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I always thought they were pretty hot, underrated cars
I always thought they were pretty hot, underrated cars
"What's the prize for winning a women's football fantasy league- a Subaru?" - Jim Jeffries
With that said, I would have to drive a STS-V before deciding if it was right for me because I was kind of unimpressed with the STS rental. I am sure the extra ~150HP would help that though
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i had no idea these existed. Now i want one.
signatures are annoying, right?
I knew of the STS-V, but forgot about it. IIRC it was pretty damn close to the class heavies, like the M5, E63 AMG, and RS6 but lost out in handling/driving feel, interior (tho nice... not as nice), and it might have been outgunned IIRC.
Probably a smoking deal used, and a great car overall. Or it might all fall apart and turn into a pile of smoke.
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A lot of you little entitled nancy boys need some perspective if you think think the STS has a 'horrible' interior.
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Supercharging The Northstar
By Frank Markus
Behold Cadillac's first production supercharged engine. Its official SAE-certified horsepower rating of 469 is the highest for any factory Cadillac, including all the jumbo-block SAE-gross-rated behemoths of the 1960s and early 1970s. Making power is all about getting air into cylinders. This can be done the Corvette Z06 way, using great big lungs, or by forcing air in with a blower. Cadillac reckoned the latter approach had a better chance of delivering the refinement and smooth idle demanded of a $77,090 car.
Air enters through an 80mm throttle body, flows around back of the engine and into the valley, where it's sucked up into the largest production Roots blower going. Spinning at 2.1 times crank speed, the air is pressurized to 12 psi before flowing up through a Laminova intercooler (water runs through tubes lined with closely spaced fins). The cooling fins drop pressure to 10 psi and quell the blower pulses. Air then U-turns and flows straight down into the intake valves to meet its octane-fueled destiny. Intake and exhaust valve timing are variable. Spent exhaust gases exit via extrude-honed ports, through cast manifolds and out through oversize catalysts and twin 2.5-inch sewer pipes.
The 469 horses arrive at 6400 rpm, but at least 395 of the 439 peak pound-feet of torque are available between 2200 and 6000 rpm. Fuel economy trails the naturally aspirated STS by three mpg city, six highway. And the idle quality is better, thanks to the added rotational inertia. There's way more to this Northstar than just a bolt-on blower, though.
1. The aluminum block is sand cast instead of die cast, necessitating 2mm smaller bore for better fatigue life.
2. Block and head castings undergo special T7 heat treatment and stabilization for strength.
3. Intake valve seats are copper infiltrated for better heat dissipation and wear.
4. Head gaskets reinforced to withstand 9:1 compression plus 10 psi boost.
5. Bigger oil jets cool the pistons with three gallons of oil per minute.
6. Oil pump, filter are higher capacity.
7. Two mufflers quiet intake roar upstream of supercharger.
8. Starter lives below blower in the valley for improved life (no road splash).
9. Low-restriction domino-shaped mass-airflow sensor replaces screen type
Read more: http://www.motortrend.com/roadtests/...#ixzz1wdHF2udF
signatures are annoying, right?
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A few comparisons to the Taurus SHO.
The SHO is a very large and luxurious car and with 355 HP and those commercials of it being a tail happy bruiser on the track in spite of being AWD it's a fair comparison.
Sort of, the Lincoln MKS is a bit more modern then the now discontinued STS (still available in China also as a SLS) as it has received a recent update.
However, the Cadillac is much more powerful at 469 HP and it's on a RWD platform then the MKS Ecoboost which is on a FWD/AWD platform.
Big, heavy, and fast. Where do I sign up?! The question is...reliable? And if so...have they depreciated to next to nothing quickly, like most Cadis?
I see STS-Vs on the road pretty often in SoCal.
About every third STS I see is a STS-V.


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It's been said that Melbourne is a land of milk and honey.
And I'm pretty sure that's not a reference to the 1984 John and Yoko
album of the same name. There's no doubt it's always becoming easier
to seek out interesting and unique products, made by people who have
a real connection with what they sell. Products like the honey hailing
from the rooftops of the Melbourne CBD, made by a group of committed
honey enthusiasts using old fashioned methods, producing old fashioned
honey that actually tastes AMAZING. And milk from Jonesy's, a business
that's part of a mini-revolution of sorts at the moment. Their products
promise superior quality; happier cows and happier farmers.
In order to achieve the layers in this cake, it's essential to bake two
sheets of cake which will require you to bake two separate batches. You
will end up with a LOT of off cuts, they are for experimenting with, or
freezing for a rainy day. You will also require two cake rings, one with a
diameter of 125mm, and another 205mm. In addition to these you WILL need
acetate plastic film, available from art supply shops. Feel free to go down
your own path with different shaped cake rings too, square shapes would
look really neat, as a suggestion.
Before preparing the cake batter, line a 17 cm by 12 cm lamington tray
with baking paper. Preheat the oven to 180C.
Begin by sifting the flour, baking powder, and salt. Set aside.
Separate the eggs. Using a stand alone mixer on high speed, with a beater
attachment, whip the egg whites into stiff peaks. Rain in the sugar at the
end of this process and you should have a glossy stark white meringue.
Using a paddle attachment, mix on low speed incorporating the egg yolks,
one at a time. Keep the mixer on low and add ⅓ of the remaining dry
ingredients. Alternate with ⅓ of the buttermilk until everything is well
incorporated. Try not to over-mix, you want to keep the volume of the egg
whites without knocking too much air out of it.
Take this cake batter and pour into the lamington tin, smoothing the top
with a spatula. Let it sit for 5 minutes on a flat surface, as you want the
cake to rise as evenly as possible.
Pop it in the oven for 15 minutes, or until the top has turned a lovely
golden colour, and the middle springs back when poked. The cake should
have risen slightly too. If all is looking good, remove from the oven and
let cool for just a few minutes. Grab a fork and prick the cake all over.
Mix together the ingredients of the milky soak, and pour on top of the
cake. Allow to cool for another 5 minutes.
Now comes the fun part – grab the cake ring and cut out two large circles
and two smaller ones. Put the cake circles in a safe place while you mix
another batter, and bake another tray.
Once you have baked and cut out another tray of cake, gather your circles
together and put your cake rings on some baking paper, atop of a flat
wooden chopping board, or anything else that's flat and will be ok to go
into the freezer. Using the acetate, line each cake ring on the inside.
The acetate will need to be high enough to support three layers of cake
with frosting, which will probably be about a cm or two thick in between
each layer.
For the frosting, start by creaming the butter and cream cheese together
in a stand alone mixer with paddle attachment. While this is happening,
melt the vegetable shortening in a pot on the stove or in the microwave.
Once the cream cheese and butter are light and voluptuous, add the melted
shortening a little at a time, mixing on a medium to high speed. Turn the
mixer down to low and stream in the glucose and vanilla. Crank the mixer
back up for another 2-3 minutes. Finally add the sugar and baking powder
and mix on low speed until completely incorporated. Flick the mixer back
up again to high, until the frosting is smooth and white.
Layer your cake by slotting in the first cake circle, followed by a layer
of frosting. Repeat until you have three layers of cake, and three layers
of frosting. Do the same with the smaller cake ring.
Put everything into the freezer for 12 hours so that the cake can
properly set. Once you have done this, pop the cake ring off, and
carefully unwrap the acetate. Viola! Your cake will be ready, and stable
enough for you to stack the small one on top of the bigger one. Let the
whole thing thaw in the fridge for an hour or two before serving.

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Themes: Dinosaurs, Family & Relationships
Recommendations: A, K, SLJ
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Every child will identify with the longing for a pet and the tender parent-child realtionship that this book projects and at the same time, revel in rollicking dinosaur fun!
The triceratops gets into mischief, leads the boy on a chase, and into a whole dinosaur herd. "Do something," Mom says, and he does by making the dinosaurs disappear. After order is restored, Mom gets the boy a pet puppy, which is what he wanted all along.


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Gilliam County Records Inventory
County Fair Records
Series documents the preparation and organization of the county fair by the county fair board (including any predecessor group) and other county officials. Records include fair board minutes, reports, and annual premium lists and publications. Minutes and reports include information pertaining to county fair employment, budgets, sponsorship, capital improvements to fairgrounds, and event scheduling throughout the year. Annual premium lists and/or publications may include county fair history, names of fair officers, general fair rules and regulations, event schedules, exhibit lists, and photographs.
Records at the Gilliam County Fairgrounds, Fair Office:
[Fair Board Minutes], 2005-2013 (.20 cu.ft.);
Gilliam County Fair Board Meeting Minutes & Agendas, 2014-present (1 binder);
Premium List [Gilliam County Fair], 1908 (1 volume).
Records at the Gilliam County Fairgrounds, Fair Office, Storage Room:
Minutes & Financial Reports [Gilliam County Fair], 1984-1999 (2 binders).
Records at the Gilliam County Fairgrounds, Museum Building:
Gilliam County Fair Premium List [title varies-with gaps], 1916-present (ca.90 volumes).
Records at the Gilliam County Courthouse, Lobby Exhibit Case:
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Richard W. Myers, 63, of Orchard Avenue, Auburn, died Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2013 at the Veteran's Administration Hospital, Syracuse. Richard was born in Syracuse on March 22, 1950. He was a veteran of the Vietnam War, having served with the U.S. Army from 1969 to 1971, and with the National Guard from 1971 to 1973. He had been employed locally as an automotive mechanic with Wal-Mart and Pick-n-Pull. He had an interest in cars, enjoyed going to auto races, and was an avid NASCAR fan.
Richard is survived by his wife, Linda Currier Myers; three daughters, Angela (Shane) Cuff, of Palmyra, Michelle Frazier and Jenifer (Brian Sr.) Bell, all of Auburn; a son, Christopher (Penny) Jones, of Auburn; nine grandchildren; his mother, Beverly Hunter, of Auburn; two sisters, Barbara (Glenn) Hopper, of Fleming, and Kathy (Bill) Goodall, of Virginia; three brothers, Robert Hunter, of Auburn, Richard (Connie) Horr, of Weedsport, David (Cheryl) Hunter, of Cayuga. Richard was predeceased by his grandmother, Edith Kenyen.
Friends are invited to call on the family from 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday at White Chapel Funeral Home, 197 South St., Auburn. Military honors will follow at 3 p.m. There will be no public services.


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Why the Swiss Franc Has Clobbered Hedge Funds
The following blog was originally posted on Yahoo Finance.
This week's news has revealed more hedge funds shutting down due to losses caused by the recent spike in the Swiss currency. Most prominently, COMAC, a London-based global macro shop run by well-regarded trader Colm O'Shea, is returning more than $1 billion in investors' capital. The Reuters report on the shut-down quotes a COMAC letter to investors: "The [Swiss National Bank] decision to abandon the currency floor led to the most significant loss of Colm's career and will have a substantial negative impact on the macro fund and firm."
O'Shea is not alone. Everest Capital, a Florida-based emerging markets fund run by a portfolio manager with more than 20 years of successfully navigating volatile markets, is shuttering one of its main funds due to CHF-related losses. Another fund from the BlueCrest complex is also boarding its doors. I doubt any of us would be surprised to see more soldiers fall.
What in the world is going on here? For starters, unless you have a direct access to the structure of these funds' portfolios, you don't know exactly what drove these losses (or even how exactly big the losses were). The directional story is pretty easy to surmise. These funds were short the CHF, so its sharp, immediate spike after the Swiss National Bank lifted its cap triggered this mess. But being short an asset that rises in value happens every day in the world of money management, leaving the explanation for the magnitude of the losses incomplete. We'll have to stay tuned for when insiders give true autopsies of these cadaverous positions.
For now, what are the main takeaways?
To start, one critical point: These billion dollar funds did not lose a billion dollars of their investors' money. Reportedly, COMAC's Swissy trade cost the fund about 8% and all-in the fund was down around 10% in the year so far. (Why, then, they shut down I'll get to in a moment.) It's important to not overstate the extent of the real economic damage delivered to shareholders in these funds.
That said, I'm struck by two other things in this mini-debacle. First, how bad does a fund's risk management program have to be in order to sustain such big losses due to one wager? (This is a rhetorical question.)
The nature of this particular trade, one which is shaped by explicit political intervention by the SNB, and why top macro traders would get burned by it, is a head scratcher.
From a technical risk management point of view, betting on the CHF would likely count as a "low risk" trade because there is so little volatility in the currency. A standard quantitative risk tool, as well as a human being comparing low volatility to high volatility assets, would conclude that with sufficient historical evidence, the asset with a record of smooth performance would be less likely to jump around, either up or down.
But that begs the question of why the asset in this scenario has a low volatility profile. The answer, obviously, is tied to the SNB's currency control, meaning that an in-demand currency with an artificial ceiling on its value will likely skate along that cap value with few perturbations.
So this begs another question, apparently the only one that really matters: What's the likelihood that the SNB lifts the ceiling? It's not zero. The big problem here is that it's hard to assign a probability to this event and then just as hard to estimate how much the currency would move if the cap were lifted.
What does this suggest to any good risk manager? If you want to take the view that the CHF will decline, that's fine, but don't bet big. There's too much that's unquantifiable—and unknowable—about a situation convoluted by the politics of currency manipulation. What appears to be the case is that these now-defunct funds did indeed take this view in great size, probably through the embedded leverage that exists in some of the derivatives structures one needs to make currency bets.
So to answer my own rhetorical question above: This is just terrible risk management.
The second observation is that the closures reveal something unpleasant about the world of traders who are largely compensated by an incentive fee, meaning that they get to keep a percentage of the profits they generate from their trades. The standard incentive fee is 20%, so the crude math is that a $1 billion fund that makes 15% in a year will have grown by $150 million, of which the portfolio management team keeps $30 million.
The rub is that those privileged enough to earn an incentive fee typically have to abide by a "high water mark," meaning that if the fund loses money it not only collects zero incentive fee, it has to climb back to scratch in order to start collecting those fees again. In this proper alignment of interests, the fund has to make back all of your money before it can start earning this form of profits again.
But there's a wrinkle. There is the perverse possibility that if a fund loses enough such that recovering the losses seems improbable, the portfolio manager can just shut down the fund and return the balance of the investors' capital. They can then move on to their next venture, if the personal reputational damage of doing this isn't too severe. (Or if you've made more than enough, just bow out. Reportedly, there's about $150 million of "inside capital" that we can surmise is mostly O'Shea's nest egg which he will continue to trade privately under the COMAC umbrella.)
This is one version of the "trader's option," an unsavory element of the money business in which portfolio managers have incentives to bet bigger than they might otherwise insofar as there is an asymmetric payoff to such positions. Where the potential upside is much higher than the downside, there is an incentive to go all-in.
Unfortunately, the lessons for investors that stem from this situation are not profound. If anything, do whatever due diligence is necessary to understand that the portfolio managers have whatever resources (including common sense) are necessary to avoid singularly large bets which can produce catastrophic losses or destabilize the business. For better or worse, however, it's highly likely that the shops mentioned above did have those resources, as all are brand names in the industry. Ultimately, perhaps, there's a caveat emptor to ponder: for those looking to meaningfully outperform the markets or do something different from the pack, appreciate that that decision is a risky one, too, and should not be taken lightly.


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Hughes is battling for one of the final spots in the pirates bullpen this spring
Lefty Tony Watson will make the Pirates Opening Day roster for the first time in his professional career. After the club decided to option fellow southpaw Daniel Moskos to Triple-A Indianapolis on Tuesday, Watson will be the club's only lefty in the 'pen.
Moskos, 24, had a solid spring with the Pirates. He allowed one earned run on six hits over 9.0 innings with five walks and nine strikeouts over nine appearances. He will pitch out of the 'pen in Indianapolis, where he posted a 3.43 ERA over 24.1 innings last year.
Watson, 26, allowed seven earned runs on 12 hits over 11.0 innings this spring. He has walked one and struck out four over nine appearances.
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Raw Diet
Put away those pot and pans... you won't need them anymore.Top Rated Diet Shakes of 2017
The growing trend of organic-based diets has spun a plan called the Raw Diet. Based on a philosophy of eating only natural and organic plant foods, it encourages that you eat them uncooked to ensure you get all the vital nutrients the fruits, vegetables and grains have to offer that are lost during the cooking process.
Do You Know the Best Diet Shakes of 2017?
- You will definitely lose weight
- The Raw Diet is quite restrictive
- Critics claim the Raw Diet will not provide a balanced diet
- Children should not follow the plan
he Raw Diet is a vegetarian approach that will detoxify as well as help you shed pounds. Enzymes absorbed from raw plant foods aid the body's digestive process. An added benefit of following the Raw Diet is you have less a chance of developing heart disease, as the plan is rich in vitamins, potassium, fiber and is nearly void of salt and fat.EXERCISE
The book makes an interesting claim that using a trampoline is possibly the best exercise you can do.CONCLUSION
While there are some people who dispute the need to go raw to get adequate nutrition from your foods, going all natural can't be bad for you either. If you don't lose the will-power, you will lose the weight.Common Misspellings
Raw Deit, RawDiet, Raw-Diet, Raw-DeitHow Does Raw Diet Compare?
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User Feedback(Page 1 of 2, 25 total comments)
I have been on a raw food diet for 14 weeks now, and have lost 21 kilos. I work out 40 minutes a day on an ellipical and do some light dumbbell toning exercises3 days a week. I doubt I need to do the elliptical more than 3 days a week, though. I love avocados, and have about 2-3 of them DAILY. The claim that you can put on weight on avocados is absolute rubbish! Yes, perhaps if you eat 8 avosa day! I think the success to my so far successful weight loss has mostly been due to giving up on rice,pasta and bread, all of which I used to love.
One word of advice to new raw foodies, take baby steps. Don;t get too passionate about going 100% raw overnight. Eat Quinoa, some fish and even a baked sweet potato a few times a week. There is no raw police out there!
i have just started raw food diet and i, am feeling dizzy tired and i even gained weight in just two days. I wanted to try this diet simply because i go to uni and i lack enegy most of the time. Thank you for all yuor comments, i am dertemined to continue this journey and see how i feel in the future.
I have been raw for two months in attempt to slow the progression of my newly diagnosed MS. So far, I have lost 8 pounds. It seems discouraging to read reviews of monumental weight loss but I no longer experience debilitating fatigue or have yet to have a relapse. The fact I am doing what I believe to be the best for my body keeps me going. Overall, I think I am a raw for lifer!
I have had great results with this way of eating. I have lost 15 pounds in 4 weeks and haven't started my exercise program yet. My complexion is so much better and the fatigue and headaches are gone. I love it.....check out cookbooks for raw diets so you don't get bored.
Hey Christian, I hope this will help. I fasted for 3 days, 1st and 2nd days just water and then 3rd day same thing except i drank a glass of orange juice for breakfast. According to my friends who I hadn't seen for days prior and during my fasting, were suprised when they saw me the day after my fasting that I looked better and they said i lost a lot of weight. I lost 4 lbs in 3 days.
Although, i think fasting is more effective if its done 7 days.
Hi Christine and All...
I am just now getting on this site to read this. I have been detoxing and and cleansing on and off vegan for the past 3 years trying to shed the 50 lbs i gained back in 2006. I have lost about 20 lbs, but it has been a very painful yoyoing struggle. I eat better than anyone i know and yet have struggled to loose the weight. I have gone through many colonics, detoxes, 30 day juice fasts, even ran a 1/2 marathon. I have been almost 100% raw now for the past 2 months and have gained weight. I feel passionate about eating raw, so this is a very painful process for me.
A question: What is your bloodtype. Interestingly enough mine is B+ the only that that should have BOTH meat and dairy. It seems that when people get rid of soda from their diet they loose 5 lbs, and when they get rid of wheat they drop 15, become vegan 20. It seems when i do these things i gain. Its frusterating. I dont want to eat meat or cooked foods meat or dairy. But im wondering if this is happening because of my blood type.
the raw food diet sucks, it made me poop myself
Hey Christian, i am going through a weight gain too. I am working out like crazy and this week I had a clean low fat raw diet. I gained 2 pounds im so discouraged and pist. I have been raw vegan for almost a year. I was leaner when I was eating cooked vegan stuff. So Christian, were you able to figure it out? Anyone have ideas? I am not eating too much fat at all either. Smothie breakfast, apples, pears, bananas for snack. Salads with not seeds or nuts. Drinking lots of water of course. I DONT GET IT! I am working out and there is not possibility im gaining 2 pound muscle in a week. ugghhh! i want to cry!!!
Hey Christian, you GAINED weight? Check you aren't loading up on the "fatty foods" (avocados, nuts, nut butters) or the high carb foods & make sure you are getting enough raw green juices/salads/veggies such as zuccini, watercress, spinach, sprouts etc.
Let us know how it goes.
Help! I have been on a 100% raw food diet for a month. I have NOT lost weight in fact, I have GAINED 5 lbs. I am 5'3 and weight 165 lbs. Before the raw food diet I weighed 160 lbs. What gives? Am I doing something wrong. I eat from the aproved raw food list as described on this web site.
I was wondering if anyone could suggest some good books about Raw Diets, I am looking forward to taking steps towards cleansing my body, and truly reaping the benefits of raw food.
easy as this....when i was a raw foodist i was naturally thin size 2 without any dieting....cut to two years later after i started eating cooked foods and i gained 60 lbs....crap...the only way i combated that was falling dangerously into my anorexic youth and now im slowly crawling my way back out of that mess.....i miss the comfort and clarity and energy and happiness i felt with a vegan living foods diet. I will be on my way back there
This diet is amazing. I've never been over weight at all but i figured that this would be an amazing way to regain energy, maintain awesome health, and what not. Within 5 days I lost 5 pounds... without excersizing. Most people would say thats not healthy at all, but when you're only eating raw fruits, vegetables & nuts, how can that not be healthy?
This diet is truly nothing short of a miracle. It is the only diet that has EVER worked for me, and if you stick with it for at least a week or so you start to feel euphoric. I am 50 years old and literally every other day I have someone's mouth drop open and say "I thought you were in your early 30's!" or "You don't look old enough to have teenagers!" The diet is NOT restrictive... go to Whole Foods Market and look at their raw food section, as well as all of the fruits, vegetables, and raw cheese. Your entire body and spirit will change eating raw food. I wouldn't believe it if I hadn't tried it myself. It is simply astounding!
ok. i'm not raw anymore. i fell off my diet when i went to a three day outdoor festival in the woods and never went back on. i've gained 20 pounds. poor complexion, body oder, tummy issues and sluggishness have all returned. yup, i feel like a bloated slug.
looking back on my earlier raw posts i am shocked to see what a spaz i was on the raw diet. wowowowow
i've learned since then to make sure to eat enough carbs and protein. you need them. ketosis (lack of carbs) was really making me weak.
at any rate, i am seeking a balance between cooked foods and raw right now. later i will transition back to all raw. i am still uncertain as to whether or not we need meat. there are lots of studies proving we do and we don't.
I started when I had a cold. Cold went away in 3 days as opposed to 3 weeks. I have learned a lot from this book. Very easy to follow and there's nothing wrong with the "rules" that many complain about. Once you follow through, the rest comes naturally. By dinner time I'm hardly hungry and that's just from eating fresh fruits in the morning, salad at lunch with a Larabar, and a snack. Emotionally and physically it's a very rewarding feeeling. I've lost 3 pounds in my three weeks and that's with no exercise. Amazing!
Very pleased. I've been easing into it, gradually increasing raw foods and decreasing cooked. Have more energy, better focus, sleep better. Am losing fat and generally feel and look healthier. I find it easier also, because I don't need to cook. If I'm craving warm food I have something cooked but am finding it less attractive. I like my new, raw foods lifestyle.
raw doesn't always mean vegetarian or vegan. lots of raw foodists eat raw dairy products and some even eat raw fish and meat. either way, this way of eating is great for health and weight loss.
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what are you talking about ladyX? try buying a raw diet cook book. i never ate fruit or veggies in my entire life. i thought they were grose. now i LOVE them. they taste SO GOOD and the recepies and things you can make are ENDLESS. not only that but FAR LESS TIME CONSUMING. you don't waste plastic, you spend less money despite they say the opposite and you FEEL INVINCIBLE! my skin looks so pretty now. i'm shedding pounds. i'm thinking clrealy, depression gone, positive outlook on the world, nicer to other people, less introverted, not afraid to leave the house and go out in public, ailments, headaches, acne and fatigue totally gone. on and on.... I TELL EVERYONE I LOVE ABOUT RAW FOOD NOW! i've been raw 30 days and in that 30 days my fiance and mother have both already converted. DETOX lasted 2 weeks. it was painful but not that big of a deal. i was so full of toxins. i felt like i had the flu. I MADE IT THROUGH AND FEEL BETTER THAN I HAVE IN 20 YEARS!!!!!! i look forward to being poisoned anymore by food additives, cooked food (which fills your cells up with puss) and cooking in pans (metal in your food. aluminum causes Alzheimer's) no high blood pressure, no diabetes, no blood sugar spikes, no stroke, no cancer, no heart attacks. LONG LIFE EXPECTANCY, STAYING YOUNG. All this in exchange for a diet with NO SUGAR, NOTHING COOKED, NO ANIMAL PRODUCTS. YOu think it would be hard but NO. IT'S ACTUALLY THE EASIEST THING I EVER DID FOR THE HUGEST PAYOFF! k, that's me story the end ahahahaha
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Current market conditions have drastically altered the architectural profession, transforming the way design professionals view the built environment. At The Future Now Summit, a day-long conference, participants will investigate the evolving roles of marketing/branding, social technologies, diverse business models, and civic leadership within the architectural industry. Planned programming includes:
9:00-10:00 AM: Networking Breakfast
10:00-10:15 AM: Opening Remarks Considering the Role of Emerging Professionals in the Architecture Industry
Joseph Aliotta, AIA LEED AP BD+ C, 2012 AIA New York Chapter President
Susan Chin, FAIA, Executive Director at Design Trust for Public Space
10:15-11:20 AM: Keynote Presentation
David Zach, futurist, AIA Public Director
11:30 AM-1:30 PM: Panel Presentation and Discussion
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Philipp von Dalwig, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP, Principal, Manifold Architecture Studio, Co-Chair, New Practices Committee
Chris Leong, Assoc. AIA Principal, Leong Leong
Annabelle Selldorf, FAIA, Principal, Selldorf Architects
Marc Kushner, AIA, Principal, HWKN, Architizer
Illya Azaroff, AIA, Director, +LAB architects
Molly Heintz, Contributing Editor, The Architect's Newspaper
Michael Szivos, Principal | Director, SOFTlab
David Fano, Partner, CASE Inc.
Nathan Miller, Director, CASE Inc.
Yen Ha, Founder, Front Studio
1:30 - 2:45 PM: Luncheon with AIA College of Fellows Members
3:00 - 6:00 PM Future Now Charrette
Working in teams, summit participants will consider the roles of marketing/branding, social technologies, evolving business models, and civic leadership in the contemporary architecture industry. Summit presenters and AIA Fellows will circulate between groups, facilitating discussion. Each team will produce a set of deliverables, which will then be presented to all conference attendees.
Ideas generated throughout the day-long summit will be preserved in blog and digital format publication thanks to the American Institute of Architects 2012 Component Assistance Leadership Grant Program.
6:00-6:15 PM: Closing Remarks
Illya Azaroff, AIA regional Director Young Architects Forum, Updates YAF summit.
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Re: Best 4th of July Fiireworks in the Salish Sea?
I think you could swim from Everett to Oak Harbor in two days. It's only about 25 miles, so 4-5 hours of sailing.
I'll probably be in Canada on the 4th, but staying a day longer to enjoy the fireworks at Lopez isn't a bad idea.
Re: Best 4th of July Fiireworks in the Salish Sea?
We are planning on leaving the Everett marina on July 1st and were wondering the same thing.
Our plan was to head North and see if we could get to Oak Harbor by the 3rd.
I hear that they are going to have events all day on the 4th.
Re: Best 4th of July Fiireworks in the Salish Sea?
The Poulsbo fireworks are fantastic. For the 4th maybe you might want to swing over to Eagle Harbor, Bainbridge Island for their 4th of July fireworks. My club, Bainbridge Island Yacht Club is one of the primary sponsors of that event. During the day, on the 4th, there is a huge street fair and parade in Winslow. Just a thought on some options.
Let me know if you come, we are moored in the Eagle Harbor Marina, south shore of Eagle Harbor.
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Re: Best 4th of July Fiireworks in the Salish Sea?
Fishermans bay on lopez has a pretty nice show. Not sure how far that is from you per say. Lots of anchoring room per say, not sure how many slips will be available at the resort, and they want a 3 day minimum up front. My YC has 50 slips reserved for the weekend.
Everett at one time had something going on.
You might check out the july issues of 48north or yachting. They sometimes list fireworks shows. 48north is online at least, so what went last year, will probably go this year.
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Re: Best 4th of July Fiireworks in the Salish Sea?
My wife and I used to sit on the roof of our house in White Rock and look out over Drayton Harbour and Semiamoo Bay. You could see for miles.
On July 4th it looked like a war zone across the bay.
Compare it to our Canada Day celebrations on July 1st, there is quite a contrast.
Best 4th of July Fiireworks in the Salish Sea?
Going down to Paulsbo WA for the 3rd of July (and staying for the 4th) fireworks has become a bit of a tradition on S/V Fairhaven. We have our good friends that we've picked up in Seattle and gone over for the show for 4 or 5 years now.
This year we were planning to do the same, but after looking at the calendar and length we realised that our longest trip this year would totally be dictated by the calendar (the most dangerous item on a sailboat) if we do the same thing this year.
We've crossed the straights in a building gale and motored for 12+ hours before to make this trip happen but this year, with a 10month old kid in tow we're looking for something easier. Something closer to our home port of Anacortes WA.
Where else puts on a good 4th of July fireworks display in our area? Whidbey island? San Juans? Where is the best show?
Also, any Sailnetters planning on showing up to any of the shows up north?
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Situation Review of Barley Yellow Dwarf Virus in West Asia and North Africa
Jefferson, O., Makkouk, K.M., & Skaf, J. (1987) Situation Review of Barley Yellow Dwarf Virus in West Asia and North Africa. In Proceedings of International Workshop of Barley Yellow Dwarf 1987, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, Udine, Italy, pp. 61-65.
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Symptoms of barley yellow dwarf (BYD) have been observed on cereals in nearly all countries of West Asia and North Africa. Its incidence. however, has varied during the last 15 years. Observations from field surveys are summarized. Since symptoms of barley yellow dwarf virus (BYDV) are of low diagnostic value, especially in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.), more precise qualitative and quantitative detection was derived by vector transmission and serology. In 1985 and 1986. preliminary surveys by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELlS A) indicated that BYDV incidence in the regions surveyed in Syria, Morocco, and Tunisia was around 7. 22. and 24%. respectively. By vector transmission PAV-, RPV-, and RMV-like isolates ofBYDV were identified in Morocco and the PAV-like isolate in Syria. By serology PAV-like isolates were identified in Ethiopia, Lebanon. Morocco. Syria. and Tunisia. and MA V-like isolates were identified from Morocco and Tunisia. The PAV-like type was the most common in all countries surveyed. Screening for BYDV resistance by natural infection has been carried out in a number of countries of the region during the last few years. Screening for resistance by aphid inoculation was initiated in Syria in 1986 at the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA). Such screening is expected to follow in other countries of the region soon.
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/// James Gandolfini is Dead at 51
James Gandolfini, the New Jersey-born actor who left an indelible impression on American popular culture with his portrayal of haunted mob boss Tony Soprano , died Wednesday after reportedly suffering a heart attack. He was 51. Gandolfini's death was confirmed by his managers, Mark Armstrong and Nancy Sanders. The Sopranos star passed away while on vacation in Rome, Italy. Gandolfini this Saturday was scheduled to appear alongside actress Marisa Tomei during the closing ceremony of the 59th Taormina Film Festival in Sicily. Gandolfini's panel was to have led into the world premiere of Gore Verbinski's The Lone Ranger . HBO released a statement shortly after news of Gandolfini's death began circulating online. "We're all in shock and feeling immeasurable sadness at the loss of a beloved member of our family," the statement read. "He was special man, a great talent, but more importantly a gentle and loving person who treated everyone, no matter their title or position, with equal respect. He touched so many of us over the years with his humor, his warmth and his humility. Our hearts go out to his wife and children during this terrible time. He will be deeply missed by all of us." After The Sopranos faded to black in June 2007, Gandolfini continued his affiliation with HBO, producing the documentaries Alive Day: Home from Iraq and Wartorn: 1861-2010. He also produced the Emmy-nominated miniseries Hemingway & Gellhorn and starred with Tim Robbins and Diane Lane in the HBO original movie, Cinema Verite. HBO in May ordered seven episodes of the crime drama Criminal Justice, which was to have starred Gandolfini as a hard-on-his-luck New York jailhouse attorney who defends a young Pakistani-American man accused of killing a woman after a one-night stand. The fate of the project is now uncertain. Gandolfini had a number of projects in development, including a comedy that he was to have produced for CBS (Taxi-22) and a starring role in a film adaptation of the 2010 book Eating with the Enemy. The latter effort would have marked his sixth collaboration with HBO. In 2009, he starred in the Tony Award-winning Broadway play God of Carnage
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Spit-Cleaning Your Infant's Binky
Have you ever sucked on your baby's pacifier to clean it? Many parents have. Babies drop their binkies all the time and if you're in a hurry or just figure a little spit-cleaning won't hurt, you're more likely to stick it in your own mouth and give it a quick once over.
A new study out of Sweden says the spit-cleaning technique may actually help your infant avoid eczema and asthma.
It was surprising that the effect was so strong, says pediatric allergist Dr. Bill Hesselmar of Queen Silvia Children's Hospital in Gothenburg, Sweden, lead author of the study published Monday in the journal Pediatrics.
The study involved 136 infants who used a pacifier in their first 6 months. 65 of the infants had parents that reported sucking the pacifier to clean it. In those children, both eczema and asthma were strongly reduced when they were examined at 18 months of age. At 36 months of age, the protective effect remained for eczema but not for asthma.
Scientists didn't know why the sucking on the baby's pacifier acted as a protector or whether it was filtering out germs. The technique didn't have any impact on respiratory illness, meaning that the babies were not more likely to get a cold or the flu from their parents. Common sense would dictate that if you have a cold or the flu or any other contagious condition, then it's not a good idea to suck on your baby's binky. Otherwise, maybe it's not such a bad idea.
Why is sucking on your infant's pacifier possibly helpful in preventing asthma or eczema in your child? Scientists hypothesize that tiny organisms in the saliva of the parents may be why. Parent's saliva introduces gut micoflora that live in the digestive tract of the baby. We know that if infants have diverse microflora in the gut, then children will have less allergy and less eczema,says Hesselmar. When parents suck on the pacifier, they are transferring microflora to the child.
Many pediatricians and family doctors are concerned that children are being excessively cleaned into illness. With anti-bacterial soaps and swipes being used on everything, and kids not allowed to get dirty, their immune system isn't getting the workout it needs to help fight off common illnesses. The bacterial microorganisms provided in the parent's saliva might help stimulate the baby's immune system.
The most exciting result was the eczema, says Christine Johnson, chair of the public health department at Detroit's Henry Ford Hospital. I'm a bit more skeptical about the asthma findings because asthma is hard to measure before a child is five or six years old.
Hesselmar also urges moms to lick the baby's pacifier if their child was delivered by C-section. Vaginal delivered babies receive quite a bit of microbes during delivery. C-section babies can be more prone to allergies. If they are using a pacifier and those parents think it's OK to suck on the pacifier, then yes, I would recommend it, Hesselmar says.
Some parents may find the idea of picking up a pacifier that's fallen on the floor and putting it in their mouth kind of disgusting. That's fine, there's no need to worry about it. If the idea doesn't bother you, all the better says Hesselmar, I haven't heard of anyone getting ill from it, he says. There isn't much bacteria on the floor.
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They had funny names: the Odd Fellows, the Fraternal Order of Eagles, the Knights of Pythias, the Loyal Order of Moose, the Household of Ruth, the International Order of Twelve Knights and Daughters of Tabor. They observed quasi-mystical rituals and customs, greeted each other with secret handshakes and were often known for their bizarre headgear that included antlers, fezes, and pseudo-Native American headdresses. Even in their heyday they made a sweet target for easy-chair social commentators like H.L. Mencken, who saw them as typifying the sheep-like American "joiner" and mocked their eccentric ceremonies. "Ten iron-molders meet in the back-room of a near-beer saloon, organize a lodge of the Noble and Mystic Order of American Rosicrucians, and elect a wheelwright Supreme Worthy Whimwham," Mencken scoffed.(1)
But fraternal orders (which also included women's organizations) were an enormous social force among American working people in the first half of the 20th Century—nearly as significant as labor unions. Also known as mutual aid societies, their defining features were "an autonomous system of lodges, a democratic form of internal government, a ritual, and the provision of mutual aid for members and their families."(2) Fraternal orders were astonishingly diverse, self-selecting their members by geography, ethnicity, religion, or, like the Odd Fellows, nearly no criteria at all except "good character." When the movement peaked in the early 1930s, fraternal orders had as many as thirty five million members. The biggest order, the Masons, claimed over twelve percent of all white American adults as initiates, as well as a fair—if segregated—percentage of black males.
The legions who joined the fraternal orders were not anarchists. The orders tended to be organized in a rigidly hierarchical way, and their leaders loved to underscore their Americanism and denounce radicals and revolutionaries. But perhaps they protested a bit too much. Anarchists have always projected mutual aid as the basic organizing principle of a non-hierarchical, non-authoritarian society. And despite their many defects, the fraternal orders carried out perhaps the most ambitious experiment in mutual aid in U.S. history—a project that cut across classes and gave immigrants and people of color a tool for advancing themselves when government and the capitalist business structure were both geared to keep them in their place.
The orders provided a powerful demonstration that mutual aid could serve as an alternative method for organizing a complex modern society. And at least in embryo, they had the potential to supplant the government-run social-services system that evolved during the New Deal (and is now under attack from the right ) with a decentralized, democratically run model that tied local mutual aid societies together in loose, cooperative national confederations. Undoubtedly, few lodge brothers or sisters ever thought of themselves as social revolutionaries. But their project made them fellow travelers of a sort, unwittingly providing a rebuke to free-market theorists who asserted that only an economic model built around corporate competition—not cooperation—could adequately provide for its members' needs.
The basic purpose of the orders was to enable working people to pool their financial resources to supply each other with essentials that the state and the capitalists would not, including life insurance, pensions, cradle-to-grave medical care, and homes and schools for destitute family members. Members paid dues, usually modest, to support these services, which sometimes included their own hospitals, clinics, orphanages, and schools. And unlike private employers, the orders fought hard and usually succeeded in keeping their promises to their members even when times were bad.
Together with labor unions, agricultural cooperatives, and the budding feminist and African American liberation movements, some observers saw the orders as an unmistakable sign that society was evolving beyond the stage where capitalists could rationally claim that economic competition was the only way for the human race to progress. In his conclusion to Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution (1902),(3) Kropotkin predicted that "the mutual aid tendency" would one day break down the "iron rules" of the state. Already, he wrote, it manifests itself "in an infinity of associations which now tend to embrace all aspects of life and to take possession of all that is required by man [sic] for life and for reproducing the waste occasioned by life." Less than ten years later, by a conservative estimate, one third of all adult males in the U.S. over nineteen were members of a fraternal "lodge."
The mutual aid movement was derailed by a complicated series of developments that went hand-in-hand with the rise of the welfare state and the privatization of public space after World War II. On a deeper level, though, the culprit was the corporate colonization of desire: American business's seemingly endless outpouring of dream machines, from the automobile to the shopping mall to movies and television, that decentered towns and urban neighborhoods and pulled workers away from the communities that had once been their primary source of identity.
Understanding how the mutual aid society faded into the consumer society can help us to define our options today for reviving the project to create a radically democratic, cooperative world of autonomous communities and individuals. Three recent books provide a good starting-point: David T. Beito's From Mutual Aid to Welfare State (2000), Lizabeth Cohen's A Consumer's Republic (2003), and Juliet B. Schor's and Douglas B. Holt's collection, The Consumer Society (2000). Together, they form a substantial history of the destruction of mutual aid institutions and their replacement by a corporate world in which people no longer determine the nature of their own desires but are manipulated into desiring a hodge-podge of consumer products—a world that cripples their ability to consider what their "real" desires may be.
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Beito's book is especially valuable, offering the first reasonably comprehensive portrait of how American fraternal orders practiced mutual aid. It is easy to idealize the orders, which had plenty of failings. Some poorly run orders swindled their members or lost their money. They were rigidly segregated, excluding blacks and other minorities. They relegated women to secondary roles as "auxiliaries" and rigorously excluded anyone they deemed not to be of good character—i.e., jobless, politically radical, or in any way not in keeping with middle class values. They went out of their way to denounce anarchism, socialism and any other "un-American" beliefs, even though they embodied some of those movements' key aspirations. While they spanned many social classes, in practice the richest members tended to dominate lodge government. And they were politically myopic, siding, for instance, with their enemies in the commercial insurance industry and the American Medical Association (AMA) to squash a "socialist" campaign for a national health care system during World War I.
But this doesn't tell the whole story. African Americans formed their own mutual aid societies, and in fact a greater proportion of black working males than whites belonged to a lodge. Immigrants—Jews, Irish, Hispanic and many others—formed lodges as well, often with a more politically radical ideology. Women had their own orders, which not only provided the usual benefits but sometimes offered training in marketable business skills as well. Like the larger "mainstream" orders, all made a strong distinction between mutual aid and "charity," which American workers feared would make them dependent on the government or on rich benefactors.
This distinction meant that the social services offered by fraternal orders were generally more progressive than those local governments provided, Beito argues, because they served brothers and sisters—not charity cases. At a time when orphanages were notoriously cruel institutions, the Moose and the Security Benefit Association ran homes and schools for deceased members' children that deemphasized the heavy moralizing typical of such institutions and produced far better-educated, better-prepared adults. Often they had room for widows as well. The Modern Woodmen of America ran a well-regarded tuberculosis sanitarium. And the Taborites, a black order, provided one of the few well-equipped and staffed hospitals in the South for African Americans. In all cases, the sense of fraternity—of mutual obligation to support brothers and sisters in need—was a strong factor.
Most crucially, the orders gave ordinary workers a haven from the increasing hegemony of big business over the necessities of life and the production of new desires. A little background history is helpful. Fraternal orders originated in England in the early 18th century, when the old paternalistic rural society was breaking up and large-scale industrialization was just beginning to be glimpsed. Orders like the Masons and the Odd Fellows partially replaced the social safety net that was disintegrating as centuries-old communities broke up and the urban megalopolis appeared. Immigrants imported the lodge system to America, Australia, and elsewhere.
The orders were not an anachronism. They were a parallel development to the capitalist economy, a long-term effort to adapt the concept of mutual aid to the conditions of a complex, interlinked modern economy. As corporate America expanded in the early 20th Century, capitalists who wanted to build businesses in sectors dominated by the mutual aid societies attacked them with all the ferocity of Dick Cheney going after alternative energy producers. The AMA fought the fraternal orders over their practice of hiring doctors for individual lodges, which helped them to control medical costs. Big insurance companies, some of which started out as mutual aid societies, fought them over every type of insurance they tried to extend to their members. Yet in most cases, dues-paying lodge members received comparable or better benefits at a lower cost than other workers.
Historians tend to point to the Depression as the era of decline of the fraternal orders, although some continued to provide the same set of benefits to a dwindling number of members into the 1960s. Many were forced to raise their dues, leaving jobless members unable to pay—even though all the biggest orders found ways not to cut benefits. Government-run social programs, especially Social Security, unemployment insurance and Aid to Families with Dependent Children, diminished the need for independent mutual aid societies. And when the government started providing tax credits for employers to create pension and health benefit plans for their workers, many companies jumped at the offer since it meant they could effectively defer a portion of workers' wages until after they retired.
Three other factors were involved as well. The 1920s finalized America's first great period of mass migration from cities to suburbs. This exacerbated class stratification, and where wealthy citizens had once looked to boost their community prestige by assuming prominent posts in lodges that included every segment of the community, now they wanted to belong to something more exclusive. So the lodges started losing their most affluent members to a new breed of "service" organizations, including the Lions and Kiwanis, which offered no mutual aid benefits but instead concentrated on charity work. This left the lodges more financially vulnerable and deprived them of many influential supporters.
Even as lodge membership was peaking, however, it was clear that the fraternal orders weren't going to pull themselves together to create a larger vision of a decentralized society. Though as many as one out in three working households were connected to a benefits-paying lodge in some way, the leadership of the orders seems never to have contemplated launching a systematic campaign to make their program universal—to seek out communities that did not have their own mutual aid societies and help them to set up their own structures. They also never tried to work together cooperatively to extend the facilities in which they specialized—a TB sanitarium, a home nursing service—to other orders so as to build larger mutual aid networks. Was this just because of their leaders' political and social conservatism? Or because the orders themselves were afraid of surrendering some part of their autonomy? Unfortunately, Beito doesn't address these issues.
The third factor that led to the orders' decline was consumerism. A decade later, in the midst of the Depression, economists recognized the role workers could play in ending the economic meltdown by raising their demand for consumer products. During the so-called Second New Deal of 1938-41, the Roosevelt administration pushed through emergency appropriations specifically aimed at putting cash in people's pockets so they could buy things. "The prosperity of this nation is built upon spending, not saving"(4) became the new orthodoxy, and it has remained so for government economists to this day.
Cohen picks up the story in A Consumer's Republic. The Depression sparked the second of three 20th Century consumer movement "waves" in the U.S., she explains. An earlier one had focused on factory conditions, and the later wave of the 1960s and 1970s would center on product safety. But the consumer movement of the Depression, still in touch with the mutual aid tradition, was perhaps the most radical of all. It included mass boycotts of stores that "price-gouged," sit-ins and consumer strikes in black communities against stores that refused to hire African Americans, and large-scale efforts to set up buying cooperatives and consumer-owned stores. Not surprisingly, business denounced such actions as un-American and consumer activists—often largely women —as "reds." Business won the battle shortly after World War II ended, when consumerists tried and failed to preserve wartime price controls that had sheltered workers from profiteers.
Cohen doesn't say so explicitly, but she makes a strong case that the rise of the consumer society after the war was the death blow to mutual aid and the fraternal orders. For reasons that she does not explain fully, real estate developers even before the war ended began promoting single-family, suburban homes—rather than "traditional" city or country living—as the ideal for returning GIs and the families they were expected to start. An automobile was assumed to accompany each home. And each home came ready for the new owners to fill up with exciting new consumer durables like electric refrigerators, toasters, and lawn sprinklers. ("That little home sketched there in the sand is a symbol of faith and hope and courage. It's a promise, too," read a magazine ad for General Electric appliances.(5))
Consciously or not, manufacturers and developers
were sculpting a new model of American life that included more easily
obtainable credit, more dispersed housing patterns and a chance to move
out of one's class—if one were white and male, at least.
This new model left little room for mutual aid organizations. Separating
households from close-knit communities made lodges more difficult to
organize. And it replaced reliance on the fraternal obligation to support
each other's families with a new faith in property values, government-funded
benefits, and the never-ending expansion of the consumer economy.
"In reconstructing the nation after World War II," Cohen argues, "leaders of business, government, and labor developed a political economy and a political culture that expected a dynamic mass consumption economy not only to deliver prosperity, but also to fulfill American society's loftier aspirations: more social egalitarianism, more democratic participation, and more political freedom."(6)
It didn't work out that way. The 'burbs quickly became just as rigidly divided between haves and have-nots as white residents fought savage battles against integration in the 1950s and 1960s. One of the strengths of Cohen's book is her focus on the new postwar suburbs, showing that while the most visible battles for racial equality were fought at the federal level (Brown v. Board of Education, the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts of 1964 and 1965), some of the most important took place in the courts and state legislatures, and centered on local zoning fights. It was a difficult war of inches, and while integration won in some places, white flight often turned victories into long-term defeats. In the end, the kind of ethnic and geographic solidarity that had once strengthened the fraternal orders remained to some extent, only now its main expression was in the NIMBY ("not in my backyard") spirit of the postwar suburbs and affluent urban neighborhoods—not in mutual aid.
Meanwhile, jobs and access to commercial establishments became the focus of the mainstream civil rights movement. In southern cities, Woolworth's refusal to seat black customers at its lunch counters sparked protests and sit-ins, for example. After buses, schools, and hospitals were integrated, civil rights activists turned to businesses that failed to serve the needs of African American consumers. Many black activists found their voices through boycotts, sit-ins and other mass actions in which they demanded equal access to the goods that defined the middle class. And the inner city riots of the 1960s expressed a deep anger not just at the state's neglect of services for people of color but at retail businesses' unfair treatment of them as consumers. But business quickly found ways to refigure the black liberation movement, women's liberation, and most every other movement for social and economic justice that arose during and after the 1960s as a potential audience for new products and new approaches to selling and branding.
Some movement groups, including but not limited to the Black Panther Party and the women's movement, created an extraordinary publishing, musical, and artistic scene outside of corporate control in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and acted on the need to revive the mutual aid project—to produce their own food, culture, and other necessities, to address health and family issues directly through the community rather than through the market. But a long period of economic and wage stagnation that began in the early 1970s strangled many of these efforts, and unemployment and an increasingly reactionary government left workers ever more dependent on the good graces of the corporation.
And so the colonization of desire continued on its way, even though the more utopian vision of the consumers' republic died. What we got instead was the consumer society. Schor and Holt's collection assembles almost 150 years of writings on the subject, from Marx ("The Fetishism of the Commodity and Its Secret") to social observers Betty Friedan and Thomas Frank to postmodern thinkers Pierre Bourdieu and Jean Baudrillard. Their chapters explain how consumerism works and maintains its hold on us, if not how to combat it and develop alternatives.
With all their faults, the old fraternal orders offered a kind of model for a society in which mutual aid provides for each according to his or her needs. Death benefits, health care, and even some form of ritual—however hokey—that makes us feel part of a community are desires that connect directly with our needs as human beings. But that's not what's important to the capitalist. "In a free enterprise economy," the head of a "motivational research operation" told Friedan, "we have to develop the need for new products. And to do that we have to liberate women to desire these new products. We help them to rediscover that homemaking is more creative than to compete with men. This can be manipulated. We sell them what they ought to want, speed up the unconscious, move it along."(7) (Note the use of the word "liberate.")
A few years before Friedan exposed the marketing of "womanhood" in The Feminine Mystique, economist John Kenneth Galbraith identified the basic paradox behind such tropes of Madison Avenue and gave this phenomenon a name: the "dependency effect." When the main goal of life is a higher and higher standard of living, Galbraith wrote in The Affluent Society, manufacturers do not simply create products to satisfy demands, but create new desires to be fulfilled by the products they manufacture: "The fact that wants can be synthesized by advertising, catalyzed by salesmanship, and shaped by the discreet manipulation of the persuaders shows that they are not very urgent."(8) But over time they tend to become urgent, even necessary, as manufacturers find ways to channel more needs through them. The result, Galbraith concluded, is a "model of the good society" based on "the squirrel wheel."
In the 1980s and 1990s, as manufacturers and the burgeoning financial services industry concentrated more and more of their attention on "high net-worth customers," the "aspirational gap" created by this system engendered ever more exaggerated notions of what's "adequate" for a good life. Schor notes that one survey found the level of income needed to fulfill one's dreams doubled between 1986 and 1994, to twice the median household income. Bankruptcies have soared too, not surprisingly. Meanwhile, the richest subsection of Americans scheme to pass laws making it easier for them to amass their fortunes tax-free, even as they rush ahead to create new aspirations for the rest of us to catch up to.(9)
There's no way to know if this treadmill-like society, with its obsessive focus on growth no matter what the direction or what the cost—social, psychological, environmental—would not have come to be had the mutual aid societies survived. Maybe it's a coincidence that two of the benefits the fraternal orders typically provided their members were life insurance and health care: the one nearly impossible for an older blue collar worker to obtain today and the other rapidly becoming too expensive for anyone but a millionaire.
Cohen and Schor do not address the possible connection. And they have little to say about how the consumer society can be tamed or turned back other than some modest public policy prescriptions: government income transfers or vouchers to guarantee a basic standard of living, for example, or a revival of the third-wave consumer movement demand for a cabinet-level consumer advocate. "Separating the citizen from the consumer would involve severing a linkage that has only solidified over the course of the twentieth century,"(10) Cohen concludes, depressingly.
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The biggest failing of the prewar mutual aid network was its parochialism. A diverse collection of lodges and orders focused narrowly on providing only for their own members' needs and self-selected those members to fit a narrow conception of who belonged and who didn't. The result: not just racism and rigid gender division, but failure to understand the revolutionary impact of their own method of organizing. There were exceptions: Beito describes the Taborites' role in supporting the civil rights movement, although he provides too little discussion of the Jewish Arbeter Stimme (to which both Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman belonged) and other overtly anti-capitalist orders.
But the big unanswered question remains: what might have happened if the fraternal orders had pulled together to spread the ideal of mutual aid more widely, perhaps extending it to the entire U.S. working population? At least until the later years of the Depression, this was not out of the question. Certainly the fraternal orders' rivals, especially in the insurance industry, did their best to discredit them and limit their ability to provide certain kinds of benefits.
Perhaps more critically, however, the business people who tended to snag the top positions in the lodges weren't interested in—and perhaps were personally afraid of—the wider implications of the mutual aid model. The result was that despite their success at demonstrating mutual aid's ability to meet community needs in a complex society, the fraternal orders never attempted to challenge the emerging hegemony of business. They never developed a conscious political critique of capitalism, such as that articulated by anarchists and socialists. And they rarely tried to extend their success at providing social insurance to actual manufacturing—which would probably have necessitated linking up with the labor movement and, at least presumptively, endorsing the notion of class struggle.
In the end, the conservative thinking of the orders' hierarchical leadership, intent on proving that lodge brothers and sisters were not un-American, fatally limited its vision. The "need to nourish the most utopian desires" was not a principle the lodge potentates could even approach without jeopardizing the social standing they sought by taking these positions in the first place.
For anarchists and other anti-authoritarians today, the problem is not so much hierarchical leadership. But the movement has its own tendencies toward parochialism—to mistake the need to maintain the principle of individual free association and affinity group solidarity for a license to neglect the need to confederate.
Unless the movement can learn how to generate and sustain larger voluntary structures through its affinity groups and regional networks, it risks once again being outflanked by the state and the capitalist establishment, just as the fraternal orders were. And it risks confronting its own members with a dead-end choice between confining their work and passion to limited organizing among a small subgroup of self-selected activists, or else shifting their energies to groups with a non-anarchist approach but a commitment to accomplishing more far-reaching projects.
The history of the American mutual aid societies, and their collapse in the face of a jacked-up state system and super-charged consumer capitalism during the immediate pre- and post-war years, point to the challenge today's autonomist collectives must overcome. Samuel Gompers, a lifelong Mason, fiercely opposed national health care and government-funded pension as president of the American Federation of Labor, arguing that workers should provide these things for themselves. Undoubtedly he was right, since the state is now attempting to wriggle out of any such obligations.
But the labor movement never succeeded in creating a health and old-age benefit system that provided for all workers, either. Today, mutual aid still appears to be the only way to create a humane, caring, and fully participatory society. But anarchists have not begun to consider their biggest challenge yet: how to make mutual aid universal. This doesn't mean the movement needs to renounce the autonomist principle—only that it needs to take confederalism just as seriously.


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Miserable hair day and need recs. Please.
For my 3A/3B coarse hair, low porosity. Anything and everything will be considered as possibilities.
Where do you live? Is it humid, dry? My hair is coarse and low porosity and I have been LOVING Shea moisture smoothie.
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Curlangel: I cannot tell you the number of times I have looked at that product. I live in Wisconsin, so: some day are cold and dry; some days are cold and moist; (winter)- some days are warm and dry, and some days are warm and humid. Its a real mess! Moreover, Tiffany, the curl whisperer, says coarse, low porousity hair should use products which are emollient; so, that would be WHAT? what conditioners? what styling products?! Help me I am stumped!
I'm in WI too and my hair seemed dry today. Just kind of "off." I chalked it up to my products, but it may have been the weather. At any rate, my properties are different from yours. Mix of 2s and 3a, med-fine, medium density. If you're struggling with dryness however, I'd recommend Yes to Carrots conditioner. Very moisturizing!
Ruth Marie: I have Yes to Cucumbers shampoo, and Yes to Tomatoes conditioner. Also GVP conditioner. Today I used a new gel. BIG mistake. I am going back to GVP.
Myra, I would definitely suggest stick to one product before trying a new one, because there is so many things in effect like the outside environment. Even though we look up forecast, it just doesn't work right. I live in MN, dry air like WI. I am low porosity 2c/3a coarse hair. My fav combo is Vo5 Kiwi lime -cowash & detangle/rinseout. GVP leavein followed by gel. Diffuse pixie method. Works every time.
give a product about a week or so, might be easier that way.
Also another thing ,since we are low porosity once our hair gets soaking wet it might not be able to absorb as much product as high or medium porosity. so apply a considerable amount of GVP, do the plop then go back and apply gel(do it carefully if possible smooth down instead of scrunching coz it scrunch might break up curls.) Low porosity doesnt have the capacity to absorb multiple products at a time, so layering is of no use in our hair!
so sorry you are going through this, hope you find a Hg product/routine soon!!
Myrna, sorry to hear you're having problems :(
An emollient is what a lot of people hear call a "sealer" - something with a (generally) fatty consistency, that coats hair shafts such that moisture is sealed in. Oils (like coconut or castor) and "butters" like avocado and shea, fall under this category. With your hair, you'd probably have to use these items sparingly.
Here's a list of emollient esters contained in hair products.
Sounds like your gel might have jacked you high, but, when was the last time you used a sulfate shampoo? If you're suffering from product buildup, an actual shampoo would be good (w/something sulfate-based and/or something containing cocoamidopropyl betaine). Another possible culprit is too much or not enough protein in your products. There are "symptoms" that will point to a protein issue. Yet another possibility is over-conditioned hair (w/other symptoms for that). Maybe you could describe the exact nature of your issue.
Korkscrew: I dont even know how to describe my issue. My hair was limp today. I made the mistake og getting a new gel yesterday at CVS (that LA Looks one with Avocado. BIG mistake, I am taking it back for a refund). And I used Deva foam over it. This winter I got good results - relatively speaking - from a SM shampoo, GVP conditioner, Biotera Gel and Deva Foam. But then my hair just started looking like it was "slumping". Last week I shampooed with Yes to Cucumbers (coco betaine) and my hair sprang to life. I did the same thing the next day and my hair sucked. I dont know if it need protein, that is one problem. Another is whether or not it will tolerate glycerin, or those emollients to which you refer. You'd think I would have this down after all this time, but I dont feel I have a clue and part of it is that I use both mousse and gel. It may be that I need a haircut - it has not been cut in months and months, except for a snip here and there. Last time I was at the salon - 4 weeks ago for my roots - my stylist commented that the condition of my hair seemed really good. That was with the routine I just described. But, that is a winter routine and the weather is changing...oh I am so messed up with all this....:banghead::banghead:
CurlyIndianGirl: "Low porosity doesnt have the capacity to absorb multiple products at a time, so layering is of no use in our hair!"
Is this so? I had not thought of that at all but it makes sense. But, that means I have to find ONE product that works for me!! But, that sure does make sense!
yup I learnt it the hard way though, another reason why I say stick to one product at a time. try just a leave-in +(gel or mousse). make sure you give ur hair sometime between products. else its just going to sit on top of your hair - reason for buildsups
Do let us know ur next experiment- would love to hear from you, since we have same hair properties, I can learn from you
When is the last time you used a clarifying shampoo? If it has been awhile, I would start there.
Maybe try your LI, plop, and then your mousse? Or if that breaks up the curls, maybe a spray gel?
I'm wondering if the SM smoothie would be good AS your LI.
I use the smoothie as a leave in often. It works great for me and has the added benefit of curl enhancement. I used it as my leave in today actually. I think it does work well for coarse hair in general so long as you aren't sensitive to silk protein. Apparently I'm not.
Myrna, since you wash your hair every day then tomorrow is just something to look forward to. I'd try CurlyIndianGirl's suggestion of just a leave in then gel. That's make sense to me. Hell I'm high porosity and that's what I do because I don't like to complicate things.
Thank you everyone for your suggestions. This is such a great community, full of lovely curlies who are OCD about our hair:happy7: I AM taking CurlyIndianGirls suggestion and using ONE product. Today I chose Curl Keeper. I used GVP as my RO and LI. I think adding something else for my LI complicates it because then, again, if it works I dont know why or if it doesnt, I dont know why. A complication is that I will be in Milwaukee today, and their "dew" may be different because of the lake effect (on Lake Michigan).
Dusa, if I remember correctly, you dont use a gel or other on your hair...do you just use the smoothie, then? and how much? I would love to try this product but it keeps scaring me...:confused:
SM smoothie dint work for me, even the smallest amount made my hair stiff straw like with halo frizz, may be silk protein is something my hair doesn't like?
I'm coarse & low-po, and my hair also disliked the smoothie. Even when I tried using the most minute amounts, it just coated my hair and weighed it down.
Todays report:
Well I was desperate, so I decided to take your advise, CurlyIndianGirl and yours, Dusa. I used ONE styling product. Poo'd with Coconut hibiscus, conditioned with GVP. My styling product of choice today was Curl Keeper. I am happy to report that my hair turned out really nice, felt soft and healthy.. by the end of the day, though I have some wilting and less curl formation, which is why I think I started using more than one product in the first place. Evidently I may need more hold than CK, or maybe more Ck, I tend to be conservative with gels. Tomorrow I will try Biotera. Still thinking about the smoothie. I know I can return it; already have one product to return that was terrible on my hair (yesterday). Comments appreciated.
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If a child becomes constipated, stool often hardens in the rectum. New stool continues to develop in the rectum and colon but is unable to pass the blockage. The child is then unable to pass stool, passes only small, pea-sized stool, or has uncontrolled watery diarrhea. This condition is called fecal impaction. Constipation in an infant may be due to a reaction to formula or to something in the breastfeeding mother's diet. Infants given cow's milk often become constipated. It may also occur when an infant is started on solid food. A toddler may react to toilet training or a painful elimination by purposely holding in stool. This can lead to constipation and impaction.
Fecal impaction can cause a distended (swollen) abdomen and discomfort. The child may pass tiny stools or have uncontrolled diarrhea, with watery stool passing around the hardened stool (called encopresis). Rectal bleeding can occur.
To treat the impaction, a stool softener may be given. In some cases, a glycerin suppository, enema, or irrigation is used to loosen hard stool, which is then removed. Once the acute impaction is treated, steps are taken to regain healthy elimination. If old enough, the child may be started on a combined laxative and behavior modification plan to help regulate elimination. Be patient. It can take several months for the child to regain healthy bowel habits.
Home Care:
Medications: The doctor may prescribe medications to soften stool and promote bowel movements. Follow the doctor's instructions for giving this medication to your child. Talk to the doctor about whether to manually eliminate hardened stool or give a suppository or enema. If your infant is formula-fed, the doctor may recommend switching to a different type of formula. Follow the doctor's instructions.
General Care:
Do not give cow's milk to children less than 1 year of age. Cow's milk affects the intestine and reduces the absorption of iron, which is necessary for growth.
Children on solid foods should eat more fiber, which is found in whole grains, fruits, and vegetables. Ensure that your child drinks plenty of liquids.
Avoid toilet training younger children until the elimination problem is resolved.
A toilet-trained child may have bowel retraining. This process can help your child have normal bowel movements again. Your child sits on the toilet for a short time after meals. This helps the body reconnect eating with having bowel movements. Your child's doctor can discuss bowel retraining with you.
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