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A Foreign Ministry official says that unlike countries like Somalia or CAR, South Sudan acted quickly to try to end the conflict that got it on the list in the first place.
Warrap state residents say the number of homeless children has grown since South Sudan plunged into conflict in December, but refused to say if they thought the conflict was to blame.
South Sudan football fans say they'll continue watching World Cup matches at cinemas and bars, even if a game goes well past the 11 pm curfew in Juba.
An analyst from a South Sudanese think tank doubts that President Salva Kiir and opposition leader Riek Machar have the commitment to stick to a 60-day timeline to set up a transitional government.
Annual index reveals some surprises, including why Iran raised its score, and how US slipped over fractious partisan politics
Business as usual grinds to a halt as lawmakers object to the way the speaker appointed new committee heads.
South Sudan defense minister says having Ugandan forces in South Sudan not only helps to ensure security there but also in Uganda.
The adjournment will allow IGAD, the regional bloc mediating the talks, to hold consultations to try to get the negotiations back on track after the opposition boycotted the negotiations.
Opposition negotiators boycott the opening session of the latest round of talks, saying their request to IGAD that the talks should be more inclusive has fallen on deaf ears.
A week after President Kiir and opposition leader Riek Machar agreed to a 60-day timeline to set up a transitional government, South Sudan's president insists he has to be head of it.
The South Sudan opposition chief also says he wants the stalled talks in Addis Ababa to be more representative and include groups that have fled the country.
The Health Ministry is running an information campaign, urging people to wash their hands and chlorinate water, but not everyone is listening.
Around 98,000 residents who fled Bor as fighting raked the town have returned and are slowly rebuilding their lives.
President Salva Kiir lodges a protest with IGAD after the bloc's executive secretary was quoted in the media as saying Kiir and Riek Machar are stupid to think they can resolve South Sudan's crisis on the battlefield.
U.N. Humanitarian Coordinator Toby Lanzer says another $1 billion is needed to provide healthcare, food, clean water, sanitation and shelter to help millions of South Sudanese make it through the year.
In a poignant poem, children say they want to go to school, live in peace, and help to build a peaceful, united South Sudan.
South Sudan Vice President James Wani Igga tells a gathering in Kampala that President Salva Kiir's government is not on the brink of collapse.
One money transfer company manager in Western Bahr el Ghazal says business is down 30 percent since the start of the year.
SPLA spokesman Philip Aguer admits there have been some desertions but dismisses reports that thousands of soldiers have left their posts in parts of Jonglei state.
President Salva Kiir and opposition leader Riek Machar agree to set up a transitional government within 60 days as regional bloc IGAD threatens punitive action if they don't hold up their end of the latest peace deal for South Sudan.
UNMISS inaugurates a new "protection of civilians" facility in Malakal, capital of Upper Nile state, where, in spite of weeks of relative calm, people still do not feel it is safe enough to return home.
"The fate of South Sudanese children, who have been affected by unimaginable violations, including killings, forced recruitment, rape and abductions, is in your hands," leaders from across Africa warn President Salva Kiir and opposition leader, Riek Machar.
The opposition welcomes the defectors, saying their leaving the SPLM is a sign the government of President Salva Kiir is "crumbling from within."
Counselor of the Department of State Thomas Shannon, who advises Secretary of State John Kerry on major foreign policy problems, says the two rivals made the pledge to him when he visited Juba over the weekend.
The head of the United Democratic Front party says security officials confiscated his and other party officials' passports and barred them from traveling to Addis.
The Foreign Ministry denies accusations made against the government by former top diplomat Francis Nazario, who resigned and fled the country this week.
The opposition says the government has brought in 100 delegates for the talks while its team is only 14-strong.
In a lengthy resignation letter, former Higher Education Minister Peter Adwok Nyaba accuses President Salva Kiir of "an inner tendency to dictatorship" and says he has turned the SPLM into an oppressive, totalitarian machine.
"I can't be in Juba while seeing people being harassed, killed by government security," says South Sudan's former head of mission to Belgium and the EU, and Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Francis Nazario.
Inspections by health officials and a drop in clientele during the three-week-old cholera outbreak are forcing many food vendors in Juba out of business.
UNICEF says that fighters from both sides have taken over schools in five states, disrupting the educations of tens of thousands of children.
The two sides in the nearly six-month-old conflict blame each other for violating a ceasefire deal signed nearly a month ago.
Richard K. Mulla, the independent member of parliament for Western Equatoria who has been a stern critic of the government, says he feared for his life in South Sudan.
In speech to open session of National Assembly, Kiir pledges to restore peace, help those displaced by fighting, improve infrastructure, unite South Sudanese
A U.N. official says 27 people have died of cholera and the number of cases has nearly doubled since last week, rising from 586 to 1,106.
Denying earlier reports that woman would be freed, Foreign Ministry spokesman says she cannot be released without appeals court ruling
South Sudan in Focus (SSIF) is a 30-minute English-language broadcast and Internet program covering rapidly changing developments in South Sudan and the East Africa region.
South Sudan in Focus airs at 7:30 pm in Juba (1630 UTC) and can be heard on FM stations throughout South Sudan, on shortwave, and on VOA's 24-hour channel in Nairobi at 8:30 pm. The program is hosted by John Tanza in Washington D.C., and a network of stringers around South Sudan, and reporters in Washington, D.C., produce the stories that are heard on South Sudan in Focus.
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I've been looking for this movie all day long but I cant find it. I watched it in an independent theatre.
Plot: A Person has to observe the lifestyle and habits of some random person from morning to evening. At night he lives outside the house in a trailer. I believe it was somewhere in Scandinavia.
He observes an old guy, who talks sparely and only watches the observer. The observer always sits up on his observer chair. Later in that movie they start to socially interact with each other. It has something to do with the idea of Ikea observing people to make furniture especially for their needs.

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Proving $a^2+b^2=c^2$ where $a,b,c$ are side lengths of a right triangle.
First, I have never done a proof before, sorry I am so poor here. I have spent many hours but my actions have mostly used wrong ideas. I will only say what I have done that I think is right. If you need my other writing I can write it out but it was mostly about fitting shapes inside the triangles and I think the big mistake is that if the equal statement $a^2+b^2=c^2$ were to be wrong then anything about the inside triangles cannot prove the statement to be wrong because the algebra is connected to the geometry of the triangle and the shapes are inside the geometry of the triangle.
Start: I started by drawing a square with sides $d,e,f,g$ all the same as a. The biggest possible right triangle has two sides the same length. This square can fit at least two right triangles inside it both no smaller than the other with one side equal to a. That is true because if you made one smaller than the other and pushed it into one corner of the square then the bigger triangle touching it would overlap the corners of the square which is wrong.
So then the sum $d+e+f+g=4a$ is more than $a+b+c$ where $a,b,c$ are the side lengths of one of the triangles and $4a>a+b+c$. Then I square
$$\begin{eqnarray*} 16a^2&>& (a+b+c)^2\\ &=&a^2+b^2+c^2+2(ab+bc+ac)\\ \end{eqnarray*}$$
The only thing I can do here is use the equation at the top so if $a^2+b^2=c^2$ isn't true for the triangle then it's $a^2+b^2=c^2+z$ for some $z$. But I subtracted that from the expression and it wasn't wrong which I thought it would have to be since I added the $z$. I guess the extra $z$ can't show the equation is wrong since any number could be equal to it including those like zero which it is not really equal to atleast if the equation were wrong. But if there is a rule that $z$ isn't zero included somehow there should be a way to conclude having $z$ not be zero is wrong. But then I checked and found $a,b,c,z$ with $z$ not zero so that the inequality holds so I'm very confused. Maybe the squares are too simple and I should have chosen a rectangle or put squares around the outside of the triangle. I know a book that proves this but I want just some clues whether my actions are appropriate to solving this and otherwise a clue for a new way since I don't care about it for a class I just like to think about the question.
Edit. I have corrected (a+b+c)^2 I think. I am also grateful for the answer below which gives a good clue and just as much as I wished for. It is certainly an interesting choice of shapes and different from what I was doing in that there are no gaps between the shapes. It helps clarify that as I am asking about ways that work I am also asking if an approach using gaps between shapes and estimations rather than exactness could work as an approach (perhaps just because I have spent some hours and wish to recover some value). Is that known? Or perhaps the notion of grouping proofs into approaches is just because the mind is simple and we can't talk about the correctness of approaches only whether one proof we are handed is right or wrong.


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As you may know Bloglines is going to shut down November 1st, but I don't want to leave any of my feeds over there even though they will disappear after the shutdown. The reason is I already moved everything to Google Reader and I want to say farewell to Bloglines for good.
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Unanswered: Views in a panel with card layout, stacking.
I have a carousel that is dynamically being fed views for cards. Which works fine. I want to remove the swiping functionality but still have indexing to move between the different cards.
If I take the current view configered as a carousel and change the extend from Ext.Carousel to Ext.Panel with layout defined as 'card', all the views in the former carousel are stacked on top of each other.
I have tried defining the items before hand, thinking that the dynamically added views were simply added to the panel instead of being added as a card. What causes this, and how can I achieve the card layout with the possibility of setting the activeitem (possibly with support of the activeitemchange event), without the swiping functionality?
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If they are items of Ext.Panel with card layout everything should be fine. Are there any errors being thrown?Mitchell Simoens @LikelyMitch
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15 Feb 2012 7:49 AM #3
So to make a card layout in a panel I need the Panel to have its layout defined as card and all the nested items defined as card as well? Or am I misunderstanding something?
The error in this case is that all the views are put on top of each other, like where they 5 pieces of paper put in a pile.


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The 6 Least Impressive Ways Anyone Ever Got Rich
Admit it: Most of us don't think of our ideal success story as "Work hard for 40 years and earn enough for a modest retirement." We want to hit the home run and get rich while we're still young enough to enjoy it. And most of us aren't exactly knocking ourselves out looking for our million-dollar idea -- it's more about hanging around and hoping a reality-TV producer will decide to turn our life into an even less eventful version of Jersey Shore.
Well, we have to admit that does sometimes happen. Here's your inspiration, slackers:
#6. Getting Rich for Wearing a T-Shirt
Sometimes, the more blatantly intelligence-insulting an idea is, the better it works. Perhaps nowhere is this as true as within the world of advertising, where the dumbest ideas can bring fame and fortune, to the point where it seems that the ad companies flat out don't give a shit about anything anymore. The good news is that you don't need to be a snazzy ad executive to get your piece of that sweet, sweet money cake. Hell, you don't even need to work.
You can even afford to eat cake that doesn't taste like retired currency.
Just ask Jason Sadler, who decided in 2009 to see if companies would pay him money to wear their T-shirts as a human billboard of sorts. He set up a website, came up with seemingly arbitrary face-value pricing for his "services" (the first day of the year costs $1, January 2 costs $2, and so forth) and set to "work." Literally the only thing he had to do was to put on a shirt when he woke up.
Sadler made $83,000 in his first year.
We guess he spent it all on people who take their shirts off for a living.
This prompted him to double the prices for 2010 -- which sold out as well, bringing in a quadruple income, as he had actually even hired another dude to work for him in the difficult trade of wearing a shirt. 2011 (also sold out) saw Sadler's IWearYourShirt.com employing four T-shirt wearers aside from himself, meaning the income should be 2009 times 10 (five wearers as opposed to one, double prices). He is now selling 2012, and unfortunately appears to have already hired this year's team of professional T-shirt wearers.
"Says here on your resume that you spent your 2012 wearing an AsianBeauties.com T-shirt. When can you start?"
Even taking into account that some of the other T-shirt wearers might work only part time, that would make his total earnings somewhere in the upper tier six figures. For wearing a shirt.
Still, at least Sadler does something for his money -- unlike Alex Tew, who set up the Million Dollar Homepage more or less as a "please give me money" joke in order to pay for his tuition. It was a simple concept: a blank slate website with a million pixels, which Tew sold for ad space at $1 a pixel. It was such a ludicrous, no-effort idea that it couldn't have possibly worked.
"Do you remember the Internet in the '90s? Yeah that, except we make money from it."
But work it did. The sheer ballsy stupidity of the plan made the Million Dollar Homepage Internet famous in no time, and Tew sold out his million pixels in under four months, actually having to auction the last 1,000 ones on eBay for the hefty sum of $38,100. The gross total of the Million Dollar Homepage earnings was $1,037,100, which left Tew with roughly $700,000 after taxes, costs and some charity donations. The site is still up, proudly displaying its advertisers as a monument to gullibility.
#5. Making Millions by Grabbing the Right Web Domains
Websites are like women -- the best names were already gone by the mid-'90s. But unlike today's parents, who have turned to made-up words and geography in their search for good names, the Internet has turned to commerce. Domain names are a huge business, with professional investors and manuals and everything.
"Chapter One: Beginner Time Machining"
And holy shit you could have made some serious coin if you happened to jump on the train before anyone even realized there was a train. Take Chris Clark, the guy who registered the domain name Pizza.com in 1994, hoping this newfangled "Internet" thing would help his consulting company score a deal with a pizza business somehow. He ended up maintaining the domain for $20 a year for 14 years, using it as a small time advertising directory, until one day he realized that both pizza and Internet seem to be doing alright and someone might actually be interested in paying a buck or two for his domain. The second the domain name went up for auction, every pizza company in the world went apeshit and a bidding war ensued.
The man eventually netted $2.6 million.
We bet all you grad students out there are feeling pretty dumb.
That story is far from the only one. The whole reason Clark even thought to sell his domain was because a very similar chain of events took place with Vodka.com, for an even cooler $3 million. And man, we don't even want to go into the eight-figure lawsuit-riddled mess that is the history of Sex.com.
But although we're talking about a multimillion dollar business (think the gold rush, but quite a bit sadder), the biggest blows are dealt not to the wallet, but to the pride. This has been experienced by several countries, whose bureaucratic machinery has slowly figured out that they should probably have an online presence -- only to find out enterprising individuals have already registered domain names such as Russia.com, Brazil.com and Malaysia.com and are peddling them to the highest bidder.
It's probably best to claim countries that won't try to murder you in your sleep. Like Belgium.
Companies aren't any safer: A list of top-selling domain names shows us Facebook buying its shorthand fb.com for $8.5 million. That seller could have been you, if you'd thought to buy a bunch of two-letter combinations in the '90s.
#4. The $3 Million Bounce
Phil Ozersky, a longtime Cardinals fan, genetic researcher and caretaker of his paralyzed father, just happened to be sitting at Busch Stadium when Mark McGwire hit his 70th home run. Like everyone else who cared even vaguely about baseball at the time, he was caught up in the home run race between McGwire and Sammy Sosa, when bounce ... the ball that broke the record plopped from a coworker's hands into his own.
So, that's a nice souvenir, right? Maybe something to give the kids when they grow up? Ha, no. It turns out that sitting in that specific seat (out of 47,000) on that particular day meant he was about to get "You don't have to work again" money.
Which is probably just as well, because your colleague is going to poison your coffee.
Not that it was easy. At first, Ozersky was politely led into a meeting room after the game, where the Cardinals' officials (who recognized the ball's future value) tried to persuade him into handing it over. Just ... givin' it. And maaaaybe, if he was sweet, they'd give him some signed McGwire gear for his generosity. Phil Ozersky wasn't having it.
When persuasion and weak-ass bribery attempts failed, they started getting demanding and dickish, flat out denying the only thing Phil really wanted from the ball: to meet Mark McGwire in person. Think about that for a second. Phil Ozersky had a gold mine in his hands and he would have gladly handed it over to meet Mark McGwire ... a player so boring that only illegal performance enhancers could make him interesting. And if McGwire and the Cardinals had not been dicks about the whole thing, he probably would have just given the ball back to Mark for free.
Meeting a fan would have cut into his tight schedule of being red and bulgy.
Instead, Ozersky held onto the ball and later auctioned it off. For $3 million freaking dollars. More money than most of us will make in our entire lives, because a baseball landed in his lap.
He used the money to buy his dad a handicapped-accessible house and to pretty much become a philanthropist, including making generous donations to Cardinals Care, the team's community foundation. So he wasn't the only one who got lucky on that bounce, is what we're saying.
It's amazing that something so small could buy so many hot tubs filled with strippers.


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In what ways (and under what circumstances) are correlation and cointegration related, if at all? One difference is that one usually thinks of correlation in terms of returns and cointegration in terms of price. Another issue is the different measures of correlation (Pearson, Spearman, distance/Brownian) and cointegration (Engle/Granger and Phillips/Ouliaris).
This isn't really an answer, but it's too long to add as a comment.
I've always had a real problem with the correlation/covariance of price. To me, it means nothing. I realize that it gets used (abused) in many contexts, but I just don't get anything out of it (over time, price has to generally go up, go down, or go sideways, so aren't all prices "correlated"?).
On the flip side, correlation/covariance of returns makes sense. You're dealing with random series, not integrated random series.
For example, below is the code required to generate two price series that have correlated returns.
A typical plot is shown below. In general, when the red series goes up, the blue series is likely to go up. If you run this code over and over, you'll get a feel for "correlated returns".
If I try to generate correlated prices (not returns), I'm stumped. The only techniques that I am aware of deal with random normally distributed inputs, not integrated inputs.
So, my question is, does anyone know how to generate correlated prices?
I'm out of time, so I'll have to add my cointegration comments later.
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The above deals with the correlation of returns, but as implied in the original question, in the real world it looks like correlation of prices is a more important issue. After all, even if the returns are correlated, if the two price series drift apart over time, my pairs trade is going to screw me. That's where co-integration comes in.
When I look up "co-integration":
I get something like:
"....If two or more series are individually integrated (in the time series sense) but some linear combination of them has a lower order of integration, then the series are said to be cointegrated...."
What does that mean?
I need some code so I can screw around with things to make that definition meaningful. Here's my stab at a very simple version of co-integration. I'll use the same input data as in the code above.
Notice above, that the "co-integration term" for x and y shows up inside the "for loop":
A positive
After you've played with this a while, notice that it doesn't really answer the correlation of prices issue. It replaces it. So, am I now off-the-hook for the correlation of prices issue?
Obviously, now it's time to put the two concepts together to get a model that is in the ballpark with pairs trading. Below is the code:
You can play around with the parameters and generate all sorts of combinations. Notice that even though these series consistently reduce the spread, you can't predict how or when the spread will be reduced. That's just one reason why pairs-trading is so much fun. The bottom line is, to get in the ballpark with modeling pairs-trading, it requires both correlated returns and co-integration.
A typical example. Exxon (XOM) versus Chevron (CVX), where the above model applies if some additional terms are added.
So, to answer your question (as just my opinion), price correlation is typically used/abused as an attempt to deal with the longer term divergence/closeness of the paths of the series, when co-integration is what should be used. It is the co-integration terms that limit the drift between the series. Price correlation has no real meaning. Correlation of the returns of the series determine the short term similarity of the series.
I did this in a hurry, so if anyone sees an error, don't be afraid to point it out.
Correlation is much more widely used concept and it has much more "informal" meanings. If we have only two random variables $X$ and $Y$ then correlation is simply a measure of linear dependence between the two variables:
$$corr(X,Y)=\frac{cov(X,Y)}{\sqrt{var(X)var(Y)}}=\frac{EXY-EX\cdot EY}{\sqrt{var(X)var(Y)}}$$
If correlation is -1 or 1 then the two variables are perfectly linearly related, i.e. there exists real numbers $a,b,c$ for which
The correlation is called a measure of linear dependence since if we standartize $X$ and $Y$ (subtract the means and divide by standard deviations) then the correlation is the solution for the following
So if $cor(X,Y)=0$ then you can say that there is no way to explain $Y$ using linear combination of $X$. For Gaussian random variables this have stronger implications, if correlation is zero, then the Gaussian random variables are independent.
When we have time series then we have more than two variables. Each time series is a sequence of random variable $\{X_t,t=1,2,...\}$. Naturally we can calculate correlation between any two time periods $corr(X_t,X_s)$. This gives us a lot of correlations for one time series, which are characterised by correlation function $r(t,s)=corr(X_t,X_s)$. Now if this function depends only on the difference $t-s$, i.e $r(t,s)=r(t-s)$ then the time series $X_t$ are called stationary (to be precise this is called weak stationarity and also requires that $EX_t$ should be constant, to be more precise the definition of stationarity actually involves the covariance not the correlation).
Now if we introduce another time series $Y_t$ we again can define a lot of correlations $corr(X_t,Y_s)$. And again we can define stationarity. Now for stationary series $(X_t,Y_t)$ the correlation $corr(X_t,Y_t)$ does not depend on $t$, so as in simple two random variables case we can talk about linear relationship between $X_t$ and $Y_t$. Note that in time series case we still have a lot of correlations left: $corr(X_t,Y_t+h)$, $h=...,-1,0,1,...$, which can be interpreted as a measure of linearity between past and future values of times series $X_t$ and $Y_t$.
And only now we can introduce the concept of cointegration. The stationary time-series are called integrated of order 0. If the difference of the time series is stationary then such time series are called integrated of order 1.
Integrated time-series are non-stationary, so for example $corr(X_t,Y_t)$ for integrated time series depend on $t$, which is not so nice. If for example we have highly correlated stationary processes knowing the fact that the correlation does not depend on time we can forecast one process with high accuracy knowing the values of the other. This does not hold for integrated time-series. Of course we can difference the integrated time series to get the stationary time series but if we difference them we can only investigate so call short-term dynamics, i.e. what happens now or in the near future (here we measure the time in numbers of time periods, short-term usualy mean 1-10 time periods).
Now finally we can introduce the definition of cointegration. The integrated (of order 1) time-series $X_t$ and $Y_t$ are called cointegrated if their linear combination $aX_t+bY_t$ is stationary. Since stationarity property remains if we multiply the time series by the constant we get that $Y_t-a/(-b)X_t$ is stationary. Which in turns gives us
where $\varepsilon_t$ is a stationary time-series and $c$ is apropriate constant. This is again useful for predicting what happens to $Y_t$ if we know $X_t$ and $\varepsilon_t$ does not vary too much. Note that this relationship holds for all $t$ and $c$ can be estimated having the apropriate data since it does not depend on $t$.
The confusion between correlation and cointegration might arise from the fact that for stationary time series $Y_t$ and $X_t$ the exact same relationship holds:
where $\varepsilon_t$ is a stationary process. Furthermore if we try to estimate $c$ using the data it can be shown that if we increase the number of data points indefinitely, the estimate for $c$ will converge to some meaningful number, which for example in case where $X_t$ and $Y_t$ are zero mean unit variance time series will be exactly the correlation $corr(X_t,Y_t)$ (which for stationary series is the constant, as discussed previously).
Note that this will not hold for cointegrated time series: although $c$ can be estimated, it in general will not be correlation $corr(X_t,Y_t)$, since $X_t$ and $Y_t$ are integrated (the special particular case is discussed in the link below). The story becomes worse for integrated time series, which are not cointegrated. Then the same estimate for $c$ which has nice properties and interpretations under stationarity and cointegration becomes meaningless. For more mathematical details what exactly happens in this case you can look at my post in stats.SE.
I hope this answer is useful. I intentionally sacrificed some mathematical strictness for better clarity, hopefully not too much.
From Quantitative Trading by Ernie Chan :
"Correlation between two price series actually refers to the correlations of their returns over some time horizon (for concreteness, let's say a day). If two stocks are positively correlated, there is a good chance that their prices will move in the same direction most days. However, having a positive correlation does not say anything about the long-term behavior of the two stocks. In particular, it doesn't guarantee that the stock prices will not grow farther and farther apart in the long run even if they do move in the same direction most days. However, if two stocks were cointegrated and remain so in the future, their prices (weighted appropriately) will be unlikely to diverge. Yet their daily (or weekly, or any other time horizon) returns may be quite uncorrelated."
Before I try to answer your question we need to establish a difference between what one wants to analyse. It is true that before modern time-series methodologies were developed, researches used "correlation" between prices as a means of analysis. However, since a Price (at a specific moment in time) is 1 value, it makes no sense to compare 2 prices with each other using "correlation" (although there are some attempts: Robinson (2006) http://www.cemmap.ac.uk/wps/cwp107.pdf ) And as already has been pointed out before, most people above mention correlation in context of returns and such.
Most of the time we are interested not in the price but its movement! (i.e. it's a relative/dynamic concept which involves TIME).
In this "time-series" context, co-integration is the right tool to measure relationship between MOVEMENTS in prices.
Let me try to answer your question concretely by elaborating a bit on Johansen co-integration methodology as an illustration. The maximum likelihood estimation is in function of the deterministic term and the stationary effects. In other words we consider the multivariate linear regressions 1 and 2. With basic mathematic transformations it is easy to prove that the Johansen test statistics are directly linked to the angle (mean(t)) between the vectors of residuals in (1) and (2), ut and vt respectively. (If you care to read the full proof feel free to contact me)
In other words, the smaller the angle(t) between the two "error-vectors" ut and vt the more "connected" or integrated the price movements are between time-series 1 and 2. Which is quite intuitive actually...
Also, with some background knowledge, I think this illustration puts cointegration in contrast to correlation
I hope this was not too confusing (without the whole proof) and helped to answer your question to some degree.
The important difference is that temporal observations have one neighbour to their left and one to their right. Collections are like a set — no implicit "neighbour" relationships.
Moving average is an inappropriate statistic to apply to lab experiments or phone survey data. It is appropriate in the analysis of time series.
Everything else is spurious :)
Edit: Sorry for this quick answer to an actually good question. They are definitely 2 different concepts. But that's true that they can be confused, because they seam to capture the same kind of things. For instance, one can do a portfolio allocation algorithm taking into account the correlation (VaR, CAPM), or the cointegration. In these examples, correlation and cointegration are 2 measures of risk/diversification. But they do not mean the same think. Taking only one of the 2 may lead to overestimate or underestimate the risk of the portfolio.
I would say that in this example, correlation is more shorter term (risk over one day, one week, ...), whereas cointegration is more longer term, it is the risk that different assets move together in the long run. I would say that a good algorithm should have the 2 approaches to estimate correctly the diversification. See http://www.carolalexander.org/publish/download/JournalArticles/PDFs/RIBF_16_65-90.pdf
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25 Nov 2012 2:49 AM #1
List Items with height > 47px not rendered correctly.
I just upgraded an app from Sencha Touch 188.8.131.52 to 2.1.0, no code changes, and it broke the rendering of my List items. This is a restaurant menu app that shows pictures inside list items, typically resulting in a x-list-item height of 140px. With 18.104.22.168, the rendered list items looked like this:

Sashimi Simples R$33.90
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Which is pretty beautiful in my opinion, and worked perfectly. In 2.1.0, it gets rendered to this monstrosity:

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Which, apart from the awful "!important" CSS, and the unnecessary DIV nesting, simply doesn't work. The -webkit-transform CSS used to position the list items starts with the default spacing of 47px per list item, and when you scroll the list somewhat this gets recalculated to the 140px actual list item size gap, _if_ the list is long enough so that you can scroll it to force the recalculation.
IMHO the 22.214.171.124 solution was much cleaner both in the HTML it generated and in how it actually works, which is by allowing the items to flow instead of absolutely positioning them.
25 Nov 2012 9:26 AM #2
I am facing the exact same problem at the moment when trying to embed images in my list items template. I read in another thread that you can try to add this to the listConfig:
variableHeights: true
Also I strongly agree about your point about the generated HTML by Sencha. The output from 184.108.40.206 is more efficient and allows for better flow of your elements.
25 Nov 2012 10:05 AM #3
welcome to the club: http://www.sencha.com/forum/showthre...leHeights-true
As a work around I found out that adding a deferred refresh() on the list helps most of the time.
25 Nov 2012 11:14 AM #4
Partial solution and another bug uncovered
Browsing through the source code I found the (documented) config "itemHeight" which in my case works (at least for most items) as the heights in this specific list are constant. So just setting that (in this case to 114) made the initial rendering of the list almost correct.
The new bug is that when you set the itemHeight, _and_ have grouped items (yes I have those :P), the first item in the group is not positioned correctly because the group header seems to be a part of the list item itself. As with the initial rendering problem, this is all fixed when you scroll the list up and down some. The problem here is that the x-list-header is being rendered _inside_ the x-list-item.
I tried using the variableHeights and refresh() suggestions and they didn't work for me. Ingo could you supply a snippet showing how you use refresh()? I tried it on the console and nothing happened.
The new absolutely positioned list items seem to try to guess what the DOM elements will be rendered to, and this will break in a lot of cases. I'd rather then not try to calculate those in advance and leave it to the browser to adjust the heights at actual render time. The rendering only happens once so it should not be very expensive.
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25 Nov 2012 11:18 AM #5
I indeed also tried setting 'itemHeight' and although this does what it promises, I preferably do not use it. Just because I use percentages for my width values in my item template, so the content scales nicely with the end-users resolution. If I set the items height to a fixed value that of course stops working.
Using the refresh function is not an option since I am working with a NestedList and this function seems to be only present in the List component. Thanks for your suggestion though. Switching back to 2.0.1 seems to be the best solution for now.
25 Nov 2012 11:32 AM #6
I get my list data from a server. I have autoLoad=false and do a store.load() in my controller. In the store loads callback I then do this:Code:
// refresh the list to update the item heights var myList = this.getMyList(); Ext.defer(function(){ myList.refresh(); }, 100, myList);
I have pics and icons in my lists. So without the refresh the lists are really messy until one resizes the browser window...
25 Nov 2012 9:17 PM #7
Tks for the code ingo. I think that works in your case because the list has already been painted. In my case calling refresh does nothing. I add lists to a TabPanel at startup.
I hacked a bit more on this and have a very ugly workaround. Here's how I fix the heights for a list:
list.fixItemHeights = function () {
list.getItems().first().items.each(function(item) {
Basically you have to push all list items into the "updateItems" array and the force an update. There are still big problems with this. First, it only worked deferred, even when called from the "painted" event. In my box I'm deferring this by 100ms:
painted: function(el, eOpts) {
var me = list;
setTimeout( function () { list.fixItemHeights(); }, 100);
Second, if you resize the browser window, the wrong sizes actually _come back_ to haunt you. So you have to fire this in the "resize" event also. Lots of blinking. But, it's a starting point for getting this fixed, now we need to clean it up. I'll look into hooking up other events to get rid of the defer, but I must say I was really disappointed that the "painted" event is not ready for DOM lookups yet, being that the description for the event states exactly that.
26 Nov 2012 4:50 AM #8
This css fixed that for me
position: absolute;
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26 Nov 2012 5:43 AM #10
I'm not using the default css, that's why I had problems
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deborah11565 wrote:No he tried PNG and JPG. He finally asked a friend to try and she got through.... Waddams Threatens Fire ?
lol what the heck translated oddly !
thatquietgir1 wrote:Darth Vader is a sidekick?
Well Sith Lords prefer the term apprentice... but yeah he was just a sidekick until he got pissed off enough he through his master over the railing...
tjost wrote:I have to say that I can start to recognize your entries before I click on them and thats not a good thing. Please stop with the flame and glow effects, you can do better.
It's easy to recognize his designs because he doesn't do any drawing. It's all text and glow and image/photo manipulation.
I've always thought that if he paired up with somebody who was great at sketching but maybe not so much on the coloring/effects they could maybe be the next Drakxxx/CD
Re: Loyal Order of Cookie
I had this general idea about 5 months ago... I finally was able to bring it to completion. I hope you like it !
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tomspc wrote:That looks a lot like
Hey! though I took part in that derby I didn't see that entry. Anyway, I contacted Flattopfrank to let him know and make everything clear about the coincidence and everything's fine with him :D
umm, I do eat my cookies in secret ! GMV !
wirdou wrote:Hey! though I took part in that derby I didn't see that entry. Anyway, I contacted Flattopfrank to let him know and make everything clear about the coincidence and everything's fine with him :D
Absolutely !!! Great minds think alike. I hope it stays in the fog!
Re: Keepers of the Shrubbery
Now this is funny !! Ha, I actually get this
one !!
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Society of Barrel of Monkeys
flattopfrank wrote:Absolutely !!! Great minds think alike. I hope it stays in the fog!
Re: The Machine Collective
I KNEW my toaster was evil. They're conspiring to bring us down through badly cooked bread, man!
Very subtle, clean design. Really dig it.
This would be kind of neat with a larger graphic and no text.
orabbit wrote:Welcome back!
Thank you! Hopefully, I won't have such a long break without submitting in the future.
Re: Gamer Society
"Come join us, We Have Lots Of Lives."
Re: Inviolable Conclave of the Dread Pirates Roberts
I decided to try out a new technique w/ one of my favorite quotable movies...
Re: Dread Pirate Guild
Oh Wow! Great minds think alike - I just saw this right after I posted a similar thought!
Love the shading in your skull! Every week I look at all the great designs and realize that I have soooo far to go in learning how to draw and design.
Nice job!
Edit: GMV +1
It'd be nice to have a Dread Pirate Roberts shirt print this week!
lyonscc wrote:Thanks to all who helped in the pre-derby thread!
In the end, I went with red, because of the symbolism (and family arm-twisting), though I liked the blue slightly better...
This design is a parody of the Raised Fist motif used in a lot of socialist and labor-related propaganda-style designs (See the Wikipedia Article on the use of this symbolism.). (So, yes, before some Einstein points out that the fist bears a similarity to the Raised Fist icon, the similarity is intentional, but not a direct copy - similar to, but not as blatant as, PP's design a couple of weeks ago.
In the end, I much liked the alliteration of the last letters, and the better flow of the Italian.
Great design... though I am saddened that it's no longer a "Grammar N*zi" shirt. The wife and I were hoping to pick up two if it were.
Re: Bōsōzoku
Awesome illustration!
My wardrobe needs another one of Kasey's ladies!
Perfect! It's definitely a secret society. We'll never admit that we eat cookies when no one is watching lol
orabbit wrote:I know. Patrick, if you're going to use fake Latin, fine, but mixing the two is grating. You should have used the imperative form - cape, or substitute carpo, with its very well known imperative form - carpe. Carpe omnem would have worked nicely.
I think an infinitive would work better. Necessitas capere omnem (capere as in "to capture", not carpere as in "to pluck").
I'd be all over that, then.
Thanks, I will say no more about it :X
margaretharmon wrote:Now this is funny !! Ha, I actually get this
one !!
Thank you! I love me some Monty Python.
Re: The Society of Adventuring Doctors (RESUB)
Dr. Zoidberg is still identical to the original.
By the way, don't take me as some nit-picky dead language nerd. I'm just some scrub who took Latin in high school, but even knowing as little as I do it's painfully obvious that this was thrown into an online translator and you just rolled with it. The word "ad" in particular jumps out because it's a preposition with a bunch of different uses (modifying a verb in this way not being one of them).
tl;dr please fix it cuz I'm a dorky 90s kid who took Latin and I want it ._.
Mavyn wrote:I think one of my cats is a member. It explains so much, really.
How exactly does the addition of a fez on each character NOT make this a copyright infringement???
kcjenk42 wrote:Same here when I am skimming the page. Otherwise, I really like - OH SHINY!
Kinda ironic. The a.d.d. of the voters is causing them to miss a shirt about a.d.d.
My husband is a member of this secret society! He is happily shocked at the possibility of appropriate apparel for the secret meetings!
I love it! My daddy initiated us into the royal order in the 60's. I said the phrase countless times as an 8 year old before the mystic power of the chant revealed itself to me.
ambergreen wrote:Now, if it were written using Greek letters, it would be absolutely perfect...my husband uses this as his introduction to Greek in Sunday School classes for youth and senior adults.
Well, you can't please everyone. Thanks for the vote!
Thanks, OS, and @dawhites - what did your dad call the royal order? I decided to update it a bit to reflect the Buddhist history of Thailand. I wanted to be a little more culturally in tune than we were in the old days when jokes like this were still funny!
argyjr wrote:How exactly does the addition of a fez on each character NOT make this a copyright infringement???
I think that the addition of the capes to hide some of the Doctors' "clothing" (on whats-his-face from Half-Life[?], for example) is what is really what keeps it from crossing the line... You can say it's not really Zoidberg because he's not really dressed in his "normal" Futurama attire, you know what I mean? But the fezzes help to say that it's not the same character, (as the Doctor here looks more like 10; who never wore a fez, as opposed to 11; who knows how cool they are)
Also, that other one wasn't printed, so it doesn't really count as being out there for the purposes of no copies of available-somewhere shirts.
I'm sorry but those fezzes are just ridiculous.
I love it... The following needed a shirt... LOL
bdubs8807 wrote:Also, that other one wasn't printed, so it doesn't really count as being out there for the purposes of no copies of available-somewhere shirts.
Let me understand, you're saying IF someone's original artwork does not go to print then it's open for anyone to copy or reuse?
Can someone please comment on this, I'm trying to understand. I'm asking just in general, not in reference to the original post.
Re: Internet Grammar Police Department
I think they hold their meetings at imgur.com.
tomspc wrote:Let me understand, you're saying IF someone's original artwork does not go to print then it's open for anyone to copy or reuse?
Can someone please comment on this, I'm trying to understand. I'm asking just in general, not in reference to the original post.
Tomspc, I think that comment refers to the "similar shirts exist" rule of rejection. Like that rule refers only to printed designs. I don't think anyone feels that if a design does not go to print it's open for being copied :S At least I don't think so
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Sunday, 05/29/2011
Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel, NY
Set 1: BagAC/DC Bag > SampleSample in a Jar, Rift, Ocelot, Ya Mar, TimberTimber (Jerry) > Oh Kee PaThe Oh Kee Pa Ceremony > SuzySuzy Greenberg > 46 Days > Twenty Years Later, Curtis LoewThe Ballad of Curtis Loew, AntelopeRun Like an Antelope
Set 2: Mike'sMike's Song > Simple -> WeekapaugWeekapaug Groove, Meatstick > Fluffhead > Joy, 2001Also Sprach Zarathustra > Light > SlaveSlave to the Traffic Light
Encore: Loving Cup > TweepriseTweezer Reprise
· The Ballad of Curtis Loew and Manteca teases in Run Like an Antelope
· Express Yourself tease in Ya Mar
· Magilla tease in Simple
Average Song Gap: 8.65
Performers: Trey Anastasio, Page McConnell, Jon Fishman, Mike Gordon
Notes: Ya Mar included Express Yourself (Charles Wright & the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band) teases from Mike. Antelope contained a Curtis Loew tease from Trey and Manteca teases from Trey and Page. Page teased Magilla in Simple. A fan ran across the stage during Tweezer Reprise.
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3 The White Tape
2 Lawn Boy
1 Round Room
1 Stash
1 Hoist
1 Rift
1 A Picture of Nectar
1 Junta
1 The Man Who Stepped into Yesterday
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This show was part of the "2011 Early Summer Tour."
1st set kicked it off right! Love the AcDc opener, Rift is always good, Tiber was really good,
The Suzy was a super high point, lots of energy!!!
Curtis Loew is always a rare treat to hear and the Antelope was a killer ending to a great set!!
2Nd set was off to a great start with the Mikes Weekapaug combo, tons of fun as usual, Meatstick is a fun jam to hear and the boys always have fun with it so it's nice to see that!!
Fluffhead was off the charts good, I really thought they did it right, Joy came a a good time to chill everyone out for a second and then they did me right..... 2001!!!! I've missed how much fun this jam really is, haven't gotten one since summer of 2000 (i think) and it was much needed, the Light was full of energy as well
Slave was beautiful... just friggen beautiful
Loving Cup was quazi predictable, always a good encore but then they smacked us all in the face with a totally out of left field TWEEPRIZE!!! now that's how you end a show!!
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I'm about to sell a range of images to a client and he asks me for a document to "sign off attribution". What does this mean and where can I find sample contracts?
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Jimmy Bormolini, senior forward; scored 18 goals last year
Jake Nye, senior defender; leader of the Lions' back line
Briscoe Elliott, junior goalkeeper; posted seven shutouts in 2011
Mason Ruff, senior midfielder; recorded three goals and six assists last season
Team Outlook: STRENGTHS — The Lions will go after a fourth straight Kaw Valley League Championship with a senior nucleus that knows what it takes to win.
Besides the experience, Brown noted some added team speed and several highly-skilled juniors as other positive areas.
WEAKNESSES — Though Lansing has a quality group of returnees, the important position of center midfield has yet to be claimed.
The squad will also need to stay healthy at certain spots due to depth issues and continue to develop as a team according to its coach.
Big games: Home vs. Leavenworth on Sept. 6; Home vs. Mill Valley on Sept. 27
Coach says: "Every game will be important as we prepare for the postseason championships."
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RescueTime has the ability to block sites for certain periods to avoid distractions; however it cannot block arbitrary PC applications.
This may not be the software that your looking for but this has the functionality that you need. SiteKiosk is used to lock down machines used for public kiosks. This might be too restrictive for your personal use but it is something to consider.
This doesn't answer your question, but I'll say it anyway.
I have set Workrave to make myself take a one-minute break every hour. Sometimes, when the break happens, I realize I'm wasting time and decide to stop.
See also this advice on how to avoid clicking the postpone-break forever in Workrave.
If you are fairly techie - I modify my laptop's hosts file to block sites - if you want the blocks to change times you can use crontab to have different blocks at different times.
Assistant Professor Matt Might recommends using separate devices for those activities that do not directly contribute to work. For him, this means having a separate gaming computer and an iOS device (iPod/iPad) for reddit/digg/imgur browsing.
I took his advice now do most of my procrastinatory activities on an iPod Touch. I think it's helped me maintain clearer boundaries between when something is appropriate and when it's not. Even if it's "just" 5 minutes, work is not a place to be checking Facebook, Hacker News. Slashdot, or any of the other myriad distractions. I leave my dedicated procrastination device at home, edit
TLDR: Some people should not rely on their own self control. For them (like myself), physically separate devices are necessary to ensure appropriate behavior.
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Filling In The Gaps
I Googled around and looked at Ravelry hexagons, but could not find any thing that would work.
So here is my first attempt at a Half Hex
Now it looks ok, right? But when I joined it to the others it was kinda big.
Here is my second attempt.
This one is just right even if it does not look like it has a perfect fan shape.
Here is how they both look when joined to the main blanket.
See the one on the right and how it sticks out more?
This is how I made up the 2nd half hexie.
R1: 8 dc in a ring (however way you want to make the ring, I did a magic loop) Break yarn. DO NOT TURN
R2: Ch4, (2dc cluster in next DC, ch1) repeat 5x, ch1, dc in last dc. Break yarn do not turn.
R3: Ch3, dc in ch1 space, (ch1, 3dc's in next ch 1 space) 5x, ch1, dc in ch1 space, dc in last dc. Break yarn.
R4: TURN hex motif to wrong side and start this row with a sc, ch2, (sc, ch3) 5x, ch2, sc in last stitch, TURN
R5: Ch4, 3dc in ch2 space, (3dc in next ch3 space, 3dc, ch2, 3dc in next ch 3 space) 2x, 3dc in next ch3 space, 3 dc in last ch2 space, dc in last dc.
Hopefully I typed this out right, but if in doubt you should look at the pictures.
Since I did not take a pic of the last row on the 2nd attempt, I do not have a model to go by. It fit so well I did not want to take if off the blanket ;)
So there might be an error on the last row - let me know :)
Which ever way you choose to make your half hexies fit is probably ok as long as they look good on your blanket!
6 comments:
- Monika said...
I think the blanket looks better with the half hexies. Thanks for posting on how to, because some day I will need it. :o)
- LizzieK8 said...
Great Idea! I was thinking the same thing. I'll have to finish up the length on this one and then make some half hexies to go with it!
- inkberryblue said...
Thanks sooo much for posting this! I've been searching for a half hexagonal pattern for ages. =]
- justred415 said...
WOW! I Love this Idea
thnks so much
- Sara said...
I was wondering how I was going to square my hexy throw up - Thanks for the tutorial, although it will be ages until I need it as I haven't got that far yet with it!
- Kim said...
Just wanted to say thank you for posting this :) I've been working on some hexagons of my own, and couldn't quite visualise the half-hex. Should be a doddle now with your help!
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The Fixed-term Parliament Act 2011 set out the timetable for future Parliamentary General Elections. Except in very exceptional circumstances, Parliamentary Elections will now be held every 5 years, on the first Thursday in May.
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WEIRTON - The Weirton Area Museum and Cultural Center received several donations and recognized volunteers during December.
Carol Dulaney, former Heritage Place owner, was among those making donations to the museum, presenting a $5,000 check, which will assist in the renovation of the museum building's front facade. Her name and that of Heritage Place will be added to the museum's "Wall of Appreciation," along with others who have donated to the building fund.
Bob Kelley donated $800 toward the purchase of a display case in memory of his grandparents, Mabel Brown Kelley and Saint Gettis Kelley, and Uncle Joseph Kelley. The case purchased with Kelley's donation will house items and photos showcasing Dunbar School history, a display of which will be unveiled during the museum's Black History Month celebration Feb. 2.
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Those attending the Weirton Area Museum and Cultural Center Dec. 17 volunteer appreciation dinner included, from left, Jim Fenske, Dennis Jones, Cindy Lamp, Marie Straight, Despina Melonas, Victor Greco, Connie Thompson, Dave Whanger, Mary Zwierzchowski, Lea Shirer, Pam Makricosta, Bob Shirer, Joe Stankiewicz, Diane Stankiewicz, Dave Zwierzchowski, Jolene Zuros, Shirley Whanger, Paul B. Zuros, Mary Ann Whitehill and Ed Giacchino. Those who could not attend included John and Elma Pandelios, Kim Salter, Andrea Anderson, Argiro and Nick Latousakis and Drs. Juginder and Dolly Luthra. -- Contributed
Paul B. Zuros, left, was recognized as the "Member of the Year" for his work as the Weirton Area Museum and Cultural Center's treasurer. Lea and Bob Shirer, right, were recognized as "Volunteers of the Year." President Dennis Jones presented free-standing two-sided plaques, which he made and personalized, to the awardees. -- Contributed
Bob Kelley donated $800 toward the purchase of a locked, lighted display case at the Weirton Area Museum and Cultural Center. The case will house items relating to the history of Dunbar School, which will be unveiled Feb. 2 during the museum's Black History Month celebration, chaired by museum Secretary Kim Salter. -- Contributed
Carol Dulaney, right, former Heritage Place owner, made a $5,000 donation to the Weirton Area Museum and Cultural Center. President Dennis Jones, left, accepted the donation. -- Contributed
In addition to the display's unveiling, Heather Cline, Grave Creek Mound Archeological Complex lead curator, will present "African-American Archeology in West Virginia and the Ohio Valley" at noon. Museum volunteers also will celebrate the life of Anthony John Major, Dunbar High School principal from 1932 until 1949, on what would have been his 114th birthday. Major, a nationally recognized figure in the education field, served as principal from the school's inception until his death. Weirton schools were desegregated in 1955.
Museum Secretary Kim Salter will chair the celebration, and Corliss Brown is assisting with the displays.
When the Phoenix Society of West Virginia heard about Kelley's donation, the group donated $1,600 toward the purchase of two display cases which will house items related to the history of Weirton's volunteer fire departments.
"We hope this trend continues," said Dennis Jones, museum president. "I looked long and hard to find a suitable and lockable display curio cabinet. After I located the ideal cabinet, we started purchasing them as we got the money. We now have about 12 of them in the museum - all identical with the oak trim. They all lock and light and look very nice - everyone who comes in comments how beautiful they are. We really hope that more and more groups will donate money to purchase these beautiful cabinets."
The museum also held a dinner Dec. 17 at Mario's Restaurant to recognize volunteers, including board members, museum members and volunteers. In his speech, Jones thanked those volunteers who made contributions throughout the year. Jones recognized Paul B. Zuros as Member of the Year for his assistance with the museum renovation and his work as the museum's treasurer. Jones recognized Bob and Lea Shirer as the Volunteers of the Year, noting their tireless efforts.
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Before applying for secondary schools for your child you should research all the schools that you and your child are interested in. You can find helpful information from a variety of sources, including:
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School prospectuses
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You should contact the schools directly for a copy of their booklet.
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See the Secondary Schools Open Sessions Booklet at the bottom of the page for times and dates of open sessions.
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How to complete the preference form
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- Give the name and date of birth of any sibling already at a school you are applying to who will still be in attendance in September
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- Would your child have met the admission criteria last year? Would your child have met the criteria in the past 3 years? If in doubt contact School Admissions and Pupil Placements Service for guidance. (See contact detail in the essential information section)
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- Check how far (by straight line measurement) you live from schools you prefer. School Admissions and Pupil Placements Service can advise you on this. (See contact detail in the essential information section)
- Do not include as preferences too many schools where you live further away than the cut-off distance in the past 3 years, as this could prevent any of your preferences being satisfied
- Put down six different preferences on the Preference Form. Do not put down the same preference more than once as it is counted as one application
- Name up to six schools that you would like your child to go to, and rank them in order of preference. The school you name first should be the one you would most like your child to go to
- You can only appeal for a school that you have submitted as a preference
- You must apply online or return your Local Authority Preference Form by the specified date
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0121 303 1888 (option 4)
School Admission and Pupil Placement Service
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Birmingham B2 2FF
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Friday: 8.45 am to 4.15 pm
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Coventry City Council
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Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council
Telephone: 01384 814223
Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council
Telephone: 0121 569 6765
Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council
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Telephone: 01785 278 593
Walsall Council
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Kansas has recently joined 30 other states in enrolling students in a federally funded program aimed at raising high school graduation rates and helping students prepare for college and careers.
Education Commissioner Diane DeBacker said the Kansas State Department of Education had been hoping for several years to introduce the program, called Jobs for America's Graduates, but didn't have the funds until this year, The Topeka Capital-Journal reported.
The program targets students who might be at risk of dropping out of school, offering them extra mentoring and support. Figures from Jobs for America's Graduates show 90 percent of students in the program finish high school.
"Over 3,000 students drop out of school each year in Kansas," DeBacker said.
The Kansas Department for Children and Families secured the $3.6 million federal grant this year to launch the program. Twenty-five schools around the state are participating. The program will be administered in Kansas by Communities in Schools, a nonprofit that offers case management and other services in schools, with the goal of supporting students at risk of dropping out.
Phyllis Gilmore, secretary of the Department for Children and Families, said her agency had looked for ways to fund Jobs for America's Graduates after Gov. Sam Brownback said he wanted to bring it to Kansas starting this school year.
"The money that's going into this cannot be better placed," Gilmore said.
The initial funding is for two years, but Gilmore said she's hopeful the program would continue.
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