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The Charlotte 49ers men's tennis team (8-5), who have five of the last six games, play Texas-Pan American at the Halton-Wagner Tennis Complex, Thursday, March 14 at 2:30 pm.
"We're looking forward to some match play tomorrow," Charlotte coach Billy Boykin said. "I've known Coach Goode for a long time and he is an excellent coach/player. I know his guys will be ready to play it should be a good one.
Jordi Massalle Ferrer, who has won eight straight matches, leads the 49ers with 20 singles wins. Jack Williams has 15 singles win. Alex Calott and Paul Cisti, who has won six straight matches, each have 14 singles wins.
Kamil Khalil and Krzysztof Kwasniewicz, who have won five straight matches, have combined for a team-leading nine doubles wins. Massalle Ferrer and Williams have posted a 7-0 doubles record this season. The doubles team of Calott and Cisti have combined for seven doubles wins.


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A Late Blooming
The career of the French printmaker and painter Odilon Redon (1840-1916) should encourage any artist who fears that reinvention, renewal and one's best work are not possible after a certain age. In the library of a former Cistercian abbey in France's Narbonne region are Redon's decorative panels "Day" and "Night." Painted five years before the artist's death, these works represent the peak of Redon's legacy and a synthesis of his subjects and styles.
Known as part of the Symbolist movement, Redon helped to inspire 20th-century abstractionists and Surrealists. He displayed none of their revolutionary ambitions, however. "Art borrows nothing from philosophy and has no other source than the soul in the midst of the world surrounding it," Redon wrote. "Its essence is unknown and its goal is art itself."
Few major artists left behind more extensive or thoughtful writings than Redon on the process of creation, the purpose of art or their own artistic comings of age. Collected as "To Myself: Notes on Life, Art, and Artists," Redon's journal entries nevertheless do not serve as a guide to the significance of his own work. His engravings, paintings and decorative panels are best appreciated not in a search for their intended meaning but with openness to the emotions they can stir.
Born in Bordeaux, Redon later described himself as a "sad and weak" child, though the resulting isolation and inactivity left him with much time to stare at clouds and nurture the stunning imagination that seemingly grew in him as a muscle. His father pushed architecture as the practical application of an artistic temperament, but Redon was unenthusiastic and failed his Paris entrance examinations.
Two individuals, above all, shaped Redon's life as an artist. His good friend Armand Clavaud, a botanist, became Redon's informal tutor. Clavaud's microscope illuminated what Redon called the "intermediary life between animal and plant," and his bookshelf introduced the artist to Gustave Flaubert and Edgar Allan Poe. Meanwhile, the Bohemian engraver Rodolphe Bresdin placed Redon on his initial trajectory as an artist, teaching him etching and printmaking.
For the first 20 years of his active career, Redon worked almost entirely in black, using charcoal and grease pencil and eventually producing lithographs of images as dark as their media. His spiders and demons smile but his human figures do not. Many do not even open their eyes, though disembodied eyes often float through Redon's early works either as deep pools of introspection or as agents of discomfort.
Initially, Redon's happy family life and artistic success seemed in sharp contrast to what, in his art, he called "my blacks." In 1878, he was engaged to Camille Falte, and became a devoted husband. Redon's fame in this period grew from a series of lithographic albums—some of them loose reflections on literary works, including Poe's writings and Flaubert's "The Temptation of Saint Anthony." Not until the late 1880s did a series of tragedies—the deaths of his brother, mother and Bresdin, and especially the death of his first child—push Redon into personal darkness.
Redemption came with another child and with color—brighter-than-living color. In pastel, beginning around 1890, Redon produced florals that across a room appear natural but on closer inspection are glimpses into Clavaud's microscope: the botany of a different world. Redon also emerged as a remarkable portraitist during this period and his subjects—often Camille (his "sacred thread") and his son Ari—open their eyes and the artist's heart.
Approaching 70, Redon enjoyed the devotion of numerous patrons, including Gustave Fayet—himself a painter—who acquired the abandoned Abbaye de Fontroide to restore it as a family home. On a visit to the abbey in 1910, Redon accepted a commission from Fayet to create decorative panels for his library at the site, with no restriction on the subjects. Today, the panels are open to visitors by appointment only (see www.fontfroide.com). Call well in advance, and allow time to visit the rest of the abbey and its terraced gardens.
Utterly quiet even by the standards of a library inside a stone structure, the room insulates visitors from any distractions—focusing the senses completely on the works. The senses want for nothing, since "Day" and "Night" seem to generate light and sound and even scent. Facing each other across the large room, both works measure roughly 6 feet by 20 feet and consist of three panels in tempera on canvas. They contrast in nearly every way and compete for attention like friends in a good-natured argument.
"Day" practically lights the room on its own, powered by a river of gold at its heart. Its backdrop is a vast landscape: hills against a glowing sky, possibly the Corbières hills of the Narbonne itself. "Day" centers on a barely visible Apollo and the horses of his Quadriga—a frequent subject throughout Redon's career—but otherwise is devoid of human figures and their noise. The sounds evoked here are breezes rustling the branches, and insects. Butterflies and virtually fragrant flowers, often indistinguishable from each other, evoke an Eden-like harmony and invite a long stay.
"Night" (despite its name) has light but much less profusion of color, resurrecting Redon's "blacks" to star in the show. People are everywhere. Two veiled, nearly full-length figures are Fayet's wife and daughter, while portraits in black of Fayet, his sons, Camille, and a number of musicians (including Robert Schumann) find their way into the scene as disembodied apparitions. No landscape competes for attention, and even the trees flower largely offstage. The sounds here are whispers, made by and about this cast of characters, and again you want to stay around to listen.
Redon had accepted other room-decoration commissions beginning in 1900, but the setting and freedom of the Fontfroide opportunity allowed him to reunite his two artistic personas and a lifetime of cherished subjects to spectacular effect.
—Mr. Geipel is a health-care company executive and a writer in Indianapolis.


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Five employees were recognized for the second quarter of 2014. There are four categories for which employees may be recognized: Administration Employee, Citizen Volunteer, Detention Deputy and Law Enforcement. The recipients are as follows:
Administration Employees –Jason Knapp and Joseph Smith
Citizen Volunteer – Morgan Lumpkin
Detention Deputy – Sgt. Iris Marrero
Law Enforcement – Cpl. Randy Thomas
Jason and Joseph were nominated by Lt. Brad Stark. "Both have been busy with renovating the computer system throughout the agency. Joseph has just recently taken care of issues with the cellular phone backup system and installed programs that have been needed by investigations. Both Jason and Joseph are easy to contact and pleasant to talk with while discussing technical issues", stated Lt. Stark.
Morgan was nominated by Lt. Scott Deloney who stated, "Mr. Lumpkin and the other volunteers of More 2 Life have worked hard to help reach the inmates of the Okeechobee County Jail. His program has been so well received by the inmates that Mr. Lumpkin comes in more than once a week so that all the inmates are able to attend. I want to say thanks to Morgan Lumpkin who tries to help and hopefully reach at least one person. If more people were like him this world would be a better place."
Iris was nominated by Cpl. Stacy Ellerbee. "I would like to take this opportunity to recognize Sgt. Marrero for her outstanding work performance that she reflects on a daily basis during her tour of duty. Sgt. Marrero is a Sergeant that is often referred to as a "Working Sergeant". Sgt. Marrero projects a positive attitude that promotes teamwork throughout the jail and by this she influences staff to project a similar outlook on their job assignment," stated Cpl. Ellerbee.
Randy was nominated by Captain Gary Bell who stated, "I would like to take this time to commend Randy on a case that was a domestic call that was serious in nature. His quick thinking and use of a skill that he learned resulted in the arrest of a person that deserved just that. It's always a pleasure when I hear of one of our own using good sense and thinking a plan out and then carrying out that plan. Thanks for the good work and Stay Safe."
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During my days as a golf professional, I was able to play a lot of great golf courses.
The Olympic Club is one of them.
I played it twice and it was a pleasure both times.
The golf course will play longer this week for the U.S. Open than when I played it, but, hard is hard and the Lake course at the Olympic Club is hard.
There are a lot of trees, a lot of rough and greens that make a 30-foot uphill putt far easier than an eight-foot curler.
The course has four par 3s and three par 5s, although one will play as a par 4 for the Open.
Two of the par 3s will play 200 yards with no place to miss.
One, as I describe later, will go between 230- and 245-yards.
The final one, No. 15, will play about 150 yards, but if you miss the green, it must be in the bunker because five- to six-inch rough surrounds the green.
The Lake Course at the Olympic Club will host its fifth U.S. Open this week.
The first four championship winners were unexpected.
Jack Fleck beat Ben Hogan in 1955, Billy Casper raced by Arnold Palmer in 1966, Scott Simpson defeated Tom Watson in 1987 and Lee Janzen topped Payne Stewart in 1998.
Fleck and Hogan shot 7-over par and Fleck eventually won in an 18-hole playoff.
The Davenport, Iowa, native was nine shots off Tommy Bolt's lead after the first round.
Nobody expected Fleck to beat Hogan, but his 67 was three clear of Hogan.
Although Casper is the most well-known name of the four who have won at the Olympic Club, again, nobody expected him to beat Arnie that day.
Palmer had a seven-shot lead with nine holes to play.
There was a two-shot swing on the par-3 15th hole and then again at the par-5 16th and Arnie had a one-shot cushion. That disappeared one hole later when Palmer made a 6 on the par-5 17th and then, the King, had to make an up-and-down par on 18 to force a playoff with Casper.
Palmer had a two-shot lead on the 10th tee in the playoff, but it was deja vu all over again and Casper made up six shots in the final nine holes to shoot 69 to Palmer's 73.
That was Arnie's third playoff loss in the U.S. Open.
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11 Apr 2012 1:10 PM #1
Grid with multiple form fields and design.
Hello I have hit a wall with a project I am working on.
I need to create a grid with pagination similar to the image below. I was going to create a grid and use a xTemplate to create the columns. I was just not sure if this was the correct way to go about it or if I should be using the cell or row editing plugins? I am new to ext-js and need a little direction.
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Thanks for the info, I will check it out.
I was looking at the API documentation http://docs.sencha.com/ext-js/4-0/#!...lumn-cfg-items and thought maybe I could use the items property on a grid column, but I get a Cannot call method 'setStyle' of undefined when I try to load a grid with any type of item(field, panel, etc...)
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Let $F$ be a local field of characteristic zero (for simplicity), $\overline{F}$ an algebraic closure of $F$ and $L/F$ a fixed finite Galois extension. If $G$ is a linear algebraic group defined over $F$, then the Galois cohomology group $H^1(F,G)$ can be defined as a direct limit of $H^1(K/F,G)$, where $K$ runs through finite Galois subextensions of $\overline{F}$.
Now the question is: under what conditions is this direct limit just $H^1(L/F,G)$?
I guess there might be restrictions on both $L$ and $G$.


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No loss then.
See that's why no one wants to play games with europe, always thinking people care about their personal shit.
No one was even talking to you but of course we gotta hear your shit anytime something remotely concerns you.
No one cares what you think
You clearly care. Don't hide it from me. We can be close if you just let me in.
No seriously, no one cares.
Are you like this around real people too?
Here's that animal sex thing I was talking about a couple days ago ZP, or was it Usedtabe? I remember Jdawg and someone else was definitely there.
Oh yeah, I had completely forgotten about that. Chang brought up the toothpaste stuff you mentioned last night. I'm gonna start mining you for podcast shit.
Don't expect much from if it's not something I've shown interest in.
Also why is an angelic zombie playtpus impaling himself on a christmass tree.
It's ain't even mid-december yet.
You can thank Jdawg, and Usedtabe for being partner in color, for making tonight mediocre as fuck.
I'm playing with Jdawg RIGHT NOW.
He says you all got scared and ran away as soon as I got online. I believe him.
Naw JDawg was acting a bitch so Usedtabe had enough and I wasn't about to carry the team I'd rather get fat
Did you get your achievement Bloo?
Just need the Bigfoot one
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Monday, March 22, 2010
Catching Market Sentiment Shifts With Cumulative NYSE TICK
Note how we opened the day lower, with more stocks ticking down than up in the first minutes of trading. Within a short period, however, we bounced to positive NYSE TICK readings and stayed above the (blue) zero line. When sellers finally did come into the market, we could not get TICK readings below -500 and could not get the Cumulative TICK back to negative. Unable to sustain selling pressure, we saw buyers come into the market with a vengeance.
I find that it rarely pays to bet against the Cumulative TICK line. When TICK readings are mostly staying above zero and cannot reach significant negative levels (-800 or lower), it's difficult for prices to sustain any retreat.
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- NQ Trader Jay said...
Yes, that was a very nice gap fill open with follow thru. I sim traded it for a gain. It sure is good to see that after last week's ugliness.
- shodson said...
I've tried to trade with TICK but I'm not sure I can use it as a leading indicator, it just seems to sway up and down with the market. Do you guys look for TICK divergence or do you think the TICK truly portends price direction?
- nqtraderjay said...
I use TICK a few ways. Support & resistance potential, breakout potential of support & resistance, solidly one sided under or over zero, centered around zero for dangerously non-trending, and no bias stay out when small bars and near zero, and +-1k extremes in any of these are either confirmations of strength or if combined with the tick centered around zero, a likely pull back to other direction for a long time.
- Dr Bill said...
S, It's a combo of TICK AND VOLUME. Brett is a user of VWAP because volume-at-price carries with it some "mass". I have MarketVolume's 1-minute volume chart up along with a NYSE TICK 1-minute chart so that I can tell if momentum suddenly develops. When it's the Real Deal, TICK will stick for a nontrivial period of time. I do not use a VWAP chart, but I can get an approximation using my tools. I think the VWAP chart, however, is easier to tell when a shift is going on. I just happen to use numbers for a living.
Now the HARD part (which is why I read Brett's stuff) is putting it together with the whole day's tentative theme, deciding on a trading strategy, and then being prepared to react quickly (over about a three-minute period)should the anticipated day's scenario shift. His use of intermarket trends, his basket of stocks' 20-day HI-LO computation, and all the other cool slides he shows are the result of him never getting any sleep. You ever see the time on his posts? He is committed to being prepared for the opening bell.
No matter, I screwed up this AM, but I'm looking at my 2-day signals and deeper stops to save me. I don't have time to become practiced at the day-trader techniques. I hope you do.
Dr K
- nqtraderjay said...
BTW, 3 of the TICK situations I mentioned just occurred right after 1pm. I posted a chart with explanation if anyone's interested. I have the time today to post stuff, I'm only sim trading.... we had extreme, divergence, and pullback after extreme.
- TD said...
Shodson, I tend to agree with you. I have been watching it, but it basically seems to be a coincident indicator to me. Price and volume seem to tell the story that Tick is supposed to tell.
- shodson said...
I don't get volume either. A big volume move could be an exhaustion or last gasp, or could be a breakout/new trend move. I guess you really need market delta to see if price is hitting the bid or the ask to determine what's going on inside of the volume but large volume numbers themselves just don't get me going either, or I just don't know how to use it properly.
- M said...
Sometimes those 1000+ tick readings lead to the exact opposite and the market tanks. Like all indicators, it's so clear after the fact, but not so as it's developing. This is especially the case with momentum indicators. From the March bottom, I kept reading and hearing time after time how we were overbought, the rally was on low volume and therefore a huge correction, perhaps to the March lows was inevitable. Well it never happened and the market had the best rally since before WWII. So price is everything.
- Brett Steenbarger, Ph.D. said...
It is the distribution of NYSE TICK readings and not individual readings that is most important in understanding the market. Because it takes institutional activity to push TICK > +800 or < -800, the indicator is an excellent gauge of large trader sentiment during the day. That makes Cumulative TICK a worthwhile trend measure.
- M said...
The example I'm using is at around 1:30pm on 3/17, ticks were in an uptrend, had been above zero most of the day, and ticks had made three consecutive +1000 readings with two higher highs. I waited for a pullback to go long since I thought institutions were buying, but instead, that was the short term top and the ES dropped 7 points.


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Our Java WebStart application does not include a log4j configuration file; it simply sets up some hardcoded loggers and appenders.
I would like individual clients to be able to drop a log4j.properties file in somewhere and set up their own custom logging in troubleshooting situations. I could bundle a log4j.properties file into one of the jars of our application somewhere and that would allow configuration, but then the configuration would be the same for each client instead of only affecting the client that I want to troubleshoot. Plus, I wouldn't be able to change settings on the fly.
Is there a way I can hijack the log4j initialization procedure to use a per-client configuration file?


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Is it proper to call someone a lone lonely loner?
I take lone to mean the only, lonely to mean feeling sad and loner to mean someone who prefers being alone. So, the usage kind of makes sense to me. Does it actually or is it just redundant word play?


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Pantai Panjang, translated to mean Long Beach, boasts a coastline of fine, white sands that stretches 7 kilometers. As the beach has no reefs, its width expands to 500 meters when the tide is low.The beach area is a central tourism district and is lined with restaurants, hotels, cottages and shops. Pantai Panjang is located just 15 minutes from downtown Bengkulu, Southwest of the island of Sumatera.
Unlike many beaches, Pantai Panjang has no coconut or palm trees, but is dominated by Spruces and Pines which create a lovely shelter for beach-goers to rest and relax under. As a prime tourist area, a variety of facilities are positioned along the beach such as restaurants, cafes, accommodations, a children's playground as well as sports facilities.
The Bengkulu community also uses the beach as a place for jogging in the mornings and evenings.
Splash Hotel is Bengkulu's leading business hotel. It is ideally located just 6 km from the Fatmawati airport, and is close to select destinations throughout the city. Facilities include a restaurant, lounge, business center, meeting rooms and hotspots around the hotel.
Address: Jl. Sudirman No. 48 Bengkulu Indonesia
Phone: 62 - 0736-23333
Email: email@example.com
Website: www.hotel-splash.com
Hotel Santika is located in the Sawah Lebar District, an ideal location for visiting the city's attractions and Soekarno's home, Marlborough Fort and Bengkulu's beautiful Panjang Beach. Smoking and non-smoking rooms are available, each including the usual amenities. Hotel facilities include an indoor swimming pool, a ballroom with a 500 person capacity, Fitness center, Restaurant and Spa.
Address: Jalan Raya Jati No. 45, SawahLebar, Bengkulu
Phone: (62-736) 25858
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com,
Website: www.santika.com
Grage Horizon Hotel is located beside Long Beach, just 20 minutes from the airport and close to the city center, making it ideal for both business and leisure visitors. Grage hotel comprises of 58 rooms of 6 different types to suit your varying needs. Hotel facilities include a restaurant, swimming pool, meeting room and ballroom.
Address: Jalan Pantai Nala 142 Anggut Bawah Bengkulu-Indonesia
Phone: 62 – 736-21722/22072
Website: www.gragehorizon.com
Fatmawati Airport in Bengkulu is a domestic airport, serving only Jakarta and Batam.
Pantai Panjang is located to the west of the city along Jalan Parawisata Kota Bengkulu. The beach is just 1.5 kilometers from the city center and is easily accessible by car, minibus, taxi or motorcycle.
Public transportation is available at all times, or you could try the more traditional forms of transportation such as the horse carts and carriages.


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I have a directory that have zillions of files. As soon as I try to copy this directory, I receive a message that a file could not be copied (corrupt ?) and the copy stops.
Is there any command I can type on terminal that can check all files on that directory tree and list all files that could not be copied or that are corrupt? I would not like to copy the files at this time, just to check if files would not be possible to copy/read if I try.
I am on OS X Mountain Lion but any unix command should work fine, I hope.
NOTE: by corrupt I mean a file that cannot be read or copied.


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Bush: "I've abandoned free-market principles to save the free market system"
posted at 1:00 pm on December 17, 2008 by Allahpundit
150 outraged comments in Headlines means the clip is mandatory. Readers are snarking about burning the village to save it, which reminds me of the anti-war canard about how bombing for peace is like screwing for virginity. Dubya's consistent, at least: When he fears that inaction will bring calamity, he errs on the side of intervention and dives in, with the cost, the lack of an overarching strategy, and the risks of calamity inherent in action itself secondary concerns to be managed later. (Of course, if he were perfectly consistent, he'd have already hit Iran.) Maybe we should get Petraeus to manage TARP!
I like what he says about his obligation to his successor but can't understand why he won't go the whole nine yards rhetorically and pawn the matter off on Obama. The One supports an auto bailout and insists we're headed for Carmageddon if we don't keep the industry afloat. Fair enough. The people wanted Change, so give them Change a month early. Bush is going to bail out the Big Three anyway. Why take the hit when he doesn't have to?
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Abandoning principles to save a system….what will the system do to sustain itself, now that it has no principle to stand on? President Bush, I respect the hell out of you, and have willingly fought wars you have advocated. But this might be the most foolish thing I have ever thought possible. There is no justification to say that the principles of Capitalism are insufficient to save the system of Capitalism. Whom do you expect to inject the principles back into the system once you supposedly save it?


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A Tebow-Free Top 10 List
Merry Season's Hangover—or whatever feeling you're feeling, mirthful holiday friends. If you gave out holiday prezzies—that's annoying for "presents"—are all the prezzies unwrapped? Did you get what you wanted? Are you returning That Sweater—the scratchy one with no sleeves and the buttons that look like dog biscuits? Is that nonstop NBA Christmas marathon still dribbling? Was there a 5 a.m. sunrise Wizards-Hornets throw-down?
These are the sleepy final gasps of December, known in many arenas as Bring Out Your Lists Week. By now you've read plenty of lists—Best Books, Best Movies, Best New Restaurants, Best Places to Avoid Listening to People Talk Breathlessly About New Restaurants, and so on. This list is not like those lists. This is the best of 2012 in sports. It is not intended to be comprehensive. There's going to be missing stuff. Everyone won't be happy. You will not find a reference to Alabama football (Alabama football fans: w-w-whhhaaattt?) There's no Michael Phelps. There's no NHL hockey. Of course, there's no NHL hockey anywhere. Not even Canada.
But there's no Tebow. You can thank me now. Here we go:
10. Linsanity. You just scoffed. Don't lie—I have foolproof scoff detection! I know what you're thinking: This guy just promised no Tebow, and now there's Linsanity? So much has transpired since that magical February—Lin's playing for Houston; the Knicks are playing well without him; former New York coach Mike D'Antoni is trying to comprehend Laker egos. It's possible to have forgotten what a fascinating moment this was—the undrafted, unheralded, twice-dumped point guard leaping off a couch to transform an underperforming club.
Was it overstated because it happened in New York? Of course! That's what New York does, baby!
9. NFL Referee Fiasco. Remember what a huge deal this was in the fall?
Remember the throaty rage the country felt after the Packers "lost" to the Seahawks? Remember how this was a signal of how the NFL had lost institutional control and if they didn't resolve this crisis…OK, they resolved it. Never mind.
8. You Are Allowed to Like LeBron Now. One of the more tedious exercises in recent sports memory was the demonization of LeBron James for taking a job in a city with better weather. OK, he also made a crummy TV show—if making crummy TV shows were a crime, there'd be six people left working in Los Angeles. James got an NBA title this year and a sappy new story line emerged: Happy LeBron, heavy world off his shoulders. Whatever. Let LeBron be LeBron. Know this: James will be remembered as one of the best ever. If I have to go announce this to Jim Gray at the Greenwich, Conn., Boys & Girls Club, I will.
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Can I use LaTeX to specify cascading style sheet? Can someone enlighten me something about using LaTeX with my website?
Basically to setup layout like how I do for documents, setting up fonts, spacing etc
You could also look at Pandoc, which can be used as follows:
This will generate the HTML for you. You will have to specify your own stylesheets, however. Also, Pandoc only supports a subset of LaTeX.
I agree with what was already said: you won't get the flexibility of manually playing with css, jquery/ajax, etc. However, as far as structured/markup languages are concerned, you may find the following two projects interesting:
However, note that in general stylesheet as well as layout are specified outside of the core document.
LaTeX2HTML is a powerful TeX compiler to directly render a TeX document into HTML.
However, installation of
This is not a particularly good idea. While there are tools to convert LaTeX into HTML/CSS, they give a result that is nowhere near as flexible as you could get with HTML directly or other meta-languages.
This is probably not exactly what you need, but I think it might make an interesting addition to the thread nonetheless. A few weeks ago, I stumbled across pdf2htmlEX, which can convert, as the name implies, pdf files to HTML, while maintaining the typography and layout pretty much intact.
I've tried it with some non-trivial LaTeX-generated pdfs of mine, and the results are truly impressive (they have very nice demos in their project page, too). On the other hand, the HTML markup it produces is heavy and not very editing-friendly. The point is that if you have some part of a site that you'd like to layout/typset with TeX, it is now possible to do so.
If you like to use LaTeX equations in your web, you can use MathJax which is commonly used in Wikipedia, arxiv etc. (http://www.mathjax.org/) You can also use Markdown to format your HTML files quickly if you'd like to create on-line documents. You can also find a collection of tools /web templates etc. for creating online articles here:(http://laplace.phas.ubc.ca/People/arman/sg/)


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I have a 13-inch MacBook Pro with the default resolution 1280x800. I would like to know if there exists the possibility of having a better resolution?
Sorry, no. The resolution of the display panel itself is only 1280x800, so there is no way to display more without physically replacing the panel.
Whilst not quite for the same reason, I have displayed a higher resolution on my Macbook that it is physically capable of producing natively, by screen sharing from my macbook onto my iMac. I've found that any increase in screen real estate is massively negated by the poorer quality of the display, which is by necessity reduced in detail in order to maintain the appropriate size. Not worth it, in my opinion.
What you can do, in an attempt to also "fake" the overscan method that bmike mentions, is to enable screen sharing on your local macbook, and then using a seperate VNC client, connect to yourself (i.e. localhost, or 127.0.0.1), and configure the VNC client to provide a larger overscanned/panned/scrolling display, but this is also a fudge, and can be proper irritating, especially when you consider the fixed dock and menubar that may both be hidden at any one time.
You can just plug in a 21" flatscreen to act as a 2nd screen using a DVI adapter. Then change the resolution of the new screen (via dock settings) to 1600 x 1400 (or similar), then you have a 13" display plus a 21" display. The 21" display isn't just a scaled up 13" picture either. You can see whole documents that you would need to scroll through on the 13" screen. I've dragged large documents across from one screen to the other: on the laptop screen you only see half the document at any one time, on the 2nd screen you see all of it plus margins!
you can do it as a "devoloper". No need for a developer account though. download Xcode from the Mac app store. this video will show u how
You can do it virtually using SwitchResX, but it looks really bad. I changed back within a few minutes.


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Let G be a compact Lie group, for example, SU(n). Let T be its maximal torus. Let W be its Weyl group.
Every finite-dimensional representation of G has a character, which is a function on G, T and T/W.
I want to prove that for two different points a and b in T/W, we can find such a character $\chi$ that $\chi(a)\neq \chi(b)$.
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I have an elliptic curve defined over finite field where $S_1=aP$ . Is it valid to say that $S_1P$ can also be computed. $P$ is the generator of the group. What my real question is that. Should '$a$' be always an integer or can it be a group element itself??
Well, $aP$ is defined to be:
$aP \equiv \underbrace{P + P + \ldots + P}_\text{a times}$
From that definition, we see that this makes sense only if $a$ is an integer; it needs to be a count of the number of $P$'s to add together.
In ECC you have two distinct types, group elements and scalars.
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Are speed limits obeyed on the street where you live?
My wife, son, and I live on a 2-lane county road. We happen to live on a steeply winding (and steeply descending/climbing) S-curve which is marked at 20mph. Less than a quarter mile up the road from us is a school.
Yet I seem to be the only person in the county who obeys the speed limit. I've seen school buses going past our house at 50+, gravel trucks easily doing 60+, and sports cars doing who-knows-what.
Do you live on a street where at least 25% of the drivers show a shred of regard for the speed limit?
And yes, I've tried reporting it to law enforcement. They don't seem to care.
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My last count was 26.5 % so I will say yes.
We have the opposite problem here. Almost everyone parks on the street and with only about 20 feet of space between them all the local SUV and monster pickup drivers slow to a crawl because they seem to think their vehicles are 19 feet wide.
But at least it's safe, as long as I always yield right of way to the folks blowing through stop signs.
That depends on how you define "obey".
I usually drive about 5 over (not in construction or housing areas) and see most around here do the same except for the usual clown that ends up on the evening news wrapped around a pole somewhere. Yellow/red lights are our problem. I've gotten to a point that I'll look to see how close the person behind me is before stopping for a changing light. I have traveled through a yellow that turned red while I was in the intersection, only to have 5 more people follow me through.
I live on a Farm to Market road. Basically, a back road but very well maintained. Some twisty bits, and some nice straights. It's really fun to drive. The speed limit is 55, and is generally obeyed. The occasional guy on a crotch rocket blazes by at 100, but that's about it.
Since I live in the United States, no.
The speed limit of 25 (or is it 30? It's not posted.) is pretty much obeyed on my street. But then, I live on a VERY short 1 block dead-end street. The only errant speeders have been the occasional teen residents. They, too slowed down. Hardly worth it for a short block.
Cross street & other streets in my area - not much speeding. Closely watched. Families w/small children (3 to 5 yo) moved in & decided that the streets were a perfect place for their children to play. ??? That did not last long. Fortunately, no accidents. Oh, and stop signs were added in odd places...like 3 way stops. Brick streets are a deterrent, too. Does nasty things to your suspension.
And stay off my lawn!!! ;-)
Lots of daytime traffic enforces limit, but at night, I hear people zooming by...
The cross-street next to our house has a buttload of Speed Racers trying to break the sound barrier or something. It's long and straight with a slight incline, so when you're in an automatic you end up coasting way above the limit. It's all residential, with a public park and a school at the bottom of the road (on opposite sides of the street, so kids actually cross this road to get to the park). Most people speed 10-15 over at all hours of the day because of the decline, with people channeling Racer-X late at night.
@lparsons42: You can start a petition with your neighbors and take it to the city council to install speed humps in the road--not the vicious yellow concrete bumps, but the larger asphalt things in the road that force people to slow to at least 30 so they don't skip off the top and flip the car over. I'm actually surprised that the Sheriff's office (I assumed from your description) isn't interested in making some extra money from the speeders/reckless drivers.
H* no. Problem is, there's a fire station at the end of our street and we're a designated emergency route -- so there can never be speed bumps, diversions, or other mitigations.
@curtisuxor: Our community has already petitioned to the county to install speed bumps on our street but they said they cannot do it because it's a public street.
Apparently in this county, you can only have speed bumps on private land like in the mall parking lots or other non-city maintained streets.
No, they don't. It's not so much a big deal to me (we're empty-nesters so no kids playing on the street), but even though our road ends in a cul-de-sac they speed up and down.
It got bad enough that the neighborhood petitioned for and got two speed bumps on other roads in the development - bad enough that you've gotta go over them at 5 MPH or less unless you want to destroy your shocks. Still, all that did was slow them down in that area, leaving them to speed elsewhere. :)
Um, no. They're more like speed 'suggestions' around where I live. Most don't follow them.
The way you described your situation, it sounds like the 20 MPH is the suggested speed for those curves (yellow sign). I drive the speed limit, but I also grew up in the country and learned to drive on a very curvy road, so I can generally safely take curves faster than those suggested speeds. If the actual speed limit on the road is 20 MPH (white sign), then I would try to ask the police to patrol that road more and lobby my neighbors to do the same. If the 20 is just the suggested speed, then I don't think there's much you can do except to try to get the actual speed limit lowered.
@samstag: It is like that on my street, but I would say it is 3-1 in favor of people going WAY OVER the speed limit to people going UNDER the speed limit. I tend to go a little slower if there is a car coming toward me, or if some idiot parked on the wrong side of the street making it a truly narrow path...we also have a lot of kids and animals (wild and domestic) that dart out in the street frequently. But my husband works from a home office with a window by the street and he hears cars racing up and down the street all day long. At the very end of our street it turns into a right hand turn with a house if you go straight...one day someone drove about 90 down the street and plowed right into the house. Luckily no one was hurt, but I'm actually surprised it hadnt't happened before.
I live on a suburban 25MPH road in between two stop signs & about 1,000FT from a school. Almost everybody who lives on my street has children from newborns to teens. Most people obey the speed the limits, its kind of hard to get up to speed in front of my house unless you floor it. During the summer months if some backwards hat bro in a Siebring convertbile speeds by; the folks in the neighborhood will use a little street justice to make sure that he obeys the speed limit signs next time around.
Very few obey the speed limit in our devlopment. And most of those who disregard it (mostly min-vans and SUVs) are the ones who would be the first to complain if anyone ELSE was speeding.
People use my 2-block long street to avoid lights on their way to/from a nearby highway. The posted limit is 25, if anybody does less than 40 I'll eat my left shoe.
Nope. We live on a cul-de-sac chock full of toddlers through elementary school kids, lined with cars parked on both sides. People race toward the small, circular street end as though they're itching to jump the curb and land straight in their living rooms to avoid the hassle of getting out of their cars.
Posted limit is 25, with signs reminding drivers to go slow and use caution. We only have sidewalks on one side, so kids, stroller moms/dads, and joggers are often smack in the middle of the road. If I drove like everyone else around here, I'd probably be facing vehicular manslaughter charges right now. It's really dumb luck that no one's been hit (at least in the year we've been here,) but that sort of luck never lasts.
Nope. People here will zip through school zones, and generally go over the speed limit. This includes the cops, so you can't blame people for not obeying what the cops don't obey.
There are, of course, those who do. And, those who seem to drive 5 under the limit. But, I'd say most do not obey the limits.
Some don't deserve to be obeyed. There is this one road that used to be 45 mph by my house and for some reason they listened to this one guy who always complained about it and now it's 25 mph. It's actually very difficult to go 25 mph. Especially when you know it's because of some old guy with nothing better to do.
I live in the center of town in an area of older housing. My house is 100 this year. My street is much narrower than current City code, and on the next block the street dead-ends at the foot of a mountain. My neighborhood is on the slope of the mountain and is terraced, so the folk on my side of the street have driveways, but the homes on the other side of the street are about 10' above street level and have no driveways, the people park in the street. The street is barely three cars wide, which means if two cars meet going different directions and there is a car parked on the street, the one on the parking side must yield (pull over behind the parked car) as the two cannot pass one another safely with a third car parked. Lastly, the closest park is across two major roads, so the street becomes the kids' park. Between the fact that it is a dead end street so only people who live there drive it, the narrowness and the kids at play, most people drive well below the 30mph limit.
I'll let you know the first time I drive a road in my city that doesn't treat the speed limit like the speed minimum. If I go 35 in a 35 (my drive a few blocks to work every day), people pass me left and right - it's treated as if the actual limit was 45, withs ome people hitting 50.
The only difference I ever note is highways that pass through small towns. If you don't stay on top of that, you're busted.
@chronosquall14: Highways through small towns are an interesting case, for sure. When my wife and I were dating we were on vacation and I was pulled over twice on the same road by the same cop as the limits went up, down, up, down, up. The first time he claimed I was going too fast, which was probably true. He then followed me as I continued on the same road and proceeded to pull me over for not going fast enough as the limit went up (no posted minimum on that road...).
Oddly enough he did not write a ticket either time. Maybe he was just bored? Or just checking out my then-girlfriend (now: wife) on the nice warm summer day?
i live in socal. i'm asian. i live with my asian family close to my asian friends. we're in a heavily-asian populated area.
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ORLANDO, Fla. --- College football's oldest All-America team features three Texas A&M players for the first time after the Walter Camp Football Foundation named juniors Luke Joeckel and Damontre Moore and freshman Johnny Manziel to its first-team squad on Thursday.
Joeckel (Arlington, Texas) was the second Aggie offensive lineman to be named All-American by Walter Camp and the first since guard Marshall Robnett in 1940. Moore (Rowlett, Texas) earned his All-America status at defensive line. Manziel (Kerrville, Texas) is the first Texas A&M quarterback and the first-ever Aggie freshman to earn first-team All-America honors. It's the first time Texas A&M has had two offensive players on the Walter Camp squad since Robnett and running back John Kimbrough in 1940.
A total of four Aggies were recognized by the Walter Camp Football Foundation with junior Jake Matthews (Missouri City, Texas) being named to the second-team All-America squad.
2012 Walter Camp All-America Teams
First Team Offense
Pos. Name, School Hgt Wgt Class Hometown
WR Marqise Lee, USC 6-0 195 Soph. Inglewood, CA
WR Terrance Williams, Baylor 6-2 195 Sr. Dallas, TX
TE Zach Ertz, Stanford 6-6 252 Sr. Alamo, CA
OL Luke Joeckel, Texas A&M 6-6 310 Jr. Arlington, TX
OL Jonathan Cooper, North Carolina 6-3 295 Sr. Wilmington, NC
OL Chance Warmack, Alabama 6-3 320 Sr. Atlanta, GA
OL Taylor Lewan, Michigan 6-8 309 Jr. Scottsdale, AZ
C Barrett Jones, Alabama # 6-5 302 Sr. Germantown, TN
QB Johnny Manziel, Texas A&M 6-1 200 Fr. Kerrville, TX
RB Kenjon Barner, Oregon 5-11 192 Sr. Riverside, CA
RB Montee Ball, Wisconsin @ 5-11 215 Sr. Wentzville, MO
RB Ka'Deem Carey, Arizona 5-10 197 Soph. Tucson, AZ
PK Dustin Hopkins, Florida State 6-2 190 Sr. Houston, TX
First Team Defense
DL Jadeveon Clowney, South Carolina 6-6 256 Soph. Rock Hill, SC
DL Bjoern Werner, Florida State 6-4 255 Jr. Berlin, Germany
DL Damontre Moore, Texas A&M 6-4 250 Jr. Rowlett, TX
DL Star Lotulelei, Utah 6-4 320 Sr. South Jordan, UT
LB Manti Te'o, Notre Dame @ 6-2 255 Sr. Laie, HI
LB Jarvis Jones, Georgia # 6-3 241 Jr. Columbus, GA
LB C.J. Mosley, Alabama 6-2 232 Jr. Theodore, AL
DB Dee Milliner, Alabama 6-1 199 Jr. Millbrook, AL
DB Phillip Thomas, Fresno State 6-1 215 Sr. Bakersfield, CA
DB Johnthan Banks, Mississippi State 6-2 185 Sr. Meben, MS
DB Jordan Poyer, Oregon State 6-0 190 Sr. Astoria, OR
P Ryan Allen, Louisiana Tech @ 6-2 215 Sr. Salem, OR
KR Dri Archer, Kent State 5-8 175 Sr. Laurel, FL
Second Team Offense
Pos. Name, School Hgt Wgt Class Hometown
WR Stedman Bailey, West Virginia 5-10 195 Jr. Miramar, FL
WR Tavon Austin, West Virginia 5-9 171 Sr. Baltimore, MD
TE Tyler Eifert, Notre Dame # 6-6 251 Sr. Fort Wayne, IN
OL DJ Fluker, Alabama 6-6 335 Jr. Foley, AL
OL Zack Martin, Notre Dame 6-4 304 Sr. Indianapolis, IN
OL Spencer Long, Nebraska 6-4 305 Jr. Elkhorn, NE
OL Jake Matthews, Texas A&M 6-5 305 Jr. Missouri City, TX
C Dalton Freeman, Clemson 6-5 285 Grad Pelion, SC
QB Collin Klein, Kansas State 6-5 226 Sr. Loveland, CO
RB Johnathan Franklin, UCLA 5-11 195 Sr. Los Angeles, CA
RB Stefphon Jefferson, Nevada 5-11 210 Jr. Visalia, CA
PK Quinn Sharp, Oklahoma State 6-1 205 Sr. Mansfield, TX
Second Team Defense
DL Will Sutton, Arizona State 6-1 267 Jr. Corona, CA
DL Sam Montgomery, LSU 6-5 260 Jr. Greenwood, SC
DL Stephon Tuitt, Notre Dame 6-6 303 Soph. Monroe, GA
DL John Simon, Ohio State 6-2 263 Sr. Youngstown, OH
LB Arthur Brown, Kansas State 6-1 231 Sr. Wichita, KS
LB Kevin Minter, LSU 6-2 245 Jr. Suwanee, GA
LB Khaseem Greene, Rutgers 6-1 230 Sr. Elizabeth, NJ
DB Matt Elam, Florida 5-10 202 Jr. Palm Beach Gardens, FL
DB Eric Reid, LSU 6-2 212 Jr. Geismar, LA
DB Jason Verrett, TCU 5-10 180 Jr. Fairfield, CA
DB Bradley Roby, Ohio State 5-11 190 Soph. Suwanee, GA
P Kyle Christy, Florida 6-2 199 Soph. Brownsburg, IN
KR Duke Johnson, Miami (Fla.) 5-9 188 Fr. Miami, FL
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Pages of gold (maybe not paper) - biblical metaphors
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Little Black Book - contact list. ...
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Let p be a prime. Prove that every commutative ring with the identity and p elements is a domain.
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Any help or hints on how to get started would be great thanks
Thanks for any help
By Lagrange, the order of the subgroup$\rm\: G = \{r:rs=0\}\:$ divides $\rm\:|(A,+)| = p\:$ prime.
Thus $\rm\:|G| = p\ (\Rightarrow 1\cdot s = 0)\:$ or $\rm\:|G| = 1\ (\Rightarrow\ rs\ne 0\ \ if\ \ r,s\ne0)$.
HINT If the ring has $p$ elements, then its additive structure must be cyclic of order $p$; hence, since $1_R\neq 0$, $1$ will generate the ring additively. So every element of the ring is of the form $n\cdot 1_R$, with $0\leq n\lt p$. Show this determines the multiplication and that your ring must in fact be $\mathbb{F}_p$, the field with $p$ elements.
Consider $a\in R$ and the map $\mu : x \mapsto ax$. This is an endomorphism of the additive group of $R$. If $a\ne0$, the image of $\mu$ is not $0$ because $\mu(1)=a$. Since $R$ has $p$ elements, the image must be the whole of $R$. In particular, there is $b$ such that $ab=1$ and $R$ is a field. Alternatively, the kernel must be $0$ and $R$ is a domain.
The surjective ringhomomorphism $\mathbb Z \rightarrow R$, $1\mapsto 1_R$ must have non-trivial Kernel $n\mathbb Z $, such that $\mathbb Z/n\mathbb Z = R$ has $p$ elements. Therefore $n=p$ and $R=\mathbb Z/p\mathbb Z=\mathbb F_p$


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GENESEO, N.Y. – Robert Bonfiglio, vice president for student and campus life at the State University of New York at Geneseo, is this year's recipient of the most prestigious award conferred by the Council for the Advancement of Standards in Higher Education. The Ted K. Miller Achievement of Excellence Award recognizes outstanding accomplishments in advancing standards of practice and quality assurance in educational programs and services in higher education.
"We are thrilled to honor Bob for many reasons," said Susan Komives, CAS president and professor in the College Student Personnel Program at the University of Maryland. "He has used CAS standards in a systematic review of the Division of Campus and Student Life at Geneseo and his careful and visionary leadership has resulted in a collaborative learning and work environment for students and professional staff. His work has been published in a chapter of 'Learning Reconsidered 2: Implementing a Campus-Wide Focus on the Student Experience' and he has presented widely on the use of CAS standards in professional work," she said.
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"I was pleased to learn I had been nominated for this award, which actually recognizes the good work of all of the staff in student and campus life at Geneseo," said Bonfiglio. "When I came to the college in 1999, our staff agreed to use the benchmarks established by CAS to shape a state-of-the-art student affairs program, and this award affirms not only that Geneseo's program represents best practice in American higher education but also that we consistently contribute to the fulfillment of the college's mission," he said.
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Reviewer: Courtney Lewis, MD
The Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania
Last Modified: March 26, 2004
Authors: Zietman AL, Chung CS, Coen JJ, Shipley U
Source: Journal of Urology, Vol. 171, 210-214, January 2004
Localized prostate cancer is currently treated with either surgery or radiation, and the optimal treatment strategy remains controversial. Prostate cancer is a slow-growing in most men, and published data often lack the long-term follow-up to determine differences in treatment outcome. The ASTRO consensus definition for biochemical failure after definitive radiation stresses that the PSA may continue to decline for up to two year post treatment, and requires three consecutive rises in PSA for a failure. This process could take four to five years to determine failure, whereas after radical prostatectomy, any rise in PSA post-operatively is considered failure. The authors stress that in order to compare radiation versus surgery in this situation; the follow-up period must be long enough such that most failures have had a chance to occur. Thus in this study, the authors review the outcome after definitive radiation for patients with a follow-up of almost ten years.
The authors state that these results can be used as a benchmark with which to compare newer radiation techniques. In this series, most of the patients were too old for surgery, and only 8% died of prostate cancer. However, almost half had biochemical evidence of recurrence at 10 years. None of these patients were treated with conformal therapy and the median dose of 68.4 Gy is lower than the 70-78Gy we use today.
Also, the authors do not indicate the studies used for staging, but by Gleason score and PSA alone, almost 62% had intermediate or high risk features (Gleason > 6 or PSA > 10), and thus were at higher risk for recurrence. An analysis of biochemical failure by Gleason score or PSA was not included in the study.
In summary, these results provide baseline for determining the efficacy of newer radiation techniques. We should also discuss the issue of biochemical recurrence with patients when advising a definitive treatment strategy for early stage prostate cancer.


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If it exists, has been agreed on, and F# programmers have used it extensively, I would like to know what is the industry standard Quant Finance library for F#.
What typical finance scenario(s) have you had success with for this library?
If it exists, has been agreed on, and F# programmers have used it extensively, I would like to know what is the industry standard Quant Finance library for F#.
What typical finance scenario(s) have you had success with for this library?
I'm not aware of an industry-standard Quant Finance library in the F# space, but there are plenty of high-quality commercial and open source alternatives. See the F# Software Foundation's Math Stacks page.
F# is used in a wide range of finance scenarios.You can read some experience reports from the F# Software Foundation home page.
A lot of that stuff was previously the domain of Haskell or Erlang, not so anymore.
F# is a relatively recent programming language: it was only included with Visual Studio since the 2010 version. Therefore, there is little chance that programmers had the time to agree on a common library, especially given the fact that Quantitative Finance is a broad field and hence different libraries might be better in specific areas.
I still think the question deserves an answer because F# is being more and more used in Quantitative Finance and I guess programmers in the field will start wondering about a reference library in the future.
First of all, it is important to remember that F# is part of the .Net framework. Hence, you have to keep in my that any library being used nowadays in another language of the framework (I'm especially thinking about C#) can be used from F#. For example, as mentioned by phi, you will be able to use Quantlib. The thing is, to be able to leverage the advantage of the functional programming paradigm which is the main advantage of F#, you would have to create a wrapper around a library that hasn't been done especially for that language. Some of the existing libraries, such as NAG, are starting to make F# wrappers so there is a good chance that more wrappers will be available in the future.
Finally, let's just say again that in order to make profitable strategies, you will not be able to solely rely on available libraries, you will have to implement extensions in-house.
Unfortunately, the most there is seems to be the C++ QuantLib. I am not overly familiar with F#, but i assume there is a way to access C++ libraries.
Its documentation is pretty much nonexistent, however Mark Joshi has published a very good book on Design Patterns with C++, which will help you get started. You may be able to utilize the methods from QL in your system, but implement your own code in F#, but that heavily depends on your usage scenario (maybe you could elaborate on that a bit more?). Another way would be to write most of your system in C++ (or anything else, Java or Python offer decent implementations of QL) and only write only some modules in F#, depending on your needs. This, however, can quickly become a huge mess, and needs to be planned carefully. Weight the advantages of using an at least commonly used library.
On a different note, Microsoft has a case study on F# in banking, but unfortunately they do not answer your question, however it may serve you as a resource for further research: http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Case_Study_Detail.aspx?casestudyid=4000006794


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5 Useful Organizations You Think Are Evil (Thanks to Movies)
#2. Pharmaceutical Companies
As Seen In: Resident Evil, The Constant Gardener, The Fugitive, Leverage, House
What Hollywood Thinks They Do:
If a movie or TV show features a drug company, you can bet your medicinal marijuana that it's doing one of four things: performing illegal experiments on people, charging an arm and a leg for treatments, lying about a drug's effectiveness or straight murdering anyone who stands in its way.
"And so, by murdering all of our customers with poison, Big Pharma can increase market penetration by 17 percent. Or something. I'll be honest: We've been dipping into the medical marijuana stash pretty heavily this week."
For example, in The Constant Gardener, African children are used as guinea pigs for tuberculosis drugs with known harmful side effects. And in The Fugitive, Harrison Ford spends the entire movie trying to figure out who framed him for his wife's murder, only to learn the whole shebang was set up by a pharmaceutical company that was about to release liver-damaging drugs. Because Ford discovered they were bad news, and apparently he was the only doctor who tested them.
A drug company is apparently the main bad guy in the new Wonder Woman. And don't get us started on the Umbrella Corporation, where pharmaceutical research is all a cover for... making zombies?
Age-defying zombies.
What They Actually Do:
Let's not get carried away here. Corporations don't care about you. So while pharmaceutical companies cure diseases (like, all the time) they don't care about your well-being any more than, say, the Starbucks corporation.
But they don't care about you any less, either.
They make good bad guys because we need drugs and drugs are expensive, so withholding drugs makes us think of them as heartless bastards. You figure that they know Grandma needs her heart medicine, so they know she'll pay through the nose for it. So it's like extortion! Our pain and sickness is their blank check!
"Jenkins, that slide show of dead grandmothers was fantastic. I think I speak for the entire board when I say my cock is hard enough to slice an apple with."
Yet ... drug companies aren't making all that much money. The world's largest drug company, Pfizer, is taking a beating and shutting down factories to cut costs. In fact, we hope you weren't invested too heavily in Big Pharma, because you're about to lose. Big time. Then you have a company like Hollis-Eden, which pumped over $100 million into medicine to combat the effects of radiation exposure and never made a profit. It eventually fired its CEO and started over with a new name.
OK, but maybe they're still crooks, but incompetent crooks? Or their evil CEOs are stealing all the money?
No, the problem is that making new drugs is ludicrously expensive. It may be true that your $300 bottle of pills has only $12 worth of chemicals in it, but behind that bottle is millions spent on researching, developing and testing the drug, and the bills from countless drugs that never made it to market despite all that money that was poured in (because only at the end did they turn out to be unsafe or ineffective, etc). Then they have to get everything they make through the FDA, market it and get doctors on board prescribing it to patients, and after all that there is still the potential for massive financial failure once their patents are up and anybody can make a dirt-cheap generic.
"Pfizer's new drug sends dolls tumbling off of comedically large waterfalls for half the price."
Again, please don't storm into the comments with "Oh, go cry us a river! Nobody made them get into this business!" Big Pharma is in it for the money, and we're not claiming otherwise.
It's just that they seem to suffer from the same paradox as the police -- we get more mad at them because what they're doing is more crucial to our safety. When's the last time you saw a movie where the villain was, say, a fast-food chain? It's as if because what they're doing is important, they can never do it to our satisfaction.
"Thanks for curing hundreds of diseases that have ravaged mankind since time immemorial ... assfucks."
Actually, we can think of at least one more group in the same boat ...
#1. Insurance Companies
As Seen In: The Rainmaker, The Incredibles, As Good As It Gets, Leverage, John Q, The Island
What Hollywood Thinks They Do:
"Fucking HMO bastard pieces of shit!"
"Actually, I think that's their technical name."
-- Helen Hunt and Harold Ramis in As Good As It Gets
If you've been hankering to see Egon with a double chin, this is the film for you.
In Hollywood, insurance companies take your hard-earned cash, throw it into bags with literal dollar signs on them and then punch you in the junk when you ask for help with your medical bills. Like in The Rainmaker, where Matt Damon plays a lawyer suing an insurance company that won't pay for his client's cancer treatment. He manages to find a former employee who testifies that the company's official policy was to initially deny every single claim it received, whether it was legitimate or not, on the basis that most people eventually just give up trying.
Also known as the Eddie Murphy approach to coverage.
And then there's the Best Picture Oscar nominee As Good As It Gets, in which Helen Hunt's insurance claim is denied because her kid has asthma (the source of the above quote). Or the TNT series Leverage, where the main character's son dies because the insurance company that he works for won't pay for his kid's cancer treatment. And just to make sure that kids grow up fully believing insurance companies are the devil, the dad in The Incredibles works as an insurance agent but breaks the company's rules to actually help customers. And that nearly gets him fired.
What They Actually Do:
They cover 13 out of every 14 claims filed. So there's that. More than half of all denied claims that are appealed result in coverage being reinstated, often because it was just an issue with the paperwork.
And no, insurance companies are not rolling naked in cash any more than the drug companies are (profits by percentage are in the low single digits). Again, they're not a charity, but they're not robbing people at gunpoint either.
"If you're going to file a claim, we're damn well going to make sure you earn it."
Once more, it's easy to hate insurance companies, because the consequences of their business practices are much more devastating than with other companies. If a bank denies you a loan, it sucks, but nobody dies. And during the health care debate in the U.S., horror stories cropped up about insurance companies inventing reasons to cut off treatment to Grandma to save a few bucks.
But you can't lose sight of this: The thing that we really want insurance companies to do -- pay for everything every deserving sick person needs, ever -- is physically impossible.
Transport yourself to an alternate dimension where every insurance company employee is 100 percent honest and 100 percent compassionate. We're talking a company whose cubicles and board of directors are both full of Mother Theresa. By the sheer, mathematical realities of the insurance industry, they will still find themselves denying claims to poor people who badly need care.
"I'm sorry, but your plan only supports curing blindness in one eye. And the palsy cure is considered an elective miracle."
This is why during that health care debate, the opposing sides were both able to cite coverage-denial horror stories from every single system on Earth. Horror stories will always be part of the equation. It's as simple as this: We want insurance companies to say money is no object when providing coverage, but we don't say the same when paying premiums. That creates a gap into which sick people fall and die.
Dammit, are there no easy villains left? We bet if you look closely at its books, Umbrella even had a really good reason for creating all of those zombies.
For more on Hollywood's struggle to find good villains, check out yesterday's article on 6 Groups Who Don't Work as Movie Bad Guys Anymore.
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The U.S. Global Change Research Program is a confederation of the research arms of 13 Federal departments and agencies, which carry out research and develop and maintain capabilities that support the Nation's response to global change.
Interagency Working Groups (IWGs) are the primary USGCRP vehicles for implementing and coordinating global change research activities within and across agencies.
Since 1989, the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) has submitted annual reports to Congress called Our Changing Planet. The reports describe the status of USGCRP research activities, provide progress updates, and document recent accomplishments.In particular, Our Changing Planet highlights progress and accomplishments in interagency activities. These highlights represent the broad spectrum of USGCRP activities that extend from Earth system observations, modeling, and fundamental research through synthesis and assessment, decision support, education, and public engagement.