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16 Nov 2012 7:50 AM #1
Command line publish?
I'm having trouble scripting the publish action in Architect to generate extjs files so I can use it in my build process.
Since I see the command window being popped open, there must be some command send to the shell. The example of using Sencha Cmd is for Touch and I'm looking for the same for extjs. So far my fiddling with 'sencha app build' is not going anyway.
What exactly gets invoked by Architect when I click Publish?
26 Nov 2012 7:38 AM #2
Publish is literally a file push that uses xcopy or rsync to move the files from projectDir/app/ to the destination directory.
if you want to use Sencha Cmd to compile your application into a single file to be used in production you'll need to follow the guide here: http://www.sencha.com/forum/showthre...-Sencha-Cmd-v3Phil Strong


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If Joshua can be translated why Is the name of Jesus translated "Jesus" but his name in hebrew was Joshua?
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This is somewhat related to a question that I asked on Math.SE but, sadly, received no response. I apologize ahead of time if this is not appropriate for MO. Feel free to vote to close if this is the case.
I really have two (distinct) questions. The first is regarding a paper by Greenlees and May and the second is more of a "big-picture" question with no explicit relationship to their paper.
Let $G$ be a finite group.
In their paper Some Remarks On the Structure of Mackey functors , Greenlees and May define the functor:
$R: GMod \rightarrow M[G]$ where $GMod$ is the category of finite left $G$-modules and $M[G]$ is the category of $G$ Mackey functors by:
$RV(G/H) = V^H$ where $V$ is a $G$ module and $V^H$ is the $H$ fixed point set of $V$.
In their main theorem(Thm. 12) they consider the map $\eta: M \rightarrow RM(G/H_{j,k})$.
Question 1: In Theorem 12, why are $coker(\eta)$ and $ker(\eta)$ in $\mathcal{A}$? Unfortunately I don't see how this clearly follows from the induction hypothesis at the moment.
Question 2: In general, What are some examples of added benefits (aside from additional structure) that one obtains when it is known that you have a Green or Tambara functor rather than just a Mackey functor?


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Let $G_0$ be a finitely generated group, and suppose there are groups $G_i$ and $K_i$ as in the following short exact sequences
$1\to K_i\to G_{i+1}\to G_i\to 1$
with $K_i$ free and nonabelian (you may assume finitely generated), and $G_i$ commutative transitive. (If $a$ is nontrivial and $b$ and $c$ both commute with $a$, then $b$ and $c$ commute.) Does it follow that $\mathrm{rank}(G_i)\to\infty$ as $i\to\infty$? Are there examples of extensions of this sort where the rank doesn't increase?


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How can I find which desktop environment I am using?
I want to accomplish this using command line.
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How can I find which desktop environment I am using?
I want to accomplish this using command line.
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And you can try
I've tested the best tools I've found with:
My results:
a & b - DESKTOP_SESSION=gnome c - DESKTOP_SESSION=default.desktop d - DESKTOP_SESSION=Lubuntu e - Nothing
a & b - gnome c - Nothing d - Lubuntu e - Nothing
a & b - OK c - OK d - WRONG e - Nothing & OK
a - Nothing b - GNOME 2.32.0 c - MATE d - LXDE (Lubuntu) e - Unknown (Window Manager: JWM)
CONCLUSION: A combination of
For the window manager you can use:
In a terminal or console, you can run:
The item that appears in more lines should be the answer
This command seems to be useful:
-> in GNOME returns
-> in MATE returns
-> in LXDE returns
-> in JWM returns
You can run HardInfo. It's ready by default at least in Linux Mint; or you could install it (from Synaptic, ...).
You can run it a) from the main menu > Search box > hardinfo, or b) from the main menu > All applications > System Tools or Administration > System Information, or c) from the main menu > All applications > All > System Information, or d) from a terminal or console > hardinfo > Enter, or e) from the Run Application dialog (Alt+F2) > hardinfo > Enter.
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I recently applied for one of the volunteer positions at GDC 2011 and unfortunately didnt make the cut. After realising the submission write up was only not 1500 characters and not the 1500 words I'd written I cut my piece down to this:
"Videogames are a most unique and engaging form of media. I wrote my A2 essay on Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. I came to intimately know the game and its themes, I realised that gaming can be so much more than what I initially thought: through interactivity you can experience things in ways no other medium can offer. I am now studying my second year of Digital Animation at the University College Falmouth and I feel its time to meet some people in the industry, hear what they have to say, show them what I have to offer. After all the amazing things Ive heard about GDC; from the Indie panels to the incredible technical seminars, it sounds like the perfect place to start networking with people who share that view that games can be more. Games are being expanded in small ways by a number of more cerebral and more interestingly designed games; Flower brought a sense of serenity I hadnt thought possible in a videogame, Braid, a cerebral brilliance matched only by its thematic complexity expressed through the gameplay itself. Far Cry 2 showed me how the same philosophy could combat ludo-narrative dissonance by crafting the immersive story around the gameplay, while maintaining the impact player interactions and choices had on the experience. I feel Id be a good volunteer as Ive lead teams on creative projects on both my Media A level and Digital Animation degree. I can also be an invaluable asset to any team and Im eager to meet and learn from like-minded people."
I wondered if anyone had ever got on this program and could give me some idea of what these people want to see from a candidate so I can do better next year. Thanks.
I've been a volunteer for the last 4 years now, and let me tell you competition is crazy fierce. Last year there were over 2000 applications for 400 spots. A lot of spots are filled by vets, and a lot are filled by people recommended by vets. So it is super hard to get in. Now I don't know exactly how they judge the essays, but I can say what I know from reading other essays of people who have gotten in. You made the essay more about the industry than yourself, talk about WHY you NEED to go to GDC, WHAT you expect to get out of it. Add some humor, show your personality. Make it less formal. Good luck next year!
I also applied and was not selected. They receive many more applications than the number of spaces available. This year there were 1800 applications for 400 positions. It also seems that they tend to select applicants who have previously volunteered and those who have game industry experience.
The 1500 character limit is tough, that's for sure. One of the hardest parts of writing is utilizing the space on the page as best as possible.
After you're done writing, re-read and ask yourself "Can I combine these two sentences into one and not lose any valuable information?"
The first thing I noticed was the large wall of text. In my opinion this is both intimidating and difficult to read, but that's just me, feel free to agree/disagree. Maybe next time spend 3 characters utilizing returns?
And, jumping off what Gshonk brought up, the essay itself read (to me) 70% of how much you like games 15% about yourself and 15% talking about why you should be a CA. These guys can probably safely assume mostly everyone applying is passionate about games, you have to convince them why you would be a better candidate than the rest.
Hope that helps
I agree with Gshonk. I was a volunteer at gdc austin 09. I dont remember exactly what I wrote to be selected but I know if was about me and why i felt being a volunteer would help me get my foot in the door of the industry. It was a great experience and I was able to sit in on alot of sessions that I would not be able to afford otherwise. I made a few contacts thru other volunteers and working some of the events such as the beer bash and just staying after to pickup surveys and asking questions to the people attending and the speakers. Oh and just reading your essay, you made it sound more like a school research paper than why you wanted to be a volunteer.
Like Grant, I have also been a GDC volunteer. You could probably ask 50 of us volunteers and get 50 different responses, but here are my two cents:
--The volunteer program at the main GDC is probably different than at other GDCs (e.g., GDC Austin/Online). I have been to the main GDC only.
--Competition to volunteer is tough. I'm guessing 250+ spots went to returning volunteers, so that leaves 150 spots for 1650 applicants. And that doesn't include recommendations! (Returning volunteers can recommend new applicants. It's not clear how this helps, but you can imagine that it can help a lot.) So if you didn't get in, don't feel bad. Even with a great essay it's probably a crap shoot.
--So what you really want is a great essay and a recommendation. If there's a formula for a great essay, they're not telling us. But, in their shoes, I'd be looking for passion, maturity, authenticity, and humility, specifically a servant's mindset. Why? Passion: duh. Maturity: it's a trade convention, not a fan show like PAX. Authenticity (i.e. personal, not generic): they want people, not robots. A servant's mindset: A volunteer's main purpose is to serve the other attendees and help them to have the best GDC possible (without costing the organizers money). All of the other awesome stuff is cake.
--Also, I would apply early next year. I knew one volunteer who would check the app page each day, and the day it went live, he applied. If you think about it, applying early can indicate initiative, planning, and passion. (FYI, the application form usually goes up in November.)
--Even if you aren't a volunteer, go to the GDC anyway. Financially, the volunteer only saves on the cost of the pass and maybe lunch. So buy an Expo pass or a Student pass. (FYI, the cost of Expo passes goes up after this Monday.) If you've never been to the GDC, there's still plenty to see or do. And you can still network: all the bigwigs still roam the halls and eat lunch at the tables and also go to the Expo floor. And, if you want to know more about the volunteer program, you can then go to the source: Find the CA Lounge, go there, and introduce yourself and just be humble and ask some questions. Maybe you'll meet some people who you click with or who live near you, and maybe they will get to know you well enough to recommend you next year.
--Have multiple people read your essay before you submit it. Having other volunteers read it helps, but even your parents would be way better than nothing.
--You could also try going as Press. I don't know what their press requirements are, but I used to attend conventions writing for my university's paper. A press badge is often better than an "All Access" badge. If your school's paper isn't enough, visit your city paper and maybe you can work with them to write an article on the GDC. (I don't have experience with online press, like blogs or websites. But a friend got in that way: he was local, and some friends at a Euro gaming site wanted someone to cover the GDC. Win win!)
--Even if you don't make it to the GDC (or another GDC), the GDC vault has some of the lectures available for free. They seem to release more free ones as time goes on, too.
Last thoughts: Wow, is the original poster in the UK? (There's always GDC Europe...) If I were choosing volunteers for a program, I would give extra weight to someone willing to fly out from Europe. But that wasn't apparent in your essay. And what's an "A2 essay" anyway? Remember your audience.
Good luck to everyone . . . for this year and next!
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OncoLink Talks with President and CEO Susan Braun and Director of Grants Anice Thigpen, PhD
Two years ago this month, the Dallas, Texas-based Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation – known as the nation's largest private funder of breast cancer research – announced the addition of a new category to its National Grants Program: breast cancer imaging technology. Since its founding in 1982, the Foundation has funded basic, clinical, and translational research and many projects in the areas of breast health education and breast cancer screening and treatment. Thanks to a matching grant from the Joseph Drown Foundation, Komen was able to start awarding two-year, $250,000 grants to researchers seeking better alternatives to conventional mammography, such as digital mammography, positron emission tomography scanning (PET), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and ultrasound. Eleven such grants were awarded in 1999 and eight more for 2000.
In fact, so far this year, the Komen Foundation has awarded more than $2 million for projects in this new category of imaging technology. In addition, more than $3 million has been awarded this year to grant recipients studying novel approaches to identifying early breast cancer and pre-cancerous abnormalities. President and CEO Susan Braun notes that the new grant category, combined with an increased emphasis on projects devoted to improved screening and early detection in the grants program as a whole, provides a way for the Foundation to fulfill its mission more completely.
"We looked at our mission statement, which defines our focus on the four areas of breast cancer research, education, screening, and treatment," says Susan Braun. "Since we'd always been involved in promoting screening and funding for screening at the grassroots level, we felt we needed to make sure that we're looking at and investing in the right modalities. So it's fitting that we would invest more in this type of research."
The Foundation's reasoning appeared to receive a boost from the results of the Canadian National Breast Screening Study, published in the September 20th issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Canadian researchers reported that the addition of mammography to clinical breast exam did not decrease mortality among a group of 50- to 59-year-old women screened in the 1980s. Many U.S. researchers have challenged the study's validity, raising questions about how the women were selected, the quality of mammography screenings in the 1980s, and the training of the doctors who read them. Susan Braun says that she and her colleagues understand and even share some of these concerns, but they also feel that the results emphasize an important reality: mammography is an imperfect technology.
"We don't ever want to send out the message that when there is a randomized clinical trial like this, you can just ignore it," Braun stresses. "As rational people, you can't just blow it off. There are interesting questions that it raises."
"At the same time, we don't feel that what's there is strong enough on its own," she adds. "There's probably not going to be one study of any kind that is going to provide the definitive statement on mammography." Thus, the Komen Foundation stresses that it is still essential that women receive annual screening mammograms, starting at age 40, even as researchers search for better methods of detecting and diagnosing breast cancer.
"Digital mammography, ultrasound, MRI, PET – there are likely benefits to each and situations in which each would be appropriate," says Braun. More information from research is needed to make these determinations, and the Komen Foundation hopes that its funding will help to further this work.
Many of the Komen-funded researchers working in these areas were in Washington, DC, last month for the Foundation's Fourth Annual Mission Conference. The Conference is designed to provide researchers with an opportunity to "come out of the lab" and communicate with patients, survivors, and doctors who are dealing with breast cancer. Information about the Conference, as well as a list of 1999 grantees in the imaging technology category, can be found on the Komen Foundation's Web site at www.komen.org. (A list of 2000 grantees will be added shortly.)
Anice Thigpen, Ph.D., Director of Grants at The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, sees the addition of the imaging technology category as a way to work more efficiently towards the development of "unambiguous technologies."
"There's a real need for unambiguous technologies – technologies that will allow us to see something and know that its real, so we can get rid of unnecessary biopsies," Thigpen says. She adds that the Komen-funded research projects that are working toward this goal can be divided into two categories: short-term and long-term.
Short-term projects have the more immediate goal of actually improving mammography itself, which is basically just an x-ray of the breast. Digital mammography is one way to do this: it improves the read-out by producing digital images that can be manipulated, unlike the standard fixed images on film. Researchers are looking at ways that computer technology can be used to enhance the image, thereby increasing accuracy. Dr. Thigpen cites the example of a project that received funding in 1999, entitled "Gray Scale Image Processing for Digital Mammography," which is in progress at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. These and other grants, says Thigpen, are looking for a "quick return" – that is, ways to improve on the existing technology as soon as possible.
Longer-term projects are looking at other kinds of breast imaging technologies besides x-ray mammography, such magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and positron emission tomography (PET). Like x-rays, MRI creates images of the body's structures. These images are the result of radio signals emitted by specific atoms in a person who is lying in a strong magnetic field. PET scanning is different because it does not just create images of interior structures; rather, it can actually provide information about the processes taking place at the cellular level. Researchers are developing radioactive "tracers" that are processed differently by cancer cells and normal cells and therefore can highlight cancer cells on a scan. This holds forth the promise of getting better information about a suspected breast cancer sooner.
"Within at least the next ten years," says Dr. Thigpen, "I think we will get away from x-ray and towards these more sophisticated imaging technologies."
Komen's imaging grants for 2000 are designed to help move us closer to that goal. For example, researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia are investigating MRI as a breast imaging tool. Another researcher at the University of Illinois at Chicago is investigating the possible use of radiolabeled Herceptin to improve breast cancer imaging. Herceptin is a monoclonal antibody that specifically targets breast cancer cells that produce a protein called HER2 (or HER2/neu). Making the antibody visible on an imaging test could help distinguish cancer cells from normal cells much more accurately. Another Komen-funded researcher at the University of South Florida is evaluating PET scanning as an alternative to biopsy for staging breast cancer. Being able to diagnose lymph node involvement without surgery would represent a major advance. Still other researchers are seeking new "radiotracers" that will be taken up by breast cancer cells and make them easily visible on a scan.
"Basically, this technology has the potential to light these tumors up like a lightbulb," Dr. Thigpen explains.
Outside the imaging technology category, she adds, still other projects are trying to push the point of diagnosis back even earlier, before a tumor even has the chance to form. Many researchers are looking for early cell markers for breast cancer that could be picked up by a serum blood test. Basically, this would parallel the PSA (prostate-specific antigen) blood test now used detect the likely presence of prostate cancer, often at a very early stage. Other researchers are looking at mammary fluid and cell samples as potential sources for improving early detection. For example, a Komen-funded researcher at The Johns Hopkins University is researching molecular assessment of ductal lavage fluid as a detection tool. "Lavage" involves washing the ducts to obtain a cell sample that can then be analyzed for abnormal changes, before a tumor even develops.
"You know, we would like to see the day when giving 10 cc's of blood and having a ductal lavage would become the screening process for breast cancer," Dr. Thigpen notes. "We know that the earlier the detection, the better the prognosis. At some point you push back detection so far that it becomes a tool for prevention."
In the short-term, the Komen Foundation hopes that the research it funds will lead to a better prognosis for women who develop breast cancer. But over the long term, it hopes to move closer to prevention, which Dr. Thigpen aptly describes as the "holy grail" of breast cancer research.
Despite the incredible promise of such research, mammography is still the best screening tool now available. Its imperfections should not be seen as a justification for not taking advantage of it, says Komen President and CEO Susan Braun. She says that she sees financial and informational obstacles keeping women from getting annual screening mammograms.
"There are access issues," says Braun, "and more women need information about low-cost mammography." Komen's 1-800-IMAWARE toll-free information line and its affiliate programs throughout the nation are working to match women with lower-cost options. She admits that cost is likely to remain a pressing issue as newer and more expensive technologies are introduced. The Foundation is currently supporting a bill in Congress that would raise the reimbursement rate for digital mammograms.
"We realize we have to be fiscally responsible, but like most advocacy groups, we will push toward having coverage for any technology that seeks to improve outcomes," says Braun. "We will always be on that side of the equation."
She also believes that lack of information still keeps some women from having regular screening mammograms. "Some women don't want to be screened, and that is their decision," says Braun. "But we have to make sure that they have the right information about what screening is and what is does."
She adds that physician education plays a role in this, too. "We know that one persistent reason why women don't get mammograms is because their physicians don't tell them to!"
Braun says that the Foundation's high-profile awareness-promoting events, such as "Race for the Cure," "Shop for the Cure," and Lee Denim Day, provide a way for large numbers of the lay public to learn more about the disease and ways they can take action.
"We try to provide an array of means for people to get active," Braun notes. "And a lot of the money we've raised has come from organizations that would not normally fund breast cancer research" – such as Ford, Gillette, Yoplait, and Pier 1. In turn, these companies can get the message out to a larger number of people that would otherwise be possible.
"One of our central messages is that although each woman is at risk, we are better able to know what that means," Braun adds. "And we're better able to rule out lumps that are not breast cancer and find cancer earlier. We need to push the accelerator down, rather than let up. We need to keep the pressure high. And not just during October, but year-round."
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Archives of Soho - An Introduction
What are The Archives of Soho?
Matthew Boulton (1728 -1809) and James Watt (1736 -1819) are two of the greatest figures in Birmingham's history. Boulton was world-famous for a dazzling array of goods, from bejewelled swords to buttons, and his minting machinery revolutionised money production. Watt's improvements to the steam engine gave the industrial revolution its power source. Their partnership changed manufacturing forever.
The Archives of Soho, named after Boulton's Manufactory at Soho, Handsworth, are the papers of these remarkable men. The three collections (the Matthew Boulton Papers, the James Watt Papers, the Boulton & Watt Archive) record their businesses and much more besides; their families, estates and households, scientific interests, and the people they had contact with.
The collections are among the most important in Birmingham Archives and Heritage Service. They have been catalogued by the Archives of Soho Project, funded by the City Council, the Assay Office Charitable Trust and the Heritage Lottery Fund. They are revealing on nearly every aspect of their times, from farming to businesswomen, from attitudes to slavery to factory management. Exploring Boulton and Watt's world opens a window on every aspect of 18th and 19th century life and they are open to all to study
Matthew Boulton Papers
Matthew Boulton is arguably the most important man in the history of Birmingham. His magnificent Manufactory at Soho, Handsworth, built in the 1760s, was Europe's largest, producing articles for sale in Britain and on the Continent, including buttons, buckles, silverware, and ormolu.
In 1773, through Boulton's efforts, Birmingham was granted its own Assay Office, which meant that silverware no longer had to be sent away to be stamped. Soon afterwards he brought James Watt here to begin the famous steam-engine partnership. The two men became important members of the intellectual group known as the Lunar Society, whose members included Joseph Priestley, Erasmus Darwin, and Josiah Wedgwood. Boulton's greatest achievement, however, was considered to be his invention of steam-powered coining machinery, designed to prevent the counterfeiting of coins.
On permanent loan from the Birmingham Assay Office, the Matthew Boulton Papers are the private and business records of Boulton and his successors. Besides the records of various Soho firms, they contain the correspondence of Boulton family members with people of every description, and minutely detailed household and estate records from Soho.
The James Watt Papers
The James Watt Papers cover the life, career and interests of James Watt, one of the greatest inventors of his age, best known for his improvements to the steam engine. However they also document three generations of Watts: James' father James Watt of Greenock, and his sons James and Gregory. The papers came to Birmingham in two parts: the part from the Muirhead family was given to the Reference Library in the 1930s, while the part known as the James Watt Papers was purchased by Birmingham City Council in 1993.
The collection contains extensive correspondence between Watt and many of the greatest scientists and engineers of the time. Other papers record his early career as a canal surveyor in Scotland, his struggle to protect the patents on his steam engines, and his later life as landowner managing estates in Wales.
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James Watt and Matthew Boulton were partners from 1775 to 1800. During that time Watt's steam engine revolutionised industry and manufacturing, but the firm they established lasted over 120 years, making engines at Soho Foundry in Handsworth until 1895.The firm has left a remarkable archive, which was given to Birmingham by the engineer George Tangye in 1911. It records everything, from James Watt's first engines for pumping water out of mines to huge steam ship engines, and many surprising things besides. Did you know that Boulton & Watt made fire extinguishing systems for cotton mills? Thousands of drawings, many beautifully coloured, show their engines. Hundreds of letters tell the story of these engines and relations between Boulton & Watt and their customers. Order books and production records record minute details of their operations.
The Boulton & Watt archive holds a wealth of information, about engineering, its impact on society, and about the people who worked with it. It is a legacy of industrial history from one of Birmingham's most celebrated firms.Guide to the Collections in Birmingham City Archives
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The Shanghai Design Week was organized by the Shanghai government with the purpose to promote the construction of "city of design" and support the innovation driven transformation and development of Shanghai.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang told a joint Leaders' Summit of the Global Services Forum (GSF) and the China International Fair for Trade in Services (CIFTIS) on Wednesday that services sectors around the world represent the most important opportunities for growth and economic "upgrading" sought by developing countries.
Culture, as exemplified by thriving creative industries around the world, has many positive spillovers for human development, UNCTAD's Deputy Secretary-General has said in China.
Numbers released in run-up to Global Services Forum in Beijing show creative industries exports rose sharply from 2002-2011.
UNCTAD was invited to attend the first National Policy Dialogue on the development of creative/entertainment industries in Nigeria held last month in Lagos to identify challenges and develop a roadmap going forward in the context of the Nigerian Vision 2020 and the UN Millennium Development Goals.
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SPARTANBURG, SC-- Funeral services for William D. "Bill" West, 63, of Spartanburg, SC, will be conducted at 11:00 AM Friday, February 22, 2013, at Walnut Grove United Methodist Church. Burial will be in Sulphur Springs Baptist Church Cemetery.
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Suppose $F$ is a field, and $F_1, F_2$ are two extension fields of $F$. Is it always the case that there is a field $L$, containing three subfields $F, K_1, K_2$ and two ring isomorphisms $\varphi_{i}:F_i\rightarrow K_1$ fixing $F$?
Note 1: We lose no generality assuming $F$, rather than an isomorphic copy of $F$, is a subfield of $L$.
I ask this because I was wondering if there is a way to combine the reals and the $p$-adic numbers into a single extension of $\mathbb{Q}$.
Note 2: I seem to recall someone telling me this couldn't be done (perhaps with additional topological data preserved). But I cannot seem to remember the reason why. In any case, I want to know if there is something other than topology which prevents it.


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WELLSBURG - Little Red Riding Hood arrived at Colliers Primary School this fall, but instead of bringing a basket of goodies, she brought an opportunity to learn about music and art through a new program that involved children performing a rap at a West Virginia Symphony Orchestra concert and other activities.
The fairytale was used by the school's staff in a variety of ways, from teaching pupils about other cultures to promoting good behavior, as part of a pilot program introduced by the orchestra and West Virginia Department of Education and supported by a grant from the Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation.
The idea is to incorporate writing, music, art and dance into other school subjects, as studies have found students retain more information when creative activities are involved because they have a personal connection with it, said Dolly Kidd, a reading specialist for Brooke County Schools coordinating the program at Colliers.
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REHEARSAL — Fourth-graders at Colliers Primary School practice a rap inspired by "Little Red Riding Hood" they performed for a concert by the Wheeling Symphony Orchestra centered around the fairy tale in Morgantown recently. The rap and concert were among activities introduced through the Student-Centered Arts Learning Environment Project, a pilot program introduced by the symphony and West Virginia Department of Education to involve the arts in other school subjects.
Kidd was selected to serve on the Student-Centered Arts Learning Environment Protect committee because of her experience writing poetry and choreographing the dance numbers for Brooke High School's spring musicals.
Each of the 15 West Virginia schools participating in the program were invited to submit eight lines for a rap by the Big Bad Wolf begun by Grant Cooper, conductor of the West Virginia Symphony. The lines had to describe what the Wolf found at Grandmother's house and conform to the maestro's rhyme and meter pattern.
Kidd penned the rap and choreographed the dance moves practiced by the children during their physical education classes.
As a winner of the contest, Colliers Primary School pupils performed their rap for those attending the Young People's Concert on Nov. 16 at West Virginia University's Creative Arts Center. A string ensemble from the orchestra also performed for the school on Friday.
Another school was named winner for the orchestra's Charleston concert.
During many rehearsals, fourth-grader Sidney Felouzis was unofficial leader for her class, bringing her experience as a dancer, gymnast and cheerleader to the task.
Felouzis said in addition to practicing the dance routine, she enjoyed several classroom activities that were inspired by the fairytale. She recalled planning a nutritional lunch for Red to bring her grandmother to that included a chicken sandwich with whole-grain bread, lettuce and tomatoes, with grapes on the side and juice.
Jennie Arnold, nutrition outreach instructor for the Brooke County West Virginia University Extension Service, helped the pupils to plan the meal, gathering votes from then on which healthy foods should be packed in Red's basket.
Fourth-grader Ethan Robey enjoyed reading a version of the story told from the Wolf's perspective.
Entitled "The Wolf's Story: What Really Happened to Little Red Riding Hood," the book was among several alternate versions of the well-known fairytale the children have read. Several others are from other cultures and include "Lon Po Po" (China), "PrettySalma" (Africa) and "Petite Rouge" (Cajun).
Older pupils were assigned to present a PowerPoint presentation summarizing one of the alternate versions and comparing it with the better known version.
Diana Cornett, third-grade teacher, said the children have a computer template from which to create the presentations and could incorporate clip art of their choice.
Pupils also were invited to add characters to a mural of a forest painted in the school's corridor by art teacher Susan Cullinan, and fourth-graders learned to weave baskets.
Children were assigned to measure the Wolf's height and width, said first-grade teacher Arah Barker, who added the story also was used to discuss safety issues arising from encountering strangers.
Jo-Ellen Goodall, school principal, said the story also was used to encourage good behavior.
She explained two paths for Little Red Riding Hood were displayed on the cafeteria wall - one for children in kindergarten through second grade and the other for third and fourth grades. A figure of Red was moved forward if no child was sent to the school's Reminder Room for misbehavior, Goodall said.
The group whose Little Red Riding Hood completed the trip first received additional recess time. The incentive spurred a rivalry between the two groups, with children in each checking the wall for Red's progress each time they entered the cafeteria, Goodall said.
After many weeks of competition, the third- and fourth-graders emerged the winners.
Goodall said the overall program was a hit with the school.
"The kids were very excited about it," she said.


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This result made me smile. I actually enjoyed watching the game on a 2d match engine lol.
Brilliant Game.
Anyone else had results like this ?
Rooney was on fire, he ran AROUND the goalkeeper for about 4 of his goals !
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Kaci Smart joins the Columbia College public relations creative services as a graphic designer. Smart has been working since August 2008 as a part-time freelance designer for the department. Prior to that, she served as a graphic design intern for Columbia College.
"We are excited to have Kaci on board in our creative services division,� said Joanne Tedesco, senior director of Public Relations. �Her work as an intern was proof that she�d be an excellent addition as a full-time employee.�
Jessica Royston is the newest addition to the division of editorial services within the department of public relations at Columbia College. She joins the staff as a public relations associate. Royston previously worked at the Department of Natural Resources as a public information specialist where she wrote and edited a bimonthly newsletter, created news releases and maintained the Soil and Water Conservation Web site.
"Jessica will be a great asset to our team,� said Tedesco. �She has much-needed experience writing and coordinating communications for internal and external audiences.�
Smart hails from Tebbetts, Mo., but now makes her home in Columbia. Royston resides in Jefferson City, Mo.
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The Maryland public school system remains the nation's highest ranked school system for an unprecedented fifth consecutive year, according to an independent national report being released today.
Education Week, the nation's leading education publication, looked at data in six critical categories over the past five years, and once again found that Maryland's state education system ranked at the head of the class.
Maryland's grade of B+ placed at the top of the list in Education Week's annual "Quality Counts" tally. Like last year, Massachusetts, New York, and Virginia followed Maryland, with B grades. As has been the case since the report's inception, most states received grades in the C ranges or below.
"From the earliest days of our Administration, job creation and its primary ingredient, education, have topped our agenda. Every year of this Administration, even during the toughest of times, we have invested to make this a reality," said Governor Martin O'Malley. "Today we're here to announce that, with better choices, we have built what Education Week magazine says is the #1 best public school system in America for the fifth year in a row because of our students, educators and parents who understand that the investments we make in education are investments in the future we all share."
State Superintendent Lillian M. Lowery said the latest rankings serve as fuel for further improvement. The data reflect the strong support education receives throughout Maryland.
"Maryland public schools are so fortunate to have bipartisan support throughout the State," Dr. Lowery said. "Our schools have the benefit of strong support from the Governor, other elected officials, educators, parents, business leaders, and the public at large. This ranking could not be achieved without the support of every partner, and we won't be able to continue our improvement without that broad coalition."
Maryland has continued to build upon its success since gaining the top slot in the nation in 2009. In 2010, Maryland was awarded a portion of the federal government's $4.3 billion Race to the Top funding, which has helped the State strengthen standards for students and educators, build a new data warehouse, and improve educator evaluation. Last year, Maryland received an additional four-year $50 million federal grant to help continue its reform efforts in critical early childhood education programs.
Maryland's 2013 ranking in Quality Counts is based on State education policies and student performance that reflect nearly two decades of work to solidify the preK-12 curriculum; state accountability and standards; educator effectiveness; and work on school readiness, high school reform, and preparation for college and the workplace.
Quality Counts uses more than 100 distinct indicators to develop its report, making it what many believe is the most broad-based look at educational quality that is currently available. Individual grades reported by Education Week show Maryland's consistent strength throughout the report card.
Today's announcement by Education Week continues Maryland's long history of success in the annual review. Maryland has consistently worked to strengthen policies and improve student achievement. The State placed third in 2008, the first year the publication issued a comprehensive ranking, before gaining the top spot for the first time in the 2009 "Quality Counts" report. Maryland's lead on the rest of the nation grew with the 2010 report, and its success has been confirmed over the past three years.
"Every child, every parent, and every educator in Maryland has the right and expectation to have a world-class school in their neighborhood or where they work," Dr. Lowery said. "Education Week's analysis of our work illuminates many positives, but we also know where we need to improve. We'll use this, and other information, to help make certain we have better classrooms for every student."
Most of the state-level data gathered by Education Week comes from a policy survey of the states conducted in the summer and fall of 2012. In addition, the publication draws on data from such organizations as the U.S. Department of Education, U.S. Bureau of the Census, and the American Federation of Teachers.
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I am trying to understand the definition of a sufficient statistic and trying to make conceptual sense of it. Wikipedia says $$Pr(X=x|T(X)=t,\theta) = Pr(X=x|T(X)=t)$$ Exactly how am I suppose to make sense of probability with $\theta$? Probability makes sense for $X$ because it is a function (a random variable) defined on a probability space. As far as I can tell $\theta$ has no sense of being defined on that probability space so how can a conditional make sense?
In statisitcal decision theory, you don't work with a single probability space. You have a measurable sample space $(\Omega,\Sigma)$ and a whole family of probability measures, $(\mu_\theta)$, indexed by $\theta$ on $(\Omega,\Sigma)$. In statistics, you don't know the underlying probabilities- you usually want to learn them.
Now the statistician has no direct information about $\theta$, but observes the distribution $\mu_\theta X^{-1}$ of a random variable $X$ that provides the data. Suppose now, that you have a statistic $T$, a measurable function of $X$. The statistic is sufficient if someone observing the distribution of $T\circ X$ learns no more about $\theta$ when observing the distribution of $X$ directly. So the distribution of $X$ conditional $T$, which you can calculate for each $\theta$ separately, doesn't show you anything about $\theta$, it is independent of $\theta$. There are different formulations of sufficiency, depending on different formulations of conditional probability.
The classic paper that formalized sufficient statistics within measure theoretic probability is Application of the Radon-Nikodym Theorem to the Theory of Sufficient Statistics by Halmos and Savage.
Perhaps a better way of thinking about it:
A statistic is sufficient for $\theta$ if the conditional distribution of X given T does not depend on $ \theta $.
You're right in that $\theta$ is not a random variable.
It's not the probability of $\theta$ being in any particular set; it's a probability of some event given $\theta$.
Here's a simple example: $p\cdot100\%$ of all voters in a large population will vote "yes" in next week's referendum. A poll is based on a random sample of $n$ voters. Let $$ X_i = \begin{cases} 1 & \text{if the }i\text{th voter will vote "yes"}, \\ 0 & \text{if not}. \end{cases} $$
Then the conditional probability distribution of $X_1,\ldots,X_n$ given $p$ and given the value of the sum $X_1+\cdots+X_n$ does not depend on $p$. Find the conditional probability and you'll find that $p$ cancels out. Therefore that sum is a sufficient statistic for $p$.


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Many Asperger children have sensory issues. These can occur in one or all of the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, or taste). The degree of difficulty varies from one individual to another. Most frequently, the child will perceive ordinary sensations as quite intense or may even be underreactive to a sensation. Often, the challenge in this area will be to determine if the child's response to a sensation is actually a sensory reaction or if it is a learned behavior, driven mainly by rigidity and anxiety.
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I am doing a project on the inverse Galois problem, and am seeking to show that the monster group is realisable over the rationals. I have heard that the monster group has found uses in theoretical physics, and was wondering what those uses might be. Also, is there any practical significance to theoretical physics in the result I am aiming to prove?
There are presently no applications of the monster group in physics, though there is a lot of misleading speculation about this. However in the other direction there are some applications of ideas from physics to the monster group. In particular the no-ghost theorem in string theory is used to construct the monster Lie algebra acted on by the monster group.
The ideas from physics seem to have no direct connection with the problem of realizing the monster as a Galois group over the rationals. This was solved by Thompson, who showed by character-table calculations that the monster satisfies a sufficient condition ("rigidity") for it to be a Galois group.
I know very little about the subject; But you can check this lecture : cosmolearning.com/courses/… by Ed Witten where he links the Monster group to quantizing gravity in 2+1 dimensions. In particular, the lecture contains a very interesting derivation of black hole entropy in 2+1 as log(196883)=12.19.. , where the classical entropy is 4∗π=12.57 which is off by a few percent. What do you think of that professor Borcherds?


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Nebraska City High School held a pep rally Wednesday for the speech team, which qualified for state competition in seven events.
The Nebraska City cheerleaders opened the rally with a cheer created just for the speech team and challenged the speech team to a sing-off.
The drama interpretation team of Jake Tierra, Mark Little, Michael Collman, Helena Valquier and Andrew Finker presented a few minutes of their act.
The drama interpretation team of MacKenzie Larson, Andrew Ferguson, Easton Banik, Kenia Balquier and Nicole Collins also qualified.
Individual qualifiers were Ferguson, serious; Marcella Mercer, extemporaneous; Little, extemporaeneous; and Tierra, persuasive. Finkner and Collman also qualified with a duet.
Students qualified for state by placing in the top three at districts on March 9.
Speech coach Jenna Bowman said the 20 students on the speech team this year make the largest speech team since she has been at the school.
The pep band finished with the school song.
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VMwares applications are very powerful. They are useful in many ways. In this tutorial we are going to see the power of VMware ThinApp. ThinApp is used to create standalone portable programs.
Tools required
VMware ThinApp can be downloaded from www.vmware.com
This is paid software, but u can download some trail version, or u can register with them for a trail key.
Any application you want to make it portable.
NOTE: Some applications wont work, they will crash. You cannot create applications which require dotnet framework support. Some will have other compatibility issues. But most of them will work perfectly. Dont try to make portable windows XP with this application, U cannot do it. (LOL). For that you can download VMware Workstation.
Installation is as usual except the license number. U can use the trail version by requesting them a key.
There are two programs inside it
- VMware ThinApp Log monitor
As the name says, log monitor will monitor the logs. Pre installation logs, post installation logs.. etc. You will know about it in detail in latter part of this tutorial.
- VMware ThinApp setup capture
Setup capture helps the log monitor to produce the logs. It performs a scan and gives the output to the log monitor.
- Open the setup capture dialog box and click next.
- here I am assuming that your default windows directory is c:\. If not goto advanced settings tab in the dialog box and change it.
- Click next to start the pre installation capture.
- A status message of Saving Snapshot will be displayed and below that it will also display the file path which it is currently scanning.
- Please use this application in a clean PC. Clean PC means that the program you are creating as portable should not be installed before. If it is already installed, the setup capture will capture those things too, so you will be missing the necessary files to create a portable version of the software.
In this step install the software which u wanna make as portable. Complete the installation, and if it asks for a reboot, Please select reboot later and finish the installation.
And also dont run the program after installation. Configuration is important in the case of some programs. For example if you are making a game as portable, U have to specify the settings such as full screen option, sound etc. If you do so your portable version of the application will follow those settings.
After completing the installation come to setup capture dialog box and click next.
A status message Post scan in progress will appear. It is creating a snapshot after the installation of our program.
It will display the installed contents after the post scan. No need to select any thing. Just move on by clicking next.
In the next screen, it will ask for sandbox location. You can leave with the default location (Users profile). Select merged isolation mode in the next screen. Click next to create the project. It will display the error messages if it has. Usual errors are the target file may be locked by another process, couldnt copy the temp file etc. No need to worry about the temp file. If it returns an error, please make sure that the target file is not locked and create the project again.
In the final screen, there will be an option called build now. After few seconds build complete message will appear. Click finish in the setup capture screen.
Goto the installation directory of ThinApp and goto captures folder, inside that there will be a folder under the name of the program u created with ThinApp. Look for a directory named bin inside that. Check the exe file named with the program you created. That is the portable version or standalone version of the program you created. You can copy it to any folder or any system and run it standalone.
You can close the log monitor after closing the setup capture screen.
Extreme portability of application.
No need to install anything, so you dont have to worry about the user credentials (whether you are admin or limited user)
The support files for the portable program will be created separately inside the folder
%system drive%\Documents and Settings\%username%\Application Data\Thinstall\
Creating portable versions of programs and distributing it unauthorized is illegal. This tutorial is just for educational purposes and to explain the power of VMware applications. I am not insisting you to create any standalone versions. Modifying a program without writing to the author is a copyright violation. Use this tutorial to gain knowledge about the applications. If the program is under GNU GPL license you can modify it. But before that read the terms and conditions of the license.


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Boxing Equipments – a real need!
Off all sports, boxing is one of the toughest, requiring real stamina protective gears are a must! Involving repetitive and powerful punching, there are loads of chances for the boxers to get hurt in such a way that their career will be life jolting. Fatal and painful punches can lead to damage of bones. Wearing protective gears will help a boxer stay confident and competitive. As far as this sport is concerned, injuries are inevitable, be it a match or training session, you won't be able to get away without injuries if you do not wear proper protective gears. Following are some of the boxing equipments that are required in order to protect a boxer from injuries during the game.
- Boxing gloves
- Hand wraps and gauze
- Punch mitts
- Mouth guard
- Boxing shoes
- Chest protector
Equipping yourself with the safety accessories will save you from causing any harm to your face head and more importantly your chin. With all that said, finally make sure that you go with quality safety equipment that comes a long way. In addition, it must have that capacity to stand out from other products for quality coupled with durability.


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My son is 3 years old and lately he has been having problems sleeping. I've heard kids his age are supposed to sleep around 10-12 hours a day, although I'm no sure. He used to sleep on the afternoons but now he refuses to.
He only sleeps at night, we put him to bed around 9 PM but he always tries to slip from his room. After a couple of times of returning him to bed he finally falls asleep around 10, 10:30, sometimes even 11PM but he usually wakes up several times at night. At 7AM he is already up and playing with his toys.
I used to think it was just he growing up but we have noticed that he gets cranky and sometimes a little violent (he gave a another child quite a bite the other day) and we think it might be related with his sleeping disorder.


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I know that the Ito integral is defined in general for continuous semimartingales. But it can also be defined only for Ito processes. My question is if every process $X_t$ satisying a SDE of the form $dX_t=f(X_t)dt+g(X_t)dB_t$ where $f,g$ are "well-behaved" functions is a semimartingale. If so, why is that true?
Let $dX_t = \sigma_t \, dB_t+b_t \, dt$ the solution of the SDE, i.e. $$X_t= X_0 + \int_0^t \sigma_s dB_s + \int_0^t b_s \, ds$$ Then
Hence you obtain the decomposition $X_t = M_t+A_t$ which implies that $X_t$ is a semimartingale.
Because the integration with respect to Brownian motion preserves the local martingale property and the first term gives you a finite variation process. This is precisely the canonical decomposition of a semimartingale, for which the finite variation property must hold only locally.
You can also define stochastic integrals for processes involving jumps!


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congrats ppl you broke the forum for a sec XD
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SI guys online, midnight hour fast approaching. Time to get the boys out of the barracks ;-)
well see you all in 24 hours for part 2
truth is brad71 probably will be midnight tomorrow or today to be more accurate, tends to be around midnight sometimes a little earlier. if i am wrong who cares? just looking forward to playing fm2012 demo this weekend either way
i agree with you. wanted it to be tonight but knew tomorrow more realistic.
I would've thought Friday is more realistic...
how could anuone think that it would be out now, it´s not weekend yet.
Late friday or saturday
[QUOTE=big daddy;7130942]how could anuone think that it would be out now, it´s not weekend yet.
Late friday or saturday[/QUOTE
it will be friday 12am if not before it wont be friday night saturday morning. no chance but either way for me if up and running for sunday im as happy as a pig in the proverbial as thats best day for me to play on it!
Looking back a few demo's were released Sunday, lets hope that doesn't happen again.
so the countdown starts again yeah ?
the demo will be out Friday deffo as i am going away for the wekend which is bloody typical
Just to throw the old pigeon in amongst the dogs, i wonder how many of the people hating steam a few weeks ago are now sitting with steam open waiting for the demo to be available
The funny thing is, your probably right, there will be loads of 'I hate steam, death to steam' types now sitting there going 'come on steam where is my demo'
i see the thread made a news story on the PC gamer website, oh the outcry! hahahaha
They wont release the game without steam in any fashion, the demo is just the full game with restricted code that gets unlocked when the full game is released. You will need steam at all times for FM12.
Fm12 demo is not displaying on Steam yet, I just did a search for it. Your would think it would be available on multiple download locations.
Can't wait, don't usually use demo's but will for this.
I'm not surprise if the demo would be steam exclusive. If the full game needs steam to run, it's easier to SI/SEGA to release the demo only from that plataform.
And i think this is a good ideia. Perhaps when some people try the demo trough steam, they will be convinced that steam will not overload their PC's, will not have FBI or CIA knocking on their doors, will not have some strange alien ships landing on their roofs, etc etc
As for the release date, i'm thinking friday at 12:00. Instead of the daily blog, we will get the demo.
If I've misread everything and got it wrong, then sorry.
i'd be very supprised if its only available on Steam, would limit the people to download it and play it. by having it on multiple locations, it would maximise the potential of future sales of the full game.
oops - just made a thread on this before i found this one.
What about those of who are region locked out of getting anything to do with FM through STEAM (although we can still buy a game and activate it) - A STEAM only release would prevent a lot of people from even being able to access demo (germany and korea for example)
I would be completely shocked if it was avaliable without the need for steam, it would be a very big waste of time to insist on steam for the game yet release the game without the need for steam.
Hmm, it appears that every thread related to release MUST be used to have a pop at folk who do not want/like/trust steam.
Milner, Kaiser et al how about giving it a rest.
just had a confirmation from Miles on twitter that the deom will be STEAM only.
Bummer - will have to try and find a way around this....
i dont think im adding enough safety winks at the end of the posts i dont want to be taken seriously, ill make sure and throw another 3 or 4 smiles next time
Just bought my Demo Download outfit from Ann Summers. I'll be donning it this evening, sitting there awaiting the witching hour - large cognac in one hand....
Kaiser, I don't but some will & you risk the thread degenerating into to the usual 'I love Steam, why don't you?' 'I hate steam' nonsense.
Just my two pence anyway.
As for the demo I stopped downloading them a good few years ago, I know what to expect out of FM & the demo never results in me deciding not to buy it, it's still off my shopping list for now though.
As for the demo, i always download it. The main reason is, after reading the blogs every year i can't wait to play the game, so... not play the demo and wait a couple of more weeks is out of the question.
Another big reason, it gives me the oportunity to start developing my tactic for the new version.
tomorrow's podcast will give us many information - if demo isn't release before podcast.
When I search steam all I get is Fifa manager 2011...I think it will be tomorrow anyways.
Maybe we will have some news in todays blog
Today's blog is about system specs.
No news in the blog today, other than FM12 'gone gold' and demo by weekend (which we already knew from yesterday's tweets) - plus official system requirements.
EDIT: Also, a suggestion to mods maybe just to link the blog to this thread instead of making a new discussion thread.
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#FM12 blog - system specs.
well there is another blog. I am thinking the demo will either be tonight or tomorrow night.
Where is the link to the new blog today?
Depends where you work.
11 hrs and 10 mins to go!
History Channel, 21.00 "Ice Road Truckers". Gonna watch that, maybe have the laptop at my side, just in case.... ;-)
Ive got a couple of books im reading to finish, laptop on standby.
7 hours 52 minutes to 21:00
The demo was released at midnight last year. Odds are it will be midnight tonight or tomorrow.
well alright maybe not exactly that much time, but it must be released later today or tomorrow, or else they would've done another features blog and done spec's tomorrow. They are making for people know the spec's before they play the demo!
man are u yanking my chain!?!?!
lets get a wager going here.
My guess is Saturday at 12:00am,
Just a guess, not informed or whatever else. Pure guesswork.
If it's tonight I will be mightily peeved, not staying up past midnight on a Thursday night that's just asking for a bad day at work tomorrow and then the knock on will be sleep early Friday so I wont get on to play it until Saturday at the earliest.
Tomorrow at a midnight release is the best option.
i know ur ******* my chain
The Awaystand tweeted earlier and in that tweet mentioned the demo will be realised tomorrow. Maybe rubbish but you never know. If true I will go for midnight tomorrow which is well planned seeing as though the England game on
well that makes me think u know something i don't...even though ur talking crap
I bought potato chips and soda.. im ready for another midnight party :,)
you gotta love phils mindgames
why the fook doesn't SI just tell us?
I'd assume the Demo will be released in the blog tomo.. that way, SI actually get to have a weekend off
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Does anyone have an explanation for the currently naturally forming volatility smile (and the variations) in the market?
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Consider a more financially plausible model than Black-Scholes: one where the stock can suddenly go bankrupt due to fraud, and the volatility varies over time. Neither model is perfect, but the new one (call it SVJ) will be "less wrong".
Mathematically, we no longer have the Black-Scholes SDE based on a single stochastic generator $W$
$$ \frac{dS}{S} = \mu dt + \sigma dW $$
but rather an SDE with 3 generators: $W,Z$ and a jump process $J$
$$ \frac{dS}{S} = \mu dt + \sigma dW - dJ \\ d\sigma^2= \kappa(\bar{\sigma}^2-\sigma^2) dt + \eta \sigma^2 dZ $$
It is possible (though not particularly easy) to fit this more complicated, realistic model to the market. Big banks do it all the time.
Any model, including both BS and SVJ, can be run "backwards", by which I mean that it can start with an option price and derive an implied parameter. If the model has $M$ parameters $p_1, p_2, \dots, p_M$ that are normally used to find a model price $V$, then we can also choose any one of the parameters, call it $p_n$, to derive from an observed price $P$ (normally by root-finding techniques).
Let's say we run backwards from market prices to get implied values of $\sigma$ for both Black-Scholes and SVJ. You will observe a far flatter skew for the SVJ. This is true even if we remove either the jumps $J$ or stochastic volatility $Z$.
Here, for example, is a skew in Black-Scholes volatilities arising from pricing an array of options in a proprietary jump-diffusion model with flat (by strike) volatility of 20%
We see that a constant volatility parameter in the jump-diffusion is equivalent to a skew of Black-Scholes volatilities.
Conclusion: the smile comes from the model being too strong a simplification of reality.
Implied volatility has very little to do with any particular pricing model, especially not much with BS. BS is a translation tool between prices and volatility, with its own many model deficiencies. I won't get into such model assumptions because my point is an entirely different one. Even the smile/smirk is entirely unrelated to the Black-Scholes model and I read your question that you like to understand why IVs, far from the money, are higher than close to the money ones.
My point is that IVs are entirely supply and demand driven. Whether its the IVs of an option that expires a year from now or tomorrow, whether its the IV of a 90 put (equity option), 30 delta strike (fx), or any other rates option, commodity option, what have you...
Someone correctly pointed out that most of the origin of the smile/smirk can be traced back to the October 1987 shock ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Monday_(1987) )
Before pretty much all IVs regardless of moneyness were priced equally. However, the market after the stock market crash found that primarily downside protection was priced way too cheaply. Now I guess the core of the question is why: Most can be attributed to those who generally wrote such options such as sell-side trading desks but especially also floor traders who made markets in such options. They suffered steep losses and found out that they were not enough compensated for writing options such deep out of the money. It has to do with the fact that the market under-estimated the probability of such extreme events happening.
However, another important finding that causes many market makers to trade IVs far away from the money higher than at the money ones has to do with the belief that return volatility far away from current price levels tends to be a lot higher than current return volatility. For example, return volatility is expected to be higher at 20% lower market levels than current return volatility. I guess the rational behind that is in a sense a paradox: Nobody generally would need to care about an instantaneous move 10% or so lower from current levels, thus in a sense it does not matter which implied volatilies are attached to a 90 put. However, should the unexpected happen than the expectation is for sharply higher return volatility 10% below current levels. Keep in mind the smile/smirk is dynamic and only reflects current expectations. I have seen on numerous occasions "inverted smirks" in equity index and stock options in that out of the money calls exhibited higher IVs than out of the money puts. But generally in this asset class space out of the money puts exhibit higher IVs than equally spaced out of the money calls.
Another point that supports this general shape of the "smirk" is that empirically stock markets exhibit much higher down-side return volatility than up-side return volatility. Panic and fear in a sense causes more irrational behavior in people than exuberance.
So, in summary, all has to do with how the market prices the probability of shocks (to the down and upside) occurring and their severity.
EDIT: Please keep in mind that most all IVs away from current spot/forward levels exhibit the property of being more richly priced than ATM IVs. On the call side this is the case because nowadays options are often utilized as leveraged bets instead of buying the underlying outright. Put IVs that are struck below current spots/forwards are bought more aggressively because of the desire to protect long positions in the underlying (buy-side fund industry especially). IVs away from the money are simply more demanded than ATM ones because of the above reasons. I recommend you do not read a whole lot more into it than this because trading volatility in the end of the day is nothing else than trading any other asset, prices are set as a pure function of supply and demand, the only difference is that most underlying assets exhibit linear pay off functions where as volatility is non-linear in nature and market participants can exactly define how this non-linearity is structured by trading different strikes or option combinations.
Research suggests that there is a relationship between how pronounced the smirk is and future return expectations in the underlying. This hardly surprises me because in a sense it reinforces what I explained above in that people either protect with down side puts if they expect the underlying to exhibit future negative returns and equally buy upside calls (often as a leveraged bet instead of the underlying) if they expect future returns in the underlying to be positive, hence the smile = higher IVs away from the money.
The volatility smile is made out of implied volatilities. This means that you take as input $K,S,r,T$ and the price of the option $p$ and you use it to find $\sigma$ such that
$$ p = BS(K,S,r,T,\sigma)$$
But $p$ is defined by the market, so the $\sigma$ you find are the estimated volatilities by market participants, if they believe in the Black Scholes framework.
The shape of the graph (a smile) shows that, in the BS framework, market participants estimate different volatilities for a same asset depending on the moneyness of the option. This means that the BS framework does not hold in reality (at least market participants don't believe in it), as for the same asset, it assumes that $\sigma$ is constant.
The Black-Scholes model is based on the assumption of lognormal returns of the underlying asset. There is much evidence and argument that stock market returns are not normal on a logarithmic basis, and there is no particular reason to assume a normal distribution, either. In particular an implied volatility smile is evidence of "fat tails" in the returns expected by market participants---excess kurtosis, if you will. It's been pointed out by Taleb that with over 100 years of history, we simply don't have enough data to estimate the tails or the higher moments of the distribution of stock market returns.
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That's for the last twenty years less a day of data, and does not include the crash of 1987. For a normal distribution, we would expect the kurtosis to be 3. The excess kurtosis in this case is $11.36604-3=8.36604$, which is still quite significantly not normal. Excess kurtosis means that a distribution has a more peaked center and fatter tails than a normal distribution, which means in the case of options a higher probability that the underlying will take on values far away from its current value come expiration time. This is why, when excess kurtosis is not taken into account, options further from the money appear to imply a higher volatility for the underlying asset.
I agree with some arguments above.
One can find several explanattion to volatility smile:
One can find hints on this issue in P.Wilmott's Frequently asked question in quantitative finance


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I'm running a site that uses a separate admin theme. I'd like to include a couple additional pages that use the admin stylesheets. How can I apply the theme selectively to these pages. I'd rather do this in hook_init() or template.php. I don't want to add any more contrib modules to the site at this point. Thanks for any illumination.
The Administration theme module will do it, but given you'd like to do it yourself, it does cast some light on that path by suggesting the
You can use the module Administration theme for that but if you just want to use the admin theme for a single path you can define it in hook_init
If you don't want to enable more modules (like the admin_theme module), and prefer to write a few lines of code to achive the same thing, you can use hook_custom_theme().
e.g. This snippet switches the user to the admin theme when they're viewing the revision comparison report from the diff module.


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We thought it would be a good idea to introduce ourselves to all who are fond of the Christmas Farm Inn & Spa, but whom we have yet to meet. We are the Plourde family: Gary, Sandra, Sofia and Quintin.
How We Got Here
Gary was born and brought up in Maine, served in the U.S. Army, studied at the University of Maine, University of Salzburg, Austria and the London School of Economics. After graduating, he embarked on an international career in the hotel industry, living in London for many years, then Croatia and South Africa, working for major hotel chains like, Forte Hotels, Le Meridien, Marriott and Starwood.
Sandra was born and brought up in Kiel, in northern Germany, studied hotel management and began her career working at St. James Court, a five star hotel in London. She later worked for a leading European Tour Operator, Airline Representation firm and Destination Marketing company.
We met in London, where we both lived for many years and knew each other for 7 years before getting engaged. Sofia was born in London, and soon after we moved to Zagreb, Croatia. Quintin was born in Zagreb, Croatia, and soon after, we moved to Cape Town, South Africa. Gary worked for Starwood Hotels & Resorts representing the Westin, Sheraton and Luxury Collection brand of Starwood in SA. Sandra concentrated on giving our children a head start…and lots of ice cream!
As a team, we have many years of experiences working in the travel and tourism industry, namely sales, marketing and operations of hotels; tour operating and destination marketing. We thought we would like to use our experiences for our own business. For a number of years we had been looking for an inn to call our own, and a place to settle down with the children. What we wanted was idealistic. It had to be special…and we found it. Or rather, it found us!
In our search, we were contacted by Earl Wason, a broker representing George and Mike Tolley, owners of the Christmas Farm Inn & Spa. "Is this for real – it's too perfect to be true", said Sandra. "We could never afford it", said Gary. But, we were idealistic, and so were the Tolleys, about finding a 'family' to take over the inn and bring back the warmth and charm to the Christmas Farm Inn & Spa. Over time, agreements were made, papers signed, and we made our move to the White Mountains of New Hampshire.
Ideally, we would like to share with you all our plans for the Christmas Farm Inn & Spa. These have taken us many months of long hours and research to formulate. But, we will spare you! However, you may like to know our vision for the Christmas Farm Inn & Spa. In the future, we will update you on the current initiatives, programs and packages we will offer, and on any improvements we have made.
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Thanks for taking an interest in our lives and our plans for the Christmas Farm Inn & Spa. We look forward to welcoming you in the future and sharing the memories that you will create here.
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I am interested in some references on the quotient spaces obtained by quotienting G, a simple Lie group, by L, the group generated by the Levi factor of a parabolic subalgebra.
Presumably the case where L is the maximal torus is understood?
I am mostly interested in the compact case.