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How Our Crazy Money System Works
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/01/2015 - 16:00We've tried medication. We've tried prayer. We've tried heavy drinking – all in an effort to understand how our crazy money system works. And where it leads. You'd think it would be easy. It's just Central Banking 101, no? Well, no. It is squirrelly... and diabolically subtle. We doubt anyone understands it – especially those who are supposed to control it.
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PIIGS Go To War: Spain, Portugal Slam Tsipras' Accusations Of "Conspiracy Plot" To Overthrow Greek Government
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/01/2015 - 15:25Yesterday Tsipras made clear his displeasure with the betrayal of what were formerly his socio-economic equals quite well-known, when he accused Spain and Portugal on Saturday of leading a conservative conspiracy to topple his anti-austerity government, saying they feared their own radical forces before elections this year. As Reuters reports, in a speech to his Syriza party, Tsipras turned on Madrid and Lisbon, accusing them of taking a hard line in negotiations which led to the euro zone extending the bailout programme last week for four months. And the inevitable response: both nations are now demanding that the EU "arbitrate" and respond to Tsipras' allegations, in the process essentially validating his accusations.
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"We Are Failing To Deliver On Our Obligations As Americans"
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/01/2015 - 13:45"...we are failing to deliver on our obligations as Americans, that is undeniable. We are allowing the political class to plunder our wealth, negate our freedoms and desecrate our Constitution. Sadly we have become the immoral populace our founding fathers warned all future generations not to become... The duty and obligation is ours and so too then are the failures and successes of our society. We are 15 years in to what is absolute denial regarding the competence of our nation's policymakers. Yet here we sit, silent and indifferent to our own demise; so completely antithetical to the character of a true American."
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Taking The Monetary Policy Ride Into The Theater Of The Absurd
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/01/2015 - 11:37Somehow, monetary policy is still believed neutral in the long run and that bubbles are market events. Central banks have shown why they cannot command economic performance, but that doesn't mean they can't give one hell of a comedic performance. We have taken a monetary ride now into the theater of the absurd.
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Venezuela's Maduro Claims US Pilot Arrested For Espionage, Bans Bush, Cheney From Entering Nation
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/01/2015 - 10:48In case the world needed any more geopolitical risk "hotspots", overnight Venezuela's flailing president Nicolas Maduro, faced with an unprecedented economic crisis at home, decided to do what most authoritarian rulers do when faced with imminent civil unrest: point the finger abroad, and in this case, at Washington, as a distraction. Overnight Maduro switched from broad generalizations to specifics when, as CNN reports, Maduro said Saturday an unspecified number of Americans were arrested "a few days ago" for engaging in espionage and recruitment activities. Additionally, a group of prominent U.S. officials, current and retired, will be banned from entering Venezuela because of what Maduro said was their involvement in "bombing Iraq, Syria and Vietnam" and other "terrorist" actions. The officials include George W. Bush, former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, former CIA Director George Tenet.
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Caught On Tape: The Moment Boris Nemtsov Was Assassinated
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/01/2015 - 10:09As the world contemplates the various 'provocation' scenarios - a Russian act, a CIA act meant to look like a Russian act, or a Russian act meant to look like a CIA act? - the following clip suggests this was anything but an ad hoc shooting... Questions remain, but Soviet ex-President Mikail Gorbachev is sure, the assassination of opposition politician Boris Nemtsov as an attempt to destabilize Russia.
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Which New World Order Are We Talking About?
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/01/2015 - 09:53Those of us who are libertarians have a tendency to speak frequently of "the New World Order." When doing so, we tend to be a bit unclear as to what the New World Order is. Is it a cabal of the heads of the world's governments, or just the heads of Western governments? Certainly bankers are included somewhere in the mix, but is it just the heads of the Federal Reserve and the IMF, or does it also include the heads of JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, etc.? And how about the Rothschilds? And the Bundesbank—surely, they're in there, too?
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Tens Of Thousands Rally In Moscow To Mourn Slain Boris Nemtsov
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/01/2015 - 09:19If there was supposed to be any crackdown on opposition voices in Russia following the shocking death of Boris Nemtsov, it wasn't evident today during a rally in which tens of thousands converged in central Moscow this monring to mourn the veteran liberal politician Boris Nemtsov, whose killing on the streets of the capital has, according to AP, shaken Russia's beleaguered opposition. As AP reports, and as the photos below show, the mourners marched to the bridge near the Kremlin where Nemtsov was gunned down shortly before midnight Friday. "The march could serve to energize the opposition or it could prove to be a brief outpouring of emotions that once again dissipates in a climate of fear."
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Here Is The Reason Why Stocks Just Had Their Best Month Since October 2011
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 02/28/2015 - 23:58If not the economy or fundamentals, and if not the Fed, which as we know is still on sabbatical after its massive QE1-2-Twist-3 $3 trillion liquidity injection, just what has pushed stocks up to jawdropping all time highs? Here, courtesy of Deutsche Bank, is the answer...
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Most Americans Are Slaves And They Don't Even Know It
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 02/28/2015 - 22:30Most Americans spend their lives working for others, paying off debts to others and performing tasks that others tell them that they "must" do. These days, we don't like to think of ourselves as "servants" or "slaves", but that is what the vast majority of us are. It is just that the mechanisms of our enslavement have become much more sophisticated over time.
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Meet Linebarger - The Government's Biggest Private Debt Collector
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 02/28/2015 - 21:45Collecting debt is a dirty business which is why The Federal Government turns it over to the private sector. Meet one of the biggest players in the industry, law firm Linebarger Goggan Blair & Sampson. It has worked for small-town school districts, the city of New York and at one point, the largest tax collector in the country: the Internal Revenue Service. As CNN reports, based in Texas, Linebarger works for 2,300 clients nationwide and collects $1 billion for its clients each year. But the collection system is far from perfect, leading to some nightmare scenarios. Despite decades of scandals over the way the firm gets business (and even jail time for one of its top executives) Linebarger still lands lucrative government contracts...
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Breaking Bad (Debt) - Episode One
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 02/28/2015 - 21:00The average American benefited in no way from the government/banker bailout. Their wages have deteriorated, their daily living expenses have risen, Obamacare has resulted in higher healthcare premiums, higher co-pays, more part-time jobs, less full-time jobs, and less healthcare choices for the working class, while Wall Street generates billions in risk free profits, bankers and corporate executives reap massive million dollar bonuses, and the .1% parties like its 1999. Rising wealth inequality has been systematically programmed into our economic system by bankers and their bought off puppet politicians in Washington D.C. – Corporate fascism at its finest.
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More Giant Craters Appear In Siberia, Scientists Nervous To Investigate
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 02/28/2015 - 20:30"Russian scientists have now spotted a total of seven craters, five of which are in the Yamal Peninsula. Two of those holes have since turned into lakes. And one giant crater is rimmed by a ring of at least 20 mini-craters, the Siberian Times reported."
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1987 Or 2015? The Gap Between Growth Expectations & Valuations Is "Ridiculous"
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 02/28/2015 - 20:15While the divergence between macro data 'dismalness' and equity price exuberance is by now well known, there is a greater threat looming to the rampapalooza that is underway. As forward Price-to-Earnings ratios have soared in the last year (aided and abetted - as Alan Greenspan explained - solely by The Fed's largesse) so bottom-up earnings growth expectations have cratered. So much so that veteran stock market investors and traders now see the divergence between multiple 'hope' and growth 'reality' as "ridiculous." Just how ridiculous? Worse than 1987, 2002, and 2011, when stocks fell over 20% upon realization of reality.
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"Massive Mis-Governance" - Q4 Obliterates The Case For QE And ZIRP
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 02/28/2015 - 19:30Another quarter of no "escape velocity" on main street and a further round of Kool Aid drinker speculation on Wall Street takes us just that much closer to the brink. Yet the Fed remains oblivious and continues to manufacture excuses and equivocations as to why ZIRP should extend into its 80th month and beyond. This is mis-governance on a colossal scale. So when the next thundering crash occurs - it is devoutly to be hoped that "audit the Fed" turns out to be the least of the threats descending on the Eccles Building.
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6,800 trucking jobs added in April, unemployment rate tumbles
The for-hire trucking industry added 6,800 payroll jobs in April on a seasonally adjusted basis, according to the monthly employment report released May 2 by the DOL. The economy as a whole added 288,000 jobs ...
Trucking employment surges as 8,400 jobs added in November
A total of 8,400 payroll jobs were added to the for-hire trucking industry's payroll in November — the first real jump since the spring of this year — while the U.S. employment rate dropped to 7 ...
Trucking industry adds 400 jobs in October as economy gains 200k
Four-hundred new payroll jobs were added in the trucking industry in the month of October, according to preliminary numbers released Nov. 7 by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Trucking industry gains 1,000 jobs in September
The for-hire trucking industry saw a small uptick in September, adding 1,000 new payroll jobs in the month on a seasonally adjusted basis. The economy as a whole added 148,000 job, and unemployment dropped to ...
Trucking gains 6,300 jobs after two months of decline
After May and June both produced net job losses in the for-hire trucking industry, 6,300 net payroll jobs were added in July, according to preliminary government data.
Trucking employment down 3,500 jobs as overall employment rises
For the second straight month, employment in the for-hire trucking industry sank, as 3,500 jobs were shed in June, according to estimates from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Trucking employment continues years-long gains
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today that for-hire trucking companies added 5,000 payroll jobs in the month, pushing the total number of trucking payroll employment to 1.375 million jobs.
Trucking gains 3,600 jobs in October
In a month in which the U.S. economy added 171,000 jobs, for-hire trucking companies added 3,600 payroll jobs in October, according to estimates by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Nov. 2.

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IR offers no panacea for productivity
PUBLISHED: 16 Feb 2012 00:03:12 | UPDATED: 16 Feb 2012 05:36:44PUBLISHED: 16 Feb 2012 PRINT EDITION: 16 Feb 2012Keith Hancock
Over the past 20 years, big claims have been made about the relationship between industrial relations and productivity.
In the early 1990s, there was wide support for a prediction that displacement of traditional arbitration by enterprise bargaining would unleash a surge of productivity growth.
One influential contention was that a 25 per cent productivity rise was available if wage-setting were decentralised. More recently, poor productivity has been attributed to faults in IR arrangements, especially the power wielded by strong unions. I do not believe the evidence justifies these claims.
Productivity describes the relation of production to inputs. A rise in productivity means more product is obtained from given inputs. In the long run, it is the principal determinant of real incomes, and hence the standard of living.
There are two standard measures of productivity. Labour productivity is calculated by dividing the value of total output produced in a period by the number of hours of labour expended on it during that period. Multi-factor productivity divides the value of output by a measure of labour hours and capital combined.
To affect productivity, IR arrangements must alter the amount produced in an hour's work (labour productivity) or for a given combination of hours worked and capital (multi-factor productivity).
Alterations to the amounts of inputs will affect production, but not productivity. This is to be borne in mind when it is said (for example) that penalty rates reduce productivity: they may affect production, but productivity is another matter. A recent newspaper column suggested that making it harder for people to stay on disability benefits would prompt many to seek work and thereby raise productivity. It might raise production, but not productivity. It would probably reduce it. The extras may be less productive than those already in work.
It is conceivable that changing IR arrangements could affect productivity. Employers' antipathy to arbitration in the early 1990s was based in part on a belief that if they had more control over workplaces they could get more out of their employees. And strong unions may inhibit management in its efforts to maximise output from given resources. Whether such possibilities are significant is a matter to be determined by evidence.
It is usual to measure productivity for the "market sector". This is because it is difficult to measure the output of the public service, defence and education, whose products typically do not have market prices.
Between 1964-65 and 2009-10, trend growth for labour productivity in Australia corresponded to an annual rate of 2.2 per cent. For multi-factor productivity, the growth rate was 1.1 per cent. The faster growth of labour productivity reflects the continuous growth in the amount of capital deployed by the average worker.
It is obvious that the trends "explain" much of the historical record of productivity. This lends some perspective to the debate about productivity performance.
It is difficult to avoid the inference that long-term productivity growth is the fruit of long-term forces such as technological innovation, rising standards of education, better health and accumulation of capital.
Nevertheless there are variations around the trends. The claim that enterprise bargaining led to a "productivity surge" has to invoke the rise in the productivity curves, relative to trend, in the latter half of the 1990s. The claim that IR has destroyed productivity turns on the experience of the late 2000s.
Neither claim can be conclusively proved or rejected. But there are questions. Why did the earlier "surge" peter out? And how can the effects of enterprise bargaining be separated from those of other 1990s economic reforms and from those of the increased deployment of information technology?
Productivity performance since 2004-05 has been poor. If it were due to the extra union clout under the Rudd-Gillard regime, why did the deterioration set in several years earlier? There is a better fit with the inception of Work Choices, but talk of a causal link seems far-fetched.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics has published industry-level analyses of productivity covering the period since 1994-95. It is clear that the productivity record differs radically between industries.
In the long term, the crucial factors in productivity growth are innovation, rising quality of the labour force and growth of the capital stock. In the short term, we need to look at the special factors.
Attempts to find the causes of good and bad productivity performance in IR are misconceived.
Keith Hancock holds honorary positions at the University of Adelaide and Flinders University. He is a former deputy president of the Australian Industrial Relations Commission. This is an edited version of an article published in HRmonthly, December 2011-January 2012.
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The International Space Station (ISS) is a space station, or a habitable artificial satellite in low Earth orbit. The ninth space station to be inhabited by crews, it follows the Soviet and later Russian Salyut, Almaz, and Mir stations, and Skylab from the U.S. The ISS is a modular structure whose first component was launched in 1998. Now the largest artificial body in orbit, it can often be seen at the appropriate time with the naked eye from Earth. The ISS consists of pressurised modules, external trusses, solar arrays and other components. ISS components have been launched by American Space Shuttles as well as Russian Proton and Soyuz rockets. Budget constraints led to the merger of three space station projects with the Japanese Kibō module and Canadian robotics. In 1993 the partially built components for a Soviet/Russian space station Mir-2, the proposed American Freedom, and the proposed European Columbus merged into a single multinational programme. The ISS is arguably the most expensive single item ever constructed.
The ISS serves as a microgravity and space environment research laboratory in which crew members conduct experiments in biology, human biology, physics, astronomy, meteorology and other fields. The station is suited for the testing of spacecraft systems and equipment required for missions to the Moon and Mars.
Human spaceflight (or manned spaceflight or crewed spaceflight) is space travel with humans aboard spacecraft. When a spacecraft is manned, it can be piloted directly, as opposed to machine or robotic space probes controlled remotely by humans or through automatic methods on board the spacecraft.
Humans have been continually present in space for 700113000000000000013 years and 700118000000000000018 days on the International Space Station. The first manned spaceflight was launched by the Soviet Union on 12 April 1961 as a part of the Vostok program, with cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin aboard.
Humans have been continually present in space for 700113000000000000013 years and 700119000000000000019 days on the International Space Station. The first manned spaceflight was launched by the Soviet Union on 12 April 1961 as a part of the Vostok program, with cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin aboard.
A space station (or orbital station) is a spacecraft capable of supporting a crew, which is designed to remain in space (most commonly in low Earth orbit) for an extended period of time and for other spacecraft to dock. A space station is distinguished from other spacecraft used for human spaceflight by lack of major propulsion or landing systems. Instead, other vehicles transport people and cargo to and from the station. As of November 2012[update] two space stations are in orbit: the International Space Station, which is permanently manned, and China's Tiangong 1 (which successfully launched on September 29, 2011, after its launch was delayed from August), which is unmanned most of the time. Previous stations include the Almaz and Salyut series, Skylab and most recently Mir.
Today's space stations are research platforms, used to study the effects of long-term space flight on the human body as well as to provide platforms for greater number and length of scientific studies than available on other space vehicles. All space stations to date have been designed with the intention of rotating multiple crews, with each crew member staying aboard the station for weeks or months, but rarely more than a year. Since the ill-fated flight of Soyuz 11 to Salyut 1, all manned spaceflight duration records have been set aboard space stations. The duration record for a single spaceflight is 437.7 days, set by Valeriy Polyakov aboard Mir from 1994 to 1995. As of 2013[update], three astronauts have completed single missions of over a year, all aboard Mir.
Scientific Research on the International Space Station is a collection of experiments that require one or more of the unusual conditions present in low Earth orbit. The primary fields of research include human research, space medicine, life sciences, physical sciences, astronomy and meteorology. The 2005 NASA Authorization Act designated the American segment of the International Space Station as a national laboratory with the goal of increasing the use of the ISS by other federal agencies and the private sector.
Research on the ISS improves knowledge about the effects of long-term space exposure on the human body. Subjects currently under study include muscle atrophy, bone loss, and fluid shift. The data will be used to determine whether space colonisation and lengthy human spaceflight are feasible. As of 2006, data on bone loss and muscular atrophy suggest that there would be a significant risk of fractures and movement problems if astronauts landed on a planet after a lengthy interplanetary cruise (such as the six-month journey time required to fly to Mars). Large scale medical studies are conducted aboard the ISS via the National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI). Prominent among these is the Advanced Diagnostic Ultrasound in Microgravity study in which astronauts (including former ISS Commanders Leroy Chiao and Gennady Padalka) perform ultrasound scans under the guidance of remote experts. The study considers the diagnosis and treatment of medical conditions in space. Usually, there is no physician on board the ISS, and diagnosis of medical conditions is a challenge. It is anticipated that remotely guided ultrasound scans will have application on Earth in emergency and rural care situations where access to a trained physician is difficult.
A disaster is a natural or man-made (or technological) hazard resulting in an event of substantial extent causing significant physical damage or destruction, loss of life, or drastic change to the environment. A disaster can be ostensively defined as any tragic event stemming from events such as earthquakes, floods, catastrophic accidents, fires, or explosions. It is a phenomenon that can cause damage to life and property and destroy the economic, social and cultural life of people.
In contemporary academia, disasters are seen as the consequence of inappropriately managed risk. These risks are the product of a combination of both hazard/s and vulnerability. Hazards that strike in areas with low vulnerability will never become disasters, as is the case in uninhabited regions.
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Scientific General Events
Waves, Vortices, and Climate Modelling
Welcome to the 2008 Applied Mathematics Graduate Student Conference (AMGSC) webpage. The conference was held on Saturday, January 26 and Sunday, January 27 at Simon Fraser University. Some students gave short presentations based on past course project or current research.
Speaker: Derek Bingham
Title: Statistical Research in a Collaborative Environment
Modern statistical research is often motivated by applied problems that arise in other areas of science. Finding solutions to these applied problems leads to collaborations between statisticians and subject-specific researchers. Working in such a collaborative environment brings much benefit to both parties, but is not without challenges. This talk will relate some of my experiences working in such an environment, and how one might build successful long-term collaborative relationships.Title: Confidence intervals for proportions and quantiles with application to NHANES
Speaker: Cindy Feng
It has been noted that the usual confidence interval for proportions does not perform well for large and small values of p. In surveys the issue is complicated by the survey design and issues of whether to use design effects, effective sample size and effective degrees of freedom arise. The question is which of the many possible confidence intervals available should be recommended for the U.S. National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES) end users and what cautions should be given. In addition, the issues may be different if the interval is actually being used in combination with Woodruff's method to form confidence intervals for small and large quantiles.Title: Median Loss Analysis
Speaker: Pen Yu
In classical decision theory in statistics, Wald (1950) first introduced the risk function, and used it to evaluate how good the estimators are. Conventionally, the risk is assumed to be finite in most situations. In other words, we cannot handle the problems of heavy-tail distributions like the Cauchy distribution. In this talk, I will introduce the median version of the risk, called the median loss, and compare it with the risk and other domination criteria. Moreover, we will see that the estimator by the median loss approach is more loss robustness than the estimator by the risk, such as the Bayes estimator.Title: Statistical Monitoring of Clinical Trials with Multivariate Response or Multiple Arms Using Repeated Confidence Bands
Speaker: Lihui Zhao
X. Joan Hu (Simon Fraser University) Stephen W. Lagakos (Harvard University)
Clinical trials with multivariate response or multiple arms have become increasingly common because of their potential efficiency and cost saving. Interim analyses of such studies are often guided by parametric assumptions for the underlying probability models. There are situations where it is not clear at the outset how the responses differ among the treatment groups and what kinds of differences are clinically meaningful. More flexible designs and monitoring procedures are therefore desirable. In this talk, we extend the repeated confidence bands approach (Hu and Lagakos, 1999) to studies with multivariate target function. We use a recent AIDS clinical trial to illustrate how to apply the multivariate repeated confidence bands (MRCB) approach in practice.Title: Prior Sensitivity and Cross-Validation using Sequential Monte Carlo
Speaker: Luke Bornn
In a Bayesian setting, adequately approximating the model of interest can be computationally expensive in the order of hours or even days. Prior sensitivity and cross-validation are both tasks that involve repeating this approximation repeatedly, potentially hundreds or thousands of times. In this talk I will demonstrate how sequential Monte Carlo methods can make prior sensitivity and cross-validation feasible in situations where the distribution of interest is not available analytically, reducing computational time by an order of magnitude or more in most settings.Title: The Publication Process in Statistics
Speaker: Paul Gustafson
Peer-reviewed academic journals are central to scientific life. Scientists of all stripes spend substantial proportions of their time reading, writing, and reviewing for journals. Based on my experiences as an author, a reviewer, an associate editor, and an editor, I will make some comments on how academic journals function, and try to offer some advice on navigating the publication process.Title: Finding approximate solutions to combinatorial problems with very large datasets using BIRCH
Speaker: Justin Harrington
Over time the boundaries between Computer Science and Statistics have blurred, with a number of disciplines (e.g. Machine Learning) being actively researched in both schools. One such technique is called BIRCH (Balanced Iterative Reducing and Clustering using Hierarchies) (Zhang et al, 1997), which is a data pre-processing tool used for clustering extremely large datasets with a k-means algorithm. The advantage of this algorithm is that it generates "sufficient statistics" with only one pass of the dataset, and these values can then be used instead of the whole dataset for certain applications.
In this talk we demonstrate this algorithm's application in two fields, namely robust statistics and (if time permits) a new clustering method called Linear Grouping Analysis (Van Aeslt et al, 2006).Title: Designs for Computer Experiments
Speaker: Chunfang Lin
Latin hypercube designs have been widely adopted in conducting computer experiments. In this talk, we introduce methods for constructing a rich class of Latin hypercube designs with appealing projection and space-filling properties. The class includes many orthogonal Latin hypercube designs that are not available in the literature, as well as nearly-orthogonal Latin hypercubes and two-level orthogonal-array based orthogonal Latin hypercube designs. This is joint work with Randy R. Sitter.The 29th Annual Alberta Statisticians Meeting is sponsored by the Department of Mathematics and
Statistics and the Faculty of Science at the University of Calgary, and also by PIMS.This meeting serves many purposes. It allows faculty and graduate students working in probability and statistics
at different universities in Alberta to interact, make contacts, and discuss their research. It serves as a training
vehicle for highly qualified people (HQP) working in probability and statistics. It affords statisticians working in
the private and non-academic public sector to discuss their problems with academic researchers. In addition,
it affords graduate students an opportunity to present their work and themselves to possible future employers.Registration will be at the door.
For further information, please contact David Scollnik at firstname.lastname@example.com.
The Cycle Double Cover Conjecture (CDC) was proposed independently by
P.D. Seymour (1979) and G. Szekeres (1973). The conjecture is easy to state:
"For finite every 2-connected graph, there is a list of cycles (polygons)
such that every edge of the graph is an edge of exactly two cycles
in the list."As an example, if the graph is embedded in a surface (without crossing
edges) in such a way that all faces are bounded by cycles,
then the boundary cycles of the faces will "double cover" the edges.
Although the statement of the conjecture is very simple, the solution
has eluded dozens of attacks over 30 years.This conjecture (and its numerous variants) is considered by most graph
theorists to be one of the major open questions in the field.
One reason for this is the close connections that this problem has
with topological graph theory, the theory of Nowhere-zero flows,
graph colouring and polyhedral combinatorics. MathSciNet lists more
25 articles with "cycle double cover" (or "double cycle cover") in
the title.The workshop will include some formal presentations
with the purpose of bringing the participants up to date on
techniques and recent results. Long collaborative working periods will
take the majority of the working time.The 19th Annual Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry (CCCG 2007) will
be held in Ottawa, Canada on August 20-22, 2007 at Carleton University, with a
welcome reception on the evening of August 19th.CCCG focuses on the computational aspects of geometric problems. Computational
Geometry applies to all fields that touch geometric computing. Application
areas are as diverse as computer graphics and animation, computer vision,
CAD/CAM, GIS, pattern recognition, wireless communication, robotics, urban
planning, graph drawing, or statistical analysis to name just a few.CCCG is intended to be a forum, accessible to a broad variety of researchers in
the area, to disseminate and discuss new results. All submitted papers will be
refereed, but we have no maximum target on the number of submissions that are
accepted. All papers that present new, original, and error free results that
are of interest to the greater computational geometry community will be
accepted. The intended audience for this conference includes graduate and
undergraduate students, researchers in the area and members of industry that
work in areas requiring the use of intensive geometric computation.The International Conference of Theoretical and Numerical Fluid Mechanics
III is being held in honor of Professors Giovanni Paolo Galdi and Rolf
Rannacher, in celebration of their sixtieth birthdays. Reflecting their
interests, it will be an interdisciplinary meeting within the general field
of mathematical and computational fluid dynamics, devoted mainly to
Newtonian and non-Newtonian viscous flow. While promoting a high quality of
mathematical treatment, no area of practical application will be excluded
due to the present intractability of interesting mathematical difficulties.
Thus, there will be lectures on turbulence, blood flow, sedimentation,
fluid structure interaction, flow control, and the dynamical systems
perspective, as well as key issues of the Navier-Stokes theory.Short courses will be offered by Professors Galdi and Rannacher on the two
days preceding the conference. Professor Rannacher will lecture on
"Numerical methods for the simulation of fluid-structure interaction".
Professor Galdi will lecture on "Topics in the Mathematical Theory of
Fluid-Solid Interaction".Registration is open to the general scientific and engineering community.
All registrants are invited to give poster presentations. Also, all
registrants along with their families are welcome and encouraged to join in
all of our sponsored social events. PIMS has provided special funds for
supporting the travel of graduate students to attend this meeting. Graduate
students wishing such support should apply for it by writing to John
Heywood at firstname.lastname@example.com .CECM, Maplesoft, MITACS, IRMACS and PIMS are pleased to present "CECM 2007", a summer conference hosted by CECM under the title "Summer Workshop on Computational Mathematics" at Simon Fraser University.
The Workshop Program includes talks and a poster session which cover diverse topics in mathematics with an emphasis on computation.
Registration is required.
For more information, please visit:
www.cecm.sfu.ca/events/CECM07/ - For more information, please click here to visit the external site.
The climate statistics workshop provided a venue for scientific researchers and end users to discuss how statistical information can benefit agriculture, water and other climate sensitive operations. Applied scientific presentations increased understanding of what can be provided analytically using 'easy to understand statistics.' The usefulness and limitations of the tools were assessed by the user community, who engaged researchers in a dialogue aimed at suggesting appropriate statistical techniques for risk reduction. The dialogue was achieved by including users of climate information as workshop participants. Participants include representatives of government departments, commodity brokers, financial representatives and community groups whose activities are impacted by weather and climate.
Dear Graduate Students,
Welcome to our conference website!
This conference provides graduate students with a forum to discuss their research. With funds from PIMS and the University of Calgary, we can provide you with accommodation, meals and provide some reimbursement for travel. Please check the corresponding links for detailed information!
The goal of this conference is to promote academic collaboration amongst young researchers. By giving graduate students a forum to discuss their work with other researchers, this conference promotes progress through discourse. This conference will give graduate students the opportunity to present their own research, learn about the research being conducted by other graduate students and discuss research issues.
Every participant is encouraged to give a talk and funding is only available to conference presenters. Funding is limited, so register early!Sincerely,
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Ernest J. Street, 58, of 225 S. Pear St., St. Marys, died at 10:25 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 1, 2012, at St. Rita's Medical Center in Lima.
He was born on April 26, 1954, in Sidney, to Ernest and Hilda (Marshall) Street, and his father preceded him in death. His mother survives him in St. Marys.
COLUMBUS GROVE — The Minster girls cross country team easily won the girls gray division title at the Columbus Grove Invitational on Saturday morning, while the Wildcat boys team finished second.
Minster's Julia Slonkosky continued the strong start to her freshman season with a win in the gray division race with a 19:46.34 time.
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The Do-It Yourself Tour, which is sponsored by a handful of watershed stakeholders, will take place from noon to 5 p.m. Sunday. The tour will feature eight stops around Auglaize and Mercer counties, with each highlighting techniques used to help clean up the watershed.
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She was born on May 23, 1934, in Celina, to Harold and Rosemary (Sprague) Lehman, and they preceded her in death.
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He was born on Oct. 19, 1944, in Fostoria, to Dustin and Edith (Keckler) Cramer, and they preceded him in death.
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So I'm on an old clunker which unfortunately only has a graphics card that supports pixelshader 1.4. So, I found Swiftshader which is suppose to emulate 2.0. However I don't know where to place the .dll file as LoL doesn't have a "game" folder. Does anybody know how to remedy this problem? (And don't bother saying get a new graphics card, as I can't afford it)
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u take the dll file and drag it to the lol launcher on ur desktop and the game should start..If there is 2 files then just take the 2 files and drag it at the same time..
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Search "League of Legends.exe" in the LoL folder. Put the .dll in the folder with the latest version of it. There should be 2 of them(latest version!), so just make 2 copies of the .dll and you are good.


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Atlas Resource Partners, L.P. Announces Completion Of Barnett Shale Asset Acquisition
Atlas Resource Partners, L.P. (NYSE: ARP) announces the completion of its acquisition of approximately 277 bcfe of proved reserves, including undeveloped drilling locations, in the Barnett Shale in Texas from Carrizo Oil & Gas (NASD: CRZO). The total consideration for the transaction was approximately $190 million, subject to final post-closing adjustments, funded by a private placement of approximately $120 million of common units and approximately $70 million borrowed against ARP's revolving credit facility. Concurrent with the closing of the transaction, ARP received authorization from its lending group to expand the capacity on its revolving credit line to a borrowing base of $250 million.
Citigroup acted as financial advisor and sole placement agent in connection with the private placement on the transaction, and Jones Day and Ledgewood acted as legal advisors on the transaction.
An investor presentation which provides details on the Barnett Shale transaction is available on the company's website, www.atlasresourcepartners.com, in the Investor Relations section under the Presentations menu.
The securities offered in the private placement will not be and have not yet been registered under the Securities Act of 1933 and may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an applicable exemption from registration requirements. This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state in which the offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to the registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state.
Management does not forecast certain items, including GAAP revenues, depreciation, amortization, and non-cash changes in derivatives, and therefore is unable to provide forecasted Net Income, a comparable GAAP measure, for the periods presented. The reconciling items between these non-GAAP measures and Net Income are expected to be similar to those for the current periods presented and are not expected to be significant to ARP's cash flows. Atlas Resource Partners, L.P. (NYSE: ARP) is an exploration & production master limited partnership which owns an interest in over 8,600 producing natural gas and oil wells, representing approximately 450 Bcfe of net proved reserves, primarily in Appalachia and the Barnett Shale in Texas. ARP is also the largest sponsor of natural gas and oil investment partnerships in the U.S. For more information, please visit our website at www.atlasresourcepartners.com, or contact Investor Relations at firstname.lastname@example.com. Atlas Energy, L.P. (NYSE: ATLS) is a master limited partnership which owns all of the general partner interest, all the incentive distribution rights and approximately 64% of the limited partner interests in its upstream oil & gas subsidiary, Atlas Resource Partners, L.P. Additionally, Atlas Energy owns and operates the general partner of its midstream oil & gas subsidiary, Atlas Pipeline Partners, L.P., through all of the general partner interest, all the incentive distribution rights and an approximate 11% limited partner interest. For more information, please visit our website at www.atlasenergy.com, or contact Investor Relations at firstname.lastname@example.com. Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements This document contains forward-looking statements that involve a number of assumptions, risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking statements. ATLS and Atlas Resource Partners caution readers that any forward-looking information is not a guarantee of future performance. Such forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements about future financial and operating results, resource potential, ATLS' and Atlas Resource Partners' plans, objectives, expectations and intentions and other statements that are not historical facts. Risks, assumptions and uncertainties that could cause actual results to materially differ from the forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, the expected financial results of Atlas Resource Partners, which is dependent on future events or developments; assumptions and uncertainties associated with general economic and business conditions; changes in commodity prices; changes in the costs and results of drilling operations; uncertainties about estimates of reserves and resource potential; inability to obtain capital needed for operations; ATLS' and Atlas Resource Partners' level of indebtedness; changes in government environmental policies and other environmental risks; the availability of drilling equipment and the timing of production; and tax consequences of business transactions. In addition, ATLS and Atlas Resource Partners are subject to additional risks, assumptions and uncertainties detailed from time to time in the reports filed by ATLS and Atlas Resource Partners with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including the risks, assumptions and uncertainties described in their quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, reports on Form 8-K and annual reports on Form 10-K. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date hereof, and neither ATLS nor Atlas Resource Partners assumes any obligation to update such statements, except as may be required by applicable law.Check Out Our Best Services for Investors
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Retching (also known as dry heaving or "taking the boak") is the reverse movement (peristalsis) of the stomach and esophagus without vomiting.[1] It can be caused by bad smell or choking. The function is thought to be mixing gastric contents with intestinal refluxate in order to buffer the former and give it momentum in preparation of vomiting.[2] Treatments include medication and correction of the fluid and electrolyte balance.
The retching phase is characterized by a series of violent spasmodic abdomino-thoracic contractions with the glottis closed. During this time the inspiratory (inhalatory) movements of the chest wall and diaphragm are opposed by the expiratory contractions of the abdominal musculature. At the same time, movements of the stomach and its contents take place. Whereas a patient will complain of disagreeable sensations during nausea, speech is not possible during retching. The characteristic movements furnish a ready diagnostic sign of the retching phase. Schindler (1937)[3] studied retching on two occasions during gastroscopy and noted that longitudinal folds appeared in the previously smooth antrum, thickened quickly, came together and completely closed the antrum.[4] Retching involves a deep inspiration against a closed glottis. This, along with contraction of the abdomen, leads to a pressure difference between the abdominal and thoracic cavities. As a result, the stomach and gastric contents are displaced upwards toward the thoracic cavity.[5]
Retching comprises a rhythmically alternating (about once per second) elevation and descension of the entire pharyngolaryngoesophagogastric apparatus in synchrony with the movement of the diaphragm. The function of retching may be to mix gastric contents with intestinal refluxate to buffer gastric contents before gastroesophageal reflux and to impart a momentum to the gastric contents before vomiting. Airway protection during retching is accomplished by glottal closure during retches and constriction of the upper esophageal sphincter between retches.[2]
A vomit (expulsion of gastric contents) is usually preceded by several retching responses, but retching and vomiting can occur separately[6] and involve different sets of muscles.[7] During a retch, thoracic pressure is decreased and abdominal pressure is increased, which may serve to position gastric contents and overcome esophageal resistance.[6] Conversely, a vomit occurs with increased thoracic and abdominal pressure. Retches and vomits are commonly lumped together in behavioral analyses and consequently the neural controls for these processes are not well delineated.[8]
The treatments for significant retching include correction of fluid and electrolyte balance, nutritional support and medications like phenothiazines (such as Compazine and Phenergan), 5-HT3 antagonist (such as Zofran), dopamine receptor antagonists (such as Reglan), antihistamines (Antivert, and Dramamine, Benadryl) and anticholinergics (Scopolamine). Alternative approaches are also available. The best-studied alternative therapy is perhaps the use of acupressure for pregnancy-related nausea and vomiting. Wristbands with acupressure buttons are commercially available. An implanted device with attached electrodes into the gastric wall can be an option for patients with refractory nausea and vomiting.[9]
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Cramer's 'Mad Money' Recap: Don't Let Politics Get You Down
Cramer said that Ascena remains a terrific story. The company maintains a stable of diversified stores including Justice for teens and tweens, Maurice's for women in the 20s, Dress Barn for middle aged shoppers and the company's recent acquisition of Charming Shoppes gave it Lane Bryant and others to tackle the plus-sized market.
Cramer said that Ascena's diversification of its brands is perhaps its largest strength, as each concept has little to do with the others. Yet all of Ascena's stores focus on customer service and relationships, something that never goes out of style.
Trading at just 11 times earning with a 15% long-term growth rate, Cramer said Ascena remains one of his favorite value-oriented retail stocks and he would be a buyer going into the holiday season.
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I have a Ward report on my water and it is as follows: Na: 24 ppm Ca: 60 ppm Mg: 39 ppm Sulfate (SO4-s): 15 on the report = 45 for brewing use Cl: 21ppm Bicarbonate: HCO3 333 Total Alkalinity CaCO3: 273 Total Hardness CaCO3: 313 pH: 7.8 I am brewing up a Belgian Golden ale, 12 gallons, with 27 lbs of grain and 5% of the grist is acid malt. This will be a sour beer base. Now I am looking at Kaisers Water Calculator and using the advanced sheet i entered in my values above, and will be boiling the water the night before and letting the solids precipitate (correct wording?) out and siphon of the water. The calculator shows that the TA will go from 273 to -193. Also if I cut this water down with 50% RO the TA then goes to -255 and cuts the above minerals in half. The estimated pH is 5.2. I will add a couple of grams of CaCL, and some CaSO4 to the mix. My question is, does anyone out there have any experience with this and how accurate is the new TA number? If the brew was further out I would boil a sample and send it to Ward for another analysis. Also am I on the right track?? thanks in advance
Follow up question: What negative effects will the untreated Total Alkalinity have upon a Golden Ale? recipe is 85% 2 row, 5% each of Acid, Vienna, and wheat malts. Estimate SRM from beersmith is 4.4. since the grist is "heavy" on the acid malt (5%) it seems like the calculators put this right in the 5.4 range, (this will be verified with a pH meter on brew day). Would adding back some CaCL be a good thing??
Total Alkalinity cannot go negative. Residual Alkalinity can go negative. When boiling and decanting, about the lowest you can reduce the bicarbonate concentration to is 55 to 60 ppm. That's about 45 to 50 ppm alkalinity as CaCO3. That is also the resulting Total Alkalinity. Assuming that the negative value you mention is actually RA, then the need to include acid malt in the grist is quite debatable. If you have pH measurement capability, I'd leave it out initially and only add it if the mash pH failed to drop below 5.5.
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It is impossible to have total alkalinity go below zero by boiling water hard/carbonaceous or not. If one adds acid to the water until the pH reaches 4.3, then 50 times the number of milliequivalents of acid required per liter of water is the alkalinity. Thus for your water with alkalinity 273 it would require 253/50 = 5.06 mEq acid per liter. Negative alkalinity is achieved when one continues to add acid at this point. For -193 you would add 193/50 = 3.86 mEq additional (per liter). What actually happens when hard carbonaceous water is boiled is pretty much anyone's guess. If you plan to use this technique as a matter of course I would definitely invest in a hardness test kit of the type that gives calcium and total or magnesium and total hardness and an alkalinity test kit (www.hach.com) so that you will know what really happens. A rule of thumb is that alkalinity or hardness, whichever is limiting, can be taken down to about 1 mEq/L (50 ppm as CaCO3). Assuming this to be the case and taking calcium down to about 1 mEq/L would drop about half the alkalinity so you would have alkalinity of about 130, calcium at about 19.3 mg/L and Mg at about 28. RA would be 100 down from 212. If diluted 1 + 1 with RO water alkalinity drops to 65, calcium to 9.6, magnesium to 14 and RA to 50. Are you perhaps confusing total alkalinity (TA) and residual alkalinity (RA)?
The easy way out is to dilute 9+1 or so with RO water. This would lower your alkalinity to 29 and your hardness to 31. RA would be slightly positive at 23 ppm as CaCO3 but the alkalinity has been reduced more than you can reduce it by boiling. OTOH if you boil and drop some alkalinity that way you can use less RO water in a post boil dilution. The problem with the boiling is that you really need another water analysis to tell you what the post boil mineral content is and that's the real advantage of the RO method. You don't need another analysis. But you do have to pay for and lug RO water from the store to your brewery or shell out for an RO unit to be installed in your brewery.


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You may have noticed that I didn't begin my letter with the word, "dear".
It's not because I hate you, or formalities, or cliches.
In fact, it's quite the opposite.
It's because, as much as I hate admitting,
my heart skips a beat at the thought of giving you such a title.
My heart skips a beat at the thought of giving you anything but that title.
You haven't held a magnifying glass to my chest, so I'm assuming you'd never understood
how much I really loved you.
I was the quiet kind, the one who preferred the side of the room, and not the center.
The one who kept their hair in front of their eyes, to avoid meeting your glances, as well as everyone else's.
It was hard enough to say hello to random people, let alone to you.
And, when I did say it, I found it was drowned out by the shouting, the talking, and the annoying bickering of others.
So, I stopped saying hello.
You might be asking why I chose to write to you--or, at least in my head, you are.
In my head, you know who I am, where I am, and what I'm doing.
We exchange words as good friends do, but not much more.
My love is unrequited, as friends are to be just that--friends.
And friends care about other friends, so they ask about each other.
I'll answer your question, since you're so curious, so eager to know about me.
We are friends after all, aren't we?
"Why do you write to me?" you say.
And, as in all of our conversations, I reply, "I write to you because I care about you."
You smile while saying, "Why, of course you care. It's what friends are supposed to do."
In the pinnacle of our imaginary talk, this is when I say it.
This is when I say what I've always wanted to say.
I breathe in, depressing the nervousness within. I try as best I can to swallow the lump in my throat. It pulses, it jumps, and I assume it's my heart.
I open my mouth slowly, weigh my lungs down with air, and say,
"I care for you so much more than a friend ever could. It wouldn't be enough, it wouldn't satisfy me, to be only your friend. It wouldn't satisfy me because I love you."
You stare at me in bewilderment for a half an hour though it could be 30 seconds, because I'm so nervous, I can't keep track of time.
And then, it happens.
You look at me with loving eyes, lock me into a warm hug, and treat me as more than a friend.
This is how my thinking-bubble always ends. The same scene plays in the exact same way, over and over, and it ends the same way.
It's a movie that tickets are too expensive for.
A movie that I'd never be able to see, in full color, with front row seats.
It stays in black and white, and I always sit in the back of the theater, if I do get in.
I wish it to be true. I want it to happen.
I know it can't.
But, the least I can do is write to you.
I put this into a tiny envelope, and bought a few postage stamps. The envelope and stamps taste so bitter, with the adhesive that's used to keep them sealed. It can't be as bitter as how I might feel, but it's a pretty close comparison.


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