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However, critical hits are more than just "weak points." They are also "rolling doubles," i.e. they could also represent momentum, doing structural damage to fairly homogenous things, etc.Ghostwise wrote:
IIRC the idea was to seriously Impervious her - if your Damage Rank isn't high enough you're never going to hurt her even by finessing around - there are no weak spots to hit (the assumption being that if there were a weakness, the Widow would have used it).
Impervious specifically compares to save DC modifier, not rank, and hence a good roll, or Power Attack, can overcome it. In DC Heroes, the default strategy for being unable to breach the armor would be, "Forget about Critical Strikes, just spend HPs and hope for a double." In M&M, the equivalent would be vulnerability to criticals, but perhaps some resistance to Power Attack. However, a higher Impervious rating by itself would actually encourage power attacking. It probably does make sense for Impervious to exist, since her armor is clearly unbreachable by normal firearms.But right now I can't check whether Criticals and Power Attacks are meant to raise the "base" Rank of Damage when facing an Impervious Defence.
I would suggest making her armor Impervious all the way up. Compare these two constructs:
Immunity 1 (bonus damage from Power Attacks), Limited (takes half effect) @ 1 point
Protection 2, Limited 3 (only versus Power Attacks) @ 1 point
Both of these constructions inflict a different sort of "cost" to power attacking, while Impervious protection makes it a necessary strategy to do straightforward damage barring a critical hit. That sounds right. The second construction means that no one without the Power Attack advantage is going to derive any benefit from trying to Power Attack; if that seems harsh, it could be reduced to Protection 1.


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The Official Wife and I met up with one of my top two favorite aunts for dinner. She was in town for work and it was great to get a chance to see her. Consuming dinner consumed my evening and I will postpone bloginating to the morrow. Bloginating deferred is in no way bloginating denied, but this is mostly due to bloginating's not being a real term for what I do here. Though I'm not exactly it isn't, either. Check ya on Tuesday suckaz.
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No one warned me about September being a full moon month, all month long! That being said, it is almost October, a month that brings more of the lovely fall colors and a month during which I shall age one more year. October will be a month of many new yarns, with some lovely surprises to follow. With that, here is a peak.
I have been waiting to introduce more of Jojoland. Some of you may remember, we started with Jojoland's sock yarn Melody and I was waiting for her new colors to come in (they are on their way over as I type). I got inpatient and knitted with one of her new lines. Hence, the decision to post it here and at the store.
The first line is Jojoland's Harmony, a cobweb weight lace yarn with soft variegation – long stripes and subtle changes. Harmony comes in 50 gram balls that have 880 yards each! One skein of Harmony is enough for a stole and I believe two would make a big shawl. I found a photo of a stole knitted with Harmony by Jojo herself. I have seen this shawl in person and it is very light and lovely.
The second new yarn from Jojoland is Rhythm, a light worsted weight yarn that is 100% wool and also stripes softly and in long stripes. I have not felted with this yarn but Jojo assures us that it is feltable.
I did however knit with Rhythm as I found a color that was just perfect for my son's Swirly Burly Wizard Hat (color line Sandy Beaches & Blue Skies). The hat is designed by my son and knitted by me as per his instructions – "no mama, I want it longer and more swirlies please!" One skein would have been enough for a traditional hat that would fit a 4-5 year old but given my son's instructions for a big, floppy hat I used 1.5+ skeins. The Swirly hat stands if demanded but would rather fold, especially when its raining (it never rains in Seattle).
Just one final note, my son absolutely refuses to wear itchy hats and has had no problem wearing his new hat. I found Rhythm soft and a fun yarn to knit.
This was a quick post as I have over 1000 frames of photos to post at the store…as I said there is tons of new stuff coming your way. 🙂
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The RTC Interview Series: One on One With Tom Brennan, Part IIPosted by rtmsf on June 30th, 2011
Rush The Court is back with another edition of One on One: An Interview Series, which we will bring you periodically throughout the year. If you have any specific interview requests or want us to interview you, shoot us an email at email@example.com.
Yesterday we brought you Part I of our One on One interview with the always-entertaining Tom Brennan. In addition to learning that integration helped knock him out of a starting spot at Georgia and that his athletic director at Yale all but pushed him out the door to Vermont, we re-discovered that the man simply loves to tell stories. Whether it involves him telling his new boss that he's already fulfilled all his career goals or thinking he had coaching all figured out at the tender age of 27, he had us riveted to each and every word. Part II is only better.
Ed. Note: Brennan uses some colorful language during this interview, so if you're sensitive to such things, you may want to skip past this one.
Rush the Court: Guys like us who study the sport knew you were pretty good in '03 and '04, but most of America, though, didn't know about you guys until that '05 season. The ESPN program helped with that, but then of course the NCAA Tournament run built upon it. You guys really caught lightning in a bottle in terms of national coverage, and with Taylor Coppenrath, TJ Sorrentine, and yourself, you all became national names almost overnight. What was that like?
Tom Brennan: We were pretty. We really were pretty. I had this radio show every morning during morning drive-time. It was like something out of a novel. Sorrentine was the little street kid from Pawtucket [RI], you know, who was the leader and had his hat on sideways. And Coppenrath was like Lil' Abner; he was from a town of 200 people, and they loved him. They loved him! He never complained; he was really a treat. And then I had three or four other guys that just really blended in. I always say this — like, David Hehn — the first year we won [in 2003], we won at BU, and he made a jumper with about five seconds to go to win the game. So now, it's Vermont's first championship, we win it on the road. Everybody's nuts, but then we had Coppenrath and Sorrentine. You know, Sorrentine was out that year, and he's coming back and he'd been the MVP. And the year he was out, Coppenrath was the MVP. So now I got these two studs, and they're both really good, but I also have to manage all this sh– to make sure everybody is on the same page. Like Hehn went from a superhero to A Chorus Line — he went back, "just let me guard the other team's best player." But if any of those kids had ego problems, I think we could have blown up. They were just so good about it, and everybody really was into the idea that we're all better if we're together, and we're all better if we don't care who gets the credit and that kind of stuff. As cliched as it sounds, it really was the truth. Coppenrath and Sorrentine were both ultimate teammates, and the other three guys were as well. And we were tough! We'd been around — all the same guys — for three years, then ESPN got interested. ESPN The Magazine did a big story on us, and Sports Illustrated. It was off the hook, and it's such a little state and we're the only Division I school, and people just went crazy about it. Really, those guys were like the Beatles — they really were.
RTC: So let me ask you about those three NCAA Tournaments. In succession, you went up against Lute Olson, Jim Calhoun, Jim Boeheim and Tom Izzo. [laughter] There's no break there, right? What was that like? Olson's now retired — he coached until he was about 150, but these other guys continue to get it done even as they advance well into their coaching careers. What is it about these coaches that makes them so successful?
TB: I always said, "if God had another son, he would look like Lute Olson." It was remarkable what Calhoun did last year — he finished ninth in their league! And it's not like he's going to rally them — he's a bad-ass. You know, he gets in those kids' faces; he doesn't take no for an answer. I mean, he's just ruthless, and yet, man, they did it. They did it. I was always impressed with that, and what happened was… it was funny. I was so in awe of Lute Olson — it was just unbelievable, because, again, the guy was like a god to me — and I didn't know him, but I just knew of him, and what he'd done and what he'd accomplished and how he looked and he was always so gracious. And so I'm walking down, we're getting ready to play them, and what happened was that his wife had died a while back, and then he ended up with this woman from Pennsylvania [Christine Olson] — I don't even know how the hell it happened, but she was like a Republican leader, some big deal from Pennsylvania — and I read this thing where he was very happy. That he'd met this woman and she'd really made him happy, so I didn't think much of it, but when I was walking down to say hello to him, I was so nervous. Honest to God, I wasn't even nervous about the game, I was nervous about him! Because I knew, they're a #1, we're a #16 — I mean, they had [Andre] Iguodala, they had all kinds of players on that team. We had been stuck in the snow, we didn't get to Salt Lake until 1:30 in the morning, and we played at 11. It was crazy. It was just crazy. Our kids were like, "f—, look where we are." And that's the thing, by the time the second year came around [against UConn in 2004], we really weren't that shook, and by the time the third year came around [against Syracuse in 2005], we knew that we could win. We really knew we were good enough. So, anyway, I go up to Lute Olson, and he said, "Coach, how are you?" And I said, "Coach, I just wanna say that I'm just so happy that you've found peace in your personal life." I'm thinking to myself, "what the f— are you saying?!?!" I'm hearing these words come out, and I'm thinking, "you a–hole!" I didn't even know what to say to him; I was so awestruck, honest to God. So he said, "well, thank you." And I just turned and ran like a rabbit, and thought "jeezus… good first impression, there." But you know what, when I retired, he wrote me the nicest letter. He wrote me a beautiful letter, and so it was nice. But you know, we never had a chance. [Vermont lost 80-51.] I have a picture on my cell and we were up, like 7-6, got it blown up and put it on my wall. But then, and this is a cute story too. We got stuck in the snow, and I went on [Tony] Kornheiser's show, PTI or whatever it was — I guess it was his radio show at the time — and I said, "you know, this is ridiculous." I said, "they make billions of dollars on this thing, and they can't get us from Denver to Salt Lake City? If you think this was Duke in this hotel, we'd still be here." I wasn't even finished, and the AD knocked on the door: "hey, yo, that's enough about that." [laughter] So that was enough about that. So then anyway, but what happened was, we did get tapped out, and to take us home, the NCAA felt so bad and I guess my rant had a little bit to do with it, they sent us a plane that [Bruce] Springsteen uses, the Rolling Stones use, and you couldn't even tell it was a plane. So now, my wife and I are standing at the back, and the captain comes down, and he says, "are you the coach?" I said, "yes, sir. I'm the coach." He said, "well, you come with me, I'm going to take you to Mick Jagger's suite." So I turned to Lynn [Brennan, his wife], I said, "hey, you gotta turn into a Brazilian model by the time we get to the top of the stairs." [laughter] It was wild. But it was a great experience; it was a great experience for our kids. And I knew that we had a chance to keep going, that we had this group that was good. So then the next year we played UConn, played them tougher than anybody as I recall, on their march to the championship. [Vermont lost 70-53.] I think they beat us less than anybody else, and then the next year we got Syracuse.


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The Palestinians said the U.N. General Assembly will vote Thursday afternoon on a resolution raising their status at the United Nations from an observer to a nonmember observer state, a move they believe is an important step toward a two-state solution with Israel.
Unlike the Security Council, there are no vetoes in the General Assembly and the resolution is virtually certain of approval. The world body is dominated by countries sympathetic to the Palestinian cause and the resolution only requires a majority vote for approval. To date, 132 countries — over two-thirds of the U.N. member states — have recognized the state of Palestine.
A spokesman for the Permanent Observer Mission of Palestine to the United Nations said Monday that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will address the 193-member world body before the resolution is put to a vote. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the press about the matter.
The Palestinians are seeking to enhance their status because their application in September 2011 to become a full U.N. member state has been blocked. To become a member state, an applicant must be approved by the U.N. Security Council and the United States has made clear it would veto the bid until there is a final settlement with Israel.
Israel and the United States are also on record opposing the move for enhanced status, saying the Palestinians should first negotiate their statehood with the Jewish state, not take unilateral action and sidestep talks.
"We do not think that this step is going to bring the Palestinian people any closer to a state," State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told reporters Monday in Washington.
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Nuland said the U.S. was continuing to make its case with other countries who will cast their votes.
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Israel also retaliated by accelerating settlement construction and withholding funds from the Palestinian government.
The latest draft resolution, obtained by The Associated Press, would have the General Assembly decide "to accord to Palestine Nonmember Observer State status in the United Nations, without prejudice to the acquired rights, privileges and role of the Palestine Liberation Organization in the United Nations as the representative of the Palestinian people, in accordance with the relevant resolutions and practice."
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The draft also expresses "the urgent need for the resumption and acceleration of negotiations within the Middle East peace process" to achieve "a just, lasting and comprehensive peace settlement between the Palestinian and Israeli sides that resolves all outstanding core issues, namely the Palestine refugees, Jerusalem, settlements, borders, security and water." It drops "prisoners" as a core issue.


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Hey everyone, I was really inspired to work on a cool tutorial based on a Naruto demon. In this tutorial, you'll be learning "how to draw Naruto Kyuubi step by step". Most people who are fans of this particular anime love the monster that Naruto transforms into when enraged or powerless. Usually, this form is triggered when Naruto seeps back into it as a last resort power. One of my favorite types of creatures that he epicly turns to, is basically the four tailed fox spirit. He looks really cool in this form and so powerful. If any of you noticed, one of my tutorials which is the "anime demon", looks very similar to this fox demon spirit. I really dig the look of this creature so I was inspired to draw an "anime demon". Anywho, I don't exactly remember when Naruto transforms into the four tailed fox spirit. I recall watching a fan animated short film and he was battling against Sakura with Sasori controlling him. I think it was a made up plot line so don't quote me on that. The drawing was a great experience to handle, I had a lot of fun drawing the tails, hand poses, and the pose composition overall. I used a reference picture just to capture the true – menacing power of the four tails. The coloring was a real treat to come by. I used mostly airbrushing techniques to get that "enraged" crystal-ish quality that steams around him while in fox spirit mode. When you "draw Kyuubi", you will want to focus mainly on the facial features and the tail composition. The true form of this creature comes from the aurora of the body and the tails. It sort of reminds me of the "Nine Tails" from Pokemon as well; just in a more natural and pure form. Well, it's time for me to flee onto another drawing tutorial. Thanks so much for viewing and have fun learing "how to draw Naruto Kyuubi"!
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Additionally, larger pond fish produce exponentially more waste than smaller fish so you need to factor this into your plans. Look at the chart below for an example of what I mean. One 6" fish produces 3.3 times more waste than one 4" fish and 26 times more waste than one 2" fish. In general, it's probably best not to stock your pond to the max right away. As your pond is more established and you add better aeration and filtration, your pond will be able to handle more fish.
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'Swan's mate for life' is still going. One of my betas, Feebes, assures me that it will end up longer than 'Best Friends'. Yeesh, I hope not; that was over 200,000! But she might be right, because the word count is already way over 150k. This was taken on the sixteenth and I have written some since then.
I made a rash promise to the JBNP readers that I would try to finish this story before Christmas... yeah... that's not going to happen. Sorry guys. I have made a huge effort and written 22,035 words in the last seven or eight days and posted all of those chapters. I have got them to a point where the three are back together, but now there are a lot of loose ends to tie off. And they are kind of important loose ends, so I don't want to do a rush job on it.
My Scrivener plan has 24 scenes marked out to follow the last chapter and that doesn't include the sex... lol. Sex always blows out my word count.
· Who was the gas station vamp? Who sent him and why?
· How does the alpha pair change the status of the pack?
· Vampire battle scene? The pack fights with an alpha pair in place,
· Paul has matured and Leah has accepted her wolf, but Bella still needs to prove her worth to the trio as well,
· Bella needs to tell Charlie the whole truth (because I insist on it), and
· More information on the gene theory of phasing - who is next? How can the tribe be better prepared?
· And of course, the happy ending!
I have been having major issues with Google Drive. I plan and write in Scrivener and cut and paste into Drive for my betas to check/edit/comment. We also chat and brainstorm. For some reason I crash the chat function, and last night, Drive decided it didn't like Feebes and took away her access to all my documents. I have no idea why. My other beta Bansidhe assures me that I should be sent to foreign enemies to crash their computer systems.
I swear I am magnetic.
So, sorry guys, it will take some more time. But happy holidays to you all! May you enjoy your time off and survive the time spent with relatives.


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The Mythical Man-month: Essays on Software Engineering
Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1995 - Computers - 322 pages
Few books on software project management have been as influential and timeless as The Mythical Man-Month. With a blend of software engineering facts and thought-provoking opinions, Fred Brooks offers insight for anyone managing complex projects. These essays draw from his experience as project manager for the IBM System/360 computer family and then for OS/360, its massive software system. Now, 20 years after the initial publication of his book, Brooks has revisited his original ideas and added new thoughts and advice, both for readers already familiar with his work and for readers discovering it for the first time.
The added chapters contain (1) a crisp condensation of all the propositions asserted in the original book, including Brooks' central argument in The Mythical Man-Month: that large programming projects suffer management problems different from small ones due to the division of labor; that the conceptual integrity of the product is therefore critical; and that it is difficult but possible to achieve this unity; (2) Brooks' view of these propositions a generation later; (3) a reprint of his classic 1986 paper "No Silver Bullet"; and (4) today's thoughts on the 1986 assertion, "There will be no silver bullet within ten years."
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A short visit to the Nile Delta.
Yesterday I went with Ayman, a artist who also works at the gallery, to his parent's home in a village in the delta to bring some money. Mud huts stand next to concrete buildings where poles sprout from the concrete, as signs of a hopeful future. Even in the countryside the houses are close the noisy and dirty roads. Most people seem to prefer to live on them. Ayman's mother prepared a large dish in which the main ingredient is a duck she had raised and slaughtered herself. While eating all this we watch MBC, the 24-hour non-stop movie channel that only broadcasts American films and is popular with young Egyptians. During our meal we look at an adventure film with a very young Sharon Stone. The story takes place in darkest Africa, but in the film there are more Arabs and Indians than black Africans. While eating the duck with our hands we watch as the adventurer and his blond girlfriend, after overcoming a long series of obstacles, find the promised land where gold flows like water in the Nile.On the way back to Cairo I watch a splendid sunset from the minibus, but the other passengers in the bus don't see it. They're busy sharing cigarettes as if they were candy. They smoke constantly.


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I don't know about your social life, but mine is… well, temperamental. For several weeks, I'm part of a cohesive, seemingly caring group of "friends" that suddenly disintegrates. Sometimes this is because of drama that develops within the group, usually the result of intermingling between members of the opposite sex and unexpressed expectations. At other times it all just seems to dissipate for no apparent reason. Still, at an appallingly frequent rate, members of my group wind up acting as if they dislike me, gossiping and attempting to pull members from the group to their "side" – without me having any idea what has changed or what I may have done to them.
Now, when this social circle is good, it is heavenly. At once, life seems worth living. I'm able to get out of bed each day (assuming I've slept at all) and be excited about cleaning house because a "friend" may see it later in the week. Or I can get excited about working out because my "friends" and I will be going out and I want to look and feel my best. However, in contrast, when I begin contacting my "friends" without responses, my own mental state begins to slip accordingly. Worse, when I'm blown off by members of the group but made aware of their interactions without me, I begin to believe there's nothing for me in this world. "Why get out of bed?" I ask myself. "It's not like I'll see anyone I care about!" Or, "Why work out? It's not like it matters what I look like – people will leave me no matter how much I try to be appealing to them." These nagging thoughts persist, and as my social interactions become fewer and farther between with the group I once held so dear, my depression threatens my very being. I can't seem to derive a satisfactory answer to the burning inquiry of what the point of living is if I am to only go through a series of temporary, fraudulent relationships that ultimately leave me worse off than I was when I was simply alone, unaware of what I was missing.
This cycle of "friendships" seems to, at times, coincide with my changing moods and outlook on life. Just as I don't always understand why I'm feeling the way I am when a depressive episode lurks in the corners of my mind, I don't understand the transient nature of my relationships. However, just as each depression that is eventually overcome, or just as each morning I force myself to work out, that creates strength inside of me. With each phase of people who enter and inevitably exit my life, I do gain something. Although it is painful and perplexing that people don't remain in place as I grew up believing they would (or should), it is crucial to maintain a complete awareness that there IS a reason the people from your past don't make it into your future. And what's more, it's ultimately NOT a waste, because those people left a part of themselves in my path. They acted as stepping stones to an ultimate understanding of myself and others.


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The City Of Lost Children (La Cité Des Enfants Perdus)
ONCE UPON A VERY STRANGE TIME… Dark, damp, and dreary, tucked away in a twisted dream somewhere between Oliver Twist and The Brothers Grimm is The City Of Lost Children. A ginger-headed sideshow strong man of Russian origin named "One" (Ron Perlman) has had a very bad day indeed. His sideshow barker has been knifed during their last chain busting performance and later that evening his adopted little brother, Denree, is abducted by a band of Jean-Paul Gaultier clad "Cyclopes" and taken away to an oil rig-looking platform of a mad scientist's lair! Not only is the scientist mad, but he's quite frail and cranky and even named Krank (Daniel Emilfork).
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Zerozaki4869 wrote:Should I start with the Anime or the Manga?
Depends. Also depends if You like fillers or not. I watched both animes, and I think that the older anime despite having fillers was much, much more better than the newer anime, because the characters were more deeper and alive. I did read the manga from the point of where the old anime ended, and I have some mixed feelings about it. And be aware that the manga will never end, and the current arc (despite already having some chapters) is still one big unknown. But I must admit that the chairman election arc in the manga was brillant, no doubt the best arc in the whole manga. Pariston FTW!


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ok peeps, whatcha reading at the moment?
Originally Posted by empty mirror;198021 05-08-2009 11:29 AM
ok peeps, whatcha reading at the moment?
Originally Posted by empty mirror;198021 05-08-2009 11:29 AM
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The memoir, fiction (faction? surely not) 'Bad Wisdom' by Bill Drummond and Mark (zodiac mindwarp) Manning. So far, i've just been unsettled by 1)being reminded of Voice of the Beehive and 2) having to look at those girls in a whole different way... also just bought The Zelator , the magical memoir / alchemical splurge of Mark Hedsel - anyone know if it's any good? the reviews tend to spin from the awesome to the inane which I generally take to mean I'll like it...
swapping back and forth between
Michel Houllebecq's Platform and
Stuart Christie's My Grandma Made Me An Anarchist (his autobiography leading up to his time involved with the Angry Brigade)
and also Mick Middles' dreadfully written book about The Fall. which is just a woeful piece of crap and I don't know why i don't just call it a day..
john irving's 'prayer for oewn meany', on the recommendations of countless people. even though i thought 'world according to garp' was a bit dull + rubbish
-art spiegelman's 'maus' and william shirer's 'the rise and fall of the third reich'- i don't quite know why i'm reading two books about nazism at the moment.
none of these books is as good as saul bellow's wonderful 'ravelstein'.
oh and sometimes i read blogs too.
'Ravelstein' - the roman a clef of the neocon/Straussian crop which I haven't even read. Is it still in print, then?
I'm reading 'Empire' by Niall Fergusson, which I started reading with a strange mix of compulsion and duty. Also, Penguin covers are very tactile these days. While I was away in the countryside earlier this week, I read 'Mr Norris Changes Trains' by Isherwood and 'Women Beware Women' by Middleton - both deliciously perverse, lip-smacking, and profound.
middles is an appalling writer. his woefully titled "from joy division to new order: the factory story" is laughably poor. but, sadly, it's about the only remotely detailed book of its kind.Originally Posted by dubversion
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I've finally gotten around to reading The Satanic Verses . I'm pretty blown away by it.
Has anyone read Hanif Kureishi's The Black Album? Quite amazing, I thought. And I can see now just how much it ties into Rushdie's book. Just occurred to me that that the title may be a reference as well.
Anyhow, apart from that I've also been dipping into Arjun Appadurai's Modernity at Large.
ps: satanmcnugget never told us what he's reading.
i'm reading ulysses (slowly but surely-ive been at it for months and am only about a third of the way through)
really enjoying it though,although i only really read it when i have the opportunity to sit uniterrupted for an hour or two,preferably with joints and tea....
also reading sense and sensibility for college,i'm enjoying it much more than i thought i would,partially just out of curiosity about how fucked up all the social conventions and so on were,and partly for the really long but elegent sentences describing the various characters emotional states with remarkable precision...
also reading where you're at by patrick neate,a sort of hip hop travel book....its interesting enough,but nothing special
and scoop by evelyn waugh,which is hilarious....
and fast company by jon bradshaw,which is about professional gamblers and is really really good,some great anecdotes dealing with the runyonesque pool and poker players from the early 20th century...
yeah, i guess i shld kick in with what im reading at the moment
i just finished up Samuel Delany's Aye and Gomorrah and started in on Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner
on the non-fiction front, im about to finish Erotism by Georges Bataille...been on a bit of a Bataille kick since i read The Accursed Share a while back...read him in college and hated him...im in the midst of a reassessment, that's for sure
im waaaaaaaaaaaaaay behind on my blog-reading...too much really good stuff
Iain Sinclair - Lights out for the Territory
Essential Works of Foucault, vol 2: Aesthetics
Rebecca West - Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
Robert P. Morgan, ed.: Modern Times
The West is massive - I started it last year and I'm still only half way through, although plenty of other things have overtaken it in the meantime - but it's supremely good. The best travelogue/diary/history book I know, all tied together by this deep love affair with Yugoslavia. A superb book.
Lights out is the first Sinclair I've read, and I'm loving it. He needs a strong-minded editor to come in and strip away some of the excess fat, but I'm reassured that at least someone is writing what he is. The obsessive archiving and scrutiny of everything - Hackney as a real life version of Borges' Library of Babel.
The Foucault is going way over my head. It's a collection of introductions, short essays and other bits and bobs published during his lifetime, so it doesn't have any sort of coherence - and, I think, Foucault isn't at his best on questions of aesthetics anyway. The language and the imagery becomes far too vague to be meaningful or useful in any way. Still, there are bound to be some nuggets in there.
The Morgan is just because I start teaching again soon, and I like to keep my hand in with different takes on 20th-century music.
Hugues Bersini "Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming" and O'Reilly's "Learning Java." Saturday night, at a friend's party, I thankfully managed to restrain myself from saying "That's because the syntax of both Java and PHP are derived from C."
Mainly the NME Classics "goth" issue.
Also just finished:
Micah Locilento - Shaggy: Dogamuffin Style
A bad hackwork, mainly consisting of Shaggy quotes from newspapers around the world.
Michael De Koningh & Laurence Cane-Honeysett - Young, Gifted and Black: The Story of Trojan Records.
Much better, though obviously not very critical as it is published by Sanctuary, who own Trojan!! The real story still needs to be told warts and all. Consists mainly of a massive discography and other lists.
The books still weighing me down, that I promise myself I will pick up again... soon...
Paul Mattick - Anti-Bolshevik Communism
Karl Marx - Capital vol 1
Capital (abridged, thankfully) is looming, like purgatory, in my 'to read' pile. I got it free from work on a whim, but now I have it I have to read it.
just finished lords of chaos new editon, about the black metal scene in norway and beyond, taking in everything from prechristian beliefs to the european far right, very interesting and quite academic, almost too analytical tho.
william dalrymple, the age of kali, about the indian subcontinent in the late 80s early 90s, he's very good.
reading sacred drift , peter lamborn wilson, quite interesting book on margins of islam, sufism and heretical shayks and groups
and "the key" by junichiro tanizaki, a japanese novel about sexual repression and voyeurisim really, i got it from a bloke who sells books by finsbury park tube and often has a few good ones.
I know the guy. I'm usually too busy running for the W7 to stop and check him out, but I'll have a look next time.Originally Posted by mms


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Michael W. Smith and Leeland Mooring: Eye 2 Eye
- Jay Swartzendruber
- 2007 26 Jan
If you were Michael W. Smith and you were looking to release a new album, what kind of record would you make?
After all, this would be your first album in two years, and the musical landscape has changed significantly. Today's Christian album sales chart tends to be dominated by rock acts such as Underoath, Flyleaf, Jeremy Camp, Jars of Clay, Third Day and BarlowGirl. And imagine if you'd known that a little over a month before your record came out, the No. 1 selling Christian album would be "Redeemer" (Solid State) by Norma Jean, a hard core metal band.
Your specialty? Pop.
"I didn't have any preconceived ideas, and I certainly wasn't going to try to be worship or be rock or whatever just to try to play it safe," says Smith. "I've never done that, nor will I ever." A lesser man might have been tempted to release a worship album. After all, Smith has led worship at his church for six years, and, then, there's the little fact that he's released two worship records since mid-2001 that have sold a combined 2.4 million copies.
"First of all, I've got to be who I am, and, next, I've got to reinvent myself," he continues. "It's as simple as that, honestly. That's a real challenge – how you really stay true to yourself when you're trying to reinvent. If I've done anything right, I think I've reinvented over the years."
Indeed, during the span of his remarkable 23-year career, Christian music's leading man has stretched the comfort zone of his adult contemporary reputation with successful albums individually defined by rock, crossover pop, modern worship and, even, instrumentals.
But this time around? Unprecedented. To help him frame the heartbeat of his new album, Smith turned to a teenage kid from Texas. In fact, he would go on to give the young fella more songwriting responsibilities than he's given anyone since his storied partnership with Wayne Kirkpatrick.
That begs the question: What was he thinking?
"That's just not like me," the 48-year-old Smith says. "I'm going to co-write – sorry – with a 17-year-old kid? I didn't even know him!"
You could say the idea came out of the blue. Or, as Smith puts it, "It was all providential."
Change Your World
Flashback to late March, right before the Gospel Music Association's GMA Week. Thanks to a rare opening in his schedule, Smith took the opportunity to attend a Provident Music Group showcase at The W venue near Nashville. That night he discovered his favorite new band – Baytown, Texas' own Leeland – and more.
"I was blown away," explains Smith. "Literally, I felt like I was plastered against the wall. I sensed in my spirit that this is something extremely rare. I hope it's not because I've hardened my heart. I don't think that's the case. I just have a hard time finding something that moves me."
To say that he was simply moved by Leeland wouldn't be the half of it.
"Finding something moves you that is authentic and there is something about the spirit of it … that is what took my breath away." At this point, Smith, who is hosting this interview in his own Deer Valley Studios, gestures toward the musician seated to his left and says, "It was this guy here delivering those songs."
This guy is Leeland's front man, Leeland Mooring. As the kid hears Smith's praise, Mooring bows his head, his face, slightly changing color, begins to blend with his red hair. This wouldn't be the first time his modesty would manifest itself on this September night.
"When I left The W," continues Smith, "I got Terry [Hemmings, president and CEO of Provident] and said, 'I want a copy of their music.' I got a CD of seven songs the next day and just put it on non-stop. I couldn't believe how good it was. So that was when I went to [producer] Matt Bronleewe going, 'Hey, you worked on the Leeland record. I got a wild idea: What if we brought Leeland Mooring in and I co-wrote with him?"
Then Smith put in a call to Baytown, Texas.
Place in This World
"So I picked up the phone," recounts Mooring, who's now 18, "and he said, 'Is this Leeland?' I said, 'Yeah.' He goes, 'This is Michael W. Smith.' And I dropped the phone! I opened the door and told my mom [whispering], 'This is Michael W. Smith! This is Michael W. Smith!' like flipping out. So she's quietly freaking out. After I got off the phone with him, and he wanted me to come write with him, I flipped. I started screaming like a little kid. I was like, 'I'm going to write with Michael W. Smith!' I was running around the whole house."
Giving Smith a glance, Mooring says, "That night you came to our concert, my mom was saying, 'There is a reason he came to that. God had him come for a reason. You mark my words.' We're all kind of laughing at her. We're just like, 'Whatever, Mom. He came. Don't want to make too big a deal of it.' But she kept saying, 'You mark my words.'
"It's funny because I remember even a few years ago, when I was 14, she told me, 'Leeland, one day you're going to get to write with Michael W. Smith. I really believe that.'
"There is something about a praying mother that always has kind of a discerning spirit about stuff," he opines. "My mom is constantly praying about God's will for our lives and our ministry. We believe in divine appointments and divine connections – people that are put in your life because God's put them there."
The Moorings aren't the only ones who believe in divine appointments.
Old Enough to Know
"My eyes are peeled for the supernatural," reveals Smith. "I'm open. I'm always looking for 'God, what do You want to do? What am I supposed to be about?' And then, 'Who am I supposed to be involved with?'
"Who am I to try to protect my turf? I'm so past the whole trying to be a star, trying to make a name for myself ... I feel like the spirit of Christ lives inside of me, so I've got a fairly good thing of discernment. I just kind of sense things. I feel like his mom did. When I first heard Leeland, I thought, 'I'm going to end up working with this band on some level.' I just knew it in my heart. And, then, to see when I fell in love with his mom and dad and the whole band. Then, my kids – we see them all together – I mean, it's wild. And they just all love each other. Everything has just been mind-boggling really."
Hearing all this, one can't help but wonder if this unusual connection is unprecedented in Smith's life. What about all the younger artists he's bonded with and encouraged over the years – especially at his own record label, Rocketown? Is there a comparable friendship with another singer/songwriter in his history?
"I don't think so," says Smith. He affirms his love and respect for Chris Rice, Ginny Owens, The Turning and The Swift before stating, "For some reason there is some sort of heart connection – spirit connection – with [Leeland Mooring and myself]. I can't explain it. It's just the strangest and most wonderful thing really.
"I have to go back to – there's something providential about this whole thing." And then Smith drops a doozy. He describes Mooring in a way one might assume he'd reserve for personal friends such as the Rev. Billy Graham, President Bush or even U2's Bono. "I have a real sense that there's just a special, high call of God on his life in terms of doing some great things to impact the Kingdom here on earth. Of anybody that I know – I've never met anybody where I've really sensed that. He's got it. I'm going to really enjoy watching this thing unfold."
Once again, Mooring's head is bowed.
Smith continues, "Maybe I'm supposed to hold his arms up. Maybe that's all I'm simply supposed to do. And provide platforms for him – lift this man up because I think he's going to be an incredible tool for God."
Human Spark
And lifting him – and his band – up is exactly what Smith has been doing. Even just days after he first saw Leeland perform, Smith spoke to a small gathering of media VIPs during GMA Week in Nashville. His stunned audience listened attentively as he steered the conversation away from the planned topic, which was his forthcoming album, electing instead to tell them all about his favorite new band and its soon-to-release CD.
And that band, rounded out by Mooring's older brother Jack Mooring (keyboardist/co-writer), who's a Smith favorite in his own right, their cousin Jake Holtz (bassist), Jeremiah Wood (guitarist) and Mike Smith (drummer), felt the immediate ripples. Mooring describes what they encountered during their GMA Week press interviews. "People from different magazines kept coming in, and they'd say, 'We've been waiting to talk to you guys. We got out of a meeting with Michael W. Smith. The whole time he just kept talking about you guys.' We kept having all these people say the same things. 'Michael kept talking about you guys and didn't talk about himself. We kept asking about him, but he kept talking about you.' So it was very encouraging to us. Our album wouldn't be what it is right now at all without his support."
Simply put, Smith's support helped stir up a new artist buzz reminiscent of the anticipation preceding Delirious' bow in 1998. And, sure enough, when Leeland's "Sound of Melodies" (Essential) released in mid-August, it was the No. 5 selling album at Christian retail stores its first week out. And Christian pop radio's response? The band's title track, "Sound of Melodies," served as the first single and quickly climbed to No. 6 on Radio & Records' Christian Hit Radio chart. At press time, the song was still in the Top 25.
Leeland's "Sound of Melodies" album is that rare breed of recording which is distinctly different, yet extremely accessible to a wide audience. For starters, the band's modern rock sound is clearly set apart from anything in Christian music, and is every bit as engaging as the general market's most touted young bands. Leeland's guitar-infused rock is muscular one moment, gentle the next. And while "worship" is the word most often used to describe the band's lyrics, Leeland is unusual in this area as well. One listen to the "Sound of Melodies"' 11 songs reveals an unusual blend of spiritual intimacy, down-to-earth, poetic phrasing and, for lack of a better way of putting it, a tender-heartedness.
Michael W. Smith Project
So how would this unique band's front man and principal songwriter influence Michael W. Smith's new album? Of the 11 songs on the CD, titled "Stand" (Reunion), the kid co-wrote six songs and completely wrote a seventh himself.
When you hear Mooring describe how he came to write most of "Stand"'s song "Open Arms," you get some clear insight into the creative heart that Smith is so drawn to. "I went back in [my] room one night and was praying, 'God, let Your will be done in this writing session. If You want me to play anything, let it be something that You've given me,'" he recalls. "And I had an acoustic guitar on the bed in the bedroom. I couldn't stop thinking about God's love because I began to think about all the time that people – friends and family – have put into ministry. They have never really seen much success from it, you know? A lot of people give and give and give, and they never really receive much – especially people like my parents who have been doing it for so long.
"So I was in my room and began to cry because I was thinking I don't deserve to be in this place right now. If anybody should be writing with Michael W. Smith, it should be my dad. He's pastoring a church in little Baytown and has the heart of a servant. So I was sitting there, just crying, thinking about God's love. And then I began to think about how the church needs to be open arms of love to the world. And that night, God just completely dropped that song, "Open Arms," pretty much right there in the room."
During the conversation, sometimes it's easy to forget you're speaking to a guy who's in his late teens. But this is the same kid who went gonzo when "W" first called his house. As Smith puts it, "It's weird because, when we get together and create, it's such a serious thing – fun, but serious. And then, all of a sudden, when we break and he's at the house, he's like a 17-year-old kid! He and my kids are all going crazy, being nuts."
Hearing this, Mooring pipes in, "Nigel MacNeil, a guy our family travels with, would always say that. He has a real strong Australian accent. He's a real straightforward guy. The way he'd say it was not to be mean but just his humor. He was talking to my mom and said [mimics thick Australian brogue], 'I've never seen a young boy that can get up on a stage and minister under the anointing of God like someone who has been in the ministry for 20 years and then walk off the stage and act like a five-year- old child – act like a little devil.'"
At this, the room erupts in laughter.
Giving Mooring such a large role in "Stand"'s creation wasn't Smith's only bold step with the album. Not even close. For the first time in his career, he completely relinquished his role as a producer on this, his 19th album. Instead, "Stand" was helmed in its entirety by Matt Bronleewe, who also served as one of the record's key co-writers. Smith, the quintessential keyboard player, also agreed not to include synthesizers or programming on this album. His vocals, meanwhile, were recorded "dry" – free of reverb and electronic delays. And, to top it all off, "Stand" was recorded in less than 45 days. Each departure was significant, and it shows.
As Bronleewe states on his infuzemag.com blog, "We tracked with a full band at the famed Dark Horse Studios. The band was a collection of some of the best players in the business, including guitarists Bruce Gaitsch (Madonna) and Paul Moak (Mat Kearney), drummer Lindsay Jamieson (Ben Folds), bassist James Gregory (Shaun Groves), keyboardist Patrick Warren (Fiona Apple) and Michael W. himself manning the piano. It was an amazing time in the studio, with the players listening intently to each other and reacting to each other's cues. I wanted this record to sound 'real,' not 'processed,' and I'm happy to report that having such a stunning pool of talent assembled at the same time in the same studio helped to accomplish that goal.
"…I don't know how to best characterize the nature of these songs," he continues, "but I can definitely tell you that it's different from anything Michael W. has ever done. The sound is different too, more raw, and more focused on individual instruments than a big sweeping wash of sound. There's influences from early Elton John and the Rolling Stones, as well as newer influences like the latest records from Bruce Springsteen and Paul McCartney."
Mooring's take on the album as a whole highlights Stand's mass appeal. "After hearing all of the recordings and all of the production of it, I was like, 'Man, this is cool stuff,'" he says. "Stuff that like I [am] listening to, you know? This is stuff I know my friends would listen to."
The Big Picture
As the conversation nears its conclusion, the topic turns back to the friendship the two share and what it means to Mooring. "I know I can run to Michael for advice about things," he says. "So, to me, in a sense, he's more than just a friend, he is a mentor – a strong champion who is back in the corner, who has been doing it for so long and that I can run to and say, 'Okay, hey, what do I do in this certain situation? What is your advice on this?'"
Can you imagine being a new artist and having Smith speak into your life like that? True, Mooring has much to be grateful for. But that gratefulness is a two-way street. And, when you hear Smith speak about him, it's clear his appreciation for Mooring expands beyond the kid's musical abilities and, even, their personal friendship. As Smith has already indicated, he believes there's something much bigger going on here.
"Most bands want to be rock stars," he says. "And I don't get any sort of sense that [Mooring and his band] want to be rock stars. To know how he writes songs – he starts praying, and he starts weeping on the floor. During that, he writes "Tears of the Saints" [from Leeland's "Sound of Melodies"]. That's pretty rare for a now 18-year-old teenager – weeping for God, who has a real heart for God. That is rare in this business. I think God's going to honor that. Plus, I think he's got an enormous amount of talent. I think we haven't even begun to see what God's going to do with this band and with him."
One thing's for sure, you can bet we'll be watching.
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Thursday, March 12, 2009
Rejected submission on lemons
George Akerlof's paper on 'lemons' is one of the beautiful contributions I have come across in microeconomics. It shows depth of vision. It changed the way we do microeconomics and the role we advocate for markets.
Akerlof considers a car vendor selling second-hand cars that may either be 'quality vehicles' or 'lemons'. It is a standard market situation except for one thing - the vendor has better information about the quality of the cars sold than potential purchasers. This is asymmetrical information. Potential customers will drop their bid for a car below the price of a 'quality car' because they will suspect there is some probability the car might be a 'lemon'. On the supply side fewer people will wish to trade in their 'quality' vehicles if bidders offer a reduced price. Thus iterating again the thought process of the buyer there will be an increased probability that any car is a lemon. Again this will influence the decision to sell a 'quality' used car and so on......
The upshot might be that the market for second hand quality cars disappears completely - or is greatly dinminished - as a consequence of the knowledge advantage of the car vendor. It is a brilliant insight with a host of applications in real markets - in health, education and in various professional services for example.
Akerlof made many valuable contributions in economics apart from the 'lemons' problem. Indeed I referred to his interesting work on behavioural macroeconomics on this blog. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics. In this interesting note Akerlof discusses the process of writing and submitting the 'lemons' paper. It was repeatedly rejected by leading journals in economics as 'trivial' but was anything but that.
* This carelessness doesn't always prevent publication. I have submitted one paper that I am now convinced was wrongly accepted. I am not saying where this is.
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the vendor has better information about the quality of the cars sold than potential purchasers.
I'm not sure that's exactly true.
1. the seller and the buyer could be both in the void as the problem could show up 10 ks into the future.
2. The seller and buyer can both avail themselves of an inspection.
- 4:10 pm
If you read Kahneman's Nobel prize speech, he has much the same experience. His famous paper on representativeness was rejected by the top psychology journal, and apparently the reviewer even patronized him for it!
As for me -- I think I could plaster my office with rejection letters if I tried.
- 6:20 pm
Akerlof obviously hasn't sold used vehicles for a living or he wouldn't write such claptrap. While it's true more often than not, the vendor knows more about the vehicle than the purchaser, it's that very expertise the buyer relies on not to get a lemon, which he has much more chance of when buying privately. Unlike the private seller, the dealer wants your repeat business and that of your family, friends and associates. OTOH the private seller, disposing of the odd car every few years couldn't care less and what's more may not know its market value any better than the buyer. The dealer will know its market value (ie its inherent value for money)
Let me explain how that works. Not everyone can afford a new car or even a one or two year old one and cars will vary from maxm life to come when new, to a spectrum in between to ready for the wreckers. Now the price you pay for any of that used spectrum must reflect that fairly and I would be comfortable trading/buying an older/dowdy but mechanically reliable vehicle for the right price. In other words I had to feel it would give the next owner relaible value for money. I would often reject pretty hand grenades, with serious faults the seller was trying to pass off at a price I couldn't rectify and sell as fair value, only to see them privately advertised and sold to some poor sucker the next weekend. As well before the Vehicles Security Register made life easy (we were members of a private credit checking agency)I had all sorts of shucksters and fraudsters trying to flog me vehicles under finance,only to see them selling them privately when dealers like me gave them short shrift. Used motor vehicle dealers offer the seller a professional service which many are happy to pay for and rightly so. Drive in with your older car and drive out in the newer one, hassle free at the right price. The used vehicle game like any other has its Madoffs, Adlers, Skases like any other but they don't last long in the same place.
- 6:45 pm
As an old horsetrader divulged to me early on(from recall)-
Son it's like this in the pre-loved vehicle game. There's a unique vehicle out on that concourse to suit every taste and budget walking in here and noone's got exactly the same one as us and it's up to you to be the matchmaker and keep all that love flowing. The other important thing to remember is you can sell anything if the price is right, even if you have to pay someone to take it away and that's called rubbish!
Akerlof should have had a decent chat with that born economist millionaire that left school at 15.
- 7:11 pm
If all else failed you could try getting hold of a copy of Akerlof's paper - or at least reading the Wikipedia article to which Harry linked - to understand the thrust of Akerlof's argument.
In the almost 40 years since the paper appeared there have been changes in the used car market, for better (warranties offered by dealers for example, reliability and user satisfaction surveys by consumer organisations) and for worse (vehicles have become immensely more complicated).
The used divisions of new car dealers might espouse the ethics that you claim for the reasons that you claim, but I've never seen evidence that the bulk of used dealers think this way.
- 7:39 pm
- derrida derider said...
observa once again shows that ignorance is no barrier to opinion in the blogosphere. Observa - before you criticise it, read the bloody paper.
Not least of its virtues is that it is so clearly written that any fool can follow the argument. The lack of obfuscation was no doubt a factor in its rejection by journals.
One of the ironies here, Observa, is that Akerlof himself has pointed out that the lemons problem - "if the horse was any good you wouldn't be selling it" - has been a commonplace understanding amongst horse traders for centuries.
Mind you, I do think the used car market for lemons is far less marked than it once was simply because there are far fewer genuine lemons and they're covered by long factory warranties (long warranties made economic for the factories, of course, by the rarity of lemons). We've shifted to a new equilibrium.
OTOH people in private car ads still fell the need to put in things like "genuine reason for sale" to try and signal its not a lemon.
- 8:17 pm
- hc said...
JC, This is a parable that attempts to provide insights - it is not intended to be a detailed analysis of used car markets. Of course given the asymmetrical info you will seek guarantees, inspection services etc. Likewise Observa the possibnility of repeat buying changes things - then reputation matters.
It is a beautiful article because it throws light on so many things.
- 8:20 pm
Let's be clear here. The vehicle market has changed much over my lifetime. The strife's new Mitsubishi Colt came with a 5yr/100000km roadside assist, transferable, overall warranty and a 10yr/160000km non-transferrable, power train, warranty for the new buyer(engine and CVT transmission)That's a far cry from when the O was a lad and you could buy a monday morning, brand new lemon straight off the production line. The Japanese with their absolute quality control that the 1st and 100000th car off the line were exactly the same top quality, would shake Anglo manufacturing to its foundations and make modern warranties the norm. I cut my teeth in the motorcycle industry as pommy bikes were decimated by the Japs. The legendary Honda 750 four(1968) was not only amazing for its outside and overall performance, but for what was then inside it. The two matched crankcase halves that clamped the 5 alphabet coded(ABCDE), varying tolerance plain bearing shells around its crankshaft told the story. They each varied by one fifth of a thousandth of an inch and as the tooling wore by that tolerance, so the next shell was selected until tool change time. It didn't take long for the market to appreciate that engineering and avoid the old in their droves. Modern new vehicle warranty world-wide was being born right then and there in the marketplace, leaving legislators to cotton on much later as per usual.
Value for money in the marketplace has changed much since millionaire Ray began putting that oil in his veins after the war and I doubt the old folks home has got the grease from under those fingernails yet. He never owned a new car in his life, driving a preloved Yank tank for much of the time I knew him, although he owned some restored classics that would be worth more than most new car offerings in the showroom today. You couldn't pick him as a millionaire unless you knew him but he never had to avoid anyone he sold a car to in his life. Far from it, as he traded fairly and squarely with their offspring and taught us to do the same. Yes we were often in an asymmetric position to stitch some greenhorn up with an overpriced deal, but as Ray knew only too well, the customer would work it out eventually and as bad news travels faster than good you were only shooting yourself in the foot for the long walk through business life. That ethos and discipline never left me and so many of his apprentices, not to mention his son and grandson.
OTOH as a trader you were so often assailed by private owners with no such scruples trying to put one over you and ultimately your customers. You had to know your stuff or perish under that onslaught and I could fill an interesting evening with the tales. The marketplace tells us Akerlof's insight is largely wrong overall about the used vehicle game, since most used buyers use it again and again for the very reasons I outline. They're happy to pay a fair price for valued expertise and often recognise what Ray did, that used vehicles can often represent better value for them personally than new ones. Would you rather have bought a new Leyland P76 off the showroom floor or a 3 or four year old one from Ray? The former might be a 'lemon' whereas when Ray resold it to you it might not. That's what millionaire Ray could have explained to Akerlof more succinctly than I ever could as he waved him goodbye in a pre-loved car, until the next time. 'Nobel prize in microeconomics eh?', he'd chuckle quietly to himself.
- 11:53 am
- Cori said...
@ jc:
1. the seller and the buyer could be both in the void as the problem could show up 10 ks into the future.No, even in that case the seller knows whether the problem has manifested itself during the period of ownership. The buyer does not.
2. The seller and buyer can both avail themselves of an inspection.Here you are actually offering evidence that the theory is correct. By employing a middle man, the buyer can overcome the information asymmetry and, in effect, gain some of the knowledge already held by the seller.
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Shortly: How can I take the latest revision (only) from a remote bazaar repository and add it as a new revision to a local repository.
Background: I have a development system and a production system. On a development system there's a bazaar repository having branch with lots of development revisions. Once in a while I want to incorporate the latest developments into production system. I want to do so by some sort of "pulling" (development system can not connect to production for security reasons, but production can initiate connection to development).
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bzr merge --pull --change=last:1 both pull only the new changes introduced in the latest revision, but not changes introduced in the older revisions.
With lightweight checkout I have no track of revisions which are pulled into production - local working tree remains part of the remote repository
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From Finca El Porvenir on the south part of the twin-volcano island of Ometepe, there is a very nice view of the highest volcano: Conception.
The sunsets are amazing!
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Mazeo (211) 2008-06-01 7:53
Is Finca El Porvenir the same place as Finca Magadalena? I feel I was at the same place several years back. I remember the beauty of the volcano and of those tropical sunsets...
You have caught them well, although it is a shame the perfect shape of Concepcion is a little lacking in sharpness!
All the best,
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