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During their years growing up together in St. Catharines,

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men persevered to develop successful racing careers, competing

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How Canadian Women

Are Breaking Free

from Criminal Pasts and

Building a Better FutureIf that’s how you feel about

your fellow citizens convicted

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Dewey, whose storybook

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“Another gang-related killing in the Jane-Finch

Corridor. Details at 11.”

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low-paying jobs in the manufacturing, service, and

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you know about it. As far as they are concerned,

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Margret Kopala with John Budden

A Personal Odyssey into the First Kondratie� Winter of the Twenty-First Century

PORTFOLIO

THE DOG BONE

Authors’ Preface ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1

Part 1 Understanding the First Kondratieff Winter of the Twenty-First Century

One An Economic Hero: Nikolai Kondratieff’s Life and Work 15 Two Consuming Too Much: The Debt Crisis 45 Three Producing Too Little: The Production Crisis 59

Part 2 Entering the Trough of the Kondratieff Winter

Four Overconsumption Meets Underproduction: 87 The Monetary Crisis Five Papering Over the Cracks: The ’Flationary Crises 117 Six War: The Ultimate Economic Crisis 140

Part 3 Investing During the Kondratieff Winter

Seven A World of Trouble 165 Eight Investment Realism: John Budden and Friends 189 (Dean LeBaron, J. Anthony Boeckh, Ian Gordon,

Larry Jeddeloh, Don Lindsey, the late Lord William Rees-Mogg,

Jim Rogers, Eric Sprott, Ronald-Peter Stöferle)

Part 4 Recognizing the First Kondratieff Spring of the Twenty-First Century

Nine The Next New Economy 267

Appendices A Black Swan Events and Worsening Case Scenarios 305 B Gold 359 C Charts 384 D Situational 417 E John Budden’s Dog Bone Portfolio 429 F Requiem for a System Leader 433

Endnotes 443 Selected Bibliography 491 Index 501

Contents

The Dog Bone PorTfolioxvi The Dog Bone PorTfolio xvii

Figure 1 Copyright Longwave Group and reprinted with permission http://www.longwavegroup.com/market/charts/_pdf/Kondratieff_Cycle_Chart.pdf

Figure 2 Copyright © 2015 Margret Kopala

These charts are key to understanding the cyclical

factors affecting the “big economic picture” in which

the global economy finds itself; in a sense, this book

is an extrapolation of the financial and economic

movements delineated herein. For ease of reference,

they are placed at the beginning of this book.

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One

An Economic Hero: Nikolai Kondratieff’s Life and Work

If we judge by the passion it has aroused, the long wave is

something of an economic historian’s “Holy Grail.”

–Andrew TylecoTe1

Through 2009, the markets moved up, but my portfolio remained in the dumps. I was preserving capital, but none of my strategies for making money were working. I signed on to an online advisory service that promised clear buy, sell, and hold signals and learned about stop-losses. These allowed me to set a price at which I could sell a stock before incurring unbearable losses, usually when it dropped 5 or 10 percent in value. True to the promise, these “stops” were preventing losses, but they also prevented gains if the stock then turned upward. This was particularly true when I was “whipsawed” out of a stock – a phenomenon that occurred regularly when investors with short positions on the stock sold, thus depressing the price to a point where it trig-gered my “sell” but, at the same time, someone else’s “buy” order. Up the price would go, leaving me wondering if I should buy back in at the higher price. Additionally, after a certain number of such trades, fees became applicable. It was getting expensive just to pick up the phone to my broker. To regain losses from the 2008 crash, I was advised, it was necessary to be “fully invested” – that is, all my money had to be in the market, not sitting in cash – but the risk seemed to me to be untenable. Another option, my broker explained to me, was to buy “puts.” A form of insurance against market losses, these would make money for me if the market dropped again; but this was far too exotic and potentially nerve-wracking for someone of my now extremely tender investment sensibilities. Now I would be betting not only on whether the market would go up but also whether it would go down. What a choice! Also, it was expensive.

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nikolai Kondratieff

1892 ~ 1938

The Dog Bone PorTfolio98 99OvercOnsumptiOn meets underprOductiOn

With two million European immigrants arriving between 1850 and 1855 and a large influx of gold from California and Australia stimulating the money supply, inflation escalated as did the values of land, harvests, and money. Between 1850 and 1857, the railroads received twenty-four million acres of federal land grants, half of which were sold, mostly to speculators. By 1855, $800 million was invested in land, most of it on credit, while a key mone-tary event of the period, the California gold rush of 1848 to 1855, created “easy” money for speculation by Europeans and Americans alike in sugar and cotton, as well as railway stocks. Farmers, particularly, mortgaged themselves heavily in order to buy more land. Whole new industries developed around the production of steel, coal, and petroleum. Politically, the nation was split between an agrarian South and an industrial North divided on issues of states rights and free trade. By 1860, the period immediately preceding the Civil War, the shift from an agricultural to an industrial economy was under way, along with a price inflation of 20 percent per year that continued through the Civil War. With the issuance by the Union government of the fiat (no gold backing) greenback to finance its military operations, inflation rose 300 percent. At the end of the war, prices continued to rise, not because of the money supply, but because of the scarcity of product. As the Civil War ended, the Kondratieff Summer was peaking. As Kondratieff observed:

First, the high rate of investment “in large and expensive constructions increases the demand for capital” … leading to an increase in interest rates. But the crucial development is the “growth of external military and internal social upheavals” which “increase unproductive consumption (wars) and cause direct disruption to and weaken the rates of accumu-lation, while on the other hand, they increase the demand for capital … which then becomes more expensive.” After a lag, “the earlier rate of investment in capital constructions falls. The activity of economic life is reduced and prices fall.”38

That “lag” would come to be known as the plateau, or Kondratieff Autumn, phase of the long wave. Prices peaked at the end of the War in 1864–1865. In the plateau period that followed, pent-up demand for goods, the implementa-tion of innovations, a postwar baby boom, settlement of the West, and railway expansion all escalated. The trigger for the Kondratieff Winter downswing, or what would become known as the Long Depression, arrived in 1873. A second repetition of what would become a familiar pattern, it was a monetary event replete with a banking crisis. And this time it was global in scope.

The Second Wave 1845–1864–1896 (trough–peak–trough)

The depression between 1873 and 1886 … matched the depression of

1929-1939 … One report notes three million tramps in the 1873-74 winter.

–NathaN h. Mager34

Figure 4 Copyright © 2015 Margret Kopala

Chart of the Second Wave35 Key Innovations: Steam Ships, Railway Equipment, Steel, Coal and

Petroleum Production, Machine Tools, Portland Cement. Key Industries:

Coal, Transport, Heavy Engineering.36

Canal building continued apace, but now railroad expansion became the next New Economy during the Spring and Summer upswing of the Second Kondratieff Wave. With 3,000 miles of track laid in 1840, increasing to 24,000 miles in 1857, a $9,168,072,000 investment in railroads had been made by 1897.37 Along the way, huge areas of the American West were opened and with them new settlements and construction. New machinery for textiles and for working metals and wood appeared, as did new processes in manufacturing.

The Dog Bone PorTfolio412 413CHARTS

G. Official Gold HoldingsFigure E7 / Gold (in US$)

Source: Longwave Group. Reprinted by permission.

F. Dow-Gold Ratio

Figure F / Two Hundred Years of the Dow-Gold Ratio

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World official Gold HoldinGsInternational Financial Statistics, February 2015*

Country Tonnes % of reserves** Country Tonnes % of reserves**

1 United States 8,133.5 72.6% 51 Malaysia 35.8 1.2%

2 Germany 3,384.2 67.8% 52 Peru 34.7 2.1%

3 IMF 2,814.0 1 53 Slovakia 31.7 46.9%

4 Italy 2,451.8 66.6% 54 Azerbaijan 30.2 7.4%

5 France 2,435.4 65.6% 55 Syria 25.8 5.7%

6 Russia 1,208.2 12.2% 56 Ukraine 23.6 12.2%

7 China 1,054.1 1.0% 57 Sri Lanka 22.5 9.9%

8 Switzerland 1,040.0 7.7% 58 Morocco 22.0 3.9%

9 Japan 765.2 2.4% 59 Afghanistan 21.9 11.2%

10 Netherlands 612.5 55.2% 60 Nigeria 21.4 1.8%

11 India 557.7 6.7% 61 Serbia 17.5 5.6%

12 Turkey6 529.1 16.1% 62 Jordan 17.1 4.1%

13 ECB 503.2 26.5% 63 Cyprus 13.9 60.1%

14 Taiwan 423.6 3.9% 64 Bangladesh 13.8 2.4%

15 Portugal 382.5 75.3% 65 Cambodia 12.4 7.8%

16 Venezuela 367.6 69.3% 66 Qatar 12.4 1.1%

17 Saudi Arabia 322.9 1.7% 67 Ecuador 11.8 11.6%

18 United Kingdom 310.3 11.2% 68 Czech Republic 10.6 0.8%

19 Lebanon 286.8 21.5% 69 Colombia 10.4 0.9%

20 Spain 281.6 21.7% 70 Laos 8.9 31.4%

21 Austria 280.0 43.4% 71 Ghana 8.7 7.4%

22 Belgium 227.4 34.7% 72 Tajikistan 8.6 66.4%

23 Philippines 195.1 9.6% 73 Paraguay 8.2 4.5%

24 Kazakhstan 191.8 25.7% 74 Mauritius 7.9 7.8%

25 Algeria 173.6 3.5% 75 Myanmar 7.3 3.8%

26 Thailand 152.4 3.8% 76 El Salvador 7.3 9.3%

27 Singapore 127.4 1.9% 77 Guatemala 6.9 3.6%

28 Sweden 125.7 7.8% 78 Macedonia 6.8 8.7%

29 South Africa 125.2 9.9% 79 Tunisia 6.8 3.5%

30 Mexico 122.7 2.4% 80 Latvia 6.6 8.0%

31 Libya 116.6 4.6% 81 Ireland 6.0 13.0%

32 Greece 112.4 69.9% 82 Lithuania 5.8 2.6%

33 BIS2 111.0 1 83 Mozambique 5.4 6.7%

34 Korea 104.4 1.1% 84 Nepal 4.9 13.0%

35 Romania 103.7 9.3% 85 Bahrain 4.7 3.0%

36 Poland 102.9 4.0% 86 Brunei Darussalam 4.3 4.6%

37 Iraq 89.8 5.0% 87 Kyrgyz Republic 3.9 7.8%

38 Australia 79.9 5.7% 88 Slovenia 3.2 12.1%

39 Kuwait 79.0 8.7% 89 Aruba 3.1 17.3%

40 Indonesia 78.1 2.7% 90 Hungary 3.1 0.3%

41 Egypt 75.6 19.0% 91 Bosnia and Herzegovina 3.0 2.4%

42 Brazil 67.2 0.7% 92 Canada 3.0 0.2%

43 Denmark 66.5 3.4% 93 Mongolia 2.9 6.7%

44 Pakistan 64.5 17.5% 94 Luxembourg 2.2 10.1%

45 Argentina 61.7 7.6% 95 Hong Kong 2.1 0.0%

46 Finland 49.1 17.8% 96 Iceland 2.0 1.8%

47 Bolivia 42.5 10.6% 97 Papua New Guinea 2.0 3.0%

48 Belarus4 42.4 32.5% 98 Trinidad and Tobago 1.9 0.6%

49 Bulgaria 40.1 7.7% 99 Haiti 1.8 5.8%

50 WAEMU3 36.5 11.0% 100 Albania 1.6 2.3%

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Opening Day

John Bahen looked out from the podium, smiling broadly at the invited guests and acknowledging their warm reaction to his intro-duction. he was accustomed to the formality of such an occasion and comfortable in front of a crowd. an experienced speechmaker, he conveyed the essence of his character with his opening line.

“Clearly I am speaking from the bottom of the batting order on the list of speakers. For those of you who know me, this is a position I enjoy occupying. I am used to having the last word!”

It was october 8, 2002, the day of the official opening of the Univer-sity of Toronto’s (U of T) Bahen Centre for Information Technology. The atrium of the building was awash in sunlight. on a platform backed by the restored brick wall of the abutting Koffler Centre, tall banners listed the sponsors, donors and quasi-governmental bodies responsible for funding construction of the new Bahen Building. a banner bearing a portrait of John and his wife Margaret read: “Margaret & John Bahen – Leaders, Builders & Graduates.” a blue satin ribbon, tied in a large bow, was strung across the width of the platform in front of a podium blazoned with the university crest. The platform itself was adorned with the flags of Canada, ontario and the University of Toronto.

The conditions of this event were special to John in ways not self-evident to many of the people gathered or passing by. Many students paused on their way to classes to observe the proceedings. They stood in the main hall, leaned over balcony railings and peered out of crowded

John speaking at the opening of the Bahen Centre for Information Technology, University of Toronto.The platform party at the opening of the Bahen Centre for Information Technology, U of T.

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and know that all things are possible.”

– John bahen

“dream big

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D R E A M S U N D E R C O N S T R U C T I O N

Subway construction on Yonge Street in 1949.(Photo: City of Toronto Archives)

Family celebration of John and Margaret’s sixtieth wedding anniversary on the Argyll in Nantucket, August 2013.

(Photo: Claudia Kronenberg)

Commemorative coaster made by the staff of the Argyll for John and Margaret’s sixtieth

wedding anniversary.

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From roads to dams at James Bay

Written descriptions of the landscape surrounding James Bay, and in fact writing in general about the Canadian Shield and northern expanses of Canada, laud the dramatic greens of glacial lakes, the magnificence of ancient rock formations and the pristine beauty of untouched old growth forests. Such adjective-laden text would have been lost on those who made the trip to James Bay by plane from Montreal to Matagami and then still farther north by truck or bus to the road camp at Mile 48. The Kiewit men and women endured harsh conditions. Temperatures were regularly -13° to -22°F, and there was no settlement with urban conveniences for hundreds of miles from where the bulk of the construction was taking place.

The amount of running water in James Bay is due more to the way the

John at the crusher operation, Mile 14 of the Matagami road job.

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Get Your Head In THe Game

Michael cG White

mental fitness training for hockey coaches

foreword by Phil esPosito

Get Your Head In THe Game

Michael cG White

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foreword by Phil esPosito

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Introduction 1

1 Mental Fitness Training 101 7

2 Personal Effectiveness and Team Confidence 15

3 Self-Confidence 29

4 Gratitude 45

5 Contrast 57

Conclusion 69

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1Mental Fitness Training 101

Leadership is absolutely about inspiring action, but it is also about

guarding against mis-action.–Simon Sinek

The Episode of the Flying Water Bottle

A few years ago, a good friend of mine named Jim was coaching his son’s Atom hockey team. During a playoff game, a skirmish broke out on the ice that Jim swears was clearly started by the opposing team. As the ref was sorting out the penalties, Jim put out his power play, only to realize that the ref had actu-ally penalized his team for instigating the scrum and therefore found themselves shorthanded. To Jim, this was the last straw in what he felt had been a series of one-sided and bad calls throughout the game. In frustration, he grabbed the closest thing at hand, a water bottle, and threw it across the ice, narrowly missing the ref.

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2Personal Effectiveness and Team Confidence –

Where do you rank?It is absurd that a man should rule others,

who cannot rule himself.–Latin proverb

The Coach’s Impact

Do you think you’re coaching at your best? Are you doing everything to the best of your ability and giving it your all?

As a coach, what you say and how you say it directly impacts the success of your team. But how you act and how you walk your talk has an even bigger influence and directly affects performance and results.

The level of buy-in that the players have to their coaches and their philosophies usually dictates the success of a hockey team. In fact, the coach’s influ-ence can be so powerful that it shapes not only the players’ performance on the ice, but many aspects of

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4 I always review my day and process the appreciation for what I have accomplished. c

5 I keep a journal and write a gratitude list every night. c

6 I always look at the positives of every situation before the negatives. c

7 I give thanks everyday for my family and friends. c

8 I appreciate the material belongings I have in my life. c

9 I understand that every contrast (adversity) in my life is simply a teaching for me. c

10 I am focussed on first being better, myself, before asking the same of others. c

11 I believe that gratitude improves my attitude. c

Your Score: cLowest possible score = 11 Highest possible score = 55

11 – 19 It’s time to incorporate an attitude of gratitude into your life. Start a gratitude journal and write down, everyday, five things you are grateful for (and why). This will change your attitude.

20 – 33 It’s “normal” to think of the negatives first; that’s what society has taught us. Push yourself to “think different” and focus on seeing the positive in every situation.

In Western society, we have been programmed to focus on the treatment or resolution of problems instead of the prevention and avoidance of these problems.

By looking within ourselves and taking responsi-bility for our outcomes, rather than relying on others or expecting society to make them happen for us, we are able to shape our lives exactly as we wish them to be. As the saying goes, “Life doesn’t happen to you, it happens for you.” The minute we understand this simple truth, that’s when we gain control; and the minute we take control, that’s the minute our lives change for the better.

Gratitude is a key step toward achieving this outcome.

Self-Assessment:

How Grateful Are You?Rate Yourself:Read each of the eleven statements below and rate yourself on each statement based on the following scale from 1 to 5:

1 = Never 2 = Rarely 3 = Sometimes 4 = Usually 5 = Always

Record your score in the box provided.

1 I always review my successes as a coach after each game. c

2 I always assess every practice and game and note the team’s positives as well as the negatives. c

3 I appreciate my coaching staff, trainers, managers and parents. c

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ourselves when it doesn’t turn out that bad. Imagine if we were to put the same amount of energy that we do in pre-worrying into expecting the feeling of success!

Picturing success takes some practice, espe-cially since pre-worrying is something we’ve been programmed to believe most of our lives. And, like all limiting beliefs, it requires a new, different thinking process to change. Remember, a belief is simply a thought you keep thinking, so use your thoughts to shape your beliefs.

Mental Fitness tip: Focus on your positive futurec Rather than getting hung up on negatives,

focus on the positive outcomes when looking ahead to an upcoming situation, be it a game or practice, a work-related event such as a meeting or presentation, or even a relationship-based interaction.

c Put your attention toward your feelings – how you want to feel when it goes your way, how the desired result felt once accomplished, and the energy that it gave you.

c Pay attention, as well, to the pride, the confidence, and the success that paid off from the effort you put in. Go to the positives and watch what happens.

the take-away: The future is determined by your attitude right now. By being positive in the moment, you can control today and set yourself up for a better tomorrow.

the impact you have on your players and parents in this moment.

When we concentrate only on the moment we are in, we increase clarity and perform at a higher level. When we coach “in the moment”, we isolate situa-tions and, in doing so, enhance our focus.

We all know that multitasking is counter-productive, but for some reason we still attempt to do it. Those who first identify priorities and then approach each task individually are far more efficient than those who attempt to get multiple things done simultaneously.

Mental Fitness tip: prioritize your objectives with feelingc Prioritize your objectives – be clear on what you

intend to accomplish and tackle each objective in a systematic order.

c Now, focus on the desired result and how you want to feel when completing each task.

the take-away: When we focus on the positive feeling that the result will bring instead of the result itself, we better attract the desired outcome.

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At seven, my walks with nonno were replaced by school and the struggle of sitting still for hours at a desk, waiting to be set free to jostle and kick a ball with the other boys.

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her death in 1997. She remembered the most, because after she married and left home as a young girl of 20, she learned what others were saying about our family – the whispers speculating why he had left the priest-hood, the theories of what took his wife’s life when she appeared so healthy, and the question of why an overseer on the estate left so suddenly after her death. Even late in life, when the priest was a lonely, old man passing his days on a battered bench in the sunshine of the piazza, insisting to anyone who would listen that he was responsible for his wife’s death, most made little of his ravings, a man so close to the grave.

What remains true is one of zia Assunta’s strongest childhood memories. The family is sitting around the heavy kitchen table by flickering candlelight. Despite the heat of the fire that warms their work-weary mus-cles and leadens their eyes, the young ones still have the energy to beg their grandfather, “Tata, tell us a story!” And that is where we begin.

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Madonnaa s he approached a large olive tree, he noticed

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moment was bent down drinking from a stream, must not have heard it. The tree crushed him before he knew what had happened.

Domenicantonio watched in horror, his feet rooted to the ground. It was the anguish of his own voice that propelled him forward, like the howling of the last wolf in Molise. The men worked frantically to cut away the branches imprisoning the boy, all the while Domenicantonio whispered, “Hold on Giustino. I am here. We’ll get you out. Hold on. Hold on.” At last, he gently brushed away the leaves to reveal the sweet, young face. The boy was so pale, so still.

Once freed from his leafy bed, he scooped the boy in his arms and carried him the four kilometres to the vil-lage, petitioning every saint he could think of for mercy. As he climbed the steps to the church, he felt certain God would save his son. He pushed open the door and staggered down the centre aisle towards the nave, his footsteps echoing in the semidarkness. As he entered the sanctuary, he paused, bowed before the crucified Christ, and offered his suffering to the Lord. Gently, he laid Giustino on the great marble altar beneath the reclining figure of Torella’s patron, San Clemente, the pope and martyr. And in that moment, he saw what he had refused to believe.

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years, even raising his fists against Teresa and her sharp tongue. When Domenicantonio realized the young man before him was expecting a fight, he saw for the first time how strong Donato had become. He’s no boy. He’s a man. And I am not sure I could stand up to him.

“Father, I am 22. I have been working since I was a little boy. There is a young woman from the village I want to marry and I need your blessing.”

“Go on. Tell me about her.” The boy made him smile when he talked of how he felt at the sight of his bride-to-be. What a burden I have become. This is no way to treat the family I once professed to love so much. They need me.

In 1845, the two young people were married. The wedding reminded many of the celebration decades before when their padrone had almost become a priest.

In 1846, Donato’s first son was born and named Giustino for his brother killed by the falling tree. And now the story begins to come closer to my own era. This Giustino was my great-grandfather, the namesake of my own father. This Giustino talked with my ancestor before the old “priest” died. Then, when Giustino grew old, he told his son, my grandfather, the story before my great-grandfather died in 1914.

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Nightlost at Georgian Bay

One of the darkestwhispers I hearis the restless wind that shakes us upright,only to stare into our own clear waters,or fall on rocks to shatter.

This is a land for pagansand the rightful ghosts of voyageurs.

I heard their paddles sighingin my sleepless night, saw chanting fires,felt their souls beckonin the loon’s mad cry - knowing we were nightlost.

I cannot count the price of searchingor the peace of finding,so wind will never ask to blow,nor tree to bend.

There is a secret company of souls I love,wordless, ancient, water-borne;one of the voices of care,that cannot be found unless already there.

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Preface

At 75 years of age it gives comfort to think that for years to come, this book may provide a little pleasure, not only to those I know and love today, but also those I will never know: children of children, of children, and onward, who may one day hold a little of this man’s life in their hands.

Most books of poetry present the writer’s view of what a poem ought to be. But I have no such theory, except to say that above all, poetry should be a pleasure to read, rather than some cryptic intellectual challenge. For that to happen, the writer should get out of the way, so to speak, so the reader can pass right through the words of the poem to the experience of which it speaks, and be one with it in the moment of reading.

Painting and sculpture are different. They are outward things made of colours, shapes, and perspectives, with the distinctive visual and tactile textures of oil, water-colour, bronze, soapstone, or clay. To this day, when I pick up a small pot made by my mother, I can see the subtle markings left by her fingers as she spun the clay on her potter’s wheel, and I feel I am holding far more than her pot in my hand.

Each of the things pictured in this book has been the occasion for a unique creative pleasure. But the greatest pleasure is when a small grandchild points to a painting, or picks up a little sculpture I have made, and wholly wide-eyed, says, “Grampa! How did you make that?”, and I get to take their little hand, and say, “Here, let me show you.”

Athlete with Discus, bronze, 1966

Barn in spring, watercolour, 2012

that swoop so low, they sip remote and liquid sparks of light,fallen on this private seafrom lofty bracelets in the night.

But I am earthbound,where rawness is everything,and I have found ways to start from the beginning.

Not far from here, are placesno man has ever stepped, where still, and barefoot in damp green moss, I feel my heart race, to think: we’re but the impress kept of pure creation, without trace.

Then crash-cold water closes, over the hot torpedo-bubbling of my body,falling wingless, arched, and nakedin a hair-tickling wind.

Song of Georgian Bay They hang along the limpid edge of earth,these ancient, granite whaleback islands.

Lichen-loving.Obedient in prayer.

Fawned overby the bent boughsof a million soothsayers.

Can there be art, breathed into the wind-shorn shape of pine,

and is this strange embrace I feel contrived, and only mine?

On certain daysthere is a shock of disbelief, as bones warm on hot rock,to feel against my eyesa dark blue dripping stain from some celestial vein.

To find myself caught, between wishing I could rise to a truer home,or stay down here, to hover with wind-gifted gulls

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THE STORY OF CIVILIZATIONS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE

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How I Was Surprised by Grace While Binging on Perfection

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this is a story about one man’s awakening to the importance that leadership plays in not only preparing a child for the future, but creating a timeless bond between parent and child. With the crazy pace of modern life, sometimes some of the most important and simple life lessons get lost in the tidal wave of information that is now available. this poses the question: if you are not leading your child, who is?

Some very wise instructors reveal to troubled and conflicted Jeff the teachings of the ancient scrolls of leadership, passed down from generation to generation – a simple yet effective blueprint for teaching children how to flourish, regardless of the challenges they face – that has stood the test of time.

Sometimes the greatest knowledge one can pass on does in fact come from within.

Carl a. Waggett makes his writing debut with a subject that he feels is the most important job on the planet: being a parent. Carl classes himself as more of a story teller than an author, but when not writing about his experiences in life, you will find him simply enjoying life with the ones closest to him, one hour at a time.

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Estate to the Heart shows you how to:

Protect your estate from lawsuits

Reduce income tax and probate taxes

Protect yourself from bad advice

Put more heart into your estate planning

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Finally, estate planning advice that’s easy to understand and easy to use.

“A must-read with practical strategies to achieve your goals. The fill-in-the-blank questions, spreadsheets, and checklists are great.”

— PAUL BARRECA, CFP, host, The Power and Money, Corus Entertainment

“Makes estate planning accessible to everyone. It reminds you that the most important objective of estate planning is the protection of loved ones.”

— GLENN STEPHENS, PPI Financial Group; author of Estate Planning with Insurance

“A fast read on what every client wants to know about estate planning.”

— JIM BULLOCK, Registrar, Peel Institute

EDWARD OLKOVICH is an author and lawyer certified as a Specialist in Estates and Trusts Law. The founding chair of the Make a Will initiative, he is known as an inspiring and entertaining speaker on estate planning and estate and executor matters. He is the founder of EstateTherapy.com, an online estate planning publisher, and ExecutorTherapy.com, a resource for executors.

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Plan for Loved Ones

S tart planning with this simple step. Take a moment to list the people who will benefit from your planning.

My loved ones:

Other people I wish to help:

My favourite causes and animals:

Planning, to be effective, needs clear objectives. In the next chapter you will the opportunity to be specific about your wishes for the people you care about.

But first, if you already have an estate plan, take the following quiz. Don’t be concerned with your answers at this point. You will be able to say “yes” to all these questions by the time you finish this book.

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“Riches are gotten with pain, kept with care

and lost with grief.”

– Proverb

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Estate Planning Quiz

Are your loved ones at risk because your estate plan is incomplete? Use this quiz to make sure your estate plan is in good health. Circle your answers.

1 I have backup executors and guardians for minor children in my will.yes no unsure

2 I have legally appointed someone to handle decisions for me if I cannot.yes no unsure

3 I have a strategy in place to save probate and income taxes.yes no unsure

4 I have provided for loved ones with special needs.yes no unsure

5 I have a plan to deal with my business if I die.yes no unsure

6 I regularly preview my estate plan to ensure that it achieves my goals.yes no unsure

7 I review my loved ones’ needs so my estate protects them.yes no unsure

8 I have an updated listing of assets and valuable documents.yes no unsure

9 My life insurance coverage will replace income and cover taxes. yes no unsure

10 My loved ones know where my up-to-date will is stored.yes no unsure

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Why Legal and Moral Obligations Matter

Can you really do whatever you wish with your money? The short answer is no. Laws prevent you from doing something wrong, like ignoring someone’s legal rights. For example, your married spouse has a legal right to share in your estate. In many circumstances your spouse and financial dependants may be the only persons with such rights. Each province has specific property and support laws to protect married spouses. Common-law and unnamed same-sex partners, your dependants and underage children often have similar legal rights that a court can enforce. In some cases you may have no legal obligations to cover when planning. You may, however, want to give something back to your community, help find medical cures or leave a gift to charity. You may feel this is your moral obligation, or it may be your greatest passion in life.

Start Now

Take a moment to outline your estate goals – your three wishes. Just put down what pops into your mind. Don’t worry about your priorities or any specifics at this point. Here are some examples of what you might put down:

1 I want to stop worrying about what will happen to my family.

2 I want to be sure my family won’t suffer if I have an accident.

3 I want control over my own care and money if I develop health problems.

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and lost with grief.”

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It’s normal to have different goals from your partner. What if your wishes conflict? Professional advice can show the two of you alternate ways to reconcile or satisfy your needs.

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Section FourWhat’s the Best Way to Make a Will?

Easy Blueprints for

Executors, Beneficiaries

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Your will speaks for you when you are gone. Make sure it contains these three key ingredients, which I cover in this section: the names of executors, beneficiaries and backups. And make sure your will is bulletproof by observing the Seven Commandments of Estate Planning, which I cover in detail in this section. They are …

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1 ignore your spouse

2 treat children unequally

3 forget to protect minor children

4 pass up tax credits to charity

5 forget to name backup beneficiaries

6 forget those with special needs

7 cut someone out improperly

You need people to carry out your estate plan. This section shows you how to choose the best executors and guardians, and how to deal with your family and black sheep. You will discover new solutions to these and other problems, including what to expect from lawyers. Be sure to read this essential material before you prepare or update your will.

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Check off each box as you complete this list.

1 Asset inventory – list all your property and where it can be found. You need to include:

Ownership documents

• real estate deeds, bank records • business investment documents • life insurance, pension and

RRSPs or RRIFs

2 Debt inventory – list your payment obligations and attach copies of documents to support your major debts

• mortgages • personal loans • business loans

3 Insurance policies – life, disability, health, car and property. Your executor will need to be able to locate all these policies

4 Estate documents – include information on legal and important documents, such as:

• wills – for you and your partner, record where all original documents are stored

• powers of attorney – finances and health care in duplicate

• income tax – returns, assess-ments and supporting documents for current and prior years

• certificates – marriage, birth, death, divorce or adoption

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5 Funeral arrangements – prepaid and preferences for services and burial should be recorded

6 Professional advisors – llist names and contact information of those you trust

7 Government or private benefits – identify employment, pension or death benefits through a veteran’s union, or any funeral or employment benefits

8 Safety deposit box – record where your safety deposit box is and where the keys to it are stored

Once you have checked off your list as complete, make sure your executors know where to find this material. You can go to www.EstateTherapy.com for advice on how to get organized and prepare instructions for your executors. Now that you have outlined your goals or wishes and located your valuable documents, it’s time to focus on who can help you achieve your wishes. That’s the topic of the next chapter.

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First I Got Sober And Then I Got Fired

Dan Matwey

Finding Freedom In Failure

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The Book at a GlanceWhat do you mean you got fired again? The question was a fair one, and much to my dismay, one that was heard too many times. The next question was even worse, but I knew it was coming – what happened this time?

I don’t know that I’ve actually seen the face of a deer in the headlights, but with a perplexed expression rendering me incapable of answering that simple question, I may very well have looked like one. The more I tried, the more I realized that I didn’t have the slightest idea what the answer might be.

It wasn’t supposed to be this way. Sobriety, an education, various licenses and certifications – in my mind it wasn’t a matter of whether or not I would ascend the ladder, rather how high I would go. As it turned out, I moved along much quicker than I had anticipated, I just didn’t expect it to be in the wrong direction. Forty-two years of drinking without ever losing a job, followed by being fired with regularity in my nine years of sobriety didn’t make any sense – but I had to try and find a reason. What I stumbled upon was something far more valuable.

Still shaking my head a day later and wondering when things started to go so horribly wrong, like a bolt of lightning it hit me – I’m less employable sober, than I ever was while I was drunk. Considering the drastic difference between those two lifestyles, it almost defied all odds. For as long as I can remember, I was allergic to alcohol. Whenever I drank I seemed to break out in spots; hospital wards, police cruisers, unfamiliar floors.

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What’s in a smile? More than you imagine

EDWARD S. PHILIPS, D.D.S.

A lavish visual feast that celebrates the beauty of

the human smile – and shows you how to work with

your dentist to find your perfect smile. Includes an

exclusive Smile Test to help you and your dentist

score your smile and determine your options.

Edward S. Philips, D.D.S., is the Toronto-based dental surgeon who has charted and categorized smile patterns, stages, and types, giving dentists a scientifi c and artistic way to work with their patients to fi nd the smile that’s perfect for them. For the past decade, through his Studio for Aesthetic Dentistry, he has redesigned the smiles of thousands of people, including public fi gures, entertainers, and media broadcasters.

Your Guide to the Perfect Smile is written by the dental surgeon who

has contributed so much to dentistry’s ability to understand and craft

beautiful smiles. The book is equal parts dentistry and fashion, explaining

the design principles behind beauty in general and smiles in particular.

In an entertaining yet highly informative and practical manner, the book

describes dental challenges and solutions and advises you on how to

work with your dentist to get that beautiful smile you so richly deserve.

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Knowing yourself is of para-mount importance in any area of

your life. that’s the message of today’s tony robbins as he inspires fortune 500 executives to believe in the power of self-knowledge. it was the message in ancient times, too, when the greek philosopher socrates said, “Know thyself.” self-knowledge comes into particular focus when you’re thinking about having work done on your smile. people often come to me with a picture of Julia roberts or pamela anderson and say, “i want that smile.” if i tell them it’s not possible, they panic. they think there’s some kind of shortcoming in their treatment or that they have a problem that can’t be fixed. i quickly explain that the challenge is not for them to get a specific smile they like, but to get a smile that likes them – one that is right for them. think of it this way: the most efficient way to shop for shoes is to ask to see everything the store has in your size.

What’s in a Smile

Patterns, Stages, and Types

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In the prevIous chapter we looked at some of the fundamental prIncIples

of desIgn. we saw how the eye responds positively to forms in nature that exhibit the “golden” proportions of geometry. and from there we looked at how those geometrical relation-ships form the foundation of beautiful smiles. now it’s time to determine in more detail how the theory of design applies to actual smiles, and to develop principles of design that can be applied in practical ways by dentists. with that in mind, let’s look at the ten major principles of smile design. after that, we will conclude the chapter with a test that you and your dentist can use to score your smile. the results may lead you to begin your own search for your perfect smile.

#1 The Smile Line

the smile line is described by most dentists as involving the upper six front teeth against the lower lip. (I usually call these teeth the “social six.”) although this relationship is generally true, I have observed that the progression of

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Closing the Gap Between Dentists and the Public

Until recently, dentists concentrated on

straightforward, easily definable tasks. cavities were filled. toothaches were treated. Stained teeth were cleaned up. Hopeless teeth were extracted.

crowded teeth were straightened. Over time, dental patients learned how

to identify and communicate their needs and had a good idea of what dentists could do to meet those needs. things are different now. Waves of plastic surgery,

makeovers, and the desire for eternal youth have delivered a different kind of patient onto the shores

of dentistry. these patients are asking for a lot more than dental care. they want dental beauty. they want a perfect smile.

in contrast to their cavity-filling years, however, patients today do not know how

to express their needs and desires. they do not know what procedures are available.

they’re not even sure that their family dentist is up to performing the new

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PeoPle often dislike certain asPects of their smile. it’s too big.

it’s too small. it’s too something. the dentist, though, needs to be able to

analyze and quantify what’s behind these reactions. Using the classifications and

principles we’ve seen in previous chapters, dentists today should be able to look at

smiles that are not pleasing and figure out aesthetically, mathematically, and scientifically what is wrong with them – and say to their patients, “now this is what would work.” let’s look at some of the tools that can be used to fix smiles. after that, we’ll examine specific smile problems and their solutions.

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It’s amazing what a few years of experience can do to change your

perspective.

I was very excited when I got my first chance to do some actual

clinical work during my training at dentistry school. It was around 1975.

My assignment was to take a mold of someone’s teeth and make a crown

for a tooth.

This was my big day, the day I was to show my assignment to the

professor in charge of inspecting our workmanship, the day my brilliance as a

student was sure to be recognized and entered into the annals of my school.

When I met the professor I was even more excited. Here was an older

gentleman with curly white hair who looked like a more academic brother

of Santa Claus. Surely I was going to pass this assignment with flying colors.

After the briefest of greetings, he took my mold and looked at it closely.

He didn’t seem the least bit impressed. I started to squirm when his lack of

adulation turned into a look of concern.

“Let me take a closer look,” he said. Then he did something I had

never encountered in my training: He flipped magnifying loops over his

already thick glasses. Santa’s brother had morphed into Groucho Marx

with a thyroid problem.

“This is absolutely unacceptable,” he grumbled a few

moments later. “You are going to have to redo this completely”

– whereupon he gave me some very specific instructions.

I couldn’t accept his assessment. I was so

frustrated. I remember complaining about the

situation to my long-suffering fellow students.

“Here I am, a young guy with great eyesight,

and who do they give me to but an old guy

who can’t even see properly.”

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Modified Dental Aesthetic Index Scale 1 The Smile Line 2 Relative Dental Proportions 3 Dominance of Maxillary Central Incisors 4 Silhouettes 5 Progression of Maxillary Incisal Embrasures 6 Progression of Contacts 7 Axial Alignment 8 Gingival Zenith 9 Occlusion 10 Color

Score your smile by rating it on each of the ten smile principles discussed in this chapter, using the Modified Dental Aesthetic Index. Here’s how you do it: If your smile is excellent on an individual principle of smile design, give it a score of 10. If it is acceptable but not excellent, give it a score of 5. If it’s not acceptable at all, give it a score of 0. Then add up your scores.

• If everything about your smile is perfect (and if it is, you are probably working in Hollywood and shouldn’t be reading this book), your score will add up to 100.

• If you’ve got a really good smile, you’re going to have a score of over 70, which means there is still room for improvement.

• If your smile gets a score lower than 50, you definitely need to consider having work done on your smile.

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Before After 0 The Smile Line 10 0 Dental Proportions 10 5 Dominance 10 0 Silhouettes 5 0 Embrasures 10 0 Contacts 10 5 Axial Alignment 5 10 Gingival Zenith 10 10 Occlusion 10 10 Color 10 40 mDAI total 90 Score changed from mDAI = 40 to mDAI = 90



Mary L. was an attractive young woman just starting

a modeling career. She needed orthodontic

treatment but didn’t have the time to go through a two-

year orthodontic process.

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Singer and song writer Danielle Smith, also known as Fidget, needed a beautiful, sexy smile for her website photo and publicity shots – and her concert performances.

Danielle had a great smile to begin with, courtesy of earlier work done by another dentist. But, as she put it, “I’ve cranked my music up and now I want to crank up my smile.” We were pleased to help, by giving her a new set of veneers.

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In fact, her smile problem

was a rare one: she had been born missing her

upper lateral teeth. We solved

her smile problem not with surgery and braces

but by veneering her top ten teeth and filling in spaces – revealing her beautiful, dramatic, sexy smile in

waiting.


Heather K. was in her first year as a teacher and felt that her smile was not going to win her any brownie points with her students.

Heather had been born with very crooked and twisted teeth, and though she was the life of the party and willing to take a risk, her smile had always caused her to feel awkward and self-conscious. We transformed her smile by veneering her top ten teeth, and whitening all of her front teeth, top and bottom.

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