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Anyway...a thought about the strategic use of adrenaline. (I know, totally different topic) Downright genius thinking. Herman had to have had a hand in that!
Remember those emotional speeches last year by some of the leaders?
There is a huge amount of evidence that documents the astounding power of adrenaline (epinephrine) on a human body. Even on weaklings.
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Since adrenaline can turn a 98 pound weakling into a hulk, literally...allowing him to lift a 2500 pound vehicle off a friend with instantaneous "superman-like" strength, what would happen to muscles that have been molded and fine tuned by Mr. Marioti?
Infusing said muscles, theoretically, with a jolt of superman juice just before a game or a half...is brilliant!
But I have heard of a learned technique that can teach one to initiate this release, simply by thought. A memory, a desire, a focus on something that elicits emotion. And a player can conceivably perform self-timed releases of adrenaline during a game!
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Title: | WHAT IS REALITY ? |
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The colours, the blending and the overall idea make for an intriguing image Victor. But this to me looks like it was not quite finished off, or you deliberately left it "unpolished". I can't decide which. But the white edging around the figure's arms and shoulders and the numerous white dust specks irritate me slightly. Still a fine piece of work though.
Cheers Pete and to all who have kindly commented thank you very much.
Dave as you said this is "unpolished" and deliberatly so. Really wanted a rough and gritty feel to the complete image as are dreams at times, would have added more degregation to the image but with file and size limitations it would have become way too dence.
Amazing, what a detailing in the large version - there are so many symbols to be found within the image.
And what is reality? I think reality unfolds little by little at the time when we are able to understand it - but there is always a part hiding, and sometimes hitting one's face when you don't expect it...
Great image Victor, very impressive work, but even more: something to think about!
So much to say and what a way to say it! I have spent ages looking at this and still see more... fish,butterflies,flying man etc. As one, creation of a masterpiece. You MUST go large to get the full imapact of what is being said. :O)
Gets your brain working overtime this one.I feel like that now in work lol.
This is what I call being 'VICTORISED'!!
Being able to sit down and look at this truly remarkable bit of work for ages, then get back to doing some work, then go back and have another look and still see something new, it just goes on and on..............
Brilliant Victor and I still reckin you have lost some weight LOL
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Laura, me lost weight, you have to be joking, this is photoshop you know where anything is possible LOL couple of stone off click click done.
Scary stuff Victor but excellently done.
I like the subtle tones and the surreal effect.
what a piece of work this is ... have spent ages just trying to find things .... it is amazingly done, also ... the question is something I find myself asking myself - a lot of late .... with me tho it could be old age (?) lol .... exceptional artistry this! Click*
Good question, hope I never find the answer, LOL!
Superb, Victor. Most entertaining. Personally I think the fairy is the Nemesis, love the juxtaposition and the raw/roughness of the image.
PS, after thought; it has quite a strong Dali quality.
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Wow!love the graphics,typography,detail,imagery,old father time,and you dead centre like that.Only you would have thought of that one and i love the title,reality is different to each and every one of us.Perfect!!!
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Medtronic Inc. said it's eliminating 2,000 jobs worldwide (including 500 in Minnesota, according to a report), but its stock is surging after reporting better-than-expected results for several of its divisions.
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A week and a half ago, i had Power Assisted Liposuction. For the past 5 days, i have experienced panic/anxieity. Is this normal?
I am a 32 year old male. My liposuction was done on upper/lower abs, and my chest area. When I informed by doctor of numbness of lips, rapid heart beat, dellusional thoughts, shortness of breath and feelings as if I was going to faint, and of my visit at the Hospital ER after thinking I was having a heart attack, he asked me to discontinue taking Cipro, Celelbrex and the the Methylprednisolone as he suspected allergic reaction to one of them. I stopped taking that medication 6 days ago.
My own private doctor mentioned that he believed it was post surgical stress since my labs, x-ray to chest and ct scan revealed no problems. I 'd like to hear from the doctors if they have ever encountered this with patients who have undergone lipo and if you have an advice for me. thank you
Post-op stress
Surgery is stressful, and that may cause anxiety depending on how you deal with that stress. The steroids have been assoicated with altered sense of well being. I doubt that you had an allergic reaction.
You may want to see a psychiatrist to see if you have a serious underlying psychological issue. I would urge you to do this, particularly prior to any future surgery.
Anxiety after surgery
I would never brush aside symptoms like yours easily. It sounds like you are 12 days after surgery and you have been seen in the ER as well as by your doctor. Those are the right steps. Although your symptoms could just be anxiety related, it is best to make sure you are not having something unusual like fat embolism, or other medical problems related to electrolyte imbalances. Make sure you follow up with both your surgeon and an internal medicine doctor.
Post-surgical anxiety
Plenty of patients experience stress and anxiety during the post-operative period that may be atttributable to a number of causes. For example, it is not uncommon for some patients to become claustrophobic and confined by head dressings following ear or face surgery. Anything dressing around the neck in men commonly elicits feelings of anxiety. Endogenous or exogenous steroids can produce feelings of anxiety not unlike the fight or flight response.
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October 18* (This meeting will be held in the Du Bois Library, Room 1320.) November 15 December 13
All meetings will begin at 12 noon and take place in the W.E.B Du Bois Library, Room 2601.
The Research Library Council shall represent the faculty by: (a) Advising the Director of Libraries regarding the functions and operations of the University's research library including the development of library collections and information resources, staffing levels, fundraising, ranking as a research library, and service to the community; (b) Addressing issues of policy regarding campus funding priorities as they affect the Library; (c) Reviewing the budget for fundraising proposals before they are formally approved by the administration; and (d) Undertaking or supporting surveys of such matters as collection development, accessibility, security, or adequacy of staffing, at the request of the Senate, the Director of Libraries, the Provost or the Chancellor.
Its membership shall be: (a) Fifteen Faculty Members, with at least one from each School/College headed by a Dean and one from the Professional Library Staff; (b) The Chairperson of the Research Council or a designee, serving ex officio; (c) The Provost or a designee, serving ex officio; (d) The Director of Libraries or a designee, serving ex officio; (e) The Vice Chancellor for Research and Engagement or a designee, serving ex officio; (f) The Vice Provost for Outreach or a designee, serving ex officio; (g) The Dean of the Graduate School or a designee, serving ex officio; (h) The Secretary of the Faculty Senate or a designee, serving ex officio, non-voting; (i) The President of the Graduate Student Senate or a designee, serving ex officio; (j) The President of the Student Government Association or a designee, serving ex officio; and (k) The Speaker of the Student Government Association or a designee, serving ex officio.
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There were speculations floating around hinting that Apple would be discontinuing the iPod classic – one of the few remaining direct descendants of the iPod (which you could say was the MP3 player that changed everything). Apple used to introduce a new model every year except for the past couple of years, leaving the iPod Classic unchanged since 2009. Since the MP3 player has been considered a classic, Apple probably had no reason to make any changes – after all, we like to see our classics intact right? But in recent weeks, supplies of the iPod Classic seem to be running low, suggesting either a discontinuation or update of the product. With no official announcements in sight, one iPod Classic fan sent an email to Steve Jobs asking about the beloved device. Here's how the email exchange went:
Q: Hello, I've heard a LOT of speculation that Apple is looking to kill the iPod Classic because it wasn't updated on Sept. 1st, and that a lot of people would rather Touch. The iPod Classic is probably the best iPod in the line. PLEASE DON'T KILL IT!!!
A: We have no plans to.
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Steve Jobs as usual gave his short, curt response to the question dismissing rumors about the iPod Classic being killed off. With the traditional iPod media event being held annually in September six months away, I guess we'll just have to sit tight and wait for Apple's plans for the device. How many of you still use your iPod Classic?
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The summer weather isn't quite done here in San Diego, but my mind is definitely gearing up for fall. School supplies have been on display at Target for weeks and pumpkin collections are showing up at the grocery store. I've seen tweets and status updates about Pumpkin Spice everything and I am definitely ready.
Before saying hello to fall though, it's time to say a little goodbye to summer.
My main goal for the summer this year was to enjoy it. That meant going places I wanted to go, spending time with friends, feeling the sun and to making memories so that when Fall came I wasn't left wondering where the heck another season went.
I had some ideas of things I wanted to do, some specifically summer oriented, others that have been on various to-do lists for some time. The summer list looked a little like this:
go to a Farmer's Market
have a girls night of drinks, laughs, possibly crafts and snacks
go to a country bar and line dance
Sea World
Del Mar Fair
road trip
find organization to donate to monthly
beach day
swim with sharks
drive in movie
I added things like:
bungee jumping
celebrating my sister's 21st birthday
eating lots of hamburgers
Opening Day at the Del Mar Race Track
While I didn't complete everything, I did most of the items that required the summer for completion. I'll probably put picnic, drive in movie and Farmer's Market on my Fall list. I mean, why not?
I'm so glad I made a list for summer though, and then followed through on making sure I did things.
Swimming with the sharks and bungee jumping pushed my fear boundaries, celebrating my sister's 21st made me happy and also made me feel a little old, sitting by two bonfires brought a comforting smell to the season and the road trip at the beginning gave me time to practice gratitude.
I'm really liking the more intentional way of seasons. I don't need a monthly list, but one that spans three or so. I'm hoping this Fall to create more memories and feel little pieces of time more completely.
What was on your summer list?
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Thank you for your service. I couldn't have said this better.<quoted text>first of all they were going in anyway all odumbo did was not stop them. 95% of the intel came under president Bush the same intel that odumbo would not have gotten thur interagations that he said were so bad. we are going down the wrong track and we are doing it faster under his watch. romney may not be the best man for the job but he is the lesser of two evils. and for all the cheers we do respect the office even if we don't respect the man
Obama, Romney vie for military veterans' support - Trail Mix, July 24
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Jul. 24, 2012 - President Obama and Mitt Romney are courting the military vote ths week.
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"Headed toward the cliff" Since: Nov 07 49,323 Tawas City, Michigan |
The majority of the military & vets will vote for Obama, just like we did in 2008.
Latest polls- Obama lead Romney 49%-41%. Congrats Mr President on your reelection!! |
The poll over samples Democrats D+11. http://hotair.com/archives/2012/07/24/whos-up... |
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Come on down maggot muncher, we'll play grape. You have to bring your own diapers though. |
wrong again i salute officers i don't respect all the time but i respect the rank the have and knowone has any pride serving in a military they know odumbo hates and want to dismantle. |
I'd ask for links of data on your claim but we both know you are lying so I won't even bother. |
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Believe what you want, it won't stop Obama's reelection. |
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Actual ad aired by FOX news questions obuttma's eligibility.
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After November and into January, Obama will finally cut the deficite in half.....We can park AF-1 for more than 2 days at a time and he will only cost us a million a year (with his security)instead of the current trend of 6 trillion.
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Reference card for vSphere 5.1 – let's update it
Now that vSphere 5.1 has been announced, it's time to update the reference card. Due to another project I'm working on, I won't have the spare cycles to devote time to this for the next couple of months. Those of you who attended VMworld and caught the session that Scott Lowe and I presented, will know what I'm talking about. If you don't know, don't worry, I'll write about the project here soon.
I expect that I'll be able to start updating the card to 5.1 in November. What would great in the meantime, is if you spot anything which needs updating let me know in the comments below. If your feeling particularly focussed then grab a section, and try to list all the updates required and any new features which you think need added. I collate these cards and distribute them under a liberal license for everyone in the community to use as freely as possible. It would be great if we can get some feedback from the community itself this time around. Doing so will ensure that it's released as quickly and accurately as possible.
P.S. I don't plan on updating my Documentation Notes. I only update those on major releases, i.e. vSphere 4.0, 5.0, etc. I suggest you grab the 5.0 notes and supplement them with the latest What's New in vSphere 5.1 whitepapers.
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Rachel del Valle | Freshman friends are not forever
Duly Noted | It's hard to get everything right the first time around when you're settling into college
September 16, 2013, 2:07 am · Updated September 16, 2013, 11:17 pm
Rachel del Valle
Duly Noted
The other day I was flipping through a notebook that I've had for a few years now. On one of the back pages was a list titled "Things to Pack for College."
Underneath were two columns tightly filled with detailed items such as "Burt's Bees lip balm" and "deodorant (Dove cucumber)." Other, more generic things like "cork board" and "Swiffer" also made the cut.
As I skimmed over the sheet, I tried to imagine what the person who wrote that list was like. Was that really only three years ago? I was so inexperienced then — I still had bangs and had never written a paper longer than 10 pages.
I spent most of the summer before my freshman year of college sitting around with my high school friends, being in awe of our oldness. I was trying to bank their affection, thinking I'd soon find new friends who'd substitute but not replace their roles in my life.
I also mined my older sister for any of kind of wisdom I could take along with my luggage.
She was surprisingly unhelpful considering she was a senior in college. In retrospect, I think her LSAT prep and job experience meant she'd lost touch with what it was like to be a teenager. I know, because I can feel that happening to myself now.
The one crumb of perspective she offered, delivered matter-of-factly, was this: "You will not have the same friends you had freshman year by senior year."
I turned this idea over in my head, struck by how defeatist it seemed to me. All the friends I'd be making in the next few months didn't matter? They were just disposable, like those stupid magazine clippings on my dorm wall?
As I look around at the people I spend my time with now, I see that, for the most part, she was right.
Friends, real friends who you can and want to hang out with sober, are harder to find than anyone lets on. Unless you join a pre-orientation program or a club or have the luck of a good hall, finding friends at a school like Penn in your first year takes some effort.
Sometimes, the people you do find are more a matter of geography and seat choice than anything else.
I have a theory that the student body of Penn is composed of maybe 30 percent introverts, and of that 30 percent, about half of those spend their first few years trying to pretend they're extroverts like everyone else.
I don't really know what I expected from social life at Penn as a freshman, but I expected to like it.
At first, I didn't. I really, really didn't. I talk to the friends I've made since freshman year about their first few semesters and it's weird how similar our sob stories are.
It's not that I didn't have friends, I just didn't find anyone that I felt like I could show my Gollum impression to. After years of being surrounded by people who let me be as weird as I wanted to be from 8:10 a.m. to 2:10 p.m., five days a week, not having that outlet was tough.
Maybe I just wasn't ready to "let people in," or whatever other therapy jargon expression there is for being open. I think I just expected that I'd find people that I connected with because that had never been something I had to work for before.
But you do have to work for it. There's a lot of putting yourself out there and all that — this isn't something that comes naturally to most people. And it certainly doesn't come second nature to someone who's just started buying their own groceries and using a communal shower.
The post-high school adjustment period is long, and it can feel very lonely. Some people find people to commiserate with earlier than others. If you haven't found yours yet, remember that the one positive that comes from being surrounded by 10,000 other people is the possibility that you haven't met them all yet.
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how you doing
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can you imagine Army v Navy game days in the Shaftoe household
no no no oh my god even better can you imagine the one Shaftoe cousin who joins the air force
and he flies apaches and is about as bad ass as any Shaftoe but every time he comes up at family reunions and holidays, they talk about it…
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But I think what I would REALLY recommend is taking everything billy says as canon when you read it
I'm sure it's a great book but
Shhh it's better this way
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Guys I know I already did my allotted Important Advice Post but this is really important
Do you guys remember when I had my wisdom teeth pulled and I got like three complete days off
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when I was little there were these things that I used to do, if you were going to be a friend to me, I had these rituals, you had to share at least one drink with me out of the same cup, to little me you weren't my fucking friend if you wouldn't drink out of the same cup, and I miss that, I should have a friendship goblet
I want you guys to know that when he was here at one point I offered Billy my chapstick, and he reached out, took it, looked at me, looked at it, made a face, and said "What is this?"
Also when I met with the professor who offered to oversee my senior thesis, we were talking about possible focuses for what I was working with in analyzing the books and I mentioned I wanted to look at romantic friendships and she misheard me and turned to me and went "oh, like…you want to look at dating" with this really disappointed look on her face and I went "NO, FRIENDSHIPS, ROMANTIC FRIENDSHIPS"
and she lit up and went "OH OF COURSE" and without looking reached out to the bookshelf in front of her and handed me a book called something like "Beyond Men: Romantic Friendships Between Women in the Victorian Era"
a+ mentoring choice
Women are just like the woods: mysterious and full of wolves.
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The Mega-city in Latin America (UNU, 1996, 282 pages) |
8. Mexico City: No longer a leviathan? |
Income, employment, and social services in the 1980s
When harmful macroeconomic policies are abandoned, there is often a further deterioration in economic conditions before any sort of turnaround is achieved. This has been the experience in much of Latin America, Eastern Europe, and the countries of the former USSR. In addition, the conditions for optimal policy transitions are not yet well understood (Van Wijubergen, 1992). Both factors apply to Mexico, where the 1980s are often referred to as "the lost decade." Government-imposed wage restraints and a new system for setting minimum wages resulted in substantial drops in formal-sector real wages between 1982 and 1985-86. Nationwide, real average wages dropped by 30 per cent during this period, minimum wages saw a similar decline, and general manufacturing wages fell by 35 per cent in real terms (Gonzalez and Escobar, 1991; Lustig, 1990).
However, Lustig (1990) points out that a drastic decline in wages may not translate into an equivalent loss in total household income. Wage income represents a smaller share of poor families' incomes than it does of that of wealthier families. It appears, then, that middle-and upper-middle-income households (who generally rely more on wage income than do poorer families) bore more of the brunt of adjustment arising from this decline in real wages. On the other hand, nonwage incomes actually rose slightly between 1981 and 1984. However, this gain is explained more by a rise in profits (generally accruing to the rich) than to increases in the incomes of self-employed owners (generally the informal sector), so it is unlikely that these small increases could compensate households for larger losses in wage incomes. Finally, as Lustig (1990) notes, even small absolute and relative declines in incomes of the poorest households can exacerbate already severe conditions.
Falling real wages help explain how, while output declined sharply for Mexican firms in the early 1980s, the open unemployment rate did not rise dramatically. Firms were able to reduce their labour costs and the government could cut its own expenditure through a combination of layoffs and wage cuts. In spite of this the actual number of unemployed is reported to have risen from 2.7 million to 4.6 million between 1981 and 1984. In addition, underemployment rose, as workers were forced into lower-paying and less productive jobs, often in the informal sector (Lustig, 1990). Indeed, according to one report, informal employment in Mexico rose faster between 1980 and 1987 than in most other Latin American countries (Gonzalez and Escobar, 1991).
Not surprisingly, the effects of falling wages and shifting employment patterns on the distribution of income is not straightforward. In fact, it is not clear whether income inequality rose or fell in Mexico in the 1980s.3 Lustig asserts that the economic crises and subsequent structural-adjustment process decimated the Mexican middle class, while wealth was increasingly concentrated in the hands of the rich between 1981 and 1985 (Lustig, 1990). Lorey and Mostkoff-Linares (1993) examine the economic fortunes of various occupational groups and income strata through the 1980s. They conclude that "... the evidence from the 1990 census is perplexing. Data on both income and occupation imply that the situation in the 1980s was characterized by a clustering of population in the lowest middle-class and highest lower-class subgroups rather than by a dramatically increasing misery at the lowest levels of Mexican society."
Other standard social indicators for the 1980s, also point to an ambiguous picture of the impacts of Mexico's economic crisis. Indeed, Hirschman (1994: 344) reports that "during the 1980s, when indexes of economic performance leveled off or declined in some Latin American countries under the impact of the debt crisis, important social indicators, such as infant mortality, illiteracy, and the extent of birth control continued showing improvement." Adjustments at the household level to falling incomes and to workers involved in lowerproductivity activities appear to have had an effect on school enrolments and infant nutrition. Primary and secondary school enrolment dropped relative to the number of eligible children in the early 1980s. Although aggregate health indicators, such as infant mortality rates, did not rise, illness and mortality were more frequently related to poor nutrition. These nutritional deficiencies may also be related to the government's move away from general food subsidies toward more targeted programmes. Though defensible from a fiscal standpoint, rising food prices for those poor households no longer included in these programmes may have led to nutrition problems (Lustig, 1990). On the other hand, shrinking per capita outlays on education, public health, and social security are not necessarily an indication of lower service levels. Lustig (1990: 1337) concludes that these figures actually reflect the declining wages of workers and a lack of new investment in these sectors.
Housing and urban services
Over half of all housing in Mexico City consists of self-help structures in various states of consolidation (Azuela, 1990; UNDIESA, 1991). Self-help housing is concentrated primarily in the State of Mexico, where enforcement of prohibitions on construction on unauthorized sites has traditionally been less stringent. Unlike the situation in other Latin American cities, land invasions have not been common in recent decades. More typical are illegal subdivisions of private and ejido land: it is estimated that 9 to 10 million people live on land that has been developed in these "irregular" ways (Connolly, 1988; Coulomb and Duhau, 1989; Schteingart, 1989; Ward, 1990a). The result has often been settlements on land poorly suited for service provision; on the steep, rocky slopes of volcanoes to the south-west of the city and on the desiccated lake beds to the east, prone to flooding during the rainy season and dust storms during the dry months.
Few other options for home ownership exist for the poor, given the limited reach of public-sector housing (see below). The traditional, irregular forms of providing land for housing the poor in Mexico City may be drying up, as bans on squatting in territorial reserves, as well as on illegal subdivisions and ejido sales, are being more stringently enforced (Ward, 1990a). This is partly a response to competition in the land market from developers of middle-class housing (Connolly, 1988). As a result, population densities and land prices are increasing in lowincome areas. Rental accommodation is the tenure choice of increasing numbers of Mexico residents, even though the proportion of renters is declining (Coulomb and Sanchez, 1991; Gilbert, 1993a: 55).
Questions about the legality of landholdings plague housing development of all types. But while some high-income neighbourhoods have been built on irregularly obtained land, the issue of land tenure is particularly vexing in low-income, self-help settlements. Security of tenure is generally cited by residents of irregular settlements as the single most important issue they face (Aguilar, 1988; Jiménez, 1989; Varley, 1993). Unfortunately, regularization is often complicated by uncertain land records and the overlap of jurisdictions of various government agencies, particularly for former ejido lands. In addition, tenure issues offer ample opportunity for the political jockeying and influence peddling which often accompanies highly sensitive and rather arbitrary procedures in Mexico.
There is some disagreement among researchers over the degree to which regularization continues to be used by local officials primarily as a political tool. Ward maintains that since the late 1970s, land regularization has become more systematic and technical, a process motivated by concern to incorporate residents into the tax base, recover costs of service infrastructure investment, and exert greater authority over planning and building (Ward, 1990a; Ward, 1990b). Varley (1993), in contrast, argues that in spite of increased bureaucratization, the PRI still exercises a great deal of control over the timing and location of regularization. In her view, land-tenure regularization continues to serve as a means for demobilizing non-PRI political movements in low-income neighbourhoods and maintaining political stability in the city.
Political patronage and co-optation is also a motive for constructing public housing. Mexico City is notable for the large number of agencies which have been involved with public housing construction, sometimes working cooperatively, and at other times at odds with one another. The most prominent agency in the construction of housing for low-income residents is the Trust Fund for Popular Housing (FONHAPO), which has also been important in sites and services schemes and in the earthquake rebuilding programme. Two major housing funds for employees are also active in publicsector housing: the National Institute of the Fund for Workers' Housing (INFONAVIT), whose membership is limited to registered blue-collar workers, and the Housing Fund for State Workers (FOVISSSTE), which serves state employees. Both funds are supported by mandatory payments in the form of fixed percentages of workers' salaries (Ward, 1990b: 417). State credit guarantees toward the purchase of privately built housing are also available to certain low-income workers through Central Bank of Mexico programmes called the Fund for Banking Operations and Discounts to Housing (FOVI) and the Fund for the Guarantee and Support of Housing Credit (FOGA). These public-sector housing agencies have played a significant role in housing provision in Mexico City since 1970. Whereas only 10 per cent of the population lived in housing produced by one of the various forms of government intervention in 1970, by 1985 over 20 per cent benefited from state assistance (Connolly, 1988: 168; Ward, 1990b: 419). A special agency, Popular Housing Renewal, was also set up following the 1985 earthquake; it built 54,000 units in the central area for highly subsidized purchase by newly homeless low-income residents (Gilbert, 1993a; Ward, 1990b).
Only about 15 per cent of the housing in Mexico City consists of private, single-family units built on legally obtained land (Dowall and Wilk, 1989). This type of housing is concentrated in a relatively small number of expensive neighbourhoods, populated by the wealthiest Mexico City residents.
Urban service provision is a major problem in the city. Of course, those who can afford to pay the prevailing user fees for urban services have no difficulty obtaining them; heavy government investment in basic water, drainage, electricity, and other systems, as well as generally competent and non-politicized management of these agencies, has greatly increased capacity (Gilbert and Ward, 1985). However, the situation is very different in low-income and irregular neighbourhoods. There the inhabitants are more likely to find themselves at the mercy of political manoeuvring. Indeed, some authors posit a link between regularization and the ability to demand and receive urban services (Ward, 1990b), although others cite examples of illegal settlements dealing directly with the utilities to obtain water or electricity services (Aguilar, 1988; Varley, 1993). What is clear is that services are obtained gradually by lower-income residents, and servicing depends in part upon their ability to organize and make their demands known.
In Mexico City, 91 per cent of housing units have some type of sewerage connection, 94 per cent have piped water, 64 per cent have in-house water, and 99 per cent have electricity. But household service provision varies widely both between neighbourhoods and between the DF and the conurbated municipalities of the State of Mexico. Sewer connection rates are 95 per cent in the DF and 85 per cent in the State of Mexico, piped water 97 per cent and 91 per cent, and in-house water 72 per cent and 54 per cent (Rowland, 1993).
Water provision and disposal
Water has to be pumped up to Mexico City over the surrounding mountains from areas far from the metropolitan area. The cost of provision has become increasingly high as the main local supplies, the water table beneath the city and the agricultural lands to the south, have become depleted. At the same time, the frequent failure to collect service fees has also discouraged maintenance and extension of service to newly settled low-income areas.4
Water disposal is an even more serious problem. Because the Valley of Mexico lacks a natural outlet, both sewage and storm water tend to accumulate. Sewage-treatment plants do not run at full capacity and cannot satisfy the city's needs. The collection system is also in disrepair, suffering from old age as well as from damage sustained in the 1985 earthquake. As a result, particularly in poor areas, sewage is collected in poorly maintained septic tanks or left in the open air. In the wet season, surface runoff must be pumped out of the valley or allowed to run northward with the sewage, where it is often used for irrigation. The highly permeable soil to the south of the city is not able to cleanse the drainage water and the subsoil aquifer is increasingly contaminated.
Air pollution
The most pressing environmental problem faced by Mexico City is its air pollution. In 1991, international norms were exceeded in the city centre on no less than 307 days. In other parts of the city they were exceeded anywhere from 232 days in the north-eastern zone to 325 days in the south-west (Lacy, 1993: 27). The source of the problem is similar to that in other large cities, but an unfortunate combination of natural phenomena accentuates what would otherwise just be a major nuisance. Surrounded by mountains in a basin 2,240 metres above sea level, the metropolitan region suffers from very stable air. In winter, thermal inversions trap cold, stagnant air beneath the level of the mountains. At the same time, the sunshine at this latitude produces photochemical smog 60 per cent more efficiently than the sunshine in Los Angeles (Lacy, 1993: 45). In addition, altitude increases automobile emissions and the high-octane gasoline required for combustion at this level also has a high lead content. To make matters worse, people are more susceptible to the negative effects of pollution at high altitude. As Walsh (1989, quoted in UN, 1991: 22) puts it: "if one was asked to design a city with characteristics conducive to high air pollution, one could not do a much better job than has been done in the Valley of Mexico."
Transport is the primary source of air pollution in Mexico City, with the private automobile contributing almost half of all emissions (table 8.11). Exacerbating the problem is the deteriorated state of so many vehicles. Even rudimentary pollution-control devices are rare. In a voluntary emission-testing programme of 600,000 vehicles conducted from 1986 to 1988, 70 per cent of petrol-driven vehicles and 85 per cent of diesel vehicles failed to meet the standards (Walsh, 1989: 23). Unfortunately, as the number of private cars increases, petrol consumption is growing rapidly: deliveries to retailers in 1991 were 22
Table 8.11 Sources of emissions, Valley of Mexico, 1989
Sector and source |
% of total emissions |
Weighted by toxicity of emission |
Transportation |
76.6 |
42.4 |
Private automobiles |
34.9 | |
Gasoline trucks |
19.9 | |
Combis and minibuses |
10.5 | |
Taxis |
7.9 | |
Diesel trucks |
1.6 | |
State of Mexico buses |
1.1 | |
Ruta-100 (DF buses) |
0.5 | |
Others (trains, planes, etc.) |
0.2 | |
Industry and Trade |
4.4 |
16.9 |
Industry |
3.7 | |
Trade |
0.7 | |
Energy |
4.0 |
10.8 |
2.4 | |
Thermo-electric production |
1.6 | |
Ecological factors |
149 |
29.9 |
Eroded areas |
9.6 | |
Fires and other processes |
5.3 | |
Total |
100.0 |
100.0 |
Source: Derived from Lacy, 1993. per cent higher than in 1986 (Lacy, 1993: 50). Should car ownership continue to increase, air pollution is likely to become worse.
Industry is not a major source of pollution, although it does contribute most of the sulphur dioxide. In addition, the number of commercial and service establishments using polluting processes, such as restaurants, hotels, dry cleaners, public baths, and bakeries, is growing.
The first serious attempts to reduce air pollution were begun in 1986. In 1991, these efforts were stepped up with the announcement of the Integrated Programme against Atmospheric Pollution (PICCA). This programme was undertaken by the Salinas administration in conjunction with the Comisión Metropolitana and the private sector. The total cost of the programme between 1990 and 1994 has been estimated at over US$4.7 billion (Lacy, 1993: 61).
Perhaps the best-known anti-pollution effort is the Hoy no circula programme, which forbids driving one day per week in the Federal District. A variety of other measures directed toward private vehicles include mandatory catalytic converters, a compulsory vehicle-inspection programme, and improvements to traffic controls and roads. New types of fuel including unleaded petrol and low-sulphur diesel fuel, have also been developed by PEMEX to lower harmful emissions.
Measures are also being taken to increase usage of the mass-transit system. These include the gradual extension of the metro system into the State of Mexico, the expansion of the trolley-bus network, the construction of a light train along Avenida Zaragoza, and the introduction of luxury buses. A major programme is also under way to reduce pollution from public transport, including fitting catalytic converters to taxis, combis, and microbuses and replacing 3,500 Ruta-100 buses with newer models (Lacy, 1993: 64).
The closure of PEMEX's 18 de Marzo refinery in 1991, at a reported cost of US$500 million, was the most dramatic step yet taken against industrial pollution. However, additional measures include a ban on new contaminating industries, agreements with existing companies aimed at controlling their emissions, continuous monitoring of the worst polluters, and mandatory switching from petrol and diesel fuels to natural gas. The two thermo-electric power plants serving the metropolitan area have been almost entirely converted to natural gas. They have been also instructed to suspend operations during thermal inversions (Lacy, 1993: 65-6).
The likelihood of success of these pollution-abatement programmes remains to be seen. Even if fully enacted - rarely the case in previous efforts - many programmes will take years before they are effective. This is particularly true of those that rely on improvements to the fleet of private road vehicles, since the average age of these is so high. Retrofitting with improved pollution-control equipment is difficult to implement and virtually impossible to enforce. Other programmes, such as Hoy no circula, are easily subverted and possibly contribute to increased vehicle sales. What is more, progress in some areas may actually worsen other types of environmental damage. For example, the unleaded fuel introduced by PEMEX may have led to increased ozone levels (Walsh, 1989: 23).
Table 8.12 Modal split of transportation in Mexico City, 1985
Mode |
% of total daily
person-tripsa |
Private autos |
24.0 |
Metro |
18.5 |
DF Buses |
27.0 |
State of Mexico buses |
15.0 |
Combis and shared taxis |
10.8 |
Trolleys and streetcars |
3.0 |
Source: UNDIESA, 1991.
a. Figures are rounded.
Fortunately, the deconcentration of population and economic activity from the city centre to the suburbs and from Mexico City to other regions of the country suggests that the problem of air pollution may not be wholly intractable. The development of urban sub-centres may help to contain average commuting times and reduce industrial pollution (Gordon and Richardson, 1993).
Transport policy
Transport congestion is a major problem. The government's main response has been to try to reduce reliance on the private automobile and to increase the use of public transport. Unfortunately, the main tool used to achieve this goal, highly subsidized fares, has had little impact on the modal split (table 8.12). Those presently without cars take the metro if it goes near their destination, but otherwise rely on buses or collective taxis (Walsh, 1989: 26). The real problem, however, is rising car ownership. Once people own a car, they use it. With car ownership likely to grow faster than population and incomes, congestion is bound to get worse.
Of course, the current trend towards deconcentration of population and employment can be expected to help traffic management. As Ward (1990b: 97) points out, the emergence of new centres of employment, commerce, and services has allowed people to fulfil most of their daily needs within a limited sector of the city. He claims that average journey times for most residents have not increased much in recent years, an observation which is consistent with data from cities in developed countries.


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For someone who it is believed will take the helm of any "In/Out" Referendum, who currently is the CEO of Business for Britain, Matthew Elliott appears to be woefully lacking in knowledge about matters EU. His latest attempt to show his ignorance appears in CityAM, an article in which he writes about how British business could thrive under a "bespoke" new deal with Brussels.
It only takes four paragraphs of vacuous verbiage before we get the first example of Elliott's lack of knowledge. He writes that whenever the EU introduces new Single Market regulations, they are automatically imposed – Norway gets no formal say on the matter. Now, in fairness, it perhaps is the situation that Elliott believes the EU is the originator of all legislation that is imposed in its name.
Is it really necessary to remind Elliott that it is a fact that many of the standard-setting international bodies act under the aegis of the United Nations. Such output has coined the name "quasi-legislation" – it is not law as such but is the source from which all law emanates. This quasi-legislation is then handed down to countries and regional bodies to implement via legislation. Therefore the EU is not, in the main, originating law but is in fact a middle-man, implementing that which has been decided at a far higher level.
In general both the EU and Norway are members of these UN bodies, the EU speaking for the Member States – and, importantly, Norway speaking for itself. As Norway has a voice in the formulation of law that is proposed it is more than aware of that which the EU is implementing. Matthew Elliott is correct to say that Norway has no seat at the EU table – but then why should it need a seat, it has already been part of the formation of said law and is therefore well aware of what is coming out of the EU "law factory".
If Elliott believes a bespoke deal can be arranged, similar to that of Switzerland, he seems to overlook the point he himself makes, namely that it took Switzerland a decade to reach the agreements that it now has. This begs the question of what Elliot believes the UK should do in the interim period while such bespoke deals are reached. While not ideal, membership of EFTA and the EEA would allow business access to the Single Market with no disruption to those Elliott represents – the business world – while a new agreement is negotiated.
Of course, Elliott does not tackle the method by which such a bespoke deal could be negotiated. Bear in mind that the only way in which the UK can negotiate any new deal is by invoking Article 50 of the TEU – but then we can't expect Matthew Elliott to understand even the most basic points about matters EU.
Elliott continues about having maximum access to the Single Market, yet only yesterday the Mail was reporting that the forthcoming manifesto to be published by Business for Britain was calling for the UK to quite the Single Market in favour of a "customs union" – but then he is becoming renowned for spouting contradictions.
In accordance with the inflated opinion Matthew Elliott would appear to have of himself where his standing is concerned, we are fully justified to believe that where he writes how we can best change our relationship, the "we" are those in the "Westminster Village" and "Business".
Why should we be influenced by someone who invariably obfuscates, lies and contradicts himself every time he puts fingers to keyboard?