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Our first introduction to Our Lady of Good Success was from a book written by Marian Horvat Ph. D. titled "Our Lady of Good Success-Prophecies for Our Times". Upon receiving the book in 1999, I read the book several times; immediately I began to pray the novena to Our Lady of Good Success. Through reading this book, we came to love Our Lady under this confident title, which points to her future successful triumph over the enemies of God and His Church.
I had numerous favors I was asking to be granted. I will only write about one since so many favors have been granted that they are too numerous to mention. This particular favor is so very connected to Our Lady of Good Success we feel we would be remiss in not including "our story" on this website.
My husband and I have been blessed with two biological sons. These boys were not brought into the world without much suffering. I had many health problems that made pregnancies very difficult and some babies were lost. Anyway, over the years we had always hoped to increase our family. We never ceased to pray about it. Years passed. When I started the novena, adoption was on our minds. Both of us, however, were uneasy about the prospect of bringing a child or children into our happy home since there have been so many horror stories about adoption. We feared that we might not be generous enough to love a child if it was not "flesh of our flesh". We feared that we would not or could not raise the child correctly. We had much anxiety about it.
I prayed the novena. I began feeling more at ease at the thought of adoption but Dan was not convinced enough. I continued to pray. I remember praying on the Feast of the Annunciation for this intention. I told the Blessed Mother that I could not push my husband into anything—that if she wanted us to adopt she must change his heart -he would have to bring up the subject and be the one to decide that we should adopt.
The next day Dan asked me if I had looked into adoption yet. I said no. He told me that I had better start. Therefore, I did. By April 6, 2000 we were in the first informational meeting; by May, we were in our home study, starting the process of adoption. One of the first things you must do when you start the process is name the country you will be adopting from. We were leaning heavily toward China since my heart has always sympathetic to these little cast asides. Nevertheless, we wanted a sibling group and China just does not have them since they believe in the "one child policy".
Therefore, I inquired at the adoption agency's main office. Where should we go? I knew about Russia's program. What about South America? What did the children look like? Well as I talked to the social worker, South America kept sounding more and more appealing. I told them we were looking for a sibling group and she asked how many. When we started the home study we were asked how many children were we willing to accept. Before I could think, much less reply, Dan blurted out we would take up to four. Well you never say that to an expectant future adoptive mother because that number stuck. And so I said - FOUR! She laughed and replied that she had a picture and history of a sibling group of four right on her desk in front of her — they were called "waiting children, children of promise". She asked me if I had a fax – I said my sister-in-law did. So she faxed the picture and papers over. I immediately drove over to get the papers. Unfortunately, the picture was not so good. But from what I could tell and read about — there was something special about these children….something familiar…BUT FOUR – oh my goodness! When my brother in law saw the picture, he jokingly asked if we were going to adopt a whole village!!
This was May 17th. I studied the papers. Looking at their names and birthdays, we hoped for a sign from God. The only 'sign" I received was Dan saying if I wanted to adopt them it was fine with him — which wasn't exactly a lightening bolt! However, I do remember looking at the atlas and discovering that since these children were from Colombia, they were only about 500 miles at the most away from Quito, Ecuador where Our Lady of Good Success resides. My thought was that she could very well be leading us to Colombia. We inquired if these children were still adoptable. We ended having to wait another 2 weeks to find out. We continued to pray to Our Lady of Good Success. On May 31, the Queenship of Mary, we found out that in fact they were adoptable.
As many of you may know, the process of adoption can be a trying and harrowing experience laced with many little trials and tribulations along the way. Fortunately, we saw Our Lady of Good Success guiding us through this adoption right from the start by helping us choose the country from which we would adopt. We were not "approved" for the children until the middle of July. During this waiting period, our social worker played the Devil's Advocate inciting every possible horrific situation that could happen to us if we adopted these children. She had us read books about adopted children who had failed to bond with their adoptive families. How these children destroyed happy homes. She suggested that one or more could have severe mental handicaps, even mental retardation, not to mention physical problems that could surface later.
We continued to pray not doubting that Our Lady was helping us. There were many set backs along the way. However, we did manage to obtain a video of the children that made us feel more confident that these children were for us. Yet our social worker still suggested situations in the negative. As a result, we studied every possible potential problem we could have and all the remedies that deal with correcting these problems. Though we suffered intensely psychologically during this period, it forced us to prepare for the worst-case scenario. We ended up being determined to adopt them even if they were the naughtiest children that could ever be adopted. We are grateful to our social worker for that trial she put us through for we did the research that was necessary to arm ourselves for the future troubles.
As we progressed into our adoption, I happened to talk with Marian Horvat, the writer of the book on Our Lady of Good Success. When she found out that we were adopting in Colombia she suggested that we first go to Ecuador to see Our Lady of Good Success. I have to admit I was excited. But when I posed this to my husband, he treated me as if I was Lucy Ricardo dreaming up some hair-brained idea … and the expense was unimaginable — so I was told. Here we were spending $$$ thousands $$$ of dollars on this adoption and I had the audacity to suggest we go to another country beforehand where we knew virtually no one, we spoke no Spanish and the statue was in a cloistered convent for heaven's sake. He asked me if I didn't think it was exciting enough to travel to one of the most dangerous countries in the world to adopt these children. Undaunted, I asked "Ricky" if I could at least check just how expensive this trip would be. Of course, he agreed. Lucy won the first skirmish! Time would tell who would come out the victor.
So the next morning I called the travel agent that handled our adoption travel. I told her about what we wanted to do…go to Quito, Ecuador, then to Manizales, Colombia, then to Bogotá, Colombia. I told her we had been praying very hard for this adoption to be successful. I told her we were thinking of making a thanksgiving pilgrimage to Our Lady of Good Success in Quito, Ecuador if all went as it should. She suggested that we first look at how much it cost to fly from Milwaukee to Bogotá and then to Manizales. She checked and gave me the total. The next thing she did was to check how much it would cost to fly with the added trip to Quito, Ecuador first.
As she finished typing in her information on the computer, she let out an expression of surprise and then said, "Well you better keep your prayer book open because something's working… The cost to travel to Quito first is cheaper than to go to straight to Colombia to get the kids!" When I told that to Dan, he got this funny schmirk on his face… He knew just what I was thinking! He had been beaten! There was no fighting the Blessed Mother. Our Lady had cleared a massive objection to this plan and there was no real reason we couldn't go. We both knew Our Lady was calling us there. She had won the battle without even so much as a struggle.
Next, I happened to find a contact in Quito in August. He spoke no English but had a young 16-year-old neighbor boy translate e-mails that I would send him. He expressed his willingness to help us to fulfill our desire to see Our Lady of Good Success. It seemed all we had to do was get the approval to go. We were told by the adoption agency it would be any day now. We waited and waited. Our contact hoped for us to come in October for Our Lady of Good Success is publicly venerated in the La Conception Church during that month with much festivity. (Normally, the miraculous statue of Our Lady of Good Success is in Abbess' chair in the upper choir of the cloistered convent, so the public cannot view her.) How anxious he made us! No word came for us to go. There was nothing we could do but wait and pray for the Blessed Mother to direct us as she saw fit.
I received a picture over the e-mail of the children one day. At this point, every little set back or disappointment suggested that our adoption might never happen. Patience was never a virtue I had in abundance. I decided to send the picture of the children to my contact. I asked him to take it to the Church where Our Lady of Good Success was venerated. I requested he leave the picture somewhere in the church so Our Lady would not forget our pressing need. I received word within a couple of days that in fact, Roberto not only took the picture to the church, but he gave it to the Mother Abbess, and she went and placed the picture on the heart of the statue of Our Lady of Good Success. What joy I felt on that day! I knew then we couldn't fail in our adoption. I knew that soon all would be as we had hoped.
On October 17th - the day after my birthday - we received word that we could come. We could not leave until Nov. 3, the feast of St. Martin de Porres - patron saint of South America. Since we were not able to visit in the month of October, our contact implied that we may not be able to get permission to see the statue if we came in November. We told him it was too late now, we're coming any way! Meet us at the Quito Airport! So we left for South America not knowing for sure, if we would even be able to see the one we so hoped to visit — Our Lady of Good Success!
My husband, Dan, my son Mike, and I left the Milwaukee with a compilation of suitcases and carry-ons. We looked like we were moving to South America – in a way we were. The process of adoption, in Colombia, takes four to eight weeks. We were informed before we left that we would be in a hotel with the four children for at least four weeks. We had to bring clothing for ourselves and the four new additions to our family along with toys, games, coloring books, etc. to keep this Spanish-speaking family of four entertained for the 30-long-day haul.
The flight was uneventful. We arrived in the Quito Airport at 10:30 p.m. We experienced a bit of a culture shock that night. With none of us being fluent in Spanish, we were at a loss at where to go or what to do. We stood with our huge mound of luggage in the airport terminal gaping at the crowds of Spanish-speaking people for a few minutes. With my pathetic use of broken Spanish, I then attempted to try to get some assistance as to where to go to meet our contact. I failed miserably — well at least I managed to get a smile out of my family members' faces.
We decided to go with the flow out the main entrance past armed guards in green military uniforms, past a long row of steel bars that looked strikingly similar to ones you see in prisons. Through these bars, the natives were clamoring in Spanish. To say the least, it was all a bit unsettling. Despite this Ecuadorian pandemonium, I managed to breathe a silent prayer we would find our South American contact, Roberto, and soon. Thoughts raced through my mind — what if our contact wasn't there or we couldn't pick him out of the crowd? — After all, these Ecuadorians all looked the same especially in the dark. — What if we couldn't find a hotel. What if...what if…???
As we continued now into the midst of the crowd — steel bars no longer separating us from the natives… I heard my name — very faint yet distinct — even if he did mispronounce it. "Cat-y?" he said. I had never welcomed the sound of someone mispronouncing my name as I did that moment. We were all flooded with a sense of relief. Our contact had not failed us. We soon discovered we had a major communication barrier. All we could do after the "mucho gusto's" was smile at each other rather uncomfortably. I did manage to ask Roberto whether we would be able to see Our Lady of Good Success. His reply was a Spanish "maybe".
We loaded all of our suitcases into two taxis – well they weren't actually taxis as such, more like rather large jeep-type vehicles. We traveled through the southern part of the city to our sleeping quarters. We wondered where Roberto had reserved a room for us. As we approached the dazzling tower of the Marriot in Quito, my husband's eyes lit up. I inconspicuously nudged him and gave him a facial expression to indicate the negative. Poor husband of mine! What I was putting him through! We passed the Marriot to Dan's great disappointment.
We continued on as the neighborhood started looking a little bit rougher — even in the dark. Finally, we stopped in front of some rather large looming wrought iron gates. The building behind it was hard to make out. It was a rather dark, gloomy, foreboding looking place in the moonlight but it was to be 'home" for us during our short stay in Quito. As we entered the foyer of this hotel, we struggled to focus our eyes as the 40-watt lights that "illuminated" the entry dimmed regularly in 5- minute intervals. We discovered this was a "renovated" convent.
We were led up a dark stairway through numerous hallways decorated with large mirrors (I don't know about you, but dark hallways with mirrors really give me the willies — I was afraid to look in them for fear of what I might see). I was amazed at all the interconnecting passageways — some more like crawl spaces. We arrived at our room. Here again this room had been "renovated" complete with another flickering 40-watt light bulb dangling from the center of the room, windows with no screens (common in South America), and cheap oil- on- velvet paintings of anorexic-depressed, sunken-eyed children. We tried to remind ourselves we were on a pilgrimage to Our Lady of Good Success as we readied ourselves for bed by bed checking for four, six, or 8-legged creatures of South America. We were relieved not to find any - we actually didn't bother to examine too closely closets or corners for we were hoping to get some sleep and we were afraid we'd actually find something there. My last thought as I drifted off to sleep was that I hoped I wouldn't hear any chains rattling or moans from any deceased sister that may be doing purgatorial penances round about the convent halls and passageways.
We awoke to the crowing of the roosters. Now that would not be so unusual if we were in a country setting but we were in downtown Quito. Roberto was to meet us for our tour of old Quito so we ate a quick breakfast and waited for him. Roberto had a taxi waiting for us; we hopped in and headed out for an exciting day of touring with our friendly Ecuadorian guide we couldn't understand. Of course, one of my first questions I posed to Roberto was whether we would be able to in fact accomplish what we had set out to do — namely visit Our Lady of Good Success. Once again, we were given a smile and a "maybe".
We hadn't gotten two blocks when the taxi driver stopped unexpectedly and motioned for the four of us to get out. The three Americans in the taxi found it rather odd. But we soon discovered that our driver had run out of gas — a common occurrence there in Quito. "No problemo!" We would just hail another taxi. Hopefully, we would pick one with a full tank this time. I couldn't help but ponder what would happen to a taxi driver in NYC if he let his car run out of gas during rush hour traffic We were quickly discovering that life was very different here in Ecuador. We did find another taxi that took us to dwelling place of Our Lady of Good Success, La Conception Church, to pray.
As you may recall the statue resides in the Cloistered convent there and it was no longer October so we had to get permission to enter into the convent. We hadn't gotten permission yet. So there we knelt, so close and yet so far. You can imagine what I prayed for that day! We did also take pictures. About 10 a.m. we set out to meet Roberto's neighbor, Estaban. He joined us to help with the communication problem, which by then was getting very discouraging. We walked around most of the old part of Quito -- the square and cathedral. We saw most all of the beautiful churches in the area and there were many to see. ALL had miraculous stories attributed to them - many of which seem to have apparitions of the Blessed Mother associated with them. We soon realized La Conception Church was comparatively one of the poorest churches in the surrounding area – less ornamentation and design then the rest — also not kept up as well as the others. However, by American standards, it was a highly ornate church.
We had a wonderful day of touring minus the disappointment of not being able to accomplish our mission as of yet. At the day's end, I broached the topic with our young interpreter. We were able to ascertain that "mañana," the very last day of our visit, we MIGHT be able to see the Virgin. The idea of a less-than-definite "yes" was beginning to make me extremely anxious but all we could do was leave everything in the hands of the Blessed Mother. I began to have little doubts of the purpose of our trip creeping into my mind. However, I had quick recourse to her, she who can intercede for us. After all, weren't we going to visit Our Lady of Good Success? How could she let us down and make our trip look like a failure? When we arrived back at our hotel, we found that there were other people hoping to catch a glimpse of Our Lady of Good Success also. We were not alone. That alone gave me hope again.
We were to meet in the lobby at 8:30 a.m. the next day. Roberto was to arrange travel to the church. We were all a little excited and we were down in the lobby earlier than the scheduled time. We waited nervously for Roberto. At 8:45 a.m., one of the other men that we had previously met the night before was getting nervous and didn't want to wait any longer. He asked us if we wanted hail a taxi together, go along with him to La Conception church, and wait for Roberto there. We agreed.
We arrived at the church as the sisters were chanting their prayers. Their singing relaxed me a bit and I got the feeling we were a bit early. Roberto arrived ten minutes later. I could scarcely contain myself. Was this finally the day? Would we get permission? Roberto walked up to the grate in the front of the church and spoke with someone. After what seemed like an eternity, he motioned for us to come. We were to be admitted to the convent for a visit and a tour! Our Lady had heard our prayers! She was awaiting our visit.
Mother Abbess of the Conceptionist Convent was the one who greeted us with kind smiling eyes and a sweet demeanor. She directed us up to the choir loft where the majestic Lady resides. It is very hard to put into words what one exactly feels when you have reached the culmination of a spiritual journey such as this. I had many thoughts race through my mind. This pilgrimage was not like so many others such as Lourdes or Fatima. There they have millions of people coming every year to visit these holy places. This pilgrimage was so solemn, so ethereal. I imagined that a shepherd at the First Christmas or a camel boy at the Epiphany must have experienced similar feelings as we did on that day. After all, here we were at a place so hidden from the material world — a holy place unknown to most of the Catholic world even. Why we had been allowed this extraordinary grace of visiting with Our Lady of Good Success in the year of Our Lord, 2000 AD God only knows?
As we all knelt before her and her Infant Son, I could barely even remember how to pray. All I could do was gaze at the statue and commend all of my life's problems, my hopes and fears, my needs and those of my family and friends into her hands. I thanked her for leading us to our adoption, for our additions to our family we had yet to meet and of course for directing us to this holy place of pilgrimage. I asked her for the singular grace to be a good and wise mother to these children I knew nothing about. Finally, I pledged my allegiance and my life to her under that lovely title of Our Lady of Good Success. I made a solemn promise that I would work towards the end of seeing her be made known in the United States and beyond.
After our prayers, I asked the Mother Abbess, through our translator, if she would touch a linen cloth to the statue, which she agreed to do most graciously. I also asked if she could touch our rosaries to the statue. She motioned for me to join her and she led me up some rather rickety stairs to the pedestal where Our Lady rested. I don't know how many people in the world have been given the gift of actually touching something the Archangels and Saints have made but I counted myself as being in the minority! Now by the grace of God may I live up to such a fortuitous grace and honor!
We were directed to worship Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament there in the choir loft. I felt remiss in not recognizing His Presence immediately as there was a red lamp present. We paid our respects and expressed our gratitude to the King of the Conceptionist Convent as well.
We reluctantly left the choir loft to tour the rest of the grounds. The Mother Abbess rang a large bell as we walked through the convent. I couldn't help but consider myself a leper – a worldly secular leper capable of endangering and infecting the unsullied virginal souls of these sanctified grounds. We walked through the convent garden, which was being renovated at that time. Through the exterior corridors we reverently passed until we reached the crypt of Mother Marianna de Jesus Torres and the other founding sisters. We found them displayed in a glass case Unfortunately the good bishop of Quito has decided that a black hood over the heads and feet of these saintly sisters is a fitting adornment for the blessed ones who lie incorrupt in their tomb. We asked to have our rosaries touched to their holy remains but that was not allowed.
We had heard of the stories of these incorrupt sisters – how at one time they were kept in beds in one room and the cleaning lady affectionately referred to them as "her sleeping beauties." We have heard that there are 13 of these "sleeping beauties" there at the convent. May one day in the not so distant future, God see fit to unveil these blessed ones for the entire world to see, that they might manifest the deep spirituality this convent has contained for all of these hundreds of years.
We were also shown a weeping picture of Mary that had recently wept about six months before we visited there. One could see the streaks where the tears had flowed down her cheeks. What marvels were contained in these humble walls of stucco! It reminds me of the Bible quotation …"Eye has not seen nor ear has heard..." What gifts God has bestowed upon this convent! Oh, how little we understand the workings of God.
Before we left I promised the Mother Abbess that I would do all humanly possible to propagate the devotion to Our Lady of Good Success. She gave me prayers and a novena in Spanish along with some medals to help me get started. We left content that we had accomplished our pilgrimage. Little did we know that our pilgrimage had just begun…our mission has yet to be completed.
Heading to Colombia to adopt our new children I felt as if God gave us the grace to endure the unknown of adopting four older children (Andres-age 10, Valentina- age 6, Laura -age 5, Luisa- age 3). For me, this is the miracle Our Lady of Good Success had accomplished in us. She helped us conquer all of our fears, our weaknesses, our selfishness, our insufficiencies. She has filled in the space our "humanness" could never fill. She is truly a spiritual mother who has watched over these children. She continues to do so. Our adoption agency has a special term for children who have difficulty finding families. These children were called "children of promise..." It means that these children are children of great potential – of wonderful possibilities — that is, given the right chance – the right conditions. We hope and pray that it has a spiritual meaning as well.
Through all of the ups and downs of our adoption, we felt Our Lady's guiding hand …. even in the darkest of times. She gave us hope and increased our faith in God and in His Church. May we continue to receive these great and powerful graces of her help… May we never lose it.
May our story help you and many others find their way to Our Lady of Good Success.
And remember that when life seems to be more than you can handle and your soul is immersed in doubt and grief, turn to Our Lady and say:
"Star of the stormy sea of my mortal life, may your light shine upon me so that I may not stray from the path that leads me to heaven."
(Taken from the last testament of Mother Marianna)


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Freedom to be ourselves, to thrive, and to change the world. An introduction to the Freedom series on The Good Life.
I'm about as free as anyone could be to choose the work he does. It's notoriously difficult to have a profession in the arts. I'm from a working class family who expected I would learn to do something useful in college, like draw up legal contracts or perform heart surgery. My last regular job was in a natural foods co-op. Fulfilling stereotypes, many of us had college educations, and felt privileged to have a better job than most.
The Freedom series that ran on The Good Life has been full of hard truths and apparent contradictions, raising more questions about the nature of reality and subjectivity than about finding reconciliation and satisfying answers. The call for submissions in honor of Juneteenth and US Independence Day recognized that freedom can become something else, and vice versa, slowly and without changing its name, so that slaves only gradually become free, and the free can become enslaved by degrees, necessitating an examination of what we think we already know. The Chinese are not free, and Americans are; or is it the reverse?
I have already mentioned how free I feel I am in my work. I make editorial decisions on The Good Life with very little interference from my editor-in-chief or my publisher. When I decided to run not just one, but three separate posts concerning the culturally conservative firebrand Jack Donovan, it made my editor-in-chief finally ask me to explain my decision. In his writings and in our interview, Donovan makes profoundly masculist assertions that Noah Brand felt would alienate egalitarian and feminist readers. Here on The Good Men Project, where the subject is the good man in the 21st century, I felt that Donovan's main ideas—that there is a difference between being a good man and being good at being a man, and that men admire the latter a great deal more than the former—were exactly what we should be talking about.
I began an open thread on Freedom on the Good Feed Blog by talking about The Handmaid's Tale. There are two kinds of freedom, Margaret Atwood writes in her feminist dystopian fairy tale, freedom to and freedom from. In another totalitarian dystopia, Brave New World, although most people seem to be having more fun, all of the people are similarly cosseted and unfree. Within the confines of these dystopic and totalitarian societies, everyone is promised safety, the security of a position in society. But as Donovan says, if you outsource the tactical aspect, wherein you decide what you will do with your life, you can't really be safe. Small choices—who to work for or with, what to consume, lead us, through our collective choices, to that most revolutionary freedom, the freedom to change our society.
Freedom from is otherwise known as security. It's the freedom from want: for want of health care, or healthy food, or a job. The other freedom, the one that Donovan concerns himself with, is the libertarian freedom to: the freedom to build or burn or grow whatever you want. It doesn't come with guarantees of bailouts, safety nets, or even neighbors bearing casseroles. Freedom to, with no freedom from, is stressful and dangerous. It is harsh and unforgiving. And so is the other extreme. The only difference between the dystopia of Brave New World or The Handmaid's Tale and Ayn Rand's libertarian touchstone novel, Atlas Shrugged, is whether the violence to individuals comes from the power of the state or from powerful individuals.
What is necessary for happiness must be some balance of justice to make freedom tolerable. When I look closely at living systems, from human bodies to ecosystems to local politics, I find atavistic forces warring, and that neither force can be removed without destroying the whole. The ancient Zoroastrians believed that our physical plane was the battlefield of Good and Evil, with Evil triumphing in a local battle being the explanation for when bad things happen. It is notable that their vision of life was one of constant conflict, and that their idea of the end of the world was the final triumph of Good over Evil.
It is possible that if all of our resources and talents were distributed that the effect would be like that of absolute zero: no motion in the particles, no energy, no change, only stasis—not life. When there is only chaos and no order, it is just as dead. The sweet spot is in the middle, balancing the passions of both those who want freedom and those who want justice, those who are nurturing and those who will fight, the warriors and the priests.
The Freedom Series on The Good Life
Freedom To and Freedom From
What Freedom and China Have to Do With ObamaCare
The Way of Men: Interview with Jack Donovan
Freedom to Make Our Own World
Freedom to Be Ourselves
4 Essential Freedoms of Happiness for Men
On Being a Good Man
Freedom to Die
The Right to Life; The Right to End It [Video]
Freedom From Social Media
30 Days Without Social Media: One Week In
30 Days Without Social Media
Freedom From Want
Freedom From Your Job
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She doesn't know him, but the symbol she draws on her skin has always been in his nightmares Detective Steven Paul has had the same nightmare for as long as he can remember, a strange symbol figuring prominently into his terror. He decided long ago that the recurring dreams are nothing more than an unfortunate side effect of his often traumatic profession. Until, that is, he's assigned to the case of Emily Lindsey, the beautiful, elusive, and controversial blogger found alone, holding a hunting knife and covered in someone else's blood. As Steven questions Emily, she repeatedly scratches out the same odd symbol he sees when he closes his eyes. A thrilling suspense ensues as Steven must get inside Emily's head to solve a mystery without a crime-a mystery that is connected to him in ways he can't even begin to fathom. Author bio: Nic Joseph has been published in a variety of news outlets, including Newsweek, WGNTV.com, and Business 2.0. She lives in Chicago. Joseph is also the author of Boy, 9, Missing.
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Video captured at Manalapan High School by another student and sent to WPIX-TV shows the teen stabbing the victim repeatedly with the pen before slicing his face. The footage shows the victim start to bleed profusely.
The student was arrested and charged with aggravated assault and possession of a weapon, police said.
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Field work definitely leads to some punchy humor. While on a lab field trip to West Virginia we took a short break to perfect this wader dance choreography. Enjoy! (L-R: Emily Bernhardt, Ben Colman, Alison Appling, Matt Ross, Ashley Helton, Kris Voss, Raven Bier)
Emily & Kris collecting bugs in an Appalachian stream (Margaret Palmer supervising in the background)
Richard Marinos and Emma Rosi at the ISCO sampler in Hubbard Brook's reference watershed
Getting ready to float down the Dan River just after the 2014 coal ash spill from this power plant. Anna Fedders, Ben Colman, Jess Brandt tag along with local experts to sample.
Ben Colman and Emily Bernhardt planting in wetland mesocosms ahead of one of our nanomaterial experiments
A very, very cold wet sediment coring extravaganza at Timberlake as we help Ashley Helton harvest a saltwater enrichment experiment
Emily helps out in the SFS 2017 Karaoke battle, singing alongside Walter Dodds, John Kominoski and the fabulous Amy Rosemond
In one of our finest moments - lab members prepared a revised version of The Lorax to tell the story of urbanization and stream impairment in the southeast and performed this for all attendees of the Second Urban Stream Symposium (Seuss for the SUSS meeting). With Joanna Blaszczak, Megan Fork, Emily Bernhardt, Kris Voss, Kayleigh Somers, and Ashley Helton.
Rich Phillips and Emily reuniting at some ESA or another meeting.
Our first all hands StreamPULSE meeting has everyone playing with the piles of sensors that we were getting ready to put into streams. Tom Battin and Matt Cohen think those sensors are microphones...
Celebrating three prelim exam successes for Jess Brandt, Joanna Blaszczak and Richard Marinos.
For some reason we all wore fake mustaches for our farewell party for Dr. Ben Colman. (back row L-R: Richard Marinos, Matt Ross, Ben Colman, Joseph Delesanstro, Ethan Baruch. front row Yongli Wen, Jess Brandt, Joanna Blaszczak, Emily Bernhardt)


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This week on Meeple Adventures… Can a cadre of strategy gamers save planets for 12 rounds from a time and space anomaly called the Quake before the train home arrives?
Or, in other words, could the four newbie players finish a new game of Paradox including setup in three hours?
First, a thank you to Tokens&Tankerds for providing a midway location to play this game on a Sunday. We were all comfortable with a variety of drinks, food available, and plenty of space to spread out.
Then, we had to deal with setup. Beyond punching out several boards of chits, the game requires a different setup depending on the number off players. I did this wrong the first time….and second. Really pay attention to the setup rules to this game you will really waste a lot of time or significantly impact gameplay! Now that I know how to setup, it can still take a significant amount of time to setup, unless you bag each of the colored tokens up separately. In that way, it is a little like a deckbuilder game. If the game is all sorted, setup is easy. If not, you will have to plan on spending a while sorting pieces out.
Now we were all setup. I had read the rules and another player had played months ago. The turn actions are easy to understand and can go quickly. Unfortunately, none of us understood how these actions interacted.
Ok, so we all picked a card (basically at random) because we knew we needed these cards but we didn't really know what they represented. Then, matching 4 or 5 tokens on our turns like a phone game is somewhat intuitive but the mechanism for matching isn't matching a matching color token over by one. So, we had to look that up. Then, what do you do with the token you win? Can you keep it for another turn? Do you buy a card with it? What happens if you have no cards left on your board to resolve for the round? How do we resolve a nexus? The answers are:
1) You spend the earned token to resolve the cards you currently have on your board.
2) No, unless you buy an alliance with it
3) No, you can only play the token on cards on your board.
4) No cards left? Then, try to match a white or black to flip one of the worlds you have won a card for back to a non-disrupted world.
5) Put a shield on your token grid in the place the nexus shows. Once you resolve a 4 or 5 in a row with this token in it, you have resolved a nexus problem and earned the card.
For all of these questions and more, we had to go back to the game book. It's not that the game is complicated. It's not. It's really that the mechanics are so unusual that there are no assumptions that can be made without possibly wrecking the game. You really need to know exactly how to play so that there are no errors in the endgame. At this point player frustration was getting a bit high. Not with the game but with our mediocre understanding of the game and conflict between personalities of gamers that had been there a more hours with another game. There was even a heated moment where a player had to walk away from the game. He came back a few minutes later though as a bit of a favor to me as he knew I was itching to finish a play through of this game.
Finally, we got a bit of momentum. The only tricks at this point were working out how to be efficient in our strategies and remembering the order of how to replace tokens on the our grids. Don't put your row of 3 discarded tokens back until you grab the replacements! This is easy to forget and messes with the odds on both your grid and the next player's grid.
Now, we finally got to full speed. And, the game is really dynamic and fun! The gameplay has the right amount of player interaction with taking planet past, present, future, or nexus cards that another player may really want. Players can also interact slightly on the token grids by taking pieces from the center of the board or resolving the same colors on their grid to avoid the next player from getting a better variety of pieces.
At this point, we all began working strategies, moving turns along quicker. We saw the interactions between players more clearly. It turned quickly into an interesting game. Then, we saw the clock. Two rounds left with 20 minutes to go and suddenly my points dropped from a likely first place to a likely last place due to the surprise disruption of a planet! Luckily, my token grid was setup to solve this problem so I was quickly back near the top. On the other hand, I had to sacrifice my planned move which meant I might no longer win.
One round left with 10 minutes to go. The last round moved very quickly though as most of us could not find major points with the available cards. Game done, 5 minutes to go! The player that needed to hop on the train quickly counted up his points and got to the train while the rest of us were still counting beyond his points. In the end, I won by a single point!
The endgame is really exciting and the gameplay once understood is really fun and quick. I will be playing this game again soon. But, this time everything will be organized and I will really understand how to fix the galaxy in Paradox!
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Wigan Borough Environment & Heritage Network
10.30am Monday 1st September 2008
Wigan History Shop
Present - John O'Neill (Chair, Greenheart Partnership Board) Joe Taylor (Billinge History & Heritage Society), Norma Ackers (Independent Local Historian), Margery Harrop (Leigh Family History Society), Dave Wilson, Avis Freeman, Vincent Price & June Trumble (ETNA), Carl Littler (Local Historian), Neil Forshaw (George Formby Society), Tom Glover (Wigan Archaeological Society), Peter Guy (Gin Pit Village), David Lythgoe (Friend of Wigan Heritage), Tom Price & Peter Taylor (Wigan Civic Trust), Jason Kennedy (Wigan MBC), Philip Butler (Wigan Leisure and Culture Trust)
Apologies - John Hill & Zenno Vattev (Wigan Leisure and Culture Trust), Brian Parr (Wigan Archaeological Society), Rev Ray Hutchinson (Wigan Parish Church), Glenys McLennan (Leigh and District Family History Society), Barbara Rhodes (Aspull and Haigh Heritage Society), Peter Goodwin (Mirabilis Media), Nigel Morley Wigan Finescale Railway Modellers, Geoff Jones (Red Rose Steam Society, Astley Green Colliery Museum)
1.0. Welcome and introductions
1.1. John O'Neill welcomed everyone to the meeting.
2.0. Apologies
2.1. Apologies were noted and recorded.
3.0. Wigan Heritage Strategy 2003 - 2007.
3.1. It was agreed that the Wigan Heritage Strategy document was out of date and needed to be replaced with a new heritage strategy. Members were asked to review the old document, particularly page 4, 23 and pages 32 - 37 and feedback any comments or ideas to John Hill (WLCT) as soon as possible.
Action: Members to review Wigan Heritage Strategy 2003 - 2007, pages 4 - 23 and 32 - 37. Members to contact John Hill ASAP regarding any comments or ideas
4.0. Minutes of the last Meeting
4.1. The minutes of the previous meeting were reviewed, discussed and accepted as a true and accurate record.
5.0. Matters Arising.
5.1. John O'Neill reported that Carole Tyldesley had been on leave and to date had not met with her to discuss the possibility of developing a co-ordinated strategy via the Heritage Sub-Group. He said that he would arrange to meet with her when she returned and would report the findings at the next meeting.
Action: John O'Neill to meet with Carol Tyldesley to discuss the possibility of developing a co-ordinated strategy via the Heritage Sub-Group. John to report back at next meeting
6.0. The Amalgamation of ETNA & Heritage Network
6.1. Avis Freeman, Dave Wilson, Vincent Price and June Trumble updated about the amalgamation of the two Networks. They stated that ETNA, the Heritage Network and four other community networks in the Borough did not fall under the seven 'social identities' criteria set by the LSP and Central Government. It was revealed that these groups and any future groups that fell outside the social identities would have to be self sufficient.
Finally they concluded by stating the decision to amalgamate was logical, because ETNA and the Heritage Network had similar areas of overlapping interest, particularly relating to the conservation of the natural environment.
6.2. Tom Price agreed with the concept.
6.3. Philip Butler stated that he welcomed diversification but questioned whether the Heritage Network would be able to include all of ETNA's agenda.
6.4. Peter Guy thought that the amalgamation of the two networks made good economic sense because it would be easier to find financial support for one organisation, rather than two.
6.5. Joe Taylor expressed his concern regarding the Borough losing the capacity and expertise of ETNA's key members if ETNA was disbanded.
6.6. The group agreed in principal that ETNA could be amalgamated into the Heritage Network subject to approval at the next full ETNA meeting in two weeks. Joe Taylor said that he would attend the meeting on behalf of Heritage Network.
Action: Joe Taylor to attend ETNA meeting and report findings at the next Wigan Borough Heritage Network meeting
7.0. Archaeology Dig at the Children's Library
7.1. It was reported that several members of the Heritage Network visited the site and were impressed by the knowledge and enthusiasm shown by the personnel working there. Joe said that a superb article relating to the visit was published in the Wigan Evening Post.
7.2. Tom Price said that he was impressed with the amount of information relayed
about the mediaeval findings.
7.3. Tom Glover reported that a slab of stone uncovered at the Grand Arcade site had been analysed and was highly likely to have come from Roman Wigan times and in his opinion he believed that there could be a Roman quarry a short distance north of the present Tesco site.
8.0 Leigh Girls' Grammar School
8.1. Avis Freeman reported at length about the struggle to preserve the building. She explained that the conservation officer believed that it was the best unlisted building in the Borough. Avis went on to say that planning permission had given to demolish the former Girls' Grammar School and that the last remaining hope to preserve it lay with English Heritage. She concluded by saying that English Heritage would soon assess the building to determine whether it should be listed.
8.2. John O'Neil expressed that this unfortunate saga, underlined the importance
of the Heritage Network being involved in the planning process at an early stage.
He said that he would discuss this issue when he meets with Martin Kimber (Director
of Environmental Services) in the coming weeks.
Action: John O'Neil to discuss Heritage Network being involved with planning processes when he meets with Martin Kimber
9.0. Upcoming Events for 2009
9.1. John O'Neill expressed his opinion on how the Heritage Network could spread ideas about heritage and one example was by highlighting the Lancashire Day. He circulated a paper about this topic to the group.
9.2. Vince Price echoed John's comments and explained about the prestige of having 'Lancashire' displayed on boundary signs.
9.3. The group agreed that people in the Borough, including the group, did not celebrate Local History Day as they should do and could do more to support this.
9.4. Regarding the topic of open days for local heritage sites, Philip Butler informed that the History Shop would hold a public tour at 10.15am on Saturday 13 September 08 and another one at Trencherfield Mill at 11.00am on Sunday 14 September 08.
10.0. Member Reports:
10.1. As time was pressing due to the long discussions on the previous agenda items, the group agreed to keep this section of the meeting brief.
10.2. Carol Littler reported that the War Memorial at St John's Sandishgate had been saved and placed in storage.
10.2. Margery Harrop inquired as to what length of time the History Shop would be closed as a result of renovations.
10.3. Philip Butler explained that work would start on 25th December and was expected to be completed by next Autumn.
10.4. Tom Glover stated that the Archaeology Society had uncovered a road in Ince that was likely to be Roman. He also said that work at the Rectory site was still ongoing and progressing well.
10.5. John thanked everyone again for attending and closed the meeting.
11.0. Time and Date of Next Meeting 10.30am Monday 13th October Wigan History Shop
Joe Taylor
September 08


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Actor Paul Walker, star of the "Fast and Furious" movies has died in a fiery single car accident Saturday afternoon. The accident happened north of Los Angeles in Santa Clarita.
It is said that the actor was attending a charity car show, that was supporting the Philippines typhoon relief effort and taking other friends for rides when the accident happened.
Sources said the driver of the Porsche lost control and hit a tree or post and ignited into flames. The sources say that Paul and another occupant were both killed in the tragic accident.
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Problem: When you access layer manager or the CUI(customize user interface) dialogs the program crashes with a fatal error. Solution: This problem occurs because you double clicked the drawing to open it instead of using the file open command. Close the software, open the software using the shortcut icons on your desktop then use file->open to open your drawing.


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Speakers from Jive:
Insights into Jive Roadmap
Modern, mobile portals
-- people use intranets to:
1. search for people
2. search for news
3. navigate to some tool, e.g., HR form
-- Social / people search
-- users need ability to search by expertise
-- most up to date profile for most employees is on LinkedIn
>> so Jive created a modern, social directory in 7.0
-- ability to integrate profile into existing HRIS like Workday or SuccessFactors
-- profile tags become the expertise field in 7
-- Communications hub
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-- Business Analytics
-- measure alignment across the enterprise
1. Behavioral insights
2. Measure key actions
3. Track and improve alignment
4. Measure onboarding and organizational insight
-- analytics shows you how to take action and improve alignment, i.e., moving from uninformed to informed to engaged
-- Types of portals
1. Marketing: announcements, branding
3. IT: technology rollout and support, case deflection, knowledge base
-- new features (avail later this year in Cloud, version 8 for hosted / on-prem)
-- will be introducing new overview pages per group
-- overview page in Mobile
-- following tags
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-- Purposeful Places
-- different activities require different functionality
-- admins can make use of pre-designed templates that are optimized for business outcomes
-- connected to enterprise apps out-of-the-box (OOB)
-- when you create a group, you will be given suggestions for users who would be productive managers
-- Jive is not keen on overview widgets because customized widgets can be very unstable; the newer, "safer" way to customize is by using tiles
-- overview page is like the book cover; the activity page is like the book itself
-- activity pages feature essential information, activity, mailing lists, content and files, experts and external contributors
-- activity pages function much like filters
-- Structured Outcomes
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-- can show how work and decision making is happening within Jive
-- highlight who is doing what
-- find useful information first
-- if you have the Producteev plug in
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-- WebEx integration
-- share from private group to another individual
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-- Producteev module for hosted
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Can games be journalism? Nick Fortugno looks at The Waiting Game, an interactive project co-created with ProPublica and WNYC, to discuss how interactivity can tell stories and create a powerful emotional experience. Fortugno walks through the development of the project, explaining how the mechanics of the interaction are leveraged to create an powerful moment of empathy, and how journalistic ethics impact the development process.
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These confetti are glow in the dark, and they do glow quite strongly too!
To charge them up, just shine your torchlight on them and they will continue to glow strong.
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This beautiful country house of five bedrooms and three bathrooms is surrounded by a tastefully designed garden with pool and different seating areas and offers the perfect place to disconnect and relax.
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This country house for sale with 3.500 sq.m. of land is located near the village of Santa Margalida, Mallorca only 15 minutes drive from the beaches of Can Picafort and Son Serra de Marina.
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While the Eurozone is embarking on a very moderate period of recovery, alarmist predictions are multiplying about the overall trajectory of the world economy: "Chinese growth slows, world economy suffers", was, for example, a headline in Le Monde of 20 October 2015. "On the economic front, there is also reason to be concerned" says Christine Lagarde [1], and Jacques Attali [2] announces that "the world is approaching a great economic catastrophe".
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Let us begin with a brief overview: world growth is slowing, mainly in the emerging economies with the exception of India. This tendency is self-reinforcing, with a fall in prices of raw materials, and it is being transmitted to the advanced countries. International trade is also slowing down, at the same rate as world GDP, as if productive globalisation had reached a ceiling. The Eurozone is registering a very timid and uneven recovery. The USA and the UK are doing relatively well, but growth is tending to slow in the former and appears artificial in the latter.
In the "financial sphere", quantitative easing is feeding stock-market bubbles rather than productive investment, which is stagnating. And the mere prospect - held back so far - of a renewed rise in Fed interest rates hangs like the sword of Damocles and is destabilising the currencies and markets of many countries. In short, "Uncertainty, Complex Forces Weigh on Global Growth", to quote the IMF's formula in its latest survey. [3]
From this impressionistic picture, we can draw out three essential characteristics:
- The persistence of "the legacies of the global financial crisis";
- disturbances in the world economy;
- the prospect of "secular stagnation";
The legacies of the global financial crisis
Quantitative easing means a central bank buying securities. In this way, the bank creates money which, injected into the economy, is supposed to kick-start it. We can even concede that this worked for a time in the USA. Nevertheless, the new fact is that we have begun to see that this course of action has substantial collateral effects.
The president of the Federal Bank of Dallas, Richard Fisher (a minority voice in the Fed), summarises his scepticism thus: "the money we have printed has not been as properly circulated as we had hoped. Too much of it has gone toward corrupting or, more appropriately stated, corrosive speculation [4]". In his speech, he went so far as to quote a verse by Jonathan Swift, from 1735: "Money, the life-blood of the nation/ Corrupts and stagnates in the veins,/ Unless a proper circulation/ Its motion and its heat maintains."
The inefficacy so far of monetary policy can be explained by various mechanisms or secondary effects which weigh upon the current conjuncture. To start with, this injection of money is blind and nothing guarantees that the liquidity will be used in a manner that is favourable to investment. On the contrary, it will feed speculation and provoke an increase in asset prices which will benefit only the richest and which will lead to the creation of a bubble.
Historically low interest rates
Quantitative easing simultaneously leads to a reduction in interest rates (figure 1). This could contribute to re-starting investment in housing and productive investment in general. A recovery in investment is in any case the key issue for an overall recovery. But that recovery has not taken place, because businesses are not investing, for lack of outlets and/or profit. They restore their margins, make money, increase mergers and acquisitions, pay out dividends, but their investment is flatlining.
Central bank official interest rates
Germany, USA, Japan),
Source : BIS-BRI [5]
Over the same period, the injection of money leads to an inflation in financial asset prices, but not to inflation in prices of current goods and services. Low interest rate and weak inflation together mean that real interest rates (discounting inflation) cannot become strongly negative. Nominal interest rates approach what American economists call the ZLB (zero lower bound). This limit is, for some, like Lawrence Summers [6], the result of secular stagnation, characterised by high rates of saving, aversion and a weak tendency to invest. To rescue the situation, negative real interest rates would be required to re-launch activity, and they are out of reach. This interpretation is dubious, because it misses out the most structural determinants of possible secular stagnation [7].
Nevertheless, Summers is right on one point when he expresses a fear that "If a recession were to occur, monetary policymakers would lack the tools to respond. There is essentially no room left for [monetary] easing..." The same worry was expressed by Claudio Borio [9], the economist of the BIS (Bank for International Settlements, headquartered at Basel), when he presented his annual report: "Interest rates have been exceptionally low for an extraordinarily long time. They reflect the central banks' and market participants' response to the unusually weak post-crisis recovery, as if they are fumbling in the dark in search of new certainties." In other words, we have asked too much of monetary policy for relaunching growth.
Accumulation of debt
The result is a huge accumulation of private and public debt. According to a study by the McKinsey Global Institute [9], this debt represents almost 200,000 billion dollars at the world level, or 286% of global GDP, up on 269% in 2007, before the crisis struck. The increase is particularly clear for state debt, but also for businesses (figure 2).
Global stock of debt
Source : McKinsey Global Institute
In particular, the debts of non-financial businesses in emerging economies have quadrupled between 2004 and 2014. The IMF asks itself whether one should worry [10], and it tells businesses to prepare themselves for the effects of a worsening in financing conditions: "as advanced economies normalize monetary policy, emerging markets should prepare for an increase in corporate failures and, where needed, reform corporate insolvency regimes".
This panorama thus leads us to two scenarios which could unleash the next crisis. The first has been described by François Morin in his latest book [12]. His point of departure is the existence of financial bubbles in public debt, but also on the financial markets which have been doped up by very low interest rates. The trigger element could be the failure of a systemically important bank, with a chain reaction on other big banks.
The second scenario relates to the IMF's worries regarding emerging economies. The trigger here would be an increase in interest rates by the US Federal Reserve Bank and the hardening of conditions for financing business which the IMF refers to. It would lead to a bursting of bubbles, starting with the emerging economies, with repercussions for the rest of global finance.
In summary, the risk factors focus around this contradiction: on the one hand, quantitative easing policies are not getting any traction on the real economy, are feeding bubbles and have set world finance on a course which cannot continue indefinitely. But an increase in interest rates would provoke an uncontrollable bursting of bubbles, in a context where states have almost no ammunition left to save the banks again.
In defence of fictitious capital
Christine Lagarde is therefore right to speak of "sequels to the global financial crisis". More precisely, the overall picture is as follows: the period preceding the crisis was characterised by an enormous accumulation of fictitious capital, in other words, of drawing rights on future surplus value to be produced by the exploitation of wage labour. For capitalism to start anew on a healthy basis, it would have been necessary to destroy this fictitious capital (and surely also a part of the productive capital). There have been losses, but around the world policies were guided by an essential principle: preserve the fictitious capital and the drawing rights that it represents. That was done in two ways: on the one hand, by converting private debts into public debts and, through austerity measures, drawing on surplus value; on the other hand, by massive injections of liquidity. In the first instance, we can say that capitalism respected the law of value, because it tried to adjust the ratio of fictitious capital/surplus value by increasing surplus value. In the second instance, on the contrary, it tried to deny or subvert the law of value by acting on the numerator. At the most fundamental level, the next crisis could be interpreted as being a severe re-assertion of the law of value.
Even if it gives priority to austerity via "structural reforms", capitalist Europe is turning, rather tardily, towards artificial solutions. There is quantitative easing à la Juncker, which is tottering just as much as in the USA. But there is better: the latest big idea of the European Commission is to launch an "Securitisation Initiative" [12] which will be a part of a broader "Capital Markets Union" project. Under the cover of regulation, the real objective is to restart securitisation markets, but this time "safely", to thus obtain "over €100bn of additional funding", or "half of pre-crisis levels" [13]. It should be recalled that this objective was also that of the IMF in... October 2009, when it tried to "discern how securitization can positively contribute to financial stability and sustainable economic growth." [14] Here is a striking example of systematic will to favour the rise of fictitious capital.
Before the crisis, the world economy was structured around a China-US axis, often called "Chinamerica" [15]. This axis is starting to disintegrated, and without a doubt that is one of the key elements of the remodelling of the global economy.
The end of "Chinamerica"
The disintegration is symmetrical: on the one hand, the American model is departing from its pre-crisis operation - growth on credit - because of a renewed increase in the rate of saving and a reduced dependence on energy imports. These two factors reduce the motor role in the global economy which the USA had previously played.
China is currently in a transition phase, fraught and difficult to be sure, towards a model centred on domestic demand. It is clearly moving away in any case from export-based growth: exports' portion of Chinese GDP went from 36% in 2006 to 26% today. The complementarity between the two biggest economies is declining and this move, with its collateral effects on emerging economies and Europe, is unbalancing the whole world economy.
This reorientation of the Chinese economy is manifested by a change in the structure of its external trade [16], but also contributes to a slowdown in world trade. It is another subject of worry for economists, who puzzle about the causes and wonder if this is an ephemeral phenomenon or something more structural. All the evidence is that we are seeing a lasting change of trends [17] which corresponds to a slowdown in the splitting-up of value chains. The organisation of production across two different zones of the global economy characteristic of contemporary globalisation is reaching its limits, and, with it, the faster growth of global trade than of world GDP which it drove. This phenomenon is particularly marked with regard to China, but also the USA, Korea and Japan, which confirms that the China-USA axis is in the process of coming apart.
Desynchronisation and volatility
The instability of the global economy is also aggravated by desynchronisation between the USA and the Eurozone. A detailed study by the IMF [18] shows that these divergences have substantial collateral effects (spillovers). The authors show their worries by asking "whether liftoff in the U.S. may not only strengthen the dollar vis-à-vis the euro, but also push interest rates up in the euro area, or whether QE in the euro area may not only weaken the euro, but also continue putting downward pressure on US yields".
The same document has an interesting insight into the emerging economies. Its authors distinguish two transmission channels. The "traditional" channel is that capital goes towards the zone which is enjoying renewed growth (the USA or the Eurozone), with a resulting appreciation in the value of the currency in the zone enjoying this influx of capital. But they identify another channel, the "risk-appetite channel": capital anticipates a recovery in the emerging economies driven by the recovery in the "centre" zone. This influx of capital into the emerging economies leads to an appreciation in the value of their currency.
These analyses show that the functioning of the world economy is eluding regulation, and that the emerging economies are exposed to movements of capital which have destabilising effects, whether entering or leaving. The recent period has been characterised precisely by an increased volatility of those movements of capital.
The exhaustion of productivity gains
Presenting the latest projections by the OECD, its chief economist Catherine Mann stressed that "the potential growth slowdown in advanced countries is an ongoing concern" [20]. And Christine Lagarde, for the IMF, evoked the "new mediocre", in other words "the risk of low growth for a long time" which, according to her, "looms closer".
Underlying this configuration, there is the exhaustion of gains in productivity. This tendency is not new, as it was set in motion in the developed countries from the start of the 1980s, with strong fluctuations in the case of the USA. But, in the end, the emerging economies took up the baton and the productivity gains they made could in large part be captured by the "old" capitalist countries. At the start of the crisis, the emerging economies kept up world growth. But the great dislocation in the world economy could have reached an inflection point: the most recent data from the Conference Board show that growth in hourly labour productivity has clearly fallen in the emerging economies since the start of the crisis (figure 3).
Tendencies in growth of labour productivity
Source : The Conference Board [20]
However, productivity, and more directly global factor productivity, is an essential element in the dynamic of the rate of profit. That rate has been restored in the major capitalist countries, in spite of the exhaustion of productivity [21]. This achievement was only made possibly by a whole series of initiatives: financialisation, growth in indebtedness, inequality, fall in wage share, etc. At the same time, the drying-up of profitable investment opportunities leads to a stagnation in productive investment rates.
The rate of profit in disorder
There is no alternative for capitalism, other than getting the neoliberal model back on track, while trying to reduce destabilising factors. In this quest for a way out of the crisis, the key question is clearly the restoration of the rate of profit, which can only be achieved in the first instance by an increase in the rate of exploitation. However, a striking fact is the disparity of performances. Among the advanced countries we can see differentiation in rates of profit, in the first place between the USA and the Eurozone, and then again within the latter (figure 4). This phenomenon implies a sharpening of competition between multinationals, which would tend to lead to a general downturn in the rate of profit. This is, in any case, the finding announced by the McKinsey Institute [22] which foresees that global corporate profit should move from 9.8% of GDP in 2013 to 7.9% in 2025, more or less back to its 1980 level.
Rate of profit 2007-2015
Base 100 in 2007. Source : Ameco, 'Net returns on net capital stock: total economy'
No profit, no recovery
This divergence can be illustrated by means of a more detailed analysis of the conjuncture within the Eurozone. The exercise has been undertaken recently by the European Commission [24]: it compares the timid current "recovery' with others. The results of this study are illustrated by figure 5 which compares the cycle 2002-2015 with the previous (1986-1999). In the two cases, the reference year is the year preceding the lowest point (respectively 1992 and 2008). Two key variables in the dynamic of capitalism are examined: investment and wage share. The profile are comparable in terms of the phase in the cycle preceding the recession. But what happens next tells two very different stories.
After the 1993 recession, investment fell, but revived progressively and after six years regained its pre-crisis level. The wage share, which had risen slightly from its 1989 low point, returned to its inexorable downward tendency and fell by almost 4% of GDP between 1992 and 1999. It was a good way out of the crisis for capitalism, with an improvement in profitability and a recovery in accumulation.
But what has happened after the latest crisis is not a classic cycle. Wage share increased strongly in 2009, then fell, but now it has stabilised at 2% of GDP higher than its pre-crisis level. In other words, the return on capital has not revived. And we see the effects on investment: it started to revive in 2011, following the pattern of the previous recession. Then the sharpening of austerity policies created a double dip in growth and investment fell again before starting to recover from 2014. Today it remains more than 1.5% of GDP lower than its pre-crisis level.
Wage share
Two episodes of recession in the Eurozone
Financial causes and real effects
Understanding how finance and production interact is an essential but difficult task. A recent study by BIS economists [24] sheds some light on this question by proposing a model which links "financial causes" to their "real consequences". The authors construct an index measuring the contribution of labour reallocation across sectors to aggregate productivity growth. Then they show that this index is significantly correlated (negatively) to financial booms. In other words, when credit grows faster than GDP, employment moves to sectors with lower productivity. They also show that the value of this index before the financial crisis determines the subsequent trajectory of productivity. And this mechanism is self-perpetuating, because the recourse to credit feeds what it is supposed to compensate for, i.e. the slowdown in productivity. This modelling of links between productive efficiency and financial movements seems particularly pertinent to an analysis of the Eurozone.
The coming crisis?
One conclusion follows from this (too) swift review: the "great recession" has opened a period of "chaotic regulation" at the global level. A new crisis seems today to be more or less inevitable. It is difficult to tell where the point of rupture will be (stock exchange, bank, debt, exchange rate?), but this episode will in any case be evidence of deep structural contradictions.
Global capitalism is currently subject to a fundamental tension. On the one hand, the crisis which opened in 2008 was dealt with according to two essential principles: don't clear the accounts (the "legacies"); reconstitute the pre-crisis neoliberal model, while seeking to control the most deleterious effects. In practice, this means guaranteeing the rights to draw on future surplus value acquired by the "1%" and the freedom of action of the banks and the multinationals. But the fundamental mainspring of capitalism's dynamism, that is, productivity gains, is currently heading towards exhaustion.
This configuration leads to complex interactions between changes within the productive sphere and the manipulation of financial and monetary instruments. This is why, as in 2007-2008, the precise location of the trigger for the next crisis will not provide an adequate explanation of the deeper causes. (A l'Encontre, October 2015. Translated by Ed Maltby)
[1] Christine Lagarde, "Managing the Transition to a Healthier Global Economy ", September 30, 2015, https://goo.gl/9XGphi
[2] Jacques Attali, "La crise, Acte 2 », 17 août 2015, http://goo.gl/69Td7E
[3] FMI, Uncertainty, Complex Forces Weigh on Global Growth, World Economic Outlook, October 6, 2015, http://goo.gl/h8Onf9
[4] Richard Fisher, "Monetary Policy and the Maginot Line", July 16, 2014, http://goo.gl/Y3VbYP
[5] BIS, 85th Annual Report, June 2015, http://goo.gl/oAlIsE
[6] Lawrence Summers, "The global economy is in serious danger", The Washington Post, October 7, 2015, http://goo.gl/VQRIt9
[7] Michel Husson, "Stagnation séculaire: le capitalisme embourbé ?", A l'encontre, 5 Juin 2015, http://goo.gl/EsqZd3
[8] Claudio Borio, Media briefing on the BIS Annual Report 2015, 24 June 2015, http://goo.gl/WTLDX7
[9] McKinsey Global Institute, Debt and (not much) deleveraging, February 2015, http://goo.gl/vmrY0V
[10] IMF, Global Financial Stability Report, October 2015. Chapitre 3: "Corporate leverage in emerging markets—a concern?", http://goo.gl/zpkcAF v
[11] François Morin, L'hydre mondiale: l'oligopole bancaire, Lux, 2015, https://goo.gl/3k5GW4; voir cette vidéo de l'auteur: https://goo.gl/qGFdx8
[12] European Commission, "Securitisation initiative", September 2015, http://goo.gl/Uurqih
[13] European Commission, "Capital Markets Union", flyer, September 2015, http://goo.gl/iv7q1z
[14] IMF, Global Financial Stability Report, October 2009. Chapitre 2: "Restarting Securitization Markets: Policy Proposals and Pitfalls", http://goo.gl/PM1nPY
[15] Michel Husson, "Chine-USA. Les lendemains incertains de la crise", Nouveaux Cahiers Socialistes n°2, Montréal, septembre 2009, http://goo.gl/OQEB84; "Etats-Unis: la fin d'un modèle", La Brèche n°3, 2008, http://goo.gl/lNJqYl
[16] Michel Husson, "La fin de l'émergence du Sud ?", A l'encontre, 22 mars 2015, http://goo.gl/gCYkZY
[17] Sébastien Jean, "Le ralentissement du commerce mondial annonce un changement de tendance", La lettre du Cepii n° 356, Septembre 2015, http://goo.gl/YgLZ3G
[18] "Big Players Out of Synch: Spillovers Implications of US and Euro Area Shocks", IMF Working Paper, September 2015, http://goo.gl/Jdxawt
[19] Catherine Mann, "Puzzles and uncertainties", OECD Interim Economic Outlook, Septembre 2015, http://goo.gl/Bx2GwM
[20] The Conference Board, "Productivity Brief 2015", http://goo.gl/hhQKNb
[21] Michel Husson, "Les limites du keynésianisme", A l'encontre, 15 Janvier 2015, http://goo.gl/KNwrjV
[22] McKinsey Global Institute, The new global competition for corporate profits, September 2015, http://goo.gl/zyvgy9
[23] "The euro area recovery in perspective", European Commission, Quarterly Report on the Euro Area, n°3, 2015, http://goo.gl/uyggrk
[24] Claudio Borio et al., "Labor Reallocation and Productivity Dynamics: Financial Causes, Real Consequences", BIS, May 2015, http://goo.gl/my4uZN


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From the The Positivity Blog, Henrik Edberg offers an interesting counterpoint to all those tips we have read about increasing personal efficiency titled, 7 Habits of Highly Ineffective People. [h/t Craig Newmark]
- Not showing up
- Procrastinating half the day
- When actually doing something, doing something that isn't the most important thing right now
- Thinking too much
- Seeing the negative and downsides in just about anything
- Clinging to your own thoughts and being closed to outside influences
- Constantly on information overload
I'm guilty of four of these. How about you?
The entire post is brief. The site contains a number of other interesting lists.