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  • Sahar
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      I was thinking what you wrote about beauty. My daughtetr is in hospital so I've had to go into the town centre every day (by bus). Not having been into the polluted heart of Bristol for a while I noticed how dirty it was. And most of dirt was up buildings from car exhausts. Even the new shopping centre being built (in cream, duh) was already filthy.

      Sam Wilson <sam@...> wrote:

      Did anyone here hear about the Chaps (as in, from the Chap Olympics, I
      think) who went, be-tweeded, to the Tate Modern, and stomped around
      chanting "Truth is Beauty! Beauty is Truth!" as a protest against Modern
      Art? Well, I am coming to think that what I like most about the carfree
      movement is the fact that it is all about (or, lots about, anyway)
      re-introducing beauty into the everyday. Roads are ugly; parks are nice.
      Do away with cars, and everyone can be a short walk from where they're
      going at all times; I'd far rather stroll through greenery and growing
      food to get to work, than sit on the freeway trying like buggery to lose
      myself in a novel!

      "Whoever has two coats must share with anyone who has none; and whoever has food must do likewise."
      Luke 3:11

      For ideas on reducing your carbon footprint visit Yahoo! For Good this month.

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  • Brian Lewis
    Thanks for the feedback, Joe. I sure wish I had read more here and elsewhere before going with the Supershelter; if you or others have tips (I hope you ll be
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      Thanks for the feedback, Joe. I sure wish I had read more here and
      elsewhere before going with the Supershelter; if you or others have
      tips (I hope you'll be experimenting more too), I'll eagerly read and
      try 'em. I think that before I send more money to HH I'll see if I
      can't find some local source of open-celled-foam. Two pieces of such
      foam have a lot of friction so I would expect a piece put on top of
      the foam that came with the supershelter would stay put without more
      cordage, or maybe just a little velcro or something.

      I'm not sure that "hip and torso" pads are exactly what I need. My
      feet got cold; I'd definitely try to add some foam at the foot end.
      Yes to "Hips" (I'd say "butt"), as that's where a lot of pressure is
      --- asym or not, that part sags down some. At $30 and 5.5 ounces
      more, I might indeed just end up ordering a second underpad. A little
      frustrating to have to guess at all of this.

      Spare clothing doesn't work for me; as a trying-to-be-light hiker, I
      have darned few pieces of "spare" clothing, especially on a cold
      night. When it's cold I'll be wearing (in the hammock) both my
      lighter and heavier pairs of outer socks, warm hat,
      sweater/fleece/whatever (I use a Montbell UL Thermawrap) --- this
      allows me to camp with a darned light sleeping bag (20 ounces). About
      all I have for "spare clothes" at that point are a change of underwear
      and spare liner socks plus thin mittens. Which I use in my sleeping
      bag stuff sack under my neck (all the pillow I need).

      I can't help but think that maybe I'm just doing something
      fundamentally wrong with the supershelter; I'm not a person that needs
      a really warm bed at night. But there doesn't seem to be much room to
      misinterpret how to assemble and use the supershelter system, and it
      all looks right. Dunno.

      If I figure anything out this fall/winter when I do some at-home
      testing, I'll certainly post my results.

      Brian Lewis

      --- In hammockcamping@yahoogroups.com, "Joe" <jingram01@...> wrote:
      > Brian, I too had become dissatisfied with sleeping on a CCF pad
      > inside my hammock. After a lot of reading and contemplation about the
      > various insulation systems which would fit my HH, I ordered the HH
      > undercover/pad, so I read with interest your thread on the HH system
      > tonight. I am not sure it will keep me warm to the temperatures I may
      > want to camp in, but I am likewise unsure about the other systems. I
      > have read both good and bad reviews of the HH system's insulating
      > ability. I have also read some good and bad reviews for both the JRB
      > and the KAQ (the other systems I was contemplating) and don't in any
      > way mean to knock them. I finally decided that the only way to know
      > if it would work for me was to give it a try.
      > The factors that influenced me to select the HH was the ability to
      > leave the system attached when packing, which eliminates the need to
      > adjust it every night, the weight (13 ounces), and also the cost of
      > the system (I'm cheap).
      > Before ordering the system I called and talked with Tom Hennessy
      > about a few questions I had. One of my questions was if it was
      > possible to add a second pad without compressing it too much if one
      > pad was not sufficient to get down to the temperatures I wanted to
      > reach. Tom expressed his belief that using a single pad, space
      > blanket and spare clothing would work for most people, but said that
      > using two pads would work if needed. He also mentioned that he does
      > still have hip and torso pads available, which would be lighter, less
      > bulky, and less expensive than a second pad. He is considering adding
      > them to his web site as optional items. But, even adding another
      > complete pad, the total weight of the system would only be 18.5
      > ounces with a total cost under $155, so I am willing to experiment
      > with it.
      > If you develop any methods that you find improve your comfort range,
      > please post them. I would be interested in hearing about them.
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      ... for a ... oz ... pound ... 100 ... gear ... the ... review). ... you ... other ... pay ... could ... the ... longer ... cost ... consistently ... free ...
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        --- In hammockcamping@yahoogroups.com, "Brian Lewis" <brianle@...>
        > Pan wrote:
        > "Sorry for the delayed response...have been away from this site
        for a
        > couple of days.
        > My post was in response to my perceived belief that you felt
        > hammocks were heavy or at least heavier than your bivi set up. The
        > stock BUL and SS system you chose is heavier than some other HH and
        > several other hammocks. There are posts on Whiteblaze.net that
        > probably have 30-40 responses of different hammock set ups, many in
        > the 3-3.5 pound range for hammocks , tarps and bottoms insulation
        > adequate for 30-35 degree use.To answer you question on specific
        > alternative the HH Hyperlight will shave 10 oz from the BUL
        > approach, Speer models can come in lighter depending on material.
        > (personally Iuse a HH ELR without the fly, 8x8, w STL and 2 ti UL
        > stakes , A JRB Nest under quilt w/Suspension system and it come to
        > exactly 48 os.) Others are lighter, Carol Crooker on BPL hammocked
        > in the 5 pound challege last year with her entire base pack under 5
        > pounds.
        > Looking over your post above, it appears that you are carrying 12
        > or so of alternative gear, blue pad, space blanket, tyvek,funnels,
        > and also a line level...this makes your set up appear almost a
        > heavier."
        > =============================================================
        > Thanks, Pan. Ditto about delayed response; my wife and I just
        > finished hiking around Mt. Rainier on the Wonderland Trail (about
        > miles of all up-and-down). Sharing a tent, as my wife hasn't
        > converted, so I was back to dirt camping!
        > When I responded to you last time, I hadn't realized you were a
        > maker (JacksRBetter); I really appreciate folks like you and Ed and
        > others that respond to us gear *users*!
        > One thing that struck me in your suggested 2.5 to 3 pound range was
        > just simple math: my Hennessy Ultralight Backpacker is listed on
        > Hennessy site as 1 pound 15 ounces. Your JRB Nest is listed at 20
        > ounces, plus another ounce for the stuff sack and I think another
        > ounce for the suspension system (? based on backpackgeartest
        > Those items then alone sum to 53 ounces --- 3.3 pounds ... that's
        > without including stakes to hold the sides out, or longer straps
        > (necessary in the NW).
        > I could have saved 7 oz (or maybe 10 depending on which HH specs
        > read ...) by going with the hyperlite instead of ultralight; the
        > hyperlight is very new, however, and I generally prefer to let
        > pioneers get the arrows in their backs <g>. If I were willing to
        > more for a hammock that I would guess would wear out faster, I
        > indeed get that down to 2 pounds 14 ounces --- more like right at
        > 3 pound edge of your suggested range with necessary stakes and
        > straps (funnels optional at less than an ounce).
        > It looks to me that at this point I could save maybe 9 ounces over
        > what I'm doing now (without buying a new hammock) by replacing my
        > supershelter + foam pad + space blanket with a JRB nest, at the
        > of $240 more, but with hopefully a more comfortable and
        > warm sleep --- assuming any underquilt will be sufficiently draft-
        > (i.e., that gaps between underquilt and hammock body don't lose me
        > warm dead air I need). And that I could keep the thing dry
        enough in
        > the pacific northwest to keep me reliably warm. And that I never
        > to pitch the hammock on the ground.
        > Come late fall or winter I'll try out some options with my
        > supershelter first, and if I just can't make that reasonably work
        > lower temps, I might indeed become another JRB customer! Or maybe
        > KAQ customer, accepting more weight for a synthetic that hopefully
        > would keep me warm even if wet (?).
        > I was interested in the setup that you mentioned above, and wonder
        > you could expand a couple of the abbreviations (please):
        > "HH ELR without the fly, 8x8, w STL and 2 ti UL stakes , A JRB Nest
        > under quilt w/Suspension system" that you said comes out to
        exactly 48
        > ounces.
        > HH ELR is what? The Hennessy Explorer Ultralight A-Sym is listed
        at 2
        > pounds 7 ounces (39 ounces), so that can't be it, unless you're
        > somehow saving a lot of weight on an alternate (but bigger?) fly.
        > not sure what an STL is; I presume 8x8 refers to some alternative
        > you're using. ti UL stakes are likely light weight (ti ==
        > stakes.
        > Again, I'm truly not meaning to be critical or negative or
        > just trying to understand --- if a JRB nest with stuff sack and
        > suspension system is 22 ounces, then 48 - 22 = 26 ounces for your
        > hammock with alternate fly and stakes. That might work if ELR is
        > strange abbreviation for Hyperlite ...
        > Brian Lewis

        Welcome back from your hike...condolances or the hard ground...least
        you had great company.

        HH ELR= HH Extreme Light Racer...the 20 oz racer that several of us
        started using for all around backpacking....mine is in great shape
        after 60 nights and many afternoons of set up ...test some gear ...
        then tear down and repack etc...Medicine Man, frequent poster on
        Whiteblaze.net, has had similiar experiance....this hammock minus
        the fly of 7 oz or and including standard tree savers is 15
        oz ....This hammock and its growing general purpose use by the UL
        community is what led to the Hyper light....at $169 it is a lot less
        money than the HL at $219...But you do get the little gear loft
        pocket and a claim of more reliability for the HL (although they
        both appear to have 1.1 oz nlyon bottoms). Believe it is an oz
        lighter than the HL.

        STL = Self Tensioning Lines...1 oz per pair of 9.5 foot lines.

        8x8 = short hand for a JRB square tarp, no one else routinely makes
        and sells this size, with a diagonal center seam that fits most
        regular length hammocks.. it weighs 9.4 oz (which is about 2 oz more
        than a stock HH BULA fly).

        Hope this helps.... big trees, requiring longer staps, obviously
        will add proportionately ...save your short ones ...when you come
        east they will be useful and save a little... :-)

      • Brian Lewis
        Thanks, Pan. The ELR ( Light Racer A-Sym on the HH site) isn t something I even considered; the text on the HH site puts Recommended for racing only in
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          Thanks, Pan. The ELR ("Light Racer A-Sym" on the HH site) isn't
          something I even considered; the text on the HH site puts "Recommended
          for racing only" in bold text, says that durability is sacrificed for
          weight, and that it has a limited one-year guarantee ... with the
          majority of the text about it being those sorts of caveats ...

          So I find it *very* interesting that you've already got 60 nights and
          many test afternoons on yours and report that it's in great shape!

          Brian Lewis
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25347Mystical Realms Newsletter for June, 2014

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  • jef.murray
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      And welcome to my newsletter for June, 2014! Please feel free to forward this to anyone you think would be interested in keeping up with me! To receive these newsletters regularly, please drop me an email or subscribe online from my website (http://www.JefMurray.com ) or at: http://groups.google.com/group/Mystical_Realms .

      Pitchers ===============

      •      A new, revised, and expanded edition of Seer: A Wizard’s Journal has been announced and will be available for sale later this year. The 2nd edition of this collection of tales, poetry, images and reflections sports a new cover, many interior illustrations that are now reproduced in full colour, plus two “follow on” tales to the opening story, The Watchman, that more fully introduce characters that appear regularly throughout the remainder of the book. For more information, see: http://olorispublishing.mymiddleearth.com/2014/03/25/oloris-publishing-announces-expanded-version-of-seer-a-wizards-journal-by-jef-murray/

      Prospects ===================

      •      The game is on for Tolkien fans in KentuckyA Long Expected Party 3 (acronym AL3P) is completely booked, but you can still be put on the waiting list for lodgings on-site. You can also stay off-site and still register and join us. I’m delighted to announce that I will be one of three guests at the event, along with Dr. Michael Drout and Dr. Amy Sturgis. For more information, see: http://www.alep-ky.us/

      Ponderings ==============

      It’s humid, and in the 90s (the mid-30s for folks who favour Celsius over Fahrenheit). There’s no breeze. It’s too early for cicadas, but otherwise I’d guess we were in August rather than June. Hills are hazy in the heat, and nothing twitches at high noon save flitting flies.

      These are summer days in Georgia; when air is thick and breathing burdensome.

      My old high school once had a summer work program that allowed poorer students (or those who just wanted extra pocket money) to earn some summer change. There were paint crews that refreshed dingy dormitory rooms, cleaning crews that stripped floors and washed windows. Pretty much anyone could get one of these jobs, even overweight bookworms such as myself.

      I was in high school during the 70s, when the liberalism of the 1960s was coming home to roost. From age 13 to 18, many of us found ourselves in a culture that was retooling social, political, and sexual mores, and “do your own thing” was the guiding principle. We were cast adrift in a sea of hormones at a time when no one believed
      in solid land.

      J.R.R. Tolkien himself had just passed away, and on a hot, Georgia summer’s day, on a wooded high-school campus that evoked images of the Shire, I first opened the pages of The Fellowship of the Ring.

      What I encountered there was startling. This was not a simple story of good guys versus bad guys, but a nuanced tale that stressed values that perplexed me: values like the deep truth of human dignity, the need for restraint, honour, and courage. Like the ghosts in C.S. Lewis’ The Great Divorce, I read for the “fun stuff,” but tried to studiously ignore those things that went against all the rules of the Love Generation.

      Nevertheless, the seeds were planted.

      Over the ensuing years, I lived out the itinerary of casual sex, gluttony, deceit, envy, jealousy, and acquisitiveness that were all part and parcel of the “if it feels good, do it” protocol. And if the lessons of Middle-earth didn’t prevent this, they certainly provided a canvas against which the depravity of our generation could be more clearly discerned. Like so many teenagers in the 1970s USA, I was never given the grounding in goodness that might have guided me more gracefully through those tough years. Like so many teenagers then as now, I was taught _not_ to believe in the seven deadly sins, and as a result, I sampled them all.

      But Middle-earth always beckoned. And the stories of the Shire, as the stories of Arthur and the Round Table, would whisper to me on muggy summer days from the depths of deep green forests. Here Elves, like all noble creatures, continued to walk the open glens, well beyond the reach of the house-of-cards zeitgeist of the scoffing seventies.

      In The Return of the King, Eowyn says to Aragorn, "Too often have I heard of duty….may I not now spend my life as I will?"

      To which Aragorn replies, "Few may do that with honour."

      Today, with so many of us, I see no belief in honour; I just see a continuation of the insanity of the seventies. True virtue is hardly ever modeled for young folk in our society, unless they are fortunate enough to be raised in a deeply religious home. And even these men and maidens are struck on all sides by a culture that seems to have collected the worst aspects of the 1960s and 1970s and made them into a commodity; corrosive “truths” that are pushed from every TV set, every radio speaker, and every movie screen.

      Eventually, I can put it no more plainly that to say that Someone led me back to the Shire. And J.R.R. Tolkien became, for me, that human being whom I respected enough to listen to, even if my “listening” was to his letters, written decades before to folk I would never know. Those things that he treasured, I was eventually able to see as sound; those things that he found unworthy, I became willing to discard.

      And now, on sultry summer days, I can intensely sense the presence of something greater, something more stable, something richer…just past those oak trees, and deep within the pooling shadows of the woods of summer. I can sense that True Middle-earth trying to tease all of us away from the porn sites and the shopping malls and back into an adventure that can only be unlocked through virtue, patience,
      sacrifice…and prayer.

      Take a walk in these summer woods. Breathe the ripeness of earth growing and mysteries milling. Model nobility, honour, courage, and restraint for those around you; and I promise you that, some day, you’ll find that you, too, will have found your way home to Middle- earth.


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tempe masak pedas ikan bilis/tempe (fermented soybean) with spicy anchovies

this is no doubt the most delicious jawa-malay dish that my mom had ever cooked!please try this..i have been eating only this for at least 2 days!!!

3 bars/200 gram of tempe
4 tablespoon of dried chilli paste
3 cloves of garlic
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100 gram of anchovies
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1.fry tempe and anchovies and set aside
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3.add dried chilli paste and saute until it is perfectly cook or you can see the bubble start to rise
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5.add finely chopped onion.
6.you can add additional chillies that has been julienne if you prefer it more spicy
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p/s:dried chilli paste is tastier if you made it yourself.next time,i will include a recipe on how to make perfect chilli paste..be sure to read it!

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dgplug Fedora Activity Day @ BCREC – Day 2

15th of May, ’09 : With around 15 students present, at 11:30 a.m. we began, continuing from where we left last day.  Though the number of students decreased from the previous day, it was nice to see a few new faces. the students of the ECE Dept. couldn’t join because they had their internals followed by a lab exam.

The day began with videos. Few videos from tv.dgplug.org demonstrating the use of KSnapshot, Okular, PackageKit and a few others were shown. After this Yevlempy ( Harsh Verma ) began the session on basic shell commands. Makghosh gave the students a breifing about the File Heirarchy System. Together with Makghosh, he showed the commonly used shell commands such as cd, cp, ls, mkdir, rm, man, who etc along with the various options. The students tried out the commands on their systems and a few queries that came were dealt with.

Makghosh and Subhodip explained about the file permissions and ownerships, demonstrating the same by creating a test file and changing its permissions, etc. A student asked that why don’t we login as root and they explained the evils of root-login. With everyone satisfied, we moved on with Subhodip explaining wha a repository /mirror is. Then, rtnpro and Subhodip explained yum. With the local  mirror at hand, they showed how to install or update a package, search for a package, enable or disable a repository (they explained the contents of the fedora-local.repo file).  Rtnpro also showed how to use PackageKit.

Subhodip and Makghosh also set up a local mirror there which would cater to the needs of the students. Then began the session on vi by Dibyanshu. He explained the need of the versatile editor, demonstrated the basics of vi, the various options and commonly used commands. By the end of the session, the students were comfortable with vi. However, as an alternate to vi, gedit and KWrite were also shown.

After a 30 minute break, at around 3:15 p.m. Rtnpro began his session of GCC. The number of students decreased, however, in the following few minutes, more joined in, many of them new faces. The term GCC was explained first and then students were explained its basics. As the session progressed, they wrote their first program in gcc- ”Hello World”. Shortly, they were given an assignment to write a code to print the Fibbonacci series. It took some time and errors, but they executed the code successfully.

The Error-of-the-Day award will go to a girl who began writing the code in C but mixed it up with python (seems she has been practising a lot of python lately). She had  compiled the code unsuccessfully and was trying to find what error she had made, still not realising that she had used python in a supposed-to-be C code. :) View the code here. The students did another few assignments.

Makghosh then demonstrated Anjuta IDE. A few students who seemed to be mulling over gcc were quite happy to see Anjuta which has a very nice GUI like the Turbo C++ that they generally use in Windows. Makghosh explained that besides C and C++, Anjuta can also execute Java, Python, Vala,etc. codes.  It was past five already.

A Power cut again disrupted the proceedings. However, that did not stop Subhodip from giving the students a sneak peek into Java in near-darkness on a laptop with the stuents surrounding him. Having distributed Fedora 10 DVDs, Fedora 10 FEL Live DVDs, and stickers, we called it a day at 5:45 p.m.

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Optimal forecast intervals under asymmetric loss

  • Matei Demetrescu

    (Goethe-University Frankfurt, Frankfurt|Main, Germany)

An optimality criterion for forecast intervals under asymmetric loss functions is proposed. A loss optimal forecast interval is obtained by requiring that the expected loss, conditional on a future realization within the desired interval, be minimal. The main difficulty in the context of forecasting under asymmetric loss emerges when there is no knowledge about the distribution of the innovations. For solving this problem, an extension of estimation under the relevant loss function is suggested. In many cases, one also needs to account for the additional variability due to estimation of model parameters. Another solution, based on the bootstrap, works for both problems.  Copyright Â© 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Consumer preferences in social health insurance

  • Jan Kerssens

  • Peter Groenewegen
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    Volume (Year): 6 (2005)
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    1. Gre[ss], Stefan & Groenewegen, Peter & Kerssens, Jan & Braun, Bernard & Wasem, Juergen, 2002. "Free choice of sickness funds in regulated competition: evidence from Germany and The Netherlands," Health Policy, Elsevier, vol. 60(3), pages 235-254, June.
    2. Anne Beeson Royalty & Neil Solomon, 1999. "Health Plan Choice: Price Elasticities in a Managed Competition Setting," Journal of Human Resources, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 34(1), pages 1-41.
    3. Short, Pamela Farley & Taylor, Amy K., 1989. "Premiums, benefits, and employee choice of health insurance options," Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 8(3), pages 293-311, December.
    4. Roger Feldman & Michael Finch & Bryan Dowd & Steven Cassou, 1989. "The Demand for Employment-Based Health Insurance Plans," Journal of Human Resources, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 24(1), pages 115-142.
    5. Schut, Frederik T. & Hassink, Wolter H. J., 2002. "Managed competition and consumer price sensitivity in social health insurance," Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 21(6), pages 1009-1029, November.
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  1. Vardomsky, L., 2011. "On a New Model of Centre-Regions Interaction," Journal of the New Economic Association, New Economic Association, issue 10, pages 177-178.
  2. Vardomsky, L., 2011. "Economic Growth and Regional Integration in the Post-Soviet Space," Journal of the New Economic Association, New Economic Association, issue 11, pages 142-144.
  3. Vardomsky, L., 2009. "Russia's Economic Space in the Context of Global Financial and Economic Crisis," Journal of the New Economic Association, New Economic Association, issue 3-4, pages 145-165.
  1. Вардомский Леонид Борисович & Пылин Артем Геннадьевич & Соколова Татьяна Владимировна, 2014. "Страны Южного Кавказа: Особенности Развития И Регионального Взаимодействия
    [The South Caucasus countries: Features of development and regional cooperation]
    ," Published Books, Institute of Economics, number a:pso317:1, April.
  2. Vardomsky L.B. & Dadabaeva Z.A. & Kuzmina E.M. & Pylin A.G. & Savostina L.S. & Sokolova T.V. & Fokina L.V. & Shurubovich A.V., . "Новые Независимые Государства: Сравнительные Итоги Социально- Экономического Развития
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    ," Published Books, Institute of Economics, number vardomsky:2012-1, April.
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Small Fish - Big Issues The Effect of Trade Policy on the Global Shrimp Market

  • Debaere, Peter
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    It is a well-established theoretical result that the trade policy of a large country can directly affect its own and other countries' welfare by affecting international goods prices. However, there exist very few empirical studies that analyze the effect of trade policy on international prices. With detailed data on unit values and tariffs, I show how policy actions in Europe disrupted the global shrimp market in a non-negligible way and set the stage for the current anti-dumping case in the US. The loss of Thailand's preferential trade status in Europe and the international differences in food safety standards during the antibiotics crisis, have shifted esp. Thai, Vietnamese and Chinese shrimp exports away from Europe towards the US in the late 1990s and early 2000s. I document how these shifting markets have decreased US prices for shrimp significantly compared to those in Europe.

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    2. Pinelopi K. Goldberg & Michael M. Knetter, 1996. "Goods Prices and Exchange Rates: What Have We Learned?," NBER Working Papers 5862, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    3. Feenstra, Robert C., 1989. "Symmetric pass-through of tariffs and exchange rates under imperfect competition: An empirical test," Journal of International Economics, Elsevier, vol. 27(1-2), pages 25-45, August.
    4. Easterly, William & Rebelo, Sergio, 1993. "Fiscal policy and economic growth: An empirical investigation," Journal of Monetary Economics, Elsevier, vol. 32(3), pages 417-458, December.
    5. Robert W. Staiger & Kyle Bagwell, 1999. "An Economic Theory of GATT," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 89(1), pages 215-248, March.
    6. Acemoglu, Daron & Ventura, Jaume, 2001. "The World Income Distribution," CEPR Discussion Papers 2973, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    7. Daniel M. Bernhofen & John C. Brown, 2005. "An Empirical Assessment of the Comparative Advantage Gains from Trade: Evidence from Japan," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 95(1), pages 208-225, March.
    8. ., 2004. "K," Chapters, in: An Eponymous Dictionary of Economics, chapter 11 Edward Elgar.
    9. John Romalis, 2005. "NAFTA's and CUSFTA's Impact on International Trade," NBER Working Papers 11059, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    10. Bruce A. Blonigen & Thomas J. Prusa, 2001. "Antidumping," NBER Working Papers 8398, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    11. Bagwell, Kyle & Staiger, Robert W, 1998. "Will Preferential Agreements Undermine the Multilateral Trading System?," Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 108(449), pages 1162-82, July.
    12. Holt, Matthew T., 2002. "Inverse demand systems and choice of functional form," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 46(1), pages 117-142, January.
    13. Barten, A. P. & Bettendorf, L. J., 1989. "Price formation of fish : An application of an inverse demand system," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 33(8), pages 1509-1525, October.
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The Informal Sector, Third Version

  • Aureo de Paula

    (Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania)

  • Jose A. Scheinkman

    (Department of Economics, Princeton University)

This paper investigates the determinants of informal economic activity. We present two equilibrium models of informality and test their implications using a survey of 48,000+ small firms in Brazil. We define informality as tax avoidance; firms in the informal sector avoid tax payments but suffer other limitations. In the first model there is a single industry and informal firms face a higher cost of capital and a limitation on size. As a result informal firms are smaller and have a lower capital-labor ratio. When education is an imperfect proxy for ability, we show that the interaction of the manager's education and formality has a positive correlation with firm size. These implications are supported by our empirical analysis. A novel theoretical contribution in this paper is a model that highlights the role of value added taxes in transmitting informality. It predicts that the informality of a firm is correlated to the informality of firms from which it buys or sells. The model also implies that higher tolerance for informal firms in one production stage increases tax avoidance in downstream and upstream sectors. Empirical analysis shows that, in fact, various measures of formality of suppliers and purchasers (and its enforcement) are correlated with the formality of a firm. Even more interestingly, when we look at sectors where Brazilian firms are not subject to the credit system of value added tax, but instead the value added tax is applied at some stage of production at a rate that is estimated by the State, this chain effect vanishes.

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  2. Fajnzylber, Pablo & Maloney, William F. & Montes-Rojas, Gabriel V., 2009. "Does Formality Improve Micro-Firm Performance? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from the Brazilian SIMPLES Program," IZA Discussion Papers 4531, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).
  3. Simon Johnson & Daniel Kaufman & Andrei Shleifer, 1997. "The Unofficial Economy in Transition," Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution, vol. 28(2), pages 159-240.
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  6. James Heckman & Carmen Pages, 2003. "Law and Employment: Lessons from Latin America and the Caribbean," NBER Working Papers 10129, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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  8. Stephane Straub, 2004. "Informal Sector: The Credit Market Channel," ESE Discussion Papers 101, Edinburgh School of Economics, University of Edinburgh.
  9. Maloney, William F. & Nunez, Jairo & Cunningham, Wendy & Fiess, Norbert & Montenegro, Claudio & Murrugarra, Edmundo & Santamaria,Mauricio & Sepulveda, Claudia, 2001. "Measuring the impact of minimum wages : evidence from Latin America," Policy Research Working Paper Series 2597, The World Bank.
  10. Loayza, Norman A., 1997. "The economics of the informal sector : a simple model and some empirical evidence from Latin America," Policy Research Working Paper Series 1727, The World Bank.
  11. Fortin, Bernard & Marceau, Nicolas & Savard, Luc, 1997. "Taxation, wage controls and the informal sector," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 66(2), pages 293-312, November.
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  14. Almeida, Rita & Carneiro, Pedro, 2005. "Enforcement of labor regulation, informal labor, and firm performance," Policy Research Working Paper Series 3756, The World Bank.
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On-site audits, sanctions, and bank risk-taking: An empirical overture towards a novel regulatory and supervisory philosophy

  • Delis, Manthos D
  • Staikouras, Panagiotis

This paper investigates the role of banking supervision, measured in terms of enforcement outputs (i.e., on-site audits and sanctions) in containing bank risk-taking. Our results on the direct banking supervision–risk-taking correlation show an inverted U-shaped relationship between on-site audits and bank risk, while the nexus between enforcement actions and risk appears linear and negative. With respect to the combined effect of efficient supervision and banking regulation (in the form of capital and transparency requirements) we find that effective supervision and disclosure prerequisites are important and complementary mechanisms in reducing bank fragility, by contrast to capital requirements which are proven rather futile in controlling bank risk, even when supplemented with a higher volume of on-site audits and enforcement actions.

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On Hiatus

31 Dec

Right, my lovelies! Time to make things official instead of wishy-washying around hoping Santa can bring me an extra allowance of time.

The bastard real-world insists on intruding so I’m taking January off to handle a few things in my life that will hopefully bring me back to blog anew in February. See you all then!

In the meantime, do (continue to) check out the fine people on my blogroll to the right and join Beth & myself at Masala Zindabad, which will keep publishing our impressive backlog of podcasts. Don’t forget to send us your story about Going to the Movies.

Happy New Year!

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7 responses to “On Hiatus

  1. Gradwolf

    January 1, 2011 at 12:09 am

    If that’s the Rear Window and we are supposed to spy, am up for it. Good luck!

    • sachita

      January 6, 2011 at 5:37 am

      keep us clued in adi, in your quest.

      Amrita, Come back soon :)

  2. dipali

    January 2, 2011 at 5:01 am

    We’ll miss you. Come back soon and all the best. Happy New Year!

  3. Sue

    January 2, 2011 at 11:29 pm

    Aw. Well. Be right back. In Feb if you must.

  4. the mad momma

    February 8, 2011 at 1:50 pm

    good morning. its february. just thought i’d remind you

  5. Dee

    February 17, 2011 at 8:52 am

    Delurking to wonder when you will be back!

  6. Amrita

    February 19, 2011 at 4:05 pm

    So sorry! Commencing sporadic updates now. I don’t know when I’ll be back to my regular schedule :(

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There’s more to the Internet than search engines

‘I need to find something online… I know, I’ll Google it!’

Arghh. Everytime I hear that phrase – Google it! I cringe. Not because I have a deep hatred of Google, or that I think it’s useless (in fact it’s generally the search engine I use out of habit), it’s just that there’s more to the internet than Google. And to that end, more than Yahoo, Bing, Alta Vista, Ask Jeeves, Everyclick etc.

The internet is a great tool (which at times frightens me with its vastness). It’s filled with loads of interesting and useful facts. For the most part, information is easily found using a general search engine with one or two search terms. But sometimes (or more often depending on what you’re looking for), your engine won’t find what you’re looking for. That’s when people get frustrated, give up and bemoan the internet – because they don’t understand it!

According to the book Going Beyond Google: the invisible web in learning and teaching, research has shown that only 16 % of the resources on the internet are picked up by general search engines on the ‘visible’ web. So when you’re doing a search on Google or other search engines, you’re only looking at a tiny fraction of what’s out there.

Where is the rest of the information if it can’t be found by a search engine? It’s in the ‘invisible’ web… the ‘deep web’; databases, complex websites, subscription sites, etc. Over 54% of information is locked away in the deep web, meaning search engines only skim the surface.

So the next time you’re searching the internet bear in mind that you won’t necessarily find what you’re looking for. Have a look at a few search engines to see if their information differs (or try a great meta search engine called Dogpile – it compares Yahoo, Google and Bing tells you which engine it found the info on).

Also, give a thought to looking in databases and online subscription journals, particularly if its academic or research based. You’ll be more likely to find the information in these sources than using general search engines. You’ll also be able to access more authoritative information (I’m not degrading the information in the visible web, but user beware).

Those are my thoughts about search engines. What do you think? Am I right? Do you have similar feelings? I hope I’m not the only moaner out there! Happy searching.

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  1. Martin Hodges Says:

    As a retired Information Scientist, I was interested to discover this list of useful links at FreePint. Check it out at http://web.freepint.com/forum/bar/read.php?i=7473

  2. Juliet Says:

    Thanks Martin, I’ll check that out!

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Minigore 2 is a dual-stick shooter masterpiece with over 6 million players worldwide!

The furries are gone and a new threat is emerging from the dark corners of Hardland.

You must help JOHN GORE fight his way through sunny lakes, graveyards and freezing plains into a stormy forest where the legendary METUSALEM has brought to life murderous chefs, giant lumberjacks, killer penguins, a single moose, three hundred rabbits and the entire undead army of the COSSACK GENERAL.

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"One of the best action games on the App Store and the new mobile twin-stick shooter gold standard." - IGN

"Minigore 2 feels like a true sequel that has improved upon the original in every way." - Toucharcade

"Minigore 2: Zombies is everything we expected, an intense, over-the-top bloodbath." - GameTrailers

"Minigore 2: Zombies is an instant classic. The endless list of unlockable weapons, characters, and items is more than enough to keep you going. The battles with enormous armies of zombies are full of excitement and fun, and the game maintains a humorous tone." - Slide to Play

"It's fantastic fun." - The Guardian

- 20 PLAYABLE CHARACTERS featuring guest stars such as Bike Baron, Zombieville USA and Hook Champ!

- MELEE & RANGED combat with over 10 weapons!
- COMPANION & BEAST GAMEPLAY for each playable character
- PROCEDURAL ANIMATION brings zombie reactions to a whole new level
- PROPRIETARY ENGINE capable of showing 150 zombies on the screen at once
- RANDOM PATTERNS guarantee the fights never feel the same
- CINEMATIC LIGHTING that looks great on latest devices!

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What's New in Version 1.9

-iPhone 5s and iPad Air have additional visual effects
-Lord of Flies playable character which is armed with a minigun
-Improved lighting and gore effects
-Improved top-down camera
-Improved cloud effect
-New fly enemies
-Clean desert

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Real fun

Great fun game which has a lot to do. Most annoying thing: when you drop weapons to pick up a new one, they go right in front of you and you pick the old one up again. Just typing this is riling me up because I've died so many times to this stupid mechanic. Please change how this works, like make boxes ungrabbable for 3 seconds after dropped or something. Would also stop the ammo duplication glitch.

Update 1/2/14
Good game but needs some improvements. New levels would be great, it's hard and boring to accumulate cash for upgrades in the later stages even with hardcore mode on. The LOTF character has no difference when hurt for some reason, and seems like he was just added so you guys could make some money (not that I have a problem with that).
I love the weapons that have been put in, but melee weapons need some more love. Possibly a power up for them could exist that you pick up? Just throwing ideas out.

Fun and simple

I first played the first mini-gore on my iPod touch fourth generation and downloaded this one for my new iPhone 6 plus. This game is amazing and looks fantastic on the screen. Been a fan since the first release and i enjoy all the levels and upgrades available.
Something that i would like to see however is your highest score. I like beating my old records but on this one there isn't a high score tracker that i can find.
Also the ability to create custom players would be cool as i love games with customizations and personal touches. Online co-op too.
Maybe these are a lot to ask for but I hope the developers take this into consideration for the future updates and games!
Best thing about it: ITS FREE!

A small improvement

Minigore 1 was a HUGE hit, mainly because there aren't very many 2 stick shooter games that are popular. Me and a bunch of friends would sometimes get together after school and play together. But after Minigore 1 lost its popularity, Minigore 2 came out, and all my friends had it. After a while we realized that there was no multiplayer, and we would have to work alone and play. To be honest, it is a really cool and fun game to play, but it would be even better if it had multiplayer. Not only would that attract more customers and popularity, but most people would have more fun playing it with friends. Maybe up to four friends?

Aidan K. : an honest customer

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Formed: 1968 in Brooklyn, NY

Genre: R&B/Soul

Years Active: '60s, '70s, '80s

One of funk's most progressive outfits, Mandrill paid the price for their ambitions in commercial returns — not that they never earned a reputation or an audience, but their expansive, eclectic vision often worked better when given an album's worth of room to roam, rather than being condensed into hit singles. Mandrill's jam-heavy brand of funk was liberally infused with Latin, Caribbean, and jazz influences, plus blues, psychedelia, African music, and straight-up rock. Their freewheeling approach...
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Critics of Euro-dance music tend to dismiss its artists as faceless, but Denis and Denyse LePage — collectively the Canadian Hi-NRG duo Lime — are hardly faceless and certainly deserve credit for being recognizable. While Denis LePage brings a gruff, rock-like vocal style to Lime's Euro-dance grooves, Denyse LePage tends to sing in a high voice and sounds more R&B-influenced. Put them together and you have an appealing combination. Lime never became pop/Top 40 superstars in the U.S., but in dance clubs that played a lot of Hi-NRG, the male/female duo commanded much respect in the 1980s. One of the Lime LPs that club DJs were quick to notice was Unexpected Lovers, which came out on the Matra label in Canada but was released by TSR in the U.S. The haunting title song was a huge club hit, and while the rest of the album falls short of the title song's excellence, it's generally enjoyable — those who appreciate Euro-dance grooves will easily get into cuts like "I'm Falling in Love," "Say You Love Me," and "My Lovely Angel." Meanwhile, "Do Your Time on the Planet" combines the Euro-beat with synth-funk, and the instrumental "Are You Being Untrue Tonight" isn't unlike something Giorgio Moroder would have produced. For Hi-NRG enthusiasts, Unexpected Lovers is worth searching for.

Genre: Dance

Years Active: '80s

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Simple. Fun. Completely addicting.

Tilt left or right to fling the ball into the moving cup. Avoid the fiery pit below!

Play for ten seconds or two hours; the game automatically saves your progress.

One hundred levels of increasing difficulty, including flaming obstacles and a shrinking cup!

Warning: levels 80-100 are REALLY HARD! Can you beat them?

- Accelerometer-based play
- Non-annoying sound effects (which you can turn off)
- Only one hand needed
- 100 levels
- Auto-save progress
- Score keeping

Best score so far:
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Honorable mention:
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Randall Davis - 1654
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Art Foley - 1731
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Sarah Johnson - 2005
Frank Yaun - 2283

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Level 50 1 try hahaha beat that but leven 42 did take me 46 tries:)

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This app doesnt work at all! If you keep the phone absolutely still, it starts bouncing around the screen. A total waste of a dollar! Dont get it!!!

This game is great if your good at it.... But if your bad you feel like throwing the phone. You do need to change the controls a little.

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• As featured in CNET, WSJ, Daily Mail, NBC, ABC, TheStreet and more
• Thousands in cash paid out weekly for quick and easy jobs
• One of the top "5 apps that can earn you cold, hard cash" -- CNET.

Introducing Rewardable, a new app that provides you with quick and simple ways to earn extra money with your iPhone. If you are interested in making a few dollars while you shop or want to be compensated for giving feedback on a service, then Rewardable is the perfect app for you.

Now nationwide! Jobs refresh weekly in the top 1,000 cities. Make money shopping.

How does it work?
1) Download the app
2) Find micro jobs nearby and click “Complete Now” to start a job
3) Complete tasks to earn cash. Bonus coupons, discounts, offers, deals and other rewards also available.

You earn cash for collecting data and providing insights on products, services and store conditions. Do as few or many jobs as you'd like while shopping or while at home. Successfully completing jobs builds your status resulting in access to more and higher paying jobs.

Generally, a job will pay a few dollars all the way to $20 and take anywhere from 5 to 15 minutes. Job compensation varies by the complexity of the request. Bonuses will sometimes be given for social actions like sharing a product with friends.
Payments are distributed through a linked Paypal account.

Types of jobs?
Jobs range in scope and involve all types of information that can be collected on a smart phone (photos, product data, multiple choice questions, etc.)
Example 1: Record wait time at restaurant
Example 2: Photograph a promotion at a grocery store
Example 3: Count the number of products on a shelf
Example 4: Rate the quality of customer service at a grocery store

Need support? Just send us a message at:

What's New in Version 1.8.1

- [NEW] User Referral System
- [NEW] A/B Question type for surveys
- [NEW] Redesigned the survey flow
- [FIX] Switched the app to use your location only "When in use"
- [FIX] Lots of bug fixes

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I was excited about this app when I first heard about and installed it. It was paying out cash not these silly acorns, which are just an attempt to divert your attention from the fact that they are now only paying you pennies and it takes FOREVER to earn the $8 minimum to cash out.

I signed up to be a store captain for my local grocery store but there are NEVER any tasks/assignments for it. So, what was the point?!

I keep the app on my phone and am continuing to watch what they do with it but I am not pleases at all with what I am seeing. I participate in several other CASH rewards apps/sites where I make real money, real fast. One company pays me $5 a month do to nothing but have their app on my phone. At the rate Rewardable is paying people out it's going to take me 6 months to earn that same $5😕 Not good or fair when you consider that the largest part of a companies budget is advertising. Companies are spending literally millions of dollars to get the word out about whatever it is they are selling. Rewardables is one way in which these companies do this. This tells me that Rewardables is pocketing a lot more of these companies' advertising dollars than they are passing into us, which seems very unfair to me since we are the ones doing the "work".

Step up to the plate Rewardables and spread the wealth a little more fairly and you'll have a better, more desirable product that will make you plenty of money in the end.

Keeps getting better

Update: liking the new referral bonus system. Have earned $9 from it so far. I was able to get my son and his friends on the app. The jobs at Whole Foods have been pretty consistent and paying good money. Still want Gift Cards as payout option.

I've had this app for a while and use it on and off. Good for making money when there are tasks in the area. Seem like there has been an increasing amount of $5 photo tasks which is nice. New design is slick. Hope there are more tasks, surveys and ways to make money ahead. I would like gift cards as rewards on top of payments to PayPal. I would also like to earn money for Tweets. Think about adding that or for pasting to Facebook. Gift cards are a must.

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In late August of 2002, Warren Zevon was diagnosed with mesothelioma, a virulent and inoperable form of lung cancer; with his life expectancy expected to be no more than a few months, Zevon focused his dwindling energies on completing a final album, and The Wind, released a year after Zevon learned of his condition, was the result. With a back story like that, it's all but impossible to ignore the subtext of Zevon's mortality while listening to The Wind, though, thankfully, he's opted not to make an album about illness or death (ironically, he already did that with 2000's Life'll Kill Ya) or create a musical last will and testament. While The Wind occasionally and obliquely touches on Zevon's illness — most notably the mournful "Keep Me in Your Heart" and the dirty blues raunch of "Rub Me Raw" — in many ways it sounds like a fairly typical Warren Zevon album, though of course this time out the caustic wit cuts a bit deeper, the screeds against a world gone mad sound more woeful, and the love songs suggest higher emotional stakes than before. The Wind also lays in a higher compliment of celebrity guest stars than usual, and while obviously a lot of these folks are old friends wanting to help a pal in need, in some cases the ringers help to carry the weight for Zevon, who, while in good voice, can't summon up the power he did in his salad days. And remarkably, the trick works on several cuts; Bruce Springsteen's rollicking guest vocal on "Disorder in the House" offers just the kick the tune needed, Tom Petty's laid-back smirk brings a sleazy undertow to "The Rest of the Night," and Dwight Yoakam's harmonies on "Dirty Life and Times" are the perfect touch for the tune. In terms of material, The Wind isn't a great Zevon album, but it's a pretty good one; "El Amour de Mi Vida" is a simple but affecting look at lost love, "Prison Grove" is a superior character piece about life behind bars, and "Numb as a Statue," "Disorder in the House," and "Dirty Life and Times" prove the prospect of imminent death hasn't alleviated Zevon's cynicism in the least. (It's hard to say if he's being sincere or darkly witty with his cover of "Knockin' on Heaven's Door," though he manages to make it work both ways.) And the assembled musicians — among them Ry Cooder, David Lindley, Joe Walsh, Don Henley, and Jim Keltner — serve up their best licks without taking the show away from Zevon, who, despite his obvious weakness, firmly commands the spotlight. The Wind feels less like a grand final statement of Warren Zevon's career than one last walk around the field, with the star nodding to his pals, offering a last look at what he does best, and quietly but firmly leaving listeners convinced that he exits the game with no shame and no regrets. Which, all in all, is a pretty good way to remember the guy.

Nacido(a): 24 de enero de 1947 en Chicago, IL

Género: Rock

Años de actividad: '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s, '00s

Few of rock & roll's great misanthropes were as talented, as charming, or as committed to their cynicism as Warren Zevon. A singer and songwriter whose music often dealt with outlaws, mercenaries, sociopaths, and villains of all stripes, Zevon's lyrics displayed a keen and ready wit despite their often uncomfortable narrative circumstances, and while he could write of love and gentler emotions, he did so with the firm conviction that such stories rarely end happily. Though he frequently worked...
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Game 27 Jazz at Pacers: *headdesk*

December 20, 2012

The possession above really encapsulates the futility of the Jazz tonight (not that I’m putting the loss on Derrick and Enes).

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** Tyrone Corbin, post-game: It’s one game. It’s one game. You know, we’re 1-1 on the trip. We got two games left.
** More Corbin: It’s a long season. We are where we are. We’ll keep doing what we’re doing.

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** Randy Foye and Paul Millsap continue to secretly communicate with each other on the bench:

Unintentional Dirty Quote Machines of the Night (UDQM)
** Harpring on Millsap: He went down hard…Watch how hard he takes this to the bucket.
** Harpring: You’re seeing Indiana just pound it in there.
** Boler: There’s a bump out front, and it’s a wipeaway by George Hill.
** Boler: West goes inside, Al got a finger on it.
** Harpring: Good thing is, Jazz have played from behind before. Indiana will let you back in.
** Harpring: Millsap tried to bang West down there. There’s no give.
** Harpring on Favors’ jersey number: I’m going to have to pay him for it. For just a minute.
** Harpring: You’re not gonna score easy on me. You gotta start taking pride down there. That rim’s gotta be something special.

Burks/Corbin and Al/Corbin photos via Getty Images.

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