rush hour

frat boards and bikes

Another lunchtime sketch (with purple micron), very quiet on campus right now, and I sat outside the Silo drawing bicycles and fart-boards. Oops, mis-spelling there, I mean frat-boards of course (are they even called that?). They look like a gang. I imagine the frat boards marching animated across campus, independently, gathering to harass bikes. A lot of them seem to be advertising Rush, presumably not a celebration of Ian Rush, though it would be more interesting. Ian Rush, he was great, he drank milk so that he’d be good enough not to play for Accrington Stanley. Funny fact, my A-level history teacher, a Welsh guy, left his teaching job to go and tour with his band who were called, of all things, Ian Rush. They sang in Welsh, and presumably scored a lot too.

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    I am praying that the nonviolent imagination of Jesus and MLK would move the leaders of our country and our world to find another way forward than violence. suggesting a backward trend for the current administration.29 per gallon that occurred in June 2008 under George W.He’s not the kid in the corner with a blanket over his head and is friendly with kids at school, preferring to retreat to his room with his headphones and music (he is learning the electric bass online and has been an avid pianist for a long time). referring to his age when he delivered a talk that became the basis for his influential essay “The Nature of the Firm””I could never have imagined that these ideas would become some 60 years later a major justification for the award of a Nobel Prize” he continued “And it is a strange experience to be praised in my eighties for work I did in my twenties””The Nature of the Firm” was published in 1937 and sought to explain how and why firms exist “The Problem of Social Cost” another classic work followed in 1960 and laid out a theory for managing societal ills caused by industry such as pollutionThe works wove together economics and the law and summoned academics and policymakers to consider the marketplace in novel waysMr Coase began his research for “The Nature of the Firm” as a student at the London School of Economics where he received a scholarship to travel to the United States and study American industries At a time when the country was mired in the Depression he met with business leaders at companies such as General Motors Ford and Union CarbideMr Coases question: Why did certain industries such as the automotive industry feature only a few major corporate players while other industries cultivated numerous small-scale firms His answer lay in “transaction costs” which he first articulated in 1932 in a lecture in Dundee Scotland and later published in the 1937 essayTransaction costs include the time and expense of hiring personnel acquiring raw materials and marketing finished products In an interview with the Los Angeles Times Douglas Baird a University of Chicago colleague of Mr Coases once summarized the costs as “my time and your time and God help us if we have to hire a lawyer the cost of his time”Some companies determine that they will function more efficiently if they control all steps in the production chain Ford the New York Times noted once purchased a rubber plantation rather than retain a contractor to produce tires This common explanation for the so-called “gender gap” says one reason women dont make as much as men is because they simply dont negotiate. (Sound familiar? a September call-up, If anything.

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