Asterisk

Speaking to reporters today ahead of the NBA season restarting in Orlando, Giannis Antetokounmpo offered his thoughts on whether or not this seasons champion should have an asterisk next to it.

"This is going to be the toughest championship you could ever win."

He went on to say about the expected quality of play: “Guys are going to be rusty. You're going to see guys throwing the ball into the stands, turnovers. I think as guys get more comfortable, the level of basketball will get better each game."

Tweets can be found on Eric Nehm’s twitter account here: https://twitter.com/eric_nehm/status/1278368972782608384?s=21

Recently there's been a bit of a debate around the legitimacy concerning this 2019-20 season and whether or not the championship should have an asterisk next to it. And that's a silly debate, because of course every NBA championship ever can have an asterisk next to it. Just pick and choose the asterisks that you personally believe should exist:

Basically title. It's been something I have struggled with for awhile. All my friends and I want is to be able to play games together. To me, games have always been about sharing an awesome experience with friends. My fondest memories are of sitting down with my brother or my friends and playing through whatever the new game was. Nowadays, it feels like every game that seems like it would be perfect for co-op doesn't have it. Whenever a game does advertise multiplayer it always ends up being some sort of pseudo co-op like horde mode or another pointless game mode. Its always a kick in the face when I find a game has "a co-op campaign" for it only to have some weird restrictions like only one person gets progress or you have to get some item and click your heels 3 times to summon them for an hour.

I don't think the lack of co-op in games is like a massive issue but it always makes me a bit sad to see a game that seems so perfect for it lack the mode. I guess im just wondering why it fe

That would be a harder road than most roads to a championship. The Blazers team is arguably better than last years Blazers team that made the conference finals.

Fuck Rob Manfred

UPDATE: we reached $1,200!

ANOTHER UPDATE: Brodie Brazil tweeted it! https://twitter.com/BrodieNBCS/status/1290734643566714880?s=20

ANOTHER UPDATE: I placed the order and paid the $1,200 invoice. There will be some clouds on Friday so if the weather isn't good we can shift this to Saturday or Sunday which are supposed to be sunny. I think Friday is ideal though since it's the first game and sends the strongest message.

MEDIA UPDATE: KRON and KGO will be covering this on TV and I'm being interviewed by Mercury News this afternoon.

Baseball fans aren't happy that the Astros get to play this year without hearing from the fans about the cheating scandal. Various people had the idea to have a plane fly a banner with "Houston Asterisks" when the Astros play the A's from 8/7-9.

I called Aerial Advertising Services in Livermore. It costs $600/hr and takes them about 40 minutes roundtrip to get there/back so you'd really wa

Recently there's been a bit of a debate around the traps concerning this 2020 season and whether or not the eventual premiership should have an asterisk next to it. And that's a silly debate, because of course every VFL/AFL premiership ever can have an asterisk next to it. Just pick and choose the asterisks that you personally believe should exist:

Let's go!!!

When we win this year and it goes in the books, if we end up with an asterisk, remember that it also means were the smartest and most prepared front office in the league.

Nobody gets there alone, and in this situation we might shine brighter than others for many reasons.

FTp

*COVID pandemic. Many star players opted out of playing.

Totally forgot to mention that I successfully defended 2 weeks ago!!!

I can't actually believe it. I wrote a thesis in 4 months while husband worked from home and I took care of a 2 year old, closed on a house and moved my family from NY to TX.

I was very nervous as it had to be through zoom and I hate giving virtual presentations. The defense itself felt like a conversation so I felt like I was doing something wrong, but afterwards I talked to previous students and they all felt the same way.

Anyways, it is over and I am done.

Mainly the all time blocks leader. Doesn’t it feel like it kind of has an asterisk when there’s a possibility that Hakeem hasn’t really blocked the most people in NBA history? It’s probably Wilt. This article right here says in 112 games he averaged 8.8 blocks at ages 35 and 36. If he’s doing that at 35/36 I don’t think it’d be unfair to say be possible if recorded triple double seasons with blocks when he was as back in his prime with the Sixers/warriors (feel like he definitely got a triple double with blocks his 100pt game.) Kareem also had at least 200 blocks a season until he was 35 except for the season where he only played 62 games so he’s probably higher than third. Guys like Russell also come to mind for probably being high on the blocks list. I throw in steals because I feel like wilt could’ve been a top 10 steals leader too

https://fadeawayworld.net/2020/04/05/in-112-career-games-wilt-chamberlain-averaged-8-8-blocks-per-game-that-would-be-an-nba-record-by-margin-of-5-3-bl

"The Raptors won because Durant went down"

"Well the Warriors only won in 2015 because Kevin and Kyrie went down"

"The Celtics would have 3-peated 2008-10 if they didn't have any injuries"

It happens all the time, and fans deserve to make such excuses for their teams. But no ring happens without at least a little luck - winning a few close games in the regular season to take HCA, a few poor calls adding some points, bad weather delays the flight so the opposing team is tired, the wrong team made the finals and subsequently got swept...

What are some finals without asterisks? Two teams at full strength, playing a series with little to no complicating factors over their duration. And were they more compelling for it? Or was it a show of unquestionable brute strength by one dominant team in spite of it?

I came across a post here, a sub discussing eating disorders, where a poster censored the word "bulimia" by writing it as "b*limia". I completely fail to see the point in doing this. It's obvious for anyone reading the word what it actually says. The sub has no rules against using the word, so this isn't an attempt to avoid automods from removing it.

Since this is an eating disorder sub, I considered that perhaps some people are triggered by the word, but how does replacing one letter with an asterisk solve anything? Are people only triggered when they see the whole word? Is the asterisk actually effective in avoiding triggers? Is this a sincere attempt at sparing people from mental anguish? Seriously, what is the point?

Do you think we’ll be handing out some HBPs to them or will we stay out of it?

A few weeks ago it was a fairly common sentiment here that this season would have an asterisk. However, back-to-back rounds of testing have shown no positive Covid tests, and an outbreak is looking less and less likely (knock on wood). No really significant players on good teams have opted out, and there aren't more injuries than there would typically be heading into a playoffs.

Of course, there are still differences from a normal season in that it is all played at a neutral site without fans. But in light of how it's all gone thus far, have any asterisk-sayers changed their minds?

And if so, more or less so than current rivals?

I searched it up on Google and apparently it's a Steam issue, but then Steam says its a Bungie issue. My name was "Kampfhocker", which is German and translates to "combat stool" (inside joke).

Is there a fix? Thanks in advance

I've read all the manga, of course, but if I ever knew what the asterisk meant, I've forgotten! Now that he's having so much direct dialog with Our Boy, I've become curious. Does anybody know?

The poster most on the right in front of his desktop is the cover of The Asterisk Wars LN2

You already know what I'm talking about. If I insert a Dimension into the tooltip, and multiple Dimensions are selected in the viz, the Dimension will be replaced with an asterisk. I see some old articles on google that address this but they are not working for me.

What's the easy solution here? If it helps, my dimension in question is simply the MONTH name of my date value. There is also a MONTH filter on the viz, so if a user selects "January", the tooltip should read "January", but if they select "January" and February", I want it to show that as well!

Thanks in advance.

Windows search is notoriously awful and unintuitive but that's because it's based on literal exact searching, and will never match that partial filename you remembered. Instead, surround your search term with astersisk * to trick it into searching everything closely resembling file's name. This is called a wildcard character, and windows understands this Here's an example. I've ran across a lot of people told this to for the first time and they're always amazed and glad now that they can successfully find their files in a meaningful search function.

I'm currently trying to clean up a data set and am running into an issue of seemingly invisible asterisks throughout the data. I can't see any of the asterisks with my naked eye but when I ctrl+f the characters they show up in basically every single cell. Has anyone run into this issue before? I'm using a tool that requires me to remove all special characters before inputting and I believe this is what's casing the issue. Any help is greatly appreciated, thank you!

Edit: Asterisks are not present within the population. I need to remove any and all "multibyte characters" from the data set and am struggling to do so within excel.

I'm pretty new to Mathematica and I have a feelings this is really basic, but this buggs the hell out of me and I can't seem to find anything googling this. Anyway, when I type an asterisk the whole cell changes to this and when I type an equal sign often times the cell changes to this. when I say often, I mean on seemingly random occasions: i type = and it does this, I ctrl+z and type = and it does this, and then on like the 4th time it might actually type =. why is that? what is that? why does this happen? and most importantly how do I make it stop?

I have a csv.

$csv = @'
Date,TrackID,RaceNumber,HorseName,PostPos,FinalTime,KeyID,ActualOdds,FavFlag
7/1/2020,ARP,1,Behold de Spring,3,53.21,ARP070120USA1,23.50
7/1/2020,ARP,1,Chuck Nazty,7,53.21,ARP070120USA1,1.20*,X
7/1/2020,ARP,1,Sand Walker,4,53.21,ARP070120USA1,5.40
7/1/2020,ARP,1,Buddy Niner,6,53.21,ARP070120USA1,2.40
7/1/2020,ARP,1,Divine Task,1,53.21,ARP070120USA1,11.20
7/1/2020,ARP,1,Last Bull,2,53.21,ARP070120USA1,36.30
7/1/2020,ARP,1,Mighty Lord,8,53.21,ARP070120USA1,7.90
7/1/2020,ARP,1,Tuff Willy Te,5,53.21,ARP070120USA1,10.20
'@

I want to get rid of the *(asterisk) in the actual odds field. But i'm having a hell of a time doing it. I would rather avoid Get-content, but if I have to, i have to.

foreach($row in $csv){
if($row.ActualOdds -match ("`*")){$row.ActualOdds -replace ('\*',"")}
 }
$csv 

Preferred output

Date,TrackID,RaceNumber,HorseName,PostPos,FinalTime,KeyID,ActualOdds,FavFlag
7/1/2

Most products will have another section on the back of the packaging which qualifies the asterisked claims with "not evaluated by the FDA", etc. But I've run into multiple products that simply have no explanation. Why is this?

SpankedEagle, entire thing asterisks. I changed my Steam name to something else and it showed in game, but I've used this name for years don't really want to have to change it. Anything I can do? It still shows it as SpankedEagle on bungie.net.

https://imgur.com/a/QdamKJF