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Q: Angular Pipe for search field I have a pipe which filters the search field, and displays the list of items according to search text. Currently, it filters only companyDisplay. Goal is to filter companyCode and companyDisplay
JSON
[{
    companyDisplay: "ABC",
    companyName: "EFG",
    companyCode: "1234"
}]

Search Pipe
import { Pipe, PipeTransform } from '@angular/core'; // serach text sorting
@Pipe({
    name: 'searchCompanyPipe'
})
export class SearchPipe implements PipeTransform {
  transform(items: any[], searchText: any): any[] {
    if (!items) { return []; }
    if (!searchText) { return items; }
    searchText = searchText.toLowerCase();
    return items.filter(i => {
      return (i.companyDisplay || i.companyCode).toLowerCase().includes(searchText);
    });
  }
}

HTML
<li *ngFor="let data of companyInfo| searchPipe:searchValue">

companyInfo holds the json.

A: The problem here is that the following code:
(i.companyDisplay || i.companyCode)

always returns companyDisplay as long as it is not a falsy value. You need to use something like:
return i.companyDisplay.toLowerCase().includes(searchText) || i.companyCode.toLowerCase().includes(searchText);

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Kathmandu: The Government of Nepal and the World Bank Board signed a $100 million Development Policy Credit (DPC) today to improve the financial viability and governance of the energy sector and recover from the COVID-19 crisis. The agreement was signed by the Finance Secretary, Mr. Sishir Kumar Dhungana on behalf of the Government of Nepal and the World Bank Country Manager for Nepal, Mr. Faris Hadad-Zervos.
The approved operation is the second in a series of three DPC operations to support key policy, regulatory and institutional reforms to unlock the economic potential of Nepal's energy sector. These include measures to improve the financial viability of the Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) as the sole off-taker; establish a regulatory framework that is autonomous, transparent, and accountable; achieve greater integration with the regional electricity market to ensure the optimal use of Nepal's hydropower resource; and restructure NEA to empower provincial and local governments under the federal structure.
"We are thankful to the World Bank for the continued support to improve the quality of infrastructure and social-economic development in Nepal. The support made by the World Bank to enhance Nepal's energy capacity will improve access to electricity as aimed by our plan and budget and also enhance the capacity of Nepal Electricity Authority," stated Sishir Kumar Dhungana, Secretary, Ministry of Finance. "While Nepal has made important progress in the sector, addressing the immediate and long-term impacts of the pandemic is a key priority of the government to ensure the benefits are sustained over time."
In recent years, Nepal's energy sector made great strides with increased electricity generation, reduced system losses, and enhanced cross-border transmission capacity while putting an end to the nationwide load shedding. Electricity is now available to 88 percent of the population. An independent electricity regulator, central to the sector's reform agenda, has become operational. A newly proposed Electricity Bill will, among others, enable competition in electricity generation and establishing power trade as a licensed activity. With strong government commitment and effective management, NEA has reduced system losses, remained profitable for three consecutive years and has improved its financial performance.
"The World Bank is committed to support the government in strengthening the energy sector in Nepal during the crisis and for post-crisis recovery," stated Faris Hadad-Zervos, World Bank Country Manager for Nepal. "This operation will help Nepal develop a reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy sector that supports poverty reduction and shared prosperity in the country."
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Why Your Company Should Be Using Email Enterprise Vaults, Anti-Deletion Programming and Key Stroke Surveillance Software in the Face of Growing Cyber Threats and Trade Secrets Theft
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Twenty-five years ago most companies' greatest fear of espionage was employee theft at the photocopy machine at 2 in the morning. The company playbook could not be forwarded in an email or put on a thumb drive in a matter of moments and removed from company premises with no one noticing ready to be delivered by a disgruntled employee into the hands of a competitor.
Employers Have An Obligation To Provide Meaningful Direction To Employees In Email Searches, But Employers Can't Be Compelled To Recover Company Emails Stored On Personal Accounts Of Employees
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A recent case from the Northern District of California raises the importance of actively engaging with employees to coordinate the search for documents and electronically-stored information to comply with the employer's discovery obligations. At the same time, the Court ruled that an employer cannot be compelled to produce business-related emails from the personal email accounts of its employees.
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Hillary Clinton recently made headlines for using her personal email account for business purposes during her tenure as Secretary of State. This high profile example provides us with an opportunity to reflect upon what is commonplace for some. It can be tempting for employees to use personal email accounts to conduct corporate business, particularly when working remotely. However, the highly sensitive nature of Clinton's job raised questions over the security of using a non-work email account to transmit information. Depending on the nature of your job or the emails that you send, there are risks when mixing personal and business e-mails.
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Employers' ability to monitor e-mails sent by employees at work is a hot topic in privacy law and is being addressed by a growing number of courts around the country as the law works to catch up with technology. In Chicago, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals gave reason to view this issue from a different perspective, finding that an IRS agent violated the Wiretap Act by secretly setting up his boss's e-mail account to forward all received e-mail messages to his own account.
Are Employees' Personal Emails On Work Computers Private? "Sometimes" Rules N.J. Supreme Court.
Until last week, most employers believed that they had the right to review -- and in fact owned -- any electronic information stored on company computers. In a recent decision, the New Jersey Supreme Court carved out an exception to this rule. When an employee exchanges emails with her attorney through a personal web-based email account using a company computer, that email is attorney-client privileged even though the computer may automatically create a viewable copy of the email's text in temporary internet files on the company computer. In addition to ratifying, once again, the sanctity courts grant to the attorney-client privilege, the case highlights the importance of well-drafted company policies to enforce workplace rules and protect employer rights. Although the precedent applies only in New Jersey, the decision is significant for all employers.
Regulating Employee Email.
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Considering the widespread availability of computers and email to employees, it's hardly surprising that union organizers and pro-union employees now look to an employer's email system as a prime means of organizing. Here, in the context of an important new legal decision, we discuss options for lawful and effective management and control of your e-systems, including in particular your email systems.
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My parents always told us: no matter where you go in the world, we will find you, and we will visit you! :) My mom was not particularly excited to have Germany as a destination, but she was happy to come spend time with her daughter and son-in-law. My dad, however, has long had an interest in the World Wars, so Germany was a great fit for him. We spent time in Munich and went to Dachau Concentration Camp.
We visited Neuschwanstein and Hohenschwangau.
We took a boat over Konigsee to a cute little church, and toured a salt mine in Salzburg.
We ate our way through Oktoberfest.
But the highlight of their visit was a trip to France to see Mont St Michel, the Normandy Beaches, and do a quick tour of Paris. Our first stop after an easy 2 hour flight was driving to the coast to see Mont St Michel. This was a last minute addition to our itinerary, but I'm so glad my dad brought it up! It was incredible to see the fortress, built right into the ocean! During high tide, the island is completely cut off from the mainland by water. They recently built a bridge connecting the two, but until that point, if your visit was ill-timed, you were stuck on the island until the tide receded. :) We arrived close to closing time, so Tyler, my dad, and I hustled up the narrow, winding streets to get one of the last tours through the cathedral. I'm glad we made it in time, because the interior was fun to check out.
Our next stop was visiting several of the beaches. It was a really sobering experience to be on the same stretch of sand where so many people died fighting for freedom. The beaches themselves were fairly devoid of any remnants of the war, but that almost made it easier to imagine what took place. There were still a few bunkers and huge divots in the ground from bombs, but almost everything else has been cleaned up.
We headed into Paris, and dropped off our rental car. Public transportation in Europe is pretty widespread and reliable. If you're heading out to rural areas, you'll likely need car, but in cities, skip the car and take public transport! Easier and no parking headaches! We toured the Palace of Versailles, saw the Eiffel Tower sparkle at night from our river cruise, found our way to the Arc de Triomphe, went up the Eiffel Tower, walked through Notre Dame, climbed to the Sacre Coeur, and spent a few hours finding key pieces of art in the Louvre. The food was also delightful, but I don't have any pictures of that! We all are adventurous eaters, so our meals usually entailed trying new things. Escargot, foie gras, French onion soup, frog's legs, varied cheeses, pastries, and of course, macarons were all sampled and enjoyed.
We were all exhausted by the end of our trip, but we made so many memories and had a great time exploring a new part of the world!
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This week's theme might be a little more challenging, but I think you guys can do this. This week's theme will be… #jadainstaslamKUSTOMS. Time for you to show off your creative chops and show us your custom Jada products.
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The New York Giants' signing of Odell Beckham Jr. to a record extension that was drawn up to keep him in the Meadowlands for the next half decade may wind up proving to have been all for nought, as the latest reports indicate that the 26-year-old All-Pro receiver will be wearing orange in 2019 if the Cleveland Browns get their way.
Initially, Odell's mega-contract was seen as a bright spot heading into a season that had many favoring the Giants in the NFC East division. The $95 million number, as was reported by CNBC in August, certainly drew its fair share of critics seeing how it was shaped to be the most lucrative deal any player at his position had ever been offered. But to many a fan, the $65 million guarantee — the $20 million average through years one, two, and three — and the additional five million dollars in incentives translated into security. For the many who still believe the man to be the cream of the crop at wide-out, the deal remains a steal. But for many others, doubt has begun to settle in about OBJ's ability to eventually own the leadership role he is in part expected to take on as the face of the franchise, and there is a growing buzz around the organization that executives in the front office are regretting the signing as well.
The latest in a slew of trade rumors involving Beckham over the past several weeks comes by way of former MVP quarterback-turned-color commentator Boomer Esiason, who told the WFAN listening audience that he is privy to a "legitimate discussion" being had about the prospects of Cleveland acquiring the NFL superstar. According to what Esiason said on the airwaves just before Wednesday's (November 14) edition of Boomer and Gio came to a close, the league's trade deadline may have passed for the current year, but that won't keep the Browns from putting a package together that the Giants are likely to at least consider.
Beckham continues to put up numbers in spite of the horrific offensive line and quarterback play the team has had to overcome through nine games. He has so far completed 65 catches for 858 yards and caught four touchdown passes. That puts him on pace to surpass 1,000 receiving yards for the fourth time in his career, albeit he likely won't match the 10 TD mark that he was able to meet in each of his first three seasons in the pros.
The issue at hand for cynics, however, is that it appears playing on such a big stage in New York may only continue to encourage some of the diva antics that have caused for a distraction more times than management might have liked. What's more, Beckham may have driven a wedge through the Giants locker room with comments he's made in the press about his teammates in the past, all the while hinting that he was growing jaded in the New York Giants uniform.
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Lincoln City Homepage was allowed to attend the Oregon Government Ethics Commission (OGEC) executive session as news media Friday, Aug. 10, in Salem, where the commission voted to launch a full investigation to determine whether the news site was illegally excluded from a Lincoln City City Council special session.
Homepage Publisher Justin Werner
OGEC ruled in favor of the multimedia news company by deciding to investigate the City Council's involvement based on a preliminary report that states: "There appears to be a substantial objective basis to believe that a violation of the executive session provisions of Oregon Public Meetings law may have occurred on 6/04/2018 when an executive session was held by the City Council from which a member of the media was excluded."
The preliminary report also states: "should this case be moved to investigation the Commission would investigate whether the complainant was a representative of the news media in accordance with the AG (Attorney General) Opinion."
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In other action, Lincoln City resident Jerry Warner's ethics complaint against Lincoln City Public Works Director Lila Bradley and her husband over their Beach Club property was dismissed in the preliminary review phase.
UPDATE: Ethics complaint filed against Lincoln City Public Works director
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After all the shenanigans this council has pulled on the mayor including the city attorney and ex police police chief filing bogus charges J don't believe the ethics s commission wants to get involved with anything in Lincoln City. While they may have dismissed the Bradley complaint morally there was wrong doing by Bradley and council.
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Lincoln City Homepage is hosting its first candidate forum 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 12, at Tafts Hall, 1206 SE 48th Place, in Lincoln City.


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#115 May 9, 2012
Calavera666
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Join Date: 8/3/2011
It's probably going to be goddamn awful sigil anyway, like a giant "B" or something like that.
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Would be nice if either of the two beta keys I got had even worked. Last entire week of the beta it gave me "An error has occurred" when trying to use my keys.
Now I'm not a special little snowflake! /sadface
Akimasu
I was in beta, and I 100% disagree with blizzard here. That's pretty messed up to doubly punish people who were unlucky.(1st they didn't get to try it, and 2nd they lose out on a rare status symbol that they'll never have a chance at getting - even if they played from day 1).
Should have been a pre-order bonus, NOT a beta thing.
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as an aside, that art you submitted ot the contest was awesome. really unique style. cheers
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When feats of strength were implemented in wow:BC, they had some for things from back in vanilla that couldn't be gotten anymore.
There have been feats of strength that are much more difficult and limited than this one that have never received this level of backlash (see AQ40 openining, attending blizzcon)
Almost every other developer that has betas gives some type of ingame proof to let those players show they were in the beta as a thank you for participating. Blizzard is late to the part in this regard.
The entire thing is absurd. I can't believe of all things people are flipping out over this. God, you people won't even care in a week once the game is released. This is really an example of human beings at their absolute lowest, most primitive state.(Not directed at this forum, but at the official blizzard forums)
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Well thank you very much sir!
Shikatsu
So much QQ up in this thread. I was in the beta so nya nya. lol I think a FoS is kinda neat. I think giving a special sigil is a lil unfair though to those who just essentially got lucky. But a lil recognition of thanks for helping us test is nice.
One of the chosen.
Nastai
My first though was: insult to injury for a lot of people. I personally don't mind at all. I'm just looking forward to release at this point.
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omgitsbees
The thing people are failing to understand, is that Feats of Strength were never intended to be obtainable by everyone, or given a fair chance to be. Most of the FoS in Starcraft II, and World of Warcraft, are fair game for those around at the right time, but not all of them. This FoS is similar to the Blizzcon FoS for WoW players. Blizzard always said from the start, with the FoS feature was implemented, that not all of them will be possible to get by all players.
Blizzard has yet to lie about carrying achievements over from the D3 beta, or saying that FoS is something that it really isn't.
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I think the issue here is people feeling insulting in the first place because they didnt win what is essentially a random lottery drawing
Anyone with the feeling they have been slighted in any way shape or form in this issue needs to stop, take a deep breath, and chill the fuck out. This is an incredibly common practice amongst game developers. The outrage over this amounts to nothing more than bitter jealous rage.
Bleu42
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Yea this ^ =) (I stole the sig idea lol, love it)
caveblood
i thought beta was open to everyone
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It was for 2 or 3 days, rest of the time it was closed.
oh yea sorry i just reread it, i got in, but i also have a ? does pc spec , a awesome gaming machine, does that matter for people getting in
bhagan
Where's my open beta FoS? It could reward a sigil with the number 37
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I'mma be honest, I think this is just blowing up to be more of an issue than it really is. I don't get to go to Blizzcon ever and I'm not upset I missed out on all those feats of strength. I'm an achievement collector so it saddens me a little, but in the end those achievements really don't mean much. I'm even leaving a ton of them behind as I quit WoW last month.
The thing is, this is a minor thing. An achievement. A FoS that doesn't even give achievement points or affect your achievement tracker. Even if I wasn't a tester, I would feel the same way. What value does this really give me? I get a shiny toast or something. Oh yeah, I do get a sigil.. yay. Does it give me an advantage in any way? Does it enhance how I play? Am I even going to see it more than a few moments in the entire time I play the game? The answer to all of these is no. I will probably even move on from it as I unlock newer sigils and only break it out on occasion because it is unique. Truth is, unless I slam it down, I'll only see it in the character select screen.
I wouldn't even care if they decided to take this away. I was happy just to play the game as a tester, and even more happy to share the game online through YouTube. I played to make the game better by finding bugs and I shared it so those who couldn't get in knew what to expect. I didn't do this for baubles or recognition.
It seems unfair because it's based on luck, but that's how things work when you think about it. Items in the game, the lottery, sometimes random chance just falls into our laps and we get blessed with something. It's a form of jealousy and maybe even entitlement over something that's honestly, in the end, not going to even matter. This isn't going to make your game any worse than the person's who got the achievement. Nothing changes at all.
I'm sorry everyone who played isn't going to get one (from open beta) but at the same time I have to say it's not worth crying over. To be honest, I think that once the game finally hits most of you won't even care anymore. It's just that period of time before launch were everyone is biting at any scrap of news.
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Supposedly yeah, because they wanted to see how game works on high, medium and low performing computers but for all we know they may have just hired a random guy who would randomly choose who gets an invite and who doesn't.
i honestly got a new pc a month before changed specs on their website for beta, and also posted in the duiablo 3 forums sticky give me beta want to kill things and i got in , i did check everyday for months on my battlenet account though lol
Docablo
Join Date: 10/26/2011
Meh. Feats of Strength are dumb... at least thats my new opinion on them.
Jaelzadeon
Location: Waterloo
I'm surprised people are as upset as they are about this. The rewards are nothing game changing, for one. If people were awarded with an item in game, or even something cosmetic for your character, then I could see people seeing it as unfair. But all it is is a sigil, and a feat of strength, which don't really mean anything in the game. Also, it's a game... so why get worked up over something so petty?
kendro1200
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This acctualy made me angry that they have done it this way. i mean feat of strenghts should not be given out at random chance.
sure there are things like blizzcon goddies that is verry limited. but obtainible by anyone (if they are fast enought ang have money)
There is a great deal of chance in the speed available to you to purchase a blizzcon ticket and monetary resources available to you to be able to attend, as a ticket is only covering the part of you walking into the door.
People who participated in the beta, especially those that had been in it since 2011, basically muddled through the exact same, content finding bugs, issues and feedback, doing a job that really is a Quality Assurance job, and they did it for free. They didn't get the usual beta bonus of being able to "see content early" since they were there to have the game run on their hardware and stress the servers.
Feats of Strength aren't achievements, and they are by their very nature not fair, and you're not supposed to collect them, ever. Feats of Strength are like scars, they may have a cool story, and they let others know where you've been, but no one in their right mind ever goes chasing after scars, they just happen.
Yes, some people did get a closed beta invite, played for maybe an hour or two, beat the Skeleton King once, and then never touched the beta again, and them getting a key was a waste of a key most likely, but that's how randomly awarding keys goes.
I can tell you that it was honestly work to re-level characters after every patch wipe. Some changes were outright infuriating still to this day, because I can remember them having things done differently and they felt so much better. While I didn't ask or expect anything out of this beta, especially since this isn't my first Blizzard beta (I've done every iteration of WoW's betas expect MoP, and I participated in SC2's beta), I find the gesture nice. This beta reminded me heavily of a lot of problems vanilla WoW's beta had, in terms of bugs, volatility and unpolish'ness.
The open beta weekend was a stress test for the servers, and a bone to the community to have a chance to try out the demo before the game even went live. Since they place such a heavy emphasis on group play and community in D3, they gave the public the chance to try the game before it went live, so that way if you liked what you saw in the demo, you could still have an opportunity to reserve a copy to play at launch and be near the rest of the herd of players rushing forward at release.
Of course, that's just me, in general I don't care for achievements in any form at all, I find the system more corrosive than constructive in games. That's coming from a completionist as well.
What are you willing to sacrifice?
If you have a serious problem with it, then let blizzard know with your wallet. Don't buy the game.
The kind of people who are upset over this have to be some of the most immature manchildren around, and for each one that doesn't buy the game over this is one less person I would never want to be partied with anyway.
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Richard and Tanya Quilts: Julia's First B-Day with Quilt Giveaway!!!
I can not believe it has already been a year since Julia was born on 3/28/2012. Julia is why Tanya and I started to quilt. If you have been following for the last year you know that we gave away 2 quilts last year for her B-Day we did a giveaway to pick her Birth Weight and to pick her Birth Date. This year to honor her we would like to giveaway a Baby Quilt or Lap Blanket. I like to give choices so the winner of this giveaway can have a Custom Quilt made for them (baby or lap size) This is and example of a simple pattern I did last night in EQ7.
First let me explain the color does not have to be Gray and Orange. It can be any color (with in reason) you desire. For example I can make a Gray and Pink or what ever you pick color combo. I like the random 2 1/2 in blocks sewn into 5 x 5 blocks like the gray and orange quilt I have been making. OR you can pick any quilt on our Etsy Store $50 or less. Examples of some now on our store.
So you have a few choices a custom made quilt or a quilt from the store. Now what do you have to do to win the quit? Simple Share this giveaway with some one.
You can have up to 4 chances to win. So you can share this giveaway 4 different ways. It can be a post on your blog sharing the giveaway. It can be a email to your friend. You can share this giveaway on Facebook. You can share the giveaway with twitter. You can share on Google+ . You can share it with the guy over the fence. Since this is a complete quilt keep in mind your non quilting friends as this would be a great gift for them and if they have a baby even better!
WOW, what a generous giveaway. Happy Birthday to Julia, she shares her birthday with my Mom who is 78 today. I shared this giveaway with my sister who just had a new grandson last week on the 21st. Thanks again.
Happy Birthday to Julia! What a fantastic giveway! I have shared it via Pinterest, Twitter and Facebook and Emailed my sister!
Happy Birthday sweet girl! I just sent an email with link to your blog post to my local quilt guild, the Piecemakers. We make baby quilts to donate to our local hospital's layette project, and we would donate your giveaway quilt if we are lucky enough to win. A gift that keeps on giving!
Happy birthday! I shared this with my girlfriend as her daughter just had a baby girl!
Wow! What an awesome giveaway! :) Happy Birthday to Julia!!
I'm not posting to win (goodness knows I have enough quilts) but to let you guys know that I've shared on FB and Pinterest--just cause your giveaway is awesome!
Shared on Facebook, happy birthday!
Happy first birthday, Julia. Great Giveaway...check it out friends!!!
Happy Birthday Julia. They are so much fun. I now have four grand children, two girls and two boys. They are such a joy. I posted a Happy Birthday to Julia on my http://marlarockscrafts.blogspot.ca/ blog and what a generous give away. Have fun with that little girl and treasure every day as they go by really quickly.
Deinem kleinen süßen Schatz alles Liebe zum Geburtstag.
I shared it on my Timeline on Facebook, and I shared it on Google+. Happy Birthday, Julia!!!
WOW Richard that's an amazing prize!
Happy Birthday Julia! we share a birthday!
I don't have a blog but I've emailed my sewing group!
Happy Birthday Julia! You are a cutie!
Hi Ya'll. Please don't include me in your giveaway.I just wanted to wish Julia a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY! She is such a beautiful little girl and she is growing up so fast. Hugs and kisses to her on her special day.
Happy 1st Birthday Julia! I hope you had a lovely day and ate lots of cake.
I shared by emailing, i have a couple of pregnant friends who would be very happy recipients of one of your mummy and daddy's quilts!
I love your design, actually. I love blocks made with squares. I sent a message to a quilt group I'm on.
She looks so cute in that photo. It is hard to believe it's been a year! I sent an e-mail to some church friends.
Happy, happy birthday, Julia dear. Happy days will come to you all year. I could be happy with any of your quilts, I think! I sent an e-mail to some quilt friends.
Happy Birthday Julia! This is so sweet of you and I will pass it along but they grow so quick so just simply enjoy her now and everyday. Take it from one who knows my daughter and son are now 33 and 35 and I just don't know where the time went.
Happy Birthday Julia! Look at you standing up looking at your banners! I don't have a blog, but emailed my quilting friend. Thank you to your Mom and Dad for the fantastic giveaway! jbechosend at sbcglobal dot net. I follow you via email.
Happy Birthday to Julia! You are such a cutie!
Feliz feliz cumple Julia !
Veras esto cuando puedas leer?
Veras lo mucho que tus padres te aman.
Happy Birthday Julia! I shared this on google+. I don't know how to show a link though. Thanks for the chance to win.
What a woderful thing to do! So generous! I sent out four emails and am on my way to my blog. Thank you for the opportunity.
Shared this with my sister.
Hi guys Happy Birthday to your beautiful gril hope she had fun. I Tweeted the giveaway. Thanks for having the giveaway.
Hi I shared the giveaway on FB thank you have a great day.


Russians are famous for standing for hours on end during their long, long services. While usual services are 2-3 hours, services during Great Lent and in monasteries span up to 6 hours.
And for most of that time, most of the congregation is standing upright.


Home Health-Fitness Debloating Quinoa Recipes… All this time, I had NO IDEA that quinoa was high in potassium… thus making it an awesome de-bloater! All the more reason to whip up another delicious protein packed yummy!
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Recently there was a sensational piece of news about a cryptocurrency wallet being hacked to the tune of some thousands of dollars. The news stirred debates about the security aspect of the digital wallets once again. The value of the combined digital money in the world must be in the range of trillions and there is not one central governing authority that is responsible for these monetary units.
The important point is where there is money- there will be an attempt to take control of all of it or at least part of the treasure. That is a human tendency. One fact that should make you feel better is that when we look at the amount of money kept in the form of the virtual coins, then whatever has been stolen so far is just a drop in the ocean. Another important fact is that these kinds of attempts will be made in the future as well, but the digital wallet is still one of the best bets as far as security is concerned.
Phishing- by sending a dubious link through the mail and getting the details from the account holders. Then the scammers can access the accounts and divert the money transfers to their accounts.
They can change the destination account numbers while a transfer is taking place by accessing the servers.
Right now banks are wary of clone banking websites. Similar looking and yet one is a fraudulent website, so customers have to be very careful while they access a bank website and ensure that the website is genuine. Similarly, some of the trading websites may not be real. Though websites like QProfit System ensure that they follow all security protocols to ensure safety for their investors. Read on for a review.
The hackers can also find the password and other details of digital wallet by posing as the original domain and website.
Sometimes the investors may also make a mistake and may not check the authenticity of the website and send the money to a wrong digital wallet.
The investors cannot afford to stay away from cryptocurrencies fearing hackers and losing money. Digital money is the currency that will soon overtake all the others and we will all have to use it. We need to be careful and ensure that all the latest security protocols are implemented and that should help you sleep peacefully.


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Clinton's Delegate Lead Would Triple Under GOP Rules
Apr. 28, 2016 , at 1:42 PM
By Daniel Nichanian
Filed under 2016 Election
Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders before the MSNBC Democratic debate Feb. 4 at the University of New Hampshire in Durham.
In an electoral process as indirect as the selection of presidential nominees, any choice made upstream in how to design the rules can have big and often unforeseen effects on the results. That's what the GOP has learned this year: As Nate Silver found, Trump would be facing a much tougher road if Republicans were using the Democratic Party's delegate-allocation rules.
But how have the choices made by the Democratic Party affected their presidential race? In all states, Democrats allocate a given state's pledged delegates through a system that requires conducting multiple proportional calculations at different jurisdictional levels; it also requires the states holding caucuses to hold multiple stages of voting. Are the party's delegate rules destiny? How much do they distort the share of the raw vote that the candidates have received, and what would Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders's standing be if the Democratic National Committee had decided to allocate delegates differently, for instance through a simpler proportional calculation or through less proportional methods like the ones Republicans use?
To answer these questions, I calculated what the Democrats' pledged delegate count would look like if their primaries were re-run under two alternative scenarios.
Scenario 1: Republican delegate rules. Democrats everywhere use a similar allocation method, but the GOP's allocation rules vary greatly from state to state. What if Democrats in each state distributed their delegates according to that state's Republican rules? What if all Florida delegates went to the statewide winner, North Carolina's were allocated proportionally based on statewide results, Missouri's were winner-take-all both statewide and by district, and so on?1
Scenario 2: Statewide proportionality. For this scenario, I look at what the Clinton-Sanders count would look like if Democrats eliminated the complex multilevel and multistage system they use in all states: What if every state allocated all of its delegates in a single and straightforward proportional calculation based on the results of the statewide vote?2
Let's get to it: Below are my calculations of the Clinton-Sanders count under each alternative scenario.
CLINTON DELEGATES
SANDERS DELEGATES
GOP RULES*
2/1 Iowa 23 22 22 21 22 22
2/9 N.H. 9 9 9 15 15 15
2/20 Nev. 18 18 18 17 17 17
2/27 S.C. 39 53 39 14 0 14
3/1 Ala. 44 53 43 9 0 10
Am. Samoa 4 — 4 2 — 2
Ark. 22 31 22 10 1 10
Colo. 25 25 27 41 41 39
Ga. 73 102 73 29 0 29
Mass. 46 46 46 45 45 45
Minn. 31 30 29 46 47 48
Okla. 17 5 17 21 33 21
Tenn. 44 46 45 23 21 22
Texas 147 214 147 75 8 75
Vt. 0 0 0 16 16 16
Va. 62 61 61 33 34 34
3/5 Kan. 10 7 11 23 26 22
La. 37 37 38 14 13 13
Neb. 10 0 11 15 25 14
3/6 Maine 9 0 9 16 25 16
3/8 Mich. 63 0 64 67 130 66
Miss. 31 33 30 5 3 6
3/12 N. Marianas 4 6 4 2 0 2
3/15 Fla. 141 214 141 73 0 73
Ill. 79 101 79 77 55 77
Mo. 36 41 36 35 30 35
N.C. 60 58 61 47 44 46
Ohio 81 143 81 62 0 62
3/21 Dems Abroad 4 4 4 9 9 9
3/22 Ariz. 42 75 43 33 0 32
Idaho 5 0 5 18 23 18
Utah 6 0 7 27 33 26
3/26 Wash. 27 14 27 74 87 74
Alaska 3 3 3 13 13 13
Hawaii 8 5 7 17 20 18
4/5 Wisc. 38 5 37 48 81 49
4/9 Wyo. 7 7 6 7 7 8
4/19 N.Y. 139 217 143 108 30 104
4/26 Conn. 28 45 29 27 10 26
Del. 12 21 13 9 0 8
Md. 61 95 62 34 0 33
Penn. 106 99 106 83 0 83
R.I. 11 10 11 13 14 13
Total 1,662 1,955 1,670 1,373 978 1,365
What if you re-ran the Democratic primary with different rules?
*In addition to the listed delegates, following GOP rules would result in 102 unbound delegates
Current scenario: Caucus states' lower turnout
Under current Democratic rules, Clinton has 1,662 pledged delegates and Sanders has 1,373; that's a lead of 289 delegates.3
This means that Sanders has won a larger share of the pledged delegates (45.2 percent) than of the popular Democratic vote (42.3 percent). David Wasserman recently explained that this gap exists partly because some of Sanders's best states have used caucuses instead of primaries, and turnout is lower in caucuses, where it's harder to vote.
GOP rules: Big bonuses to the winner
Clinton's 289-delegate lead becomes a massive 977-delegate lead if we re-run the Democratic primaries using Republican rules. That's a jump from a lead of 10 percentage points to a lead of 32 percentage points.
This explains how Donald Trump has been able to seize such a commanding delegate lead despite winning a string of plurality victories, plunging the GOP into the predicament it is in now. Republican rules have a lot of quirks (winner-take-most districts, viability thresholds, winner-take-all triggers, statewide bonuses) that allow a GOP candidate to win most of a state's delegates even when that state's allocation method is ostensibly proportional. This was, in part, designed to give a candidate who is doing well early on a boost in delegate momentum for the race to wrap up quicker than it otherwise would.
You can see the effect this would have on the Democratic side: Clinton's 56 percent of the popular vote would be enough for her to win 64 percent of pledged delegates under GOP rules — just as Trump's 40 percent of the popular vote has given him about 50 percent of delegates allocated so far.
The biggest change would be in those states where Republicans use a statewide winner-take-all method. In Florida, for instance, Clinton would have won all 214 elected delegates instead of just 141.
Clinton would also take all or nearly all delegates in states that are not winner-take-all but where she won almost all districts. New York, Texas, Maryland, Georgia and South Carolina are in that category. But Sanders would have some bright spots as well: He would receive all of Utah's and Idaho's delegates by virtue of crossing the 50 percent threshold, and he would secure 81 of Wisconsin's 86 because Clinton won only one congressional district.
(One thing to note about GOP rules: In all states that allocate some of their delegates based on district-level results, each district gets three RNC delegates, regardless of the number of Republicans in that district. That's a major difference with Democratic rules. So applying this scenario will flatten the number of Democratic delegates each district gets. I chose to give each district five delegates instead of three, to account for the fact that Democrats have 64 percent more delegates overall. After accounting for that group, I treated the remaining delegates as at-large delegates.)
These calculations illustrate the arbitrariness of the GOP's state-by-state disparity. Take the five Northeastern states that voted Tuesday: Rhode Island, Sanders's lone victory that day, is also the only state among these five in which Republicans use a proportional method.
Statewide proportionality: Little changes
The current system and the statewide proportionality system are off by only eight delegates for each candidate. That is a swing of just 0.2 percent. Clinton would have won 1,670 (55.0 percent of the total) instead of 1,662 (54.8 percent).
I was surprised by this. The current rules provide many apparent opportunities for a state's delegate count to deviate from a clean proportional allocation. That's because, although Democrats use proportionality, they don't apportion all of a state's delegates at once based on the statewide results. Instead, each state delegation is split into various pools (one for at-large delegates, one for pledged party leaders and one for each congressional district) and then a separate calculation is conducted to apportion each pool according to the corresponding jurisdiction's results.
There are two ways in which this can matter. For one, the smaller the pool of delegates, the higher the threshold at which a lead in raw votes translates into a lead in pledged delegates — if the pool has an even number. This became an issue in the Democratic race when Sanders's double-digit victory in the Wyoming caucuses proved insufficient to avoid an equal split of the state's 14 delegates. Had all these delegates been allocated in a single calculation, Sanders's 55.7 percent would have translated into eight delegates instead of the seven he got: 55.7 percent of 14 rounds up to eight. But now calculate 55.7 percent of smaller pools of two, four and eight delegates, and you will see that the results round down each time and add up to seven delegates.
Secondly, in districts that allocate an odd number of delegates, having a lead of just one vote is enough to net a whole delegate; but in districts that allocate an even number of delegates, even a large win may not be enough. This odd/even issue has been an object of great fascination in political journalism — see all these 2008 stories.
A separate issue that can create distance between how people vote and the delegate count: Caucus states have a multistage process. Some of their delegates are pledged based on the preferences of county and state convention attendees, rather than based on how people voted on caucus day. The delegate counts projected after the caucuses (events that far more people are allowed to participate in) can get distorted.
Despite all this, the delegate counts changed by only a small amount in the plainly proportional scenario. And this is not a matter of significant distortions in both directions canceling each other out. In 22 of the 43 states and territories, the two counts are identical. (Surprisingly enough, this includes six of the seven states with the most congressional districts that have already voted: Texas, Florida, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Georgia.) In 18 others, they are off by just one delegate.
In only three of the 43 states and territories is the difference greater than one delegate for each candidate: Colorado (Clinton would win two more under statewide proportionality), Minnesota (Sanders would win two more) and New York (Clinton would win four more).
The shift in Colorado may be the most striking because the two counts were projected to be the same until Sanders won a greater share of the vote at the state convention April 16 than he did at the March 1 caucuses. That resulted in a gain of two delegates for him. In other words, the reason that a straightforward proportional calculation produces a different outcome than the current count is that the latter is not even directly calculated off of the caucus results.
Minnesota and New York's shifts are mostly due to districts with an even number of delegates. Minnesota's 2nd District splits equally despite Sanders's 17 percentage point win. Clinton has to settle for the same fate in five New York districts, versus only one for Sanders there.
So what's the takeaway? The Democrats' delegate allocation rules are more "fair" than the GOP's rules in the sense that vote shares are translated into delegate shares more faithfully and uniformly — but aspects of the process, such as the use of low-turnout caucuses and some delegates getting allocated based on the results of subsequent conventions, can distort that translation. If the Democrats used Republican allocation, Clinton would have wrapped up the nomination long, long ago. If the Republicans used Democratic allocation, we'd almost assuredly be heading toward a contested Republican convention.
To calculate this scenario, I kept the Democratic allocation as is in Colorado and Wyoming. Republicans held no presidential preference vote in these states, and they had no mechanism tying the delegate distribution to actual voting. As a result, the GOP rules are not applicable. I also kept Democrats' allocation as is for Democrats Abroad because Republicans have no equivalent jurisdiction.
To calculate this scenario, I kept Democrats' usual viability rule that a candidate must reach a threshold of 15 percent to obtain delegates. This effectively means that I calculated Clinton's and Sanders's delegate allocation based on their share of the two-candidate vote.
I am using The Green Papers' delegate count in each state because they provide the most complete and up-to-date results per congressional district. The exceptions are Mississippi (Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections has more complete results for each congressional district), Nevada (The Green Papers have not taken into account the new projected allocation after the county conventions) and Ohio, where The Green Papers is using a different top-line allocation than its own district delegate calculations project. The reason for this is a news release from the Ohio Democratic Party that has a different allocation for the 11th District, but The Associated Press results with all precincts reporting support The Green Papers' original calculation. The AP is using the same count I am using in this article. Furthermore, the results in Connecticut, Maryland and Pennsylvania are still partial and subject to change because neither the AP nor The Green Papers has finished calculating the results at the district level.
Daniel Nichanian is a postdoctoral fellow and lecturer in political science at the University of Chicago @Taniel
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TWLOHA founder Jamie Tworkowski says that:-
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"Being the coffee junkies that we are, the band and I jumped at the opportunity to develop and release our own branded coffee with Vigilante, who kept us over-caffeinated for the Periphery III recoding sessions," explains guitar player Mark Holcomb.
"When we saw what Vigilante founder Chris Vigilante was doing and tasted the coffee they were brewing, we were floored; it was easily the best coffee I had tried in my years of living in D.C., and the band made it our go-to coffee spot. This past winter, Chris invited us into the shop for a lengthy tasting where we sampled over a dozen coffees and picked what would become "Flatline" coffee.
Aside from being excited to release such a great coffee, we're also proud to say that a portion of the proceeds from sales of this coffee are going directly to Ecuador's earthquake emergency relief for the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Ecuador in April 2016."
Bags of "Flatline" coffee are available now via Periphery's webstore (Periphery.net). The coffee is described as featuring chocolate notes and a lasting mouthfeel. As it cools, its creaminess is almost chewy, with delicate earthy and toasty notes. The beans come from the Rio Intag valley of Ecuador, which, while spared a direct impact from the April earthquake, the coastal areas of the country have been deeply affected. A portion of all sales will be directed to the Catholic Relief Services, earmarked for Ecuador Earthquake Relief.
"The motivation behind this collaboration was simply to share something cool with the fans of Periphery and make a positive impact on the coffee world," said Vigilante Coffee Company. "The rock stars of this coffee are the farmers and we're grateful to share their passion for growing great coffee with the passionate fans of Periphery and the passionate coffee lovers of Vigilante Coffee."
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Q: Get zero, poles and gain from state space model? I'm going to transform a state space model:
$$\dot{x} = Ax + Bu \\ y = Cx + Du$$
Into a transfer function:
$$G(s) = \frac{Y(s)}{U(s)}$$
What I need is to find the zeros, poles and gain. Finding poles are really easy. I just find the eigenvalues of the matrix $A$.
$$det(sI-A) = 0$$
Then I get the poles $$s_i = a\Re_i + b\Im_i$$
But how about the gain and zeros? How do I find them?

A: Static gain is simply $C(- A)^{-1}B+D$ directly from the transfer function definition. To compute zeros, it is more involved as it depends on your definition of a zero (invariant or transfer?).
There are some references in MATLABs help https://se.mathworks.com/help/control/ref/tzero.html

A: This is a standard problem of finding the transfer function from a state-space model of a linear system. In particular, $\dot{x}=Ax+Bu \implies X(s)=(sI-A)^{-1}B U(s)$, and $y=Cx+Du \implies Y(s)=CX(s)+DU(s)$. Consequently,
$$Y(s) = CX(s) + D U(s) = (C(sI-A)^{-1}B +D)U(s) \implies G(s) = C(sI-A)^{-1}B +D.$$
Once you have $G(s)$, you can compute the poles, zeros etc. of the transfer function.

A: I found the answer!
The zeros can be computed by
$$(z\begin{bmatrix}
I &0 \\
0 & 0
\end{bmatrix}-\begin{bmatrix}
A & B\\
C & D
\end{bmatrix}) = 0$$
MATLAB / Octave command:
>> zero = qz(A, B)

Which computes the generalized eigenvalues lambda of (sB-A)


The Courthouse where I work is having some re-modeling / reconstruction done to the main entry and foyer. Yesterday there was required ceiling repair required right by the main entry doors, which required sheetrockers to work on very tall ladders. I had to stand out by the entry to prevent people entering the building from taking a shortcut under the ladders on which the workers were standing.
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This five star hotel meets the needs and wants of each and every guest. All 64 fabulously designed rooms come with full butler service to ensure maximum comfort. The rooms come equipped with not only every amenity you could dream of, but incredible views of the ocean and surrounding islands. A signature restaurant serves seafood barbeques and a great breakfast. A beach-side bar runs parallel to the well positioned infinity pool which looks straight out to the scenic Andaman Sea. The soft hands of the professional staff at the full body and treatment spa provided exclusively for the guests. With non-stop luxuries and perfect service from the staff, Serenity Resort & Residence is eagerly waiting to reveal its true beauty to future guests.
Senses Spa is inclusive of luxurious private treatment rooms, a pampering steam room, private showers, and changing rooms all in a stylish and Serene setting. The treatments include traditional Thai massage, Himalayan hot stone therapy, detoxification, purification, salt, honey and herbal scrubs, full body wraps and many more. The spa also offers Yoga classes for resort guests.
Sip on a traditional cocktail or sample a fresh spin on an old favorite at Balu's, a cool and comfortable spot to relax and while away a few hours in the afternoon or evening. A destination for guests and locals alike, the bar features cocktails, an extensive list of wines and spirits, and an innovative comfort food menu.
The Club features Phukets beachfront lifestyle at its best. Lounge lazily around the fashionable infinity pool, take a stroll along the endless Rawai beachfront, order fresh seafood from the poolside menu, all while the staff tend to your every need. The menu list contemporary fusion of Mediterranean, Asian and traditional Thai dishes.
For a private party, some quality time with special people, or just to Chill Out, take advantage of our exceptional in-room dining services, including breakfast in bed, private barbecues, and chef-prepared gourmet meals available 24 hours. The choice is yours!


We believe that taking part in a wide range of activities nurtures a love of learning and life in all our pupils. We are keen to give them opportunities to try new things so that they form a strong community bond as well as grow as individuals.
The children are encouraged to 'Get Involved' in our school and many take up this challenge by representing the school, running a lunchtime Club, helping another child with their reading or running the School Newspaper (The Burbage Buzz).
Becoming independent, enthusiastic members of the community is a real strength of the school.
As part of the curriculum, we plan educational visits to places of interest that link with the children's topic of study. These fire children's imagination and inspire them in their class work. Recently, we ran trips to the Mary Rose Museum in Portsmouth; Legoland in Windsor and Warner Bros. Studio Tours - The Making of Harry Potter. The Year 6 class were lucky enough to travel down to Covent Garden in London to watch Madame Butterfly at the Royal Opera House and our Year 2s became chefs on a visit to a local branch of Pizza Express. We use our local area as much as possible with Roman Invasions in the Pewsey Vale, visits to local farms; the chirch and other religious buildings and Savernake Forest.
We run a residential trip for Year Six who go away to a PGL centre for a week where they take part in activities such as High Ropes, Abseiling, Dragon Boat Racing and Puzzle Solving. For some, this is their first time away from home and it is a great bonding experience at the start of this important final year of their primary schooling.
We engage fully in cluster activities, including School Council visits, Drama days, Maths competitions, Design Technology Competitions, Folk Music festivals and Curriculum days, These have included Writing, MAEP Art Able, Gifted and Talented days and our MAEP Modern Foreign Language performances. We take part in the Marlborough Cluster Dance Festival and the 'Music for a Summer's Evening' at St John's; both of which showcase the very best of local school talent and are a lot of fun!
All children learn to play an instrument during their time with us and many go on to take up instruments with peripatetic music teachers. We currently offer Guitar, Piano, Cello, Flute, Clarinet, Recorder and Violin in individual or small group lessons. We perform at Christmas in our annual Carols by Candlelight Service in the church and hold annual 'Musical Summer Soirees' where families are treated to a wonderful evening of musical talent from the children, their families and teachers.
We believe that drama performances enrich the children's experience in school and all Infants perform in our annual Nativity musical at Christmas time. In addition our Y3/4 children perform at Easter and the Y6's end of summer performance is always a real treat.
Our wonderfully talented musicians performed at our second annual Music Evening, what a talented lot they are!
We celebrate the Christian festivals in liaison with Burbage Church and welcome the vicar in to collective worship in school on a regular basis. The children perform as a 'signing choir' for the hard of hearing at the 'Good Companions Lunch' at Christmas time and are involved in the laying of a wreath at the village Armistice Service each year. We have a regular slot in the Burbage News where some of what we do in school is shared. Our annual Summer Fair, where the children run many of the stalls as part of their enterprise initiatives is a real village highlight.
Physical Activity is another strength of the school with cluster fixtures attended by at least one team. We have a strong tradition of success in Tag Rugby, Running and Cricket. Other sports events have included Orienteering, Hockey, High Fives (Netball) and Football.
Currently children in Y4 swim regularly and every child leaves school being able to swim at least 25m.


It's a way to get to know the various protagonists in the game.
When EA and DICE released the latest trailer for Battlefield 1 focusing on the game's single-player campaign, it was obvious that there would be several main characters that would have important roles throughout the story. DICE confirmed that, saying that the game will focus on five War Stories as a way to get to know those individuals.
"The Great War is diverse," said Jonas Elfving and Eric Holmes in a post on the official site. "We knew we wanted to embrace that variety. There were so many different perspectives and characters in World War 1 and we wanted to cover as much ground as possible."
The anthology format allows the developers to tell different stories from the war, without having a main character jump from place to place in disjointed fashion. In one story, players will get a look at Danny Edwards, who is the driver of a British Mark V tank. Edwards is new to the war and was a chauffeur in civilian life, so driving and fixing things is what he knows.
"In previous Battlefield iterations, we've experienced the story through the eyes of one main character, and it was very rare that the camera cut anywhere," the post reads. "But in Battlefield 1, we decided we wanted stronger characters instead of just telling players 'you are the character'. One way to do this was to invoke classic cinematics that lets you see your character more than in first-person-theater. We wanted the player to see and feel what the characters are going through, rather than just experiencing it from behind their eyes. That has really payed off for us not just in storytelling ability, but in emotional engagement."
In another story, players will take on the role of a female Arab rebel who is the right hand to one of the iconic figures of WWI, Lawrence of Arabia. the rebels are faced off against the Ottoman Empire, who own the massive armored Canavar train. The player can choose how they want to draw the train out for a final battle through scouting and gaining extra equipment for the confrontation.
The Red Baron was also mentioned in passing, and based on some of the scenes from the trailer where an English crew was manning a plane, it is highly likely Baron Manfred von Richthofen will be making an appearance. Another possibility is American ace Eddie Rickenbacker.
Players will be able to experience all the stories when the game comes out on October 21.
This is an interesting approach but the trailer looked so god damned cheesy.


A health department spokeswoman said Tuesday the agency would "immediately" begin the process of formalizing the screening tool into an administrative rule. A public workshop on the tool is scheduled for Oct. 16.
Mara Gambineri, a spokeswoman for the health department, said DOH had no choice but to suspend eligibility screenings. The screening tool used by Children's Medical Services before the program unveiled a new one last May also had never been formally approved as a rule, Gambineri said, and therefore is equally invalid.
"The tool we used before did not go through rule-making either," Gambineri said.
In the meantime, Gambineri said, CMS administrators will be working with other state leaders to ensure that children with the most critical medical needs will be eligible for the services CMS provides.
But Louis St. Petery, a Tallahassee pediatric cardiologist who spearheaded a decade-long legal challenge to the state's healthcare program for impoverished children, said the state had other options than simply ceasing all new enrollments. Though it may be true that the screening tool CMS discarded in May also was an unapproved rule, St. Petery said, it had never been challenged, and children's advocates long had accepted the screener as fair.
The new tool, he said, is widely believed to have been designed specifically to screen more children "out" of the program, which is why so many doctors, parents and children's advocates opposed it. Had the health department reverted back to a prior eligibility tool, St. Petery said, children's advocates would have accepted its use. Moreover, he said, the judge who tossed the new tool had made no rulings about earlier versions.
"Why punish special needs children by denying them admission to the only specialty [managed care program] suitable for their problems?" St. Petery asked.


The Washington Post reported that fake editions of the paper claiming that President Trump was leaving office were handed out at multiple locations in Washington. The fake papers were dated for May 1, 2019, and were filled with anti-Trump stories. The group claiming responsibility for the papers — the Yes Men — also created a website that mimicked the Post's site. Kris Coratti, a Washington Post spokeswoman, said "we will not tolerate others misrepresenting themselves as The Washington Post, and we are deeply concerned about the confusion it causes among readers." According to the article, the print and digital newspapers cost about $40,000 where $36,000 of that was raised from the organization's mailing list. One of the founders of the Yes Men, Jacques Servin, claimed that the group printed 25,000 copies and estimated that 10,000 of the papers were distributed.
Learn more about who the Yes Men are here.
As if the ongoing government shutdown hasn't already affected millions nationwide, it could now possibly delay a major legal challenge to the FCC's net neutrality repeal. TechCrunch reported that the agency made a motion to delay oral arguments scheduled to begin on February 1. According to the article, the filing for the extension is to help ensure that attorneys can fully prepare for argument consistent with the Antideficiency Act — which essentially prohibits the government from operating without adequate funding. Because of the shutdown, U.S. legal counsel would be working without pay if the federal court judge rules to proceed. If it does get delayed, however, it could be weeks or even months before it gets rescheduled, TechCrunch reports.
The Financial Times has established a long-term program to help cultivate regular reading habits with younger generations. The program's goal — which was designed to help students contextualize their school curriculum — is to get 16- to 19-year-old students reading relevant, real-life, and contemporary news articles written by FT journalists. The paywall is lifted with participating schools and students so that students can create their own mobile and online accounts. Because the Financial Times has historically been perceived as having an older audience, global education editor, Andrew Jack, told Digiday that the program "is important in terms of thinking about our future readers, and with the wider debate around fake news and poor quality information so readily available, we feel providing high-quality information to that next generation is very important." According to the article, the Financial Times has reported that more than a million pages have been accessed by both teacher and students in the program and that in the last year alone, 34,000 individual accounts were created.
Interested in the program? Read more about it here.
Barstool Sports — the sports and pop culture blog — reports that it already has more than 10,000 paid subscribers to its new member service, Barstool Gold, after its launch on January 8. The tiered membership product offers everything from early access to events and office tours, meet-ups with Barstool personalities, and exclusive content and merchandise. Barstool Sports CEO, Erika Nardini, told DigiDay that "Barstool benefits from having a dedicated fanbase that has demonstrated a willingness to pay for stuff — whether that's an amateur boxing pay-per-view, a seemingly endless line of merchandise or even pizza delivery. It's a big reason why Barstool did not erect a paywall against existing content." With the obvious assumption that each tier comes with different advantages, the lower tier costs roughly $1 per week whereas the higher tier costs roughly $2 per week.


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You have written some famously bad blogposts (here and here) predicting who will win the race for president. In 2016 and 2020 I was ridiculously wrong, but had a lot of fun predicting things. I'm thinking of writing up a 2024 election version — and to be wrong again. The real question is whether anyone will run on the Democratic Party ticket; I'm tempted to say it will be Inslee, Klobuchar and Kamala Harris. On the Republican side it will be Nikki Haley (duh!), Ron DeSantis and Paul Ryan. Possibly Ben Sasse too. (and because of DeSantis, I predict far right-wingers like Tom Scott and Rick Scott won't run). Incidentally, I'm currently 55 and even though it's not bad or anything, it's hard to imagine someone younger than me winning the presidency.
A typographer makes his Oscar picks — solely on the basis of fonts on the poster. He designs types himself and has an online "book" with suggestions about using fonts and typography on the web.
Nestflix.fun is a Netflix parody consisting of fake movies (which usually appear in TV shows or films). My favorite is a whole page listing movie parodies from Arrested Development.
Fun with Glass and Trampoline. Here's a more perfectly realized choreographed number (and longer too). Kudos to YOANN BOURGEOIS for devising this performance concept.
To give you an idea of how strange my life is: 1)my floor lamp beside my bed fell on me in the middle of the night (breaking the main light bulb) and 2)my TV has been powering up at random intervals. (I have to unplug it to prevent that from happening). UPdate: I think I've found the cause. My PC seems to be sending bluetooth signals to my TV.
Pet peeve: I inevitably keep dozens (if not hundreds) of browser tabs windows open. I'm always in the middle of something — these WordPress edit windows are especially easy to misplace. I just want to kill everything and start again.
Here's a good diagram illustrating plot.
"Comirnaty!!??" Seriously, the marketing department couldn't come up with a better name for the Pfizer vaccine than that? I can barely pronounce or spell it. Why not give it a memorable name and just move on. (MY suggestions: Bongo-Pongo, Perkosan, Gradifex).. Or reuse names of comic book heroes or rap stars or other celebrities designed to appeal to a demographic –i.e, Spiderman, Cool Juice, BigPicasso, LambofGod. Think outside the box.
Article about a Shapeshifting cam girl rewriting the rules of digital porn. Apparently the digital artist (in her 30s) used various graphical tools to make herself look younger (and prettier?!). Here's her instagram account pics, which are sort of PG-13 rated, sort of NSFW. She's managed to monetize everything, so good for her, although I'm not sure she's getting that adulation only for the money.. Good case study though.
I've been really amazed at the Jane Ferguson on-the-ground reporting in Kabul, Afganistan. She is one of those amazing PBS reporters who manages to get accepted in Muslim countries under fire. Actually CNN has a good reporter in Kabul as well — not to mention the English-speaking Afghanis. The big question is that if 70% of Afghanis have access to smart phones with Internet, how will the Taliban be able to crack down?
I'm preparing a wiki page for a writer and am floored by the amount of wiki guidelines. (Look at this wiki style guide and this help page on citing sources. Hey, here's the draft of that article in the submission pile. Let's see if they approve or massacre it some more.
I stumbled upon an old blog post complaining about politicians who use the phrase "Make no mistake." NAGLE'S ADDENDUM ON POLITICAL RHETORIC: Whenever a politician uses the word "strongly" in a speech, you should always substitute that with the word "stupidly" to capture the exact same meaning.
"It's completely lovely—and also bonkers," said her mother, Laura. "Betty climbs in Lacey's long hair like it's some kind of jungle."(About a teen girl who has adopted a bumble bee). There's a killer line at the end.
""Up to 50 kilos of fish caught in Brazil are thrown away for every kilo that arrives on land; more than 400,000 tons of marine life were discarded between 2000 and 2018 in just four states."(Source)
I'm used to John Oliver uncovering some little known scandal, but his clips about Housing Discrimination, the Pace program (a home renovation program) and how EMS programs around the country are underfunded are shocking. Apparently some EMS technicians don't even get health care or a living wage.
Comedian Fumi Abe did a hilarious set on Stephen Colbert. Watch that name.
Comic reporter Jordan Klepper (from the Daily Show) interviews a lot of anti-vaxxers. He really is an incredible comedian.
Here's a profile on Brit comedienne Flora Anderson.
Some shrewd analysis about sitcoms by comedian/writer Olivia Cathcart. Why the show What We Do in the Shadows shows how TV serials have more comedy potential than movies.
While the Shadows movie is indeed fantastic, the very premise it set up was always more conducive to TV. The point of the film wasn't to send these vampires on some grand quest to carry out an evil plan, it was a look into the average day-to-day lives of vampires who, other than eating humans, live relatively mundane lives. If TV is a diary, then a film is a book report. With the show, Shadows is able to perpetually expand their world and fill in gaps from the movie, namely adding more female characters like Nadja to the main cast as well as guest appearances from Kristen Schaal, Vanessa Bayer, Greta Lee, Sondra James' little Joanie, and former Great British Bake Off contestant Helena Garcia (honestly, case closed right there). And then there's Colin Robinson, the energy vampire who feeds off people's energy, nearly boring them to death in cubicle-filled office spaces and town hall meetings. Such an off kilter character might seem out of place in a movie about blood-sucking vampires, but here these subplots can run parallel to the main story without feeling distracting. On that same note, more writers on staff means more jokes from more perspectives, while too many contributors on a film script often leads to a disjointed story.
See also her wondering why late night talk shows still exist (post-Conan and post-Covid)? (I'm a big fan of late night talk shows. They are celebrity-obsessed (not to mention obsessed with anything new). But it's nice to follow the host and cast.
Here's my take on talk shows and Covid. Stephen Colbert was mostly terrible during COVID, Jimmy Fallon was fun and silly and still could play games and run music vids. Seth Meyers was even more brilliant and entertaining; he was perfectly comfortable transitioning to No Audience. Trevor Noah and his gang has really been killing it with every episode. Great sketches, great interviews and fast-paced. Very intellectual too. Now that things are returning to normal with talk show audiences, Colbert is much more entertaining and can really milk a joke when he wants to.
About the political thing, our country has experienced a national tragedy with Trump; if talk show hosts weren't sounding the alarm, I don't know who else could be. It's good though that talk shows have stepped back and focused more on traditional entertainment. Talk shows used to be even-handed towards both parties, but the lack of a credible conservative leadership has made it impossible to treat them as anything more than a bunch of crazies — especially when it comes to climate change and vaccine mandates.
How much is ton of carbon dioxide? The U.S. EPA has found that a typical 22 MPG gas-based car emits about 5 tons of carbon dioxide per year. On average, you emit one ton of CO2 for about every 2,500 miles you drive—about the distance from Boston, Massachusetts to Salt Lake City, Utah. (The US annual carbon footprint is about 16 tons annually). Concludes the report:
Most of the CO2 humans emit doesn't come from everyday activities like driving. In fact, when we say that the average American emits 16 tons of CO2 a year, most of this isn't from our direct emissions. Instead, it's from large-scale processes, like making electricity or manufacturing products and building materials, which are averaged across the whole population. For example, the World Steel Association estimates that, for every ton of steel we produce, almost two tons of CO2 are added to the atmosphere.
A while back my ebook press published Hanger Stout, Awake about a teenage boy who competes in contests to see who can freehang from a bar the longest. Apparently, some Youtube celebrity has challenged all kinds of people to freehang for money. For those interested, I wrote a nice essay about that novella, pondering the ephemeralities of youth.
I am saddened to learn about the deaths of US servicemen and Afghani citizens in Kabul (presumably at the hands of terrorists). It's important to remember that US soldiers are often asked to provide protection for international humanitarian efforts in risky places and can become a target for bad actors. (To a lesser extent, this happens also with UN peacekeeping troops). Without having these spaces secured, it can be hard to run humanitarian operations. It is only on tragic days like today that we can appreciate the risks and sacrifices that enlisted people take during such missions. We should honor them for that.
Here's a 16 minute audio interview with James Loewen from 2015 (audio link is in middle of page).
After Ed Asner has died, I was recalling favorite Mary Tyler Moore show moments with him. Here's him with Ted Knight. Hilarious scene. The most interesting (for me at least) is that the scene is so unimportant; all Ed and Ted are doing is hamming it up to absurd levels. I saw an interview with Asner where he said the serious drama Lou Grant (which I never watched!) was his best performances. I look forward to watching it somewhere.
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