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- 4737 Political Competition and the Limits of Political Compromise
by Alexandre B. Cunha & Emanuel Ornelas
- 4736 Uncertainty and Economic Activity: A Global Perspective
by Ambrogio Cesa-Bianchi & M. Hashem Pesaran & Alessandro Rebucci
- 4735 Tariffs Passing Through Retailers: Do Tariffs Actually Protect Domestic Manufacturers?
by Matthew T. Cole & Carsten Eckel
- 4734 Shipment Frequency of Exporters and Demand Uncertainty
by Gabor Békés & Lionel Gérard Fontagné & Balazs Murakozy & Vincent Vicard
- 4733 The Return to College: Selection Bias and Dropout Risk
by Lutz Hendricks & Oksana Leukhina
- 4732 Out of Work and Into School: Labor Market Policies and College Enrollment During the Great Recession
by Andrew Barr & Sarah E. Turner
- 4730 The Long Arm of the European VAT, Exemplified by the Dutch Experience
by Leon Bettendorf & Sijbren Cnossen
- 4729 Human Pro-Social Motivation and the Maintenance of Social Order
by Simon Gaechter
- 4728 Probability Adjusted Rank-Discounted Utilitarianism
by Geir B. Asheim & Stéphane Zuber
- 4727 Resource Rents, Power, and Political Stability
by Kjetil Bjorvatn & Mohammad Reza Farzanegan
- 4726 Fiscal Autonomy and Fiscal Sustainability: Subnational Taxation and Public Indebtedness in Contemporary Spain
by Benjamin Larin & Bernd Süssmuth
- 4725 On the Finite Sample Properties of Pre-Test Estimators of Spatial Models
by Gianfranco Piras & Ingmar R. Prucha
- 4724 The Crisis and Regional Resilience in Europe: On the Importance of Urbanization and Specialization
by Steven Brakman & Harry Garretsen & Charles van Marrewijk
- 4723 Monetary Policies of Large Industrialised Countries, Emerging Market Credit Cycles and Feedback Effects
by Andreas Hoffmann & Gunther Schnabl
- 4722 Using Bankruptcy to Reduce Foreclosures: Does Strip-down of Mortgages Affect the Supply of Mortgage Credit?
by Wenli Li & Ishani Tewari & Michelle White
- 4721 Deserving Poor and the Desirability of Minimum Wage Rules
by Tomer Blumkin & Leif Danziger
- 4720 Carbon Tariffs Revisited
by Christoph Böhringer & André Müller & Jan Schneider
- 4719 Growing Groups, Cooperation, and the Rate of Entry
by Eva Ranehill & Frédéric Schneider & Roberto A. Weber
- 4718 Trust, Racial Fragmentation and Income Inequality: New Evidence from the U.S
by Andrea Tesei
- 4717 Trade Liberalization and Environmental Taxation in Federal Systems
by Per G. Fredriksson & Xenia Matschke
- 4716 Fiscal Transfers and Fiscal Sustainability
by Niklas Potrafke & Markus Reischmann
- 4715 Risk-Sharing and Contagion in Networks
by Antonio Cabrales & Piero Gottardi & Fernando Vega-Redondo
- 4714 Public Investment when Capital is Back - Distributional Effects of Heterogeneous Saving Behavior
by Linus Mattauch & Ottmar Edenhofer & David Klenert & Sophie Bénard
- 4713 Robust Mechanism Design and Social Preferences
by Felix Bierbrauer & Axel Ockenfels & Andreas Pollak & Désirée Rückert
- 4712 Innovation Contests
by David Pérez-Castrillo & David Wettstein
- 4711 Point and Density Forecasts for the Euro Area Using Bayesian VARs
by Tim Oliver Berg & Steffen Henzel
- 4710 Anti Profit-Shifting Rules and Foreign Direct Investment
by Thiess Büttner & Michael Overesch & Georg Wamser
- 4709 Pricing Internet Traffic: Exclusion, Signalling and Screening
by Bruno Jullien & Wilfried Sand-Zantman
- 4708 The Evidence on Globalization
by Niklas Potrafke
- 4707 Security Gradient and National Defense - The Optimal Choice between a Draft Army and a Professional Army
by Vesa Kanniainen & Staffan Ringbom
- 4706 Government Guarantees and Bank Risk Taking Incentives
by Markus Fischer & Christa Hainz & Jörg Rocholl & Sascha Steffen
- 4705 The Learning Process and Technological Change in Wind Power: Evidence from China's CDM Wind Projects
by Tian Tang & David Popp
- 4704 Taxing Banks: An Evaluation of the German Bank Levy
by Claudia M. Buch & Björn Hilberg & Lena Tonzer
- 4703 Robustness of a Simple Rule for the Social Cost of Carbon
by Armon Rezai & Frederick Van der Ploeg
- 4702 Forward Guidance in a Simple Model with a Zero Lower Bound
by Gerhard Illing & Thomas Siemsen
- 4701 Shocks to Bank Lending, Risk-Taking, Securitization, and their Role for U.S. Business Cycle Fluctuations
by Gert Peersman & Wolf Wagner
- 4700 Bayesian Repeated Games and Reputations
by Francoise Forges & Antoine Salomon
- 4699 Learning to Export from Neighbors
by Ana Fernandes & Heiwai Tang
- 4698 Black Sheep or Scapegoats? Implementable Monitoring Policies under Unobservable Levels of Misbehavior
by Berno Buechel & Gerd Mühlheusser
- 4697 Fixed Export Costs and Export Behavior
by Luis Castro & Ben Li & Keith E. Maskus & Yiqing Xie
- 4696 Youth Unemployment in Europe: Persistence and Macroeconomic Determinants
by Guglielmo Maria Caporale & Luis A. Gil-Alana
- 4695 Thin Capitalization Rules and Multinational Firm Capital Structure
by Jennifer Blouin & Harry Huizinga & Luc Laeven & Gaëtan J.A. Nicodème
- 4694 Transfer Pricing: Roles and Regimes
by Søren Bo Nielsen
- 4693 Fiscal Rules and Government Size in the European Union
by Jochen O. Mierau & Eduard Suari Andreu
- 4692 Complexity, Efficiency, and Fairness of Multi-Product Monopoly Pricing
by Eugenio J. Miravete & Katja Seim & Jeff Thurk
- 4691 Foreign Bidders Going Once, Going Twice... Protection in Government Procurement Auctions
by Matthew T. Cole & Ronald B. Davies
- 4690 Taxation and Parental Time Allocation under Different Assumptions on Altruism
by Alessandra Casarico & Alessandro Sommacal
- 4689 Using Military Build-Ups to Capture Fiscal Shocks: A Reassessment
by Weonho Yang & Jan Fidrmuc & Sugata Ghosh
- 4688 Soft Paternalism, Merit Goods, and Normative Individualism
by Gebhard Kirchgässner
- 4687 Incomplete Contracting, Renegotiation, and Expectation-Based Loss Aversion
by Fabian Herweg & Heiko Karle & Daniel Müller
- 4686 Wood-Based Bioenergy
by Michael Hoel & Thea Marcelia Sletten
- 4685 On the Optimal Composition of Committees
by Ruth Ben-Yashar & Leif Danziger
- 4684 Education Promoted Secularization
by Sascha Becker & Markus Nagler & Ludger Wößmann
- 4683 Can General Purpose Technology Theory Explain Economic Growth? Electrical Power as a Case Study
by Cristiano Andrea Ristuccia & Solomos Solomou
- 4682 From One to Many Central Plans: Drug Advertising Inspections and Intra-National Protectionism in China
by Markus Eberhardt & Zheng Wang & Zhihong Yu
- 4681 Rotten Spouses, Family Transfers and Public Goods
by Helmuth Cremer & Kerstin Roeder
- 4680 The Impacts of Feed-in Tariffs on Innovation: Empirical Evidence from Germany
by Christoph Böhringer & Alexander Cuntz & Dietmar Harhoff & Emmanuel Asane Otoo
- 4679 Productivity Response to a Contract Change
by Rajshri Jayaraman & Debraj Ray & Francis de Véricourt
- 4678 The Lindahl Equilibrium in Schumpeterian Growth Models: Knowledge Diffusion, Social Value of Innovations and Optimal R&D Incentives
by Elie Gray & André Grimaud
- 4677 International Student Migration: A Partial Identification Analysis
by Romuald Méango
- 4676 The Roommate Problem - Is More Stable Than You Think
by Pierre-André Chiappori & Alfred Galichon & Bernard Salanié
- 4675 Awareness Reduces Racial Bias
by Devin G. Pope & Joseph Price & Justin Wolfers
- 4674 Bracelets of Pride and Guilt? An Experimental Test of Self-Signaling in Charitable Giving
by Joël J. van der Weele & Ferdinand von Siemens
- 4673 Feeling the Heat: Temperature, Physiology & the Wealth of Nations
by Geoffrey Heal & Jisung Park
- 4672 Do Land Use Policies Follow Road Construction
by Miquel-Àngel Garcia-López & Albert Solé-Ollé & Elisabet Viladecans Marsal
- 4671 Carbon Prices for the Next Hundred Years
by Reyer Gerlagh & Matti Liski
- 4670 Foreign Languages and Trade
by Jan Fidrmuc & Jarko Fidrmuc
- 4669 International Capital Markets Structure, Preferences and Puzzles: The US-China Case
by Guglielmo Maria Caporale & Michael Donadelli & Alessia Varani
- 4668 Exporting and Labor Demand: Micro-level Evidence from Germany
by Andreas Lichter & Andreas Peichl & Sebastian Siegloch
- 4667 Malthus and the Industrial Revolution: Evidence from a Time-Varying VAR
by Alexander Rathke & Samad Sarferaz
- 4666 Firm Dynamics and Residual Inequality in Open Economies
by Gabriel Felbermayr & Giammario Impullitti & Julien Prat
- 4665 Climate Change, Rice Crops and Violence. Evidence from Indonesia
by Raul Caruso & Ilaria Petrarca & Roberto Ricciuti
- 4664 Hospital Treatment Rates and Spillover Effects: Does Ownership Matter?
by Badi H. Baltagi & Yin-Fang Yen
- 4663 Measuring Individual Risk Attitudes in the Lab: Task or Ask? An Empirical Comparison
by Jan-Erik Lönnqvist & Markku Verkasalo & Gari Walkowitz & Philipp Christoph Wichardt
- 4662 Markov Perfect Equilibria in Differential Games with Regime Switching Strategies
by Ngo Van Long & Fabien Prieur & Klarizze Puzon & Mabel Tidball
- 4661 Does Female Empowerment Promote Economic Development
by Matthias Doepke & Michèle Tertilt
- 4660 Financial Development and Sustainable Exports: Evidence from Firm-Product Data
by Melise Jaud & Madina Kukenova & Martin Strieborny
- 4659 Exchange-Rate Adjustment and Macroeconomic Interdependence between Stagnant and Fully Employed Countries
by Yoshiyasu Ono
- 4658 Labor Market Effects of Sports and Exercise: Evidence from Canadian Panel Data
by Michael Lechner & Nazmi Sari
- 4657 Us and Them: Distributional Preferences in Small and Large Groups
by Heiner Schumacher & Iris Kesternich & Michael Kosfeld & Joachim Winter
- 4656 Incentives to Motivate
by Ola Kvaløy & Anja Schöttner
- 4655 An Empirical Study of Pricing Strategies in an Online Market with High-Frequency Price Information
by Sara Ellison & Christopher M. Snyder
- 4654 Charitable Giving and Nonbinding Contribution-Level Suggestions - Evidence from a Field Experiment
by Maja Adena & Steffen Huck & Imran Rasul
- 4653 On the Persistence of Strategic Sophistication
by Sotiris Georganas & Paul J. Healy & Roberto A. Weber
- 4652 Stakeholder Governance, Competition and Firm Value
by Franklin Allen & Elena Carletti & Robert Marquez
- 4651 Structural Vector Autoregressions: Checking Identifying Long-run Restrictions via Heteroskedasticity
by Helmut Luetkepohl & Anton Velinov
- 4650 No Guarantees, No Trade: How Banks Affect Export Patterns
by Friederike Niepmann & Tim Schmidt-Eisenlohr
- 4649 China's Exchange Rate and Financial Repression: The Conflicted Emergence of the Renminbi as an International Currency
by Ronald Ian McKinnon & Gunther Schnabl
- 4648 Walk the Line: Conflict, State Capacity and the Political Dynamics of Reform
by Sanjay Jain & Sumon Majumdar & Sharun Mukand
- 4647 Credit Market Competition and Liquidity Crises
by Elena Carletti & Agnese Leonello
- 4646 Optimal Redistribution and Monitoring of Labor Effort
by Floris Zoutman & Bas Jacobs
- 4645 Microeconometric Evidence of Financing Frictions and Innovative Activity
by Amaresh K. Tiwari & Pierre Mohnen & Franz Palm & Sybrand Schim van der Loeff
- 4644 Strategic Approaches to CO2 Emissions - The Case of the Cement Industry and of the Chemical Industry
by Diane Laure Arjaliès & Cécile Goubet & Jean-Pierre Ponssard
- 4643 On the Sensitivity of Collective Action to Uncertainty about Climate Tipping Points
by Scott Barrett & Astrid Dannenberg
- 4642 Transparency, Flexibility and Macroeconomic Stabilization
by Petra Geraats
- 4641 Parenthood and Productivity of Highly Skilled Labor: Evidence from the Groves of Academe
by Matthias Krapf & Heinrich Ursprung & Christian Zimmermann
- 4640 Does Short-Time Work Save Jobs? A Business Cycle Analysis
by Almut Balleer & Britta Gehrke & Wolfgang Lechthaler & Christian Merkl
- 4639 The Green Paradox in Open Economies
by Ngo Van Long
- 4638 Team Production in Competitive Labor Markets with Adverse Selection
by Ferdinand von Siemens & Michael Kosfeld
- 4637 Can you Leave High School Behind?
by Sandra E. Black & Jane Arnold Lincove & Jenna Cullinane & Rachel Veron
- 4636 A Ranking Method Based on Handicaps
by Gabrielle Demange
- 4635 Technology Agreements with Heterogeneous Countries
by Michael Hoel & Aart de Zeeuw
- 4634 Confidence Bands for Impulse Responses: Bonferroni versus Wald
by Helmut Luetkepohl & Anna Staszewska-Bystrova & Peter Winker
- 4633 Monetary Emissions Trading Mechanisms
by Cyril Monnet & Ted Temzelides
- 4632 Collective Memory and Nostalgia in The Dutch Radio2 Top2000 Chart 1999-2013
by Elmer Sterken
- 4631 Analysing Party Preferences Using Google Trends
by Mirko Seithe & Lena Calahorrano
- 4630 Explaining the Size Differences of Exporter Productivity Premia: Theory and Evidence
by Ingo Geishecker & Philipp J.H. Schröder & Allan Sörensen
- 4629 Can Competition Reduce Quality?
by Kurt R. Brekke & Luigi Siciliani & Odd Rune Straume
- 4628 Smells Like Fiscal Policy? Assessing the Potential Effectiveness of the ECB's OMT Program
by Nikolay Hristov & Oliver Hülsewig & Thomas Siemsen & Timo Wollmershäuser
- 4627 Capacity Decisions with Demand Fluctuations and Carbon Leakage
by Guy Meunier & Jean-Pierre Ponssard
- 4626 Conservatism Correction for the Market-To-Book Ratio and Tobin's q
by Maureen McNichols & Madhav V. Rajan & Stefan Reichelstein
- 4625 Prices vs. Quantities with Endogenous Cost Structure
by Halvor Briseid Storrøsten
- 4624 Intergenerational Risk-Sharing through Funded Pensions and Public Debt
by Damiaan H.J. Chen & Roel Beetsma & Eduard Ponds & Ward E. Romp
- 4623 Foreign Direct Investment Modes and Local Backward Linkages
by Chrysovalantou Milliou & Apostolis Pavlou
- 4622 The Individual and Joint Performance of Economic Preferences, Personality, and Self-Control in Predicting Criminal Behavior
by Tim Friehe & Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch
- 4621 Heterogeneous Beliefs and the Demand for D&O Insurance by Listed Companies
by Peter Egger & Doina Radulescu & Ray Rees
- 4620 Political Institutions and Government Spending Behavior in Iran
by Sajjad Faraji Dizaji & Mohammad Reza Farzanegan
- 4619 Nonparametric Evidence on the Effects of Financial Incentives on Retirement Decisions
by Day Manoli & Andrea Weber
- 4618 Per-Capital Income as a Determinant of International Trade and Environment Policies
by James R. Markusen
- 4617 Selective Outmigration and the Estimation of Immigrants' Earnings Profiles
by Christian Dustmann & Joseph-Simon Görlach
- 4616 Panel Data Gravity Models of International Trade
by Badi H. Baltagi & Peter Egger & Michael Pfaffermayr
- 4615 The Relevance or Otherwise of the Central Bank's Balance Sheet
by David K. Miles & Jochen Schanz
- 4614 Voting Suffrage and the Political Budget Cycle: Evidence from the London Metropolitan Boroughs 1902-1937
by Toke Aidt & Graham Mooney
- 4613 Income Tax Buyouts and Income Tax Evasion
by Laszlo Goerke
- 4612 What Do We Know About Base Erosion and Profit Shifting? A Review of the Empirical Literature
by Dhammika Dharmapala
- 4611 Monetary Policy Transparency
by Petra Geraats
- 4610 A Competitive Model of Worker Replacement and Wage Rigidity
by Andy Snell & Jonathan Thomas & Zhewei Wang
- 4609 Self Control and Intertemporal Choice: Evidence from Glucose and Depletion Interventions
by Michael A. Kuhn & Peter Kuhn & Marie Claire Villeval
- 4608 Tenancy Rent Control and Credible Commitment in Maintenance
by Richard J. Arnott & Elizaveta Shevyakhova
- 4607 Creeping Normalcy: Fractionation of Indian Land Ownership
by Jake Russ & Thomas Stratmann
- 4606 Optimal Forest Management when Logging Damages and Costs Differ between Logging Practices
by Yonky Indrajaya & Edwin van der Werf & Ekko van Ierland & Frits Mohren
- 4605 Iceland: How Could This Happen?
by Thorvaldur Gylfason
- 4604 Jump Processes in Natural Gas Markets
by Charles F. Mason & Neil Wilmot
- 4603 Emissions Trading with Offset Markets and Free Quota Allocations
by Knut Einar Rosendahl & Jon Strand
- 4602 Credit Risk in General Equilibrium
by Jürgen Eichberger & Klaus Rheinberger & Martin Summer
- 4601 TransNIEMO: Economic Impact Analysis Using a Model of Consistent Interregional Economic and Network Equilibria
by JoongKoo Cho & Peter Gordon & James E. Moore II & Qisheng Pan & JiYoung Park & Harry W. Richardson
- 4600 Capital-Labor Substitution, Structural Change and the Labor Income Share
by Francisco Alvarez-Cuadrado & Ngo Van Long & Markus Poschke
- 4599 What is the Relation (if any) Between a Firm's Corporate Governance Arrangements and its Financial Performance?
by Roberto E. Wessels & Tom J. Wansbeek & Lammertjan Dam
- 4598 Carbon Tariffs: An Analysis of the Trade, Welfare and Emission Effects
by Mario Larch & Joschka Wanner
- 4597 Returns to Skills around the World: Evidence from PIAAC
by Eric A. Hanushek & Guido Schwerdt & Simon Wiederhold & Ludger Wößmann
- 4596 The Dynamic Implications of Liberalizing Global Migration
by Marco Delogu & Frédéric Docquier & Joël Machado
- 4595 Children Do Not Behave Like Adults: Gender Gaps in Performance and Risk Taking within a Random Social Context in the High-Stakes Game Shows Jeopardy and Junior Jeopardy
by Jenny Säve-Söderbergh & Gabriella Sjögren Lindquist
- 4594 Do Weak Institutions Prolong Crises? On the Identification, Characteristics, and Duration of Declines during Economic Slumps
by Richard Bluhm & Denis de Crombrugghe & Adam Szirmai
- 4593 Mandatory Participation in Occupational Pension Schemes in the Netherlands and other Countries
by Damiaan H.J. Chen & Roel Beetsma
- 4592 A Two Stage Approach to Spatiotemporal Analysis with Strong and Weak Cross-Sectional Dependence
by Natalia Bailey & Sean Holly & M. Hashem Pesaran
- 4591 Compensated Discrete Choice with Particular Reference to Labor Supply
by John K. Dagsvik & Steinar Strøm & Marilena Locatelli
- 4590 Levelized Product Cost: Concept and Decision Relevance
by Stefan Reichelstein & Anna Rohlfing-Bastian
- 4589 International Environmental Agreements with Uncertainty, Learning and Risk Aversion
by Michael Finus & Pedro Pintassilgo & Alistair Ulph
- 4588 Is a Minimum Wage an Appropriate Instrument for Redistribution?
by Aart Gerritsen & Bas Jacobs
- 4587 Heterogenous Switching Costs
by Gary Biglaiser & Jacques Crémer & Gergely Dobos
- 4586 Auctions with Imperfect Commitment when the Reserve May Serve as a Signal
by Byoung Heon Jun & Elmar G. Wolfstetter
- 4585 The Special Safeguard Mechanism (SSM) and Tariffs: Price Behaviour with Imperfectly Competitive Market Intermediaries
by Donald MacLaren
- 4584 Aging, the Great Moderation and Business-Cycle Volatility in a Life-Cycle Model
by Burkhard Heer & Stefan Rohrbacher & Christian Scharrer
- 4583 Agricultural Exports, Tariffs and Growth
by Leonid V. Azarnert
- 4582 What Do Labor Market Institutions Do?
by Bertil Holmlund
- 4581 Optimal Taxation in a Habit Formation Economy
by Sebastian Koehne & Moritz Kuhn
- 4580 Continuous Logit Polycentric City Model
by Matthias Wrede
- 4579 Short Run Effects of Bleaker Prospects for Oligopolistic Producers of a Non-Renewable Resource
by Kristine Grimsrud & Knut Einar Rosendahl & Halvor Briseid Storrøsten & Marina Tsygankova
- 4578 Optimal Taxation, Child Care and Models of the Household
by Patricia Apps & Ray Rees
- 4577 The Hodrick-Prescott Filter with a Time-Varying Penalization Parameter. An Application for the Trend Estimation of Global Temperature
by Andreas Blöchl & Gebhard Flaig
- 4576 Patient Mobility, Health Care Quality and Welfare
by Kurt R. Brekke & Rosella Levaggi & Luigi Siciliani & Odd Rune Straume
- 4575 Buying and Selling Risk - An Experiment Investigating Evaluation Asymmetries
by Werner Güth & Matteo Ploner & Ivan Soraperra
- 4574 Robust Implementation of a Parsimonious Dynamic Factor Model to Nowcast GDP
by Pablo Duarte & Bernd Süssmuth
- 4573 Negotiating to Avoid "Gradual" versus "Dangerous" Climate Change: An Experimental Test of Two Prisoners' Dilemma
by Scott Barrett & Astrid Dannenberg
- 4572 Peer Pressure and Productivity: The Role of Observing and Being Observed
by Sotiris Georganas & Mirco Tonin & Michael Vlassopoulos
- 4571 Compactness vs. Sprawl Revisited: Converging Views
by Reid Ewing & Harry W. Richardson & Keith Bartholomew & Arthur C. Nelson & Chang-Hee Christine Bae
- 4570 Testing Unemployment Theories: A Multivariate Long Memory Approach
by Guglielmo Maria Caporale & Luis A. Gil-Alana & Yuliya Lovcha
- 4569 Fishing for Excuses and Performance Evaluation
by François Larmande & Jean-Pierre Ponssard
- 4568 Rent Taxes and Royalties in Designing Fiscal Regimes for Non-Renewable Resources
by Robin Boadway & Michael Keen
- 4567 The Impact of R&D Cooperations on Drug Variety Offered on the Market. Evidence from the Pharmaceutical Industry
by Tannista Banerjee & Ralph Siebert
- 4566 The Singular Value Decomposition of a Technology Matrix
by Eric O'N. Fisher
- 4565 Conditional Gender Peer Effects?
by Jon Marius Vaag Iversen & Hans Bonesrønning
- 4564 Divided We Reform? Evidence from US Welfare Policies
by Andreas Bernecker
- 4563 The Surprisingly Swift Decline of U.S. Manufacturing Employment
by Justin R. Pierce & Peter K. Schott
- 4562 Robust Dynamic Optimal Taxation and Environmental Externalities
by Xin Li & Borghan Narajabad & Ted Temzelides
- 4561 Immigration and the Distribution of Incomes
by Francine D. Blau & Lawrence Kahn
- 4560 Allowing Firms to Choose Between Formula Apportionment and Separate Accounting Taxation
by Thomas Gresik
- 4559 Income Inequality, Mobility and the Accumulation of Capital
by Cecilia Garcia-Peñalosa & Stephen Turnovsky
- 4558 Export or Merge? Proximity vs. Concentration in Product Space
by Marc-Andreas Muendler
- 4557 Economy Wide Impact of the Trade Integration between Japan and India: A Computable General Equilibrium Analysis
by Biswa Nath Bhattacharyay & Kakali Mukhopadhyay
- 4556 Equilibrium Search and the Impact of Equal Opportunities for Women
by Melvyn G. Coles & Marco Francesconi
- 4555 Is Marriage as Good as a Contract?
by Alessandro Cigno
- 4554 Security Bid Auctions for Agency Contracts
by Byoung Heon Jun & Elmar G. Wolfstetter
- 4553 On Optimal Social Convention in Voluntary Continuation Prisoner's Dilemma Games
by Filip Vesely & Chun-Lei Yang
- 4552 Market Transparency, Adverse Selection, and Moral Hazard
by Tobias J. Klein & Christian Lambertz & Konrad O. Stahl
- 4551 China's Profits and Losses from Currency Intervention, 1994-2011
by Hailong Jin & E. Kwan Choi
- 4550 Offshoring, Exporting, and Jobs
by Jose L. Groizard & Priya Ranjan & Antonio Rodriguez-Lopez
- 4549 Corporate Deductibility Provisions and Managerial Incentives
by Marko Köthenbürger & Michael Stimmelmayr
- 4548 Growth Expectations, Undue Optimism, and Short-Run Fluctuations
by Zeno Enders & Michael Kleemann & Gernot Müller
- 4547 On the Political Economy of Complexity
by Shmuel Nitzan & Uriel Procaccia & Joseph Tzur
- 4546 Investment Policy for Time-Inconsistent Discounters
by BÃ¥rd Harstad
- 4545 The Endgame of Telecommunications Policy? A Survey
by Ingo Vogelsang
- 4544 Economic Analysis, Sustainability and Environmental Commons
by Ignazio Musu
- 4543 On the Generalizability of Experimental Results in Economics: With a Response to Commentors
by Omar Al-Ubaydli & John A. List
- 4542 Returns to Office in National and Local Politics
by Kaisa Kotakorpi & Panu Poutvaara & Marko Terviö
- 4541 Procedurally Fair Collective Provision: Its Requirements and Experimental Functionality
by Werner Güth & Hartmut Kliemt & Anastasios Koukoumelis & M. Vittoria Levati & Matteo Ploner
- 4540 Statures, BMIs, and Weight: A Reassessment
by Scott A. Carson
- 4539 Employee Spinouts, Social Networks, and Family Firms
by James E. Rauch
- 4538 The Structure of the Permanent Job Wage Premium: Evidence from Europe
by Lawrence Kahn
- 4537 Student Abilities During the Expansion of US Education
by Lutz Hendricks & Todd Schoellman


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Leaving a career as a chiropractor, Howard Alan went into retail, settling in Plantation, Florida. Within the retail store, Howard featured approximately 40-50 artists and crafters on consignment, which was a unique and successful endeavor all on its own. In an effort to bring in the business, he strategically placed a 6-foot-4-inch gorilla named Magilla out on the street. Even better, the ever-prominently displayed Magilla featured signs that said it was running for Mayor. Needless to say, the active Mayor was not happy that he was being poked fun at, and had Howard arrested. The brilliant publicity stunt to promote the store not only worked, it landed Howard and Magilla on several local TV news stations, as well as Good Morning America and PM Magazine. Found guilty of "having something illegal on the street," Howard was warned that he may have to pay a $500 fine, serve probation, and donate Magilla, who had become a celebrity to various charities and organizations for a 6-month period.


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A man who conned a woman living near Grantham out of money has been jailed.
Christian Barber, 41, was sentenced to 59 months in prison at Lincoln Crown Court on Friday, for fraud and theft.
Among his victims was a woman living near Grantham, with others living at Witham St Hughs, Pocklington, Scunthorpe, Perranporth and Derbyshire.
Barber's offending came to light in 2012 when one of his victims reported to police that she met Barber on an online dating website before meeting up with him in a Lincolnshire pub. Barber told his victim that he was a multi-millionaire National Lottery winner, had an expensive house in Cornwall, a yacht moored in Poole and a fleet of luxury motor cars. They went on to have a relationship during which time Barber stole rent money which he was supposed to pass to her landlady, along with £9,800 takings from her business.
A second victim came forward to police saying that she too had fallen victim after meeting him in a hotel and being told a similar story about his lifestyle. She started a relationship with him, only to have him steal £11,500 which she had in a foreign bank account before disappearing from her life, at which point his trail of deception became apparent.
He convinced some of his victims that he worked nights, while telling others he worked days so he could split his time between them with more than one being conned by him at the same time. Police discovered that Barber had never had any significant lottery win and did not own the property or other assets as he claimed.
Barber was convicted of stealing a total of £46,300 from six women across the country in very similar circumstances, with police aware of several other unsuccessful attempts he made to do the same.
In sentencing, Mr Recorder Evans described Barber as "a selfish, accomplished and skilful conman" who had selected victims "because of their vulnerability before deliberately painting a false picture of yourself which they would find alluring".
He went on to say that it was "wrong to say the women were gullible, rather testament to your skill. You took their money, dignity and self respect. You are the typical conman."
A/Sgt Sarah Edwards, of Lincolnshire Police, said: "Christian Barber combed online dating websites to handpick his victims, grooming them to gain their trust before stealing their savings.
"He concocted a complex back story to cover his trail of lies, which he adapted and finessed each time he told it to another victim. His crimes had a massive impact on the lives of not only his victims, but also their families, in some cases leaving them unable to trust again.
"Hopefully this sentence will act as a deterrent to others who may be considering the same sort of behaviour and whilst it cannot undo the trauma Barber's victims have suffered hopefully it will give them some peace of mind in seeing that justice has been done."
Barber is originally of the Nottinghamshire area but purports to be of Cornwall. He has drifted around the country scamming women and bilking at hotels from Manchester to Cheshire, Derbyshire, Devon and Cornwall, Avon and Somerset, Wiltshire and West Mercia.


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EU Sugar Production Seen Falling 5.4% as French Output Drops
Sugar production in the European Union will fall by 5.4 percent next season, with output in France, the bloc's biggest grower, sliding 3.2 percent, according to the European Commission, the EU's executive arm.
The EU will produce 17.6 million metric tons of sugar in the 2012-13 season that starts in October, the commission said in a June 28 report on its website. That is down from 18.6 million tons in 2011-12, according to the report.
Output in France will fall to 4.62 million tons from 4.78 million tons the previous year, the commission forecast. Yields in the 27-nation bloc will drop to 11.1 tons a hectare (2.47 acres) from 11.6 tons a hectare in 2011-12, the report showed. Cane sugar produced in France's overseas territories is forecast to slip to 280,000 tons from 417,000 tons a year earlier.
Germany's crop, the EU's second-largest, is forecast to rise by 1.8 percent to 4.34 million tons from 4.27 million tons a year earlier, the data showed. Production in third-ranking Poland will be 1.64 million tons in 2012-13 from 1.91 million tons a year earlier, the commission forecasts.
The European Union white sugar price averaged 716 euros ($902) a ton in April, the highest since at least July 2006, the commission said in a separate report on its website. White sugar futures on NYSE Liffe are $615 a ton on NYSE Liffe.
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Discussion in 'Drum & Bass' started by Harry3, Nov 27, 2011.
proper badboy tune!
also anyone got tunes of a similar vibe? nuskool jungle?
Badman tune by badman producer's! Video is another level, BO!
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Alex Anzalone, a four-star linebacker recruit from Pennsylvania, has decommitted from Ohio State after discovering a convicted sex offender gained access to him and other players and recruits during a recruiting visit.
The man, 31-year-old Kentucky resident Charles Waugh, was convicted on five counts of possessing child pornography depicting underaged males in 2008. He had engaged multiple Ohio State players and recruits through Twitter and Facebook. He had also interacted with players and recruits in person during Ohio State's spring game.
He made contact with Anzalone during a recruiting visit to Columbus, Ohio, April 21. A photograph of Waugh with Anzalone and two other recruits was posted on a fan website, as were other photographs of the sex offender with a Buckeyes player and the school mascot, Brutus.
Anzalone's father was concerned that his son had been placed at risk. He did not withhold any punches with Ohio State's coaching staff.
"There's a disconnect between what Alex thought was was there (at Ohio State) and what is actually there," said his father, Dr. Sal Anzalone.
"Something's just not right at Ohio State," Sal Anzalone said. "It's not for him."
"You don't want your son to go to a place where there's a potential issue (like this)," Sal Anzalone said. "You expect the (football) staff to have some sort of control on how things are handled with recruits when they visit. This is ridiculous.
Anzalone had committed to Ohio State at the Scarlet and Grey game. His other favorites were Florida and Stanford.
There's not much to beat Meyer or Ohio State with here. It's more a cautionary tale about how easy it is with the Internet for absolute creeps to gain access to these kids. Recruiting isn't going to be covered less, and it seems far more vigilance is needed.
Here via Eleven Warriors is Ohio State's statement
The issue surrounding the individual from Kentucky is being treated by the Department of Athletics as a student-athlete welfare issue. When the University became aware that this individual had been seen in pictures – taken in public places – with student-athletes, proactive precautions were taken and the Department of Athletics alerted more than 1,000 Ohio State student-athletes about this person. The email message also reminded them of the negative implications that can be realized through simple associations on social networking sites. This individual is not associated with Ohio State. He is not a booster. He has not engaged in any activities on behalf of the University. The Department of Athletics will continue to monitor this issue and it will remain proactive in its efforts with regard to precautions for its student-athletes.
Previously: Urban Meyer Helped Create "Character Issues" He Left Behind at Florida
Previously: Urban Meyer is Giving the Big Ten Its Long-Awaited Adrenaline Shot


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Mayor Brian U. Stratton will introduce five new police officers to the city's force on Tuesday at City Hall.
The new officers will enter the Zone 5 Law Enforcement Training Academy on Wednesday for six months of basic training, followed by 12 weeks of department supervised field training.
The new officers are: Andrew R. MacDonald, 25, of Ballston Lake; Brandon M. Shepler, 22, of Schenectady; Douglas D. Smith, 33, of Glenville; Christopher M. Wilgocki, 22, of Schenectady; and Robert A. Young, Jr., 28, of Scotia.
In addition, at this time Mayor Stratton, Public Safety Commissioner Wayne Bennett, and Chief of Police Mark Chaires would like to introduce the Police Department's new Canine Unit.
Officer Sean Clifford and his canine Vert, named after fallen officer Eric Verteramo, and Officer Robert Dashnow and his dog Thor.


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UFC 143 Results: What Needs to Go Right for a Carlos Condit WinFebruary 4, 2012
MMA fans are anticipating one of the best fights of the year to take place, when former WEC champion Carlos Condit takes on former Strikeforce champion Nick Diaz for the interim UFC welterweight championship, later tonight at UFC 143.
The pay-per-view event is headlined by the title fight, which will crown a new champion in the division for the first time since Matt Serra defeated St-Pierre, almost five years ago.
Condit (27-5) will enter the fight on a four-fight win streak, with wins over Dong Hyun Kim, Dan Hardy, Rory MacDonald and Jake Ellenberger. His wins over Kim and Hardy came in the very first round via knockout.
Diaz comes in with a very similar record at 26-7, including an 11-fight win streak with victories over BJ Penn, Paul Daley, Evangelista Santos and KJ Noons.
With a similar skill set in every area of mixed martial arts, this one might come down to what the judges like more if it goes the distance, which is the most likely outcome, considering both competitors' toughness and durability.
Both fighters have five rounds to try to finish the other, but neither guy is easy to finish, and it might come to who has more in the tank late. Even though this fight would have have been scheduled for five rounds anyway, it's going to be the championship rounds that are most likely to determine the winner.
Standing, it can be broken down to boxer vs. kickboxer.
Diaz, a volume puncher, relies on flurries of punches to break down his opponent throughout the course of the fight. He can utilize body punches not only to hurt his opponent, but also to set up the head shots, something that was very effective in his fight with Penn.
For Condit, he possesses better power and can finish his opponent with a single strike, whether it comes from a punch or a knee. His length is also a factor in most of his bouts, but he won't hold that advantage here against Diaz, who is only an inch shorter.
It wasn't too long ago that we saw Nick's brother, Nate, use a very similar style of boxing to get the better of Donald Cerrone, who many thought would have the advantage, due to his kickboxing skills and more well-rounded skills on the feet.
To make sure he doesn't get caught in the same trap, Condit will have to make the shots he lands count. It's unlikely he will be able to meet Diaz punch-for-punch and still have anything left late in the fight. Diaz never seems to slow down, even if his opponent is landing effective blows at the same time.
If this fight hits the mat, Diaz will hold an advantage in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, but Condit may be just as good as a grappler when it comes to the wrestling, and is excellent at scrambling back to his feet. Neither fighter is afraid to be on their back, but it's better not to be in the judges' eyes, even if one is working for submissions from the bottom.
It won't be easy, but Condit matches Diaz in toughness, and will have an advantage by just being a more well-rounded striker. As long as he doesn't get caught up in the exchanges of Diaz, he can pick his shots, and hope the judges favor his blows over Diaz's. A doctor stoppage isn't out of the picture either, if he can open Diaz up with a significant strike. This is hardly a guarantee, though, and isn't something he should be looking for.


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i shouldn't get my hopes up but there they are
Peace Between The Wars
[Eric Upchurch]
Jim Hackett talked to the Daily yesterday, and the words that he said were as encouraging as possible for a fan who likes his college football to be as distinct as possible from the pro experience:
The topic of conversation soon shifted to the student experience at Michigan Stadium and the tendency of many students to leave games well before they end. Hackett believes the issue will most easily be resolved by the improvement of the on-field product.
"I don't want to sound sarcastic," Hackett said. "What I don't want is more entertainment that's not football. I think that works in the pros, but we're in college. I believe college shouldn't be like the pros. It shouldn't cost like the pros."
Hackett specifically noted that he didn't want the games to feel "corporate," a complaint that was commonly voiced by Michigan fans during Brandon's tenure.
I am still a little hesitant to open the ol' heart to the new AD because I remember the brief, stretchgate-inspired Brandon honeymoon that we all had a few years back… but I'm hopeful that Hackett takes the project of making Michigan Michigan seriously, and am more so every time he is quoted.
We're even seeing some specific steps discussed not only amongst the fanbase but with the guys in charge. After a student complained about the piped-in music, Hackett replied thusly:
Hackett asked the new coach what he thought of piped-in music during warmups. Harbaugh was firm in his answer.
"I don't care. We don't need it," Harbaugh said.
Hackett agreed with Harbaugh, noting that in the past, the loud music has almost discouraged him from sitting through the team's warmups when he has visited Michigan Stadium. As a result of the preferences of the coach, athletic director and many fans, the Athletic Department is in conversations with the band to have it play more during games.
I did not dream of a day when Michigan would look at the music during warmups as an issue to be addressed, let alone the actual in-game experience. I don't even mind the warmups music that much. I did treasure the quiet buzz of anticipation 45 minutes before the game, though, and if that comes back the stadium will be a step closer to what it used to be.
That thing it used to be was merely itself. The band, the lack of advertising, the silences in between the shouting. The natural up and down of a crowd was an important part of my formative experiences as a sports fan, and I still wince at the idea that doing something for the entertainment of the people in attendance actually, you know, entertains them. Too often piped-in music turns fan participation off instead of on. It's a convenient way to cover the fact that you have a lack of atmosphere. I prefer an athletic department that asks the hard questions about how to create one out of the materials they've been given. If MLS can do it—hell, if Detroit City can do it—there's no reason Michigan can't.
Here's hoping Hackett's the man to do it.
Oh also
We talked about this some on WTKA today: it sounds like when the Adidas contract comes up in a year, Michigan is seriously considering a switch even if that move costs them some money.
"In my first months here, the question of which brand we wear is a big one," Hackett said during the fireside chat. "We've organized — this is a secret — a project team to look at the question of, there's really three players: Adidas, Under Armour and Nike."
"Was" a secret if you're talking about it in a fireside chat with students. Adidas or UA will offer the most money; Nike offers the gear it seems like most of the athletes prefer… and it opens doors in recruiting, especially basketball. Like it or not, that is fact.
The mere fact that there's something other than a number in a spreadsheet being considered here is an excellent development. I don't understand people who care a ton about the style of an athletic clothing supplier, but there are evidently legions of them.
Personally, I would prefer Under Armour, which tends to create (or maintain) signature looks for the schools they have. Adidas and Nike both love to suit people up in things that say "this team is part of Adidas or Nike"; UA is better about working for the team, the team, the team.
Okay yes Maryland's flag uniforms are kind of a disaster, but it's not like they've got anything iconic to hang their hat on. Meanwhile I love what they've done with Northwestern and they've left Auburn's classic look virtually untouched. But UA is a distant third when it comes to recognition and door-opening.
It's a tough decision.
Fee Fi Foe Film: Indiana Defense
Previously: Indiana Offense
the first one went well, at least
I don't think anybody would describe Iowa's offense as "explosive." They're 125th in the country (out of 128 teams) with just 19 plays from scrimmage that have gone for 20+ yards.
Four of those occurred against Indiana. Two went for 60+ yards; they've had one other such play all year. While the Hoosiers defense has taken a small step forward from 2013's pathetic group, it's just that: a small step. The Indiana defense remains the Indiana defense, and that provides quite a bit of hope for Saturday.
Personnel: The diagram [click to embiggen]:
Indiana brings back plenty of experience from last year's group; you can decide whether or not that's a good thing.
Base Set? 3-4, for the most part. This is how Indiana set up versus two receivers against the Hawkeyes, with a safety rolled up to the line:
And here they are against three wide:
They'll have "BANDIT" Nick Mangieri—essentially a DE—put his hand in the dirt on occasion; for the most part, though, they go with three down linemen and shade the strongside linebacker over the slot, keeping their base personnel on the field most of the time.
[Hit THE JUMP for the rest of the breakdown.]
Five Questions And Five Answers: Defense 2014
Previously: Podcast 6.0. The Story. Quarterback. Running back. Wide Receiver. Tight End And Friends. Offensive Line. Defensive End. Defensive Tackle. Linebacker. Cornerback. Safety. Special Teams. Five Questions and Five Answers, Offense.
I think so! I mean, if they're not radically changing their approach to defense they're doing the best job ever of faking it. They have been in the grill of receivers at the spring scrimmage, at both fall scrimmages, in the practices our insider got to check out, and at the coaching clinic. Either they've wasted a lot of time or the passivity we saw last year is out the window.
"We have a new scheme and a lot of in your face coverage … With this new style of play, let's ball and see what we got. …
"Last year we were a little bit conservative," he said. "We have talent... let's use it. You put your best against our best and let's ride out -- lets go get it. That is the mindset that our coaches have instilled in us for this season. Our practices are more intense -- we go hard, we go faster, and our coaches are really pushing us more. It is not just for the starters but for the backups as well -- everyone is getting pushed and that is what we like about it."
This is not a situation where this is meaningless blather from a new defensive coordinator before he knows what he's got. Mattison knows his personnel and this is what he thinks they'll be best at. It's happening.
The upshot: a lot of man coverage, more man blitzes, many fewer cushions, and a lot of pressure both ways. This is in part a reaction to Michigan State's success with an aggressive, handsy secondary, and it will draw flags. Mattison:
We want to be so physical that it is going to happen… you're going to get a penalty. That's going to happen. As I mentioned, I think Coach Nussmeier… I think they might have thrown the ball 200 and some snaps this spring. We have officials every practice. I think in the spring we had a total of 20 interference penalties. …
An official calls (interference how many times?) Is he is going to call seven, eight, or nine times? It never happens. We would never let you do that. So why not be aggressive? The only reason you wouldn't is if you're worried about well, the coach may get mad at me if I get a penalty. You're not going to be disappointed with the young man unless he did a stupid thing when he didn't need to do it.
Michigan took some silly ones in both the spring and fall scrimmages, something that has been expressly tolerated so far. When the live bullets start flying that may not be so easy to let fly—some of the flags were completely unnecessary.
So it will be a work in progress. It is still a terribly exciting idea. We're coming at you.
[After THE JUMP: is this it? Is this the leap?]
The Story 2013: All Together Now
Previously: The Story 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008. Preview 2012.
Also Previously: Podcast 5.0.
I had this thing I was always going to write about Denard, and I said I'd put it in Hail To The Victors, and Seth really, really wanted it because we really, really had to send everything to the printer, and I sat in front of my keyboard and could not do it. As you're about to find out this week, putting words into a computer is something I do quite frequently. My problem is usually keeping those words relatively concise. This time I sat there, and the thing I'd had in my head for years sat there too.
We stared at each other. Nobody moved.
This is a program that has been in flux for nearly a decade now. The first indication was Jim Herrmann's one-year experiment with the 3-4 in 2004. Like everything in the Late Herrmann period, it worked just enough to make you crazy when it didn't. A year later, Michigan was running a 4-3 again, had a 9-point lead against Ohio State with 7:49 on the clock, and blew it.
Herrmann was given the NFL position coach gold watch, and because any motion towards the future must be paired with an equal and opposite motion towards the past a year later Mike DeBord was re-installed as the offensive coordinator. He completely overhauled the offense, dumping pulling linemen for a zone-stretch running game. Two years later, Rodriguez came in, overhauling everything except David Molk. Three years later, Hoke came in, overhauling everything except David Molk.
All along, the panic grew. Michigan started casting about for anyone they thought could help, whether it was mentally unbalanced defensive linemen or guys with no offers who showed at camp or defensive backs who hadn't ever played a varsity game. Or Mike DeBord. The decisions being made became increasingly unmoored from reality in the late aughts. Something named Appalachian State beat Michigan. At some point Greg Robinson was hired.
Here is a Hieronymus Bosch painting, because nothing else can represent the thought process that ended with that decision.
Chaos descended on Michigan gradually, until a bird-man and spiky monkey and plague dude and bird-hippo-thing murdered it and its magnificent beard. You can assign the various actors their roles based on your preferences, except the plague guy has to be GERG.
This is still a team in flux. Rodriguez got axed just in time for Michigan to complete its transition to spread personnel, echoes of which are still on the team today: a right tackle who was high school hurdler, a #1 receiver standing 5'8", a quarterback who's probably going to jet for 60 yards at some point this year. There are two (two!) upperclass offensive linemen.
This will be the first time since 2003 that anyone at Michigan has entered his third year—let alone fourth—in the same defense, under the same coordinator. Even as the defense settles in, the offense prepares for a drastic change in its nature. The Hoke recruiting classes are just blooding themselves in the two deep; the disastrous 2010 recruiting class looms in holes across the roster.
But for the first time in a long, long time, you can see the trajectory. No one's clamoring for the defensive coordinator's head; no one's looming over the shoulder of the offensive coordinator, ready to pull the plug on anything that looks remotely dangerous. For the next half-dozen years, Michigan is going to be an aggressive 4-3 under defense paired with an offense of titanic humans who will make safeties choose between pounding on the ground and long-range aerial bombardment. The coaches will be the coaches with the exception of a position coach or two who will probably be replaced by a Michigan legend.
On fourth down, they're going.
Deadlines are deadlines, so I wrote the thing eventually. It wasn't what I wanted. It was supposed to have turrets and buttresses and run a 4.1 40. Instead it was… okay. It's not the worst thing I've written. None of that mattered. Time was up. It was done.
In the aftermath a peculiar feeling descended on me. If I spoke German, I would crush together several contradictory words into a multi-syllabic monstrosity that would not quite entirely fail to communicate it. It was over, and that was terrible. It was over, and that was necessary. I wanted to go back, and wanted to go forward.
The thing that was keeping Michigan between states of being had dreadlocks and could outrun a photon. Denard could not do the things Al Borges wanted him to do, and Al Borges could not figure out other things to ask. And yet there he was, so we kept banging that square peg against the round hole. To do otherwise was incomprehensible.
Regrets, I've got 'em. Everyone's got 'em. But there's no going back. Finally, it's in the past. Finally, everyone can focus their efforts on refining what is there instead of throwing it all away and starting over, and then throwing it away next year and starting over again.
This is Michigan, a guy said once. What does that mean? Now we find out.
Dear Diary Already Made a List
User 'jonvalk's tribute to the seniors. Anime Novak needs moar blood. And blue hair. Gotta have blue hair.
First to anyone in Ann Arbor, I hope you're safe from the heavy stuff last night, when mother nature decided to go all Notre Dame on State Street while drafting Haylie Wagner to hail softballs upon ye. That thread also has a video of people watching a tornado from the disc golf course at Hudson Mills. I'm sure the bathroom's safe guys.
Of the century all time recently. The storm of the century is the worst segue ever into the last
week's two weeks' three weeks' (sorry: vacation) discussions of all-century things that took place in the last 30 years or so. The all-times are collected by 'justingoblue', who went around the internet to collect a comprehensive list of Michigan championships in all sports. Brian's query on an MGoBlog Hall of Fame led to a diary by 'Tom from AA' with year by year nominees. And 'saveferris' took us back to the year Ferris Bueller came out (1986) to relive the Super Bowl Shuffle, Never-Nervous Purvis, and one of Bo's best teams, featuring Harbaugh and Morris and Rivers and Elliot. I've got three Diarists of the Week(s) to give out, and one goes to saveferris to encourage him to keep doing these.
The basketballs. Hoops nerdery these days seems to revolve around two questions: can I write the definitive piece on Rasheed Wallace, and three-pointers. On the second we've got you covered by ehatch who absolutely drained a Diarist of the Week(s) by parsing through available data to find out if more than 20 treys starts to negatively affect your offensive efficiency. Conclusion:
So as we go into the post season:
- Cackle with knowing glee if Michigan is driving the basket
- Worry if we draw a zone team that forces us to shoot a lot of 3 pointers.
There was also a temporally useful rooting guide for selection sunday 'mistersuits' deserves some credit for. OHIO, or THE University of OHIO, or whatever you know the green one, was one of the cackle with glee draws.
All the recruits.
It is a period of in-state war.
Michigan staffers, striking from an arboreal
hidden base, have won their first victory against
the evil empire of Port-a-Cool defecators. During the
battle, Rebel spies managed to steal highly rated recruits
from the heart of the Empire with enough talent to destroy
the entire Big~Ten Conference.
Pursued by the Empire's sinister lackey, Darthtonio, King Hoke races home
aboard his starship (hey we have to spend the budget on something), custodian
of the stolen talent that can save the Wolverines and restore freedom to the galaxy…
Let's let 'maizedandconfused' tell you what happens next. I promise no gungans or Jake Lloyd.
Michigan has locked up what's already an end game Top 5 class (Ace's conf update) almost a year before NSD. I'm at a loss for appropriate metaphors and thus devolving into a puddle of ectoplasm that relates everything to Star Wars. This is eee-cause if you put the last year in recruiting against your expectations, the only thing comparable is Memorial Day Weekend of '77. At least there's 'turd ferguson' to provide composite rankings from the sites that have bothered to even rank guys this early.
At this rate we're going to have to put up the 2014 Offer Board pretty soo…what? 'Bluestreak' already did that.
The hockeys. There's four great articles, all by the last Diarist of the Week(s), CenterIce, most linked to and discussed already by Brian in his hockey columns or bumped by me. But here they are again in case you missed them.
: A look at the line combinations and whether they're working.
: A recap of each player's performance during the regular season.
: Notre Dame Picture Pages
: A preview of that game.
The LAX. Here's 'MaizeAndBlueWahoo' with Michigan Lacrosse at the half-way point of its inaugural varsity season. He has efficiency stats. Efficiency stats? Srsly? Siri: set reminder, watch a friggin' lacrosse game already.
Etc. At first 'BlueDragon' was like "tennis?" and then he was like "tennis!!!" If you can Google things, please help The Mathlete. We will all benefit. Blockhams can't tell the difference between Ohio and OHIO; Blockhams get romantic after B1G titles, Blockhams rock the RVB flow. Silly Blockhams.
Best of the Board
'Wolverine Devotee' is trying to redesign Crisler's banners to go with the new digs. I like the idea of offsetting Cazzie (the only retired number) and putting Sweet 16 and Elite 8 appearances on collective banners. These were emailed to Dave Brandon who promptly wrote back "NEEDS MOAR Ms!!!!"
WD also stumbled upon the '98 Big Ten championship banner that upperclassmen held over my head for matriculating after the year of money sport awesome. Since basketball was wiped from the books* the search is on for the best year ever. 'AC1997' is defining this as football/basketball, so I guess the standard is '88-'89: 9-2-1 with close shouldn't-a-been losses to #1 and #2, and won the Rose Bowl, plus the hoops NC.
Lastly in banner bannerism, some guy thinks the "Hoke Springs Eternal" banner is due for a three-sport update. If you come up with a good one the dude will abide.
The limits of my computer skills are I subscribe to the NewEgg newsletter and once installed Ubuntu: not high. But even I got this xkcd:
… so it's scaring the hell out of me that the people who are actually in charge of machines that everyone in the world wants to break into are all like "dude, Microsoft Security Essentials—it's free!" Fortunately for democracy the University of Michigan is here to hack through the hack software they put in e-voting machines. I'll let 'DubbaEwwTeeEff' take it from here:
The news articles at the time reported that they had hacked the system to play "The Victors" after a vote was cast - but that was only the first sign of infiltration. They also managed to add an "OWNED" picture to the logout page, discover the authentication codes for every DC voter, and modify every ballot to be write-ins for fictional computers and robots. (Bender beat Skynet for head of the school board.)
Several other schools were trying but were fended off by the Michigan students, proving once again that the best way to protect the sanctity of our republican system is to have Wolverines protecting the voting machines. I've been saying this a long time.
Sometimes when you're on, you're copying When You're On:
That's Catholic Central with the homage to Paul's preview of 2009. HT 'Denarded'.
If you're obsessive over figuring out scenarios for College Hockey Plinko Tournament 2012, or you just get perverse joy from having Michigan come up a 1 seed all the time, USCHO has the pairwise predictor up. User 'goblue7612' puts up a worst case scenario and challenges you to see if you can knock us from the 1 seed. User 'turd ferguson' could drop us as low as 6th in a world where Miami beats Bowling Green in the CCHA championship Saturday. I'm planning on being at the Joe tomorrow night so please let's not (Michigan plays BG in the semifinal at 8:00 tonight).
Wagner/Speierman/Driesenga: MGoBlue.com
Our ridiculous (read: awesome) pitchers are ridiculous (read: awesome):
|Haylie Wagner
|Stephanie Speierman
|Sara Driesenga
I didn't update after the Oklahoma game last night but these stats are good through the 2-1 victory over Notre Dame in Game 1 of the Judi Garman Classic. (Update: they lost to Okla, but the stats are hardly different). They need the bats (including Wagner's) to give them some support. Next week the gals come home to start Big Ten play.
ETC. Check in with your football background on this thread by 'jasputan.' Sparty copped "Facepalm" guy with "Owmyoccipital" guy; he gets photoshopped. People with umich.edu accounts spent a night ignoring Reply-All email etiquette to pass around MGoMemes. Kids these days—I went to school before people respected the awesome power of reply-all. And we used PINE.
* In light of UNC and Ohio State recently joining the ranks of teams which O'Brien is helping me remember anew, it's as good a time as any to remark again that I hate this particular form of "punishment." I get that it's shaming for the ineligible player and the program but in essence it's a group of America's best academic institutions rewriting history.
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Mitch McGary: Happening? Probably
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In the last 24 hours the belief that Mitch McGary will end up at Michigan has spread from local guru Sam Webb to large hunks of the basketball recruiting world. McGary just announced he wouldn't be visiting Kentucky or anywhere else and plans to come to a decision in a month.
While his blog post on ESPN mentions a desire to run and (fairly) leaves Michigan out when discussing the teams that do run, that hasn't stopped the train of positive mojo Webb kicked off on a WTKA recruiting roundup a couple days ago. Dave Telep:
If I set the odds, I'd install Michigan as favorite w/McGary at this juncture. College recruiters concerned about UM the most.
Scout's Brian Snow:
Word on the street is that Michigan has emerged as a leader for 2012 big man Mitch McGary, who was supposed to make an official visit to Kentucky for Big Blue Madness. Scout.com national analyst Evan Daniels reported on Sunday night that he was hearing Michigan was a "major favorite." There is also some speculation now that McGary, a native of Indiana, won't make any more visits.
The twitter feed of one Bacari Alexander:
Boy, I hope that's about recruiting and not baseball.


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WASHINGTON — U.S. wheat supplies in the 2014-15 marketing year beginning June 1 will be the smallest since 2007-08, according to the Grains and Oilseeds Outlook issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture at its Agricultural Outlook Forum on Feb. 21. The U.S.D.A. projected the U.S. wheat supply in 2014-15 at 2,868 million bus, down 150 million bus, or 5%, from 3,018 million bus in 2013-14 and compared with 3,131 million bus in 2012-13.
The U.S.D.A. projected 2014 wheat production at 2,160 million bus, up 30 million bus from 2013 and compared with 2,266 million bus in 2012. The recent five-year average wheat outturn was 2,244 million bus. Wheat imports in 2014-15 were projected at 150 million bus, a large inflow but well short of the record 170 million bus forecast for the current year.
The U.S.D.A. preliminarily projected the carryover of wheat on June 1, 2015, at 587 million bus, up 29 million bus, or 5%, from a forecast 558 million bus in 2014.


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The BMW 3-series coupé was only launched recently and already we offer a sports program for the latest member of the 3-series family. As for all current BMW models with 3.0d engine, we will shortly be offering a diesel performance upgrade for the 3-series coupé.
An additional control module provides 195 kW / 265 HP and a maximum torque of 550 Nm, so acceleration from 0 – 100 km/h takes just 6.1 instead of 6.6 seconds. In order to provide performance upgrades for the 335d and 335i with the new Twin Turbo technology, totally new developments are required. These are currently in the first stages of the test phase.
Despite the increase in power, the excellent driving behaviour, moderate fuel consumption and superb stability remain unchanged with both performance upgrades. Even without engine tuning, we recommend fitting the sports rear silencer which – depending on base model – is available as a single system or in right-left combination. For a purely aesthetic conversion, tailpipe trims are also available "solo" for some models. Our bodystyling components for the 3-series coupé stand out not only because of their sporting new design line, but also because of the perfect fit and ease of painting that are the result of the use of high quality PU-Rim. The new 3-series coupé has a strikingly contoured front spoiler that not only enhances the appearance with its sporting elegant design – at the same time it increases downforce on the front axle. For the rear axle, the aerodynamic highlights of a rear roof spoiler, a one-piece rear wing and a rear skirt with stylised diffuser profile are now in development. Another development for the coupé is the side skirts which give the side lines a more striking and elongated appearance. Optionally the side skirts can be highlighted with a chrome line set. The wheelarches of the 3-series coupé provide space for the Type II, Type III and Type IV alloy and racing rims from 18 to 20″ diameter.
The suspension components have been specially set up for the use of the wheel and tyre combinations. Depending on personal preference, the owner of a 3-series coupé of model range E92 can choose between pure suspension springs and a complete, performance-comfort set sports suspension which lowers the BMW by around 25 mm. The suspension concept developed in extensive tests on the North Loop of the Nürburgring also includes the AC Schnitzer sports antiroll bars for the rear axle and aluminium strut braces for front and rear. For the interior of the coupé, an extensive range of high-quality accessories is available.
For example, the cockpit can be enhanced with an ergonomically designed airbag steering wheel. There is also a carbon steering wheel trim in silver Exclusive. Another highlight in the interior is the AC Schnitzer combi instrument with speedometer display up to 300 km/h. Footrests and pedals of aluminium create a more exclusive atmosphere in the cockpit together with the carbon interior trim in silver Exclusive. The aluminium gear knob, handbrake handle and cover for the BMW "i-Drive System" are available in silver or black anodized finish. Velours foot mats complete the range.
Text and photos courtesy of AC SChnitzer


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My great-aunt Lilian Vaye Jackson passed away on the 17th, at the age of 89. I am weirdly ambivalent to her passing. As close as I was to her, and we were close. I am more relieved than saddened. It is difficult to see someone whom you respect, who has such spirit and vitality wither before your eyes into something helpless and incoherent. I refuse, though, to dwell on the unpleasant events.
Lilian Vaye Jackson was my own personal Katherine Hepburn. She had a fierce intelligence, a very sharp tongue, and absolutely no filter. Words like "no" or "don't" meant nothing to her - we got along very well. When she was younger, she had already lived a fuller life than most can dream of. She owned and frequently traveled by motorbike, she took pilot lessons, and she worked as a librarian - how much more adventurous a life can one desire? She loved school and learning and constantly encouraged me to get as much of both as I can. She effected my life greatly in a markedly positive way.
Through the eyes of a six year old the world is full of wonder and adventure. It was during this magical age that I went to stay a few weeks with my Aunt Vaye in Oklahoma City. During my time in her ward, she introduced me to a myriad of new sights and experiences, chief among them were horses, goat head burrs, and found treasures. I could tell you stories for minutes about each of these learned life lessons, but I will only captivate you with one aesop's fable-like (minus the talking animals) story this day.
There was an old mare named lady who lived in Vaye's pasture; she was tremendously gentle and wouldn't hurt a flea, or so I thought. One evening, after Vaye had gotten me ready for bed, at around 7:30 - the first mistake - I decided to sneak down to the pond to play with the horse - the second mistake. As I walked up to the infernal beast fully decked out in my glow-in-the-dark Thunder Cat pajamas, at what I felt was a perfectly audible level, she however obviously felt otherwise. As I apparently skulked up behind her like an assassin, Lady took no notice of me until I was no more than a couple of feet away from her. Then she suddenly came to life quite ferociously. She jumped and bucked and kicked and I had no idea what was going on. In the commission, I somehow fell, or more precisely was knocked into the muddy embankment surrounding the pond. Aunt Vaye heard this and came outside to see what was going on. When she saw what had happened, she wasn't a bit angry, she simply laughed hysterically at my predicament. eventually, however, she did come collect me form the mud and begin the whole process of preparing for bed again. I learned from this that you should always make presence evident and that it is perfectly acceptable to laugh at the stupidity of children. Both tenets, that I feel, I will follow for the rest of my life.
To bring this entry to a close, I would like to share with you two of my most favorite exchanges with Vaye:
I was lying in her livingroom floor coloring when Vaye walked through saying words that I had never heard come out of her mouth. I looked up with innocent, questioning and apparently terror-filled eyes. Vaye looked at me and said so cavalierly, "I am saying pitch, pitch, pitch - not bitch, bitch, bitch." Aunt Vaye was deaf as a rock and when she was adjusting her hearing aid, designated pitch as the word to test her adjustments. That story has haunted me all my life. regardless of the occasion, I could always count on Vaye tell it and the above mentioned story to a room full of family members, or passers-bye. Any ear would do.
The other is a far more recent volley of sarcasm and smart-assyness in which I am the victor.
A few Christmases back, in a room filled to capacity with aunts, uncles and distantly related cousins - you know the all that ilk. My dear Aunt Vaye asked me if I had a girlfriend. Since she was so hard of hearing Aunt Vaye was incredibly loud, even her whispers were tremendous - this was no whisper. I felt as if the everyone stopped what they were doing and turned their attention to our conversation. I bashfully said, "no." But mere moments later I asked her if she had a boyfriend. She mustered a rather indignant look and sneered, "I think not." She didn't ask me that question ever again. I know, it's not like winning the Nobel prize, but Aunt Vaye was always the one to do the embarrassing and never the one to be embarrassed. That's how we rolled - making fun of each other as far back as I can remember. I wouldn't change a minute of it.
Friday, October 20, 2006
my hero
Posted by Le Bohemian Corsair at 5:29 PM
2 comments:
- craftyminx said...
that was beautiful.
- Adjective Queen said...
I've got the same ambivalent feelings about my grandma. She's my favorite relative, and I want her to be healthy, yet I don't want her to twiddle her thumbs at the nursing home, waiting to die. Aging sucks.
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|Oracle® Communications Converged Application Server Administration Guide
Release 5.0
Part Number E17647-03
|View PDF
This chapter describes how to configure and manage Oracle Communications Converged Application Server deployments:
Shared Configuration Tasks for Converged Application Server and WebLogic Server
Converged Application Server is based on Oracle WebLogic Server 11g release 1 patch set 2, and many system-level configuration tasks are the same for both products. This guide addresses only those system-level configuration tasks that are unique to Converged Application Server, such as tasks related to network and security configuration and cluster configuration for the engine and SIP data tiers.
HTTP server configuration and other basic configuration tasks such as server logging are addressed in the Oracle WebLogic Server documentation. See Oracle Fusion Middleware Getting Started With Installation for Oracle WebLogic Server to get started.
The SIP Servlet container, SIP data tier replication, and Diameter protocol features of Converged Application Server are implemented in the Oracle WebLogic Server 10g Release 3 product as custom resources. A pair of custom resources,
sipserver and
datatier, implement the engine tier SIP Servlet container functionality and SIP data tier replication functionality. In production deployments, both resources are generally installed. Specialized deployments may use only the
sipserver resource in conjunction with a SIP-aware load balancer, as described in "Alternate Configurations" in "Overview of the Converged Application Server Architecture".
Another custom resource,
diameter, provides Diameter base protocol functionality, and is required only for deployments that utilize one or more Diameter protocol applications.
The Converged Application Server custom resource assignments are visible in the domain configuration file,
config.xml, and should not be modified. Example 2-1 shows the definitions for each resource. Note that the
sipserver and
datatier resources must each be targeted to the same servers or clusters; in Example 2-1, the resources are deployed to both the engine tier and SIP data tier cluster.
Example 2-1 Converged Application Server Custom Resources
<custom-resource> <name>sipserver</name> <target>ORA_DATA_TIER_CLUST,ORA_ENGINE_TIER_CLUST</target> <descriptor-file-name>custom/sipserver.xml</descriptor-file-name> <resource-class>com.bea.wcp.sip.management.descriptor.resource.SipServerResource</resource-class> <descriptor-bean-class>com.bea.wcp.sip.management.descriptor.beans.SipServerBean</descriptor-bean-class> </custom-resource> <custom-resource> <name>datatier</name> <target>ORA_DATA_TIER_CLUST,ORA_ENGINE_TIER_CLUST</target> <descriptor-file-name>custom/datatier.xml</descriptor-file-name> <resource-class>com.bea.wcp.sip.management.descriptor.resource.DataTierResource</resource-class> <descriptor-bean-class>com.bea.wcp.sip.management.descriptor.beans.DataTierBean</descriptor-bean-class> </custom-resource> <custom-resource> <name>diameter</name> <target>ORA_ENGINE_TIER_CLUST</target> <deployment-order>200</deployment-order> <descriptor-file-name>custom/diameter.xml</descriptor-file-name> <resource-class>com.bea.wcp.diameter.DiameterResource</resource-class> <descriptor-bean-class>com.bea.wcp.diameter.management.descriptor.beans.ConfigurationBean</descriptor-bean-class> </custom-resource>
The Converged Application Server custom resources utilize the basic domain resources defined in
config.xml, such as network channels, cluster and server configuration, and Java EE resources. However, Converged Application Server-specific resources are configured in separate configuration files based on functionality:
sipserver.xml configures SIP container properties and general Converged Application Server engine tier functionality.
datatier.xml identifies servers that participate as replicas in the SIP data tier, and also defines the number and layout of SIP data tier partitions.
diameter.xml configures Diameter nodes and Diameter protocol applications used in the domain.
approuter.xml configures Default Application Router (DAR).
The domain configuration file,
config.xml, defines all of the Managed Servers available in the domain. The
datatier.xml, and
diameter.xml configuration files included in the
sipserver application determine the role of each server instance, such as whether they behave as SIP data tier replicas, engine tier nodes, or Diameter client nodes.
Configuration changes to SIP Servlet container properties can be applied dynamically to a running server by using the Administration Console or from the command line using the WLST utility. (Some SIP Servlet container properties may display a Restart may be required icon, meaning that you may be required to restart the server to make the change take effect.) Configuration for SIP data tier nodes cannot be changed dynamically, so you must reboot SIP data tier servers in order to change the number of partitions or replicas.
The Diameter protocol implementation is implemented as a custom resource separate from the SIP Servlet container functionality. The Diameter configuration file configures one or more Diameter protocol applications to provide Diameter node functionality. Converged Application Server provides the Diameter protocol applications to support the following node types:
Diameter Sh interface client node (for querying a Home Subscriber Service)
Diameter Rf interface client node (for offline charging)
Diameter Ro interface client node (for online charging)
Diameter relay node
HSS simulator node (suitable for testing and development only, not for production deployment)
The Diameter custom resource is deployed only to domains having servers that function as Diameter client nodes or relay agents, or to servers providing HSS simulation capabilities. The actual function of the server instance depends on the configuration defined in the
diameter.xml file.
See "Chapter 24, "Configuring Diameter Client Nodes and Relay Agents" for instructions on configuring the Diameter Web Application in an Converged Application Server domain.
See "Using the Diameter Sh Interface Application" in Converged Application Server Diameter Application Development Guide for more information about using the Sh profile API.
Converged Application Server provides several mechanisms for changing the configuration of the SIP Servlet container:
Converged Application Server provides Administration Console extensions that allow you to modify and SIP Servlet container, SIP Servlet domain, and Diameter configuration properties using a graphical user interface. The Administration Console extensions for Converged Application Server are similar to the core console available in Oracle WebLogic Server 11g. All Converged Application Server configuration and monitoring is provided through these nodes in the left pane of the console:
SipServer: configures SIP Servlet container properties and other engine tier functionality. This extension also enables you to view (but not modify) SIP data tier partitions and replicas. See "Overview of SIP Container Configuration" for more information about configuring the SIP Servlet container using the Administration Console.
Diameter: configures Diameter nodes and applications.
To learn more about using the Administration Console, see the chapters on using the console in the Oracle WebLogic Server documentation.
The WebLogic Scripting Tool (WLST) enables you to perform interactive or automated (batch) configuration operations using a command-line interface. WLST is a JMX tool that can view or manipulate the MBeans available in a running Converged Application Server domain. "Overview of SIP Container Configuration" in Chapter 8, "Configuring Engine Tier Container Properties" provides instructions for modifying SIP Servlet container properties using WLST.
For more information, see the following documents in the WebLogic Server documentation:
For information about WLST, see Oracle WebLogic Scripting Tool.
For information about WLST commands, see WebLogic Scripting Tool Command Reference.
Most Converged Application Server configuration is performed using either the Administration Console or WLST. The methods described in the following sections may also be used for certain configuration tasks.
You may also edit
diameter.xml and
approuter.xml manually by following the respective schemas for each configuration file. See Part V, "Converged Application Server Configuration File Reference" in this document for more information.
If you edit configuration files manually, you must reboot all servers to apply the configuration changes.
Converged Application Server properties are represented by JMX-compliant MBeans. You can therefore program JMX applications to configure SIP container properties using the appropriate Converged Application Server MBeans.
The general procedure for modifying Converged Application Server MBean properties using JMX is described in "Configuring Container Properties Using WLST (JMX)" in Chapter 8, "Configuring Engine Tier Container Properties" (WLST itself is a JMX-based application). For more information about the individual MBeans used to manage SIP container properties, see the Converged Application Server JavaDocs.
You can set log levels by manually editing the
logging.xml file, by setting the
(String loggerName, String logLevel) MBean, or through Oracle Enterprise Manager.
General administration and maintenance of Converged Application Server requires that you manage both WebLogic Server configuration properties and Converged Application Server container properties. These common configuration tasks are summarized in Table 2-1.
Table 2-1 Common Converged Application Server Configuration Tasks
Configuring SIP Container Properties using the Administration Console
Using WLST to perform batch configuration
Assigning Converged Application Server instances to the SIP data tier partitions
Replicating call state using multiple SIP data tier instances
Configuring WebLogic Server network channels to handling SIP and HTTP traffic
Setting up multi-homed server hardware
Configuring load balancers for use with Converged Application Server
Configuring the LDAP Digest Authentication Provider
Configuring a trusted host list
Configuring logging Servlets to record SIP requests and responses.
Defining log criteria for filtering logged messages
Maintaining Converged Application Server log files


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How sweet is nectar?
How sweet will nectar be?
The first question can be answered only by immortals or people who have seen the nectar in one form or the other. Coming to think of it, is there anything called nectar at all? Is it defined by the taste alone or is it by its so called property of giving immortality? Before we get into this, let us see what AruNagirinaadar, one of the greatest tamizh poets says:
'My senses cease to exist. Through my lotus-like intellect I see the sacred vision of the 6 faces and the 12 shoulders and there I see and feel the sweet nectar that flows transcending the shores of all the worlds. I dissolve myself in the ultimate ocean.'
பத்தித் திருமுகம் ஆறுடன் பன்னிரு தோள்களுமாய்த்
தித்தித்து இருக்கும் அமுது கண்டேன் செயல் மாண்டு அடங்கப்
புத்திக் கமலத்து உருகிப் பெருகிப் புவனம் எற்றித்
தத்திக் கரைபுரளும் பரம ஆனந்த சாகரத்தே.
தித்தித்து இருக்கும் அமுது கண்டேன் செயல் மாண்டு அடங்கப்
புத்திக் கமலத்து உருகிப் பெருகிப் புவனம் எற்றித்
தத்திக் கரைபுரளும் பரம ஆனந்த சாகரத்தே.
The devotee of Shanmukha feels the nectar when he has the vision of his favourite God.
This verse is mystic and esoteric too. It is said that the life force called 'KuNdalini' resides inside all human beings and when activated, it flows upwards through the seven chakras finally culminating in the head with the Intellect opening like the lotus flower. This is considered to be the ultimate ecstasy. But for this to happen, one must lose the senses, and therefore the self.
Let us now look at another poem by yet another poet.
'Monkeys jump from branch to branch even as the devotees pluck flowers for Him in Thiruvengadam. Draped in dusk red, He reclines on the serpent with the beautiful lotus-shaped navel that gave birth to Brahmma the creator. Is this not the pleasing soul that resides in my heart!'
'மந்தி பாய் வட வேங்கட மா மலை வானவர்கள்
சந்தி செய்ய நின்றான் அரங்கத்து அணையான்
அந்தி போல் நிறத்து ஆடையும் அதன்மேல் அயனைப் படைத்தது ஓர் எழில்
உந்தி மேல் அது அன்றோ!அடியேன் உள்ளத்து இன்னுயிரே!'
This was sung by the Vaishnavaite saint ThiruppaaNaazhwar.
I find a lot of parallels between the two verses though they sound different.
Monkey is a metaphor for the mind while flower is a metaphor for good thoughts. Serpent is symbolic of the kuNdalini and here too we see the lotus which is a metaphor for the Intellect.
Two different poets in two different eras singing about two different Gods. The common thread? Ultimate ecstasy also called as the nectar.
Let us now go back to the two questions asked in the beginning. The answer to the first question can be given only by people like AruNagirinathar and ThiruppaaNaazhwar.
However, the second question can be answered by mortals like us because it is easy to go on a fantasy trip and imagine things which exist and which don't. But fantasy trips can be dangerous too since there are more chances of tripping and crash landing which in effect would prove to be detrimental.
We surely need not be a saint or a siddha purusha to discover the nectar. In my last year's special post, I mentioned about divinity and said that if at all there is one thing in the world that unites atheists, agnostics and believers, it is music. I had also said that some great souls have made us realise the divine through their immortal compositions. If the poets discovered and enjoyed the nectar, great musicians make us discover and enjoy the nectar.
ILaiyaraaja is the greatest living example. His compositions make us realise many things that we would not have realised all along. It gives us feelings that are hard to describe. Like the works of the immortal poets that have esoteric meanings, his compositions too have very deep meanings and value. The music awakens the Shakti hidden inside us that travels upwards and culminates in our experiencing the blossoming of the lotus and our seeing and feeling the nectarine flow.
Since his creativity is backed by a very sound classical knowledge, the way he uses the ragas are mind boggling and his approach is wondrous.
Take the ragam Shanmukhapriya for example. This 56th melakarta raga is steeped in classicism and has a beauty of its own. ILaiyaraaja has made us look at some unknown dimensions of this raga. 'PoNNu paakka ', 'Ammaadi Chinna paappa' 'Abhisheka neraththil', 'Vettu vedippom', 'Vengaaya saambaarum' and 'Kaadal kasukkudaiah' smile at us with gay abandon. If he had the audacity to compose such humorous song in this classical raga- without in anyway diluting the raga-, he also had the confidence and knowledge to compose 'Tam tananam', 'Ta ki ta ta dhimi' and 'Sollayo vaai thiRandhu', compositions that radiate classicism in the same raga.
The song of the day 'Nenjam inikkiRadhu' from 'ThenpaaNdi Singam'(1988) too effuse beauty , resonate with melody and is full of virtuosity.
It starts with a flourish. Mridangam reverberates with a string of syllables in chatushram. In fact, in just a matter of two cycles, it plays a very brief Tani avartanam with intricate laya patterns. The soft textured Veena follows and shows eloquent vignettes of Shanmukhapriya. It also draws a beautiful sketch of the ragam with typical prayogas like 'pa dha ni', 'dha ni sa' 'Sa ni dha pa ma'.
Pallavi starts lucidly. There are four different sangatis for 'Nenjam' alone. This coupled with the akaaram makes it a complete classical experience with the interspersed Veena heightening the effect.
The composition is in the 8-beat adi taaLam. However, the vocals in the last line of the Pallavi completes only half a cycle. The Veena completes the next half and seamlessly the composition moves on to the first interlude. Mesmerisingly innovative!
The Veena and the flute that coalesces with it now, travel with unbridled enthusiasm. It is like swift paced ripples that show us the contours of the ragam with dexterity. In the last two avartanams, Laya raga raaja is in full flow as the swaras go in pairs of two, three and four.
The first CharaNam is soaked in beauty. The first line itself has two variations with the phrase 'anjuvar' touching the tara staayi swaras the second time it is rendered. The following line too has special sangatis in 'Vaazhthadhu kettu'.
The Pallavi when rendered again with the akaaram, is left with half avartanam and the VeeNa takes over yet again. The subtle flute joins and what follows is a question- answer session. The Veena and Flute play a set of notes with lightning repartees from the percussion. After two avartanams, the percussion and the melodic instruments merge together signifying the union.
With poise, the Veena now flows like a stream touching all dimensions of the raga. We get to see the six faces and the twelve shoulders glistening with beauty.
The second charaNam is different from the first charaNam showing us the versatility of the composer . The first line which is rendered thrice is succinct, with the lilting Veena making it more fascinating. The phrase 'uyir ondRuthaan' in the following line itself gives the essence of the raga. Laya Raaja comes to the fore again in the following line 'adhai ninaiththaale'. The percussion which follows the chatushram pattern the first time, shifts to the 3-beat cycle Tisram. After 4 tisrams, it again subdivides into 6 maatraas ( taa ta ri ki ta) – and from then on, it alternates between 3 and 6 making it a wholesome experience.
And we are soaked in the nectar. Why wouldn't we be?
The previous post in Tamizh and this post were read out to an invited audience in Chennai on the 15th of Sep 2013 as part of Geetanjali Event.
The previous post in Tamizh and this post were read out to an invited audience in Chennai on the 15th of Sep 2013 as part of Geetanjali Event.


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