Markov process fits into many real life scenarios. Any sequence of event that can be approximated by Markov chain assumption, can be predicted using Markov chain algorithm. In the last article, we explained What is a Markov chain and how can we represent it graphically or using Matrices. In this article, we will go a step further and leverage this technique to draw useful business inferences.
"Krazy Bank", deals with both asset and liability products in retail bank industry. A big portfolio of the bank is based on loans. These loans make the majority of the total revenue earned by the bank. Hence, it is very essential for the bank to find the proportion of loans which have a high propensity to be paid in full and those which will finally become Bad loans. "Krazy Bank" has hired you as a consultant to come up with these scoping numbers.
Good Loans : These are the loans which are in progress but are given to low risk customers. We expect most of these loans will be paid up in full with time.
Risky loans : These are also the loans which are in progress but are given to medium or high risk customers. We expect a good number of these customers will default.
Bad loans : The customer to whom these loans were given have already defaulted.
Paid up loans : These loans have already been paid in full.
Absorbing nodes in a Markov chain are the possible end states. All nodes in Markov chain have an array of transitional probability to all other nodes and themselves. But, absorbing nodes have no transitional probability to any other node. Hence, if any individual lands up to this state, he will stick to this node for ever. Let's take a simple example. We are making a Markov chain for a bill which is being passed in parliament house. It has a sequence of steps to follow, but the end states are always either it becomes a law or it is scrapped. These two are said to be absorbing nodes. For the loans example, bad loans and paid up loans are end states and hence absorbing nodes.
Explaining absorbing nodes becomes simple from this diagram. As you can see, Paid up and bad loans transition only to themselves. Hence, whatever path a process takes, if it lands up to one of these two states, it will stay there for ever. In other words, a bad loan cannot become paid up, risky or good loan ever after. Same is true with paid up loans.
Once, we have 1 year transition probability, we can convert prediction algorithm to simple matrix multiplication. Currently the portfolio has 60% Good and 40% Risky loans. We look forward to calculate, how many of these loans will be finally paid up in full? Using 1 year transition probability, we can estimate the number of loans falling into each of the four bucket 1 year down the line.
Here are some interesting insights from this calculation. We can expect 15% of the loans to be paid up in this year and 16% being ending up as bad loans. As the % of bad loans seem to be on a higher side, it will be beneficial to identify these loans and make adequate interventions. Pin pointing to these 15% is not possible using simple Markov chain, but same is possible using a Latent Markov model.
Now, to make a prediction for 2 years, we can use the same transition matrix. This time the initial proportions will the final proportions of last calculation. Transition probability generally do not change much. This is because, it is based on several time points in past.
If we keep on repeating this exercise, we see the proportion matrix converges. Following is the converged matrix. Note that, multiplying it with transition matrix makes no change to proportions.
These are the proportion numbers we were looking for. 54% of the current loans will be paid up in full but 46% will default. Hence doing this simple exercise lead us to such an important conclusion that the current portfolio exposes bank to a very high risk.
80% of such loans will default. Hence, our classification of Risky and Good separates out propensity to default pretty nicely.
In this article, we saw how Markov chain can be used to find out multiple insights and make good predictions on an overall level. There are many other processes which can be explained using Markov chain. In such cases, Markov chain algorithm will give you number of insights and will serve as a very handy forecasting tool. However, Markov chain can only make forecast on segment level and not make prediction on customer level. In case you need to make customer level forecast, you need a Latent Markov model and not a simple Markov model.
Did you find the article useful? Are you aware of any other real life Markov process? Can Markov chain be used in that process to bring out interesting insights? Did this article solve any of your existing problems? Have you used simple Markov chain in any other context ?
Thank you for sharing this. It's interesting and very useful. I have one clarification how do we get the "Final state transition matrix" 4×4 matrix?.
The case discussed in this article has a constant transition probability matrix. Do you can use the same matrix throughout.
I have recently enrolled for a course in BA and trying to grasp as much information as possible. This Markov Chain problem correlates with some of the current issues in my Organization. Waiting for your future publications.
Can you illustrate the problem you are referring to?
I work for a Facility Management Company and the biggest challenge for the company is to maintain the cash flow due to large no of client base and payments not coming in time . Trying to figure out how I can help them in this situation.
Thanks for your papers. they are very good for novices like me.
The converged matrix is found by multiplying the transition matrix many times to the the current state. This is basically the final proportion of state distribution. You are right the initial matrix will be [100 0 0 0]. Keep on multiplying the transition matrix to this matrix and you will get [0 0 23 76].
Could you please help me understand how transition matrix is obtained?
I want to know how probability of a good loan staying as a good loan( for the 1st iteration, here it is 70%) is obtained?
Do you hvae any ideas or you know the way how you can target the transition using IML?
i.e. in your first example, after matrix mutiplication outcome for Bad loans is 16%.
Insted of this, i want to target the bad% to suppose 20%…. by adjusting/shifting the Transition matrix.
Is it possible to do this in Proc IML?


The men who made "Elvira" a household name in 1981 are coming to The Arena in Corbin on November 23.
The Oak Ridge Boys, whose iconic hit went to number 1 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles Chart and peaked at number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart later that year will perform a combination Christmas and hits show.
"They play forever," said Arena Director Kristi Balla of the group featuring Duane Allen, Joe Bonsall, William Lee Golden and Richard Sterban.
"They do all of their hits. Then they do Christmas favorites," she said.
Balla said the Arena will be set up for a half-house, meaning a capacity of 3,800. Ticket prices will be $30 and $40 and will go on sale Friday at The Arena box office and Ticketmaster.
Balla said bringing the Oak Ridge Boys to Corbin has been something she has been working on for quite some time.
"A lot of people have mentioned bringing them," Balla said.
"They still sell out," Balla said of the group which has compiled 12 gold, three platinum and one double platinum album, one double platinum single, more than a dozen number one singles and more than 30 top ten hits.
In 1987, Golden left the band to pursue a solo career. He was replaced by Steve Sanders, who had been playing guitar in the group's band.
In late 1995, Sanders left the band and during a New Year's Eve show in Merrillville, Indiana, Allen, Bosnall and Sterban were rejoined on stage by Golden.
"I feel like I can do what I do on stage just as good now as I could 20 years ago," Bosnall said.
"The people who come out, who bring their families to see us, deserve everything I've got," he added.
In 2014, the group released, "Boys Night Out," a live recording featuring 14 of their hits.
Balla said while country music has proved successful for the venue, she continues to work on other genres and is bringing other events to The Arena.
Two announcements are forthcoming regarding other musical acts.
"They are totally different from the Oak Ridge Boys," Balla said explaining one is a classic rock act.
"We also have a really cool family event that has never been here before," she said.
In addition, Union College will play a regular season game at the venue against Indiana University – East, who is among the top teams in NAIA on December 10.
"The UC coach had brought his team up to the Arena to practice on our floor in preparation for an upcoming tournament back in December. I told the coach they should play a game up here and he agreed," Balla explained.


Introduction: Mogari is located one kilometer from Vallabh Vidyanagar railway station. One can also reach Mogari through bus from Anand.
Industries: Agriculture is the main occupation at Mogari. Tobacco constitutes good portion of total cultivation at the village. There are total 15 smal-big shops at the village that also has 8 tobacco processing units. It also has power house of Gujarat State Grid Electricity Board. There are three engineering workshops at the village.
Religious pieces: Village has Ramji Temple, Swaminarayan Temple for male-female, Paleshwar Temple, Varahi Mata Temple, Ambaji Mata Temple, 2 Baliya Dev Temple, 2 Bhathiji Temple and Kuldevi Temple of Brahmins.


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Now that Kayla is older and a very good reader, it has been more fun to read with her at night. I can hear the influence of our hours and hours of reading that we, along with others, poured into her. She can now read to us at night and even enjoys taking turns reading pages. She even does silly voices just like we would when we read to her.
Last night we read about four little animals that went down the road, over the bridge, across the green grass, and up the hill, two and two. Do you know the story?
What is your go to night time book? What is your child's favorite book?
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Previously unreleased recordings from 1968/1970 by British quintessential psychedelic/progressive band Mandrake Paddle Steamer/Mandrake, culled from the band's archive of reel tapes and acetates. Pure late '60s UK psychedelic sound with early prog moves, plenty of Hammond, and fuzzed-out guitar with powerful vocals... Including such lost gems as the Barrett-Floyd sounding "The World Whistles By", killer psych-rockers like "Pandemonium Shadow Show" or "Doris The Piper", the mellotron-fueled "October Country", and more. Unlike other '60s British bands who changed their music to "psychedelic" or "progressive" with the time, MPS were born "progressive" from day one. Formed in 1967 in Walthamstow, London by a core of art school students, their members were Brian Engel, Martin Briley, Paula Riordan, Martin Hooker, and Barry Nightingale (later replaced by David Potts). During their short lifespan (1967-1970), MPS supported big names like Pink Floyd, The Nice, or Vanilla Fudge. They played at the Isle Of Wight Festival, had a residence at the Star Club in Germany and ran their own club night (Asgard). Signed to the Parlophone label (though the band was aiming to be part of the more progressive Harvest imprint) they released in 1969 the "Strange Walking Man" 45, recorded at Abbey Road and now widely considered a lost British psychedelic classic (check Rubbles, Perfumed Garden (PAPRBOX 007CD), etc.) Due to lack of promotion and interest from their record label, the 45 went nowhere. After some line-up changes and shortening their name to just Mandrake, the band definitively split in 1970. Pandemonium Shadow Show collects studio recordings registered by Mandrake Paddle Steamer/Mandrake during 1968/1970 at various London studios such as Regent, Orange, and other unknown locations. Some of these tracks had been previously included on several bootleg albums with inferior sound quality, wrong titles, and others, have remained unreleased until now. Includes insert with detailed liner notes by band member Paula Riordan and rare photos/memorabilia; Includes download card.
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Let me start by saying that I did search these forums for an exact match to my issue, but did not find anything acceptable. First, let me be clear, this is a brand new iPad Mini w/Retina Display. It's replacing my wife's older iPad 3rd Gen device.


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Larsen & Toubro Limited, commonly known as L&T Limited is an Indian multinational conglomerate company headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. It was founded by two Danish engineers taking refuge in India. The company has business interests in heavy engineering, construction, realty, manufacturing of capital goods, information technology, and financial services. As at March 31, 2018, L&T Group comprises 93 subsidiaries, 8 associates, 34 joint-venture and 33 joint operations companies.
Larsen & Toubro originated from a company founded in 1938 in Mumbai by two Danish engineers, Henning Holck-Larsen and Søren Kristian Toubro. The company began as a representative of Danish manufacturers of dairy equipment. However, with the start of the Second World War in 1939 and the resulting restriction on imports, the partners started a small workshop to undertake jobs and provide service facilities. Germany's invasion of Denmark in 1940 stopped supplies of Danish products. The war-time need to repair and refit ships offered L&T an opportunity, and led to the formation of a new company, Hilda Ltd, to handle these operations. L&T also started to repair and fabricate ships signalling the expansion of the company. The sudden internment of German engineers in British India (due to suspicions caused by the Second World War), who were to put up a soda ash plant for the Tata's, gave L&T a chance to enter the field of installation.
In 1944, ECC was incorporated by the partners; the company at this time was focused on construction projects (Presently, ECC is the construction division of L&T). L&T began several foreign collaborations. By 1945, the company represented British manufacturers of equipment used to manufacture products such as hydrogenated oils, biscuits, soaps and glass. In 1945, the company signed an agreement with Caterpillar Tractor Company, USA, for marketing earth moving equipment. At the end of the war, large numbers of war-surplus Caterpillar equipments were available at attractive prices, but the finances required were beyond the capacity of the partners. This prompted them to raise additional equity capital, and on 7 February 1946, Larsen & Toubro Private Limited was incorporated.
After India's independence in 1947, L&T set up offices in Calcutta (now Kolkata), Madras (now Chennai) and New Delhi. In 1948, 55 acres of undeveloped marsh and jungle was acquired in Powai, Mumbai. A previously uninhabitable swamp subsequently became the site of its main manufacturing hub. In December 1950, L&T became a public company with a paid-up capital of ₹20 lakh (US$29,000). The sales turnover in that year was ₹1.09 crore (US$160,000). In 1956, a major part of the company's Mumbai office moved to ICI House in Ballard Estate, which would later be purchased by the company and renamed as L&T House, its present headquarters.
During the 1960s, ventures included UTMAL (set up in 1960), Audco India Limited (1961), Eutectic Welding Alloys (1962) and TENGL (1963). Largest Indian Engineering Service company.
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Unfunded pension schemes and intergenerational equity
In two earlier posts (here and here) I looked at issues involving debt and intergenerational equity. The second attracted a lot of interesting comments. Some had difficulty with the idea of debt as a burden, and I think one way to help here is to look at pension schemes. (I hope to return to other comments later.)
When I talk about intergenerational equity to students, I go through all the ways that the current generation is exploiting future generations, like climate change, rising house prices, and rising government debt. I also say that of course the older generation could just get the younger generation to pay them directly. I then reveal, to the surprise of some, that that is exactly what happens in many countries because these countries run unfunded pension schemes.
An unfunded scheme is where the working generation pays social security contributions, and that money goes straight into paying the pensions of the old, rather than buying some kind of asset (hence unfunded). When the scheme starts, the current old receive a windfall: a pension without having contributed anything. The young pay contributions, but then receive a pension when they get old from the new younger generation. So the older generation when the scheme starts are clearly winners, but are there any losers? The answer depends on two things.
The first is whether the scheme ever stops. If it stops, the young in the period beforehand are clear losers. They paid contributions (which went straight to the then old), but get nothing when they get old. Obviously the scheme is a huge burden on this 'final generation'. However if the scheme goes on forever, there is no last generation, so there is no loser on that account.
The second issue is whether those who are forced to save by contributing to the pension lose out because they could have done better saving for themselves. That in turn depends on whether the rate of interest (r) is greater than the rate of growth (g). Those who contribute to the pension scheme get back more than they put in because of economic growth. The income of the young as a whole will be higher either because of technical progress which raises income per head (assuming contributions are a fixed proportion of income), or because there are more of them which raises the number of heads. In either case the current young generation contributes more than the old did when they were young, so the old benefit from that extra money. However if they had saved themselves their return would be the rate of interest. So if r>g, each generation of young lose out a bit by being forced to save in a way that produces a return equal to g rather than r.
All that is happening here is that money is passing from one group to another, with the government acting as an intermediary. Society is 'paying itself'. But this statement says nothing about intergenerational equity. Suppose the scheme only lasted one period. Money passes from the young to the old, but it would be absurd to say that this implied that the young were not losing out.
Those who read this earlier post will see the parallel with the case of government debt. With pensions the young get an implicit promise that they will receive their money back with a return equal to g, whereas those that buy debt get an explicit note saying they will get their money back with some rate of interest r. The implicit/explicit thing is not crucial here – after all the government can default! The key difference is that, if people are to buy the debt voluntarily, they get a return equal to the return on other forms of saving (=r). If r>g, taxes have to rise to make up the difference between the two when debt is issued.
An unfunded pension scheme has the same macroeconomic costs that I discussed before in relation to government debt. In particular, if the young save at least part of their pension this way, they will save less in productive capital, and if the amount of capital in the economy as a whole is less than the optimal level, this will be an important cost. In addition, to the extent that the contributions act like an income tax, it can distort work effort.
Does this mean that an unfunded pension scheme is a bad idea? You can see why it might be introduced even if it was a bad idea – its introduction is great for the current old, so they will always vote for it. There are two potentially important benefits, if the alternative is funded private schemes. First, it takes away a lot of the uncertainty in funded schemes. If you buy your private pension when the stock market is high, and retire when it is low, you could lose out in a big way. You might also want insurance against labour income risk. (See, for example, this paper by David Miles.) Second, it provides a safety net for those who were misguided enough not to contribute to a private pension. (For a useful reference on pension issues, see Oxford Review of Economic Policy Vol 22, No1, Spring 2006.)
I think this nicely illustrates why intergenerational equity can never be the overriding concern when it comes to issues involving government debt or unfunded pension schemes. There are many other factors to consider that may be more important. If it was decided that the costs of unfunded pension schemes exceeded the benefits (or, more realistically, that the balance should move to funded schemes), then the generations involved in any transition would almost certainly lose out. They would become like the final generation in my discussion above. That issue of intergenerational equity should be important in any decision, but it should never be the only consideration.
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Alex 5 June 2012 at 16:51
What do you make of this:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/osbornes-latest-plan-ask-britains-savers-for-money-7818038.html
Looks like either:
1. Just another drop in the ocean/wheeze (like "credit easing")
2. Osborne has suddenly heard of this Keynes fellow and is trying to pretend he isn't uturning by giving the scheme a s*xy name ("growth bonds") and keeping everything off balance sheet PFI style (i.e. we already have "growth bonds - they're called "gilts")
Greg 5 June 2012 at 18:28
Readers who want concrete examples could look at Australia and New Zealand.
NZ introduced a funded pension scheme in 1974 and, on a change of government, promptly replaced it with an unfunded scheme, for exactly the reason Simon gave. In 2007 NZ belatedly started to move back towards funding superannuation, a policy which has again been diluted by a change of government.
Australia had various funded pension schemes in the 1970s, and progressively moved to consolidate and expand them.
Comparisons of savings rates, growth rates (a function of savings in this, the short-medium run) and real wages in the two countries since 1970 illustrate the theory nicely.
I find it helps to think of money as a "tool to mobilize and direct human effort." If I save for my old age, I trust that my savings will be sufficient to mobilize farmers, builders, caregivers, etc to do for me after retirement what I will not be able to do for myself.
Money is not the only tool for that purpose -- in a society where there is little money paid out to the largest fraction of the society, effort can instead be mobilized through pity, charisma, threats, shaming, fraud and theft, among others. But these are less useful, requiring continuous luck and effort, and cannot be cleanly stored like cash can.
However, in a society where cash has pooled in a small enough reservoir, two things happen -- you get inflation in the oasis and deflation in the surrounding desert and, if the pooling is severe enough, the cash ceases to be a universally accepted medium of exchange.
Are Americans at the oasis/desert point? We're certainly approaching it. Only the fact that people here cannot live off the land, cannot withdraw from the cash economy, prevents the development of a parallel society of people abdicating altogether. I wonder how long it might be till lay-monasteries and beguinages begin to pop up? A generation, I would guess -- in the USA the pattern doesn't yet exist to be adopted easily (I imagine the memory of hippie communes has a lot to do with that.)
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2slugbaits 6 June 2012 at 15:08
Your one period, two generations model suffers from a bad case of the Doctrine of Immaculate Conception. Old and young generations do not just spontaneously arrive on the scene with capital endowments. This is obvious when you move forward in time because we know there is not last generation. But it works the same going in the other direction. In the old days adults would have a bunch of kids, hope half of them lived to adulthood, they provided the young with human capital skills (e.g., how to pull a plow), and then eventually the young would inherit some shack of a home where mom & dad would live out their days to the ripe old age of 42. So it was the older generation that provided the capital endowment to young workers in exchange for support in their old age. A more efficient way to handle support for retirees is to take some of the higher returns from labor mobility and offer mom & dad a pension. More efficient still is to have the govt handle that pension. Looked at in this light it's actually the last generation that reaps the windfall because they can consume all of their capital.
Also, taking money out of a govt funded pension and diverting it to a private pension obviously increases risk, but less obviously it also lowers the return on the private pension and increases the return on the public pension.
- you are assuming government is simply transfering resources and that pensions adjust accordingly. However, the situation is more complex, with pensions adjusted slowly and therefore with room for not transfering all money, even in the medium term. This may help the government to build a better financial position, or in the converse case, to issue more debt. This should be considered as well. The assumption of full transfer seems to me very extreme.
- with the same quickness that you consider uncertainty in funded pension system, you should consider it for unfunfed pension system since incomes are also affected by the cycle (particulrly employment, as wages seems to be less cyclical). If you keep assuming that all money collected is transfered to old generation, then there will also be volatility in pensions. Very likely, risk insurance is easier to get for financial assets (of a funded scheme) than for wages or employment!
- funded schemes may also be compulsory, as it was since the beginning in Chile, first country to introduce it as a universal and unique system, in 1981. The problem however is that if a country has a very large informal market then people will not be on the scheme, linked to formal contracts (partly corrected with reforms in 00's by also adding a solidary pension for poor).
- funded schemes boost investment and the development of capital markets (provided good regulation), which is relevant for less developed countries. This may move the economy closer to the point of dynamic inefficiency, but still not on it, hence improving all generations.
- finally, is the issue of sustainability, key in european societies nowadays. It is politically inviable and welfare decreasing to keep unfunded schemes when g and n are so low, since that means pensions amount to decrease, and as you say, less optimal since r tend to be higher than both g and n (g+n?). And government debt or taxes cannot permanently be used to close the gap. There has to be another solution, in particularly considering that g or n will very likely not revert their tendencies in Europe.
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Company name changes happen all the time. In the unwired world, there are lots of cost associated with it: legal costs, informing customers & authorities, rebranding buildings, full page ads in newspapers and magazines and so on and so on. Today, however, I'll address a much ignored but important aspect of name changes: the Internet presence.
Once upon a time, in 1995, the University of Trondheim (UniT), Norway, was rebranded to Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). They immediately registered the domain name ntnu.no, and started setting up new sub-domain names (where there used to be stud.unit.no for students, stud.ntnu.no was introduced). None of this is revolutionary. What they did very right however, and this applies particularly in the academic world of long publication times and so on, was that they maintained all old email addresses and websites on the old domain names for many many years (as far as I can gather; my old stud.unit.no- address was available at least 5 years after the name change, and mail to it is still bouncing with a "please use ...@stud.ntnu.no-message).
In the consulting world, many of the giant actors have been rebranded recently. Andersen Consulting (AC) became Accenture, PwC Consulting was rebranded to Monday and then bought by IBM. Such rebranding operations are not undertaken easily, but what surprised me in the first case was that if you now try to access the old URL www.ac.com, there's nothing there - not a page informing about the name change, no redirect, nothing... If you try to email people @ac.com, your mail will bounce. They only maintained email addresses on the old domain for a few months; bouncing automatic "our company name has changed"-messages to anyone emailing to them. Now, there may be legal limitations I'm not aware of in this particular case, but in general I'm much more in favour of the NTNU option described above: "backwards compatibility" for a loong time!
First and foremost: your old website needs to link to your new webpage one way or the other if you want search engines to find you!
Good: Redirect from old URL to the new URL. Note! Redirect is absolutely not the same as putting a blank webpage up with a <META> Refresh tag. If you can't set up a proper redirect (HTTP error code 301, also known as "Permanent Redirect"), go for the "HTML page with a link"-solution.
Medium / OK-solution: Just a webpage displaying the new URL, and linking using a traditional <A HREF="..."> link. This option will maintain the majority of the "Googlejuice" of the former URL, but the old page will by default have a better Google PageRank than the new page. By informing new and old customers of the new URL, links and booksmarks should change over some time and one should notice less and less traffic on the old URL and more on the new URL.
Secondly, make sure emails to old addresses are forwarded for the forseeable future. This can be done easily using aliases in your mailserver. It is also reasonably simple to configure an automatic bounce-message. Keep delivering the emails even while autoresponding - at least for a while!
if you have to remove content or move content around on the same server; leave a way for the user (and the SEs) to catch up!
In this article, I haven't addressed other relevant topics, like search engine submissions, directory submissions etc. These are obviously also important to keep in mind, but by choosing the redirect option mentioned above, many search engines will already find you automatically, and you will retain users who just remember your old URL!
redirecting a large site with .htaccess - a lot of technical details on redirecting & keeping Google "PageRank"
Additions? Comments? Corrections? Disagreements? Experiences? Examples? Write a comment!
Anders, I'm going out on a bit of a limb here, but are you by any chance the Anders Jacobsen that went to Ottershaw School?
"Redirecting url's with apache server. I got a tip from Andersja about redirecting my blog within apache. Not with php"
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                    if (e instanceof ParseError) {
                        result.pass = true;
                        result.message = "'" + actual + "' correctly " +
                            "didn't parse with error: " + e.message;
                    } else {
                        result.message = "'" + actual + "' failed " +
                            "parsing with unknown error: " + e.message;
                    }
                }

                return result;
            },
        });
    });

    it("should parse Latin-1 inside \\text{}", function() {
        expect('\\text{ÀàÇçÉéÏïÖöÛû}').toParse();
    });

    it("should parse Latin-1 outside \\text{}", function() {
        expect('ÀàÇçÉéÏïÖöÛû').toParse();
    });

    it("should parse Cyrillic inside \\text{}", function() {
        expect('\\text{БГДЖЗЙЛФЦШЫЮЯ}').toParse();
    });

    // it("should not parse Cyrillic outside \\text{}", function() {
    //     expect('БГДЖЗЙЛФЦШЫЮЯ').toNotParse();
    // });

    it("should parse CJK inside \\text{}", function() {
        expect('\\text{私はバナナです}').toParse();
        expect('\\text{여보세요}').toParse();
    });

    it("should not parse CJK outside \\text{}", function() {
        expect('私はバナナです。').toNotParse();
        expect('여보세요').toNotParse();
    });
});

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Elizabeth Peters
"That's maturity — when you realize that you've finally arrived at a state of ignorance as profound as that of your parents."
Elizabeth Peters,
The Night of Four Hundred Rabbits
"Giving other people advice is one of the most irritating and useless activities known to man."
Devil May Care
"... a church ought to express the joy of religion as well as its majesty."
Street of the Five Moons
"Most men are reasonably useful in a crisis. The difficulty lies in convincing them that the situation has reached a critical point."
Curse of the Pharaohs
"... dogs ... can be made to feel guilty about anything, including the sins of their owners. Cats refuse to take the blame for anything — including their own sins. "
Trojan Gold
"In Jacqueline's experience, charming out-of-the-way restaurants were frequently attached to out-of-the-way motels."
Naked Once More
"There is nothing sadder than the cheerful letters of the dead, expressing hopes that were never fulfilled, ambitions that were never achieved, dreams cut off before they could come to fruition."
"A writer didn't need 'an' idea for a book; she needed at least forty. And 'get' was the wrong word, implying that you received an idea as you would a gift. You didn't get ideas. You smelled them out, tracked them down, wrestled them into submission; you pursued them with forks and hope, and if you were lucky enough to catch one you impaled it, with the forks, before the sneaky little devil could get away."
"It was hate at first sight, clean, pure and strong as grain alcohol."
"Exaggeration is the cheapest form of humor."
"To argue without knowledge is like trying to weave without thread."
"The Locked Tomb Mystery," in Marilyn Wallace, ed., Sisters in Crime ( 1989 )
"The way to get on with a cat is to treat it as an equal — or even better, as the superior it knows itself to be."
The Snake, the Crocodile and the Dog
"Children, I feel, are as much entitled to privacy as human beings."
"No woman really wants a man to carry her off, she only wants him to want to do it."
"The approval of a cat cannot but flatter the recipient."
"Marriage should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries."
"When one is striding bravely into the future, one cannot watch one's footing."
"Martyrdom is often the result of excessive gullibility."
"Superstition has its practical uses."
"It is easier to counterfeit old age than youth."
"Loving someone condemns you to a lifetime of fear. You become painfully conscious of how fragile people are — bundles of brittle bones and vulnerable flesh, breeding grounds for billions of deadly germs and horrible diseases."
Night Train to Memphis
"The trouble with unknown enemies is that they are so hard to identify."
The Hippopotamus Pool
"Humor is an excellent method of keeping a tight rein on unproductive displays of emotion."
"Husbands do not care to be contradicted. Indeed, I do not know anyone who does."
Seeing a Large Cat
"Nothing looks as self-satisfied as a contented cat."
"If someone lies down and invites you to trample upon him, you are a remarkable individual if you decline the invitation."
"A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young."
"A man asking for help ought to at least give directions."
"People who relate what they believe to be new and startling information like to have such information received with exclamations of astonishment and admiration."
The Ape Who Guards the Balance
"It may take us a little longer to reach the summit, but never fear, we will get there!"
"... kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake."
The Falcon at the Portal
"Karl accepted, of course. Poor lonely chap, he would have accepted an invitation to a hanging if he could be with us."
"... there is nothing like a garden to rest the soul."
"... stereotypes are awfully misleading. There are typical librarians, but not all librarians are typical."
The Seventh Sinner
"When emotion supersedes reason ... gullibility must follow."
A River in the Sky
"I never meant to marry. In my opinion, a woman born in the last half of the nineteenth century of the Christian era suffered from enough disadvantages without willfully embracing another."
The Mummy Case
Elizabeth Peters, U.S. Egyptologist, novelist
Real name: Barbara Louise Gross Mertz. She also wrote, equally successfully, as Barbara Michaels.


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We will communicate with you regularly to review feedback and evaluate any changes in condition or pricing that might be necessary.
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With all of these items in place the Buyer will receive Loan Commitment. All of the documents and figures will be prepared by the lender and the title company for the closing.
I will assist you with closing day details.
The Buyer and their agent will do their final walk-through within 48 hours of closing.
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Reminder: Take any OVI or other charge related to drugs and alcohol seriously. Penalties often include jail time or house arrest and lengthy driver's license suspensions. Seek advice and representation from a Franklin County OVI attorney if you are facing such legal consequences.
Ohio's OVI law specifies that a person can only be charged for allegedly driving under the influence if he or she is operating a vehicle. This means that a passenger cannot face a drunk or drugged driving charge unless that person takes control of the vehicle for some reason. For instance, if a driver passes out and the front-seat passenger grabs the steering wheel, the person not in the driver's seat could face an OVI charge. But, even in such a scenario, the person who was initially a passenger would have become the actual driver by virtue of controlling the steering wheel.
Passengers also need to understand that when their vehicle gets stopped, they can be cited and possibly arrested for any number of alleged offenses ranging from disorderly conduct and having an open container of alcohol to drug possession and weapons violations.
Yes, a bike rider can be cited for OVI.
Ohio police and state troopers enforce a law called "physical control." The relevant statute makes it illegal to sit in the driver's seat of a vehicle while you are intoxicated and in possession of the keys. The vehicle can be parked or stopped by the side of the road, and penalties can be as harsh as 180 days in jail, a $1,000 fine, and a license suspension.
To speak with DUI attorney in Franklin County, call The Maher Law Firm at (614) 205-2208 or contact this by filling out this online contact form.


You'll appreciate its safety and convenience features! Ford prioritized practicality, efficiency, and style by including: front bucket seats, heated door mirrors, and remote keyless entry. It features four-wheel drive capabilities, a durable automatic transmission, and a 3.5 liter 6 cylinder engine.


Successful navigation to the train station, and a wink from the ticket seller indicates that my terrible Italian, was indeed terrible. Stamped the ticket and jumped on a train.
Journeying along the coast; blue skies and little villages adorn the railside. Most houses have roof terraces- a different way of life.
Arrive into Campofelice- 2 stops before Cefalu, only 5 mins behind schedule, and then no more. The train has 'cracked' the man tells us next to him.
We had a brief conversation, but failed to really decode what he was telling us about the 'Wind' book..
The announcements supposedly inform us of how much doom we're in for, except the locals talk over the English translations.
30 minutes later and the train starts trucking again, and we shortly later arrive in Cefalu.
A meander up a street, and we accident upon the cathedral. Again, not terribly inspiring, but some serious Jesus-love located down the far end (the bit with the pews in is decidedly bland..).
Green cake and coffee later, and we moseyed on to the sea front, and basked in the toasting sunlight.
Cefalu Coast - Locks attached to the walkway. Not sure quite why.
Some wandering in the gloomy (and chilly!) alleyways lead us to a pizzeria, and an order for 'tea' resulted in lemon tea.. Regular tea is always a bizarre concept..
Looking quizzically at the menu for Al Vicoletto, and a lovely wee Italian lady persuaded us in.. Glad we did! No mass produced toruist food here, genuine fists of ham in my pizza (Calzone).
Pottered out of the cafe, glad not to have been 'offed' by the Mafia, and trundle off to find out what this 'diana' thing was.
Turns out it's a ruin at the top of some steep stairs, guarded by a grey haired angry man, compiling statistics on where all of his (20, it seemed) visitors had come from that day. The ruins were largely ruins, and there were some novelty holes in the mountain, which echoed a treat.
Skipping Down the hill 10 minutes later than the angry grey haired man had specified, we trundled on back to the train station and awaited put train. Remembering ofcourse to stamp our ticket..
Departing only 10 minutes late, the train departed.
Siesta time followed, as we were exceptionally tired from much unexpected sun exposure. Not wanting to fulfil out tourist duties of finding a restaurant, we pottered the city, hunting for a supermarket and had a tea of breadsticks and Philadelphia.
The first entry for my trip to Sicily, Feburary 2011, in which much wandering of Palermo Occurs, and it turns out it's the Chinese New Year.


The ask for permission function motivates the viewers to contact you, but it excludes those who are just lurking around.
Permissions are useful when you'd like to follow new views, or when we want to know more about the viewer. Although it slows down the viewing processes, it keeps them more transparent. Permissions hold great possibilities, but ut us time-consuming to make contact with everyone.
You can set two types of persmission: asking for permission by phone and via Facebook automatically.
The tour sould be set in one of the restricted modes (preview or hidden view), which can be unlocked with a 4 digit number. This can be set by the advertiser who can also modify it later on when signed in. This unlock is suitable for those who are constantly on the move and mostly accessible vie telephone. In this case after making contact the number should be simply disclosed via phone, and then the tour can be unlocked with it. Of this won't unlock the preset private locations.
In the restricted tour, the viewer gets a notification that he/she must call the seller and ask for the access code. During the phone call, contact is made and the access code is told, with which the tour can be unlocked. It is recommended for the sellers to change the code at times. The given codes belong to the user, so if he/she handle more properties at one time, all of those can be opened and modified.
The access code of the lock screen can be requested most quickly from the advertiser.
Besides or instead of asking for the code via phone, you can change the settings the way that the visitor could unlock the tour with his/her personal Facebook profile. This time the system sends a notification to the advertiser about the unlock, and it also sends the link of the Facebook profile of the person who unlocked the tour. The visitor also knows about it, of course, and in this regard he/she asks for the unlock. In this way, it is expectable that the advertiser will contact the viewer for further inquiry and to provide help.
You get information about the unlocks in the advertiser email.
Before the unlocks, the tour should be restriceted. This have two ways: Preview mode and Hidden mode.
The preview mode, as its name suggets, provides a preview of the property. The tour loads, you can look around, but we cannot move away from the point where we stand without unlock. This type of restriction makes the viewers realize the opportunity and encourages them to ask for permission to be able to move forward.
In preview mode, you can only move from the starting point when you've got the permission.
In this mode you don't even have a preview, only a black screen. The drawback of this setting is that it's not sure it will raise the interest as much as the preview mode, so there will be less phone calls about the unlocking. There is a more restricted mode than this one, the offline mode, when the tour cannot be uploaded to the internet, not even in hidden mode. In this case, the tour can be seen only on data disks, computers or cellphones.
In case of a private person, it is determinant what type of person he/she is. Whether he/she likes to communicate or he/she rather lets the tour to do its own business and get to the buyer prospects.
Az In case of real estate agents, over a certain number of clients and properties, preview mode can be counter-productive. Simply there is no time to handle the viewers one by one. In this case, the property tour fitlers out the viewers and conveys automatically the potential buyers prospects.
It is worth to mention that if the viewers have already seen the property in person as well, there is no point of hide the property anymore. In such case there is no use of keeping the viewer back from decision-making. The viewers can get a confidential link with time limit, through which they can see the whole property tour for 3 days, the same way as the restrictions used in the advertisements were unlocked.
It is recommended to send the confidential links to the colleagues working in the team to make them able to unlock the private locations to skip the unnecessary process of asking for permissions.


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After a more than one-month-long (and seemingly healthy) break from social media and content creation, Twitch star Imane "Pokimane" Anys has returned to uploading content. But things will be different now. Pokimane dropped a new YouTube video today detailing her time away from the internet, talking about what she…
Game Dev Uses Steam To Yell About Keffals And Be Transphobic For Some Reason
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What Your Witcher 3 Romance Says About You: Brutal Callout Post Edition
CD Projekt Red's port of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt to the Nintendo Switch back in 2019 not only gave fans the opportunity to play as Geralt of Rivia on the go, but, more importantly, to take their virtual romantic partners along with them.
Shadow Of The Tomb Raider (And More) Is Free On PC Right Now
As sure as the next sunset, there will be more free games from Epic. This time, you can grab the decent Shadow of the Tomb Raider, a former Stadia exclusive sequel, and some goodies in EA's free-to-play dodgeball game Knockout City for the low, low price of absolutely nothing at all.
Pokémon Company Sues Six Chinese Companies, Wants Them To Apologize For Making Millions Off Similar Game
The Pokémon Company has filed a lawsuit against six Chinese companies over a mobile game for "copyright infringement and unfair competition behavior." It is claiming over $72 million in damages and demanding public apologies on major social media platforms, gaming websites, and app stores. The proposed apology tour…
Your Next Game Pass Obsession Is A Great Pikmin-Like
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Ubisoft Officially Reveals Assassin's Creed Mirage After Protagonist Leaks
A bit of artwork from the long-rumored Assassin's Creed Mirage appeared to leak last night. Then this morning, Ubisoft finally confirmed that the game is real, maybe earlier than it had intended to make the official reveal. It's quite a leaky ship over there.
Halo Infinite Fans Upset As Local Co-op Canceled, Next Season Delayed
Fans of Halo Infinite have spent the past few days deliriously anticipating the game's next roadmap, hoping it'd outline salvation for the floundering multiplayer shooter. Today, 343 Industries unveiled its plans: a wave of delays, a handful of imminent updates, a promised feature canceled. Needless to say, fans are…
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Halo Infinite local co-op is cancelled, and Season 3 is delayed
Despite a 2017 pledge never to skip split-screen co-op in another Halo game, 343 Industries announced today that the feature has been scrapped from the Halo Infinite roadmap. In an update video, developers said Halo Infinite local co-op resources have been redirected to other areas in need of improvement, particularly the FPS game's live service component - which itself is seeing Season 3 delayed to March 2023.
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Mysterious FPS Project Slingshot has a cheese gun, and a closed alpha
If there's one thing that goes great with a hot FPS game, it's cheese. At least, that's the sense you get from this cryptic teaser trailer for Project Slingshot, the codename for a new multiplayer game that's in the works from C77, which itself is a newly formed studio that includes some FPS veterans from 343 Industries and Bungie. C77 is looking for alpha testers, and you can sign up for a chance to fire a cheese gun right now.
Tempest Rising devs hope that EA "gets off its ass" for a new C&C game
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Multiple members of the Tempest Rising development team have a long history with Command and Conquer - between them, there are credits on the likes of C&C fansite CNCNZ.com, one of the biggest C&C community sites since the late '90s, along with the C&C wiki and in-depth RTS blog Wayward Strategy (run by Tempest Rising's lead designer Brandon Casteel). Safe to say, then, that they're fans of the series - but they've been left wanting after a decade without any new C&C releases save for mobile spin-off Command and Conquer: Rivals.
Asked about the similarities to EA's series, the response is one of hope: "To be honest, if this means that EA will - forgive my French - get off its ass and make a new Command & Conquer game as it should be made, I'm down for it." Tempest Rising's closer camera angles give the game a more personal feel, however, perhaps more Warcraft 3 than C&C. Given how closely a lot of the game hews to EA's classic series, this feels like a deliberate choice. There's even a population cap - although developer Mateo Vekovic assures us that you'll never need to hit it.
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Valorant Cypher mains imagine reworked ultimate
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WW2 RTS Men of War 2 delayed to 2023 due to war in Ukraine
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Warzone loadout prices could drop, as Call of Duty hosts player vote
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Nvidia RTX 4000 GPUs could be pushed back till after halloween
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Assassin's Creed next game confirmed as Valhalla spin-off Mirage
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Dead by Daylight killers tier list: all 28 deadly characters ranked
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The joy of an asymmetrical horror game has always been the ability to be the bad guy. While there's certainly something thrilling about putting yourself in the shoes of a survivor (there must be a reason we all wonder how we'd do in a zombie apocalypse, right?), nothing gets the heart racing like shirking the lawful-good responsibilities of real life and taking on the role of a blood-thirsty killer. Every one of the following DBD killers has their own terrifying unique power, from ranged axe throws, to infectious bile and close-range chainsaw attacks. But which is best? Find out with our Dead by Daylight killers tier list.
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Best Saints Row easter eggs and where to find them
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Free Steam keys: win a character and skin bundle for Eternal Return
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Check back here regularly to find our latest giveaways - including full games, exclusive preview access, physical special editions, and even event tickets. You can enter once, or multiple times using the various options in each competition. If you happen to be the forgetful type, why not sign up to the PCGamesN newsletter? We'll email you once a week with our latest offerings, plus all the biggest news and deals across PC games and hardware.
If you're gaming on a budget then you might also want to have a look at our list of the best free PC games, and possibly the best free Steam games, too, if you just can't tear yourself away from Valve's fair platform.
Trivium's Matt Heafy on Metal Hellsinger: "metal needs to be in games"
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Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed Thursday, September 1, 2022 3:16 PM
A boat-load of Blue Microphones are discounted in the UK
There are a ton of Blue Microphones on sale at Amazon UK at the moment, as part of their 'gaming week' promotion. As well as the Yeti and Snowball USB microphones that are most likely to be familiar to you, there's also a rare 42% discount on the Blue Blackout Spark XLR mic - nice.
However, the microphones I'd like to focus on today are those popular options, specifically the Blue Snowball Ice and the Blue Yeti X. These represent the top and the bottom of the Blue spectrum when it comes to gaming-friendly USB mics.
Get 32GB of DDR5-6000 and a 2TB PCIe 4.0 SSD for £235 at CCL
Did you know you can get a 32GB kit of 6000MT/s DDR5 RAM and a 2TB NVMe PCIe 4.0 SSD for £235 at CCL? That's an awesome deal on a normally £500 bundle that gives you some of the most critical components for a new high-spec Intel 12th-gen system.
To get the deal, follow the link below to the TeamGroup Delta DDR5-6000 RAM. Add this to your cart, and you'll see that the TeamGroup Cardea Z44Q 2TB NVMe SSD is added for free as well. To reduce the price further, use code AFF15 at the checkout.
This Twitter bot tours Half-Life skyboxes to brighten up your timeline
The second-best way to make Twitter palatable (after simply unfollowing sources of bad tweets) is to follow a load of curated and bot accounts which trickle niceness into your timeline. Today I'd like to suggest adding Skybox Satellite, a Twitter account which shows glimpses of the skies wrapped around maps in GoldSrc games like Half-Life and Counter-Strike. It's sometimes pretty, sometimes nostalgic, and sometimes impressive.
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Microsoft Flight Simulator Pilatus PC-12, Cessna 172 Classic Enhancement, Istanbul & Saga Airports Released; Analog King Air Overhaul Gets New Video
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Today's Wordle: Hint & Answer (September 2)
A Wordle a day keeps the... word doctor away?
Ninja Changes Twitter Name & Announces He's Taking a Break
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Square Enix TGS 2022 Website and Schedule is Now Live
Square Enix has opened a special website for its TGS 2022 schedule and lineup. The publisher will be showcasing new and upcoming games such as Crisis Core Final Fantasy VII Reunion, Forspoken, and Romancing Saga, among others. Furthermore, the in-person booth will allow players to get some first-hand experience with these titles before they release. For those unable to attend, Square Enix will also be hosting live broadcasts over the course of the four-day event.
Tokyo Game Show 2022 will be held from September 15 to 18, 2022, at the Makuhari Messe in Tokyo, Japan. Square Enix plans to host both a physical booth as well as live streams during the event period. These broadcasts will showcase games including Star Ocean 6, Valkyrie Elysium, Harvestella, The DioField Chronicle, Dragon Quest The Adventure of Dai, Nier: Automata EOY Edition, and Tactics Ogre: Reborn.
The live streams will also feature prominent developers and guests, as well as the return of popular segments such as FFXIV producer Naoki Yoshida's A Stroll with Yoshi-P. Some of these segments will be pre-recorded, and others will only be available with Japanese audio. Fans can follow the streams via Twitch, YouTube, and Nico Nico, with YouTube being the only platform with official English support.
You can check out the full Square Enix TGS 2022 Schedule below (all times are listed in JST):
19:00~ Square Enix Music (Pre-Recorded)
20:00~ Star Ocean Program TGS2022 Special (Pre-Recorded)
17:00~ Square Enix Trailer Lineup
18:00~ Let's Play Games on PC! (Pre-Recorded)
19:00~ SaGa Series TGS2022 Special Livestream
21:00~ Square Enix TGS2022 Merch Showcase (Pre-Recorded)
16:15~ Octopath Traveler: Champions of the Continent Music Concert Video (Pre-Recorded)
18:30~ Valkyrie Elysium and Harvestella Special Livestream
19:45~ The DioField Chronicle - Special Pre-Release (Pre-Recorded)
21:00~ Power Wash Simulator! Dive Into an Hour of Power-Washing Relaxation at TGS 2022!
11:45~ FF Trading Card Game: Beginner's Hall at TGS2022 (Pre-Recorded)
12:45~ Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai Game Project Special Program
14:30~ Nintendo Switch "NieR:Automata EOY Edition" coming soon! Let's ask Mr. Taura of PlatinumGames about his passion for creating action games! (Pre-Recorded)
15:30~ Tactics Ogre: Reborn TGS2022 Livestream
17:00~ Final Fantasy XIV - A Stroll with Yoshi-P at Tokyo Game Show 2022
TGS 2022 will take place from September 15-18, 2022, in Tokyo, Japan. In addition to a physical booth, Square Enix will host streams of its content throughout the duration of the event.
The post Square Enix TGS 2022 Website and Schedule is Now Live appeared first on Siliconera.
River City Girls Zero Will Raid PlayStation, Xbox, and PC This September
River City Girls Zero will appear on more platforms. Arc System Works has published a Japanese website for the game, which will be known in the country as Shin Nekketsu Kouha: Kunio-tachi no Banka -with River City Girls Extra-. The Japanese Switch release, along with the PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, and PC versions, will appear digitally on September 22, 2022.
Japanese and English subtitles and voiceovers will appear in all builds by default. The additional subtitles on the Switch and PlayStation platforms will depend on the user's region. The Japanese and Asian versions will include Korean, Traditional Chinese, and Simplified Chinese. The Western releases will instead feature French, Italian, German, and Spanish. The Xbox and PC versions will be a universal build containing all of the aforementioned languages.
Arc System Works has also uploaded a new Japanese trailer for River City Girls Zero:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCknKQVinK4
River City Girls Zero is an enhanced port of the 1994 Japan-exclusive Super Famicom (SNES) game, Shin Nekketsu Kouha: Kunio-tachi no Banka. WayForward first revealed the title at Limited Run Games' live stream in mid-June 2021, with the same year as its initial release window. However, it later delayed the game's release to 2022.
WayForward eventually released the game on Nintendo Switch first on February 14, 2022. But despite including Japanese language support, the game never actually appeared on the Japanese Nintendo eShop prior to today's announcement by Arc System Works.
River City Girls Zero is currently available for the Nintendo Switch in the West. The Japanese version, along with the global releases for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, and PC via Steam, will appear on September 22, 2022.
The post River City Girls Zero Will Raid PlayStation, Xbox, and PC This September appeared first on Siliconera.
Siliconera Thursday, September 1, 2022 12:00 PM
Persona 5 the Stage #4 Final Will Complete the Original Story
Atlus has updated the Persona 5 stage play website with details about the upcoming fourth part, which it also marked as the last one. The company will hold Persona 5 the Stage #4 Final in late October, with six performances scheduled for four consecutive days.
When the first stage play appeared in December 2019, it only covered the first few hours of the game's storyline that takes place at Shujin High School. However, successive shows would continue the storyline as the series aims to complete the whole story. The second part in December 2020 went through the third arc in the game's story. The third iteration in December 2021 covered the fourth and fifth arcs starring Futaba Sakura and Haru Okumura, respectively.
As the title indicates, the upcoming fourth and final part will depict the climactic arcs of Persona 5. However, the original 2016 RPG title serves as the basis for this stage play series. As such, it will not include characters who debuted in the enhanced Persona 5 Royal and the direct sequel Persona 5 Strikers.
The webpage also revealed the cast list for Persona 5 the Stage #4 Final. Most of the actors who performed in prior chapters will return in this finale. The only exception is Yuki Mishima, who was portrayed by Taishu Nukanobu in the first two parts and Shougo Tamura in the third iteration.
The Protagonist "Joker" - Hiroki Ino
Ryuji "Skull" Sakamoto - Kouhei Shiota
Ann "Panther" Takamaki - Yuki Odera
Yusuke "Fox" Kitagawa - Kouji Kominami
Makoto "Queen" Niijima - Akari Ishizuka
Futaba "Navi/Oracle" Sakura - Mei Fukuda
Haru "Noir" Okumura - Riko Sugahara
Goro "Crow" Akechi - Yoshihide Sasaki
Morgana "Mona" (voice) - Ikue Otani
Yuki Mishima - Takuto Nakajima
Sae Niijima - Kaoru Marimura
Masayoshi Shido - Tyson Ohya
Public ticket sales for the stage show will open on September 3, 2022. A ticket will cost 12,800 yen (~$92). All ticket owners will be able to choose their seat locations and receive a special CD containing fourteen songs performed by the main actors.
Persona 5 the Stage #4 Final will appear at KT Zepp Yokohama on October 20-23, 2022.
The post Persona 5 the Stage #4 Final Will Complete the Original Story appeared first on Siliconera.
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Q: how to delete blob element from a table in sqlite android? I am sending bytearray to insert an blob element it is inserting as png image it is working.But i want to delete blob element for these i am sending bytearray to column but it not deleting.
public void deleteImage(Byte[] bytearray)
 {
  try{
   database.execSQL("DELETE FROM deleteImage "+" where image='"+bytearray+"';");
  }
  catch(Exception e){
   e.toString();
  }
  }

A: you can try this one
  database.execSQL("DELETE FROM deleteImage WHERE image=\""+bytearray+"\" ;")

or

mDb.delete(deleteImage,"image=\""+bytearray+"\"", null);

mDb.delete(deleteImage,"image = '"+bytearray+"'", null);

A: I had the same problem as you. I managed to find solution for querying with blob in the where clause, but not for delete. So at the end my solution was first to query the row(s) that I want to delete and than use the row ID to delete it. Here is the code sample. I assume that you have column named ImageId as primary key of type int.
    public Cursor queryImage(final byte[] data, String[] columns) {
    return getReadableDatabase().queryWithFactory(
            new CursorFactory() {

                @Override
                public Cursor newCursor(SQLiteDatabase db, SQLiteCursorDriver masterQuery, String editTable, SQLiteQuery query) {
                    query.bindBlob(1, data);
                    return new SQLiteCursor(db, masterQuery, editTable, query);
                }
            },
            false,
            "FavoriteData",
            columns,
            "Image = ?", null, null, null, null, null);
}

public void favoriteDelete(byte[] byteArray){
    Cursor cursor = queryImage(byteArray, new String[]{"ImageId"});
    while (cursor.moveToNext()) {
        getReadableDatabase().delete("FavoriteData",
                "ImageId" + "= ?",
                new String[] { String.valueOf(cursor.getInt(0))});
    }
}

If somebody has better solution, I will be interested too. Anyway if you have any way to avoid using Blob to query it will be better, cause it is not so efficient. You can try with identifying the images somehow, for example using the image data hash for searching.

A: Try this one (It works for me):
UUID is stored as BLOB
db.execSQL("DELETE FROM "+DBHelper.USER_TABLE+" WHERE "+DBHelper.USER_UUID+"=?",
            new Object [] { uuidToByteArray(user.getUuid()) }

Documentation: SQLiteDatabase execSQL.
According to documentation, byte[], String, Long and Double are supported in bindArgs. However, it is not recommended to use this method for executing SELECT/INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE statements. I don't know why.
public void execSQL (String sql, Object[] bindArgs)

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Vestas closes last US R&D facility
1 November 2012 by James Quilter
UNITED STATES: Vestas has continued cutting its US operations with the closure of a research and development facility in Louisville, Colorado.
Vestas has closed its last US R&D plant
Louisville is the third and last of Vestas' US R&D centres. Previously, Vestas had said it would consolidate all three in its Brighton, Colorado, blade plant. However, this plan has been cancelled.
The closure will result in 60 job cuts. Other plants have already been terminated at Houston, Texas, and Marlborough, Massachusetts.
The closures are part of the company's restructuring as a result of the expiry of the production tax credit (PTC). In a statement the company said it was aiming to reduce its global R&D costs. It has also closed offices in Singapore and China and reduced its R&D headcount by 20%.
The turbine manufacturer said: "Vestas has adopted a flexible business strategy during a period of changing market dynamics in the wind industry. Vestas will continue to scale up or down depending on business needs and market demands."
The Louisville facility was only opened in 2010. At the time Vestas said it had chosen Louisville as it was central to its other three manufacturing plants in the state. These are located in Brighton (gearboxes), Pueblo (towers) and Windsor (blades).
This year, Vestas has made around 90 job cuts at its Pueblo, Colorado, tower plant and announced 80 job losses at its Brighton blade and nacelle manufacturing plant, also in Colorado.
However, the company forecast this number would rise to 1,600 if the PTC was not renewed. It has predicted an 80% fall in demand in the US market.
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Q: Make the angle of box italic rounded using css only How to make the angle of box italic rounded similar the blue box in this image:

can do that using CSS only? [no-canvas]

body {background-color: #eee}

#name {
  width: 300px;
  height: 40px;
  font-size: 30px;
  display: flex;
  justify-content: center;
  align-items: center;
  /* - - - - - - - - - - - */
  border: 3px solid #3498db;
  border-radius: 0 8px 8px 0;
}

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A: You can use the css property transform: skew
I also added a span inside your div so that the text is not in italic.

body {background-color: #eee}

#name {
  width: 300px;
  height: 40px;
  font-size: 30px;
  display: flex;
  justify-content: center;
  align-items: center;
  transform: skew(-30deg);
  /* - - - - - - - - - - - */
  border: 3px solid #3498db;
  border-radius: 0 8px 0 8px;
}
#name>span {
  transform: skew(30deg);
}

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If you want the left border to stay straight, you can try this :

body {background-color: #eee}

#container {
  border-left: 3px solid #3498db;
  overflow: hidden;
}

#name {
  width: 300px;
  height: 40px;
  font-size: 30px;
  display: flex;
  justify-content: center;
  align-items: center;
  transform: skew(-30deg);
  /* - - - - - - - - - - - */
  border: 3px solid #3498db;
  border-radius: 0 8px 0 8px;
}
#name>span {
  transform: skew(30deg);
}

Something


Music that cheers….and Star Trek | What is Freedom?
Anyway, listening to all this orchestral music started me thinking back to High School, where I was really quite musical, I played the trombone , the drums and the carillon (church bells set to levers instead of ropes so you can play tunes on them, there aren't many working Carillons in the UK, let alone Scotland, I was quite lucky to be at a Church with a working set). I played in the brass band, orchestra, drums for the woodwind group, the local Wind band and 'sang' in the choir (I was also in various school shows). I loved being a part of the musical side of things at high school. i'm not very good at expressing feelings, thoughts, emotions. But music has always had a resonance with me that helps me to think more calmly or express ho I'm feeling. I'm sure many of you have had similar experiences with music. I do miss playing regularly, especially my trombone, something I'd like to pick up on again at somepoint.
….I think i'm going to be on an orchestral music kick for the next few weeks, away goes the rock, rap and hip hop, out comes the Jerry Goldsmith and the like!
Here are youtube version clips of my 2 favourite Star Trek themes, they are my favourite orchestral pieces after all!!
Loving all the music chat … you should get back in to that! I'm really enjoying being in a local musical, takes me back to my musical roots!
Hey! I'll get you Murray!
I'd love to get back into it all, just a matter of time and opportunity!