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The Somatic Symphony
Welcome - Main Pages
The Paradigm Shift
The Polyvagal Theory
Embodied Cognition
Silence and Slowness
Social Trauma and the Culture of Excitotoxicity
Mind Musings (blog)
Resources and Bibliographies
This is the homepage of this project I call The Somatic Symphony. There's no easy way to summarize everything this project entails, so just below I've included an introductory video that provides a brief overview of what you can find on the other pages.
Essentially, The Somatic Symphony is a real-time, experimental inquiry into and advancement of the paradigm shift currently occurring in the life-mind sciences and the evolution of life on Earth (the focus of my doctoral research). At the core of this shift is a recycling of the old, obsolete view that divides reality into "mental mind" and "physical body" in favor of an emergent, holistic, heart-based intelligence and embodied cognition that serves to support collective and ecological healing by reestablishing humans' original place within the planetary organism we call Earth: as stewards and servants of all life, rather than dominators, conquerors, and colonizers of life.
There is a global, emergent movement toward this new (yet also ancient) paradigm, which itself is all about how life-mind is a spontaneously emergent and ecological phenomenon! Mind, cognition, and intelligence are not the exclusive properties of human brains and nervous systems, nor even humans and nervous systems at all! Life as such is intelligent. (Yes, even organisms without nervous systems or cells!) At this pivotal moment in human and planetary history, I believe that all forms of life will be optimally benefited to the degree that humans learn to respectfully engage and cooperate with -- rather than fight, battle, combat, or try to control -- the intelligence of all the other forms of life we share this beautiful planet with.
Our Collective Challenge
A curious challenge confronts us. At the very moment we most need to draw on the deep, Earth-based, heart-centered intelligence and wisdom we're all capable of connecting with, most of civilizational-industrial society is cognitively blinkered by our addiction to computers, machines, and so-called "smart" gadgets. While impressive in its own right, today's digital technology nonetheless doesn't come remotely close to the literal quantum intelligence that inheres in each of our body-minds and through our cultural organization as a profoundly social species. Sadly, most people have no clue how extensive and powerful is the potential of this innate, embodied cognition.
I believe that one of the primary factors in this limiting of our potential intelligence is the global pandemic of trauma, which severs our relationships with the Earth, with ourselves as Earth, and with one another. Depression and anxiety are now the leading causes of health disturbance worldwide, even more than cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and COVID. And, contrary to the now-obsolete modern view of mind-cognition, depression and anxiety are not "mental illnesses:" they are the symptoms of an underlying neurophysiological dysregulation which is "trauma." This is our collective condition; everyone, at some point in life and in some way, is traumatized. As the world-renowned neurophysiologist Stephen Porges, Ph.D. says, "We have to acknowledge that human beings are a traumatized species."
The good news is that we have evolved remarkable abilities to naturally and emergently self-heal and relationally heal, even from the most seemingly intractable traumas. To suture the wounds plaguing our hearts-bodies-minds-spirits, our cultures, and the countless natural ecologies harmed by the relentless industrial exploitation of our Earth mother's precious life resources, we need not resort to synthetic drugs, digital devices, computer technologies, or machines of any sort. Instead, the openings of this worldwide wounding present the opportunity to reach deep into the heart of an embodied, Earth-based intelligence, wisdom, and healing power that slumbers within everyone, no matter how long forgotten this power is.
Recovering, cultivating, and extending this innate healing power and cosmic intelligence is what this project is all about. Drawing from my doctoral research in embodied cognition, quantum neurophilosophy, process autopoietic biology, and decolonial/social justice education, as well as from extensive experience in mind-body healing modalities such as trauma-informed yoga therapy, I endeavor to build a bricolage of radically new yet simultaneously ancient perspectives, practices, and potentials that I believe may find fertile soil in the ruptured ground of our collectively displaced, disconnected, and traumatized condition. For in the end, trauma is not a weakness, an illness, or a disability, but a repressed strength waiting to be unleashed. It is a potential praying for actualization. It is a call...not to arms, but to heart. The pain of trauma is the grieving voice of our Earth mother weeping for her human children lost to the vain, vacuous vicissitudes of a civilizational culture addicted to distraction, fear, and war.
We are being called back to Earth. To ourselves. To one another. We are being called to turn away from tiny two dimensional screens, glitchy gadgets, and the false promises of the self-appointed secular priests and savior figures of an industrial, capitalistic commerce economy that sees green only as money and people as mere economic commodities exploitable for the profitable gain of a select few financial elites. Computers and electronic cars will not save us. Nor do we even need to be saved! We need to be healed... and healing is to reconnect with Earth, ourselves AS Earth, and in community grounded by an embodied, Earth-based wisdom. To disconnect from abstract, asocial media and to reconnect with the living, divine, cosmic-yet-earthly intelligence streaming through our veins is to heal. Trauma is the twisting of originally complementary tensions into conflictual tensions. Healing is to reconnect, reunite, and bring back into mutually-supportive balance all those forces turned against one another in service of an unsustainable economic project that has reached its nadir.
This project is my contribution to this healing; to converting conflict into complementarity; to turning bullets into corn; to re-tuning our hearts-minds-spirits-bodies from dissonance to harmony. To helping us hear the somatic symphony that plays long and resonant when we live as voices within the chorus of creation, when we align our energies, efforts, and powers with the grand organismic orchestra that is planet Earth, Gaia, our Earth mother.
To harmonize with others, we must simply learn to listen and respond with gratitude and joy to the organic intelligence manifest in, through, and as all forms of life.
The Earth itself never stops talking out its Big Story, it is the people who stop listening. The Big Story needs the Earth to hear its tale and the people need the story to be on the Earth. But that means we have to have good open ears to listen. The indigenous soul hiding inside us has just such ears."
~ Martín Prechtel, Stealing Benefacio's Roses: A Mayan Epic
Overview of this Website
There is much here....far more than what you typically find on websites and social media these days. This is unavoidable, as this site explores the countless, complex dimensions of human and non-human cognition, mind, sociocultural organization, science, research, trauma, health and healing, evolution, endocannabinology, and related phenomena. None of this can be simplistically reduced to a few flashy talking points or formulated into a 10-step program. Life cannot be respectfully or accurately discussed in a discontinuous series of flippant 280-character posts (looking at you, twitter).
Nonetheless, I understand that many of you reading this endure significant, if not extreme, demands on your time and energy, so you may not be able to read much right now. I hope this doesn't dissuade you from exploring here at some point. As a teaser, here is a summarizing list of the some of the key ideas I discuss and develop through this project:
Cognition, mind-body, and trauma
all trauma is relational-social-ecological
"trauma" is getting stuck in an active-but-not-resolved defensive-survival-protective response (thus trauma is not an illness, weakness, or pathology, but a repressed strength and unactualized potential)
"depression" and "anxiety" are not mental illnesses: they are the symptomatic outgrowths of unresolved trauma
The social organism of which we are parts, civilizational-industrial culture, is deeply traumatized and dysregulated; the distress we experience is primarily the distress of this social system manifest in/through our individual body-minds
resolving trauma does not require difficult or convoluted procedures, drugs, or treatments. Resolving trauma is one of the most natural, ordinary things in the world
Endocannabinology, Cannabis Medicine, and Emergent Self-Healing
Regardless of your opinions on cannabis, you benefit from cannabinoids every day! Your body's primary harm reduction system and regulatory system is the endocannabinoid system, which is an extensive network of naturally-produced cannabinoids, enzymes, receptors, and signaling chemicals that directly or indirectly influence everything else in our body-mind.
The human body produces its own cannabinoids that mimic the activity of phytocannabinoids (THC and CBD, from the cannabis sativa plant). You are currently full of cannabinoids!
The endocannabinoid system is 600 million years old and exists in all animals (except insects) on Earth
There are more cannabinoid receptors in the brain than receptors for all the neurotransmitters combined
By understanding the functional nature of endocannabinoids, we can quite literally self-heal by making our own medicine within us. Forget expensive, dangerous, synthetic, side-effect riddled corporate pharma drugs...nature has already made the best medicines available to us
The paradigm shift in the life-mind-health sciences
the body is not a machine and the mind is not a computer: biotensegrity replaces biomechanics; and embodied cognition replaces computational model of mind
the body is "the mind," and vice versa (no such thing as the mind-body "duality")
all forms of life are intelligent, cognitive systems
we are literally self-healing via the endocannabinoid system, our primary harm-reduction system and homeostatic regulator (but this is compromised in trauma; and restored via trauma resolution)
Goals of this Project
Summarized simplistically, the goals of this project include:
Describing and encouraging an approach to "personal-individual" health as a component element of relational-collective health (rather than "individual" healing as in any way separate from social-systemic-structural healing)
Making (at least somewhat) accessible to a lay audience some of the amazing insights of the paradigm shift in the life-mind-health sciences, while also challenging the dogmatic and obsolete beliefs still held by many credentialed experts who work in these fields
Inspiring a renewed engagement with and respect for the natural, emergent intelligence that manifests when we understand and experience ourselves as inextricably part of nature, in no way separate from or better than the rest of life on Earth
Overview of this Project and Website
The video below provides an overview of what "The Somatic Symphony" is all about. In this video, I essentially weave together all the main points from the other pages on the website. The "main pages" (links below) discuss all the major components of the paradigm shift in the life-mind-health sciences in detail. On the "blog" section (the "Mind Musings" page), I play with various of the concepts from the main pages and elaborate the basic themes.
I'll periodically be adding blog posts, videos, and further information on the main pages. So know that everything here is in progress...ultimately, this whole project is an experiment, an exploration, and not to be taken as absolute, definitive, or conclusive. As John Dewey says, "There is no rest for the thinker, save in the process of thinking." All is in process, is developing, is changing, is growing, is emerging. Or, as Joy Harjo says, "Remember you are this universe, and this universe is you. Remember all is in motion, is growing, is you. Remember that language comes from this. Remember the dance language is, that life is."
The Paradigm Shift: From Dualism to Emergent Holism
The mind-body/mental-physical dualism is out. Emergent holism is in.
From contradiction and conflict to connection and complementarity. A whole new meaning of "survival of the fittest."
Weaving it all together. From individual isolation to communities and cultures of connection and healing.
Dis-ease = dissonance.
Health = harmony.
The Polyvagal Theory and the Vagus Nerve
Our somatic symphony's protective-defensive-survival system and social engagement system. To be ignorant of the nervous system's power is to suffer; to surf its waves is to somatically soar.
Our primary harm-reduction and holodynamic regulatory system. The ECS is among the most ancient, highly-evolved, complex, and pervasive systems in our lives and animal life generally. The neurophysiological basis of our innate self-healing.
"The heart has its reasons, which reason knows nothing of."
-- Blaise Pascal
Silence and Slowness: The Utmost Importance of Sound and Speed
The unique roles of sound and listening in health, and how qualitative slowness and silence supports healing.
"Silence is not merely the absence of noise, it is the presence of eternity." - Terry Theise
"The times are urgent; let us slow down." - Bayo Akomalafe
Trauma is primarily a sociocultural-relational phenomenon, manifest derivatively through individuals. The global pandemic of chronic anxiety-depression is symptomatic of the profound dis-ease of civilizational culture.
The antidote to this toxic culture of fear and shame is listening to natural quiet as a means of connecting with the inherent wisdom and self-healing capacities of our embodied minds, or somatic symphonies. Nature is the "reference tone" to help us re-learn what it means and what it's like to live grounded in the Earth, as part of Earth.
Sonic Synergies: Resources and Bibliographies
Who and what am I listening to?
Resources and sources for further reading and exploration.
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Like jazz? Check out my blog, in which I play freely with these concept-notes in an attempt to compose a literary song of symbolic synthesis.
Mind Musings
© 2022 David J. Wolken, Ph.D.; Mycelium Dave; Turtle Island; Mother Mycelia Gaia; The Milky Family; The Cosmic Neighborhood; The Universal Home; The Eternal Mystery...in which all species' songs swirl sensuously into the magnificent maelstrom of multidimensional Mind.


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Standing With Those Who Fight for Themselves
[ The cover image of this issue was created by Simón P. Sedillo.
It portraits Tonantzin, a mother goddess and lunar deity from Aztec mythology, also known as the "Mother of the Corn." ]
by Simón Sedillo
Originally published in the Summer 2008 issue of ¡Presente! – newspaper of SOA Watch
Neoliberals believe that somehow they have finally discovered a socially responsible, or socially democratic, way of taking people's land, labor, and resources by force, for profit.
It's not possible. This is the myth of neoliberalism. This imposed political economy reduces human beings and natural resources into variables in an economic equation. Every day the human variable in this equation is considered more expendable. Indigenous people, farm workers, women, youth, and poor people everywhere are reduced to variables in this equation. When no longer considered economically viable by the powers that be, communities become economically expendable. If a group of people can be treated as disposable for "not fitting in," imagine how that group is treated when they organize or resist this imposition. Historically they have been treated as a virus which must be eliminated.
This is the same kind of genocide upon which the United States of America was founded. Somehow most U.S. citizens have managed to detach themselves from their nation's history to the point of ignoring its present. Native children were still being put in "boarding schools" by the U.S. Army just over 70 years ago. The School of the Americas has made a science out of terrorizing communities in resistance throughout Latin America. The most conservative estimate provided by the Iraqi Health Ministry, claims a total of 151,000 violent deaths from March 2003 through June 2006.
This billboard image is seen from one of the main roads in Oaxaca, Mexico.
When we think about military occupation, we think about Iraq, Afghanistan, and Palestine. Military occupation is the most blatant form of imposing a political economy, but neoliberalism includes much more than military occupation. Neoliberal occupation is imposed politically, economically, socially, culturally, psychologically, and spiritually. It is the imposition of a global consumer monoculture, where in places like Mexico, it is primarily white people who are the protagonists of every billboard, commercial, soap opera, or news report. Indigenous-ness is devalued to the point of being shamed into a deathly silence.
What once was easily-identifiable militarism in Central America has devolved into the para-militarization of indigenous communities throughout southern Mexico. In Oaxaca, many of the atrocities committed against indigenous communities are disguised as agrarian land disputes between neighboring communities. Some are orchestrated well enough to confuse the very paramilitaries of their role in this systematic form of state-sponsored repression. The disputes can be between different tribes, the same tribe, and mestizos. These strategies are not new, just a continuation of dividing then conquering.
The greatest threat to the national security of the United States has always been grassroots, community-based organizing for self-determination, people sharing the idea that they are capable of taking care of themselves. That is the threat Native Americans posed, and the threat that the people of Oaxaca, like many others, continue to pose. In 2005-2006 the Department of Geography at Kansas University in Lawrence, Kansas received a $500,000 grant from the Department of Defense to map communally-held indigenous lands in Oaxaca, Mexico. The Foreign Military Service Office (FMSO) at Fort Leavenworth is providing the grant money. Fort Leavenworth was the epicenter of westward expansion by the U.S. into Native territory. Today the FMSO assesses "asymmetric" and "emerging" threats to the national security of the U.S. Asymmetric threats are defined as guerrilla armies and terrorist organizations, while emerging threats are clearly being defined as social movements.
The first step in standing in solidarity with people who fight for themselves is understanding that their fights are considered threats to the powers that be.
Today we face "Imperial activism," the idea that activists know better than the communities with whom they stand in solidarity. U.S. citizens have, in particular, harnessed this notion of "empowerment" of women, people of color, the indigenous, workers, youth or other groups. This notion of empowerment places power in the hands of the activist and negates the power of the people who are resisting for themselves.
This dynamic validates charity and not solidarity. Real solidarity is more about sharing, collaborating, and contributing to self-empowerment, as opposed to feeling good about handing out some aid. It is important to learn first, before teaching anything. Many indigenous communities have centuries of resistance to share and teach. The best way to walk or move forward in solidarity is by asking first about what may be needed or what may be a problem. Walking by asking, then teaching by learning.
To this end, I can only testify to my experience as a Chicano community-based organizer who chose to stand in solidarity with the people of Oaxaca. In 2005, in collaboration with Austin Indymedia, I finished a Oaxaca solidarity film called "El Enemigo Común." After production the compas in Oaxaca made it clear that they wanted to learn how to shoot and edit video themselves. I had to learn what I could and should teach, and why I should teach that. In my case I had to learn how to edit video, then how to teach this skill.
I started as a solidarity activist but ended up a teacher and, most importantly, a student. I learned a lot about my privilege to learn and my responsibility to teach. In the United States I could learn video and audio to teach in Oaxaca. There, in turn, I could learn about methods of community-based organizing and teach about them in my community here.
Residents of the U.S. have more to learn than teach. The peace in which many U.S. residents believe is a lie. There can be no peace without dignity, justice, and liberty for everyone, everywhere. The more that people in the U.S. believe in this false peace, the more they validate its means: terror.
In 2002, at a farmworker sit-in at the state capitol in Oaxaca City, a compa leaned over to me and said, "Do Americans not realize that their peace is our terror? And if they did, would they care?" This peace has been and continues to be built on the back, sweat, and blood of others. To truly stand in solidarity with the many others fighting for themselves everywhere, people in the U.S. who care about justice have to challenge their ideas about peace. What are you willing to sacrifice for others to have peace as well? True solidarity comes from sacrifice, the recognition of privilege and the responsibility that comes with that privilege. We must be accountable to the whole of humanity at all times, not just to those we choose when it is convenient to do so.
source: http://www.soaw.org/presente
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Simón P. Sedillo created the image of Tonantzin that was used as the cover image of the Summer '08 issue of Presente.
In Aztec mythology, Tonantzin is a mother goddess and lunar deity. Some anthropologists believe that Our Lady of Guadalupe (an indigenous manifestation of Christ's mother Mary and patroness of Roman Catholic Mexico) is a syncretic and "Christianized" Tonantzin. Mexico City's 17th-century Basilica of Guadalupe — built in honor of the virgin and perhaps Mexico's most important religious building–was constructed at the base of the hill of Tepeyac, believed to be a site used for pre-Columbian worship of Tonantzin.
Among the titles and honorifics bestowed upon Tonantzin are "Goddess of Sustenance", "Honored Grandmother", "Snake", "Bringer of Maize" and "Mother of the Corn". Other indigenous names for her include Chicomexochitl ("Seven Flowers") and Chalchiuhcihuatl ("Woman of Precious Stone"). Tonantzin is honored during the movable feast of Xochilhuitl.
The goddess Tonantzin shares characteristics with similar Mesoamerican divinities Cihuacoatl and Coatlicue, all of whom may have been drawn from common origins.
http://www.soaw.org/presente/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=156&Itemid=69

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El TTNIC permet de fer registres directament sota tt per a dominis de segon nivell, i, per al tercer, sota els següents dominis: co.tt, com.tt, org.tt, net.tt, biz.tt, info.tt, pro.tt, int.tt, coop.tt, jobs.tt, mobi.tt, travel.tt, museum.tt, aero.tt, cat.tt, tel.tt i name.tt. El registre, sota aquests dominis, no té cap restricció, i no requereix que els sol·licitants tinguin presència física a Trinitat i Tobago. No obstant, els que tenen adreça estrangera han de pagar el doble.

A part, hi ha el subdomini mil.tt, que està restringit a entitats de l'exèrcit de Trinitat i Tobago, edu.tt, que és un registre per a institucions educatives de Trinitat i Tobago, i gov.tt reservat per a agències del govern.

El joc de paraules més notable que s'ha fet amb aquest domini és mi.tt, un abreujador d'URLs que va utilitzar Mitt Romney per a la campanya de les eleccions presidencials dels Estats Units de 2012.

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Cut 2" x 4"s for posts; 1" x 4"s for banding; and 1" x 2"s for dividers. Lay pieces on floor and build a couple of 2' square boxes from the 1" x 4"s. Set 2" x 4" posts in corners and nail in place to create top banding.
Set other banding on top of some 4" x 4"s to set the same height off the floor as for the bench.
Flip frame over and set in place. Check to make sure it's level using a carpenter's square, then secure all posts to the banding using wood screws.
Mark location of dividers and set first two in place (Image 1). Attach with brad nailer, then position remaining two across top and secure (Image 2).
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Someone you owe money to (a creditor) can apply to make you bankrupt but must be owed at least £5,000 to do so.
However, If you have a debt problem you can apply for your own bankruptcy online. Your application will be considered by an adjudicator, this being someone who works for the Insolvency Service, who will decide if you should be made bankrupt.
A fee of £680 will be payable to make yourself bankrupt online which can be made in installments, but your application will not be processed until payment has been received in full.
Within 28 days of submitting your application, you should receive notification from the adjudicator advising if you have been made bankrupt. If so a bankruptcy order will then be issued.
The Official Receiver becomes the receiver and manager of the bankruptcy estate following the order. In some cases, the Official Receiver may pass the management of your case over to a licensed insolvency practitioner.
You will be completely cleared of many debts but not damages for personal injuries; family liabilities, such as maintenance arrears; liabilities under criminal law, such as fines or frauds; student loans; and some benefits among others.
You can be discharged in as little as a year but if you have previously been made bankrupt then discharge could take longer.
You might not have to make any payments unless an income payment order is made.
People could find out, as the bankruptcy will be publicly advertised.
All your bank, building societies and credit card accounts will be closed. You may have to retain one bank account with the trustee in order to pay bills.


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High school football: Westran-Salisbury a special local rivalry
So, familiar foes will meet again.
Because Westran and Salisbury accumulated nearly the same amount of points, the two schools will square off at 7 p.m. this Thursday in Huntsville.
Both the …
Westran's Nate Kribbs (2, green jersey) rushed for more than 100 yards in last Friday's 44-0 victory over Salisbury.
Offensive lineman Brady Hollman of Westran blocks a Salisbury player during Friday's Lewis & Clark Conference game.
Westran's Marshall Kitchen caught this pass en route to scoring a TD in the second half of a Friday, Oct. 21 game in Huntsville.
Posted Tuesday, October 25, 2022 12:00 am
Both the Hornets and Panthers finished with 4-5 records in Class 1 District 6. Salisbury had 34.75 points and Westran 33.19, according to numbers found on the MSHSAA website.
Binder will key Salisbury's offense along with junior wide receiver Eli Jackson and running backs Tysn Parker and Brayden White.
Defensive players to watch are Mason Stapleton, Isaac Bearden and Jackson, who had 17 tackle points and one pass defended, during Friday's game.
Salisbury was rolling early in the season with a 3-1 record; however, the team has lost four of its past five contests. They have outscored opponents 300-210. Westran has scored 213 points while allowing 161.
The Panthers' last win over Westran occurred on Oct. 2, 2015, a 21-7 conquest for the Panthers.
Since then, the Hornets have been victorious in the past nine meetings in the longstanding series between schools 15.8 miles apart according to Google maps.
"We are all pretty much familiar with each in sports," O'Laughlin said. "Many of kids are friends as well. That's what makes this local rivalry special. I'd say we average 10-12 match-ups each year. It helps make the games more competitive."
O'Laughlin said the district has an interesting mix of powerhouses and teams that have struggled.
This is how the points broke down, No. 1 Monroe City (9-0, 53.76 points), second-seeded South Shelby (6-3, 40.29), No. 3 Mark Twain (4-5, 37.07), sixth-seeded Highland (1-8, 21.97), No. 7 Scotland County (1-8, 16.49) and No. 8 Paris (1-8, 14.82).
South Shelby defeated Westran earlier this season, while the Hornets have wins over Salisbury, Scotland County and Paris. All other first-round district playoff games are at 7 p.m. Friday.
Ticket prices are $6 per person across the board.
The game was moved to Thursday in effort to accommodate Salisbury fans since the Panthers will be playing in the Class 1 state softball tournament this week.
O'Laughlin reported home middle school basketball games originally on the docket for that night have been postponed and will be rescheduled.
The Alpha Media Group will broadcast the game on KTCM "Glory" 97.3 FM, per operations manager Brad Boyer.
You also may follow along for score updates on the Moberly Monitor-Index Facebook page.
Since a 2015 season loss, Westran has dominated Salisbury in the football series between the schools. Here's a quick glance.
Aug. 19, 2016: Westran 40, Salisbury 0
Aug. 30, 2019: Westran 40, Salisbury 15
Oct. 30, 2020: Westran 55, Salisbury 20 *
Oct. 21, 2022: Westran 44, Salisbury 0
Oct. 27, 2022: ?
Editor's Note: Games marked with an asterisk were first-round playoff games.


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Shopping for a container-grown shrub. Slide the shrub out of its container to verify for a effectively-developed root system. The roots should have wholesome, white suggestions, and never look dry in any respect. Do not buy a plant if it has poorly developed roots, or if the roots are congested and coiled around the base of the pot. These kinds of roots not often establish themselves once they're planted within the ground.
Are you ready to plant a garden? Swap seeds with other individuals you realize, or be a part of a seed exchange with others on-line. It's not unusual to want solely a small number of seeds from each of your seed packets for every rising season. Trading will show you how to gain a larger variety of seeds not found in your shops. It would also prevent from spending much more cash just to get a higher number of seeds!
Additionally, if you happen to choose in the morning, this gives you a chance to eat those objects that day, when they are their peak of freshness.


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The Bumpy Road Down, Part 5: More Trends in Collapse
Irv Mills has published the fifth and last part of his 5 part series called 'The Bumpy Road Down', previous instalments being available here.
In my last post I started talking about some of the changes that will happen along the bumpy road down and the forces and trends that will lead to them. (The bumpy road down being the cyclic pattern of crash and partial recovery that I believe will characterize the rest of the age of scarcity). These changes will be forced on us by circumstances and are not necessarily how I'd like to see things turn out.
The trends I covered last time were:
our continued reliance on fossil fuels
the continuing decline in availability, and surplus energy content, of fossil fuels
the damage the FIRE industries (finance, insurance and real estate) will suffer in the next crash, and the effects this will have
the increase in authoritarianism, as governments attempt to optimize critical systems and relief efforts during and after the crash
Oscillating overshoot with declining carrying capacity
I've once again included the stepped or "oscillating" decline diagram from previous posts here to make it easier to visualize what I'm talking about. This diagram isn't meant to be precise, certainly not when it comes to the magnitude and duration of the oscillations, which in any case will vary from one part of the world to the next.
The trends I want to talk about today are all interconnected. You can hardly discuss one without referring to the others, and so it is difficult to know where to start. But having touched briefly on a trend toward increased authoritarianism at the end of my last post, I guess I should continue trends in politics.
MORE POLITICAL TRENDS
Currently there seems to be a trend towards right wing politics in the developed world. I think anyone who extrapolates that out into the long run is making a basic mistake. Where right wing governments have been elected by those looking for change, they will soon prove to be very inept at ruling in an era of degrowth. Following that, there will likely be a swing in the other direction and left wing governments will get elected. Only to prove, in their turn, to be equally inept. Britain seems to be heading in this direction, and perhaps the U.S. as well.
Another trend is the sort of populism that uses other nations, and/or racial, ethnic, religious and sexual minorities at home as scapegoats for whatever problems the majority is facing. This strategy is and will continue to be used by clever politicians to gain support and deflect attention from their own shortcomings. Unfortunately, it leads nowhere since the people being blamed aren't the source of the problem.
During the next crash and following recovery governments will continue to see growth as the best solution to whatever problems they face and will continue to be blind to the limits to growth. Farther down the bumpy road some governments may finally clue in about limits. Others won't, and this will fuel continued growth followed by crashes until we learn to live within those limits.
One thing that seems clear is that eventually we'll be living in smaller groups and the sort of political systems that work best will be very different from what we have now.
Many people who have thought about this assume that we'll return to feudalism. I think that's pretty unlikely. History may seem to repeat itself, but only in loose outline, not in the important details. New situations arise from different circumstances, and so are themselves different. Modern capitalists would never accept the obligations that the feudal aristocracy had to the peasantry. Indeed freeing themselves of those obligations had a lot to do with making capitalism work. And the "99%" (today's peasantry) simply don't accept that the upper classes have any right, divine or otherwise, to rule.
In small enough groups, with sufficient isolation between groups, people seem best suited to primitive communism, with essentially no hierarchy and decision making by consensus. I think many people will end up living in just such situations.
In the end though, there will still be a few areas with sufficient energy resources to support larger and more centralized concentrations of population. It will be interesting to see what new forms of political structure evolve in those situations.
ECONOMIC CONTRACTION
For the last couple of decades declining surplus energy has caused contraction of the real economy. Large corporations have responded in various ways to maintain their profits: moving industrial operations to developing countries where wages are lower and regulations less troublesome, automating to reduce the amount of expensive labour required, moving to the financial and information sectors of the economy where energy decline has so far had less effect.
The remaining "good" industrial jobs in developed nations are less likely to be unionized, with longer hours, lower pay, decreased benefits, poorer working conditions and lower safety standards. The large number of people who can't even get one of those jobs have had to move to precarious, part time, low paying jobs in the service industries. Unemployment has increased (despite what official statistics say) and the ranks of the homeless have swelled.
Since workers are also consumers, all this has led to further contraction of the consumer economy. We can certainly expect to see this trend continue and increase sharply during the next crash.
Our globally interconnected economy is a complex thing and that complexity is expensive to maintain. During the crash and the depression that follows it, we'll see trends toward simplification in many different areas driven by a lack of resources to maintain the existing complex systems. I'll be discussing those trends in a moment, but it is important to note that a lot of economic activity is involved in maintaining our current level of complexity and abandoning that complexity will mean even more economic contraction.
At the same time, small, simple communities will prove to have some advantages that aren't currently obvious.
All this economic contraction means that almost all of us will be significantly poorer and we'll have to learn to get by with less. As John Michael Greer says, "LESS: less energy, less stuff, less stimulation." We'll be forced to conserve and will struggle to get by with "just enough". This will be a harshly unpleasant experience for most people.
DEGLOBALIZATION
For the last few decades globalization has been a popular trend, especially among the rich and powerful, who are quick to extol its many supposed advantages. And understandably so, since it has enabled them to maintain their accustomed high standard of living while the economy as a whole contracts.
On the other hand, as I was just saying, sending high paying jobs offshore is a pretty bad idea for consumer economies. And I suspect that in the long run we'll see that it wasn't really all that good for the countries where we sent the work, either.
During the crash we'll see the breakdown of the financial and organizational mechanisms that support globalization and international trade. There will also be considerable problems with shipping, both due to disorganization and to unreliable the supplies of diesel fuel for trucks and bunker fuel for ships. I'm not predicting an absolute shortage of oil quite this soon, but rather financial and organizational problems with getting it out of the ground, refined and moved to where it is needed.
This will lead to the failure of many international supply chains and governments and industry will be forced to switch critical systems over to more local suppliers. This switchover will be part of what eventually drives a partial recovery of the economy in many localities.
In a contracting economy with collapsing globalization there would seem to be little future for multi-national corporations, and organizations like the World Bank and the IMF. While the crash may bring an end to the so called "development" of the "developing" nations, it will also bring an end to economic imperialism. At the same time, the general public in the developed world, many of whom are already questioning the wisdom of the "race to the bottom" that is globalization, will be even less likely to go along with it, especially when it comes to exporting jobs.
Still, when the upcoming crash bottoms out and the economy begins to recover, there will be renewed demand for things that can only be had from overseas and international trade will recover to some extent.
Impoverished organizations such a governments, multi-national corporations and international standards groups will struggle to maintain today's high degree of centralization and eventually will be forced to break up into smaller entities.
Large federations such as Europe, the US, Canada and Australia will see rising separatism and eventually secession. As will other countries where different ethnic groups have been forced together and/or there is long standing animosity between various localities. If this can be done peacefully it may actually improve conditions for the citizens of the areas involved, who would no longer have to support the federal organization. But no doubt it will just as often involve armed conflict, with all the destruction and suffering that implies.
RELOCALIZATION
The cessation of services from the FIRE industries and the resulting breakdown of international (and even national) supply and distribution chains will leave many communities with no choice but to fend for themselves.
One of the biggest challenges at first will be to get people to believe that there really is a problem. Once that is clear, experience has shown that the effectiveness of response from the victims of disasters is remarkable and I think that will be true again in this case. There are a lot of widely accepted myths about how society breaks down during disaster, but that's just what they are: myths. Working together in groups for our mutual benefit is the heart of humanity's success, after all.
Government response will take days or more likely weeks to organize, and in the meantime there is much we can do to help ourselves. Of course it helps to be prepared… (check out these posts from the early days of this blog: 1, 2) and I'll have more to say on that in upcoming posts.
The question then arises whether one would be better off in an urban center or a rural area such as a small town or a farm. Government relief efforts will be focused on the cities where the need will be greatest and the response easiest to organize. But just because of the millions of people involved, that response will be quite challenging.
Rural communities may well be largely neglected by relief efforts. But, especially in agricultural areas, they will find fending for themselves much more manageable.
I live in a rural municipality with a population of less than 12,000 people in an area of over 200 square miles (60 people per sq. mile, more than 10 acres per person). The majority of the land is agricultural, and supply chains are short, walking distance in many cases. Beef, dairy and cash crops are the main agricultural activities at present and they can easily be diverted to feed the local population. Especially if the food would go to waste anyway due to the breakdown of supply chains downstream from the farm.
So I think we're likely to do fairly well until the government gets around to getting in touch with us again, probably sometime after the recovery begins.
In subsequent crashes the population will be significantly reduced and those of us who survive will find ourselves living for the most part in very small communities which are almost entirely relocalized. The kind of economy that works in that situation is very different from what we have today and is concerned with many things other than growth and profit making.
REHUMANIZATION
The move toward automation that we've seen in the developed world since the start of the industrial revolution has been driven by high labour costs and the savings to be had by eliminating labour from industrial processes as much as possible. That revolution started and proceeded at greatest speed in Britain where labour rates where the highest, and still hasn't happened in many developing nations where labour is very cheap.
Sadly, the further impoverishment of the working class in Europe and North America will make cheaper labour available locally, rather than having to go offshore. During the upcoming crash, and in the depression following it, impoverished people will have no choice but to work for lower rates and will out compete automated systems, especially when capital to set them up, the cutting edge technology needed to make them work, and the energy to power them are hard to come by. Again, the economic advantages of simplicity will come into play when it is the only alternative, and help drive the recovery after the first crash.
THE FOOD SUPPLY AND OVERPOPULATION
In the initial days of the coming crash there will be problems with the distribution systems for food, medical supplies and water treatment chemicals, all of which are being supplied by "just in time" systems with very little inventory at the consumer end of the supply chain. To simplify this discussion, I'll talk primarily about food.
It is often said that there is only a 3 day supply of food on the grocery store shelves. I am sure this is approximately correct. In collapse circles, the assumption is that, if the trucks stop coming, sometime not very far beyond that 3 day horizon we'd be facing starvation. There may be a few, incredibly unlucky, areas where that will be more or less true.
But, depending on the time of year, much more food than that (often more than a year's worth) is stored elsewhere in the food production and distribution system. The problem will be in moving this food around to where it is needed, and in making sure another year's crops get planted and harvested. I think this can be done, much of it through improvisation and co-operation by people in the agricultural and food industries. With some support from various levels of government.
There will be some areas where food is available more or less as normal, some where the supply is tight, and other areas where there is outright famine and some loss of life (though still outstripped by the fecundity of the human race). In many ways that pretty much describes the situation today but supply chain breakdown, and our various degrees of success at coping with it, will make all the existing problems worse during the crash.
But once the initial crash is over, we have a much bigger problem looming ahead, which I think will eventually lead to another, even more serious crash.
With my apologies to my "crunchy" friends, modern agriculture and the systems downstream from it supply us with the cheapest and safest food that mankind has known since we were hunters and gatherers and allows us (so far) to support an ever growing human population.
The problem is that this agriculture is not sustainable. It requires high levels of inputs–primarily energy from fossil fuels, but also pesticides, fertilizers and water for irrigation–mostly from non-renewable sources. And rather than enriching the soil on which it depends, it gradually consumes it, causing erosion from over cultivation and over grazing, salinating the soil where irrigation is used and poisoning the water courses downstream with runoff from fertilizers. We need to develop a suite of sustainable agricultural practices that takes advantage of the best agricultural science can do for us, while the infrastructure that supports that science is still functioning.
The organic industry spends extravagantly to convince us that the problem with our food is pesticide residues and genetically engineered organisms, but the scientific consensus simply does not support this. The organic standards include so called "natural" pesticides that are more toxic than modern synthetic ones, and allow plant breeding techniques (such as mutagenesis) that are far more dangerous than modern genetic engineering. Organic standards could certainly be revised into something sustainable that retains the best of both conventional and organic techniques, but this has become such a political hot potato that it is unlikely to happen.
As I said above, during the upcoming crash one of the main challenges will be to keep people fed. And I have no doubt that this challenge will, for the most part, be successfully met. Diesel fuel will be rationed and sent preferentially to farmers and trucking companies moving agricultural inputs and outputs. Supplies of mineral fertilizers are still sufficient to keep industrial agriculture going. Modern pesticides actually reduce the need for cultivation and improve yields by reducing losses due to pests. It will be possible to divert grains grown for animal feed to feed people during the first year when the crisis is most serious.
Industrial agriculture will actually save the day and continue on to feed the growing population for a while yet. We will continue to make some improvement in techniques and seeds, though with diminishing returns on our efforts.
This will come to an end around mid century with the second bump on the road ahead (starting at point "g" on the graph), when a combination of increasing population, worsening climate, and decreasing availability and increasing prices of energy, irrigation water, fertilizer, pesticides and so forth combine to drastically reduce the output of modern agriculture.
Widespread famine will result, and this, combined with epidemics in populations weakened by hunger, will reduce the planet's human population by at least a factor of two in a period of a very few years. Subsequent bumps as climate change further worsens conditions for farming will further reduce the population, resulting in a bottleneck towards the end of this century. Without powered machinery, synthetic fertilizers and pesticides and with drastically reduced water for irrigation, agricultural output will fall off considerably. And our population will fall to match the availability of food. I do think it unlikely that the human race will be wiped out altogether, but our numbers will likely be reduced by a factor of ten or more.
TURNING TO VIOLENCE AS A SOLUTION
It is a sad fact that many people, communities and nations, when faced with the sort of challenges I've been talking about here, will respond with violence.
In the remaining years leading up to the next crash, I think it is likely that even the least stable of world leaders (or their military advisors) will remain well aware of the horrific consequences of large scale nuclear war, and will manage to avoid it. As has been the case since the end of WWII, wars will continue to be fought by proxy, involving smaller nations in the developing world, especially where the supply of strategic natural resources are at issue.
War is extremely expensive though and, even without the help of a financial crash, military spending already threatens to bankrupt the U.S. As Dmitry Orlov has suggested, after a financial crash, the U.S. may find it difficult to even get its military personnel home from overseas bases, much less maintain those bases or pursue international military objectives.
But even in the impoverished post-crash world, I expect that border wars, terrorism, riots and violent protests will continue for quite some time yet.
Whether from the ravages of war, climate change or economic contraction many areas of the world, particularly in areas like the Middle East, North Africa and the U.S. southwest, will become less and less livable. People will leave those areas looking for greener pastures and the number of refugees will soon grow past what can be managed even by the richest of nations. This will be a problem for Europe in particular, and more and more borders will be closed to all but a trickle of migrants. Refugees will accumulate in camps and for a while the situation will find an uneasy balance.
As we continue down the bumpy road, though, many nations will lose the ability to police their borders. Refugees will pour through, only to find broken economies that offer them little hope of a livelihood. Famine, disease and conflict will eventually reduce the population to where it can be accommodated in the remaining livable areas. But the ethnic makeup of those areas will have changed significantly due to large scale migrations.
I've been talking here about some of the changes that will be forced upon us by the circumstances of collapse. I've said very little about what I think we might do if we could face up to the reality of those circumstances and take positive action. That's because I don't think there is much chance that we'll take any such action on a global or even national scale.
It's time now to wrap up this series of posts about the bumpy road down. At some point in the future I intend to do a series about of coping with collapse locally, on the community, family and individual level. I think there is still much than can be done to improve the prospects of those who are willing to try.
Tags: "limits to growth", complexity, crash, decentralization, degrowth, economic contraction, famine, farming, feudalism, food supply, globalization, homelessness, Irv Mills, migration, oil, overpopulation, overshoot, politics, recovery, refugees, rehumanization, right wing, scarcity, shortages, supply chain, surplus energy, unemployment, violence
"It couldn't happen here"
This fantastic article explaining the Greek Tragedy unfolding today comes from Tim Morgan's terrific surplus energy economics blog. All followers of DTM should follow this one too….
GREECE AND THE WHITE SWANS
It has become customary for investors and commentators to worry about unforeseeable "black swan events". They might be better advised to note the number of perfectly normal, eminently visible white swans that are circling over us right now. The idea that what has happened in Greece is some kind of freak event that "couldn't happen here" is simply nonsense.
It could happen here, and, indeed, it probably will.
In a 1968 episode of the radio comedy Round the Horne, a misunderstanding takes place between the Emperor Nero (Kenneth Williams) and a messenger (Hugh Paddick). The messenger arrives with urgent news of Greece – but it turns out to be grease, and it has all been stolen.
It's a terrible pun, of course, but in today's context it's also a terrible fact. Pretty much however you look at it, the wealth and prosperity of Greece have gone. Apportioning blame for this state of affairs, though not wholly pointless, is less important than looking at what might happen next, and at where it might happen.
In my previous article, I looked at whether the Greek crisis was the forerunner of a broader crash, which I'm convinced that it is. Here I take this theme somewhat further, looking at the dynamics of collapse, and at what warning signs we might be able to detect ahead of the event.
Though (at time of writing) we still await the outcome of the referendum called by Alexis Tsipras, it is clear that the choice before the electorate is between bad and worse. Though the most recent offer from creditors is no longer on the table, it's pretty clear that it will be (in some shape or form) if the Greeks vote to succumb. If they vote no, however, Greece is likely to be a failed state, certainly within weeks and possibly within days. What does this really mean?
An economy in ruins
In the absence of emergency liquidity from the European Central Bank (ECB), the Greek banking system has all but ceased to function. Individuals can draw up to €60 per day from their accounts, but even this may stop within days, as there is reckoned to be only €500m of liquidity in the system (which is less than €50 per Greek citizen). Once this liquidity runs out, no-one will have any money to spend. In reality, that point has now been reached.
Already, the government cannot pay pensions or public sector salaries, but the biggest problem of the lot is that businesses cannot pay their suppliers. This means that the supply chain has snapped.
Once that happens, an economy is dead in the water.
Meanwhile, latest research from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) shows that, over the coming three years, Greece will need further loans of €50bn, in addition to the currently-suspended €7.2bn final tranche of the current bailout programme. Even this estimate looks optimistic, as it assumes Greek compliance with the agreement with its creditors, only modest shrinkage in real GDP, and the availability of funds at extremely favourable rates of interest. As a creditor, of course, the IMF might be scare-mongering, but I doubt it – the calculations used in the report look pretty solid.
Please note – especially when looking at other potential crises – is that what really matters isn't aggregate debt (of €330bn) but the smaller, but critical, €57bn liquidity imperative.
The choice facing Greece is thus between immediate economic collapse or a long period convalescing in what amounts to a secure hospital, with bars on the doors and guards at the gate.
As of the most recent (2012) census, the Greek population was 10.8 million, so further loans of €57bn equate to almost €5,300 for each man, woman and child in the country, just to keep things ticking over. For comparison, per capita GDP is of the order of €15,000. As a rough equivalent, we are talking about Britain's 63 million citizens needing to borrow about £560bn just to keep going until the end of 2018.
As we shall see, that figure is well worth bearing in mind.
The anatomy of collapse
The immediate issue, however, is that Greece is at the point of collapse.
You might think that the problem is simply a financial one, and that the "real economy" of goods and services should continue to function even if Greece has debts that it cannot repay.
The reality, however, is that the entire economy is already ceasing to function. With Greek banks effectively bust, money cannot circulate in the economy – workers and pensioners cannot be paid, and neither can suppliers, so there will be nothing in the shops even if you happen to have stored some Euro banknotes in a safe or a mattress.
(In parenthesis, I am amused by the British authorities' brilliant advice to those holidaying in Greece, which is that everything should be fine if they take enough cash with them. I will be interested to see how far that cash gets them when there is nothing in the shops, no food or staff in restaurants, bars or hotels, and no petrol in buses or taxis. But I digress).
In his book The Five Stages of Collapse, Dmitri Orlov explains that finance will collapse first because it is a house of cards predicated on the assumption of perpetual growth. He also demonstrates, mathematically, that the cost of debt service will always outgrow the economy – something that we can all observe by looking at the ratios of debt to GDP across the world over the last three decades.
What happens next, Orlov explains, is that the collapse of finance is followed by the collapse of commerce. What Greece is showing us, however, is that these collapses are virtually simultaneous. If the banking system ceases to function, so do all commercial transactions, because the supply chain is severed in real time. How, without cash, can Greek businesses pay their staff, pay their suppliers or receive payment from customers? How, without tax income, can the state pay salaries or pensions? Would you, as a supplier, provide goods to a customer who you know has no access to money? Would you supply drugs to a hospital which cannot pay you for them? And, as a foreign supplier, would you export food or energy to a bankrupt customer?
Three sources of false comfort
Of course, there are three reflections that might comfort outsiders that what has happened in Greece "cannot happen here".
First, there is the patronising belief that the Greeks have somehow behaved extremely stupidly.
Second, there is the observation that Greek debt, at some €330bn, is pretty small stuff in the global scale of things.
Third, of course, we can comfort ourselves that a Eurozone with a GDP of about €15 trillion ought to be able to cope with debt of this magnitude.
If you did draw comfort from these observations, you would be wrong on all three counts.
To be sure, Greeks and their governments have behaved fecklessly, but are we really much different? The Greeks may have been poor men living like rich ones, but walk down any seemingly-prosperous street in Britain or America and ask yourself quite how much debt is represented by the smart houses and expensive cars that you see there. The days when possessions indicated affluence are long gone, and the far greater likelihood today is that possessions indicate indebtedness. Look, next, at how much debt the British and American governments have, how much they are still adding to their debt piles, and how much they have taken on in off-balance-sheet obligations such as public sector pension promises.
If you tot that lot up, and, even before you include unprecedented levels of household debt, you will realise quite how hypocritical it is when Britons or Americans accuse Greeks of fecklessness. In Britain, for example, I confidently expect the Chancellor to find more money for the National Health Service (NHS) whilst further cutting already-inadequate defence expenditures at the outset of what the Prime Minister himself has called an "existential" war.
Feckless is as feckless does.
The second source of comfort – which is the modest scale of Greek debt – is also gravely misplaced. As Zac Tate has explained in an excellent article at CapX, the global banking system is owed $17 by China for each $1 owed by Greece, largely because Chinese household debt has soared from 60% to 200% of GDP in just five years. That, as Tate explains, is a vastly larger debt increase than the subprime madness that crippled the American financial system and triggered the 2008 banking crisis.
Within the Chinese debt mountain, it seems that somewhere between $2 and $3 trillion is already mired in "problem loans", even before excess debt starts to exert its inevitable downwards pressure on broader debt viability. Again, the scale of British and American debt should reinforce what the Chinese numbers are telling us about the true scale of the problem.
The third comforting illusion – which is that Greece can probably be rescued by someone – is true, but only of Greece. The Eurozone or the IMF might be able to bail out Greece, but no institution exists capable of rescuing, say, America, Britain or China. For the world's really big debt junkies, there will be no Seventh Cavalry riding to the rescue, not even with General Custer in charge.
The caravan of collapse moves on
As Richard Vague has pointed out, the ramping up of debt in China parallels the situation in Japan in 1991 and the United States in 2007. Far from being an unpredictable, "black swan" event, the crashes that followed in Japan and America were eminently predictable, flagged well in advance (for anyone willing to see the warning signals) in the rapid rise of household debt.
Earlier, I commented that the Greek scale of illiquidity – the need to find €57bn just to keep the system ticking over – equated to about £560bn in the context of the British population and GDP. Actually, this sum is exceeded by property debt downside in the UK. So, in terms of where such a cataclysmic loss could actually show up, we surely need look no further than the bloated housing market, where a one-third fall in paper values would easily wipe that much and more off the balance sheets of mortgage lenders.
Housing values have been ramped up by the stimulus of ZIRP (zero interest rate policy) which was itself taken on to cope with the previous asset bubble crisis. Therefore, even the most modest rise in interest rates could torpedo property values and, by setting off a full-blown crisis in the banking system, could cripple the economy, causing liquidity to dry up almost overnight.
That such a thing could happen is itself made more likely by ZIRP because, whilst making reckless property borrowing affordable, ZIRP has also ushered in the contradiction of a supposedly "capitalist" economic system operating without returns on capital.
So we need to stop worrying about "black swans", taking note instead of the white ones.
We also need to stop thinking that Greece is some kind of "strange bird" experiencing something that "couldn't happen here".
Rather, Greece is the canary in the coal mine.
Tags: "world bank", banking, China, collapse, commerce, crash, debt, finance, greece, growth, IMF, liquidity, supply chain, tim morgan, Tsipras, ZIRP
Categories : collapse, economy


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By Ken Wotton
This may include the pace at which they can practically recruit and integrate skilled staff, or ensuring they build sometimes immature operational infrastructure in a measured way to cope with expansion.
Listed small-cap companies are often careful about taking on too much for fear of overheating, which would have serious repercussions on credibility. Most smaller companies are committed to maintaining sensible balance sheets and rewarding shareholders for being patient over the course of the journey.
After all, these are likely to be the same shareholders that could support them with more capital should a major attractive opportunity develop in the future.
There is also a perception held by many in the market, particularly among institutional investors, that companies paying a dividend, even if initially small, demonstrate good financial discipline and have moved into a more established phase of their development as listed businesses.
Under-the-radar opportunities
While large-cap stocks in the FTSE 100 are well covered by research analysts, those further down the scale are comparatively under-researched and offer income and growth for those who know where to look. For example, one stock unlikely to feature in many UK equity income portfolios is Strix. This company is the world leader in kettle controls, with a 38 per cent share of the global market.
Strix was admitted to the Alternative Investment Market in August last year at 100p per share; with its share price today up at about 165p it still offers a prospective yield above 4 per cent.
Another hidden gem is Vianet, the UK market leader in beer flow monitoring systems in pub groups. Operating in a niche industry, the company offers a near 5 cent yield underpinned by solid cash generation.
Leveraging the technology from beer flow monitoring, it also provides telemetry for vending machines. The company has delivered consistently strong dividends over many years and is a classic example of a mature smaller company operating in a niche space.
Finally, another stock where there are strong long-term prospects is Knights Group, a UK legal services business focused on providing commercial legal advice to businesses in regional UK towns and cities.
It has good quality earnings streams with diversification across customer, fee earner and area of legal service – as well as a high degree of repeat revenue from existing customers. Management has driven a strong growth strategy: combining recruitment of quality regional lawyers, as well as making acquisitions at attractive multiples.
Knights achieves high earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation margins for the sector, through driving market leading efficiencies in the ratio of fee earners to non-fee earners.
Operating in a large addressable market, it offers the prospects of long-term profit and cash flow growth to support an attractive and growing dividend stream.
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El  Hospital Dr. Horacio E. Oduber es un hospital católico de 320 camas en la isla de Aruba,  fundado en 1976 por la fundación sin fines de lucro «Stichting Ziekenverpleging Aruba». Es el único hospital en la isla de aproximadamente 120.000 habitantes.

El hospital lleva el nombre del primer médico nativo de Aruba, que utilizó para tratar a los pacientes en su hogar ( la llamada Quinta del Carmen ) antes de que el primer hospital de Aruba, San Pedro de Verona fuese fundado por monjas católicas en 1920. El Hospital San Pedro de Verona fue convertido en una residencia de ancianos en 1977 cuando el hospital Dr. Horacio Oduber comenzó a recibir a sus primeros pacientes . Entre 1938 y 1985 la refinería de petróleo Lago en San Nicolás era dueña de un segundo hospital, que sirvió principalmente sus empleados , sus familias y los ciudadanos con seguro privado . No fue sino hasta 1985 cuando el hospital Lago fue cerrado, por lo que el Dr. Horacio E. Oduber se convirtió en el único hospital en la isla. HOH es un hospital general y un centro de trauma de nivel III.

Véase también
Hospital
Historia de Aruba
Antillas Menores

Referencias

Edificios y estructuras de Aruba
Dr. Horacio
Oranjestad (Aruba)


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CEOs of the world's top 3PLs grapple with much more than sustainability and the cost of fuel, says Dr. Robert Lieb, supply chain management professor at Northeastern University. For instance, price compression is a big concern, according to a recent study that Lieb helped conduct. Clients often look at 3PLs as commodities rather than a service providers, he says. They may reluctantly feel that fuel surcharges are justified, but it's difficult for 3PLs to adjust prices in operations. Finding and retaining talent is also on the minds of 3PL execs. Projected revenue growth of providers in North America, Asia Pacific and Europe is a major focus of the study. [Run Time (Min): 8:42]
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Please join us for this worldwide candle lighting event to remember and honor the memory of all children, siblings and grandchildren regardless of age who have died.
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The holiday season is an extremly difficult time of the year for families grieving the death of a child. This Worldwide Candle Lighting has united bereaved families around the globe as a symbolic way of showing the love we continue to carry for our children, even though they can no longer be with us physically.
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Cadaver Dogs in the 19th Century
A beagle tracks a scent. Soloviova Liudmyla, shutterstock.
A landscape of odors….
Compared to canines, humans smell in black and white. We live in a world of sight and sound, words and letters. If you wrote a novel for dogs, you'd have to use smells – it would be a scratch-and-sniff book. Dogs find their literature on the ground, on trees, and under bushes; a stroll in the woods is to browse through a library. They "see" the world as an aromatic landscape colored with scents we can't even imagine.
The nose knows. MorgueFile free photo.
It's precisely that facility that makes dogs so useful to law enforcement. Their olfactory perception complements a detective's visual perception and can offer critical clues in a criminal investigation.
Cadaver dogs begin their careers
Hanns Gross, father of forensic science in Austria. Public domain.
Systematic training for cadaver dogs began in the 1970s. Modern human remains detection dogs learn to distinguish the odors of human decomposition from those of animal decomposition and track them through varied terrains. But that doesn't mean that no one ever used dogs for finding dead bodies before the 1970s. One of the first recorded instances of a court purposely using a dog to search for a murder victim occurred during the investigation of the Bavarian Ripper in 1809.
Hanns Gross, an Austrian criminologist and the father of modern forensic science, wrote about the need for cadaver dog searches as early as 1899:
Johann Elias Ridinger, Leithund, 18th c.; public domain
"Undertaking outdoor [searches] is difficult under any circumstances. Systematic searching is almost always impossible due to the size of the territory; success is due to chance. Only in one circumstance is outside assistance advisable: searching for a human body. For that purpose, a good tracking dog can be used. Not every bloodhound or Leithund [a 19th c. German breed similar to the Weimaraner] can be used, however; only a few dogs possess the right facilities for the task. But if the investigating magistrate needs help in such a case, it won't suffice if he just orders: "Get me a tracking dog." He most certainly won't obtain any help in this manner. He must, as discussed above, prepare for war during peacetime. This is all the more necessary because you often find such dogs in completely unexpected places, and can't find one on the spot when you need one."
A watchdog breaks the case
Gross managed to find a good dog and described how it found a body quickly enough to exculpate the suspect:
William Henry Jackson, "Seek Dead," 1902; public domain. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division.
"A tanner in my district had a garden-variety watchdog that didn't have a bit of hunting dog in him, but (I think it merely due to his voraciousness) could find every single piece of carrion within a huge perimeter. For that reason, the local hunters borrowed him to find all the game they shot that their hunting dogs couldn't find. The tanner's dog found everything that was animal and dead. He would come to a standstill for wounded deer as well as a long-dead cat, but he found both. Once, when we needed to search for a missing cretin, presumed to have been murdered by his brother-in-law, this dog found the cretin's body deep in the woods. At that point it was still possible to determine that the cretin had died as a result of an epileptic seizure, but a few days later, it might not have been possible to make a postmortem finding that no violence had occurred, and the suspicion would have followed the brother-in-law for the rest of his life."
A landscape of scent. Morguefile photos.
The dogs in this case and the Bavarian Ripper investigation proved their worth. One discovered the bodies, providing the crucial piece of evidence to convict a murderer, and the other found the body quickly for investigators to prove there was no murder, and exonerated an innocent suspect. Hats off to cadaver dogs and their forerunners in the 19th century!
What are some of the unusual things your dog has found with its nose?
Hanns Gross, Handbuch für Untersuchungsrichter (3rd ed., Graz: Leuschner & Lubensky's 1899) pp. 122-124 (translation mine).
Cat Warren, What the Dog Knows (New York: Touchstone 2013)
Posted by Ann Marie on Feb 11, 2015 in Cadaver dogs, Hanns Gross, father of criminology, Historical true crime in German-speaking Europe | 4 comments
More details on the Bavarian Ripper please!
Click on "Bavarian Ripper." It's a link. It should take you to my post about the Ripper. In short, he murdered two girls around 1809 and buried their bodies in his yard. When a court-ordered search of the Ripper's premises proved fruitless, a court official brought his dog, who alerted at a spot behind the Ripper's shed. That convinced the court to order a renewed search, and the girls were found buried where the dog indicated. The Ripper was convicted and executed the same year.
Elaine Mansfield
My nose wrinkles as I avoid the scent. My Labradors sniff out and eat anything in ice, mud, snow, earth, or water. They find the tiniest shards of deer bone from a site where a deer was shot two seasons ago. My most talented scavenger learned to open picnic coolers at the campsites half a mile from home. He'd slip away and return with a neatly packaged pound of bacon or hot dogs. We put an end to his wandering and thievery after paying off a few irate campers. Impressive noses, those dogs.
Elaine, that is hilarious that your dog learned to locate and open picnic coolers! How were you able to stop it?
Yes, those dogs have impressive noses.
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Jul 5, 2018 | Technology	by The GE Aviation Blog
The same way that your car needs routine repairs and maintenance to stay reliable, jet engines need that same care. Unlike car repair shops, however, you aren't likely to find your local jet engine repair shop down the street. Luckily, GE Aviation and CFM engines are supported by GE Aviation On Wing Support (OWS) — our version of the local rapid repair jet engine shop.
With eight repair stations and more than 300 technicians globally, OWS serves customers with 24/7 aircraft on ground (AOG) support and provides over 4,500 rapid repair solutions to more than 250 customers yearly. Field teams from any of the eight strategically placed customer care centers are equipped to travel anywhere in the world to perform maintenance and repairs within 24 hours of a customer request. By offering on-wing and facility-based quick turn services, OWS can save customers significant time and engine repair cost. It's that flexibility and speed that empowers customers to reduce their operational costs and spend more time in the air.
Over the past two years, OWS's capabilities have expanded tremendously to meet repair demands for GE's growing installed engine base. Recent expansions have been instrumental in supporting OWS's largest area of growth – the LEAP engine. In March 2018, GE Aviation opened a new operation base at the Dubai South Aviation District Aerospace Supply Chain Facility. This facility provides service to GE and CFM engine models for all regional-based airlines, with a specific focus on GE90, LEAP-1A and LEAP-1B engines. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, also saw an OWS base open in 2016 to deliver more efficient, reliable and timely repairs to customers across Latin America. Operations in Seoul, South Korea, are expanding as well, with the Seoul OWS facility positioned to double in size and workforce to meet Asia's growing LEAP engine installed base.
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the ..., 2. kötet
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attention of every student who reads for information, and who pursues information in order to acquire knowledge.
Roger Ascham must be classed among the most distinguished scholars of his time. Dr. Johnson observes, that he "entered Cambridge at a time when the last great revolution of the intellectual world was filling every academical mind with ardour or anxiety. The destruction of the Constantinopolitan empire had driven the Greeks with their language into the interior parts of Europe. The art of printing had made the books easily attainable, and Greek now began to be taught in England. The doctrines of Luther had already filled all the nations of the Romish communion with controversy and dissention. New studies of literature, and new tenets of religion, found employment for all who were desirous of truth, or ambitious of fame. Learning was at that time prosecuted with that eagerness and perseverance, which in this age of indifference and dissipation it is not easy to conceive. To teach or to learn was at once the business and the pleasure of the academical life; and an emulation of study was raised by Cheke and Smith, to which even the present age perhaps
owes many advantages, without remembering or knowing its benefactors. ---Ascham soon resolved to unite himself to those who were enlarging the bounds of knowledge, and immediately upon his admission into the college, applied himself to the study of Greek. Those who were zealous for the new learning, were often no great friends to the old religion; and Ascham, as he became a Grecian, became a protestant.
The reformation was begun ; disaffection to popery was considered as a crime justly punished by exclusion from favour and preferment, and was not yet openly professed, though superstition was gradually losing its hold upon the public. The study of Greek was reputable enough, and Ascham pursued it with diligence and success equally conspicuous."
It has been before observed, that the restoration of ancient literature, notwithstanding its beneficial influence on taste and general refinement, tended in the first instance to check the progress of the English language: for all persons of education, ambitious of the character of erudition, wrote in Latin. From the introduction of the ancient classics to the publication of Ascham's Toxophilus, no man
of literary eminence (with the exception of sir Thomas More) published any piece of consequence in English. On this account, the vernacular language, long after the invention of printing, instead of being refined, was corrupted by various affected additions and barbarisms. In the extract from the Toxophilus, we have seen Ascham complaining of this; and feeling its impropriety, he was the first, after More, who had the resolution to throw off the fetters of a learned language. The Toxophilus (as above noticed) was published the last year of Henry VIII. or in 1545.
This universal attention to polite literature, the prominent feature in the literary character of the age of which we are treating, had one bad effect: it excluded philosophy Weneed not regret, perhaps, that the redoubted logicians and metaphysicians Duns Scotus, and Thomas Aquinas were abandoned; but we have reason to lament that words usurped the place of things, to the knowledge of which they are merely secondary and subservient. The improvement of society. can never be greatly advanced by mere verbalists. These men had their use in their day; 'but it re
quired the genius of a Bacon to illumine, with a light full and clear, the benighted intellects of men, by instructing them, that it is only by the successive accumulation of facts su:ceptible of useful or refined applications, to which society can be indebted for a certain and rapid progression.
Join Fox, divine, and ecclesiastical historian, was born at Boston, in Lincolnshire, in 1517, being the same year that Luther began the reformation in Germany. His father dying when he was young, the care of his early education was undertaken by a father-inlaw; and at the age of sixteen, he entered at Brazen-nose College, Oxford, where, in the years 1538, and 1543, he took his degrees in
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He engaged with great ardour in the study of divinity, and had embraced the principles of the reformers without any previous intercourse with any of them. But in order to make himself master of the theological controversies which then disturbed and divided all Europe, he began to examine into the history of the church, both in ancient and modern


LOS ANGELES — Seattle-based Qpass, which Amdocs purchased in April for $275 million, said today at CTIA that it has launched the sixth version of its digital commerce software, which helps service providers and media companies sell content to customers.
The new version comes out as more wireless phone companies begin to sell more content, from TV and videos to music and games.
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Qpass 6 allows service providers and media companies sell any kind of digital content (music, games or movies) over any network (wireless, broadband cable or satellite) on any interactive device (personal computers, mobile phones, set-top boxes, or kiosks).
The Qpass platform has processed more than $1.4 billion in retail consumer sales worldwide and provides access to more than 500,000 digital products from more than 1,000 content providers.


Over the Misty Mountains: Psychology and "Enchantment"
I think that saying modern games lack "enchantment" is nonsense. Trying to compare a game that you look at with educated, experienced eyes, after 20 years of role-playing with the game picked up when you were ten is not worthwile, because you are a totally different person than you were.
When we started playing, we played the rules as we understood them. We messed with them, sure, but that's it, at first. We were enchanted with it because it was new and cool and we were in control of it. We felt that feeling of enchantment, but it didn't have much of anything to do with the system, it had more to do with who you were.
The bad news is - you cannot get that feeling back. Not ever. Blaming systems because they don't evoke the same feeling of enchantment you felt is like blaming your wife of 20 years because you don't feel that same rush of passion you felt when you first met. I've sat in recently with teenagers who are just starting RPG's, playing D&D. And guess what - they are enchanted - just like we were with 1e or red box or whatever.
Can't agree with this one. It's not the memories of yesteryear that brings me back to the older games, but the things they let me do today that I love. In fact, I'm having more fun with Labyrinth Lord, playing more interesting games in more fascinating worlds, than I did when I first played the Moldvay/Cook versions back in the '80s. I might be able to pull the same thing off in 4e, but only with a lot of effort, probably more effort than I actually have time for today. Things like creating new classes and monsters are much easier with Labyrinth Lord than they are in 4e, which means the game is much easier to make my own and to tailor to the sorts of games I want to play today.
System matters. I wouldn't try to play a Call of Cthulhu style game with any version of D&D or dungeon delve with The Shab-al-Hiri Roach. Labyrinth Lord does exploration-and-logistics better than 4e, plain and simple. 4e combats are a lot more complex and involved than combats in Labyrinth Lord. I prefer the former, but I know lots of people who prefer the latter.
And yes, my years of playing various incarnations of D&D does make it easier to do more with the rules and morph them into something I want. But that's familiarity, not nostalgia.