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This online lab exercise focuses on the causes, characteristics and effects of the glacial-interglacial cycle. The sixth in a 10-part lab series on weather and climate, this lab exercise is designed for first and second year college geoscience... (View More) students (majors and non-majors) as well as pre-service STEM teachers. (View Less)
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Over the past 18 months we've put a massive amount of effort and investment into strengthening apprenticeships in this country - and it shows. Last year more than 450,000 people started an apprenticeship, roughly the same number as those who started in higher education. The increase on the previous year is a whopping 63%. These are record numbers to reflect a real commitment.
The reason for that commitment is simple - apprenticeships are right at the heart of the kind of economy we want to build: one where many more young people have the chance to learn a proper trade; where we have a highly-skilled workforce; where we're not just borrowing and spending huge amounts but really earning our way, making and selling the goods the world wants to buy. Apprenticeships are a vital thread running through this vision.
So we have massively increased investment to over £1.5 billion - and today we announce three more important steps we're taking.
First, we're opening the second round of bidding for the Higher Apprenticeship Fund. This fund has a very clear purpose: to increase the number of apprenticeships available at the highest level. For far too long academic subjects have been elevated above practical learning and these rigorous, well-respected qualifications - equivalent to a traditional degree - are going to help end that imbalance. We're looking to see new higher-level apprenticeships in fields like engineering, aerospace and renewable technologies, and to that end we've got £6 million of funding available. Now we want businesses, universities and training providers to start putting their bids together to make this a reality.
Second, we're launching new incentives to encourage small businesses to take on apprentices. The benefits of doing so are proven and overwhelming: you get loyal staff; you train them as you wish; and you recoup your investment rapidly. You just need to look at the board of Rolls Royce - where half of them started as apprentices - to see the business case for doing this. But still, not enough small businesses go this route, which is why we're offering new financial rewards. From today, if you're a small or medium-sized business without any apprentices, and you hire one aged 16-24, then you're eligible for £1500. So if you're reading this and you fit the bill, get hiring - there are 40,000 payments to be snapped up. Find out more about it here.
Third, we're giving employers more control over training. Instead of mainly streaming the money through training providers we're going to give it straight to employers, putting them in the driving seat to commission or develop their own training. There is £250 million in the pot to achieve this - and today we're detailing how employers can get a share of this and get the skills they need. Read more about how to bid here.
If we want an economy that is truly world-class, high-skilled and open for everyone willing to work hard, then we have got to keep putting our efforts into strengthening apprenticeships with bold measures like this. That's what this government is pledged to do.

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Georgetown – Though it is older than the City of Washington, the storefronts of this Potomac River facing town seem to have been updated to what now looks like the village version of NYC's Fifth Avenue. In between the brand labeled facades, Martin's Tavern is easy to spot for its corner location and Irish pub exterior. Having arrived late into the night, shopping wasn't on our agenda, but dinner was.
Choosing Martin's Tavern wasn't left to chance. I had read of it being one of the few establishments still standing since the Great Depression; opened by an Irish family with roots stretching back to the 1800's in this former blue collar labourer's port. Perhaps more renowned for its associations with serving monumental figures such as Harry Truman, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and even Richard Nixon*, also knowing that this was the on-bended-knee location of JFK had intrigued enough to make a reservation.
My husband and I held court in 'The Nixon Booth'. Its history reads like this:
"Richard Nixon dined at Martin's Tavern throughout the 1940's and 1950's while serving as a Representative, Senator, and Vice President. He enjoyed Martin's Meatloaf and most often dined with his wife Pat or congressional colleagues."
Though we cannot vouch for the Meatloaf, the seared tuna, and hamburger-with-the-lot were healthy servings of good pub fare.
Now, about that booth:
JFK and Jackie frequently dined in Booth 3 at Martin's Tavern. Having returned from covering the coronation of Queen Elizabeth for the Washington Times Herald, Jacqueline Bouvier accepted John's proposal. The next day the Tavern was abuzz with staff and guests talking about the "nice young Kennedy congressman" proposing to his girlfriend in their favourite Booth. It has been known as "The Proposal Booth" since that day.
That's how this history reads on the one-sheeter distributed at each table anyway. Cheers!
*All quotes sourced from Martin's Tavern – website and in-restaurant


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the weird english is just funny...
What a shitty video, she`s not an amatuer though, a porno actress. I don`t see the point of these so called dogging movies as you can`t see a thing with thier crap cameras.....
What a beautiful women to be treated as trash. Sad and erotic at the same time...
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What an annoying bloke, 'i will see your breast?' FFS shut up
I wana punch that guy in the mouth
wow..that ill fuck G fo life
and i will see your breast ?
that guy that keeps on talking is fucking annoying!
whats her name,
Peter's right, this guy needs to shut the fuck up
anybody knows her COMPLETE NAME???I love her
Can I lick it too ?
my god how cute she is do you, Mandy?
LOL! I want that guy to narrate my next orgasm. "Oh okaiy, hah haaa! Satis-FAYD, yes, satisfayd, yes? Perfekted!"
she is so hot, me thinks
Listen that belt buckle fuck the paintwork on the car @ 2:15
The guy keeps saying big cock big cock.. where are those big cocks?? they are all average..
i guess it's Nico and cousin Roman Bellic man, from GTA IV, listen to their accent
Aren't you scared of HIV?
can you imagine the crappy nightclubs these people drink in.
damn she is fine. great face, great boobies, great vagina
i'd love to lick her pussy!
What the hell did you give her?
after many search i can tell you the real name of this actress, it's KATERINA SZ
Can the fucking idiot guy shut the fuck up?
@ praha im german and nobody spoke german there ! theyre czech. we speak much better english here ^^
ho putain exitan!
I love this girl, its the same like my own girl, more cocks more fun, a lot of cum for her!
They are speaking German in the end, saying good night to the other guys who are now released to go to the pub. So they let German guys fuck Kate. Funny.
This looks like fun - I want cocks in my ass, pussy and mouth now... xxx
Making love outdoor in public is really the best. We did that every weekend from 1983 to 1996. I was very happy to watch my lovely wife fucking with several males, up to ten, often more. At the end, I always introduced my cock into her already fully creampied pussy. She never cleaned it between a partner and the following one, fucking her immediately afterwards. It was the best quite natural way for my wife to keep her vagina lubricated enough, able to satisfy huge series of males.
So Cute
There's nothing like a random fuck with a stranger and walking off with a swolen wet pussy full of hot cum
Eastern europe trash
Ola mandame una foto tuya desnuda
ive always wanted to be fucked by several men in public
Kate are u german
Fuck me tooo
hi shakira fuck u.....
if i wasnt married already, i'd loved to make kate my wife. she could fuck my friends whenever she wants. or any of her friends. or any of their friends. such a sweet sexy girl!
Muy bueno
Mmmm, if you let me lick yours.
katie is my girlfriend and is marrying me so i hope she has changed
just imagine all the diseases she got on that day
Where can I find more videos of this amazing woman to jerk off to?
Couls someone tell Borat to shut up??
If They WouLd Shut The Fuck Up It Would've Been Better
Damn I wanna get in on some dogging action lol
Che troia
Someone must know who the girl in the grey dress is? Would love to see her getting her arse fucked!
I's cumming in my sexy vintage babydoll nylon nightie....after watching this...
she loves fucking and sucking
I need to get a big pussy for my big dick u wants it
quiciera cojer en la calle alguna vez
cute girl
this is all very well and good but wearing pink socks on your arms is just odd
They are hot pink arm bands for the arms...not pink docks there damn hotte and cutty
its bmw 850
Ich bin ein freak
Keep expecting Borat to show up
He sounds like borat
nico bellec
I want your cock dj!
Waoooo thos people are crazy danm!!!
Che troia
what name?
anyone know where i could get in on a gangbang i will give you my email im 25 year old man can send pics
like a porn version of jackass
hummm seex !
Imagine how much fun she could have in bed with those guy's!!!
dio bestie
MMM love to fuck random guys :-)
Love! to meet you Kelly!.
look at her left hand ring finger from 1.24
kate is a champ i would love to fuck her tight snatch
@ Ralfe: Blew your load and started to think like a women.
Why am I watching this shit why do I watch porn it is inhuman and superficial. All of you are mentally fucked up for watching this stupid crap. Let us love not in speech but in act - John
the car is a BMW Z3
I want cock in my pussy so bad. I want my horny cunt filled with cum
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what's your performer name, you are very hard to find on the internet!!!
Hey guys, they were Czech yes but it was not Mukarov city, it was really just outside there. They were lots of fun ;) but the weird thing is rite after the video was done another man wanted to lick my clit! It was AMAZING though so I didn't complain ;)
Hey Kate me and my mates will do the same and worse to you if you want.
Title for that video? I'm tired of having to mute this one.
There's a video of her, not the with crazy Borat, but filmed by with a UK northern guy, but she's not named, and in which she speaks a fair bit in between the action..better on the ears!
very pretty
nid sexmate my alone today!!!
where are you?
Kate is so wonderful. Lovely fresh, ripe tits, tight cunt, pretty cum face and long legs. If I meet her, I am gonna give her a huge load in her young mouth
Such thick Czech accents it's unbelievable...
lucky Kate, yesss lucky Kate u lucky
how many videos are there
The best in the video is the corvette ^^
She's smoking hot
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Fabrice.meuwissen needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 1226 designs submitted by 214 freelance designers.
I set up a new company which will produce software application ( for windows ), first app will be "light image resizer", another app is "Salmon email tracking for Outlook", another product is "Send to My Cloud" to get offline reading of URL you can bookmark on your computer and share on mobile.
so the company name is still "generic"
I m the co-founder of VSO-Software, and I will mount this company from some of the products I wasn't able to finish. The products will be available for a few millions of users because of the huge network of contacts I have from my past experience in the software catalog market.
End-users, geek, lazy users, beginning which wants easy app / specific task program to be used.
I m thinking about a logo with a bulblight + exclamation mark. To avoid the overused round bulb shape, I thought the bulblight could look a little bit squary ( but still with soft rounded corners ). see pictures you can use here to get a suggested shape :
I prefer to have it almost vertically oriented, to make it straight as the exclamation mark. I don't have any requirement about colors. If you want to rotate it, don't do it by a lot of degree ( 15° ) to keep it straight and the default position of a bulblight.
I recommend a font like Petita in bold ( http://www.dafont.com/petita.font ) for the company name text. ( rounded font, but still with some sharp corners like in the b letter )
I also think the base metal tip of the bulb could look like a half circle, to make think ( but without obvious design such as Amazon ) to be a mouth / smile. make happyness felt by users without they realize it.
I suggest to look at my suggestion in the top link, I m just unable to make them with illustrator, but they are good guideline among what I would prefer. Of course, you are free to suggest the killing idea.
if you need more inspiration, I found only that link with a contest / review of lightbulb logos :
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Back in September of 2009, I questioned an email that I got on behalf of the University of Hawaii Alumni Association (Is UH Really Updating Their Alumni Directory).
I kept getting irritated by these emails I was getting and so I investigated a bit further about Harris Connect the company in question and in October I found out that this company isn't as great as they make themselves out to be. (UH Alumni Foundation and Harris Connect What is Really Going On)
Yesterday, I received a tweet from the UH Alumni Association Twitter Site asking me the following:
Hi Damon, are you still receiving email from Harris? We were using Harris to host our site & provide some tools along w/the directory proj.
I replied:
I put em in my spam box… but have noticed a large increase in visits to that post that I made.
They then tweeted me the following:
Sorry you're still getting email from them. We've had challenges with Harris and the alumni directory proj., might be the cause of visits.
I guess I can still laugh at this email I received:
Dear University of Hawai'i Alumni,
Recently you may have been e-mailed a request to verify your University of Hawai'i alumni information. We want to assure you that the request is legitimate, sent on our behalf by Harris Connect, LLC, with whom we have partnered to produce a 2010 UH alumni directory. We hope you will contribute to making this a treasured resource by sharing your stories, pictures and life experiences with friends and former classmates. Harris Connect will continue trying to reach UH alumni in the coming weeks via e-mail, mail and telephone to encourage participation in the project.
Harris Connect's commitment to protecting your privacy and ensuring the integrity of the information collected is reflected in their privacy policy online. Should you have any questions or concerns, or if you do not want to be included in the directory, please contact Doug Harmon, project manager, at 1-800-735-8239 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Mitchell Ka'aiali'i BA '92, MBA '97
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Vertebrate Paleontology
Vertebrate paleontology in the United States originated in Philadelphia through the efforts of physicians and natural historians associated with the American Philosophical Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences. Native Philadelphian, Dr. Joseph Leidy (1823-1891) was a particularly brilliant anatomist working at the Academy during the growth of paleontology as a scientific discipline. Many call Leidy the father of vertebrate paleontology in this country. Edward Drinker Cope, another Philadelphian, made tremendous contributions to vertebrate paleontology from his home base at the Academy. After a hiatus of almost a century, research in vertebrate paleontology is active again at the Academy of Natural Sciences (see below).
The historical core of the Academy's collection includes the Thomas Jefferson Fossil Collection, the first dinosaur fossils from North America, the only fossil collected by Lewis and Clark, as well as the extensive collections of Leidy and some of the Cope collections. Although many of these specimens have great historical value, they also remain crucial for primary research. Today, the vertebrate fossil collection houses more than 22,000 specimens and that number is rapidly growing through recent research efforts. Recent and ongoing collections projects have included renovation of the fossil preparation lab and some of the collection space as well as upgrading the conservation of all specimens.
Researchers interested in the collection should consult the loan policy and loan agreement page. Contact people for the department are Ned Gilmore, Collections Manager (firstname.lastname@example.com) and Ted Daeschler, Associate Curator (firstname.lastname@example.com). Written queries should be addressed to either of these two at:
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Current paleontological research at the Academy of Natural Sciences is focused on Late Devonian-age fossils (375 to 365-million-years-old) from the Catskill Formation in northern Pennsylvania and from the Okse Bay Group in the Nunavut Territory of the Canadian Arctic. This work has already uncovered thousands of new fossils that dramatically illustrate the diversity of life and the evolving ecosystems during this critical interval in earth history. Fossils uncovered in this project are also providing important data on the origin of limbed animals (tetrapods) from fishy precursors. Research from the Catskill Project is presented at the Devonian Times web site.
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Here's tonight's line-up vs. Cole Hamels:
Mike Hessman replaces Ike Davis at first base, meaning Davis has sat in two of the last three games. Davis is the future of this team and I want to see him out there; I want to see him get opportunities against left-handed pitching.
Jose Reyes, SS
Angel Pagan, LF
David Wright, 3B
Carlos Beltran, CF
Mike Hessman, 1B
Jeff Francoeur, RF
Henry Blanco, C
Ruben Tejada, 2B
R.A. Dickey, RP
Take a good look at that lineup. The five through nine hitters strike little fear among pitchers. Looks like another low scoring night.


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Carl Phillips, Ismet Prcic Among L.A. Times Book Award Winners
Kicking off the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books this past weekend, a collection of standout books published last year were honored at the thirty-second annual Los Angeles Times Book Prizes.
In poetry Carl Phillips won for his eleventh collection, Double Shadow (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). The book was a contender last year for the National Book Award, along with another Times Book Prize finalist, Bruce Smith for Devotions (University of Chicago Press). Also shortlisted for the Times honor were Jim Harrison for Songs of Unreason (Copper Canyon Press), Dawn Lundy Martin for Discipline (Nightboat Books), and Linda Norton for The Public Gardens (Pressed Wafer).
Alex Shakar won in fiction for Luminarium (Soho Press), his second novel after 2001's The Savage Girl (Harper). The finalists were Joseph O'Connor for Ghost Light (Frances Coady Books) and Michael Ondaatje for The Cat's Table (Knopf), as well as National Book Award finalists Julie Otsuka for The Buddha in the Attic (Knopf) and Edith Pearlman for Binocular Vision: New and Selected Stories (Lookout Books), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award.
The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction went to Ismet Prcic for Shards (Black Cat). Prcic's novel won out over Chad Harbach's The Art of Fielding (Little, Brown), Eleanor Henderson's Ten Thousand Saints (Ecco), Ben Lerner's Leaving the Atocha Station (Coffee House Press), and James Wallenstein's The Arriviste (Milkweed Editions).
The winner of the third annual prize in the graphic novel is Carla Speed McNeil for Finder: Voice (Dark Horse). Previous winners in the category include Adam Hines for Duncan the Wonder Dog (AdHouse, 2010) and David Mazzucchelli for Asterios Polyp (Pantheon, 2009).
The book prizes honor titles published in the previous year in twelve categories. For a list of all the winners, visit the award website.


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Apple will announce its third quarter earnings for the quarter that ended on 30 June, on Tuesday 24 July at 10pm BST (2pm PT).
There is some speculation that Apple will release Mountain Lion the following day. Last year Apple released Lion the day after the results announcement. Apple's CEO Tim Cook has stated that Mountain Lion will be released before the end of July.
Apple announced its second quarter earnings in a conference call with analysts on 24 April. The company reported a net profit of $11.6 billion on revenue of $39.2 billion for the quarter that ended 31 March, 2012. The share price closed at $610 a share on 25 April following the announcement. The previous day's close was $560.28.
During the 24 April call, Oppenheimer told analysts to expect revenue of $34 billion and earnings per share of $8.68 for the third quarter. That compares to revenue of $28.57 billion and earnings of $7.79 per share for the fiscal third quarter of 2011.
However, Apple's forecasted numbers are a sequential drop from the revenue and earnings the company reported for its second quarter. Oppenheimer said the company is expecting a sequential decline in iPhone sales, as Apple had ramped up inventory to meet pent-up demand. The lower entry price for the iPad 2 and a stronger US dollar were also factors in Apple's forecast.
Still, Oppenheimer and other Apple executives were bullish on the company's fortunes going forward. "We just reported the most amazing March quarter that Apple's ever had," Oppenheimer said. "We feel very good about our business and our product pipeline."
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The Golden Girls, which ran on NBC from 1985 until 1992, centers around four women all near or above the age of 50. Created by Susan Harris (Soap, Empty Nest), the series was an immediate hit in it's Saturday night timeslot.
The show mainly involved four women. The stories involve… More dating and solving various problems. The story of the week sometimes included issues such as harassment, homosexuality, impotence, AIDS, death, and adultery.
This sitcom is hilarious, original, and clever as it takes real life situations and makes them funny, sad, or weird.
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Student Athletic Trainers' are eligible for scholarships up to full tuition depending upon on the student athletic trainer's work ability and work ethic. The athletic training scholarship will not cover room and board and/or books and supplies. Scholarships are currently available during the fall and spring semesters with the possibility of receiving one during the summer, if funds are available. Call 601-403-1372 or click here for more information and online application.
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I attended the 2103 Grace Hopper Celebration, a women in computer conference with 4800 technical women participating. There I had the opportunity to attend a lively panel session on Big Data. After spending 2 seconds on the proliferation of data in our digitized world problem statement, the panelists launched right into a focused discussion on how big data analytics helps us unlock the value and gain insights. They acknowledged the hype, yet stressed the point that every company needs a core data competency, must be accountable to uphold security and privacy regulation and need to deliver better performance and tuning (users expect responses quickly).
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Learning Haskell with Chess
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olodom This page is about learning Haskell using the board game Chess as a running example. The complete code can be found at http://www.steffen-mazanek.de/dateien/projekte/hsChess.zip.
@German Haskellers: You may also have a look at the tex-files used for our student exercises, http://www.steffen-mazanek.de/dateien/projekte/hsChess-teaching-german.zip.
1 Exercise 1 - data types
1.1 Learning targets
- recapitulate Haskell types (keywords andtype, product and sum types)data
- Helium: equality and show functions (pattern matching)
- Haskell: type classes (,Show,Eq)deriving
- list handling (boards will be represented by lists of lists)
- special character ,'\n'putStr::String->IO ()
1.2 Tasks
- Define data types that represent boards (), squares (Board), positions (Square), pieces (Pos, supported byPieceandPieceColor) and game states (PieceType).State
- Helium: Implement suited eq and show functions.
- Haskell: Define/derive instances of andShowEq
- Implement a function , that transforms a board into a clearly arranged string representation (human readable :-)). Support this function with auxiliary functions that pretty print pieces, squares, ...prettyBoard::Board->String
- Define the initial board (), testinitialBoard::BoardwithprettyBoard.initialBoard
- Implement a simple evaluation function as the difference of material on board, for this purpose define a functionevalBoard::Board->Intthat maps pieces to their values (pawn->1, knight and bishop->3, queen->9, rook->5, king->"infinity"=1000).valuePiece
2 Exercise 2 - move generator
2.1 Learning targets
- list comprehension
- stepwise refinement
2.2 Tasks
- Define a function such thatmovePos::Pos->Pos->Board->Boardmoves the piece at p1 to p2 (overwrite the square at p2 with the square at p1 and delete p1). Do not check whether the move is valid at this stage. Hint: Define a functionmovePos p1 p2 bfirst. On top of this further define a functionupdateBoard. Its much simpler to have these functions at hand.deleteSquare
- Implement a function whose result is the list of the positions of the pieces of a certain color.colorPos::PieceColor->Board->[Pos]
- Define that returns the base moving vectors for a particular piece (return empty list for pawns here, because their vector depends on the color).moves::PieceType->[(Int,Int)]
- Implement , it takes a board b and a position p and results in the list of all boards that may follow if you move the piece at p on board b.genMoves::Board->Pos->[Board]
- Combine andcolorPosto a functiongenMovesthat returns all possible successor states.nextStates::State->[State]
3 Exercise 3 - gametree generation and minimax algorithm
3.1 Learning targets
- break code in modules
- complexity
- recursive data structures -> recursive algorithms
3.2 Tasks
- Define a data type that represents a game tree ().GameTree
- Roughly estimate the number of nodes of the gametree with depth 4.
- Define a function , that computes the value of a given game tree using the minimax Algorithm.play::Gametree->Int
- Implement the function , that choses the (best) next state.doMove::State->State


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Wabash Sixth in Final 2011 NCAC Golf Standings
by Brent Harris
May 2, 2011
A sixth-place finish Sunday at the Hiram College Invitational locked up a sixth-place finish overall in the final North Coast Athletic Conference standings for the Wabash golf team. The Little Giants finished the two-event competition with a total of 1,632 strokes.
Wabash scored a total of 961 strokes at the Hiram event over a total of three rounds of play. Freshman Seth Hensley posted the top finish for Wabash, tying for 19th place with a total of 236 strokes over 54 holes of golf. Jake German shot a 241 to tie for 24th place. Luke Moton tied for 26th with a total of 243 strokes, while Jordan Koch finished 32nd by shooting a 248. Michael Piggins tied for 37th place with a score of 259.
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Is America 'Yearning for Fascism'?
Posted by Good German on January 15, 2011
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To add to the discussion started by Danny Schechter's post Does Fascism Lurk Around The Corner In The USA?, here is the beginning of Chris Hedges' column from March of last year, Is America 'Yearning for Fascism'?:
The language of violence always presages violence. I watched it in war after war from Latin America to the Balkans. The impoverishment of a working class and the snuffing out of hope and opportunity always produce angry mobs ready to kill and be killed. A bankrupt, liberal elite, which proves ineffectual against the rich and the criminal, always gets swept aside, in times of economic collapse, before thugs and demagogues emerge to play to the passions of the crowd. I have seen this drama. I know each act. I know how it ends. I have heard it in other tongues in other lands. I recognize the same stock characters, the buffoons, charlatans and fools, the same confused crowds and the same impotent and despised liberal class that deserves the hatred it engenders.
"We are ruled not by two parties but one party," Cynthia McKinney, who ran for president on the Green Party ticket, told me. "It is the party of money and war. Our country has been hijacked. And we have to take the country away from those who have hijacked it. The only question now is whose revolution gets funded."
The Democrats and their liberal apologists are so oblivious to the profound personal and economic despair sweeping through this country that they think offering unemployed people the right to keep their unemployed children on their nonexistent health care policies is a step forward. They think that passing a jobs bill that will give tax credits to corporations is a rational response to an unemployment rate that is, in real terms, close to 20 percent. They think that making ordinary Americans, one in eight of whom depends on food stamps to eat, fork over trillions in taxpayer dollars to pay for the crimes of Wall Street and war is acceptable. They think that the refusal to save the estimated 2.4 million people who will be forced out of their homes by foreclosure this year is justified by the bloodless language of fiscal austerity. The message is clear. Laws do not apply to the power elite. Our government does not work. And the longer we stand by and do nothing, the longer we refuse to embrace and recognize the legitimate rage of the working class, the faster we will see our anemic democracy die.
The unraveling of America mirrors the unraveling of Yugoslavia. The Balkan war was not caused by ancient ethnic hatreds. It was caused by the economic collapse of Yugoslavia. The petty criminals and goons who took power harnessed the anger and despair of the unemployed and the desperate. They singled out convenient scapegoats from ethnic Croats to Muslims to Albanians to Gypsies. They set in motion movements that unleashed a feeding frenzy leading to war and self-immolation. There is little difference between the ludicrous would-be poet Radovan Karadzic, who was a figure of ridicule in Sarajevo before the war, and the moronic Glenn Beck or Sarah Palin. There is little difference between the Oath Keepers and the Serbian militias. We can laugh at these people, but they are not the fools. We are.
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Come to the Rainbow Rink on Saturday, June 1, to see the Nickel City Knockouts and Devil Dollies battle for the Queen City Cup in the final home team bout of the season. Doors will open at 6 p.m. and the bout begins at 7:30 p.m.
Will the Nickel City Knockouts, yet to be defeated this season or last, keep their winning spree intact? Or will the Devil Dollies, who came oh-so-close to breaking it the last time these teams met, beat them and take back the Queen City Cup?
This will be the third year the two teams are going head-to-head in QCRG's championship bout. In 2011, the Dollies pulled out the win. In 2012 the Knockouts took the Cup with a commanding victory. Now it's the fans' turn to see who will break the tie.
This is the final home team game of the 2013 season and is sure to be an exciting matchup. Both teams have depth on their bench, filled with talented jammers and formidable blockers. Both teams are strategic and hard-hitting.
The day starts out at the Carnegie Art Center with the annual QCRG Day picnic. The event will be filled with jugglers, bag pipers, hula-hoopers, zombies and fire throwers. Plus, the shortest parade in Western New York will bring the Queen City Cup to the Rainbow Rink, where it will wait to be claimed by this year's champions.
The Queen City Junior Roller Girls and the Cleveland Rockstars will duke it out in a junior derby bout at 6 p.m. to warm the track up for the Dollies and Knockouts.
Halftime and between bout entertainment will be provided by Lower Town Trio.
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Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Santa Monica And It's Schizophrenic Support Of Cycling
One of the things lacking in Santa Monica, is any effort to inform or redirect cyclists during times of construction or other projects that completely interfere with bike routes. Broadway is the go to East/West bike route in Santa Monica for my self, my co-workers, friends, and many other cyclists in this town. However when Broadway is missing in action, as it is now with the asphalt of many blocks completely ripped to shreds, there was no effort to inform cyclists either ahead of time, or directly with signage on the street. No detour or alternative route suggestions, or even a warning that you are about to hit a sudden dip into a ripped up bumpy surface full of gravel.
The street is not currently closed to traffic, and cars can relatively safely travel across with their 4 wide tires and shocks, but for a cyclist, especially one on a road bike and not a mountain bike, such conditions are terrible and likely to result in falls or punctured tires, especially for an inexperienced cyclist. I could see this being most problematic for a cyclist turning onto Broadway where the construction begins, as they would not have the same forward warning something different was up ahead, and in a turn, loose gravel is more likely to cause a spill. While this construction is a more extreme example, it also not uncommon for all manner of vehicles or cones or other things to be blocking parts of the bike lane on Broadway on a regular basis. Oh and those little 3 wheeled go-carts that parking attendants drive and park in the bike lanes handing out traffic tickets. I question the legality of that practice, but it is certainly the standard protocol in Santa Monica.
If Santa Monica actually cared about cyclists in any truly meaningful way such actions without warning would be unacceptable. I'm also willing to bet a fairly large sum of money that the things inadequate in Broadway's bike lane design, like being stuck too far into the door zone or non-existent at intersections, will be painted right back down just as they were when this is done. If Santa Monica wants to live up to the promise of being a "cycling friendly" city, it has to have every department of the city on board and talking to each other. Supporting the growth of cycling, and the safety of cycling, is not just a traffic demand management issue, or a road engineering issue, or a law enforcement issue, or an education issue, it is all of the above and more, and it all has to all be working together in tandem and in a coordinated fashion. Santa Monica is doing some truly wonderful things for cycling, bike valet at big events being one of the more innovative, but at other times it is borderline criminally negligent in it's consideration for cyclists. It's time to erase the Mr. Hyde from this equation and for Santa Monica to be considerate of cyclists all the time.
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- Evan said...
Yeah, I was unpleasantly surprised to discover the state of Broadway when I went to Bay Cities earlier this week. Thankfully I found out when I was driving my car, and not riding my bike--I ride regularly on Broadway at night, and there were no warning signs about the state of the road. I really wouldn't have wanted to find out about this when riding my bike in the dark.
- April 29, 2010 at 11:07 AM
- wiz_vanmeter said...
2 weeks ago a large asphalt protrusion appeared in the bike lane on Ocean just before Montana. It was dark and blended in with the surrounding pavement. Didn't even notice it until after witnessing a cyclist lose control and crash flying 30 feet. A week later the bump was still there but two warning signs were set up with blinking yellow lights. I'm pretty sure he complained to the city about the hazard so I guess the signs were set up in response to his (and possibly other people's) crash.
- April 30, 2010 at 7:32 AM
- Nahid said...
Hi there, I just found your blog and I'm planning to start biking to work starting tomorrow. I'm looking for a route through Santa Monica (I live just south of the 10) to the mall in Century city, where I work. Is Broadway still getting fixed up? I have a hybrid bike but I'm not a very experienced cyclist. I'm thinking of trying Arizona or Pearl. I would really appreciate any tips/advice on routes! Thanks so much.
- May 16, 2010 at 7:50 PM
- Gary said...
As of my ride into work today Broadway was fixed up, but there is some rocks in the bike lane on one block and one block without painted lines.
If you take Arizona, once out of Santa Monica it stops being a bike route, but you can swing down to Ohio. Ohio is a bike route, but the first leg of it is without a bike lane and actually kind of narrow, and a lot of people use it to try and avoid Santa Monica Blvd. traffic. Santa Monica Blvd. does have a bike lane, but only once you get past the 405.
- May 17, 2010 at 10:03 AM
- Evan said...
Nice, Nahid! Broadway is repaved, but not restriped yet. But besides, Broadway turns into Ohio in the City of Los Angeles, and Ohio disappears into Santa Monica Blvd. before starting at Westgate again.
Santa Monica Blvd. has a bike lane going east starting at Sepulveda that runs all the way to Century City, but it's kind of treacherous in West LA heading to the 405. Olympic isn't all that great, either. There are a lot of east-west streets between Santa Monica Blvd. and Olympic that aren't heavily traveled by cars, but they won't get you across the 405.
CICLE has a list of user-submitted suggested routes (http://www.cicle.org/cicle_content/pivot/entry.php?id=698), but there isn't anything for Century City right now. I think getting on Santa Monica going east from Sepulveda would be your best bet, but it's going from your house to there that might be tricky, depending on your comfort level. I would suggest you try riding from your house to work on the weekend, and see what you're comfortable with for a weekday commute--just imagine more cars (though considering the area, auto traffic might be the same.)
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Sure, "hard" capital and solvency constraints for big banks are better than mealy-mouthed technocratic flexibility. But absent much deeper reforms, totemic leverage restrictions will not meaningfully constrain bank behavior. Bank capital cannot be measured. Think about that until you really get it. "Large complex financial institutions" report leverage ratios and "tier one" capital and all kinds of aromatic stuff. But those numbers are meaningless. For any large complex financial institution levered at the House-proposed limit of 15×, a reasonable confidence interval surrounding its estimate of bank capital would be greater than 100% of the reported value. In English, we cannot distinguish "well capitalized" from insolvent banks, even in good times, and regardless of their formal statements.and
Lehman is a case-in-point. On September 10, 2008, Lehman reported 11% "tier one" capital and very conservative "net leverage". On September 25 15, 2008, Lehman declared bankruptcy. Despite reported shareholder's equity of $28.4B just prior to the bankruptcy, the net worth of the holding company in liquidation is estimated to be anywhere from negative $20B to $130B, implying a swing in value of between $50B and $160B. That is shocking. For an industrial firm, one expects liquidation value to be much less than "going concern" value, because fixed capital intended for a particular production process cannot easily be repurposed and has to be taken apart and sold for scrap. But the assets of a financial holding company are business units and financial positions, which can be sold if they are have value. Yes, liquidation hits intangible "franchise" value and reputation, but those assets are mostly excluded from bank balance sheets, and they are certainly excluded from "tier one" capital calculations. The orderly liquidation of a well-capitalized financial holding company ought to yield something close to tangible net worth, which for Lehman would have been about $24B.Certainly read the whole thing.
So Lehman misreported its net worth, right? Not according to the law. From the Valukas Report, Section III.A.2: Valuation — Executive Summary:
The Examiner did not find sufficient evidence to support a colorable claim for breach of fiduciary duty in connection with any of Lehman's valuations. In particular, in the third quarter of 2008 there is evidence that certain executives felt pressure to not take all of the write‐downs on real estate positions that they determined were appropriate; there is some evidence that the pressure actually resulted in unreasonable marks. But, as the evidence is in conflict, the Examiner determines that there is insufficient evidence to support a colorable claim that Lehman's senior management imposed arbitrary limits on write‐downs of real estate positions during that quarter.In other words, the definitive legal account of the Lehman bankruptcy has concluded that while executives may have shaded things a bit, from the perspective of what is actionable within the law, Lehman's valuations were legally indistinguishable from accurate. Yet, the estimate of net worth computed from these valuations turned out to be off by 200% or more.
This seems to me to bear on one of the hardest issues at the heart of any "Risks to Civilization" discussion: how resilient is modern civilization really? In the past, in discussions with collaborators trying to figure out how vulnerable civilization is to large scale cyber-attacks, I've run into the fact that different folks have radically different intuitions about this, and it's very difficult to come up with a methodology that makes the situation more objective. The situation is summarized in this Congressional Research Report from a few years ago:
The importance of electronic information systems is obvious to all participants in the modern economy. When information fails to circulate, whole sectors of the economy are vulnerable. Finance, wholesale and retail trade, transportation, much of manufacturing, and many service industries would slow to a crawl without computers. Vital public services – utilities, national defense, and medicine – are equally dependent.My personal intuition here is that the worst case is potentially very bad indeed, but I agree with the report's judgement that this is "highly speculative" and I continue to lack any tools that would allow me to convince a reasonable and open-minded person whose natural intuitions were much happier than mine. In general, we lack any real methodology for assessing how resilient civilization is in the face of serious cyber-attacks.
Information security – the safeguarding of computer systems and the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of the data they contain – has long been recognized as a critical national policy issue. Two current trends indicate that its importance is growing. First, the integration of computers into more and more aspects of modern life continues. Second, cyber-attacks, or breaches of information security, appear to be increasing in frequency, and few observers are willing to ignore the possibility that future attacks could have much more severe consequences than what has been observed to date.
The core issue, in both public and private sectors, is whether we are devoting enough resources to information security. Part of the answer must come from economic analysis. What are the costs, both historical and potential, of security breaches? How frequently can attacks be expected? Can these factors be quantified precisely, so that business firms and other organizations can determine the optimal amount to spend on information security and measure the effectiveness of that spending?
This report surveys the state of knowledge on the cost of cyber-attacks and the economics of information security. First, we summarize several studies that use stock market capitalization as a measure of the cost of cyber-attacks to victim firms. The studies find substantial short-term drops in the prices of shares of firms following the announcement of an information security breach: between 1% and 5% of market capitalization, with greater losses (up to 15%) recorded by some financial institutions where attackers had gained access to confidential customer records.
Second, we present summaries of the existing empirical data on costs attributable to cyber-crime and computer worms and viruses. What is available is a limited amount of survey data, which is frankly described by its compilers as anecdotal, but is nonetheless widely reported in the press.
Third, we analyze the reasons for the lack of statistical data: firms and organizations have strong incentives to conceal information about cyber-attacks, and there are significant uncertainties and measurement difficulties that limit our ability to specify the dollar amount at risk from information security breaches. Theoretical models that describe the returns to spending on information security shed some light on the size of potential losses, but – in the absence of better statistical data – assigning an overall figure to the cost of cyber-attacks remains highly speculative.
Similarly, much of the heat in the discussion over the impacts of peak oil comes from a similar lack of agreement on the resilience of society in the face of that particular challenge (whenever it finally occurs). For example, there is a recent report Tipping Point: Near-Term Systemic Implications of a Peak in Global Oil Production, by David Korowicz at FEASTA, which is the most articulate and intelligent statement of the "Fast Crash Doomer" view of Peak Oil that I have yet seen. In general, at the heart of Korowicz's argument is an assumption that civilization is quite fragile, so that peak oil can easily destroy it altogether:
Money only has value because it can be exchanged for a real asset such as food, clothing, or a train journey. As long as we share the confidence in monetary stability we can save, trade and invest. Like bonds and shares, it is a virtual asset, as it represents only a claim on something physically useful. However, the current valuation of virtual assets towers over real productive assets on which their value is supposed to be based. A bond is valuable because we expect to be paid back with interest some years hence; paying twenty times earnings for shares in a company is a measure of confidence in the future growth of that company. The output of real productive assets must collapse because of energy and resource constraints and the failing operational fabric. The implication is that virtual wealth including pension funds, insurance collateral, and debt will become worthless.I have tended to find this kind of argument quite unpersuasive. First of all, note that it's almost entirely an argument about social psychology, and in particular, it posits that people will a) recognize at around the same time that peak oil is occurring, b) agree on the implications for the future of society, and c) immediately act on those implications to bring about a societal collapse.
The acknowledgment by market participants that peak oil is upon us, coupled with an understanding of the consequences is likely to permanently crash the global financial system. That is, the behavior of the market is based on fundamental physical constraints, such as rising loan defaults induced by the current economic crisis further constrained by energy and food price inflation-and its interactions with the hopes and fears of market participants, particularly their faith in the overall stability and continued growth of the system. The transition from few market participants accepting the idea, and large-scale acceptance can be very rapid, though the onset of the fast transition can be difficult to predict. In other words: growing government, corporate, and public acceptance of peak oil, will initiate a fear-driven conversion of a mountain of paper virtual assets into mole-hill of resilient real assets which will help precipitate an irretrievable collapse of the financial and economic system. Such a transition can be expected to be fear-driven and mutually re-enforcing. This is part of the reflexivity of markets, in George Soros's phrase; or an example of a positive feedback, in the language of dynamical systems. In this context we can understand reported pressure placed upon the International Energy Agency by the United States to overstate future production in its World Energy Outlook 2009.
The end-point will be a collapse in bond and equity values. This is a result of various reinforcing processes, including loss of confidence in debt repayment, monetary confidence, supply-chain disruption, evolving dis-economies of scale, and massive potential losses in discretionary consumption.
Now, while this might be true for a society consisting entirely of people who thought like fast-crash doomers, I think it ignores the fact that most people don't think like fast-crash doomers. And in particular, it ignores how most people react to uncertainty - for there are numerous uncertainties here.
Even amongst people studying the issue in good faith, there is no consensus on when peak oil will occur (or if it has already), and resolving that uncertainty is very difficult - it involves things like knowing how much oil there is under the territory of Middle Eastern governments that don't have an incentive to be transparent about their reserves, so that we are reduced to complex data forensics exercises that are not likely to be broadly persuasive to the population at large until long after the fact.
Furthermore, there is uncertainty about what will happen after peak oil. My own view is the most likely outcome is that, as long as the decline rate is not too severe, society can adapt by gradually getting more efficient, and that price signals will tend to bring this about. However, since the situation will be somewhat unprecedented, it remains necessarily rather speculative - it's not like we have twenty other planets with petroleum-powered global industrial civilizations that we got to watch go through their own oil peaks, thus allowing us to begin to generalize empirically about what happens in that case.
In the face of all this uncertainty, which is unlikely to resolve quickly, what will people do? Well, there are two general observations that I think are likely to be the most important: in the face of great difficulty figuring out the situation for some issue, people's natural tendency is to do nothing about it (presumably in the hope that, if the situation is really important, it will get clearer over time). Secondly, most people are biassed optimistic (and thus generally want little to do with the peak oil scene). Thus I tend to think that most people will assume that peak oil is not happening until after it's an incontrovertible fact, and furthermore, even once they believe in peak oil, they will hope that they can muddle through it unless and until it's proven that they cannot. Thus I think Korowicz's argument fails: he's extrapolating from a tiny and very atypical minority of people (which includes him), and assuming that society at large will think very like this, when they largely won't.
At least, so it seems to me, but here again I recognize that all speculations about mass social psychology in circumstances that lack any close historical precedent are just that: speculations.
Into this mix of thoughts, I have been musing on the implications of Waldmann's idea that the capital of large banks is fundamentally unmeasurable. Further on in his essay, he writes:
So, for large complex financials, capital cannot be measured precisely enough to distinguish conservatively solvent from insolvent banks, and capital positions are always optimistically padded. Given these facts, and I think they are facts, even "hard" capital and leverage restraints are unlikely to prevent misbehavior. Can anything be done about this? Are we doomed to some post-modern quantum mechanical nightmare wherein "Schrödinger's Banks" are simultaneously alive and dead until some politically-shaped measurement by a regulator forces a collapse of the superposition of states into hunky-doriness?I am prepared to assume that the Obama administration's instincts are completely opposed to the kind of radical simplification Waldmann calls for, and so that we will continue to have Schrodinger banks for the forseeable future. It seems to me this breaks both ways. On the one hand, if it ever really comes to the test, it is impossible for the banks to prove to a sceptical audit that they are solvent. On the other hand, in the meantime, it is impossible for an outsider to provide convincing proof that the banks are insolvent (either individually or collectively).
Yes, we are doomed, unless and until we simplify the structure of the banks. When I say stuff like "confidence intervals surrounding measures of bank capital are greater than 100%", what does that even mean? Capital does not exist in the world. It is not accessible to the senses. When we claim a bank or any other firm has so much "capital" we are modeling its assets and liabilities and contingent positions and coming up with a number. Unfortunately, there is not one uniquely "true" model of bank capital. Even hewing to GAAP and all regulatory requirements, thousands of estimates and arbitrary choices must be made to compute the capital position of a modern bank. There is a broad, multidimensional "space" of defensible models by which capital might be computed. When we "measure" capital, we select a model and then compute. If we were to randomly select among potential models (even weighted by regulatory acceptability, so that a compliant model is much more likely than an iffy one), we would generate a probability distribution of capital values. That distribution would be very broad, so that for large, complex banks negative values would be moderately probable, as would the highly positive values that actually get reported. If we want to make capital measurable in any practical sense, we have to dramatically narrow the range of models, so that all compliant models produce values tightly clumped around the number we'll call capital. But every customized derivative, nontraded asset, or unusual liability in a bank's capital structure requires modeling. The interaction between a bank holding company and its subsidiaries requires multiple modeling choices, especially when those subsidiaries have crossholdings. A wide variety of contingent liabilities — of holding companies directly, of subsidiaries, of affiliated or spun-off entities like SIVs and securitizations — all require modeling choices. Given the heterogeneity of real-world arrangements, no "one-size-fits-all" model can be legislated or regulated to ensure a consistent capital measure. We cannot have both free-form, "innovative" banks and meaningful measures of regulatory capital. If we want to base a regulatory scheme on formal capital measures, we'll need to circumscribe the structure and composition of banks so that they can only carry positions and relationships for which we have standard regulatory models. "Banks' internal risk models" or "internal valuations of Level 3 assets" don't cut it. They are gateways to regulatory postmodernism.
"Regulatory postmodernism" is indeed a very appropriate term here: as long as we continue to believe in our large financial institutions, they will continue to exist. But if we ever lose faith, they will no longer exist.
Given, again, the idea that most people are biassed optimistic, and most people will not take strong action in the face of uncertainty, it seems to me this lends the following character to the situation: there is no near-term inevitable reason why the financial sector cannot continue with business as usual. I still see no reason to assume, with Stoneleigh and crew, that the situation is certain to implode this year or next. At the same time, the unverifiability of bank solvency creates a potentially serious amplifier of any other kind of shock. We saw this with the bursting of the housing bubbble, were the markets went into a complete panic about bank solvency that was only resolved by massive government intervention, and it seems that any other future event that casts credible doubt on bank solvency will have similar implications. Basically, it's a black swan amplifier.
And, while I still can't quantify it, it does seem to me that's important for the general issue of assessing the resilience of civilization. It seems hard to believe that modern civilization, with its massively automated, just-in-time, globally integrated character, could operate terribly well if its banks went up in a puff of smoke. And so, if Waldmann is right that they cannot satisfactorily prove their solvency in a pinch, that places a limit on how resilient we can possibly be.
I'm reminded of historian Niall Ferguson's recent piece Complexity and Collapse.
Perhaps the most famous story of imperial decline is that of ancient Rome. In The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published in six volumes between 1776 and 1788, Edward Gibbon covered more than 1,400 years of history, from 180 to 1590. This was history over the very long run, in which the causes of decline ranged from the personality disorders of individual emperors to the power of the Praetorian Guard and the rise of monotheism. After the death of Marcus Aurelius in 180, civil war became a recurring problem, as aspiring emperors competed for the spoils of supreme power. By the fourth century, barbarian invasions or migrations were well under way and only intensified as the Huns moved west. Meanwhile, the challenge posed by Sassanid Persia to the Eastern Roman Empire was steadily growing.It seems to me that one might consider a four-factor model here, in thinking about collapse of empires and civilizations.
But what if fourth-century Rome was simply functioning normally as a complex adaptive system, with political strife, barbarian migration, and imperial rivalry all just integral features of late antiquity? Through this lens, Rome's fall was sudden and dramatic -- just as one would expect when such a system goes critical. As the Oxford historians Peter Heather and Bryan Ward-Perkins have argued, the final breakdown in the Western Roman Empire began in 406, when Germanic invaders poured across the Rhine into Gaul and then Italy. Rome itself was sacked by the Goths in 410. Co-opted by an enfeebled emperor, the Goths then fought the Vandals for control of Spain, but this merely shifted the problem south. Between 429 and 439, Genseric led the Vandals to victory after victory in North Africa, culminating in the fall of Carthage. Rome lost its southern Mediterranean breadbasket and, along with it, a huge source of tax revenue. Roman soldiers were just barely able to defeat Attila's Huns as they swept west from the Balkans. By 452, the Western Roman Empire had lost all of Britain, most of Spain, the richest provinces of North Africa, and southwestern and southeastern Gaul. Not much was left besides Italy. Basiliscus, brother-in-law of Emperor Leo I, tried and failed to recapture Carthage in 468. Byzantium lived on, but the Western Roman Empire was dead. By 476, Rome was the fiefdom of Odoacer, king of the Goths.
What is most striking about this history is the speed of the Roman Empire's collapse. In just five decades, the population of Rome itself fell by three-quarters. Archaeological evidence from the late fifth century -- inferior housing, more primitive pottery, fewer coins, smaller cattle -- shows that the benign influence of Rome diminished rapidly in the rest of western Europe. What Ward-Perkins calls "the end of civilization" came within the span of a single generation.
Other great empires have suffered comparably swift collapses. The Ming dynasty in China began in 1368, when the warlord Zhu Yuanzhang renamed himself Emperor Hongwu, the word hongwu meaning "vast military power." For most of the next three centuries, Ming China was the world's most sophisticated civilization by almost any measure. Then, in the mid-seventeenth century, political factionalism, fiscal crisis, famine, and epidemic disease opened the door to rebellion within and incursions from without. In 1636, the Manchu leader Huang Taiji proclaimed the advent of the Qing dynasty. Just eight years later, Beijing, the magnificent Ming capital, fell to the rebel leader Li Zicheng, and the last Ming emperor hanged himself out of shame. The transition from Confucian equipoise to anarchy took little more than a decade.
In much the same way, the Bourbon monarchy in France passed from triumph to terror with astonishing rapidity. French intervention on the side of the colonial rebels against British rule in North America in the 1770s seemed like a good idea at the time -- a chance for revenge after Great Britain's victory in the Seven Years' War a decade earlier -- but it served to tip French finances into a critical state. In May 1789, the summoning of the Estates-General, France's long-dormant representative assembly, unleashed a political chain reaction that led to a swift collapse of royal legitimacy in France. Only four years later, in January 1793, Louis XVI was decapitated by guillotine.
Although several narrative fallacies suggest that the Hapsburg, Ottoman, and Romanov empires were doomed for decades before World War I, the disintegration of the dynastic land empires of eastern Europe came with equal swiftness. What was impressive, in fact, was how well these ancient empires were able to withstand the test of total war. Their collapse only began with the Bolshevik Revolution of October 1917. A mere five years later, Mehmed VI, the last sultan of the Ottoman Empire, departed Constantinople aboard a British warship. With that, all three dynasties were defunct.
The sun set on the British Empire almost as suddenly. In February 1945, Prime Minister Winston Churchill was at Yalta, dividing up the world with U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin. As World War II was ending, he was swept from office in the July 1945 general election. Within a decade, the United Kingdom had conceded independence to Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burma, Egypt, Eritrea, India, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Libya, Madagascar, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. The Suez crisis in 1956 proved that the United Kingdom could not act in defiance of the United States in the Middle East, setting the seal on the end of empire. Although it took until the 1960s for independence to reach sub-Saharan Africa and the remnants of colonial rule east of the Suez, the United Kingdom's age of hegemony was effectively over less than a dozen years after its victories over Germany and Japan.
The most recent and familiar example of precipitous decline is, of course, the collapse of the Soviet Union. With the benefit of hindsight, historians have traced all kinds of rot within the Soviet system back to the Brezhnev era and beyond. Perhaps, as the historian and political scientist Stephen Kotkin has argued, it was only the high oil prices of the 1970s that "averted Armageddon." But this did not seem to be the case at the time. In March 1985, when Mikhail Gorbachev became general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, the CIA estimated the Soviet economy to be approximately 60 percent the size of the U.S. economy. This estimate is now known to have been wrong, but the Soviet nuclear arsenal was genuinely larger than the U.S. stockpile. And governments in what was then called the Third World, from Vietnam to Nicaragua, had been tilting in the Soviets' favor for most of the previous 20 years. Yet less than five years after Gorbachev took power, the Soviet imperium in central and Eastern Europe had fallen apart, followed by the Soviet Union itself in 1991. If ever an empire fell off a cliff -- rather than gently declining -- it was the one founded by Lenin.
- Long-standing societal vulnerabilities. For example, the fact that the Roman empire generally was too big to be governed by a single emperor, and failed to evolve an orderly way of managing imperial succession, was a situation that went on for centuries without causing a catastrophic problem. Yet it seems clearly unsatisfactory to us, and indeed was a fault line in the civilization that did become very important in the eventual failure of the empire. Similarly, today, one might point to the presence of a globally integrated economy and financial system with no global regulator with executive authority over the entire system as a potential vulnerability. "Regulatory postmodernism" is also clearly in this character.
- Increasing external stressors. The increasing strain on Rome due to Persian and Hunnic pressure was clearly a factor in its eventual collapse. It appears to me that peak oil is best thought of in this category. It's not sufficient by itself to cause a collapse of society, but it certainly does place an additional strain on society and reduce the room for manoeuver in confronting other problems. To use the complex system/critical point metaphor, it is such stressors that move the system from a stable configuration into a potentially unstable one in which system failures of large magnitude can potentially occur. Similarly the hollowing out of the traditional US working class by some combination of increasing automation, Asian competition, and illegal immigration strikes me as a key nexus of gradually increasing social stress within the US in particular.
- A serious shock of some kind. The Crossing of the Rhine in 406 was the key external shock in the demise of the western Roman empire. The financial crisis of 2008 was clearly a potentially catastrophic event for modern civilization if the entire global financial system had been allowed to collapse.
- Failure to effectively confront and manage the shock. Instead of uniting to kick out the barbarians in 406, the Romans were involved in a succession struggle and the various emperors and would-be emperors were involved in fighting each other, which proved to be a fatal mistake. In our modern instance, it seems, at least at present, that the 2008 shock has been successfully contained. However, the underlying system vulnerability has not been removed and it seems like there could be more shocks in the future.


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Anyone doubting his ''illness'?
I am. He wouldn't visit a hospital full of kids if he had the flu.
A grown man, fit professional sportsman no less, off work for a week with a cold? Time off to save his marriage more like.
You can still go into hospitals if you're ill? To a degree.
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