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The Festival Internacional Santiago a Mil is Chile's most celebrated theater and dance festival. This year's 20th annual festival is offering not only over 60 national and international shows at affordable prices, but also a great chance to see performances from some of Chile's top musicians at Centro Cultural Gabriela Mistral (GAM) in Santiago.
Below, This is Chile highlights just a few of the Chilean bands that will be taking the stage at GAM between January 3 through 20 as part of Santiago a Mil. Tickets can be purchased in advance online via Ticketek, or at the tickets boxes of Centro Cultural Gabriela Mistral, Teatro Municipal de Las Condes, and Teatro Universidad Catolica. For a complete schedule of the more than 20 performances, visit the festival's website.
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The Ministry of Rural Development has invited the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to partner with it in finding solutions to the sanitation problems in India, where 50 per cent of the country's 1.1 billion people still practice open defecation.
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SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine (AP) — Lawmakers in Crimea called a March 16 referendum on whether to break away from Ukraine and join Russia instead, voting unanimously Thursday to declare their preference for doing so.
"This is our response to the disorder and lawlessness in Kiev," Sergei Shuvainikov, a member of the local Crimean legislature, said. "We will decide our future ourselves."
The 100-seat parliament in Crimea, which enjoys a degree of autonomy under current Ukrainian law, voted 78-0, with eight abstentions in favor of holding the referendum, and for joining Russia. Local voters will also be given the choice of deciding to remain part of Ukraine, but with enhanced local powers.
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"We are tired of revolutions, maidans and conflicts and we want to live peacefully in Russia," said one of the bystanders, Igor Urbansky, 35. "Only Russia can give us a peaceful life."
Maidan is the name of the downtown square in Kiev where tens of thousands of protesters contested the rule of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, who fled to Russia.
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"This is crazy. Crimea has become Putin's puppet," said Viktor Gordiyenko, 46. "A referendum at gunpoint of Russia weapons is just a decoration for Putin's show. A decision on occupation has already been made."
Svetlana Savchenko, another Crimean lawmaker, said the choice she and her fellow deputies took in favor of joining Russia will force Moscow to make a decision.
"This is our principled position," she told The Associated Press. "Now the Russian Federation must begin a procedure - will it take us in or not."
Under the Soviet Union, Crimea belonged to the Russian Federation until it was transferred to Ukraine in 1954 by Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev.
Concern that the turmoil could engulf eastern Ukraine grew after hundreds of demonstrators — many chanting "Russia! Russia!" — stormed a government building on Wednesday in Donetsk, a major industrial center near the Russian border.
Clashes between protesters and police broke out early Thursday in Donetsk as police cleared demonstrators from the regional administration center. The Ukrainian flag once again was hoisted over the building, and about 100 Ukrainian Interior troops could be seen in and around it. Two large trucks were parked in front to block the approach.
The European Union on Wednesday extended $15 billion in aid to help support the new Ukrainian government, which took over in late February after months of protests drove out Yanukovych, the Moscow-supported president.
The EU also imposed asset freezes against 18 people held responsible for embezzling state funds in Ukraine, including Yanukovych, his son and some of his closest allies.
Crimea's new leader, Sergei Aksyonov, said his government was in regular contact with the Russian officials, including those in a large Russian delegation now in Crimea.
Speaking at Crimea's government meeting late Wednesday, Aksyonov said the strategic peninsula is fully under the control of riot police and security forces joined by about 11,000 "self-defense" troops. All or most of these troops are believed to be Russian, even though the Russian president and defense minister have denied sending in the military other than those stationed at the home port of Russia's Black Sea Fleet.
Sergei Chuzavkov contributed from Donetsk, and Juergen Baetz from Brussels.


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On Kilian's 90th
Patrick Henry
September 17, 2011
Yesterday Kilian turned 90, a remarkable milestone that is the occasion for our gathering. But there is another marker that deserves celebration. Measuring from August 24, 1946, when Kilian made his first profession as a Benedictine, today is the 23,766th day that Kilian has been seeking God after a monastic manner of life at Saint John's Abbey. What Kilian has accomplished as scholar, teacher, ecumenical visionary, and poet can be traced back to, and is held together by, Kilian the monk.
Kilian's lifetime thus far is bracketed by two Benedicts.
On April 30, 1921, just four and a half months before Kilian was born, Pope Benedict XV issued an encyclical on Dante to professors and students of literature and learning in the Catholic world. September 14th of that year marked the 600th anniversary of Dante's death. The pope says of the author of the Divine Comedy, "while he did not neglect any branch of human learning, at the same time he drank deeply at the founts of Sacred Scripture and the Fathers," and "his great glory [is] to be the Christian poet, to have sung with divine accents those Christian ideals which he so passionately loved in all the splendor of their beauty, feeling them intimately and making them his life."[1]
It is no slight to Kilian to say he doesn't quite match up to Dante (who does?). It is not far-fetched, however, to say that 75 years after Pope Benedict's praise of Dante, Kilian, who had studied many branches of human learning-as he says in a poem, "(I, too, have been to the Uffizi, / read Dostoevski, Yeats)"[2]-and spent decades drinking deeply at the founts of Sacred Scripture and the Fathers, was touched by the great Florentine's spirit as he read a poem in The New Republic, said to himself, "I think I can do as well,"[3] and began singing with divine accents Christian ideals he felt intimately, ideals that he had made his life through those thousands upon thousands of days as a monk. And Kilian actually hints that he felt this touch. He calls Dante "one of my anchors in the tradition,"[4] and in a poem that links the art of writing and the art of dying, Kilian says this: "Weep, bleed again, curb the breezy / me, dramatize, come not unhinged. / Dante walks out of hell unsinged."[5]
On Christmas Day 2005, eight and a half decades after Benedict XV's encyclical on Dante, Pope Benedict XVI wrote in his first encyclical, about the love of God, the love that God is, that "Mary has truly become the mother of all believers. Men and women of every time and place have recourse to her motherly kindness . . . . They constantly experience the gift of her goodness and the unfailing love which she pours out from the depths of her heart."[6] One of the most astonishing ecumenical reversals is the role of Mary in doctrine and piety.
When Kilian was but a lad, and even well into his career, most Protestants thought Catholic Marian devotion idolatry. Kilian has lived to see his regard for the Mother of God embraced, if not fully, at least ungrudgingly, by a wide spectrum of Christians. This development, one that nobody in 1921 would have dreamed of, is due in no small part to the kind of ecumenical pioneering that Kilian demonstrated from the time he started his doctoral studies. And Mary as exemplar of the church, indeed as one of its premier theologians, is nowhere better portrayed than in Kilian's poem about the wedding feast at Cana, where Jesus mildly rebukes his mother, and then, when the water is turned into wine, Mary says, "I wonder: if a hundred and twenty / gallons is the measure of extravagance / at the beginning of glory, / what will be the end?"[7]
n the time between the XVth and XVIth Benedicts, the saint whose name they both chose played a major role in the U-turn the churches made, from coming apart to coming together. It is through the efforts of Saint Benedict's sons and daughters, Kilian pre-eminent among them-their scholarship, their leadership, their dogged, unflagging engagement in dialogues that sometimes seemed to go nowhere, or even backwards-that much of the ecumenical progress of the past century has happened, progress sealed by Pope John Paul II in his 1995 encyclical where he reaffirmed the Second Vatican Council's irrevocable commitment to ecumenism.[8]
The Benedictines come by their ecumenical passion honestly. Several features of the Rule of Benedict, which has so profoundly shaped Kilian for nearly 24,000 days, make it a charter for ecumenism.[9]
- The lattice-work of biblical citation in the Rule is enough to gratify any Protestant, but the Rule goes beyond a catalogue of biblical passages to catch a biblical accent, captured in images rather than in categories. Kilian, noting that Walt Whitman called the Bible "the fountainhead of song," goes on to say that "monastic life was built on the poetry, poetic narrative, and poetic imagination of the scriptures."[10] In its biblical overtones and undertones, the Rule resonates with the most influential ecumenical document of the 20th century, Baptism, Eucharist, and Ministry, published in 1982 by the World Council of Churches.
- The monastery is primarily a family, only secondarily an institution. It is a place where people live together, not always in peace, but always in the conviction that they are in it mutually for the long haul, for better or for worse, and that they need each other even when they cannot stand each other. Kilian, meditating on the headstones in the monastic cemetery, conjures up the monks "who toiled in song, / spun in penitence, / fighting with me, / for me, against me, / but gathered in praise, / dwelling in unity."[11] As the World Council of Churches declared in its founding Assembly at Amsterdam in 1948-an event orchestrated by Bob Bilheimer, whom Kilian would later credit as the second founder of the Collegeville Institute-"We intend to stay together."[12]
- Prayer is at the heart of monasticism, and the Psalms are the heart of that prayer. Praying the Psalms every day, Benedictines are reminded regularly of spiritual concerns far beyond their own immediate worries, and of varieties not only of religious experience but also of religious obedience: the confident, the despairing, the joyful, the sorrowing, the content, the angry, the king, the commoner-all these and many more live side by side in the Psalter and acknowledge each other's place in the people of God. Kilian hints at this universalizing character of the Psalter when he writes, "This experience I share with everyone, including non-monastics, who take the quest for God seriously and make prayer part of the rhythm of the day."[13]
- Hospitality is the hallmark. Reminiscing about the founding of the Collegeville Institute, Kilian wrote in 1989, "No ecumenism is possible without real human relationships of trust and friendship, and those you do not build in a day."[14] In my years at the Institute what I heard most often from resident scholars and summer consultation participants was amazement at how welcome they were made to feel at Saint John's and Saint Benedict's. The Rule says that keeping the Liturgy of the Hours is the only thing to be preferred to the showing of hospitality to guests, and guests may come invited-or uninvited, unannounced, inconvenient. One reason the Benedictines are such good hosts is that they know who they are. The guest is not a threat to their identity.
The Rule of Benedict is a handbook, a field guide, a companion for those on the ecumenical quest. With unselfconscious ease and naturalness, the Rule weaves the biblical revelation into the texture of everyday community and individual life. The church is family first, and institution only in so far as it must be. Prayer is at the heart of everything. Hospitality is of the essence of the gospel life, not a social nicety to be indulged when schedules and resources permit.
Kilian and his confreres established the Collegeville Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research. If they were to be faithful to the Rule of their Holy Father Benedict, they could hardly have done otherwise.
f there is a limit to the wisdom stored up in the Rule of Benedict, I certainly haven't found it yet, and I don't think anybody has. I believe there are two keys to its inexhaustibility. One is the first word: "Listen." In other words, there is always something new to learn or, as Kilian articulates in what I consider his most brilliant image, worthy of Dante: "All our truths need / bungee cords."[15] The other key is in the last chapter, where Benedict asks his followers to "keep this little rule that we have written for beginners."[16] If the Benedictine does everything in the Rule-with "eager purity and weary virtue," as Kilian memorably puts it in his poem, "The monks of Saint John's file in for prayer"[17]-the most he or she can claim is to have made a start.
It is not, I think, a breach of humility to say that the Collegeville Institute in its 44 years, Kilian in his 23,766 days, Saint John's Abbey in its 155 years, Saint Benedict's Monastery in its 154 years, Saint John's University in its 154 years, the College of Saint Benedict in its 98 years, and the entire company of Benedictine men and women throughout a millennium and a half, have all made a pretty good beginning.
[1] "In Praeclara Summorum," http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xv/encyclicals/documents/hf_ben-xv_enc_30041921_in-praeclara-summorum_en.html, chs. 3 and 9.
[2] "Don't Look Too Carefully," in Kilian McDonnell, OSB, Swift, Lord, You are Not (Collegeville: Saint John's University Press, 2003), p, 25.
[3] "Poet: Can you start at seventy-five?" Swift, Lord, You Are Not, p. 106.
[4] "A poet in the monastery: I do not tell 'noble lies,'" in Kilian McDonnell, OSB, Yahweh's Other Shoe (Collegeville: Saint John's University Press, 2006), p. 108.
[5] "Ars Scribendi / Ars Moriendi," Yahweh's Other Shoe, p. 1.
[6] "Deus Caritas Est," http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/encyclicals/documents/hf_ben-xvi_enc_20051225_deus-caritas-est_en.html, ch. 42.
[7] "The Ignorant Mary at Cana," Yahweh's Other Shoe, p. 26.
[8] "Ut Unum Sint," http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/encyclicals/documents/hf_jp-ii_enc_25051995_ut-unum-sint_en.html, ch. 3
[9] The four following features are a selection from, and condensation of, points I originally made in "Rule of Benedict: Charter for Ecumenism," The Scriptorium (Saint John's Abbey, 1985), pp. 28-40; also published in a slightly different form in Mid-Stream: The Ecumenical Movement Today, 32/1 (January 1993), pp. 59-69.
[10] "A poet in the monastery: I do not tell 'noble lies,'" Yahweh's Other Shoe, p. 105.
[11] "My Funeral," Swift, Lord, You Are Not, p. 75
[12] http://archives.oikoumene.org/query/Detail.aspx?ID=40913; also Robert S. Bilheimer, Breakthrough:The Emergence of the Ecumenical Tradition (Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company; Geneva, WCC Publications, 1989), pp. 65-69 ("Engineering Ecumenical Events"); and Kilian McDonnell, OSB, "Twenty Years After," Ecumenical People, Programs, Papers (newsletter of the [Collegeville] Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research), May 1987, p. 3.
[13] "A poet in the monastery: I do not tell 'noble lies,'" Yahweh's Other Shoe, p. 115.
[14] "Before the Beginning," Ecumenical People, Programs, Papers, November 1989, p. 2.
[15] "Then It is Finished, Done?" Swift, Lord, You Are Not, p. 26
[16] RB 1980: The Rule of St. Benedict in Latin and English with Notes, ed. Timothy Fry, OSB (Collegeville: The Liturgical Press, 1981), Prologue 1, p. 157; 73:8, p. 297.
[17] In Swift, Lord, You Are Not, p. 80.


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Creative Writing Courses
The English Department offers two courses specifically designed to help students develop their creative writing skills, with an introductory approach to poetry and fiction in English 127, and a focus on the short story in English 124/125.
This semester's online LAVC schedule of classes will give you current, crucial information on each course.
The tutors at the Writing Center, in Humanities 101, always welcome creative writers to come in and get feedback on their work.
There are some fiction and poetry contests each semester for students who are proud of what they've written.
Students of English 127, Introduction to Creative Writing, put out an annual online literary magazine called Manuscript. It is full of good fiction and poetry written by students at LAVC. Take a look at the latest edition, Manuscript 50.
There is a lot of help out there on the web for students working to sharpen their creativity, whether in poetry or prose. Here's a place to get started.


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Danish, the one who pursues some left over relations.
Farooq, a virtuous guy who has never been rewarded for his obedience to parents.
Rania, living in an illusion that she can rule others through witchcraft.
Maheen, being the daughter of Shireen is more inclined than her mother, towards the paranormal consequences of black magic .
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Lady Raiders secure number one spot
Last updated 2/13/2013 at 8:15am
In the last week of the regular season, the Lady Raiders sealed up the number one spot into district competition from the north half of the league.
Their must-win victory over the Bridgeport Fillies last Thursday came after a loss to the number-two Oroville Hornets on Feb. 5.
With postseason placings hanging in the balance in the Senior Night game against Oroville, LR wore throwback uniforms and played an all-senior starting lineup as Tanecia Stanczak, Danielle Laramie, Johnny McCraigie, Rickyna Sam, and Hailey Chaney took to the court.
Chaney scored eight of the Lady Raiders' first-quarter points to lead Oroville by three.
Early in the second quarter the Lady Raiders began to build a cushion but the Hornets did not fade away. LR free throw misses gave the Hornets chances to come back. Going into halftime the score was LR 23-Oroville 19.
After the late start due to the referees being late out of the break room for the second half, the Hornets came roaring back into the game. The Lady Raiders had trouble grabbing rebounds in the third quarter as the Hornets became more aggressive in their play. That and a cold shooting streak allowed the Hornets to take the lead going into the fourth quarter, 33-30.
Then Keya Fasthorse hit a three that tied the game and set the frantic tone of the fourth quarter. Both teams stepped up their play and traded shots and mistakes to force the decision of the game to come down to the last 40 seconds. The Lady Raiders were down by just one point and had the ball when a clock issue paused the game. When the clock was reset, the Lady Raiders had lost about 14 seconds off the game clock in the confusion and the inbound pass was to take place at 9 seconds left.
The inbound came in and the Lady Raiders rushed the ball down court, when Head Coach Wallace Pleasants called timeout with three seconds left. The inbound pass went to Hailey Chaney near the half court line and she dribbled the ball toward the left side of the three-point arc, where she threw up a desperation shot with time running out. The shot missed the basket and the Hornets won 45-44.
Keya Fasthorse's three-point line hot streak in the third and fourth quarters let her lead the LR with 15 points. Katelynn Schilling racked up another double-double by scoring 13 points and grabbing 12 rebounds.
Going to Bridgeport, the Lady Raiders knew they had won the coin flip on who would get first seed into districts, but first they had to beat the Fillies.
Pleasants worked on the Ladies the day before to make sure that would happen. "Yesterday at practice we worked a lot on defense, because our defense is what helped to make the win streak possible earlier this season," he said.
The Lady Raiders held the Fillies to only three points in the first quarter and seven for the whole first half. On the offensive end, the Lady Raiders missed some easy shots and went on an extended cold streak in the second quarter, but did score 26 points that gave them a comfortable lead going into the second half.
After a slow start, the Lady Raiders got on track in the third and pushed the lead to 24 points at the end of the third, 34-10.
The Fillies came back with a very aggressive style of play. That was countered with an offensive burst by the Lady Raiders, who built such a cushion that the coaches set cruise control and subbed in many bench players. The final was LR 49, Fillies 20.
Keya Fasthorse again led the team in scoring with 11 points. McCraigie and Laramie each put in 10. Schilling led the team in rebounds, grabbing nine.
Coach Pleasants was in a good mood after the win and likes that the number-one seed puts the Lady Raiders in the double elimination round right away.
"We gave ourselves a chance to bounce back if we lose the first, rather than being done right away," he noted.
The Lady Raiders travelled to Wenatchee High School last night to take on the Riverside Christian Crusaders, who defeated the Fillies 58-18 in the single elimination games on Saturday at Bridgeport. If the Lady Raiders won, they will move on to the District 5-6 championship game tomorrow starting at 7 p.m. at Wenatchee High School against the winner of the Oroville-White Swan game.
If the Lady Raiders lost last night (after deadline) then they will still travel to Wenatchee to take on the loser of the Oroville-White Swan game for third and a last spot to regionals, starting at 4 p.m.
vs Oroville
R. Epperson 0, Sam 2, Chaney 8, Fasthorse 15, McCraigie 2, Laramie 4, Stanczak 0, A. Epperson 0, Schilling 13, Palmer 0, Wilson 0
vs Bridgeport
R. Epperson 2, Sam 8, Chaney 3, Palmer 0, Wilson 0, Fasthorse 11, McCraigie 10, Laramie 10, Stanczak 0, A. Epperson 2, Schilling 2


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Waste Management's compressed natural gas trucks cut greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent and reduce particulate matter by 90 percent, Automotive Fleet reports.
The waste and recycling company earlier this month added six CNG trucks to its fleet in Chico, Calif. "We see an average annual reduction of 22 metric tons of greenhouse gases and 8,000 gallons of diesel with the CNG trucks," district manager Ryan West tells the publication.
The company also uses route optimization software and its truck engines are programmed to shut down automatically after idling for five minutes to further cut emissions and fuel costs.
The company has used natural gas for heavy-duty trucks since the 1990s. Waste Management operates more than 2,200 alternatively fueled vehicles and says it has the largest fleet of natural gas collection trucks in North America.
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Restaurant Week tip: Reserve early for semi-annual food fandango
From January 23 to 29, Charlottesville will once again experience the hugely popular Restaurant Week, which draws eager diners from within Charlottesville and the surrounding area. The week of three-course, fixed price menus is sure to put an end to every citizen's obligatory New Year's Diet.
Held twice a year, the Hook-sponsored event has been in existence since the summer of 2009. It will boast some of the old favorites– Keswick Hall's Fossett's, the Old Mill Room at the Boar's Head Inn, and The Melting Pot– but will also feature some new talent.
Da Luca, Tempo, and West Main Street's newest venue, Balkan Bistro, are just a few of the most recent additions to the line-up, with the full list of 20 participants at cvilleyum.com.
The manager and owner of Balkan Bistro, Annja Andelic, hoping to expand the reach of her Eastern European cuisine, says she's "very excited" about participating and keeping her "fingers crossed" about a possible business boom in the dreary winter month– a sentiment echoed by Anna Harrison, publisher of the Hook.
Harrison says Restaurant Week is held in January and July because these are "two of the slowest times of the year for restaurants," so the seven days of non-stop feasting is a "good way to boost revenue and is great for the economy."
Restaurant Week not only delights culinary adventurists, but it also benefits the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank. For every meal sold, the Food Bank receives $1. Considering that there were over 10,000 meals sold last July, it adds up to a five-figure donation.
As Restaurant Week draws nearer, tables will surely become scarce; so if you are interested in trying out a new restaurant or getting a great deal at an old favorite, call immediately for a reservation.Read more on: Charlottesville Restaurant Week


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RE: st: Reconcile Log Transformed with Untransformed Results
"Lachenbruch, Peter" <firstname.lastname@example.com>
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RE: st: Reconcile Log Transformed with Untransformed Results
Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:24:03 -0800
Since one of your y's is negative, -0.03, why should taking logs help? Would a glm with a log link help?
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From: email@example.com [mailto:email@example.com] On Behalf Of Erasmo Giambona
Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 4:32 AM
To: firstname.lastname@example.com
Subject: Re: st: Reconcile Log Transformed with Untransformed Results
Thanks Austin. I have been traveling so it has been difficult to look
into this issue. To answer your question. I am using a two-step
procedure that is used sometime in monetary policy research. My y is a
coefficient estimated from a panel regression using firm level data.
This is the first step. y ranges from -0.03 to +0.07 (with mean=0.023,
median=0.024, st dev=0.028, skew=-.37, kurt= 2.52). I have 16 y's, one
per year. In the secon step i regress y on x, where x is an annual
interest rate spread ranging from -.95% to 1.15% (with mean=3.96e-07,
median=.0004551, st dev=.6426913, skew=.1102487, kurt= 2.15). The
scatter of y on x clearly shows that y increase with x, but there is
one obs (out of the 16) with a very low x and a very high y. I am
taking the logs to try to reduce the effetc of this obs. Thought this
is more parimonious relative to the alternative of dropping hte obs
and winsorizing seems unfeasible with 16 obs.
Any additional thoughts would be appreciated,
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 6:11 PM, Austin Nichols <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:
> Erasmo Giambona <email@example.com>:
> As I already pointed out, I doubt your estimates correspond to any
> well-defined percentage point change. Perhaps you can give us a
> better sense of the distributions of the untransformed y and x (and
> what they measure and in what units), and what the scatterplot of y
> against x looks like. You may also prefer to state your effects in
> terms of standard deviations rather than the interquartile range.
> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Erasmo Giambona <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:
>> Thanks Maarten. In this example, OLS and GLM give very similar
>> econimic effects. In fact, 74 cents for the OLS is really 9.52%
>> relative to the mean wage of 7.77. This 9.52% is very much in line
>> with the 9.7% found with GLM. In my case, the coeff. on X for the OLS
>> is 0.0064. Relative to the mean for the LHS variable of 0.02. This is
>> an economic effect of about 28%. With the GLS, using exactly your
>> code, X gets a coefficient of 2.025 or a 102.5% increase in Y. Or
>> perhaps, I am misinterpreting this coefficient.
>> Thanks,
>> Erasmo
>> On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Maarten buis <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:
>>> --- On Sun, 14/2/10, Erasmo Giambona wrote:
>>>> I ran the regressions with both RHS and LHS untransformed
>>>> using both OLS and GLM with link(log). With the OLS the
>>>> coeff on X is 0.006 while with the GLM the coefficient is
>>>> 0.700. I find a bit hard to intepret the GLM coefficient.
>>> Consider the example below:
>>> *--------------- begin example -----------------
>>> sysuse nlsw88, clear
>>> gen byte baseline =1
>>> reg wage grade
>>> glm wage grade baseline, ///
>>> link(log) eform nocons
>>> *--------------- end example --------------------
>>> The -regress- results are interpreted as follows:
>>> People without education can expect a wage of
>>> -1.96 dollars an hour (substantively we know that
>>> people hardly ever pay for the privelege to work,
>>> so this is a sign of bad model fit), and they get
>>> 74 cents an hour more of every additional year of
>>> education.
>>> The -glm- results are interpreted as follows:
>>> People without education can expect a wage of
>>> 2.25 dollars an hour, and for every additional
>>> year of education they can expect an increase
>>> of 9.7%.
>>> Hope this helps,
>>> Maarten
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Those were the highlights of the Peninsula Community Planning Board's (PCPB) Jan. 16 meeting.
Claude-Anthony Marengo, representing developers American Coastal Properties, gave a presentation on a project under way at 3102-3104 Avenida De Portugal and 1120-1122 Locust St. requesting planners' approval of a map waiver to allow a change of building type.
Marengo said the project is merely "following the regulations to meet the (building) code."
Roseville neighbor Gale Barlow, who lives near the project, said she opposed the map waiver.
"Anyone can fudge," she said, given less stringent height regulations for apartment-to-condo conversions. "We have many condos [already] in Point Loma. We don't need any more."
Barlow said if one were to drive around the neighborhood, "there's nothing that looks like this."
Another neighbor complained that allowing this apartment-to-condo conversion would "open up the floodgates" to other similar development projects "obstructing view corridors."
"This project is a fait accompli," said planner Norm Allenby. "They're already building it. I don't think there's anything we can do."
Other planners were not so sure about it being a done deal.
"We can vote in opposition," disagreed planner Jarvis Ross, who said laws favoring condo conversions in areas not conducive to them "need to be addressed."
PCPB chairwoman Julia Quinn also expressed reservations.
"It's kind of like a Taj Mahal in the middle of Roseville," said Quinn.
The PCPB board voted 11-1 for a motion finding the conversion project didn't conform with community character. A second motion specifically on the map waiver — which required a majority vote to carry — resulted in a 5-5-2 vote. The action fell short to pass the waiver.
In other action, the advisory group voted unanimously in favor of a motion to support placing flashing crosswalk lights at the corner of Catalina Boulevard and Orchard Avenue for traffic-calming measures to protect pedestrians.
"Parents at Silver Gate Elementary School have asked the city to come out with many different options and this is the option that's best with a push-button [system] activating the light," said PCPB secretary Nicole Burgess.
In other developments, Keith Walzak of the Unified Port of San Diego spoke on the Port District's 50-year vision plan.
"Over the next two to five years, the Port District is updating its long-range master plan," Walzak said.
Walzak said the Port District's mission includes protecting the tidelands trust and the resources within it, creating a "balanced approach to the maritime industry, tourism and environmental stewardship of water and land resources, including public safety."
"The majority of our jurisdictional area is actually water-based," Walzak said.
The idea, he said, is to do a long-range master plan, rather than "piecemealing things together."
Walzak said the port's visionary plan will be conducted in numerous phases over a number of years.
"We're doing outreach to get a lot of ideas from a lot of people in order to develop guiding principles and a vision statement," he said. We need to think of economic development opportunities throughout the entire bay area."
The PCPB meets the third Thursday of every month at 6:30 p.m. at the Point Loma/Hervey Branch Library at 3701 Voltaire St.


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2010 marks the 10th anniversary year for Freedom Of Creation. During this year we have organized all kinds of happenings to celebrate this milestone. Most memorable so far has been our recent show during the Helsinki Design Week in September. Normally we don't exhibit at manufacturing fairs, such as Euromold, but since all our products are produced with 3D printing technologies, this year we decided to celebrate this occasion also with our manufacturing partners.
A very special thanks belong to all those companies who have helped grow our company from scratch and especially our most loyal suppliers, who are also sponsoring our appearance at Euromold: EOS, Stratasys, FKM-Sintertechnik, HSL, 3T RPD and Additive Manufacturing Research group at Loughborough University. We would also like to thank Demat, who triggered us and invited us to exhibit during Euromold this year.


text: by Dr. Steven B. DowdThe Other Fritz Some business items first: thanks to all my well-wishers amongst the solvers who helped me get well with their positive attitude while I was one of the sufferers of the "peanut butter salmonella" last month. Also, I have started a supplement to the column for those who want or need a weekly problem "fix" at chessproblem.net, a wonderful site run by Alexander George. It is called, of course, Dr. D's Problem of the Week, and answers count toward ladder points. It is also a great place to drop in and ask questions – many of the world's best composers "hang out" there.This new feature has allowed me to also determine the number of points needed for an ascent on the "new" ladder – from the beginning of my column, it will be 400 points. That includes any left-over points you may have had on David's ladder, so be sure, if you think you have earned an ascent at any time, and I don't tell you that you have when I answer your mails, don't hesitate to speak out! As I noted, book prizes are going to go to solvers who participate in the bonus, and the prizes for the previous two competitions will be in the form of $10 gift certificates to the USCF store – the previous two winners will be notified early next week, to those solvers, and the future winners, have fun! Again, 70% or more on the bonus – and I am a lenient grader, so please try! – qualifies you for the drawing. This week I want to feature a problemist that I think of as the German Sam Loyd – Fritz Giegold, who lived from 1903 to 1978, and was a much beloved composer in Germany. His problems were popular amongst those who didn't like problems, normally, as they had optical appeal and often featured sacrifices. Next month we'll feature "Ole Sam," as I like to call him, and that isn't a royal "we," instead solver Gary Kevin Ware has stepped in to co-author with me, a column of Loyd fixes to some of his problems that had great ideas but turned out to be cooked. In the computer age, this isn't too hard, and many of these "busted" problems deserve to be shown as Loyd intended! Giegold could compose modern problems with the best of them, but his "smaller" efforts, often featured in newspaper chess columns, were what gave him his great popularity. He is less known in other countries for this reason – that his most popular problems didn't appear in the big chess magazines. So if you never have been entertained by "the other Fritz" before, this column is designed for that – pure entertainment and solving pleasure. Many Giegold problems only show one or two lines, which would not be seen favorably today; however, that one line is often so bizarrely beautiful in its execuction! The basic idea I have for the column is to alternate between "serious" problems – as in the British Invasion piece, and those that are more puzzle-like in their approach, so serious solvers who love thematic pieces, don't worry, we'll return to those soon! Computers, as always, are not allowed in the solving competition, and anyone who does is not only cheating, but robbing themselves of the pure fun of trying to solve these gems. So no fair using Fritz to solve Fritz!Twentyseven (27) points for the ladder are available; remember, I only need the key for that! Submit your solutions to [email protected]. Solutions to this column will be published at the end of this article on April 2, so get your answers to me before that. 001Fritz GiegoldKristall 1962 White to play and mate in 2 The two-mover was never Giegold's best domain, he shined in the 3 and 4 move genre, with his combinative-like problems, but I can't help but enjoy this gem. Bonus – placing the WQ anywhere else on the diagonal (for example, h1) leads to what cook here?002Fritz GiegoldDie Stern 1965White to play and mate in 3 Here is where the master begins to shine. For a clue, long-time Chess Life readers will realize that both problems 1 and 2 would be a favorite of the popular writer Jerry Hanken! Bonus – In the two main lines of this problem, white mates from which square ?003Fritz GiegoldOberoesterreichische Nachrichten 1962White to play and mate in 3 No less than three pieces are sacrificed in the various lines here. For the bonus, however, a more technical question: A drawback in this sparkler is that the defense after the key 1. … Rh4 leads to a short mate, what is that mate?004Fritz GiegoldDie Stern 1978White to play and mate in 3 I've often said that chess problemists live long lives, and have great productivity throughout their life. Not to be morbid, but this shows that even in the year of his death, Giegold was still producing fun problems. And as was noted in a 1978 Schwalbe, the German problem magazine, Giegold published his first problem at the age of 13 (!). One thing that makes me compare him to Loyd, is like Loyd, he was a decent player, and followed no "school" but simply made his problems for maximum solver interest in a time when many more players were also solvers.005 Fritz GiegoldDSB 1952, 2nd prizeWhite to play and mate in 3 This one won 2nd place in a problem competition sponsored by the Deutsche Schachbund, the German equivalent of the USCF. Just as Loyd was called the Puzzle King, Giegold earned a similar moniker in Germany – der Raetselonkel ("Puzzle Uncle" in direct translation; think of the beloved Uncle you had who did magic tricks to amuse you, and it will make a lot of sense! – or if you didn't have one, TV sitcoms certainly are full of them!). The key is what makes this flow, it is puzzling until you get the point, after that it is easy. Bonus – what little trick on the second move here, a rule of chess that often baffles beginners to the game, makes everything work?006Fritz Giegold (v. Steven B. Dowd)Die Stern 1967White to play and mate in 4 Zugzwang, or move compulsion, was one of Giegold's favorite themes in his problems and this is featured here. This, and the above were both used to show Giegold's skill in the 1978 issue of Schwalbe that noted his death. However, as originally presented this was cooked; I added a black pawn on e6 to prevent the cook; however, for the bonus, two questions, since I think solvers derive maximum pleasure when they understand the construction of a problem: 1. What is the cook without the BPe6; and perhaps more difficult, 2. This problem can also be fixed by not adding the black pawn, but instead shifting what white piece, and to where?007Fritz GiegoldDie Welt 1956White to play and mate in 4 In addition to zugzwang, Giegold often used a thematic (some would call it schematic, not seeing it as a true problem "theme") device called Hinterstellung – placing behind. For the bonus, another thematic device we have spoken of before in this column is shown in one of the two mates – what is the name of this device? 008Fritz GiegoldSolving Tournament of the Bavarian Broadcasting Company 1952White to play and mate in 5 Zugzwang and Hinterstellung are also used here in our last Fritz. For the bonus, the white pawn on g3 prevents what short mate? Again, predicting how the mate will occur is baffling until you get it, then it looks simple. Although many would fuss at Giegold being a "true problemist," I think, like Paul McCartney, that "silly little love songs" can be as much art as Mozart – just a different form of art! Solutions 001 1.Qd5+ Kxd5 2.Rb5# ; 1...Rxd5 2.Se4#; 1...Bxd5 2.Sxd3#. Each of the 3 captures of the queen results in a different self-block that leads to mate. Bonus: if the White queen were not on e4, 1. Se4+ cooks the problem.002 1.Qh2 g2 2.Bb8+ Kxb6 3.Qg1# and if 1...gxh2 2.Bxh2 Kxb6 3.Bg1#, so the bonus should now be easy to see: two mates from the g1 square. This should start you off seeing how Giegold placed pawns strategically to achieve his bewildering sacrifices. And if the hint didn't help, one of Jerry Hanken's first and most popular Chess Life pieces was on "Parting with the Lady," devoted to queen sacrifices, and he still makes occasional reference to that by showing games with queen sacrifices in his articles.003 1.Bc6! d5 (or dxc6) 2.Kc2 Rg3 3.Bxd2# Even more spectacular is the continuation if black takes the knight: 1...Kxd3 2.Qe4+ Sxe4 3.Bb5# (switchback! – and the sacrifice of S and Q) Bonus: the one drawback here, which is forgiveable given the pyrotechnics, is the short mate after 1. … Rh4 2. Qf3#. You can't have everything……004 1.d4! threatens Qd3#, thus black must play either 1...c4 2.Qd2 c3 3.Qd3# (anyway!), or the variation I find the most pleasing, leading to two symmetrical mates: 1...cxd4 2.Qb4! Kxe5 3.Qe7# or if black takes the other knight, 2...Kxe3 3.Qe1#.005 1.Bd4 Kxh4 2.f4 exf3 3.Bf6# if 1...Kh6 2.Ra5 Kh7 3.Rxh5#. Bonus: the trick is of course the en passant rule, which leads to the precise discovered mate of 3. Bf6, and I am sure we have all played beginners to whom the e.p. rule was hard to grasp!006 1.Ra3 b4 2.Ra4 b3 3.Rh4 Kxh4 4.Sf3# , another one-liner but one that sacrifices a rook and relies on a pin you need to see – which is not all that easy! Bonus – without the black pawn e6, 1. Rc1 also leads to a mate in 4 with a push of the white e-pawn to e6 and after the forced capture, 4. Sxe6#. A more economical solution – the only one I see now, but others are perhaps possible, is placing the WR at b3, although then the possibility of the white rook coming to the first rank is excluded, and probably wouldn't be the intended solution of the author. When fixing problems, this is an important consideration to remember.007 1.Be1! Kb6 2.Bf2 Ka5 3.Kb7 Kb4 4.Be1# if 2...Ka7 3.Sc4! dxc4 4.d5#, and the reason for placing the bishop on f2 becomes clear. Bonus: the first variation shows a switchback of the white bishop for mate.008 1.Bb1! b3 2.Qa1 d3 3.Ba2! bxa2 4.b4 cxb4 5.Bg7# Bonus: The White pawn on g3 prevents the short solution 1. Qd3, mating on h3 with the queen. Quite mundane, if allowed, in comparison to what white must do in the actual solution! If the battery mate came to you quickly, consider yourself a better solver than me!


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You don't know what it's like to listen to several thousand requests, let hundreds of kids sit on your lap, have your heart broken and witness a miracle or two. ``Ever work with real reindeer? Aufff,'' Joe Lynch said with a shudder as seven other Santas shook their heads. No, Santa can't really kick back with regular folks like you and me.
You don't know what it's like to listen to several thousand requests, let hundreds of kids sit on your lap, have your heart broken and witness a miracle or two.
``Ever work with real reindeer? Aufff,'' Joe Lynch said with a shudder as seven other Santas shook their heads.
No, Santa can't really kick back with regular folks like you and me.
He needs a day in Woonsocket, R.I., with a few dozen close pals, the kind who understand the pressures of being magical 365 days a year.
Here, at the Embassy restaurant, two blocks over the Bellingham border, Santas from Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut can let their hair down.
It was the annual meeting of the group with no official name. It was a ``dinner'' meeting that began at 10 a.m.
``We try to stay away from the public,'' said Larraine Martin, who's married to Santa George Martin of North Smithfield, R.I.
Not that they don't like people. They love people. You've got to in this line.
``It's sort of a calling,'' said Jim Scott of Natick, who portrays Santa at the North Shore Mall. ``If you put the red suit on, you know right away if it fits.''
But when you've got the unmistakable beard, the white hair, and the twinkly eyes, you're expected to act a certain way in public. No cussing, no smoking, no drinking. You've got to be on your best behavior 24-7.
And even Santas need a little private time to get off riffs like the light-blue exchange between Lynch, who's from Cumberland, R.I., and Desmond Reeves of Natick.
``You've met my mom?'' Reeves asked, setting up the punch line.
``She was sitting on my lap last week,'' Lynch chortled.
Reeves let loose his non-Santa laugh, deep, long, infectious with a touch of rasp, although ``I'm pretty good with a ho-ho-ho,'' he said.
Friday wasn't about ho-ho-ho, though.
It was about trading stories and sharing secrets of the trade.
Martin, the event organizer, showed how a hand-held whistle can add the wow factor to a nose tweak. Joe Healey of Providence confided a way his brethren can guess a child's age. ``If they have a full set of teeth, they're 5.'' Healey also has a good line if he's asked where the reindeer are. ``Homeland Security made me leave them at the airport.''
``I carry coins I hand out,'' said Scott, gold for very good, purple for ``You've been good, but I think you could try a little harder.'' Reeves has candy canes and ``I met Santa'' stickers in his pockets.
They came to exchange names and numbers, in case they get sick and need a replacement at a key time.
``It's kind of hard to let children down,'' said Bob Murphy of Riverside, R.I.
And they came to admire one another's gear.
``We show off our stuff,'' said Martin, who brought a red double-breasted suit, fedora and long coat he let Reeves try on, as well as some white gloves Reeves was surprised to learn cost only about 65 cents a pair, and can be worn once and thrown away.
You need the white gloves, particularly if you're a mall Santa, so your hands are visible at all times and no one can accuse you of any funny business.
Some of the men are mall Santas, others appear at town events. Some work strictly for charity, others choose venues like nightclubs and motorcycle dealerships to buoy people's holiday spirits.
Some need a little cosmetic help getting their hair and beards up to snuff.
Ron Pynn, who lives in Bellingham, is one whose beard needs no touching up.
``I started growing it the time I had the flu,'' said Pynn. About 20 years ago, ``I was so sick I couldn't shave.
``I thought it looked pretty nice,'' he said, and ``you save money on razor blades.''
The 71-year-old Pynn portrays the jolly old elf at schools and private functions, but he said the venues don't matter much.
``Anybody who does a Santa routine, they could write a book.''
You hear wishes like ``I want my Daddy back. Heartbreaking,'' said Pynn.
You also hear things that make you laugh.
One time, at a restaurant, ``a little man, he must have been in his 80s, came over and said, `Santa, can I tell you what I want for Christmas?' I said, `Sure, what do you want?' `A new Buick,' he said.''
Reeves recalled the time a woman in a Florida airport scolded him by saying, ``I want to know what you did with my pony in 1946.''
Then there are the miracles.
``One of the little boys I visited passed away three weeks ago,'' said Martin, but he has nothing but fond memories of the visit.
``Soon as he heard my bells, he perked right up. The mother said he hadn't smiled in weeks, so it was nice, really nice.''
Lynch recalled the time he was walking down the street and a girl he could tell had some sort of disability ``ran 20 feet and grabbed me. `Santa, Santa.''' Big deal? Well, it left the girl's grandmother speechless, he said. ``She can't walk,'' is what the older woman finally said. ``She can't walk, but she can run,'' said Lynch. ``Things like that really make you think.''
Not that Lynch is a soft touch. The retired Teamster rides his motorcycle down to Florida when he can, sports his fair share of tattoos, and ``I don't do malls.''
But, like the other men, he doesn't need a red suit to make him look like Santa, and he doesn't like to do things that might break the spell.
Ask his age and he'll tell you he's 2,793 (about 66 in human years).
Like his fellow Santas, his happiest moments are those spent bringing a smile to someone else's face.
Most of the men are in their 50s and 60s. Most have other jobs, or work that keeps them busy the rest of the year.
Martin, 55, is a tool-maker, ``almost like a toymaker.'' Scott, 54, works in the dairy instrumentation field. ``After all, Santa has to know about milk,'' he said.
Pynn and Reeves are active members of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
Among the things they do is make ``bear chairs,'' small wooden Adirondack-style chairs for teddies.
``We give out approximately 250 to 300 a year,'' to charities such as the Salvation Army, said Reeves, who portrayed St. Nick at the Westgate Mall in Brockton after retiring from his job as an interior decorator and carpet salesman at Sears in Natick.
``If you're a Santa, you really have to have higher standards,'' said Kathy Banks of Littleton, whose husband, Dave, visits pediatric patients at MetroWest Medical Center in Framingham.
``They become celebrities. They really do,'' said Pauline Allen, wife of Santa Charles of Rocky Hill, Conn.
``It's who I've now become,'' said Scott.
It's who they've all become, and it's a role they relish.
``It gives you the opportunity to make someone's day,'' said Scott.
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When to visit Egypt
The best time to visit Egypt is from October to April, when it's the perfect time for you to see the country's ancient sites and it's not too hot to explore outside. High season in Egypt is from October to February, and shoulder season is March to May and September to October.
You can fly to Egypt as soon as you secure your travel visa, because Australians are required to have on before traveling the country. Just visit the website of the Consulate General of the Arab Republic of Egypt in Sydney for more info. Make sure your passport is valid for at least six months when you fly back to Australia.
Travelling to and around Egypt
There are several airports in Egypt to welcome travelers from all over the world. As soon as you land, start travelling around Egypt by plane, train, bus, taxi, boat, and metro.
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Last week, LinkedIn added "social gestures" such as "like," "comment" and "share" that made its LinkedInToday news feed more like Facebook and Pinterest.
On Monday, LinkedIn began rolling out a homepage facelift that makes it look more like Facebook and Google+.
LinkedIn previously remodeled its mobile apps as part of an effort to simplify its user experience.
Now the company has turned its attention to its website as it attempts to become more of a daily social networking destination rather than a site its 160 million members occasionally go to check out jobs or find applicants.
"We've revamped the entire Homepage experience with a new look and feel to make it easier to scan and find the information that matters most to you," Product Manager Caroline Gaffney said in a blog post. "This simpler and cleaner design makes it easier to navigate the page and quickly find the updates you're looking for."
The new homepage, which will be rolling out to all members over the next few weeks, places the company logo and several quick links at the top in a black and grey bar across the top, which is a mix of what users see on Facebook and Google+. The new LinkedIn homepage also has a less cluttered design with more emphasis on photos.
On Friday, LinkedIn introduced a redesigned LinkedIn Today page to include the ability to like, comment, share and save, along with new ways to filter stories.
The new look, however, comes after LinkedIn lost its direct link to a big source of content – Twitter tweets.
There are also reports that Facebook is copying part of LinkedIn's playbook by creating its own social job recruitment product.