymbals Eat Guitars and Mass Solo Revolt, and now it's time to draw your attention to another. Continue reading »
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Not all marine fish eat plastics
The Gulf Stream, which curves along the southern shore of Newfoundland, is saturated with plastics. Fish that feed from the surface waters, where plastics tend to accumulate, are in an ideal position to ingest plastics.
But what about the bigger fish that eat these fish, especially when we eat those predators?
In 2016, our laboratory collected 134 silver hake to check the rate at which they ate plastics. Since silver hake are predators that eat fish that feed from the surface waters where plastics tend to accumulate, we were prepared to see a lot of plastic.
To our surprise, when we opened their digestive tracts, we found zero plastics.
It turns out this is normal.
Some fish don't eat plastics
At first, we wondered if our results were a statistical anomaly. Most scientific literature reports ingestion rates well over our finding of zero. The ranges run from one per cent to 100 per cent, with an average of around 30 per cent.
When we took a closer look at other studies, we found that most of them averaged ingestion rates across all fish species.
But fish feeding habits are highly variable. Different species, ages and feeding grounds make some species more or less likely to ingest plastics than others. Some fish species eat from the middle of the water column, where there are fewer plastics, for example.
We untangled the results of these studies to see what the data said about each species.
We found that 41 per cent of all species studied do not ingest plastics! Silver hake and their zero per cent ingestion rates were not an anomaly at all.
No one loves a zero
Why didn't we, a group of experts, know that there was a good chance we wouldn't find plastics in a fish species?
Silver hake is also known as whiting, Atlantic hake and New England hake.
(Freshwater and Marine Image Bank)
There are two potential reasons that this kind of knowledge doesn't circulate.
First, in science, it's hard to get a zero published. The studies averaged the ingestion rate across species, obfuscating any zeros.
Second, many ingestion studies seem to include all the fish in a region. Scientists often use a trawl to catch a variety of fish in a region, and then report the ingestion rate for all species in that area, rather than focus on one species' ingestion rate.
Zero impacts justice
Erasing these zero results with broad-brush claims that equalize risk across all people, all landscapes or all fish overlooks crucial differences in practices, exposures and futures that do not apply equally to everyone and everything.
If we are invested in addressing the problems of plastic pollution, then our interventions must reflect these uneven distributions. For example, we might start with species that ingest the most plastics or that suffer most from plastics.
It is hard to address a problem like marine plastics without this kind of nuance.
Consider a parallel example. Predatory aquatic animals like lake trout or killer whales can accumulate chemicals such as PCBs. When we eat these fish, the chemicals have a greater effect on a growing fetus than an adult.
This is why fish consumption advisories are different if you are pregnant than if you are not.
Some of the fish we eat may contain plastics. Others may not. Knowing which do is important to understanding how we address the issue of plastics in our oceans.
Averaging harm and creating universal advisories put some people at more risk than others. Identifying differences is a basic principle of pollution work in both science and activism. It's why knowing the prevalence of species that do not ingest plastics is significant to both public health and environmental justice work.
Thin numbers on plastics
As it turns out, the dearth of zero ingestion rates isn't the only thin number describing plastic pollution. A lot of the numbers that circulate about marine plastic pollution are speculative at best and unverifiable at worst.
For example, the oft-quoted statistic that "there will more plastic than fish in the oceans by 2050" is cinematic, but given the acute problems with estimating both the weight of global fish stocks for all species and all marine plastics in all environments, the number "is a useful illustration but it is not verifiable", meaning that we can't know if the number is correct or not.
Likewise, tests for estimating how long plastics take to degrade are "conducted at non-environmentally relevant conditions," leaving the media to report ranges of 10 to 10,000 years.
Those figures identify time periods that are longer than plastics have been on the planet. (Plastic was invented about 150 years ago.) And the laboratory conditions that led to those those estimates don't exist in nature.
Nor do we know how many plastics from land enter the oceans, or how many straws end up in the environment. Although we have some estimates, the exact numbers are proving to be a less than ideal source for describing the problem of plastic pollution.
A better discussion
The good news is that numbers don't have to, and perhaps shouldn't, be the main way we describe marine plastic pollution.
Counting plastics that are already in fish (or not) looks at the end of the pipe, instead of how plastics get into the pipe. Rather than asking "how much," we can turn to the "why" and the "how."
Instead of focusing on harm — the effects of plastics — we can look at violence — the cause of these potential harms by polluters.
When we first published our silver hake results, I received a lot of hate mail.
Social media posts accused me of working for the plastics industry, which I don't. The public concern was that our zero result implied that there was no problem with pollution. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
But just because we see uneven harm (to the fish) does not mean there is uneven environmental violence. The plastic industry is still the only source of plastic waste, regardless of which species of fish tend to ingest plastics or not. Harm focuses only on effects, but violence captures causes of multiple and uneven effects.
Regardless of whether we find plastics in one fish species but not another, the pipeline moving plastics into waterways remains the same.
As a scientist, I want to warn against conflating "how much" harm with why harm occurs. I also want to highlight the "how" and "why" questions about violence over the "how much" question of harm.
Science is not in a position to say what is right or wrong, but only to quantify the occurrence of harm. It can say nothing about the "how," the "why" or the "what now." That is for us to consider.
Max Liboiron, Professor of Geography and Environmental Science, Memorial University of Newfoundland
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Q: I love cast-iron pans but the coating on the bottom of my favorite skillet is pitted and blistering up. What can I do to save this without re-seasoning the entire pan all over again? I've had it for twelve years!
A: Depending on how you clean and cook with the pan, residual carbon will build up over time. This is inevitable, but there are a few tricks you can use to minimize the issues you've described.
First, always scrub the pan religiously after use with nothing more harsh than very hot water and a plastic or bamboo bristle brush. The coating will not hold up if cleaned with soap.
Secondly, extremely high temperatures may pop areas of the black carbon off. This happened recently to my favorite Lodge 12″ skillet after I made fajitas. When I first got the pan in 1996, I was over-zealous in how much cooking oil I applied to season it. Well, I'm paying for that mistake now. Several areas of the pan show blistering and there are two dime-sized spots where the carbon lifted completely off. Fortunately, cast-iron is also a lot more forgiving concerning maintenance. I simply took a small square of 600-grit wet/dry sandpaper to the spot and smoothed out the rough edge. The carbon was sanded down to bare metal in one spot where the divot was, but after re-seasoning just that area, it's fine, and the area around it is smooth as glass. Try doing that with any other type of cookware!
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Q: I recently got into gardening and tried growing tomato plants. They started out great but after a while the vines and leaves got black spots and withered. Eventually it overtook most of the plant. What did I do wrong?
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Q: Is it true that you can actually hurt yourself by eating habanero peppers?
Q: What is your favorite cooking utensil?
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Q: What is the inspiration for your selection of recipes?
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Nour is wondering once again about his beloved Mermaid while he is married officially to Princess Dalal and Sheikh Mansour is angry that his son is back to his madness and would embarrass him in front of his bride princess. Meanwhile Yasmine, our little mermaid just disappeared. All that happened in our Cursed Lady's Wall. Tonight we continue our tale for the 18th night in Ramadan.
Nour is now awake after a horrible nightmare, screaming for his beloved mermaid. He tells his Mermaid but he can not find her anywhere. He reveals to his father his nightmare. He saw himself throwing away the Sea Mermaid. He also tells him that he only married the princess to please him.
He insists that what happened to him was real and he was not imagining stuff. He goes then searching for Yasmine whom he understood at last that she was his mermaid.
Princess Dalal knew the truth from her maid.
She tells Sheikh Mansour that she wants to return back home and the old man convinces her that she should stick to her sick husband who had a tough experience in the sea from a couple of weeks ago.
Yasmine, our little mermaid has disappeared and no one knows what happened to her.


Judy Ann Schroeder was born in Detroit, Michigan on August 30, 1951, the daughter of Gustave and Mary (Hessell) Schroeder. She was a member of St. Dorothy's Parish in Warren, Michigan at the time of her entrance into the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Nazareth on August 12, 1973. Her reception was on August 13, 1976, she pronounced first vows on June 11, 1978 and final vows on September 19, 1981.
Sister Judy received a Bachelors Degree from Nazareth College and a Master's Degree from Western Michigan University majoring in Social Work. Sister Judy began her ministry in Social Work at Bronson Hospital in Kalamazoo, Michigan while attending Western Michigan University. She also worked in the Van Buren Intermediate School District and many years in the Diocesan office in Gaylord, Michigan as a Social Worker. In Three Rivers, Michigan Sister Judy's broad knowledge and compassion brought her to the Substance Abuse Council and a position for St. Joseph County. In 1995 a call to Leadership brought Sister Judy to the Sisters of St. Joseph Leadership Team in Nazareth, Michigan and then as the Program Coordinator in the Transformations Spirituality Center. In 2002, Sister Judy began her own private practice counseling abuse victims which in 2006 led her to the Elizabeth Upjohn Community Healing Center in Human Services as a therapist. In 2009 Sister Judy worked with the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Battle Creek, Michigan counseling Veterans who suffered from issues such as PTSD, mental illness or substance abuse. Serious illness took Judy out of active ministry but she continued her concern and prayer for the people with whom she walked for so many years.
Sister Judy's reflection at her Silver Jubilee expresses her commitment to God's people and the different ministries which filled her life: "It is amazing to reflect on how the Spirit has guided (my) journey and revealed to me the face of God in the people I have met…,Native-American children, individuals with different addictions, government officials, board room trustees, our congregational leadership team… each a unique opportunity to see and be God's loving presence."


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 Ponzio – nome proprio di persona italiano maschile

Persone
Nome
 Ponzio di Tripoli – conte di Tripoli dal 1112 al 1137
 Ponzio III di Empúries – conte di Empúries dal 1173 al 1200 circa
 Ponzio IV di Empúries – conte di Empúries dal 1230 al 1269 circa
 Ponzio Telesino – condottiero sannita

Cognome
 Augusto Ponzio – filosofo, linguista e semiotico italiano
 Emilio Ponzio Vaglia – politico e militare italiano
 Erennio Ponzio – condottiero sannita
 Erika Ponzio – calciatrice italiana
 Flaminio Ponzio – architetto italiano
 Gaio Ponzio – condottiero sannita
 Leonardo Ponzio – calciatore argentino
 Pietro Ponzio – compositore e musicologo italiano

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Steak, ribs and live music. What more could you want? How about a whole lot more of each of those? Well, that's the formula that works for T Bob's Corner, a groovy Singapore steakhouse where you get each by the bucketload. Even better, this spot on Bedok North Street is 100% halal, and the music sways between pumping rock gigs and acoustic chill-out sessions, so there's always something to suit everyone. The delicious and dinosaur-sized honey BBQ lamb ribs are undoubtedly the house specialty at T Bob's Corner, but there are plenty more tasty ribs, steaks, pastas and other western dishes to choose from, too, so it's a place you wouldn't mind – in fact may feel compelled – to return to a few times to explore around the menu.


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The Swallows game at Nagoya Dome get underway at 3pm. Very big game for Yakult as Takehiko Oshimoto takes the mound for the Swallows; he's 0-1 with a 3.24 ERA (8 G, 8.1 IP) against the Dragons this season. Opposing him will be 33-year-old lefty Takashi Ogasawara; he's 1-1 with a 4.18 ERA (5 G, 28 IP) against the Swallows so far this year.
And a struggling bullpen that has, at times, struggled to hold the lead.
The table-setters really need to get on base most consistently. Now that Norichika Aoki is starting to swing a better bat, it's that much more important for the players above him to get on base. Over this current 6-game losing streak, the Swallows' 1-2 hitters are a pathetic 8-for-46 with only 3 runs scored.
But blaming only the top 2-hitters is too easy. The 4-5-6 batters have also been awful: 14-for-68 with only 1 RBI.
Meanwhile, Aoki is 11-for-21 and doing everything he can to get on base. Maybe Aoki needs to go on another slump -- this team only appears to know how to play well only when Aoki is slumping.
As for the pitching core... Losing both Ryota Igarashi and Chang-Yong Lim was a big deal. But Igarashi is now back, meaning the pen should begin to rebound. Still, it's quite troubling when your bullpen acts much like a sieve against the opponents offense (last 6 games: 16.1 IP, 16 ER).
If the Swallows lose today, they could give up third place to the surging Tigers.
Speaking of the Tigers, they take on the Bay Stars at Koshien tonight (game time 6pm). Shinobu Fukuhara goes for his first victory since June 6th (a span of 5 starts) and 1-1 with a 5.23 ERA (2 G, 10.1 IP) against the Bay Stars. Yokohama counters with Stephen Randolph, their late-season foreign import that has been lights out for them so far (4 G, 2-1, 1.38 ERA, 26 IP, 35 K). Should be a good game to watch.


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A few weeks ago, we visited my brother-in-law and future sister-in-law in Charlotte. It was so much fun seeing them! If you follow me on Instagram, you also know we HAD to make a trip to IKEA. I love IKEA and their inexpensive décor! As I was looking for frames, though, I realized the size frames I was looking for were more than I wanted to spend for my office/craft room/studio room (I CANNOT decide what to call it!).
While there, even though I was distracted by all of the amazing Target goodies, I noticed these old frames and asked Russ to get down from a high shelf…in my mind I knew they'd be too expensive, but there were two so I thought I'd just look.
Oops…you can see a sneak peek of my floor!!
He turned them around and they were $3.99!!!!!!! I was sold and didn't let them go.
Now, this was not exactly the look I was going for, obviously, but I knew paint would work wonders.
All I did was spray the frame white, then paint a coat of white over it (that I already had from priming this lovely room above) and did the exact same thing to the mat.
Did you know you could paint a mat?
Yep. Super easy and a quick update!
I didn't even print their pictures on actual photo paper. I took them to Staples (make sure it's on a jump drive!) and had them printed on regular paper for around $3 total.
And THIS is my favorite thing in the room! I love looking at these little faces while working!
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These look so good and for that price, you really can't beat it!


CONSTRUCTION started today on Scotland's new national blood centre, part of the £4.5 billion project in Scotland.
The Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service (SNBTS) received £43 million from the Scottish Government.
The National Centre of Excellence will be the hub for the processing, testing, supply, research and development for blood and human donor tissues and cells at Heriot-Watt Research Park in Edinburgh.
The facility will be completed by mid-2017 and more than 400 staff members are expected to move to the site.
It will consolidate and modernise services, which are currently carried out over a number of sites.
Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon marked the start of the development.
She said: "Currently projects worth around £750 million are in construction across Scotland. This government's continued commitment to infrastructure investment is delivering quality services among the people who visited the new sites, creating jobs and helping to grow the economy.
"This new state-of-the-art centre will put Scotland ahead of the rest of the UK for its work researching and testing blood.
Mary Morgan, director of the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service, said: "The development of this new facility has been years in the planning and it is very exciting to be on the threshold of the construction phase.
Scotland's Blood Transfusion Charity, Give Blood for Scotland, claims that only four per cent of people in Scotland give blood. The country has a constant need for blood donors, with more than 1,000 donors required every day to meet hospital demand. People need blood for many reasons – after trauma, general supply or to support cancer.
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I walked halfway to work this morning. No problem. I made it anyway, but I feel so tired right now, nine hours later. I don't know how I am gonna make it back home.
Well, over lunch today, I chatted with two journalists, one a columnist for a daily national paper with a countrywide circulation of 20,000 copies; the other wears two caps. He is a seasoned sports reporter and a sports columnist too of a regional paper.
The two spoke about the lies that our politicians frequently say to get elected, and I kept on wondering, which politician doesn't tell lies. Really, which one? Even George Orwell conquered back in the fifties that the language of politicians is "designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."
So we chatted from the perceived industry of Peter Kenneth (that famed Gatanga MP with managerial tendencies) to the apparent hardwork of George Thuo, the Juja MP and also the government chief whip.
I smiled all along as the first journalist trashed PK, on how he had neglected his side of the constituency --lower Gatanga-- and such. He said the man gave out handouts, yes, that he fed men on fish instead of feeding them on fish.
George was dismissed by the two, I dont know why, but I find him IT-savvy at (www.georgethuo.com) .
Anyway, I sprang a surprise question: Do you think Raila (Odinga the current Prime Minister)is going to win the next election?
The sports guy said that Raila will not win, but all the others will fail. The man has no opposition, he said. Looking at the field, you see Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto. Who of the two can beat Raila? For some reason, the current Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka is out of the picture. He's not been forgiven for his "betrayal" by joining forces with Kibaki.
And the other journalist, not the sports guy, said that if Raila were to win, then he'd just bag his parliamentary seat and that will be it.
Well, unfortunately, those were journalists analysing the politics of the country two years after a bloody election violence and three years to the next General Election in 2012. The opinion poll firms are also fanning the politics of it with humdrum headlines that make no sense at this time.
Raila Odinga himself, seems, to have hidden his cards, waiting. In the past few weeks he has hinted that he would be in the running, perhaps the reason for the phenomenal, even fanatical support that he commands in Western Kenya. The vernacular radio stations in Kisii, Luo and Luhya languages have pushed him up into a demigod status, but the middle class in Nairobi seems apathetic.
It is such shock that greeted me when my uncle told me "Ni Raila tu ndio tunangoja, hatuna mwingine, kwa sababu hakushinda." So, I am waking up and wondering, who is fooling who? Who is not listening to the people? Is the media lying or am I just in denial? And now a journalist friend insists that Raila is not called enigma for nothing....come on, educate me.
PS: The matatu strike has ended after the operators went hungry for day one and saw the public opinion so against them.


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The [Movies] Thread: Pre-Summer Blockbuster Blockbuster Season
Harry Dresden Registered User regular
Ridley Scott reveals the origins of the androids.
https://www.wired.com/2017/03/ridley-scott-video/
edit: Dammit, Ridley - Kubrick didn't create Hal, 2001 was a movie adaption of a novel by Arthur C. Clarke.
Harry Dresden on April 2017
WiseManTobes Registered User regular
Harry Dresden wrote: »
Commander Zoom wrote: »
Is it time to bring up Hollywood Hacking again, or television forensics?
Popular entertainment, with rare exceptions, is / has been / always will be crap at presenting technical subjects accurately, because those subjects are complicated, opaque, and/or boring to non-experts.
Holy sweet shit my brainmeats are melting
Steam! Battlenet:Wisemantobes#1508
WiseManTobes wrote: »
Paladin Registered User regular
I suppose it could work if each key was a different macro and they were just playing whack a mole with pop ups
Marty: The future, it's where you're going?
Doc: That's right, twenty five years into the future. I've always dreamed on seeing the future, looking beyond my years, seeing the progress of mankind. I'll also be able to see who wins the next twenty-five world series.
And Hackers, of course.
Thirith Registered User regular
Yesterday I rewatched Punch Drunk Love for the first time since seeing it at the cinema. While I still don't entirely connect with the film or its characters, I could appreciate it more for the fantastic cinematography; more than that, though, when I first saw it, Magnolia was probably my favourite movie, so I went in expecting something in that vein, which didn't do the film any favours. Having taken a step back and looking at the film for what it is rather than what it isn't, I enjoyed it more. It's also an interesting stepping stone between the earlier Altman-meets-Scorsese films (Boogie Nights and Magnolia) and the later, more alien, more Kubrickian films (There Will Be Blood and The Master) - though in each case, while PTA was clearly inspired by those grand old men of cinema, he still gives the films his very own flavour.
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Dracomicron Registered User regular
I thought Predators was pretty fun. It was fairly consistent on a narrative level, and many adventures were had.
It was better than the AvP movies, anyway, and most of Predator 2 (the last scene of that movie blows everything post-Schwarzenegger out of the water).
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Jazz Fuck cancer. Un-UKRegistered User regular
But the thing to remember about Hackers is that Hackers is amazing.
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Dracomicron wrote: »
Third best Predator film, superior to both A v P films. Not that it's a high bar to clear.
a nu start Registered User regular
Wait, there's two A v P films?
Number One Tricky
MadCaddy Registered User regular
Might wanna double check the history on that one... the Movie came out before the novel.
Kubrick and Clarke co-wrote the screenplay.
MadCaddy on April 2017
a nu start wrote: »
AlphaRomero Registered User regular
I give the second AvP credit for portraying the aliens as the amoral monsters they are.
MadCaddy wrote: »
I stand corrected.
reVerse Registered User regular
AvP2 is the second best film in both franchises.
Nobeard North Carolina: Failed StateRegistered User regular
Predator 2 was an enjoyable b-movie throughout. The premise of a Hunter in the city who can only be stopped by an average cop is, IMO, genius. It's interesting on it's own and it sharply distinguishes the sequel from the first one. That's very important because the first one transcends (if only a little) it's b-movie genre, so subtly preventing comparison between the two is exactly what you want. The SFX are good to great. We get to spend relatively lots of quality time with the Hunter. Danny Glover is basically playing Murtaugh in an alternate universe and that's just fine with me. It expands the lore of the Hunters while keeping them scary, weird, and mysterious, and without clumsy exposition.
It's not as good as the first one, but I'd say that on a list of top 50 80's action movies, it's in the range of 25-11.
It also has a great tagline: "He's in town with a few days to kill."
I'm not saying we are going to have an autocratic dystopia, but things keep happening that look like they come from an autocratic dystopia.
I do miss a good tag line.
cj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Chantry of NightmaresRegistered User regular
Nobeard wrote: »
I unapologetically love Predator 2.
Unlike Arnold? Danny wins.
take. it.
cj iwakura wrote: »
It's like Robocop, pure 80's 90's craziness. I love it.
Linespider5 ALL HAIL KING KILLMONGER Registered User regular
I almost wish we had gotten the Rodriguez version of the Predators script, which apparently involved a full-functioning Spanish galleon that had been brought throuth space to the Predator's hunting world.
But that would probably utterly have ruined that weirder and fascinating premise of Predators creating havoc during the Age of Sail and interacting with pirates and so on. Best to keep it hid.
DarkPrimus premium Registered User regular
DarkPrimus wrote: »
Your Name is a really good film that is only in theaters for like, this weekend and maybe next weekend?
While the plot starts out feeling like it's just re-treading some well-known cinema concepts, it turns them on their head pretty quickly and ends up being quite poignant and affecting. It's also awe-inspiringly gorgeous - I wouldn't begrudge anyone choosing to see it dubbed simply so that they don't have to look away from the visuals even for a moment.
An addendum, since I had some time to think about it: What's wonderful about the film is that it starts out highly personal, then expands into something that encompasses so much more, yet it manages this while maintaining the strong personal connections that it started with.
Which makes sense, as the film is about connections, in a number of ways.
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Hexmage-PA Registered User regular
I'd like to see it, but the closest showing is in Atlanta, which was a two hour drive before the bridge on I-85 burned down.
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jungleroomx El Hopaness Rom Tic Registered User regular
"I am the bestest hacker ever, so great that my hacking is even appearing on YOUR SCREEN I am H4X0R."
Jesus christ that is the dumbest thing...
Make. Time.
In today's example of "actors, especially in genre movies / blockbusters / huge hits / classics / all of the above, who deliver frankly Oscar-worthy performances that really deserved more recognition both at the time and looking back"...
Linda Hamilton in Terminator 2. As sublime as she was in the original, she was goddamn amazing in T2. Her physical transformation was noted at the time, as she'd trained so hard to go from "everygirl" Sarah Connor as seen in the original to hard-as-nails Sarah Connor (whilst still believable as the same character), but her performance just shines more every time I watch it. She sells every moment; action, pathos, everything. She is basically flawless in this movie. Yet somehow she's never quite remembered in the same way as other iconic action heroines. She should be.
Jazz on April 2017
Hexmage-PA wrote: »
Hey, if I can drive over two hours to see it, so can you!
Jazz wrote: »
Linda Hamilton in Terminator 2. As sublime as she was in the original, she was goddamn amazing in T2. Her physical transformation was noted at the time, as she'd trained so hard to go from "everygirl" Sarah Connor as seen in the original to hard-as-nails Sarah Connor (whilst still believable as the same character), but her performance just shines more every time I watch that movie. She sells every moment; action, pathos, everything. She is basically flawless in this movie. Yet somehow she's never quite remembered in the same way as other iconic action heroines. She should be.
Her sister as well!
That's not a camera trick, editing trick, or anything. That's Leslie Hamilton in the background.
jungleroomx on April 2017
I actually just found that out today.
jungleroomx wrote: »
Leslie was in a couple of other moments in T2 as well - shots of the playground dream/nightmare sequence where they were both on-screen, and the director's cut scene with the "mirror" when John and Sarah are getting out the Terminator's CPU (which is one of my favourite shots in all of cinema, it's masterfully executed - that's not a mirror, it's a recreated set the other side with Arnold, Leslie Hamilton and John's double on the far side and Edward Furlong, Linda Hamilton and the puppet Terminator on the near side, with their actions perfectly synchronized to completely sell that the CPU assembly parts are being pulled out of Arnold's head with not even a whiff of CGI, it's all practical effects. I love it.)
Kana Registered User regular
Sneakers is friggin great
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Solar Registered User regular
Terminator 2 is such a fucking excellent movie, really
It's got everything, I love it
ElJeffe Moderator, ClubPA mod
I agree with all that except for the part where she doesn't get recognized as being am iconic action heroine. Pretty sure I've never seen a top five list that doesn't have her on it.
It's like Ripley, Sarah Conner, <other stuff goes here>.
Hey fuck it, here's my top five list:
Sarah Conner
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FroThulhu Registered User regular
Sarah's whole sequence at the Dyson house is so damned amazing. Twenty-six years after I first watched it in the cinema, that whole sequence still puts my stomach in knots.
And it's not just the horror movie build up of tension, it's not just the editing and sound effects. Linda Hamilton bearing down on Miles like a monster, then breaking down- her every second on screen from the moment she enters the house is so painful. When she breaks down, "I love you, John," is so thoroughly earned. She did so much of the heavy lifting in that scene.
Nova_C wrote: »
"I'm arresting you for failing to check yourself. You have the right to wreck yourself."
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It's a shame Linda suffers from I believe Bipolar depression? As I think that mostly cut her Hollywood career shorter than it should have been.
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I think James Cameron also had some deleterious effects on people's careers for a good stretch
Notice that three of his films, almost in a row, featured a bunch of high-profile performances from good-to-excellent actors, who have been eternally relegated to also-ran status.
Michael Beihn was the leading man in two separate BFD action films in the 80's, was fucking amazing as Johnny Ringo, and is essentially a nobody.
Bill Paxton should've blown the fuck up after Aliens.
Robert Patrick was, just... damn, and essentially disappeared until Striptease, which was an embarrassmeant, then showed up to play Dagget on the X-Files. And he's basically been Rooker'd ever since.
Jeannette Goldstein played one of the most iconic female action heroes of all time, and is relegated to the background of everything ever.
FroThulhu wrote: »
The drop off is weird too because I can't remember anyone from Avatar except the psycho general guy. He's like Spielberg, directing talent unlike wine does not apparently age well.
TexiKen pumped up Registered User regular
I always thought Cameron might have blacklisted Hamilton after their divorce just out of spite.
It's a very Hollywood thing to do.
ElJeffe wrote: »
Oh, she's definitely recognised for it, but perhaps more the character than the actress. But then, Ripley (for the obvious comparison) is totally Sigourney Weaver... maybe Linda's Sarah Connor specifically is slightly diluted by virtue of the character having been played by multiple other actresses. I dunno, just a thought.
Sigourney also did Ghostbusters and to a lesser extent Gorillas in the Mist in relatively short order so she demonstrated her range pretty quickly where Hamilton didn't really do anything big before or between T1 or T2 and then after, so was too late to avoid being type cast, at which point, not a tonne of female action lead roles.
The "I love you, John" also juxtaposes with their scene in the car after their escape from Pescadero. They start what seems like a hug, but it quickly becomes apparent that Sarah is being all business because she's focused entirely on checking that John isn't injured, not holding her son for the first time in years. The irony being that that is what hurts John the most. Furlong is fantastic in that scene as well.
And, of course, in the Dyson house after Sarah breaks down, John shifts effortlessly into taking charge of the entire situation.
AlphaRomero wrote: »
Zoe Saldana, she's Gamora in GOTG now. Michelle Rodriguez, too.