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Serving size: Complete recipe
Calories 3505 Calories from Fat 1646
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 198 g304.5%
Saturated Fat 102.5 g512.3%
Trans Fat 0.3 g
Cholesterol 504 mg168%
Sodium 5929.7 mg247.1%
Total Carbohydrates 313 g104.3%
Dietary Fiber 28.4 g113.5%
Sugars 37.8 g
Protein 130 g260.8%
Vitamin A 530.8% Vitamin C 179.4%
Calcium 351.6% Iron 112.1%
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Windells Session 3 [Video Recap]
Once again, another session has come and gone. Session Three had no big surprises, everyone killed it, staff, pros, and campers! The Takeover Session Pro's for Session Three included Khai Krepela, Jake Doan, and Steve Stepp. The stoke was high for the new park set up which did not disappoint. Transition was abundant, and creative rail lines were thrown into the mix, making the week of shred extra enjoyable. We did also get a day of full cloud inversion, allowing everyone to send it on top of a floor of puffy white clouds! Hammers went down, everyone was shredding. Overall the week was like all weeks here at camp, EPIC.
Windells Session 2 [Video Recap]
Session 2 has come to an end! Last week we had a list of heavy hitters in the Windells Lane that made the week insane! Takeover Session Pro's for Session Two consisted of Karl Fostvedt, McRae Williams, and Magnus Graner. These three took charge first day on hill, and did not stop until last call on the final day on hill. Magnus buttered, slid, nollied and ollied everything in his path. Karl, like Karl does, skied fast and precise, finding lines that no one had seen yet. McRae took the big jump and rails lines like you would expect him too. Lacing epically clean doubles and smooth rail trickery.
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Windells Camp is back in action for summer 2016!
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MOUNT HOOD, OREGON, April 11, 2016 – We Are Camp and Bud Keene announced today a new partnership naming Robert "Bud" Keene of BKPRO as Director of Performance for We Are Camp, parent company of Windells Academy, Windells Camp, and High Cascade Snowboard Camp.
With nearly 25 years of coaching experience, Keene has lead many of the greatest action sports athletes such as Shaun White, Gus Kenworthy, Hannah Teter and Duncan Adams to achieve global success with X Games, Dew Tour, and Olympic medals. "I am so stoked to be forming this alliance with We Are Camp", states Keene. "For years I have recognized High Cascade and Windells as industry leaders and marks of excellence within action sports. For BKPRO to now become a part of that family is truly a dream come true."
As Director of Performance Coaching at Windells Academy, a private high school for skiers, snowboarders, and skateboarders, Bud will lead all aspects of the student-coaching program. Students will kick off the school year in September working with Bud over the course of several weeks to focus on physical and mental training, goal setting, and creating individual student athlete performance plans for the year. On snow, students and coaches will have sessions with Bud in New Zealand in October, then back to North America for a series of BKPRO Progression Camps and private Academy training sessions and competitions throughout the 2016/17 school year at places such as Mammoth, Mt. Hood, Copper, and Breckenridge. "Any student athlete that is serious about their personal growth needs a supportive family, great coaching, and facilities that give them an advantage to progress faster and minimize risk," said Academy President, Chris Hargrave. "This partnerships ensures our students will have the best program, hands-down, to achieve their goals and dreams."
BKPRO camps will continue its specialty camps around the US and elsewhere, offering world-class coaching and guidance for athletes of all ages and ability levels; now as part of the We Are Camp family, BKRPO campers will have the option to experience the housing, activities, and supervision for which High Cascade and Windells are known.
At Mt. Hood this summer, BKPRO will enter its third summer offering BKPRO Progression camps with two sessions each at Windells Ski Camp and High Cascade Snowboard Camp, June 26 – July 3 and July 6-13. The summer camps, which operate June – August on 100% real snow, featuring two high-speed quad chairlifts and exclusive rope tows servicing the camp's 22' Olympic-size Super Pipe and BagJump™ along with acres of progressive rail and jump features designed to facilitate the BKPRO and We Are Camp coaching programs. Off snow, the program is strongly supported with nearly 100,000 sf of progressive skate parks, trampolines, foam pits and BagJumps™, making camp the perfect venue to host BKPRO and all levels of performance programs. Hargrave added, "we have always been a company with the perfect people, place, and passion to innovate our industry and empower talented people to take amazing steps and inspire big things."
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We Are Camp is a Mt. Hood, Oregon based private high school and collection of lifestyle camps. With programs formed in the late 1980's, We Are Camp is dedicated to fulfilling its mission of, life improvement through snowboarding, skiing, skateboarding, and BMX.
For videos and to register for camps, visit HighCascade.com, Windells.com, or
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Rolling Around with Jake Selover from Windells on Vimeo.
Join Northwest Ramp Rat Jake Selover as he rolls around and explores each inch of the the Concrete Jungle and Courtyard Plaza on the private Windells Campus. Windells Northwest Skateboard Camp is located just a short drive from the skateboard mecca of Portland, OR.
With rippers from all over the Northwest flocking to our Private Campus all summer long, and some of the best shops in the Country taking over this June, July, and August – this is going to be a summer you do NOT want to miss.
Make sure you're following @WindellsSkateboarding on Instagram for all kinds of skateboard radness and to stay up to date with everything that's happening in the Concrete Jungle. For more information on Windells Skateboard Camp, visit the skate portion of our website or reach out to us at our home in Oregon at 503-622-3736.
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For our fourth year, Windells On The Road camps will be delivering an affordable weekend day camp experience to local mountains nationwide! A full weekend of professional coaching, awesome activities, and a taste of the Windells summer camp experience . Participants will walk away with free gear from our sponsors and a bag of new tricks!
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Buck Hill, Minnesota – January 30-31, 2016
Loon Mountain, New Hampshire – February 6-7, 2016
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More Than a Ski and Skate Camp!
While skiers, skateboarders and BMX'ers can come to Windells knowing they will have the time of their life, skiing on real snow at Mount Hood, going on a skateboard safari in the Concrete Jungle, and getting their coach out at the buzzer in dodgeball, Windells has MUCH more to offer! Summer camp can be one of the most rewarding, unforgettable experiences in a person's life and provides campers with a sense of community, character building skills, long lasting friendships, and a world wide network of mentors. So in leu of this, we've put together 11 Reasons OTHER than summer ripping that a summer session at Windells is the right move for your skier, skateboarder or BMX'er this summer.
1) Its Real Life
Not texting, Facebooking, Instagraming, Facespacing, Twitter Tweeting, or Wonky Wonking. The opportunity to interact in anon-internet, supportive, safe, human-to-human face-to-face social environments among peers is practically invaluable in today's world.
2) Friends That Last a Lifetime
Whether your child comes to camp by themself or with a pal – they'll connect with amazing campers & staff from around the country who they'll consider some of their best friends.
3) A Chance to Try Something New
Windells allows campers to explore many opportunities and experiences that they may have missed during the pursuit of skiing, skateboarding or BMX and other traditional activities. We provide our campers the necessary tools, guidance and environment to develop life-long interests.
4) It's Summer Camp!
Across America there are 10 million campers a year! Going to summer camp is a long-standing American tradition. We specialize in action sports, but we also squeeze in as many traditional camp themes as possible…. things like camp fires, s'mores, swimming, and so many other little things you just can't capture in words. Allow your child access to healthy developmental risks in a safe and nurturing environment.
5) Increased Self Confidence
Experiencing a new environment, interacting with new people and putting oneself out there makes one more dynamic and ready for what life has in store.
6) Setting and Accomplishing Goals
The beauty of our sport is that improving one's skills is a series of setting and obtaining small goals to get to where they want to be. This translates to all aspects of life.
7) Gain Independence
From the airplane journey to Oregon, to the 8-days spent out of the nest, your kid's time at Windells is a great opportunity to foster a sense of independence in a safe supportive environment.
8) It's a Great Reward
Not that they need to be bribed, but countless campers have earned their session at camp by meeting a set of criteria set up by their parents: From chores to report cards, a trip to Windells is more than motivational!
9) They're Being Active
Being outdoors in the Mt. Hood National Forest skiing, skateboarding, BMXing, mountain biking, breathing fresh mountain air, playing, living, and loving life feels good from the soles of their feet to the feet of their soul.
10) It's Their Passion
People need passions – they frame out our lives and get us excited. To many campers, skiing, skateboarding and BMX is more than just a recreation. At Windells we excel in helping this passion begin, grow and abound.
11) 130+ Positive Role Models
From our summer staff to the various guest pros that come out throughout the summer, campers get to spend 8 days with some of the friendliest, diverse, smartest and genuine people on Earth.
For more information on anything and everything Windells feel free to call us directly at 503.206.3736 or shoot us an email at email@example.com, we'd love to hear from you!


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Every Tuesday after school, 9-year-old Ashley Moreno and a few classmates get together and play how-to-prevent-diabetes games -- not the sort of extracurricular activity that would thrill most fourth graders.
But Ashley looks forward to the program, called Bienestar, Spanish for well-being.
''I go because I want to stop the diabetes, like if you have it you could die,'' Ashley said. ''We do fun things at Bienestar, like we make these books and we play a game where we divide into groups and hop around and try to pop a balloon that has questions inside about diabetes.''
Ashley attends Collins Garden Elementary School in San Antonio. She is one of a growing number of children throughout the country participating in diabetes prevention programs sponsored by the National Institutes of Health. Such programs would have been unheard of even a few years ago. Certainly health education has been popular for decades, but experts rarely discussed Type 2 diabetes with children. It has always been considered an adult disease, brought on, in part, by years of eating too much.
Now, pediatricians say, this kind of diabetes is striking more teenagers, who are at risk for all of the same consequences that afflict adults with diabetes, like diseases of the eyes, heart and kidneys.
Most children with diabetes are afflicted with Type 1, or juvenile diabetes, an autoimmune disease in which the body's defense system attacks insulin-producing cells, crucial for using and storing sugar. In Type 2 diabetes, the body makes insulin but not enough to overcome defects in the sugar metabolism pathway.
No national statistics are kept, but clinics report increases in Type 2 diabetes diagnoses among children. The illness seems to afflict poor children in certain ethnic groups, like American Indians, blacks and Hispanics. Some evidence suggests these children may be prone to problems with sugar metabolism, raising the risk of diabetes. This inborn vulnerability combined with poor eating and lack of exercise can disrupt the insulin system.
Such reports have prompted pediatricians and endocrinologists to organize programs, like Bienestar, that teach children about nutrition and physical fitness. In Bienestar, some of the children have signs of prediabetes like glucose intolerance. And some, including Ashley, are at high risk because of obesity and family history.
Many programs are directed at 9- and 10-year-olds: children at those ages are considered old enough to understand health messages, but they have not yet hit their cynical teenage years. The lingering question is whether these one- or two-year programs will encourage children to make lifelong changes in the way they eat and exercise.
Doctors know they are battling bigger issues than simply urging young patients to have willpower. They are also fighting poverty. Many of the children come from families that do not have money for sporting equipment or even access to markets with fresh produce. So doctors are finding new, practical strategies to persuade children to adopt healthier habits.
''In 1992 most pediatric endocrinologists in major medical centers would have said that about 2 to 4 percent of their patients with diabetes had Type 2,'' said Dr. Francine Kaufman, a professor of pediatrics at the school of medicine at the University of Southern California. ''Now the data is somewhere between 8 and 40 percent, depending on the center and the ethnic mix.''
Dr. Kaufman, who is also head of the division of endocrinology at Children's Hospital of Los Angeles, presented the data in October at the meeting of the American Academy of Pediatrics in Chicago.
Dr. Michael Englegau, an epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said doctors first noticed Type 2 diabetes among American Indian children. Since then, they have been searching for and finding the illness among children in other ethnic groups.
In one recent week, Dr. Kaufman said, her center diagnosed five cases of Type 2 diabetes in children. ''The youngest was 8, though that is very rare,'' she said.
A study at the University of North Carolina found that 7 percent of 700 children already had three risk factors for Type 2 diabetes. The factors are high insulin levels, high blood pressure and either elevated levels of fat or not enough H.D.L., the ''good'' cholesterol. Obese children were 53 times as likely to have all three risk factors compared with other children, said researchers who presented their results in November at the American Heart Association meeting in New Orleans.
Dr. Kaufman said that black children tended to have higher insulin levels than white children. Among blacks, girls have higher levels of insulin than boys. The higher level is a signal that the body does not break down sugar effectively. Puberty adds an extra burden by causing the insulin system to work less efficiently, Dr. Kaufman said. This is probably because of increases in growth hormones, she added.
The real culprit, experts say, is not the inclination toward the disease but the surge in obesity among children. They blame schools for cutting physical education programs and for stocking the cafeterias with junk food instead of fresh fruits and vegetables. They add that poor families suffer the most obesity and, therefore, the increased risk of diabetes.


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I've Got to Make My Livin': Black Women's Sex Work in Turn-of-the-Century Chicagoby Cynthia M. Blair
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For many years, the interrelated histories of prostitution and cities have perked the ears of urban scholars, but until now the history of urban sex work has dealt only in passing with questions of race. In I've Got to Make My Livin', Cynthia Blair explores African American women's sex work in Chicago during the decades of some of the city&/i>
For many years, the interrelated histories of prostitution and cities have perked the ears of urban scholars, but until now the history of urban sex work has dealt only in passing with questions of race. In I've Got to Make My Livin', Cynthia Blair explores African American women's sex work in Chicago during the decades of some of the city's most explosive growth, expanding not just our view of prostitution, but also of black women's labor, the Great Migration, black and white reform movements, and the emergence of modern sexuality.
Focusing on the notorious sex districts of the city's south side, Blair paints a complex portrait of black prostitutes as conscious actors and historical agents; prostitution, she argues here, was both an arena of exploitation and abuse, as well as a means of resisting middle-class sexual and economic norms. Blair ultimately illustrates just how powerful these norms were, offering stories about the struggles that emerged among black and white urbanites in response to black women's increasing visibility in the city's sex economy. Through these powerful narratives, I've Got to Make My Livin' reveals the intersecting racial struggles and sexual anxieties that underpinned the celebration of Chicago as the quintessentially modern twentieth-century city.
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I've Got to Make My Livin'Black Women's Sex Work in Turn-of-the-Century Chicago
By CYNTHIA M. BLAIR
The University of Chicago PressCopyright © 2010 The University of Chicago
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Chapter OneThe Sources of Courtesanship": African American Women's Wage Work, the Informal Economy, and the Search for Independence
In 1870 a Chicago Times reporter accompanied a group of investigators who ventured into Chicago's sex district to discover the thoughts of madams and prostitutes on a matter of great public concern. The Common Council was in the throes of a debate to determine whether or not Chicago should institute a system of registering and inspecting its houses of prostitution. While the unidentified interviewers sought to elicit the opinions of brothel keepers regarding the proposed system of regulating their businesses, the reporter's concerns were elsewhere. He seemed utterly fascinated with the group of women he encountered—largely white madams in charge of Chicago's most prosperous houses of prostitution. Well-dressed and gracious to their curious visitors, these women were thoughtful and unrestrained in expressing their ideas about regulation and prostitution more generally. To the question "What induces a girl to turn out?" one prostitute answered, "Love of dress, and a desire to go more; [and a] love of liberty." The committee leadingly asked one brothel keeper, "Don't 99 in 100 women turn out for love of money and good clothes?" to which she succinctly responded, "Yes." It is not clear whether these women sincerely believed these statements or if they were echoing popular explanations for the growth of the sex trade in cities like Chicago. Nevertheless, the reporter culled through the numerous responses of prostitutes and madams to the investigators' questions and promised to reveal "Some Startling Facts" about "The Sources of Courtesanship."
Yet to the Times reporter the scope of the interviewers' examination of prostitution in Chicago proved incomplete. After the team of investigators concluded their task, the reporter went out on his own into what he described as a "dark and dank" area of the red-light district. "Winding in and out, stumbling up and down, splashing in mud, and staggering over broken steps and nameless obstacles, there were visited haunts whose character would never be conceived by the wildest and most prurient imagination." Crowded together in this dirty and ominous terrain were the houses of prostitution in which black and white women worked side by side. "Obese wenches in the arms of sodden white men; fair young girls nestling close to the side of sooty negroes—such were the aspects of the social problem as it presented itself in the lower haunts of this fair city." He eventually approached one black prostitute and asked, "Well aunty ... What shall we do with you women, eh?" Apparently unruffled by the disdain lurking behind his question, she responded frankly, "Well, boss, we must live anyhow."
With her brief and matter-of-fact reply, this nameless black woman encapsulated the predicament that led many women to choose employment in Chicago's sex economy. Some prostitutes may have regarded prostitution as a means of attaining a degree of freedom from the strictures of family and marriage; others may have chosen sex work as a way to earn enough money to allow them to participate in the city's bustling consumer economy, an arena open mostly to middle-class wives and daughters. Yet for many women laboring "in the lower haunts" of Chicago's sex economy, especially poor African American women, prostitution provided something more basic—it was a means of survival.
African American Women's Wage Work
In the last decades of the nineteenth century, black women appear to have been disproportionately represented among Chicago's prostitutes. In 1890 African Americans made up a meager 1 percent of the city's population, and 2 percent of "gainfully" employed women were black. Yet black houses of prostitution accounted for 12 percent of all brothels listed in the Sporting and Club House Directory, an 1889 guidebook directed at white men looking for safe and discreet sexual pleasure in the city. Black women's disproportionate representation among Chicago's prostitutes may in part be attributable to the racial attitudes of the directory's compiler. When it came to determining the occupations of African American women, he may very well have been like most white Americans at the end of the nineteenth century, who consumed and believed the varied portrayals of black women's innate sexual depravity. These portrayals may have contributed to the frequency with which this investigator branded black women with the label of "prostitute." In fact, at the end of the century the commonplace usage of this characterization of black women by white politicians and political writers, journalists, and historians, North and South, helped galvanize African American women to organize a club movement that would eventually form the basis of the National Association of Colored Women.
The data culled from the Sporting and Club House Directory, however imprecise, shed critical light on the workings of race in prostitution and the limits of black women's wage work in the nineteenth-century city. First, even assuming that some overcounting occurred in the brothel directory, the numbers nevertheless point to the inordinate presence of black women among Chicago's sex workers and entrepreneurs. Second, African American women were highly visible inhabitants of the city's sex terrain. Whether they occupied the "dark and dank" recesses of the city (as characterized by the Times reporter) or shared the bright and boisterous streets at the center of the sex district (as reflected in the sporting directory), black women were noticeably active participants in Chicago's sex trade. Finally, for untold and perhaps unknowable numbers of African American women, sex work provided a viable, often necessary, means of earning money in an industrializing and rapidly expanding urban economy.
Some black women who became sex workers were likely longtime residents of the city; most, however, were among the growing number of African Americans who migrated to Chicago after 1880. In 1880 and 1900, the vast majority of black brothel workers were born outside Illinois. Like thousands of other migrant women and men, they had come to the city hoping to find the makings of a life better than what they had left behind. They sought economic opportunity for themselves and very often for their families back home, and they hoped to experience the social freedoms that life in a northern city promised. Once in Chicago they each confronted the often overwhelming financial demands of city living. Black men seeking opportunities in the city's industrial economy also faced a limited job horizon. White employers relegated most black men to work as unskilled laborers in the city's factories or as porters, waiters, and janitors in the bustling enterprises of this fast-growing marketplace. Yet navigating a job market rigidly structured by both race and gender, black women faced an even narrower range of job opportunities. Most found employment as low-wage servants in downtown businesses or in the homes of Chicago's growing white middle class.
In the late nineteenth century, virtually all of Chicago's working black women toiled as service workers. In 1890 black women made up 4.3 percent of all female servants, roughly four times their proportion of the city's women. Despite black women's overrepresentation among servants, white housewives, restaurateurs, and hotel managers were more likely to hire immigrant women to fill openings for cooks, waitresses, charwomen, laundresses, and general help. Foreign-born white women—the largest proportion of whom came from Germany, Ireland, Sweden, and Norway—made up 66 percent of all women so employed. Native-born white women made up the balance of women in domestic and personal service. In such northeastern cities as Boston and Philadelphia, as well as in southern cities and towns, with older black communities and with a longer tradition of hiring black women as household workers, opportunities for domestic employment abounded. Compared with women working in these cities, black women who moved to Chicago in search of employment faced a particularly constricted job market. These limited prospects may have checked the rate at which black women moved to Chicago. Until 1900 black women lagged behind black men as migrants to the city.
By 1900 employment opportunities gradually widened, both within and beyond household service. In 1890, 77 percent of working black women in Chicago held jobs as service workers, and 16 percent worked as semiskilled laborers. By 1900, when 71 percent of working black women labored in household or other personal service, their proportion of the city's service workforce had nearly doubled, reaching over 8 percent. In addition to gains in the service sector, 20 percent of black women held jobs as semiskilled workers. Yet even semiskilled workers were unable to escape black women's traditional work entirely. They either found jobs in the expanding fields of mechanized domestic labor—such as in commercial laundries—or they secured positions in domestic fields previously closed to them. Of the 998 African American women classified as semiskilled in 1900, 55 percent were seamstresses and dressmakers, and 26 percent were housekeepers in hotels, commercial rooming houses, or boardinghouses. Few held factory jobs. Unlike white women, who after 1880 enjoyed a broadening array of commercial and industrial occupations, black women found few paths into the diversifying economies of the city.
African American women came to Chicago in the last decades of the nineteenth century aware that they would more than likely be employed as domestic servants, although many might have hoped otherwise. They arrived with the belief that, unlike in the towns or rural districts of the South and Midwest, once in the city they could make the restricted field of service suitable to their needs. Their concentration in domestic work, however, was rarely a comfortable fit. Whether employed as household domestics, as cooks or waitresses in restaurants, or as charwomen in downtown office buildings and hotels, black female service workers labored under adverse conditions. In the homes of middle-class and wealthy white families, black women endured long, grueling hours, limited free and family time, and, too often, the sexual advances of male employers. As cooks in downtown restaurants, their employers gave them the least desirable and most strenuous tasks. As cleaning women in office buildings and hotels, black women worked under physical conditions more onerous than those suffered by their white female coworkers. And, more than any other group of service workers, black women consistently toiled at the lowest rung of the earnings ladder.
With considerable ingenuity and often with some sacrifice, black women struggled to mold the low wages and limited occupations of service work to suit their personal aspirations, economic needs, and family obligations. This struggle eventually transformed urban domestic labor relations. After the turn of the century, black women domestic workers across the country asserted their preferences for work that afforded them the most flexibility. Like their counterparts elsewhere, black women in Chicago increasingly preferred day work, living out (i.e., not living in the homes of their employers), and the relative independence of laundry work.
In the late nineteenth century, however, the obstacles African American women faced in their efforts to find employment, make a living, and at the same time defend their independence and dignity within the urban wage system pushed some to look elsewhere for their money. Peripheral to a thriving industrial economy and restricted to onerous and low-paying domestic employment, many black working women struggling to make ends meet moved beyond wage work and ventured into the city's underground economy. For many women, work in this alternative urban economy entailed selling sexual favors in Chicago's thriving sex trade.
The Informal Economy
In addition to those categories of labor that census takers recognized as "gainful employment," there were numerous other ways of earning money within Chicago's South Side economy. Only the shadows of this world of work appear in government statistics of gainful employment. Nonetheless, the informal, or underground, economy has historically been a vital arena of economic activity, encompassing an array of endeavors. In turn-of-the-century Chicago, it was a dynamic arena of commerce, sustaining individuals and neighborhoods and affording black women opportunities unavailable to them in the legal wage economy.
The concept of the "informal," "underground," or "shadow" economy was formulated in the 1970s and has since undergone a great deal of theorization. Economists, anthropologists, and sociologists developed the term as a way to bring into analytical view areas of labor and modes of income generation existing outside formal wage relations. In the late nineteenth century, as in the late twentieth, the informal economy was a network of economic endeavors and community relations that supported both the generation of income and the exchange of goods and services outside officially sanctioned or regulated networks of exchange. Black women and men who worked in the informal sector of the urban economy took advantage of the needs of both black community members and whites living beyond community borders for a variety of goods and services. Hot foods peddled on busy street corners, medicinal tinctures prepared at home and advertised through neighborhood information networks, "policy" shops concealed in kitchens, basements, and cigar shops, gambling dens tucked away in the back rooms of barbershops and saloons—each of these economic undertakings represents a strategy by which black city dwellers earned money outside the wage economy. Prostitution was situated along a continuum of economic enterprises, legal and illegal, that women and men developed to earn money in turn-of-the-century Chicago.
As the prominence of prostitution suggests, much of the urban informal economy was linked to men's leisure. In the late nineteenth century, numerous commercial leisure establishments emerged to cater to the recreational needs of working black men who had a bit of discretionary income. Saloons were the most plentiful of such places. These resorts offered a variety of diversions and services in exclusively male social environments. While many saloon proprietors aspired to respectability, others flouted such standards. Several black saloon owners profitably blurred the line separating reputable businessman and purveyor of illicit entertainment. Savvy saloon owners hoping to earn more than the legitimate sale of alcohol could bring opened up back rooms to such activities as billiards, pool, card games, and craps. In 1890 John "Mush-mouth" Johnson and a partner opened one of the most popular gambling saloons among Chicago's black sporting men. Robert Motts ran his own saloon and gambling den in the 2700 block of State Street. Both Johnson and Motts gained considerable notoriety and wealth as proprietors of both legitimate and illegal recreational enterprises. Establishments such as these provided jobs for black men who, like women, sought alternatives to low-paying, menial employment. For the black working men who frequented their back rooms, these and other gambling saloons held out the remote possibility of multiplying—and the less remote possibility of losing—the slim pay earned in the wage economy.
Prostitution, like gambling, catered to the recreational needs of men. It rivaled gambling as one of the largest and perhaps the most visible sector of the urban informal economy. Unlike gambling, however, the sex trade offered a steady stream of jobs to women. Yet it was not the only informal avenue open to black women. A wide range of women pursued income-generating opportunities along the spectrum of activities that composed Chicago's underground economy. Some black women who migrated to Chicago at the turn of the century came with skills—such as sewing, teaching, and nursing—that were not immediately transferable to Chicago's racially segmented economy. For these women, involvement in informal activity represented an inviting alternative as they struggled within and beyond the limited world of paid domestic work. Some turned their homes into neighborhood businesses. Women skilled in sewing engaged in home-based needlework, capitalizing on fashion trends disseminated through magazines and in downtown stores. Others turned their homes into places for black women's hair grooming. Hairdressing, perhaps more than other services exchanged within the black community, exposes the hidden nature of black women's income-generating activity and their small-scale entrepreneurship. In the late nineteenth century, black women's hair care was a private affair conducted in the homes of mothers, sisters, friends, and neighbors. Unlike the more formalized barbershops, home-based hair care may not initially have been defined by cash exchanges. Rather, hairdressing was most likely woven into an informal system of barter or of reciprocal courtesies and services between women. Newspaper advertisements for elocutionists, music teachers, and herbalists reveal other ways that black women carved out niches for themselves in the South Side's market economy. While not exclusively the preserve of middle-class women, these informal occupations were most often available to women who possessed some education beyond elementary school and who usually had middle-class aspirations. These employments reveal how widespread informal economic activity was within Chicago's black community.
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Q. How are the office clerical workers compensated?
A. The office clerical workers as a group are among the highest paid clerical workers in America. Their annual compensation packages currently total an average of $165,000, including the following:
Average hourly wages of $40.50, or approximately $85,000 per year, with some earning up to $250,000 per year - by comparison, the average wages for a freight and cargo agent in the United States is $40,680,* according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
A "Cadillac" health care plan - for which they pay nothing - although the cost of premiums paid by the employer for family coverage under the plan is $41,000 per year (benefits include, e.g., $0 co-pay for generic drugs; $0 for x-rays, diagnostics, and lab tests; $5 office visit co-pays; 90% coverage for infertility; and more).
Pensions of up to $60,000 per year after retirement.
Early retirement with full benefits after as little as ten years of work.
Total paid time off of over a quarter of the working year, including: an average of four and up to seven weeks of vacation per year; an average of over four weeks of holiday pay per year; an average of approximately three weeks of sick leave per year; and additional paid time off for medical and dental appointments, medical leave, bereavement, and other forms of leave.
Meal and transportation allowances.
Education reimbursements.
*May 2011 National Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates United States
Sentiment: Strong Sell
Your outrage over clerks getting paid over $150,000 received 4 thumbs down!!! Now do you understand the mentality of these freaks of nature posing as human beings?
They see NOTHING wrong with that. Instead they are critical of those who think this is unphuckingbelievable!
4 thumbs down? Really?
jealousy does not come into play. gm cars are more expensive for americans to buy due to inflated wages. if you can turn a screwdriver gm will pya you sixty an hour. wont matter. they will be gone i a decade or less. bye bye socialists!!!!!
Just so you know. The clerks are indeed well-paid and compensated. They are striking against 14 shipping lines, almost all of which are FOREIGN-OWNED even though they list local office addresses.
The cause of the strike, aside from the fact that they have been without a contract for 2 years, is that the shippers want to use "tele-commuting" workers. They want the jobs performed in India, not Long Beach.
For example, one task performed at each port is determining the load-unload scheduling (the locations of containers on ships is computerized), basically establishing the sequencing of the box movements to minimize port time.
Technically, that job could be done if B.F. Eqypt by a $2 per hour clerk. But why should we let them? Why should we allow foreign companies to use our ports and employ slave labor in 3rd world countries? Because they can? Do you think the Chinese ports allow this?
Nope. Only in America do we so readily relinquish control of our assets under the guise of "capitalism".
Screw that.
They cut your paycheck... now how much are they worth?
I thought Republicans weren't supposed to be jealous of other's lots in life. Ya know, "We shouldn't be taxin' the rich. It's not their fault they are rich. You're just jealous of their success."
Do I detect someone who is "jealous of their success"?
wow it is very unusual to see this kind of income in the transportation industry. i wonder what the clerks in port of seattle are getting.
smells like homeland security/tsa inefficiency is at work here also...
He ordered the striking PATCO air controllers back to work or they would all be fired. They didn't return. They were all fired.
Time to fire some clerks!!
Sentiment: Strong Sell
Wow! Excellent example Webby...
When was the last time an Air Traffic Controller pulled loose his tie, screamed "This was a bad day to quit sniffing glue", grabbed his binoculars and looked out of the tower windows to get a fix at LAX?
ATC is done in front of a radar screen in a dark room sitting next to half dozen other controllers while talking on headsets. It's all electronic feed. Would it matter if that was a room at LAX? We fly our Predators in Afghanistan from seats at Nellis AFB. Why not fire all those high-paid US controllers and move the control room to Mumbai?
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Original Article
Optimisation of convective drying of carrots using selected processing and quality indicators
Version of Record online: 29 JUL 2013
DOI: 10.1111/ijfs.12076
© 2013 The Authors. International Journal of Food Science and Technology © 2013 Institute of Food Science and Technology
International Journal of Food Science & Technology
Volume 48, Issue 10, pages 1998–2006, October 2013
Additional Information
How to Cite
Gamboa-Santos, J., Soria, A. C., Fornari, T., Villamiel, M. and Montilla, A. (2013), Optimisation of convective drying of carrots using selected processing and quality indicators. International Journal of Food Science & Technology, 48: 1998–2006. doi: 10.1111/ijfs.12076
Publication History
- Issue online: 13 SEP 2013
- Version of Record online: 29 JUL 2013
- Manuscript Accepted: 27 NOV 2012
- Manuscript Received: 13 JUL 2012
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- MICINN. Grant Number: AGL2007-63462
- Fun-C-Food. Grant Number: CSD2007-00063
- Comunidad de Madrid. Grant Number: AGR-1469
- Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness
- 2-furoylmethyl-aminoacids;
- carrot;
- convective drying;
- drying kinetic;
- Maillard reaction;
- response surface methodology;
- shrinkage;
- vitamins
The effect of drying temperature (40–65 °C) and air rate (2–6 m s−1) on the formation of Maillard reaction indicators and vitamins content of carrots dehydrated by convection has been investigated. The range of assayed processing conditions, based on a previous central composite face design (CCD), led to moderate changes in the studied parameters, even under the most severe conditions. In addition, the drying kinetic of the process was studied taking into account the experimental quantitation of shrinkage, which allowed the determination of a first drying period with a constant rate of water evaporation per unit of exchange surface. The slope of the first drying period, the moisture loss during the first hour of drying and the level of quality parameters (Maillard reaction indicators and vitamins) were correlated with processing conditions with high accuracy. For the prototype here used, the optima temperature and air rate to maximise the desirability function (0.77) were 46 °C and 4.9 m s−1.


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One of Boracay's largest Chinese restaurants, Golden Phoenix, located on Station 2 of White Beach has shouted for sharks!
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Sharks are among the most threatened of marine species worldwide due to unsustainable overfishing. They are primarily killed for their fins to fuel the growing demand for shark fin soup, which is an Asia delicacy. A new study by University of Miami (UM) scientists in the journal Marine Drugs has discovered high concentrations of BMAA in shark fins, a neurotoxin linked to neurodegenerative diseases in humans including Alzheimer's and Lou Gehrig Disease (ALS).
Sharks are known for being ruthless, solitary predators, but scientists say the reality is the opposite.
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Shark's fin products will no longer be sold at over 100 FairPrice outlets by the end of March this year.
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