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Department of Economics
Gene M. Grossman
Associate Chair
Mark W. Watson (fall)
Wolfgang Pesendorfer (spring)
Departmental Representative
Faruk R. Gul
Smita B. Brunnermeier
Director of Graduate Studies
Stephen E. Morris
Dilip J. Abreu
Mark A. Aguiar
Yacine Aït-Sahalia
Orley C. Ashenfelter
Marco Battaglini
Roland J. Benabou, also Woodrow Wilson School
Alan S. Blinder, also Woodrow Wilson School
Markus K. Brunnermeier
Anne C. Case, also Woodrow Wilson School
Sylvain Chassang, also Woodrow Wilson School
Janet M. Currie, also Woodrow Wilson School
Angus S. Deaton, also Woodrow Wilson School
Henry S. Farber
Mikhail Golosov
Gene M. Grossman, also Woodrow Wilson School
Faruk R. Gul
Harrison G. Hong
Bo E. Honoré
Nobuhiro Kiyotaki
Alan B. Krueger, also Woodrow Wilson School
Paul R. Krugman, also Woodrow Wilson School
David S. Lee, also Woodrow Wilson School
Alexandre Mas, also Woodrow Wilson School
Atif R. Mian, also Woodrow Wilson School
Stephen E. Morris
Ulrich Mueller
Wolfgang Pesendorfer
Stephen J. Redding, also Woodrow Wilson School
Uwe E. Reinhardt, also Woodrow Wilson School
Richard Rogerson, also Woodrow Wilson School
Harvey S. Rosen
Esteban A. Rossi-Hansberg, also Woodrow Wilson School
Cecilia E. Rouse, also Woodrow Wilson School
Yuliy Sannikov
José A. Scheinkman
Harold T. Shapiro, also Woodrow Wilson School
Hyun Song Shin
Christopher A. Sims
James Trussell, also Woodrow Wilson School
Mark W. Watson, also Woodrow Wilson School
Robert D. Willig, also Woodrow Wilson School
Wei Xiong
Visiting Professor
Nancy Reichman
John Tomas Sjostrom
Visiting Associate Professor
Guido Menzio
John Romalis, also Woodrow Wilson School
Assistant Professor
Jan DeLoecker, also Woodrow Wilson School
Kirill Evdokimov
Thomas Fujiwara
Jakub W. Jurek
Myrto Kalouptsidi
Greg W. Kaplan
Benjamin Moll, also Woodrow Wilson School
Andriy Norets
David Sraer
Tom S. Vogl, also Woodrow Wilson School
Visiting Assistant Professor
Konstantinos Arkolakis
Davin Chor
Mark Dean
Jonathan E. Vogel
Valentin Haddad
Senior Lecturer
Elizabeth C. Bogan
Swati Bhatt
Smita B. Brunnermeier
Amy Craft, also Woodrow Wilson School
Jean Baldwin Grossman, also Woodrow Wilson School
Thomas C. Leonard, also Council of the Humanities
Jean-Christophe de Swaan
Silvia Weyerbrock, also Woodrow Wilson School
Visiting Lecturer
O. Griffith Sexton
Associated Faculty
Thomas J. Espenshade, Sociology
Jianqing Fan, Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Marc Fleurbaey, Woodrow Wilson School
Adam Meirowitz, Politics
Thomas Romer, Woodrow Wilson School, Politics
Leonard Wantchekon, Politics
Information and Departmental Plan of Study
Further details and updates regarding undergraduate requirements and procedures may be found at the website of the Department of Economics.
Advanced Placement
Students who scored 5 on the AP microeconomics exam are exempted from ECO 100. Students who scored 5 on the AP macroeconomics exam are exempted from ECO 101. Students who scored 5 on the AP statistics exam are exempted from ECO 202. (Note: Exemption from 100 and 101 will be accorded to students who pass the British A-levels with a grade of A, and to those who earn a 7 on the higher-level International Baccalaureate.)
Students can also be granted an exemption from our MAT 175 prerequisite if they have earned a 5 on the AP Calculus BC exam, an A on the British A-Level Math exam, or a 7 on the IB Math Higher Level exam. Please note that the Calculus BC curriculum teaches only univariate calculus, while MAT 175 focuses on multivariate mathematics. Students who are confident of their ability to fill the gaps in their knowledge may skip MAT 175.
Students exempted from ECO 100, ECO 101, ECO 202, and/or MAT 175 may still benefit from taking these courses, which provide important basic materials for the study of economics.
The department will permit freshmen to enroll in ECO 310, 311, or 312, subject to the approval of the instructor for the course. The requirements are: (1) completion of, or exemption from, ECO 100, 101, and/or 202, as appropriate in each case, and (2) sufficient knowledge of multivariable calculus and vector and matrix algebra. For the latter, ask the mathematics department officer concerned (currently Micah Warren, firstname.lastname@example.com) to certify that your previous knowledge of mathematics is regarded as equivalent to completion of MAT 175, or MAT 201-202, or better.
To enter the department, a student in the Class of 2015 must complete, by the end of sophomore year, the prerequisite courses ECO 100, 101, 202, and MAT 175 (or equivalent), earning a letter grade of C or better in each. ORF 245 can be substituted for 202; PSY 251 and SOC 301 are not acceptable. The statistics requirement cannot be satisfied with summer courses taken after the student has begun studies at Princeton, except in unusual circumstances approved by the departmental representative, Professor Faruk Gul (email@example.com).
Students who wish to take ECO 312 or upper-level finance certificate courses (such as ECO 465 or 466), or pursue graduate studies in economics or finance are strongly encouraged to take the two-semester sequence MAT 201 + 202 (or MAT 203 + 204) rather than MAT 175.
A meeting for sophomores interested in joining the department will be announced in the spring. Underclass students are welcome to discuss department requirements with the departmental representative. Students considering study abroad are urged to meet with the departmental representative at the earliest opportunity in their freshman year.
Program of Study
General Requirements. The department requires concentrators to complete, and pass on a graded basis, the following:
Core Courses: Microeconomics (ECO 300 or 310), Macroeconomics (ECO 301 or 311), and Econometrics (ECO 302 or 312), to be completed during or before the junior year.
Elective courses: Five other departmentals (see Other Departmentals for details).
Junior independent work.
Senior thesis.
Senior comprehensive exam.
Furthermore, the student must have a departmental average of at least C.
Note: The calculation of the departmental average is described in Departmental Average. The treatment of failed courses is described in Advancement to Senior Standing.
Core Courses. All concentrators must pass, on a graded basis, core courses in microeconomics (ECO 300 or 310), macroeconomics (ECO 301 or 311), and econometrics (ECO 302 or 312). These courses must be completed during or before the junior year. Each of the three core courses is offered in two versions to accommodate different levels of preparation in mathematics: ECO 300, 301, and 302 require MAT 175; ECO 310 and 311 require MAT 175 or MAT 201; and ECO 312 requires MAT 175, but uses some material from MAT 201-MAT 202.
Qualified students are encouraged to take the more mathematical versions. It is not necessary to take all three courses in the same version.
Other Departmentals. In addition to the three core courses, concentrators must pass, on a graded basis, five other departmental courses. Departmentals can be any 300-, 400-, or 500-level economics courses, or an approved cognate (see Cognates).
Students planning a senior thesis with empirical emphasis are strongly encouraged to take ECO 313; students planning a theoretical senior thesis are strongly encouraged to take ECO 317 and/or ECO 418.
Cognates. Economics majors are allowed to count a maximum of two courses from other departments as departmental courses. A course with an economics cross-listing (indicated by an ECO 3XX, ECO 4XX, or ECO 5XX number in its first or second listing) counts as a regular departmental, not as a cognate. Courses that will be automatically recognized by SCORE as cognates are listed below.
ELE 381 Friends, Money and Bytes
HIS 474 American Economic Crises, 1873-2009
ORF 307 Optimization
ORF 309 Probability and Stochastic Systems
ORF 311 Optimization under Uncertainty
ORF 405 Regression and Applied Time Series
ORF 417 Dynamic Programming
POL 349 Political Economy
POL 352 Comparative Political Economy
POL 385 International Political Economy
WWS 340/PSY 321 Psychology of Decision Making and Judgment
WWS 524 Political Economy of Central Banking
If you would like us to consider a course that is not on the previous, routinely approved list, please complete a cognate approval form and submit it, along with a copy of the course syllabus, to Noelina Hall, 001 Fisher Hall. To be approved as a cognate, a course must have substantial content in theoretical or empirical economic analysis. Permission should be obtained before the semester's deadline for the grading option change (usually in week eight or nine of each term).
Independent Work
Junior Independent Work and Senior Thesis. Independent work is designed to afford concentrators the opportunity to identify and explore their research interests in depth. Students are expected to develop a carefully reasoned exposition that critically analyzes a problem using basic principles of economics. Juniors complete a year-long research project, which consists of a research prospectus submitted in December and a final paper submitted in April. The senior thesis is expected to be more extensive, with a topic of greater scope and correspondingly broader analysis and interpretation. Further details, from the assignment of advisers to the final deadlines, are available in the junior independent work and senior thesis sections of the department's website.
Senior Departmental Examination
The senior comprehensive examination is a written exam that covers the department's required courses (intermediate microeconomics, macroeconomics, and econometrics). The senior comprehensive exam grade will appear on the student's transcript.
Study Abroad
Potential economics concentrators who expect to study abroad for one or two semesters must plan well ahead. Because the department only rarely permits core courses to be taken abroad, and because core courses may not be postponed to senior year, potential economics concentrators planning study abroad must complete the appropriate core courses in their sophomore year. It is almost never feasible to spend a semester abroad in the senior year.
Economics courses taken abroad may be preapproved as departmentals by the departmental representative, ordinarily up to one per semester. Plans for junior independent work must also be approved in advance.
Preparation for Graduate Study
Graduate study in economics requires special preparation and advance planning, starting as early as the freshman year. Students contemplating graduate study in economics should see the departmental representative as early as possible. Preparation for graduate school should include the following: the more mathematical versions of the core courses (310, 311, and 312), two years of calculus (up through MAT 202, 204, or 218), two or more upper-level mathematics courses such as MAT 301, 305, 320, or 365; Operations Research courses such as ORF 309, 311, or 405; and an advanced econometrics or economic theory course such as ECO 313 or 317. Students may find the Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics or the Program in Engineering and Management Systems an interesting option. It is not necessary to be an economics concentrator to enter a graduate economics program, but the economics courses listed above are highly recommended. Graduate courses in economics (500 level) are open to qualified undergraduates. These courses are very demanding and must be started in the fall term. Taking one of these courses can be useful for students who intend to enter an economics graduate program, because it begins the student's advanced training, gives the student a flavor of graduate school, and provides evidence during the admissions process of the ability to do advanced work in economics.
ECO 100 Introduction to Microeconomics Fall, Spring SA
How price systems solve social choice problems. The operation of competitive, oligopolistic, and monopolistic product and factor markets. Proposals to alter markets (such as income redistribution, regulation of monopolies, pollution controls). Comparison of the operation of price systems with alternative methods of making social decisions. Two lectures, one class. H. Farber, H. Rosen
ECO 101 Introduction to Macroeconomics Fall, Spring SA
The theory of the determination of the level of national income and economic activity, including an examination of the monetary system. Emphasis on such economic problems as inflation, unemployment, and recession, and on the appropriate policy responses. Some attention is also paid to international economic issues and to problems of economic growth. Two lectures, one class. E. Bogan, A. Adsera
ECO 202 Statistics and Data Analysis for Economics Spring QR
An introduction to probability and statistical methods for empirical work in economics. Probability, random variables, sampling, descriptive statistics, probability distributions, estimation and hypothesis testing, introduction to the regression model. Economic data sources, economic applications, and the use of statistical software packages will be emphasized. Two 90-minute classes, one preceptorial. Prerequisites: 100 and 101, MAT 103. U. Mueller
ECO 300 Microeconomic Theory Fall SA
This class is about markets. When do they work? When do they fail? And what can be done about it? Over the course of study the class will cover (1) choices made by consumers and firms, (2) competitive equilibrium, and (3) market failures. It will also touch on game theory and information economics. Two lectures, one class. Prerequisites: 100, MAT 175 or equivalent. S. Bhatt
ECO 301 Macroeconomics Spring SA
The determinants of national income, unemployment, and inflation. Includes analysis of business cycle fluctuations, monetary and fiscal policy, consumption and saving, investment, growth, and international macroeconomics issues. Uses mostly verbal and geometric arguments. Two lectures, one class. Prerequisites: 100 and 101. N. Kiyotaki
ECO 302 Econometrics Fall QR
The objective of this course is to prepare students for basic empirical work in economics. In particular, topics will include basic data analysis, regression analysis, testing, and forecasting. Students will be provided with the opportunity to use actual economic data to test economic theories. Prerequisites: 100 or 101, and 202, or ORF 245; MAT 175 or equivalent. Two 90-minute classes, one preceptorial. K. Evdokimov
ECO 310 Microeconomic Theory: A Mathematical Approach Fall, Spring SA
Consumer and firm behavior, market structures, and the determination of value. Some attention is given to the interdependence of markets, to the social consequences of externalities in the economy, and to their policy implications. Uses multivariable calculus and linear algebra to treat the topics in greater depth and to better prepare for the 300-level courses on financial markets. Two lectures, one class. Prerequisites: 100; MAT 175 or 201 or equivalent. D. Abreu, W. Pesendorfer
ECO 311 Macroeconomics: A Mathematical Approach Spring SA
The determinants of national income, unemployment, and inflation. Includes analysis of business cycle fluctuations, monetary and fiscal policy, consumption and saving, investment, growth, and international macroeconomic issues. Uses more formal mathematical models to treat the topics in greater depth. Two lectures, one class. Prerequisites: 100 and 101; MAT 175 or 201 or equivalent. B. Moll
ECO 312 Econometrics: A Mathematical Approach Fall QR
Statistical analysis of economic data. The two-variable regression model, multiple regression. Techniques for dealing with violations of the regression model's assumptions, including autocorrelation, heteroscedasticity, specification error, and measurement error. Dummy variables, discrete-choice models, time series models, and forecasting. Introduction to simultaneous equations. Estimation and testing of economic models will be an important part of the course. Prerequisites: 100 and 101 and 202 (or ORF 245); MAT 175 or 201 or equivalent. Two 90-minute lectures, one class. A. Norets
ECO 313 Econometric Applications Spring QR
This course provides hands-on experience in econometric analysis designed to help students to acquire the skills necessary to carry out their own empirical research in economics. Various aspects of empirical research in economics will be covered, including development of testable economic models, appropriate use of data, and specification and estimation of econometric models. Prerequisites: 302 or 312; and calculus. Two lectures, one preceptorial. H. Farber
ECO 315 Topics in Macroeconomics Not offered this year SA
Designed to provide students with the opportunity to study several topics in macroeconomics in depth, the course is taught in two modules. Module topics, which vary from year to year, may include economic growth, financial markets, political economy of central banking, speculative bubbles and financial panics, among others. Two 90-minute lectures, one preceptorial. Staff
ECO 317 The Economics of Uncertainty Spring SA
The microeconomic theory of individual decision making under uncertainty and economic interaction under asymmetric information. Topics include expected utility, value of information, risk-sharing in insurance and asset markets, contracting with moral hazard and adverse selection, and auctions. Applications include health insurance and finance. Two lectures, one preceptorial. Prerequisites: 300, MAT 175 or equivalent, and basic probability. S. Morris
ECO 321 Industrial Organization Spring SA
An economic analysis of the structure of markets and of corporate behavior. The development and interpretation of public policies, including antitrust legislation and direct regulation related to market structure, corporate mergers, restrictive and discriminatory practices, advertising, and research and development. Two lectures, one class. Prerequisites: 300 or 310, and MAT 175 or equivalent. M. Kalouptsidi
ECO 324 Law and Economics Fall SA
An introduction to the economics of legal rule-making and enforcement. Application of elementary price theory and welfare analysis to problems and actual cases in the common law--property, contracts, torts--and to criminal and constitutional law. Topics include the Coase Theorem, intellectual property, product liability, deterrence, and social choice. Prerequisite: 100. Two 90-minute lectures. T. Leonard
ECO 328 Disease Ecology, Economics, and Policy (see ENV 304)
ECO 329 Environmental Economics (see WWS 306)
ECO 331 Economics of the Labor Market Fall SA
Applies microeconomic analysis to the demand for labor, labor supply, and the determination of wages. Examines investments in human capital, unemployment, discrimination, unions, government intervention in the labor market. Empirical findings as well as theoretical models are studied. Two lectures, one preceptorial. Prerequisites: 100, 302, and MAT 175 or equivalent. O. Ashenfelter
ECO 339 Introduction to Population Problems (also SOC 351) Not offered this year SA
A survey of demographic trends throughout the world, the factors underlying them, and their social and economic implications, including the analysis of mortality, fertility, migration, changes in composition, problems of prediction, and issues of policy. Two lectures, one preceptorial. Prerequisite: 100. Staff
ECO 341 Public Finance Fall SA
The role of government in attaining an efficient allocation of resources and an equitable distribution of income. Emphasis is placed on criteria for the evaluation and selection of public expenditure and tax programs, including the problem of coordinating federal, state, and local finance. Special attention is given to current policy issues. Two lectures, one class or problem-oriented seminar. Prerequisite: 100. M. Golosov
ECO 342 Money and Banking Spring SA
This course explores the role that money, financial markets and institutions, and monetary policy play in shaping the economic environment. The class investigates why these markets and institutions arise and may lubricate the resource allocation analytically (rather than descriptively), using tolls of economic theory. Two lectures, one class. V. Haddad
ECO 349 Public Economics (see WWS 307)
ECO 351 Economics of Development Spring SA
Surveys development economics including current issues, historical background, growth theories, trade and development, markets and planning, strategies for poverty alleviation, agriculture, technology, employment, industry, population, education, health, and internal and external finance. Selective attention to particular countries and regimes. Two lectures, one class. Prerequisites: 101 and 300 or 310, or instructor's permission. T. Fujiwara
ECO 352 International Trade (see WWS 301)
ECO 353 International Monetary Economics Fall SA
Foreign exchange markets and balance-of-payments accounts. Effects of incomes, prices, interest rates, and exchange rates on trade and capital flows. Effects of exchange rate arrangements and capital mobility on macroeconomic policies. Current policy issues: exchange rate management, macroeconomic policy coordination, managing currency crises, the roles of international institutions. M. Aguiar
ECO 359 International Development (see WWS 302)
ECO 362 Financial Investments Fall SA
A survey of the field of investments with special emphasis on the valuation of financial assets. Issues studied include how portfolios of assets should be formed, how to measure and control risk, how to evaluate investment performance, and how to test alternative investment strategies and asset pricing models. Prerequisites: 202, 310 and MAT 175 or equivalent. ECO 202 or equivalent may be taken concurrently, but students would remain responsible for statistical concepts as they arise in 362. Two lectures, one preceptorial. H. Hong
ECO 363 Corporate Finance and Financial Institutions Spring SA
Investigates the financing decisions of companies and financial institutions in the wider context of the workings of financial markets. Topics include capital budgeting, capital structure choice, risk management, liquidity, corporate governance, and the interactions between corporate finance and the workings of financial institutions and markets. Prerequisite: 362. Two lectures, one class. Y. Sannikov
ECO 364 Introduction to Financial Mathematics (see ORF 335)
ECO 370 American Economic History (also HIS 378) Spring HA
Survey of the growth and development of the U.S. economy from colonial times to the present. Introduction to the use of economic models and quantitative evidence in interpreting significant historical issues. Emphasis on technological change, property rights, credit markets, and labor markets. Two lectures, one preceptorial. Prerequisites: 100 and 101. E. Bogan
ECO 371 Topics in Country and Regional Economics (also LAS 346) SA
These courses will provide an opportunity to apply the concepts and methods studied in economics core courses and electives to analyze the economic problems confronting particular countries or groups of countries. The choice of the country or region, and of the economic problem, will change from year to year. Prerequisites depend on topic. Two 90-minute lectures. Staff
ECO 372 Topics in Country and Regional Economics (also EPS 342) Fall SA
These courses will provide an opportunity to apply the concepts and methods studied in economics core courses and electives to analyze the economic problems confronting particular countries or groups of countries. The choice of the country or region, and of the economic problem, will change from year to year. Prerequisites depend on topic. Two 90-minute lectures. S. Weyerbrock
ECO 379 The Chinese Economy (also EAS 346) Not offered this year SA
Economic analysis of the Chinese economy after 1949. Economic planning, market institutions, agriculture, industry, consumption, national income and capital formation, population and human capital, finance, banking, foreign trade and investment, economic reforms since 1979, and current issues. Prerequisites: 100 and 101. Two 90-minute lectures. G. Chow
ECO 385 Ethics and Economics (also CHV 345) Not offered this year EM
Introduction to ethical issues in market exchange and in laws that regulate it. How ethical commitments evolve and influence cooperation. The moral dimension of low wages, price discrimination, distribution of resources, trade in inalienable property, and the separation of choice and consequence. As time permits, the influence of economic ideas on moral reasoning. Prerequisite: 100. Two 90-minute lectures. T. Leonard
ECO 386 History of Economic Thought (also HIS 311) Spring HA
A survey of the history of economics, with emphasis on the origins, nature, and evolution of leading economic ideas. This course will situate economic ideas in their historical context, from Aristotle to early 20th century writers, to provide a deeper understanding of economic life and theories of it, emphasizing foundational issues such as the nature of human action and the social good; the role of the state in the economy; and the social and economic consequences of property, prices, money, production, trade and other defining attributes of commercial society. Two 90-minute lectures. Prerequisite: ECO 100. T. Leonard
ECO 414 Introduction to Economic Dynamics Not offered this year QR
Mathematical analysis of the evolution of markets and economies over time. Topics include growth, business cycles, asset pricing, and responses to policy changes. Particular attention is given to expectations as a determinant of economic behavior. Mathematical methods (difference equations, dynamic optimization, time series analysis) are introduced as needed. Prerequisites: 310, 311, and 312; and either MAT 201 and 202, MAT 203 and 204, or MAT 217; or instructor's permission. Two 90-minute lectures. Staff
ECO 418 Strategy and Information SA
Explores basic themes in modern game theory and information economics. Non-cooperative solution concepts for games will be developed and applied to the study of repeated games and dynamic interaction in oligopolistic industries, reputation formation, auctions, and bargaining. Prerequisites: MAT 175 or 201, or equivalent. Two lectures, one preceptorial. D. Abreu
ECO 429 Issues in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics (see WWS 406)
ECO 448 Economics and Politics Not offered this year SA
Questions at the intersection of politics and economics will be analyzed using economic methods. Particular emphasis will be placed on mathematical and game theoretic methods. The course will cover economic models of political institutions, such as elections or political parties. Topics include lobbying and interest groups, political business cycles, economic reform, and the size of government. Two 90-minute lectures. Prerequisite: MAT 203 or equivalent, or permission of instructor. W. Pesendorfer
ECO 462 Portfolio Theory and Asset Management Not offered this year SA
This course studies the asset allocation decisions and overall management of the risk and return characteristics of portfolios. It focuses on quantitative approaches to portfolio optimization, including dynamic strategies to control risks and to achieve investment goals; empirical studies of asset returns; and the money management industry. Prerequisites: 202 or ORF 245; 310; 362 (no exceptions). Two 90-minute lectures, one preceptorial. Y. Aït-Sahalia, H. Hong
ECO 463 International Financial Markets Not offered this year SA
A study of the assets and institutions of international financial markets. A key difference between these markets and others is the role of exchange rates relating the value of two or more national currencies. The course studies the market-making institutions, the market conventions and market practices as well as the interrelationships between different assets, their pricing, their trading and their use by corporations. Prerequisites: MAT 175 and ECO 202 or equivalent. Two 90-minute lectures. Staff
ECO 464 Corporate Restructuring Fall SA
This course applies topics from microeconomics and corporate finance to study corporate restructuring. Topics include mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, divestiture and share repurchases. Each of these is discussed in the context of the relevant economic theory, institutional and regulatory environment, and with a focus on shareholder value. Prerequisites: 362 and 363. One three-hour seminar. O. Sexton
ECO 465 Options, Futures and Financial Derivatives Spring SA
Derivative securities are assets whose value depends on the value of other more basic underlying assets. Derivative securities are not only an important asset in their own right, but the central intuition provided by derivative securities pricing--the no-arbitrage principle--ties together many areas in finance. This course discusses the consequences of no-arbitrage for asset pricing and corporate finance. Prerequisites: 310 and 362; or instructor's permission. Two 90-minute lectures. W. Xiong
ECO 466 Fixed Income: Models and Applications Fall SA
A study of no-arbitrage models of contracts based on interest rates, including bonds, forward and future contracts, swaps, options, and other derivatives. The course develops the theory of arbitrage-free pricing of financial assets in discrete and continuous time, as well as special models that can be used to price and hedge fixed income securities. Prerequisites: ECO 362 (or FIN 501) and ECO 465. Two 90-minute lectures, one class. J. Jurek


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Why Recovery of Hybrid Environments is So Hard and What to Do About It - Interview with Ram Shanmugam of SunGard Availability Services
VSM: The widely accepted view is virtualization makes disaster recovery easier. What challenges does it create?
RS: Virtualization technology delivers substantial benefits to not only production environments, but also in disaster recovery. However, while newer applications may run exclusively on virtual workloads, there are still many mission-critical applications running on a combination of mainframes: Windows servers, Linux/Unix systems and virtual machines. Addressing the recovery needs for an IT environment that is a mix of virtual and physical systems is complex. It also requires organizations to purchase a whole new set of costly application software licenses for the secondary location used for recovery.
VSM: What are the issues that enterprises need to examine when looking to recover hybrid environments?
RS: There are three top issues an organization needs to address. First, it needs to recreate a multi-layer, multi-platform hybrid stack for each mission-critical application. Next, the enterprise needs a plan that enables it to recover mission-critical applications within the time requirements required to avoid unacceptable consequences to the business, addressing the recovery time objective or RTO. And third, organizations need a recovery solution that works within financial constraints. These include avoiding busting the IT budget on CAPEX for building a secondary site for recovery and OPEX for maintaining the site.
VSM: Can you walk through a scenario that demonstrates why recovery in hybrid environments is so difficult?
RS: To better understand the complexity and difficulty in managing recovery in hybrid environments, let's examine what an enterprise faces. The IT organization will typically have multiple storage platforms, multiple compute platforms, multiple operating systems, and a mix of physical and virtual environments. So when a disaster or outage hits, if the enterprise has not created the identical physical and virtual stacks in its recovery environment, the recovery will fail.
And add in another level of complexity. Most organizations are not just recovering one or two business applications. They may have 50, 80 or even more than 100 applications to recover. As these enterprises examine the challenge of recovering a large number of important applications – all with aggressive recovery time objectives – one can easily see why recovery in hybrid environments is so difficult.
Essentially, think of the challenge as having to move your entire data center from one location to the other in your recovery time objective, whether that's four, eight, 24 or 48 hours.

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Food stores in Oklahoma City, Norman and Moore will be accepting the drugs during the June 28 event.
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Oct. 24, 2007
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DeKALB, Ill. - Senior Marcus McCarty scored two goals, including the game-winner in the 102nd minute of play, sending the Huskies to a 2-1 win over No. 9 Northwestern, Wednesday.
"This shows that with the top-ranked teams in the country, we can win," NIU head coach Steve Simmons said. "Northwestern is a fantastic team. They're in the thick of it to win the Big Ten, so for us to do that shows resiliency and the fact that we continue to believe."
The Huskies move to 5-6-4 (1-1-1 Mid-American Conference) with the win in a season defined by ties and close losses despite a high-level play.
"When you've got teams on one side who are getting results and teams on the other side that aren't getting results and both are good teams, I think a lot of the times the difference is belief. I credit the guys for continuing to believe," Simmons said.
Simmons regarded Wednesday's win as a potential watershed match in the 2007 season.
"Maybe this is one of those defining moments going into the last three games of the year," he said.
The Huskies had to come from behind to capture the team's first win over the Wildcats since 2000. Northwestern's Matt Witt put NIU in a 1-0 hole during the 63rd minute with a goal from the left side of the box assisted by David Roth.
McCarty (Fort Worth, Texas/Fossil Ridge), a player with nine career game-winning goals and a penchant for drama, waited until the the 89th minute of play before scoring the goal that sent the match to overtime.
With little time to spare, Blake Gotkowski (Frankfort, Ill./Lincoln-Way East) fed a crossing pass from near midfield to Chris Johnson (Colorado Springs, Colo./Yavapai C.C.) who found McCarty for the score.
"That was a classic Marcus McCarty goal, where he gets in there, hooks himself and pounds it," Simmons said.
The goal also came with NIU playing against 35 mph wind, which they continued to face in the first overtime.
"Even with the wind at our face we were creating a lot of chances," Simmons said.
When the teams switched sides and NIU began the second overtime with the wind at its back, the Huskies wasted no time scoring the golden goal to win the match.
Just over a minute into the period, Northern Illinois earned a corner kick. The mixer was headed toward the goal by Josh Karsten (Barrington Hills, Ill./Barrington), where Northwestern keeper Will Briley deflected the ball into the crossbar, sending the ball skyward.
Huskie junior Drew Jeskey (St. Charles, Ill./St. Charles East) caught the ball on its plummet and found McCarty inside the six-yard box for the game-ender.
Simmons credits the double-overtime win to his team's resolve in the face of adversity.
"Sometimes you have to have these type of results to reaffirm (your confidence), but it's always inside of you," he said. "Our players deserved that win."
The Huskies return to MAC play against Hartwick, Friday at 1 p.m. in Oneonta, N.Y.


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As he takes his first GM job after 25 years as an underling — the last 10 directing the Milwaukee Brewers' scouting department to great acclaim — Zduriencik succinctly summed up his philosophy of putting together a team. "Talent. In a nutshell, talent works."
Jack Zduriencik, who has made his baseball reputation as a scouting guru, was asked Friday to give a scouting report on his own administrative style.
"I'm a 24/7 guy," he replied. "I'm a little no-nonsense. I like to get right down to it; there's a job to be done here, let's not waste each other's time. I like decisions."
The Mariners' new general manager, introduced at a Safeco Field news conference Friday morning, is faced with myriad decisions as he tries to turn around a Seattle team that lost 101 games.
Zduriencik deferred most of them, saying repeatedly that he needs to talk to his baseball-operations staff before making judgments on personnel (both player and office) and other key issues.
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"I will be in the process of gathering information from this point forward," he said.
But Zduriencik, 57, offered a vision of better times ahead for the M's.
"We're going to build this organization and try to compete, and we will compete, with the best clubs in baseball," he said.
As he takes his first GM job after 25 years as an underling — the last 10 directing the Milwaukee Brewers' scouting department to great acclaim — Zduriencik succinctly summed up his philosophy of putting together a team.
"I'd love to have guys with good makeup and good character, committed to the city and the ballclub. But when all is said and done, talent wins."
Zduriencik's first order of business — besides finding a home in Seattle, a task his wife of 26 years, Debbie, is heading up — is hiring a manager.
He said he expects to begin having conversations with and about potential candidates "within the next couple of days." Zduriencik acknowledged that one of them will be with Ned Yost, recently fired Brewers manager. Yost has expressed strong interest in the job.
"I have a great relationship with Ned," Zduriencik said. "He's a great friend and did a nice job for us. … I'll have conversations with him, yes."
As for Jim Riggleman, who managed the Mariners after John McLaren was fired in June, Zduriencik said he has developed "a professional friendship" as their paths crossed over the years.
"I'll talk to Jimmy," he said. "I had a conversation with Jimmy this past week; I've known him a long time. I'd be curious to hear what everyone has to say about how things went after Jimmy took over."
In an interesting twist, the Washington Nationals announced their coaching staff Friday, and Riggleman was named as bench coach for manager Manny Acta.
But reached by cellphone, Riggleman said that managing the Mariners is still his top priority. He said Nationals GM Jim Bowden will release him from the coaching job if the Mariners retain him as manager.
"I'm still hoping I get some good news from the Mariners," he said. "I'd love to come back and continue what we tried to build on. … Right now, I'm manager of the Mariners."
Asked what he will be looking for in a manager, Zduriencik said: "Someone who has a short-term and a long-term picture. Someone with energy, vast baseball experience, someone we think is a leader and we'd have confidence as manager running our team, and be good for the community as well."
Added Zduriencik: "I want a comprehensive plan from them [candidates] to tell me exactly how they can put the Seattle Mariners in the World Series, and that's our goal."
Zduriencik said he has no concerns about how much autonomy he will be getting in light of an mlb.com article earlier this month in which team president Chuck Armstrong indicated the new GM would have less power than predecessor Bill Bavasi.
Armstrong said in the article that the new GM would operate in a "collaborative and inclusive" manner in his working relationship with CEO Howard Lincoln and Armstrong.
"To sit here and say I'm going to do it all myself would be foolish," Zduriencik said. "But I know these two gentlemen have entrusted their confidence in me.
"As we step forward, I'm going to go to them with recommendations and ask their input. I feel very confident I'm going to have as much autonomy as most people in baseball."
Said Lincoln: "This is a tough, seasoned executive. He's been around the game a long time. I have tremendous confidence in him. Chuck and I are here to help him, and certainly we'll provide financial resources. But let me be clear to all of you: Jack Zduriencik is the man who is going to be making the baseball decisions for the Seattle Mariners."
Zduriencik wouldn't give a timetable for the Mariners revival, but he said "our goal is to be as competitive as quickly as possible."
Zduriencik said no decisions have been made on whether he'll retain members of the Mariners' baseball operations staff, including scouting director Bob Fontaine. It appears likely that Lee Pelekoudas, whose stint as interim GM ended Friday, will remain.
On a sentimental note, Zduriencik remembered his father, John, who worked in a steel mill in nearby Youngstown, Ohio, by day, and cut hair at a barbershop in their hometown of New Castle, Penn., by night.
"Big John, they called him," Zduriencik said. "He was a very popular guy in my hometown."
John Zduriencik died in 1993. Jack's 89-year-old mother, Bernice, still lives in New Castle.
"She's still driving," he beamed. "She can't wait to come to Seattle."
Asked what his father would tell him as he embarks on the biggest challenge of his career, Zduriencik chuckled.
"You'd better win, Jack."
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Five Star Billionaire (2013)
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This book is set in modern-day China, and aside from a couple of mentions of internet pages being censored, it could be happening in any Western (and by that I mean capitalist) country. Forget all those communist stereotypes - Shanghai is clearly a modern-day hotbed of money making and entrepreneurship. The story follows five people, immigrants (all from Malaysia if I'm not mistaken), trying to make it big in China. The story is detailed, forensic in its analysis of some of the characters' back-stories, but the writing style is pleasantly readable and it never drags. At the end connections have been drawn between all the characters, and I was surprised by how little sympathy I had for most of them, compared with my attitude towards them at the beginning of the story.
While China has enjoyed double-digit economic growth for nearly two decades, set at an average rate of 10 - 11%, much of that development was centred in the cities, where it may have been closer to 17% growth overall. Particularly in the period 2003 - 2008, the Chinese economy went supernova. This tremendous boom created tremendous wealth, in a country with very loose legal contraints and hardly any regulation. The harsh reality is that China is governed by the rules of the jungle, and that to many people survival means survival of the fittest. China's ancient classic The Art of War means that one should not shun to take advantage of any means to achieve one's ends. Conceit, double-dealing and deceit are all part of the game. In some sense life in China resembles a computer game, not in vitual reality but in the flesh-and-blood.
Shanghai is the commercial capital of China, and with its history of being a world capitalist city in the years leading up to the war, its creation a miracle on the scale of the rise of Hong Kong, created out of mud, the early Twenty-first century saw Shanghai arise again, like the Phoenix from its ashes, to engage in a wild dance with the dragon. It appears to be an excellent stage for a novel of greed and capitalism of the new century. In that sense, one might compare Five Star Billionaire by the Malaysian author Tash Aw with the novel of the 1990s, Money by Martin Amis. Unfortunately, Tash Aw as an author lacks the skill to pull it off.
For a start, Five Star Billionaire has a weak structure. The story is told in alternating chapters on a rotation of five, as the plot or rather five plots are centred round five characters, each telling a story in turn. Five, maybe the five points of the Red Star, is too many, and the structure of the novel seems contrived, rigid and mechanical. None of the characters is fully developed, and although interactions between the characters are suggested, this more surprises the reader than anything, and the relations do not become transparent. The plot as a whole remains obscure
The story told for each of the characters consists of a roping together of all the cliches that are written about China in popular media in the world's newspapers the year around. The characters are charicatures lacking a human dimension, and as a result they remain two-dimensional card board figures.
Being a Malaysian author, Tash Aw has created several characters who are Malaysian, and although there are many Malaysians of Chinese ethnic origin in Malaysia, the story's premise that they illegally immigrate into China and there compete with native Chinese employees seems implausable. Some of the characters in the novel speak Cantonese rather than Mandarin, and to engage the reader in this foreign-language environment, some words and exclamations are rendered into English. Now, in Mandarin this rarely poses a problem, but readers may wonder how aware either the author or his editor were of rendering "Hey" ("Hei") from supposedly Cantonese into English. Better not read that part aloud to prudish ears with an understanding of Cantonese!
Although Five Star Billionaire seemed interesting and exciting during the first 80 pages, the story becomes cliche, mechanical, and ultimately boring. Perhaps it tells us more about Malaysians than about China.
This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers.I loved this book through the first three quarters. I liked that the different characters stories were starting to come together and the reader was going to find out how five different people were connected in the large city of Shanghai, China. This did not happen as this is a sad story of revenge. Revenge may be a great motive to move a plot though, in the case of this book it falls a little flat. The ending is not satisfactory and leaves the reader wondering what the purpose was anyway.
The central character is an author writing how-to novels to make money to destroy a family who he believed stole
his father's life. When he meets the children of the two men who he believed took his fortune he takes theirs. He uses another character to destroy a would be partner's main business solely to exact revenge from when he was nineteen. This is a sad way to end what started out to be such a promising novel.
The book is well-written and so it can have four stars. There are a few f-bombs so those who like zero swearing may e disappointed. Shanghai sounds like a brutal place to have grown up or to live in currently and for all these Malaysians it must have been quite a culture shock.
Phoebe is a young girl following the advice in the self-help books of the author which will steal everyone's money although they may rebuild after the novel is over. I hope so because I would like to see a deeper ending than the one that I read.
Tash Aw came to BCLT to speak. I'm always amazed by people who write in a language other than their native tongue.
Started reading it before we left for Boston, finished it after we got back. Needed to run through the chapters afterwards
to piece together the characters and their relationships. Some were clear to me, others hard to recall. Enjoyed reading
about Asian mentality in viewing western 'lifestyles'. Good read, though a bit confusing at times for me.
Although I found the story slow going at first, I became more and more engaged with the struggles of the characters and the challenges of making it Shanghai, an uber city among cities. The novel crashed to and end as I found myself trying to turn one...more...page.
Five Star Billionaire deploys telling detail and idiosyncratic perspective to evoke the logic and feel of contemporary China. The prose is lucid and unhurried, and Aw keeps an impressively tight rein on a sprawling narrative. Besides spanning languages and plots, it is also a primer on popular Chinese culture, covering hallmarks from the zealousness of online communities to self-help books and food stalls.
The interlocking lives of the five Malaysian-Chinese living on the mainland are reminiscent of Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities in how they reveal social gears and levers. Just as Bonfire endeavoured to do for New York City, Billionaire renders a sweeping cross-section of modern Shanghai. But it does so obliquely, giving the measure of the city the way a disease might be revealed through patient histories.
Aw excels at revealing the city's symptoms by layering detail upon detail - for instance, in this image of a rich Shanghainese girl as seen by Phoebe, a poor girl from a remote village in Malaysia: "Phoebe could not tell if she was pretty, but she sat the way a pretty girl would. Her dress was a big black shirt with loads of words printed all over it like graffiti, meaningless sentences … it was horrible but it was expensive, anyone could see that."
Five Star Billionaire is a brave, partly successful attempt to capture the size and variousness of Shanghai through the interlocking lives of five Malaysian Chinese immigrants, all searching for money and love: poor, unsophisticated, ambitious young Phoebe; rich, sophisticated, ambitious Yinghui; rich but unsophisticated and unambitious Justin, who is starting to crumble under the pressure of running his family's commercial empire; pop icon Gary, who has left his poor, unsophisticated roots behind, thanks to a television talent contest, but who like Justin is crumbling; and the billionaire of the title, Walter Chao – the only character to get a first-person narrative, a fact that might put the reader on the alert for signs of unreliability.
Long before the end, the book begins to feel dispiritingly under-imagined. We're told too often what conversations are like – awkward, cheery – rather than given the dialogue that might enable us to judge; emotions are asserted but unfelt; and the business of moneymaking, around which so much of the novel revolves, is always discussed in the sketchiest terms: a big property deal at the heart of the book is annoyingly unconvincing. Five Star Billionaire contains a lot of useful and interesting information about the way the world wags these days; but are useful and interesting what you read a novel for?
Tash Aw's Five Star Billionaire opens with a bang, not a whimper. Four Malaysians are trying to make it in Shanghai, the new capital of the eastern world – but when we meet them, each of their lives is in freefall. There's Phoebe, the ambitious young Malaysian village girl who passes herself off as Chinese and has arrived in Shanghai on the broken promise of a job and a new life. There's Gary, a "Taiwanese" pop star who finds his fall from grace in a Shanghai bar endlessly replayed on YouTube and is reduced to singing in shopping malls. There's Yinghui, a steely and successful businesswoman whose friends tell her that to really succeed in Shanghai, she needs a man. And, finally, there's Justin, the lonely businessman adopted into a wealthy Malaysian family, who has lost his way while his family have lost their fortune. He and Yinghui knew each other in an earlier life and their reconnection is one of the fine threads that link the characters in this book. Though how many of those threads are held by the fifth character, Walter Chao – the mysterious "I" and author of the bestselling self-help manual Five Star Billionaire – remains to be seen.
Aw is a master storyteller and Five Star Billionaire can be read as The Way We Live Now for our times, for with the global triumph of capitalism, New York and London pale in comparison with the financial behemoth of Shanghai. Like Trollope's Augustus Melmotte, the mysterious Walter Chao has moved his base of operations to the new city: Phoebe, Yinghui, Gary and Justin stand in for the speculators and wealthy families ensnared by his plotting. At 400-plus pages, Five Star Billionaire is only half the length of Trollope's masterpiece. Still, it's a long book; and if there's a criticism to be made it is that the pace is too unvarying. Even where the narrative takes a dramatic turn, it is delivered in Aw's spare, fresh, cool, almost dispassionate prose, which though it succeeds in many ways somehow never quite leaves the page. Instead the characters drift towards their various destinies, caught in the whirlpool of Shanghai. There's more than a hint of fatalism in the air. Even when Yinghui is warned about her new business partner, she fails to conduct the most basic credit check on Walter Chao; she is too desperate, her dream too fragile.
Behind it all, perhaps rather predictably, is a tale of ruin and revenge. But it matters little, because by the time you work out that what you thought was going to happen is indeed going to happen, you realise that Five Star Billionaire is a gentler story than at first appeared: one of lives lost and found, of the transience of material success and the courage required to hope and to trust again, to forgive oneself and to believe in the possibility of love.
At one point in Tash Aw's fine new novel about what people call "the new China" a young woman is trying to photograph herself on her mobile phone in a park in Guangzhou, hoping to enliven her internet dating profile with an image that doesn't make her look like an immigrant factory worker (which she is). An old man who sells tickets for the rowing boats on the lake offers to take the picture for her. He looks uncertainly at her phone. She wonders if he understands how to work it. Then he says: "This phone is so old. My grandson had one just like this three years ago when he was still in middle school." This is the world of the book, where traditional societies seem to have leapfrogged their way into a modernity without signposts, where the past isn't solid enough to build on but too substantial to be ignored.
The five main characters, three men and two women, all come to Shanghai (by some definitions the world's largest city) from Malaysia, though their backgrounds range from old money to rural deprivation. As a title, Five Star Billionaire is close to brash, and the book's storyline could persuasively be pitched to a producer in search of a blockbuster miniseries, but the reading experience it offers is coolly engrossing – with elements of frustrating evasion – rather than propulsive. Tash Aw doesn't exactly kill plot momentum or the emotional impact of the situations he creates, but he certainly keeps them in check. Narrative hints are often indirect, like clues in a detective story, as when a passing reference to a character having written an article deploring the architecture of Gaudí suggests that a conversation almost a hundred pages earlier wasn't in fact spontaneous.
Mr. Aw is a patient writer, and an elegant one. His supple yet unshowy prose can resemble Kazuo Ishiguro's. The drawback to the author's measured attack is that "Five Star Billionaire" is a long book that simmers without ever coming to a boil.
This simmering quality is one that modern readers have grown used to, now that ambitious literary novels so reliably hopscotch among points of view. Our novelists, like our chefs, deliver long sequences of small plates.
That thing that novels do so well, and that caused us to love them in the first place — envelop us, induce us to submit to the spell being cast — is repudiated. Can we pause for a moment to thank Charlotte Brontë for not hitting the shuffle button on "Jane Eyre," splintering her novel into bite-size arias by Jane, Helen Burns, Mr. Rochester, Adèle Varens and Grace Poole?
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Dreaming of love and success in rapidly changing Shanghai, four individuals--a starry-eyed waitress, a wealthy developer's son, a pop artist, and a poetry-loving activist--confront unexpected realities in regional challenges.
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Kenneth "Kenny" Moore, 22, of Milford, died Friday, Aug. 23, 2013.
Kenny graduated from Milford High School in 2009. He also attended Del Tech in Dover, and worked as a forklift driver for SPI Pharma. Kenny loved his sports and participated in Milford Little League, Senior League, lacrosse, and in line hockey. His favorite football team was the Dallas Cowboys, and loved to play fantasy football and playing on his X-Box Live.
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He was preceded in death by his grandfather, Carl R. Moore.
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One night in small-town America, sixteen year old Clarissa Case sneaks out of her crumbling Victorian house to join her classmates at a lakeside kegger. On the way, she's nearly run over by George Simmons, a gruff, middle-aged man she's never met before. So begins Obsession, William Rees' bizarre, parodying blend of noir mysteries and romantic melodramas. As the title suggests, Clarissa is instantly smitten with the grizzled stranger, and thoughts of him come to dominate her inner life. But Clarissa soon learns that her chance encounter with George Simmons may not have been so random after all. George soon reappears on her mother's doorstep, with news that Clarissa's father died in Mexico and a briefcase containing $50,000 in cash. Nevertheless, Clarissa insists that George stay in the apartment above the garage so that she might continue her not wholly unrequited obsession.
These scenes are interspersed with scenes from a romance comic, starring a 26 year-old Clarissa Case as a small-town nurse. Whereas the earlier Clarissa is a slender, childish Lolita who constantly bemoans her fate as her ailing mother's nursemaid and dreams of escape, Nurse Case is quite the opposite: shapely and diligent, she derives great satisfaction from caring for the sick and dying. But this Clarissa Case has a George Simmons of her own, a brilliant, Harvard-educated surgeon who abadoned a life of luxury to practice medicine. In true hospital romance fashion, they admire one another from afar -- she, his intellect and manner, and he, her compassion -- and gradually fall in love. At first, it appears that Clarissa is daydreaming these scenes as she writes in her diary, but it soon becomes clear that there's something more going on, something Clarissa has been alluding to all along.
I got my copy of Obsession at New York Comic Con, where Rees claimed David Lynch as an influence. Once I had forked over my cash, he also apologetically described the book as "kind of a joke," as if he had somehow tricked me into buying the book and suddenly regretted taking my money. I assume that by joke, he meant more "The Aristocrats" and less "sad and pathetic." It's true that Obsession has a bit of a punchline (one that's tragic rather than comedic), but its central purpose seems to be to explore the concepts and imagery of the noir and romance genres, and to find a way to resolve the two within the same story.
Clarissa's mother is straight out of American Gothic central casting. Hawk-nosed, wheelchair-bound, and vehemently Catholic, she boasts of her daughter's purity and creamy complexion in wickedly icy tone (rendered in deliberately over-the-top jagged speech balloons). Despite her debilitating bone condition, Mommy Dearest scratches out a living painting Madonna statuettes. The choice of Mother's profession is inspired; she paints only Madonnas, panicking at the thought of coloring Saint Peters or Pietas, and models their skin tone on her supposedly virginal daughter's, highlighting Mama's own obsession. It also gives artist Jeff Clemens a reason to fill the unadorned house with easily breakable religious icons.
George Simmons, when not in doctor mode, looks and speaks like a noir anti-hero and is free from the sensibilities of modern action heroes, who might be skeeved by the attentions of such a young girl (or at least make the pretense of being torn about the whole thing). Clarissa is as filled with longing as any Lichtenstein painting, but there are worse things in world than cheating boyfriends and men who don't call. Clarissa is resistant to her role in an increasingly dark crime drama; at sixteen, she's not prepared to be a dame with a past or a femme fatale. So, she tries to cast herself as a romantic heroine, replacing the typical noir monologue with the florid script of a girl writing in her diary. It's when things turn inescapably violent that she is unable to reconcile the two genres and her world comes crashing down -- if it ever existed in the first place.
But Rees' crack that Obsession is a bit of a joke rings true. He sets up all of this imagery, these notions of dualing realities, but gives them nothing to do. The noir plotline settles into its predictable ending, while the romance comic simply dissolves as reality punches through. Aside from the image of endless Madonnas, there is little strike or shock or cling to a reader too long after it's all over. It ultimately feels more like a draft or a study for a more detailed book. And Clemens' art is sadly inconsistent, especially during the action scenes, which is really a shame, since Clemens can do some truly beautiful drawings, as evidenced by this sketch his did in the back of my copy:
All in all, Obsession is a fun way to spend a couple genre-crunching hours (and it certainly warrants a second read), but not much more. It did encourage me to finally get around to watching Blue Velvet all the way through.
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Wednesday, February 11, 2009
"Obsession" by William Rees and Jeff Clemens
Posted by Lauren Davis at Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Labels: heavy proton, jeff clemens, mystery, noir, obsession, print comics, romance, william rees
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WASHINGTON – No more recess.
The Prince Georges County School Board has approved a charter school's controversial request to shorten the school day by eliminating recess for middle-school students.
Twelve board members passed the motion addressing College Park Academy's request to shorten its school day by 25 minutes.
Board members clarified the bell schedule now matches county public schools and the kids' physical education time still meets state compliance.
But during the meeting, board member David Kaufman expressed concerns.
"We know we can't do everything and instructional time should be prioritized, but there's also value having some opportunity for exercise during the week," Kaufman said during Thursday night's board meeting.
Dr. Kirsten Hawkins works at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital and specializes in adolescent health.
"It doesn't really make sense given that a majority of schools are looking at reintroducing physical education and free exercise in to the school day," Hawkins says.
The middle school near her practice has allotted 50 minutes for lunch and recess time, Hawkins says.
"In the District, we're actually reintroducing mandatory time for both P.E. as well as recess into the school day," she says.
College Park Academy has been operating on the new bell schedule without recess since classes started this school year with a board member's approval.
In the meeting, board members discussed that the hours were previously written into the school's charter and administrators did not realize they needed to request approval from the Board of Education to change the bell schedule until after it alerted parents of the upcoming change.
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What's going on in LA is a calamity of historica proportions — not the kind that causes catastrophic destruction like the day the levees broke in New Orleans. But the kind that just as surely damages a city physically and spiritually like a slow water torture.
Maybe that's why I've spent the day watching City Council members prattle mindlessly and ignorantly about the city's finances, posturing and preening as if they were both blameless for what has happened and had any answers on how to fix what they have broken.
The dark side of my soul took over and all I could see was the bleak outlook for the city I love if left in the hands of these foolish and selfish people.
And then I listened to the good and decent people, who unlike the nation's highest paid and most pampered city officials, give their time and energy out of love, not money, to make their neighborhoods and their city better, appeal for a small measure of sanity.
They came before the Board of Neighborhood Councils for a special meeting just 24 hours after the Mayor had exercised powers he does not have to abolish their department — the central reform enacted 10 years ago to empower the community.
If it were me I'd have tried to get the more than 1,600 members of 90 Neighborhood Councils to resign in mass and tell City Hall to take their lousy money and shove it. Like homeowners and other community groups, they don't need to be under the thumb of people who treat them with contempt even as they fear them.
But that isn't how these people handled this crisis.
They have been meeting every Saturday for weeks and emailing all day long to generate ideas on how the movement they are part of can gain strength no matter how many obstacles are thrown in their way.
They were polite and constructive and persuasive and the BONC commissioners agreed with them in every regard to push forward even in the face of the treatment they are receiving.
Then, they took their message to Paul Krekorian and Dennis Zine on the Elections and Neighborhood Committee and spoke sincerely from their hearts about what they believed, even when they didn't always agree.
Krekorian and Zine heard their message and voted to go forward with official elections of NCs that start next Tuesday.
The full Council will take up that issue on Wednesday and other aspects of the attempted assassination of the community empowerment issue in the days ahead.
To be honest, I'm just an old softie and tears came to my eyes at times as I listened to these humble voices of the people and I thought a time long ago when I was young and thousands of us stood together in protest and gave ourselves strength with songs of solidarity.
Once again, I came around and knew deep in my heart that I have never lost and never will lose my faith that the good does prevail over the evil, someday.


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Just today I have become the owner of a Trek Valencia + with the bionx kit, and I have been reading to find some information about repairing it. I am also trying to find information specific to this year and model as it seems they came with different batteries and other hardware over the period they were made (I2c vs. Can Bus, if that makes sense?).
Some details:
The bike came to me without a key and a charger. The battery is very low (but not totally dead) ,and has probably sat for a year and a half according to the previous owner. I did get it to power up for about 5 minutes and was able to get the regenerative function to work, and the taillight to light up. No battery bars.
So, I was hoping you could tell me:
1) What would I do to try to revive the battery? I gather that just recharging it to full might not be a good idea...
2) Where could I buy a charger (I am not even certain of the voltage for this battery)? The controller is the I2c version from Bionx.
3) I thought I read that there is a member here or elsewhere who will rebuild these batteries or knows how to do so. Is that so? If so, could you tell me a bit about that.
I am sure some of these answers can be had, at least partially, by searching, but I thought a few of you might know some things specific to this model...
Any info/ direction/ help would really be appreciated. I can post pictures of what I have (especially the battery) if that would help determine the battery model/ voltage, etc.


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I am looking to connect to SharePoint Online to get a list of current groups and users, so another application can read the users set up in Office 365 SharePoint Online.
The REST API seems a promising route to do this as it's supported in SharePoint Online and very easy to use.
Logging into Office 365 and going (replace mycompany with the relevant URL)
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Can anyone point me to any documentation on the UserInformationList (in SharePoint 2010 and/or SharePoint Online). And comment if it is accurate and uptodate, or if it may be out of date?
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Hi John,
This is Bob from Microsoft Office 365 SharePoint Support. Thank you for coming to the communities with your question about using REST API to get a list of users.
As this is custom code related it is out of the realm of our support team. I have located the developers guide that may help you with this question.
SharePoint Online for Office 365: Developer Guide
Please let me know if this helps or if you need further assistance, as I will be watching this thread for a few more days.
Thank you,
Could I re-phrase the question to make it in scope
There is a User Information List in Office 365.
You can get to it in the UI via xxxxx.sharepoint.com/.../simple.aspx. It's only visible to administrators I believe
Is this list documented and supported and available to use (e.g. in workflows or other lists)?
Thanks for any help
Thank you for your reply. I apologize for the length of time it has taken me to get back to you. I have engaged some resources to find out more about this list and here is what I found out.
The User Information list has little functionality and is mainly used to confirm basic information about the users. You should be able to utilize this just fine but we do not support anything that you are trying to do with this list.
Please let me know if this answered your question.
Thanks for taking the time to investigate, which is appreciated. At least we know where we are with it, which is useful.


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Former Greenville Mayor Pat Dunn was honored with the Pitt-Greenville Chamber of Commerce Citizen of the Year Award Thursday night at the 2012 annual membership gala.
Community leaders and chamber members attended the event at
Rock Springs Center to honor Dunn who completed her second term as mayor of Greenville recently as Allen Thomas won the election in November. She was also a City Council At-Large representative for three terms.
The 2010 recipient, Daneel le Roux, presented the Citizen of the Year Award to Dunn.
Eddie Smith, owner of Grady White Boats, received the Legend Award.


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Do you make New Year's resolutions? I know many people who do for a variety of reasons and one week later, those resolutions are out the window. What is it about a certain date -- Jan. 1 -- that makes us think we are going to: a. stop cursing at other drivers; b. lose weight; c. exercise muscles that we haven't seen or felt in 10 years; d. increase our savings; e. be nicer to those who make us nuts on a daily basis; f. forgive the people who have hurt us, again; g. organize the family photos; h. throw out the clutter in those end table drawers; i: plant tulips (way too late already); j: paint the ---fill in the blank -- room; k. finish the novel sitting on the bedside table; l: visit friend in the nursing home more often; m: call the long lost friends you have been meaning to meet for lunch or dinner; n: get a physical; o: vow to attend more than one outdoor concert this summer; p: write a will; q: donate the unused clothes, dishes, etc., to Goodwill; r: listen better to those who just want to talk; s: open a Christmas club; t: buy Forever stamps before the post office no longer exists; u: refuse to open chain emails; v: throw out the old rolls of film or actually get them developed; w: write down your favorite recipes for your kids and grandkids; x: write a letter, not an email to someone you care about; y: walk every day; z: pay attention when your spouse is talking. Do you have any resolutions? Share, please.
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I have the same problem since few days. The only way that i have solved the problem was disabling antivirus service and requeue the emials. After that i enabled again and the server continues working without problem during 2 or 3 day.After that i got the same problem again. In the logs i can see the following error message:
Jul 30 11:59:46 radal amavis[13677]: (13677-04-9) (!!) TROUBLE in check_mail: spam_scan FAILED: timed out
Jul 30 11:59:46 radal amavis[13677]: (13677-04-9) (!) PRESERVING EVIDENCE in /opt/zimbra/amavisd/tmp/amavis-20080730T115010-13677
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Zimbra: Release 4.0.2_GA_362.RHEL4_64_20060922142700 RHEL4_64 FOSS edition
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QUOTE=tbullock;26201]It is related to Anti-virus/SpamAssassin. I am not sure what exactly the problem is, but when I disable he service mail is handled normally.
I am hoping the problem will go away once I upgrade to FC5 and 4.0.2, whenever that happens...lol..
I do seem to remember running a "yum" probably around the same time this happened. I have not changed any passwords.
Anyone have any thoughts?[/QUOTE]