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Placed near the end of the American Civil War, Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood is the story of Ray McCall, the preacher from the original Call of Juarez, and his two brothers. From the original game, I knew that Ray was once a gunslinger and an outlaw before becoming a man of the cloth, but this game gives you the how and why. Which brings me to the perils of prequels: in order for a prequel to work, the events should be as big if not bigger than the original story. In my opinion, Bound in Blood was not as epic or as entertaining of a tale. Already knowing what the culmination of events was leading to left me with a lack of suspense throughout this title.
That is not to say Bound in Blood is not worth playing. You are actually given a lot more freedom to move around in this game. If you are eager to get through, you can choose to abstain from the side missions that reward you with extra cash for helping recover stolen cattle or kidnapped girls. If you're up for those side romps, you can ride a horse across the Arizona badlands, shooting attacking Apaches or other outlaws (making you the good bad guy). In all honesty, why wouldn't you? The side missions are interesting and unique and give you a little extra cash.
Money is new to this series. In the first game, you fired your guns until they were just about broken and picked up better guns dropped by your newly deceased opponents. That is still a viable option in Bound in Blood; however, you now have the ability to pick up stolen bank money along your path of destruction. With said funds, you can restock your ammo supplies and buy upgraded, shinier versions of your weapons of choice from the occasional shop or arms dealer. And who doesn't want to bust into a saloon full of bad guys with two golden six-shooters a' blazin'?
Ray McCall is essentially the same style of fighter as he is in the original Call of Juarez, but his specialty has been altered a bit. Instead of going into bullet-time mode with a click of a button (granted, there was a small cooldown period), Ray now has to shoot enough of the enemy to charge a meter. When the meter is full, you can enter a mode that requires you to run the crosshairs over any visible enemy on screen, marking them with a red crosshair. Once all his bullets are accounted for, Ray will unleash hell on the marked targets. This gameplay mechanic is more annoying than helpful because you empty your guns in this mode, and if one enemy is off your screen, he will start shooting you while you're reloading. The old way was better and did not really need to be tweaked. Have the two crosshairs slowly enter from the sides of the screen and give the player an amount of time to shoot where and when he/she wants. This mode does come into play when the brothers are barging through the doors of some building, so you will get a taste of what I am talking about.
Thomas McCall is essentially Billy from the first game from a gameplay perspective. He is more nimble than Ray, so he can climb walls, use a rope to swing across gaps and fire a bow with deadly accuracy. The voice acting for this role, though more authentic than Billy, left much to be desired. The forced Southern drawl is more jilted and awkward than its smooth and gliding intent. Perhaps I am just overly sensitive to this, being from Texas. If John Wayne can play Genghis Khan, who am I to say what is authentic? Thomas' special gunfire was one that I never truly mastered and therefore, seldom used. I found the bow, which was an incredibly sweet and stealthy weapon in Call of Juarez, to be underpowered and almost useless in Bound in Blood. Once I found a scoped rifle, Thomas became my sniper extraordinaire.
A pivotal gameplay mechanic in any western is the duel, right? Nothing captures the essence of the genre more than two dust-covered cowboys standing off with twitchy fingers and jackets pulled back to reveal the big iron on their hip. Bound in Blood attempted to expand on what I felt was a solid setup in the first game ... and didn't quite hit the mark. Granted, now you can actually walk to the left and right and your enemy comes in and out of focus depending on where they are in relation to you, but aligning them and pulling your gun hand down at the stroke of the bell became ultimately frustrating for me after the third and fourth attempts in each duel. I literally tried a different mouse to see if that was the issue, but to no avail. If you are dedicated, you will eventually get lucky.
So, here is what I suggest: If you have not played either game, start with Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood so you follow the storyline in a straight chronological order. You will be pleased with the bigger events as you progress into the second game (the original Call of Juarez). The graphics in Bound in Blood are better than the original, but the difference did not strike me as noteworthy. If you have already played the original and are a die-hard western fan, go ahead and pick up a copy. If you are anyone else, this should be a pass.


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It's a busy week for us at the Game Developer's Conference (GDC) in San Francisco. Today we announced that 3D Vision Support will be integrated into Epic Games' popular Unreal Engine 3 (UE3)- UE3 was used to make BioShock 2, Batman Arkham Asylum, and Borderlands. Even Epic's free version of UE3, Unreal Development Kit (UDK) will get in on the 3D Vision action. So, if you're one of the 200,000 current UE3 or UDK users worldwide, you're in for some 3D theater-quality goodness
For developers, this support means they can now implement stereoscopic 3D effects into their PC games and know that their upcoming titles will look great when played in 3D. For gamers with NVIDIA GPUs, it means they they continue to have the best gaming experiences, regardless of whether they are playing in flat 2D, 3D, or even 3D spanning across multiple platforms.
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Derren Brown: INFAMOUS opened at The Palace Theatre in London's glamorous West End on 24th June and is now drawing rapidly to its conclusion on August 17th.
If you came to see the show and would like to own a unique souvenir, or even if you didn't make it but would like to sit at home sipping a hot beverage and imagining that you were there – go ahead and treat yourself to the limited edition Derren Brown: INFAMOUS – WEST END RUN 2013 Mug.
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Over the last two weeks Derren Brown has been struggling with a difficult throat condition.
This has now reached a point where he is unable to speak above a whisper and it is with great regret that he will be unable to perform on Wednesday 31st July and Thursday 1st August.
He is very concerned for his fans and is determined to be back on stage in the shortest possible time. The theatre will be getting in touch with all ticket holders.
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DERREN BROWN: INFAMOUS is at the Palace Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, until August 17.
Tickets are on sale now from 08448 740789 and from http://derrenbrown.co.uk/on-stage/
Thursday was the official press night for DERREN BROWN: INFAMOUS and the reviews are now in!
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Andrew Tomlins, for West End Frame, writes:
"I am still shaking my head in disbelief at what I witnessed." – ★★★★★
Kate Stanbury, writing for OfficialLondonTheatre.co.uk, reflects:
"His talent for storytelling and inherent sense of humour adds an element of stand-up comedy to the production, making the performer compelling to watch even when he isn't warping logic beyond recognition."
Sarah Bull, of The Daily Mail, observes:
"It is on the stage that he really comes alive – relishing the chance to stun and baffle his audience." – ★★★★★
Mark Shenton, for The Stage, writes that the show is:
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Comparing Derren with the stand-up comedian Daniel Kitson, Dominic Cavendish, for The Telegraph, writes: -
"There's a depth of intelligence in what they get up to on stage – a relish for the poetical and the philosophical too – that easily stands comparison with the finest drama." – ★★★★★
Nadia Mendoza, for the Daily Star, writes:
"Derren's exquisite skill is nothing shy of sheer genius."
Richard Voyce, for PlaysToSee.com, comments:
"The fact that he even has the stamina, let alone the sheer talent, to make us believe that he is doing what he is doing night after night is a feat in itself." – ★★★★★
Abby Moss, writing for Planet Ivy, writes:
"Go see Derren Brown if you like being so confused that you resort to violence, like an angry bear trying to get into a coolbox."
Peter Brown (no relation), writing for londontheatre.co.uk, describes Derren:
"This is a showman of the very first order – make no mistake of that." – ★★★★
Fiona Mountford, for the Evening Standard, announces:
"The master mentalist is back in the West End and he's here to mess with our heads."
Elly Perry, writing for The Upcoming, notes:
"Brown is a very clever man and slightly bonkers." – ★★★★
Carole Gordon, writing for What's On Stage, reminds us:
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"The people ousted the president," chanted a crowd of tens of thousands outside President Hosni Mubarak's presidential palace in Cairo the day he resigned. How true a collective statement that was.
From the first day of demonstrations in Egypt on January 25 to the resignation of Mubarak on February 11, protestors armed themselves with arguably what has become the most powerful platform in political causes: Twitter. Citizen journalists took to their Twitter accounts to document, network, organize and communicate their successful uprising in 140 characters or less. "Social media didn't cause the revolution but it had three big impacts: it accelerated movement making, made weak ties between people stronger and distributed leadership through networks," said Alec Ross, Senior Adviser for Innovation to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The whole world listened as tweets coordinated protests at Tahrir Square and simultaneously praised their newly found democratic voice as Egypt's autocratic leader of thirty years was dismantled.
In hope of capturing the raw emotion of the events as they unfolded, OR Books is releasing, "Tweets From Tahrir", a narrative of the revolution in the words of the people who made it. "If we didn't publish this book, we'd lose some of the historical value of those reactions as they happened in real-time," said publisher Colin Robinson. Citing Twitter users who were on the ground during the events, Robinson said, gave us the "spur of the moment reactions" of the citizens while we'll provide the "contextualization of what was taking place as a whole on each particular day."
In a way that moves the publishing industry closer to meeting our immediate demand for content, the book is set to be released on April 21, only two months after the revolution concluded. The book will only be available on OR Books website in $12 paperback form and $10 e-book form. "We're not getting a whole lot of sleep around here until the release," said Robinson, "but neither did the people of Egypt". Bypassing traditional distribution means, including eRetailers such as Amazon, allows OR Books to have products up almost overnight for pre-sale.
Alex Nunns, a British journalist, and Nadia Idle, an Egyptian citizen who was on the ground in Cairo during the protests began archiving tweets as they were posted. Many of those tweeting also took photographs with their phones, which are also used as illustrations throughout the book. Roughly fifty Twitter users featured were also contacted by Nunns or Idle and granted permission to be included in the collection. A spokesman for Twitter said that if all of the people gave permission, the book would not violate Twitter's terms of service.
"We'll see more and more books like this," said Robinson, "especially with the amount of attention it's receiving." If he's correct, and I believe he is, it raises some questions: What guidelines should be in place for this new genre of "Historical Social Media"? What verification process will be necessary to ensure the author is a citizen and not a government official posing as one? Will we eventually have a standard compensation model for content produced solely by social media outlet users? Since social media mainly captures emotional rather then logical responses, how much weight can publishers consider the work "historical value" rather than "heat of the moment" voices in which representation might paint the wrong picture?
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North Carolina waited "far too long" to get into energy exploration, Gov. Pat McCrory said at an energy conference in Durham Wednesday.
McCrory advocated for inland natural gas production, off-shore energy exploration and a review of state energy subsidies, including for renewable energy producers, at the N.C. Chamber's second annual conference.
"In fact, one of my goals for energy exploration regarding natural gas exploration inland is we hope to get a permitting process started in 2015," McCrory said at the Sheraton Imperial Hotel and Convention Center.
Overriding a veto from former Gov. Beverly Perdue, state lawmakers passed a law last year that tasked the newly constituted N.C. Mining and Energy Commission with creating new rules for oil and gas development.
The rules would allow horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," in the state, however, no permits can be issued until state leaders approve new rules. The commission is targeted to wrap up that rulemaking process next year, and the legislature is expected to review the proposed rules in 2015.
Jamie Kritzer, a department spokesman, said in an email that testing has already begun. In the Piedmont, rock samples from existing cores and cuttings in the Deep River and Dan River basins have been used to determine that basins contain total organic carbon, which is a requirement for the existing of oil and gas resources.
Using rock cores gathered decades ago, the U.S. Geological Survey estimated that there's potential for 1.7 trillion cubic feet of natural gas in the Deep River basin, according to the email. That's enough to meet the state's demand for natural gas for more than 5 years.
The Deep River basin includes the Durham sub-basin, but the testing has been done in the Deep River's Sanford sub-basin in Lee County and in part of Chatham County.
The focus has been on testing in Lee County in the Deep River basin and in Rockingham County in the Dan River basin, Kritzer said in the email, because that's where the department had data already. Starting in the early 1970s, companies explored for oil and natural gas there, he said.
This year, Kritzer said rock samples from both basins have been sent for analysis to determine the strength of rock there to help determine what's needed for hydraulic fracturing.
In addition, he said they're prepared to start drilling to evaluate the potential for resources in the Sandhills region in Robeson, Scotland, Hoke, Cumberland, Sampson and Wayne counties.
"We have to get into the exploration business in North Carolina, and we've waited far too long to begin that process and we've wasted a lot of time," McCrory said at Wednesday's conference.
Regarding off-shore energy development, McCrory said he's accepted the role of vice chair of the OuterContinental Shelf Governors Coalition. He said the group is advocating for federal permission for energy exploration off the coast of Virginia and the Carolinas. The coalition also includes Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi and Alabama.
The current five-year drilling plan, which dictates where oil and gas resources are available for leasing through 2017, does not allow for offshore drilling off the East Coast.
"This is what the offshore coalition is going to work on – to put pressure on the government to let us explore what's there," he said. "The sad news is, the oil companies are just moving elsewhere in the world, and they're moving their equipment elsewhere and they're moving their jobs elsewhere," he said.
He also called for a "long-term and honest" review of state government subsidies related to energy generation, including for renewable energy sources.
"One of North Carolina's No. 1 recruitment selling points is our low energy cost," he said. "We have to make sure that we don't have an impact on that selling point while at the same time, promoting renewables, which is another selling point for investing in North Carolina."
John Morrison, chief operating officer for the Chapel Hill-based solar developer Strata Solar, said at Wednesday's meeting that solar farms are built "at a fraction of the cost" today. However, he said there's still work to be done to bring that down further.
He said the company expects it will be able to build past 2015, which is when state's tax credit for renewable energy installations is set to expire. While he said they can see the finish line, they're not there yet.
He advocated for diversity of energy production, including renewable energy production.


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->''"I remember the first time I died. Facing down my foe was to be expected. Even inevitable. Resurrected, my soul awoke and my battles were fought harder. Death became my friend. I remember the first time I died. But dying gets easier; it's how you die that leaves your mark. Prepare to die..." ''
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''Dark Souls'' is the SpiritualSuccessor to ''[[VideoGame/DemonsSouls Demon's Souls]]'', developed by FROMSoftware and published by NamcoBandai.
In the Age of Ancients, the world was unformed, and shrouded by fog: a land of gray crags, arch-trees, and everlasting dragons. But then there was fire, and with it disparity: heat and cold, life and death, light and dark. From the dark came the four lords: Nito, the First of the Dead. The Witch of Izalith and her daughters of chaos. Gwyn, the Lord of Sunlight, and his faithful knights. And the easily forgotten Furtive Pygmy. They brought an end to the dragons, and ushered in a golden age called the Age of Fire. But now the flames are fading. The world suffers through endless nights, and mysterious brands called the Darksign curse humans with eternal undeath. These immortal undead are doomed to eventual madness as they lose their humanity, and thus are locked away in an asylum in the north to await the end of the world.
Players take the role of one of these undead, as they break out of the Undead Asylum and begin a quest through the huge, non-linear world of Lordran to ring the twin Bells of Awakening, prophesied to reveal the fate and true purpose of the undead.
''Dark Souls'' features a weightier type of ActionRPG combat, encouraging players to learn enemy tells and draw out opponents one at a time. This goes double for bosses, who can kill players in only a few hits. There are over 20 weapon types, each with their own move sets. Weapon upgrades allow you to improve different stat bonuses to weapon damage, or add lightning / fire / magic / etc. damage instead.
Character classes do exist, but only determine starting equipment and stats. Builds are instead based on which stats you choose to level up and equipment you wear. Each point you put into a stat counts as a "Soul Level", which decides the level range of other players you can encounter online.
''Dark Souls'' reuses ''VideoGame/DemonsSouls''' unique online components. Examining bloodstains while playing online will replay the last ten seconds of another player's life, highlighting potential hazards. You can also leave messages on the ground about potential enemies, hazards and treasure (or to [[ForTheEvulz lure others into traps]]). Additionally, players in human form can summon two other players to help them. However, they can also be invaded and killed by others. By entering one of the game's nine covenants, players gain benefits to co-op play, invasion, hunting invaders, and so forth.
''Dark Souls'' is also [[NintendoHard hard]]. [[MemeticMutation Infamously]] hard. As the TagLine says, PrepareToDie. ''A lot.'' The game auto-saves every few seconds, so you live with the consequences of every single action you take.
''Dark Souls'' was released for PS3 and [[XBoxThreeSixty Xbox 360]] on September 22, 2011 in Japan and October 4 and 6, 2011 in North America and Europe. A PC port, ''[[UpdatedRerelease Dark Souls: Prepare To Die Edition]]'' was later released August 24th 2012. The PC port content was released for PS3 and Xbox360 as DLC named "Artorias of the Abyss" on October 23, 2012. On December 15th, 2014 FROMSoftware began the PC version's transition off of the now defunct Games for Windows Live platform in favor of upgrading to support Steamworks, allowing players to transfer their data and achievements in the process.
Has two sequels, ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsII'' and ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsIII''.
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Motive Industries has just sent us the first images of the Kestrel 4 passenger electric car. What makes this car special is that it's body will be made of hemp plastic. Although this green electric car is not due out until late 2012, that doesn't stop the company from continuously giving us small hits to keep us going.Read More »
Motive Industries' Cannabis Kestrel cars rear end exposed
That first hit of news from Motive Industries and their cannabis composite electric car was real smooth, now a second has come down the pipe and it's even nicer than the first.Read More »
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Canadian company Motive Industries has announced their plan to test a prototype vehicle which is made of Hemp. The car is electric, and is expected to reach 55 mph with a range of 25-100 miles before recharging. CBC is reporting that several battery options will be available making the hemp electric vehicle affordable to many people.Read More »


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When Jonathan Toews poked the puck past goaltender Braden Holtby with 38.5 seconds remaining in Sunday's game against the Capitals to send the game into overtime, the Hawks had gained a big point in the race for the playoffs. But when Mike Knuble scored in overtime to give surging Washington a 4-3 victory, it denied the Hawks a just-as-large second point.


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If country music has taught us one thing over the last decade, it is to never underestimate an aging legend. With much of Nashville doing everything it can to zap tradition and creativity off the mainstream radar, recent efforts by Johnny Cash, Loretta Lynn, Glen Campbell, Porter Wagoner, and Dolly Parton, among others, have quietly upheld the genre's standards, in many cases producing some of the finest records of those artists' esteemed careers.
The standard approach among these sets has been to build on an artist's proven strengths with a younger-minded producer who understands what made the artist great in the first place. It's a very smart compromise, rejuvenating the old-fashioned while still honoring an artist's essential identity, and given its successful track record, one might expect the posthumous Waylon Forever to follow the same path and thereby fall easily into the hallowed company of Cash's American Recordings or Lynn's Van Lear Rose.
But a cursory listen-through the eight tracks here will quickly put such notions to rest. Waylon Forever is not a hiply updated reminder of what its namesake did throughout his multi-decade career, even as it features no less than six songs Jennings had previously recorded (with "I Found the Body" and a cover of Cream's "White Room" being the newbies). It might not even be prudent to call the set a proper "album." It sounds more akin to an unfinished home experiment with a little extra shine, which makes sense given the unusual circumstances leading to its production: son Shooter began recording the project with Waylon in 1995 (which found the former sixteen years old and the latter seven years from death), and the two reportedly arranged the songs here with some of the younger Jennings' then-inspirations (Nine Inch Nails, Skinny Puppy, Pink Floyd, Cream) in mind. The result is a disjointed, scrappy, often weird, and occasionally quite inspired set of recordings that longtime Waylon fans will find fascinating and everyone else will likely scratch their heads at.


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#28: Seafood at Farmhaus
|Jennifer Silverberg
|Blackened mahi mahi with spoonbread and Best Stop andouille at Farmhaus
The seafood selections vary from day to day. On my visits, the clear standout was the escolar poached in butter, dill and traminette served with grilled asparagus and two blue prawns -- with the heads on, a local rarity. I loved this dish so much that I named it my #1 dish of any kind in 2010.
Another highlight is pictured above: blackened mahi mahi with spoonbread and Best Stop andouille. Here is what I wrote about this dish in my review of Farmhaus from June 10, 2010:
Mahi mahi was given a Cajun treatment, the modest-size fillet perfectly blackened, the exterior crisp with spice, the interior tender. The fillet was drizzled with an emulsion of butter and Crystal hot sauce, a lovely one-two punch of fat and bite, and served with andouille sausage from the legendary Louisiana shop Best Stop and Willmann's legendary -- in my mind, at least -- spoon bread (something like a cross between cornbread and bread pudding).
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I'm counting down -- in no particular order -- 100 of my favorite dishes in St. Louis. Some are well-known, others obscure. Some are expensive, others dirt cheap. All of them, I guarantee, are delicious. Please do not hesitate to share your own favorites via the comments thread.
#29: The "Edgar Allan Poe" at Dewey's Pizza
#30: The "Heart Stopping BLT" and a chocolate malt at Crown Candy Kitchen
#31: Smoked half-chicken at PM BBQ
#32: The smoked chicken pizza at Onesto Pizza & Trattoria
#33: The baby-back ribs (or the burger) at the Piccadilly at Manhattan
#34: Albóndigas caseras con patatas at the Guido's Pizzeria & Tapas
#35: The "Sweet Burger" at SweetArt
#36: Buffalo fries at Blueberry Hill
#37: Tom yum gai at Pearl Café
#38: Cassoulet (and Sweetbreads) at Franco
#39: The "Papasan Roll" at Miso on Meramec
#40: Lasagna at Mama Josephine's
#41: The "Bucktown" Pizza at Pi Pizzeria
#42: Pla song kruang at Basil Spice Thai Cuisine
#43: Chori pollo at Mi Ranchito
#44: Pizza at La Pizza
#45: Fried chicken at Young's Restaurant & Ice Creamery
#46: The Philly Cheesesteak at 9th Street Deli
#47: Smoked chicken wings at Flavors BBQ Sports Bar & Grill
#48: Coffee and a pastry at 222 Artisan Bakery
#49: The torta ahogada at Taqueria Durango
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Most models used in modern macroeconomics are too complex to allow for exact solutions. For this reason, researchers have appealed to numerical approximation techniques. One popular and widely used approximation technique is a first-order perturbation method delivering a linear approximation to the policy function. One reason for the popularity of first-order perturbation techniques is that they do not suffer from the `curse of dimensionality.' That is, problems with a large number of state variables can be handled without much computational demands. Because models that are successful in accounting for many aspects of observed business cycles are bound to be large (e.g., Smets and Wouters, 2004; and Christiano, Eichenbaum, and Evans, 2003), this advantage of perturbation techniques is of particular importance for policy evaluation. However, an important limitation of first-order approximation techniques is that the solution displays the certainty equivalence property. In particular, the first-order approximation to the unconditional means of endogenous variables coincides with their non-stochastic steady state values. This limitation restricts the range of questions that can be addressed in a meaningful way using first-order perturbation techniques.
One such question that is of particular relevance for our research agenda is welfare evaluation in stochastic environments featuring distortions or market failures. For example, Kim and Kim (2003) show that in a simple two-agent economy, a welfare comparison based on an evaluation of the utility function using a linear approximation to the policy function may yield the spurious result that welfare is higher under autarky than under full risk sharing. The problem here is that some second- and higher-order terms of the equilibrium welfare function are omitted while others are included. Consequently, the resulting criterion is inaccurate to order two or higher. The same problem arises under the common practice in macroeconomics of evaluating a second-order approximation to the objective function using a first-order approximation to the decision rules. For in this case, too, some second-order terms of the equilibrium welfare function are ignored while others are not. See Woodford (2003, chapter 6) for a discussion of conditions under which it is correct up to second order to approximate the level of welfare using first-order approximations to the policy function. In general, a correct second-order approximation of the equilibrium welfare function requires a second-order approximation to the policy function.
This is what we set out to accomplish in Schmitt-Grohé and Uribe (2004a). Building on previous work by Collard and Juillard, Sims, and Judd among others, we derive a second-order approximation to the solution of a general class of discrete-time rational expectations models. Specifically, our technique is applicable to nonlinear models whose equilibrium conditions can be written as: Et f(yt+1,yt,xt+1,xt)=0, where the vector xt is predetermined and the vector yt is nonpredetermined.
The main theoretical contribution of Schmitt-Grohé and Uribe (2004a) is to show that for any model belonging to this general class, the coefficients on the terms linear and quadratic in the state vector in a second-order expansion of the decision rule are independent of the volatility of the exogenous shocks. In other words, these coefficients must be the same in the stochastic and the deterministic versions of the model. Thus, up to second order, the presence of uncertainty affects only the constant term of the decision rules. But the fact that only the constant term is affected by the presence of uncertainty is by no means inconsequential. For it implies that up to second order the unconditional mean of endogenous variables can in general be significantly different from their non-stochastic steady state values. Thus, second-order approximation methods can in principle capture important effects of uncertainty on average rate of return differentials across assets with different risk characteristics and on the average level of consumer welfare.
An additional advantage of higher-order perturbation methods is that like their first-order counterparts, they do not suffer from the curse of dimensionality. This is because given the first-order approximation to the policy function, finding the coefficients of a second-order approximation simply entails solving a system of linear equations.
The main practical contribution of Schmitt-Grohé and Uribe (2004a) is the development of a set of MATLAB programs that compute the coefficients of the second-order approximation to the solution to the general class of models described above. This computer code is publicly available at the authors' websites. Our computer code coexists with others that have been developed recently by Chris Sims and Fabrice Collard and Michel Juillard to accomplish the same task. We believe that the availability of this set of independently developed codes, which have been shown to deliver identical results for a number of example economies, helps build confidence across potential users of higher-order perturbation techniques.
A central characteristic of the studies on optimal monetary policy that existed at the time we initiated our research on policy evaluation, was that they were conducted in the context of highly stylized environments. An important drawback of that approach is that highly simplified models are unlikely to provide a satisfactory account of cyclical movements for but a few macroeconomic variables of interest. For this reason, the usefulness of this strategy to produce policy advise for the real world is necessarily limited.
In a recent working paper (Schmitt-Grohé and Uribe, 2004b), we depart from the literature extant in that we conduct policy evaluation within the context of a rich theoretical framework capable of explaining observed business cycle fluctuations for a wide range of nominal and real variables.
Following the lead of Kimball (1995), the model emphasizes the importance of combining nominal and real rigidities in explaining the propagation of macroeconomic shocks. Specifically, the model features four nominal frictions, sticky prices, sticky wages, money in the utility function, and a cash-in-advance constraint on the wage bill of firms, and four sources of real rigidities,
investment adjustment costs, variable capacity utilization, habit formation, and imperfect competition in product and factor markets. Aggregate fluctuations are assumed to be driven by supply shocks, which take the form of stochastic variations in total factor productivity, and demand shocks stemming from exogenous innovations to the level of government purchases.
Altig et al. (2003) and Christiano, Eichenbaum, and Evans (2003) argue that the model economy for which we seek to design optimal operational monetary policy
can indeed explain the observed responses of inflation, real wages, nominal interest rates, money growth, output, investment, consumption, labor productivity, and real profits to productivity and monetary shocks in the postwar United States. In this respect, Schmitt-Grohé and Uribe (2004b) aspires to be a step ahead in the research program of generating monetary policy evaluation that is of relevance for the actual practice of central banking.
In our quest for the optimal
monetary policy scheme we restrict attention to what we call operational interest rate rules. By an operational interest-rate rule we mean an interest-rate rule that satisfies three requirements. First, it prescribes that the nominal interest rate is set as a function of a few readily observable macroeconomic variables. In the tradition of Taylor (1993), we focus on rules whereby the nominal interest rate depends on measures of inflation, aggregate activity, and possibly its own lag. Second, the operational rule must induce an equilibrium satisfying the zero lower bound on nominal interest rates. And third, operational rules must render the rational expectations equilibrium unique. This last restriction closes the door to expectations driven aggregate fluctuations.
The object that monetary policy aims to maximize in our study is the expectation of lifetime utility of the representative household conditional on a particular initial state of the economy. Our focus on a conditional welfare measure represents a fundamental departure from most existing normative evaluations of monetary policy, which rank policies based upon unconditional expectations of utility. Exceptions are Kollmann (2003) and Schmitt-Grohé and Uribe (2004c). As Kim et al. (2003) point out, unconditional welfare measures ignore the welfare effects of transitioning from a particular initial state to the stochastic steady state induced by the policy under consideration. Indeed, we document that under plausible initial conditions, conditional welfare measures can result in different rankings of policies than the more commonly used unconditional measure. This finding highlights the fact that transitional dynamics matter for policy evaluation.
In our welfare evaluations, we depart from the widespread practice in the neo-Keynesian literature on optimal monetary policy of limiting attention to models in which the nonstochastic steady state is undistorted. Most often, this approach involves assuming the existence of a battery of subsidies to production and employment aimed at eliminating the long-run distortions originating from monopolistic competition in factor and product markets. The efficiency of the deterministic steady-state allocation is assumed for purely computational reasons. For it allows the use of first-order approximation techniques to evaluate welfare accurately up to second order, a simplification that was pioneered by Rotemberg and Woodford (1999). This practice has two potential shortcomings. First, the instruments necessary to bring about an undistorted steady state (e.g., labor and output subsidies financed by lump-sum taxation) are empirically uncompelling. Second, it is ex ante not clear whether a policy that is optimal for an economy with an efficient steady state will also be so for an economy where the instruments necessary to engineer the nondistorted steady state are unavailable. For these reasons, we refrain from making the efficient-steady-state assumption and instead work with a model whose steady state is distorted.
Departing from a model whose steady state is Pareto efficient has a number of important ramifications. One is that to obtain a second-order accurate measure of welfare it no longer suffices to approximate the equilibrium of the model up to first order. Instead, we obtain a second-order accurate approximation to welfare by solving the equilibrium of the model up to second order. Specifically, we use the methodology and computer code developed in Schmitt-Grohé and Uribe (2004a).
Our numerical work suggests that in the model economy we study, the optimal operational interest-rate rule takes the form of a real-interest-rate targeting rule. For it features an inflation coefficient close to unity, a mute response to output, no interest-rate smoothing, and is forward looking. The optimal rule satisfies the Taylor principle because the inflation coefficient is greater than unity albeit very close to 1.
Optimal operational monetary policy calls for significant inflation volatility. This result stands in contrast to those obtained in the related literature.
The main element of the model driving the desirability of inflation volatility is indexation of nominal factor and product prices to 1-period lagged inflation. Under the alternative assumption of indexation to long-run inflation, the conventional result of the optimality of inflation stability reemerges.
The class of operational rules discussed here is clearly not exhaustive. It would be of interest to investigate whether the inclusion of macroeconomic indicators other than those considered here would improve the policymaker's ability to stabilize the economy.
In particular, the related literature has emphasized the use of measures of the output gap that are different from that used by us. Additionally, it has been argued that in models with nominal wage and price rigidities the optimal policy should target an average of wage and price inflation as opposed to only price inflation, which is the case we analyze.
The optimal policy problem we analyze takes the central bank's inflation target as exogenously given. A natural extension is to endogenize this variable. However, in our theoretical framework, the optimal inflation target is the one associated with the Friedman rule. This is because the assumption of full indexation to past inflation implies the absence of inefficient price and wage dispersion in the long run.
Thus the only remaining nominal frictions are the demand for money by households and firms. These frictions call for driving the opportunity cost of holding money to zero in the long run. In other words, the zero bound on nominal interest rate binds in the non-stochastic steady state. The perturbation technique we employ is ill suited to handle this case. Therefore, analyzing the case of an endogenous inflation target entails either changing the model so that the Friedman rule is no longer optimal in the long-run or adopting alternative numerical techniques for computing welfare accurately up to second-order or higher.
One of our findings is that the initial state of the economy plays a role in determining the parameters defining the optimal interest-rate rule. This finding suggests that the optimal operational rule identified here is time inconsistent. In Schmitt-Grohé and Uribe (2004b), we assume that the government is able to commit to the policy announcements made at time 0. It would be of interest to characterize optimal operational rules in an environment without commitment.
Finally, we limit attention to the special case of passive fiscal policy, taking the form of a balanced-budget rule with lump-sum taxation.
It is well known that the set of operational monetary rules depends on the stance of fiscal policy. For instance, the determinacy properties of the rational expectations equilibrium associated with a particular monetary rule can change as fiscal policy is altered.
Therefore, it would be of interest to introduce operational fiscal rules as an additional policy instrument.
Rotemberg, Julio J., and Michael Woodford (1999):
Interest Rate Rules in an Estimated Sticky Price Model, in:
John B. Taylor, ed.,
Monetary policy rules
NBER Conference Report series. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, pages 57-119.
Schmitt-Grohé, Stephanie and Martín Uribe (2004a):
Solving Dynamic General Equilibrium Models Using a Second-Order Approximation to the Policy Function, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, vol. 28, pages 755-775.
Schmitt-Grohé, Stephanie, and Martín Uribe (2004b):
Optimal Operational Monetary Policy in the Christiano-Eichenbaum-Evans Model of the U.S. Business Cycle, NBER working paper 10724.
Schmitt-Grohé, Stephanie and Martín Uribe (2004c):
Optimal Simple And Implementable Monetary and Fiscal Rules,
NBER working paper 10253.
Smets, Frank and Raf Wouters (2004):
Comparing shocks and frictions in US and Euro area business cycles: a Bayesian DSGE approach,
Working paper 61, Nationale Bank van Belgie.
Taylor, John B. (1993):
Discretion versus Policy Rules in Practice
Carnegie Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy, vol. 39,
pages 195-214.
Woodford, Michael (2003):
Interest and Prices: Foundations of a Theory of Monetary Policy,
Princeton Princeton University Press.
A large literature, e.g. Paul Krugman, Brian Arthur, and others, has emphasized
that when agglomeration economies are important, industries can get "stuck"
in an inefficient location. No individual firm is unilaterally willing to
leave for the better location because of the "glue" of agglomeration
benefits. In other words, there is a coordination failure.
My model differs from the previous literature in that rather than being
forced to take a big discrete "jump" to go to some new location and forego
all agglomeration benefits, a firm can take a small "step" in the direction
of the new location. With a small step, the firm retains some of the
agglomeration benefits of the old location, but also begins to enjoy some of
the advantages of the new location. I show that industries never get stuck
at locations that are inefficient from the perspective of local optimality,
and I present a condition under which migration rates are efficient. As an
application of the theory, I discuss the migration of the automobile
industry in the U.S. from Michigan to the South. It is clear that this
industry has moved in a step-by-step fashion.
So we see that this specific model doesn't apply to globalization.
If the textile industry is in North Carolina, and the efficient location is
Africa, by taking a small step in this direction, firms would have to set up
shop in the Atlantic Ocean! Nevertheless, the broad idea of the project
that migrations can take place in a step-by-step fashion does apply to the
issue of globalization. In a 1999 Journal of Urban Economics article, I
observe that an industry like textiles has many different kinds of products.
Agglomeration benefits are not so important for the production of coarse
cloth, but they are important for advanced textiles. Low-end products tend
to migrate first, but these then set up a base of agglomeration benefits
that may draw in medium-level products, which in turn may drawn in the next
level products, and so on.
The larger point of this set of papers is that the attractive force
of production efficiency can be powerful even when agglomeration forces are
important. There will usually be somebody who will be drawn in by
production advantages of a better location and the first migration makes the
second one easier. The modeling of dynamics in this analysis is crucial,
since step-by-step migrations are inherently a dynamic phenomenon.
My recent work with Matt Mitchell develops such a micro model of
production. The central idea of our model is that unskilled labor relates
to capital in the same way that skilled labor relates to unskilled.
Unskilled labor has general ability in the performance of mechanical tasks.
An unskilled worker can easily switch from the job of tightening a bolt,
picking up a paint brush, or emptying a trash. It may be possible to
substitute a machine to undertake any one of these tasks, but this would
generally require upfront investment, a fixed cost, to design a machine
specific to this task. In an analogous way, skilled labor has general
ability in the performance of mental tasks. A worker with a degree in
engineering can be put in charge of a production line and has general
knowledge to make appropriate decisions when unexpected problems arise.
Alternatively, a production process may be redesigned and routinized to
reduce the amount of uncertainty, making it possible for an unskilled worker
to run the production line, instead. In this analysis, the scale of
production is crucial for determining how to allocate tasks. For
small-scale production, e.g. for a prototype model, unskilled labor will do
the mechanical tasks and skilled labor will manage the production line. For
large-scale production, capital will do the mechanical tasks and unskilled
labor will manage the production line.
We use our model to (1) provide micro foundations for capital-skill
complementarity, (2) provide a theory for how factor composition (e.g.
capital intensity and skilled worker share) varies with plant size and (3)
provide a theory of how expansion of markets through increased trade affects
the skill premium. Our theory is consistent with certain facts about factor
allocation and factor price changes in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Since you brought up Cobb Douglas, a good question is whether or not
our theory can provide micro foundations of Cobb-Douglas, analogous to
Houthakker. The answer is no. Not only is our aggregate production
function not Cobb-Douglas, it isn't even homothetic. In fact, one of the
key points of our paper is that a proportionate increase of all factors of
production-which is what happens when two similar countries begin to
trade-can change relative factor prices.
I know it's an uphill battle to wean macroeconomists off the
Cobb-Douglas production function. Macroeconomists love it not just because
of its tractability but also because of the constancy of capital share. But
if macroeconomists want to understand phenomena like changes in the skill
premium, I believe they have to get out of a Cobb-Douglas world. At this
point, my model with Matt is too primitive to make it suitable for a
quantitative macro analysis. But I believe that there is a potential for a
next generation of models in this class to be useful for quantitative
The 2004 meetings of the SED, held in Florence, Italy, were a great success. Ten and even eleven parallel sessions ran at a time for three days, with 370 papers presented. For the high quality of the content we should thank the program organizers Jeremy Greenwood and Gianluca Violante.
The 2005 meetings will be held in Budapest, June 23-25. The call for papers is at http://www.economicdynamics.org/currentSED.htm and some of the planned events are already listed there. The program co-chairs are Rob Shimer and Marco Bassetto, and the plenary speakers who this year will be Stephen Morris, Jonathan Eaton, and Richard Rogerson. The submission deadline is January 31.
Gary Hansen continues his dedicated and able management of RED. We are happy to report that RED is included in the 2003 edition of the Journal Citation Reports published by ISI. Although ISI has been indexing RED for several years now, this is the first year that statistics about RED have appeared in print.
I urge you to submit your best work to RED, and I hope to see all of you this June in Budapest.
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Society for Economic Dynamics
More generally, their work has been instrumental in reshaping macroeconomics into a modern, micro-founded, data-driven field. It has immensely expanded what we can now do with theory, as it trigered a large development of new tools that help answer more and more important questions. Their impact has not just been academic, but has had concrete implications in the conduct of policy, in particular for central banks.
The Nobel Foundation has posted an interesting review of their work. Be sure to read it!
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Yet another textbook on dynamic macroeconomics, one may think. This book is
different from the others in terms of the target audience. It aims at
advanced undergraduates, say in an Honors program or in programs that can go
more in depth in Economics. It is also suited for beginning graduates, say
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Living in Wiesbaden, I'm really glad that the shops are closed on Sundays. It's a good change to be able to walk downtown and just window shop and not feel the hustle and bustle of people trying to buy stuff. It's relaxing and at least most of the restaurants and cafés are open anyway. Knowing that I would be craving some good chocolate on Sunday, I decided to go to Xocoatl, my fave chocolate shop (I wrote about it here and here). My sisters both loved the organic Rococo milk chocolate with sea salt bar, so I decided to buy one of those. I'm not partial to milk chocolate, but my curiosity took the better of me.
OK, I really think it tastes super! The saltiness of the sea salt really makes the lovely milk chocolate shine without being too sweet. What an odd combination, but then again I love the butter caramel-sea salt with dark chocolate combination. Would definitely buy it again… but there are so many other chocolates that I need to try! ;)
remember to click on the photos to see a larger view!
On a side note, at the Saturday farmers market Mr.E and I made a wonderful discovery. There is a small stand where a farmer sells his homemade breads and cakes. For some ridiculous unknown reason, I always pass him by. Even though his offerings always look so wonderful.
Yesterday, we stopped right before heading home and decided to buy a slice of his cheesecake. The only reason that happened was because he was pretty much out of everything else that I had my eye on!! I'm not a big fan of cheesecake but this one completely changed my mind. It was rich and decadent, but also so wonderfully smooth and perfumed with vanilla. The cake layer on the bottom was not like the usual German firm butter biscuit, instead it was crumbly and soft. Oh let me tell you, the top was baked so perfectly brown that I tasted the most subtle caramel-like flavor. It was the cheesecake that I've always dreamed of. Perfect, just enough fresh cheese flavor without feeling like I'm eating a block of Philadelphia (give me a toasted bagel for that!). Plus most cheesecakes that I've tried here have an unappetizing gelatinous texture. Next time, I'll definitely buy a loaf of his superb looking bread and perhaps another slice of cake! I'll also remember to take a photo or two.


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Wednesday, March 3, 2010
New Andover tornado video: Nearly 19 years later
This morning I read online about a newly discovered Andover tornado video from April 26, 1991 that was posted on YouTube. It's sobering to know that minutes after the video ends, the neighborhood would be forever changed. You'll see in Part 2 of the video, shot 2 days later.
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The video is back up here...
- March 24, 2010 at 4:37 PM
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Anonymous...thank you. I was going to update this Sunday before my shift ended and it escaped me. Thanks again for the new link! I'm glad to see someone actually reads this! :-) Maybe it would help if I updated it...hmmmmm...
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Report: Boston went after Zach Parise
Jul 5, 2012, 12:03 PM EDT
Here's an interesting story regarding the now-completed Zach Parise sweepstakes — according to the Boston Globe, the Bruins were actively courting the 27-year-old winger:
From The Globe's Fluto Shinzawa:
Before accepting Minnesota's contract, Parise received a significant offer from the Bruins, according to a source familiar with the negotiations. It is unknown how closely Boston's bid approached Minnesota's.
At first glance, the paragraph almost doesn't make sense. The Bruins are pressed right against the salary cap ceiling (Capgeek has them at $69.9 million) with close to $40 million locked into forwards.
But then again…
The Bruins could clear $5 million in space if they were to trade Tim Thomas and another $4 million by putting Marc Savard on long-term injured reserve.
That's where things would get interesting, because in 2013-14 Boston starts to see some contracts come off the books. Nathan Horton's a UFA while Milan Lucic, Brad Marchand, Tuukka Rask and Tyler Seguin are all RFAs — ergo, adding a significant long-term, big-money contract would (theoretically) become more feasible.
Anyway, it's all speculation and hypotheticals now because Parise's inked with Minnesota. But that said…if the Bruins were indeed angling for Parise, perhaps they're in on other big fish *cough* Rick Nash *cough* as well.
(Yeah, I know the Bruins aren't on Rick Nash's rumored "approved list." Don't let that get in the way of some good hotstove banter.)
- redwingsfan999 - Jul 5, 2012 at 12:12 PM
I could see Nash with the bruins
- odj810 - Jul 5, 2012 at 5:41 PM
i hope not, he'd probably ask for lucic seguin and hamilton. Howson is delusional
- mgp1219 - Jul 5, 2012 at 12:17 PM
I guess this means the Bruins have no chance to win the Cup, eh? Isn't Minnesota a lock to win it now?
- lostpuppysyndrome - Jul 5, 2012 at 12:25 PM
Realistically speaking, yes, and for the next 13 years as well.
- capesouth - Jul 5, 2012 at 12:31 PM
Realistically speaking, you think they are a lock for the next 13 years? I think you mean, they are contenders…definitely not a "lock".
- lostpuppysyndrome - Jul 5, 2012 at 12:39 PM
Oh no, they're a lock to win the Cup every year for at least 13 years, if not forever. Probably just rename the Cup the Wild Trophy, and move every other team into varying degrees of irrelevance. I think most people would agree as well.
- capesouth - Jul 5, 2012 at 12:46 PM
realistically then, you are unrealistic…boom.
- lostpuppysyndrome - Jul 5, 2012 at 12:47 PM
Fair nuff.
- obamablowz - Jul 5, 2012 at 12:52 PM
It's so cute to see two "pretty good players" go to the Wild and everyone thinks they're going to even make the playoffs
- lostpuppysyndrome - Jul 5, 2012 at 12:55 PM
I know, isn't it great? I'm so glad you agree with us. Gotta make the playoffs first before you win the Cup, I always say!
- obamablowz - Jul 5, 2012 at 12:57 PM
I've never seen a Minnesota fan, never seen a blog about them…but now they're like Dallas Cowboy fans when they make the playoffs. Oh well…Good luck Minnesota….keeping the Vikings I mean.
- lostpuppysyndrome - Jul 5, 2012 at 1:02 PM
…erm, we did keep the Vikings.
- obamablowz - Jul 5, 2012 at 1:05 PM
Oops meant the support of "hundreds" show up to support a new stadium
- lordfletcher - Jul 5, 2012 at 1:04 PM
that's because you live in a hole. There have been PLENTY of Minnesota fans here 'bloggin' on several articles other than MN news. You just notice now because all you have done is troll Wild posts. I truly love how little of a life you have had the past 24 hours. My life looks like Parise's comapared to yours.
I picture you are the guy from the South Park episode (fat dude that plays Warcraft) vs. the boys online.
LOL. Thanks for hating, each posts you make brings a huge smile to my face. I would love to buy you a beer sometime Cheers
- dkphilly1122 - Jul 5, 2012 at 12:23 PM
They're a lock on paying just above average players elite players salary……but my guess is they barely make the playoffs, IF they even go that far.
- purpleguy - Jul 5, 2012 at 12:40 PM
If your team had signed them (and they offered more money by the way), you'd have been jumping for joy and singing their praises. Now you trash the players and the team. Usually sour grapes and whine don't mix.
- odj810 - Jul 5, 2012 at 5:43 PM
yea lets not get crazy. Parise and suter are pretty damn good. a forward who can do everything and an all round elite defenseman? who are you comparing them to gretzky and super mario?
- lostpuppysyndrome - Jul 5, 2012 at 12:30 PM
I'm sure just about every team made some sort of bid for Parise and/or Suter, just to see if they had a horse in the race. How could you not, especially when the rest of the market is so thin? I mean, after Carle, who else has been signed? Joslin, Byers, Dupuis, Sullivan, Montoya, yadda yadda yadda. Nash, Doan, Semin, and Luongo are the only names of interest left, and only 2 of those are UFAs. I'm actually more interested in knowing which teams didn't make a bid for Parise and Suter. That would be more interesting to speculate about.
- lostpuppysyndrome - Jul 5, 2012 at 12:34 PM
The amount of times I just typed "interest/ing/ed" is a bit ridiculous, I've realized.
- pepper2011 - Jul 5, 2012 at 1:09 PM
Both good players no doubt, but still not a playoff team. Defense is weak and so are the forwards. Bouchard can't stay healthy; who knows about Granlund. Heatlty is a 20-25 goal scorer now @ 7.5m, Setoguchi is a 20 goal scorer and past Suter there is nothing on D. Gilbert is ok, but is not a top 3. Backstrom is getting older and hasn't really been that good in 2-3 years, and Harding; who knows… Brodziak's numbers will go down a bit as he won't get as much PP time – 25% of his points came on the PP. In my opinion both players had a far better shot with their previous teams.
- jpelle82 - Jul 5, 2012 at 1:24 PM
you have to make an offer. you cant justify not going for it. whether you know its gonna get shot down, you HAVE to try or you're not doing your job. crazier things have happened
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Dear Diary - My First Post
The promise to Ronald was to create a fully animated film in the classical sense, hand-drawn, with pen and ink, and not a single wacom pen in sight.
It has been my mission since to raise the finance for a half hour featurette and whilst following the traditional route I quickly learned that Ronald's unique sense of humor, even though loved by everybody, does not comply with wholesome family viewing guidelines of today. Here is why; a fitting quote from one of the St. Trinian's books:
"Drinking, smoking, violence, drugs, amateur torture and foul play have been on the curriculum at St. Trinian's school for Young Ladies since 1946, and show no signs of abating. Since the first drawing of the conditions at Britain's most famous school appeared, Ronald Searle's anarchic scenes from this nightmarish institution have caused international concern and merriment."
Many well-meaning voices have suggested that unless I clean up the murderous school girls' act, this film might never get made. But please, you can't be serious (excuse the shouting). If you take away the essence of what makes St. Trinian's what it is, you end up with...well...not St. Trinian's.
Ronald has in the meantime sadly passed away. I think often about the times when my friend Matt Jones (without whom I would have never met Ronald) and I would visit the master and his wife Monica in the South of France. I am more determined than ever to fulfill my promise. Ronald Searle was one of the most influential graphic artists of the 20th century and this film needs to be made, in his honor and to celebrate his memory. I mean that.
Luckily, today there are alternative ways of raising finance and to that very end we will start a "KICKSTARTER" campaign in the next few months. Producer Jamie K. Bolio will be organizing it from Los Angeles but the production of the film will take place at Uli Meyer Studios in London, UK.
With the help and support of all fans of Ronald Searle, classical, hand-drawn full-animation and spine-chilling humor, we hope to get this film started.
Please, spread the word and do come back here frequently for further harrowing updates.
20 comments:
- Matt J said...
Alright! Let's make this happen!
- August 10, 2012 at 6:32 PM
- tomm said...
Hooray! I cant wait to see it!
- August 10, 2012 at 7:24 PM
- nellabarca said...
looks promising. worth to be supported
- August 10, 2012 at 7:48 PM
- Electric Egg Animation said...
Count me in
- August 10, 2012 at 7:50 PM
- Ben Whitehouse said...
I'm down, downer then down town!! This has to happen!
- August 10, 2012 at 8:06 PM
- Nigel said...
... don't change a blessed thing - and people will support it!
- August 10, 2012 at 9:02 PM
- SW-H said...
If the story is as good as the animation, it will be an unbeatable combination....of course the intent of the books must not be messed with. Great to see such resolve to do this properly.
- August 10, 2012 at 9:44 PM
- Andrew Brooks said...
Uli .. that sounds like a dream project...!
- August 11, 2012 at 2:55 AM
- Alex Moore said...
oh man, this looks cracking! i'm glad to hear you're going to do a kickstarter for this- will deffinatly be keeping an eye peeled for that.
- August 11, 2012 at 8:35 AM
- Maël Gourmelen said...
Thank you Uli. For going on.
Going on what animation should be...
- August 11, 2012 at 11:24 AM
- Aly Fell said...
This looks great! It really needs to be made!
- August 11, 2012 at 11:27 AM
- Crystal(RB) said...
RHAA-HA HAA SO Lovely! Oh, this is GREAT!!! I will be spreading the word...So glad to hear about this!!!
- August 11, 2012 at 5:25 PM
- Michael Sporn said...
I recommend you use Indiegogo rather than Kickstarter. Indiegogo allows you to take the money you've raised even if you don't meet your goal; Kickstarter does not.
Please let me know when this has begun and I'll promote it on my blog throughout the money raising campaign to keep the word out.
This film has got to be made, I'll help in anyway you think I can.
- August 12, 2012 at 6:01 AM
- Uli Meyer said...
Thank you all for your encouragement. Please come back often for updates and news.
@Michael Sporn - I sent you an email, thank you for your terrific offer!
- August 13, 2012 at 8:24 AM
- Laura Weston Art said...
This is such a remarkable and refreshing project, I cannot wait to see it brought to life with the level of artistry and care that you will bring to each drawing. I will certainly tell my students and alumni to promote and support it - best of luck
- August 13, 2012 at 8:08 PM
- Uli Meyer said...
Thank you Laura, that is very much appreciated. I hope your students will enjoy this blog and also spread the word. Best wishes.
- August 13, 2012 at 9:33 PM
- Bronwen Barry said...
This is fantastically exciting!!(Given my lifelong love of Mr Searle's work and my Grandfather's personal connection to him,I'd give my eyeteeth to work on this!!)
Wishing you ALL the best...P.S.! Congrats on your producership, Jamie!! proud of you!!..:)
- August 15, 2012 at 4:10 AM
- Katy Hargrove said...
Oh wow! This is super duper exciting! I'll be promoting this production as best I can!
- August 15, 2012 at 10:39 PM
- Vince Vassallo said...
This just blew me away!! I absolutely love it! I just posted the youtube link up on my fb wall. Can't wait to see more! Keep up the amazing work:)
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The Jute/Rope and Seagrass look is always popular in the summertime. And with coastal decor still being very "in-style" it's easy to find. All the catalogs that I've perused lately have a little jute rope or seagrass offerings- and it's not just limited to baskets {which I happen to love}.
Look at some of my favorite findings…
Ballard's Spool Side Table
This table would look great in a nautical themed room. And it's functional because you can take off the lid and store items inside.
Ballard"s Rope Knot Door Stop
Use the doorstop as bookends on your shelf. I'm considering the idea for my family room bookshelves that's in the process of being redone.
Ballard's Addison Table Lamp
I think that this lamp would be awesome in your beach house-especially if you could fill it with small seashells.
Pottery Barn's Japanese Float Pendant Chandelier
Here's how the chandelier looks over a table-it's larger than it looks in the previous picture. Don't you think it'd look great over a table on your summer porch {you know, the one that overlooks the ocean}?
Pottery Barn's Woven Decorative Lights
These lights can be placed on tables or hung up in your house as a chandelier. Once again I can see lots of these hanging outside in trees for a romantic summer look.
Pottery Barn's Beachcomber Baskets
I love chunky baskets. They are so versatile-you can use them for laundry, for magazines and books, as planters and for setting on a shelf to store things.
The color scheme of this room {where I will put my chunky baskets} is perfect for my future summer beach cottage. Want to come visit?
Crate and Barrel's Plantation Chair
This woven chair has a very classic beach feel. You can place one or two of them next to your linen slipcovered sofa and you've got the perfect "beach house" seating arrangement .
Sea Inspired's Nautical Rope Placemats and Coasters
If you've got a summer beach home these are a "must-have item" for your dining table.
Restoration Hardware's Seagrass Tray
And Restoration Hardware-one of my favorite catalog companies- knows how to take a seagrass tray and take it "over the top"…
How great does it look on a coffee table with the chunky antique scale? I'm adding this {and my summer beach cottage} to my inspiration board.
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Chris Brown Spotted Enjoying Singledom In St. Tropez
Chris Brown looks to be flaunting that "happy" weight! You know the type you gain when you settle into a happy relationship?
Unfortunately, his relationship looks to be over…or at least for now.
Yesterday, he was spotted kicking it on a yacht in St. Tropez with his boys, while leaving Karrueche far behind.
Over the past week, the former couple have hinted to their fans that they have parted ways once again by subliminally shading each other over social media.
Earlier today, Chris tweeted:
These hoes ain't loyal but my fans damn sure are!
Be careful who u take relationship advice from. Especially if they are single. They're single for a reason! Lol #lonelyfaceass
Prior to that, he randomly liked a fan-edit photo of him and Rihanna in bed on Instagram and shortly after, Kae threw a subliminal shot his way when she posted a before-and-after photo of a guy with a haircut that read:
"before haircut…I should really settle down… after…where the b-tches at."
Speaking of haircuts…
Even though Kae pretty much held Chris down while he was in jail, he seems to be questioning her loyalty. On July 22, he tweeted:
If the opportunity presents itself, they will take it and run. Loyalty is everything!
What's more important? Your status or your heart? Ask yourself
And Karrueche responded with a tweet of her own:
What's more important? Loyalty or your desires?
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Full time After Sales Operative - Outdoor distributor - Temporary contract - until March 2013 (possibility to turn permanent).
Due to maternity cover, We are seeking to appoint for the above position on a temporary basis.
The Mountain Boot Company (MBC) is one of the UK's leading outdoor and ski distributors and boasts an impressive portfolio of ten brands with footwear, apparel and equipment collections.
Based in our busy Newcastle / Wallsend office working 9am-5pm weekdays only, the role entails processing customer returns and repairs in our after sales department. The position offers an excellent opportunity to join a dynamic business and team.
Salary Negotiable, holidays 22 days, staff allowance provided and generous staff purchase scheme.
Successfull candidates will demonstrate -
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Are aspirin and heparin usually prescribed as precautionary or only when labs come back that there is a clotting issue?
I had my 2nd peri appt. yesterday - only without the peri because he was on an emergency. The NP went over all my post pre-eclampsia testing that has been done and everything came back fine [:D]. However, the peri had made a note about starting aspirin and heparin but she didn't know if that was before or after he saw my test results because the clotting tests were fine. So, she's got me on the aspirin but I'll find out about the heparin next visit. Just wondering if anyone else was put on it when they had no apparent clotting issues.
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