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Economic News Articles in the Great Recession — Archive for the week of 04/15/2012
None of the many reversals of fortune in the past week's economic news was unexpected by readers of The Great Recession Blog. So, stay tuned, and you'll continue to read the headlines before they happen! In the meantime, here are the headlines after they happened with a little commentary to make sense of them:
Last week's summary can simply be told like this: Stocks ricocheted all over the place like Quickdraw McGraw's shooting — exhibiting the very kind of volatility to be expected when bounding along the rocky bottom of a great depression. Housing, which had been up in the early part of the year, fell back down this week … as predicted (yawn). Europe constantly stuck its head back the news — at one moment lifting the stock market because of faint mirages of hope, at another causing the increasingly fickle market to drop because Europe was clearly "back in full crisis mode." The U.S. stock market, in a sign of true desperation, repeatedly took bad news as good news simply because it wasn't worse news! U.S. manufacturing slid. Joblessness returned to getting persistently worse.
All the euphoria of the early part of the year started last week to quickly melt away, creating room by the end of the week for the headline, "Fears Rise that Recovery May Falter in the Spring." Sometimes a short word says it all: "duh." That "recovery" will falter in the spring, of course, would be due to the fact none of this was a recovery in the first place. One Stanford professor lent his credentials to declaring exactly that in the news last week (Stanford Economist Says, 'This Is Not a Recovery at All'), but that is what I've been saying all along … albeit without the luminous letters after my name that many people require in order to believe writing that goes against the massive flow of mainstream thinking.
China's move to make the yuan more convertible last week by unhitching it a bit from the U.S. dollar was a step in the direction that the U.S. government has asked for, but could it also be a step toward making the yuan a global currency that would rival the dollar. To become a global currency, the yuan will have to be as fully tradable on the global market as other currencies. So long as it remains hitched to the U.S. dollar, the U.S. dollar would be primary. Meanwhile, China's step back to buying U.S. treasuries indicates how bad Europe is. China has also probably stepped back from buying gold so quickly because China's earlier buying of gold sent the price up to nearly $2,000 an ounce. China is like a forest fire — so large that it creates its own wind — and it has every reason to want to avoid driving up the price of gold now … in order to maximize its return on investment later. Chinas is capable of buying or selling so much gold that it can create gold prices.
Manufacturing and housing both slid toward the edge of the financial cliff during the past week. While I have not said anything about where manufacturing numbers would go, I have said throughout the first quarter of 2012 that the housing figures that many were feeling exuberant about were meaningless. The data on housing continues to reverse from last quarter's trend in this week's news, but I'll have more on that in the recap of this week's news that I'll post during the first half of next week. For now, next last week's news: Let it suffice to say that home sales only went up due to the lowest interest rates in the lifetime of most people now living. Once those rates changed, the rush went bust as there was no greater fundamental behind it. Also, note that the brief rush of sales did nothing to boost prices. No one was willing to pay more. They just wanted to get what they could while credit was cheaper than they'd ever seen it.
It takes awhile with their vast ability to take out more debt and their limited ability to try to take more taxes for municipalities and counties to start defaulting like homeowners on their rotting debt, but the long squeeze of the Great Recession is increasing the aroma of towns and counties that are on the brink of bankruptcy. At first, the debts of those that were going bankrupt were for follies like bridges to nowhere. Now, however, the defaults are increasingly due to more common costs, such as entitlements like retirement programs, which governments originally promised to lure in workers but then never properly funded in the first place. Now, they are using bankruptcy so that taxpayers can avoid paying their government workers the only thing that got those workers to put up with working for taxpayers in the first place — good benefits. America is beginning the serious moral decline of reneging on its promises just to avoid raising taxes. Rather than the many making good on what was promised, it is better, apparently, that a few should go with none of what was promised.
The delay between the onslaught of the Great Recession and the collapse of entire small governments within the U.S. into bankruptcy mirrors the Great Depression. I have said from the very beginning of this economic collapse that it is not a recession, but a depression — a long-term economic collapse with the banking and monetary system (our financial spine) at its core. This is not a recession, which could be defined, in terms of cause, as a market correction. This is spinal failure! A depression is made up of more than one period of recession with each dip into recession coming from the same original cause.
In other words, a depression plays out like this: the government tries to pick the economy up from its initial collapse, causing a lift from the initial recession, but the nervous system is dead; so the economy collapses again as soon as the government's temporary crutch falls away. The middle of this depression has been propped up with quantitative easing (a cooperative effort of The Fed and the U.S. Treasury — i.e., the banking industry and the government). Mainlining money into the nation's veins created a completely unsustainable buoyancy that made it feel like the economy was amping up into slow recovery. But stop the Q.E., and the economy settles right back down again because nothing was fixed. The pain was merely masked with lots of money.
The pattern in the news continues to bare this out. This past week was a prime example, and I'll have even more on that when I recap the current week's news next week!
For now, last week's news in review this week:
China syndrome — following the Great Recession to the Great Wall
04/16 China unhitches currency a little more from the dollar. China took a milestone step in turning the yuan into a global currency on Saturday. The People's Bank of China said it would allow the yuan to rise or fall 1 percent from a mid-point every day, effective Monday, compared with its previous 0.5 percent limit.
04/17 China Adds U.S. Treasuries for Second Month on Reserve Growth China remained the largest foreign U.S. creditor in February amid a rebound in the country's foreign-currency reserves. China's holdings rose for a second straight month, increasing by 1.1 percent to $1.18 trillion. The Fed is now the largest U.S. creditor.
04/17 Why is China Returning to U.S. Treasury Holdings? Tao Dong, chief regional economist at Credit Suisse AG in Hong Kong, explains why China has returned to buying of U.S. government debt. It has more money to invest than one can find gold to buy, and it is shifting away from Euro treasuries.
Economic indicators seen in the news this week
04/16 US stocks are mixed despite strong retail sales Americans might still be shopping, but not enough to propel the market out of the doldrums. The mixed results were due to competing economic indicators: surprising U.S. retail sales on one side, and worrisome signs about Europe's economy on the other.
04/17 Housing Starts Drop, But Building Permits Are Up Housing starts dropped 5.8% to a five-month low, but the bad news was tempered by a 4.5% rise in building permits and by the fact that housing starts were substantially higher than this time last year.
04/17 Manufacturing in U.S. Cools After Biggest Surge in Three Decades Production at U.S. factories dropped in March for the first time in four months as the industry cooled following the strongest surge in three decades.
04/17 U.S. Stocks rally: Dow back above 13,000 U.S. stocks rallied Tuesday, putting the Dow back above 13,000. Worries about Europe eased due to high demand on Spanish notes, and the latest housing data signaled more construction on tap, even though new home construction was down.
04/18 More U.S. cities set to enter default danger zone Bond defaults in 2011 were nearly five times the value of defaults in 2010. In 2012′s first quarter, defaults dome than double last year's first quarter. "This is a lagging process. In the crash of 1929, the defaults did not come until 1934 or 1935."
04/18 US Stocks – Wall St slips U.S. stocks declined on Wednesday after uninspiring earnings from IBM and Intel. The lackluster reports from the two technology heavyweights came after the S&P 500 had its best day in a month.
04/19 Home sales fell in March, demand remains weak The National Association of Realtors says home sales fell 2.6%. Sales remain far below the 6 million per year that economists equate with healthy markets.
04/19 Jobless claims data remain weak The American labor market showed further signs of weakening as jobless claims went back up to their highest level in nearly three months. Although the count was down 2,000 from the prior week, more reliable four-week moving average went up.
04/20 Fears Rise That Recovery May Falter in the Spring Some of the same spoilers that interrupted the recovery in 2010 and 2011 have emerged again, raising fears that the winter's economic strength might dissipate in the spring.
Euro crisis updates as the Great Recession goes viral
04/16 Euro Debt crisis escalates as Spanish yield tops 6 pct Spanish yields broke above the 6% barrier Monday. Spanish yields were expected to continue rising towards the 7% level — beyond which debt costs are widely viewed as unsustainable. "We're back in full crisis mode," a Rabobank rate strategist said.
04/17 IMF nudges up UK growth forecast but sees risk of global slump IMF stressed, "Various fundamental problems remain unresolved [and] …. recovery will remain vulnerable to several major downside risks." A combination such as a euro panic and oil price spike "could … produce a major slump reminiscent of the 1930s."
04/17 IMF still won't admit truth about the euro Like a bad penny, the eurozone debt crisis keeps returning. Yields on Spanish government debt are again above 6%. Crushed by repeated austerity programs, the big southern European economies compound their bond problems by sinking back into recession.
04/17 Interest Rates Jump Again in Spanish Debt Auction Spain sold short-term debt Tuesday with demand strong but at interest rates that were more than 50% higher than its last auction of the same instruments, reflecting continuing investor concern over the country's finances.
04/17 Opinion: Euro is "unsavable" Telegraph columnist Ambrose Evans-Pritchard says the euro has to be dismantled to prevent economic catastrophe because the imbalance between northern euro countries and southern have greatly different monetary needs that cannot be reconciled.
04/17 Renewed euro zone worries prompt investor caution: BofA Merrill Lynch Poll Due to the weaker growth outlook, tmany more investors predict the U.S. Fed. and the European Central Bank will use quantitative easing, known as QE. "The more the growth fear factor rises, the more that people expect QE to come along to solve all ills."
04/17 Spain, Italy Slide Further into Euro Zone Crisis Spain and Italy officially acknowledge being in full recession while yields on Spanish 10-year bonds have climbed over 6.1%, Those levels caused general market panic when Italy hit the same mark last year. Italy is now back up to 5.6%.
04/18 Italy slashes its 2012 growth forecast Italy was previously predicting a 0.4% contraction in the economy, but is now expecting a larger contraction of 1.2%. The government has also admitted that it will not be able to meet its target of balancing the budget by 2013.
04/19 German tempers boil over back-door euro rescues Professor Hans-Werner Sinn, head of Germany's IFO Institute, said German taxpayers are facing a dangerous rise in credit risk from a plethora of bail-out schemes. "The euro-system is near explosion."
04/19 Spanish Bonds, Good Demand, Mixed Interest Results The 10-year bonds were sold at a yield of 5.743%, up from 5.403% when the bonds were last sold in February. But the rate for two-year bonds dropped to 3.463% from 3.495% in October. International investors stayed clear.
04/20 Europe Central Banks May Be Forced to Print More Money Central banks in Europe are increasingly reluctant to pump more money into markets after already massive liquidity injections intended to kick-start economic growth but, according to analysts, they may have no choice.
04/20 Spanish Bond Yield Above 6% Again Spanish 10-year bond yields rose above 6 percent and German yields sank to a record low Friday after Spain's debt auction in the previous session failed to ease doubts over the country's fiscal health. Equivalent Italian and French yields also rose.
Federal Reserve actions tracked in the economic headlines
04/20 'Bad Goldilocks' Economy Puts Fed, Markets in a Box In the era of historically large central bank interventions, the economy must now deal with "Bad Goldilocks," a condition in which the recovery is too little to make a pronounced impact but remains just strong enough to keep the Federal Reserve on the s
The Iranium Reaction as it makes and shakes the news
04/16 Iranian nuclear scientists were present at failed North Korean missile launch A dozen Iranian nuclear experts visited North Korea last week to observe its failed rocket launch on Friday, South Korean state news agency Yonhap's Washington correspondent reported on Sunday. "The Iranians undoubtedly were there to receive test data."
04/16 Israeli TV report shows Israeli air force gearing up for Iran attack, says moment of truth is near The report, screened on Israel's main evening news, was remarkable both in terms of the access granted to the reporter, who said he had spent weeks with the pilots and other personnel he interviewed.
04/16 Netanyahu: Istanbul talks gave Iran a 'freebie' Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu threw cold water Sunday on the Istanbul talks dealing with Iran's nuclear program, saying they provided Tehran with a five-week gift from the world to continue enriching uranium without limits.
04/16 Obama counters Netanyahu: U.S. offered no 'freebies' to Iran in nuclear talks President says more sanctions to be imposed on Iran if nuclear talks in coming months fail. "The clock is ticking and I've been very clear to Iran and to our negotiating partners that we're not going to have these talks just drag out in a stalling process
U.S. banking / financial crisis as it shapes the economic news of our times
04/16 Citigroup quarterly profits decline to $2.9bn US banking giant Citigroup has said its quarterly profits have declined amid "uncertainty" over the global economy. Consumer banking was positive.
04/17 Goldman Sachs profits decline but beat expectations US bank Goldman Sachs has said its profits fell 23% in its last quarter, but still beat analyst expectations.
04/19 Profits at Bank of America and J.P. Morgan Chase Plummet Bank of America has reported 67% drop in first-quarter net income from #2bn last year to $653m due mostly to accounting charges related to its debt. Morgan Stanley also fell its first quarter because of an accounting charge of $2bn leaving it with a loss.
U.S. government moves (and blunders) in articles about the economy
04/16 Obama's Buffett rule impact on taxes, jobsPresident Barack Obama's proposal to impose a "Buffett rule" tax on the rich is generating enormous political wattage, but the plan itself would directly affect only a tiny fraction of Americans. Republicans claim plan will be a job killer, but will it?
04/17 Senate Blocks Buffett Rule (30% Tax Floor on Top Earners) The 51-45 vote yesterday fell short of the 60 needed to advance the measure. Republicans derided the rule as a political stunt while a leading Dem. retorted, "We … cannot afford …tax cuts that the wealthiest Americans don't need and didn't ask for."
Other economic updates / miscellaneous economic news articles
04/18 Human-made earthquakes reported in central U.S says USGS The number of earthquakes in the central United States rose "spectacularly" near where oil and gas drillers us franking methods of extractions. "The seismicity rate changes described here are almost certainly manmade."
04/19 Does PayTag mean the end of cash? A new mobile phone device for small payments, PayTag, could kill off banknotes and coins. That's bad news for our spending habits, but is it the end of civilization as some say?
04/19 Stanford Economist Says, 'This Is Not a Recovery at All' Stanford University economics professor Ed Lazear said Wednesday. "We haven't made up for the lost ground, and that's unprecedented." He quotes statistics showing this "recovery" is worse than the rise that happened in the middle of the Great Depression.
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Introduction to Dexign the Future
Human-Centered Innovation for Exponential Times
Readings & Viewings
Gore, A. (2013). The future: Six drivers of global change.
"The consequential age we are living in will be remembered as one of the great turning points in civilization. Once we turn, though, where will we be? That is the compelling question Al Gore sets out to answer by examining the drivers of global change, connecting the dots among the social, economic, and political forces shaping our present and future. A rising global consciousness is forcing people around the world, but especially Americans, to rethink their basic assumptions about how the world works, and, even more fundamentally, how it should and can work. Borders matter less than ever. Technology is constantly reordering the way we live, think, work, learn, love, pray, and play." –from http://www.worldcat.org/title/future-six-drivers-of-global-change/oclc/820665430&referer=brief_results
http://atrandom.com/the-future/
Al Gore The future (3 minutes) https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Yy0UnMgEp_o
Al Gore: The Future, Institute for Leadership Studies – Dominican University of California (82 minutes) https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=V8IMzu6pDT8
RSA Animate – 21st Century Enlightenment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AC7ANGMy0yo
RSA Animate – The Power of Networks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJmGrNdJ5Gw
A3 Signs of the times
a) [What] Pick one pathway of change in the World Business Council for Sustainable Development for a design exploration.
b) [Who] Who is affected by the pathway of change you identified (e.g., individual, group, family, organization, public policy, nation, world, etc).
materials from http://www.wbcsd.org/home.aspx
Vision2050-FullReport
Vision2050-PathwayMural
12 thoughts on "October 20, 2014"
jmyrayeung
Jobs are being outsourced and every role is being replaced. It's this discovery of dNA that produces new life form and the unintentional nature that have new potential.
Al Gore starts off with the six global drivers of change. The economy is skewing the way money, labour, and goods flow. There is a more disruptive way to our society. The global communication technologies is connecting all of us and our world is filled with so much information that is overloading on us. While ignoring what is happening to our human population numbers, the ballooning of megacities, stresses on agricultural land use, bloated energy demand, and increasingly scarce freshwater. Bioscience and genetic advances in Al will lead to new and artificial life. Lastly, a sea change in climate will bring humanity to understanding the altering of the atmosphere.
It feels like we're experiencing a rapid change in our society. Mr. Gore identifies that the remaining change must happen. Of course he is takes on a more American view of the society and joining on the science and technology. Unfortuately I am very disappointed in our society is leaning towards a "you reap what you sow" attitude as we've produce more than a quarter of the 90 million tons of global warming pollution every day.
dantasse
The talk that most struck me here was the one about 21st century enlightenment. It reminded me of another thing I just read, http://lesswrong.com/lw/l30/on_caring/ … where the author was talking about how deciding what to do based on "caring" is no longer adequate, because our world is so big and interconnected. Nevertheless, it's a skill we need to develop. I find the hypothesis that 21st century enlightenment will be based on empathy to be optimistic, but definitely possible. But we have to realize that our current empathic ability is just inadequate.
Also, the trees -> webs thing. I find it true across different concepts, but not super revolutionary, because it's so general. Yeah, in different fields, things are more interconnected than we thought. But just because a mouse brain and a galaxy look kind of similar to our eyes, doesn't mean there's any similarity in them (besides that they're both complicated).
nsantiag
I enjoyed learning about Gore's new book as I feel like his climate change documentary and book revolutionized how we see climate change today. I found it interesting to think about how global, economic and political power is shifting. It's true that people like Carlos Slim, Bill Gates, and Warren Buffet have a lot of control over what the future looks like, yet they are all private actors. I was also intrigued by the notion of writing about GMO's, as I feel they are highly misunderstood by the general public, but are accepted and deemed safe by scientists.
The other video that made me think about the world in a different way was the one about networks. The story about how we started with a tree structure, but we are truly all parts of a network was compelling. The recommendation that we should know a little bit about everything felt against everything represents to me. What would the future look like if we all did have knowledge in many fields? And what would it look like if we followed the recommendation to look at the world as a networked system? Lots to explore and think about.
aneurycasado
Al Gore six drivers of change are very similar to the forces of change that we studied for the first assignment. The most interesting part of his discussion was the sustainability of the "developed" lifestyle. Citizens in developed nations have grown accustomed to a standard of living which is not sustainable for the rest of the world. There are simply just not enough resources on earth for all of us to live like a middle class American. The vision document outlines different pathways that makes it possible for everyone on earth to live comfortably in 2050 but I think this vision is to optimistic. The more and more I read up on the changes in the world, the more I am convinced that there will be a war that decimates either a large portion of the population or the globalization of the world. I can imagine a future of isolated nation states that limit all communications with the outside world. Hopefully this will not come to past but the news is not convincing me otherwise.
danid123
Gore's comment about robosourcing changing the meaning of what work is and it's place in our society fits in well to my robot caregiver world. He covered a lot of topics but the ones I found most interesting, and the ones that fit best into my techno world from A2, were: Reinvention of life and death, the creation of brand new lifeforms, the blurring the lines that used to separate species and disturbing the ecological relationships between them, and the implications of GMOs for future generations.
These ideas tied in with the RSA's 21st Century Enlightenment ideas on the fallacy of the three logics:
Logic of science and technology
Logic of markets
Logic of bureaucracy
Specifically, just because we can blur the lines between species, should we? Just because we can double productivity and consumerism should that be a goal we pursue? What is progress and how do we as a society become more involved in the debate about what this means for our society and our future.
I also read an interesting article about the future of computer vision and augmented reality. The article comes complete with copious references to the fantastical future promised to us in the 60s that someone mentioned last week in class:
http://www.fastcompany.com/3037345/fast-feed/so-bad-ass-you-cant-believe-it-magic-leap-raises-542-million-to-launch-the-future-
adriaspivack
What really struck me from Gore's lecture was that the things we need aren't rewarded by the markets such as mental healthcare professionals, childcare, education, and etc. While this is something that I think most people realize, you never hear it said and when you do it makes you question much about how our society works. Why exactly isn't there a higher reward for jobs that are high in demand? When goods are high in demand, their cost is also high. Why isn't it the same for services? I have always questioned why athletes make such high salaries and get such respect as opposed to teachers who earn a much lower salary and have difficulty keeping their rights. Teachers are much higher in demand and more important to the wellbeing of our society, yet they are not treated as such. I find this to be such an odd and complex issue that desperately needs to be fixed. Unfortunately, people need incentives to do particular things and the best incentive is money. Do we have a sturdy enough economic system to give more support to the professions that are in high demand?
shenjulia
I liked the issues the RSA video on 21st century enlightenment pointed out. I feel like it is a slightly different approach compared to the way we have been thinking about the future so far – identifying drivers of change and studying them closely. We have been looking at specific trends in the present and how to plan accordingly, but the video is talking more about reevaluating human values as a way to affect the future. It is interesting that "empathy" in this case is both a quality but also a philosophical topic – to care about other people also means to care about what it means to be human, and that itself is an interesting and probably unanswerable question.
The network video makes some interesting points about changing the way we think about the world (top-down, hierarchically), but I don't really agree with the comments at the end. First, it seems like he is suggesting that networks are a universal structure, but it is entirely possibly that in the future we will discover some other type of structure that seems to fit the complex relationships in the world. The mouse and galaxy analogy is interesting, but it also seems like a shallow example; there could be small but important differences that separate the two. The comment about needing to know a little bit about everything also makes me uncomfortable. While I see the advantages, it's under the premise that the world becomes totally interconnected and collaboration is a smooth process. However, this system seems to me that if nobody is an expert on one thing, everybody is at the same level of knowledge and expertise, a shallow one, so I'm finding it difficult to see how to progress from there.
aahmedsam
I'm interested in how the RSA Animate films might interact with one another.
In the first video, we have 21st century enlightenment, which in short, encourages us to be better human beings. In the second video, we look at how all things are interconnected. A mistake in one area will affect two more, which will affect ten more. The effects may not necessarily also be negative, but change will occur down the line. Examples that come to mind are from ethics.
Example one: There is a prison with two inmates being charged for a crime committed together. They are asked for testimony separately. If they both lie and say they are innocent, they will get off free. If they both admit to the crime, they will be charged 20 years each. However, if one testifies against the other, then the honest inmate will receive 10 years and the liar will receive 50. Theoretically, it is more advantageous to admit to the crime, but the appeal of getting off free will usually convince the inmates to lie. In the same manner, it is more advantageous to be empathetic, yet the appeal of corporate success is too tempting. Theoretically, all children should be raised thinking empathetically. If they are not, it is probably because empathy is viewed as a disadvantage in various contexts.
Example two: In a flock of birds, there are three kinds of habits: Moochers, who only take food but do not give it out. Martyrs, who give food to anyone who asks. And thinkers, who only give food to those who give food back. The empathetic choice would be to be martyr, but in a flock of birds containing all three types, the martyrs will eventually starve and die out. This leaves a flock with only moochers and thinkers. Only the thinkers will survive, since they will refuse to give food to anyone. The choices of the martyrs affected the thinkers, which affected the moochers. In the same way, if only some humans are acting empathetically, they will usually be the ones to be disadvantaged. It takes an entire system's agreement to cause permanent change. Will we ever agree? I am not sure.
Stefan Sagmeister Ted Talk about working for six years and taking every 7th year off:
tvlahovic4611
I'm a little late to posting, but I was interested in Al Gore's comments about privacy and security in the video "The Future, Institute for Leadership Studies – Dominican University of California". I am actually working on a project for another class I'm taking (Privacy, Policy, Law and Technology with Lorrie Cranor) on what the future of privacy could look like (inspired by the assignments in this iDTF course!). Al Gore briefly mentioned cookies, online behavioral advertising, and the National Security Administration collecting all phone calls, texts and emails for security needs, but at the same he stressed that people's privacy and security needed to be handled with care. I'm really curious about Gore's deeper ideas on these complex topics in his book "The future: the six drivers of global change".
shivani1993
I agree with the topics discussed by Al Gore concerning the future. These topics are important and are true. I like the way in which he makes statements about the future and is very specific to the different factors that he outlines for the future. The way that Al Gore describes it, I can relate directly to it and the imagery makes my ability to understand it more clearer. The topics are: The Global Economy, Instant Communication, Shifts in Power, Growth, and Genetic Manipulation. Al Gore restates the current situation and what this means for the future. He states that consumption of goods is increasing rapidly and competition with the availability of resources. We are shifting towards complete electronic communication which exposes us as individuals with a new Global Mind. Our movements are being tracked and we no longer have privacy/security. As we enter our data through online resources we are contributing to a large database that stores our private/personal information. The Jobs in America are already being greatly outsourced to different countries like China and India and we are now seeing greater advancements in science that was not possible in the past. DNA which was conceived is now being compared to other types of DNA and being combined to form junctions/modification or manipulations of species. We are already thinking about the future in the way we are making changes today. This is a powerful speech that helps motivate me to look at the future in a positive way and to look at the potentials and the positive things that are occurring today that will contribute to growth and success. If people look at the future more optimistically they will be more broad minded in their approach to design for the future and not limit themselves channeling larger growth and productivity. Ultimately this determinism will make us a stronger society and more powerful.
fmulaffe
In his video, Al gore highlights some pretty cool forces of future. One really shocking fact that he mentioned was how the human population has quadrupled in less than 100 years. The implications this has on the earth's resources is pretty stark – and this is even if we take away all the other extra harm that we are doing to Earth. I also relaly liked the term he introduced – the global mind and the privacy issues that surround it

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Rust, City of Industry
Atlas, Rust	Rust, steampunk, the Council of Iron, the Five Cities, the Minister
Forced underground by their own pollution, Rust has become a beacon of hope and a bastion of disease.
from High Plains Samurai: Legends
Tall spires of scrap metal pierce the horizon in this pocket of the One Land ripe with strong electrical currents as bolts of lightning bounce from one tower to the next. These towers are a monument to a world of bizarre creations and marvels that cannot be found until you begin to look underground. Buried beneath the barren soil, everything that is this final City is concealed beneath the earth. That is perhaps its greatest defense. Blending salvage engineering with religious devotion, Rust is a beacon of hope, for those who can both physically and morally endure, in an otherwise dreary hellhole. Yet most would rather take their chances in the Wastes.
Every street, building, and construct in Rust was built from the wreckage of the world before Chaos' wrath, and its people have completed wondrous feats with these remains. Despite the brown-flecked appearance of the metal applied in these inventions, its citizens have manufactured some of the most advanced forms of technology available today (some even more than what was possible before it was all destroyed). They even have the ability to harness the electricity flowing through the air around them (a lesser side effect of the storm-riddled northern landscape above) to provide heat and illumination. It is this ingenuity that makes Rust a powerhouse among the Five Cities as it sits on a powder keg of weaponry. While all the other warlords would unleash an army to seize this city for their own, none would dare face down a barrage of contraptions built for the sole purpose of tearing a man in half.
Ingenuity in the face of devastation is the signature conceit of this final City overseen by the Council of Iron and its messiah, the Minister. The people of Rust have built impressive technologies and architecture using the leftovers of the world before Chaos' judgement and have dedicated themselves to the worship of the Minister as their guide to the afterlife away from all of this toil and death. Total subjugation is the price for living in a city of electricity and advancement, with the Council of Iron acting as the Minister's voice. While they may seem to have it all compared to the remaining Cities, everything a family owns can be stripped at a moment's notice at the Council's whims. Those who have managed to flee with their lives intact speak of the Minister's madness and the rampant disease from a life surrounded in rusted metals and an unkempt populace.
Khar'tep, City of Mountains	The Wastes
Atlas, The Wastes
A Spark in the Sand
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Now last time we started walking in a different way. Some of you have walked this way before and if you have and have noticed things then you can help your friends who are trying these things out. The reason I'm suggesting to walking in that fashion is because you are waking up eh. Now after you have tried what I recommended in part 2 then I want you to try something else.
When you find yourself at home again or wherever - alright - and you have that experience where you get up and go someplace or where you suddenly walk someplace and then you forget why you went there, and you will have that experience, then go back to where you were if you can and take your shoes and socks off and sit down or stand where you were.
Socially speaking this may not work in all situations but it may work at times - and standing there barefoot where you were try to get as close to where you actually were as possible or sitting where you were barefoot see, then you may remember because you will be perhaps in that bubble of identity. And if you do not remember then get up.
Try to get up the way you did before or move somewhat the way you did before and walk that path again to the space where you noted before that you didn't remember why you had moved into that area.
So walk that route again in the way I recommended in part 2 where you put your toes down and the ball of your foot down first. Walk along like that, feeling the floor or the ground under your feet. You may be aware that is perfectly safe and you don't have to pay attention to where you're going - perhaps there's carpet there or perhaps it's ground that you walk all the time and it's safe - but this time walk it that way feeling the ground or the carpet under your feet - paying attention in that fashion.
You can look at it but it's just as important to feel it with your toes, the ball of your foot and the heel of your foot when that comes down and walk it again like that. You might remember why you got up or why you moved suddenly into that space in case you had a moment of forgetting.
This is a very good way to consciously move towards waking up because it's something you can use that is physical. During the waking up process where you are moving from your identity on Earth, who you are, your name, what you do, your activities, all of that - when you move into being who you really are in your expanded state beyond Earth as an old and wizened soul - which you may very well be - you need to have more than your mind because your mind will remember who you are on Earth but it'll only have fleeting moments of awareness of who you are beyond Earth when your mind begins to function in your Earth conscious way moving from dream world to wakeful world - you see.
So your mind needs help and help is right there in the form of your physical feeling because when you are dreaming - when you're at the deep levels of dreaming you are with your teachers, you are in your soul form because your body is resting but your body does need to rest - your soul does not need to sleep.
The soul is your immortal personality. It travels, staying tethered by a cord to your physical body so your physical body does not get frightened and can rest and sleep but your soul travels and is with your teachers and your guides and looks around the universe touching base with old friends and becomes its wizened self but it lives in a world that is so far beyond our physical Earth lives that our minds cannot cope with this and that's why we need those moments of waking up and that slight confusion that comes with - who are we.
You will be able to use now with this touching with these other fingers, with these other hands - yes with your feet - you will be able to use something beyond your mind. Yes your mind but also your physical feeling as a means to move from who you have been taught to be on Earth and you will be able to do more through feeling.
Now last time I spoke about waking up. This is what to do when you begin to have that phenomena I spoke about last time - alright?
First it's very important to begin to use your other hands and your other fingers. I'm sure you don't know what I'm talking about but the fingers* on your feet have the great capacity to connect you to the Earth in a moment to moment basis.
So, for everyone who can walk about safely and comfortably and even for those of you who must use canes or crutches to walk about it is of great value to walk about on the Earth barefoot. Not just because you can, as a child might run out in the grass and enjoy the feeling of the grass on their feet which is very good, but also because you can shift your sense of touch - or expand it is another way you might look at it - so that your body is very sensitive.
How to do that? Begin in a simple way. Many of you will have tender feet because you're not used to walking around on the earth or having your bare feet touch the grass or the sand or the dirt or the ground. First find a place where it's safe to do that - someplace in the shade or someplace cool so you won't get injured - preferably not on stone or concrete but if that's all there is available then make sure that it is cool. How? Reach down and touch it - alright - or ask someone else that is with you and doing this with you if you cannot bend over easily and have them check. As a last resort wash it down but I think it's better to just find it in the shade.
Then if you're walking on the ground or the sand that's where you'll be. Bring an object with you however - something with contour. Something that has form and shape and it isn't something that is breakable or something that you couldn't live without - alright? It could be anything - perhaps a plastic bottle with the cap attached - alright? Something like that. Something you can afford to lose - meaning if you forget about it and it's left there for a time it wouldn't be a problem.
You can be standing or sitting whatever you wish to do - if you're in a back yard that's fine and make sure that it's safe for you to walk around that yard first of course - scan about.
Pick up the bottle and close your eyes and move it around in your hands touching it, you see. Getting used to the sense of touch. Of course you know how to do that but this is to remind your body that this is what you're doing. You're not just thinking and moving, you're feeling and moving. There's a little difference there. Then you can open your eyes and put the bottle down on a table or what ever you have.
Then get up, you're barefoot you understand, and step out onto the lawn or onto the dirt or onto the sand or wherever you're stepping onto and touch what ever you're stepping on. Now naturally if you were walking barefoot without having done so very much you'd be very conscious of what's under you but you'd be nervous because your feet are tender. So it's alright to pay attention to what you're stepping on and you will notice a heightened sense of your physical awareness.
So move your feet in such a way as your forefoot and your toes are coming down first and then you can bring your heel down. This is just exactly the way you touched the bottle or whatever object. You picked it up and you felt it with your fingers.
So you're going to do the same thing feeling the ground with your foot fingers - or your toes eh? Reach the ground and touch with your toes and move slowly. You can pay attention to where you're putting your feet. Move around on the lawn or move around on the dirt or on the sand - wherever you're walking paying attention to putting your toes down first and the ball of your foot down first.
Your foot is actually meant to do that. It seems like it's meant to put your heel down first but that's not true. It's meant to put your toes and the ball of your foot down first. That's why you have those muscles there.
Your physical body has been built - created alright - provided to you by Creator in its form and also created by Mother Earth with her contribution to mother and father and your time of growing in mother - the form of your physical body is not an accident, not a happenstance of nature or science. It is all intended to be exactly the way it is.
So put your foot down that way and feel what you are walking on before you put your heel down - alright?
"I'd like to suggest that you walk barefoot outside (that's the best way, but if you must be inside, then alright) on the front part of your foot with the back part raised up. First put down the front part, then the back part. When you do this I want you to imagine that you are walking on a platform, something being held in place for your benefit. I cannot tell you how helpful this is to give you a working physical feeling of balance."
Do you know that there is a awakening going on in people around you. It's not always obvious is it because you do not see them, most of them, when they are just waking up.
Have you noticed how sometimes when you wake up that there is a disorientation because you've been dreaming and the world of dream which is another world altogether and then you're waking up and there is a moment when you don't know who you are or where you are. It is very much like that around you now.
If you live with others you sometimes have the opportunity to see them in those moments and while you may be amused and being able to identify with those moments in yourself, and perhaps you all laugh about it, there are vast many others - the people in your neighborhood, the people you meet and many people all over the Earth whom you don't meet.
This waking up situation in the moments of confusion is happening now all over the planet. This is why many people that you will meet will momentarily seem to be so distracted. Not just because they are thinking or doing something but at other moments.
For those of you who live in cities this might be something that happens in an elevator or it might be something that happens at a bus stop. For those that live in the country it might be a situation where you come upon a person who appears to be thinking about something but who may be momentarily having a situation where they have forgotten why they are going somewhere, what they are going to do and the purpose for their being where they are in that moment.
It doesn't mean that they are crazy, alright? Many of you can identify with this right now. It's almost like a secret isn't it? You get up to go into another room to get something and you promptly forget why you went in there. This isn't something that happens only to the old, it's happening to people all over the planet.
This is because identity is in a bubble right now and very often your personal identity - who you are, what you want, where you're going, why you're there is in a bubble that you get up and leave when you go from where you are just a short distance away. It's as if the bubble suddenly remembers, "Oh, I must go with my being" and rushes to meet you and you may remember why you're in that other place or you may not. This is actually part of the waking up phenomena.
Waking up is not about sleep and the waking world. Waking up in this sense means you are beginning to remember who you really are and where you are really from and what you are really doing on Earth and how long you will stay on Earth and what you will do on Earth.
You will find that within the next 20 years this phenomena happens so much to so many people it becomes a regular subject of discussion. Doctors and scientists will move past the point of identifying it as forgetfulness into simply saying it's a phenomena, we don't know what it means - alright?
So I feel duty bound to reveal to you that what it means is simply you are waking up and it is a passageway. So what to do about that? More next time.


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Ellie Drennan talks about sleepovers w/ Jessie J!
Drennan has remained in contact with Jessie J, who coached her to victory last year. Indeed she had a sleep over with the British popstar in Sydney last week.
Jessie was also one of the first people Drennan sent Hard Love, which the teenager co-wrote, to for her opinion.


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After the excess of the festive season we naturally look to rebalance our lives. That might mean putting that block of cheese down and heading out for a jog, or simply clearing away the clutter from our recent guests. And the kitchen is often first place we start when we look to restore calm into our lives.
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A new addition to our repertoire of ideas that will get your guests talking!
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Two tables for each character are available for each character, available as a pair or individually.
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The tables entertain in character, creating an exciting buzz. Great for meet and greet offering guests their first cocktail or appetizer of the evening. Other ideas to serve: wine, hors d'oeuvres, dessert, favors, party bags, name tags, promotional materials or whatever else comes to mind.
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package brooklyn.rest.resources;

import static com.google.common.collect.Iterables.filter;
import static com.google.common.collect.Iterables.transform;

import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;

import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

import brooklyn.config.render.RendererHints;
import brooklyn.entity.basic.EntityLocal;
import brooklyn.event.AttributeSensor;
import brooklyn.event.Sensor;
import brooklyn.event.basic.BasicAttributeSensor;
import brooklyn.rest.api.SensorApi;
import brooklyn.rest.domain.SensorSummary;
import brooklyn.rest.transform.SensorTransformer;

import com.google.common.base.Function;
import com.google.common.base.Optional;
import com.google.common.collect.Iterables;
import com.google.common.collect.Lists;
import com.google.common.collect.Maps;

public class SensorResource extends AbstractBrooklynRestResource implements SensorApi {

    private static final Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(SensorResource.class);

    @SuppressWarnings("rawtypes")
    @Override
    public List<SensorSummary> list(final String application, final String entityToken) {
        final EntityLocal entity = brooklyn().getEntity(application, entityToken);

        return Lists.newArrayList(transform(filter(entity.getEntityType().getSensors(), AttributeSensor.class),
                new Function<AttributeSensor, SensorSummary>() {
                    @Override
                    public SensorSummary apply(AttributeSensor sensor) {
                        return SensorTransformer.sensorSummary(entity, sensor);
                    }
                }));
    }

    @Override
    public Map<String, Object> batchSensorRead(final String application, final String entityToken, final Boolean raw) {
        final EntityLocal entity = brooklyn().getEntity(application, entityToken);
        Map<String, Object> sensorMap = Maps.newHashMap();
        @SuppressWarnings("rawtypes")
        Iterable<AttributeSensor> sensors = filter(entity.getEntityType().getSensors(), AttributeSensor.class);

        for (AttributeSensor<?> sensor : sensors) {
            Object value = entity.getAttribute(findSensor(entity, sensor.getName()));
            if (Boolean.FALSE.equals(raw)) {
                value = applyDisplayValueHint(sensor, value);
            }
            sensorMap.put(sensor.getName(), getValueForDisplay(value, true, false));
        }
        return sensorMap;
    }

    protected Object get(boolean preferJson, String application, String entityToken, String sensorName, Boolean raw) {
        final EntityLocal entity = brooklyn().getEntity(application, entityToken);
        AttributeSensor<?> sensor = findSensor(entity, sensorName);
        Object value = entity.getAttribute(sensor);
        if (Boolean.FALSE.equals(raw)) {
            value = applyDisplayValueHint(sensor, value);
        }
        return getValueForDisplay(value, preferJson, true);
    }

    @Override
    public String getPlain(String application, String entityToken, String sensorName, final Boolean raw) {
        return (String) get(false, application, entityToken, sensorName, raw);
    }

    @Override
    public Object get(final String application, final String entityToken, String sensorName, final Boolean raw) {
        return get(true, application, entityToken, sensorName, raw);
    }

    public static final Object applyDisplayValueHint(AttributeSensor<?> sensor, Object initialValue) {
        Iterable<RendererHints.DisplayValue> hints = Iterables.filter(RendererHints.getHintsFor(sensor), RendererHints.DisplayValue.class);
        if (Iterables.size(hints) > 1) {
            log.warn("Multiple display value hints set for sensor {}; Only one will be applied, using first", sensor);
        }

        Optional<RendererHints.DisplayValue> hint = Optional.fromNullable(Iterables.getFirst(hints, null));
        if (hint.isPresent()) {
            return hint.get().getDisplayValue(initialValue);
        } else {
            return initialValue;
        }
    }

    private AttributeSensor<?> findSensor(EntityLocal entity, String name) {
        Sensor<?> s = entity.getEntityType().getSensor(name);
        if (s instanceof AttributeSensor) return (AttributeSensor<?>) s;
        return new BasicAttributeSensor<Object>(Object.class, name);
    }

}

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On April 3, 2018, the Superior Court of Washington for King County issued a decision affirming the use of enhanced advance notice bylaws and finding that the board's decision to reject a deficient notice is an exercise of its business judgment. The case is Blue Lion Opportunity Master Fund, L.P. vs. HomeStreet, Inc., No. 18-2-06791-0 SEA. While this is a Washington state decision, it was widely followed as Delaware courts have not yet addressed the validity of enhanced advance notice bylaws. The case is also a reminder of the importance of well-drafted advance notice bylaws, which can serve as an effective first line of defense to a hostile proxy contest. Likewise, shareholders seeking to nominate candidates should carefully review the target company's advance notice bylaws to ensure that its notice satisfies every procedural requirement, no matter how trivial.
HomeStreet is a financial services corporation based in Washington. HomeStreet's advance notice bylaws require that any notice submission include extensive information regarding the candidate's background and qualifications, including a 52-page questionnaire, as well as any other information required to be disclosed in a proxy statement by incorporating by reference extensive SEC regulations. Blue Lion Capital ("BLC"), a hedge fund, delivered a 133-page notice the day before the advance notice deadline.
On February 23, BLC delivered a notice letter (the "Notice Letter") to the board—the day before the Company's advance notice deadline. The Notice Letter informed the board of BLC's intention to nominate two independent directors, and to submit two substantive corporate governance proposals.
BLC and HomeStreet both subsequently embarked on public "letter campaigns" to defend their positions. On March 1—six days after receiving BLC's notice—the board issued a press release announcing that it had rejected BLC's Notice Letter as invalid. HomeStreet identified "at least 32 instances of failures to satisfy the requirements set forth in the bylaws."1 For example, the board found that the Notice Letter failed to provide information required under the bylaws by reference to the federal proxy rules, such as BLC's estimated proxy fight cost and whether BLC planned to seek reimbursement from the Company, and failed to include information regarding share ownership of BLC affiliates. BLC sought to cure the alleged deficiencies in a supplemental submission, which the board rejected as untimely.
On March 13, BLC filed a complaint against the Company in Washington state court, seeking a declaratory judgment that the Notice Letter complied with the Company's bylaw requirements, and moved to enjoin the Company from rejecting the Notice Letter as invalid. BLC argued that enhanced scrutiny should apply to the board's decision and that the bylaw should be struck down because it "unduly restrict[s] the stockholder franchise." Compl., ¶ 78. On April 3, the court held that the Company's advance notice bylaw was valid and that BLC had failed to comply with its requirements. The court noted that "[a]dvance notice bylaws like the one at issue in this case are common," and that the board's decision to reject the Notice Letter as invalid was subject to the deferential business judgement rule.
1 HomeStreet Press Release, HomeStreet Discloses That Notice of Director Nominations and Proposals from Blue Lion Capital is Invalid, March 1, 2018, available here.
2 "Nowhere in its objection to BLC's Notice does HomeStreet claim it has insufficient knowledge of BLC's intended actions. Instead, HomeStreet's Board attempts to invalidate the Notice with a novel objection: BLC not only needed to provide the information required (which it did), but BLC also needed to repeat "No Further Information" or "Not Applicable" more than twenty-five times, to confirm that there was nothing else it needed to disclose." BLC Press Release, HomeStreet Board Reveals Disdain for Shareholder Rights, March 8, 2018, available here.


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