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INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – The Trojan men's basketball team has been seeded fourth in the NCAA's Southeast Region and will face fifth-seeded GRU Augusta Saturday at host USC Aiken, as announced by the NCAA selection Committee Sunday night.
The fourth-seeded Trojans will be making their fourth appearance in the Big Dance in the last five years by squaring off against the Jaguars for the second time this season. Anderson outlasted GRU Augusta, 91-86, in the second game of the season for both squads, as senior guard Chandler Hash poured in a then career-high 42 points.
The Trojans (22-9) will square off against the Jaguars (23-7), who entered the Peach Belt Conference Tournament ranked fourth in the Southeast by the NCAA, but was seeded fifth by the selection committee, while AU moved up to fourth after making its second appearance in the SAC title matchup in three seasons.
The host Pacers (29-3) are ranked seventh in the nation and claimed their second straight Peach Belt title on Sunday with a 61-59 win past Montevallo (24-5), which earned the region's No. 3 seed. USC Aiken will square off against Conference Carolinas Tournament champion Limestone, which earned the eighth seed after posting a 21-8 overall record.
Montevallo (24-5) will be making its fifth consecutive appearance in the NCAA Tournament and will face Georgia Southwestern (20-10), the No. 6 seed, in the tournament quarterfinals on Saturday.
With its second South Atlantic Conference title in four years on Sunday, Lincoln Memorial (27-2) earned the second seed and will face seventh-seeded Carson-Newman (19-8), which earned an at-large bid after being upset in the SAC quarterfinals by Coker.

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A huge amount of financial mathematics assumes Gaussian distributions of risks and Brownian movement of prices. What efforts have there been to replace these with heavy-tailed distributions? For example, could Black-Scholes be adjusted to assume heavy-tailed distribution of price movements, or is this too mathematically difficult?
Is there any straightforward way to substitute for Gaussian/Brownian assumptions in financial mathematics?
A Levy process is a stochastic process with stationary, independent increments. These processes have a lot of structure - partly due to the Levy-Khintchine theorem. This says that the Fourier transform of the transition density of a Levy process has a particularly nice form, and has lead to many applications of fourier theory to finance.
All non-Brownian Levy processes have heavier tails than Brownian motion. They are semimartingales, and thus one can define a sensible notion of stochastic integration with respect to a Levy process. As such, they make nice models for log asset price processes, though they have many other applications in finance.
Take a look at Cont and Tankov's book - it's probably the friendliest introduction to Levy process I've seen. Other more theoretical books include those of Kyprianou, Applebaum and Sato (in approximate order of difficulty).
My answer is that I'm sure it can be done with enough effort, but before you try you should know why you are doing this. Mathematical financial models are used primarily for computing the "fair value" of a financial instrument, which means your best guess of its price, given that there are no directly observable prices of the instrument. The model is calibrated to prices of similar instruments whose prices are observable. So effectively the model is used as an interpolation or extrapolation algorithm. The other major use is in risk management, where scenarios defined by price movements of observable prices are translated using the model into price movements of the more illiquid but related instruments. With all of this, you have to do something you can explain to management, lawyers, accountants, and traders. So it is usually best to work with relatively standard (i.e., Gaussian) models, flaws and all, and make ad hoc adjustments for the model limitations (for example, using volatility skew formulas, etc.). The only firm I've ever heard of using non-Gaussian models systematically for risk is Finanalytica, which was started by a statistician, Doug Martin.
The main barrier is that there is no non-Gaussian model that is widely accepted by the community. Moreover, such a model necessarily has more parameters, and there is no obvious systematic way to calibrate these parameters. If some kind of consensus developed for these two things, then non-Gaussian models would become much more widespread.
On the other hand, if you believe that such a model provides a better fundamental dynamic model of market price movements, then you should be able to use such a model to beat the markets. Here, Jeff Harvey is right in that if anyone has done this, you would have every incentive to keep it a secret. So it is possible that Citadel or Renaissance is using such a model to do proprietary trading, and nobody outside the firm knows about it. I wouldn't know.
Without additional assumptions, the answer is basically no, not in any great generality. The derivation of Black-Scholes requires that you can perfectly hedge movements in the option using a stock and a bond. If the underlying stock price process has jumps, then you have jumps in the value of the option, and you can't hedge those jumps using only two assets. (There is one exception — if the process is Poisson, then you can hedge the jumps, but as soon as you have jumps of more than one size then you're stuck.)
The additional assumption is some rule to determine how the option value jumps when the stock price jumps. One rule is that the jumps are "idiosyncratic risk", and therefore are not hedged. This is called the Merton jump-diffusion model. There's plenty of material online about this model. From a quick Google search, these slides look pretty good.
There is an enormous literature on the subject -- you can start by looking at the standard textbook of Hull
Options, Futures & Other Derivatives with Derivagem CD Value Package (includes Student Solutions Manual for Options, Futuresd Other Derivatives) (7th Edition) by JOHN C HULL (Aug 8, 2008)
where he talks about the jump diffusion processes. You can also look at the very nice book:
A History of the Theory of Investments: My Annotated Bibliography (Wiley Finance) [Hardcover] Mark Rubinstein (Author)
But again, this only scratches the surface of the sea of worms.
As a long time practitioner I suggest some caution in the premise of your question, something which appears to have been overplayed in the popular press. Keep in mind the Levy Doob theorem, for instance, and the fact that arbitrage arguments are not the only structure giving rise to useful mathematics, even in the narrowest definition of this field (which I fear amounts to pricing PDEs in the minds of some, and within that the definition of an infinitesimal generator; and within that, a very small class of diffusion operators - you get my point). This has very limited relevance to credit risk, for example.
Heavy-tailed distributions are already de facto used by almost all financial companies, because they use smiles (different volatilities are assigned to different strikes). For instance in equity options lower and lower strikes are usually assigned higher and higher volatilities. If you back out the implied distribution, you get a distribution with a fat tail.
I think that in Finance there is (at least) two fieds that are directly interested in extending the geometric brownian motion as driver for stock market(or other underlyings)
First is pricing for which I think some good answers have been previously posted
Second is risk management which intends to model the risk factor dynamics over generally short period of time (that lives in real world when pricing is living in risk neutral world). In this field the last say belongs more to statisticians than probabilists, and ways to get stylised facts about market returns (such as fat tails) is typically using extensions of GARCH models
"Non Gaussian Merton-Black-Scholes Theory" by S.I, Boyarchenko & S.Z, Levendorskii, A systematical exploitation of financial pricing processes via tools such as Levy processes, Feller processes and pseudo-differential operators.
There's been a huge amount of literature written on the subject, Google is full of it. Why heavy tails are not mainstream in basic modeling? That's not because these models are "too complex", but mostly because they are not obvious. And risk management and portfolio techniques need an obvious (linear etc.) model to build on that, otherwise very little can be done for the dollar spent on the analysis. "Heavy tailed" models are a huuuge family, I would compare their difference vs. Gaussian to the difference between processes with memory vs. Markov chains - the two families simply cannot be compared. The first type has thousands of concepts of the second type in it.
Please approach the Stable family with caution - from my experience, it doesn't precisely model real series (but, of course, better than Gauss). A composition (like different laws for the middle term and the tail - like multiplied by some exponential decay, different power laws, etc.) often works better. Of course, you can't toss these distributions around anymore, like you do with Gaussian.
I recommend Nassim Taleb's book "The black swan". He writes a lot about Gaussian vs. Mandelbrotian.


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WHEELING - Much like the Ohio Valley, Israel is just beginning to realize the possibilities of tapping its vast natural gas reserves, Rep. David McKinley said.
McKinley, R-Wheeling, and Rep. Bill Johnson, R-Marietta, Ohio, recently returned from a late-February fact-finding trip to Israel. Highlights of the trip included a tour of a new, state-of-the-art natural-gas fired power plant - spurred by the development of a massive natural gas field beneath the Mediterranean Sea - and a 30-minute conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
With the Ohio Valley in the epicenter of the Marcellus and Utica shale rush, McKinley said he saw plenty that reminded him of home during his overseas trip. But he said unlike America, Israeli electricity producers aren't operating under a cloud of uncertainty due to tightening - and, according to some, impossible to achieve - regulations on carbon emissions, as he learned during his conversation with Netanyahu.
"His point was, essentially ... that they don't want to have environmental issues cause their (electricity) rates to go up," McKinley said of Netanyahu. "They're not necessarily embracing all of (the Obama) administration's environmental policy."
The power plant, located in Ashkelon, is relatively small, at about 800 megawatts of generating capacity - about half that of American Electric Power's Mitchell plant, south of Moundsville. It uses a series of 12 small boilers that can be taken into or out of service based on demand.
There are questions about efficiency, McKinley said, but he called the plant a "very interesting facility" that may bear watching as regulations on carbon emissions make it more difficult to burn coal in America.
"It's just coming online, just going onto the grid," McKinley said of the Israeli plant. "We've got to see over a year's time. It looks good on paper."
Natural gas-fired power is nothing new for Israel, but the recent boom there has allowed the country to decrease its reliance on Egyptian natural gas, the supply of which has been threatened by Hamas attacks on pipelines.


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The 6 Most Reckless Uses of Radioactive Material
If we told you there was a leak of radioactive material in your basement, you'd get the hell out of that house. You'd probably get the hell out of that town. We've learned the hard way that you have to respect anything that upsets a Geiger counter.
But some people are, let's just say, a little more casual around nuclear material than the rest of us. And by "people" we mean governments, corporations and just random, everyday dumbasses. They have combined to give us a lot of ridiculous/terrifying stories, like the time ...
#6. A Radioactive Core Was Left Unguarded and Contaminated an Entire Community
The first thing you have to know is that highly radioactive material isn't just found in heavily fortified power plants and nuclear missile silos. A lot of the stuff is kind of just laying around.
For instance, the Instituto Goiano de Radioterapia (IGR) was a radiotherapy clinic in Goiania, Brazil, that had relocated to a new facility in the mid-1980s, leaving behind an abandoned building full of medical equipment. As one might guess, all of those machines were tempting targets for thieves, particularly because of the value of the scrap metal that could be harvested from them (metal is such a high theft item pretty much everywhere in the world that it suggests the existence of an underworld boss who is a cross between Wesley Snipes in New Jack City and Shaq in Steel). One of the machines in question was, appropriately, a radiotherapy device with a caesium-137 core.
"Anyone fancy a round of cancer roulette?"
Now for those of you who don't know or haven't already guessed, caesium-137 is radioactive as balls. Remember that, because it comes up later.
The hospital had hired minimal security to try and keep people away, because somehow the removal of the potentially hazardous equipment was tied up in litigation. However, one day the guard called in sick to catch a showing of Herbie Goes Bananas, which proved to be the chink in the armor of their bulletproof anti-theft initiative.
Huh. Well, this is certainly a film that exists.
Two scavengers named Roberto dos Santos Alves and Wagner Mota Pereira saw their opportunity and swooped in to steal whatever they could carry. "Whatever they could carry," as you can guess, turned out to be the caesium-137 radiotherapy unit, which they brought back home and promptly tore open like a Christmas present.
They removed the core and smashed it open, finding a blue glowing substance inside that mystified them. This was the caesium, and predictably, it poisoned the everloving shit out of both men, eventually causing internal damage, contact burns and the need for amputation. Luckily, they were able to take the exposed core to a scrapyard before any of that happened.
"Hey look, that girl could look after it for a while. Pass her a 20. We're creating jobs here."
From the scrapyard, things only got worse. No one knew what the glowing substance was, outside of maybe Predator blood, so no one felt the need to handle it with anything resembling caution. The junkyard owner wanted to make a ring for his wife out of it, several people smeared it on their bodies like paint and a 6-year-old girl even wound up eating some of it, because that's what you do with a glowing blue mystery from a garbage dump.
Finally, after numerous people started getting frighteningly sick all at the same time, a local woman collected the substance and took it to a hospital to be examined, rightly suspecting that perhaps the fantastic powder of dreams was to blame. A visiting physicist detected the danger almost immediately.
"Alright, let's take a look at what we've got he -- SWEET JESUS."
All told, 250 people had been contaminated by the exposed material, four of whom received fatal doses and died. The people in charge of IGR were charged with criminal negligence for leaving the caesium unit essentially unguarded in a derelict building.
#5. A Waste Company Forgot to Plug a Hole in Their Radioactive Truck
In March of 2002, a piece of cancer treatment machinery broke down at a hospital in Leeds, England. Because of the presence of radioactive material (and because those needy cancer patients wouldn't quit their bitching), it was decided that the machine was to be sent to a nuclear facility 130 miles away to be disposed of properly, because step one in disposing of wildly hazardous material is to parade it across the entire countryside.
There's very little to do in northern England at the best of times.
A nuclear waste transport company, AEA Technology, was then commissioned to take it away. The machinery was put in a sealed container, driven 130 miles north, and unloaded at the nuclear disposal site of Sellafield on the Irish Sea to be dealt with by professionals. When the truck arrived, the receiving crew prepared to unload the container, only to find a nice little surprise -- the container wasn't sealed at all.
A plug to seal the radioactive machine in was somehow left off, and as a result, 130 miles of highway had been exposed to 100 to 1,000 times what is deemed a "very high" amount of gamma radiation.
"I wouldn't mind my sperm dying if their screams didn't block out the radio."
After the cleanup, the crown court in Leeds said it was "pure good fortune" than no one was harmed or gained superpowers from the leak. Also written off as "lucky" was the fact that the leak was angled toward the ground, focusing the gamma radiation into what real, actual experts referred to as "a beam of radioactivity" directly into the earth. This was seen as better than if the "beam" had been pointing upward, where people's faces live.
We dare you to try and fuck with all the science in that statement.
Evidently deciding to roll the dice on flesh-eating mutant earthworms, British officials determined that AEA was indeed guilty of a colossal boner, but essentially called it a win since nobody melted. Because of the carelessness, AEA was eventually fined about a half a million dollars for making the English countryside glow in the dark.
#4. Radioactive Material Was Added to All Sorts of Consumer Goods
Once everyone realized the sheer power of atomic energy, companies went a little nuts trying to shoehorn it into everyday life, the logic being that every activity could be made better and more efficient by the presence of spine-fusing radiation. For example, one of them came up with the idea to irradiate golf balls with cobalt-60, so that if you lost one in the rough somewhere, it could be located. With a Geiger counter.
Ladies and gentlemen, behold the greatest idea of all time.
Numerous advertisements were run for radioactive golf balls, with some even claiming that they would travel farther than regular balls (you may notice that by all accounts, this does not make sense). While the golf balls were not dangerous to humans unless they had constant exposure to them (like if you carried them around in your pocket all day on the golf course, but luckily nobody does that), the same can't be said for the atomic pacemaker.
Yep. Amazingly, doctors during the 1970s thought placing mini plutonium batteries in people's chests was a good thing. Gamma rays escaping the pacemaker would slightly irradiate the patient every year, and the U.S. government deems them such a hazard that when any person with a plutonium pacemaker dies, it has to be immediately removed and taken straight to the Los Alamos nuclear facility for destruction.
And then the body shot in the head as a preemptive measure.
And then there was nuclear makeup.
"Wow, those tumors really set off your cheekbones!"
During the early 20th century, the London based company Radior Co. specialized in radium-enriched cosmetics such as talcum powder, face powder, vanishing cream, soap and numerous other things women applied to their faces every day. After this company unsettlingly just disappeared around the 1920s, France picked up the nuclear baton with Tho-Radia products, which included all the powders and soaps from before while tossing lipstick into the mix.
Most people believed low radioactivity could kill germs, and while this is technically true, it is ignoring the larger truth that radioactivity kills everything. After taking an embarrassingly long time to figure this out, production was halted on radium-instilled beauty creams.
Fellas, there's a reason she's glowing, and it's not luminous beauty.
Understandably, the focus switched from painting your face with radioactive isotopes to painting your house with them, because houses don't get cancer. For example, after the Fukishima disaster in 2011, scientists combing Tokyo for radioactivity found alarming levels coming from an old woman's house. Inside, they found the source to be some old luminescent paint bottles in her basement, which were giving her the radioactive equivalent of a CAT scan every hour of every day. The paint was quickly disposed of, but because it was regularly produced, and because this is Japan, there may be tons more of it out there.


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text: So I have some lessons going up today that will be based on characters from the second Monsters Inc movie called 'Monsters University. To start things off I will show you "how to draw Claire Wheeler", step by step. Claire looks like your typical emo/goth monster chic but she's actually the Greek Council president at Monsters University. As of right now her personality is unknown and since the movie is going to be a hit, I won't spill the beans by spoiling the film for you. All I will do is show the task to drawing Claire. I will be back in a bit with more drawing fun so stay tuned in. Peace folks.


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The rule increased the volume of biomass-based diesel from 1 billion to 1.28 billion gallons.
The American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM)
has filed a petition for reconsideration of the Environmental Protection Agency's
final rule Regulation of Fuels and Fuel Additives: 2013
Biomass-Based Diesel Renewable Fuel Volume. The rule increased
the volume of biomass-based diesel from 1 billion to 1.28
billion gallons.
In the petition, AFPM strongly urges EPA to reconsider its
decision to increase the biomass-based diesel volumes by 28% in
2013. Since the EPA initially issued the rule, a number of
factors have surfaced that could result in unintended
consequences that will adversely impact both the domestic refining industry and US
"EPA's own data estimates that the cost of increasing the
biomass-based diesel mandate will add between $253 million and
$381 million to consumers' transportation fuel bill in 2013,"
said AFPM President Charles T. Drevna. "The US economy is still
struggling, and this increase will hurt the millions who rely
on transportation fuels."
Contrary to EPA's research, evidence is strong that an
increase in the 2013 volume will not affect domestic energy
security, as the US currently is a net exporter of diesel. In
the category of unintended consequences, EPA's decision will
curtail investment in advanced biofuels that compete with biodiesel
and will increase carbon emissions in 2013 under the
The increase could also negatively impact the price and supply
of agricultural commodities, since additional biodiesel feedstocks, such as soybean oil,
will be required under the rule.
"Before increasing the 2013 volume, EPA must resolve the
pervasive problem that exists in the biodiesel market of
renewable identification number (RIN) fraud," Mr. Drevna
said. "To date, over 140 million fraudulent RINs have been sold
to unsuspecting refiners concerned with meeting their RFS
obligations. That number and the costs associated with the
fraud will grow as investigations of additional biodiesel
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There are lots of bugs everywhere. Collecting them is encouraged, but I don't see a use in them. They aren't needed in crafting or sellable to the peddler at night like materials, it seems. I'm obviously still gonna collect them all, but why am I doing it?
You could use the bugs you find to infuse the potions you buy to become more useful in your adventures or sell excess bugs to Strich in his room at the Academy at night.
To infuse your potions, you first need a bottle full of a potion purchased from Luv, the Potion Shop lady at the Bazaar. Next, take your potion to Bertie, her husband that's holding the baby to get your potions infused. He will tell you what bugs are needed to infuse your potions and how much rupees it will cost.
You could also sell them to Strich, the tall bug guy who is/was one of Groose's lackeys. If you visit his room in the academy at night (the one closest to the lower entrance), he will offer to buy some bugs from you. He will only offer to buy three types of bugs at any one night. So if he's not interested in buying ones you want to sell, come back another night and hopefully he will be interested then.
Bugs can be used to upgrade potions, and there's a student at the academy that's interested in bugs.
You can upgrade your potions with bugs, which is very helpful.
For instance, the red potion normally only refills 8 hearts. If you upgrade once by giving the potion lady's husband (the guy with the baby by the potion shop) some bugs, it instead refills all your hearts. If you upgrade it again, it not only refills all your hearts, but now you have a double portion in one bottle, so it can be used twice. Good deal!
Similarly, the shield repair potion repairs your shield and refills 4 hearts. But once you upgrade it, it'll repair your shield and refill 8 hearts, and you can double upgrade that one, too. Great for bringing into a temple.
Alternatively, go to Strich's room at night in the knight academy, and he'll pay you a pretty penny for some of those bugs. I believe he eventually creates an island later in the game that has tons of bugs for you to easily catch.
Some bugs sell for 40 rupees, like the easy-to-catch Eldin Rollers (Earth Temple), and Faron Grasshoppers (Lake Floria waterfall). Also the Volcanic Ladybugs are good for cash since there's some on the wall right outside the exit to Volcano Summit.
If the ones you want to sell aren't listed at Strich's, sleep in his bed until night and he will want different ones usually.
Also, the Bug Rock / Bug Heaven minigame (in the Thundercloud) will NOT let you keep the bugs you catch, instead when you get a decent time you are awarded with 5 random bugs - depending on what difficulty level you picked. Fastest way to get many harder to catch bugs.


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LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) _ From overlooked to a defensive star, linebacker Ben Heeney is prepared to lead Kansas into its season opener against South Dakota on Saturday night.
The junior from Hutchinson, Kan., barely played as a freshman before blossoming last season. He made 112 tackles and 12 tackles for loss, and is the Jayhawks' top returning tackler.
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Much like a previous question on keeping research notes organized, my question is how people keep their pile of papers organized. I've got a stack of about 100 in my office, most of them classifying as "want to read", a couple "have read", and lots in between.
I've found JabRef, http://jabref.sourceforge.net/ , to be the best tool (for me) for organising a BibTex database, and linking / organising all of my downloaded pdfs.
The biggest advantages of JabRef are that it is genuinely cross-platform, being written purely in Java, and that the native format for the database is BibTex, which means that if I decide to change my methodology then I can straightforwardly use my database with other programs. Storing the database as a BibTex file also means that I can directly edit the database, e.g. doing search and replace with an editor.
It has all of the functionality I need, and in particular it is possible to apply labels to each paper for categorisation, either manually or via keyword searches.
I use Bibdesk, and it works quite well. It's free (as opposed to Papers). I haven't tried Mendeley, but I've heard good things. I also use CiteULike to bookmark papers that I'm interested in.
Although I just started using it, Mendeley Desktop seems like a very good tool to organize papers. How to organize the hard copies in the office is still way beyond my knowledge ;)
Mac users might find the program "Papers". I tried it for a while, and didn't end up excited about it (maybe I don't read enough papers?) but I've heard good things from many people.
As for physical papers:
I have two coexisting systems. The first is a file cabinet organized by author. Organizing large numbers of papers by subject or date or whatnot ravels out of control. The second is a series of magazine racks labelled by project, which contain papers directly relevant to the corresponding projects.
As for electronic papers:
I used to put them in folders by author, with helpful filenames like
but maintaining this got old. I tried Papers, and thought it was going to be fabulous, but like Scott, wasn't won over in the end.
But now search has gotten good enough there is much less need for explicit organization. You can just put the pdfs all together in a ginormous folder, and whenever you need something just search for it. It's the google way. (And if you use Google Desktop, then literally so.)
Here is the one thing I would like to be able to add to this system: it would be great to be able to add tags to papers, which would even further facilitate targeted retrieval and browsing. Does anyone know an easy way to do this?
There's a Firefox plugin called Zotero, which is supposed to help organize online research. It can even automatically grab data from sites like jstor, springerlink, amazon etc. I have just started using it, does anyone have any experience with it? Is it usable for mathematical research? Edit: There's a video demonstration on their homepage which really looks impressive!
I use a modified version of RefBase. It's an online bibliography database that can also store copies of papers. Useful features include:
My modifications include:
My version is available as a BZR repository at http://www.math.ntnu.no/~stacey/code/RefBase
This is something I've been musing about for a little while, without very much progress. Wikipedia has an article comparing various different reference management systems. I'd like something that I can access no matter what computer I happen to be using (sometimes I work at home, sometimes I work in the department) so although the Firefox extension Zotero looks pretty good, and is properly extensible, it didn't look like it was going to be particularly easy to use on more than one computer (unless I kept a copy of all the local files on a USB key and remembered to take it with me). Having said that, the official website says that version 2.0-beta has the ability to synchronise via a central server, so maybe I should take another look at it.
I had a look at a few web-based systems, and experimented with Bibsonomy, CiteULike and Connotea, and vaguely settled on Bibsonomy, but I haven't entirely taken to it. The social networking aspect appeals - accurate recommendations for relevant other papers would be great - but I'm not sure it's quite there yet. Perhaps I should follow Andrew's lead and install RefBase on my home webserver.
Try this tool.
EDIT: The program is called citeulike. It is a free service (at least as in beer, not sure about speech) sponsored by Springer. It appears to allow you to store, search and tag PDF's and to search others tags. Edit by David Speyer
There is a new tool called colwiz, which seems to have some advantages for mathematicians. In particular, it has MathSciNet support, unlike Mendeley. I wrote a summary of why I like it here.


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The idea that I wanted to convey is that a certain constant exposure to an object would build up a mental library of experiences with the object inside our minds. So, my intention is to write this idea in a way that allows the reader to visualise a building-up effect. I have a sentence that reads like this:
The constant exposures build up a mental set of experiences with the object within us.
The sentence, however, sounds awkward.
First, it reads "with the object within us". This part sounds having to pronounce so many "with"s that I think would confuse the reader. Other than "with", are there other choices of preposition can I use in conjunction with the word "experiences"?
Second, does the part "build up a mental set" sound unnatural?


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This month I'll be flying twice within the United States. I am a US citizen with a valid drivers license, flying within US boundaries. Is this sufficient to fly? I haven't held a valid passport for over 12 years and am uncertain of the flying restrictions in this day and age. Will I be OK to fly without my Passport?
You don't need a passport to fly within the US. As long as you have your driver's license, that is enough to get you through TSA check points. It's when you travel outside the US that you will need your passport.
Here's a list of acceptable IDs from the official TSA website: http://www.tsa.gov/traveler-information/acceptable-ids
The main changes since the last time you flew involve all those other places that used to not require a passport. e.g. Whereas previously it was possible to visit Canada or Mexico with just a driver's license, you now need a passport.
Within the US, AtlasRN is 100% correct. Your driver's license will be sufficient. What you will find different these days is the amount of security checks, scans and restrictions. You will be wise to wear shoes that are easy to remove, read up on the restrictions for carrying liquids in your carry-on bags, carry electronics (especially laptops) in a bag that makes them easy to remove, and allow extra time for getting through security.