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The fund seeks long-term total return.To pursue its goal, the fund normally invests at least 80% of its net assets, plus any borrowings for investment purposes, in stocks. The fund normally invests primarily in foreign companies located in the developed markets. Examples of "developed markets" are Canada, Japan, Australia, Hong Kong and Western Europe. The fund ordinarily invests in at least three countries and is not geographically limited in its investment selection but, at times, may invest a substantial portion of its assets in a single country. The fund may invest in the securities of companies of any market capitalization. The fund's sub-investment adviser, Walter Scott & Partners Limited (Walter Scott), seeks investment opportunities in companies with fundamental strengths that indicate the potential for sustainable growth. Walter Scott focuses on individual stock selection, building the fund's portfolio from the bottom up through extensive fundamental research. The investment process begins with the screening of reported company financials. Companies that meet certain broad absolute and trend criteria are candidates for more detailed financial analysis. The fund's Investment Team collectively reviews and selects those stocks that meet Walter Scott's criteria and where the expected growth rate is combined with a reasonable valuation for the underlying equity. Geographic and sector allocations are results of, not part of, the investment process, because the Investment Team's sole focus is on the analysis of and investment in individual companies.
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Dear Editor,
I am writing in support of Charlies Daniels for State Representative.
I have known Charlie personally and professionally for over 16 years. I worked with him at Belmont Correctional Institution and know that as an officer he was a valued employee with a spotless work record held in high esteem by both his fellow officers and the prison administration.
Charlie is running for State Representative for the 95th District. His opponent in this race is Andy Thompson (R) from Marietta.
I am a former Belmont County resident, and have resided in Washington County, Ohio, since 2001, and Andy Thompson is NOT what is best for our District. I live where Andy Thompson makes his home, and he is not getting my vote, simply because in my opinion he has shown a blatant disdain and disregard for working families in Ohio.
One comment, made by Andy Thompson showed his true character and is a reflection of how he has consistently voted: he stated that he wants to create jobs so people don't have to work in prisons. How insulting!
Belmont Correctional Institution and Noble Correctional Institutions have been a huge blessing to those counties by employing local residents, who may or may not have a college degree, but are thrilled to have a great job to support their families. Does his statement mean that the basic secretaries employed by his father's company (Birdwatcher's Digest) aren't important? Does his statement mean that the new small business owners don't matter? My daughter works in a local pizza shop that recently opened in Marietta, and let me tell you, every person working there is thrilled to just have a job! He was born with a silver spoon in his mouth and has never had to seek a job outside his family dynasty. In my opinion, Andy Thompson is rude, condescending, and arrogant - Is that really what we want representing "us" at the District?
I don't want him as my voice! I want someone who has walked in my shoes, who has actually had to work and of our choices for candidate, Charlie Daniels is that person.
Thompson is not in touch with the reality of our "real" lives in any county within the 95th District. He solely votes his party and now what is best for us, and he is supposed to be our voice! We need to elect Charlie Daniels simply because he is just like us, a veteran, from a working class family, a family that has struggled to make ends meet in a downtrodden economy. Just look at Andy Thompson's statistics with how he voted with Senate Bill 5 - he clearly did not listen to us, nor did he care about how his vote could potentially affect us. He voted yes to pass Senate Bill 5. This bill was later repealed as Ohioans, both public employees and those employed in the private sector like me, voted 61 percent statewide against it. In the five countries that comprise the 95th District the percentage voting against the bill rose to 70 percent. How in touch with his constituents can Thompson be and how concerned with their well-being is he, when he voted to pass a bill that so large a majority of Ohioans were against? He simply voted for his party, not for the people he was supposed to be representing, people like you and me.
Charlie Daniels campaign slogan, "People Before Politics". It doesn't get any more simple than that - let's get back to the basics of why we have a representative to speak for us in the first place. This is why I encourage everyone to vote for Charlie Daniels for State Representative on Nov. 6.
Thank you for your consideration.
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Just for fun, how would I go about lighting a fire with naturally shaped rocks by striking sparks? It might be useful if I were to camp in the far north, where there are no trees. What should I use for tinder? Do I have to find a certain kind of rock?
Flint is your best bet and it sparks much better with steel than with a rock like iron pyrite. The better rocks you find, the less the tinder matters, but you will need something like a cotton ball or similar fine material that is very dry in most cases when you don't have actual steel and pure flint. Any old tinder will do - fungus, grass, wood splinters or mashed wood / sawdust.
Chalcedony (a chert form of quartz) and other flints are also very useful since you can make edged tools made of stone with enough skill and the proper raw materials. Jaspillite (or taconite as we call it in Minnesota) also will spark and has a high iron content.


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USPTO Patent dataLinked Data version of the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) data. Number of triples: c.a 464 million Links to other datasets: DBpedia, EUPatents, WorldBank and...
Young people NEET in Herefordshire
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ANTONIO DE MONTSERRAT – LA RUTA DE LA SEDA Y LOS CAMINOS SECRETOS DEL TANTRAEn este artículo se presenta la biografía de Antonio de Monserrat con el objeto de insertar en el pensamiento crítico budista a quien se considera el primer occidental iniciado...
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Anybody can alter wiki contents, and I am wondering "How does Wikipedia prevent spamming?", when even not registered members edit the contents. What you think about it?
Wikipedia has many editors, each editor is usually subscribed to change notifications of the article they created/edited during their Wikipedia activity life span. When you make an edit, one of the editors reviews it and if it's spam he will revert the change to the article previous state.
Wikipedia relies on people to filter out the spam, you can do this too by going to the history tab.
From their About page on abuse:
Users can also create programs called bots that help automate dealing with spam and vandalism.
Here is a list of bots and what they do. Some users publish the code for their bots.
While crowdsourcing is definitely part of the way Wikipedia handles spam it's only a very minor part. Wikipedia is using several anti-spam extensions, without these it would be a big spamfest that no army of humans could stop. Around November 2014 these are set up:


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A chic and edgy party called "Raise the Barre" was held Oct. 27 in honor of the Louisville Ballet dancers.
Douglas Riddle and Bruce Simpson converted the warehouse space into a hip party scene that included a night full of dancing and catering provided by Chef Dean Corbett, of Corbett's: An American Place.
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Country star Chris Cagle is performing at Toby Keith's in Foxboro. Blues and soulman John Nemeth leads a nine-piece band into the Narrows Center in Fall River tonight (and into Johnny D's in Somerville on Friday). NOTE: the concert by Avicii slated for TD Garden in Boston has been postponed to June 25, as the star recovers from surgery last week. Ed Scheer sings and plays the blues at Turner's Yard in Pembroke. Funk-rockin' Xenia Rubinos at Great Scott in Allston. Folkie Noam Weinsten has a CD release at Club Passim in Harvard Square with the enchanting Mieka Pauley opening. Rich James & the Name Changers at Brighton Music Hall. Guitarist Dougie MacLean worth a trip to The River Club in Scituate. Jay Psaros sings at Tinker's Son in Norwell. Hot new funk band Superfly every Thursday at The Beachcomber in Quincy. The Wild Child/Tall Heights tour hits The Sinclair in Cambridge. Russ Costa's SongAsylum, with occasional singing bartenders, at Home Ice in Quincy. Crossing Wires: Richard Devine and Nona Hendryx at Berklee Performance Center in Boston. Cheryl Arena jams the blues at The Next Page in Weymouth. Earplugs might be needed when 'The Decibel Magazine Tour' featuring Carcass and Black Dahlia Murder thunders into The Paradise Rock Club in Boston. Music & comedy when Weymouth impresario Holbrook Gracia returns to Paddy Barry's in Quincy.
Country-rockin' queen Kim Richey headlines Club Passim. Simon Townshend, usually plays with brother Pete Townshend's band The Who, but he's also a talented musician himself, and his solo tour hits The Narrows Center tonight, and Johnny D's on Saturday. Don't miss the blues and Americana super-pairing of Dennis Brennan & Matt Stubbs at The Next Page. The Dirty Muggs top a rock bill at The Beachcomber.� Badfish and their tribute to Sublime at The Sinclair. Fortunate Youth grooves at Brighton Music Hall. Comic Brian Regan opens a weekend of shows at The Wilbur Theater in Boston. Junkyard Jones rocks Presidents Rock Club in Quincy. Jon Holland & Kenyetta at Tinker's Son. A heavy metal show featuring Pathogenic, among others, at The C-Noe in Hull. Glowbox rocks South Shore Music Hall in Quincy.� Jazz fans don't want to miss Brazilian singer/pianist Eliane Elias at Scullers in Boston this weekend, because her show is devoted to the music of Chet Baker. London Grammer rocks The Paradise. Bone Chillin' gets down at Chilihead BBQ in West Bridgewater. R.A. the Rugged Man rhymes at The Middle East in Cambridge. Thirty-6 Red rocks with a twang at Toby Keith's. The band simply called Trust rocks Great Scott. Rockers with kids alert: Boston's Orpheum Theater hosts three shows of Elmo Makes Music.
The one and only B.B. King shows the young'uns how to play the blues, at Lupo's in Providence. Americana songsmith Rod Picott in a special 4 p.m. show at Atwood's Tavern in Cambridge.� Weymouth hometown rockers Bald Walter introduce their new guitarist at The Next Page. Taunton's alt-rockers Wheat sprout up at Great Scott.� Hanson tunesmith Joe Merrick is part of a show at Angels of Light Healing Center in Norwell. The Love Dogs swing into the C-Note. The House of Blues in Boston reverberates with The Used. There's a Nirvana tribute at The Beachcomber. Bluesman Mark T. Small at Chilihead BBQ. Undah Covah at South Shore Music Hall. Bloodshot & Blue at Tinker's Son. The Hold Steady rock The Met Cafe in Pawtucket. Heather Maloney has sold out both her shows at Club Passim.� Pete Francis, frontman of the band Dispatch, brings his solo show to The Narrows Center. Dalton & the Sheriffs heat up Toby Keith's. Diane Blue sings at The Ming Dynasty in Marshfield. The Middle East welcomes a Talking Heads tribute, and a Hall & Oates tribute. The Man Ray reunion at The Paradise souns like fun. After the 7 p.m. Simon Townshend show, Johnny D's also has a 10 p.m. blast from NYC funkmaster Milo Z. Light Bright ignites at Brighton Music Hall.
A busy Sunday night: jazz piano legend Chick Corea plays a solo show at the Wilbur Theater; country-rock chanteuse Emmylou Harris at the House of Blues; The Psychedelic Furs, with Boston's own Sheila Divine, rock The Sinclair; Godflesh thunders into Royale; Brian Mahoney at The Irish Pub in Quincy; while Chucky's Cheesy Jam lends hilarity to Paddy Barry's. Tuesday the folk-rocki of the Mowglis at The Sinclair. Wednesdayu night the Mountain Goats headline the Somerville Theater; while comedian W. Kamau Bell appears at The Sinclair. April 17 finds The Hold Steady, with Deer Tick, at The House of Blues; while blues-babe Debbie Davies heats up Johnny D's; and The Narrows Center offers two local roots music stars in Danielle Miraglia and Mark T. Small. Look for the twangy rock of Pat Green on April 18 at the House of Blues. The Black Lips warm up the Paradise on April 19; while Alejandro Escovedo burns it up at the Narrows Center. The dazzling songs and vocal harmonies of The Milk Carton Kids arrive at the Paradise on April 30. Against Me rocks Royale on May 5.
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Belgrade, Serbia (CNN) -- A gunman went on a shooting spree in the Serbian town of Velika Ivanca on Tuesday, killing at least 13 people, including a small child, according to Police Chief Milorad Veljovic.
The town lies roughly 25 miles south of the capital, Belgrade.
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The man, in his 60s, entered five houses and shot six men, six women and one child dead.
Twelve of the victims died immediately, another died at a Belgrade hospital, Serbian news agency Tanjug reported. Two people remained hospitalized, one of them likely the suspected shooter, Tanjug reported, citing Veljovic.
Veljovic said the gunman attempted to kill his wife and take his own life, according to Tanjug.
It was not immediately clear whether the man's wife survived.
Investigators don't know what sparked the killings, Veljovic said.
Serbian broadcaster B92 described the man as a veteran of the Serbian-Croatian war in the 1990s who had lost his job a year ago. Neighbors said the man had never seemed violent, B92 reported.
Serbia has a low murder rate, nearly on par with that of Sweden, according to the World Health Organization. With 1.2 intentional homicides per 100,000 inhabitants in 2010, Serbia's murder rate was one-quarter of that of the United States.


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I have a linux web & samba server. I need to give administrators access to manage minor accounts & groups. Is there a secure php web interface that can do this? I don't want to give them shell access, but they need to be able to change passwords, create, & manage accounts\groups. Thanks!
You could take a look at webmin. Not sure that it allows fine-grained controls.
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While the taste of the coffee from these superautomatic espresso machines is similar, the biggest difference is in functionality and programming options. Some are capable of automatic milk frothing and others use a standard steam wand. Some have one-touch profiles for pre-set espresso drinks and others require you to manually enter in your drink selection. Try one, and you too will say, 'Domo Arigato Mister Roboto!'
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6 Movie Heroes Saved by Gaping Plot Holes
If all movies followed the same physical laws as the real world, they wouldn't be a lot of fun -- we don't want action heroes to break their legs every time they jump off a bridge and into the top of a speeding truck, we want them to roll over painlessly and continue with the chase scene (or, alternatively, to explode for no reason).
However, once you've established the rules of your movie universe, the only thing we ask is that you follow those rules. Don't say that your time traveling robot unicorn is powered by ice cream in one scene and blowjobs in the next. That's just sloppy writing.
And yet, you'd be surprised at how many classic movies break their own rules when it's convenient to the writers, like in ...
#6. Inglourious Basterds -- Nobody Recognizes the Extremely Famous German Soldier
What the Movie Tells Us:
"Everyone in the German army has heard of Hugo Stiglitz."
Inglourious Basterds is about a World War II Nazi-killing squad composed of several Jewish-American soldiers and one incredibly famous German, Hugo Stiglitz. Why is he famous? Because as a soldier in the German army he murdered 13 Gestapo officers and was caught. Eventually he broke out of jail to join the Basterds.
The German media was scandalized by his Lebron-like betrayal.
Stiglitz's celebrity has spread to the point where even a lowly soldier posted in France immediately recognizes him, stating that "everyone in the German army" knows him.
"Hey, who's that guy with Hugo?"
So, it's established that Stiglitz is well known in Germany and that the Nazis know he's running with the Basterds now. He isn't just a notorious serial killer; he's a serial killer who's still out there, killing officers, so it would be in the best interest of the Germans to remember his face. Especially if they're wearing a Gestapo uniform.
The Convenient Lapse in Logic:
Hugo Stiglitz is the most notorious member of the Basterds, so what do they do? They choose him for an undercover mission that absolutely depends on him not being recognized ... and he isn't.
The Basterds are recruited for a mission to infiltrate a film premiere attended by several high-ranking German officers, and Stiglitz is among those chosen to impersonate German officials, since he actually was one. Even if his face wasn't in the newspapers (it was), that's still a dumb plan, because all it takes is one person at the premiere who served alongside Stiglitz, was present during his incarceration or simply witnessed him scalping a fellow officer to ruin the entire carefully orchestrated plan.
It doesn't help that his name and theme song tend to magically appear anywhere he goes.
The dumbest part, however, is that the plan actually works (for a while). Before they can get to the premiere, some of the Basterds meet with a spy in a bar that happens to be full of German soldiers. So Hugo "The Whole German Army Has Heard of Him" Stiglitz is face to face with other soldiers, and not one of them, not even the Gestapo officer, so much as looks at him funny.
He started parting his hair on the other side. Threw the whole Gestapo off their game.
Eventually the Basterds are found out -- not because of Stiglitz, but simply because another of the undercover agents raised the wrong fingers when asking for beers. The Gestapo officer was so observant that he immediately picked up on the accent of another person talking across the room, but at no point did he recognize the well known Gestapo killer sitting literally next to him.
"Cheer up, friend! You look like you want to shoot me."
A shootout ensues, and everyone dies except the spy, which allows the remaining Basterds to continue the plan and kill Hitler -- when, in fact, they should have all been gunned down as soon as Stiglitz walked into the room.
#5. Back to the Future Part II -- Doc and Marty Can't Go Back to the Future ... But Biff Can
What the Movie Tells Us:
Once you're in an alternate timeline, you can't go back to the original one.
In Back to the Future Part II, Doc Brown takes Marty and his girlfriend to the year 2015 to save their retarded son from going to jail (instead of just telling them, "Don't raise your kid into a moron," since, you know, it hasn't happened yet). While they're doing that, dickwad Biff Tannen, now an 80-year-old man, steals the time machine and goes back to 1955 to give his younger dickwad self a sports almanac that will allow him to become rich by betting on sporting events.
Old Biff then goes to the future and leaves the time machine where he found it. Marty and Doc then head back to their present of 1985 ... only to find themselves in a 1985 where Biff is a millionaire and has reshaped Hill Valley in his ugly image.
"Welcome to the Biff Tannen Hotel, Casino and Oil Refinery!"
Doc explains that they're now in an alternate reality created when future Biff changed the past: In this timeline, Doc Brown is crazy, Marty's dad is dead and his mom is a tramp. When Marty says they should go back to the future and stop old Biff from stealing the time machine in the first place, Doc says that's impossible, because traveling from this 1985 would lead to an alternate 2015 where Biff is even richer and Marty's mom is even trashier, presumably.
"This line represents how much of a whore your mom is, Marty. She is a huge whore."
The only way to stop Biff is by going back before the timelines split -- that is, to Back to the Future I, because that was a way better movie anyway.
The Convenient Lapse in Logic:
So, according to Doc, once you're in another timeline, you can't go back to the original one ... except that's exactly what the future Biff did. The minute he changed the past, he created the alternate reality, so when he traveled back to 2015, he should have ended up in the alternate future Doc just mentioned. In fact, if he didn't get to enjoy the future where he's rich, what was the point of changing the past?
Instead, for some reason he ends up in the unchanged future ... the one Doc and Marty should have been left stranded in without a time machine.
Robbing us of a scene where Doc has to jury-rig a hoverboard to go 88 mph.
This isn't the only time Back to the Future II breaks its own logic: It's been established by now that the only way the DeLorean can travel in time is by reaching 88 miles per hour -- but at the end of the movie, when lightning strikes Doc and throws him back in time, the car was just floating there, going at no miles per hour.
Uh, uh ... wind shears ... Coriolis effect ...gigawatts ...
#4. Star Wars -- It's Impossible to Navigate an Asteroid Field (Except When It Isn't)
What the Movie Tells Us:
If you fly into an asteroid field, you will most definitely die. We've pointed out before that this isn't necessarily true in real life, but in the Star Wars universe, it is.
In The Empire Strikes Back, the Millennium Falcon accidentally strays right into the middle of an asteroid field while trying to evade some TIE fighters. C-3PO calculates the odds that they'll make it out of this place in one piece, and they aren't good: They are around 3,720 to 1. This isn't just 3PO messing with everyone, either, because we immediately see several TIE fighters being picked off by the asteroids one by one.
"Damn ... and I was only two days from being Force-choked to death."
After some close calls, Han Solo sets the Falcon down in one of the asteroids to wait for the Imperial ships to give up or die out. That's how impossible it is to make it through the asteroids alive: Even Han thinks it would be foolish to stay there too long, and this is the same guy who did a parsec run in 12 Jawas or whatever.
The Convenient Lapse in Logic:
C-3PO's exact words are "an asteroid field," not "this particular asteroid field" ... which means that every other time there was an asteroid chase scene in Star Wars, the characters should have bought a lottery ticket as soon as they stepped out of the ship, because nobody has ever died in those things outside of The Empire Strikes Back.
There were 3,719 people in this TIE fighter, apparently.
For example, flash backward (or forward) to Episode II, when Obi-Wan is chasing Jango and Boba Fett through space and they intentionally fly into an asteroid belt: The rocks are just as densely packed and move just as fast as the ones in The Empire Strikes Back, and yet both ships manage to defy the laws of probability and make it through. Was it because they didn't have C-3PO on board to jinx things?
So not only is he insufferably annoying, but now he's a friggin' curse, too?
Maybe Obi-Wan used the Force to push each of the asteroids out of his way (even though we're pretty sure that's never happened), but what about the other guys? Jango barely breaks a sweat as he strolls through the statistically impossible to dodge giant rocks, and in fact this is so easy for him that he even decides to make things more interesting by blowing up the asteroids into more asteroids with giant bombs.
"You know, George, this reminds me an awful lot of a game I used to play ..."
And before you say, "Well, that's just how awesome Jango Fett is," remember that we're talking about the guy who the most inept army in the universe and the most useless bounty hunter ever were cloned from. God, we feel dirty just bringing that up.


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Md. station pulls song with reference to kids, gun
FREDERICK, Md. (AP) - A Frederick radio station says it's pulling from its playlist a song referencing children running away from a gun.
The popular song, "Pumped Up Kicks" by the group Foster the People, includes the lyrics, "All the other kids with the pumped up kicks, you better run, better run, outrun my gun."
Fred Manning, chief operations officer for KEY 103, tells The Frederick News-Post that the song was manually removed from the station's playlist but inadvertently left in the computerized system. That meant the song continued playing as recently as Tuesday morning. Manning says the mistake is now being corrected.
One listener, Mark Johnson, says he considers the song insensitive to the victims of the Connecticut elementary school shooting and was surprised the station was still playing it.
Information from: The Frederick News-Post


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STEUBENVILLE - The road to respectability is a long one.
The Toronto volleyball team has made great strides in the last few seasons under the guidance of head coach Chelsey Fletcher. The Red Knights entered play Wednesday with a record of 7-7.
Toronto fought hard against Catholic Central, but in the end the Crusaders swept the Red Knights by scores of 25-8, 25-23, 25-12, to drop the girls from the Gem City back below the .500 mark for the season at 7-8.
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HUDDLE UP — Toronto volleyball head coach Chelsey Fletcher (kneeling) talks to the team members during a timeout at Wednesday's match at Steubenville Catholic Central. Fletcher has raised the level of play and expectations for the Red Knights since taking over the program.
-- Mike Mathison
"Their middle hitters and their outside hitters are phenomenal," Fletcher said. "The good thing is we were able to return their hits. Our girls are playing at a new level. Their play is a lot more strategic. Our setters played smart. They set the ball well. We stayed low. We played well. Our nerves got to us a little bit in the third set."
Fletcher took over the head coaching duties from Cathie Thomas a few seasons ago.
"I want to thank Cathie Thomas for bringing volleyball to Toronto," Fletcher said. "After her tenure as head coach, there were a lot of changes. With all of the changes, we were basically starting over again with a new program when I came in as head coach.
"If this match was played three years ago, I would have been happy if we were able to return a serve, but not now. We are beyond that point.
"We had some good moments today, but we still have got work to do."
The Red Knights' seven wins this season has surpassed the number of match Toronto has won in the previous few years. It was 5-15 a season ago.
"Two years ago, we won one game," Fletcher said. "This year, our record shows how far we have come. I see it. I watch the girls daily. I watch them at practice and in games. I see how far they have come.
"The girls are mentally into the match. They are working as a unit on the court. During the JV matches, the varsity girls will come down and tell the younger girls what they need to watch for or what they need to fix. They are playing very strategic, and it is carrying over into the other sports."
Even though they were down late in the match against the Crusaders, the Red Knights never gave up. Toronto went on a little run before Catholic Central was able to score the final couple of points to win the third game and the match.
"Tenacity is our strength," Fletcher said. "Also confidence. Confidence is a strength for us now.
"The girls still need to be mentally tougher. We have to battle our nervousness."
The skill level of the Red Knight players has improved drastically in the last few years.
"We had girls serving underhand when we started," Fletcher said. "Now, it is neat to walk through the halls and see the little ones and to hear them say, 'I can't wait to play volleyball.' It is very motivational. We haven't had that before.
"We have improved by working in the summer. We have a summer program. We work in the offseason. We have a clinic. We are doing some new things. We have a lot to learn. I have a lot to learn. I educate myself all the time about the game."
The Toronto players have started believing in themselves and believing in the program.
"They are buying into it," Fletcher said. "I want to give a huge thank you to the parents for trusting in me and for buying into what we are doing."
Behind the scenes, the Red Knights are putting in a lot of extra work and a lot of extra time to improve themselves.
"We definitely have a different work ethic," Fletcher said. "Their work ethic now is completely different than anything before it.
"The girls really believed in themselves in that second set tonight. They really competed. We have not always competed like that. We competed with them when we are at 85 percent.
"You don't want to get swept, but we did compete. Before, our goal was to not get swept. Now, that is not the case.
"We have had a lot of firsts this year. This is the first time we have had this many wins and we are sweeping teams.
"With all of the success we have had this year, the girls are showing a lot of humbleness. They are excited. We are winning battles."
The Red Knights are building a stable program from the ground up.
"It starts with the little ones," Fletcher said. "We have off-season workouts. The parents have been fantastic. You have girls playing in the fifth- and sixth-grades.
"Our girls are talking more. They are carrying themselves differently. I am just blessed to be a part of it."
Toronto entered play this week in fourth place in the OVAC Class 2A standings. The top four teams in each class qualify for the annual tournament. The cutoff date to qualify for the tournament is Oct. 5. The conference tournament will be held Oct. 12 at Big Red.
The Red Knights have made a steady climb in the OVAC standings. Their records since 2007 at the cutoff date have been:
2012, 4-14, 7th place; 2011, 1-14, 7th; 2010, 1-14, 10th; 2009, 0-15; 2008, 3-15, 8th; 2007, 1-13
"Definitely the younger girls," Fletcher said asked what it is going to take to get Toronto to take the next step. "We are going to be working on fundamentals.
"We have a really good administration. They have put a good group of coaches together. All of the coaches work well together. There is coach (Mallory) Blanton in basketball and coach (Kayla) Mosti in softball.
"We don't want to overtax the girls. We have changed how the girls lift. We are a small school. The girls have to play all of the sports. There are no complaints. Everyone works well together."
Playing multiple sports has helped the girls improve as athletes.
"I look into coach Blanton's eyes, and I can see how excited she is about how high the girls are getting when they jump," Fletcher said. "Their verticals will help during basketball season. That is thanks to one young lady, Kayla Brown, who has worked on that with us.
"We are a close-knit group."
Some former players are giving back to the program this season.
"We have some former players helping out the program this year," Fletcher said. "Cari Horne and Taylor Linn are junior high coaches, and Kayla Brown is our strength and conditioning coach.
"It is neat to see everyone come together. I am blessed to be a part of this program."


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When Helen Koesters Rosenbaum was a teenager living on Hubbards Lane, her father sometimes sent her to Norman Glass and Custom Framing (4206 Shelbyville Road). However, those were not always happy occasions.
"I was a tomboy, and I'd break the glass in the garage windows. My father made me get the panes replaced," she said. "I never thought I would work here someday."
She not only works in the shop, she and her husband, Richard, own it.
Joseph and Lorene Norman opened Norman Glass, as it's commonly known, in 1949, and hired Helen in 1972 to do office work.
"Mr. Norman asked me to learn shorthand, so I took classes in speed-writing, but he never asked me to take a letter after that," she said. "I started learning every bit and part of the business – how to 'chop' a frame, set a mat, and put them together – and I've been here ever since."
Joe Norman died in 1975, but Lorene kept the business going. Richard, who had married Helen during the previous year, soon started stopping in to help, after his daily work at the old Fischer Packing Company plant was over. By the time Lorene was ready to sell in 1996, the plant was closing, so the Rosenbaums purchased Norman Glass from her and went into business together.
Like the shop's founders, the couple makes frames out of wood or metal – not plastics such as polyurethane, which are difficult to repair ("We see what happens when they fall off the wall," Helen said).
"The main thing we've changed is that we have added more choices in frame styles," Richard said. "We probably have the largest selection around. I'd say thousands, and in a wide range of prices."
Helen, who has always liked working with her hands, enjoys creating shadow boxes. Using acid-free materials and suede backgrounds, she has made boxes for items such as horse show ribbons and graduation mementoes – even hair, from dogs as well as humans.
The Rosenbaums are determined to keep their customers coming back. Last week, a woman brought in a piece of glass that was too big for her frame. Richard ground the glass down, at no charge, and put it in the frame for her.
"Our busiest times are when school starts, before Christmas and at graduation, and before Derby, when people are getting ready for parties," Richard said. "Some tastes have changed over the years: In the 1970s and '80s, people brought in horse collars to be made into mirrors. It was amazing how many horse collar mirrors were around back then."
Norman Glass has expanded its services into decorative glass; for example, replacing the plain panes in kitchen cabinet doors with patterned or antique-style ones. It also replaces panes in storm windows and doors, and single-pane windows.
Customers have noticed a big change taking place right outside the shop. The massive blue-and-white sign that hung above the door for decades is making way for a newer version. The transformation is in keeping with the renovation that continues across the front of the row of shops.
Made primarily of porcelain, the sign is being sent to The American Sign Museum in Cincinnati. Over the years, the Rosenbaums have seen people stop to photograph the sign, attracted by its bold, retro style.
"We took a photo and emailed it to the museum, and they said they'd love to have it," Helen said. "We couldn't stand to see it thrown into a dumpster. It breaks my heart to see it go, because it's been here forever."
The new sign will spell out "Norman Glass and Custom Framing" in order to ensure that passersby are perfectly clear about their services.
"That's been a problem from time to time. Someone comes in for a piece of glass, maybe for a table top, and says, 'I didn't know you did framing.' Or they come for a frame and say, 'You really do glass work?' Yes, we do both," Helen said.
The Rosenbaums, like the Normans before them, are grateful to area residents who patronize stores such as theirs.
"There aren't many framing shops left in St. Matthews. This economy is tough. We're a luxury item, not a necessity," she said. "Since I've been here, I've seen several generations come in. It's great that people come back to us. We want to stay here as long as we possibly can."
Norman Glass and Custom Framing, 4206 Shelbyville Road, opens at 9 a.m. and closes at 6 p.m. on Monday, opens at 9 a.m. and closes at 5 p.m. Tuesday-Friday, and opens at 9 a.m. and closes at 1 p.m. on Saturday. For more information, phone 502.895.4275.


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The swipe gesture for accessing Notification Centre is the same as for going back in Safari (amongst others). How can I consistently get it to do one or the other to stop me using the wrong gesture?
You might wonder why a two finger gesture on the trackpad from the right edge to the left edge doesn't always allow you to quickly access the brand new Notification Center in Mountain Lion.
Apple's instructions state:
What they actually meant was a swipe gesture starting from the very edge if not outside from the right side of your trackpad and then finishing on the left side within you trackpad. This is easier on a notebook trackpad, you can start on the wrist area and swipe in, it's harder on an external one tho.
If you start too far within your trackpad you won't be able to perform the gesture for quickly accessing Notification Center, or you will trigger the page forwards/backwards gesture instead.
Put two finger on the right side of trackpad, your finger should be outside of trackpad area.
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Does the @ mean anything specific? For example, is it substituted? Does it split the command into parts, like
\s@foo could internally mean "foo of type s"? Is the purpose of the @ only to make internal commands break when used outside a class definition or a package? If so, how is that a Good Thing?
Does the @ mean anything specific? For example, is it substituted? Does it split the command into parts, like
Others have mentioned the protection against user definition / redefinition. Another aspect is that command names like
When Knuth originally published the language he used the @ to mark commands that a user should not
normally use. This was in order to avoid overriding kernel commands by redefining them. Remember that a macro defined using
For me it served also another purpose as a marker to split long commands, for example it is more readable to read make@page@wider than
No, it does not mean anything specific; it is simply used to "namespace" code that shouldn't appear in a regular document. You can use almost any analphabetic symbol you like; ConTeXt also allows
While there are few conventions on how to use
for functions (macros that take arguments) and variables, respectively. For variables, the prefixes are
Some TeX internal commands have
Some of the original authors used


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Men's Health
March 9, 2011 -- Medications that shrink enlarged prostates and treat male pattern baldness can have sexual side effects that may persist after the drugs are discontinued, a new research review suggests.
But a manufacturer of one of the drugs says side effects go away when patients stop taking the drug. And an independent expert is skeptical of the study's results.
The drugs, called 5-alpha-reductase inhibitors, block the action of the hormone dihydrotestosterone (DHT), an androgen that's more potent than its precursor, testosterone.
This class of medications includes Avodart, Propecia, and Proscar.
According to the new review, which is published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine, long-term studies show that these medications can help shrink an enlarged prostate, a condition that affects as many as half of men over age 60, within three months to two years of use.
In other studies, about half of men who were taking Propecia for hair loss regrew some hair, while 42% saw no further hair loss, compared to those taking a placebo pill.
Additionally, a handful of studies have suggested that these kinds of drugs may lower the risk of prostate cancer, though that benefit is still controversial.
But the review says less attention has been paid to uncommon but potentially devastating side effects of these medications.
Those side effects can include anxiety, depression, loss of sex drive, difficulty getting or maintaining and erection, gynecomastia (growth of male breast tissue), and reduced semen production, which may affect fertility.
What's worse is that for some, these side effects persist, even when they stop taking the medication, according to the review.
"We don't really understand why, but the symptoms remain persistent or irreversible and even if they get off the drug," says study researcher Abdulmaged M. Traish, PhD, a professor of biochemistry at the Boston University School of Medicine. "They no longer regain what they had before. Biologically, something gets shut off and gets shut off once and for all."
Traish thinks that may be because nerves that are maintained by dihydrotestosterone become permanently degraded and can't be repaired even after men come off the medication.


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I can't seem to find a way at all, and I'm wondering if I'm just missing something or if this is just plain not possible.
I know that you can turn off receiving notifications for individual games/apps, but I do want to keep receiving the notifications. I just want a way to delete the old ones when I've read them. Is there any way to do this or some other workaround to make them go away that doesn't involve turning off receiving them entirely from various games?


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I thought Iron Man 3 felt a little odd without any presence from S.H.I.E.L.D. (Director Nick Fury and company). The US President is kidnapped and they're not concerned? So why didn't they appear?
So there is no in-universe explanation yet but it may come in future films as Kevin Feige suggested in his tweet.
The only thing I would add is that the movie is about Iron Man not the adventures of Iron Man AND S.H.I.E.L.D. AND a few Avengers thrown in for good measure.
So, S.H.I.E.L.D. is off fighting battles of it's own (natural disasters, super villains and
keeping the villains in prison.We'll find out exactly what eventually)


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An online retailer is telling me that Canon 24-105 f4L lens comes in two versions, the USA model with a steel lens mount and an import with a plastic lens mount. Is this true?
There have been stories for years of mail order (and now online) retailers that pull a scam that goes something like this:
To the best of my knowledge, Canon has never made the same lens with both plastic and steel mounts. They have never released an "L" lens with a plastic mount. The only Canon lenses I've ever seen with plastic mounts were kit lenses, including the EF 50mm f/1.8 that was once available as a kit lens with early EOS film bodies. The EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 has a plastic mount, as did the old EF 28-80mm and 28-90mm lenses that came with a lot of film Rebels.
Never heard of that. While disproving it 100% is impossible, I would be extremely doubtful if Canon make lesser L-lenses.
Most likely you are dealing with a shady vendor and you should avoid them. The difference between local and imported versions is usually in the scope of the warranty and documentation language.
Know that an import version is local somewhere else and a local version is an import elsewhere, so there would be very little reason to produce lesser-quality versions. When it comes to cameras rather than lenses, you may have a different charger or power-cord.
Nikon made two versions of the old 70-300. One had a plastic mount, the other metal. However these were not produced at the same time - one version replaced the other at some point. I have never, ever heard of a manufacturer offering a metal mount as an upgradeable option. Definitely smells like scam.
The "import" you are referring to is also termed "Grey Market". The products marked as "USA" and "Import" are most often identical. In the case of Canon "L" series lenses both will be "Made in Japan" If not then there is a problem:
You can find more detailed information about B&H Grey Market Items here.


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What is a good reference for a geometric version of Noether's theorem about Lagrangians, symmetries and conserved currents?
Another excellent book that does a proper job with Noether's Theorem is Peter Olver's Applications of Lie Groups to Differential Equations.
The simplest, most elegant and strongest version I know is, by far, the one in Aderson's book (see page 106 and ss.) He deals directly with the variational equation, with no explicit mention to the lagrangian.
(By the way, it is surprising why this statement is not mentioned in Schwarzbachs' book!)
Javier already gave some very good references. Let me just add one more if you are thinking about classical field theories: Demetrios Christodoulou, Action Principle and Partial Differential Equations.
A fairly modern approach which is usually attributed to Vinogradov (see also the last part of Kosmann-Schwarzbachs "Noether Theorems") can be found in the book Symmetries and Conservation Laws for Differential Equations in Mathematical Physics. The chapter on conservation laws and the Noether theorem is somewhat dense and requires a little familiarity with homological algebra and spectral sequences. So it might be good to complement it with another book (like Olvers).


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text: Betsy and David Bangley of Hawk's Hill Farm in Georgetown, Pa., were among the vendors set up for the Weirton Farmers' Market on Monday. The market, located in the parking lot of the Goodwill on Penco Road in Weirton, will be available from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. every Monday until Oct. 28. As part of this year's market, visitors to the Weirton Farmers' Market Facebook page will find a weekly "buzzword" which will allow them 50 cents off their purchases. -- Craig Howell


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Can we find out what the eigenvalues of a sum of two initial matrices are, by performing an operation on the eigenvalues & eigenvectors of the initial matrices?
I will interpret this to be the question `What do you need to know beyond the eigenvalues of $A$ and of $B$ to get the eigenvalues for $A+B$ from those of $A$ and $B$?' It's a good question. Here's one way to conceptualize it:
Let's modify it to talk of the roots of the characteristic polynomial, rather than just eigenvalues. Over the complexes, for most but not all matrices, these are the same. Knowing the roots is equivalent to knowing the characteristic polynomials.
You can put the characterteristic polynomial of $A$ into homogeneous form as the determinant of $\lambda_1 I + \lambda_2 A$ --- this translates easily back and forth to the usual form. With two matrices, there is a polynomial in one more variable: the determinant of $\lambda_1 I + \lambda_2 A + \lambda_3 B$.
The characteristic polynomial for $A+B$ is obtained by specializing this 3-variable polynomial. I believe this can be any homogeneous polynomial P( x,y,z) of degree n in 3 variables subject to the condition P(1,0,0)=(the determinant of the identity) = 1, but I don't know for sure: perhaps someone can elucidate this point.
Update: Dave Speyer elucidated (see his comment below the fold):
The question, what additional information do you need besides eigenvalues of $A$ and $B$ to get the eigenvalues of $A + B$, translates into a question about homogeneous polynomials. There is a triangle's worth of coefficients. You are given the coefficients on two of the sides of the triangle. What you want is the sum of coefficients along lines parallel to the third side. There are many ways you might get this information, depending on context. For example, the characteristic polynomial of $A B^{-1}$ corresponds to the 3rd edge of the triangle: in dimension 2, that gives the missing coefficient (all you actually need is Trace$(AB^{-1})$), while in higher dimensions, it's not enough.
To illustrate, here's a plot for a pair of pseudo-random matrices of dimension 9 whose coefficients were chosen uniformly and independently in the interval $[0,1]$. This is the slice $\lambda_1 = 1$ of the homogeneous form of the characteristic polynomiial, so on the two axes, its roots are the negative reciprocals of characteristic roots for $A$ and $B$, and on the diagonal, for $A+B$. The characteristic polynomial of $A B^{-1}$ determines the asymptotic behavior at infinity, in this slice. You can of course only see the real eigenvalues in this real picture, but you can see how they move around as you vary the slice through the origin. Under varying circumstance, you will have more a priori information. If $n=2$, the curves are conics. If the matrices are symmetric, they will intersect each line through the origin $n$ in $n$ points --- etc.
Addendum: Out of curiosity, I drew some pictures in the symmetric case, again for dimension 9. Here is a typical example, for a pair of pseudo-random 9-dimensional symmetric matrices. Observe the eigenvalues meeting and crossing as lines through the origin sweep around. [The buttons are from TabView in Mathematica, and they don't work in this static image.]
Consider a diagonal matrix A that has eigenvaues 1 and -1 with eigenvectors $e_1$ and $e_2$. Then A and -A have the same eigenvalues and eigenvectors as A and A. But A + -A = 0 and A + A $\ne$ 0


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Let $t^*\in(0,1)$ and $(\Omega,\mathcal{F},P)$ be a probability space. Suppose I have set $A\in\mathcal{F}$ and an uncountable family of sets $(B_t : t\in[0,1])\subset\mathcal{F}$ with the following properties:
- $P(A)>0$ and $P(B_t)=p$ where $p>0$ is a constant.
- For each $\omega\in A$ there exists a $\delta>0$ such that $\omega\notin B_t$ for all $t\in (t^*-\delta, t^*+\delta)$.
Is it true that $\limsup_{t\rightarrow t^*}P(A\cap B_t) = 0$? Is the limit well defined?


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FreeVideoLectures brings together videos of economics courses from Universities such as Yale and Berkeley, as well as online providers like the Khan Academy. They are arranged by topics, including: international economics, trade, game theory, history of economic thought and economic demography. Items are listed by course enabling students to work through a course chronologically.
Video and Audio Lectures in Principles of Macroeconomics
Hundreds of videos (mostly in English, but some in Afrikaans) on economic principles. Some are in chalk-and-talk format, while others use narrated animation. They are organised by topic into playlists. The most popular videos are the Keynesian multiplier, the IS-LM model, and absolute and comparative advantage.
This department's YouTube channel has around a hundred videos, organised into playlists about international economics, macro principles, intermediate macro, and statistics for social and behavioural sciences.
About two dozen short animated lectures and online slide shows for micro and macroeconomics. The slides are in a Flash format which does not allow editing, but allows readers to step through and recap. They use animation to build up graphs and show their interrelation.
10 lectures by US economists downloadable as streamed video or MP3 audio presentations, with accompanying PowerPoint slides and related papers that pursue the issues in more depth. Two lectures are on growth (Dean Baker, Mark Weisbrot), others on US labour markets (John Schmitt), women in the labour market (Heather Boushey), trade (Mark Weisbrot), intergenerational mobility and life chances (Heather Boushey), the Federal Reserve, asset bubbles and intellectual property (all Dean Baker). The lectures are US-focused and reflect the sometimes market-critical perspective of the Center for Economic Policy and Research, a think-tank founded by Baker and Weisbrot in 1999 with an advisory board including Joseph Stiglitz and Robert Solow (not to be confused with the UK-based Centre for Economic Policy Research).
A podcast series about the credit crunch and global recession featuring three Oxford academics. This series examines how the current crisis developed, analyses market and government responses to it, and looks at what might happen next. Eight audio files are available with most programmes lasting around 30 minutes.
The Crisis of Credit is an 11 minute animation explaining the origins of the credit crunch in the United States. It covers the interaction of homeowners, mortgage lenders, investors and financial institutions that produced the global financial crisis. It provides simple explanations of a number of complex terms and systems, delivering an effective introduction to the topic. Users will need a Flash based video player to watch the animation.
Welker's Wikinomics is a set of online resources for teachers and students of International Baccalaureate Economics. The video resources include around 100 video tutorials of about ten minutes each, uploaded during 2012. They use a narrated-diagram format to explain concepts in basic micro-, macro- and international economics. Each category also has flashcards, a glossary and worksheets.
This is a collection of more than three dozen short YouTube videos, featuring narrated drawings and slides, to illustrate basic concepts in macroeconomics.
This collection of videos covers financial markets, econometrics, markets and macroeconomics. It includes videos from Yale, European events and other economists. Videos typically last 30 minutes to an hour and often take the form of lectures or conference discussions.
A series of short, animated YouTube videos explaining basic macro concepts, including multipliers; deficit and debt; and crowding out.
This 5'35", subtitled YouTube video combines lively presentation with animation to argue that austerity is not the appropriate response to the financial crisis. Blyth is professor of International Political Economy at Brown University and author of "Austerity: History of a dangerous idea". A version of the video with Portugese subtitles is also available.
This YouTube video features 2008 Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman of Princeton University, speaking as part of the Authors@Google series. Instead of speaking about his book The Conscience of a Liberal, Krugman talks about the financial crisis, banking meltdown and credit crunch - several months before it actually happened, as the event took place on December 14, 2007. Krugman looks at the causes of the current crisis and then goes on to offer some possible ways out.
Though this YouTube channel of well-produced, narrated illustrations is mostly in French, the linked playlist has several with English text and narration, on topics including "What is Comparative Advantage?", "How can a country go bankrupt?", and "How does bad news affect the economy?" and "What is the Budget Wall?" Content is approved by academic economists as well as by Le Monde.
This project includes more than one hundred YouTube videos aimed at introductory university-level economics, with a wide range of durations. Lecturer and columnist Beggs announces new videos and blog posts video through Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus and other platforms.
This YouTube playlist, presented by a popular video-blogger, is mostly about the US political system, but some of the videos address government regulation, monetary & fiscal policy, the free market and market failure. The fifty videos are each just under ten minutes in length and combine the presenter speaking to camera with some animation. CrashCourse is a crowd-funded project in partnership with PBS Digital Studios.
An ongoing series of YouTube videos, of about ten minutes each, combining live presenters (a school teacher and TV presenter) with animation. Each video has closed captioning and suggested links for further study. The series was released from Summer 2015 to Summer 2016. There are 35 videos on topics including globalization, price signals, environmental economics, market failure, and the 2008 crash. Some of the content reflects the US origin of the videos. Crash Course is crowd-funded.
This 57 minute talk, put online in September 2011, reflects on causes of the 2008 financial crisis and the role of inequality.
An 87-minute video from a public lecture given by Piketty at the London School of Economics and Political Science in June 2014. After a three-minute introduction, Piketty speaks for 53 minutes about the themes of his book "Capital in the 21st Century" and the rest of the video is the question-and-answer session.
This archive of 20+-minute interviews includes some of economists, politicians and academics speaking on economic issues. They include former Chancellor Alastair Darling, Christine Lagarde of the IMF, Richard Thaler, and Statistician Nate Silver.
The videos on this YouTube channel are extracted from lectures in economics and in Managerial Finance, including some made direct to camera. They are organised into playlists around different themes including "Macroeconomics - basic models" and "Linear Demand Elasticities". The lecturer is based in an unspecified US institution.
Six sections divided into a total of 26 topics, each of which has a short playlist of YouTube videos with text transcripts.
This thought-provoking but accessible video clip is taken from a TV programme featuring the Nobel prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz. In it he talks about weaknesses of using GDP as a measure, for example in terms of sustainability. He also reminds listeners of the difference between GNP and GDP. It lasts approximately eight minutes.
Clifford, an Advanced Placement Economics teacher based in California, uses YouTube to share many short videos of him explaining economic concepts, organised into playlists around micro and macro concepts. As of the start of 2012, his economics videos have had more than a million views. They are freely reusable for non-commerical purposes.
A six-minute video explaining the basics of the Balance of Payments, with accompanying text materials going into more details, including a glossary. The video combines live action and animation and uses the analogy of a personal current account to explain balance of payments, including some facts about the UK's balance of payments. The video description links to the ONS Balance of Payments pages, including a glossary which van be viewed online or downloaded as PDF.
Dozens of "pencasts" (audio narrated pen animations) on introductory topics. The site requires Flash player.
Part of the Nobel prize website, this page provides resources related to the 2008 winner Paul Krugman of Princeton University. It includes the video of his Nobel lecture - New trade, new geography and the troubles of manufacturing - that focuses on economic geography and trade, comcluding that: increasing returns have been a powerful force shaping the world economy, that force may actually be in decline, but that decline itself is a key to understanding much of what is happening in the world today. Users will need Windows Media Player or RealPlayer to view the lecture. The site also includes supporting materials, such as interviews, lecture slides and press releases.
Video and Audio from a public lecture given on 17 November 2015 at the LSE's Centre for Macroeconomics.
"Why did the size of the U.S. economy increase by 3 percent on one day in mid-2013—or Ghana's balloon by 60 percent overnight in 2010? Why did the U.K. financial industry show its fastest expansion ever at the end of 2008—just as the world's financial system went into meltdown? And why was Greece's chief statistician charged with treason in 2013 for apparently doing nothing more than trying to accurately report the size of his country's economy? The answers to all these questions lie in the way we define and measure national economies around the world: gross domestic product."
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"Middle East Patterns: Places, Peoples and Politics" features 150 original photographs from Dr. Colbert Held, a 1938 alumnus of Baylor.
The photographs will give the public a look at Middle Eastern life through the eyes of an average person, not a professional photographer.
In 1989 Held published a book with John Thomas Cummings titled "Middle East Patterns: Places, Peoples and Politics," now in its fifth edition.
The exhibit takes the name of his book and will be on display through May 15.
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In other words, what products synthesized by ribosomes are actual parts of ribosomes (if any)? How are they involved in their own synthesis otherwise? What is the cycle/chain of products starting with the proteins synthesized by ribosomes and actually ending with the synthesis of a ribosome?
The most important parts of the ribosome are not made by other ribosomes - 5 rRNA (ribosomal RNA) of the ribosome actually do most of the direct work of creating the protein and are made by RNA polymerase ( a protein, but not the ribosome).
Then there are 92 ribosomal proteins, which as a rule bind to ribosomal RNA to support their structure and keep everything going. These are all made by ribosomes. They are thought to have appeared later in the evolution of the ribosome though I imagine that it would not be possible to constitute a working ribosome without each one of them.
these numbers are for the eukaryotic ribosome, the prokaryotic ribosome has 3 rRNA and 52 ribosomal protein components.


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An unbelievably basic question, but it's something I've never been taught. Am I right in thinking that the following defines a stationary solution?
Let $\phi$ be some dynamical variable satisfying a differential equation $D(\phi)=0$ with respect to some parameter $t$. Then $\phi$ is called a stationary solution or a stationary state if all $t$ derivatives of $\phi$ are zero.
Could someone point me to a resource where this is defined? A quick google threw up nothing useful, but perhaps I was looking in the wrong place!


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In one of the Periodic Table videos, Prof. Poliakoff shows a model of a hydrogen peroxide molecule and claims that the H-O bonds will always be at right angles to each other. I have a rudimentary intuition for how molecules arrange themselves based on mutual attraction and repulsion - I've solved some Foldit puzzles - but the H2O2 defies that kind of common sense explanation.
I get that there are forces pushing the hydrogens apart and forces pulling them together, but how does that fragile equilibrium of forces result in an exact right angle?


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Now I have the following problem: I am trying to create a website using Tomcat 7 and JSP. But I am not capable of configurating the server properly. I want a website that shows in the browsers address-bar something like mydomain.com/about without any *.jsp or *.html. In order to realize this I have a redirection Bean, that is called by a JSP-Page, parses the requested URI and returns the path of a JSP-File that should be forwarded to. The problem is the servlet mapping in the web.xml There i tried to create a servlet mapping for e.g. /about that is mapped to the redirect.jsp that calls the bean. The problem is, that I recieve the following exception:
javax.servlet.ServletException: No servlet class has been specified for servlet redirect
Here is the code of the web.xml:
BTW: The index.jsp is called properly because it is in the welcome-file-list. The problem is redirecting to the other sites without displaying their path in the address-bar.
Maybe there is a way to forward in a Javabean. This could be called by the
<servlet-class>-tag in the servlet mapping.
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5 Gaping Plot Holes Hollywood Knows You Won't Notice
#2. Hey, Just The ___ I Was Looking For!
Hoosiers wouldn't have been as good if Gene Hackman had, say, simply overheard the opposing coaches game plan before every game. But Hollywood repeatedly gambles enormous blockbuster budgets that we'll want to watch someone trip dick first into the exact thing they were looking for.
Notable Offenders
Harry Potter is supposed to be some sort of predestined messiah wizard, but his greatest survival skill is bumbling around in the dark and accidentally overhearing information that will come in handy later on. And if he and his friends are attacked by a monster, you can be sure they learned its weaknesses in class last week.
"Check it out guys, more apparently useless trivia we should memorize."
Probably the best example comes in Goblet of Fire, when Harry Slumdog Millionaire's his way through a challenge that's billed as the ultimate test of his wizardry skills. Yet, every challenge he faces is based on something he or some other character learned at some point in the film. While this isn't exactly a logical flaw, it's certainly a trick. They tell you you're going to see a movie about the best wizard ever, when in actuality you're going to see some kid remember shit that was conveniently explained to him last week.
The hugely successful Bond reboot Casino Royale was guilty of the same lottery switcheroo. James Bond has to bankrupt a villain by beating him in a game of Texas Hold 'Em (apparently the game of choice for sophisticated British gentlemen.) In the final showdown, the two superfluous characters have a flush and a full house, the bad guy has a better full house and looks confident in his win. But then Bond is dealt a straight flush, the absolute perfect hand at that moment.
For those not familiar with poker, the odds of all that happening in one hand are pretty damn low, one in 158,551,976 to be precise. It's supposed to show us what a suave badass we're dealing with, but if the film had a stray bolt of lightning come through the casino walls and strike the villain dead, it would have been just as unlikely, and required as much secret agent-ing as Bond's once in a lifetime hand. Why not have him gamble on a terrible hand and still pull out the win? Better yet, have him lose the last hand but then shoot the bad guy in the face before uttering some sort of gambling related quip.
"I see your pair and raise you... three bullets in your face."
Star Wars: Attack of the Clones is another film that equates spying with Brad Pitt-winning-the-lottery good luck. Obi-Wan is crawling around through some caverns, and overhears a couple of the villains talking about exactly what he needed to find out. While it's true that Obi-Wan is actively trying to get info instead of wandering around (like some sort of a wizard) the bad guys are telling each other things they should logically already know. Actually, that brings us to ...
#1. Peekaboo Logic 2: Make Everyone Retarded/Insane/Plot Forwarding Robots Boogaloo
Attentive readers will notice a subtler form of the peekaboo logic at work in the Obi-Wan example. There's no logical chain of events that could possibly have lead to the behavior exhibited by the men who give Obi-Wan the information he's after. This is probably the logical blind spot that Hollywood is best at exploiting, and it's not just armed guards having convenient conversations while our hero eavesdrops. The plot forwarding robots are sometimes the greatest characters in some of the most successful movies ever made, and sometimes it's, well, everyone in the movie ...
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Entering Ghostbusters II, the last time we saw the only people to have ever battled the paranormal in the history of the world, they had just saved Manhattan from a giant cartoon made out of marshmallow. They did this, it should be noted, in the middle of Manhattan. It must have been a giant media spectacle, with all four of the Busters being hailed as heroes.
Yet, at the beginning of the sequel, we find Dan Akroyd and Ernie Hudson working as birthday clowns to make ends meet. That's quite a fall for the only people to have ever saved the world from the undead forces of darkness. The only explanation we get are random accusations that they staged the crisis they saved New York from. The one with a giant man made out of marshmallow walking down the street in front of TV cameras and millions of stunned eye-witnesses. But because their fall from grace happens off-screen, it doesn't have to make sense.
Some off-screen moments aren't worth exploring.
The same can be said for the behavior exhibited by some of the most iconic characters of all time. At the end of Halloween, we never stop to wonder why Michael Myers took the time to carefully spring load every closet in the house like a corpse-filled can of snakes. At the end of Usual Suspects, we never stop to wonder why the most powerful criminal in the world--a man who people are willing to pay millions of dollars to have described to them--drops dozens of potentially incriminating clues while waiting to post bail on a relatively minor weapons charge.
And not to pick on the Die Hard terrorists, but their Plan A is "bust into a company's holiday party, ask for the boss to identify himself (since you haven't bothered to research what he looks like), threaten him into giving you the code and shoot him if he doesn't comply." When that plan somehow goes awry, they're forced to go to Plan B, "Buy our computer guy enough time to hack into the vault." It's worth pointing out that they'd have all the time in the world if they hadn't just pretended to stage a terror attack on an office Christmas Party.
But rather than formulate a set of circumstances that would logically require the crew of indiscriminately accented Europeans to take over a Christmas party, the writers said fuck it, nobody's gonna notice. And the reason we keep bringing up Die Hard is, they were right. We've watched that movie hundreds of times, and never realized how baffling the terror plot was because they never showed them hatching the plot. When we first saw Usual Suspects, we had to pick our jaw up off the floor, and use it to scoop our brains back into our heads. And it's not just us. The members of the Academy watch movies for a living, and they gave The Usual Suspects the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay.
So apparently, the quality of a movie has nothing to do with how smart it is. The only thing that really matters is whether it's the right kind of stupid.
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I find myself doing this sort of thing quite often:-
EventHandler eh = null; //can't assign lambda directly since it uses eh
eh = (s, args) =>
//small snippet of code here
((SomeType)s).SomeEvent -= eh;
variableOfSomeType.SomeEvent += eh;
Basically I only want to attach an event handler to listen for one shot from the event, I no longer want to stay attached after that. Quite often that "snippert of code" is just one line.
My mind is going a bit numb, I'm sure there must be something I can do so I don't need to repeat all this overhead. Bear in mind that
EventHandler may well be
Any ideas how I can tidy up the repeative part of the code and just leave the snippet in a Lambda?


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Ulysses 1.5 — look familiar?
Last time around, I wrote that Ulysses hasn't changed much since its introduction. I'd like to elaborate on that, given the fact that we just shipped 2.1.1. :)
When we released version 1.0, we did so with a pretty precise concept of what the app should do, and what it could become. For example, there never was a question, whether RTF could eventually make the cut or not, even if a "vast majority" of users loudly demanded it — we wouldn't do it, period.
We also had a very clear idea of how to handle updates, namely that we wanted to do as few as humanly possible. People should *write*, not update.
As a result, any feature request, as simple and precise as it may have been, has always been treated as a mere shell for "here's something the users wants to accomplish". We looked at the "why" instead of the "what" and made a decision based on the overall concept and direction.
We're also pretty good at statistics and probability calculation, so we just knew, that he who cries loudest is not to be considered "the majority", even if the cries are echoed by various sites and forum posts. We also fully understand how positive feedback is rare and mostly broad, while negative feedback is generally very detailed, and how this might get to you (and your product), if you don't watch out.
So whenever we added features, changed behaviors or touched the interface, and even when we rewrote large chunks of the application, we did so with the greatest respect to the vast majority of silent users. We never (!) compromized on this. We never (!) went for "possible larger audience" at the expense of silent happy users.
We had this one line, to which we still commit:
If there's just a single customer out there who likes what we do, we will not take the app and transform it into something else. *This here* is what they bought, and by all means, they should be allowed to keep it.
So today, after nine years, you can still make Ulysses look and work as it did on day one. Hide the collection browser, hide the toolbar, keep your mouse off the notes' popup, and you're pretty much there: Just a grown-up, mature version of Ulysses 1.0.
And that's where we are.
Now, however grown-up Ulysses has become, it's also starting to show its age. Not so much visually — I think we adapted rather nicely, if slowly –, but technically, conceptually and generally overall… ish…ly. He.
For one, a lot of functionality we provided in 2003 is now being offered by Mac OS X itself: Auto-save, resume on launch, fullscreen mode, auto-update. This is now common to all apps, it's just built-in, nothing special anymore.
Then there's all the new system stuff that we can't implement easily, because of how things had to be done back in the days: Versions, iCloud, iOS syncing, to name a few. There's just no sane way to implement iCloud sync and Versions, and we can't make Ulysses' documents accessible for e.g. Daedalus, because of how we implemented tabs, filters and collections and all of that.
And then there are the dead ends: features that cause some problems but can't be cut, because users rely on them. Also new ideas and fully legit requests we can't fulfill, because of the limits of our current implementation. Think Markers and RTF notes for the former. Think multiple open projects for the latter.
Plus… the market has changed. When we introduced Ulysses to the world, there wasn't much in terms of similar apps, and as such there wasn't much of user's experience and expectation. I remember heated forum discussions about the usefulness of a "fullscreen mode" as well as "these tag-things — give me RTF or give me death".
Today, there's a whole category of fullscreen writing apps on the Mac App Store, and Markdown is used almost everywhere, give or take a flavor or offspring.
Ulysses was a niche product when it launched. Its concept, ideas and large parts of its functionality are mainstream now.
Then there's us, Max and me. We also have evolved. We have evolved from two guys, working at seperate places in their spare time, communicating only via email, to a real, perfectly healthy company with paid employees.
We even got kids now. :)
We still share the same passion and love for our products and our users, but we, too, have different experiences and expectations than we had at the start of this fantastic journey.
It's 2012, and the world
will come to an end is a very different place than it was nine years ago. That's how it goes: Things change, others may come to an end. We need to adopt. You need to adopt.
So, yeah, it's been nine years, alright.
Time for a change.
And change it will.
Ulysses… it will change.
To be continued.