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The Private Members Homeless Reduction Bill, that will be debated tomorrow, will improve the situation of many homeless people in this country. The Bill will force councils to demonstrate that they are preventing and tackling homeless through a number of new provisions and measures. However, Jack Dromey will argue that the Government needs to invest in social and affordable housing to allow councils like Birmingham to house the homeless.
Homelessness is currently tackled in a 2 tiered prevention system. One tier is "priority need" where Local Authorities have an obligation to house homeless people, whilst those in the lower tier are judged not to be priority and can be turned away with minimal or no assistance. The Communities and Local Government (CLG) Select Committee found single people in particular, find it challenging to get the support in doing something about their homelessness status. As a result since 2010 statutory homelessness in England has grown. In 2014/15 homelessness acceptances by local authorities were 36% higher than in 2009/10. This has given rise to calls that reform is needed to tackle this increase in numbers.
Labour MP Jack Dromey, who has long campaigned for decent affordable housing for everyone, supports the Bill but calls on Theresa May to help Birmingham City Council in providing assistance and capacity to offer more social and supported housing. As of August this year Birmingham had 223 single households in temporary accommodation. If today's Bill becomes law, the Government will need to take responsibility for the significant pressure on Birmingham's housing services, as the council will have to under the terms of the Bill accommodate many more people whilst at the same deal with cuts to its budget.
Jack Dromey, Member of Parliament for Birmingham Erdington and former Shadow Housing Minister, said:
"The Labour Government in Wales have introduced reforms to tackle homelessness for everyone and it is time that the Government followed their lead.
Whilst I back the intentions of the Bill, the Tories need to recognise the increased costs for councils in housing more homeless people. Local Councils are already facing huge budget cuts and this will add to the funding crisis, especially for areas with high homelessness such as Birmingham.
The Labour Party and I will use this debate to urge and encourage the Government to support the Bill but also to address the lack of provision of affordable housing in Birmingham and Britain. Warm words from ministers are not enough. They must invest in affordable and social housing to end the scandal of homelessness in 21st Century Britain."


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You seem to have it all – a successful career, sparkling wit and personal appeal – but still you may find it difficult to meet an attractive woman who is equally interested in you. Dating experts often speak of looking at places where there is a larger pool of potential dating partners for greater success. So if you are a guy and still unattached, the following list can be useful in deciding where to look since these countries in the world are some of the best places to meet women.
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Single men who hold good jobs are the stuff of every woman's dating dreams. Still, most of these available men complain that they don't get to meet suitable partners, probably because they are so tied up with their work. So if you are a single guy, eager to date smart attractive women, but too busy to while away your day in bars, here are ten places you can check out to get your social life buzzing.
If you are tired of waiting for friends and family to set you up with a date or endlessly hoping that the cute guy-next-door asks you out, it is time to take matters in your hand. Here are a few ways that can help you to meet a guy in ten days or even less.
There was a time when matchmaking was the pastime of twice-removed aunts whose own children had been married off and who thus all the time in the world to meddle into other peoples' affairs. Or young people trusted their luck to community socials where they could meet potential partners from their own place and social background.
Going about to meet women can seem a delicate task to even the most outgoing of men but for guys who are shy, it can be downright daunting. Being less comfortable than others in social situations, shy guys often shun venues like bars or nightclubs which are the usual places for meeting women. However if you are an introvert by nature, don't despair since there are several other options you can check out if you want to meet women.
Girls can intimidate men easily. but, if a guy is sincere and persistent enough, it increases the odds of getting some love back. It may not be easy to please the woman of your dreams but if you play your cards well, it isn't hard either. Every step needs to be taken gradually and cautiously. Take it slow..a step at a time. Taking your friendship to the next level is the logical step. And this is the guide to tell you how!
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Heightened stress that comes from juggling a career and family has convinced many women of the benefits of staying at home and bringing up kids. Rising family incomes and greater awareness of the value of a mother's contribution to running a family have made the transition easier. However for guys with regular nine-to-five jobs, it becomes difficult to come across stay-at-home moms to date. Here are a few tips in meeting and dating women who would rather be stay-at-home moms rather than professionals.
Often you get caught up in a spur- of- the-moment impulse and agree to go out on a date with someone you just met. Sometimes you pity him – which is one of the worst possible reasons to go on a date. Or you were caught off-guard and couldn't come up with a good enough reason to refuse. Or you were caught up in the mood of the evening and agreed to see him again.
You may have noticed recently how all your buddies do the vanishing act on weekends. Could it be that they have their own girlfriends to go out with while you are left twiddling your thumb and wondering who to call? If so, you needn't worry any more 'cause here are ten sure shot ways to get a girlfriend and a life as well.
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Obama Eyeing Internet ID For Americans
Pickens writes "CBS News reports that the Obama administration is currently drafting the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace, which will be released by the president in the next few months. 'We are not talking about a national ID card,' says Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, whose department will be in charge of the program. 'We are not talking about a government-controlled system. What we are talking about is enhancing online security and privacy and reducing and perhaps even eliminating the need to memorize a dozen passwords, through creation and use of more trusted digital identities.' Although details have not been finalized, the 'trusted identity' may take the form of a smart card or digital certificate that would prove online users are who they say they are. These digital IDs would be offered to consumers by online vendors for financial transactions. White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt says that anonymity and pseudonymity will remain possible on the Internet. 'I don't have to get a credential if I don't want to,' says Schmidt. There's no chance that 'a centralized database will emerge,' and 'we need the private sector to lead the implementation of this.'"
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Carboxy Methyl Tamarind Cmt - Indiaprice: contact company for price
water soluble polymer; it is derived from Tamarind Kernel Powder ( TKP)
, which is made cold water soluble by a chemical reaction (
Carboxymethylation) . Cold water solubility is achieved by introducing
carboxymethyl groups ( - CH2- COOH) along the polysaccharide chain,
which makes hydration of the molecule possible in cold water.
CMT is modified Tamarind Kernel Powder ( TKP) , TKP extracted from seeds of Tamarind Tree ( Tamarindus Indica) . Tamarind is an evergreen tree grows mainly in India & also in other part of world. Today; India is the largest producer of tamarind.
Tamarind seeds are processed in to CMT by seed selection, seed coat removal, separation, hammer milling, grinding, sieving, chemical processing, drying, grinding and sieving.
CMT is bio- compatible, bio- degradable, non- toxic & modified natural polymer.
CMT is derivatives of Polysaccharides composed of Glucosyl : Xylosyl : Galactosyl in ration of 3: 2: 1.
CMT's water solutions are Non- Newtonian and yield higher viscosities than most of starch derivatives at equivalent concentrations.
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The Chemical name of CMT is Sodium Carboxy Methyl Tamarind Kernel Powder.
CMT widely used as textile printing thickener.
CMT also used for sizing in jute yarn & cotton warp.
CMT has extensive use in paper & explosive industry where it is used as viscosity builder.
CMT used as a binder in slurry explosive as a substitute for guar gum.
CMT used as a core binder in foundries & mosquito coils.
CMT used as a sizing material in paper industry.
CMT very effectively used these days by oil drilling companies as soil stabilizer.
CMT has numerous other applications & its low cost gives it an edge over other thickening agents.
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having core capabilities of supplying Chemicals, Minerals, Engineering
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SUNRAY INTERNATIONAL, is leading Manufacture and government recognized Exporters and Domestic Supplier. Within a short span our company has established a reputation as a reliable international supplier of quality and vivid variety products.
We endeavored to provide the best quality material at the most reasonable prices. We wish to use our strengths to cater client requirements using our full potential. It has enabled us to establish a long term business relation with our prospective buyers.
We located in most progressive state GUJARAT of most progressive Asian country INDIA, Indian market has always been the best market for many of the products. People all over the world have always looked upon this market for products where one gets value for money. Having a thorough knowledge of the Indian market is a must for those who basically supply Indian products to the whole world. SUNRAY INTERNATIONAL, is a name that really does one and everything in the field of sourcing as well supplying the best of the Indian products to those who are interested in doing business with India.
In today world of cut throat competition one has to look upon the basic things as how to satisfy the customer in the best possible way. Quality and Price are the two basic aspects that attract a customer. Once things are settled with these aspects then come as to how quickly the order is executed. We always stand by with our commitments. Thus the focus of the company is totally to provide the best of the services and wide variety of products in the Global and Domestic market.
We export Sodium Carboxy Methyl Cellulose (CMC), Sodium Carboxy Methyl Starch (CMS), Sodium Carboxy Methyl Tamarind (CMT), Guar Gum Powder, Dolomite, Soapstone, Hydrated Lime, Marble Powder, Chalk Powder, Calcium Carbonate, Cotton Cake, Groundnut Cake, Castor Oil Cake, Castor De Oiled De Oiled Cake, Castor Oil Cold Press (Virgin), Neem Oil Cold Press (Virgin), Water Pump, Insecticide Sprayer, Ceramic Tiles and Sanitary Wares.
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Inside Activision's Plan to Make Its Gaming League the Next ESPN
Players on headsets exchange strategy as two teams fire away at each other through the rubble of a virtual city. Thousands of video-game fans in an arena cheer as the clock ticks down to the five-minute finish.
"The nerves have got to be kicking in now," an announcer says in a nearby booth.Read more ↓
The Call of Duty World Championship played out last weekend in Los Angeles and delivered an $800,000 prize to the first place team EnVyUs. The event's promoter, Activision Blizzard Inc., is the largest independent maker of video games in the US. Now, it's trying to dominate the emerging business of professional video-game play by developing leagues, hosting tournaments and airing them live on its own online channel.
On Wednesday, Activision took another step in that direction, naming 21st Century Fox executive Pete Vlastelica as chief executive officer of its Major League Gaming online network. Vlastelica, who previously oversaw online content for Fox Sports, joins a team that includes Steve Bornstein, the former CEO of Walt Disney's ESPN sports network who serves as chairman.
"More traditional leagues and sports broadcasters look with some amount of envy on the engagement and functionality around live streaming that has been part of E-sports from day one." Vlastelica said in in interview.
Facing a decline in physical sales of video games and a surge in free mobile play, companies such as Santa Monica, California-based Activision are trying to generate new sources of revenue — from in-game downloads to advertising and tournaments, which have the added benefit of keeping their products front and center in the minds of customers.
Activision acquired the MLG.tv site in December for $46 million. This year, the network is producing a series of competitions leading up to BlizzCon, the annual fan event for the company's World of Warcraft and other games. Teams from the US, Latin America and Australia and New Zealand will be compete in regionals in Columbus, Ohio, on October 8 and October 9, vying for a spot in the finals.
Not everyone thinks E-sports will be a slam dunk. Michael Pachter, an analyst with Wedbush Securities, estimates Activision will pump relatively little money into tournaments or the Major League Gaming channel. They're unlikely to be big profit contributors soon, he said.
"We think that the company's desire to be 'the ESPN of E-sports' is misguided," Pachter wrote in a June note. "In our view, if anyone will be the ESPN of E-sports, it's likely to be ESPN itself."
The analyst instead likes the approach of Electronic Arts Inc., which seems more interested in sponsoring tournaments to promote game sales than in owning every piece of the business.
The idea of fans watching professional video-game players has been around for decades. In South Korea, three cable channels cover the sport and enthusiasts number in the millions. In January, the research site Newzoo projected worldwide spending on E-sports would climb 43 percent this year to $463 million (roughly 3,076 crores). Revenue comes from media rights, merchandise, event tickets and advertising.
At the annual Milken Institute conference in May, Activision CEO Bobby Kotick showed a slide comparing the billions of TV revenue earned by leagues such as the National Football League and the National Basketball Association to the paltry tens of millions generated by E-sports.
Kotick, who built Activision from a $20 million, bankrupt maker of Atari video games to a $6 billion-a-year behemoth whose titles include Skylanders and Candy Crush, sees an opportunity to promote the players on a global basis. The company plans to sell franchises in 50 large cities worldwide. Kotick even made an onstage pitch at the Milken event to Robert Kraft, owner of football's New England Patriots.
"You paid $172 million, you're going to get our team for a lot less than that, and we'll finance it," Kotick said.
Vlastelica said he sees a lot of opportunity for Activision in owning the games, developing leagues and having the network the tournaments air on.
"The good news is we are in a category where there are a number of a successful business models," said Vlastelica.
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US companies who import materials from China to manufacture goods in the US could be hit with most of the imposed tariffs proposed by the White House, analysts say. Ultimately, US consumers will see significant increases in prices.
Boston is considering congestion pricing to reduce traffic congestion, and Seattle sees the method as a way to decrease greenhouse gas emissions and raise funds for public transit, while the New York Legislature did not pass a "cordon toll" for New York City. "Two cities on the United States' east and west coasts, both with epic local traffic problems, are considering congestion pricing as a way to get people and goods moving again," says Bill Cramer, communications director for the International Bridge, Tunnel and Turnpike Association.
Technology is rapidly changing the transportation and trucking industries. Autonomous vehicles, GPS devices capable of responding to traffic complications and high-speed rail such as the Hyperloop are all expected to advance in the coming years.
Toll lanes using variable pricing, built without taxpayer funding, are one of the best tools Southern California can use to reduce traffic congestion, write Baruch Feigenbaum and Rebecca Castaneda of the Reason Foundation. The authors note a 2017 Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority recommendation that a 621-lane-mile Express Lane network be built.
Belarus met with interested companies regarding the country's pilot project for the reconstruction of the M10 motorway. Plans call for the road to become part of the European transport system.
The Georgia Department of Transportation expects to complete construction of 30 miles of reversible express lanes this summer. The Northwest Corridor Express Lanes will require drivers to use Peach Passes.
The Federal Highway Administration will accept applications from states and local governments for $60 million in transportation technology grants designed to make transportation safer and more effective using data. Examples of potentially eligible programs are integrated corridor management, real-time traveler information and traffic data collection.
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Canadian officials sought ways to save money on the Gordie Howe International Bridge between the US and Canada after potential bidders expressed concerns about the project's budget, per documents obtained by The Canadian Press. The goal is "de-risking the project as much as we could to move forward," said Infrastructure Minister Amarjeet Sohi.
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Executive Summary
Methanex Corporation (MX)-Financial and Strategic SWOT Analysis Review provides you an in-depth strategic SWOT analysis of the company's businesses and operations. The profile has been compiled by GlobalData to bring to you a clear and an unbiased view of the company's key strengths and weaknesses and the potential opportunities and threats. The profile helps you formulate strategies that augment your business by enabling you to understand your partners, customers and competitors better.
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Methanex Corporation (Methanex) is a chemical company that carries out production, marketing and supply of methanol, a clean-burning, cost-effective alternative fuel. It is one of the world's largest producers of methanol. The company operates through an extensive global supply chain and distribution network of terminals and storage facilities. It also has marketing rights for production from jointly-owned plants in Trinidad and Egypt. It caters to diverse industries including resins, plastics, and paints, building materials, foams, polyester and pharmaceutical. The company has operations in major markets across North America, Asia Pacific, Europe and South America. Methanex is headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Methanex Corporation Key Recent Developments
Jul 28, 2016: Methanex signs agreements with Chile gas suppliers
Jul 27, 2016: Methanex Reports Second Quarter Results
Jun 15, 2016: Methanex Enters Into A Settlement Agreement With Argentina Gas Supplier
Apr 27, 2016: Methanex Reports First Quarter Results
Feb 09, 2016: Methanex Appoints Benita Warmbold To Its Board Of Directors
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Table of Contents 2
List of Tables 4
List of Figures 5
Section 1-About the Company 6
Methanex Corporation-Key Facts 6
Methanex Corporation-Key Employees 7
Methanex Corporation-Key Employee Biographies 8
Methanex Corporation-Major Products and Services 9
Methanex Corporation-History 10
Methanex Corporation-Company Statement 12
Methanex Corporation-Locations And Subsidiaries 14
Head Office 14
Other Locations & Subsidiaries 14
Joint Venture 16
Section 2-Company Analysis 17
Methanex Corporation-Business Description 17
Methanex Corporation-Corporate Strategy 18
Methanex Corporation-SWOT Analysis 19
SWOT Analysis-Overview 19
Methanex Corporation-Strengths 19
Strength-Established Market Presence 19
Strength-Integrated Operations 19
Methanex Corporation-Weaknesses 20
Weakness-Declined Revenue 20
Weakness- Operational Issues 20
Methanex Corporation-Opportunities 21
Opportunity-Growing Demand for Methanol 21
Opportunity-Strategic Initiatives 21
Opportunity-Growth in Asia-Pacific Logistics Market 21
Methanex Corporation-Threats 22
Threat-Competitive Market 22
Threat-Stringent Regulations 22
Threat-Raw Material Issues 22
Methanex Corporation-Key Competitors 23
Section 3-Company Financial Ratios 24
Financial Ratios-Capital Market Ratios 24
Financial Ratios-Annual Ratios 25
Performance Chart 27
Financial Performance 27
Financial Ratios-Interim Ratios 28
Financial Ratios-Ratio Charts 29
Section 4-Company's, Power Financial Deals and Alliances 30
Methanex Corporation, Petrochemicals, Deals By Year, 2010 to YTD 2016 30
Methanex Corporation, Petrochemicals, Deals By Type, 2010 to YTD 2016 31
Methanex Corporation, Recent Deals Summary 32
Section 5-Company's Recent Developments 33
Jul 28, 2016: Methanex signs agreements with Chile gas suppliers 33
Jul 27, 2016: Methanex Reports Second Quarter Results 34
Jun 15, 2016: Methanex Enters Into A Settlement Agreement With Argentina Gas Supplier 36
Apr 27, 2016: Methanex Reports First Quarter Results 37
Feb 09, 2016: Methanex Appoints Benita Warmbold To Its Board Of Directors 43
Jan 27, 2016: Methanex Reports Fourth Quarter Results 44
Dec 29, 2015: Methanex Starts Up One Million Tonne Geismar 2 Methanol Plant In Louisiana 51
Oct 28, 2015: Methanex Reports Third Quarter Results 52
Jul 29, 2015: Methanex Reports Higher Earnings In Q2 2015 59
May 20, 2015: BT To Supply Unified Communications For Methanex 60
Section 6-Appendix 61
Methodology 61
Ratio Definitions 61
About GlobalData 65
Contact Us 65
Disclaimer 65
List of Figures
Methanex Corporation, Performance Chart (2011-2015) 27
Methanex Corporation, Ratio Charts 29
Methanex Corporation, Petrochemicals, Deals By Year, 2010 to YTD 2016 30
Methanex Corporation, Petrochemicals, Deals by Type, 2010 to YTD 2016 31
List of Tables
Methanex Corporation, Key Facts 6
Methanex Corporation, Key Employees 7
Methanex Corporation, Key Employee Biographies 8
Methanex Corporation, Major Products and Services 9
Methanex Corporation, History 10
Methanex Corporation, Other Locations 14
Methanex Corporation, Subsidiaries 15
Methanex Corporation, Joint Venture 16
Methanex Corporation, Key Competitors 23
Methanex Corporation, Ratios based on current share price 24
Methanex Corporation, Annual Ratios 25
Methanex Corporation, Interim Ratios 28
Methanex Corporation, Petrochemicals, Deals By Year, 2010 to YTD 2016 30
Methanex Corporation, Petrochemicals, Deals By Type, 2010 to YTD 2016 31
Methanex Corporation, Recent Deals Summary 32
Currency Codes 61
Capital Market Ratios 61
Equity Ratios 62
Profitability Ratios 62
Cost Ratios 63
Liquidity Ratios 63
Leverage Ratios 64
Efficiency Ratios 64
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OMGSH!!!! I absolutely loved this book. Dark and gritty, sexy and sweet. Ahh, Tijan hit all the right spots and that's why she is one of my favorite authors. If she releases a book, you can guarantee I'm going to read it. She never disappoints!!!
I do suggest that you read Carter Reed and especially Carter Reed 2 before reading Cole. You learn a lot about Cole in the 2nd book of the Carter Reed Series!!! Just sayin'…& if you haven't read the Carter Reed Series, then you are missing out. DO IT!!! DO IT NOW!!! It's Fantastic!!!!
Cole Mauricio, head of the Mafia, powerful, sexy, mysterious and spellbinding. Growing up in a mafia family, and situations that were out of his control, consequently forced Cole into the dark world that he desperately didn't want to be a part of.
Addison Bowman, grieving widow and best friend to Sia, living life just one day at a time. Until…she meets the infamous leader of the Mauricio family. Life is about to change for Addison.
The chemistry between Cole and Addison is indisputable. Tijan does a great job keeping the pace steady and not that 'instant love'…Instant attraction by both parties…YES, but not instant love. The buildup was on point.
The entanglement of the characters and the simplicity was also on point.
I definitely recommend Cole…I do want to say this though without contradicting what I've already said..This is the reason it's a 4 for me instead of 5. I really wanted to love Cole like I love Mason, Logan, Bryce, Jesse and Carter…he's almost up to their level…just not quite there yet. I would have loved to have gotten to know Cole on deeper level. Something was missing for me there…not a bad thing…Just saying to be on the level of her other characters that I do love…I needed something more.
I give Cole 4 Crazie Stars!!!


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Kavon Jones hobbled slowly across the rehearsal room, his ??face a study in concentration with each labored step. When he reached the microphone, he heard the start of the music - drawing wide eyes and a bright smile from him.
Kavon Jones hobbled slowly across the rehearsal room, his ??face a study in concentration with each labored step.
When he reached the microphone, he heard the start of the music � drawing wide eyes and a bright smile from him.
� Feeling so ecstatic, satisfied,� he sang in a clear, strong voice. � It�s the best day ever, best day ever.�
The 15-year-old, shaken as a baby, is legally blind, has cerebral palsy and is developmentally delayed.
He is among about 60 teenagers and young adults who receive therapy at the nonprofit Helping Hands Center for Special Needs in the University District.
Tonight at 7, eight of the patients will present a musical they wrote � The Case of the Missing Unicorn � in the Columbus Performing Arts Center.
The musical offers �a fantasy and a mystery in one, with dragons and a prince and magician,� said 15-year-old Ashvini Kulshrestha, who plays the prince.
The occasion is considered special by the original members of the 4-year-old theatrical program at Helping Hands: They have performed at the center but haven�t previously appeared in a public presentation.
�This is a great opportunity to see how the kids react and perform in a real theater,� said Kristin Kummer, a music therapist at Helping Hands who helped introduce theater to the center.
�The kids have been doing an amazing job rehearsing.�
The program, Kummer said, was started in response to requests from patients.
Several had seen plays or musicals and asked whether they might try acting at Helping Hands.
Once a week for about 90 minutes, Kummer along with speech therapist Samantha Lyle meets with the group � whose membership has ranged from three to 11.
Helping Hands received two December grants, totaling about $6,000, that allowed the center to rent the Downtown theater and hire Heather Burley, director of education for CATCO, to help the actors.
Her eight proteges, ages 13 to 23, have autism, Down syndrome or other disabilities.
Participation in theater, according to experts, provides both concrete and intangible benefits for people with developmental disabilities.
�Whether you speak a different language or have special needs, acting is very universal,� Burley said. �You can connect through acting in many ways you couldn�t otherwise.
�It has been cool to see the students gain confidence each time they have performed and to watch them grow.�
Script reading helps autistic patients overcome barriers, said Lyle, the speech therapist.
�Social interactions can be difficult for them,� she noted, �and it�s easier when you know what you�re supposed to say; you know what the expectation is.�
Two other Helping Hands therapists will join Kummer and Lyle onstage for the performance tonight.
Kummer will fill the role of the narrator, with the others close at hand to help cue the actors if needed and to guide Jones physically.
In addition, because 21-year-old Kristin Bonnette can�t speak, Lyle will help her press the correct buttons on an iPad that recites her lines.
Nadya Trytan, president of the North American Drama Therapy Association, hailed as �empowering� the notion of giving stage roles to those with special needs.
�These people often are not seen and heard,� she said. �It can boost their self-esteem.�
The work in theater seems to have provided Jones with a boost.
Asked what he likes about the musical, he replied: �Singing loud. I have a good voice; I�m a good singer.�
Peter Crawford, 23, has long enjoyed acting, said his mother, Maria, of the Clintonville neighborhood.
He plays a giant in The Case of the Missing Unicorn � with gusto.
�He loves it,� his mother said. �It just makes his whole personality.
�It gives him a place � his own place � where he can make these relationships, and I think we all want that.�


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Tuesday, April 20, 2010
A trip to the Gulf
It had been awhile since my kids had been to the beach. Since I had them for spring break, it was the perfect time to do something about it! They had asked could we go camping again since i had them for a whole week, and I said sure...just didn't tell them where.
We loaded up the car with our stuff, including my tent, and off we went to Gulf Shores Alabama. It was a Monday and traffic was light so we made good time getting there. The kids kept wondering when we were going to get where we were going, and I told them it would be awhile but we did stop a few times along the way to eat and to just get out of the car.
Once there, I went to the Gulf Shores State Park without a reservation, and was pleased to find there was space available. I'd guess 90 percent of the campers there are the RV and trailer types, but I did see a few other tent campers. Camping there is a bargain, $25 a night and the sites have power and water, and I speedily pitched our tent and we then went to the state pavilion nearby to play in the ocean.
The next morning we went to my all-time favorite beach: Pine Beach in the Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge. The refuge is 6700 acres on Fort Morgan Road of pristine wilderness--the beach the way the Spaniards found it, as I like to say. It was a 1.25 mile hike from the parking area to the beach getting there, and man, was it worth it.
Imagine 25-foot tall dunes...a beach hundreds of yards wide and miles long with no houses, no hotels, no nothing that nature did not put there. Oh and there were no people the four-plus hours we were there, I guess a Tuesday and the hike took care of that. We did see two wildlife biologists when we left, there to trap, check and study the endangered beach mouse, but they didn't count as people there to go the beach. The refuge is also home and nesting area to three specie of very endangered sea turtles and seldom-seen birds.
Those with children know the kind of fun an 8-year-old boy and 5-year old girl have on a beautiful day at the beach with no people around and nothing in their way, so I don't guess I need to write about that (grin)
By the afternoon they were tired and back to the tent we went, where they voluntarily napped (gasp!) Then it was out to eat seafood and play videos at a fun center (they are still not tall enough to ride the go-karts....awww)
It was time for our second night's sleep in the tent, which we did, soundly. Next morning back north toward home we went to make ready for a trip the North Carolina mountains...but that's another post...here's the beach photos!
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text: Just imagine living in your home for 3 years, and there is no need to pay your mortgage. That sounds pretty fair, right? Especially after the bank has "hosed" you!(sarcasm removed). In this article, it explores individuals that are living in the foreclosed home for 3 years! This is a concern at the macro level. If one is paying attention, what are the economic implications of this behavior? Who is really paying for this activity? The bank or other customers?


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Thursday, June 17, 2010
Hot, humid. Well, it's June in Ohio!
Even Rowdy, who is a firm believer in "Bigger is Better" when it comes to sticks, finds these a bit too large to bring to me.
Yes, hot, humid. We've been blessed with a couple of mild summers recently and I think maybe we forgot what summer is really like. I've even turned on the air conditioning in the house a few times. The alpacas sit in the barn in front of their fans, getting up only to eliminate, turning the barn into a giant toilet. Can you tell how happy I am about this? Twice a day I rake and scoop and about every other day I spread a wheel barrow load of sawdust on the mess to help with the moisture and the smell. This time of year, especially with as much rain as we have had, not much helps.
We did finally have our last cria of the spring! Peg, who we've had since she was 6 months old and is now 11, had a little girl last Friday (also my son Zac's birthday) at 367 days gestation. She's a cutie. Her sire is our male, Eclipse and keeping with the solar phenomena theme, she will be called Aurora. Our first cria of the year, whose birth you witnessed virtually on this blog, is also by Eclipse and he is named Corona. For those of you who think this is only the name of a mediocre beer, here is the definition: "The upper, rarefied solar atmosphere which becomes visible around the darkened sun during a total solar eclipse." We also finished shearing!!
As mentioned, we have had a lot of rain. Rain gauge measurements have often been over half an inch and up to .9" in one 12 hour period. Our little creek behind the house is usually about a foot wide, easily jumped across. For those who wonder why we have bridges, here's the answer:
The good thing is that the creek recedes quickly as soon as the rain lets up and all this water makes its way to the Ohio River.
Sam has been working on plans for our picnic pavilion up at the pond. It will be 24' X 24' and will be constructed entirely of lumber cut and milled right here on the farm. He will have to buy metal for the roof. His first step is to cut a couple of large poplar trees. The one Rowdy is standing on at the top of this post Sam cut 3 14' logs and 1 8' log out of. From those 3 logs, he got approximately 60 14' 2 X 4s and 4 8' 2 X 4s. He will be cutting up another tree as well.
Sam's Sawmill is a portable band mill, so it is a huge band saw that he pushes along a track. His dad has a nice electric powered one you don't have to push, but this was a little more budget friendly and does the job.
This project will basically be a pole construction, using locust posts (also to be cut here on the farm), which all our alpaca buildings are made with. He will be making his own trusses for the roof, which will new for him. Hopefully this will be done before Labor Day!
There has not been a lot of knitting or spinning time for me lately. I have started skirting all those fleeces which are piled waist deep in my summer kitchen. It makes it hard to get in there to get out canning jars, which I had to do just the other day to make a batch of wild raspberry jam. Summer is just full of this kind of work which is much appreciated every time a jar of jam is opened the rest of the year.
Today I am off to visit my mom in Dayton and then she and I will be heading to Grand Rapids Michigan for the weekend to celebrate my aunt's retirement from teaching. She is finally getting out of kindergarten after 30+ years! It will be great to spend time with family, though I do feel bad about leaving Sam with that wonderful stinky barn. Just a little.....
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Cabbalaa medieval mystical religious doctrine prevalent among the most fanatical followers of Judaism, as well as among adherents of Christianity and Islam. The basic thought of the doctrine is the symbolic interpretation of the Holy Scripture, whose every word and number acquires special mystical importance in the eyes of the Cabbalists. Note 106, LCW 38.
CABET, Étienne (1788-1856)
Utopian socialist and author of Voyage en Icarie.
The chief party of the liberal-monarchist bourgeoisie in Russia. It was formed in October 1905 and included representatives of the bourgeoisie, landowning Zemstvo members, and bourgeois intelligentsia. Prominent leaders of the Cadets included P.N. Milyukov, S.A. Muromtsev, V.A. Maklakov, A.I. Shingaryov, P.B. Struve, and F.I. Rodichev. While calling themselves the party of peoples freedom, the Cadets in reality sought to make a bargain with the autocracy in order to preserve tsarism in the form of a constitutional monarchy. After the February revolution, as a result of a bargain with the S.R.-Menshevik leaders of the Petrograd Soviet, the Cadets had a leading place in the bourgeois Provisional Government and pursued an anti-popular, counter-revolutionary policy favorable to the American, British and French imperialists. After the October Socialist Revolution the Cadets became irreconcilable enemies of Soviet power and took an active part in all the counter-revolutionary actions and campaigns of the interventionists. After the rout of the interventionists and whiteguards, the Cadets fled abroad and continued their anti-Soviet activity. Note 8, Lenin, SW 3 (1967).
[In revolutionary parties or countries:] Personnel who spend a large part of their time educating, organizing and leading others in political or economic work.
The cadres of our Party and state are ordinary workers and not overlords sitting on the backs of the people. Mao, quoted in Peking Review, #38, Sept. 17, 1971, p. 13.
CADRES Participation in Labor
On the question of cadres participating in labor. Cadres must take part in labor. At present, this question has not yet been satisfactorily resolved. Leading cadres should go and stay in selected primary units and should not solely listen to briefings and reports. Even ministers should go and stay in some primary units. Mao, Interjection at a Briefing by Four Vice-Premiers (May 1964), SW 9:87.
CALCULUS [Mathematics:]
1. The major branch of mathematical analysis consisting of the differential and integral calculus. Also known, rather inappropriately, but for historical reasons, as the infinitesimal calculus. The differential calculus studies the properties of a given curve at a specific point on it (such as its slope or rate of change), while the integral calculus studies the overall properties of the given curve, such as the area beneath it (or in the case of three dimensional curves, the volume they enclose).
2. Other branches of mathematics, logic, or organized thought, which involve calculation, generally involving the use of special symbols or notation, such as the propositional calculus in symbolic logic.
See also below, and: DERIVATIVE [Math], DIFFERENTIAL CALCULUS, INTEGRAL CALCULUS, INFINITESIMAL, INFINITESIMAL CALCULUS, INSTANTANEOUS VELOCITY, LIMIT [Math], PREDICATE CALCULUS
CALCULUS Development Of
See also: INTEGRAL CALCULUS [Gellert quote], INFINITESIMAL
The calculus had its origin in the logical difficulties encountered by the ancient Greek mathematicians in their attempt to express their intuitive ideas on the ratios or proportionalities of lines, which they vaguely recognized as continuous, in terms of numbers, which they regarded as discrete. It became involved almost immediately with the logically unsatisfactory (but intuitively attractive) concept of the infinitesimal. Greek rigor of thought, however, excluded the infinitely small from geometrical demonstrations and substituted the circumventive but cumbersome method of exhaustion. Problems of variation were not attacked quantitatively by Greek scientists. No method could be developed which would do for kinematics what the method of exhaustion had done for geometryindicate an escape from the difficulties illustrated by the paradoxes of Zeno. Carl B. Boyer, The History of the Calculus and its Conceptual Development (NY: Dover, 1959 [1949]), p. 4.
The application of this new type of analysis [a dialectical analysis of variability by Scholastic philosophers], together with the free use of the suggestive infinitesimal and the more extensive application of numerical concepts, led within a short time to the algorithms of Newton and Leibniz, which constitute the calculus. Even at this stage, however, there was no clear conception of the logical basis of the subject. The eighteenth century strove to find such a basis, and although it met with little success in this respect, it did in the effort largely free the calculus from intuitions of continuous motion and geometrical magnitude. Early in the following century the concept of the derivative was made fundamental, and with the rigorous definitions of number and of the continuum laid down in the latter half of the century, a sound foundation was completed. Some twenty-five hundred years of effort to explain a vague instinctive feeling for continuity culminated thus in precise concepts which are logically defined but which represent extrapolations beyond the world of sensory experience. Carl B. Boyer, ibid.
The fundamental definitions of the calculus, those of the derivative and the integral, are now so clearly stated in textbooks on the subject, and the operations involving them are so readily mastered, that it is easy to forget the difficulty with which these basic concepts have been developed. Frequently a clear and adequate understanding of the fundamental notions underlying a branch of knowledge has been achieved comparatively late in its development. This has never been more aptly demonstrated than in the rise of the calculus. Carl B. Boyer, ibid., p. 5.
See: KOLKATA
CALIPH (or CALIF)
[Arabic: khalifah successor] The top leader (temporal and spiritual) of a Muslim community, though this precise title is often informal. Different Islamic communities and sects acknowledge different top leaders, most of whom today have other official titles.
Differences about who should be considered the caliph, or top leader of Islam, go back to the period following the death of Mohammed. The Sunni branch of Islam, to which about 83% of Muslims today adhere, believe that Abu Bakr, the father-in-law of Mohammed, was the first caliph. However, the Shiite branch, the other main sect, believes that Ali, the son-in-law of Mohammed, was the first caliph.
See also: IMAM
CALL or CALL OPTION
See: OPTION
CALLING [Ones Path in Life]
We cannot always attain the position to which we believe we are called; our relations in society have to some extent already begun to be established before we are in a position to determine them.... If he works only for himself, he may perhaps become a famous man of learning, a great sage, and excellent poet, but he can never be a perfect, truly great man. Marx, Reflections of a Young Man on the Choice of a Profession, written while Marx was still in gymnasium [High School], MECW 1:4,8. Marx later adopted his life motto: To work for mankind.
An obsolete and long abandoned scientific theory of the nature of heat, popular during the 18th to mid-19th century, which (along with the new understanding that combustion consisted of the rapid combination of oxygen with other elements) replaced the phlogiston theory. The caloric theory itself was eventually replaced by the modern theory of thermodynamics.
The caloric theory viewed heat as an indestructable fluid of zero density which surrounded particles of ordinary matter. While this theory, like the phlogiston theory, sounds extremely foolish today, it was worked out to a remarkable degree. The temperature of a body was thought to depend on the amount of caloric that it contained. Thermal expansion was explained by the self-repulsive character of large amounts of the highly elastic caloric fluid. Because caloric was indestructable and could move from one body to another, the conservation of heat in calorimetry experiments was assured by this theory. These and other ad hoc supports to the caloric theory made it difficult to overthrow until the much more sophisticated theory of thermodynamics was substantially elaborated and backed with massive evidence, especially by the physicist James Prescott Joule.
In 1822, [Joseph] Fourier published his mathematical theory of heat conduction in solids based on a differential equation that indicates that the rate of flow of heat through a unit area perpendicular to an x-axis is proportional to the temperature gradient (rate of change of temperature, dT/dx) in the x-direction. It is interesting that Fourier wrote and developed his theory in terms of caloric theory, an incorrect theory that held that changes in temperature are due to the transfer of an invisible and weightless fluid called caloric. Nevertheless, Fouriers Law of Heat Conduction is correct and in agreement with experiments, even if Fouriers idea of the nature of heat was not. As discussed in the introduction of this book, a law can explain how the universe works, even if the researcher who discovered the law is not quite sure why it works. Clifford Pickover, Archimedes to Hawking (2008), p. 235.
A form of fatalistic Christianity put forth by John Calvin (1509-64) and his followers, and still embraced by some Christians today. This absurd doctrine (though really no more absurd than any other of the great number of specific varieties of Christianity) is usually said to consist of five main points (summarized by the acronym TULIP from the first letter of each): 1) Total depravity: that human beings are totally depraved and completely corrupted by sin; 2) Unconditional election: Since people cant change on their own, God has merely chosen some of them to be saved (i.e., go to heaven) without regard to their behavior or character; 3) Limited atonement: Only Gods chosen can (with His help) atone for their sins; 4) Irresistible grace: You cant thwart Gods effort to save you if that is what he has decided to do; and 5) Perseverance of the saints: The supposed guarantee that once God has saved you, youll remain saved no matter what. The main theme in all this is that God has already determined what is going to happen, and therefore human beings have no choice in the matter. This is a good example of the sorts of additional ridiculous conclusions that religious people always arrive at!
See: POL POT REGIME
CAMUS, Albert [Pronounced (roughly): al-bear ka-MOO] (1913-1960)
French writer associated with existentialism, whose most famous book was LEtranger [The Stranger, or The Outsider] (1942). Although active in the French resistance during the Nazi occupation, a member for a while of the revisionist Communist Party of France, and co-editor with Sartre of a left-wing newspaper for a few years after World War II, he was never a genuine Marxist revolutionary. In 1948 he broke with left political writing, and focused more exclusively on promoting his decadent philosophy that absurd humanity exists in an absurd world. He received considerable applause from the bourgeoisie for his anti-Communist writing, such as his book LHomme Révolté [The Rebel] (1951). He also supported French imperialism in its efforts to maintain control of Algeria (where he as born) and other colonies. Nevertheless, Camus remains a favorite author in bourgeois academia. He received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1957.
The proportion of a companys, an industrys, or the entire economys productive capacity that is actually being used at the given time. If 20% of the factories, mines, etc., in a country are completely closed down, while the other 80% are being used at full capacity, that would be an overall 80% capacity utilization rate. If all factories and mines are running, but with short hours or minus one or more work shifts, so that they collectively produce only 80% of what they really could, that is also an 80% capacity utilization rate. A high capacity utilization rate encourages the capitalists to build more factories and is characteristic of a strong economy, whereas a low capacity utilization rate makes the capitalists reluctant to expand production, leads them to focus more on cutting costs to boost sales, etc., and is a sign of a weak economy (or one in recession).
Obviously the capacity utilization rate depends on standards for what full capacity is understood to mean. Since the fundamental contradiction of capitalist production leads to the continual construction of new capacity that is not really needed, if the standards for what is considered to be operating at full capacity remained the same, the capacity utilization rate would drastically fall over time (though there would be smaller ups and downs within that overall trend). To hide this (and fool everyone, including themselves), from time to time the capitalists and their government lower the standards. Thus if at one time the definition for full capacity meant that factories operated around the clock with three shifts, but because of the increase in the number of factories, the usual situation is for most factories to have just one or two shifts, the standard for full capacity for the economy as a whole might be adjusted to say 1.5 shifts on average. In that case what the government counts as an 80% utilization rate might actually be only a 40% utilization rate on the older definition!
The U.S. capacity utilization figures are available on a monthly basis from the Federal Reserve website at: http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/G17/default.htm
The history of war production [in World War II] thus demonstrates with crystal clarity that, as far as real capital is concerned, talk about a capital shortage is sheer nonsense. Not only does the United States economy have the latent ability to generate an enormous amount of new capacity, but it can fabricate a great deal more with just the existing capacity. If the standards for getting more production used during the Second World War were applied today [early 1976], we would probably find that only 50%, or maybe less, of existing manufacturing capacity is being usedinstead of the official 75-percent figure based on current operating practices. Paul Sweezy & Harry Magdoff, Capital Shortage: Fact and Fancy, Monthly Review, April 1976. [By December 1976, that 75% utilization rate had fallen further to 73%. But that month the Federal Reserve succumbed to mounting pressure from the business community and other government agencies and revised their statistical series drastically upward again. What had been called a 73% utilization level was suddenly said to be 81%! (See: Business Week, Aug. 2, 1976, p. 16, and Dec. 13, 1976, p. 16.) This further amplified the point being made by Sweezy & Magdoff! S.H.]
According to a Fed [Federal Reserve] report on Apr. 15 [2009], one-third of manufacturings productive capacity is going unused, the biggest share on record back to 1948. Peter Coy, What Good are Economists Anyway?, Business Week (April 27, 2009), p. 31. [The official U.S. capacity utilization rate for manufacturing in April 2009 was 65.6%. The preliminary rate for manufacturing for June 2009 fell further to just 64.6%, and for industry as a whole stood at just 68.0%. And again, keep in mind that these capacity utilization figuresas low as they areare still more grossly exaggerated today than ever before! My guess is that at present the true capacity utilization rate is probably only about 35% by any reasonable standard. S.H.]
1. [Formal bourgeois economics term:] Assets minus liabilities; the market value of what a firm owns minus what it owes.
2. [Marxist term:] In modern bourgeois society most people think of capital as the same thing as money, and this is the way the bourgeoisie itself often informally uses the term. (The company has enough capital on hand to build a new factory...) But for Marxists this completely misses the central concept of what capital actually is. According to Marx capital is the wealth (including not only money, butmore essentiallyalso land, buildings, machinery and hired labor) that is devoted to the production of more wealth. The capitalist hires workers, who make practical use of that existing capital (factories, machines, raw materials, etc.) to create additional value (surplus value) which then automatically belongs to the capitalist. This retained surplus value becomes part of the expanded capital that the capitalist then owns.
If an ordinary person, a worker, has some money saved up, or still available at the end of the month, that is not capital! (At least in the Marxist sense.) The reason is that the worker has no way of making use of that money to create more value, more capital. The worker does not own a factory, machinery, the necessary raw materials, etc., that would allow him to do that. On the other hand, even if a capitalist is deeply in debt, and needs to borrow more money to keep functioning, if he already owns a factory, machinery, raw materials, and purchases labor power (i.e., hires workers) he already has a tremendous amount of capital, and is in a position to make use of it to generate additional capital.
Money can be used as capital (e.g., to build factories, buy machinery and raw materials, hire workers, etc.). Money which is actually used for such purposes is called money capital. But if money, whether a small amount or a large amount, is not used for such purposes, it is not capital. Thus to understand what capital actually is, it is first necessary to get rid of the simple-minded and grossly incorrect idea that capital = money.
[A more precise, but more technical, definition:] Capital is self-expanding value, or a value which generates surplus value (and hence more capital) as the result of exploitation of wage labor. Capital expresses the socioeconomic relations of production between the two principal classes in capitalist societythe capitalists (or bourgeoisie) and the workers (proletariat).
See also sub-topics below, and especially CAPITALAs a Relationship between People
Capital is dead labour, that, vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks. Marx, Capital, Vol. I, ch. 10, sect 1. (Penguin ed., p. 342.) [The idea being expressed here is that the capitalists, through their ownership of capital which came from the previous exploitation of workers, are thereby in a position to further exploit workers.]
CAPITAL (DAS KAPITAL) [The Book by Marx]
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Capital [is] the greatest work on political economy of our age. Lenin, Frederick Engels (1896), LCW 2:25.
CAPITAL (DAS KAPITAL) Engels Editorship Of
Marx died before he could put the final touches to his vast work on capital. The draft, however, was already finished, and after the death of his friend, Engels undertook the onerous task of preparing and publishing the second and the third volumes of Capital. He published Volume II in 1885 and Volume III in 1894 (his death prevented the preparation of Volume IV). These two volumes entailed a vast amount of labor. Adler, the Austrian Social-Democrat, has rightly remarked that by publishing volumes II and III of Capital Engels erected a majestic monument to the genius who had been his friend, a monument on which, without intending it, he indelibly carved his own name. Indeed, these two volumes of Capital are the work of two men: Marx and Engels. Lenin, Frederick Engels (1896), LCW 2:25-26.
See: BALANCE OF PAYMENTS
CAPITAL Accumulation Of
Conversion of surplus value into capital. As capitalism develops there is a generally steady increase in the amount and rate of expansion of surplus value which goes into accumulation. Major interruptions occur in the process in the form of overproduction crises.
CAPITAL As a Relationship between People
... capital is a certain relation between people, a relation
which remains the same whether the categories under comparison are at a higher or a
lower level of development. Bourgeois economists have never been able to understand
this; they have always objected to such a definition of capital.
To regard the categories of the bourgeois regime as eternal and natural is most typical of bourgeois philosophers. That is why, for capital, too, they adopt such definitions as, for example, accumulated labor that serves for further productionthat is, describe it as an eternal category of human society, thereby obscuring that specific, historically definite economic formation in which this accumulated labor, organized by commodity economy, falls into the hands of those who do not work and serves for the exploitation of the labor of others. That is why, instead of an analysis and study of a definite system of production relations, they give us a series of banalities applicable to any system, mixed with the sentimental pap of petty-bourgeois morality. Lenin, What the Friends of the People Are (1894), LCW 1:217.
CAPITAL BROADENING vs. CAPITAL DEEPING
These are terms sometimes encountered in discussions of contemporary capitalism in China and other rising capitalist economies. Capital broadening means employing more capital (such as by building more factories) in order to hire more workers. Often these new workers are from the countryside and were formerly peasants. Capital deepening means adding more capital (such as by employing more sophisticated and expensive machinery) for the use of existing workers, and in order to increase their productivity.
CAPITAL Constant
See: CONSTANT CAPITAL
CAPITAL-LABOR RATIO [Contemporary Bourgeois Economics]
The total capital invested (in an economy, sector or individual company) divided by the total hours worked by the labor force over a standard period of time (usually annually) and generally expressed as a percentage. If this ratio rises it tends to indicate that the capitalists are spending an increasing proportion of their investments on machinery rather than hiring workers. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in the period from 1990 to 2008 the overall capital-labor ratio for the U.S. (including outlays for factories and other buildings) increased by 29%. This is obviously just another way of talking about the rising productivity of labor, and the fact that over time fewer workers are needed to accomplish the same amount of work. The BLS reports that the capital-labor ratio in just the information processing sphere (computers) rose by a massive 310% from 1990 to 2010. This explains the rapidly falling need for clerical, computing and many other white-collar workers.
This capital-labor ratio is a concept that is somewhat similar to (but not actually the same thing as) Marxs concept of the organic composition of capital.
CAPITAL Latent
See: LATENT CAPITAL
CAPITAL Productive
See: PRODUCTIVE CAPITAL
CAPITAL Variable
See: VARIABLE CAPITAL
A socio-economic formation based on the ownership of the means of production by the capitalist class (either in its traditional form of private ownership by individuals or corporations, or in the form of state capitalism where the capitalists own the means of production collectively as a class), and the exploitation of hired labor by the capitalists through the extraction of surplus value.
[T]he essence of capitalism is the appropriation by individuals of the product of social labor organized by commodity economy... Lenin, What the Friends of the People are (1894), LCW 1:218.
CAPITALISM Expand or Die
Accumulation, or production on an expanded scale, which first appears as a means towards the constantly extended production of surplus-value, hence the enrichment of the capitalist, as the personal end of the latter, and is part of the general tendency of capitalist production, becomes in the course of its development, as was shown in the first volume, a necessity for each individual capitalist. The constant enlargement of his capital becomes a condition for its preservation. Marx, Capital, vol. 2, ch. 2, sect. 2; Penguin ed. p. 159.
CAPITALISM Fundamental Contradiction Of
See: FUNDAMENTAL CONTRADICTION OF CAPITALISM
CAPITALISM as an International System
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The capitalist system is essentially an international system. If it cannot function internationally, it will break down. Henry Grady, an economist in the Roosevelt Administration during World War II. Quoted in Lloyd Gardner, et al., The Creation of the American Empire (1976), p. 508.
CAPITALISM and Morality
See: MORALITYand Capitalism
The French phrase le capitalisme sauvage refers to American-style capitalism which is viewed as being more savage than that in Europe. Aspects of this American savagery include things such as the much inferior safety net for unemployed or injured workers in the U.S., the pathetically weak public health and welfare systems, etc., as well as the comparative recklessness and arrogance with which American capitalists speculate and operate, including internationally. It is certainly true that some capitalist socioeconomic varieties are more savage than others, with the Nazi fascist regime perhaps being the worst of all time. And yet, the French term falsely implies that capitalism is somehow civilized and acceptable in contemporary Europe, which is total nonsense. All forms of capitalism are horrible, even the best of them.
A usually relatively short period, following a recession or depression, when capitalist economic activity (such as the growth of GDP, the construction of new factories and the hiring of a lot of new workers) expands rapidly. The bigger and more serious the previous economic crisis, the more potential there is for a powerful boom after it. However, because of the inherent internal contradictions of capitalism all such booms come to an end in the form of a new crisis of overproduction.
The workers are not (and cannot possibly be) paid enough in their wages to buy all the products they produce. For a while the boom can be kept going by extending credit to the workers and others to buy what they could not otherwise afford, and by the construction of many new factories by the capitalists to produce the goods being sold on credit. Thus capitalist booms are really only possible because of ever-increasing debt and the ever-greater expansion of real productive capital itself. But, inevitably, there will be a financial crisis, and this overproduction of capital will be exposed. This will in turn lead to a contraction of real economic activity as well, in the form of mass layoffs, factory closings, and bankruptsies of capitalist enterprises: In other words, the boom will inevitably turn into its opposite, a serious new economic crisis.
As time goes on, and with the further development of technology and more sophisticated methods of production, capitalist production becomes more and more powerful. Moreover, with the growth of giant monopolistic (or oligopolistic) corporations, companies become able to survive longer even when there are economic downturns. For reasons such as these it gets continually more difficult for capitalist economic crises to clear the ground for new booms. This in turn means that booms become ever weaker and shorter.
There was one major exception to this in the mid-twentieth century, the Post-World War II Capitalist Boom, which was only possible because of the enormous destruction of real capital on a world scale during that horrendous war. But even this sort of clearing the ground for a major new boom through a major world war is probably no longer possible: A new world war today of that magnitude, and with modern weapons of mass destruction, would likely wipe out humanity entirely. For this reason, there will probably never be another major world capitalist economic boom on the scale of the one after World War II.
See also: BOOM QUARTERS
One of several names used for the form capitalism has taken during the imperialist era (from the late 19th century on). Also known as monopoly capitalism or just plain IMPERIALISM.
A term which originated in Maoist China for those individuals who sought to develop Chinas economy through the use of capitalism or capitalist methods. One of the earliest usages of the term was on January 14, 1965, in the Central Committee document, Some Current Problems Raised in the Socialist Education Movement in the Rural Areas (known as the Twenty-three Points): The crux of the current movement is to purge capitalist roaders in authority within the Party. And in the much larger and longer Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution the capitalist roaders were also the primary target.
Initially this term capitalist roader may sound sort of childish to Western ears, and bourgeois Sinologists have belittled it and even remarked that the concept was an exceedingly primitive political artifice. However, it is actually a quite sophisticated and important political concept. The term revisionist, for example, which means someone who tries to revise the revolutionary essence out of Marxism, is rather vague. In what way, precisely, is Marxism being illicitly revised? A capitalist roader is the specific type of revisionist who claims they are seeking to develop a socialist country after a proletarian seizure of power, but through the means of capitalism or at least via capitalist methods.
One excuse that capitalist roaders use is their belief that only capitalism can develop a backward economy, or at least that capitalism is the most effective way of doing so. Neither thing is actually true, as the Soviet Union proved during its socialist era even while the capitalist world was in the midst of the Great Depression, and as China itself proved during the Mao era. While the current capitalist ruling class in China now claims that Chinas economy was developing very slowly during the Mao era, in the first years of their rule they actually published statistics showing that in the last 17 years of the Mao era, during the extended Cultural Revolution period, the socialist economy grew very rapidly. More recent estimates place the annual rate of Chinese GDP growth during that period at over 10%. [See for example: Mobo Gao, Debating the Cultural Revolution: Do We Only Know What We Believe?, Critical Asian Studies, vol. 34 (2002), pp. 424-425; and Maurice Meisner, The Deng Xiaoping Era: 1978-1994, p. 189.]
Most capitalist roaders say that they really do want to bring about socialism and then communism, but that the way to do this is first through an extended period of capitalism. But as they institutionalize capitalist profits and promote the exploitation of labor and the build up of huge family fortunes of a tiny few, including by those in their own so-called Communist Party (which has many billionaire members now!), that proclaimed goal of someday reaching communism through capitalism sounds ever more hollow and ridiculous. They inevitably change from capitalist roaders into outright capitalist exploiters who will never voluntarily agree to abandon capitalism.
The handful of capitalist roaders in power in our party are the representatives of the bourgeoisie in our party. Mao, Nov. 6, 1967; SW 9:421.
Without making excuses based on the objective conditions, the failure of the first wave of modern socialist states in keeping the working class in power has made it crystal clear that the growth and domination of capitalist roaders within ruling parties of the working class were the fundamental reasons for states under working class rule (i.e. the dictatorship of the proletariat) being transformed into their opposites. The capitalist roaders were those with authority under the state of working class rule who defended bureaucratic privileges, opposed supervision by the masses, and believed in capitalist logic for building socialism. By taking over the leadership of the ruling Party, these people were able to change the nature of the Party into one that serves the interest of the newly emerged capitalists, and turned the state into the instrument of their class rule. Fred Engst, On the Relationship Between the Working Class and Its Party Under Socialism (Feb. 15, 2015 version), p. 1 (Summary), online at: http://www.bannedthought.net/China/MaoEra/GPCR/Recent/OnRelationshipBetweenWorkingClassAndItsParty-Engst-150207.pdf
The rise of capitalist roaders is an extraordinary challenge to the
traditional theory of the Party. As for defining who were the capitalist roaders, an
analysis of the history of 30 years before and after Deng Xiaoping (this outstanding
teacher by negative example) came to power in China can help us. The original definition
for the capitalist roaders was those in the Party with authority taking the capitalist
road. However, a capitalist road under a state of working class rule was not all that
clear. It now appears that the capitalist roaders were those people in the Party with
authority who applied capitalist logic in building socialism.
For example, on the question of which way forward for agriculture collective movement in the 1950s, the three years of difficulties from 1959-1961 were clearly caused by the communist wind and the exaggeration wind pushed by Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping in 1958. But their proposed solution in 1962 was to decollectivize! In industry, for example, it was obvious that the problem with workers in some places who lacked enthusiasm for their work had to do with their leaders who were divorced from the masses and had their noses in the air. The solutions proposed by capitalist roaders, however, were to use material incentives and to impose strict workplace discipline to force workers to toe the line!
The reason for this line of thinking among the capitalist roaders was because, deep down, in their bones, their world outlooks were still capitalistic. They believed only in themselves, looked down on the masses, acted as either saviors of the world or judged others by how they themselves would behave. Instead of believing in the masses, relying upon the masses, and mobilizing the masses, they mistrusted the masses, detached themselves from the masses, and tried to manipulate them. Fred Engst, ibid., pp. 5-6. [This essay has many additional useful comments about capitalist roaders and Maos struggle against them. Ed.]
CAPITALIST STATE Partial Merger With Private Corporations
The long-time tendency of business and government to become more intricately and deeply involved with each other has [now] reached a new point of explicitness. The two cannot now be seen clearly as two distinct worlds. C. Wright Mills, The Power Elite (1956).
CAPITALIZATION [Capitalist Finance]
1. The issuance of securities (bonds, shares of stock, etc.) in return for investment capital.
2. The calculation of the current lump sum value of a future stream of regular income or cash flow based on the equivalent financial capital it would require to achieve that income at current interest rates.
See also: FICTITIOUS CAPITAL, STOCK MARKET CAPITALIZATION
Carbon monoxide is an odorless, colorless gas which is very poisonous. It is released by combustion of fossil fuels when inadequate oxygen is present, often by the burning of coal. As the map at the right shows, the worst levels of carbon monoxide pollution in the world at the present time are in China, especially in the region from Beijing to Shanghai. Capitalists, especially in contemporary China, generally put profits ahead of the welfare of the people.
CARNAP, Rudolf (1891-1970)
Bourgeois empiricist philosopher of logical positivism associated with the Vienna Circle. Politically, he was a social-democrat, at least until he moved to the United States. Carnap had some utopian impulses, such as an enthusiasm for Esperanto. And he was a philosophical idealist in more than just his empiricism; he was also enthusiastic about parapsychology, for example.
CARNOT, Nicolas Leonhard Sadi (1796-1832)
French physicist and engineer, one of the founders of the science of thermodynamics. He made many important basic discoveries concerning the nature of heat and energy, and its various transformations.
CARRY TRADE [Capitalist Financial Speculation]
The sphere of financial activity where a speculator borrows money in one financial market where interest rates are low, and then loans out the funds in another market where interest rates are higher. This is most commonly done across international borders, by borrowing money in a country where the interest rates are low (such as Japan in recent decades), exchanging the borrowed currency for a different one (such as U.S. dollars), which he can then lend out at a higher interest rate in a different country. While this may seem to be a fullproof way to get rich, there are a variety of risks involved, such as the possibility that the exchange rate between the two currencies will change in an unfavorable direction for the speculator thus wiping out his gains and even part of his initial investment.
The word Cartesian refers to the French philosopher René Descartes (whose name in Latin is Cartesius), and to his followers. So Cartesian materialism refers to the partially materialist views of Descartes and his followers. Descartes was actually a dualist who thought that humans were made up of both a material component and a totally independent mental/spiritual component (which somehow connected up in the pineal gland in the brain!). However, he approached the description and explanation of the functioning of the human body (as well as those of other animals) in an entirely mechanical materialist way. This led to the general promotion of materialist conceptions in science and philosophy even though Descartes himself was not actually a true materialist.
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See also: SPECULATION
Speculators may do no harm as bubbles on a steady stream of enterprise. But the position is serious when enterprise becomes the bubble on a whirlpool of speculation. When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done. John Maynard Keynes, The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money (Harcourt Brace: 1964 (1936)), Chapter 12, p. 159.
CASTES (India)
The religious/feudal division of the population into hierachical groups (castes and sub-castes) with the higher castes having the most advantages and privileges, and the lower castes being oppressed and discriminated against in many ways. Traditionally, and to a large extent still today, people are restricted in the occupations they may engage in, who they can marry, and so forth, on the basis of the caste they are born into. Although this ancient caste structure has weakened somewhat as India and the other countries of South Asia become more modernized (i.e., especially in the cities), it is still a very serious problem in the region and strong evidence that feudalism and feudal ideas remain strong there.
The caste system is associated with the Hindu religion especially. The highest and most privileged caste is the Brahmins, who dominate many professions. The lowest caste, now called the Dalits (formerly known as the Untouchables or Scheduled Castes) are the poorest and least educated. However, the Adivasis (or tribals) may be even worse off. Each year there are still many hundreds of honor killings in India in which families avenge inter-caste marriages and liaisons. It will almost certainly take a real social revolution in India to totally eliminate the reactionary caste system.
Caste Structure in Bihar
This is the caste structure in the state of Bihar, which is
similar to (but not exactly the same as) the rest of India:
|Upper (or Forward) Castes
| 12.7%
|Upper Backward Castes
| 18.8%
|Lower Backward Castes
|Other Shudra
|Total for "Backward Castes
|Scheduled Castes (Dalits)
[Untouchables] Includes: Ravidas,
Dusadh, and Musahar)
|Scheduled Tribes [Adivasis]
[Source: Prakash Louis, People Power: The Naxalite Movement
in Central Bihar, (Delhi: Wordsmiths, 2002), p. 82.]
[In Marxist philosophy:] The most general notions or concepts reflecting the basic and essential properties and uniformities of the phenomena of nature, society and thought, such as matter, motion, time, space, consciousness, contradiction, necessity, chance, quality, quantity, capital, exploitation, etc.
Man is confronted with a web of natural phenomena. Instinctive man, the savage, does not distinguish himself from nature. Conscious man does distinguish, categories are stages of distinguishing, i.e., of cognizing the world, focal points in the web, which assist in cognizing and mastering it. Lenin, Conspectus of Hegels Book Science of Logic (1914), LCW 38:93.
[In Kants ethics:] A moral maxim which is unconditionally binding and which everyone must wish to become a universal law. As against this, first, in class society different classes have different ethical viewpoints, so everyone cannot possibly agree on moral maxims and their precise interpretations. Secondly, the complexity and dialectical nature of the world and society precludes virtually any moral maxim from being valid in all possible situations. (Despite what Kant foolishly thought, lying is not always wrong!) And third, the categorical imperative principle has the absurd effect of making some innocuous actions immoral. (It would be immoral to become a shoemaker, for example, because if everybody did it there would be no farmers and we would all starve to death!)
See: ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH
See: THINK TANK
See: JIN
CAUSES [Philosophy]
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See also below and: FINAL CAUSE
There are causes and effects in the world because the world is in motion, or because it is changing and developing. Many (all?) changes lead to other changes, though of greater or lesser significance, and the ones they lead to are called the effects, while the changes that lead to these effects are called the causes. The causes themselves were the effect of previous causes, and the effects themselves cause further effects. The world continues to change.
Despite such endless chains of causes and effects, there must be a certain sort of dialectical unity to the world for causes and effects to exist. The world must consist of things which are connected, but not completely so; there must be both interconnection and separateness or differentiation. The artificial intelligence researcher Marvin Minsky once noted that There cant be any causes in a world in which everything that happens depends more or less equally upon everything else that happens.... To know the cause of a phenomenon is to know, at least in principle, how to change or control some aspects of some entities without affecting all the rest. [Society of Mind (1986), p. 129.]
For us Marxist revolutionaries, the goal is to scientifically determine which things in the world that we can change which will serve as causes to eventually bring about the social effects we desirenamely, the end of capitalism and its replacement by communism.
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See also: Philosophical doggerel on the topic.
An abbreviation commonly used by revolutionaries in India to refer to the Comprador Bureaucratic Bourgeoisie, or in otherwords, the ruling class in India which is made up of a mixture of comprador capitalists and big bureaucrat capitalists.
See: COLLATERALIZED DEBT OBLIGATION
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1/2 small onion - rough chop
2-3 pieces frozen grilled chicken strips
1/4 cup frozen vegetables
1 pkg Ramen/Maggi
2 cups water
1. Saute onion until it gets a little color on it. Add frozen vegetables and continue sauteing.
2. Once the onions become translucent, add the chicken strips. The chicken is already cooked, so this step is only to get the frozen taste out of it and give the chicken some color.
3. Add 2 cups of water. This is a little extra for the Maggi (which calls for only about 1cup of water), but I like my noodles soupy. Adjust water amount to your personal preference.
4. Once the water comes to a boil, add the noodles and powder packet of seasoning. Let the concoction simmer for 2 minutes (or until the noodles are cooked through).
Voila! A little added nutrition and flavor to an otherwise same old package of Ramen/Maggi.
If you're using Oriental or Shrimp flavored Ramen, substitute shrimp for the chicken (remember not to over-cook the shrimp or it'll be rubbery). Also, substitute the mixed vegetables (I prefer the standard peas-carrots-corn/beans) with water chestnuts, sweet pea, etc. Throw in a dash of soy sauce as the noodles simmer to add to the Asian flavor.
If you don't have Maggi on hand, but want that Indian flavor... grab a chunk of frozen masaala and defrost it in pot with the sauteing onions. Mix the frozen vegetables and chicken with the masaala so the flavor infuses with everything. If you have curry powder or Indian pickle on hand, add about 1/2 tsp of it when the noodles are in.
I've never taken a picture of my Ramen/Maggi creations since they've always been a quick-fix meal for me.. but the next time I need a 5-mt dish, I'll remember my camera so I can share the results with you all.


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And excellent reading. To those of you who are perhaps fallen away Catholics or considering conversion to Catholicism, there's an excellent book out there published by Catholic Answers of San Diego called "Home at Last". It's very readable and quite inspiring, chronicling as it does 11 stories of people who have found their way into the Catholic Church from positions of agnosticism, atheism, as well as various Protestant denominations.
If, like me, you struggle with defining and explaining your beliefs, this book is an excellent tool. And no, in interests of full disclosure, nobody is paying me anything to recommend this excellent book.
In addition, I am now reading "Sizzling Sixteen" by Janet Evanovich, part of her Stephanie Plum series set in Trenton, New Jersey (Evanovich was, to my knowledge, the first author to make the state of New Jersey cool!). This series of books (which really should be read starting with "One for the Money") is entertaining and funny as can be. In these times, laughter should be a necessary component of everyone's life, along with faith in God!


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Continuing to show support for her goddaughter, Dolly Parton is telling the haters to back off of Miley Cyrus.
After joking about twerking and her "wrecking balls" on the set of the "Queen Latifah Show," the 67-year-old country crooner stated that the 20-year-old is "just trying to find her own place."
"I loved her through the years and I watched her grow up, and now I"ve seen how smart she is and how talented she is," the proud godmother stated. "I don"t think people really realize yet what a great singer and writer she really is."
Dolly continued, "She"s just trying to find her own place and wings and learn to fly. If she needs my opinion on something I will surely give it and there have been times we"ve talked."
Despite Miss Cyrus" controversial moments, Miss Parton said, "I know that she has thought this all through. We"ll let her go and do her own thing."
"It"s not easy being young. It"s hard to know what to do. You"ve almost got to sacrifice your damn soul just to get anything done," she added.


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Lisa Cascun, Choreographer and Performer born and raised in Toronto, Ontario has been an active member of the entertainment industry since the age of fourteen and dancing since the age of seven. Training and competing in all styles Lisa's talents as a performer and choreographer have won her overall awards throughout Canada and The United States. Miss Cascun graduated from George Brown College in April 2004 with a certificate in Dance Preparation and in January 2006 with a certificate in Commercial Dance Studies where she was trained in dancing, singing and acting. During her academic years Lisa worked for The Dance Company where she became choreographer and coordinator for multiple high scale events around the GTA.
Lisa's interest in Performing brought her to Calgary where she danced with the Professional Program at Decidedly Jazz Danceworks (DJD). While at DJD Lisa had the opportunity to work with co founders and choreographers Michele Moss and Vicki Adams Willis to name a few.
Lisa is happy to be back in Toronto and working with Dance Elite.


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