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By Anonymous Coward
Feb 17, 2002
|Steve, Thanks for the quality additions to this site!!
By Tony B
From: Around Boulder, CO
Apr 28, 2003
|Not veryone pulls on gear on P3. I did it free, but admit that it felt more like 5.10a than like 5.8. The bottom pitches wandered so much and there were anchors (albit a few poor ones) at different heights and here and there across the wall. I and my pertners kinda wondered if we were exactly on route a few times. The 5.8 way may have some crux avoidance deviations that I did not find (and if so, apparently others also do not). It is an aid route anyway, I guess.
By J. Thompson
From: denver, co
Apr 13, 2004
Anyone have any info. about the current free attempt by Ogden and crew???
Specifically- have fixed heads been cleaned and have bolts been added?I'm hearing mixed reports.
By Anonymous Coward
Apr 16, 2004
|[Don't] climb a wall with out the proper gear. If it calls for heads bring them...
By Max schon
May 28, 2004
|Word is Jared Ogden and Ryan Nelson freed route around May 21,22, and 23rd, with a little dry-tooling on the crux pitch.
By Anonymous Coward
May 28, 2004
|While I applaud the efforts of Jared and Ryan, I wasn't aware that dry tooling was now considered to be free climbing.
By Anonymous Coward
May 29, 2004
|Heard that too- but I hadn't heard of the drytoolin'. Actually heard that they had freed all the sections but hadn't did it all in one push yet....
By Anonymous Coward
May 29, 2004
So, I guess time will tell whether this is an inspirational ascent, some new hybrid style to aspire too, or mearly a party trick.
Cheers anyway, if it's true, to thinking it up, those boys for sure can mixed climb.
So, is the grade 5.12 M7 or what?
...and of course the most pressing question...WERE THEY LEASHLESS?
Heard Jared and Topher have some 5.13 proj on the South Chasm too...keep the sickness coming.
By phil broscovak
Aug 29, 2004
|I WOULD call this a FREE ascent, and I am very impressed! When "dry tooling" a mixed route or alpine climb you are not suddenly "aid climbing" when you move off of the ice. You are simply using "tools" as extensions of your own "natural" equipment. If you hang in your harness from an axe or piece of protection THEN you are aid climbing. These guys were moving onward with tools in hand not feet in aiders. No one out there is willing to say that the use of sticky rubber shoes or crampons is "aid " climbing. It is equally likely that most people would consider ice climbing "free" climbing and not "aid" climbing simply because the climbers hands grip tools not icicles. Anyone out there care to tell Hugh Herr that he was just an "aid" climber because he used adaptable modifiable extensions? This was an amazing accomplishment and a visionary approach. If it bothers anyones purist ethics then I suggest they probably have forgitten the past and dread the future. Like EB's and Fires, Camalots and TCU's, droop picks, mono points, and speed screws, some will always see evolving as "cheating".Really it is just the future moving through the present towards the past. Congratulations to an amazing team of climbers with the boldness to try something different.
By Anonymous Coward
Aug 30, 2004
Have to disagree with you Phil. The Hallucinogen is not an alpine or mixed climb. It is a rock climb. Free climbing a rock climb means touching the rock with your hands.
All equipment is aid, but the history and development of modern climbing allows for the use of sticky rubber rock shoes- much like using an ice axe is appropriate in alpine or mixed venues.
Using a prothesis (or 2 in Hugh's case) is also a poor argument- artificial limbs are a replacement for something missing.
I am sure that drytooling the headwall bolt ladder was difficult, but it was a gimmick to get through a section of rock that is in all likelihood impossible to free climb. While I seldom use words like "amazing" and "visionary" to describe anything in climbing, I do agree the 5.13 A0 ascent of the Hallucinogen was a significant accomplishment.
One further thing- if drytooling is indeed the wave of the future, who decides when and where it can be used? Can someone use it to "freeclimb" the lower pitches of the Hallucinogen if they can't do it the "old-fashioned" way?
By Anonymous Coward
Sep 3, 2004
So if somebody climbed a 1/16 inch splitter crack in Indian Creek with 2 ice axes and rock shoes, is that a free climb also?
What is so bad about the simple fact that the Hallucinogen is still an aid climb? The .13 A0 ascent was a great achievement, why not leave it as that?
By phil broscovak
Sep 8, 2004
|Hmmm...I just saw a great picture in the paper of Aron Ralston climbing. Many will remember that Aron is the Guy who had to cut off his own arm to survive after being pinned by a boulder for days. It appears he has had a prosthetic arm modified to attach ice axes to. It looked like he was cranking some pretty hard stone. But I bet you'd say it was only A0 or maybe A1...
By Anonymous Coward
Sep 15, 2004
|5.13, A0Hope they had fun, but i also hope no harm or customizing was done to the rock.****watched a guy w/ 1 arm lead the 1st pitch of Castleton North Face w/ 1 hang a couple weeks ago. Was *not* wearing his capt'n hook.
By alan_doak
Apr 26, 2005
On April 23rd, Stefan Griebel and I climbed the route in 23h39m from base to top. If anyone else has done the route in 24hours, I'd be interested to find out.
It's hard for me to comment on the bolts, since this was my first time on route, but they were all in good condition (except for the nearly blown rivet on pitch 6). I had heard that additional chicken bolts had been added to pitch 10, but it appeared that it was more of an upgrade (i.e. there was a fatty bolt 1 move above an old rivet). As a personal comparison the route felt much more difficult than The Shield, and none of the A2 pitches were as easy as standard A2 pitches in the valley.
I've never done that much hooking before in my life. Pretty much every aid pitch required hooks.... I think I'll be hanging them up for a while, so to speak.
By alan_doak
Apr 26, 2005
Regarding J Thompson's questions about bolts... I talked to the climbing ranger, and he said that Jared told him that he had only added a couple of bolts to pitch 6 to establish a variation to avoid the pendulem. It didn't look like anybody pulled heads and placed bolts instead, the number of bolts on the route seemed fairly consistent with the Williams topo. There are still many long sections of fixed heads and hooks.
I can't say how the character of the climb has changed with the bolt upgrades or if any bolts were put in that shouldn't have been, but I can say that it's still a pretty stout route.
By alpinglow
From: city, state
Apr 26, 2005
Cheers Alan,
Nice send. A buddy and I put a watchless push on this back in college, in our assumption, just a touch past 24.
Haven't heard of anyone else doing it in a day, but these days there are too many hard dudes to say.
Again, nice send.
By Anonymous Coward
Apr 27, 2005
|"watchless push", what a great turn of phrase. I hope that one becomes firmly ensconced in the speed-climbing lexicon. And in actual practice. . . .
By Ryan Jennings
Apr 27, 2005
|Yes, nice work Alan and Stefan! It's about time somebody got it done. Yo B-dog! A buddy? Shit, what about all those nights cuddling in ledges buddy. I don't remember being buddies at the top of this route though. The last pitch is a doosie and we were quite strung out by then. As I recall we were 26hrs car to car sans watch. Does "watchless" mean you climbed it with your eyes closed? That must be why it took so long. Pretty awsome gaining hieght fast on this route huh alan? Makes for one hell of a day. Good job!
By Anonymous Coward
Apr 30, 2005
Hey I heard on rec.bouldering.soill that those dudes did it sub 20 and chugged beers on the summit!
Here's an idea... Rather than spray rumors, maybe we can just ASK THEM.
By phil broscovak
Apr 30, 2005
|23 hours 39 minutes or 48 hours 27 minutes, who cares it is still a great route. It is not the Olympics. No one is going to give them a medal for breaking the four minute mile. And even if they get featured in the crag rags they will still be eating tuna out of the can with a piton in the back of a VWee micro van. Even if they fixed the first five pitches just climbing the beauty of a beast in any thing close to 24 hours it is amazing. If you want to go faster go for it. Joe Callahan and I did one of the first ten ascents of The Hallucinogen in six days including surviving and climbing through the sixth day while being in the epicenter of the worst lighting storm / squall I have ever seen. That seemed fast enough for me. Personally I applaud these lads efforts no matter what their time cards say.
By phil broscovak
May 1, 2005
To quote the 'thought of the day' in the Colorado Daily 5/1/05 "America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to get a speed record getting there." -Laurence J. Peter
As an old fart tradie I always thought that climbing fast was for safety in the mountains not competition glory. Style in climbing is a personal choice not a dictate. Cheers!philo
By Tony B
From: Around Boulder, CO
May 1, 2005
Too bad every accomplishment someone makes has to be dragged into this sort of a squall. I know and have climbed with both Alan and Stefan, I can assure you that it is not their intent to deceive or exaggerate anything. They are both certainly capable of this feat and since they have done it, it has been done. I have discussed it with Alan since.
If it had not been for that discussion, I think two elements of evidence would have been enough to convince me anyway, even if I did not personally know the two of them.
First of all, I have climbed with them. Both are capable of climbing up to 5.12, or perhaps harder. In fact, I have been on trad 11d with each of them within the past 12 months. I've raced both of them on speed ascents and scambles. Perhaps RACED is not the right word; to say that I have CHASED them might be more accurate. Even that description of the timed ascents I [made] behind Stefan and Alan fail to mention that I was struggling to keep them in close distance or even moderately within sight on trail and rock, and I am not a slow-poke. Stefan is one of the faster runners/climbers in the Boulder Minions gang. Yes, including Galen and Buzz Burrell, Dave Mackey, Tim O'Neill, Bill Wright, Bill Brigs, Christian Griffith, Jon Seargent, etc... We are talking about a FAST crowd. Stefan has also been "in the money" in races, IE, taking 1st in the Teva games adventure race last year. He's not slow.
Second of all, I have put in a bid for the H.W. myself, now nearly 10 years ago. Sorry, I have no final time to report for you, as I was stormed viciously from the wall. However, having been on it with Nate Beckwith and Amanda Tarr, both [competent] aid climbers, I can tell you that 24 hours is by no means an [unbelievable] feat. Any nay-sayers should go give it a shot; it is an accomplishment for sure, but it is a quite reasonable claim.
Perhaps stopwatch photos were taken because it was known that some armchair [critics] would pop up? Isn't that sad? Maybe the critics should go climb it.
Also, a late start? Sure, you usually don't initiate 24 hour pushes to being at daybreak. You begin at mid-day. That way when you are trashed and beat and sleepless and worn, at least there is some light out. I began my "HM in a push" at mid-day too.
By Ryan Jennings
May 1, 2005
Tony- I don't see this as such a squall. They obviously did the thing fast. It appears folks just want to know more of the details of the ascent. If they were there the day before it seems perfectly logical and ethically legal to scout the first few pitches. This would account for being spotted down there. On the other hand if fixed ropes were involved (which for the sake of the accuser should have been specifically witnessed to justify accusations) then there is a squall. I don't see the point of claiming a 24 hr ascent if fixed ropes were involved and I assume these boys wouldn't either. Alas this merely appears to me that site searchers need SOMETHING to do while waiting out these incesant storms.
As for your belief that this thing will go much faster, who couldn't agree. There are plenty of hard men around that could fly up this thing.It's just a matter of wanting to. It seems most Black climbers are more interested in linking free climbs than swinging around in their harness.
Now this whole deal with starting in the middle of the day isn't for everyone. We started our push early in the am. thereby climbing the easier free pitches at the bottom and the top in the dark. This is a merely a question of where your strengths and weakness' lye. For me I like my aid belays sunny.
By Stefan Griebel
From: Boulder, Colorado
May 1, 2005
Friday (4/22/05), we climbed P1-P6 so that we would be familiar with the location of the start and the easy free pitches that we would be doing in the dark the next day. Then we rapped to the ground, stashed our rope and gear, and hiked back out for some dinner and sleep.
Saturday, we got up early, descended in the dark (it was a full moon though), and started climbing at 0347 on my watch. We thought we had it in the bag for sure at the end of the last hard aid pitch as it was still light out. But then, we too entered some sort of time-inversion-black-canyon stupor, and spent waaay too long on the last 4 pitches topping out at 0326. I think it was mostly due to my crappy aid skills combined with my dehydrated grovelling up the scary rotten chimney pitch in the dark with the rain starting...
What's humorous is that we did accidentally "fix" pitches 4 and 5. On Friday, we did a double-rope rap from the top of P5, and when we pulled our ropes, our thin tag-line got stuck at the very top. What it was stuck on, we had no idea, but only someone like the accusatory AC moron would even consider jugging that thing. A _7mm haul cord that might be wrapped around a bush?! Since we were coming back the next day anyway, we left it hanging and did 3 more single-rope raps to the ground. On Saturday, when I arrived at the top of P5, I learned that the thin rope had whipped itself into an overhand knot on the rap-ring with a 1" tail!
Alan and I talk all the time about how some real speed climbers will easily take this route _16 hours on their first try.How many A3 El Cap routes did Ammon McNeely do in a day last year? And those are all roughly twice as long as the Hallucinogen Wall.
By Ryan Jennings
May 2, 2005
|Good job you two! There must be some sort of dehabilitating hallucinations that slow people down on those last pitches. Great shot of the cacti by the way! Let's hope their there for years to come. I don't believe they have anything like that on El Cap.
By Drew Allan
From: Denver/Aspen
May 2, 2005
|I will match Bob and raise it. Great job Alan and Stefan!!
By Anonymous Coward
May 3, 2005
|Great Job to everybody! Nice going! Keep up the good work! Kudos!
By Stefan Griebel
From: Boulder, Colorado
May 17, 2005
|Thanks everyone! But now it's time to congratulate some real speed climbers. Ryan Nelson and Jared Ogden went back to the Black on 5/12 and did the route in 8h59m! (speedclimbing.org) Now that is smokin' fast!
By phil broscovak
May 18, 2005
|Under 9 hours! ....Barring the use of R2-D2 jet packs that is FAST, mindblowingly fast! All kudos and congrats to these uber dudes. This remarkable news inspired me to jump up out of the rocking chair (of course that may have been due to the spastic sphincter seisure syndrome that I experienced while reading about their speed ascent) and wonder if I could break my own ...speed of 132 hrs, Nah, not likely. All my juvenile juice has turned to geriatric jelly I'd surely be slower. Your record is safe from me uber dudes. But if I ever bump into either of you I will gladly buy you a flagon of ale and a side of beef or what ever it is that satiates monsters like you two. I am still [completely] blown away. 'course that could be that sphincter thing. For what little it is worth my hat is off to you guys.
By J Brown
Jul 7, 2005
|Umm....can anyone tell me the rack for High and Dry please! [mainly] Any aid gearzzz?
By Jay 1975
From: Bonedale,CO
May 11, 2007
|What is a better 1st aid route in the Black...? High and Dry or Hallucinogen?
By Matthew Seymour
From: 1996 Dodge Van, USA
Nov 20, 2008
The route goes clean at C3+F relying on many fixed heads.
You DO NOT need any pitons on this route. Old scars protect great with Lowe-balls and tri-cams.
The only reason to bring a hammer is to replace any blown heads you might encounter.
By eggman
From: Durango, co
May 16, 2011
|Definitely bring a selection of mashies and hammer. You'll use 'em. Also some thin webbing to tie through the lower-out bolts.
By Andrew McLean
From: Colorado
Jun 9, 2011
Interesting. It looks like the entire route has been freed.
By mat degraaf
Oct 20, 2011
Did the route a few weeks back and here's the update -
The vast majority (95%) of the heads were in good shape.
Linking pitches is not such a good idea...even with a 70m rope.
All bolts and belays are bomber.
The "5.9" chimney is hard and loose...more like .10R.
The hooking is mostly casual so long as you have a good selection of hooks to choose from.
A full rack of cams with doubles up to a #3 Camalot will do you just fine. A double set of brass nuts with some larger nuts thrown in for good measure will suffice. Bring a couple of pitons (3 LAs, 3 blades, 3 angles) and cam hooks.
By Jay 1975
From: Bonedale,CO
Nov 30, 2011
|Can the route be rapped from the top to the very bottom? Are there anchors the whole way? Any beta?
By Dr. Thompson Jr. Jr.
From: Estes Park, Colorado
Sep 30, 2012
|Climbed Astro Dog yesterday and watched as someone was working their way down North Chasm View on (presumably) Hallucinogen Wall. They were hammering at the rock and knocking off huge chunks of stone. Anyone know why or what that was all about?
By Scott Krankkala
From: Flagstaff, AZ
Nov 3, 2012


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Although most observers of the scientific fringe are well aware that the public appetite for nonsense comes and goes in waves, there has been little documentation of the timing, duration, and levels of fringe waves. I did a survey of trends in book publishing between 1945 and 1982, based on counts in the Cumulative Book Index (CBI) and Books In Print(BIP). It was originally published in the Summer 1986 issue of Skeptical Inquirer as Four Decades of Fringe Literature This page is modified from that paper. What I found was a dramatic peak in crank literature between 1965 and 1981, followed by a precipitous drop. Although I haven't done a long-projected follow-up, my impression is that mass crank science cults were not nearly so active throughout the Eighties, but began to increase in the Nineties. One new nineties trend is the surge in "junk science" as applied to legal proceedings and debates on public policy. I refer to the crank boom between 1965 and 1981 as the Great Silly Season.
Both CBI and BIP have advantages and disadvantages. The data from CBI is based on counts under subject headings and can therefore be expected to yield a fairly complete listing. However, it may take a year or two for a rise in interest in some topic to be noticed and listed under a separate heading. When a fringe theory gains wide popularity, its subject heading may be subdivided, so that the apparent publishing level might appear lower than the true level. There is a certain element of subjectivity that enters into deciding whether to include a book under a given subject. Some fringe topics, such as catastrophe theories, are not listed under separate categories. Finally, the CBI includes only books actually published in a given year, so there may be year-to-year fluctuations that have little to do with the public interest level. For example, a large press run may supply demand for a couple of years, so that even though demand remains high, the next year's count may be lower.
The counts from BIP are based on key title words. This approach means that counts may be incomplete; some of the classics of the fringe, like Worlds in Collision, Incident at Exeter, or Chariots of the Gods? will be missed by a search of common fringe title words. There will be a scattering of works with unrelated content, such as a medical treatise on Occult Traumatic Lesions listed under "Occult". There will also be reputable scholarly works and even refutations. The importance of such anomalies is minor. Indeed, it is legitimate to include the refutations because they generally get published only when public interest in the subject is high, and anyway they are all too few in number. A search of title key words does catch the "parasitic" literature that appears after a high level of interest has developed, and is therefore a useful indicator of public interest in fringe ideas.
BIP includes all works listed as in print by publishers. A given work may stay in print for some years after its press run. Therefore, the total number of works in BIP is 2-3 times greater than in CBI. Also, trends found from BIP data tend to be more subdued than those from CBI data, with lower peaks and shallower valleys, because the listings tend to persist for several years and year-to-year fluctuations are smoothed out.
There has been a steep increase in book publication since 1945. To determine the actual level of public appetite for the fringe, the title counts were divided by the total number of listings (determined by the page count and an approximate title count per page) and are presented in the figures as titles per 100,000 listings. Looking at the numbers, one might get the impression that this is at worst a minor problem. After all, a few dozen titles per 100,000 is no big deal. The problem isn't the number of titles; it's sales. It's also the worthwhile books that are not being read and published because of the junk.
By far the largest category of fringe literature might be termed the "classical occult" (see figure on following page). Included in this subject area are the key words or subject headings "Astrology", "Atlantis", "Occult", "Psychic", and "Reincarnation". One might object that including "Astrology" skews the results, since it is such a popular subject. However, as the figure shows, the trends for all major themes are quite similar and each theme tends to make up a roughly constant proportion of the total. It appears that interest in the occult, in astrology, and in psychic topics rose and fell together, with a major peak from the late 1940's to the mid-1950's and a much larger peak in the late 1960's and throughout the 1970's. There does seem to be a tendency for short-term lows in one heading to be offset by peaks in another, as if reader interest fluctuated among the different themes from year to year.
The plunge in publishing after 1981 was so precipitous that I suspected it was the result of a change in classification, but a check of related subjects indicated that the drop is real. It seems too good to be true!
The category of "Atlantis" is problematical. In earlier times Atlantis was part of the occult and was the source of occult knowledge for groups like the theosophists. More recently, Atlantis seems to have been more akin to UFO literature and especially the Bermuda Triangle lore. It forms such a small part of the total occult literature that it has no effect on the overall picture.
Another category is the "monster" category (see figure on following page). Entries searched in this area included "Bigfoot", "Loch Ness Monster", and "Sasquatch". The CBI was also searched for "Abominable Snowman" before 1970. The publishing record before 1970 was so sporadic as to be essentially nonexistent. During the 1970's, interest in what has been called "cryptozoology" rose to a peak and then showed a definite decline. This fashion seems to have definitely passed, at least for the time being.
Atlantis-Bermuda Triangle literature shows a similar pattern. . These two apparently different themes actually have a good deal in common, specifically the notion that unknown marvels are to be found in the remote parts of the earth. They might collectively be called the "lost world" literature.
The archetypical fringe theory is, of course, UFO's (see figure on following page). The data used in this category included the key words Flying Saucer, UFO and Unidentified Flying Object, as well as all books by Erich von Daniken. The pattern is similar to the Occult trends. The great flying saucer wave of the early 50's is unmistakable, and a much greater wave in the late 60's and in the 70's. In fact, we can recognize two later waves: one in 1967-69, which produced John Fuller's Incident at Exeter and another in 1971-77. Again, note the plunge in publishing after 1981.
It is interesting to examine a number of fringe notions that have occupied the far right: fluoridation, laetrile, and extreme fundamentalism (see figure on following page). The peak period of anti-fluoridation literature ran from 1950 to 1968, but the level of activity came nowhere near equalling the furor over this subject. Clearly, most of the battle over fluoridation was carried on via other media. The few late anti-fluoridation works seem to have had no serious impact.
Laetrile became a cause celebre in the 1970's, when an unlikely coalition from the right and left rallied around it. The peak in publishing is apparent, but as in the case of fluoridation, it is clear that books were not the primary means of information flow.
Two themes common to the religious right are also presented: creation/evolution and the devil. In both cases titles were screened and listed only if the intent of the book were obvious from the title or if the book were by an author or publisher known to be actively interested in the subject. The steady rise in creationist literature is obvious and needs little comment. The pattern for works with "Devil" or "Satan" in their titles is interesting for its two-stage rise. The first abrupt rise, about 1968, consists largely of occult literature. The second rise, beginning about 1973, is driven largely by fundamentalist works like Hal Lindsey's Satan is Alive and Well on Planet Earth. In fact, a good deal of recent fundamentalist literature is a reaction to the occult wave of 1967 and later.
Since the original research was done, the creationist movement has remained active, although it has temporarily abandoned most of its attempts to fashion publishable alternative scientific theories. They have tended more to focus on grass-roots activity and the running of "stealth" (not overtly creationist) candidates in local elections.
The final figure (following Page 8) is an attempt to portray fringe literature in historical context. A few salient works are shown (major debunking works are marked with an asterisk) together with economic indicators and some major historical events. Data for economic trends are from the Statistical Abstract of the United States.
It is clear that there is no simple correlation between economic health and fringe publishing. The period of low activity between 1955 and 1967 was marked by stable and generally favorable inflation and unemployment levels, but otherwise a pattern is hard to find. Hard times seem to have little effect on a fringe boom in full swing (mid 70's) but may be instrumental in ending a boom that is weakening (mid-late 50's, early 80's?). One might suspect that people would turn to the occult in times of hardship, but the big occult wave of the 1960's began during a period of sustained economic growth and very low unemployment.
The most obvious correlation is that both fringe booms coincided with a war, but the big flying saucer binge of the late 40's began long before the Korean War. A correlation with Vietnam, though, seems almost certain; the Vietnam era was a time of attack on all forms of authority, including scientific authority.
If there is any pattern at all, it seems to me that fringe literature burgeons during times of frustration or uncertain prosperity; during times of optimism the real world is exciting enough; during very hard times people are too busy surviving or coping with concrete threats. During the early 1950's there was the frustration of seeing Soviet influence expand and not being able to counter it. Sputnik, in contrast, was a "threat" that could be met in a concrete fashion, and was. During the late 60's and the 70's there was the frustration of Vietnam (for some, the inability to force a military victory, for others, the inability to influence the political system), civil strife at home, and Watergate. Erratic inflation and unemployment cycles added to the tension by making continued personal prosperity more unpredictable. The resurgence of crank science in the Nineties seems to mirror that pattern. Or is it perhaps that society goes through periods when it can see what to do and does it, alternating with periods of uncertainty, lack of consensus, and restlessness when some people turn to crank theories for diversion?
Discussions of values in America have tended recently to focus on the traits of decades. The 1950's have been characterized as complacent, conformist, conservative, and anti-intellectual. The 60's have been considered activist, liberal, turbulent, socially-concerned, open-minded, and intellectually lively. The 70's have been labelled hedonistic and narcissistic, while the 80's have been labelled materialistic and individualistic and generally much like the 1950's.
The trends in crank literature suggest that this picture is severely in error. Either trends in fringe publishing bear no relation to the attitudes of society, a rather unlikely assumption, or the simple decade picture is wrong. I think the latter is the case, and that two major revisions are in order. The first is that the midpoints rather than the beginnings of decades are more likely to mark major transitions. The second, which will generate much more controversy, is that there was no major values shift between the late 60's and the 70's.
For the 1950's, the picture is pretty non-controversial. World War II perturbed the publishing market in so many ways that we can say little about trends in the mid 40's, but in the late 40's and early 50's it is clear we had a wave of mass irrationalism that included the first flying saucer sightings in 1947, the works of Velikovsky in 1950, and the Bridey Murphy mania in 1954. Politically, of course, this interval also saw the McCarthy Era. After about 1955, however, the level of all major fringe categories declined and stayed at a low level until about 1965. Then the level of fringe publishing began to climb, peaking in the early 1970's and slowly declining thereafter.
There are many lines of evidence that place the main values shift not in 1960 but about 1965. Most of the positive accomplishments of the 60's took place early in the decade and were the end result of processes that began in the 1950's. The administration of John F. Kennedy rested on a political power base built in the 1950's. If the rhetoric of the Sputnik era was at times hysterical, the improvement in public education that came as a result of the shock of Sputnik I was not. The passage of civil rights legislation was the result of a campaign that began in 1954 with the outlawing of school segregation by the U.S. Supreme Court. Finally, we should note the reforms that accompanied the papacy of John XXIII (1958-63). I am not sure whether these leaders helped create a time of rationality or whether a rational period enabled them to be unusually effective.
On the other hand, most of the traumatic events we associate with the 1960's, except for the assasination of John F. Kennedy in 1963, were concentrated in the latter half of the decade. The Vietnam War became a serious national issue after 1965, most of the campus riots took place in the latter half of the decade as well, as did most of the race riots. Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King were killed in 1968.
The apparent exception to this pattern is the Apollo Program, but even this is not an exception. The space program came under increasingly heavy attack in the late 1960's and was probably sustained only because of the commitments that had been made to it early in the decade, and especially the tendency to invoke John F. Kennedy's pledge to put a man on the moon before 1970. Once the first lunar landings were accomplished, the Apollo Program was terminated; in fact, the final three missions were cut from the program.
There is, in addition, good reason to believe the unattractive values often associated with the 1970's actually were formed in the late 1960's. For example, there is an unmistakable continuity between the political nihilism of the late 60's ("Down with the system") and the technological nihilism of the early and mid 1970's ("Down with technology - back to nature") as espoused by authors like Jacques Ellul, Lewis Mumford, Theodore Roszak, and Charles Reich. Indeed, many of the same people were active in both movements, and many of the leading anti-technologists developed and published their ideas during the late 1960's.
The egoism that has come to be a symbol of the 1970's can also be clearly traced into the 1960's, where the notion was widely espoused that individual conscience took precedence over social and legal norms, and where people who thumbed their noses at the System were often lionized and held up as role models. Few college students escaped reading Thoreau during that epoch! There was no major change in values after 1970; instead the causes that lent legitimacy to this value system lost their immediacy, and the egoism that once seemed a means to legitimate ends degenerated into unfocussed narcissism, or if one is especially pessimistic, became revealed for what it always was. As a final note, the 1970's have also been labelled hedonistic, but it is almost superfluous to note that sexual liberation and the widespread use of drugs are products not of the 1970's but of the late 1960's. Narcissism, I believe, is a fundamental ingredient of pseudoscience, and I believe pseudoscience as we have known it the last half century is essentially a Baby Boom phenomenon, driven by the ego needs of quite possibly the most narcissistic population cohort in history.
The late 1960's were unquestionably a time of intellectual vitality. Unfortunately, it appears that the freedom to challenge basic assumptions often was dissipated in anti-intellectualism; an uncritical rejection of assumptions is just as destructive as uncritical acceptance. It is intriguing to note that the long downward slide of SAT scores coincided with the great boom in fringe literature. Apparently intellectual freedom meant, for many people, the freedom not to be intellectual.
The use of terms such as "the 60's" has the advantage of providing convenient labels. It also serves certain ideological ends, particularly for those nostalgic for "the 60's" who feel threatened by the current questioning of the values of that period. The term "the 60's" allows the user to bask in the glow of John F. Kennedy's Camelot and the struggles of Martin Luther King, imbue the radicalism of the late 1960's with the same aura, and simultaneously disavow the narcissism of the 1970's. Similarly, using the label "the 50's" allows the user to tar the entire decade with the brush of McCarthyism.
The data, I argue, present a radically different picture. There was a definite wave of popular hysteria about 1947-1955 as Americans learned to adjust to Cold War tensions, but the interval 1955-1966 was apparently quite rationalistic (or at least not overtly irrational); perhaps more so than any period in recent American history. It was not all pure reason (this interval saw the anti-fluoridation panic, and the response to Sputnik was well out of proportion to the real threat) but the output of crank literature was the lowest of any period studied. After 1965, political unrest was paralleled by a boom in crank literature that lasted into the Eighties. It's interesting that both the Fifties and the Eighties, disdained by intellectuals for their conservatism, actually seem to have been pretty rational periods of history. The most recent quiet interval of crank publishing included the collapse of the Soviet Union.
In the Skeptical Inquirer article I concluded:
For the present, the data suggest cause for cautious optimism. Most of the indicators of fringe science have fallen off considerably from their 1970's peak. The Creationist Movement has lost its key court cases and has apparently retreated to its classical role of agitation within ultra-orthodox religious groups rather than trying to win open equality with science (this does not mean it has ceased to be a threat!). Indeed, a key reason for the failure of creationism has been the reluctance of major evangelists and denominations to risk tying their own credibility to creationism lest the bubble burst. Finally, recent writings of major evangelists abound in warnings about "backsliding", "worldliness", or "becoming lukewarm", a dead giveaway that their pitch has lost some of its appeal.
On the negative side, we have lost much. All that was gained in the interval 1965-1980 could have been gained more easily and rationally. The Grand Tour of the Solar System, proposed in the late 1960's, never took place. There was no U.S. mission to Halley's Comet. The state of science education is a shambles. Although no major educators have said so openly, many of the educational reforms that have been proposed in recent years amount to a return to pre-1965 methods and curricula. Funding for science has been cut and cut again; both by conservatives who oppose such spending on principle and by liberals who see it as diverting funds from social expenditures. The level of crank publishing has fallen sharply but the backlog of crank literature in print is still high, and there is plenty of fringe literature outside the book market. We should also bear in mind that absence of fringe literature does not necessarily mean an intellectual public. Recall that the early 1960's, a time of low fringe output, was also the time that television was called "The Vast Wasteland". Certainly it appears that many of the people who read Chariots of the Gods a few years ago are watching Dynasty rather than PBS; that is, fringe literature has given way not to intellectualism but to non-intellectual escapism.
On a positive note, I suspect the rise of micro-computers may also have played a role in diverting attention from fringe works, first of all by providing an intellectually stimulating alternative activity and second, by enabling millions of people to develop a feeling of technological competence and a sense of participation in science and technology.
It appears we are in a time of transition. I suspect fringe publishing will be relatively dormant for a while, then revive as a new generation of consumers arises. The task confronting us is to make the best possible use of this interval and to be prepared when (not if) the next fringe wave arrives.
From the perspective of 1998, most of this has been borne out. In addition to computers, I would now also add cable TV and its educational channels as an additional attractor for diverting people into real intellectual activities. Computers, on the other hand, have mostly converted users into passive consumers rather than active creators. The Eighties saw a steady but nevertheless low level of crank activity, but there has been a noticeable upsurge since the mid-Nineties.
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BETHESDA: Oliver Goss, a 20-year-old Australian golfer who only turned professional last week, fired a five-under par 66 on Friday to share the lead after the second round at the US PGA National.
Goss, last year's US Amateur runner-up, stood on six-under 136 at Congressional Country Club, level on top of the leaderboard with countryman Marc Leishman and Americans Patrick Reed and Ricky Barnes.
Goss and Leishman will play in Saturday's final pairing.
"Second week as a pro, see your name atop the board, gave me some confidence as I finished out the round," Goss said.
"I feel really great about my game."
Goss was the low amateur at this year's Masters, missed the cut two weeks ago at the US Open and made his pro debut last week at the Travelers Championship, also missing the cut.
"I didn't really have too many expectations," Goss said of the National.
"Obviously, I wanted to make the cut. Missing the cut last week, I was a little bit disappointed but, coming into this week, pretty appreciative and open-minded and just see what happened.
"That I'm atop the leaderboard, I couldn't be more pleased."
Goss opened and closed the front nine with birdies, added another at the 11th, sank a 34-foot birdie putt at the 14th and escaped a greenside bunker on the way to making a seven-foot birdie putt at the par-5 16th. He played without a bogey despite hitting only four of 14 fairways.
"I hit a lot of greens," Goss said. "I didn't hit it too far off the fairway. I got fortunate with some pretty good lies and I hit about four in the first cut, which helped. But I think I scrambled my way pretty good."
Tiger Woods struggled to a four-over-par 75 and missed the cut in his first event after a three-month layoff, but claimed he was encouraged ahead of July's British Open.
It was only the 10th time Woods had missed the cut in a US PGA Tour event since turning professional in 1996.
Goss is trying to play his way onto the PGA Tour but this led to some issues as he tried to enter the clubhouse and security guards didn't believe he was truly a player.
"I tried to get in the clubhouse and I don't have a PGA Tour credential because I'm not a member and they said, 'No, we can't let you in'," Goss said.
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The Fremantle native, who had played collegiately for the University of Tennessee, has made the transition seamlessly and would claim a place on the tour by winning the tournament and making his first pro paycheck the top prize of $US1.17 million ($A1.27 million).
"The main difference is you're playing against the best in the world," Goss said. "The depth is just crazy.
"Honestly, I really don't feel that much different out there. You're still playing golf and that's all I'm really feeling at the moment."
Aussie Stuart Appleby and American Hudson Swafford shared fifth, one shot behind the leaders, with Sweden's Freddie Jacobson and Americans Billy Horschel, George McNeill and Morgan Hoffmann on 138.
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Designed for Pro Tour Champion Phillip Soven, the S4 Wakeboard is super quick from rail to rail and features a progressive 3-stage rocker for explosive wake hits. The high end performance is there for those in need, but don't let it scare you away. The S4 has a "user-friendly" performance feel. Even the top pro needs a bit of forgiveness on the wake to help land their toughest tricks. Whether your tough trick is a 1080 or a 180, you'll be digging the extra love this board gives.
Quad V-hull and double concave give faster rail to rail, extra lift, and softer landings. Low volume rails are faster with better hold. Rail flex at the end delivers more drive out of turns. A center line, single vent detaches water flow across the center line at the end of the board for increased speed. Deep molded long base side fins provide superior hold at speed, while the cutaway trailing edge offers quicker release off the wake. Shallow blades at the top of inside V control water flow through inside concave for more control.
S4 134: 52.9" x 16.8". For 90-170 lbs. riders. S4 138: 54.5" x 17.1". For 130-210 lbs. riders. S4 142: 56" x 17.3". For 160-250 lbs. riders.
The Soven Pro Wakeboard Binding is matched perfectly to Phil Soven's powerfully technical riding style. The dual power straps up top combined with the laces down low make it simple to adjust the fit. You can easily crank up the support without sacrificing the comfort or flexibility. Considered the stiffest binding in the Liquid Force Pro Series, the Soven lets you charge the wake with confidence knowing it will stand strong under the toughest conditions.


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I had often thought that cards for Halloween was just another stab at "fleecing" the consumer public to obtain revenue. However that was not the case. This idea has been out for almost 100 years. Everyone thinks of Christmas cards and birthday cards and of course a Valentine card for one's sweetheart but Halloween cards were also once quite popular. Maybe even more so long ago than they are today. This one is a little on the "Why haven't you written"? as much as it is about the "haunting holiday" but anyway, here goes... Enjoy...


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Top prospect Sano a hit at TwinsFest
MINNEAPOLIS -- Third-base prospect Miguel Sano made his TwinsFest debut on Friday, and said he's excited for the upcoming season. Sano, 19, hit .258/.373/.521 with 28 homers and 100 RBIs in 129 games with Class A Beloit last season. MLB.com's Prospect Watch ranks him as the club's No. 1 prospect and No. 20 in baseball. He said it was difficult to adjust to the weather in the Midwest League last season, but he's looking forward to playing in Florida for Class A Advanced Fort Myers.
"It was pretty hard at first because I wasn't used to the cold coming from the Dominican," Sano said through a translator. "But once I adjusted to the cold, I was able to get over the elements and not think about it anymore." He's been working on his defense after making 42 errors at third base last season, and he thinks his experience playing in the Dominican Winter League will help him. Sano hit .265 with four homers and three doubles in 20 games with Estrellas de Oriente. "I was expecting the competition to be a little tougher," said Sano, who grew an inch and is now 6-foot-4. "But I was just taking it pitch by pitch and game by game and trying to improve."


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A DISGRACED peer has successfully sued Essex Police for unlawfully arresting him.
Former Tory peer and leader of Essex County Council, Lord Hanningfield won £3,500 in damages.
He sued the county's force for unlawful arrest and trespass after officers raided his home at dawn in an investigation over his County Hall expenses.
Lord Hanningfield, real name Paul White, was arrested on September 14, 2011, just five days after being released from prison after serving nine weeks of a nine-month jail term for fraud relating to his Parliamentary expenses.


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Bring the beauty and passion of the Palace of Versailles into your home with this ageless classic. The Maria Theresa has been the gold standard for elegance and grace in the chandelier world for hundreds of years. The Maria Theresa has delicate glass arms draped with plentiful amounts of classic clear crystal or the wildly popular golden teak crystal and is guaranteed to make your home feel like a palace. Available at AppliancesConnection
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Goodyear Dunlop recently approached designer Carl Gerard Elkins and Mierswa-Kluska and asked if they could produce something stunning using just the company's tire products. The underlying themes Goodyear Dunlop wanted to convey were strength, robustness, and armor. Beauty, especially in the designer business, is always determined by the beholder, but in this instance we're forgetting about the beauty. Elkins and Mierswa-Kluska's work with the tires look down right Transformer-ly cool and freaky.


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'They're really cute, and they're really adorable'
CORVALLIS, Ore. - They're a sure sign of spring.
And everywhere you look, new additions are arriving at Oregon State Unversity's Sheep Center.
Between now and March, 250 ewes are expected to give birth to close to 400 lambs.
"It's pretty much a tradition in Corvallis," said sheep unit manager Tom Nichols.
Monday marked the official start of lambing season at OSU. And the public is encouraged to come and check it out.
"They're really cute, and they're really adorable," said Natalie Puha who was at the center with her grandmother.
For decades the sheep center has opened it's doors for a a few weeks in the spring to visitors like Puha.
"Just seeing the adorable little lambs and being able to teach the next generations," said Puha's grandmother Lynn Sweeney, "it's just real wonderful."
But it's not just a chance for the public to watch. Nichols say's lambing season is also a great time for his students at OSU to learn too.
"We're doing some research, a lot of teaching," said Nichols. "A lot of our students are wanting to be vets, so this just gives them some real good hand on learning oppotunities."
The OSU Sheep Center is open Monday through Wednesday from 9 am to 2 pm.
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With beauty brands seeking to reach a target audience of regular skin care and sunscreen lotion buyers, the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) has released research that shows that this group of consumers is much more inclined to engage in online and mobile activities than the average adult, and they are also more prone to regularly view digital video programming. In addition, they are much more influenced in their beauty purchases by Internet ads than the average consumer (29% vs. 15%).
Detailed findings are compiled in The IAB Summer Skincare Digital Report, based on data from Prosper Insights, which demonstrates digital's influence on the lives and purchase behaviors of skincare and suntan lotion enthusiasts:
"The beauty of the report's findings is that it spotlights a tremendous opportunity for marketers to use interactive advertising in new and exciting ways to reach this audience," said Sherrill Mane, senior vice president, research, analytics and easurement, IAB. "Frequent purchasers of skin care and sun care products are heavily immersed in digital media across devices indicating a crucial need for advertisers to make sure digital is a major part of their media mix."
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Qualifications-Based Selection (QBS) is an objective and fair process used by owners to select architects, engineers, and land surveyors based on the design professionals' qualifications in relation to the project. A low bid process does not work when selecting design professionals.
Selecting design professionals is one of the keys to a successful project. The design will determine the construction costs, financial and functional feasibility as well as the operation and maintenance costs during the life of the project.
The Michigan QBS Coalition offers assistance to the public in implementing a QBS program. We provide helpful guides and forms as well as the services of a knowledgeable facilitator at no cost to the owner. The Coalition will not participate in the actual selection of design professionals or recommend firms for consideration.
QBS has been required by law for all federal projects since 1972. In Michigan, a resolution was passed in 1987 "urging the departments of Michigan state government and the political subdivisions of this state to select the services of a design professional based upon qualification". In 2002, a state law was passed that requires the Department of Management and Budget to use QBS. Numerous other state and local agencies use QBS because it works. The QBS process is endorsed by the American Public Works Association and included in the American Bar Association's Model Procurement Code for State and Local Governments.


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Incredible Surprise!I was curious as to what kind of shampoo Aveeno would create--and I'm so glad that my curiosity made me purchase it. I truly enjoy the lather and the scent. This shampoo gives loving care to my tresses; they are full, soft, shiny, and manageable. Frizz has been tamed. But it never weighs my hair down at all, and I appreciate that quality quite a bit. Wonderful product! — 4 years, 1 month agoGigiSD | 1102 reviews
Saved my hair!This is a really impressive product. It's a bit pricier than I would like, but after using it just 3 times, I felt a distinct difference in my hair. It is unbelievable--softer, and doesn't have that dry, crunchy feeling anymore. I am definitely hooked and I recommend using it for 3 washes before you make a decision. The first times I used it I wasn't impressed, the second time was a little better,...read more and the third-- WOW. I have EXTREMELY dry hair with split ends, and if this can help my hair, it can help anybody! — 6 years agoLittleBunny | 545 reviews
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After work behind the boards both for himself and as a purveyor of tracks for Strange Music artists Kutt Calhoun and Stevie Stone, Kansas City product Tali Blanco steps out with his own solo debut, Gettn 2 It. He largely delegates the production work, as the intro is the only track on the seven-song EP accredited to Blanco himself. Trackstarz, Demolish Beatz and DJ Pain 1 round out the cast of producers, but Tali Blanco's time providing tracks for his cross-town brethren pays dividends in the form of a feature from Tech N9ne. And the Strange Music co-founder delivers with a potent verse that's equally funny, lecherous and bilingual.
Tali occasionally falls flat with punchlines and subjects that border on being trite. After spending the bulk of his album's intro admonishing generic emcees to stop playing follow the leader, "No Worries" recycles some of the same current Rap tropes (turning up, both Molly and Miley and the well worn "pull up to the club…" theme). Similarly, the aforementioned "Salute Me," contains the following:
"See I / Be upon my grown man B.I. / And I'm so fly, these bitches think that I / Am they whole sky / I'm like no lie / I'm a Big Mac, and you's a small fry…"
Those missteps aside, the EP's strongest moments don't come in the form of attempts at lyrical pyrotechnics, but rather when Tali Blanco is playing to his strengths: crafting rhymes the average 99-percenter can relate to over tailor-made production. "Gettn 2 It" belies its floss-worthy title, as it's actually a working man's anthem decorated by deep 808s. Tali Blanco's ability to run through the random details of his day such as praying, lighting up some reefer in his car and making sure to wash his hands after a morning piss are the type of relatable quirks artists like Devin the Dude and Curren$y have used to build careers. In this case, the KC spitter isn't so much selling cool as indirectly preaching the gospel of the blue-collar hustle.
For an official debut, Tali Blanco is surprisingly adept with the rhythm and pacing of his flows. "Timeless" is a clinic in double-time rhyming, powered by his expert use of a four syllable cadence over an airy backdrop. Despite the subject matter or production, Tali Blanco's delivery remains varied and technically precise. And his time pulling double duty as a rapper/producer serves him well; he expertly balances both, keeping the production choices interesting and choosing tracks that compliment him.
Gettn 2 It is a collection of melodic, endearing Rap that by and large doesn't take itself too seriously. Tali Blanco stays in his lane of working-class anecdotes matched with rhythmic production and delivery—which benefit him on the few occasions when he's overly reliant on clichés. He delivers a solid debut that is uniquely Midwestern but easily appreciated by listeners from any region.


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The Duke & Dutchess Of Cambridge Postpone Honeymoon! Also, Kate's Dress On Display? [VIDEO]
When Kate Middleton searched for the perfect wedding dress, I wonder if she knew that 23 million Americans would be watching her walk down the isle to marry Prince William, and that there would be a worldwide audience of over a billion!
Friday, April 29th, a couple hundred Channel 957 listeners arrived at Celebration Cinema North to eat cucumber finger sandwhiches while witnessing the newest royal couple take their vows at Westminster Abbey. Later, I found out that the new Duke and Duchess of Cambridge postponed their honeymoon.


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I have used Rhodiola for the past few months and it helped with depression and exhaustion. I decided to add Eleuthero and Schizandra as well. Since starting to use Eleuthero I have increased my energy even further. I feel very calm and composed compared to before.
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I have used Rhodiola for the past few months and it helped with depression and exhaustion. I decided to add Eleuthero and Schizandra as well. Since starting to use Eleuthero I have increased my energy even further. I feel very calm and composed compared to before.
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Since I gave birth to baby number 2, coming back to work has not been easy. Extreme fatigue with competitive job is difficult. I take 2 of these in the morning and the result is just amazing. The Energy is unbelievable and sometimes take additional capsule mid day if required. Don't recommend taking at night, as had difficulty sleeping when I did
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after giving birth to twins I never quite felt like my old self again. after two years my naturopath suggested this little miracle in a pill and it worked. the tiredness is gone and my energy is back. feels great!
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This really works for me. I use it for lung health (especially warding off colds, coughs or even serious chest infections), anti-stress, energy-boost and circulation. If you're a woman, this is very helpful in making your period come, if it's running late, like in cases of ovarian cysts. It's also a great supplement in the winter, makes you feel nice and warm. I always thought Sun Eleuthero was the best brand, but this one is pretty close.
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This gets me through a work night on third shift. Nice and energized feeling, not jittery in the least. I feel like I can handle anything that comes my way, without irritation.
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The Long-sleeve T-Shirt Argentina The Sound is the long sleeve version of the popular favorite t-shape. It provides comfort and control over most weathers and can also be worn underneath a t-shirt or a shirt for extra protection.
Put Argentina The Sound on the finest combed jersey which feels soothing against your skin. Shoulder-to-shoulder taping guarantees long life and a good fit. Argentina Long-sleeve T-Shirt is available in 10 different color options. Heather Grey: 80% Peruvian Cotton 20% Polyester, Remaining Colors: 100% Cotton.
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