Issues and Concerns Surrounding the Economics of Sewer Systems and Proposals for Zone 3 in Grand Bend Ontario

Hello Minister of the Environment, the Honourable John Gerretsen,

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This note sets down my present thoughts a few of the main issues and concerns that I have gathered from discussions, reading, and personal experiences related to the updating of sewer systems in Zone 3. I include a commentary where appropriate on the economics as I see it.

Many do not see the proposed system as an improvement over what is already in place. The existing individual units can easily be replaced at a lower cost if they mature or become defective. This process works best because it is easily performed and carries minimum risk to the environment and overall economics. It does not rely on centralised decision making other than a review periodically to ensure people are aware of the strength of their existing units. Weak units can be replaced and information shared as to the optimal methods for doing this both economically and environmentally. People are more willing to participate because they can see and understand the consequences. This process is sustainable as properties are bought and sold. New buyers can insist on quality units and sellers can insure units are inspected before properties are sold. Potentially everyone gains.

Other green steps could be attached to individual properties by implementing the European system of grading and surveying properties for energy efficiency and green technologies. A gradual greening of the community can be financed by Retirees and non-Retirees alike.

Retirees, in particular, simply cannot afford to waste money on a useless project with no net economic or green benefit for them.

This is a very serious concern for everyone at all levels. In the present economics, it is improper to take enormous risks with money even though interest rates are low. To gamble or plunge into a high risk project with dubious benefits and what is more alarming net costs or red ink and possible bankruptcy associated with it would be foolhardy to say the least. Yet, that indeed is what people feel very strongly is the case with the overall proposals.

At the very least, an insurance policy for those who might go bankrupt would be prudent. Many residents are retired and don't wish to gamble when interest rates are not giving a decent return and the stock markets are extraordinarily volatile. The uncertainties for savers continues into the long term so careful people will be reluctant to risk savings on something that has a rather checkered history.

The mix of retired and employed persons favours younger employed persons paying for improvements with a freeze on rates for Retirees and perhaps a reduction in overall services to make way for something that is rather marginal for them. Indeed, the economics is against Retirees having to contribute to a centralised type of upgrade as the horizon of benefits ultimately means they lose huge amounts of money at a time when savings are stretched.

The negative costs associated with something that does not bring about a benefit in economic or green terms suggests that the project should be stopped. It is a monumental waste of hard earned savings being spent at a time of severe economic stress.

There does not seem to be any economic justification for a new sewer system in zone 3 which has a very workable system already. In short it is a project that has not been properly assessed in economic and technical terms and local people quite rightly are strongly against it despite consultants reports that may support it's implementation.

Sincerely, RT Lake

Will ye no think kindly on those who would be your friends! May the sun shine with your thoughts, today, and happiness grow in your heart! May you allow yourself some peace of mind.

The World of Matter

Horava's Theory of Matter, Einstein, the Fifth Force, Chameleon matter and the Physics of the Wuh Lax World

When you have a moment and time to puzzle over the idea that what appears around you is not what it appears at all, then consider where in the scheme of things does one's past go, and where can one find the future. In general and special relativity Einstein had an explanation that was puzzling because it implied that in some strange way the past, present, and future co-exist.

We don't seem to have a place to put all the matter if past matter and present matter and future matter all occupy space and time. Well, we have the puzzle of dark energy and that of dark matter. These imply that our methods of totalling up matter, the size and scales of the universe are in an early phase to say the least. However, if we assume that our present universe, which we can only guess at because we can never see it, is somehow wrapped up and the wrapping up involves energy and mass in some way, might not we expect that our measures of the present universe of matter be a tad understated. Well, I leave that with you because now we have a theory of Chameleon matter, a fifth force, to explain dark energy and dark matter.

See:

http://www.newscientist.com/mobile/article/mg20727711.100-is-a-cosmic-chameleon-driving-galaxies-apart.html

So what might this mean for the fact of light having no speed? If you are interested in the New Scientist articles on the nature of matter go to:

http://www.newscientist.com/mobile/article/mg20727721.200-rethinking-einstein-the-end-of-spacetime.html

For more general discussions, if you are interested in dark matter have a look at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter

Similarly, if you are interested in dark energy consult:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_energy

Also, see some of the controversies about dark energy and dark matter:

http://www.physorg.com/news77190620.html

What does Wuh Lax physics have to offer to this discussion? Stay tuned! At the very least, we can postulate that the bodies of past matter certainly do influence the bodies of present and further matters. And, the influence will depend on location? Think about that!

Will ye no think kindly on those who would be your friends! May the sun shine with your thoughts, today, and happiness grow in your heart! May you allow yourself some peace of mind.

Development of Our World Economic Systems

The macroeconomic strategy for anything is almost invariably growth and development. It is a mantra of economists trained outside the school of history and environmental studies. It is the old way of thinking that brought us to our present state of unreadiness. For indeed, we are NOT ready for what is coming next.

They say that a rise in per capita real income results in the reduction in family size. A wonderful TED presentation ( see http://www.Ted.com ) by Hans Rosling describes in a powerful power point format how the distribution of wealth may materialize over future years as the slow growth richer economies give way to the fast growth poorer economies. What happens is that as we grow economies with higher per capita real incomes, we slow down world population growth rates and the earth's chances of survival improve.

The landscape of technology at the present time is poised for transformation from a long period of development into a rush of innovation. Growth in wealth terms worldwide could be spectacular. There are a few downsides to this, but the most interesting aspect is that we could save fragile systems that enrich our habitat while we grow richer, or we could create a boring plane of junk that leads everyone to higher and higher planes of frustration and boredom.

This issue is whether we go for stimulation or relaxation as our mode of living. We have a choice overall as to which direction the curve is biased.

We can go on as mainly permanent ADD, Attention Deficit Disorder, people, or as REAL, Relaxed Easy Artistic Living people. In the ADD world, people are seriously replaced and removed as so much machinery, but in the REAL world people continue as people, but they focus on the arts and the quality of life.

Most macro economic experts see development as desirable because they envisage a slow down in overall economic or macro growth as a consequence of underdevelopment. In reality, however, we have seen that the rapid development of financial markets in the wrong directions has been destructive of overall growth. Thus it matters what the direction of development has been.

We see that the development of the automobile and the combustion engine has brought with it the development of oil wells, refineries and a host of industrial artifacts and products from plastics to synthetic materials. It also has brought with it a host of issues associated with killing and death, wars, pain, and suffering on scales never before experienced. Most of all, it has shielded one part of the world from the problems of the other, so that a few countries did very well Jack, while many countries suffered terribly. This has happened within a century.

Perhaps, the development of the combustion engine was a bit lopped sided in the favor of interests that controlled oil production, refining, and distribution. We see that now! Some see it very clearly and we call them terrorists. As China uses more oil, it will increasingly fight these terrorists for the rest of the world until they are eliminated. The truth is, however, that technological innovation gets lopsided because free market economies are lazy in the innovation of alternatives.

Will ye no think kindly on those who would be your friends! May the sun shine with your thoughts, today, and happiness grow in your heart! May you allow yourself some peace of mind.

Socks and stuff

My advice is to relax with a good book and put on your Marks and
Sparks socks with the pink toes!

RT

Concerns About Proposed Sewer System for Grand Bend and Zone 3 in Particular

Dear Minister of the Environment, Honorable John

I am a retired Civil Servant who has worked at the Federal and International levels dealing with a budget much larger than you could dream of.

This email is to tell you openly of my concerns about the proposed introduction of a new sewer drainage or pump system within the Zone 3 catchment locate at Southcott Pines in Grand Bend.

I realize that your office is keen to get the message across that you will protect the environment with resources that have been assigned jointly by Federal, Provincial and Municipal authorities.

The efforts of all three representative bodies will work in that direction only if they are properly coordinated with another representative body which is the consumer, and in this case the voter, who should have a significant say in what is done.

What I have seen is very destructive of the process of getting people to work towards a responsible solutions to very serious environmental issues. The end users, the people, the voters, are asking that you follow not only the law, but the best courses of action to get the job done in ways that the progress made is sustainable. What is currently in the pipeline for my locality will ultimately be unsustainable and have to be reversed by a wiser more coordinated and responsive collection of individuals. That is my concern. I do not wish to see projects that will be torn up and thrown away within a short space of time, especially as resources to protect the environment are extraordinarily scarce.

Realistically, to accomplish a sustainable system for removing human waste, you need to talk to the people who produce it. There is no other way to have them on board. The idea that you can mandate a solution by labeling it the best is a false and dangerous path to take as it precludes the many difficult steps that are needed to produce a sustainable solution, one that will last, do the job, and be supported financially by all levels of participate over the long haul.

I think the steps to introduce the proposed sewer systems for this area are greatly misguided, misfitting to the job, and unsustainable at almost every level of participation. This is why you will hear so many frustrated people taking on positions as equally misfitting to the task. In short, you, the Federal Government, the Regional people, and the local people have not yet finished your homework. It is not good enough to say that you are eager to go ahead and have the money, when their is no brains behind the application of the technologies proposed and they do not fit the task, are ill suited to the job, do not engender support from the end user and will damage relations at all levels of participation.

So, please, I know you want to look good on this and I know you want to do a good job, and I know you are keen that the environment be protected, but THINK more about the process, get all the soldiers in a row, get technologies that are fitting to the task and then go about getting support in the proper way with everyone on board because that is what it takes for a sustainable solution.

Personally, I don't know you, but what I have seen thus far suggests that the people with the money are not doing their proper job of seeing the i's dotted and the t's crossed and there may be some strange illegalities going on. We don't know. I don't know, but the present process of proposal, selection, review, consultation, and implementation is not good. It smells more than the pollution we are seeking to avoid.

You are the man! You need to get your head around this or you will cross a threshold of discontent and wasted time that nothing you propose in the future will be sustainable. Get your act together and participate appropriately as you should. Get better people on the job. Get them to focus more on the tasks that will get us a sustainable effort of which we can all be proud. That you have gone down the wrong tracks so far is no shame. Everyone makes mistakes, but don't continue in the misfitting directions you are heading with this.

Arthur Lake,

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Residents want to charge city for their shit

In this imaginary environmentally friendly community, the residents put in a claim for their recycled excrement. They say the nutrients provided to the city are not so different from cow and pig manure which save farmers millions in costs for imported fertilizer.

When interviewed, the citizens claim that cities are secretly stealing their shit and companies and farm corporations they sell it to are dumping it on fields to grow energy crops such as corn.

Given the high cost of energy, one's shit can fetch a high price if properly accounted for and treated as a recyclable for energy production.

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Environment Ministries of Ontario and Canada Want to Shit All Over Rare Carolingian Forest

I won't mention the communities involved, but this story is unusual in that it defies what common sense environment ministries are supposed to exercise when spending tax money. It's a story of a beautiful Canadian community and rare Ontario Carolingian forest area that is being used as a sewer for human waste. It's a story about what can go wrong when bureaucrats in far off places don't have enough control over where and how precious tax savings are spent.

It's a story of loss of control when power is in the hands of people with the purse rather than devolved to the local community, and how it can devastate small communities financially, while looking good in the books of agglomerated communities defined by the economies of scale. It's a story about why large and efficient is not best.

It's an example for every concerned world community wishing to avoid the environmental degradation brought on by large scale thinking and projects. It's a story of the extraordinary mismatch between short term thinking and long term financial reality. It's a story about extraordinary waste of precious savings that should go to protect the environment redirected towards projects that destroy the environment.

Stay tuned for reevaluations and details you will not believe about how people feel comfortable when used as a flow point for human excrement! Be concerned because this could be your community in Ontario, Canada that is be used as a dump for human shit in a large scale so-called environmental project.

Posted on google.com by AW Lake.

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Thank you for Stopping by!

Hi Wally!

My wife and I appreciate all the work you have been doing for your neighbours. We will try to wag our tongues a bit to help out where possible.

My mantra is that we here should maintain the lowest energy use and lowest net pollution sewer system out of our present residential areas. The existing system is best for minimizing energy use and pollution in a residential low environmental impact community. Our woods, wetlands and ponds provide a modern optimal long term solution. We provide access to nature and share our property with nature in a balanced environmentally friendly way.

This may mean a permanent delay to the authorities proposal for an energy using sewer system here as it's energy and pollution costs are much too high under present world and national targets to cut pollution creation and total energy use.

We will give moral support to farmers efforts to cut energy costs and net pollution out of the farms.

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Understanding the American Financial Industry Mindset ... summary comment.

Despite all that's happened in the financial world over the last several years, the mindset of the firms and banks making up the industry may not have changed appreciably. This means that the people worldwide will have to adjust to a permanent phenomenon of game playing. The mindset is focused on me, or I, or the self as a financial enterprise playing a game within what is considered a willing group. That group is the worldwide population.

The group set is that everyone wins because there is a payout and the losers are not willing to end the games. Payouts give advantages to winners that puts losers into the background of the rule changing of the games played. Losers don't end the game playing, but they do drop out of games. Players may even get caught cheating or put the playing field at risk. Nevertheless, the games continue and the losers pay handsomely whether they like it or not.

The sad thing about the games is that they change income and wealth distribution increasingly towards biological responses that increase the actual numbers of losers. This too favors those changing game rules and means larger payouts and easier pickings over lots and lots of games and over shorter and shorter financial industry product cycles.

Rather than having a world view of people as people, the financial game players, and especially those living in America, don't see the results of their game playing. They see no morality codes that need to be adhered to other than cheating at the games and changing e rules of the games in their favor. Their existence is focused on winning more and more games with bigger and bigger payouts. They care nothing, nothing, about the progress of other players other than that they are competing with them for larger and larger payouts.

Most other people see people as people and not as not financial "John's" to be screwed. Most people live in an interactive world of human beings and have normal emotional responses, but the game players have lost that sensitivity. For them, any game goes as long as the payout is better. That is their mindset and it is what and who they are. They can even be machines. Yes, the new game players can behave like machines or they can actually be the machines themselves. Game players can control machines that play the games for them, or play some of the games for them. Machines can control machines to play games.

So the financing world has changed, or seemingly so. There is less morality in the finical world because the machine has already taken over and its goal is larger and larger payouts to game players, human and machine compositions, that play more and more games with larger and larger payouts from winning.

Yes, as a human being, you have already lost to the machine, an amoral machine at that, who is controlling your time and money-making activities more and more. There are no rules in games played by the machine game player that cannot be re-written in it's favor.

My friend, the battle against an amoral machine has already been lost.

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No 'preordained path' for interest rate increases or do you like to gamble your savings away?

Canadian interest rate policy is changing!  The UK also has a split in it's voting.  When the crack appears deminishing returns for fighting inflation already built into peoples debt burden will accelerate extremely rapidly.  The idea of avoiding a second dip is pretty silly in face of the existing debt overhang and war economics.

Do you believe the conventional wisdom?

No 'preordained path' for interest rate increases

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The problems continue from borrowing short and lending long. What Is inflation?

Just thinking about the debt overhang should send shivers through your spine. We all have read about how the reparations exacted from Germany by France led to militarisation and the holocaust. Don't be fooled that it can't happen again. The governments of the war economies of Britain, Canada, and United States continue to support debt growth well into the future.

In contrast, we know that people should not be drawn into gambling their future away on the stock markets of hell economies. We know people shoukd earn a decent real interest rate from their savings so that they can plan for future retirements and safe pensions free of inflation.

The disguised inflation of property asset inflation fools everyone into thinking we have low inflation, but our realities are very different. The watchdogs of the UN organizations have failed us while the US, Canada, and Britain were nation building in the Middle East under the guise of protecting Jewish interests for stability in the Middle East.

The war on terror is now about to become a war on debt. The price of waging war on terrorism is too expensive to think the world won't be drawn into much worse. Terrorists can't possibly help the interests of terrorists because the footing of their cause is undermined by the interconnectedness of humanity. We all go down as one as long as the wars continue. No one wins, everyone loses in wars.

What we have is war and the consequences of wars:

- disguised inflation in the form of property appreciation that cannot be sustained,

- people with debt so high they are owned by lenders in a new form of interest paying debt slavery,

- a resurgence of neo-nazist thinking and grouping,

- the US National Rifleman's Association saying they are bored having won the crazy policy of arming everyone to the hilt with weaponry that is caustic to think about,

- a dissipation of tolerance and trust, interest rates so low that it is impossible to save in a bank deposit without losing real assets because inflation has been enormously higher in return, especially in wasteful speculation in property,

- the return of the fallacy of the notion that inflation could be good to wipe out debt,

- Isreal now increasingly hated by moderates because of Isreal's own forms of extremism,

- the real possibility of a renewal of hostilities in Northern Ireland,

- the destruction of the environment of the Caribbean,

- the loss of initiative to fight a dying planet overheating with too many engines of economic growth firing on all pistons to out compete each other.

There is an strangeness of our world as it's future has streams of hate and love in conflict. The majority want poverty to end but it is growing and people are suffering from the excesses of the rich and powerful.

Quite a turn for the books!

We have a respite from the swine and bird flu only to find there are other more serious threats to manage.

Review the mismatch once again:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=borrow%20short%20lend%20long%20inflation&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=

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When stealing is OK!

Stealing is rampant and you need to know all the games people use to steal from you. The poor do become poorer through thievery. Theft is the game of the rich and powerful. It has become the game of the ordinary church going, mosque attending, average hypocrite that one wants to trust, yet it is naive in this modern age if one blindly does trust others. There are too many thieves around to be safe, too many pick pockets after your hard earned assets, so be wary.

When and if one treads through history, one finds that most of the financial and economic misery of the post war period arises from excesses associated with the misuse of the US dollar and the lack of sincerity in financial reforms through time that sought to make a more honest or fair world. Sure the IMF has come up with ways to mitigate excesses, but historically the pain that is felt by the small scale operator and by ordinary families, the weak, vulnerable and poor, is disproportionately high. You will experience loss yourself through theft.

Poor people bear too much of the brunt of the results of excess and abuse by large concerns, particularly banks that claim the moral high ground yet fleece the poor. The latest financial reforms in the US are a cop out to the larger issues of legalised theft, and a way to expand thievery. Read the following article on Volker's approach and see if you don't agree with me!

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/07/26/100726fa_fact_cassidy?currentPage=all

My concern is that we put people through unnecessary misery because we neglect to curtail the financial excesses of those with capital. We assume a general morality in finance that does not exist in reality. We turn a blind eye to what is essentially creative thievery. In our self created amoral society, people steal small things most of the time. Where people can keep secrets they do and they really exploit opportunities for legal theft whether they work in government or business. They do it with a warped sense of morality based on the notion that consequences are limited and it's smart to steal and deceive. The young being astute game players are increasingly adept at amoral theft. Steal a bit here, loot a bit there. It's part of the historical background.

Well then the next step is to steal by force when necessary. We are naive to think that this won't happen to our kids and to ourselves as we will experience the effect of laws that make it easier to steal and we become increasingly vulnerable to thieves. The legal systems and electronic technologies that make it easier to steal are with us and unfortunately expanding at an alarming rate.

Daily, we hear about Internet theft. Any casual conversation will lead to a discussion of who has lost what from a group on the Internet. Meet anyone and they will have experienced loss from theft.

Obviously, there is rampant thievery behind the scenes, and most worrying is when trusted people engage in it wholesale, the British MPs steal by false expenses, the villages wanting revenues do it legally by the science of the placement of speeding cameras, banks do it by the timing of the debit of interest, governments do it by keeping interest rates low so they can acquire more tax assets and finance takeovers of the private economy, firms do it by loans from banks to acquire competitors or plum operations others have spent their lives developing.

Theft has been legalised and you need to know the basic rule that it's very ok.

In fact, in the modern world if you don't steal, cheat, swindle, con, deceive, you are a mug of the highest order.

The game as it is now played has no rules except those passed by the thieves to steal legally. You might as well pass laws so that you can steal, as well.

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David Cameron's Initiative to Slash Government Excesses

As an observer of what is happening as a consequence of the extraordinary excesses of the series of governments in Britain, Canada and the US, which have been on a war financial footing for almost a decade, the appearance of a Mr. Cameron budget slasher is welcome.

The greatest challenge to these three countries is the reduction of debt. Canada to be sure has had an Alberta oil cushion to lean on, but that era is closing rapidly as the costs of pollution mount up. So much pollution has built up during the last decade in Britain, USA, and Canada that the environments are scarcely recognisable, so much deterioration in the quality of the environment! Pollution in these three countries on ever increasing scales and explosion of debt are the consequence of nation building in Iraq and Afghanistan, an enormous cost of spend spend spend governments. Well, it seems trite to say that the bill has arrived and it is spectacularly large. Irresponsible is the word that describes the war spending mentality of Britain, Canada, and United States, placing the stability of the world at enormous risk!

There is so much debt around that one's head spins! David Cameron obviously a man of vision and David Clegg an astute opposition leader realise that the absolutely wasteful excesses of the Blair and Brown years have possibly destroyed the future of the country. So little is the domestic economy that one hardly thinks that Britain is a home for the British. Everyone in the middle ground of the economy is in debt up to the eyeballs, loans are too many multiples of income streams, or beholden to government handouts, or corrupted by property speculation and stock market gambling. Ownership has shifted by a stupendous amount to outside financiers who pillage the country looking for spoils like the Manchester United football team or Harrods. The real question is whether or not it is too late and whether or not the leadership of Cameron and Clegg is sufficient.

Opposition to the cost cutting in Britain comes from those who will benefit most in the long term, the ordinary people who have been led down the Gordon path of waste for over a decade. They are so addicted to waste that frugality is going to appear as extreme withdrawal and headaches will be a daily event.

Here is a review from a New York paper.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/21/world/europe/21cameron.html?_r=1&th&emc=th

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William Li's idea that we can potentially eat to starve cancer? Below is a link to his Video on TED.com

Hi! Occasionally, you are in my thoughts and that is why you are receiving this email.

Thought you might find this interesting if you had not already come across it.

We are what we eat. Such is the logic of a novel idea, which seems to be not so novel and yet is revolutionary in concept. It has to do with blood vessels and how our body produces and destroys them. William Li presents the idea on TED that we potential have the means to avoid many diseases and fight disease issues within our bodies by understanding more about how the body heals itself naturally. When our bodies are in balance they cope with the many potential disease issues we see rampant in the total population. Surprise, surprise, our health depends enormously on our diet and exercise!

The kicker is that most diets require an overall balance to be effective but don't deal effectively with overall balance. Most diets are partial rather than general equilibrium in nature. Thus, one goes on a popular diet loses weight temporarily and regains the weight subsequently. Or, one has a diet to fight something and dies from that that something anyways. This is particularly the problem of diets designed to fight cancer.

We know cancer is potentially going to kill any one of us. What we don't often realize is that the health issues that lead to cancer have long tails, such as breathing in a small particle of asbestos that thirty years later has cancer cells growing around it that lead to the full blown disease. Our bodies, nevertheless, can cope with a host of potential cancers by being in equilibrium with regard to blood vessel creation and destruction. This is what Dr Li focuses on! How do we ensure that our bodies cope with most destructive factors that would lead to premature death or a health disequilibrium such as characteristic of obesity? Many diseases have very long tails and so we can be surprised by unexpected disease more often as we grow older.

Our bodies are extraordinarily complex and there are no easy answers. Dr Li does however present an enormous set of possibilities for reducing the likelihood of any one of an enormous set of diseases appearing out of nowhere. The method hinges on the bodies ability to create and destroy blood vessels. We may find that we can proactively increase the chances that our bodies will be in equilibrium as regards having the natural weaponry and supplies of what is needed from the chemistry of our food to fight an enormous list of potential diseases. And, win!

The corollary is that we animals have evolved in equilibrium but that balance is destroyed by what we are attracted to by those selling food. Rather that being hunters and gatherers, we have become cavities in which an enormous list of toxins are dumped daily. We are lulled into putting the toxins into our bodies because we do not proactively try to determine what is good for us and verify the actual effects of what we encouraged to put onto or into our bodies. We have become lazy in our surveillance of potential hazards, such as sugar, wheat, salt, omega 6 fat, nicotine, food colorings, proteins, and so on.

Review Dr Li's talk and let us know what you really think?

http://www.ted.com/talks/william_li.html

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Pessimism built into technology

Hi Readers!

Thank you for your replies.  You are absolutely right in all you write even though you do it off the cuff.  

The old issues of letting things be governed by the price mechanism produce my skepticism about recycling, which is that it will worsen the environment because of economic forces.  I just use the examples to start thoughts without firing any real argumental guns.  

The difficulty is not from the intent of policy makers which is to protect the environment, but rather that we are designed by the logic of efficiency and competition to bring the technology bull into the china world we occupy.  Technology drives economics through economies that produce the effect of profit.  Because people will choose inappropriate technologies for the environment being profit oriented, there is no hope for the environment.  The point is that the technologies we have innovated are diametrically in opposition to protecting the environment.  This means that as we use the business approach to social exchange, we will surely kill the golden goose just as certainly as if we were to release a bull into a china shop and it would break the china.  Politics must rule the economic choices, but politics is not smooth and can lead to it's own destructive goals.

Recycling is a silly construct to make people feel good!

The fact is that we are on an economic technology path to kill all that is beautiful in the world because we worship economies of scale as these provide the greatest profit.  All social arrangements of exchange based on the profit motive are designed technologically to destroy the environment.  Bigger is destructive of family and healthy social arrangements, and yet it is what gives us a rising standard of living and makes our destructive system work in the short term.  It leads however to higher and higher environment costs that are not priced by present market mechanisms.  

My assessment is very Hawking that the generating functions of our physics and the biology of our nature and tools produces a bad series of physical events.  We need to find a better series that will create the world habitat structure which is optimal.  Our economies of scale dilemma lurks in the background to destroy all our efforts.  The BPs of this world are driving it to destruction.  

The banking orientation of the IMF is driving the world to destruction.  There is so much destructive power in the money and debt out there that we will be lucky to avoid a major third war.

 

Can you see a way out?

 

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The Recycling of the obvious and why economies of scale fail in the new economic reality

How strange it is that where a resource is most plentiful, it may be the resource that is most likely to be recycled. The logic would seem to be that if local production facilities exist that can use a resource it will be recycled because there is a demand from the producing end of the production cycle. However, what is strange is that the recycled resource is at these points relatively more plentiful, thus one is seeing coal shipped, as it were, to Newcastle which already has coal coming out of it's ears!

What's missing from this logic is the relocation of the resource to be recycled in sufficient quantity to be useful in a productive process where it is most needed. Thus, if a recyclable is shipped back to where it is plentiful the intuitive shipment cost is doubled. Were the availability of a recyclable in a new location to lead to a productive process then the reshipment back would be unnecessary to the use of a resource.

A good example of what I mean is the refusal in parts of Devon to collect paper, while there is an enthusiasm to collect farm waste. The reality is that of introducing new industry to recycle farm waste which is plentiful, not back into the farm, but into producing electricity. The danger is that economies of scale in the electricity sector will destroy the agricultural sector as profits from energy production outstrip those of farming by a huge factor. End result is a negative when a positive environmental impact was intended. It's how profitability in production can distort the economics of the environment. Additionally, the negative externalities of production are not costed. Pollution is after all a free good and rarely accounted for. One can accumulate as much pollution as one's domicile and activities allow. People will even pay one to absorb their pollution but rarely enough to cover the costs of being polluted! We can see that recycling is not the process introduced but further pollution based on neglect of the true economic, environment and social cost. All is done because a profit can be obtained. Money making rules rather than judgement and good sense.

So what happens to paper where there is a paper shortage. There the paper is burned because there is no production facility that can use it! Paper is recycled in Canada and burned in Britain! Not wholly true but real enough that we can see that the problem is production for profit as distorted by economies of scale that arise when something is plentiful. It's technology use that is at fault. Technology is used to make profit and not a better local environment. Why should we lie about this reality rather than tackling it's true costs of pollution and unemployment?

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Article: Friendship in an Age of Economics

Occasionally, one finds on the Internet articles that are very close to unearthing little truths that we understand, but have difficulty expressing ourselves.  The following link finds you a page or more of interesting discussion on the nature of friendship as it stands outside normal economic considerations.

Friendship in an Age of Economics
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/04/friendship-in-an-age-of-economics/

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The anosognosic's dilemma

Readers

Thank you for sharing with me your personal connections to an anosognosic's dilemma. We share the dilemma. None of us really escape the dilemma?

We all like to feel we are in control and fully aware of what's sending messages inside us and around us. Fact is we have only a varying percentage of awareness and spend most of our waking hours guessing what the messages are. We can firmly say that we occupy two worlds, that inside our heads and that outside, at the very least. There is much more going on, however!

I think we are attached to billions of quantum worlds through our brains and the billions of bugs and plants that make us what we are, a massive world of living organisms, many of which continue to live on after we lose our own memories and self reflections, those amazing abilities to conjure up a multidimensional abstractions from thousands of living organisms sending messages to each other.

In brief, if you don't think we send messages to the quantum worlds you are flying in the face of mounting evidence, and we are discovering how organisms can and do exchange both to and have components that receive messages from quantum worlds. They say plants could not exist if they did not occupy our universe and the quantum ones. We are so much more than plants and we do have billions of plants living within us making us what we are and can be, consciously or otherwise!

RT

One person aware of the problem wrote!

> My mother was an anosognosic after a massive stroke resulting in a non-functioning the right hemisphere confirmed by Pet scans. She definitely did not know what she did not know. It was impossible for me to imagine what she experienced. So I did not know what she knew and could not know what she

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Making your weaknesses work for you! The pain-balance hypothesis.

Making your weaknesses work for you! The pain-balance hypothesis.

Our weaknesses for the purpose of this note are the things that we like. Our bodies recognise lots of weaknesses and strengths, the things we do not like. To harness and enjoy our weaknesses, we can put are strengths temporarily aside. For example to enjoy a sweetie, we can put aside the pain of a tooth ache. That is an extreme example, but you should get the equation. A minus of weakness is bodily offset by a plus of strength. In the end we have a balance or imbalance. A big negative total in the short term will be offset by borrowing on or use of our stored up positive assets, our stored up strengths, the painful things that we have had to endure.

This note is not about making our stored up strengths work for us. For example, to enjoy a sweetie we could think of the death of a toad that we witnessed a week ago. That type of offsetting will happen, but it is not my main focus now. Rather, I want to consider how to make weaknesses work for one in real time. The background and main issue is that weakness has to be offset by strength if you are not to expire prematurely. I won't say die, but in a larger context that is what happens if we indulge our weaknesses without offsetting them. One might say that we sin and then we ask For forgiveness which comes about through indulging in our strengths. A corollary, of course is that those that will experience the greatest of weakness will also experience the greatest of strength. For example, those that steal will be caught and subjected to harsh punishment. The more punishment one can endure the more one can steal and still survive. The problem with stealing is that it is a very narrow weakness that one may try to do in secret, but one still has to offset this with a strength if one is not to expire prematurely. It's generally not a good idea to put all one's eggs into a single basket, if you get the drift of this particular argument. It's better to indulge in a broad range of weaknesses because an overindulgence in one weakness reduces what can be enjoyed in others.

You may think that my concept of weakness is already adrift. I can assure you that it is not. Take time to observe around you how people and all living creatures indulge their weaknesses and you will observe how their strengths come into play. Developing one's strengths is a necessary precondition to enjoying one's weaknesses. Thus, it is that we can make our weaknesses work for us. The trick is that they must be used to develop our strengths.

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Article: The Anosognosic’s Dilemma

This is not to imply anything about the reader.  But, what am I to know, or do I?

What will you think?

The Anosognosic's Dilemma
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/20/the-anosognosics-dilemma-1/

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Article: The Perils of Positive Thinking

This article suggests we embrace our flaws rather than trying to improve ourselves all the time.  Well I certainly have loads of flaws!  I heard that, Amen.

RT 

The Perils of Positive Thinking
http://www.unlimitedmagazine.com/2010/06/the-perils-of-positive-thinking/print/

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Article: Economists Who Did Their Homework (800 Years of It)

Wooosh .... Learning about the economy and how it really works!

I respect your brain and forward this accordingly. 

The economists referred to in this article, I have met and can vouch for their credentials. Not only that, but they are on that rare track of getting it right most of the time.  This is a must read if you have a pension and value your savings and hard work.  Learn where the economics industry and teaching has gone wrong.  

Enjoy, RT, your guardian angel.

Economists Who Did Their Homework (800 Years of It)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/04/business/economy/04econ.html?_r=2&hpw=&pagewanted=print

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Article: How Pornography Drugs & Changes Your Brain

Wooosh .... as sent to my blog today.

This article is not aimed at you, but I refer to it because I respect you as thinking and sound individuals. 

We are probably the lucky ones for whom addictive disease is not such a tragedy as described by psychologists, social scientists and preachers, and even Judge Judy.  

You have heard me mouth off occasionally about all forms of addiction as a secret disease that ultimately leads to premature death (this is Anne Sheaf's conclusion after a life time working in the inner city.).   

The following very considered long article, which includes references to research published by The Royal Society, summarises one of the main problems of our modern society, so it is a good idea to understand how the process works by reading the article carefully, how one can be affected, and how such a common addiction undermines relationships ultimately killing society, and families and producing slower economic growth and smaller profits!  It's becoming increasingly clear how wrong it is to condone pornography and to accept the misinformation published by the porn industry.  Sex is great but this addiction is like an ever tightening plastic bag over one's head squeezing away the breath of life. 

Arthur  

How Pornography Drugs & Changes Your Brain
http://www.salvomag.com/new/articles/salvo13/13hilton.php

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Anne's Retirement Party

Well Anne!

Congratulations on a life of service. I am proud of you, and so are
we all.

Sketch with lots of help from Bert's photo of an at your celebration
on Monday.

Arthur

The Internet is Flat

Boring! Boring! Boring! The death nells of the Internet are ringing
louder and louder. We are no longer addicted to the Internet because
our tastes are evolving and we have been there and done that, and it's
getting increasingly boring. At least with a paper on your hand you
can get a feel of something. With the Internet you are getting blah!
Blah! Blah!

If newspapers think they can go digital with innovative Ipads and
electronic desks and Turner or Murdoch want to do a turn with the
Internet then the newspapers we are reading have to go because it is
getting in the way. Along with the paper will go the tactile feel.
Or will it?

Well, perhaps what you feel about the Internet will be what you feel.
The next step beyond 3D screens has to excite the sense of touch!

Montreal Family of Lakes - Stage Seven

Now to set the real tone if this image! Surprise! Surprise! It was a
very happy time and really established the directions of our future
lives! Dad was in his element and got meaning from his work! Bob
showed everyone how brilliant he was! John painted the trim on the
house his way and gave it novel and distinctive character, a white
glorious tribute to individualism and agility! We all enjoyed meeting
Edith Guard from Devon, EXPO 1967 and getting our passports stampted.
Driving licences all round! Mom enjoyed the company of the UCW and
read ever more intensely! I met Beatle music and road over swaying
Jacques Cartier Bridge on the back of Ross Stuart's scooter. I
learned how to bake and paint at altitude!

Wow what a wonderful time we had!

RT

The Montreal Family - Stage Six

Partly cubist symbolic!

Feeling more comfortable with this now.
Personalities are starting to appear!
Need theme to develop to place them in context of larger aspect.

RT

Cosmic Explosion - I Quit Here

This is a point of understanding. The cosmos is my own brain. As I
look out I am looking within! What we regard as the very large is
the very small that our eyes enable us to see in a convoluted manner.
As we go out of our world scale into the very large, we enter the very
small world, our inner world. To travel outward, we must travel
inward. What we see is an illusion that can only be reached by
transforming our very nature into an entity that is extremely small
like a ray of light, but in so doing we lose our very essense as an
observer of the world around us. Our observation of reality and the
impressions on our mind is our reality!

RT

Cosmic Explosion - Stage 6

I can forget which stage the image is at, but the intent is only to
show a sequence of increased impression. Each layer adds to
understanding and is cummulative as aspects of lower layers are hidden
from view. Thus one builds a more realistic impression of reality
until the view is clear and exact, more specific and the result if
hard work and direction!

RT

Cosmic Explosion - Stage 5

My mind tells me it is the Hubble satellite and not Huxtable, though
perhaps that was a Freudian slip!
In any event the naked eye cannot see something so large! Makes one
think what else we are blind to!

RT

Cosmic Explosion - Stage 4

Cosmic Explosion - Stage 3

Hi!

This is the start of an impression of a photograph of a super nova
exploding. The super explosion is too small for the naked eye to see
without the Huxtable Satellite and its monster lens, yet too large for
the human mind to comprehend, it is a very strange creature indeed.
It is so large that the earth cannot even be rendered as a pixel in
it's scale, the earth being almost the size of nothing. Despite all
that there us a strong organization of matter and forces which are
truly awesome hense the attempt to get a personal impression

RT

Wave Rider - Stage Three

Storm cutting into the scene from the right!

Differences of Behaviour Between American and British Banks

I was startled to hear the responses of American bankers to the
questions asked at the Bear Stearns Hearings. In Britain, there was
once an unwritten rule that the figures published on third Wednesdays
of the month were representative of the banks balance sheets during
the whole month. The object of publication was to show compliance
with the spirit of the law. It was a surprise that American banks
operating in the UK did not enter inti thus spirit and as a result
cane begging fir finance on the make up days causing all sorts of
market upheaval.

Now the hearings are revealing to British bankers that in the USA it
is the norm not to adhere to any spirit of the law. It is accepted as
the norm to break the spirit of financial cooperation. It is not
surprising that the paria/diease of the world banking systems comes
from America.

There will be continuing turmoil in financial markets so long as US
banks misbehave in what other communities see as criminal behaviour,
and certainly not in the spirit of the law.

This necessitates a publication of the banks' balance sheets on a
daily basis!

How to Improve the Stability of World Financial Markets

If you were watching the TV broadcast of the US Congressional Hearings
for certain US banks, and had the experience of large bank balance
sheet management that I have had, you would have to conclude that
there is one way to improve the transparency of the banking systems
worldwide and and the same time help prevent a future crisis.

The answer is simply that of updating the reporting of banks to their
central authorities so that it can begin to meet the challenges of the
information age.

At the very least this is to enforce with huge penalties for none
compliance a daily business reporting system of the banks balance
sheets. At Barclays in 1978 the whole balance sheet was managed on a
daily basis. It is simple! In an information age it is a no brainer!

Second, is the enforcement of liquidity and capitalization
requirements on a daily basis. This is also very easy to achieve.

Third is the regulation of maturity mismatch on a daily basis!

Fourth iis the raising of precautionary deposit balances with central
authorities.

Fifth is the limitation of borrowed funds for acquisitions. Control
of the financing of acquisitions to profit earnings would reduce the
merger mania.

Sixth is the international taxation of salaries of executives based on
moving five year averages for the industry and geometric profit
performance measures.

Seventh is measures of deviation from best practice published daily.

As always, the issues are not confined to any single view of markets
and a further list of measures will be forthcoming!

P5 Sweep - Stage 5

Not sure how much spray to add and still not satisfied with wave steps!

Error Creation

Sometimes a system will seemingly generate an error. When that
happens frequently we may refer to the problem as a system mis-
specification. The system needs to be recast so that it no longer
generates an error. Inherent, however in most systems are errors that
we tolerate because their ramifications are slight, or because
correcting the system may be over costly with respect to tolerating
the errors.

Systems can evolve and when they evolve to include undesirable
qualities that are very costly we do have to make an economic decision
as to whether the new errors are worth fixing. Such decisions can be
both economical and political, and require debate as well as
evaluation and much research.

Working within a world of errors

We all know that the world is imperfect in many ways.  We all know the works us made up of systems and that for the most part these systems are in balance.  We know that natural systems are approximated very well by the mathematics of chaos, which means that they produce averages that  can be approximated by mathematical statistics.  We also know that all systems while tending to their averages occasionally thrown up values that are extremes.  It is the extremes of values for systems that tell us that the world is made up of many seemingly ordered systems, but that we cannot know all the systems in operation and that it us this lack of knowledge that surprises us when we see errors and judge these to be failures in the system.  These errors are evidence that there are other systems in play that we do not yet understand and have excluded so as to have a simpler view of the world.

Some may refer to these errors as evidence of the inherent randomness of all systems.

My position is that what makes human life and awareness is the presence of errors.  Our human brain uses errors to learn and without awareness of errors we would be exinct long ago!  We see and our senses work because of errors  in the systems around us.  To exclude errors would be to reduce the information our brain needs to understand the world more completely.  Errors put us on new paths of revalation and discovery.  Being able discern errors allows us to understand and correct them and to do that we explore systems at deeper levels to know more about them and how the work and can fail.

Hello again and again

Read previous blog page first, or just continue to be confused!

What might exist is an indeterminabke outcome or a multitude of possible outcomes and no single front runner!  Perhaps, it would be easier just to assume that because you exist the outcome is determinate and that all the systems of the whatever are complete and fully functional.  Yep! You may be just in for the ride of your life time, but that is obvious anyway.

Maybe, because the systems are all complete and fully functional they are actually a single unbelievably large system of a whole that is complete and fully functional.  Maybe, this is not the only ride of a life time that you will have!

It seems to me that one life would make the whole system incomplete, and it would mean that it is not a system at all.  No it need not be finite, but it could be an infinite system within other infinite systems.  Wow!  That increases the chance of another life on earth infinitely to the power of infinite, which means it is certain!

Oh!  Hello again, and again!

World without end!

Is it all complete?

In mathematics, we can have a system of equations to represent the
balance of forces. In mathematical statistics, we can have a
generating function to generate the values of probabilities for
whatever can generate values. We can even add different generating
functions to arrive at unbelievably complex generations of statistical
values.

Each mathematical generating function represents a balance with a
single equation or multiple equations. The equations may represent a
system. Systems of equations may exist within other systems of
equations, so it all gets very complicated very soon.

If we could ever assume that all can be represented mathematically, we
would have an enormous collection of equations. My question is
whether that collection can ever be complete.

If you assume that it can be complete then you may assume that a
balance of forces may exist in some way, or that a statistically
determinable outcome may actually be inherent within the mathematical
representations. This requires an enormous amount of faith in what
can be eventually found if one is ever to set out to find it.

Confused a little?

What exists?

This is a complicated question for to know one might bc expected to
experience? However, we have the notion that more exists than we can
ever know. If the sum total of what exists is observed that is one
set of notions, but we have more out there than what is aware that it
exists. Thus, conscious existence is only a part of what exists. The
other parts do not know they exist. To experience even is only
partial, for experience is had without knowing. We experience the
world without knowing the world. We may come to know more and more
about the world, but we do not know the world completely, nor is it
likely we will ever know the world completely.

Knowing is akin to being smart. We will never be smart enough to know
everything. How smart is the smartest being in all the universes? Do
we make a mistake in assuming that being is smart enough to know
everything there is to know? For such a being to know all, it would
need to be from one end to the other of all that is knowable and it
would need to exist within a world that is by definition fully knowable.

When you assume such a being you assume that all exists in a way that
is knowable. All needs only to be not all for the supreme being to
not know all!

So what are you assuming? Is it that all is knowable?

Sideview of Edgeworthy - Stage 4

Best to include some sun and spring with new growth.

What is in stage 5?

One always makes mistakes that need to be corrected!

Sketch of a sketch

This gives me a good idea of the light and dark of my image.

Side View of Edgeworthy - stage 3

Some areas need to be sharpened up.

Colour and indefinition fairly good.

Light areas need attention as do 3d aspects.

The Garden

Does your garden seem to be taking over?

Are you racing to keep up with it's everspeading vines?

A Side View of Edgeworthy - Stage Two

Trying to get a little motion into the brush stroke!

There needs to be still places and movement places.

Light is stationary. In two ways!

Light does not move contrary to conventional wisdom.

We move relative to sun light and to non-material light!

We are blowing apart as ethereal forms along with matter!

A Side View of Edgeworthy - Stage Two

Now your eyes are working with both sides of the brain firing to make
sense of the jumble of colours and shapes. The brain is putting
together an image closer to the reality of the real world even though
more chaotic on the canvas!

A Side View of Edgeworthy. - Stage Two

Here come Bertie and George!

A Side View of Edgeworthy - Stage One

I am wanting a morning view with the light falling across the drive!

A Side View of Edgeworthy

Getting some paint on canvas!

Edgeworthy a View 1st Scratches

Have to start somewhere!

Laws of attraction are a part of the laws of association

Extending Impressionistic Art

The observation that you are associated with other entities because of the colours with which you decorate yourself is a profound one. Gone is the value of the idea that the mind works in straight lines. The artist can use such branding by


association to paint a picture of you that is very different from the real picture painted. When the viewer has a host of associative predispositions, the viewer will use these to paint the picture wanted by the artist. Messages are implanted within art that those associated with cues will reacte to emotionally and then physically.

This phenomenon artists have used and by association their work has been valued by collectors! Who you associate an artist with really does matter for the popularity of the artist. Even your mother warned you about how you paint the picture if yourself that others see. Put a ring in your ear and you are associated with a host of feelings and memories that others have. They will value you based on these associations. Human intelligence makes use of false associations to attract and to fend away. Associations are used by writers to encourage or discourage feelings and actions.

The forces of association are related to the real physical forces of location and magnetism. By placing yourself near a magnet, you place yourself under the influence of an invisible magnetic force. By placing yourself within a church you place yourself within another force field which can be as powerful, but which operates at hidden levels just as magnetism operates at hidden levels.

It is very important to realize how associative forces operate to influence other forces. They can change history, can move mountains, and can destroy communities. The hidden forces of association are immensely powerful, yet are not generally included among the forces of physics. We can appreciate them through art!

The Impression World

See Me - The Phenomenon of Branding or Association

This is the observation that people don't really see you! They use heuristics and associate you with others, other people, other groups, and entities that they use to try to understand you because of your associations.

You are rarely interpreted correctly as a person. By associating you with something or some group and associating that group with other associations the real you is hidden among false of partial impressions. Finding the real you is made all the more difficult and elusive.

Harbour - Stage 4 a

This image is a lot about colour so big changes!

Harbour - Stage 3b

I look for colour dominance and it is now green.

There is more brown than one would expect now.

That befits a period when wood was used before brick!

Local brick is yellow and from local clays.

The Harbour - Prep for Stage 3

Decided against inclusion of the ferry boat, but have the railway
instead and a few tall masters!

Where Wither's Saw Mill Once Was

Well, here it is in this unflattering photo!

Kincardine Harbour - second impression

Scratches of Bruce Beach

Wither's Saw Mill at Penetangore 1848

Getting close to completion!

Kincardine Harbour - Done as first impression

Good enough in this first phase fir a final. I like it too much as is
and will call it on this one. Now to start another for the image that
I intended!

First scratches of Kincardine Harbour 1953

This is going to be colourful!

Wither's Saw Mill - Stage Five

Gradually getting this image into shape!

Wither's Mill Penetangore - Stage 2

The image has been populated!

Wither's Saw Mill - part way through

Stage Two is partly done. Will now work with the greens and blues.

Withers Saw Mill Penetangore - preparation for Stage 2

There is a narrow slip for faster water to drive the water wheel.
People appearing out in the open and in the shade!

Wither's Mill of Penetangore - Stage one

At this point the image looks rather sombre as I try to figure out the
light which surprise surprise is going to come from the right or West
which means that this is a morning image. Withers is surveying his
wood stock that had been brought in from up river. The damming of the
flow permits easy movement of big logs. His saw mill is a frame
construction put up rather hurriedly though fairly robust.

Looking over the scene and reclining on the summer shade will be
people. And there will be Chippewas as well! It is August 1848 and
most of the mill construct put up hurriedly is in place.

Wither's Saw Mill - First Scratches

These are the preliminary scratches to the image of Wither's Sawmill of 1848. Withers had the help of local Chippewas who traded furs with a trader named Rastall (a bit like Rascall). The Indians went inland for their beaver which had created large swamps such as Greenock and penetangore to the south of the river mouth. The river had at least five tributaries hense it's name, not to mention at least five fingers of sanddunes stretching out into Lake Huron. The saw mill was confiscated by the Queen's men because Withers had not got permission to fell trees from her bush!