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To many of our military veterans, Memorial Day is sacred. It honors their buddies and others who died while serving our country.
To many of our military veterans, Memorial Day is sacred. It honors their buddies and others who died while serving our country.
Through the years, it is our veterans who keep the memories alive by organizing services, laying wreaths and dedicating monuments. They worry that when they are gone our military dead will be forgotten. They witness poor attendance at organized services, and, worse, they don't see respect for our Stars and Stripes. When they carry flags in parades or at memorials, few people stand as the flag passes and they don't place their hand over their heart. Men don't remove their caps. If people don't honor our flag, they seem to have less interest remembering those who perished.
More than 1 million soldiers have died defending our country. They've given us the right to fly our flag and live as free people. We owe it to ourselves to remember Memorial Day.
Our cemeteries are filled with soldiers, some who died while serving and others who came home scared for life. We honor all of them today.
Many of our Vietnam veterans came home to rude remarks and ugly treatment, still they've perserved by vowing that no other member of the military would be as dishonored as they were. They've made a difference. Joel Cook (1946-94) led the campaign in Orange County to fly the POW/MIA flag even while struggling with the effects of Agent Orange that eventually killed him. Often near his resting place in Walden, a buddy will be present remembering his friend and his deeds.
We may not know a single person who has died while in the military or one who came home broken, but we can pause today to thank our creator that there were people who walked in harm's way. They are our heroes.
They deserve our gratitude.
Memorial Day services will be at 3 p.m. today at the Orange County Veterans Monument at the intersection of North Street, Marine Drive and Grand Avenue in Newburgh. The event is hosted by the Hudson Highlands Chapter 537 of Vietnam Veterans of America. All 820 Orange County residents who were killed in action from World War I through the Vietnam War will be read along with the eight soldiers who died in Iraq and Afghanistan during the Global War on Terrorism. For information, call Dave McTamaney at 562-8419. A new flagpole will be dedicated at 5 p.m. June 7 at the Newburgh Rowing Club Boathouse in honor of Marine Cpl. Joey Tremblay, who was killed in Iraq April 27, 2005. He was a former member of the Newburgh Free Academy's crew team.
Korean War Army veteran Bob Jones is grand marshal for today's Memorial Day parade at 11 a.m. in Goshen. Services will be at Everett Mnument in the Harriman Square Park. Retired Navy Lt. Comm, William Cathcart, who served from 1952-74, recently received his 50-year membership pin from Fleet Reserve Association Branch 229 in New Windsor. World War II Army veteran Anthony Mancinelli was the grand marshal for the Town of New Windsor's Memorial Parade on May 20.
Barbara Bedell's column appears daily. Call her at 346-3125 or send emails to firstname.lastname@example.com.


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You must have heard of the new-fangled Blue Coral fascinating Aquarium, the coolest Aqua Tropical Rainforest Aquarium concept with thriving plants and cherry fish. The coral fishes of different species such as blueface angelfish, parrot fish, anthias fish, clown fishes, orbiculate batfish… you name it they have it! What are your thoughts upon the new one that is somewhere nearby KL Tower?
Check out the upcoming expansion, the Blue Coral Aquarium which is sited in the famous 421m high telecommunications and broadcasting steeple, KL Tower! Only a 5-minute walk to the heart of city (Bukit Nanas), why not? The introduction at the atmosphere of 360 degrees revolving restaurant will definitely go viral and be the talk of the town. Of course! It is mainly because the KL Tower is the tourist attraction and tourists' all-time favorite spot amongst. Well, it is the second aquarium in the KL city after the proliferation of others!
Experience a one-stop off at the variety spots that allow you to sight through an array of fishes sliding along the vast aquarium. It would be a unique stop-over as the expert guide will have an exceptional showcase behind-the-scenes fish species. You will also be awe-inspired exploring more than thousand of sea creatures living pleasantly under the ambience of forest concept since the spot is the neighborhood of Taman Bukit Nanas, Kuala Lumpur that known as the tropical forest bushes reserve. Yes, you read it right! It is an aquarium in conjunction with Big Green Forest Ocean picture that pretty much known as "Aqua Tropical Forest". You will definitely find it amazing whereby Blue Coral Aquarium also engages local Tropicana Rain Forest interior design in an innate way, indicating the Natural Design Concept. What's better of having both forest and sea view environment altogether?
According to visual impact, the above-mentioned styles are often imply the combination of plants ambience and animal species, without regard to geographic origin. At times, the theory must need not to be similar to a garden-like impression but if plants and fish species were to come into view for time being, it would be obliged to match-up that certainly found in the represented nature.

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I will show you how building the second level of credibility will help your success in BNI!
In my last article (Click here) I discussed what it takes to build the beginning level of credibility as a new member in a BNI Chapter. It does not take a lot of hard work to build that first level of credibility. You just need to show up, follow up to BNI and do what you say you are going to do.
When you build strong credibility with your fellow members you will begin to get reactive referrals from your BNI members. If you have 40 people walking around carrying your business message and remembering what referrals you are looking for, you can make a very good living.
The second level of credibility is strong credibility and it takes more time and more effort to build. If you have made it thru the first level of credibility and people are beginning to trust you it is time take intentional steps to move your relationships forward to a higher level. Here are some action steps you can take to begin to develop a higher level of credibility with your fellow members:
- Do a GAINS Exchange with those members who are in your contact sphere. Take the time to get to know your members at a deeper level. Don't expect to get the entire GAINS Profile completed in one sitting and don't worry about doing it in order.
- Learn more about your fellow members. Where have they worked in the past, who is their spouse, do they have children? What are their birth dates? Do they have pets?
- Volunteer to serve on the leadership team. When you are serving the BNI chapter, you are showing your competency and building trust when you do it well. Serving your chapter demonstrates "Givers Gain."
- Be a mentor to a new member. This will build your relationships deeper and more quickly when you are willing to help others. Once again this is also shows the value of Givers Gain.
- Talk to your director about being an ambassador. This will allow you to build even more solid relationships and to build your competency level. The more that people see you are developing your level of education, the more you are going to be seen as highly credible.
- Find referrals for you members. Take the time to develop business referrals for the members you have had one-to-ones with. Show them that you are willing to give before you get. When you give others referrals they feel a sense of wanting to help you too. It will build your credibility to a very high level.
- Give it time. It will take 18 months to 2 years before you get the level of credibility you want.
The higher the value of your product the longer it will take for others to trust. A florist will get referrals early on because it takes very little trust to buy some flowers. But it will take the financial planner much longer to establish enough trust for you give them all of your money to invest.
Once you have built these relationships it is important to maintain them. The longer you maintain the relationship with your BNI members the deeper the trust and the more valuable the referrals will be.
There is more to networking than just showing up; you have to invest the time to build strong relationships. If you are willing to do that—put in the needed time and effort—you will reap greater rewards.
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Breakthrough Energy Coalitions - we need to see and monitor many!
Breakthrough Energy Coalition
A lot will follow from #COP21 this coming week/month from govts, institutions, business and citizens. Heres an interesting list of names in red down the right hand side of the 2nd link! Lets see what unfolds from all quarters in the coming years https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhgIY-Vghj4 see the names in here> http://www.breakthroughenergycoalition.com/en/ Elon Musk is one noticeable missing name, he is doing an amazing amount in this area. I bet there will be plenty of unknowns who make huge impacts on the road to 2030 with climate change and renewable and sustainable energy supply and demand!


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To take pictures of our tea this past Sunday!!
I came home from work today and set the tables all over again!
I had 3 tables, 4 ladies at each table
I ended up using a variety of colored napkins, instead of just the pink and purple......and I mixed and matched the silverware....aqua and white. My friend Maria, the invitation maker, AKA Maria Stewart, made umbrella tablecloths for two of the tables. The bright colors and rainbow ric rac added so much color to the tables, I didn't need anything else on the tables.
The ladies are asked to bring their own tea cups, but today for the photo op, I added mine to the table.
Of course, I couldn't duplicate the amazing food the gals brought to share....tea sandwiches, a warm spinach pasta salad, fresh fruit, Waldorf salad, a jello salad with marshmallows, a green salad, and a caprese salad.
And the desserts were to die for! A mocha cake, and an angel food cake with pineapple, topped with fresh berries and Cool Whip!
Maria had seen a dessert dish by Martha Stewart in a magazine, and wanted to do something similar for our tea desserts. We went to the dollar store and came home with just the thing!
And what Maria made were these little dessert stands!
I can't believe that I forgot to take pictures! Any Hoo, at least you can get an idea of what a wonderful time we had on Sunday at tea! I always enjoy having the ladies over, it reminds me of how lucky I am to have such terrific friends!


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Ray Waru has been involved in the television and radio industries for more than 30 years. He joined Television New Zealand in 1977 and directed and produced such local favorites as 'Fair Go' and 'Country Calendar'. In 1980 he established the first dedicated Maori television production unit in TVNZ which created a stream of primetime Maori and Pacifica series and documentaries. In 1989 he was appointed chief executive of the Aotearoa Maori Radio Trust and established a network of Maori radio stations throughout the country.
In recent years he has produced documentary projects on many subjects and worked with a diverse range of people including Alan Duff and Kiri Te Kanawa. In 2000, Waru co-produced the six-part history documentary series Our People, Our Century, which won Best Factual Series at the New Zealand Television Awards and in 2005 made the 13-part history of New Zealand, Frontier of Dreams, which won awards at the Houston International Film Festival and the US International Film and Video Festival. Waru has been involved with a range of organizations including the Peace Foundation, and has judged the Maori Record of the Year.
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Voting day and the island was filled with optimism. The Jackals were especially uproarious, yelping and screaming at all who passed by. In contrast, the Lions were subdued. Theirs was a mood of reluctant acceptance of what was to come. Were the 'Kings' about to be dethroned?
Lions had truly been the "Kings of the Jungle" for the past eighteen years, riding roughshod over the opposition and anyone else who disagreed or stood in their way.
The economy of the island was built around hunting and the better the hunter the better the respect afforded to the hunter. The Lions were excellent hunters although, some might say, the males of the species had become complacent – if not down right lazy – and began to leave the hunting to the ladies. A good idea and an excellent distribution of responsibility, unfortunately their were not enough ladies in positions of power and the hunt began to suffer as a consequence.
One memorable day, lets call it "Black Wednesday", the hunt went completely awry and caused hardship throughout the island. Lack of foresight and a lapse in leadership led to a paucity of surplus which took years to overcome. You would have thought that having lived through such a disaster the Lions would have learned from their mistake and then moved forward in a more constructive and positive manner. Alas, no! The only ones to learn from the mistakes of the Lions were the Jackals and under new leadership they planned and schemed for the future.
The Lions, ever arrogant and pompous, ignored the warning signs and carried on in their usual regal way. As with most Dynasty of longevity, cracks began to appear and infighting became a blood sport. Still, the Lions had ridden out storms before and managed to retain their crowns and the majority of them could see no reason why this should not be the case again. After all, hadn't the island always been generous to the Lions? Had they not brought the island back from economic disaster? Had they not proved the naysayers wrong?
However, they failed to see that this time the island was not in a forgiving mood, which was a pity because future events would show that change for change sake was a dangerous path to follow. 'Scandal', was the pejorative term when referring to the Lions, all were tainted, either by association or deed. They only had themselves to blame, in general their record was good but, was arrogance and self-indulgent greed to be their ultimate downfall?
Dawn the following day was greeted by a cacophony of yelps, barks, screeches and whoops as the Jackals strutted, swaggered and paraded. The island had spoken and they now ruled the roost. Jackals outnumbered Lions by a majority of 179, not only stealing their crown but effectively ripping out their claws and fangs in the process. They were not about to let anyone forget the margin of their stunning victory and made sure that raucous celebrations continued well into the night.
The island had wanted change and now it waited expectantly for that first note of change, the first hint that things would get better.
It didn't have to wait for long. There were new Laws, new procedures and a swift cleansing of all things Leonine. Hunting was no longer to be a priority, scavenging was to take over and to strengthen this new thinking, expert scavengers were brought over from other islands and adjacent lands. The message went out, integrate with your new neighbours or suffer ignominy. The roots of evil had been well and truly sown.
Island scribes waxed lyrical about the new regime, optimism dripping from their pens by the bucketful and splashing across page after page. Could the newly elected leader of the Jackals be the new Messiah? It was question on every scribes lips. Events during that first heady year of Jackal control certainly did nothing to suppress the optimism or quash the question.
The Jackals had a cunning plan, one which they hoped would see them in power in perpetuity. It was a simple but dastardly scheme cooked up by the Dark Lord Jackal himself. He planned to dilute the indigenous Island population by bringing in low skilled species from foreign lands and, especially from the land of the Hyena. This was a land once ruled over by the mighty Lions, one which had been given back to the Hyenas many years ago but one which still had close ties to the Island.
Under his scheming paws and with the full backing of the Jackal Council he freely advertised for immigrants in Hyena Land promising subsidised travel to the Island, free accommodation, Scavenging Rights and the Right to practice their own vile religion plus the implementation of said religious Laws once on the Island. In essence he allowed them to build their very own 'Hyena Land' and gave it the full protection of Jackal Law.
Pretty soon the Hyenas started to migrate across the Island setting up enclaves and new colonies. All had the protection of the Jackals and these communities also profited from generous Jackal Council handouts.
The Jackal propaganda machine was put into overdrive. Islanders were told how lucky they were to have such diverse immigrants amongst them. They were encouraged to welcome the Hyenas and to name and shame any Islander who spoke out against the Hyena or the immigration policy. It worked, Jackals believed in the old adage that if you told the same lie forcefully enough and often enough it would become fact. This is precisely what happened and the Dark Lord was ecstatic.
However, matters were not as rosy as painted by the Jackal propaganda machine. The Dark Lord was thrown out of the Jackal Cabinet for nefarious activities and would not return for a further ten months. Even this return was short-lived because once again he was caught up in scandal. This time the scandal involved passport rigging and although cleared of any wrong doing, (probably more a case of knowing the right people and where the bodies were buried), he did not return to government for another eight years.
Small protest Parties began to form. The Jackals and, for that matter, the Lions dismissed them as being just that, irrelevant protest groups. One such group, the United Kinsman Island Party, consisting of disaffected Lions and people who just wanted their Island back, managed to struggle through despite the lack of finances and support. Their day would come but they would have to wait many years before that day dawned.
The years rolled by and the Jackals managed to win the next General Election with ease. Social policies had been established with some written into Law, by now the majority of the populace were under the spell of the charismatic Jackal leader. He could do no wrong, even when he blatantly flouted international Law the people would sooner blame others than him. He dragged the Island into two foreign wars, both fought on a lie and both at the cost of hundreds of Islanders lives.
If ever there was a time for the Lions to regain their famous roar it was then. Alas, they were having major problems of their own. Infighting amongst young bucks was holding them back. They desperately needed a leader who would bring them back together and give them direction. Shame on them that hubris and arrogance had seen them force the best leader, albeit a Lioness, out of office. Had they left well alone, she may well have nurtured a future leader to replace her. We will never know.
Meanwhile the Jackals appeared to be going from strength to strength. In line with Jackal mentality, hunting was all but forgotten. Even scavenging, which was the very essence of Jackal way of life, had been abandoned. No matter, the Jackal hierarchy had made it possible for anyone to live off the State with the minimum of checks and for little or no reason. Hyenas and other immigrants exploited this to the full and, why not? When the State indicates that there is a limitless pot of money and that said money is there for the taking, why not take full advantage of it?
Still the Lions were silent.
To consolidate the position of the Jackals as the true leaders of the Island, the hierarchy put the second part of their Grand Plan into action. The mainland was ruled by Jackals and they had formed a union of countries. The aim of the unelected leaders of this union was to rule the whole of the mainland and the seas around it. The Island hierarchy saw this as an opportunity for continuous power. They lied to the Island population, telling them that full integration with the Mainland Union was not what they wanted, rather, a (vague) trade deal. However, it soon became apparent that this was but a front for full integration into the Union. This was all helped through by the Dark Lord who was now a Commissioner to the Mainland Union.
Immigrants were flooding in from the mainland, taking jobs and housing from the indigenous Islanders. The Dark Lords scheme to bring in Hyenas by the boatload was also proving to be a great success for the Jackals. However, one June morning the peace of the Capital was shattered when bombs planted by four Hyenas caused mayhem and devastation.
The foul, cowardly deed was not carried out by outside forces but by Hyenas born and bred on the Island. The Jackal propaganda machine, once again, went into overdrive. These were not bad Hyenas but youths disaffected by Island society and radicalised by unsavoury Hyenas. They failed to mention that the Hyenas doing the hate preaching were living the high-life off the State and that there was nothing the State could do about it because of Laws passed by the Mainland Union!
However, the Islanders were placated and life carried on. Were the Islanders not used to such atrocities? Were they not steely enough to turn a blind eye and carry on as normal? In fact, this was the message pumped out by the Jackal propaganda machine over and over again. It was designed to make the Islanders feel good about themselves, make them feel invincible, show the Hyena that this Island population would not be cowed by such acts of violence.
Meanwhile treaties were signed; without the consent of the Islanders, which gave away the fishing grounds, control over farming and scavenging, hunting and Islanders Rights.
Islanders woke up one fine June day to find that their lives were being, pretty much, run from the Mainland. Still the Islanders trusted the Jackals, maybe because they had fostered an air of apathy throughout the land, maybe because there was no real opposition to these overbearing overlords. Whatever the reason, the Islanders put the Jackals in power for a third term at the next General Election.
It was during this third term in office that the wheels finally began to wobble on the great Jackal juggernaut. Infighting took place, old rivalries came to the fore and battle lines were drawn. The leader of the Jackal pack was forced to resign by the evil one-eyed Jackal of the Lair, who had, for the past ten years, controlled the Island economy.
This unnecessary act of spite was to see the downfall of the insidious Jackal pack. The new leader proved to be arrogant, incompetent, and duplicitous. One might say, all of the attributes required in a leader of a pack of Jackals.
The civil war within the Jackal cabal gave the Lions the impetus that they required and with a new leader they began to find their roar; if not their bite. The new leader was young and ambitious, a Lion who saw his destiny as leader of the Island. It was a shame therefore, that he saw the future of the Island as part of the Mainland Union.
The One-Eyed jackal of the Lair wasted no time in consolidating the Island's ties with the Mainland. Once again, and in line with arrogant Jackal policy, the Islanders were not consulted about matters which would seriously affect not only their lives but the lives of their offspring and their offspring. However, he did not have the courage to sign this new Treaty along with all the other Jackals from the mainland. No, he arranged to sneak in at the dead of night in order to sign away nearly all that was left of Island Sovereignty.
On his return, he received some much deserved criticism for the way that he had conducted himself and for not consulting the Islanders about this clandestine deal which he had signed off on their behalf with the Mainland Union. In an act of pure desperation he even had the temerity to bring the Dark Lord out of retirement and back into Cabinet.
Leading the critics was a young Lion, recently chosen to lead the United Kinsman Island Party. He wanted to know why The One-Eyed Jackal had refused to give the Islanders the promised referendum before sneaking off to the Mainland to sign the Treaty. Like all other critics of this useless Jackal, he got no answer.
To prove just how incompetent this Jackal was, he had the chance to lead the Jackals to a fourth consecutive victory but decided against it. Instead he took the ridiculous decision to let Parliament run its full term before calling a General Election.
This decision made the Lions roar, not only that, they got their fangs back. They began to look, if not like the Lions of old, like a good copy. Their dynamic leader was, unfortunately, less dynamic than the Island press portrayed him to be. He was another product of the "Pride Elite", one of those privileged Lions who knew the right Lions and was seen in the 'right' places. Most of this could probably have been forgiven but for the fact that his public persona was flawed. He refused to give a straight answer to a straight question and was useless when pitted against his peers in open debate.
This trait led him to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory at the subsequent General Election. The One-Eyed Jackal held a very slim majority albeit not enough to rule. He hoped that the Wild Dogs would give him their allegiance and form a coalition thus enabling him to carry on as leader.
This was not to be as they threw their weight behind the Lions and formed a coalition with them instead.
So, after thirteen long years of mis-rule and deception the reign of the Jackals was finally over. The young Lion was made leader and took the Wild Dog leader as his second in command.
The full extent of the shambles and incompetence of the Jackals began to unravel almost immediately. Not only had they borrowed on a massive scale to finance their ridiculous welfare programme, they had raided the savings and pensions of millions of Islanders in order to try to balance the books.
Repairing the damage done by the insidious Jackals would take years, if not decades.
Meanwhile, the Hyenas have been slowly eating away at the Establishment. Infiltrating schools, subjecting the young to unimaginable misery and undermining the very fabric of Island life. The authorities seem unwilling to do anything about this threat and anyone standing up and talking about it is vilified or, worse, arrested.
Island life will never be the same again thanks to the apathy of the Islanders during the thirteen years that the Jackals were in charge. Never again must the Island have such perverse rulers.


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All the many awards presented in the realm of classic automobiles, there is a special place reserved for the one given on the shores of Lake Como. The Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este has taken place at the historic resort since 1929, and the crowd, coupled with the setting and level of automobiles present makes this just a magical event. For the second year in a row, A. Lange & Söhne has sponsored the classic car show by making a one-of-a-kind timepiece, and this year's winner wasn't just some nameless mega-millionaire, it was in fact a very famous mega-millionaire. It was Mr. Ralph Lauren himself.
Mr. Lauren won this year's Concorso with his now legendary 1938 Bugatti 57 SC Atlantic Coupé - a car for which he is known in many circles.
In winning, Mr. Lauren received a piece unique Lange 1 Timezone in white gold (just like I reviewed here), but with Como on the dial in place of Berlin, and a special caseback. Of course, it is interesting to note that Mr. Lauren's own watch line draws a lot of inspiration from his personal car collection, and the wood on its sporting line is actually meant to mimick the dash on this exact automobile. RL watches is a collaboration with Richemont, who also owns A. Lange & Söhne - so this was really a family affair.
Still, surely the folks at ALS must've been thrilled to present their jetset watch to one of the most heralded car collectors, a leading bastian of style, and, well, just all around awesome guy. And, it's cool to know Mr. Lauren has just upped his watch game.


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In a post in my Next-door group, someone wrote about a topic she said was of the "upmost urgency." I have to smile; it probably makes more sense to most people than the correct phrase, "utmost urgency." "Utmost" means to the greatest extent; therefore, because "up" indicates an increase, "upmost" could mean the most effort or extent of interest in a topic.
This is how language changes, folks. Maybe "upmost" won't be adopted this week, but check back with me in 50 years. (I might not be able to answer you, but I'll try my upmost.)


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The Nature of Resistance
© 2014 by Patrick Moore
Practically everyone wants to lose weight. All you have to do is to eat more naturally and exercise naturally, at the same time. Why is it so hard? Because we have resistance.
Everyone, it seems, wants more from life. To get more from life requires certain changes in behavior. We need to reduce certain behaviors and increase others. Simple. Why is it so hard to change and grow? Because we have resistance.
Many of us develop diseases, or other become burdened by other challenges. Therapies and counseling can help us to resolve, transcend or embrace these challenges. The therapists and helper people make it sound simple. But its not. We resist the ones who are trying to help us.
What is the root cause of resistance?
I am writing this short paper because in my teaching practicing body therapists, I find they were not taught in their original training what the cause of resistance is. They take it personally when recipients resist therapy. They feel frustrated and wish to screen customers, so that they could have the ideal career working only with those who are willing. I have done a lot of reading on the topic, and if there were one book that explained for therapists why people resist, I would direct my students to this book. Books by counselors (Kottler, Compassionate Therapy – Working with Difficult Clients) are good at listing the signs, methods and secondary gains of resistance, (for example, that it slows or stops change, which is feared) but not the root cause (why fear change?). Two of the earliest books by A. H. Almaas, Essence, and Elements of the Real in Man, describe well why people resist rediscovering who they really are, but he makes the process appear very complex and requires us to sign up for his special classes or receive special therapy only he can provide. The process is much simpler and all therapists can be of service, even massage therapists, once they understand the nature of resistance.
Yesterday when I taught, one student asked a very good question about resistance and I found I could not answer his question without explaining a few things first. It took me about fifteen minutes to describe this in words. When I was done, the students' eyes had glossed over and drooped. They asked if this stuff was in their handout and I said no, but if they emailed me I would provide it for them. So today I am writing it down. (This is all based on things I learned from Stephen Bruno, who was a counselor since 1970 and a pioneer of lifecoaching in the 1980s with his Southwest Institute.)
The root cause of resistance is fear. This shows up as fear of responsibility, fear of visibility and fear of change. Another way to see these fears is they are all fear of being natural.
What is natural? Who are we, at the deepest core level? The essence of each living being is seven things:
1. Unconditionally compassionate,
2. Nonjudgmental,
3. Non-self-important,
4. Patient,
5. Present,
6. Vulnerable, and
7. Curious.
This list is similar to the list of four virtues that Plato wrote about, and the list of the six perfections, or ten, that Buddhists talk about. Though he did not list or number them, Jesus gave talks about most of the seven things, frequently emphasizing unconditional compassion and nonjudgment, and he demonstrated all seven in how he lived his life.
The seven things are not virtues or perfections, because virtues and perfections need to be perfected—we do not possess them yet so we need to gain them. The seven things are not skills and strengths that we have to condition ourselves with repetition to develop them. The seven things are elements of our true nature. We are already these seven things. We were born with them. Babies are being the seven things. Have you ever met eyes with a baby in a supermarket? They can make contact using eyes, even before they are supposed to be able to physically focus their eye muscles. Babies are naturally being their essence. This is why Jesus said to be like the little children.
At this point you may be thinking, wait! Humans are not compassionate! What's he talking about?
What is the true nature of a human being? Most people would say humans are by nature selfish. Human nature is seven things, most people would say:
1. Conditionally loving (to those in one's family, group or nation),
2. Judgmental,
3. Entitled,
4. Impatient,
5. Distracted, divided, incongruent,
6. Controlling and overly focused on security, and
7. Hubris, know-it-all.
The evolutionists say human nature is defined by the selfish gene, which naturally competes and takes every advantage so that it can survive better than others. The phrase for this is that Nature is red in tooth and claw. The creationists say humans are fallen, we are created already in original sin. Either way, we are not the seven things but the opposite, if you listen to either set of experts.
If human nature is really the seven things, how does it happen that most people will say human nature is the opposite? That is a great question, I am glad you asked!
The question can be answered on the large scale by describing the culture. The question can be answered on the individual scale by describing the personality.
We live in a culture that emphasizes self-importance. The culture teaches us that humans are competitive by nature, and that you are entitled to press your advantage as far as you can get away with, short of theft and murder. Humans weren't always this way. Our bodies, teeth and brains are unchanged from humans who lived 50,000 years ago. But they lived as animals—that is, they were still being natural. Something happened between then and now. Rather than trusting nature to provide enough food, one person decided to gather and store food, to capture live animals he could eat later, put a fence around them, and guard this fence with weapons. Many copied this new idea, which tempted others to steal the animals, to raid and conquer. This is how our culture of self-importance was born. We have inherited this culture. It is not natural, it is not human nature. Each generation needs to instill self importance into the next generation. This is done through parenting and schooling. Schools reward those who comply with the cultural values and beliefs, and punish those who don't, by teacher approval disapproval and grades. Parents teach their children to feel you are specially entitled among humans, you are entitled to more than the rest are. Even Native American cultures teach their children to feel specially entitled, though they do this to a lesser degree than Western cultures.
On the individual level, we are all born with an essence and a personality. The personality is designed to assist us in dealings with others, finding our way around maps and the marketplace. The personality was never designed to be the leader of the person, but because our parents model self-importance for us (as their parents did for them), because our parents rewarded us when we were like them and punished us when we were not, our personalities swelled with self-importance, a false sense that we can control things, judgment of others and oneself, impatience, incuriosity, distraction, and conditional love, given only to certain special ones and only under the conditions they love us first.
The culture continues to reward those who are distracted and teaches us to feel entitled (self-important), even in the face of wars and global catastrophes caused by advantage-taking. Our personality continues to reward itself to maintain entitlement, even in the face of diseases and personal suffering caused by a lifestyle of entitlement.
The essence is influential enough that at any time it could step in and take over, to lead the person well. But the essence is non-self-important and patient. It can wait. Our essence does not judge our personality for this mischief. The essence will wait patiently until death and then some, and still in most people the personality does not release its attempts to control and maintain self-importance, until the moment it dissolves.
This is the root cause of resistance. Personalities fear being natural.
Here is an overview of our resistances, in light of the seven elements of essence.
• We fear vulnerability. In our insecurity we react, knee-jerk fashion, to defend our security. Ironically our overemphasis on security blinds us to natural perceptions that would increase our safety, vitality and life quality. Our culture teaches us that attempting to control things and to keep things the same without changing, increases our security. But this simply is not true. Vulnerability allows us to experience intuition which easily guides us to safety. Animals are naturally vulnerable and have access to intuition 24/7. Their intuition often leads them to safety, to food and to other precious gifts life offers. Being natural is not a guarantee that no harm will ever come to you, but at least by being natural, you are not blinding yourself to harms that are on the way. Furthermore, by resisting being natural, you inhibit your own natural immune system so you are more prone to everyday diseases and cannot naturally rebound from life-threatening illnesses. Your safety, vitality and quality of life is greater when being vulnerable, than it is while attempting to control and defend security. Still, we fear what we vividly imagine "out of control" would look like, we fear what we imagine "defenses down" would look like, and so we resist being vulnerable.
• We fear visibility. If people could see who we truly are, we fear, they would judge us. Well, who we truly are is seven things that are pretty nice. Wouldn't you like for people to see you as the seven things? I would. Perhaps the reason we fear that if we were more visible, people would judge, is because we judge others. We check with ourselves. We ask ourselves, would I judge someone else for this deed or trait? If the answer is yes, I would judge others for this, then we will fear that others will judge us. The cure for this fear, is to not judge others. Then when we check with ourselves and ask if we would judge others for this, our answer will be no, and then it will be safe for us to be visible. Another reason we might fear visibility is, we are already embarrassed about who we are or what we've done. We have regrets. This indicates we judge ourselves. While we refrain from judging ourselves we will not feel embarrassment or regret. In these moments we feel free to let our light shine, no longer do we feel the need to hide our lamp under a bushel. The cure for judging oneself, is to refrain from judging others. We can't succeed at being nonjudgmental with ourselves, until after we have a few successes refraining from judging others.
• We fear unconditional compassion. We think that, were we to allow ourselves to be compassionate once, we would be drafted into God's army, and we would have to die for a cause like Socrates, Jesus, Ghandi, and Martin Luther King Jr., or that we would have to do service 24/7 like Albert Schweitzer and Mother Theresa, ceaselessly giving our possessions to others until we are in greater poverty than they are. While these humans were wonderful examples of unconditional compassion, these are not the only ways to be unconditionally compassionate. Unconditional means (among other things) that nobody is left out, including oneself. There are a lot of others compared to only one of me, so the ratio of one's efforts, when we are natural, will be weighted toward others, but unconditional compassion is not selfless. Another misconception is that, once you try unconditional compassion you will be hooked, drafted to do it always and never stop. You can stop. You can commit to being unconditionally compassionate one hour a day, five days a week. For that hour, you will be of service, even though it is not comfortable or easy, even with those who irk you, even with your enemies. Nothing drafts you do more. No superior being expects you to do more. No Cosmic Judge judges you if you do less. We are free to experiment, to be really compassionate for a month then take a year off. Yes, you might begin to value it, you might begin to prefer being unconditionally compassionate, but this is not coercion, it is an exercise of your freedom. You don't have to die for any cause and you don't have to give away all your possessions (unless your attachment to possessions hinders you from being unconditionally compassionate).
• Fear of responsibility. Your essence is responsible. Your personality is not. But what your personality fears, is not natural responsibility. Your personality fears an imaginary villain that it calls "responsibility." We fear that being responsible is the same as being held responsible. Ick! Nobody likes being held responsible. But even the worst misdeeds we have done—how responsible were we in those moments? Did we really choose to do that mischief freely, based on clear understanding of the outcomes, consequences and harms? Did we really understand our own motives and inner pressures? If we did not, then we were not literally responsible, though we were accountable. Next, the personality fears that responsibility means, always doing right, never doing wrong, always serving, never indulging, never making mistakes, never doing anything that will later be regretted, always following moral codes, always doing what others would agree is responsible, never taking a day off, never experimenting, always being polite, never hurting other people's feelings, and so forth. It is easy to see why we fear this definition of "responsible." But think about it. Would you want to live your life that way? Even if you did, is it possible to be perfect? Nobody is perfect. Even Jesus got angry and threw tables around, hurting feelings and perhaps bruising a few people. The view of "responsibility" we fear, is not even close to the essence of responsibility. The essence of responsibility is response. Responding. Yes, I got angry and had an outburst, but now I'm going to respond to my reaction. Yes, someone was hurt–I commit to find a way to make this better for having happened that way.
I believe when we have more accurate views about what being natural really entails, we will fear it less. But replacing our old views with more enlightened ones, is a challenging process. Though the change can happen in a nanosecond, most of us struggle for years or lifetimes until we feel we are safe to allow ourselves to slide naturally back into ourselves.
I believe this explains why people are resistant to change, to growth, to discovery and to therapy.
Those of us who are therapists or helpers should know this. It really helps us understand why recipients are resisting us. It is not personal, there is nothing wrong with us, though they may make it appear that way in order to resist their own forward movement.
Furthermore, we therapists must realize and admit we, too, are in the same pickle they are. We also resist being natural. We also fear responsibility, visibility, change and the unknown. We should admit this to those we work with. When we are vulnerable to share our imperfections, others feel safe to resonate the same.
The seven things work better than any therapy.
When we are nonjudgmental and unconditionally compassionate with the people who come to us for therapy, they resonate, like sympathetic vibration. While we are not judging them, they are not judging themselves. While we are seeing them from unconditional compassion, they feel their inherent value. In these moments, they feel safe to change, to embrace their maladies and move forward. The seven things always works and never fails. It works when all technique fails. The seven things is the basis of that therapeutic relationship everyone writes about.
Beyond therapy, the seven things works with any friend, family member, co-worker, or even with any enemy, potential criminal or growling wild animal. You look into their eyes and connect without judgment, valuing them for the seven things they truly are. The other feels the safety and value, and in that moment, they see you as a best friend and wish you as well as you are wishing them.
This has been a quick overview but I think it is enough to make it a consistent and understandable whole.
This material is copyrighted, © 2014 by Patrick Moore. You may pring one copy for yourself to read. I suggest a paper copy so you can write your responses and ideas in the margins. You may not copy/paste the contents to make a document, nor to send to others, but you may forward them the link. If you value what is written here, I recommend rather than copying what I have written, learn to explain it in your own words, and then you are free to do what you like with it. If these seven things do not seem right to you, come up with your own seven.


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There are thousands of cultures around the world, each with many unique beliefs. Each culture is truly unique, but one thing that is familiar across all of them is a belief in demons. Humans love to be afraid of demons. Whether real or metaphorical, they haunt us in our sleep and follow us in our daily thoughts. Usually, these creatures loosely resemble the Christian devil, but some cultures have more extreme demons. The following seven demons keep even the bravest people awake in the night:
1. Lady Midday
Europe has more than its fair share of paranormal creatures that haunt men and women alike. Lady Midday comes from Slavic tradition, and she is a truly scary ghost. She is the embodiment of heat stroke and she attacks those that work hard in the field. Workers have reported seeing her approach as a cloud of dust carrying a scythe. Next time you're working in a field, you should beware Lady Midday.
2. Rusalka
The Slavic people are known for having some fairly disturbing myths. Rusalka, for example, preys on those who live on the coast. If you love mermaids, then Rusalka will change your view of these water creatures for years. Rusalkas dwell at the bottom of rivers – or sometimes in trees near rivers. When attractive people pass by the river, Rusalkas can emerge and lure them to the bottom. Like succubi of the water, these paranormal creatures do not mean to drown men, but their beauty is simply too much for some people to bear.
3. Jikiniki
Japanese Buddhists believe that your actions in life influence your fate in death. If you choose to be a selfish and greedy person, then you may come back as a Jikiniki. These ghosts are known for eating dead humans. They are heinous creatures who must eat the recently deceased in order to stay alive. Jikiniki will even examine fresh corpses for valuables, stealing whatever they find to be worth taking. Next time you are in a graveyard, keep an eye out for Jikiniki – because he'll most certainly keep an eye on you.
4. Daeva
Long before the rise of Islam, Iran was ruled by the Persians. The Persian people practiced the Zoroastrian faith, which included many horrifying demons that haunt men. The scariest of these demons is the Daeva. The Daeva are agents of chaos and will do anything in their power to sow violent anarchy and disorder.
5. Surgat
The Christian faith contains many stories of evil spirits that haunt naughty people, especially children. Surgat is the ultimate embodiment of the boogeyman. Surgat hides in dark places, and can even sneak past locks. If you want to meet Surgat, you should take a look under your bed.
6. Samael
Samael is an extremely important archangel within the Jewish faith. Samael is the embodiment of death. He comes for men when their time finally comes on their death bed. Jewish people do not believe Samael to be evil, but they are cautious of him. If you cross Samael in any way, he can become extremely angry, and thus more dangerous. Eventually, Samael comes for us all, so ready yourself for your time with him.
7. Pontianak
Men were once able to do horrible things to women with very little recourse. Women needed some form of divine intervention, so the Pontianak began intervening. The Pontianak are the spirit of women that died in pregnancy and they rise up to gain vengeance against those that wronged them. Usually, they attack men. The Pontianak are quite cruel, sometimes crushing the man's genitalia to exact their revenge. Bad men should watch out around the Pontianak.
Demons and the paranormal haunt all men that do wrong, and every culture has their devils. These strange creatures are sure to haunt you in your sleep.


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The Kenco Story
Since it's inception in 1972 Kenco Plastics has fostered a program of continual improvement and growth. Our founder and President, Kenneth W. Coates Jr., gained expertise in the field of injection molding through the application of his skills as an electrical engineer and tool designer prior to venturing out to form a company of his own. Today, Kenco has grown to be a major producer of engineered plastic components and services for a wide range of industries including, appliance, medical, automotive, electronics and many others.
Our growth has created the need to become more than just a molder, but a full-service provider of engineering, design services, prototyping, tooling, molding, assembly and decorating. With production occupying over 140,000 square feet, including 3 molding facilities, 2 in-house tool shops, and a finishing/ assembly facilty, Kenco can provide a turnkey product that saves you time and money. Structured to meet individual customers needs, each facility provides tremendous flexibility in scheduling, price, and efficiency. In short, Kenco Plastics will provide you with a world of possibilities.


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Maximizing Your Social Security Benefit Could Be As Easy As 1, 2, 3
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Social Security is arguably the most important entitlement program for seniors today (it's right up there next to Medicare). But the plethora of filing options available to eligible beneficiaries makes finding the most rewarding Social Security strategy extremely difficult. Not understanding your options can wind up costing you and your family a substantial amount of money over the long run -- money that could be useful come retirement.
What makes maximizing your lifetime Social Security benefits even tougher is that many workers, and even retirees, don't have a good understanding of what filing options are available. Around half (51%) of all still-working respondents in the latest Gallup survey believed that Social Security benefits won't be there when they retire, which is a long-standing myth that's been repeatedly debunked. Another survey conducted by MassMutual Financial Group showed that only 28% of 1,513 people were able to get a passing grade (i.e., answer seven or more questions correctly out of 10) in its straightforward Social Security quiz.
Maximizing your Social Security benefit could be as easy as one, two, three
Although every person's path to retirement is different, there's often a pretty simple formula that can be followed that will give you a good shot at maximizing your lifetime benefit. Best of all, it doesn't require you to locate a needle in a haystack in order to dramatically boost your benefit.
Maximizing your Social Security benefit could be as easy as one, two, three if you follow the basic outline laid out below.
Image source: U.S. Department of Labor via Flickr.
1. Work as long as you can
You may want to cover your eyes and pretend like you're not reading this point, but working longer really is the biggest secret to a beefier payout.
Working for as long as you can comes with a number of advantages. Perhaps the biggest is that the Social Security Administration calculates your monthly benefit payment by averaging your 35 highest-earning years. If you didn't work 35 years, then the SSA will input $0's for every year below 35, dragging down your benefit payment. Working a minimum of 35 years ensures that no $0's are used when calculating your monthly benefit, thus boosting your chances of a higher lifetime payout.
Also, working longer allows you to generate income into your golden years, which could allow you to delay filing for Social Security benefits (the advantage of which you'll see in point 2).
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2. Hold off filing for benefits as long as you can
The second tactic you'll probably want to employ is postponing filing for Social Security benefits for as long as possible. Every individual's path to retirement is different, and a variety of factors ranging from your health to the size of your savings will come into play when you decide when to file for benefits. However, the advantages to claiming as late as possible if you can afford to do so are as clear as day.
Retirees (we're speaking strictly of retired workers and not the disabled or surviving beneficiaries here) are allowed to file for benefits between the ages of 62 and 70. A retiree's full retirement age, or FRA, is the age at which they become eligible for 100% of their benefit payment. For retiring boomers, FRA will range between 66 and 67 years. The earlier boomers file for benefits before turning 66, the lower their monthly benefit will be -- as much as 30% lower if claimed at 62. However, their monthly benefit will grow by roughly 8% per year between their FRA and age 70, so if they wait as long as possible, they'll come out with a monthly payment well ahead of what they'd receive if they applied earlier.
Ultimately, those who claim benefits at 62 and those who wait until 70 will collect roughly the same amount of money by the time they hit 78, the average life expectancy for an American. If you wait till 70 to claim and live past 78, you will almost assuredly collect more in lifetime benefits than if you had started claiming benefits at 62.
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3. Consider how your relationship status can boost your and your partner's income
Finally, consider how your relationship status can help your situation. Married couples, couples or parents with children, single individuals and even divorcees can benefit based on their relationship status.
With the recent passage of a two-year budget deal in Congress, two formerly useful strategies for couples -- file-and-suspend, and restricted application -- are mostly going away. Some couples (especially high-income couples) will clearly be sad to see these strategies removed from their options, but it's actually made the process of selecting a strategy a lot easier for most people.
For instance, if you are divorced, but were married to your partner for 10 or more years, and you turn 62 no later than Jan. 1, 2016, you can still file for spousal benefits from your ex-spouse at FRA, but then wait until age 70 to start collecting your own retirement benefit.
Another common strategy for an older parent with younger children is to file for benefits and allow the child to claim a percentage of the older parents' benefit (without reducing the actual payment to the retired parent). Generally, unmarried children younger than 18, or up to age 19 if a full-time high school student, can qualify.
These are just a couple of the strategies that are still open to eligible beneficiaries. If you peruse your options on the SSA's website, or with the help of a financial advisor, you're likely to find additional ways that you can boost your lifetime benefit.
The $15,978 Social Security bonus most retirees completely overlook
If you're like most Americans, you're a few years (or more) behind on your retirement savings. But a handful of little-known "Social Security secrets" could help ensure a boost in your retirement income. In fact, one MarketWatch reporter argues that if more Americans knew about this, the government would have to shell out an extra $10 billion annually. For example: one easy, 17-minute trick could pay you as much as $15,978 more... each year! Once you learn how to take advantage of all these loopholes, we think you could retire confidently with the peace of mind we're all after. Simply click here to discover how you can take advantage of these strategies.
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Last year I set myself 18 goals for 2018. I don't tend to bother with New Year's resolutions as I know my enthusiasm is likely to wane by the middle of January at the latest. So the idea of goals for the whole year is far more palatable to me.
Having said that, I didn't do brilliantly with last year's list. I've just read back over it and cringed a bit at how little I achieved. But in my more positive 2019 mindset, let's look at what I did manage… I lost weight, exercised more, hosted a little bit more, drunk more water, overhauled the blog and blogged a bit more, exercised more but still not enough, and planned Christmas much better.
So this year, I'm going to come back to this list every now and then to remind myself and get back on track.
- Be calmer – I've got a tendency to worry and get stressed and as I get older, I'm beginning to realise it doesn't get me far. I started doing some meditation last summer and it's definitely helping with the anxiety and stress, so I'll continue with that and aim to be more zen
- Find the positive – It's easy to dwell on the negative when things go wrong, but there's always a positive, no matter how bad you think things are. I think looking for those positives and focussing on them helps to get you through the tougher days.
- Plan more – I bought a planner towards the end of last year, and when I plan the week, I get so much more done. So this year, I plan to plan each week on a Sunday evening.
- Make one to one time with the girls – It's difficult to make one to one time with the girls as well as having time together as a family when Gary is off. But I think it's really important for them and for each relationship, to have one of us to themselves every now and then.
- Help Woody pass his APDT Foundation test – Woody passed his puppy class and is now working towards a proper accreditation. He's possibly the nicest natured dog I've ever met, so if we can get him to be super well mannered too, he'll be even more perfect.
- Spend more time with my mum – I always take the girls when I go to see my parents (lets be honest, they're the stars nowadays). But I miss having time just with my mum, so I'm going to try and take her out shopping or for coffee once in a while this year and have some quality time with her too.
- See my friends more – I miss them. Now the girls are a bit bigger, this will be easier to manage.
- Say yes – I'm in a habit of thinking automatically that I'm too busy with work, kids, housework, horse, etc to say yes. But you can always make time, so I'm going to do more of it this year.
- Read more – I'm guilty of buying books and stacking them up and never reading them. I need to stop buying and start reading. I love reading so if there's nothing on TV of an evening, or I find myself with a rare five minutes to myself, I'll be picking up a book for a bit of escapism.
- Monthly date nights – We've already put January's in the diary. We need some time just the two of us to remember we are a couple as well as parents. We won't always go out, but put time aside to spend with each other with no distractions.
- Believe in myself – I recently came to the end of a work project and I need to start looking for some new clients. I always doubt myself with things like this, but if I was looking from the outside, I'm capable, experienced, hard working. And if I don't believe in myself, nobody will.
- Save for a rainy day – I'm not setting amounts, but I'd like to put a little away each month.
- Get back in the saddle – I failed at this last year and I miss riding so much.
- Lose the last of my baby weight – About a stone to go now. I can do this.
- Create less waste – I'm never going to be a zero waste person, but I think there are things we could do to help a little bit.
- Learn a new skill – there's so much I would like to learn – how to use my camera, how to crochet, to be fluent in crochet. It's stupid to think I'll master them all, but I'm planning to smash at least one this year.
- Stick to TOMM – I've recently started loosely following The Organised Mum Method with my housework and it's been a bit of a life changer. I'm determine to stick to it, it makes everything so much more manageable.
- Take more photos – I don't have enough of 2018, that will change this year.
- Be kinder to myself – I'm doing the best I can in a pretty hectic schedule. Sometimes I need to acknowledge that and stop beating myself up about what I haven't done!
What are your 2019 goals?


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The reason for this regulation by the Welfare State is in fact made clear by Marx. He writes of the conditions applying in his day when the amount of education provided to workers was minimal, and healthcare represented nothing but the faux frais of production, required for the repair of labour-power. If for some reason, social productivity fell, so that the new value created in the year by labour fell, this would mean that the amount of revenue fell. The consequence is that less will be available as wages and profits for workers and capitalists to spend.
"If in such conditions capitalist and workman wanted to consume the same amount of value in material things as they did before, they would have to buy less of the services of the doctor, schoolmaster, etc. And if they were compelled to continue the same outlay for both these services, then they would have to restrict their consumption of other things It is therefore clear that the labour of the doctor and the schoolmaster does not directly create the fund out of which they are paid, although their labours enter into the production costs of the fund which creates all values whatsoever—namely, the production costs of labour-power." (p 167-8)
There are a number of points that need to be drawn out of this. Firstly, in Capital III, Marx had described the way that capital was concerned that labour-power should be reproduced in the most efficient manner. That was not just a matter of trying to reduce the value of wage goods, via such measures as the repeal of the Corn Laws, to reduce the price of food. It was also a concern for temperance, to ensure that workers did not use up their wages in the consumption of alcohol, which not only did nothing to reproduce labour-power, but actively damaged it.
The introduction of the capitalist welfare state addressed this problem, referred to above, in several ways. Firstly, by forcibly deducting a price for the provision of education, healthcare and other commodities required for the reproduction of labour-power, out of wages, via the tax and national insurance system, capital ensured that the decision over this allocation of workers wages was taken out of their hands. Workers now had no choice but to allocate the proportion of the wage fund that capital required of them, so as to reproduce their labour-power to the necessary standard of education, training and fitness that was optimal for capital accumulation.
Secondly, even if workers' wages fell, this same amount of revenue would continue to be allocated to health and education, to ensure that labour-power of the required standard was produced, and this was so even more, because it was the capitalist state which now had a monopoly over the provision of these commodities to workers. This provided a powerful ideological tool, also, for capital. Not only did the capitalist state thereby obtain a direct transmission belt for bourgeois ideas through the educational system, into the heads of workers, from birth, but the idea of this welfare state as something that was class neutral, or even "socialist" was fundamental to the socialising of the working-class into the acceptance of their subordinated role within the modern bourgeois social democratic state.
Similarly, by vesting this monopoly power in the hands of the capitalist state, for the provision of these commodities, it meant that it could regulate their provision for the optimisation of capital accumulation. At times, when capital required innovation, greater scope for academic freedom can be allowed, to encourage the development of the new ideas it can harness. At other times, when what is required are simply more drones, the emphasis switches to the mass production of automatons, whose educational experience is focussed on vocational training and so on. At times, when labour-power is in general excess supply, spending on the provision of education and health can simply be cut back, whilst the existing supply is used up.
The other thing to be taken from Marx's quote is that here the doctor or teacher merely provides their labour-power directly in exchange for revenue from the worker or capitalist, no different to the way the cook supplies their labour-power embodied in the mutton chops. The education and healthcare are as much required for the reproduction of labour-power as are the mutton chops, but the labour-power bought in each case is unproductive. It is exchanged not against capital but revenue. The buyer of this labour-power does not do so for the purpose of producing a commodity and extraction of surplus value, but only for the purpose of obtaining a use value, for their own consumption.
But, this need not be the case. Just as the cook may be employed as a productive labourer, in a restaurant, and produce surplus value, so too a teacher may be employed by a school, and a doctor by a hospital. The teacher employed by a school exchanges their labour-power with the variable capital of the school. The school, in selling a commodity – education – thereby recovers the fund required to reproduce its constant and variable capital, as well as making a surplus value over and above it.
The same is true in relation to a doctor who exchanges their labour-power with the variable capital of a hospital. The surplus value arises in each case, as with the production of surplus-value in every case, because the value of the labour-power sold by the cook, teacher or doctor is less than the value created by the expenditure of their labour-power. The fact that the cook, or teacher or doctor is employed by the capitalist state, to produce these commodities, and that their labour-power exchanges with the variable capital of that state does not change anything. The fact remains that they are paid wages of X, equal to the value of their labour-power, and they create new value equal to X + n, determined by the labour they perform.
Nor does it change anything that the payment for these commodities is made out of an insurance scheme to which workers contribute collectively, rather than by individual workers' payments. Nor does it change anything that the state may or may not realise the surplus value itself produced by these workers. If a cook, employed by the state, produces food for workers, and the meals are sold to workers at a price that does not realise the produced surplus value, then workers have obtained food below its value, and there is a consequent reduction in the value of labour-power. As a result, surplus value for all capitals employing those workers rises. The loss of surplus value for the state capital is then a direct gain of surplus value for all other capitals. This process occurs all the time, for all capitals, not just state capital, as surplus value is redistributed via the formation of prices of production.


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Our thoughts during the run-up to Tisha b'Av are all about shalom and chesed, ways we can help each other and avoid sinat chinam (baseless hatred) and build community. To a certain extent, the drumbeat is so consistent that we run the risk of thinking we already know all there is to know about kindness and doing for others.
That's why I appreciate the story of Scott Widak, a 47-year old man with Down's Syndrome and terminal liver disease, whose nephew, Sean O'Connor, posted a Reddit message asking people to send his uncle mail because "one of his favorite things to do is open mail."
As CBS tells it, he has now received more than 1,000 letters and packages, postcards and gifts.
To a certain extent, it is easier to help someone we've never met. There's no long-term obligation. There is no existing framework to dampen our creativity. There is no baggage or resentment from external factors.
Still: If so many people could do this for someone they never met, what creative ways could we devise to help those we know?
Friday, July 13, 2012
Could we be inspired by Sean O'Connor?
Posted by The Rebbetzin's Husband at 1:01 AM
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- AnonymousJuly 13, 2012 at 3:16 PM
As the Rabbi said, it's easier to do chesed for someone we never met, maybe something of that sort can be created. Helping anonymously a random sick person in the community, keeping in touch with a unknown soldier in the IDF. If the problem is Sinat Chinam, I don't think G-d will be picky on how we try to change it.ReplyDelete
Was I the only one who read that as Sinade O'Connor and thought you were encouraging us to tear up pictures of the Pope in live TV (and maybe shave our heads).ReplyDelete
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pumphouse water schedule
Hi Saturday runners, Alyssa will put the water and Gatorade out this Saturday. The latest schedule is below. Recommended supplies: Mailboxes – 2 gal water, 6 qts gatorade, 50 cups, 1 roll paper towels Triangle – 1 gal water, 2 qts gatorade, 25 cups Please don't Read More