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Faludi, Susan
Susan Faludi 1959-
American journalist and nonfiction writer.
The following entry presents an overview of Faludi's career through 2000.
An award-winning journalist and feminist critic, Susan Faludi received much attention with the release of her debut book, Backlash (1991), a massive polemic in which she identifies a wide array of reactionary cultural trends aimed at repressing the gains of the women's movement. Compared to Betty Friedan's The Feminist Mystique (1963), Backlash rejuvenated feminist discussion in the media and established Faludi as a leading spokesperson for women's issues. In a follow-up book, Stiffed (1999), Faludi seeks to understand the motivations of contemporary American men. She finds that they are understandably alienated and resentful due to their own set of social, economic, and personal betrayals.
Biographical Information
Born in New York City, Faludi was the first child and only daughter born to Steven Faludi, a Hungarian Jewish photographer, and his wife, Marilyn, a writer and editor. As a young person Faludi exhibited skills as a dogged investigator—such as when she surveyed her fifth grade classmates on contentious subjects like abortion rights and the Vietnam War; or when, as the editor of her high school newspaper, she wrote articles critical of, and detrimental to, the religious meetings being held at the public school. Faludi attended Harvard University, where she was managing editor of the Harvard Crimson and continued to address controversial topics, including sexual harassment taking place at Harvard. Faludi graduated from Harvard summa cum laude in 1981, with majors in history and literature. She received the Oliver Dabney History Award for her senior thesis. During her years at Harvard, she worked for Staten Island Advance and the Boston Globe. Upon graduation, she worked briefly at the New York Times, then moved on to the Miami Herald and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. In 1985 the Georgia Associated Press awarded Faludi first prize for both news and feature reporting. After moving to California in 1985, she wrote for Mother Jones, Ms., California Business, and was also a staff writer for the Sunday magazine of the San Jose Mercury News. Faludi won additional awards from a variety of professional organizations, including a Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Journalism Award citation. From 1989 to 1991 she served as an affiliated scholar with the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at Stanford University. In 1991 she won both the Pulitzer Prize and a John Hancock Award for Excellence in Business and Financial Journalism for "The Reckoning," an expose about the 1986 leveraged buyout of Safeway Stores, which appeared on the front page of the Wall Street Journal on May 16, 1990. The next year, Faludi produced Backlash, which quickly became a bestseller and received the National Book Critics Circle Award for general nonfiction in 1991. With the success of Backlash, Faludi and Gloria Steinem appeared together on the cover of Time, and Faludi, hailed as a new generation's spokesperson for feminists, appeared on numerous television talk shows. She continues to write for a variety of periodicals and is a contributing editor at Newsweek.
Major Works
Faludi's Pulitzer Prize-winning article, "The Reckoning," reported the devastating human cost of a leveraged buyout of Safeway Stores. Based on more than one hundred interviews, the acclaimed piece exposed the contrast between shareholder gain and human loss in the wave of mergers and leveraged buyouts that swept the corporate world in the 1980s. Layoffs, reduced wages, and workplace pressures that resulted from the 1986 takeover of Safeway Stores by Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts, and Company led to at least one suicide, numerous stress-related health problems, and attendant family crises in Texas and elsewhere. The inspiration for Backlash, Faludi's first full-length volume, grew out of a sensational 1986 Newsweek cover story about the bleak prospects for single, professional women in America. Backlash maintains that the Newsweek article is just one of many insidious media creations that prey upon the fears and insecurities of liberated women. The extensive documentation and cogent anecdotes of Backlash suggest that the gains toward equality, earned by the women's movement in the 1960s and 1970s, were systematically eroded in the 1980s. Faludi singles out the regressive influence of advertising, the film industry, politicians, academics, the religious right, the men's movement, the news media, and conservative "pro-family" organizations whose resistance to social change has undermined women's independence. Faludi concludes that the gains made by the women's movement are fragile and easily lost; however, through a unified and concerted effort, and armed with a healthy skepticism toward the media, the rights won can be preserved and extended. Stiffed grew directly out of Backlash. Curious about why many men so actively resist equal rights for women, Faludi began conducting interviews among a variety of men, including laid-off longshoremen in Long Beach, down-sized aerospace workers in Los Angeles, Citadel cadets, and gang members. Faludi contends that postwar men have been betrayed on two fronts: first by their fathers, who promised them that they would be in control and that loyalty would be rewarded in both corporate and governmental arenas; and second, by the growth of celebrity culture, which promotes and celebrates excessive consumerism, money, and physical beauty. In her interviews Faludi repeatedly found men longing for absent or remote fathers and affirmative role models, and many men confessed to feeling useless and unimportant to society. Taken together, Backlash and Stiffed examine how both men and women have been negatively affected by the enormous cultural and societal changes of the last half of the twentieth century. In particular, both works criticize the rise of a marketing and consumer state that reduces individuals to market niches and rewards physical appearance and superficial status symbols—a trend that she has termed "ornamental culture"—instead of personal achievement and community service.
Critical Reception
Faludi's journalistic skills have earned her a number of awards throughout both her scholastic and professional careers. Most critics acknowledge her superb interviewing abilities and her use of anecdote to illustrate a point or support a thesis. However, despite the evidence she accumulates, even sympathetic reviewers note that her work often lacks balance, failing to give voice to competing views. Critical response to Backlash ranged from praise for its thorough, hard-hitting reportage to charges of superficial and misleading argumentation. The work was criticized for omitting portions of arguments that undermine its premises or that illuminate the negative effect of the women's movement on some women's lives. Stiffed was praised for drawing attention to the negative aspects of celebrity culture, but criticized for treating men as victims without control over their own lives and decisions. In addition, Stiffed confounded many feminists with its empathic portrayal of abusive, misogynistic, and self-serving men. Both works were criticized for focusing on a narrow subset of the population: middle- and upper-class white women in Backlash, and marginalized working-class white men in Stiffed. Faludi's two books are seen by many critics as offshoots from the same argument, one that arises from the feminist movement and Faludi's own sense of grievance over social injustice. Several reviewers noted that Faludi seems to have transposed and adjusted the feminist arguments in Backlash and applied them to men in Stiffed, which is generally regarded as the least persuasive of Faludi's first two books. A large number of readers identified with Backlash, an important critique of gender relations and the state of the women's liberation during the late-1980s.
Principal Works
*"The Reckoning: Safeway LBO Yields Vast Profits but Exacts A Heavy Human Toll" (journalism) 1990
Backlash: The Undeclared War against American Women (nonfiction) 1991
Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man (nonfiction) 1999
*Published as a feature article in Wall Street Journal, May 16, 1990.
Elayne Rapping (review date October 1991)
SOURCE: "Bad News, Good News," in Women's Review of Books, Vol. IX, No. 1, October, 1991, pp. 1, 3-4.
[In the following excerpted review essay, Rapping finds shortcomings in Backlash's dogmatic feminist agenda and superficial analysis of complex, and often contradictory, social trends. According to Rapping, Faludi's book is "ill-thought-out, badly argued and way too often simply erroneous or uninformed."]
Is it the best of times or the worst of times? Have we come a long way, baby, or are we systematically being beaten back to ground zero by the right-wing goon squads? On any given day, depending on the headlines or my phone messages, I'm likely to...
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Elaine Showalter (review date 20 October 1991)
SOURCE: "Selling Sugar and Spice," in Los Angeles Times Book Review, October 20, 1991, pp. 1, 10.
[In the following review, Showalter offers a positive evaluation of Backlash.]
Every successful movement for women's emancipation has been followed by a virulent backlash threatening women with the loss of love and health as the penalty for freedom. Following the admission of women to Oxford and Cambridge in the 1880s, a professor warned one young woman: "If you compete with us, we won't marry you." In the 1920s, after the passage of the suffrage amendment, ex-feminists recanted in the pages of popular magazines, explaining that managing a job and a family was...
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Cathy Young (review date November 1991)
SOURCE: "Phony War," in Reason, Vol. 23, No. 6, November, 1991, pp. 56-8.
[In the following review of Backlash, Young finds shortcomings in Faludi's "selective treatment of facts" and distorted conclusions about the current state of women's liberation.]
While watching the recent PBS rerun of I, Claudius, I was struck by the extent to which our notions of history are shaped by the writings of inevitably biased contemporaries. If our civilization were to perish like the Roman Empire, and if Susan Faludi's Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women were one of the few books to survive from the late 20th century, our descendants...
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Eleanor Clift (review date 3 November 1991)
SOURCE: "Have We Come a Long Way, Baby?," in Washington Post Book World, November 3, 1991, pp. 3-4.
[In the following review of Backlash, Clift commends Faludi's "reportage" but finds weaknesses in her analysis of contemporary feminism and the costs of women's liberation.]
Young women today do not like to be called feminists. For them, the word conjures up images of bra-burning "women's libbers." Even Ms. magazine, the bible of the women's movement, began avoiding the feminist label in its copy after a series of focus groups confirmed women's negative attitude. The National Organization for Women, once a powerful force in presidential politics,...
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Leslie Bennetts (review date January-February 1992)
SOURCE: "Myths that Men (and the Media) Live By," in Columbia Journalism Review, Vol. 30, No. 5, January-February, 1992, pp. 53-5.
[In the following review, Bennetts offers high praise for Backlash.]
I came away from Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women feeling not only that it should be required reading for all Americans, but that every representative of any media organization in the country should be locked in a room until he or she has finished the last page. The unrelenting series of revelations provided by Susan Faludi's explosive and exhaustively researched new book is galvanizing enough for any citizen, let alone female; but for a...
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Victoria A. Rebeck (review date 19 February 1992)
SOURCE: A review of Backlash, in Christian Century, February 19, 1992, pp. 198-99.
[In the following review, Rebeck offers a positive assessment of Backlash.]
A recent article in the "Style" section of the Chicago Tribune exemplified the power of the backlash. The article reminded readers that "a couple of years ago … newspapers claimed a single woman had more chances of being kidnapped by a terrorist than getting married." Now, the article went on, the statistics have turned around.
Not exactly, Susan Faludi, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the Wall Street Journal, would say. In fact, the statistics never...
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Maggie Gallagher (review date 30 March 1992)
SOURCE: "Exit, Stage Back," in National Review, March 30, 1992, pp. 41-2.
[In the following negative review of Backlash, Gallagher attacks Faludi's feminist perspective, particularly her support for divorce and her unwillingness to admit the importance of children and family for many women.]
Pity poor Susan Faludi. Just when she thought she had everything—a high-status job as a Wall Street Journal reporter, the joys of single life, power breakfasts, the right to an abortion, even a Pulitzer Prize—suddenly, sometime in the Eighties, she began to feel unloved. Legions of women, instead of following—or at least envying—women like her, began to do...
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Julie Wheelwright (review date 3 April 1992)
SOURCE: "The New Avengers," in New Statesman and Society, April 3, 1992, pp. 44-5.
[In the following excerpted review-essay, Wheelwright commends Faludi's effort to put feminism back in the media spotlight, but finds shortcomings in her monolithic portrayal of feminism in Backlash.]
To university students across North America, Marilyn French's novel The Women's Room was the feminist bible for the 1970s. French's portrait of a housewife who trades a claustrophobic marriage for graduate school was confirmation that our mothers were suffering from a similar malaise. The mad/angry wife, the tortured female intellectual stuck with "shit and string...
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Margaret Anne Doody (review date 23 July 1992)
SOURCE: "Women Beware Men," in London Review of Books, July 23, 1992, pp. 3-8.
[In the following excerpted review essay, Doody offers a positive assessment of Backlash and further confirms Faludi's assertions about the insidious cultural and economic assault on women's liberation.]
The appearance of these two books [Faludi's Backlash and Marilyn French's The War Against Women] marks a new epoch in our social history. Although first published in the United States, both books deal with England and other countries. Susan Faludi extensively revised her 1991 American edition for the 1992 British edition. This version, with a Preface by Joan Smith,...
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Paul Shore (review date September-October 1992)
SOURCE: A review of Backlash, in Humanist, September-October, 1992, pp. 47-8.
[In the following review, Shore offers a favorable assessment of Backlash.]
Women's issues occupy a strange position in the collective consciousness of America. Even 20 years after the ground-breaking work of Betty Friedan, Germaine Greer, Gloria Steinem, and others, women's studies remain ghettoized in small university departments and are dealt with only in limited ways by the mass media. The perception persists that women's experience can somehow be reduced to a limited body of knowledge, of interest and importance only to a committed minority identifying itself as...
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Mary Eberstadt (review date October 1992)
SOURCE: "Wake Up, Little Susie," in The American Spectator, Vol. 25, No. 10, October, 1992, pp. 30-6.
[In the following review of Backlash, Eberstadt provides an extended negative critique in which she cites a series of contradictions and weaknesses in Faludi's assertions.]
If feminists of the 1960s could have looked ahead to the present, what they spied would in some ways have resembled the promised land. More women, including more mothers of young children, are working outside the home than ever before. With this change in the market have come others that once seemed feminist fantasies. Both private corporations and government have devised benefits aimed...
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Cynthia Fuchs Epstein (review date Winter 1993)
SOURCE: "A New Attack on Feminism," in Dissent, Vol. 40, No. 1, Winter, 1993, pp. 123-24.
[In the following excerpted review essay, Epstein offers a positive assessment of Backlash.]
America's ambivalence about the roles of women today was played out most ironically in the past presidential campaign. The Republican National Convention gave the private, family-centered woman Barbara Bush a very public and political role as a highlighted speaker, while the Democrats pressed Hillary Clinton, the assertive attorney and advocate for children's rights, to retreat to the role of supportive wife and mother.
The right's attempt to equate the...
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Virginia S. Fink (review date November 1993)
SOURCE: A review of Backlash, in American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 99, No. 3, November, 1993, pp. 824-25.
[In the following review, Fink offers a positive summary of Backlash.]
Susan Faludi's account of the backlash movement [in Backlash] is thorough indeed. Although the war against American women may be undeclared, it is difficult to deny the pervasiveness of its battles. Faludi enumerates many efforts to limit women's roles by those who would silence women's newfound voice in modern American society. The protagonists described by Faludi want to revert women back into the silent ideal, seen but not heard.
Faludi points, first,...
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Lyall Crawford (essay date Spring 1995)
SOURCE: "Reproducing Culture through Language: Sex, Gender, and Conversational Style," in Women's Studies in Communication, Vol. 18, No. 1, Spring, 1995, pp. 93-103.
[In the following excerpted essay, Crawford discusses the cultural construction of negative female stereotypes and Faludi's critique of such constructions in Backlash.]
Popular press books are often used to supplement textbooks in the classroom. The trade books reviewed in this essay were selected because they are relatively recent, fairly well-known, concerned with gender/power issues, and written primarily by women. These criteria ground two purposes: the first explores ways that gender is construed...
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Dante Chinni (review date 23 September 1999)
SOURCE: "Opening the Male: A Leading Feminist Turns Her Sympathies to the Betrayed American Man," in Christian Science Monitor, September 23, 1999, pp. 17-8.
[In the following review, Chinni offers unfavorable assessment of Stiffed.]
If 1990s America offers one overarching lesson, it is that the cultural labels we once used to define our societal tribes are increasingly worthless. In a world with 500 cable channels, niche marketing, and the Internet, it has become nearly impossible to place large groups of people into neat little boxes.
Lines are blurring. Subcultures are merging across the old boundaries of race and gender. At the close of the...
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Francis Fukuyama (review date 24 September 1999)
SOURCE: "The Betrayed Generation," in Wall Street Journal, September 24, 1999, pp. W11-12.
[In the following review, Fukuyama pans the book Stiffed for its lack of logical analysis and coherence, and states that Faludi is a better journalist than social thinker.]
Journalist Susan Faludi rose to prominence in 1991 for her book Backlash, which sought to exonerate feminism of any blame for society's contemporary discontents, pointing the finger instead at feminism's enemies who, however improbably, were said to dominate the media and popular culture. Following her bestsellerdom, she spent time trying, as she explains at the beginning of her new book,...
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Irene Lacher (essay date 29 September 1999)
SOURCE: "The People Behind the Books We Read," in Los Angeles Times, September 29, 1999, pp. 1-3.
[In the following essay, Lacher provides an overview of Faludi's career and the media attention surrounding Backlash and Stiffed, including Faludi's own comments on her life and work.]
If you ran into famous feminist Susan Faludi in a dark alley, do you think you'd recognize her?
Probably not, and with good reason. The controversial author of the 1992 bestseller Backlash hasn't been around, at least not where cameras are concerned. She's been turning down talking-head media opportunities for years. She's been too busy...
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Sam Fussell (review date 10 October 1999)
SOURCE: "The Trouble with Guys," in Washington Post Book World, October 10, 1999, pp. 3-5.
[In the following review, Fussell summarizes Faludi's observations in Stiffed about the contemporary American man.]
"Welcome to Testosterone Country!" says a Promise Keeper to Susan Faludi at the all-male convocation at Anaheim, Calif. Overhead, a plane trailing a banner buzzes the packed stadium; the banner reads "PROMISE KEEPERS, LOSERS AND WEEPERS," and is paid for by feminists.
With Stiffed, Faludi, herself a feminist, dives straight into the belly of the beast, Manhood. Her testosterone tome has been six years in the making. It's...
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Midge Decter (review date 25 October 1999)
SOURCE: "Guy Talk," in National Review, October 25, 1999, pp. 58, 61-2.
[In the following negative review of Stiffed, Decter derides Faludi's presentation of American men as victims of postwar consumer culture.]
Six years ago, as she tells us in her new book, Susan Faludi was moved to explore the question of why "our male brethren so often and so vociferously resist women's struggles toward independence and a fuller life." In seeking an answer, she set off on a truly strenuous round of travels, meeting with and interviewing and re-interviewing a wide variety of men. And since only one year before undertaking this mission she had published a much...
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Laura Flanders (review date November 1999)
SOURCE: "Fired, Fed-up, Discarded, and Scared," in The Progressive, Vol. 63, No. 11, November, 1999, pp. 41-3.
[In the following positive review of Stiffed, Flanders commends Faludi's journalism, though finds shortcomings in her focus on working-class men and the importance of male stereotypes. Flanders notes that some of the problems Faludi attributes to gender may actually have an economic basis.]
I had the luck this summer to spend a weekend with my relatives Doug and Lori Chambers, and I thought of them as I read Susan Faludi's latest book, Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man. Doug Chambers is perhaps five feet five inches and 130 pounds:...
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Rebecca Abrams (review date 1 November 1999)
SOURCE: "Pity the Boys," in New Statesman, November 1, 1999, p. 56.
[In the following review of Stiffed, Abrams praises Faludi's social observations and journalistic portraiture. However, she notes that Faludi makes victims out of men by simply transposing old feminist principles to the lives of men, with dubious results.]
Eight years ago, Susan Faludi became a big name on the feminist circuit with the publication of her first book, Backlash, in which she argued persuasively that women's progress towards equality was being blocked by a wave of scare stories, misleading reports and misinformation campaigns. In her new book she turns away from...
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Anthony Wilson-Smith (review date 1 November 1999)
SOURCE: "Gender Armistice," in Maclean's, November 1, 1999, p. 70.
[In the following review, Wilson-Smith offers a positive assessment of Stiffed, though notes that Faludi's sympathy for brutal men is occasionally too generous.]
Susan Faludi likes men. Her affection extends to a willingness to try to understand and explain their opinions, even when they seem offensive. That is not remarkable, except that Faludi is the author of the 1992 feminist best-seller Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women. In it, she argued the need to revive the flagging feminist movement because, she wrote, a combination of male-dominated government, media and...
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Suzanne Fields (review date 15 November 1999)
SOURCE: "Betrayal of the American Women," in Insight on the News, Vol. 15, No. 42, November 15, 1999, pp. 48-9.
[In the following review, Fields offers a negative evaluation of Stiffed.]
Stiffed is the brave new word to describe the betrayal of the American man. Poor babies. The pressure of postmodern masculinity is too much for them. The American male suffers from premature emasculation.
This is an idea that only could be written by a woman who dismisses personal responsibility as a guide to action. Susan Faludi, in her best-selling book Stiffed, seeks to put the blame everywhere but at the center of a man's character. She accuses both...
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James Wolcott (review date 15 November 1999)
SOURCE: "The Male Eunuch," in New Republic, November 15, 1999, pp. 36-41.
[In the following extended review, Wolcott offers a negative evaluation of Stiffed. "Faludi's tome," writes Wolcott, "is an almost self-parodying product of crisis-mongering newsmagazine journalese."]
As if men hadn't suffered enough indignities of late (loss of breadwinner status, declining sperm counts, TV ads targeting erectile dysfunction and hair loss), along comes Susan Faludi, offering soothing words and a lump of sugar. Like a horse whisperer, she feels men's pain and wants to coax them out of the barn, one hoof ahead of the other. She isn't being deliberately...
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Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen (review date 1 December 1999)
SOURCE: "Why Men Get Anxious," in Christian Century, December 1, 1999, pp. 1166-168.
[In the following review of Stiffed, Van Leeuwen finds shortcomings in Faludi's overly long presentation and narrow selection of case examples, mainly marginalized middle-class, white men.]
My father, born at the turn of the century, was too young to see active duty in the First World War and too old to serve in the Second. But as a high school athletics teacher in a small Canadian city he maintained his masculine credentials in other ways. When his school was emptied of younger teachers during World War II, he coached all the boys' athletic teams and directed the high...
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Ellen Willis (review date 13 December 1999)
SOURCE: "How Now, Iron Johns?," in Nation, December 13, 1999, pp. 18, 20-2.
[In the following unfavorable review of Stiffed, Willis objects to Faludi's nostalgic stereotypes of masculinity and her thesis that male anxiety stems from manipulative mass culture and paternal abandonment, rather than the erosion of their historical supremacy.]
In Growing Up Absurd, his classic polemic on shortchanged youth, Paul Goodman remarks, parenthetically, that "the problems I want to discuss in this book belong primarily, in our society, to the boys: how to be useful and make something of oneself. A girl does not have to, she is not expected to, 'make...
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Richard Goldstein (review date February-March 2000)
SOURCE: A review of Stiffed, in Ms., Vol. 10, No. 2, February-March, 2000, p. 83.
[In the following review of Stiffed, Goldstein commends Faludi's effort to define the crisis of male identity as a product of consumerism rather than feminism, though complains of the book's excessive length and her tendency to treat men as "hapless victims."]
There are few more flaccid cultural barometers than the New Republic, so it was a shock to see its recent cover proclaiming that "Men Don't Need Susan Faludi to Pump Them Up." Inside was James Wolcott's predictably canine attack on Faludi's new book, Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American...
(The entire section is 869 words.)
Roger Kimball (review date 17 March 2000)
SOURCE: "Men are Miserable Too," in Times Literary Supplement, March 17, 2000, pp. 9-10.
[In the following negative review of Stiffed, Kimball finds Faludi's description of a generalized "male crisis" unconvincing and contends that Faludi has merely applied the feminist argument of Backlash to men in Stiffed.]
In Backlash: The Undeclared War Against Women, Susan Faludi spent 550 pages telling her readers how unhappy and powerless American women are:
The truth is that the last decade has seen a powerful counterassault on women's rights, a backlash, an attempt to retract the handful of small and hard-won...
(The entire section is 1780 words.)
Janna Malamud Smith (review date March-April 2000)
SOURCE: "Where Have All the Fathers Gone?," in Tikkun, Vol. 15, No. 2, March-April, 2000, pp. 73-5.
[In the following review, Smith offers a positive evaluation of Stiffed.]
Around the beginning of the nineteenth century in the United States a remarkable shift occurred. Advice guides on parenting, almost always in earlier times addressed to fathers, changed audience and targeted mothers. They did not merely expand the table of contents; they virtually wrote fathers out of the text. Reading through the "parenting advice" literature, I was so struck by this sudden switch that I eventually emailed a historian of my acquaintance and queried him. Was my observation...
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Further Reading
Allen, Charlotte. Review of Backlash, by Susan Faludi. Commentary 93, No. 2 (February 1992): 62-4.
Provides a negative assessment of Backlash.
Conniff, Ruth. "Susan Faludi." Progressive 57, No. 6 (June 1993): 35-9.
Faludi discusses Backlash, feminism, the current state of women's liberation, and her formative influences.
Ebeling, Kay. "Backlash or Progress?" Human Life Review 18, No. 2 (Spring 1992): 74-83.
An extended negative review of Backlash.
Goodman, Ellen. "The War on Women." New York Times Book...
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There it is.
I am really hoping that the sale of harewood elementary does not go through and this "soup kitchen" stays the hell out of my neighborhood.
Our neighborhood just rallyed together to get a drug house evicted and out of our neighborhood.
Why do we want this in a neighborhood? beside a preschool? This is bulls**t.


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JEDEC, the developer of standards in microelectronics industry, is inviting companies worldwide to participate in standards development work being conducted by JEDEC's JC-64.8 subcommittee for solid state drives (SSDs). The organization promises to set standards for SSDs in 2009.
"It's clear that the industry must adopt comprehensive standards for solid state drives to ensure complete confidence in the quality and reliability of SSDs. JEDEC is bringing companies from all over the world together to collaborate on the SSD standards development in a time-efficient manner," said Mian Quddus, chairman of the JEDEC board-of-directors.
In May 2008, the subcommittee, co-chaired by Seagate and Micron, held its first meeting to address the standards development needs of the emerging SSD market. With active support from the leading industry companies, work has advanced at a rapid pace, and a task group of the subcommittee recently held a face-to-face meeting hosted by Microsoft in Redmond, Washington.
Meeting participants developed an outline of critical areas for SSD standardization, including:
- Endurance
- Retention
- BER/UBER (bit error rate/uncorrectable bit error rate)
- Environmental/temperature:
- Ambient non-condensing
- Altitude
- Solder reliability
- Capacity
- Performance/workload
- Power – idle, standby, power-up
- Form factor
- Drive statistics
- Reliability (MTBF vs AFR
- Command operations:
- Encryption
- Secure erase
While work has commenced, JEDEC recognizes that significant portions of key proposed documents need to be created without delay in order to meet the pressing need for comprehensive SSD standards.
Work will involve various JC-64 subcommittees, JEDEC committees JC-11, JC-14 and JC-16, and external standards organizations such as the T10 and T13 technical committees of the International Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS), the Serial ATA International Organization (SATA-IO), The International Disk Drive Equipment and Materials Association (IDEMA), Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), and others. JC-64.8 will begin holding face-to-face meetings nearly every month beginning in January, following a regularly scheduled committee meeting on December 1, 2008.
JEDEC strongly encourages all interested parties to contact the JEDEC office to become involved with SSD standards development.


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Raulin J. Butler Promoted To Executive Vice President, Retail Banking Group At Mechanics Bank
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WALNUT CREEK, CA, February 27, 2014 — Raulin ("Rauly") J. Butler has been promoted to Executive Vice President at Mechanics Bank, where he continues to lead the Retail Banking Group.
Mr. Butler joined Mechanics Bank in 1996 after heading the Berkeley Main office of Wells Fargo and opened a highly successful de novo office in Berkeley for Mechanics Bank in early 1997. "After 15 years at Wells Fargo, I thought my style of banking was better suited to a community bank" he says. "Banks should be driven by customer service and bankers should be community leaders."
That philosophy helped Mr. Butler establish a strong reputation for community involvement and extraordinary customer service. He was promoted to Senior Vice President and Manager of the Retail Banking Group in 2000.
At Mechanics Bank, Mr. Butler became known as "Mr. Berkeley." He has been a fixture on Berkeley and Richmond nonprofit boards and committees for decades. He currently serves on boards and committees of Satellite Affordable Housing Associates, A Better way Inc., the Richmond Public Library Foundation, the Richmond Convention and Visitors Bureau and the Richmond Community Foundation.
"Rauly puts the 'community' in community banking," says Christa Steele, CEO of Mechanics Bank. "He helped create a retail banking group that is the envy of the industry, and which maintains Mechanics Bank's century-long reputation as the leader in customer service. His promotion recognizes not only his contributions, but those of his exceptional retail team."
"Today, there is so much speculation about whether retail banking will survive in the future," Mr. Butler says. "While there's no doubt that retail banking will face more change in the next ten years than it has in the last 30, it will continue to play a critical role in building relationships with clients."
Mr. Butler's wife Sarah is also committed to community service and is well known in Berkeley and Orinda, where they raised their two children. She is an elected member the Orinda Union School District School Board, and a member of the Contra Costa Democratic Central Committee.
A 1982 San Francisco State University graduate with a BS in Business Administration, Mr. Butler also graduated from the ABA-Stonier Graduate School of Banking in Philadelphia, PA and the BAI Graduate School of Retail Banking in Madison, WI, and holds a Wharton Leadership certificate.
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First workshop of the policy assistance project TCP/NIR/3402 on Long term perspectives and policies for sustainable development: Introduction to cost-benefit analysis of policies
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About 70 officers from Nigeria's various ministries will attend the 2-week workshop supported by FAO, on: Long term perspectives and policies for sustainable development. The workshop team and participants will identify selected pol [...]
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Hitachi Global Storage Technologies has demonstrated its first solid-state drives (SSDs) at Hitachi uValue 2010 trade-show for the first time. The company did not reveal any concrete details, but a claim on its web-site vows that the company will start shipments in the second half of 2010, which is a noticeable delay from the original plan.
The first enterprise SSD family from Hitachi GST comes in 2.5" form-factor and sports Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) or Fibre-Channel Arbitrated Loop (FCAL) interfaces, reports The Register web-site. It is unclear whether the new drives are based on single-layer cell (SLC) or multi-layer cell (MLC) NAND flash, but considering their positioning it is more likely that more reliable and rapid SLC is used. Capacity points are also unclear at the moment.
Back in late 2008 Hitach-GST and Intel announced collaboration to jointly work on enterprise-class solid-state drives and promised to deliver the first actual products in the first half of 2010. The new SSDs will be branded and exclusively sold and supported by Hitachi GST and use Intel NAND flash memory and SSD technology. Perhaps, the global economy crisis has impacted the execution of the roadmap, but at present HGST vows to start shipments of the new SSDs in the second half of 2010.
At present solid-state drives with FC and SAS interfaces are only sold by STEC, hence, Hitachi will be in a pretty favourable position on that market. But it should be noted that Hitachi-GST is also the only hard disk drive (HDD) maker that does not produce its own SSDs for consumers, workstations and other markets.


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Hope to get some insight here on something. I am currently looking at two rods on Ebay. One is a 9 ft Heddon model 20 5/6 wght., the other is a 9ft SB either a model 323, 23, 346 or 46 the guy's not sure which in a 6 wght. The 300's seem to be for dry flies and the others for wets, I'll admit I don't understand that at all. I am buying the rod to fish bigger water in Michigan. I will still be using size 10-18 dry flies, 10-14 wets and small to medium streamers. We usually have to deal with some wind when we are up there. The prices are pretty similar. For those who know more about these vintage rods than I do which would be the best value in terms of build quality and castibility. They seem to be pretty close in terms of condition.
I have read a lot about the older bamboo rods and there seems to be a great divergence of opinion about these makes. Some of it may be snob appeal, i.e, the SB being a "production" make. I ran into that in the double barrel shotgun crowd. There also seems to be a big divergence in the opinion of Heddon's based on model number. Any help would be appreciated
I presently have a 7ft, 4 wght boo that I love and bring with me to the Park when I come, but I need something a little bigger on the Manistee and Au Sable.
The rankings of the production rods usually rank Heddon rods above South Bend rods. The Heddon #20 is usually considered to be a pretty good rod, one which I would like to have.
Having said that, I do have an 8'6" South Bend #346 and it is a very nice rod that is very enjoyable to fish.
If the Heddon is a Stanley Favorite is should be worth much more than an unmarked model according to one ten year old buying guide I have here. The dated guide shows the Heddon average price to be $30 more than the South Bend.
I have several nine foot Grangers so I'm usually looking for shorter rods. If I had a choice between two rods in similar condition for the same price, I would choose the Heddon, especially if it was a #20 and probably a #14 too. But I would not be unhappy if I had to settle for a SB #323 or #346.
AG, thanks that is the type of info I was looking for. I had no idea there were so many bamboo rod makers back in the day. All I am looking for is a serviceable rod for those times when we make the trip to MI. I have talked to some local fly shop people and they turn their noses up when you talk about any of the "production" rod makers. I find this interesting since they all sell "production" graphite rods of various qualities. Just to take this to another level what do you think about Montagues if you have an opinion. You see a lot of those also.
Generally I think that most people consider the Montague rods to be on the lower end in quality for vintage production rods, although some of their models are more respected than othere.
Some of the finest vintage rods such as Payne and Young rods were actually production rods as are current day rod by companies such as Winston and Sweetgrass.
Most of the 300 series Southbends were considered to be Bass rods. However most have lost a little over the years and do quite a nice job with a modern 5/6WF line. My Southbends (unrestored) dont seem to lose as much of their punch as some of the higher end production rods,. I have always atributed this to the fact that in the butt sections they are usually heavier than their higher end counter parts.
As for the Bill Stanley Favorite model #20 Heddon If it is a #2 ferrule in would be a true 5 weight , and most will also cast a 4WF as all classic era rods tend to lose a little over time unless they have had a recent restoration. A quality restoration job with modern varnishes or polyurethanes tends to tighten them up and restore some of the power lost over the last 50+ years. If its a # 2 & 1/2 ferrule then it would be a solid 6wf. A solid 2 & 1/2 ferrule works great as a big river rod
As for the quality issue you could argue that it is in the eye of the beholder I personally own and love both brands. With that being said the only rod in the Southbend line that would be of comparable quality to Heddon would be the Southbend #290, and even the wonderful #290's aren't in the same league as the higher end Heddons.
Now if you were talking about a Heddon #35 or a #50 then they are clearly high quality rods. Both of my #50's are the superior to all of my classic and neo classic era production rods (that includes my Grangers, F.E. Thomas' and my Leonards) Only my Wes Jordan gives them a run for their money. Hope i didn't offend any fans of the above makers cause really I love those rods too.
Hope some of my rambling helps, ...........Tentwing
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Hi Tentwing; I have been building cane rods for a number of years. I have also both refinished and restored (two different procedures) cane for a longer period. This is the first time I have ever heard that a restoration can bring life back into bamboo. To do a true restoration the rod should be done to exactly the same specifications as when it was made new at the factory.That would include guides/grip/reel seat/wraps/varnish etc. Please explain how you revitalize old cane. thanks dave
As you know most of the pre 1950's production rods were held together with hide glues ( horse glue) , and the finishes were not much better (quality wise) Now in the age of modern era glues and poly finishes our glues are better , and also a little stiffer same for the poly finish if you decide to go that route.
This extra bit of stiffness from regluing a delamination of even just putting that 2nd coat of polyurethane down on a finish and 3 coats on your silk can add nearly a half a line weight to tired cane.
Another trick I like to use is to add a line guide. As you know the silk wraps in every line guide will add a stiff point to your cane.I coat mine with 3 coats of Poly some guys like to use Epoxy, but Epoxy is to hard to remove, and dries so hard that I feel it causes a dead spot in the cane almost like a ferrule does.
A lot of your production rod makers tried to save money by using cheaper components and less numbers of line guides on their lower end rods so they could offer them at a cheaper price and still hold up their profit margins.
For instance As I'm sure you know all Grangers were basically the same taper they only differed in ferrule size and components when determining the difference in their highest end rod (The Registered) and their dimestore models (the Lake and Stream)
Heddon also did this with the exception of the actual cane used in their #35' and #50's. A #2 ferrule Heddon #50, 9 footer has 13 line guides counting the stripping guide and the tip top. The same # 2 ferrule 9 foot Heddon #8 has only 9 lines guides total.
About 2 years ago I redid a Jay Harvey Lincoln. It was in dire straits. The silk had dry rotted and the finish was tacky and soft, and could be pushed away with your finger nail. It was tired and soft enough to be activated by a 4 and was easily over powered by a DT5 ( even without flies on it ). After the refinish, rewrap, and going from 9 line guides to 13 this rod is a solid 5 weight and is just fine with a 6WF. It is now my keep it in the truck all the time rod
This allows me to fish the same feel and quality as my model #50 without the risk of falling and breaking a highly collectable piece of Bamboo history. Now that being said I would NEVER change the configuration on a higher end collectable ; Heck i would never trust my skills to any of my high end rods he he ,...but with a little TLC some of the lower end production rods can be made into some fine fishing tools.
Dave I hope some of this helps,.......Tentwing
Everything that I have read has said that the 300 series of South Bend rods is a dry fly action rod. For example the 346 would be a dry fly action rod, the 46 would be trout action (wet fly) rod, and the 47 would be a bass action rod.
I don't pay much attention to the bass action rods since there aren't any bass here, but the single-built rods I often see for sale are the 323, 346, 359, and 290 (two piece) and they are all supposed to be dry fly action rods.
Artic Grayling;
I may be wrong. I have not read extensively on Southbends, and while i have no expirience with the #323 I do own a #346, 359, #77 and a #290. My #290 is a 5 weight medium action and has a crisper action than my other three. The #77 is 7 weight while the #346 is a 5/6 and the #359 is a 6/7 weight and they are what I consider a medium slow for cane.
All of my expirience comes from singlebuilt rods. Oh and BTW If you see a Doublebuilt rod out there that wont break the bank call me So far I have loved everything Wes Jordan ever worked on.
Good thread goin here,....Tentwing
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Our first impression of a new, five-story hotel planned for the Lake Flower shoreline is a good one.
Time will reveal more details, but as of now, we like Malone-based hotelier Chris LaBarge's proposal. His yet-to-be-named hotel on Saranac Lake's Lake Flower Avenue would have 90 rooms, a 200-person banquet and meeting facility, a spa, indoor-outdoor pools, a high-end restaurant within the hotel and another restaurant and bar on the water's edge. LaBarge also wants to put docks on the lake for 25 to 30 boats. Rooms would rent from $150 a night in the winter to $300 to $350 during the peak summer season.
The three motels it would replace are nice ones, well maintained, but Mr. LaBarge's plan would still be a step up for the village's economy and appearance.
The latter would depend on what the new hotel will look like, of course. The sketch Mr. LaBarge offered Wednesday was rough but promising; he downplayed it in talking to us, saying his architects haven't done their work yet. He emphasized that he is making architectural beauty a top priority here to build "an icon that will define" Saranac Lake, recalling the days when the village was home to many grand hotels such as the Riverside, Berkeley, St. Regis and Alpine.
It would need variances because it would exceed the village codes for height, parking and shoreline setbacks. We have no problem with the height: The village already has taller buildings, and the motels already block one's view of the lake.
Economically, this would be the village's only truly high-end hotel, which would be interesting in several ways.
First off, it would provide more jobs than the motels do, so that's a plus.
It would compete to a certain degree with hotels in Lake Placid and Saranac Lake, but this isn't a zero-sum game. The more and better visitor facilities our area gets, the higher the tide of tourism rises, lifting all boats.
Also, the new hotel would probably boost bed tax revenue, which is used to market Essex County destinations to potential tourists – again helping the whole area. One can reasonably expect 90 higher-priced rooms to generate more bed tax revenue than the 47 total rooms at the three motels.
Mr. LaBarge's initial plan was to buy the Hotel Saranac, which looms nearly empty over downtown Saranac Lake. That would have been good, too. It was a bustling hub of local activity until 2007, when Paul Smith's College sold it to the Arora family. Since its decline, several people have offered to buy it, but Sewa Arora has driven a hard bargain – too hard for any deal so far.
Both Mr. Arora and Mr. LaBarge declined to give details about any negotiations between them. Mr. LaBarge was polite in declining comment. Mr. Arora, by contrast, took the opportunity to call the Enterprise "the lousiest newspaper in the world" and to call its editor names too foul to publish.
Oh, well. We sincerely hope Mr. Arora is successful in selling the hotel as soon as possible to someone who will revive it.
Meanwhile, Mr. LaBarge said he likes his new plan better. He said he came up with it by examining the village's comprehensive and waterfront revitalization plans, fitting his proposals to them. This is a good example of the reason why communities do such planning – because many developers prefer clear guidance about what locals want.
Plans do nothing, however, unless someone steps up with the money and initiative to make them happen. Therefore, Saranac Lakers should be grateful to Chris LaBarge – even if they're hesitant about his plan – for wanting to make such a huge investment in the village.
A hotel, even though it's built largely for visitors, can be a source of local pride, an icon symbolizing a community's hospitality. That sensibility was much stronger a century ago than in recent years, when hotel building has mostly traded outward symbolism for inward-looking functionality. Pragmatism is good, of course, but we're also happy to welcome back a splash of old-style hotel glamor to Saranac Lake.


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I've wondered about that same parable for much of my life
I've wondered about that same parable for much of my life. Now that my own children are grown, I have some understanding. If one of my two children were lost, dead to me in the sense of being unreachable, as actually happened with my daughter's drug use, my heart would break for sure. It did. However, against all imaginable odds, in the face of suicide attempts, psych wards, and a slew of rehab centers, my daughter is now returned to me, clean and sober for close to a year.
Do I resent my daughter's time away from me? Do I feel she owes me something for my broken heart? Do I feel she has earned less love, care and compassion from me than my son, who never chose that path? No to all three. I could not withhold my love from someone who needs it so much. I love them both equally, and they know it.
In our humaness, fraught with all manner of frailness and inadequacy, it's easy to lose sight of love. We are subject to intense emotions. We must deal with limited resources and abilities. We are trapped within our human perspective. How closely might we come to understanding the Love of a God? For me, I would do anything to reach my children, and teach them to love. And when a lost one takes those first faltering steps of return to self respect and compassion, I open my arms and give every ounce of support I am capable of, no matter how long it takes. These are my children. I do not abandon them. I do not place one over the other. Thank you for listening.

Beautiful thoughts, Richard, thank you for sharing them.
Beautiful thoughts, Richard, thank you for sharing them. As I read them, it struck me that perhaps the inherent "flaws" of our humanity actually allow us to love, to look beyond justice and injustice, to realize what is important. It is our humanity that allows us to see the weaknesses in others, as we have seen them, in one form or another, in ourselves.

Yes exactly, Mitch, thank you. And as our "flaws" teach
Yes exactly, Mitch, thank you. And as our "flaws" teach us to love, and see ourselves in others, we can reach out and be the help to others that we once received. It can be quite difficult while in process, but also very beautiful.

Mitch...I have often wondered at the conversation (or
Mitch...I have often wondered at the conversation (or lack thereof) between the two brothers... or the conversation from the unmentioned mother. (Alison Funk writes a beautiful poem called 'The Prodigal's mother'). Reading what you wrote got me thinking about how the story of the Good Father in some ways seems to highlight what I am thinking may have been a particular emphasis of Jesus - that people who love each other are hurt when they engage in comparisons. Martha & Mary, Peter & the beloved disciple, the disciples asking who is the greatest - and then in this parable.There seems to be something of a repeated theme I think. People seem to be invited to do what they do because of love, not out of resentment, or because it'll make them 'greater'.
I like how you highlight the limits of the story of Lk 15 Mitch - that it isn't trying to 'solve' our valid injustices....rather it is pointing to a more transcendent reality that we are glimpsing, but not fully. It is relevant both in everyday circumstances, and also in the bigger events of our communities.
As always - cheers. And I'm glad you liked Lasairfhíona.
Pádraig, Belfast.

It seems likely to me that the prodigal son departed on a
It seems likely to me that the prodigal son departed on a "hero's" journey, a la Joseph Campbell.
For some folks, in order to achieve spiritual growth, you must be ready to leave behind all you have become accustomed to- the family, cultural, and social props that both support you and confine you.
This enables one to see clearly- and to become able to see in a new way.
(In mathematics, this process is called "deconvolution").
Then, upon return, you are welcomed happily for you bear a huge gift: the gift of vision, the gift of new-ness.
It is through the incremental development of novelty that the world unfolds, an ever-increasing gift to (and from) the Divine.
So to answer your question- if the son became a Buddhist and brought back that spiritual treasure, he would be welcomed all the more...and the bible might have morphed into a sutra...

Dear Mitch,
I think the lesson for the son who stayed
Dear Mitch,
I think the lesson for the son who stayed at home was that although he was in his "father's" company every day, ate meals with him, had opportunity to talk and share intimate feelings, shared in all the physical amenities available, he did not find value in it. Sadly he missed the very essence of his "father". If he had really known his father (God) he too would have lifted his robe and run to throw his arms around his brother.

Jesus was an apocalyptic. He saw the coming of a new
Jesus was an apocalyptic. He saw the coming of a new world brought by God to earth through the son of man (who may or may not have been him). His parables are told in the setting of this apocalyptic vision for the near future ("There are those who are here today who will not taste death before these things will come to pass"). In that context, the son who stayed on the farm was really the victim of his own earthly expectations. The new world order that God will bring when he sends the son of man to rule the earth will not be that of human concerns, but of those of God's love. A God of love will love his sons equally, however prodigal one might be, and in fact rejoices whenever one returns, as any father would. It's not about the fortune, it's about love of his son. The son who stays has that love all the while as well, he just sees the fortune as its manifestation, instead of the love itself as his priviledge. His expectations were earthly, but God's love is not.

Only love exists, everything else is an illusion. To
Only love exists, everything else is an illusion. To look as bad decisions or sin as merely missing the mark, in other words doing a retake, is the beginning of embracing unconditional love. Loving others unconditionally begins with loving all parts of ourselves without judgment or need to punish ourselves. As we begin to unveil the love we are, we will awaken to the shift in perception that there is no need to forgive anyone just the letting go of judgment . We are all one and only love exists, everything else is an illusion created by the ego.

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The Federal Raid on Ruby Ridge, ID: Hearings before the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology, and Government Information of the Committee on the Judiciary
(October 13, 18, and 19, 1995) (Senate Hearing)
Department of Justice Report, Internal Investigation of Shootings at Ruby Ridge, Idaho (1994)(542-page report)
The Randy Weaver case at Ruby Ridge, Idaho: A chronology (CRS report for Congress) by Suzanne Cavanaugh
Idaho v Horiuchi (253 F.3d 359, 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, 2001)
Martin, Len. Terror On Ruby Ridge: The Randy Weaver Story - Will You be Next? (1993)
Spence, Gerry. Of Murder and Madness: A True Story by Gerry Spence (Mass Market Paperback, 1995)
Spence, Gerry. From Freedom To Slavery: The Rebirth of Tyranny in America (St. Martin's Press, 1996)
Spence, Gerry. Win Your Case: How to Present, Persuade, and Prevail--Every Place, Every Time by Gerry Spence (2005)
Walter, Jess. Ruby Ridge: The Truth and Tragedy of the Randy Weaver Family (Harper Perennial, 2002)
Weaver, Randy and Sara, and Henry, Bill. The Federal Siege At Ruby Ridge: In Our Own Words (1998)
The Siege at Ruby Ridge (2005)(Richard Young, Director)(actors: Laura Dern, Randy Quaid, Kirsten Dunst, Bradley Pierce, G.W. Bailey)
ABC News Primetime, Randy Weaver: Ruby Ridge (2007).


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Craig - From my google searching, 1 cup = 8 oz. Did I mess up the math?John
Typically about an 1/2 hour to 45 mins in a warm kitchen on the bread board.......you thinking the dough has not adjusted to room temp prior to shaping?


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Perhaps this tells you more about my own age than anything else, but I was struck after the death of 58-year-old Catholic newsman Tim Russert to read of another unexpected death in the Catholic world. Bryan M. Johnston, who had been scheduled to become president of St. Martin's University in Lacey, Wash., July 1, died in his sleep June 6 at the age of 59. The Benedictine-run school held a memorial service for him later that week. Ed Langlois of the Catholic Sentinel in Portland, Ore., wrote this obituary for Johnston, who was a former Oregon state legislator and had served most recently as interim head of the Children, Adults and Families Division in Oregon's Department of Human Services.
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It's been 30 years, but Pink Floyd's "The Wall" still means a great deal in the rock world -- and to its co-creator Roger Waters.
So to commemorate the groundbreaking album's anniversary, Waters plans a tour this fall of the music from the concept album, with new staging that will bring the story -- loosely inspired by his life -- to a new generation.
Looks like a September 28th show at Quicken Loans.
Is it the same w/ only Waters performing or do Gilmour and Mason need to be present?


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Every day in my work as a freelance editor I hear aspiring writers complain that authors are the only people in the publishing industry who care about the quality of the work, that everyone else is obsessed with the money. Thank you for bringing Jonathan Galassi to us in this wonderful interview, so those who hope to become a part of the industry can see what the industry to really is.
I'm very happy to have this article to mention in my blog on the craft of fiction.
Thank you, Mr. Galassi, for putting today's publishing woes in a hard nutshell. Yes, book reviews are overrated; I used to take out from the library the books rated favorably by The NY Times, The NY Book Review, et al, & sometimes brought them back half-read, impatient, because I found them wanting. But this is the truth of reading: It is subjective. One size does not fit all. & do not condemn book clubs, at least they spread the word(I don't belong to one)but less informed & less knowledgeable people could be reached (partic. young ones)through schools & libraries,esp.since you want to market directly.& please, interviewer, Ferrari-Adler(I do not know whether you are male or female), & Mr. Galassi-the accusative of WHO is WHOM,& the dative TO WHOM.As a European-American & a writer myself,it physically hurts me to hear people misuse the cases - both you & the interviewer should know better(worse still:they invited Harry & I).Keep the English language beautiful.Thank you, Ingrid Wild Kleckner


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Enhanced Cellular Connectivity
This property features enhanced cellular connectivity that improves the signal strength and brings the cell phone tower inside of the mall.
Foreign Currency Online Ordering with Travelex
Order your travel money online for convenient home delivery. Did you know that some Simon center locations also include retail Travelex stores for your convenience. Travelex is the world's largest retail foreign currency exchange specialist, with over 1000 stores around the world. We can provide you with over 75 foreign currencies as well as a Cash Passport that can be pre-loaded with either Pounds or Euros and includes chip & PIN technology, a must when traveling in Europe. To get started, visit Travelex now.
Lost and Found

You can inquire about a lost item at the Mall Office.

Si ha extraviado algún artículo, pase a la oficina del centro comercial y pregunte si no se ha entregado

Mall Walking

Doors open at 7:00am for your walking convenience.

Las puertas de La Plaza Mall de abren a las 7:00 de la mañana para los que gusten caminar

Mobile Device Charging Stations
You can charge your phone while you are shopping. Conveniently located Device Charging Stations allow visitors to charge their phones, tablets, and other communication devices while enjoying the mall. The Charging Station features comfortable seating - and is the perfect spot to rest and recharge!

La Plaza Mall directories are available in both English and Spanish. The Shopping Line (687-5251) is also available in both English and Spanish.

Multilingüe - Los directorios de La Plaza Mall están disponsibles en inglés y español. La Línea de Compras (687-5251)también está disponsible en inglés y español.

Handicapped parking is available.

Para su comodidad contamos con estacionamiento para discapacitados.

Simon Giftcard®
Give the gift of shopping with a Simon Giftcard, available at Simon Guest Services® in denominations ranging from $20 to $500. There are no fees after purchase and the funds do not expire. The Simon Giftcard can be used anywhere Visa or American Express are accepted. See cardholder agreement for complete terms and conditions.
Simon Guest Services
Our Guest Services staff is available to help make your shopping experience easy and enjoyable.
Simon Kidgits Club
The Simon Kidgits® Club is here! Sign your child up for free today either online at kidgits.simon.com or in-center at the Simon Guest Services booth or the Simon Management Office. Simon Kidgits Club members receive access to exclusive events, in-center prizes, store discounts and fun birthday emails. So join the club, and join the fun now.
Simon Mobile App
The Simon Mobile App can help you find your favorite stores, dining and entertainment options at the Simon shopping center nearest you. You'll also be able to check out the latest deals, news and events available at your favorite center right from your smartphone or tablet. And there are many more features designed to enhance your shopping experience including mall maps, gift card balance check and more. Download the free app from your favorite app store.
All Simon Malls, Mills and Premium Outlets in the U.S. have achieved the national 'StormReady' designation by the National Weather Service. This designation recognizes Simon centers' preparedness to handle all types of severe and potentially life-threatening weather situations.
Strollers are located in front of Macy's and Dillard's. Stroller rentals are $10 per day with a $3 refund
 Carreolas para niños están localizadas en frente de Macy's y Dillard's. El costo es de $10 y se ofrece un reembolso de $3 al regresar.
SYF Coin Wishing Wells

The SYF Coin Wishing Wells bring in funds for Simon Youth Foundation (SYF) programs. The SYF helps provide economical, educational and career development opportunities to local youth. All of the proceeds collected from the SYF Coin Wishing Well go to the Simon Youth Foundation.

Valet Parking

La Plaza Mall now offers valet parking for your convenience year round. Valet parking is located in front of the Luby's/Macy's Mall Entrance and next to Joe Brand near the food court Valet parking costs $10 and is available during mall hours.

La Plaza Mall ahora le ofrece estacionamiento valet para su comodidad. Estacionamiento valet se encuentra localizado frente a la entrada de Luby's/Macy's y enseguida de Joe Brand cerca del area de comida. El costo es de $10
 y es disponible durante las horas de operación del centro comercial.

Wheelchairs (Complimentary)

Wheelchairs are available at the Simon Guest Services free of charge.

Las sillas de ruedas están disponibles sin costo en el módulo de información Simon Guest Services.

Wireless (Wi-Fi) Internet
We offer free wireless internet to our shoppers at this Simon mall. Any shopper with a Wi-Fi enabled laptop, tablet or smartphone can easily log onto the Wi-Fi network. All shoppers have to do is open their web browser or select "Simon WiFi" (the SSID name) from their available list of wireless networks to get to the Simon Malls Wi-Fi landing page.
 All shoppers that choose to use the Wi-Fi network at this mall must agree to Simon Wi-Fi Terms & Conditions of Use prior to using this free service. If there are any issues or questions, shoppers and tenants should contact the Wi-Fi network technical support hotline at (888) 726-5930 for assistance.
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|A lake's reflection doubles the brilliance of a fall scene rich in reds and golds.
|Credit: Mary Kay Finholt, National Wildlife Federation photo contest
Wild Angles: News From the National Wildlife Refuge SystemNews for October - December 2014 RSS
Bring on the ColorNature's Fall Display Opens at National Wildlife Refuges
Knockout palettes of red and gold. More birds in flight than you've ever seen. Crisp fall air and the crunch of dried leaves underfoot. Prepare for a delicious assault on your senses this season at national wildlife refuges.
Then add a host of fun activities for you and your friends or family: Migration festivals. River paddles. Bird hikes and photo tours. Refuges have something for everyone, even if you prefer solitary walks or a favorite fishing hole.
National Wildlife Refuge Week, October 12-18, is a great time to visit and learn what refuges have for you. It's your nature. Enjoy it.
National Wildlife Refuge Week 2014 Events
The National Wildlife Refuge System protects wildlife and wildlife habitat on more than 150 million acres of land and water from the Caribbean to the Pacific, Maine to Alaska. Refuges also improve human health, provide outdoor recreation and support local economies. Visit our home page at www.fws.gov/refuges. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service works with others to conserve, protect, and enhance fish, wildlife, plants, and their habitats for the continuing benefit of the American people. For more information, visit www.fws.gov, or connect with us through any of these social media channels:
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