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My family is still going after our first kickstart. It has been about a month or so now.My teenaged son has lost more than 15 lbs. My husband has lost maybe ten and can fit in pants he hasn't fit for a year. The dark circles and puffiness around his eyes are gone by half and best of all - he has STOPPED snoring. I have had years of poor sleep quality and anxiety bc he snores and apnea and keeping me awake. A thing of the past I can't believe it.
What's better, is the whole family seems to have had a mood lift.
It's amazing.
If anyone out there doubts the return on the effort this takes - imagine your spouse not snoring - and being ten years younger in mood.
Wonderful news Terri! Keep up the fantastic job!
Wow! What a story. I very much appreciate you sharing it with everyone!
Susan Levin, MS, RDPCRM Director of Nutrition Education
Thank you! We appreciate the work you are doing. I frequently manage threads for a large online community, and I know it's a ton of work.Thanks ALL!I will keep checking in here Terri
I want to add that we were already eating a so-called "healthy" diet.Lots of fruit and veg every week, very low sugar (except my husband who puts sugar in his coffee) and extremely limited junk food.The main changes here are the exclusion of meat, dairy and free oils like olive oil. That's it. No other changes have been made.
Congrats on your improved health and weight loss.I need some encouragement. I am 10 days in, started a little before Feb 1. Having some lapses but overall doing well.
I am sleeping better, have a bit more energy but I am sort of down as I have only lost 1.3 lbs. in the 10 days.
janelosing wrote:
That's what happened to me too. My boys had quick weight loss but not me. I have lost though and can see fat disappearing from funny places, like my knees haha Don't give up! It just takes longer for some people but other amazing things are happening besides weight loss. I focus on that
Thanks Terri
Great job! I was able to maintain my body weight (in the back of my mind I kept fearing that I would gain because I was eating so much more but it was all healthy, low- / no-fat foods) and decrease my percent body fat a bit. If I can keep it up, that percent will slowly decrease every month. I loved seeing the benefits actually happen, fabulous feeling!
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Congratulations! It's so inspiring to hear a story such as yours.
Thank you! Is anyone else having better skin tone?By the way the organic frozen cherries from Costco are soooo yummy in oatmeal!Lani's new book shipped today and I am looking forward to it. I am seriously afraid to exercise because I have been so run down... ( I don't look overweight to most people and am in my forties.) I seem to hurt myself easily. Hoping the vegan food helps me reduce injuries.
Yes! My skin looks much better since I have been following this lifestyle. I never left the house without makeup before but just wear moisturizer most of the time now. I also have more energy.
Wow that's great!!! This is me too. I normally wear foundation to even out skin tone, but have been surprised to walk by the mirror and realize I hadn't put any on but looked like I had.
The ice cream and especially frozen yogurt craze really got the best of me this past summer! I've stopped even going to places like this entirely, like the fro-yo chains, Baskin Robbins, etc.
I don't know WHAT is in these kind of frozen desserts but i swear ice cream in particular broke my skin out so bad. Cutting this out, and having like..90% less cheese, has helped my skin tremendously. =)
My daughter loves the frozen yogurt places. Yogurtland has a sorbet that's dairy free, non GMO and gluten free, which I tried and liked. She said Tutti Fruiti is advertising a soy bean based yogurt, which is also non GMO, gluten free and nonfat. That sounds like a good choice too. Both have fresh fruit toppings.
I need to check out the vegan fro yo.... Sounds very interesting!
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It might be soy. My wife has the same issue and is verified soy allergic. She has symptoms besides skin as well. When we focus on foods containing soy and eliminate them, her skin clears up immediately. Soy is phytoestrogenic and she is super sensitive to extra soy. Sadly, the soy lobby and the soy industry have been very very successful in getting soy into most foods we eat from store shelves. Last week, I could not find a can of soup that did not contain soy in some form (soybean oil, soy lecithin, soy protein, soy protein isolate, soy flour, etc.). Eating at restaurants is next to impossible - nearly every bun, bread, tortilla, salad dressing, pizza crust etc.ordered from restaurant supply companies have soy in them. What has happened to our food supply is very sad. This is what drove us to veganism. As a vegan, I control what I eat. My blood pressure went down from the 150s to normal. My cholesterol dropped 85 points. My blood sugar was always fine but went even lower. Like many other commenters, I haven't seen the weight loss I wanted, but for me that is likely the stress from a very stressful job. I have lost weight - though and hope to lose more. My mood is better, my energy is up, and I am ethically happy with my decision. I congratulate all of you for taking the 21 day kickstart challenge and encourage you to stick with it after the three weeks end.
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I have issues with soy (though not allergic clinically) so we avoid or minimize it - including not buying a lot of prepared foods (like soup - which is so easy and inexpensive to just make at home and freeze). BUT we've found that the coconut milk ice creams are yummy (we don't buy soy ice cream, soy milk, soy cheese, tofu, etc) when you just really want that frozen treat. The bonus is that they only come in pints and are quite costly so it really is a treat and it's basically one small serving for each of the three of us and it's gone - so no munching on ice cream every day for a week...
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Dead Space 3 includes micro-transactions as part of its weapon crafting system, Eurogamer can reveal.
We spotted mention of "downloadable content" during a recent hands-on play session with the game. The message pops up when you don't have enough resources to piece together the beefy new weapon you're after.
It states: "Cannot craft. Additional resources required."
These resources (materials, scrap parts and the like) can be picked up by the player, picked up by scavenger bots you send out, or alternatively bought through a quick purchase from the in-game store.
"You can buy resources with real money, but scavenger bots can also give you the currency that you can use on the marketplace," Dead Space 3 associate producer Yara Khoury explained to Eurogamer. "So you don't have to spend [real world] dollars."
Khoury was unable to say how much the micro-transactions would cost, but she referred to several different packs of in-game currency being available, priced varying amounts.
But even with a bank balance full of money, developer Visceral Games has made sure you can't boost your way to the best weapons at the very beginning of the game.
"No you can't!" Khoury replied at the suggestion I'd be able to splurge my money as soon as possible in exchange for the game's biggest gun. "There are a lot of weapon parts that are only available to buy later in the game. Unless you're playing through it again [on New Game Plus]."
Dead Space 3 is the first game in the series to include micro-transactions. The payment system popped up last year in fellow EA-published title Mass Effect 3, too, allowing you to quickly buy reinforcement packs for the game's multiplayer portion. Ubisoft-published Assassin's Creed 3 included a similar system for that game's multiplayer.
Forthcoming horror sequel Dead Space 3 has been the focus of various controversies in recent months: from concerns over changes that appear to make it more of a standard third-person shooter, to last week's revelations that the game uses micro-transactions as part of its weapon crafting system.
And this weekend, in an interview with CVG, producer John Calhoun appears to have only added fuel to the fire by suggesting that the use of micro-transactions is actually part of a strategy to attract the 'smartphone generation' to the game.
"We need to make sure we're expanding our audience," he said. "There are action game fans, and survival horror game fans, who are 19 and 20, and they've only played games on their smartphones, and micro-transactions are to them a standard part of gaming. It's a different generation. So if we're going to bring those people into our world, let's speak their language, but let's not alienate our fans at the same time."
Of course, some are suggesting that alienating their fans is exactly what EA are doing through tactics such as these – with even Dead Space 3′s box art coming under attack this week for being "generic" and "mass market".
Nonetheless, the game is predicted to be a monster hit when it hits stores in two weeks' time.
Then make the game $30 ya ****heads.

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Anarchism is a political philosophy encompassing theories and attitudes which support the elimination of all compulsory government, i.e. the state. The term anarchism derives from the Greek αναρχω, anarcho, meaning "without archons" or "without rulers", from ἀν (an, "without") + ἄρχή (arche, "to rule") + ισμός (from stem -ιζειν). It is defined by The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics as "the view that society can and should be organized without a coercive state." Specific anarchists may have additional criteria for what constitutes anarchism, and they often disagree with each other on what these criteria are. According to The Oxford Companion to Philosophy, "there is no single defining position that all anarchists hold, beyond their rejection of compulsory government, and those considered anarchists at best share a certain family resemblance".
There are many types and traditions of anarchism, not all of which are mutually exclusive. Anarchism is usually considered to be a radical left-wing ideology, and as such much of anarchist economics and legal philosophy reflect anti-authoritarian interpretations of communism, collectivism, syndicalism or participatory economics; however, anarchism has always included an individualist strain, including those who support capitalism (e.g. market anarchists: anarcho-capitalism, agorism, etc.) and other non-capitalist market-orientated economic structures (e.g. mutualists, some individualist anarchists). As described by the 21st century anarchist Cindy Milstein, anarchism is a "political tradition that has consistently grappled with the tension between the individual and society. Others, such as panarchists and anarchists without adjectives neither advocate nor object to any particular form of organization. Anarchist schools of thought differ fundamentally, supporting anything from extreme individualism to complete collectivism. Some anarchists fundamentally oppose all types of coercion, while others have supported the use of some coercive measures, including violent revolution, on the path to anarchy.
Some claim anarchist themes can be found in the works of Taoist sages Laozi and Zhuangzi. The latter has been translated, "There has been such a thing as letting mankind alone; there has never been such a thing as governing mankind [with success]." and "A petty thief is put in jail. A great brigand becomes a ruler of a State." Diogenes of Sinope and the Cynics and their contemporary, Zeno of Citium, the founder of Stoicism, also introduced similar topics.
Modern anarchism, however, sprang from the secular or religious thought of the Enlightenment, particularly Jean-Jacques Rousseau's arguments for the moral centrality of freedom. Although by the turn of the 19th century the term "anarchist" had an entirely positive connotation, it first entered the English language in 1642 during the English Civil War as a term of abuse used by Royalists to damn those who were fomenting disorder. By the time of the French Revolution some, such as the Enragés, began to use the term positively, in opposition to Jacobin centralisation of power, seeing "revolutionary government" as oxymoronic. From this climate William Godwin developed what many consider the first expression of modern anarchist thought. Godwin was, according to Peter Kropotkin, "the first to formulate the political and economical conceptions of anarchism, even though he did not give that name to the ideas developed in his work." Godwin, a philosophical anarchist, opposed revolutionary action and saw a minimal state as a present "necessary evil that would become increasingly irrelevant and powerless by the gradual spread of knowledge. Godwin advocated extreme individualism, proposing that all cooperation in labor be eliminated. Godwin felt discrimination on any grounds besides ability was intolerable.
The first to describe himself as anarchist was Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, which led some to call him the founder of modern anarchist theory. Proudhon proposed spontaneous order, whereby organization emerges without central authority, a "positive anarchy" where order arises when everybody does "what he wishes and only what he wishes and where "business transactions alone produce the social order. Like Godwin, Proudhon opposed violent revolutionary action. He saw anarchy as "a form of government or constitution in which public and private consciousness, formed through the development of science and law, is alone sufficient to maintain order and guarantee all liberties. In it, as a consequence, the institutions of the police, preventive and repressive methods, officialdom, taxation, etc., are reduced to a minimum. In it, more especially, the forms of monarchy and intensive centralization disappear, to be replaced by federal institutions and a pattern of life based on the commune. By "commune", Proudhon meant local self-government or according to literal translation, "municipality", rather than a communist arrangement.
Mutualist anarchism is concerned with reciprocity, free association, voluntary contract, federation, and credit and currency reform. According to Greene, in the mutualist system each worker would receive "just and exact pay for his work; services equivalent in cost being exchangeable for services equivalent in cost, without profit or discount. Mutualism has been retrospectively characterized as being ideologically situated between individualist and collectivist forms of anarchism. Proudhon first characterized his goal as a "third form of society, the synthesis of communism and property.
One of the earliest and best-known proponents of individualist anarchism was Max Stirner, who wrote The Ego and Its Own (1844), a founding text of the philosophy. Stirner's philosophy was an "egoist" form of individualist anarchism according to which the only limitation on the rights of the individual is his power to obtain what he desires, taking no notice of God, state, or moral rules. To Stirner, rights were spooks in the mind, and he held that society does not exist but "the individuals are its reality" he supported property by force of might rather than moral right. Stirner preached self-assertion and foresaw "associations of egoists" where respect for ruthlessness drew people together.
A less radical form of individualist anarchism was advocated by the "Boston anarchists," American individualists who supported private property exchangeable in a free market. They advocated the protection of liberty and property by private contractors, and endorsed exchange of labor for wages,. They did not have a problem that "one man employ another" or that "he direct him," in his labor but demanded that "all natural opportunities requisite to the production of wealth be accessible to all on equal terms and that monopolies arising from special privileges created by law be abolished. They believed state monopoly capitalism (defined as a state-sponsored monopoly) prevented labor from being fully rewarded. Even among the nineteenth century American individualists, there was not a monolithic doctrine, as they disagreed amongst each other on various issues including intellectual property rights and possession versus property in land. A major cleft occurred later in the 19th century when Tucker and some others abandoned natural rights and converted to an "egoism" modeled upon Stirner's philosophy. Some "Boston anarchists", like Tucker, identified themselves as "socialist" – a term which at the time denoted a broad concept – by which he meant a commitment to solving "the labor problem" by radical economic reform.) By the turn of the 20th century, the heyday of individualist anarchism had passed, although it was later revived with modifications by Murray Rothbard and the anarcho-capitalists in the mid-twentieth century, as a current of the broader libertarian movement, and the anti-capitalist strain by intellectuals such as Kevin Carson.
Unlike mutualists, collectivist anarchists oppose all private ownership of the means of production, instead advocating that ownership be collectivized. This was to be initiated by small cohesive group through acts of violence, or "propaganda by the deed," which would inspire the workers as a whole to revolt and forcibly collectivize the means of production. However, collectivization was not to be extended to the distribution of income, as workers would be paid according to time worked, rather than receiving goods being distributed "according to need" as in anarcho-communism. Although the collectivist anarchists advocated compensation for labor, some held out the possibility of a post-revolutionary transition to a communist system of distribution according to need. Collectivist anarchism arose contemporaneously with Marxism but opposed the Marxist dictatorship of the proletariat, despite the stated Marxist goal of a collectivist stateless society.
Some anarcho-syndicalists, such as the Spanish union Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) see an anarcho-communist society as their objective.
Like most schools of anarchism, anarcho-communism has conflicts with other schools. For instance, most individualist anarchists consider it incompatible with political freedom.
Platformism is an anarchist communist tendency in the tradition of Nestor Makhno, who argued for the "vital need of an organization which, having attracted most of the participants in the anarchist movement, would establish a common tactical and political line for anarchism and thereby serve as a guide for the whole movement".
Some forms of anarchist communism are strongly Egoist, and are strongly influenced by radical individualist philosophy, believing that anarcho-communism does not require a communitarian nature at all. Anarchist communist Emma Goldman blended the philosophies of both Max Stirner and Kropotkin in her own.
In the early 20th century, anarcho-syndicalism arose as a distinct school of thought within anarchism. With greater focus on the labour movement than previous forms of anarchism, syndicalism posits radical trade unions as a potential force for revolutionary social change, replacing capitalism and the state with a new society, democratically self-managed by the workers.
Anarcho-syndicalists seek to abolish the wage system and private ownership of the means of production, which they believe lead to class divisions. Important principles include workers' solidarity, direct action (such as general strikes and workplace recuperations), and workers' self-management. This is compatible with other branches of anarchism, and anarcho-syndicalists often subscribe to anarchist communist or collectivist anarchist economic systems. Its advocates propose labour organization as a means to create the foundations of a non-hierarchical anarchist society within the current system and bring about social revolution.
An early leading anarcho-syndicalist thinker was Rudolf Rocker, whose 1938 pamphlet Anarchosyndicalism outlined a view of the movement's origin, aims and importance to the future of labour.
Although more often associated with labor struggles of the early 20th century (particularly in France and Spain), many syndicalist organizations are active today, united across national borders by membership in the International Workers Association, including the Central Organisation of the Workers of Sweden (SAC) in Sweden, the Unione Sindacale Italiana (USI) in Italy, and the CNT in Spain.
Anarchism continues to generate many eclectic and syncretic philosophies and movements; since the revival of anarchism in the U.S. in the 1960s, a number of new movements and schools have emerged. Anarcho-capitalism developed from radical anti-state libertarianism as a rejuvenated form of individualist anarchism, while the burgeoning feminist and environmentalist movements also produced anarchist offshoots.
Post-left anarchy is a tendency which seeks to distance itself from the traditional "Left" and to escape the confines of ideology in general. Post-leftists argue that anarchism has been weakened by its long attachment to contrary "leftist" movements, single issue causes and calls for a synthesis of anarchist thought, and a specifically anti-authoritarian revolutionary movement outside the leftist milieu. Post-anarchism is a theoretical move towards a synthesis of classical anarchist theory and poststructuralist thought developed by Saul Newman and associated with thinkers such as Todd May, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. It draws from a wide range of ideas including autonomism, post-left anarchy, situationism, postcolonialism and Zapatismo.
Another recent form of anarchism critical of formal anarchist movements is insurrectionary anarchism, which advocates informal organization and active resistance to the state; its proponents include Wolfi Landstreicher and Alfredo M. Bonanno.
While the term "anarcho-capitalism" was coined by Rothbard and its origin is attributed to 1960s United States, some historians, including Rothbard himself, trace the school as far back as the mid-19th century to market theorists such as Gustave de Molinari. Anarcho-capitalism has drawn influence from pro-market theorists such as Molinari, Frédéric Bastiat, and Robert Nozick, as well as American individualist thinkers such as Benjamin Tucker and Lysander Spooner. Considered a form of individualist anarchism, it differs from the individualism of the "Boston anarchists" of the 19th century in its rejection of the labor theory of value (and its normative implications) in favor of the neoclassical or Austrian School marginalist view. Anarcho-capitalist ideas have in turn contributed to the development of agorism, autarchism, and crypto-anarchism.
Anarcha-feminism is a synthesis of radical feminism and anarchism that views patriarchy (male domination over women) as a fundamental manifestation of involuntary hierarchy – to which anarchists are opposed. Anarcha-feminism was inspired in the late 19th century by the writings of early feminist anarchists such as Lucy Parsons, Emma Goldman and Voltairine de Cleyre. Anarcha-feminists, like other radical feminists, criticize and advocate the abolition of traditional conceptions of family, education and gender roles.
Many Anarcha-feminists are especially critical of marriage. For instance, Emma Goldman has argued that marriage is a purely economic arrangement and that "... [woman] pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life. Anarcha-feminists view patriarchy as a fundamental problem in society and believe that the feminist struggle against sexism and patriarchy is an essential component of the anarchist struggle against the state and capitalism. L. Susan Brown expressed the sentiment that "as anarchism is a political philosophy that opposes all relationships of power, it is inherently feminist". There have been several male anarcha-feminists, such as the Anarcho-communist Joseph Déjacque who opposed Proudhon's anti-feminist views.
Green anarchism is an anarchist school of thought which places an emphasis on environmental issues. Sometimes, green anarchism is said to be techno-positive or techno-negative to differentiate between those who advocate use of advanced green technology to create and maintain an anarchist society and those who mainly see civilization and modern technology as something negative.
Anarcho-primitivism is a form of green anarchism that believes civilization and technology inevitably lead to inequality and are incompatible with anarchism and in effect must be abolished. Anarcho-primitivists often criticize traditional anarchism for supporting civilization and technology which they believe are inherently based on domination and exploitation. They instead advocate the process of rewilding or reconnecting with the natural environment.
Non-primitivist green anarchists, such as anthropologist Brian Morris, often draw influence from the social ecology of Murray Bookchin.
In Europe, harsh reaction followed the revolutions of 1848, wherein ten countries experienced brief or long-term social upheaval as groups carried out nationalist revolutions. After most of these attempts at systematic change ended in failure, conservative elements took advantage of the divided groups of socialists, anarchists, liberals, and nationalists, to prevent further revolt. In 1864 the International Workingmen's Association (sometimes called the "First International") united diverse revolutionary currents including French followers of Proudhon, Blanquists, Philadelphes, English trade unionists, socialists and social democrats. Due to its links to active workers' movements, the International became a significant organization. Karl Marx became a leading figure in the International and a member of its General Council. Proudhon's followers, the mutualists, opposed Marx's state socialism, advocating political abstentionism and small property holdings. In 1868, following their unsuccessful participation in the League of Peace and Freedom (LPF), Mikhail Bakunin and his associates joined the First International – which had decided not to get involved with the LPF. They allied themselves with the anti-authoritarian socialist sections of the International, who advocated the revolutionary overthrow of the state and the collectivization of property. At first, the collectivists worked with the Marxists to push the First International in a more revolutionary socialist direction. Subsequently, the International became polarized into two camps, with Marx and Bakunin as their respective figureheads. Bakunin characterised Marx's ideas as authoritarian and predicted that, if a Marxist party came to power, its leaders would simply take the place of the ruling class they had fought against. In 1872, the conflict climaxed with a final split between the two groups at the Hague Congress, where Bakunin and James Guillaume were expelled from the International and its headquarters were transferred to New York. In response, the anti-authoritarian sections formed their own International at the St. Imier Congress, adopting a revolutionary anarchist program.
The anti-authoritarian sections of the First International were the precursors of the anarcho-syndicalists, seeking to "replace the privilege and authority of the State" with the "free and spontaneous organization of labor. In 1886, the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions (FOTLU) of the United States and Canada unanimously set 1 May 1886, as the date by which the eight-hour work day would become standard. In response, unions across America prepared a general strike in support of the event. Upon 3 May, in Chicago, a fight broke out when replacement workers attempted to cross the picket line. Police intervention led to the deaths of four men, enraging the workers of the city. The next day, 4 May, anarchists staged a rally at Chicago's Haymarket Square. A bomb was thrown by an unknown party near the conclusion of the rally, killing an officer. In the ensuing panic, police opened fire on the crowd and each other. Seven police officers and at least four workers were killed. Eight anarchists directly and indirectly related to the organizers of the rally were arrested and charged with the murder of the deceased officer. The men became international political celebrities among the labor movement. Four of the men were executed and a fifth committed suicide prior to his own execution. The incident became known as the Haymarket affair, and was a setback for the labor movement and the struggle for the eight hour day. In 1890 a second attempt, this time international in scope, to organize for the eight hour day was made. The event also had the secondary purpose of memorializing workers killed as a result of the Haymarket affair. The celebration of International Workers' Day on May Day became an annual event the following year.
In 1907, the International Anarchist Congress of Amsterdam gathered delegates from 14 different countries, among which important figures of the anarchist movement, including Errico Malatesta, Pierre Monatte, Luigi Fabbri, Benoît Broutchoux, Emma Goldman, Rudolf Rocker, Christiaan Cornelissen, etc. Various themes were treated during the Congress, in particular concerning the organisation of the anarchist movement, popular education issues, the general strike or antimilitarism. A central debate concerned the relation between anarchism and syndicalism (or trade unionism). Malatesta and Monatte in particular opposed themselves on this issue, as the latter thought that syndicalism was revolutionary and would create the conditions of a social revolution, while Malatesta did not consider syndicalism by itself sufficient. Malatesta thought that trade-unions were reformist, and could even be, at times, conservative. Along with Cornelissen, he cited as example US trade-unions, where trade-unions composed of qualified workers sometimes opposed themselves to non-qualified workers in order to defend their relatively privileged position.
The Spanish Workers Federation in 1881 was the first major anarcho-syndicalist movement; anarchist trade union federations were of special importance in Spain. The most successful was the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (National Confederation of Labour: CNT), founded in 1910. Before the 1940s, the CNT was the major force in Spanish working class politics and played a major role in the Spanish Civil War. The CNT was affiliated with the International Workers Association, a federation of anarcho-syndicalist trade unions founded in 1922, with delegates representing two million workers from 15 countries in Europe and Latin America. The largest organised anarchist movement today is in Spain, in the form of the Confederación General del Trabajo (CGT) and the CNT. CGT membership was estimated to be around 100,000 for the year 2003. Other active syndicalist movements include the US Workers Solidarity Alliance and the UK Solidarity Federation. The revolutionary industrial unionist Industrial Workers of the World, claiming 2,000 paying members, and the International Workers Association, an anarcho-syndicalist successor to the First International, also remain active.
Anarchists participated alongside the Bolsheviks in both February and October revolutions, many anarchists initially supporting the Bolshevik coup. However, the Bolsheviks soon turned against the anarchists and other left-wing opposition, a conflict that culminated in the 1921 Kronstadt rebellion. Anarchists in central Russia were either imprisoned, driven underground or joined the victorious Bolsheviks. In the Ukraine, anarchists fought in the civil war against Whites and then the Bolsheviks as part of the Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine led by Nestor Makhno, who attempted to establish an anarchist society in the region for a number of months.
Expelled American anarchists Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman were amongst those agitating in response to Bolshevik policy and the suppression of the Kronstadt uprising, before they left Russia. Both wrote accounts of their experiences in Russia, criticizing the amount of control the Bolsheviks exercised. For them, Bakunin's predictions about the consequences of Marxist rule that the rulers of the new "socialist" Marxist state would become a new elite had proved all too true.
The victory of the Bolsheviks in the October Revolution and the resulting Russian Civil War did serious damage to anarchist movements internationally. Many workers and activists saw Bolshevik success as setting an example; Communist parties grew at the expense of anarchism and other socialist movements. In France and the US, for example, certain members of the major syndicalist movements of the CGT and IWW left the organizations and joined the Communist International.
In Paris, the Dielo Truda group of Russian anarchist exiles, which included Nestor Makhno, concluded that anarchists needed to develop new forms of organisation in response to the structures of Bolshevism. Their 1926 manifesto, called the Organizational Platform of the General Union of Anarchists (Draft), was supported by some communist anarchists, though opposed by many others. Platformist groups active today include the Workers Solidarity Movement in Ireland and the North Eastern Federation of Anarchist Communists of North America.
In the 1920s and 1930s, the rise of fascism in Europe transformed anarchism's conflict with the state. Italy saw the first struggles between anarchists and fascists. Italian anarchists played a key role in the anti-fascist organisation Arditi del Popolo, which was strongest in areas with anarchist traditions and marked up numerous successful victories, including repelling Blackshirts in the anarchist stronghold of Parma in August 1922. In France, where the far right leagues came close to insurrection in the February 1934 riots, anarchists divided over a united front policy.
In Spain, the CNT initially refused to join a popular front electoral alliance, and abstention by CNT supporters led to a right wing election victory. But in 1936, the CNT changed its policy and anarchist votes helped bring the popular front back to power. Months later, the ruling class responded with an attempted coup causing the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939). In response to the army rebellion, an anarchist-inspired movement of peasants and workers, supported by armed militias, took control of Barcelona and of large areas of rural Spain where they collectivized the land. But even before the fascist victory in 1939, the anarchists were losing ground in a bitter struggle with the Stalinists, who controlled the distribution of military aid to the Republican cause from the Soviet Union. According to George Orwell and other foreign observers, Stalinist-led troops suppressed the collectives and persecuted both dissident Marxists and anarchists.
Phenomena such as civilization, technology (e.g. within anarcho-primitivism and insurrectionary anarchism), and the democratic process may be sharply criticized within some anarchist tendencies and simultaneously lauded in others. Anarchist attitudes towards race, gender and the environment have changed significantly since the modern origin of the philosophy in the 18th century.
On a tactical level, while propaganda of the deed was a tactic used by anarchists in the 19th century (e.g. the Nihilist movement), contemporary anarchists espouse alternative methods such as nonviolence, counter-economics and anti-state cryptography to bring about an anarchist society. The diversity in anarchism has led to widely different use of identical terms among different anarchist traditions, which has led to many definitional concerns in anarchist theory.


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Brooklyn Nets (6-2) at Los Angeles Lakers (5-5), 10:30 p.m.
(Sports Network) - Dwight Howard made no secret of his desire to be traded to
the Brooklyn Nets, but fate instead landed him with the Los Angeles Lakers.
The Nets have been red-hot to start the season despite not landing the former
Defensive Player of the Year and they'll look to deal Howard and his Lakers a
loss on Tuesday night and claim their first victory at Los Angeles in nearly
five years.
With Howard no longer wishing to play for an Orlando franchise that made him
the top overall pick of the 2004 draft, the Magic pursued a number of trade
options this past offseason. They were in serious discussions with the Nets,
but the clubs could not pull off a deal and Brooklyn ended its courtship by
re-signing Brook Lopez, one of the players rumored to be part of the package
offered to the Magic.
Instead, the Magic dealt Howard to the Lakers in a four-team deal that also
included the Denver Nuggets and Philadelphia 76ers.
Now, Lopez will be one of the players tasked with slowing down Howard, who is
averaging 20.0 points and 11.4 rebounds a game in 10 contests this season.
"It's always fun. He's a good challenge for me. It's always an exciting game,"
Lopez said of going up against Howard.
The 26-year-old Howard, who can be a free agent at season's end, wasn't
interested in thinking about what could have been on Monday.
"It really doesn't matter at this point. There is no need to talk about the
past," said Howard. "I'm happy being a Laker. I think this is the best
situation for me and what I need to move forward and we're going to continue
to get better."
The Nets have lost each of their last eight games to the Lakers, having not
beaten them since Nov. 25, 2007 at Los Angeles. They have lost four straight
on the road in this series since.
The Nets could buck that trend on Tuesday night as they bring a five-game
winning streak into this contest. They won the opener of a three-game swing
99-90 at the Sacramento Kings on Sunday and haven't lost since a 30-point
setback at the Miami Heat on Nov. 7.
With Lopez struggling, Andray Blatche came off the bench to score 22 points in
Sunday's win, making his first 10 field goal attempts.
He wasn't the only player to produce off the bench as C.J. Watson had 13
points and MarShon Brooks added 14.
"The bench really helped us, especially in that first half," said Nets coach
Avery Johnson. "You look at what C.J. (Watson) did, Blatche, and then MarShon
comes on strong in the second half, made some real good plays."
Point guard Deron Williams -- figured to be one of the reasons for Howard's
desire to play in Brooklyn -- had 14 points and 10 assists while Gerald
Wallace logged 24 1/2 minutes in his first game since the Nets' opener. He had
been out with a sprained left ankle.
At 6-2, the Nets are hoping to move five games over .500 for the first time
since Dec. 30, 2005 and record their longest winning streak since a six-game
run from March 12-21, 2006.
Standing in their way is an improved Lakers club that is 4-1 under interim
head coach Bernie Bickerstaff, who took over for a fired Mike Brown following
a 1-4 start.
The Lakers have since hired Mike D'Antoni to take over as head coach, but he
has been unable to be on the sidelines as he continues to recover from knee
replacement surgery. He decided a few hours before Sunday's 119-108 victory
over the Houston Rockets to hold off his debut with the team.
Still, Los Angeles has begun to run his system over the last two games,
including a 114-102 win over Phoenix last Friday, and the head coach hopes to
be on the bench tonight.
"It's a lot better. Every day it gets tenfold better. Hopefully because of
that I'll be ready to go, but it's soon," said D'Antoni, who is expected to
keep Bickerstaff on his staff.
In Sunday's win, Kobe Bryant tallied a triple-double with 22 points, 11
rebounds and 11 assists, while Howard had 28 points and 13 rebounds.
"Every day there's a little more," Bickerstaff said of how much of D'Antoni's
system is in place. "What's important, it's best to do a few things well and
get it down because all of those things, they have options off of it. We put a
few things in, they're in, let's work on the repetition, get it down, and then
Pau Gasol reached a milestone with his 17-point effort, becoming the 10th
foreign-born player in league history to reach 15,000 career points.
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Pelican is located on the northwest coast of Chichagof Island along Lisianski Inlet, with the majority of the community built on pilings over the tidelands. Pelican has a maritime climate characterized by cool summers and mild winters. Summer temperatures range from 51 to 62 degrees Fahrenheit and winter temperatures range from 21 to 39 degress. In 2003, the city acquired its piped water system from Pelican Seafoods, a subsidiary of Kake Tribal Corporation. Water for the city is derived from a dam and reservoir system on Pelican Creek and is treated with chlorine. 58 of the city's 75 residences are connected to the piped system. The city completed a piped sewage system with ocean outfall in 1989 and today connects about 75% of Pelican's homes. This system includes four 10,000-gallon septic tanks with the city hiring a disposal truck from Juneau to pump sludge approximately four times each year. The city provides garbage collection services and either recycles or incinerates the refuse at the city landfill. Electricity is provided by the Pelican Utility Company.
RUBA Status & Activities This Qtr:
This quarter, RUBA staff worked with the city's clerk/treasurer to resolve tax payment issues, identify errors in the city's financial reports, and register city staff at a QuickBooks training. In January of 2011, RUBA staff had learned from the IRS's taxpayer advocate service in Anchorage that the City of Pelican had not submitted its 2010 third quarter payroll taxes. RUBA staff worked with the clerk/treasurer to discover that the city simply forgot to submit its third quarter 941. The situation was quickly rectified and the city's tax payments were made current. Upon receiving financial documents from the city in March, RUBA staff became aware of recording errors in the city's QuickBooks accounting file. A QuickBooks contractor has since been scheduled to visit Pelican in early April to correct the errors. Further, the clerk/treasurer will undertake continued QuickBooks training at an Introduction to QuickBooks course in Juneau April 11-15, 2011.
RUBA Activities for the Coming Qtr:
RUBA staff will continue work with city officials to schedule a newly-elected officials training and any other RUBA trainings requested by the city. Now that the RCA has approved the city's petition to no longer be economically regulated as a condition of operation, RUBA staff will also be available to assist the city in addressing its utility fee structure and in amending its utility ordinances.
Essential Indicators:
26 of 26
Sustainable Indicators:
23 of 27
Total Score:
49 of 53
Essential Indicators
All revenues and expenses for the utility are listed in the utility budget.
The utility has adopted a balanced realistic budget.
Monthly financial reports are prepared and submitted to the policy making board.
The utility is current in paying all water/wastewater electric bills.
The utility has on hand a year's adequate fuel supply or it has a financial plan to purchase an adequate supply.
The utility is receiving revenues (user fees or other sources) sufficient to cover operating expenses.
Sustainable Indicators
The utility is receiving revenues (user fees or other sources sufficient to cover operating expenses and Repair & Replacement (R) costs.
YTD revenues are at a level equal to or above those budgeted.
YTD expenditures are at a level equal to or below those budgeted.
A monthly manager's report is prepared.
Budget amendments are completed and adopted as necessary.
Finances Comments
The City of Pelican is operating with a balanced and realistic FY11 budget that was completed on May 11, 2010. Specific budgets for the water, sewer, and garbage services are included in the overall city budget with revenues and expenses listed with their respective service. The actual expenses and revenues for the city and its utilities are in line with budgeted projections. The current monthly water utility user fees of $5.60 for residential customers and $10.40 for commercial customers do not produce sufficient income to cover utility operating expenses or repair and replacement costs. This rate structure originates from a financial arrangement made when the city acquired the piped water system. In 2003, Kake Tribal Inc. sold the water system to the City of Pelican and transferred the Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity. As part of the transfer, the city agreed to be economically regulated by the Regulatory Commission of Alaska (RCA) until such time that the Pelican Seafoods processing plant had ceased operations for twenty-four consecutive months. Pelican Seafoods has now been out of operation for the twenty-four months cited in the agreement and the city petitioned the RCA to have the regulation requirement lifted. On August 4, 2010, the RCA did indeed grant the City of Pelican exemption from further economic regulation. With those regulations now lifted, RUBA staff will be able to assist the utility in addressing its utility fee structure should the city choose do so. Until then, funds from other sources, such as the city's general fund, are necessary to subsidize operating expenses and any savings are used for unexpected repairs. The firm Altman, Rogers and Co. performs an audit for the city annually. In order for the city to monitor its financial standing, the city council is provided with monthly financial reports that include a profit and loss statement, a balance sheet, and a budget vs. actual profit and loss. However, accumulated errors in the city's QuickBooks accounting file in previous months has meant that those financial reports do not necessarily reflect the exact financial status of the city. The balance sheet, for example, understates current assets while the current liabilities may be overstated. A QuickBooks contractor is scheduled to clear up these errors during a visit to the community April 1-8, 2011. The community receives fuel shipments from Kake Tribal Fuel on a year-round basis. The fuel is stored at a bulk fuel storage facility owned by Pelican Seafoods, a subdivision of Kake Tribal Corporation. A sufficient level of fuel reserves is maintained at these facilities in order to accommodate the community's needs and adequate funds have been allocated in the city budget to purchase additional fuel as necessary.
Accounting Systems
Essential Indicators
The utility has adopted a collection policy and actively follows it.
The utility bills customers on a regular basis.
An accounts receivable system is in place which tracks customers and reports past due accounts and amounts.
An accounts payable system is in place.
The payroll system correctly calculates payroll and keeps records.
A cash receipt system is in place that records incoming money and how it was spent.
The utility has a cash disbursement system that records how money was spent.
Sustainable Indicators
A chart of accounts is used that identifies categories in a reasonable, usable manner.
Monthly bank reconciliations have been completed for all utility accounts.
The utility has a purchasing system that requires approval prior to purchase, and the approval process compares proposed purchases to budgeted amounts.
Accounting Systems Comments
The City of Pelican has adopted and actively follows a collections policy. That policy requires that utility bills be distributed on a monthly basis. The account receivables system documents customer payments and reports past due accounts with corresponding amounts. The city actively pursues delinquent utility accounts. Now that the water utility is no longer economically regulated by the RCA, RUBA staff will be available to amend the rate structures in the city's utility ordinance should such assistance be requested. Pelican uses QuickBooks Pro for its accounts receivable, accounts payable, and payroll systems. The city clerk/treasurer and the assistant city clerk are both proficient in QuickBooks. The clerk/treasurer will receive additional training at a RUBA Introduction to QuickBooks course in Juneau in April. To back up the city's QuickBooks system, the city maintains a written receipt system to record incoming funds and other transactions. The city clerk is tasked with completing all monthly bank reconciliations. Additionally, the city uses a purchase order system for all of its purchases and maintains a cash disbursement system to track expenditures.
Tax Problems
Essential Indicators
The utility has a system to accurately calculate, track, and report payroll tax liabilities.
The utility is current on filing tax reports.
The utility is current on making tax deposits.
If there are any past due tax liabilities or recorded tax liens, a lien release has been issued or a repayment agreement has been signed and repayments are current.
Tax Problems Comments
The City of Pelican uses QuickBooks Pro to calculate, track, and report its payroll tax liabilities. RUBA staff confirmed on March 17, 2011 that the city is current in filing its tax reports and in making its tax deposits. Federal payroll tax deposits are made by the city through direct deposit and IRS 941 deposit slips are submitted appropriately. The city has not received any Department of Labor letters within the last year.
Personnel System
Essential Indicators
The utility has a posted workers compensation insurance policy in effect.
Sustainable Indicators
The utility has adopted and uses a Personnel Policy, which has been reviewed by an attorney, AML or Commerce for topics and language.
The utility has adequate written job descriptions for all positions.
The utility has adopted and follows a written personnel evaluation process that ties the job description to the evaluation.
The utility has an adequate written hiring process.
The utility has personnel folders on every employee that contain at least: I-9, Job Application and Letter of Acceptance.
The utility has a probationary period for new hires that includes orientation, job training/oversight, and evaluations.
The utility provides training opportunities to staff as needed and available.
Personnel System Comments
The city currently carries workers compensation insurance through AMLJIA. That policy is valid until June 30, 2011 and covers work-related accidents and occupational diseases up to the Alaska statutory limits for each occurrence. A copy of the workers compensation policy is posted in accordance with state statute at the city hall, the city shop, and the community library. Pelican has an implemented personnel policy. Written job descriptions for the utility department are in place, though they have not been updated for several years and the city is lacking in adequate job descriptions for all other municipal positions. A formal evaluation process is only used for new hires and these evaluations do not correlate entirely to the duties set forth in employees' job descriptions. However, a satisfactory hiring process is provided for in the city's municipal code. There are also personnel folders for every municipal employee which contain the recommended documentation including an I-9 and the employee's original job application. The city only uses letters of acceptance for its utility positions. The city has a probationary period for new hires that includes systematic orientation, job training, oversight, and performance evaluations. Training is provided to employees on an as-needed basis, demonstrated by the city clerk/treasurer's registration at the RUBA Introduction to QuickBooks class in Juneau April 11-15, 2011.
Organizational Management
Essential Indicators
The entity that owns the utility is known; the entity that will operate the utility is set.
The policy making body is active in policy making of the utility.
The policy making body enforces utility policy.
The utility has an adequately trained manager.
The utility has an adequately trained bookkeeper.
The utility has an adequately trained operator or operators.
The utility has adopted the necessary ordinances (or rules and regulations) necessary to give it the authority to operate.
Sustainable Indicators
The utility has adopted an organizational chart that reflects the current structure.
The policy making body meets as required.
The utility complies with the open meeting act for all meetings.
Organizational Management Comments
As the primary policy-making body for the utility, the city council holds regular meetings on the first Tuesday of each month, with special meetings and executive sessions called as necessary. All meetings are held in accordance with the rules set forth in the Pelican Municipal Code. To comply with the requirements of the Open Meetings Act, the city clerk also posts notices that contain the date, time, and place of each meeting at least twenty-four hours beforehand. Utility policy is laid out in titles nine and thirteen of the Pelican Municipal code while the utility's organizational chart is included in the utility business plan. The city and Village Safe Water have recently made significant improvements to Pelican's water treatment and distribution systems. With these improvements, the city's water system has moved from a 'Small Level T' (treated) drinking water system classification to a 'Class 2' system under the guidelines of the State of Alaska's Department of Environmental Conservation, Division of Water. The city's lead utility operator, Allen Stewart, is currently certified to operate only a 'Class 1' system and will need additional training to become certified in the operation of the utility's new equipment and processes. The utility operator currently has the following certificates: Water Treatment Provisional Exp. 12/31/11 Wastewater Collection 1 Exp. 12/31/12 Water Distribution Provisional Exp. 12/31/11
Operation of Utility
Essential Indicators
The utility operator(s) are actively working towards necessary certification.
The utility has a preventative maintenance plan developed for the existing sanitation facilities.
Sustainable Indicators
The manager receives a monthly O&M report from the utility operator and routinely "spot checks" the facilities to see that the maintenance items are being completed.
The utility has a safety manual and holds safety meetings.
Utility facilities have not suffered any major problems/outages due to management issues that are unresolved.
The utility is operating at the level of service that was proposed.
The operator provides status reports to the manager on a routine basis.
The utility has completed and distributed its "Consumer Confidence Report".
The utility is not on the "Significant Non-Complier" (SNC) list.
The utility maintains an inventory control list.
The utility maintains a critical spare parts list.
Operation of Utility Comments
While the city had been periodically subjected to boil water advisories for inadequate chlorine contact time and filtration, those advisories were suspended indefinitely in June of 2010. Further testing on October 20 determined that the city did to return to the boil water advisory. After six months of water quality reporting compliance, Pelican has been removed from the EPA's Significant Non-Complier (SNC) list. With the assistance of Village Safe Water, the city has upgraded its water treatment and distribution systems which include a new 101,000-gallon storage tank. On June 25, 2010, DEC issued the city conditional approval to operate its new systems, though continued approval will be contingent upon further testing results and findings. The utility operators consult with the mayor on a regular basis and provide verbal status reports monthly. The mayor, who also serves as the utility manager, also visits the facilities and conducts occasional spot-checks for maintenance items. The utility completes and distributes its Community Confidence Report (CCR) in compliance with state and federal regulations. The operators maintain an adequate level of supplies and some spare parts for the utility. However, the operators do not maintain an inventory control or critical spare parts list. The operators have a safety manual and preventive maintenance plan for Pelican's sanitation facilities. These items are included in the larger utility operations manual. The operators meet daily and conduct safety meetings on a monthly basis. These meetings are annotated in a safety log which records the date, the issues addressed, and the names of the personnel present at that meeting. In addition to the safety meetings, potential risks and safety procedures are routinely discussed before the operators begin a project.
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Where does an engineer's responsibility end, when a project reaches its conclusion or is it a lifestyle issue? asks IET member Nick Hales.
Member News, issue 25, October 2010
Should we use technology to monitor social media?
Andrea Kates, for, and Guy Clapperton, against, in the E&T Magazine debate.
E&T Magazine, March 2014.
Would you swear an engineering oath?
By Jason Goodyer.
E&T Magazine, February 2012.
This house believes that politicians pay enough attention to research from the SET sector.
Join Nigel Platt, for, and Richard Northcote, against, in the E&T Magazine debate.
E&T Magazine, May, 2011.


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Thank you all for your kind suggestions of British comic novelists.
In return, I offer you Brits the name of one of my favorite American comic novelists whose specialty is depicting the bad, the ugly, and the redneck in American society.
His name is Tim Dorsey, and he's written 12 novels featuring his heroic anti-hero, Serge Storms, a ADD-prone serial killer and his slovenly stoner side kick, Coleman. Serge is a morally uprighteous killer; he only does away with people (like drug dealers, thugs, corporate polluters, racists, jetski riders, rednecks) who deserve to be removed the gene pool and does it in extremely inventive, Rube Goldberg-like ways. Think of him as "Dexter" without a conscience.
The books are full of sex, violence, stoner humor, and lacerating satires of Florida lowlifes and are generally hilarious if you don't take them seriously. His books include:
Florida Roadkill
Hammerhead Ranch Hotel
Atomic Lobster
...and many more.


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The Medieval Feminist Index covers journal articles, bookreviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages. The time period covered is 450 C.E. to 1500 C.E. with Russia extending to 1613. The geographic area is Europe, North Africa, and theMiddle East as well as areas in which Europeans traveled. To use the subject browse the list of subjects or broad topics.
Guest curated by graduate student Katie Wills
Stories from people who were children during World War II and the objects in this exhibit animate the past and inform us of a time when war took over daily life. "Retrospect is a very interesting thing," says Ruthie Kallnder. "At the time I don't recall any of the information we got as being propaganda," but the government tried to influence children to make "necessary" sacrifices. Propagandists made the war a battle between good and evil, democracy and fascism. They also asked children to share in the war effort. In response, many children took on more responsibilities. Ruthie explains that boys and girls felt "if that's what it was going to take" to win they "were willing to do it." The memories of the people in this exhibit and their wartime actions show the power of propaganda's messages and its lasting affect on their lives. Propaganda posters, children's books, and classroom assignments demonstrate how propagandists reached children and involved them in the national war effort.
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Compliments of Rhodes Bread, Bake-N-Serv
12 Rhodes Dinner Rolls, thawed but still coldZest from 2 whole lemons1/2 cup sugar1/4 cup butter, melted
Citrus Glaze:1 cup powdered sugar, sifted1 tablespoon butter, melted3 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
Mix lemon zest with sugar. Cut rolls in half and place in a 12-inch sprayed deep dish pizza pan or 9 x 13-inch sprayed baking pan. Drizzle 1/4 cup melted butter over rolls. Sprinkle with lemon zest/sugar mixture, reserving 1/2 of mixture to sprinkle on just before baking.
Cover with sprayed plastic wrap and let rise until double in size.
Remove wrap. Sprinkle on remaining mixture.
Bake in preheated 350 degree oven 20 - 25 minutes. Remove immediately from pan and place on cooling rack.
Combine glaze ingredients and mix well.Drizzle over pull-aparts.
Yield: 24 Pull-Aparts


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