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A Malthusian catastrophe (also called a Malthusian check, crisis, disaster, or nightmare) was originally foreseen to be a forced return to subsistence-level conditions once population growth had outpaced agricultural production. Later formulations consider economic growth limits as well. The term is also commonly used in discussions of oil depletion.

Based on the work of political economist Thomas Malthus (1766–1834), theories of Malthusian catastrophe are very similar to the subsistence theory of wages. The main difference is that the Malthusian theories predict over several generations or centuries, whereas the subsistence theory of wages predicts over years and decades.

 

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 Ayn Rand in 1964.

 

  THESE WERE ON LAST NIGHT-GREAT MOVIES !!!!

8:00 PM Faithless (1932)
  A spoiled rich girl is wiped out by the Depression. Cast: Tallulah Bankhead, Robert Montgomery, Hugh Herbert. Dir: Harry Beaumont. BW-77 mins, TV-PG
9:30 PM American Madness (1932)
  A banker fights to keep his independence and protect his customers. Cast: Walter Huston, Pat O'Brien, Kay Johnson. Dir: Frank Capra. BW-76 mins, TV-G, CC
11:00 PM Prosperity (1932)
  Feuding mothers almost wreck their children's marriage. Cast: Marie Dressler, Polly Moran, Anita Page. Dir: Sam Wood. BW-87 mins, TV-G
12:30 AM Crash, The (1932)
  The stock market crash costs a faithless wife her fortune. Cast: Ruth Chatterton, George Brent, Paul Cavanagh. Dir: William Dieterle. BW-57 mins, TV-G
1:30 AM Looking Forward (1933)
  A man fights to keep the family department store open during the Depression. Cast: Lewis Stone, Lionel Barrymore, Benita Hume. Dir: Clarence Brown. BW-82 mins, TV-G
3:00 AM Match King, The (1932)
  An ambitious young man corners the market on matches, then faces the destruction of his empire. Cast: Warren William, Lili Damita, Glenda Farrell. Dir: Howard Bretherton, William Keighley. BW-79 mins, TV-G, CC
4:30 AM I Promise to Pay (1937)
  A man goes to a loan shark to finance his family's vacation. Cast: Chester Morris, Leo Carrillo, Helen Mack. Dir: David Ross Lederman. BW-68 mins,

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A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery 

 

 

tried, and sentenced to a jail term which he served without causing too much trouble. Upon his release he vanished quietly into relative obscurity to pursue interests in graphic design, photography and music. As a guitar player in a band call ed 'The Manta Rays' he was partly responsible for their reputation as the loudest band south of Manchester and north of London. Following the untimely death of their drummer, Roger quit the music scene and devoted himself to studying obscure philosophies and reading. Through the complete works of Conan Doyle, Michael Moorcock, JRR Tolkien, numerous books by Stephen King and many others, his interest in fiction steadily grew, not only from the viewpoint of a reader, but a burgeoning interest as a writer.
 
Roger began his first novel on November 4th, 1987 and did not stop, except for three days when he was going through a divorce from his first wife, until July of 1993. During this time he completed twenty-two novels, most of them in longhand, and accumulated several hundred polite and complimentary rejection letters from many different and varied publishers. The standard response from the UK publishing trade was that they could not consider the possibility of publishing books based in the United States written by an Englishman. He was advised to send his work to American publishers, which he duly did, and received from them equally polite and complimentary rejection letters that said it was not possible for American publishers to publish books set in the US written by an Englishman. Roger stopped writing out of sheer frustration and did not start again until August 2001. One of his agents became an author, another retired from representation and moved abroad, the last one just stopped writing and calling.

In 2001 Roger took an office-based job for the first time in his life. He was shown how to use a computer, how to create a word document, and decided to use his lunch hours to start writing again. Between August 2001 and January 2002 he wrote three books, the second of which was called Candlemoth. This was purchased by Orion and published in 2003. How and why it was published is another story entirely, which if you ever go to one of Roger’s events he will tell you! Candlemoth was translated into German, Dutch and Italian, and has now also been purchased for translation in Sweden. The book also secured a nomination on the shortlist for the Crime Writers’ Association Steel Dagger for Best Thriller 2003.
 
Roger’s second book, Ghostheart, was released in 2004, and his third book, A Quiet Vendetta, was released in August 2005. In 2006 he published City of Lies, and once again secured a nomination for the CWA Steel Dagger for Best Thriller of that year. City of Lies was also translated into Bulgarian and made available in Large Print. His fifth book – A Quiet Belief In Angels – was published in August 2007, and in the latter part of the year it was selected for the phenomenally successful British TV equivalent of the Oprah Winfrey Book Club, the Richard and Judy Book Club. The book was purchased for translation into more than fifteen languages including French, Italian, Japanese, Brazilian, Norwegian and Lithuanian, released on both abridged and unabridged audio, and made available in Large Print. As of mid-2008, there were more than 240,000 copies of the book in circulation in the UK alone.

Currently there are a further two books due for release – the first in the autumn of 2008, the second in 2009. Roger is currently working on a book due for release in 2010.

On numerous occasions people have tried to identify Roger's work with a particular genre - crime, thriller, historical fiction - but this categorisation has been a relatively fruitless endeavour. Roger's ethos is merely to work towards producing a good story, something that encapsulates elements of humanity and life without necessarily slotting into a predetermined pigeonhole. He attempts to produce an average of forty thousand words a month, and aims to get a first draft completed within three to four months. His wife thinks he is a workaholic, his son considers him slightly left-of-centre, but they put up with him regardless. His son has long since been aware of the fact that 'dad' buys stuff, and thus his idiosyncrasies should be tolerated.

Roger doesn't read anywhere enough books, doesn't watch enough movies, and keeps trying to remedy these omissions. To date he has routinely failed.

Recently he read a book called 'How Not To Write A Novel' by David Armstrong. His favourite quote from this book went along the lines of 'The harder you work the luckier you get'. He agrees with this principle, and thus has no intention of retiring from anything, ever.

He's just going to keep on writing, and he hopes people keep on reading, and now there are people showing up to readings and signings that he has never met before, he feels that his purpose as a writer is at last being accomplished.


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Attorney Robyn Gallitto was elected to the Boardman Township Board of Trustees on November 8, 2005 after receiving 6,307 votes and being the top vote-getter in the five person race. The Trustee’s office is her first venture into public office and she looks forward to being a public servant. She ran on a platform of fiscal responsibility, the restoration of civility and unity to the administration and to the community at large, and to establish and communicate a long-term vision and plan for Boardman

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