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Now that Mom DD Travel and Kal and others are living Aloha in Hawaii, seems it is a good time to start a new countdown.
We want to go back this fall, even though we were there in March. Trying to find out when's the best weather in Kona between Sept 1 and Dec 15. Any advice, besides avoiding the Ironman crowds?
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Now that Mom DD Travel and Kal and others are living Aloha in Hawaii, seems it is a good time to start a new countdown.
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Well I am going to force myself back to Oahu on November 5th
5 months from today- I will be back in paradise, my 7th trip back in 7 years.
No advice about weather- just wanted to brag. lol.
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I have to wait until February 2012 but the flights are booked
I'm very much looking forward to spending a week in Maui and escaping from the NE winter.
charnees, we've been to Big Island twice around Thanksgiving for 10 -12 days and had great weather both times. We like to escape the winter at home so going towards the end of your time frame would be my choice but it's longer to wait!!
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My parents are going to Maui on Friday and I am insanely jealous! Their first trip, we went for our honeymoon, hope to go back for our 10th (three years).
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We have Dec. 2-10, 2011 booked to Kona and Fab. 12- March 11, 2012 to Oahu (first time there) and Kona (19th time there). Maybe we should just move????
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I was forced to book 4 nights at the Kauai Grand Hyatt in October -- darn them for offering two free nights with their credit card (and us for being so silly as to actually get four free nights by getting a credit card for each of us). And double-darn Alaska Airlines for offering us 25,000 miles and a $99 companion ticket for getting their's. What were we supposed to do?
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Martym, I know your dilemma! We gave been to Kona more than 10 times, and continue to speak wistfully of moving. We are retired, so no jobs are holding us back. But of course there's family, friends, distance from other vacation destinations like Italy. maybe island fever.
But I am sure family and friends would be happy to come visit us if we had a big enough place!
Found out Ironman is Oct 9, so we will have to schedule around that. Also hoping to GTG with Matnikstm this time.
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Hey sassy_cat: we'll be in (on?) Maui next February too. We have a timeshare week at the Marriott on Kaanapali.
Just bought DH a swimsuit on sale for the trip. Waiting for a great sale price on a couple of Land's End swimsuits and coverups for me as well. It's just never too early to plan for Hawaii.
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Going back to Waikiki for 16 days on October 7th.
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iowagirl, I've been swimsuit shopping too and found two great cover-ups at TJMaxx
I will be keeping an eye out for end of summer sales!
I think we'll be staying at the Marriott at Wailea (on points). We arrive Feb 20th woohoo.
martym, you should definitely look at real estate
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sf7307 -- I'm impressed! Love those credit card offers!
FYI, every penny I spend goes on a credit card that earns miles that take me to Kauai.
ELEVEN more days!!! (not that I'm counting )
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Songdoc, it seems like only yesterday I was reading one of your Hawaiian trip reports!
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My parents are about an hour away from landing. .
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Ahh-sassy cat-- having a place in south Kona would be tempting--but we also love where we live in Colorado. And two homes is not in the cards.
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Well, DH scheduled our flights!! Oct. 27 - Nov. 16. To Kona. Anyone else be there? Maybe a GTG?
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We're booked for our first trip to HI Aug 26 - Sept 3, splitting our time between Oahu and the Big Island. I am so excited to finally visit!
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Yipee! I have been praying to post on one of these threads for the last three years! We try to go every year or two but due to work and family issues we have had to wait.
Just finished booking Maui in two weeks!!! 4 days at the Makena Beach Resort and 4 days at the Honua Kai Resort. Never been to either and only my second trip to Maui, we usually wind up on Oahu. AMEX has some great deals using points right now.
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Congrats SeeHag! Only two weeks to wait
Trip report, please.
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I have skipped my trip reports for the last few trips because they would have said " Woke up, ate brunch, laid by pool, had a drink, laid by ocean, took nap, ate dinner, went to bed!" I do try to post a few details if I stumble on good place to eat or something off the beaten path. I have never stayed at either of these locations and the reports on Trip Advisor all look pretty good. Makena is kind of low key and Honua Kai is more upscale in a busier place so we will get a taste of both.
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Well, we are down to 11 days before we go back to Kona! After our March trip we just pined away, and DH finally manipulated the budget to "discover" enough for a return! We leave oct. 27 and return Nov. 17! While we are there I will attend two three-hour advanced hula workshops! Really looking forward to that!
We will see a couple of Fodorites while we are there, Matnikstym and peyton's grandma. Anyone else going to be there?
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Well, I should have also said we will be there in March 2012 as well! In case anyone wants a GTG then.
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Only four days left before we head to Kona!!
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Two days til Maui, weather showing lots of rain
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Rain or not, SeeHag, you'll still look great in your bathing suit!
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Now less than six weeks til we'll be in south Kona--counting the minutes (and it's going to snow here tomorrow)--can't wait!
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No matter if it rains! It'll only rain a little at a time, and it will still be warm.
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9 days until we leave for Kauai...Yeh....(Nov.5)
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Leaving Sydney for Hawaii (Kona, Volcano, Turtle Bay,Waikiki) on Wednesday!! Never been before!!
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Counting down seven months until our Kauai trip in June (though we haven't narrowed down the exact dates). So-o-o looking forward to seeing that beautiful island again after over a decade! It's hard to believe it has taken us so long to go back.
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nice - so happy to read of all of you planning or enjoying Hawaii - it is one of my favorite places on this earth. I do not see it happening in 2012 so I will have to tag along in my dreams with you all
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We're halfway through our stay in Kona. 9 more days to go. Oh, it will be hard to go back to the chilly, rainy San Francisco Bay Area!
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We'll sleep in south Kona tomorrow night--Yeaaa!! Can't wait to leave snowy Denver for a week! Will go to Sam Choy's new restaurant and report back. Also plan to tour Hulihee Palace--in all out times there have never done that.
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Love hearing about all your planned trips and getting anxious to again hear some great Hawaiian music and sip a cold one on the beach, and do some snorkeling/diving and maybe some deep sea fishing.
For the Travelers from Oz: We love all the islands - but you have made some great choices: Suggest you enjoy driving around the Big Island - and also maybe take a hike at the little crater near the big one by the Visitor's center. It's called Ke Iki Hale - and you walk through part of a rain forest to get there - and then down and across the mile or so of the floor of the crater and back up and out. It's a great experience and even though it hasn't "blown" since 1959 - and is very unlikely to do so - you still pick up your step a bit when you hear the steam hissing up from the Volcano.
Also - Turtle Bay on the North Shore of Oahu is great - and having a shave ice in Haleiwa is a real treat.
And don't miss snorkeling in Hanauma Bay - just to the South of Waikiki, probably the most beautiful and safest place to snorkel in the islands. http://www.hawaiiweb.com/html/hanauma_bay_beach.html
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Actually - the travelers from Sydney should be back by now?
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martym,we liked Sam Choy's. Asian/Island style foods are good, but the ordinary mainland type stuff is not. But since I ordered stir fry, etc when we went, I was happy. Prices are not bad at all.
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charnees thanks for the info. Heading to the airport--we'll be there by 12:30 Kona time!
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OMGL I just love the poke at Sam Choy's. Incredible. Ono for sure.
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- Battery: 1800 mAh
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I used so many brands and models of phones and smartphones than I can remember, and this one here, except for the memory card thing, covers every hole that was in every other phone I used. It also covers any thing u may have thought of having in a phone, and it is doing that in style! I tried the Samsung Galaxy S3 at at&t before choosing the One x, and it really isn't better. I mean it is just about personal preferences, I always feel Samsung phones ( not all Samsung products, I love their TVs for example)have a cheap felling. Besides I liked how the One X looked more than the S3.
-Amazing screen, and I am coming from a Motorola Droid Razr which has a very good screen itself. The screen here is sharper, colors are better, no shadows(Razr had a green shadow on all colors. Watching Youtube or any vids on this phone is a thing I long for throughout the day!
-Battery life is good enough for a full day with moderate use. Of course a lot of movie watching, game playing or hours long web surfing require a twice charging. Battery isn't impressive, but not bad.Read more ›
I have never ordered a smartphone on Amazon and had my hesitations when I see 'unbranded' and 'no warranty' plus some other reviews have stated that they have received other variations of this phone with different branding.
This phone was received in new condition, no scratches or marks, and the only branding was the HTC logo at the top of the phone. I checked the specs on the phone and they checked with what was advertised (32GB Memory, Quad Core). There was no 'crap-ware' or useless vendor trial applications on the phone - just the default HTC apps.
I have AT&T in North America. I used the micro-SIM card from my old iPhone 4 (the HTC does not come with a SIM) and had no problems placing or receiving calls immediately. I did have problems getting my data plan and voicemail switched over from an iPhone plan to a smartphone plan, mainly because it was not an AT&T phone/IMEI. After some tech support time, AT&T was able to get everything working.
If you're buying this phone, be aware that it will NOT work on AT&T's 4G LTE network..but it does work great on 3G! If you use most of your data via WiFi this shouldn't be an issue.
Seller was FGS Trading - received phone in quality packaging and also two days ealier than the delivery extimate :)
The phone itself...fast! No hesitations or lags. Screen is beautiful, clear, crisp and BRIGHT! Audio doesn't seem very loud like music, notifications, etc. Phone quality is great! Crystal clear both speaking and listening.
If you currently have an iPhone and thinking about getting a One X - do it!!! You'll be happy you did
Have been using it for one day with no problem, and I'm impressed by the performance and how easy is to do stuff. Definitely would recommend it to someone else.
I live in Costa Rica, and it works perfectly with Kolbi 3G network (although I had to cut my SIM card to make it MicroSIM).
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HTC should be praised for creating such a magnificent phone, and PUBLICALLY FLOGGED for giving it a scandalously inadequate battery---presumably just to make it sexily thin.
There are two problems with the battery: not only is it inadequate to get through even a day of normal use, but worse yet it is a permanent (hard-wired) battery, iPhone style, so you can not replace it with a higher capacity battery. On my previous phone (original HTC Desire), I used an inexpensive, after-market high capacity battery, which was great. But now, by ignorantly copying the iPhone, HTC has made that impossible.
My only remedy for the One's stupid battery was to get an external battery recharger (I opted for the Anker ®SlimTalk 3200mAh Backup External Battery Pack from Amazon). HTC should have made the phone a tad thicker, so the camera lens is flush with the back (it sticks out), and use the extra interior space for a bigger, and removable, battery.
One further comment --- if you are on T-Mobile, be aware that you'll need to get an older micro sim to use this phone. The new T-Mobile sims are marked "50.05", but you'll need to find one marked "50.01", else your internet will not work. Currently these can still be found on, e.g., eBay.
Others have elaborated on the phone's virtues, to which I would say "ditto" to them all. I am particularly struck by the awesome speech recognition, accurate keyboard, responsiveness, and of course the fabulous display. Camera is awesome though this was not an issue for me personally. In chosing this phone, I'd deliberated at length between this phone and the Samsung Galaxy s3.
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Bumping for Andromeda being delayed until 2017. Also, I wrote a thing to my peeps.
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Bumping for Andromeda being delayed until 2017. Also, I wrote a thing to my peeps.
That's cool, someone throw something at me when we're back on if I don't check in.
I'll give it a shot, but I'm already highly confused.
Tried to play Deadly Premonition, but having so many issues and not sure I care enough to try to find fixes. Biggest issue being that the toolbox isn't working so if I move inventory into it, then...
I don't math.
Yeah, it's kinda better to just pretend they are gone completely rather then admit how far they have fallen.
Why? What is wrong with you?
I was happy with the new Star Wars being the one my kid will likely have the closest connection with. He's seen the others, but who knows how much of that he actually understood outside of Vader and...
That escalated quickly. Still Phil knows the numbers are against us so if he isn't a skrull it's a dick move to sway our vote his way.
Kill Phil
Since nobody is disputing Dex or DJPuppy's claims I guess we'll have to take them at their word. That means at least one person has been looked into by Dex and is cleared. I would guess it was me...
I still think Dex is acting way more shifty then the Puppy, but no way to know for sure. I'll give it a min to see if any insight pops up before I become a puppy killer.
Dex and DJ puppy have been very tight this round. On the one hand would a skrull be so obvious? On the other, planting ideas under the guise of being helpful is how Muerica almost won last time. Dex...
Flavor text me is badass.
Except your mom.
Got nothing to go on, Abstain for now
Frankly Andy is due to be a wolf again at this point whereas I've served my time. Vote Zodiac!
Vote for Zodiac for Sheriff
I am in no way qualified, but at least I'm not a Skrull wolf this time.
So, math people, who has the highest probability of being evil? Roll dice or cast...
I have never been so happy to have a normal civilian role. This is hella confusing.
In for the next one, since I barely got to play this time.
Also, amazing work Cap, my bullshit abilities aren't very good so I decided to just take a dive as soon as I was called out. Too bad...
Don't forget the shit!
Nothing worse than people thinking you're a girl. Next they will buying you hair ribbons and shit.
WTF Dude? First you vote to kill Davies over CT and now you're throwing me to the wolves? Hope our other partner takes you out before you claim you "checked" on them just so you can be last man...
Huh, well that was quick.


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Beat the Press is Dean Baker's commentary on economic reporting. Dean Baker is co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR).
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Since several people in comments and e-mails raised questions on my earlier post on capital-biased technological change I will try to clarify my point. The original impetus was a Paul Krugman post in which he raised the possibility that changes in technology were causing a redistribution from labor to capital. (He has since written further on the topic.)
My point was to note that this sort of redistribution cannot just be a matter of technology, it also involves a very big role for the laws and norms that make such a redistribution possible. I referred in the earlier post to the Cambridge controversies in the theory of capital. Unfortunately, these debates were sidetracked into a narrow and largely irrelevant discussion of the possibility and likelihood of "re-switching," a story where a production technique flips from being less capital intensive to more capital intensive as the interest rate rises or falls.
From my perspective the main takeaway from this debate is that there is no measure of capital that is independent of its price. How do we compare a steel mill, the latest supercomputer from IBM, the software produced by Google and the method for producing a lifesaving cancer drug whose patent is owned by Pfizer? Are we going to weigh each one, takes its volume? There is no measure of capital apart from its price.
This is in contrast to labor, the other part of the technology story. I would not want to minimize the problems of aggregating labor either (is an hour of a brain surgeon's time the same thing as an hour of dishwasher's time?), but at least there is something physically present that we can identify. What is the physical presence of a software or pharmaceutical patent? Yet, these items are hugely important in the modern return to capital story since a very large chunk of profits is earned by software companies, drug companies or other corporations that profit primarily based on their ownership of intellectual property.
Intellectual property serves a social purpose. It is a way to provide an incentive for innovation and creative work. However it is certainly not the only way. An enormous amount of research is funded publicly, as with the NIH, and also through universities and non-profits, and from private companies not seeking to profit from patent or copyright protection. It is far from clear that patents and copyrights are the most efficient mechanisms for supporting innovation and creative work. If our current intellectual property regime also has distributional consequences that we consider bad, then that would be a serious strike against it.
But the basic point is that if we are concerned that the economy is leading to a situation where an ever large share of the gains from growth are going to capital, we should not imagine that this is just the result of technological change. It was the result of conscious policy choices. As we say here at CEPR, money does not fall up.
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That seems to be the view of the NYT editorial board which concluded a piece on the fiscal standoff by saying:
"But if Congress cannot approve a deal by New Year's Day, the anticipated sell-off on Wall Street in early January would, one hopes, force House Republicans to budge."
This view, if correct, is truly scary. First, the real impact of failing to come to a deal is the higher taxes and reduced spending which will soon slow growth and raise unemployment if Congress waits too long into 2013 to take action. One might hope that this would be of sufficient concern to get the Republicans in Congress to move.
As far as a sell-off on Wall Street, first it may not come and second, who gives a damn? The stock market has presumably priced in the risk of not seeing a deal by the end of the year. While prices will likely fall further if that risk is realized, those anticipating some sort of double-digit drop are likely to be disappointed.
On the flip side, it would be really scary if folks in Washington are making policy based on the ups and downs of the stock market. The stock market moves in erratic fashion in response to real news and to nothing. What were the events in the world that provided the basis for the 25 percent drop in prices in October of 1987? Was the economy headed for disaster?
Furthermore, even large fluctuations in the market have only a limited impact on the economy. If the market rises (or falls) by 10 percent there will be a very limited impact on investment, as the small portion of firms that rely stock issuance for financing investment will find it easier (or harder) to do so, as well as a modest impact on consumption due to the wealth effect. But even a 10 percent movement hardly implies a boom or recession. If we see the market fall by 3 percent as a result of missing the deadline, which may subsequently reversed, the impact on the economy will be hard to detect.
It would be incredibly irresponsibly to make policy based on stock market fluctuations. If some members of Congress actually base their votes on stock market fluctuations then this would be a great news story. Voters should have this information so that they can replace the current members with more competent policymakers.
Thanks to Robert Salzberg for calling this to my attention.Add a comment
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Let's see, if Congress does nothing then the budget deficit will fall by around $600 billion to a bit more than 2 percent of GDP. How is this a "fiscal crisis?" Of course it's not a fiscal crisis.
It is an austerity bomb. If the higher taxes and reduced pace of spending are left in place over the course of the year (not the first 2 weeks in January), then GDP growth will slow and the economy will likely fall back into recession.
Please explain why the NYT still doesn't have this straight after covering the issue endlessly for the last three months?Add a comment
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The Serious People who are hyping the importance of a deal on the budget standoff before January 1 have various scare stories that are supposed to make us believe that missing the deadline will lead to an economic catastrophe. Part of the story is that consumers will freak out and stop buying things.
This part does not appear to be supported by the data, as the Conference Board Index of consumer confidence showed a sharp increase in December. Actually, that's not entirely right. The index fell sharply in December, from 71.5 in November to 65. However, this drop was entirely due to a drop in the future expectations index. This index has almost no relationship to current consumption.
On the other hand, the current conditions index, which tracks consumption reasonably well, rose to 62.8 in December from 57.4 in November. This is the index that tells us what people are actually doing.
The future expectations index reflects the nonsense reported in the media, which these days means lots of end of the world prophecies over missing the December 31st deadline.
Addendum: The NYT committed the same sin.Add a comment
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Yes, the Washington Post is getting very worried that it will have egg all over its face if January 1 comes with no budget deal and we don't get its promised recession. The paper pushed this line yet again, telling readers:
"Unless the House and the Senate can agree on a way to avoid the "fiscal cliff," more than $500 billion in tax increases and spending cuts will take effect next year, potentially sparking a new recession."
Of course the potential for a new recession does not refer to missing the January 1 deadline. It is the risk the country faces if we continue well into 2013 paying higher tax rates and with large cuts in spending. This is an enormously important distinction.
This is not the only important distinction missed in this piece. It told readers that President Obama and Speaker Boehner were very close to a deal:
"Boehner offered to raise $1 trillion in fresh revenue, and he wanted spending cuts of equal size. By that measure, Obama's tax offer was $300 billion too high and his cuts $150 billion too low, for a net difference between the two men of about $450 billion — less than 1 percent of projected federal spending over the next decade.
In the end, however, the gap proved to be much wider politically than it was numerically."
Actually, Boehner never specified the tax increases that raised $1 trillion in fresh revenue. ( If he did, the Post did not bother to report them.) So it is not clear how far apart they were. It is also likely that one of Boehner's big revenue raisers would have been a cap on deductions, including the deduction for state and local taxes. This would make it far more difficult for states like New York and California to maintain their current level of taxation. President Obama would find considerable resistance among Democrats to this sort of deal.
The piece also refered to Senator Lindsey Graham's warnings that the country could end up like Greece. It should have pointed out that Graham is either ignorant of economics or was trying to needlessly scare his audience since there is no way the United States can end up like Greece.
The United States borrows in its own currency, which means that it will always be able to pay its debt. Its worst risk would be inflation, which is a very remote risk at the moment. Greece, on the other hand is like Ohio. It cannot borrow in its own currency. The Post should have pointed out this distinction to its readers since some might have taken Lindsey's scare story seriously.
The piece also tells readers that Starbucks decision to make employees write "come together" on cups is a "'sign of mounting anxiety over Washington gridlock." While anxiety may explain the motivation of Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, he may also just want to curry favor of the powerful executives in the Campaign to Fix the Debt and win praise from their allies in elite media outlets like the Washington Post. Since Schultz's motives are not known, a serious newspaper would just report his actions without implying that it knew his motives.
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Perhaps we should be glad that the NYT gives their regular editors vacations over the holidays, but there still should have been someone to stop or qualify these lines:
"For months, President Obama, members of Congress of both parties and top economists have warned that the nation's fragile economy could be swept back into recession if the two parties did not come to a post-election compromise on January's combination of tax increases and across-the-board spending cuts.
"Yet with days left before the fiscal punch lands, both sides are exhibiting little sense of urgency, and new public statements Wednesday appeared to be designed more to ensure the other side is blamed rather than to foster progress toward a deal."
Nope, there are no economists who have warned that we have a serious risk of recession if there is no deal by January 1, 2013. The risk of recession comes if we go several months into 2013 without a deal. Those are very different scenarios, someone at the NYT must be able to understand this fact.Add a comment
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Paul Krugman has been rightly troubled by the continuing shift of income shares from labor to capital. However the explanation he considers in the form of capital-biased technological progress requires a little more careful examination.
Krugman discusses the case where there is an exogenous change in the nature of technology that makes capital relatively more productive than labor. This leads to more capital being used, driving up its price, and less labor being used, driving down its price (i.e. wages).
This is a relatively straightforward story, but there is a serious problem. Capital is not a well-defined item. Back in the good old days we could have one good models where capital was corn that we had chosen to use as seed rather than eat. However, once we move into the real world, we have to recognize that what counts as a "capital" is a diverse array of items that includes not only physical goods, but also things likes patents.
There is a long literature on the problem of measuring capital. (The Cambridge capital controversy gives some of the flavor.) But, just to make a simple point, we might end up with considerably less "capital" if we shortened, weakened, or eliminated patent protection, especially in areas where it arguably is impeding technological progress (e.g. software and prescription drugs).
For this reason, the fact that we may appear to be seeing capital-biased technological progress should not be viewed as just some unfortunate event in the world that we have to learn to cope with. If we are in fact seeing capital-biased technological progress it is almost certainly the case that it is at least in part the result of policy decisions that could be handled differently.Add a comment
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A Washington Post article on how most Democrats have come to support the Bush tax cuts for the bottom 98 percent of the population, after originally opposing them, told readers:
"The Democrats were also correct in warning about the effect on the government's debt. The tax cuts did more to fuel ballooning federal deficits over the past decade than any other Bush administration action — including the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the creation of a prescription drug benefit for seniors, according to the Pew Fiscal Analysis Initiative. And in coming years, the Bush-era tax cuts are projected to expand the deficit by trillions more."
Actually the deficits were not ballooning until the collapse of the housing bubble crashed the economy in 2008. The budget deficit in 2007 was 1.2 percent of GDP and the debt to GDP ratio was falling. The Congressional Budget Office projected that it would stay in this neighborhood for another decade or so even if the Bush tax cuts did not expire. The reason that the deficit became large and the debt to GDP ratio started to rise was that the collapse of the economy cost the government hundreds of billions in tax revenue annually and led to hundreds of billions of additional expenditures for unemployment benefits and other programs to counteract the impact of the downturn.
While the Bush tax cuts may have been bad policy, in fact they were affordable in the context of an economy that was near full employment. If the collapse of the housing bubble had not sank the economy, there would be little issue about the sustainability of the debt.Add a comment
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Well, who can blame her? After all, we have tens of millions of seniors living high on Social Security checks averaging a bit over $1,200 a month at a time when folks like the CEOs in the Campaign to Fix the Debt are supposed to subsist on paychecks that typically come to $10 million to $20 million a year.
Anyhow, her main trick for cutting benefits is to adopt the chained consumer price index as the basis for the annual cost of living adjustment. This would have the effect of reducing benefits by 0.3 percentage points for each year of retirement. This means a beneficiary would see a 3 percent cut in benefits after 10 years, a 6 percent cut after 20 years and a 9 percent cut after 30 years. This is real money. Since Social Security is more than half the income for almost 70 percent of retirees and more than 90 percent of the income for 40 percent of retirees, the hit to the affected population would be considerably larger than the hit to the top 2 percent from ending the Bush era tax cuts.
But Marcus insists this cut must be done first and foremost in the name of accuracy, since the chained CPI is supposed to provide a better measure of the cost of living. She notes but quickly dismisses the evidence from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) consumer price index for the elderly (CPI-E), which shows that the rate of inflation seen by the elderly is somewhat higher than the overall rate of inflation.
"The problem with that is twofold. That measure is imperfect — the "E" stands for experimental. And, as the liberal Center on Budget and Policy Priorities notes, the burden of higher health costs falls unevenly among the elderly. Average costs are skewed upward by a minority who face very high out-of-pocket expenses, a problem better addressed by fixing Medicare to deal with catastrophic costs."
Actually, the "E" stands for elderly, but let's get to the substance. First, if we are interested in accuracy then the answer would seem to be to have the BLS construct a full elderly index that tracked the actual consumption patterns of the elderly. This would cost some additional money, but we will be indexing $10 trillion in Social Security benefits over the next decade so if we want to ensure accuracy, it would seem reasonable to spend $70-$80 million to put together a full elderly index that actually tracked the consumption patterns of the elderly, looking at the specific outlets where they shopped and the items that they purchased.
It is difficult to know exactly what this would show, but it is possible that even apart from the issue of health care it would show that the elderly experience a higher rate of inflation than the population as a whole. The current index already assumes substantial amounts of substitution in response to price changes at lower levels of aggregation (e.g. different types of cell phones). If the elderly are less flexible in their shopping patterns and a less mobile population then this substitution may have the effect of understating the increase in their cost of living.Add a comment
Mr. Incompetent, the Economy Wrecker Alan Greenspan, Was Central to the Formation of the Campaign to Fix the Debt
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Alan Greenspan will go down in history as the person who has done more damage to the U.S. economy and society that anyone who was not a foreign enemy. In fact the destruction he wreaked through his incompetence would also exceed the damage caused by almost all would-be enemies as well.
Greenspan accomplished the remarkable feat as Fed chair of ignoring the growth of the $8 trillion housing bubble. This bubble could not have been easier to see if it had been 500 feet high and lit up with huge neon signs saying "Huge Housing Bubble." But Greenspan insisted the bubble was not there.
And Greenspan somehow didn't recognize that the collapse of this massive bubble would devastate the economy. The bubble was generating over $1 trillion in annual demand through its direct impact on housing construction and its indirect impact on consumption through the housing wealth effect. This demand would inevitably disappear when the bubble burst, leaving a huge hole in demand.
Did Greenspan think that the private sector had some magic formula to replace this demand? What could he have been thinking or smoking?
If we had a political debate that was driven by evidence, where the accuracy of one's past judgements played any role in the credibility granted their current opinion, then Greenspan would be relegated to the role of ranting fool. His opinions on the economy would be given slightly less credibility than the mumblings of a street drunk.
This is why it would have been worth highlighting the news contained in a NYT article on the origins of the "Campaign to Fix the Debt," the corporate financed effort to reduce the deficit. The article tells readers in passing:
"The Campaign to Fix the Debt started to come together at a salon dinner held in the backyard of Senator Mark Warner, Democrat of Virginia, in the fall of 2011. An influential group of economic, political and business leaders — including the former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan and Mark Bertolini, the chief executive of the Aetna insurance company — huddled in a too-small tent in the pouring rain."
This is such an amazing tidbit that it really should have been the lead of the article. The person most responsible for wrecking the economy -- and incidentially adding trillions of dollars to the debt -- was there at the founding of the Campaign to Fix the Debt.
Wow, what did Santa get you for Christmas?
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The Washington Post continued its practice of ignoring journalistic standards in trying to push its line on the necessity of a budget deal. An article referred to the end of the year deadline before higher tax rates and spending cuts kick in, then told readers:
"That deadline, now called the fiscal cliff, is widely believed capable of causing another recession."
It's actually not clear that any economists think that missing the deadline will cause the economy to fall into a recession. The Congressional Budget Office and others have projected that if higher tax rates and the legislated spending cuts stay in effect all year that the economy might fall into another recession. However, they did not project that a recession would result if we went a week or two into 2013 without a deal, especially if any tax cuts put in place were made retroactive, which would almost certainly be the case.Add a comment
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Fareed Zakaria is very unhappy that "The American Left," by whom he means the vast majority of people across the political spectrum who oppose cuts to Social Security and Medicare, insist on taking arithmetic seriously. They are refusing to join Peter Peterson and his wealthy friends in the Campaign to Fix the Debt in their crusade to cut these key social insurance programs.
Zakaria tells readers:
"The American left has trained its sights on a new enemy: Pete Peterson. The banker and private-equity billionaire is, at first glance, an obvious target—rich and Republican. He stands accused of being the evil genius behind all the forces urging Washington to do something about the national debt. ...
The Y2K Disaster: How News Outlets Not Working for the Campiagn to Fix the Debt Report on the Fiscal Cliff
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Many news outlets, most notably the Washington Post, have been busy creating disaster stories associated with the failure to reach an agreement on the budget by January 1, 2013. Ryan Grim at the Huffington Post approached the issue as a news reporter would, by asking what is likely to happen if there is no deal by that date.
The answer is essentially nothing. No one disputes that if we drag on several months into 2013 without a deal that higher taxes and lower government spending will be a serious hit to the economy. But the consequences to the economy of not reaching a deal by New Year's itself is pretty much zero. (It will mean unnecessary stress for people facing the cutoff of unemployment insurance and other benefits, but the impact of this on the economy will be pretty much undetectable.)
Anyhow while most of the media have horribly failed the country in their reporting on this issue, Ryan Grim and the Huffington Post came through.Add a comment
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One should always take second hand accounts from secret meetings with more than a grain of salt, but the Wall Street Journal's account of President Obama's position in his negotiations with Speaker Boehner should raise some concern. The WSJ told readers:
"The president told him [Boehner] he could choose one of two doors. The first represented a big deal. If Mr. Boehner chose it, the president said, the country and financial markets would cheer. Door No. 2 represented a spike in interest rates and a global recession."
Huh, a spike in interest rates and a global recession? What exactly could President Obama mean if he really said this? If there is no deal over the course of 2013 [not by January 1, that is a fairy tale told for children and Washington pundits] then it is likely that we will see a recession, as the Congressional Budget Office and others have projected. But a recession is associated with lower interest rates, not higher interest rates.
If President Obama really thinks interest rates will spike because of a big tax increase coupled with the cuts in the sequester then he badly needs some new economic advisers. I'm always open to new economic theories, but it's hard to see how you can get from standard economics to this sort of story.
If the WSJ is confident in the reliability of its sources it should be running a news piece on President Obama's loony economics.Add a comment
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A Washington Post article on a report by the IMF's Independent Evaluation Office criticizing political influence by the United States on the Fund's policy may have misled readers on how countries accumulate foreign exchange reserves. The article told readers:
"A steady rise in foreign reserves — a country's holdings of dollars, yen or other major world currencies — can be the result of large trade surpluses. But it can also stem from an undervalued exchange rate, something that the United States has long accused China of maintaining to give its products a more attractive price on world markets."
A rise in foreign exchange reserves can only result from a decision by a central bank to buy reserves. Its access to reserves is affected by the country's trade balance, but a central bank only ends up with reserves because it has decided to buy them. If the central bank of a country with large trade surpluses decided not to buy reserves, then its currency would rise in international markets as holders of foreign exchange (mostly dollars) dumped them on international markets to obtain more of their own country's currency.
This would cause the price of their own country's currency to rise and the foreign country's currency to fall. There is no real dispute that central bank intervention keeps the dollar high against the yuan and other currencies. The only questions can be the motivation and the implications of this intervention.Add a comment
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Towards the end of an article that discussed efforts by Japan's government to boost the demand for workers by generating inflation the NYT told readers:
"The country has an aging, shrinking population. It needs more workers."
Umm, no. It does not make sense to say that Japan is suffering from inadequate demand, which means that it has more supply of workers than demand for workers, and then to say it needs more workers. Up is not down.
There is a well-funded effort in the United States to try to place demographics at the center of economic policy debates. Countries are growing older. This is not new, they have been growing older for many decades. Fans of arithmetic know that the increase in living standards that result from even modest growth in productivity swamps the impact of demographics in lowering living standards. Here's the story for the United States over the next 23 years -- the peak pressure associated with the retirement of the baby boomers.
Source: Author's calculations.
And remember after 2035, the demographnics change little for the rest of the century, but productivity keeps growing. In short, the aging story is a joke.Add a comment
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For those of you BTP readers playing a drinking game out there in blogland, take another swig, the Washington Post used the phrase "tame the debt" in yet another budget article. Here it is:
"If there was going to be a deal to tame the nation's debt, it had to happen now."
Not much to add here. I just will note for those tiring of my deficit projection chart showing the silliness of this out of control debt story, there is also the addition approach that Paul Krugman used in his Monday column. But as the deficit hawks say, "don't bother me with your stinkin numbers!"Add a comment
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Ever since the election the Wall Street gang has been trying to build up scare stories around the budget standoff between the President and the Republican House. The term "fiscal cliff" is a central part of this campaign since it implies that something ominous happens if there is no deal by the end of the year.
As every economist and budget analyst knows, it makes virtually no difference whatsoever if there is a deal 10 days before the end of the year or 10 days after. However if the Wall Street gang can build up enough fear then it will lead to more pressure to get a deal before the end of the year. Since President Obama will be on much better negotiating turf after the end of the year and the tax cuts have already expired, a deal struck this year will likely be more favorable to the Republicans.
The NYT seems to have joined in this effort, telling readers that we may "careen off the so-called fiscal cliff" if there is no deal. This sort of silly and inaccurate metaphor is best left for fiction. It has no place in a serious newspaper.Add a comment
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That's undoubtedly what readers are asking after seeing this strange and inaccurate phrase appear yet again in an article about the latest tax plan Speaker Boehner put forward. Of course it is inaccurate since it implies that debt and deficits have been out of control.
As every budget analyst knows, deficits were actually quite modest until the economy plummeted in 2008 following the collapse of the housing bubble. The deficit in 2007 was just 1.2 percent of GDP. The economy can run deficits of this size forever, since the debt to GDP ratio was actually falling. The deficit was projected to remain low for the next several years until the projected expiration of the Bush tax cuts pushed the budget into surplus in 2012.
Source: Congressional Budget Office.
There have been no large unfunded increases in spending nor permanent tax cuts since these projections were made. The sole reason that the deficits came in much higher than projected was the impact of the recession on tax and spending and the stimulus measures taken to counter the downturn.
The Post has consistently misrepresented the nature of current deficits. This helps to promote its agenda of cutting Social Security and Medicare.
The Post also misrepresented the risks of missing the December 31 deadline of reaching a budget deal. It told readers:
"If no action is taken before the end of the year, taxes will rise for nearly 90 percent of taxpayers in January, potentially sparking a new recession, according to many economists."
In fact it is not clear that any economists say that missing the deadline will cause a recession. The Congressional Budget Office and others have projected that if the higher tax rates and spending cuts remain in place all year that the economy will likely fall into a recession. They did not say that this would be the result of waiting one or two weeks into January to work out a deal.
Most analysts think that President Obama's negotiating position will improve after the tax cuts expire. If this is the case then trying to maintain pressure on President Obama to reach a deal before the end of the year would also advance the Post's agenda for cutting Social Security and Medicare.Add a comment
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The Washington Post is having trouble with numbers again. It told readers that the bill passed by the Senate in the summer would restore the Clinton era tax rates on households with incomes over $1 million. Actually the bill would restore Clinton era tax rates on households with incomes over $250,000.
Thanks to Robert Salzberg for calling this to my attention.Add a comment
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The top of the hour news segment on Morning Edition told listeners that forecasters have predicted that failing to meet the December 31st cutoff on budget negotiations would throw the economy back into recession (sorry, no link). This is not true. The projections for a recession assume that there is no deal on taxes and spending throughout 2013. They did not predict what would happen if it takes a few days or weeks in 2013 to come to an agreement that reversed most of the tax increases and spending cuts that go into effect at the end of the year.
This is a simple and important distinction. It is incredible that NPR could not find news writers who could get it right.Add a comment


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Area poet Timothy Pettet finds more than BBQ at Linwood fundraiser
Poet Timothy Pettet, Kansas City, Missouri, is drawn to the prairie, small towns (think Cottonwood Falls and Linwood, Ks), their cemeteries and their history.
Pettet, who is in the process of finalizing an Opera entitled Mona and Zero, made his way to a cemetery outside Linwood today to research the Chance family. By a differing means of chance, Pettet met Stuart Sweeney (Union Pacific car inspector), who has information about the approximately 30 members of the Chance family Pettet is interested in.
Pettet, who made his way into Linwood with the intent to research the lone cemetery, that sits atop a cottonwood treed shaded hilltop, at The Linwood Library, was directed to one of the town's yearly fund raising events hosted by The Lion's Club when he asked a member from the Sheriff's department to direct him to a restaurant.
Wes Knight (stonemason) invited Pettet towards a cooker of pulled pork, homemade potato salad and a selection of desserts even though the fundraiser doesn't start for several hours (it is open from 3 -7 pm Saturday evening - donations accepted).
Knight, Sweeney (sons Jacob and Andrew) and fellow BBQer Phil Rosewicz (Civil Engineer Amy Core), all of Linwood, spoke about a shelter, prescription eye wear and other uses the money from the Lion's Club fundraiser has provided the Linwood community since the mid 1950's when now deceased charter member Casey Jones helped set up tents along the road in which chickens were smoked..
These days, the smokers are filled with pork and chicken and club members remain downtown with their specialty smokers.
Pettet left Linwood with an affirmation of why he is attracted to the prairie and small town comraderie.
Pettet will be reading poem 'Switching Way Back' and discussing additional projects on KLWN live from The Runaway Pony Sunday, July 29th, between 8:30 and 9:30 am.
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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Chronicles II: Creatures and Characters explores the amazing cast of heroes, villains, beasts, and beings that populate Middleearth in the fi rst chapter of Peter Jackson's fi lm adaptations of JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit. Richly illustrated with behind-the-scenes photographs, digital renders, and fi lm stills, this comprehensive book goes species by species and character by character through the fi lm's huge ensemble cast and bustling menagerie of creatures, both physical and digital, and shows how each came to be realized for the fi lm.
First-hand accounts from the actors, makeup artists, digital effects specialists, dialect coaches, prosthetics technicians, movement coaches, and many other crew members describe the process and how the production unfolded, while also sharing insights into the characters. A bonus feature, unique to this book, is the special fold-out character size chart, which compares all the major creatures and characters of the fi lm, from Radagast's hedgehog friend to the towering Stone Giants!
Compiled by Weta Workshop designer Daniel Falconer and featuring a wealth of stunning imagery, this book puts the reader face-to-face with all the creatures and characters of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, from the Dwarf heroes to the dark denizens of Middle-earth–the Orcs, Goblins, Trolls, and Wargs–and, of course, the hobbit himself, Bilbo Baggins.--Ce texte fait référence à l'édition Relié .
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Weta Workshop is a multi-award winning conceptual design and physical manufacturing facility based out of Wellington, New Zealand, servicing the world's entertainment and wider creative industries. Weta Workshop is also a multi-disciplinary facility, with crew members expert in a diverse range of disciplines all housed under the one roof. These services include conceptual design and the manufacturing of weapons, armor and chainmail, specialist props, custom vehicles, specialty costumes, miniatures and models, special makeup and prosthetics, and public art installations or displays. The team at Weta enjoys engaging in projects holistically, from preliminary technical analysis and conceptual design through to manufacture across all departments and the final delivery of product and crew to set, anywhere in the world. Drawing on more than twenty years of filmmaking experience, five-time Oscar-winning design and special effects supervisor Richard Taylor is intimately involved in all projects from concept through to delivery. Best known for the company's design and effects work on award-winning film projects, including The Lord of the Rings trilogy, King Kong, The Chronicles of Narnia, Avatar, District 9, and The Adventures of Tintin, Weta Workshop is not limited to film and television, offering services to creative industries worldwide--Ce texte fait référence à l'édition Relié .
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This is the second book in what will be a 6-book series of Weta's chronicles of the Hobbit trilogy. The first book featured the production design and concept art of "An Unexpected Journey"; this book focuses particularly on the characters and creatures of that film. It's a expansive look at the character designs in the film.
There are plenty of high quality images that fans of the film will be interested in -- conceptual artwork of the creature designs; character portraits; photos of the makeup application; etc. The books goes in depth about every aspect of visual characterization, but particular emphasis is placed on the makeup and hair work.
I highly recommend this book (and its companion books as well). As someone who enjoyed the Tolkien novel, I find it fascinating to see how the filmmakers and the creative team took what was on the page and translated it visually into a movie - and I'm happy to own a book that provides an inside look at that process.
I was not disappointed. I received the book yesterday and immediately began reading. First of all, it looks great, handsomely bound with an embossed cover and gilt lettering, the four key characters--Thorin, Gandalf, Bilbo and Gollum--each claiming their respective corners of the cover.
Within those covers are many beautiful color photos as well as artists' renderings, and the reader is taken behind the scenes to see, for example, how dwarf prosthetics and wigs are made, the evolution of creatures such as the trolls and the Goblin King, and how the actors protraying elves and dwarves learn how to move and how to find the right accent for their character. There are many quotes from Weta Workshop members and the film crew along with the actors.
I feel as if I know the actors better for having read this book along with getting a good glimpse into the formation of each of their characters. What a camaraderie they developed along the way! And I am impressed mightily by the painstaking attention to detail and craftsmanship exhibited by the makeup and prosthetic artists (who SHOULD have won an Oscar . . .)
If you are a fan of The Hobbit film and love beautiful "coffee table" books that are jam-packed with behind-the-scenes knowledge, you will want to add this to your library. It would make a great gift for a Tolkien fan, too. Definitely five stars!
If you love practical make ups and all the incredibly hard work that goes into them, you will love Chronicles II. As helpful as volume 1 is to cosplayers, volume 2 takes that just a step further in showing all the details in dwarf, elf and hobbit prosthetics. While the concept designs for the dwarves in volume 1 was great, seeing the actual appliances and/or sculpts is even better. I love being able see to Thorin's pop Thrain in all of his Odinesque glory, and too, the mining dwarf who found the Arkenstone.
Richard Armitage is terrific in the role of Thorin; Pouring the early sculpting concepts of a long bearded Thorin while reading Richard's comments about what a transformation that would have been, makes me ache just a little bit. A couple of those early concepts seen in the excellent Chronicles 1 were so spot on, imo, they would not detract from how attractive Thorin could be. It makes me wistful, but I am glad to see one of my favorite characters being portrayed so wonderfully in every other way. The nice thing is, we have a record of what might have been in two different forms now. So I appreciate seeing more of those excellent concepts in this book.
The added bonus of reading the actors, the talented Make Up crew and Weta designers' comments about specific designs is terrific. You really do get a sense of how the actors prepared for their roles and what they brought to their characters. It's a treat a read comments other than what a grind wearing those appliances, hair, beards and fat suits were.
In additional to practical make ups, many the digital characters are touched upon as well, including some of Radagast's feathered and furry friends (yay!) There's also a fun Middle Earth Size comparison chart in the very back.
I am looking forward to Weta's Chronicles for the next two Hobbit films. These are the best making of books for fans into costumes, make up, props and all those wonderful tiny details that realy deserve a lot more exposure.
Like it's predecesor, this is an absolutely gorgeous book. One I will definitely reread many, many times. If you enjoyed the Hobbit An Unexpected Journey, you'll enjoy this book.
You get to see Bilbo, Gandalf, dwarves (again), Thorin, orcs, trolls, eagles, giants, goblins and their king, oversized rabbits, Radagast's hedgehog friend, Stone Giants and the Gollum. Oh, no dragon, not yet.
The book's filled with highly detailed pictures, film stills and behind-the-scenes photographs. There are pictures of the cast working with silicone hand and leg prosthetics, make-up process, sculptures of dwarves, 3D models and more. The book's back has a scale size chart that's helpful at showing all the characters relative to each other.
There are interviews with the actors and the many staff that worked on the set. The extensive writeup talks about the challenges of creating these characters and creatures, getting them to move, the accents and language, the digital effects and the 3D models. It's fun reading about the film production from the first person account.
You get a good idea the amount of effort put in to create a film like this. Even for the 3D models created, they did not just model the muscles but also all the bones within even though they are not going to be seen on screen.
It's a really informative book packed with content.
Highly recommended to fans of the film.
(There are more pictures of the book on my blog. Just visit my Amazon profile for the link.)
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