Now about the title subject. I am currently lying in my bed in the same room I had before, not at all what springs to mind when one thinks of an institution such as this, with its timber-topped stone fire surround, the hexagonal coffered ceiling, ornate cornice and stone mullioned windows providing a view over trees, fields and one of the beautiful viaducts carrying the Leeds-York railway. This is one of the ways to look. This is longing and the freedom I do not have.
Another way to look is at the full-size hospital bed I lay in, the health and safety signs on the door, the hoist standing in the corner of the room willing me to want to move, the movement of professional staff as they answer the call of nearby alarms and finally the constant breathe and sigh of the ventilator beside me, like a metronome clicking away life before my eyes. This is another way to look. This is inevitability.
Another way to look is at the grand fireplace with its tiled slips, stone surround and heavy timber mantelpiece incorporating egg-and-dart detailing, because atop it stand a number of photographs. One is of Louise and I sitting somewhere doing something looking happy. One is of Louise and I cutting our wedding cake. One is of Louise holding Oscar under her chin after a feed when he was very little. One is of Oscar looking up from the mountain of presents he got for his first birthday. This is love and pride and what I will miss.
Every single one of them made me cry. Which way would you look?


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"Every Thursday within three weeks of my due date, I loaded up pre-tweets based on the episodes and what I would want to say," she told The Edit.
"I tweeted in the very early stages of my labor. I figured that if I went completely silent on social media, then people would know I was in the hospital," she explained.
Washington, who welcomed daughter Isabelle in 2013, also talked about her now-iconic character. "[Shonda Rhimes] never wrote Olivia Pope to be a role model; she wrote her to be a human being," she said. "Part of what people identify with so much is that she is conflicted."
She added, "In some ways, she's so aspirational — you want to walk like her, dress like her, command attention like her and control a situation like her. In other ways, she's a warning of what not to be."
As for what separates Kerry from Olivia, she joked, "A lot of therapy."
"Not to say that I have it all together, but I think I have a little bit more awareness about my behavior patterns and I do the work it takes to get out of them," she said.


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package de.inetsoftware.jwebassembly;

import static org.junit.Assert.*;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.net.URL;
import java.nio.file.Files;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.List;

import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import org.junit.runners.Parameterized;
import org.junit.runners.Parameterized.Parameters;

/**
 * Test to compile a list of single sample files.
 *
 * @author Volker Berlin
 *
 */
@RunWith( Parameterized.class )
public class SampleCompileTest {

    private final String testName;
    private final File classFile;

    public SampleCompileTest( String testName, File classFile ) {
        this.testName = testName;
        this.classFile = classFile;
    }

    @Parameters( name = "{0}" )
    public static List<Object[]> params() throws Exception {
        ArrayList<Object[]> params = new ArrayList<>();
        URL url = SampleCompileTest.class.getResource( "samples" );
        File dir = new File( url.toURI() );
        int baseLength = dir.getPath().length() + 1;
        params( params, dir, baseLength );
        return params;
    }

    private static void params( ArrayList<Object[]> params, File dir, int baseLength ) {
        for( File file : dir.listFiles() ) {
            if( file.getName().endsWith( ".class" ) ) {
                String path = file.getPath();
                params.add( new Object[] { path.substring( baseLength, path.length() - 6 ), file } );
            } else if( file.isDirectory() ) {
                params( params, file, baseLength );
            }
        }
    }

    @Test
    public void compileToText() throws Exception {
        URL url = SampleCompileTest.class.getResource( "samples/" + testName + ".wat" );
        File watFile = new File( url.toURI() );
        String expected = new String( Files.readAllBytes( watFile.toPath() ) ).replace( "\r\n", "\n" );
        JWebAssembly webAsm = new JWebAssembly();
        webAsm.addFile( classFile );
        String text = webAsm.compileToText();
        assertEquals( expected, text );
    }

    @Test
    public void compileToBinary() throws Exception {
        JWebAssembly webAsm = new JWebAssembly();
        webAsm.addFile( classFile );
        byte[] actual = webAsm.compileToBinary();
        byte[] expected = {0, 97, 115, 109, 1, 0, 0, 0};
        actual = Arrays.copyOf( actual, 8 );
        assertArrayEquals( expected, actual );
    }

    @Test
    public void npe() throws Exception {
        JWebAssembly webAsm = new JWebAssembly();
        webAsm.addFile( classFile );
        try {
            webAsm.compileToBinary( (OutputStream)null );
            fail();
        } catch( WasmException ex ) {
            // expected
            assertTrue( "" + ex.getCause(), ex.getCause() instanceof NullPointerException );
        }
    }

    @Test
    public void binaryIoError() throws Exception {
        JWebAssembly webAsm = new JWebAssembly();
        webAsm.addFile( classFile );
        File tempDir = Files.createTempDirectory( null ).toFile();
        try {
            webAsm.compileToBinary( tempDir );
            fail();
        } catch( WasmException ex ) {
            // expected
            tempDir.delete();
            assertTrue( "" + ex.getCause(), ex.getCause() instanceof IOException );
            assertEquals( -1, ex.getLineNumber() );
        }
    }

    @Test
    public void textIoError() throws Exception {
        JWebAssembly webAsm = new JWebAssembly();
        webAsm.addFile( classFile );
        File tempDir = Files.createTempDirectory( null ).toFile();
        try {
            webAsm.compileToText( tempDir );
            fail();
        } catch( WasmException ex ) {
            // expected
            tempDir.delete();
            assertTrue( "" + ex.getCause(), ex.getCause() instanceof IOException );
            assertEquals( -1, ex.getLineNumber() );
        }
    }
}

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package mrriegel.limelib.item;

import mrriegel.limelib.helper.RegistryHelper;
import net.minecraft.client.renderer.block.model.ModelResourceLocation;
import net.minecraft.creativetab.CreativeTabs;
import net.minecraft.item.ItemStack;
import net.minecraft.util.NonNullList;

public abstract class CommonSubtypeItem extends CommonItem {

	protected final int num;

	public CommonSubtypeItem(String name, int num) {
		super(name);
		this.num = num;
		setHasSubtypes(true);
	}

	@Override
	public void initModel() {
		for (int i = 0; i < num; i++)
			RegistryHelper.initModel(this, i, new ModelResourceLocation(getRegistryName() + "_" + i, "inventory"));
	}

	@Override
	public void getSubItems(CreativeTabs tab, NonNullList<ItemStack> subItems) {
		if (isInCreativeTab(tab))
			for (int i = 0; i < num; i++)
				subItems.add(new ItemStack(this, 1, i));
	}

	@Override
	public String getUnlocalizedName(ItemStack stack) {
		return super.getUnlocalizedName() + "_" + stack.getItemDamage();
	}

}


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Editor's Letter: Horizon Job
Editor's Letter from our April 2013 issue.
By Dave Reed
Horizon Job
Onne Van Der Waal
It's not a phrase I ever get to use, unless I'm on the receiving end. Most of us know that sinking feeling of being halfway up the first beat, scrapping for clear air while watching the race leader round the weather mark and take off down the run. At which point you think, "Those guys are launched. How the #%$ do they do it?" I recently got to experience how they do it, and I assure you that most of the hard work takes place before the race.
I was bowman on Tim Healy's J/70 at Key West (p. 28), drafted days before the regatta. I sailed against Healy for years in our local J/24 fleet, but I'd never sailed with him. I knew he was fast, but I never realized how driven he is to being fast. His middle name should be Serious.
When he asked if I was available for Key West, my response was immediate and firm. "Yes. Definitely." Key West with Tim Healy? I'm in.
Seconds after I hit the send button, though, the butterflies awoke. It's a lot less stressful dropping into an unfamiliar team on a bigger boat: just ask questions, do your job, and pay attention. With a big team, a minor slip-up might go unnoticed in the chaos of a maneuver, but on a small, four-person keelboat, the skipper is always watching.
I arrived at the boat on the first morning with some trepidation. Would I meet Tim's expectations? Would I fit in with the team? How could I contribute? As a sailmaker in the class's first major event, there was a lot of pressure on Tim to deliver a good result. This was business, and in no way did I want to be responsible for him coming up short. So I did as my parents taught: smile and take the job no one else wants. I quickly volunteered for polishing duty, not an easy task when the boat is on its trailer. Sprawled out underneath the boat with gravel and sand grinding into my back, I buffed the McLube Speed Polish, being extra, extra careful not to miss a spot.
Meanwhile, my teammates, John Mollicone and Geoff Becker, tackled their own job lists: creating the rig-tune matrix and eliminating every possible excuse to fail. This continued into each day. Mollicone was the weight enforcer: not a single beer on this boat, nor extra screw or piece of line. Healy was the master of efficiency, ensuring we were the first ones on the racecourse, and using every minute of the morning commute to get a feel for the new boat. We lined up with anyone who wanted to, working on the most subtle crew mechanics, body positions, and sail trim changes, taking all the necessary steps to be ready.
On the second day, in a blustery 17 knots, a good start finally got us to the weather mark ahead of the fleet, but not by a lot. We exited the mark, set clean, planed for a few minutes on starboard, jibed to the leeward gate, rounded with a perfect douse, and sailed out to the favored left corner all alone. When we rounded the weather mark for the final run, there was no one around, but I could sense that Tim wasn't about to relax.
After crossing the finish line I looked up the course, and there was a mile of empty water and whitecaps. Horizon job. I've always wanted to win a race by that much, and on any other boat I'm sure we would be Irish jigging in the cockpit, but Healy and the other guys just took it as a win. Fist bumps and a hushed "nice job guys" was all that was said, and it was straight to halyard clean up, sponging the half-ounce of water out of the bilge, and adjusting the rig for the next race. Apparently, that's how it's done.
- Dave Reed

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My development setup consists of a Chromebook Pixel and a Digital Ocean droplet. Alongside the browser, browser, I connect to my droplet using Secure Shell with tmux.
I also have a desktop machine. It's connected to a Dell 24" screen providing 94 PPI. On that machine, I run Chrome and GNOME Terminal, so I can work on my desktop essentially the same way I use my Chromebook.
Those two screenshots were both taken on the Dell monitor. On Fedora I can control the font rendering, especially to quantize stems to pixels. Chrome OS won't let me do that, and the result is… fuzzy.
It's not a problem on the Chromebook's panel with its 239 PPI, but on the larger screen with triple the dot pitch, I can't work comfortably with the blurred font.
I love my Pixel, but if I ever want to converge my split laptop/desktop to a single machine, then I'll either need a 4K external screen (which my current Pixel won't drive) or I'll be switching back to a Linux laptop.


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Q: Confused trying to prove $\lim_\limits{x \to 5} \sqrt{x+4} = 3$ I was watching a youtube video on epsilon-delta proofs when I came across this argument.  We wanted to show $\lim_\limits{x \to 5} \sqrt{x+4} = 3$.  He started the proof of by :
$|\sqrt{x+4}-3|<\epsilon \implies -\epsilon <\sqrt{x+4}-3<\epsilon \implies 3 - \epsilon < \sqrt{x+4} < 3 + \epsilon$
The next step was what confused me - he then stated that :
$(3-\epsilon)^2<x+4<(3+\epsilon)^2$.  I was wondering if this was correct since we do not know if $3-\epsilon \geq 0 $.  Am I correct or did I miss something?
If that squaring step was indeed incorrect, I was also wondering how to find $\delta$.
Thanks

A: You know that $\sqrt{x+4} \ge 0$. So, you may assume the left-hand side of your inequality is
$$\max\{0, 3-\epsilon\}$$

A: We can let
$\epsilon_2 = min\{3,\epsilon\}$
Then if we complete our proof using $\epsilon_2$, we know it works for $\epsilon$ since $\epsilon_2 \le \epsilon$
$(3-\epsilon_2)^2<x+4<(3+\epsilon_2)^2$
$9 - 6\epsilon_2 + \epsilon_2^2 < x+4<9+6\epsilon_2+\epsilon_2^2$
$ - 6\epsilon_2 + \epsilon_2^2 < x-5<6\epsilon_2+\epsilon_2^2$
$ - (6\epsilon_2 - \epsilon_2^2) < x-5<6\epsilon_2+\epsilon_2^2$
Note we know that $6\epsilon_2-\epsilon_2^2 > 0$ since $\epsilon_2 \le 3$
Now we can let $\delta = min\{6\epsilon_2-\epsilon_2^2, 6\epsilon_2+\epsilon_2^2\} = 6\epsilon_2-\epsilon_2^2$, since $\epsilon_2 \gt 0$
Now you need to show using this $\delta$ that $|x-5| \lt \delta \implies |\sqrt{x+4}-3| \lt \epsilon_2 \le \epsilon$

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After five long and difficult years into the program, six months of review and a board exam later, I became a professional chemical engineer. BUT. I was only able to practice my profession for about three years which is shame. But I don't regret that I decided to be with my husband and build our own family. Sometimes though, the career woman in me is clamoring for a job, to apply and practice what she has learned.
Now we are in Germany and landing on a job that is related to my profession proves to be a challenge due to many factors. I am still struggling with the language. I am not a German or European citizen. I am only a dependent. I have no special skills. So I guess I will just have to venture into a different field. There are lots of nursing homes needing medical assistants and caregivers here so I think that would be my best option. I can get myself into a medical assisting school while juggling my time between family and language school. I am getting there with my German, I think, and so going to school will not be a problem.
But I am not yet sure. Besides, I'll be going to graduate school this September and that alone could open up lots of windows of opportunities for me. I really don't mind the type of job I will be doing, as long as it is decent. I just want to help the family financially and working alongside with my Hubby will really help a lot.


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Q: Proving a solution to a double recurrence is exhaustive The equation
$$
b^2 = \frac{a(a+1)}{2} + 1
$$
where $a$ and $b$ are integers, has the following smallish-integer solutions:
b        a
23      -33
11      -16
4        -6
2        -3
1        -1
1         0
2         2
4         5  <--- the motivating one!
11       15
23       32
64       90

These solutions (if I call them $a_i, b_i$, where $a_0 = 0$) appeared to me to satisfy a pair of recurrences, namely
\begin{align}
a_{k+4} &= 8 b_{k+2} + a_{k} \\
b_{k+4} &= 4 a_{k+2} + b_{k} + 2
\end{align}
I've since proved that these recurrences, initialized with either the 0th and 2nd row or the 1st and 3rd row, generate sequences of numbers that do satisfy the given equation.  (The proof involves decoupling, and then solving the resulting constant-coefficient 4th-order recurrences, one homogeneous and one inhomogeneous, solving for initial conditions, and verifying that the main equation holds for the resulting sequences.)
What I now wish to prove is that these are the only possible solutions, and I don't see a simple way to do that. Any ideas or hints?
Note: This problem arose from observing that the 15 balls on a pool table form a triangle whose side consists of 5 balls, but that when the cue-ball is added, you can form a square with four balls on a side. I made this observation about 47 years ago, discovered the recurrences by staring at the table of pairs for a long time, together with some blind luck and tinkered with it over the years. Now that I've done the part I always wanted to do (the recurrences do generate new solutions), I'm interested in getting help with proving that they're the only ones.

A: Here we take $W=2A+1.$
The structure of the $\mathbb Z$ automorphism group of an indefinite binary quadratic form is discussed in many places in many ways. In brief, the proper automorphism group  is infinite cyclic along with $\pm 1,$ so one commonly switches attention to $PSL_2 \mathbb Z.$ Then, as always applies for Pell forms $x^2 - D y^2,$ we throw in a single improper automorph, $(x,y)\mapsto (x,-y).$ My favorite book that discusses the group is Binary Quadratic Forms by Duncan A. Buell. Another one, some differences in notation, also called Binary Quadratic Forms, by Buchmann and Vollmer.
J. H. Conway introduced the topograph method for indefinite binary quadratic forms in The Sensual Quadratic Form. There is a brief presentation in Elements of Number Theory by John Stillwell. I have taken a sort of overlap of the two presentations, in which I play down the middle coefficients of the forms but emphasize the specific solutions to $x^2 - D y^2 = n,$ along with incorporating the automorphism group of the form in the diagram. So, below are all solutions to what I called $W^2 - 8 B^2 = -7.$
Meanwhile, acting on column vectors, the generator of the automorphism group of the form is
$$ M =
\left(
\begin{array}{rr}
3 & 8 \\
1 & 3
\end{array}
\right).
$$
We call $M$ an automorphism (proper) of the quadratic form because $\det M = 1$ and
$$ \color{red}{ M^T G M = G},   $$
where
$$ G =
\left(
\begin{array}{rr}
1 & 0 \\
0 & -8
\end{array}
\right).
$$
Note that $M$ is a 2 by 2 matrix, determinant $1$ and trace $6.$ By Cayley-Hamilton, we have
$$ M^2 - 6 M + I = 0, $$ or
$$ M^2 = 6M - I.  $$
As a result, put all solutions $(W_n, B_n)$ in sequence, and we get
$$ W_{n+2} = 6 W_{n+1} - W_n,  $$
$$ B_{n+2} = 6 B_{n+1} - B_n.  $$
As you can see in the diagram, one may see how the values for $-7$ actually split into two interleaved sequences according to these recurrences:
$$ W_n =  5,31,181,...   $$ and
$$ W_n = 1,11,65,...  $$
We also get two threads for the $B's,$
$$ B_n = 2,11,64,... $$ and
$$ B_n = 1,4,23,...  $$
Sometimes the two threads can be combined, usually not. As you can see in the diagram below, the two threads are caused by an improper automorph, this time let us call it $(x,y)\mapsto (-x,y).$

Alrighty, I thought it might help to fill in as much of the complete diagram as would fit on my original. Properly speaking, every edge of the infinite graph, actually a tree, should have either a $0$ or a positive integer and a little arrow. I put many of those in, using orange, which is a little too close to the red I used for each occurrence of $(-7).$ Can't win them all. Also, as we move away from the "river," that being the central line, we simply add coordinates. For example $(1,0)+(3,1)= (4,1).$ On the negative side,$(-2,1)+(-1,1)= (-3,2).$ Worth emphasizing that there are two types of phenomena that give finiteness for the number of "orbits" that give $-7,$ the second of which is the "climbing lemma," that the absolute values of the numbers only increase when we move away from the river. So, in the first layer of negative values, we get $-4,-7,-8,-7,-4,$ and so on. In the second layer, possibly hard to read, we get only $-23,-31,-31,-23,$ over and over. So that is it, any further layers on the negative side have absolute values strictly larger than $7.$

A: For the equation:
$$a^2=\frac{b(b+1)}{2}+1$$
The solution can be written using the Pell equation:
$$p^2-2s^2=\pm1$$
To find them easily. Knowing what one solution can be found on the following formula.
$$p_2=3p_1+4s_1$$
$$s_2=2p_1+3s_1$$
To begin to $+1$ with $(p,s) - (3 ; 2)$
To begin to $-1$ with $(p,s) - (1 ; 1)$
Then the formula of the solutions can be written.
$$a=2p^2-5ps+4s^2$$
$$b=\pm(2p^2-8ps+6s^2)$$
$$***$$
$$a=p^2+ps+2s^2$$
$$b=\mp(p^2+4ps)$$
The upper sign according to the decision of the Pell equation for $+1$.
Lower $-1$.
$p,s $   - these numbers can have any sign.

A: This year Tito called my attention to an idea that gives a very quick answer as to a problem such as $w^2 - 8 b^2 = -7,$ which is how I wrote it in 2014. There we go, $w = 2a+1,$ so we need to include both $\pm w$ once we have all positive $w.$
All this program does is find solutions with positive $w,b$ by brute force. A few of the solutions are labelled "seed," and these generate all solutions using the (oriented) automorphism group of the form,
$$ (w,b) \mapsto (3w+8b, w + 3b). $$ The inverse mapping is
 $$ (w,b) \mapsto (3w-8b, -w + 3b). $$
Almost all solutions with $w,b >0$ are carried to a smaller solution with positive entries by the inverse mapping. Eventually, we reach "seed" solutions, which have $w,b>0,$ however either $3w-8b \leq 0 0$ OR $-w+3b \leq 0.$  That is all there is to it. It is easy enough to show that all the non-seed, or "derived" solutions, have $w/b \approx \sqrt 8.$ A seed solution has either $w/b \leq 8/3 = 2.6666666,$ or $w/b \geq 3.$ It is the first possibility that occurs because $-7 < 0.$ It is easy enough to derive bounds on the absolute values of $w,b$ in a seed solution, as $-7 = w^2 - 8 b^2 = (w + b \sqrt 8)(w - b \sqrt 8)$
jagy@phobeusjunior:~$  ./Pell_Target_Fundamental

  3^2 - 8 1^2 = 1

 w^2 - 8 b^2 = -7

 Pell automorph
3  8
1  3

 Pell automorph inverse
 3   -8
-1    3

Tue Apr 19 12:52:29 PDT 2016

w:  1  b:  1 ratio: 1  SEED
w:  5  b:  2 ratio: 2.5  SEED
w:  11  b:  4 ratio: 2.75
w:  31  b:  11 ratio: 2.818181818181818
w:  65  b:  23 ratio: 2.826086956521739
w:  181  b:  64 ratio: 2.828125
w:  379  b:  134 ratio: 2.828358208955223
w:  1055  b:  373 ratio: 2.828418230563003
w:  2209  b:  781 ratio: 2.82842509603073
w:  6149  b:  2174 ratio: 2.828426862925483
w:  12875  b:  4552 ratio: 2.828427065026362
w:  35839  b:  12671 ratio: 2.828427117038907
w:  75041  b:  26531 ratio: 2.828427122988202
w:  208885  b:  73852 ratio: 2.828427124519309
w:  437371  b:  154634 ratio: 2.82842712469444
w:  1217471  b:  430441 ratio: 2.828427124739511
w:  2549185  b:  901273 ratio: 2.828427124744667
w:  7095941  b:  2508794 ratio: 2.828427124745993
w:  14857739  b:  5253004 ratio: 2.828427124746145
w:  41358175  b:  14622323 ratio: 2.828427124746184

Tue Apr 19 12:53:09 PDT 2016

 w^2 - 8 b^2 = -7

jagy@phobeusjunior:~$


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Home»Lancaster County»Event Calendar
FridayFeb3
8 - 8:30pm
A Celebration of Black American Composers
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Black History Month will begin on February 3, 2023 at 8 PM at First Reformed Church, 40 East Orange Street, Lancaster, with an organ concert celebrating Black American Composers presented by organist Larry Hershey on the mighty vintage 1958 analog Allen organ. Selections include two works by Florence Price, "Introduction: Maestoso" from First Sonata for Organ, and the well-known "Adoration"; William Grant Still's "Reverie"; and "Toccata on 'Great Day'" by Adolphus Hailstork. The program will conclude with Mr. Hershey's transcription of Tom Turpin's "The St. Louis Rag."
This series of free 30 minute concerts is a gift to the community from First Reformed Church, a center city congregation of the United Church of Christ. Only 30 minutes in length, the free concerts begin at 8 PM each First Friday for the convenience of those who wish to spend the early evening visiting downtown galleries before the concert. Doors open at 7:30 pm. All are welcome.
SaturdayFeb25
10:30am - 6pm
$15 per dine-in serving • $6 ages 3-10 • FREE under 3 • $12 take-out meal • $7 per quart
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The define "__CC_ARM__" (line 178 and 193 in "SEGGER_RTT.c" and line 270 in "SEGGER_SYSVIEW.c") for the KEIL ARM compiler is wrong and should be "__CC_ARM".
The CPU will be released from halted state on pressing "Target" and "Read Recorded Data" in SystemView. The CPU has usually been halted in post-mortem mode using either the IDE or the J-Link Commander to be able to further analyze the root cause for a crash. Running the CPU on reading the recorded SystemView events makes it hard to continue with the analysis as the CPU may no longer be in the same state.
Pressing "Target" and "Read Recorded Data" in SystemView handles the buffer wrap-around incorrectly in post-mortem mode. I have attached you the ZIP-file "WrapAround.zip" containing the buffer saved manually from the IDE before (="dump.bin", WrOff = 0xFD0) and after manual concatenation (= "dump.SVDat"). Additionally, the ZIP-file contains the buffer read automatically by SystemView in "dump_SystemView.SVDat". The wrap-around is located at address 0x1030 in "dump.SVDat" and address 0xD5F in "dump_SystemView.SVDat". As you can see, the last byte of the buffer (= 0x08) is missing in the dump created automatically by SystemView.
The post-mortem mode requires at least one sync in the buffer. There is usually more than one sync inside the buffer, though. It seems that SystemView will correctly use the first received sync to start decoding the events, but it stops as soon as it sees the second sync inside the buffer. This is bad especially in post-mortem mode, as the most important events are the events that have been recorded immediately before the crash. I have attached you the ZIP-file "Stop.zip" containing the buffer (="dump.SVDat") together with a screenshot from SystemView showing that 1265 events are stored in the buffer (but only the first 539 events are displayed afterwards). I have created a Python script (="SVDatDecoder.py") to decode the events stored in the SVDat file (="decoded.txt") and the first 539 events are equal to the events display in SystemView but the Python script will decode all 1265 events. The sync is decoded as NOP by the Python script and exactly at event 540 (the first event missing in SystemView), the second sync is found.
It would be nice if you could fix some of the bugs for future releases of SystemView.
The post was edited 2 times, last by SimonT ( Feb 21st 2017, 10:44am ).
Of course our goal is to provide a working solution, so this is always welcome.
Sure, this will be changed in the next update.
SystemView does not explicitly let the target run after reading the data, but on some devices the target state is changed when J-Link connects or disconnects.
When there is a second connection, the target should usually stay halted, but I'll check if this applies to SAM V7, too.
Thanks for providing the recordings and the analysis. We will check if there is an issue and will fix this.
The bugs in SystemView have been fixed in the new release V2.40e.
Thank you very much for the very quick bugfix.


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As the DM am I allowed to nerf character stats?
One of our guys is a summoner, and I feel he has become overly powerful. He defeats enemies first every time, so he always get first pick* of treasure and loot. As DM, am I allowed to nerf his abilities and stats? He earned them fairly through smarts and hard work, but he's severely unbalanced the team. Please give me a good answer as what I should do.
Is there something in the rulebooks about this?
* He uses his summoned monsters to protect him while he picks defeated enemies clean in the middle of combat while everyone else has their hands full.
pathfinder-1e problem-players summoner
Hobo_warriorHobo_warrior
\$\begingroup\$ RE: "[H]e defeats enemies first every time, so he always get first pick of treasure and loot" because "he uses his conjured monsters to protect him while he picks defeated enemies clean in the middle of combat while everyone else has their hands full." Did the players agree that this is how loot should be divided? \$\endgroup\$ – Hey I Can Chan May 14 '18 at 15:21
\$\begingroup\$ Closely related question and answer: rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/25028/how-to-divide-up-loot/… \$\endgroup\$ – GMJoe May 14 '18 at 22:11
\$\begingroup\$ FWIW, someone being too strong and them stealing loot is 2 separate problems. You don't need to be overpowered to only consider your own interests, and you don't need to only consider your own interests when you're overpowered. \$\endgroup\$ – NotThatGuy May 15 '18 at 14:47
\$\begingroup\$ Just a question does the summoner use the items he picks up on his eidolon himself or both? \$\endgroup\$ – Voromir Kadien May 15 '18 at 16:05
\$\begingroup\$ @VoromirKadien both, but the important thing is he keeps the items he picks up for himself \$\endgroup\$ – Hobo_warrior May 15 '18 at 16:58
You don't have a balance problem, you have a treasure thief problem.
A common type of problem player is the treasure thief: typically a rogue who sneaks ahead and claims the best loot for themselves before the party can find it.
However, the other players probably have an expectation that all loot will be divided evenly and fairly. The treasure thief is breaking an unwritten rule, and effectively stealing from his party. It's just that he's stealing the items due to other players before anyone else can claim them, so it's not immediately obvious that what he's doing is theft.
The solution here, as with many player problems, is talk to your players about this. Ask if fair distribution is their expectation, and if so, ensure that everyone officially agrees to this . The next time the player tries to take extra loot, remind everyone that he's violating that agreement.
To answer your question directly, however: You technically have the power to do anything, including change any rule or nerf any character's stats, but in practice, as you may have surmised already, most players consider this unfair.
A more egalitarian approach, as suggested in Alkano's answer, is to occasionally throw up opponents who are resistant to his power. Don't do this too often, though. Arcane spellcasters are supposed to be quite powerful, especially at high levels, and it's considered unfair to nerf a player's abilities just because they're successful (the common example is making every monster fire resistant just because someone played a fire-specialist mage).
Also, check that both you and your player are understanding the rules correctly. Sometimes, an overpowered character is the result of someone missing or misunderstanding a rule in a way that would benefit a character.
Quadratic WizardQuadratic Wizard
Yes, you can, you are the DM, but no, you shouldn't. Changing the rules during the game is really frustrating for a player.
Adjust your encounters instead.
A summoner uses monsters to fight for him. There are spells to counter that:
lvl 2 alter summoned monster
lvl 3/4 control summoned creature
lvl 4/5 dismissal
lvl 6/7 banishment
Don't forget that theses spells use the summoned creature's will save, not the summoner's.
He may be surprised when a monster he summoned to protect him suddenly attacks him ;)
Also (thanks to @YogoZuno and @Ifusaso):
lvl 1 protection from chaos/law/good evil ward off summoned creature (except the eidolon).
lvl 3/4 Bite the Hand
If the conjurator uses exclusively his eidolon, don't forget that the eidolon:
Doesn't heal naturally
Goes back to their plane if their conjurator is unconscious (or sleeping)
Takes 1 minute to invoke
Is invoked with their last pool of hit points (unless they've been killed...if so, they come back with half their hit points)
Area spells like fireball can also deal with bunch of summoned monsters. :)
Looting issues
When looting, it is at minimum the pick up action => provoke an attack of opportunity. I would personally also add a modifier to the AC (kneel +2 AC against projectiles, -2 AC against melee)
AlkanoAlkano
As DM, you not only can do something about this, it's actually your responsibility to do so. The DM is given a most powerful tool, known as Rule 0, to do this: you can change anything and everything in the game in order to produce a more fun game. Since you are responsible, in large part, for making the game fun, you are empowered to make that happen.
However, it's not clear to me from your description how best to make that happen—and it's not clear to me that you even yet have all the information you would need to have (or to give us) to make a good decision. Straight nerfing the conjurer's ability scores may work, or at least help—but it also may not. Conjurers don't usually rely that heavily on their stats, since they're using the stats of summoned monsters instead of their own anyway.
The absolute first thing you need to do is talk to the players, out of game. You need to raise this concern, that the conjurer is too-easily defeating encounters, and also using that strength as a justification for getting first pick—possibly making the problem worse as he just gets stronger and stronger and the other players only get his leavings. You need to ask them a number of things:
Have they noticed what you have? It is entirely possible that they have not; if they're so wrapped up in their characters and the story they're telling, this may be a thing that's not even on their radar.
Having noticed it, how is it affecting their enjoyment of the game? Is the conjurer's player feeling bored by how easily he beats encounters? Are other players feeling left out? Again, the conjurer might enjoy destroying everything, the other players may be focused on other parts of the game and not care.
How do they feel about various approaches to changing the game? If the conjuerer is bored, but the other players don't really mind the situation, maybe you can just get away with throwing tougher monsters and have the party rely more on the conjurer. If the conjurer is enjoying himself, but the others feel left out, maybe it's better to empower them than to nerf him—or maybe it's not. A simple improvement here might be to include more items in the loot that the conjurer cannot use, and encourage the group to stop allowing the conjurer to be so selfish with items—after all, "he defeats enemies first every time, so he always get first pick of treasure and loot," is an extremely unusual loot-allocation scheme; most groups don't play things that way.
Don't forget to include yourself in these discussions, and to point out the ways in which this is making your life more difficult than it needs to be and how that affects all of them. Maybe the group likes the idea of empowering everyone to play on the conjurer's level, but if that makes it harder for you to create encounters and you can't provide as much game content as you could with weaker heroes, you're allowed to point that out and suggest that, even if they like the high-power idea, it'll still be more fun to be lower-power. And so on.
In short, there are a lot of ways that you can approach this problem, and there are a lot of ways the group might or might not respond to them. Far, far too much variation for us to discuss here. You need to talk to your group and figure out where they stand. That might just lead to more questions! You might know what, roughly speaking, the group wants, but not know how to change the characters, the encounters, or the rules to accomplish that. You can ask a question like that here, and with more details about what exactly you're trying to achieve, we can offer more help.
But the first step is, always, to talk to the group and make sure you're all on the same page. Changing the game is an ability the DM to improve the game, but no guarantee is given that a particular change will actually be an improvement. Having the group on board, and understanding what you're trying to fix and how your changes are supposed to help, goes a long way to making sure your players actually enjoy any change you end up making.
KRyanKRyan
\$\begingroup\$ I have talked to the team, (excluding the conjuror) and they want me to do something about it because they feel they are having too hard a time leveling up. But what should I nerf on a conjuror? And how might I explain my reasoning for doing this? \$\endgroup\$ – Hobo_warrior May 14 '18 at 14:54
\$\begingroup\$ @Hobo_warrior You need to talk to the conjurer-player too—he's a player at the table, and entitled to enjoy the game. In fact, since he knows his character so well, he might very well know how best to nerf him. Or he might push back, and suggest the other player's characters should be improved—and if he knows how to make a strong conjurer, maybe he knows how to make their characters strong too. Or he might want to remain dominant in the group, and then you need to have a group discussion about how that's not OK, because he's the only one enjoying it and everyone needs to enjoy the game. \$\endgroup\$ – KRyan May 14 '18 at 14:56
\$\begingroup\$ @Hobo_warrior After you've had that conversation, you should probably ask another question, and include all the details—game details like the classes and levels of everyone and their relevant feats and strategies, social details like age and relationships and the preferences you learned from talking to everybody, and your general idea of the goal—nerfed conjurer, buffed everybody else, some way of balancing things without changing anyone's characters, or whatever it is you're looking for. We can help, but only with more detail. Your current question as is doesn't really give enough info. \$\endgroup\$ – KRyan May 14 '18 at 15:01
\$\begingroup\$ @Hobo_warrior can you clarify "having too hard a time leveling up"? If you literally meant "gaining levels", that strikes me as very odd given how Pathfinder experience points are normally awarded in a party - possible XY problem, if so. If you mean "acquiring gear on leveling", then carry on with the question as stated. \$\endgroup\$ – Soron May 14 '18 at 20:00
What do the other players say about the one player's behavior? I'd expect they are not thrilled. Maybe this problem can be solved within the group without your intervention. If the other players are OK with the behavior, but you aren't, then you should use the tools that are at your disposal, which is control over the world and the game setting.
Here is a suggestion how you could teach that player a lesson:
Introduce the concept of Karma
Karma is the Buddhists' belief that your actions in this life defines how well you will start your next life. Do good and you will be better, do bad and you will be worse. Obviously there is no next life here, so you introduce instant Karma here, which means that if a character behaves well, he will be rewarded with better outcomes. Or in that case that selfish actions will be eventually punished. Of course instant punishement is boring and obvious. Here is a more indirect suggestion:
Phase 1: The trap
The character in question finds an item in a situation you have described and loots it. The kind of item is at your discretion, but it should make the character significantly more powerful. It should be also obvious that the item is powerful, so that your player is guaranteed to loot it. Unbeknownst to the player though, this item carries a curse.
Phase 2: The investment
Shortly after acquiring the item, the character discovers that he can make the item even more powerful by "investing" in it. This can be a material (gold, gems, other items) or immaterial (abilities, points etc.) investment of items that he already has into the new shiny item that makes it more powerful at the expense of the invested item. He loses something to gain power through his looted item. A variation on this is that from a mixed loot that is found somewhere he gets "extensions" to his item and leaves other (though still valuable) loot to the other players.
The character has now gained an even greater attachment to the item, which makes it more valuable to him.
Phase 3: Group dynamics
EDIT: As it has been pointed out in the comments, this is a risky option since it is somewhat pitting the players against each other. Actually, this step is entirely optional. You know your players best and it is up to you to decide how they would take it. If you're unsure, just skip this step.
The curse on the item is starting to slowly show an effect. It turns out that the item gives its bearer some benefits which come at the expense of the other members of the group. For example:
Things get harder to achieve for the other group members, while they get easier for the bearer of the item.
Some NPCs appear that have an interest in the item. Since the item makes the summoner untouchable for them, they are harrassing the other group members.
Some NPCs appear that see the summoner as the leader of the group because he holds the item. The other group members are seen as his subordinates, servants or even slaves. He is given the best food, a good place to rest while the others are not treated the same. When the group is asked for council, the other members' opinion is obviously ignored, while the summoner's opinion is held in the highest value, regardless of what he says.
This enhances the effect that the character's looting behavior has on the group. Most likely the other characters will start to resent him.
Phase 4: The comeuppance
When you feel there is enough tension in the group (it still is a game, so you don't want a fully fledged conflict), you can finally close the trap on the player.
The group will find itself in a situation where the only escape from certain death is a door that can be only unlocked with the looted item. During this process the item is inevitably and completely destroyed. All the investments the character has made in it are lost forever. If you fear the character will rather let everyone go down with him than giving up his loot, just put him in the situation and leave the others out of it.
You can enhance the effect by giving the other players an extra benefit at this point while the former holder of the item gets nothing.
That will set an example to all the players that you won't interfere with their actions, but also that their actions will have consequences.
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\$\begingroup\$ This is a high risk course of action, in terms of increasing the amount of friction between the players (not the characters). Have you done this, and did it work? \$\endgroup\$ – KorvinStarmast May 15 '18 at 12:51
The alternative approach is to view this from a roleplaying perspective. Do the other players' characters notice this behavior? How do they feel about it?
I could see this turning into a great chance for RP, and while it may split the party (or even cause some Player vs Player combat), it could turn out to be a really positive experience.
I foresee characters noticing the actions of the Summoner, or noticing that they have lots of shiny new equipment from an unexplained source. At this point, characters could feel jealousy, and demand that the loot is shared out in an equitable manner.
If the summoner disagrees, the characters could attempt to reason with them, or attempt to force the issue by subduing the summoner and claiming some of their loot for their own. If the behavior is continued, there could even be a party split, with the summoner being cast out of the party (I would only do this after discussing with all players, perhaps talking to the summoner on their own). If the summoner agrees, you could even arrange to take control of the summoner when they are cast out, and turn them into a recurring bad guy in the future.
Ultimately, at least one person is going to be unhappy at the end of this incident. You can choose to deal with it completely out of character, with the players, or you can encourage them to find an in-game solution, with all the ramifications which may arise.
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The other characters should notice that this person has all sorts of cool stuff and wonder where it's coming from. If the characters have an in game reason to suspect Bogarting of the loot, they should address the situation in character, demanding to be paid reparations, split loot together in the future and possibly refusing to adventure with the character if the problem behavior continues.
Hopefully at least one of the characters is intelligent enough and observant enough to figure out what is going on and clue the rest of the group in...
The top answer is correct, you have a greedy loot stealer, but there's also other measures you can take to counter a summoner. To that end, a lot of campaigns don't have summoner characters or monsters written in; I'd take a look at some of the spell options. There's things like "detonate summoned creature" at as low as CL2
There's a whole archetype dedicated to counter-summoning. Don't be afraid to use it, or drop in a few ad-hoc enemies!
Erin BErin B
While this is certainly handled differently in different settings and groups, in my environment one clear rule has always been that the DM is the master of everything except the player characters: they belong to the players. While the DM acts as their senses, he does never control their thoughts, emotions or actions.
That extends to the character's stats and abilities. If a character is overpowered, give him harder challenges specific to him or find ways to boost the other characters.
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Ernest Evans, Howard University's Coordinator of Fraternity and Sorority Affairs, Opens Up About The Future of Greek Life
In an effort to highlight the professionals who are in charge of Fraternity and Sorority Life at colleges and universities across the nation, we at Watch The Yard reached out to Howard University's Coordinator of Fraternity and Sorority Affairs, Ernest Evans, to get his perspective on greek life in 2019 and his thoughts of what the future of fraternities and sororities will look like over the next decade nationally.
Evans is a Spring 2009 initiate of the Sigma Phi Chapter of the Alpha Phi Alpha at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) and has worked in the field of advising Fraternity and Sorority Life for 4 years.
We interviewed him about his campus, his position and his thoughts on future of fraternities and sororities on college campuses nationally over the next 50 years.
Read the full interview below.
What does your job as a Fraternity and Sorority Life Professional entail?
As the Coordinator of Fraternity and Sorority Life at Howard University I work with all of our competitive/selective organizations which includes our National Pan-Hellenic Council, Musical Greek Lettered Organizations, Honor Societies, Professional Societies, and Local Based Groups. I am responsible for the leadership development and chapter advisement of all of the competitive selective organizations.
Why did you decide to go into a job as an advisor of fraternity sorority life?
As an undergraduate student I was highly involved in many different organizations including The Sigma Phi Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. where I was initiated in the Spring 2009 semester. My initiation and activity in other campus organizations (Black Student Union, Student African American Brotherhood (SAAB), Orientation Team (OTeam), and Student Support Services) led me away from my path of wanting to become a professor of Sociology to my passion of working with students. Most of all my fraternal involvement changed my life. It showed me how to be a leader and provided me with a network that has continued to increase as the years have passed. This involvement led me to seek a graduate degree in student affairs. My first assistantship in graduate school in the Indiana University Higher Education and Student Affairs Masters program was with the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) where I grew my passion for Greek leadership development. As a member of a Black Greek Lettered Organization I naturally developed a strong passion for the leadership development and education of students in Black Greek Lettered Organizations (BGLOs). I developed this passion into a career and have loved it. I believe in the overall principles of fraternity and sorority life, brotherhood/sisterhood, scholarship, and service.
Why do you think NPHC and Multicultural fraternities and sororities are important on your campus?
Being at a Historically Black College/University provides a very unique experience to the college campus. Here at Howard University NPHC is ingrained in the culture of the institution. They are a pivotal part of the Black college experience and contribute collectively over 100 years of service to the campus and community.
With the prevalence of stories about sexual, assault, hazing and substance abuse, why do you think NPHC and MGC greek life should continue to be supported by colleges and universities?
As stated above, Black Greek Life is a large part of the Black college experience. They provide tactics for college access and retention that the institution cannot offer. They enhance the overall experience of the campus while providing service to the community. However, the issues of sexual assault, hazing, and substance abuse must be stopped. In order to keep them on the college campus we, as university administrators, in collaboration with the national headquarters of the organizations have to do a better job of educating our students on these issues and the role that they play in the issues. We have to do more than just one meeting that discusses these issues. There must be continuous education around the issues and the role of the organizations in eradicating the behaviors that lead to these issues.
Looking at the future from a campus administrative perspective, where do you see greek life 10 years from now?
The future of Greek Life, I hope, is optimistic. However, with the increase of national media coverage of hazing incidents we could potentially be looking at a decrease in the number of students that are seeking to join Greek organizations. As a campus administrator, my hope is that 10 years from now we will have began to eradicate hazing on the college campus and educating student on authentic brotherhood and sisterhood.
What is something undergrads need to do to ensure that undergraduate greek life on college campuses will survive and be around 50 years from now?
I think that undergraduate students have to take a stand against hazing. We are literally and figuratively killing our organizations by placing value in the traditions associated with hazing. We have seen the suspension of fraternity and sorority life on many college campuses. My fear is that one day that suspension will become an expulsion and our organizations will never be invited back to campus. In order to survive for 50 more years or even 100 more years we have to walk away from hazing and remember why our organizations were founded and the importance of the legacy of our founders.
How do you see individuals who join NPHC/MGC orgs benefit personally from going greek?
Over the years I have watched students grow into magnificent leaders from joining NPHC/MGC organizations. They have grown from workers behind the shadows to competent leaders that can effectively make their voice heard. They have learned to work collaboratively other organizations to serve the campus and community. I have also seen student benefit from the tremendous network that these organizations provide at an international level.
We now live in a digital world, what do you think undergraduate chapters across all orgs need to do to represent themselves online in 2019?
I believe an old saying that was said to me when I was initiated 10 years ago. "You are always wearing your letters." It is important that you represent your organization everywhere you go and in everything that you do. This is especially true on social media. Be mindful of what you post. If you don't want the actions associated with the organization, do not post them on your social media were everyone associates you with your organization. Also, remember that what is posted to the internet is there forever and can be used against you in the job search process. It has become common practice that employers check the social media accounts of those interviewing for their job. You do not want to loose your job due to one post on your account.
I also believe that many of our undergraduate chapters should display the service, brotherhood/sisterhood, and work of the organization on their social media accounts. There should never be more stroll video than advertisement for a service project or impactful programs and initiatives on the accounts. By posting more of the glitz and glamour of the organizations we are attracting potential members that only value the surface level aspects of our organizations. We have to show them that it takes work to be a member as well.
Why do you think Watch The Yard is important?
I think that Watch the Yard is important because it provides a positive image for Black Greek Life at a time were we are hearing so many negative things. The time you all take to display the great things that chapters and organizations are doing is excellent. I truly enjoy the chapter president highlights that showcases these Black student leaders to the world.
What are some initiatives you see the greeks on your campus doing that make you proud?
The students here at Howard do MANY great things that make be proud, but just to name a few, I was extremely proud of the men of the Beta Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity as they celebrated 25 years of their Brother2Brother Conference for the youth in the Washington, DC area. This initiative is completely student run and led and they have provided this service to the community for 25 years! I am equally as proud of the men of the Alpha Chapter of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. have a partnership with a non-profit organization 3GC, Inc. where they have created an initiative titled Kwame's Kids & Collective Library Literary Project that
What is your favorite thing about your job?
Howard University has a track record of producing students that go on to do great things in the Black community and even for this country. I take pride in being able to work with students that are coming in to their place as the next change agents and world leaders. I love the fact that every student I interact with could be the next Toni Morrison, Zora Neal Hurston, Taraji P. Henson, Chadwick Boseman, Kamala Harris etc. It is a privilege to watch these students grow and become the men and women that will be once they graduate.
Also, I'm at the Mecca! I am at The Howard University where Black Greek Life was cultivated and developed into the long lasting organizations we have today. There is something special about walking the campus where the founders of so many of the Black Greek organizations walked and being in the building where they met as they developed our organizations. As someone who is a student of Black Greek Life that is constantly learning new things everyday and has a passion for Black Greek Life it is a dream come true to work at Howard University with the students and chapters here at the institution.
What is it about the NPHC and MGC greek community at your college/university that makes it unique/special?
Being on a campus that is where 5 of the Divine 9 began is very unique. It gets competitive, but there is a mutual respect for each organization that exist on the campus. The NPHC of Howard University is a great group of students that I love the working with. They are such innovative students that work hard to host events and programs of substance for the Howard community.
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Q: Tableau / SQL Filling In Missing Data So, I have a bit of a strange thing - it's come up before, but my tool of choice in the past has been either R or Python and I can usually take care of this with a bit of code magic, but being new to Tableau, I'm not sure how to handle this....
I have a SQL statement as a data source that joins three tables. Let's call the first one the "Customer" table and the 2nd one the "Questions" table. The Customer table contains basic information, including the customer ID number. The "Questions" table is formatted in a way that makes it a little difficult to deal with. It contains the customer number, of course which is used as the key to join the two. It also contains two other columns - ATTRIBUTE_NM (the questions name) and ATTRIBUTE_VALUE_TXT (the answer to said question). My problem is there are several questions- 9 to be exact. It looks like this:
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000001    Question 9      Declined to Answer

Ok, so there are some potential combinations here. Either a customer can have all questions answered, in which case, they all appear for that customer. Some cases a customer can answer some questions, but not all, in which case, some questions are "NULL" and others are answers. And finally, we have customer that were in the database before the questions were a thing, so they do not appear in that Questions table at all.
I know all of the questions that are possible. My goal is to use Tableau to create a dashboard that looks like this:
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This is an internal request for a team that is working to identify customers, which questions they answered and which ones they didn't (if the customer doesn't exist in the question table, we assume they didn't answer them).
So a few things here - I need to figure out how to turn the ATTRIBUTE_NM from data in a column/field into columns themselves. This isn't that hardd - I can create a dimension with each question name and some logic to look at ATTRIBUTE_NM to see if that answer exists or is NULL. My issue is when the questions for that customer do not exist at all. How do I check for a "DOESN NOT EXIST" or something of the like?
In the past I have done this with dates, for example in R, but what I had to do is create a reference table that had all the date combinations and merge it with the read data to fill in the gaps. I think that is a possibility here, but I've never done that with Tableau or SQL. I'm wondering if, during the join, I can somehow fill those gaps in, since I'm doing a LEFT JOIN between the Customer Table and the Questions... Thank you all so much, in advance, for any help you can give me!

A: Maybe try something like this:
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  CASE WHEN QUESTION_1 IN (NULL, 'DECLINED TO ANSWER') THEN 'NOT ANSWERED' ELSE 'ANSWERED' END AS QUESTION_1,
  CASE WHEN QUESTION_2 IN (NULL, 'DECLINED TO ANSWER') THEN 'NOT ANSWERED' ELSE 'ANSWERED' END AS QUESTION_2,
  CASE WHEN QUESTION_3 IN (NULL, 'DECLINED TO ANSWER') THEN 'NOT ANSWERED' ELSE 'ANSWERED' END AS QUESTION_3,
  CASE WHEN QUESTION_4 IN (NULL, 'DECLINED TO ANSWER') THEN 'NOT ANSWERED' ELSE 'ANSWERED' END AS QUESTION_4,
  CASE WHEN QUESTION_5 IN (NULL, 'DECLINED TO ANSWER') THEN 'NOT ANSWERED' ELSE 'ANSWERED' END AS QUESTION_5,
  CASE WHEN QUESTION_6 IN (NULL, 'DECLINED TO ANSWER') THEN 'NOT ANSWERED' ELSE 'ANSWERED' END AS QUESTION_6,
  CASE WHEN QUESTION_7 IN (NULL, 'DECLINED TO ANSWER') THEN 'NOT ANSWERED' ELSE 'ANSWERED' END AS QUESTION_7,
  CASE WHEN QUESTION_8 IN (NULL, 'DECLINED TO ANSWER') THEN 'NOT ANSWERED' ELSE 'ANSWERED' END AS QUESTION_8,
  CASE WHEN QUESTION_9 IN (NULL, 'DECLINED TO ANSWER') THEN 'NOT ANSWERED' ELSE 'ANSWERED' END AS QUESTION_9
  FROM(
  SELECT
  CUSTID as CUSTOMERID,
  (CASE WHEN ATTRIBUTE_NM = 'Question 1' THEN ATTRIBUTE_VALUE_TXT ELSE '' END) AS QUESTION_1,
  (CASE WHEN ATTRIBUTE_NM = 'Question 2' THEN ATTRIBUTE_VALUE_TXT ELSE '' END) AS QUESTION_2,
  (CASE WHEN ATTRIBUTE_NM = 'Question 3' THEN ATTRIBUTE_VALUE_TXT ELSE '' END) AS QUESTION_3,
  (CASE WHEN ATTRIBUTE_NM = 'Question 4' THEN ATTRIBUTE_VALUE_TXT ELSE '' END) AS QUESTION_4,
  (CASE WHEN ATTRIBUTE_NM = 'Question 5' THEN ATTRIBUTE_VALUE_TXT ELSE '' END) AS QUESTION_5,
  (CASE WHEN ATTRIBUTE_NM = 'Question 6' THEN ATTRIBUTE_VALUE_TXT ELSE '' END) AS QUESTION_6,
  (CASE WHEN ATTRIBUTE_NM = 'Question 7' THEN ATTRIBUTE_VALUE_TXT ELSE '' END) AS QUESTION_7,
  (CASE WHEN ATTRIBUTE_NM = 'Question 8' THEN ATTRIBUTE_VALUE_TXT ELSE '' END) AS QUESTION_8,
  (CASE WHEN ATTRIBUTE_NM = 'Question 9' THEN ATTRIBUTE_VALUE_TXT ELSE '' END) AS QUESTION_9,
  FROM Questions
  )

I tried the Union and I think there is a way to do it that way but you are right, it wasn't working.


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ONEONTA, Ala. (AP) — The man who dumped hundreds of FedEx packages in a roadside ditch in Alabama told investigators he was dealing with a death in the family and did not want to deliver the items, a sheriff said Friday.
Blount County Sheriff Mark Moon identified the suspect as 22-year-old Deandre Rayshaun Charleston of Adamsville, Alabama. Charleston was facing five warrants for cargo theft. It was not clear whether he had an attorney.
Charleston was out making deliveries for another company on Friday, and sheriff's officials expected to take him into custody at the end of the day, Moon said.
"It appears that he was very sorrowful for what he had done and just admitted that he was having some hard times in his life and made poor choices," Moon said. "Hopefully, this will be one of those very hard life lessons that he will learn from and be able to move forward in his life. That's what we really want."
The packages were discovered in November in a ravine on private property near the small town of Hayden about 30 miles (50 kilometers) north of Birmingham, authorities have said.
They included children's toys and pet items and reflected five separate dumps, according to Moon. He said Charleston worked for a contractor that delivered packages for FedEx.
Officials were able to identify the correct destination for a little more than 150 of the packages. But they could not determine the right address for nearly 250 others, according to Moon. Moon valued those packages at almost $25,000.
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Tory MP Sir Desmond Swayne refuses to apologise over anti-vax claims
28 January 2021, 11:37 | Updated: 28 January 2021, 18:00
Tory MP Desmond Swayne has refused to apologise for his anti-lockdown comments. Picture: House of Commons
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Senior Tory MP Sir Desmond Swayne has refused to apologise for allegedly telling anti-vaccination campaigners that virus statistics were being "manipulated".
It is claimed Sir Desmond told a group of vaccine sceptics to "persist" with their campaign against coronavirus lockdown restrictions.
Sir Desmond reportedly told the Save Our Rights UK group, which argues wrongly that vaccines are "being rushed through safety testing", that some Covid-19 figures had been "manipulated" and called on them to "persist" in their campaign.
Labour is calling for the whip to be withdrawn over the claim he urged anti-vaccination campaigners to protest against coronavirus restrictions.
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Sir Desmond has refused to apologise and says he fully supports the vaccine effort.
Home Secretary Priti Patel said he should apologise for his comments, telling reporters:"I think Desmond should apologise, absolutely, and he should retract the comments he has made.
"Too many people have died from this deadly, deadly virus. Look at the pressures on the NHS right now.
Desmond Swayne told anti-vaxxer groups to "persist" in opposing lockdown. Picture: PA Images
"Those comments are thoroughly wrong and I very much hope Desmond will reflect and take those comments back."
Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove also said Sir Desmond should retract his remarks and apologise on Thursday, condemning his Conservative colleague as "completely out of order".
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The New Forest West MP said he is "evangelical" in his support for the vaccination programme and pointed out that he is on the record as criticising the use of data and other health measures in the House of Commons.
"I have always had a great deal of respect for Michael but I'm not sure precisely what I'm being asked to apologise for," Sir Desmond said.
"I had no idea indeed I am not aware of any baggage they hold on anti-vaxx it's never been discussed, never been raised."
He said he was telling the campaigners to "persist" in the campaign against restrictions, but insisted they should stick to the rules.
Earlier, Mr Gove called for the New Forest West MP to issue a full retraction and apologise for his "unacceptable" comments.
The senior Cabinet minister said: "Sir Desmond is wrong.
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"I work with Sir Desmond, I have great affection for him but I'm afraid here he is completely out of order."
Pressed on whether he will be kicked out of Tory party if he does not apologise, Mr Gove said: "I think it's for Sir Desmond to make that apology to retract and withdraw his words and I'm sure he will reflect on that mistake and I'm sure he will be very clear it was a serious mistake and an apology will be forthcoming."
Dozens of arrests have taken place during marches against lockdown restrictions organised by Save Our Rights UK.
The group also takes controversial views on vaccines, falsely claiming they are "being rushed through safety testing" despite rigorous trials and pushing doubts about the jabs.
Sky News reported that in November Sir Desmond told the group that the figures were "bouncing round at the typical level of deaths for the time of year".
He was quoted as saying: "It seems to be a manageable risk, particularly as figures have been manipulated... We're told there is a deathly, deadly pandemic proceeding at the moment."
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Deputy Labour leader Angela Rayner wrote to Conservative Party chairwoman Amanda Milling demanding action is taken against Sir Desmond.
Ms Rayner said the Tory MP "endorsed conspiracy theories about the veracity of the disease" and made a "deeply dangerous claim" about official figures.
"The seriousness of his actions cannot be understated. For a Member of Parliament to appear on this platform and undermine our fight against the pandemic could have truly devastating consequences," the Labour MP added.
A spokesman for the Conservative Whips Office said: "We completely condemn these comments.
"It is on all of us to work together to control the virus to protect the NHS and save lives.
"People across the country are sacrificing so much to help beat the virus and we thank them for their efforts."
Imran Ahmed, chief executive of the Centre for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), which has been investigating online misinformation about coronavirus and vaccines, said Sir Desmond's words had given "legitimacy to crank anti-vaxxers".


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