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Ingénieurs sans Frontières au Cameroon
Courtney Clum ('06) graduated last May with a double major in Engineering and French. Along with fellow engineering student, Rebecca Schewe, she started an Engineers without Borders (EWB) chapter at Hope College in 2004 and became its vice-president during her senior year. This endeavor took her with four other fellow students to Cameroon in March 2006. Prior to her African trip, Courtney had spent Spring 2005 in Nantes, France. This first international exposure prepared her to think globally and gave her the impetus for another world venture.
Courtney noted that to her the appeal of the organization lies foremost in that it gives "engineering students a chance to give back to the world with the knowledge that they have." She also added that "the projects [students] are presented with are simple in our standards but something so complex in other countries." On a personal level, she wanted to make a difference in the world. "I just wanted to help make this world a little bit better with the knowledge that I do possess" she said.
Once they were established with Hope College as well as EWB-USA, the chapter applied for an international project and became connected with a small community of about 500 people in Nkuff, Western Cameroon, with the goal of finding them potable water. "Because of lack of drinking water, this community is plagued with malaria, fileria, dysentery, dermatitis, meningitis and multiple waterborne diseases," Courtney explained. Lamnso is spoken in this area of Cameroon, a country where 300 ethnic languages are spoken. English and French are both official languages.
As vice-president, Courtney was responsible for maintaining relations with the international project as well as organizing all travel logistics for the group. The project has also become incorporated into the Engineering Senior Design Class at Hope College. Courtney mentioned that during the spring semester, she worked with two other students "in assessing the feasibility of shallow wells as well as developing a plan for the installation of these wells. A second group has been researching and designing different filtration systems for the community."
The purpose of the trip was "to assess the situation in the community" she said. They were able to drill by using hand augers in order to determine the feasibility of having shallow wells. Courtney adds that they "also tested the water for fecal coli forms and found that the water contained approximately 450 fecal coli forms while a lake in the United States contains about 30 colonies. From these results, we can conclude that the drinking water is what is making the members of the community so very sick." Another trip was planned in May with the goal to install two wells as well as several small filtration systems, provide education on how to maintain these systems and implement several health education programs in the community.
The trip to Cameroon was a life changing experience for Courtney and the four members who traveled with her in March. It all started when Courtney decided to study abroad; the first step being the most crucial one. After that, the world becomes a much smaller place and the path from Nantes, a major French city to a village located in a remote area of Cameroon easier to find. Once you step outside the geographical borders of your comfort zone, there is no telling where you will end your journey.
Globetrotters of the French Section
Kudos to our Majors and Minors!
(Honors and Awards of French Majors and Minors)
Numerous awards in various disciplines were given to French Majors and Minors during the Annual Convocation on April 27th 2006. Courtney Clum received the very competitive Southland Medal, and the Senior Engineering Prize. Holly Dustin was awarded the newly created AATF Outstanding Senior in French Award. Anne Bast and Elise Edwards won the Linda D. Palmer Memorial Award in French and Kyle Williams was awarded the Marguerite Prins French Award. Erin L'Hotta received the M. Harold Mikle Prize for Communication and Sarah Quesada-Lubbers the Technos International Prize. The Mathematics department gave Daniela Banu the Albert E. Lampen Mathematics Prize while Kendra Stock received the Theatre Department Senior Prize. Daniela Banu received the Senior Sigma Xi Research Award for Computer Science and Mathematics, Kyle Williams for Mathematics, Courtney Clum for Engineering and Kathleen Ludewig for Computer Science. Finally, Daniela Banu, Anne Bast, Courtney Clum, Erin L'Hotta, Kathleen Ludewig, Abigail Rockwood, Kendra Stock and Kyle Williams were elected to the prestigious Phi Beta Kappa. Congratulations to all!
Kathleen Ludwig
French Major and President of Amnesty International
Kathleen Ludwig's ('06) involvement with Amnesty International dates back to high school when she became an official member. She joined the Hope Chapter during her freshman year, was named treasurer in her junior year and ended her tenure on campus as the president. When asked why she has spent so much of her free time working with Amnesty International, Kathleen says she believes that as a moral and spiritual person, it is her obligation to speak out when injustice occurs anywhere, whether in her own country or across the globe. She thinks that human rights are something that many in the United States take for granted. "Many U.S. citizens cannot comprehend what it would be like to live in a society where people do not have freedom of speech or religion, the right to a fair and public trial, or where women are expected to be submissive in all aspects of life," she said. Kathleen joined Amnesty International because she felt "called to educate myself and others about what human rights are and why they are important". During the 2005-06 year, the number of events and members increased significantly. Kathleen believes this is due to the Critical Issues Symposium topic "Genocide in the Global Village". The most successful event for the Hope Chapter this year was the 'Focus Week on Human Trafficking" where four speakers spoke about the thriving market of modern slavery. Letter writing to respond to violations of freedom of speech, freedom to peacefully assemble or the right to due process is an essential part of Amnesty International actions. To Kathleen, however, educating others on campus through film showings and discussions is also essential. Kathleen Ludwig graduated in May with a major in French and Computer Science. In the future, Kathleen would like to indirectly work with human rights through the field of International development by means of technology.
French Spectacle 2006 : « En sortant de l'école »
For the second year in a row, Professor Isabelle Chapuis-Alvarez has organized as principal director and stage manager a French soirée for students and the larger community including songs, skits, musical, and dance performances. Spring 2005 saw the first annual French Spectacle entitled "Douce France" which combined the talents, efforts, and abilities of over 40 French students. While some students performed musical instruments including the harp, cello, and guitar, others entertained us with their acting abilities. Others recited poems or interpreted songs encompassing 20th century French culture.
The title of the French showcase this year was "En
sortant de l'école" (Upon leaving school).
It was shown on April 6 in the DeWitt Studio Theater. The spectacle
provided scenes from all
stages of education from la maternelle (kindergarten) to le
lycée (high school). With over 70 participants this
year, including graduates from years past, the experience allowed students
from all classes to
get to know one another: one of Professor Chapuis-Alvarez's main
goals in putting on this performance. To her, encouraging students of
French to interact is beneficial and fun for everyone involved. Once
again, the show included skits, instrumental pieces, songs, and poems.
The variety of scenes gives students a chance to showcase their individual
talents and share their favorite activities with all those who have a
common interest in the French language and culture.
French Faculty Activity
Professeur Anne R. Larsen
Professeur Brigitte Hamon-Porter
Professeur Isabelle Chapuis-Alvarez
Moving to the Martha Miller Center …
The ceremony for the dedication of the new Martha Miller Center was held on October 14-15, 2005. The building now houses the Communication and Modern and Classical Languages Departments, the offices of International Education and Multicultural Life. Among the participants in the panel discussions organized as part of the dedication events was Kimberly Droscha ('02). A former French major, Kim stressed to students and members of the Hope College community the value of her living abroad experience in France and the Czech Republic. Featured on the picture is Sarah Quesada-Lubbers (French Major, '06) who greeted the assembly in the three languages she speaks: English, French and Spanish.
My Year in France
by Elise Edwards ('06)
Following my first semester of taking French at Hope College, I knew that I not only planned to major in French but also to study abroad. I decided to spend my junior year in France with IES. I spent Fall 2004 in Nantes and Spring 2005 in Paris.
In Nantes, there was the initial excitement and anticipation coupled
with the nervousness of being in a new place with new people and a new
culture. My host
family was wonderful in helping me make this initial adjustment. They took
the time to explain cultural differences and help me with my French. Nantes
is a university city and I was able to eventually feel integrated into French
life. I joined the university choir and participated in the conversation
club that IES held. The hardest part was struggling to find the correct
the French
way of saying common English phrases that I constantly used. The biggest
boost came when I realized that I could understand the nightly news without
I took classes both at the university and the IES program center.
My second semester was just as fabulous. I fell immediately in love with Paris. I have always wanted to live in a big city and I could not have chosen a better place. I was still taking classes, most of them at the university but it was the experience of living in Paris, and especially living there as a student, that solidified my love for it. There was so much to do that I stayed after my program ended and still left realizing there was a ton more to do. With the wealth of cultural opportunities, you have to try to be bored and with student discounts on almost everything, it was mostly affordable. Spring is the best time to be in Paris: everything is blooming, picnickers emerge onto the lawn around the Eiffel Tower, parks fill up with runners, children and old couples, all enjoying the sunshine. It all sounds terribly romantic but I can count on one hand the numbers of days I wasn't entirely thrilled to be living in Paris.
Studying abroad and traveling throughout France and Europe while I was there gave me a much wider view on the world and how important understanding one another is. It cultivated in me not only a deeper love and appreciation of French and French culture, but also of traveling, languages, other lifestyles and viewpoints and a desire to keep exploring and to keep learning. Leaving France was the hardest thing for me to do since by then it had become home. I still get homesick for France, especially Paris, and this has been a driving force in my plans to someday return. To be honest, the best year I spent at Hope was the one I spent away.
French Section News and Events
Hope College French students in 2005 and 2006 were awarded ample opportunity to engage in French events outside of class. The busy year began with a trip to "An Impressionist Eye & Architecture of Silence: Cistercian Abbeys of France", an exhibit at the Grand Rapids Museum in January. In February, our own Brigitte Hamon-Porter shared her recent research in a talk entitled "The Scarf and the Republic: Young Muslim Women in France Today." The Spectacle Français, "Douce France" featured the various talents of our French students on April 7. The speaker for the French Cultural Studies Colloquium in the fall was Dr. Judith Sinanga Ohlmann, a native of Rwanda and a professor of French at the University of Windsor in Ontario, who delivered a talk on "La Négritude" on September 16. A busload of students, faculty and community members left Hope College on October 5 to visit the Art Institute of Chicago to view two exhibits: "Toulouse-Lautrec and Montmartre" and "Paris: Photographs from a Time that Was". Another outing with twenty students took place in November at Calvin College where the theatrical Compagnie Claude Beauclair presented Huis Clos by Jean-Paul Sartre.
As part of the French Events, French movies showings are scheduled in the Granberg Room throughout the year. Last year, A la folie, pas du tout (2002), Monsieur Ibrahim (2003), Les Choristes (2004), La grande séduction (2003), Les 400 coups (1959), Comme une image (2004) were shown. In addition to these movies, Professor Chapuis-Alvarez and Native Assistant Julie Kasper organized an ongoing Ciné-Club that benefited from a state-of-the art new entertainment system at the French House.
Professor Chapuis-Alvarez organized and chaired the session on "Les écrivains voyageurs du XXème siècle" ("Traveling authors of the 20th century"), during which three Hope College students made presentations. Senior Daniela Banu of Bucharest, Romania, presented "Un regard croisé franco-américain sur la France et l'Amérique contemporaires" ("A study of France by American authors and a study of America by French authors"). Senior Anne Bast of Grand Rapids presented "L'amour et la ville: la perception de Simone de Beauvoir de la ville américaine dans 'L'Amérique au jour le jour' et 'Lettres à Nelson Algren" ("Love and the City: Simone de Beauvoir's perception of the city and America in 'America day by day' and 'Letters to Nelson Algren: A Transatlantic Love Affair'"). Sophomore Stélios Alvarez of Grand Rapids presented "Les thèmes liés au voyage dans 'Courrier Sud,' 'Vol de nuit' et 'Terre des hommes' d'Antoine de Saint-Exupéry" ("Themes centered around travel in Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's 'Southern Mail,' 'Night Flight,' 'Wind, Sand and Stars'"). Chapuis-Alvarez also made a presentation, "L'adhésion de la Turquie à l'Europe: atout ou handicap?" ("Turkey's candidacy to the European Union: benefit or drawback?") during the session on "Current Issues in Culture and Linguistics."
Octavia Reese ('05), who has a double major in French and Classical Studies, was crowned Miss Michigan in 2005. The theme she chose to address was "Building Bridges through International Communication". She received a teaching assistantship from the French government to teach English in France for the year 2005-2006. Her new Miss Michigan title changed her plans.


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Awake Mankind!
Awake, mankind! For your sake God has become man. Awake, you who sleep, rise up from the dead, and Christ will enlighten you. I tell you again: for your sake, God became man.
You would have suffered eternal death, had he not been born in time. Never would you have been freed from sinful flesh, had he not taken on himself the likeness of sinful flesh. You would have suffered everlasting unhappiness, had it not been for this mercy. You would never have returned to life, had he not shared your death. You would have been lost if he had not hastened 'to your aid. You would have perished, had he not come.
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Truth has arisen from the earth: flesh from Mary. And justice looked down from heaven: for man can receive nothing unless it has been given him from heaven.
Justified by faith, let us be at peace with God: for justice and peace have embraced one another. Through our Lord Jesus Chris for Truth has arisen from the earth. Through whom we have access to that grace in which we stand, and our boast is in our hope of God's glory. He does not say: "of our glory," but of God's glory: for justice has not come out of us but has looked down from heaven. Therefore he who glories, let him glory, not in himself, but in the Lord.
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Ask if this were merited; ask for its reason, for its justification, and see whether you will find any other answer but sheer grace.
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O Mary my advocate and Mother, obtain by thy prayers, forgiveness of my past offenses and holy perseverance unto death.
St. Joseph, do thou also pray for me, that I may become daily more pleasing to Jesus. Amen.
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Sunday, December 14, 2008
12 Days of Christmas - Day 1: Christmas Seals
Cal Farley's Boys Ranch in Amarillo, Texas - "It's Where You're Going That Counts"
4 comments:
- Major Pepperidge said...
I'll have to send you some scans of some old Christmas labels that I found in my grandmother's stuff after she passed away, they are very old fashioned and charming.
- December 14, 2008 at 12:21 PM
- TokyoMagic! said...
Thank you for posting the Christmas seals! They bring back memories....I remember my grandmother using these on Christmas card envelopes. I especially remember the 12 days of Christmas seals....and somewhere around here, I have 2 or 3 loose ones that she gave me back when they were new.
- December 15, 2008 at 11:59 PM
- walterworld said...
Looks like Cal Farley's Boys Ranch is still going strong all these years later:
Those 70's Christmas Seals certainly bring back the days of my childhood, and many pleasant Christmas memories besides.
- December 16, 2008 at 8:19 PM
- Heidi Ann said...
They were so pretty, weren't they? I found a bunch of the unused vintage Christmas Seals that had been left over from my mother-in-law's Christmas cards list, stash, etc. I wish I had thought to scan them! Not sure how many I have left, but for a few years , what I did was made a point of sending them affixed to the envelopes of Christmas cards to special friends and family - they got seals from the year they were born on their envelope. I thought it was cool! And I used vintage Christmas postage stamps in various numerical denominations to make up the first class postage. My cards were unique, for sure.
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Hi !
there is a mishmash in your answer because the same symbol x is used for two different variables :
leading to e^x=sinx which is false.
Hi, I was wondering if you guys could check my work for indefinite integral of (e^x)(sqrt{1-e^2x)
Let u=e^x
The integral becomes:
integral of sqrt(1-u^2)
Then I do trigonometric substitution where I let u=sinx, and I get:
1/2sin^-1(x) + (x/2)*(1 - x^2)^1/2 + c.
However, the answer in my textbook is -1/3(1-e^(2x))^(3/2).
I was just wondering what I did wrong for the question.
If my complete process is wrong, what should I have done to solve the question?
Thanks in advance
You are just right put e^x=u that gives e^x dx = du
the question becomes integral of (1-u^2)^1/2 du and that is a standard for for which the integral is given by
(a^2-x^2)^1/2 = x/2 (a^2-x^2)^1/2 + 1/2 a^2 sin^-1 (x/a) + C
Thanks for the reply, I guess my initial answer was right then. Apparently the textbook has a different answer. It's -1/3(1-e^(2x))^(3/2).
I'm guessing the textbook used a different method then (integrate by part maybe? I didn't try it seemed way too complicated).
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Welcome to the Fishing Report. It is clear and cool, 42 degrees this morning in Townsend. Traffic was light on my way to work, as usual. Old Chevy was running on empty. The message center said "Buy Some Gas Stupid!" I pulled in the shopping center and bought $50 worth, about enough to last a month. This is going to be a beautiful day and the river looked that way as well. I was careful not to fall in at the swinging bridge. The water temperature was 46 degrees.
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Fishing was slower yesterday than I expected. I heard that from a few people. Those who are experienced enough to target big browns might have had a good day. I only talked to one and he was going, not coming back. For the average fly fisherman though, I believe it was slow. The trout have to be in shock. The water temperature dropped 10 degrees from Wednesday morning to yesterday morning. It is a little warmer today.
Nymphs are what I would use. They would be heavily weighted too. The trout that are not spawning are hanging near the bottom waiting for an easy meal and not willing to chase after food. Bump them in the nose and they will eat. Go over their head and you probably won't even get a look. I would use a Tellico, Prince or Pheasant Tail. I might toss a Girdle Bug at them as well.
Customers did not camp out at our store on Thanksgiving eve. They never do. But I heard different from those trying to shop at the big box stores. Ma and Pa don't qualify I guess. None of the other stores in Townsend had lines waiting to get in. Maybe that is a "city" thing. We did have a lot of customers in the shop yesterday and I appreciate all of you.
Yesterday I worked on a new Sage "ONE" page on our online catalog. I found some misspelled words last night which is usual. I'll change them today. You can see that page and more information about the fly rod by CLICKING HERE.
There is something about a Sage One that is hard to describe other than it is accurate. The second you make your first cast that becomes obvious. I went to the Farbank FTP site yesterday and downloaded images and PDFs describing how to conform to the Sage way of branding. By the way, Farbank is the company that owns Sage, Redington and Rio. The PDF described how and why a ONE is accurate. It's a lot more believable when you cast one. Come on by and try one out. They are different.
I photographed a 6 weight and the tube yesterday then began the task of clipping the image away from the background. I also noticed I didn't get a lot of glare in the photographs. Either I was lucky or I remembered how to photograph a fly rod. I have three large flash units that go off when I push the shutter button on my camera. Nothing is hard wired. My camera sends a signal to one of the lights and it sends a signal to the other two. Then, all three go off at the same time as my camera. There is a little box and antennae mounted to the top of the camera. It's kind of amazing. The flash unit soft boxes are about 3 feet across. One is attached to a long extendable and moveable arm. The other two are on tall light stands. Somehow, it all works.
I talked to a smallmouth bass guide from South Carolina yesterday. His name is Dave Williams and his website is www.AllRiversSouth.com. He is an interesting guy. We hare our love for smallmouth bass fishing. We both made the statement, the same thing all smallmouth bass fishermen say. "They never give up". I am looking forward to Spring.
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Voter suppression is wrong
Voter suppression in any form is just plain undemocratic and wrong. The arbitrary Friday election in Puna/Pahoa is just such a tactic.
It's shameful to think that thousands of storm-ravaged residents — many without food, shelter and clothing — are being forced to choose between providing for their families or trying to make it to a polling place.
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A vote for Hanabusa is a vote for criticism
How can anybody vote for Hanabusa? She has a nasty habit of criticizing her opponent. Are you a criticizer too?
Monday's article in West Hawaii Today, in a column on the front page, Berneicea Worrell says if a hurricane hit us we were ready, and thank God it did not hit us worse than it did.
As soon as Abercrombie became governor four years ago, he withdrew millions from the hurricane fund. How can we be ready? It is ridiculous for (Daniel) Inouye to name a particular person for office before his death. Sounds too personal. This is not a democratic way, or is it?
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I find it disturbing that the people at the sanctuary are trying to prevent the extinction of a rare crow at the expense of another.
I think we need honeybees more than we need crows. Honeybees help pollinate fruits and are also dying out. If the alala birds have to be fed honeybee larvae to survive, then maybe they were meant to go extinct. Unfortunately, if a mother bird doesn't even rear it's own young, it's an impossible task for humans to try to propagate them. If they have to be raised through human intervention, these crows are just meant for extinction.
As cruel as it may sound, I think Mother Nature is taking over and eliminating many animals. plants and populations because mankind has not taken care of this planet and all that's been placed here to live in harmony.
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A weeks ago I wrote a call for help for Lucene.Net: not enough activity and not enough contributors. A lot happened since that post so I think it's worth doing a little recap of what the situation is now.
The newsletter thread received hundreds of emails, and lot of discussion on my post as well. Most of the discussions were about trying to understand the reason of such a lack of activity and committers, and try not to repeat the same errors: it turned out that most people think the reason is that Lucene.Net is "just" a line-by-line port of the the Java version, it feels obsolete (both because of the site not being updated and not official release, and because it is still a VS2005 project) , and because there are very strict rules that have to be followed inside the ASF.
At the end, following the latest answer by one the first committers of the project, George Aroush, the final decision has been to try and revive the development on Lucene.Net in its current state, hosted in the ASF and being a line-by-line port of the Java version, by the end of 2010, as per request of the Board (otherwise the project will go in the Attic). And once this goal of keeping Lucene.Net alive is accomplished, they will start working on the 3.x version, and only then they will decide whether to keep the Java-like approach or making a more .NET-like API but still keeping the convenience of having the line-by-line port from the Java version.
The email from George left a bad taste on my mouth, and apparently I was not the only one what that feeling. There are developers, especially the ones that could get involved, that care about which VCS you use, which version of the IDE you use, which development process and which conventions you use, and hate dealing with politics, boards, release voting and so on. Many probably just stepped away from the discussion (like I did), but other decided to go a step forward and forked Lucene.Net.
Actually there are two project (that I know of):
I have not time to contribute to these projects, but I'll be following the developments and see where they go. Having a real .NET version of Lucene will not hurt :)
For reasons I've not fully understood people are seeming me as a kind of authority in the Lucene.Net, and I got quite a few emails from people asking what they should do now that Lucene.Net is in such a bad situation. My personal opinion is that Lucene.Net, even if it doesn't have official releases, is a solid library, which powers lot of projects, and you should keep on using it. Even if the project is not very appealing for developers to contribute to, from the end user point of view it is an awesome library, and it has all the features that you might need from a full-text search engine.
So, keep on using it, but also keep an eye on those two projects if you want a more idiomatic API and want to take advantage of all the goodness the latest versions .NET brought to the table.
I thought I'd pipe in with a few quick thoughts (until I get time to do a blog of my own on it :P) being a contributor on Umbraco and Examine which both rely heavily on Lucene.Net.Whether or not you agree with the way the ASF operates you have to admire the fact that they do manage to maintain such a large number of some of the best known open-source projects, such as Ant, Lucene and log4net (to name a few).George has made some excellent points on the mailing lists about just how hard it is to build a search engine and that part of the reason why it's so close to the Lucene API is so you don't have to learn it at the same level that the Java guys have.With the current discussions it was only a matter of time until people spun up their own forks (heck I was contemplating it!) but in the past there have been alternatives (NLucene and LuceneSharp are two I can recall).While I commend the people taking an initiative to make forks I hope that they don't just become projects which take the Lucene.Net raw Java port and '.NET-erize it', but rather have good reasons to use their API rather than the 'base' API. Changing a few get/set methods to be properties and static classes to be Enums (IMO) doesn't add anything and just dilutes the overall question of what API to use.Anyway that's my 2c.
I agree with you about George's email leaving a bad taste. It was a very long version of "La, la, la, I'm not listening".If I wanted to use VS2005, I would have to uninstall 2010, install 2005, then reinstall 2010. Not likely to happen. There's a price to pay for living in the past.
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Hey markviduka.
Its very hard to give advice on a problem where one can not see the data or attempting to put it into context.
These things will affect the ability to try and model the data and if possible, make forecasts for future values.
Hi Guys,
I am having some difficulties estimating a univariate equation. I was not able to write down the formula here, so i have uploaded it in the file attached.
Essentially, in equation (1), the dependent variable is output, and independent variables are an autoregression of the dependent variable and the Termspread and Federal Funds Rate.
The data is all monthly figures, which is why in equation (2) a scaling constant (c) is used which is equal to 1200. I need to make a forecast h=12 (so 12 months ahead).
What i have done is substituted, c=1200 and h=12 into equation (2), and ran this under generate on eviews.
I then ran equation (1) as an OLS regression.
However my results look very strange, could someone please help me as to what am i supposed to do?
Thanks in advanced!
Hey markviduka.
Its very hard to give advice on a problem where one can not see the data or attempting to put it into context.
These things will affect the ability to try and model the data and if possible, make forecasts for future values.
Thank you for your reply. I have added bellow the literature, and the exact dataset used in the literature. The model can be found on the first page, including an explanation. The results of the forecast are found on page 3.
Hope this calirifies my question,
Here are the descriptions of the variables in the excel file:
Ggz_spr: the GZ credit spread, the average (cross-sectional) credit spread on senior unsecured corporate bonds issued by nonfinancial firms in our sample (in percentage
baa_aaa: the spread between yields on Baa- and Aaa-rated long-term corporate bonds issued by industrial firms (in percentage points).
termspr: term spread (3-month Treasury yield less 10-year Treasury yield) (in percentage
ffr_r: real federal funds rate (in percent).
empl: private nonfarm payroll employment (thousands of employees).
ipm: manufacturing industrial production index (2007=100).
With regards to your assumptions, I'm assuming that yoou assume a normally distributed density for the delta's of the logarithms of the prices. This is typically assumed in introductory stochastic pricing mechanisms.
The thing though that I think you should do before you do anything is to plot your predictor as a function of your response and then on the same plot, plot a mean response curve of the predictor.
This serves a couple of reasons: firstly you can look at the normality assumption for the residuals and secondly you can use it to see the behaviour of the mean response as well as for selected realizations (i.e. individual trends).
Have you used R before? Or SAS? You can use excel to do it as well but either way you need to plot the values of the predictor (thing you are predicting) against the response variables for all data points and then do a mean response.
Based on the mean response and the data trends you then fit a least squares model based on the data and the nature of the problem.
The information you have given me on financial variables is not helpful for me because I don't understand the assumptions or the interactions that take place. If correlation exists between these variables, then it will be a problem.
What I might recommend though is that for predictions you look at worse case scenarios. This translates into finding conservative variances for your predicted distributions so that they are high enough to be conservative but not any higher.
This is the idea behind "fat-tails" in finance and although they are terrible at what they do (handling events like default), the idea is still valuable in a sense.
You can search the literature and text-books for fat tails and you should look at any theory in probability and statistics regarding getting any kind of conservative estimate for the variance measures given the data.
Some distributions that deal with fat tails include the Cauchy and t-distributions and if you have skewed distributions, then you will need to look at a variety of distributions like the Weilbull distribution.
I say the above because markets are rigged and there is always the case of Enrons, WorldComs, and Bear Sterns. Unless you are an insider, the best possible approach is to get an idea of how bad it can get and besides actual confidence intervals, the next thing is the volatility.
Apart from this I would also look at any assumptions with a really skeptical eye. If you are taking forecasts for things like production indices, then I would be really careful about using them particularly if they came from another source.
Also if you are looking at treasuries, you will want to look at things like real government debt and how manipulation is used by the rating agencies to keep a rating. It is in the interest of big spenders to have a high rating because the interest is going to be low, but the US is a big spender with massive debt which means that a lower rating makes them pay higher interest.
Models don't really give you an insight into the human element which is greed and manipulation and if you don't factor these in (and I don't mean though the joke economics model of rational agent theory) then your predictions will probably be off.
Thank you very much for your response Chiro.
I am using a software called Eviews (econometric views). What I am unsure about is how to manipulate this dependent variable (with the scaling constant "c" and forecast horizon "h") as the paper has done to make the forecast (on page 1, right bellow equation (2)).
I am using a very different data-set though, I am just trying to understand the methadology in the paper.
I have tried to use the data from the paper to match the results on page 3. For example, to make a 3-month forecast for payroll employment (first top collumn on page 3): we use the OLS regression: Payroll employment = Payroll employment(t-1) + Payroll employment(t-2) +Payroll employment (t-i) + Term Spread + Real FFR.
The variables term spread and real ffr are taken as given. However, the paper states the changes must be made to the dependent variable Payroll employment such that ∇Y(t+h) = (c/h+1) ln(Y(t+h)/Y(t-1). I have made those changes in the following way for this three month forecast for the equation mentioned in the previous paragraph: ∇Y(t+3) = (1200/3+1) ln(Y(t+3)/Y(t-1). However, after I regress this, the output does not match the results of the paper, not even closely ! Essentially, this is where the confusion lies.. am i doing something wrong in this manipulation of the dependent variable?
I hope this is a little clearer, please let me know if I can further explain.
According to the paper the transformation need be done to the dependent variable (which does have Autoregression on itself on the RHS). The remainder of the variable on the RHS do not seem to require a transformation. I just tried to run the transformation for the other variables (term spread and federal funds rate), but once again the results differ significantly to the paper..
If I understand correctly, run the transformation ∇Y(t+3) = (1200/3+1) ln(Y(t+3)/Y(t-1) seperately for all thee variables (Y=industrial product, term spread, and real federal funds rate)? Once this is done, carry out the normal regression?


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Okoye, who holds the British discus record, is looking to be the next great story in the NFL. So far, he has survived rookie minicamp, but can he make it past training camp?
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NavFree/GPS issue
After using NavFree for a few weeks, my GPS suddenly wouldn't turn on. Even with the box checked to use GPS, the icon would not appear in the tray at the top of the screen. And whenever I would open NavFree it would tell me that the GPS was off. There was no loss of GPS functionality because if I was connected to wifi and opened Google Navigation, the GPS icon would then appear on the screen and my current position would show on the Google map.
So I deleted Navfree and reinstalled and that appears to have solved that part of the problem. Unfortunately, it is now asking me to download what maps I need. I believe that when I deleted NavFree, I only deleted the program and not the maps. Thus the maps (USA) should still be on my unit. As I said, it is now asking me to download maps before letting me use the software but curiously the USA map is not among the choices, which leads me to believe that it recognizes that the USA maps are still on my unit.
I figured I would find the maps via Windows and delete them that way but I can't find them. So were they actually deleted in the first place? And if so, why isn't it giving me the option of reinstalling them?
Navfree installs in the android/data folder, so when you delete it everything in there goes away. I haven't used it in a while, so not sure if it's doing the same thing.
I am unable to get NavFree voice directions to work...I have enabled all sound settings that I can find, both in Navfree (tried re-downloading both US woman and man's voice, and even added a brit voice--none work) and in my Player 5.0 Settings/Sound.
Give the Mapfactor Navigator app a try. It works flawlessly on my SGP5 and I liked it better than NavFree. Just choose the free OSM maps when asked which you maps want to install and you have a lifetime free app. Or, for a really good, but cheap, paid offline GPS navigator app, try CoPilot. For $7 it gives you the same software and maps that is found on the in-dash units on a BMW. I use CoPilot as my main GPS app. I used to use Sygic, but it has stopped being compatible with the Galaxy Player and they say they do not plan to fix the compatibility.
Thanks for those tips, MrV. How much better is CoPilot than MapFactor? $7 isn't bad, but just wondering. Both, I assume, have voiced directions?
So many people have recommended the NavFree, though, it would seem like I am the only one who can't get the directions sound to work...or is it that way on all 5.0s?
I evaluated NavFree and chose MapFactor as my free offline navi app because NavFree has limited POIs compard to MapFactor. Also, MapFactor has multi-stop routing, speed limit warnings, gives distances in feet (not yards) and has user speed settings for each type of road (improves ETA calculations). Both free apps only speak turn directions, not actual street names or freeway exit numbers.
CoPilot is a fairly big step up in quality. It speaks directions with street names and freeway exit numbers, and has multi-stop routing with optimization, a pretty good POI database, computes fuel cost of trip, a choice of two alternate routes, drag-able routes (drag route to change routing) and parking space marking (find your way back to your car). CoPilot also has good online help support and a good user forum. In fact, CoPilot is the same software and maps that is used by BMW in their in-dash navigation units.
By the way, NavFree directions sound did work fine when I was evaluating it on my SGP5.
my 5.0 works fine with navfree in uk. I tested it against a tomtom unit, and the tomtom went crazy with directions. I have no problem with the voice system either.
I downloaded CoPilot last night and added on the North American (Canada + USA) maps. It was FREE. I like that. It seemed to have a lot of POIs, especially compared to MapFactor Navigator (beta) which seems to have no POIs (at least in NorthAm).
I tried CoPilot out a bit today while driving from Pittsburgh to Buffalo (didn't really need it). I couldn't get any voice output. Played around with some settings while at a stop. Still no voice output. One other point, the tablet was being charged as it was very low this morning, but I think it was around 41% at the stop when I played with the settings.
So, any suggestions on how to get CoPilot to speak to me?
EDIT: It seems that you have to add on a paid feature to get 3-D Voice Guided Navigation. Cost for my tablet appears to be 10 Euros or about $13USD
I am concerned that NavFree never spoke any turn directions on my Player 5.0--nada, zip, bupkas. Google Nav voice works without any fuss, but not NavFree....
Plus I just did a three week driving trip from Niagara Falls area to Florida and return. Other than time spent playing with GPS software, I believe that we used the GPS twice, so I don't really want to spend money on GPS software.
I guess I am more of a GPS user than you. I use one on every trip, even if I know the route because I have a handy source of POIs to check for stops, like food or fuel, and if I come upon an accident or excessive traffic, the GPS can quickly route a detour for me.
When planning a long trip, I use Garmin BaseCamp to plan the daily routes, then download them to my Garmin GPSMAP 60Csx. I have found that if I output the same routes as GPX files, I can convert them to TRP files in RouteConverter and use those TRP files in CoPilot. The CoPilot app provides spoken guidance, whereas the Garmin GPSMAP 60Csx just beeps to indicate turns, so having the CoPilot on my SGP will be nice.
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On behalf of Steve Nash's right eye , I'd like to thank David Stern.
Likewise for the legs that have carried Kobe Bryant through 1,206 NBA games, or Derek Fisher's almost 36-year-old joints.
Seventy-year-old referee Dick Bavetta probably doesn't mind a few days off.
Gary Bettman would be grateful for the chance to grow the NHL's audience if fans knew how to find Versus on their cable systems. For the rest of us, though, the weeklong hiatus before the start of the NBA Western Conference finals is a thorough bummer.
The Phoenix Suns are on a roll. They've finally gotten past their nemesis, San Antonio, with a remarkable display of balanced basketball - quick, physical, poised. Their defense got the big stops they needed to win two road games against the Spurs, who had knocked Phoenix out of the playoffs four of the last seven years.
The Suns' reward is a full stop of whatever momentum they'd built, and eight days to ponder the challenge of facing the defending champs on their home court. Their only consolation is that the Los Angeles Lakers face a similar wait, having dispatched Utah after getting a good scare from Oklahoma City.
Is this any way for a league to build excitement through the playoffs?
Blame it on the sweeps. Not the four-game sweeps the Suns and Lakers pulled off; the Nielsen ratings sweeps that skew the television schedule at this time every year.
The networks - remember them? - base their prime-time ad rates on ratings during designated viewing periods through the year. One of them concludes May 26. Until then, ABC will be happy to find extra hours for "Lost," "Grey's Anatomy" and "Dancing With the Stars," but not for prime-time basketball.
It's been going on for years, the schedule growing mysteriously generous with off days as the conference finals approach, the NBA's cable partners TNT and ESPN carrying the games until the lucrative sweeps period is safely past.
Does it really matter anymore? The sweeps are a relic of the three-network universe. Cable coverage is good enough for the first two rounds of the playoffs, with network cameos on the weekend.
The NBA All-Star Game is a cable-only event. Why not give the same treatment to the full conference finals? Does it make a difference if a seventh game is shown on TNT or ESPN instead of "ESPN on ABC"? Is the loss of dramatic momentum caused by such a long delay really worth what the networks and league get from it?
At least the Western teams are in the same position. In the Eastern Conference, Orlando has to wait eight days to play the winner of the Boston-Cleveland series, who will face a much shorter gap in its schedule. A year ago, the Cavaliers waited nine days after sweeping Atlanta while Boston and Orlando battled for seven games. The Magic rode that momentum to a six-game victory in the conference finals.
It's not a good situation, but it's one the league has decided to live with. It's better than the bad old days, when CBS' solution to the prime-time dilemma was to show Finals games on tape delay.
In 1980, the Lakers met the Philadelphia 76ers in the Finals. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was injured and unable to play in Game 6, which would be played in Philadelphia with L.A. leading the series 3-2. Rookie guard Magic Johnson shifted to center for that game. He scored 42 points to go along with 15 rebounds and seven assists as the Lakers cruised 123-107.
The game was shown on tape delay at 11:30 p.m. in the East. I had carefully avoided hearing the result or seeing anything that would give me information about the game so I could watch the delayed CBS telecast as though it were live. This was easier to do in the days before Twitter feeds and scoreboard crawls.
As the telecast was about to begin, my girlfriend asked if we could switch channels briefly to the ABC affiliate to see the start of "Fridays," ABC's West Coast sketch comedy answer to NBC's "Saturday Night Live." I don't remember the opening bit. I do remember that it ended with, "Live! From the home of the world champion Los Angeles Lakers ..."
I hear Magic played a hell of a game.
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Making good use of a weekend: Ushahidi Webapp
Reflab team, in parallel to the Rhok event on December 3-4, in the spirit of the hackathon but physically from home, will spend the weekend to add to Ushahidi the possibility to have offline-web reporting. We cannot make it to Trento this time, but we will make very good use of this weekend!
Ushahidi is a non-profit tech company that specializes in developing free and open source software for information collection, visualization and interactive mapping. They build tools for democratizing information, increasing transparency and lowering the barriers for individuals to share their stories. They are a disruptive organization that is willing to take risks in the pursuit of changing the traditional way that information flows.
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The webapp would enable anyone with a smartphone, tablet or laptop, to prepare and submit Ushahidi structured reports both online and offline, without the need to install an Ushahidi mobile application or custom application.
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Oh, you guys are awful. Treating clowns and mines like lawyers, politicians and Third World dictators. Phooey.
(I meant "mimes", of course)
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Morning TRIBE! Oh, mime your own business! Where's breakfast!, Ah, Thank You GROG! Coffee and a Maple Bar!, please and Thank You!
Enemy mime…
To mime own self be true!
Cheerios soaked in DWFNC, please.
But the mime didn't complain. He couldn't even get out of the box because he never saw the invisible key in the corner.
Good Morning, every one!
Poor Whiffles…..I hear they hog tied him with his own invisible rope. Afterward he had to retire as he found his invisible box to be too confining.
For some reason that clown makes me want pumpkin pie with cool whip.
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UT Southwestern will participate in the inaugural Earth Day Dallas, a two-day festival to be held downtown. The event will focus on entertaining, inspiring and educating Dallasites with ways to think, work and live green by showcasing emerging green technology, providing eco-friendly family activities, presenting enlightening lectures from environmental leaders, featuring a variety of music and much more.
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Georgia May Jagger Gets Her First Fragrance Campaign
It's about time.
Roberto Cavalli's (probably zebra print) underpants are evidently in quite a tizzy these days, but there's good news! The second model spawn of Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall is the newest face for the latest version of Just Cavalli for Women, says WWD. The fragrance, which is due out in February, will feature the "playful temptress" (as the designer calls her) in print ads photographed by Mario Sorrenti and television commercials directed by Jonas Äkerlund.


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'Bachelor' Recap: Send In The Clowns
We knew Brad's second outing as 'The Bachelor' was bound to become a freak show eventually, but we didn't think it would happen this quickly – or literally. Right after move-in, Ashley the dentist scores the very first one-on-one date with Brad, and it's (ta da!) a private carnival, complete with tents that advertise attractions like MIDGET HORSES and DADDY ISSUES.
Since he's a changed man, the bachelor jumps right into tent #2 for some serious talk about commitment, abandonment, fear, and redemption. The date would be a total downer if not for the teddy bears, ferris wheels and wine. Luckily, all these side shows add up to an amazing date, and after Brad sucks her face up like a vacuum cleaner, Ashley gets a nickname ("Ash") and a rose.
In keeping with the freak show theme, the producers stuff as many clowns in a car as possible and send them to meet Brad for the show's first fifteen-on-one group date. Also on hand, a few unfortunate representatives from the American Red Cross that got caught in the middle of this mess. They talk about the importance of giving blood (Vampire Girl licks her lips – obv) and tell the gang that they're going to spend the day filming PSA's to spread the word. Hmm… that sounds kind of nice. Charitable even. Something's not right….
What our unfortunate Red Cross reps failed to mention is the disgusting amount of face sucking and spit swapping Brad will be doing in the quest to get some new blood for the organization. Leave it to "The Bachelor" to make a mockery of its own philanthropic efforts, by putting a little too much Service into the Public Service Announcement. Shameful.
After the grossness of the PSA shoot, the clown car drives over to the Roosevelt Hotel for some rooftop pool action. Kissing is out and crazy is in. The Cougar and The Manscaper get into a fight about nothing. Michelle insists on getting some attention for turning 30 and Brad obliges with a rose. She spins it around in the air like an idiot who is about 2 Pinot Grigios past her limit, and gives her interview with the rose between her teeth.
Meanwhile, back at the pad, a date card arrives for Jackie, the buffoon who made the mistake of thinking that because she looks a little bit like Lea Michele (or Idina Menzel), she should sing on television. Just don't do it.
Jackie gets to be "Pretty Woman" for t he day. Mud masks, ugly dresses, Neil Lane product placement. Meh. It's not "Pretty Woman" without a snooty store clerk on Rodeo Drive. Big mistake… huge.
Next stop, the Hollywood Bowl. Jackie and Brad have dinner and talk about previous relationships. Brad's worried that Jackie's too guarded to give her heart over to him and the magic of this ridiculous process. Go Jackie! A rose and a private concert from Train (attempting to get people to listen to any other song besides "Hey, Soul Sister") end the night on a high note and Brad proves that he can kiss a girl without attaching himself to her face like a piranha.
On the night of the rose ceremony, Michelle grabs the crazy crown right out of the gate and steals Brad away for some pressing questions. Starbucks or Coffee Bean? What items are always in your fridge? His answers prove to Michelle that they are obviously soul mates, but it is Emily, the pretty single mom, who comes along and makes Brad "lose his words."
Starved for attention, the Cougar and the Manscaper continue their rivalry over nothing and keep telling each other to walk away. Raichel (Manscaper) says something about the Lord loving her and that's why she'll stay. A sound argument but Melissa (Cougar) opts to get her passport to next week by going right to Brad and telling her sob story. Raichel sees that and takes some insurance out in case the Lord doesn't care about her success on "The Bachelor," and offers her own version of the week's events, with tears and all.
Chris Harrison finally arrives with a reprieve from this inane fighting. Unfortunately, instead of a rose ceremony, he's got the next guests in the parade of alums that are popping up this season. Ali and Roberto are on hand to help Brad sort through the hot messes and identify who's there for the "right reasons." Ali should be good at this. She only kept two guys with girlfriends around for way too long on her season.
Ali (sans hair extensions) and Roberto (adorable as ever) conduct interviews and make it clear that unlike other alums, this will not be a career path for either of them to pursue. They endorse Emily, warn Brad to beware of the crazies, and conclude a rather unexceptional cameo.
Brad hands out his roses and sends three of the bachelorettes home. Both Cougar and Manscaper fall, along with Keltie the Rockette, who had the unfortunate distinction of playing the butch neck brace girl in the PSA. Now she's down with love and sticking to kicking, and based on the closing credits, making up fun, impromptu raps about the other girls. At least the producers attempted a mea culpa and tried to show the girl in a positive light before kicking her back to the chorus line.
Next week, big dramz in the works. Who's going home? Is Michelle going to burn out on crazy before Vampire Girl sinks her teeth (fangs) into that role? Who's next in the parade of alums? Are you liking Brad more this time around? Does he remind you a little too much of Jake for your liking? Let us know!


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