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Welcome to the Monday Minute!
Have you ever felt looked down upon because of your age? Have you ever felt that you were too young to be taken seriously or too old to be thought of as relevant? What does the bible say about that?
Today Stephanie Page and Kari Day are talking about 1 Timothy 4:12 on the Monday Minute. Listen to the 2 minute audio, then Join in on the conversation by telling us your thoughts and experience in the comments below or on our Facebook page.
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Ben Affleck, in full Benjamin Geza Affleck-Boldt, (born August 15, 1972, Berkeley, California, U.S.), American actor and filmmaker who played leading roles in action, drama, and comedy films but who was perhaps more renowned for his work as a screenwriter, director, and producer.
Affleck grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he formed a lasting friendship with his neighbour Matt Damon. Affleck's first role was in a Burger King commercial, and in 1984 he appeared in the Public Broadcasting Service's miniseries The Voyage of the Mimi. He continued acting as a teenager in the TV movie Hands of a Stranger (1987) and in The Second Voyage of the Mimi (1988). Affleck briefly attended both the University of Vermont and Occidental College but left before graduating, to focus on acting. During his early career his height and stature often got him cast as a bully, and he played minor characters in independent films such as the cult hits Dazed and Confused (1993) and Kevin Smith's Mallrats (1995). Smith was impressed by Affleck and cast him as the lead in his next film, Chasing Amy (1997).
Affleck and Damon, who were living together in Los Angeles, were frustrated by the roles offered them and decided to develop a one-act play by Damon into a script. The result was Good Will Hunting (1997), a drama that starred Damon as Will Hunting, a brilliant mathematician working as a janitor at MIT, and Affleck as his childhood friend; the film also featured Affleck's brother, Casey. A critical and commercial success, the film received nine Academy Award nominations, with Affleck and Damon winning the Oscar for best original screenplay.
Good Will Hunting transformed Affleck's career. He subsequently starred in the action film Armageddon (1998); Shakespeare in Love (1998), a period piece written by playwright Tom Stoppard; and another Smith film, Dogma (1999), in which Affleck and Damon portrayed fallen angels. In Pearl Harbor (2001) he played an enthusiastic American pilot fighting alongside the British in World War II. Although the film was largely panned by critics, it was a box-office success. Branching out, Affleck also began working as a producer, most notably on Project Greenlight (2001, 2003, 2005), a reality show that documented aspiring filmmakers. In 2002 he appeared as CIA agent Jack Ryan in the successful film The Sum of All Fears, which was based on Tom Clancy's espionage best seller. Affleck then starred opposite Jennifer Garner in Daredevil (2003), the film adaptation of the popular comic book series.
In 2003 Affleck also costarred with Jennifer Lopez in Gigli, which received scathing reviews. He and Lopez became engaged, and the intense tabloid coverage of their two-year relationship overshadowed his career. He subsequently began dating Garner. The couple married in 2005 and in 2015 announced that they were divorcing. Although he continued acting, it was not until 2006 that Affleck returned to prominence, this time as the former Superman actor George Reeves in the biopic Hollywoodland, a role that earned him critical praise and a Golden Globe Award nomination. In 2009 Affleck starred in He's Just Not That into You, a romantic comedy that also featured Jennifer Aniston; the crime thriller State of Play; and the workplace satire Extract.
Affleck's credits from the 2010s include The Company Men (2010), a drama about corporate downsizing; Terrence Malick's impressionistic romance To the Wonder (2012); and the online-gambling thriller Runner Runner (2013). In 2014 Affleck starred as a man implicated in his wife's disappearance in David Fincher's suspenseful Gone Girl, based on the novel by Gillian Flynn. He later donned superhero gear again, this time as Batman in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) and Justice League (2017). In 2016 Affleck also portrayed a math savant who works as a bookkeeper for gangsters and drug cartels in the thriller The Accountant.
In 2007 Affleck directed his first feature film, Gone, Baby, Gone. The crime drama, which was based on Dennis Lehane's novel about two Boston detectives' search for a missing girl, was a critical success. He mined similar terrain for his next effort behind the camera, The Town (2010), casting himself as the head of a crew of Boston bank robbers. Affleck later directed and starred in Argo (2012), the true story of a fake film production that provided cover for a CIA rescue mission during the Iran hostage crisis. For his direction of the critically acclaimed drama, Affleck won a Golden Globe Award, and the movie's Academy Award for best picture netted him a statuette as one of its producers. He returned to the director's chair for Live by Night (2016), a Prohibition-era drama that he adapted from a Lehane novel. Affleck also starred in the film, playing a gangster.
Affleck also was active in politics, and he frequently appeared at Democratic rallies and as a guest on political talk shows, such as Real Time with Bill Maher. In addition, he was involved with a number of causes, including efforts to end the violence in Congo (Kinshasa).

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Cybersecurity Bill Supporters Regroup As Executive Order Looms
The Hill reports Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-MD), the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, plans to re-introduce the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), with the committee's chairman Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI) this year.
CISPA passed the House in 2012 despite significant organized opposition from privacy advocates, but was not considered by the Senate as it focused on its own cybersecurity proposal — one which also stalled, leading to reports the White House plans to issue a cybersecurity executive order calling for the creation of a voluntary program including minimum safety standards in critical infrastructure sectors.
CISPA proposed making information sharing between private companies and the intelligence agencies easier in order to allow collaborative responses to cyberattacks, likely at the expense of internet users' privacy. While the bill enjoyed the support of many major companies including Facebook, Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, Symantec, AT&T and Verizon, civil liberties organizations expressed major doubts about the proposal and continue to do so. In a comment about renewed interest in CISPA to ThinkProgress today, Gregory T. Nojeim, Director of the Project on Freedom, Security & Technology at the Center for Democracy & Technology said:
"CISPA is deeply flawed. Under a broad cybersecurity umbrella, it permits companies to share user communications directly with the super secret National Security Agency and permits the NSA to use that information for non-cybersecurity reasons. This risks turning the cybersecurity program into a back door intelligence surveillance program run by a military entity with little transparency or public accountability. Members should seriously consider whether CISPA — which inflamed grassroots activists last year and was under a veto threat for these and other flaws — is the right place to start."
The White House is expected to release a cybersecurity executive order after the State of the Union, although rumors of its imminence have been floating around since September. Nojeim noted that last year there were reasons to be optimistic about the cybersecurity executive order when rumors of it first emerged — including the White House's threat to veto CISPA.
The executive order wouldn't be the first foray into cybersecurity for President Obama: He signed a secret directive that redefined some cybersecurity actions previously deemed offensive as defensive in October as part of an effort to enable military personal to be more proactive in thwarting cyberattacks. The move occurred around the same time Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta warned of an impending "cyber-Pearl Harbor."
The threat of cyber attacks on public and private infrastructure is very real, as demonstrated by the huge jump in incidents involving critical infrastructure requiring the involvement of U.S. Industrial Control System Cyber Emergency Response Team jumping from 9 in 2009 to 198 in 2011.
Outside of traditionally defined critical infrastructure, other sectors have also been the target of recent high profile cybersecurity breaches, including many major newspapers and banks.
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In the run up to the Consumer Electronics Show, Schwinn has announced that they will start shipping a device that uses bluetooth and lights to show you which way to go while you're out riding. Engadget reports "The idea is pretty simple: Download the product's iOS or Android app, put in your destination, choose the best route and then let the CycleNav point which way to go, using one of three LED arrows. "
Holy Hell that's a bad idea.
Let me see if I have this right? "Simply" download an app and put in an address and then stare at my handlebars while lights blink R2-D2 style and direct me into traffic? What happens when I come to an intersection with more options than right or left? What happens if I'm looking down at these lights when a Mack truck goes by.
This thing will cost $59.99, a price much higher than a good iPhone mount, a solution that would at least allow you to use the same iPhone you had to use to download the directions to navigate without so much confusion and possible death.
Please Schwinn, kill this product before launch.
More comedy from Schwinn here in their press release.


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This is my favourite project from October. It's a bookbinding class (of course) and has
Thanks for indulging my "twisted" ideas - haha. The fact that you guys still sign up for classes after all these years is something I am ever so grateful for. Hope you had fun eh? More bookbinding to come? I still have tons of string left ;)


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Windows Server Essentials 2012/2012 R2 Log Files
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The Times, They Are A-Changin' Part I
Here we are on June 11, 60 games into the 2010 MLB season. The New York Yankees are currently sitting in second place in the American League Eastern Division standings. The only team standing between the Bronx Bombers and first place is the Tampa Bay Rays.
Through 60 games last season, the Yanks were 34-26 while this year they are 37-23. In terms of their record, the team is doing three games better this year than they were this far into last year's campaign. But the record is just the record. The numbers are just the numbers.
Is this the same team we saw in 2009?
The answer is no.
As I have noticed the differences between '09 and '10, I will be writing a multiple-part blog over the next few days pointing out what is different in terms of the Yankees, whether it is good or bad. For the first part, I opted to write about…
The Core Four
The first thing I have noticed a difference in…well, in some ways.
Although Derek Jeter is still a god in New York, there's no denying the fact that his age is (just about) catching up to him. He can still hit, as evidenced by his .296 batting average this season, but on defense he looks more off than I can ever remember seeing him.
Jeter can still make beautiful web gems–I haven't forgotten about his amazing jump throw on May 26 against the Minnesota Twins. But his lateral range is just not what is used to be. According to many people I have talked to, he was never the greatest defender anyway.
I never believed that. Jeter's Gold Gloves and patented mid-air spin speak for themselves. Unlike last year however, (so far) this year he has not looked like the Jeter of old. He only has three errors this year and last year he only committed eight, which isn't a bad number.
Jeter is who he is. As Ozzie Guillen, manager of the Chicago White Sox, said earlier this season, "Jeter is god. Who wouldn't want him on their team?" He is right; there really is not anything bad I can say about the Captain. It's almost taboo as a Yankee fan to badmouth or try to negate Jeter's credibility.
While this is true, it is apparent Jeter is aging–which has nothing to do with how good he is, it's just a fact of life and what unfortunately happens to all of us! The Yankee Captain will be 36 by the end of the month and I just wonder how many more years he has left in him.
Then there's Jorge Posada.
The Yankee catcher was injured on May 16, taking a foul ball off his foot behind the plate and sustaining a fracture. He went to the 15-day disabled list and missed about two weeks before returning to the lineup on June 2–as a designated hitter.
Since coming back from his injury, Posada has not caught a game and has been relegated to the DH spot–a spot he has not been very productive in. In the eight games he has played upon his return, the 38 year-old catcher (who will be 39 in August) has only collected three hits in 27 at-bats.
Meanwhile, Francisco Cervelli has been clipping together a decent season in Posada's absence. The 24 year-old is currently hitting .280. Even though he does not hit for power and has no homers, he has 25 RBIs on the year.
Looking at it statistically, Cervelli is hitting four points higher than Posada for average and has 10 more runs batted in. Not only that, but it seems Cervelli is becoming the likely candidate to succeed Posada. There was a stretch where Cervelli caught nine games in a row before Joe Girardi had to plug the other backup catcher Chad Moeller behind the plate.
I remember once thinking to myself, "Who does Cervelli think he is? The starting catcher?!"
But hey, it has not been a bad thing. Cervelli has done a wonderful job and possesses great offensive numbers with two outs and runners in scoring position. I can only hope he generates a little bit more power and knocks some homers out of the park.
As for Posada, I hope he can remain healthy. In recent years he has certainly had his share of injuries and it is perfectly understandable. After all, he is playing arguably the most difficult position on the field; catchers have to take the most abuse and punishment of all baseball players.
After 2011 Posada's contract is up and he will be 40. Will he be a Yankee after next year? Will he be able to catch every day? Will he retire?
All of these questions remain to be seen. But any way it goes, things will be different. And as far as the Yankee catching situation goes at press time, in some ways they already are. Posada has not been an everyday catcher
Now onto Mariano Rivera.
A lot of people might say really the only thing that has changed about the Great Rivera is his age. From '09-'10 Rivera turned from 39 to 40 years of age.
But if you remember back on April 30, Rivera made a relief appearance against the Chicago White Sox. He suffered an apparent rib injury in his left side and did not make another appearance for over a week after he got hurt.
I don't remember him ever getting injured like that last season or missing an extended period of time the way he did last month. At the beginning of the season he was asked whether or not he would keep playing beyond 2010, seeing as how his contract expires at the end of the year and of course considering his age.
He said he does not yet know what his plans are and that he will decide after the season is over. The Yankees do however need to start thinking about what to do when Rivera's playing days are up or if he does not come back to the team next year–whatever the reason may be.
I have a bad feeling that if the Yankees do not make the right choices, Rivera will not be the closer next year. Worse off, they won't find a suitable replacement for him and they could be reduced to a "closer-by-committee" situation. One day it could be Joba Chamberlain, the next it could be David Robertson, and so on and so forth.
Surely nobody wants that to happen. If Rivera decides to play again, I think the Yanks need to get him back, or at least show him respect by making him a generous offer.
Yet, it's not like they really went full throttle after Hideki Matsui this past off-season. Matsui was a Yankee for seven years, was a fan-favorite, respected by the entire organization, and (oh, by the way) the reigning World Series Most Valuable Player.
He did so much for the Yankees during his tenure in pinstripes. Matsui was beloved, and helped the team regain the title. What worries me is that the Yanks did not go for him and he is close to four years younger than Rivera.
Who knows what will happen at the end of the season. We will have to wait until it plays out, but if and when Rivera leaves, what happens next? This upcoming off-season we will get the answer.
Last but never the least, Andy Pettitte.
Despite his age of 37 (he will turn 38 on June 15 {which is also my birthday!}) Pettitte is putting together a remarkable year. If he wins tonight against his former team the Houston Astros, Pettitte will own a powerful record of 8-1 on the year.
He currently has a 2.47 ERA, which is good for third in the American League behind David Price of the Rays and Doug Fister of the Seattle Mariners.
Pettitte was however taken out of the game on May 5 vs. the Baltimore Orioles with inflammation in his left elbow. He tossed five innings and registered the win, but was forced to miss a following start because of the injury.
Another concern is the fact that Pettitte has been on the disabled list five times in his career, all as a result of problems in his pitching elbow. Since he skipped the start after leaving on May 5 there haven't been any more problems or concerns with Pettitte.
Barring a catastrophe or any more pitching problems though, Pettitte looks like he will be an asset to the Yankees down the stretch run, which is no surprise. He has been doing it for years and years; pitching in big games and always coming up big when it matters most. But again the question comes up:
How much longer can he keep it up? He only signed on for one year at the outset of the season and like Rivera, his future is up in the air at the moment. He is unsure whether or not he is going to pitch or pack it in after 2010.
Pettitte's age and his desire to spend more time with his family have long been a topic of discussion in terms of his career. Even before he returned to the Yankees in 2007 many analysts and baseball writers speculated as to whether or not he would call it quits and retire or keep going.
Obviously he opted to come back home to the Yankees where he started and he was welcomed with open arms. Since his comeback in '07, Pettitte has been a rock in the Yankees' rotation. This season things have not changed. But next year will they?
They say age is nothing but a number. It's not about how old you are but about how old you feel. But considering the recent and apparent way things have been going for the "Core Four" Yankees, I have to disagree.
Age can and eventually will catch up, and we are beginning to see it amongst the most beloved Yankees of our era. This quartet of special Bombers can still get it done on the diamond, despite the obstacles they have had to hurdle this season.
But yet again I ask… how much longer can they do this….?


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One hundred year old house up in toronto ON. Where the floor meets the walls there is a really cold draft. The floor is really cold. The outside of the house is brick and the inside of the house is floor - old maple flooring and walls - old plaster horse hair.
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DX'07 VIP Biography - Alfred Kurzmaul
Tiger Tank Veteran
Budapest, October 1944
Catch a sneak peak of one of next year's Dragon Expo VIP, Tiger Tank veteran Alfred Kurzmaul!
Mr. Kurzmaul's King Tiger tank will be featured in two of this year's items offered at the show, the 1/35 Model Kit, and the 1/72 Dragon Armor.
Alfred Kurzmaul was born in Schwarzenbach an der Saale, Germany on June 23, 1922.
At age 17, Mr. Kurzmaul volunteered for service in the Panzerwaffe so he could choose the branch he wanted to serve in. In the spring of 1941, he received his training as a gunner and loader and then took special driver training for the Panzer III and Panzer IV. After his initial training period was over, he was posted to Panzer-Regiment 25 with the 7.Panzer-Division at Erlangen.
Mr. Kurzmaul turned 19 on June 23, 1941, the day after Germany attacked the Soviet Union. His unit was transferred east in July where, as part of Panzer-Gruppe 3, it fought continuously in the Central Sector until being transferred back to France in May 1942 for rest and refitting.
During this time, Mr. Kurzmaul was reassigned to s.Pz.Abt.502 for training on the new Tiger tank at Paderborn. He was then assigned to s.Pz.Abt.503 and stayed with the unit until the end of the war except for a brief period of time in the spring of 1944 when he was transferred to Wunsdorf, south of Berlin, to participate in some driving tests being conducted on the Tiger I.
He returned to his unit in the fall of 1944 when it was re-equipped with the new Tiger II. In early October 1944, the unit was entrained and sent to Hungary where, under the command of SS-Sturmbannfuhrer Otto Skorzeny, 2. and 3.Kompanie took part in the occupation of the Burgberg castle, seat of the Hungarian Government, to ensure they would not capitulate to the Russians. After the successful conclusion to this operation, the unit was sent back to the Eastern Front where it continued to fight until the end of the war.
Just before the war ended however, Mr. Kurzmaul became ill and was sent back to a hospital in Germany near his hometown. He was fortunate to still be there when the war ended.
Mr. Kurzmaul and his family immigrated to Canada in 1956 where they settled down in Montreal. After his retirement, he and his wife moved to Calgary to be close to their son and his family.
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RTOS player Express Logic has this week teamed with multicore communications company PolyCore Software (PSI) to extend cooperation aligned toward increased support of multicore platforms. To enable applications to adapt to Tensilica's multicore configuration, PSI's Poly-Platform now supports Express Logic's ThreadX RTOS on Tensilica's Xtensa multicore devices.
Tensilica is an independent Santa Clara based company specializing in cores that work in the system-on-a-chip (SOC) dataplane, where the hardest data-intensive work is done.
With support for the Multicore Association's Multicore Communications API (MCAPI), Poly-Platform is a collection of productivity tools and a runtime communications stack for multicore architectures. It is positioned as an engineering tool for configuration and reconfiguration application tasks. The technology supports rebuilding for new multicore solutions, and existing code may be reused and scaled from one to many cores.
Express Logic's ThreadX RTOS is a small-footprint fast run-time environment that supports Tensilica Xtensa processors, and now supports Poly-Platform's operation on Xtensa multicore devices.
"The combination of ThreadX and Poly-Platform for Xtensa provides multicore configurability from the application level to the silicon," said Ted Gribb, vice president of sales, PolyCore Software. "This capability optimizes the application-specific multicore platform while accelerating time to market."
"Poly-Platform provides ThreadX customers with an integrated platform that quickly moves single-core applications to many core architectures," said William Lamie, president, Express Logic. "PolyCore Software simplifies the multidimensional challenge of programming in a multicore environment. Our joint offering achieves faster time-to-market, a critical factor in succeeding in today's highly competitive marketplace."


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CANNABIS CULTURE – Learn the basics of opening a Volcano vapor lounge. You can run the hippest joint in town!
[CC Editor's note: This article is an updated and revamped-for-2012 version of "How to Open a Cannabis Cafe" from CC #58.]
If you've dreamed of having an Amsterdam-like cafe in your hometown, it's not impossible. Of course, you won't be selling pot; that's not going to fly in Vancouver, Toronto or anywhere else in 2012 at anything other than a med-pot club (see "How To Open A Compassion Club", CC #57), but you can accommodate pot smokers by providing a sanctuary for them, one that is both self-sustaining and spiritually satisfying.
Your vapor lounge is the front line in our cultural revolution! It's not important to sell the marijuana. Your vapor lounge is where our cannabis community comes to be together, to be who they really are, in unity and enlightenment. You will be the local center for the cannabis culture. You can make your dreams of commercial success and personal reward come alive, and quickly become the 'voice' of the cannabis community in your area.
The pot-puffing lounge not only ensures enthusiasts have a fun and amazing time, but it keeps the cash register ringing. To be successful, and to keep the doors open, a well-developed income stream is critical. Again, grass sales are strictly prohibited unless you're opening a med-pot store, but this how-to is about a glorified, pays-its-own-way pothead hang out!
Vapor lounges have become weeds that police and politicians find increasingly difficult to yank. Enforcement priorities or lack of manpower allow these toke-friendly places to operate in major Canadian metropolitan centers, and med-pot friendly US states, mostly unmolested.
Readers who feel their smaller or conservative community also deserves a place where cannabis enthusiasts can peaceful imbibe the herb should anticipate plenty of body blows, and a few head shots if they choose to set up shop.
Marc Emery, referred to by his devoted fans as the Prince of Pot, states in the YouTube documentary entitled "YONGESTERDAM the movie":
You need a community that's typically urban to get away with this kind of overt smoking – like here I am smoking and everyone smokes here – well if you do that even in Montreal you would get shut down, but if you do that in Vancouver, you're okay; in Toronto, you're okay. But there is almost nowhere else in Canada where you are 'okay' to do that (YouTube).
Potheads in Thunder Bay, Canada or in Brisbane, Australia, or even Chicago, USA deserve to have a liberating Vansterdam/Yongesterdam-like ganja experience. But you have to be realistic about the local 'climate' as you arrange your business plan.
Chris 'Goodster' Goodwin claims a wise capitalist can do the math and add up how much it costs to open a vapor lounge, but wonders if he will stay open after the first cops come in and say, "this is illegal, and we will be back to arrest". Are you up for it?
Many people ask lounge operators, "how do you get away with this?" or "what loophole do you use?" But the answer is we aren't getting away with anything. We don't use any loophole. "Why don't they bust you?" Well, sometimes they do…
The simple answer to how these vapor lounges exist, is the willingness of the owner and staff to open for business everyday. Goodwin learned it's best to tell any police that enter his full name, birth date, that he is solely responsible for all the cannabis in the lounge, and will comply with every reasonable request.
In the begining, some of the first vaporizer cafes were raided and shut down, like the Herbal Tea Café, Marc Emery's Cannabis Café and Hemp BC, Da Kine, Kindred Café, and the Up In Smoke Café. So how do these NEW Vapor Lounges stay open?
In 2003, Chris Goodwin opened Hamilton Ontario's Up In Smoke Cafe in a working class, social democratic stronghold (with both the provincial and federal seats held by the New Democratic Party, Canada's left-wing representatives) in a town with a population of a half-million. He counted over 200 police visits and 35 patron arrests in his two years in business. Hamilton liked the Up In Smoke Cafe; at least, the local populace did.
Goodwin began limiting arrests dramatically with his members-only vapor lounge concept, a lesson learned after at first allowing smoking throughout the entire facility. Long-time pot activist Marc Emery first questioned the profitablility of placing a few couches in a room with a vaporizer on a coffee table, as stoners may hang out all day, limiting sales. But Goodwin saw too many of his regulars get popped when police would come in. Punishment for first-timers is usually a fine and a criminal record, but repeated arrests make a place a heat score, not a chill-out space.
Still, Up In Smoke Cafe was the hottest, most happening, and busiest lounge in Ontario, combining radical retail with in-your-face cannabis activism. Goodwin himself has been charged many times, and raided a few, but was determined to beat those charges with good legal representation.
Sales were brisk, and the Up In Smoke Cafe saga started a buzz that couldn't be stopped even after three raids by police, though the location closed in 2006 with Goodwin spending six months in jail. Up In Smoke was a wonderful two year experiment in aggressive retail activism. Goodwin and his Hashmob were able to provide the rest of us with some excellent lessons on what can work and what tactic has drawbacks.
Goodwin also helped Peter Melanson open Melanheadz Vapor Lounge on Hamilton mountain, and the BCMP Vapor Lounge opened for business around the same time. The benifit of the membership-based lounge was clearly safer.
The Vapor Lounge did not just arrive out of nowhere; it was a result of a series of charismatic events that have normalized their activities.
Their legitimacy revolves around the idea of pot as a philosophy, in which Marc Emery states "Pot is the only multiracial, completely tolerant philosophy in the world; most people don't understand the benefit" (YouTube).
There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come, said Victor Hugo, and Goodwin, with the help of Dom Cramer, re-opened Up In Smoke Cafe as Vapor Central in Toronto's Yongesterdam district. Goodwin and his crew continue to be some of the most visible and uncompromising cannabis legalization activists in Ontario.
Wait a minute. Isn't pot illegal?
Yes, but cannabis is Goodwin's life. It's his passion. It's his reason for being on this earth. It's his calling. As a protégé of Libertarian activist, Marc Emery, Goodwin was mentored for 10 years to use the direct action tactics of peaceful open civil disobedience to repeal what he calls "unjust cannabis laws" and the vapor lounge is on the front lines. The vapor lounges exist thanks to unrelenting activists like Goodwin and Emery.
12 Steps To Opening A Vapor Lounge In 2012
- Developing An Income Stream
- Opening Operating Budget
- Landlords & Location
- Bylaws, Inspectors & Inspections, Neighbors & Legal
- Insurance & Lawyers
- Lounge & Retailing 411
- Putting Food on the Menu
- Competition? Yes.
- Free Advertising & Promotion
- Membership Has Its Privileges – Yes Pothead, There Are Rules
- Pot Partners
- The Small Business Sacrifice & NEW TIPS
Developing An Income Stream
Until the repeal of prohibition, the toke-friendly joint needs to earn all its income from non-grass sales. As the owner you're only providing a liberating spot to engage in intelligent conversation, which sometimes includes remarks such as 'Don't bogart that joint,' or 'Here, try this Afghani hash.'
But you need to earn dosh to provide the hangout. Munchies make money. However, the restaurant industry has an incredibly high belly-up rate. Basically the only difference between your lounge and a cafe is the target market. One proprietor is seeking those who like marijuana; and the other, food.
Bongs, rolling papers, cool pipes, and cannabis book sales are obvious choices to keep revenue flowing from your target market, potheads. Vapor lounges charge $5 at the door, which includes the use of a Volcano Vaporizer. Bong Rentals can range from $2 to $12 for Red Eye, Gear, Hoss and RooR.
Cafe cannabusinesses like the Hot Box Cafe (Toronto), Up In Smoke Cafe (Hamilton), and The Amsterdam Cafe (Vancouver) are a combination of retail ganja goods and cafe services (food and drink in a cannabis-friendly environment). Pot patrons have to buy something before toking, even if it's just a tasty beverage.
Opening Operating Budget
A fiscally frugal person can get a place up and running for around $10,000 – $20,000 in a small to medium size city.
Reasonable rent is critical; pay attention to any add-ons such as property tax, business tax, property management, and utilities. Reasonable rent is determined by foot traffic in front of that business, store visibility to commuters in cars and buses, condition of the premises, whether it's zoned for cafe/retail/restaurant already, and what amenities (like plumbing, kitchen, air conditioning) are included.
Renovations usually cost double plus take twice as long as you estimate, meaning if you need to renovate, everything costs more than you planned and takes longer to do than you thought! Be careful: expensive renovations can blow budgets and sink you before you even get launched.
Couches, TV's, Volcano Vaporizers, glass bongs all add up, but all make money. Glass should always be clean and ready for rent or purchase.
A starter vapor lounge could easily do it with 5 volcanos, 5 bongs, 5 couches, 5 tables with 20 chairs, seating for 30-50, a fridge, a stereo, and a few TVs. Anticipate working alone with volunteers or laborers paid daily. Sales should be $250-$300 a day to start. Expenses should include a good large sign out front.
Think in terms of growth, after you rent out the vapes and bongs you started with a few hundred times, add more as you need them.
From this moment forward, take a good hard look at how every vapor lounge works. Look at how these places use space efficiently. Pick the brains of owners and staff by learning from them. They have made the mistakes and learned from them, and now you see their most efficient marketing layout for their store. Study every vapor lounge you visit.
Search second-hand shops for decor that provides an authentic eclectic vibe. The decor dovetails into your world-view on what a cool pot hangout/refuge would look like. There are always cool historical cannabis artifacts available on eBay, as well as posters, handbills, and other cannaphernalia. Cheap and effective wallpaper can be made from High Times and Cannabis Culture centerfolds. You can't go wrong there. When providing reading material, make sure customers have to buy the latest magazines or books. Free things lying around tend to get taken.
Landlords and Location
Unless you have $1 Million to buy your own building, you will have to lease or rent. The great thing is, with honesty you will find, after being rejected once or twice, an old hippy activist that owns a property and will enjoy re-living his revolutionary 60's past vicariously through your vapor lounge endeavors (or another friendly scenario).
First-floor store fronts are more exposed to scrutiny, and more expensive. With most modern vapor lounges, there is a small reception area in the front, with customers going past a wall , door or front desk to access the vapor lounge.
Second-floor locations, normally avoided for retail stores, can be the safest alternative, and half the rent. With toking tourism, sometimes you want to be just off the beaten path, a slightly sly way to be successful without any complaints.
Bylaws, Inspections, Neighbors and Legal
Nail down every permit before installing a kitchen and creating the environment. That experience alone may discourage a kitchen installation!
Applying for permits at city hall is simple, but every inspector that city hall can throw at your cannabusiness building, food, fire, police is going to bring their clipboard down. Anticipate serious nickel and dimeing on all the little things.
Don't be hostile. Stay positive. Ask questions. Ensure the handy fellows doing the construction work at the Opening Soon site understand the building bylaws. There's nothing worse than ripping out completed work because it's not up to code.
Read bylaws relating to your cannabusiness. Always open in a place zoned "retail" or "cafe" (both should permit a retail component, but will only allow you seating). "Restaurant" zoned space is good.
Cities across Canada are passing bylaws banning indoor tobacco smoke. Goodwin says these laws don't affect vapor lounges in Ontario. "It's only for tobacco, not marijuana; but there could be something about having ashtrays on the table, which is why we use heat resistant bowls." In Vancouver, where smoking substances of all kinds (including "herbs") is banned inside public places, vapor lounges still get a pass because they are vapor lounges, not smoking lounges.
Meet and greet all the surrounding business owners after you've signed the lease and are renovating, repairing, and getting ready to open. Explain how big the tourist market is, dispel myths about marijuana, and tell them to anticipate increased customer volume in the entire area. Be excited, but be receptive to their concerns, and be as level-headed with them as you can be. No over-the-top behavior or remarks. In fact, you should network deals with them, for your customers.
For Goodwin, this has meant local restaurants cut a deal to anyone who says, "I'm taking this back to the vapor lounge." Says Goodwin of surrounding businesses: "I tell the guys with empty patios that they'd be full if they'd just let people toke." Similarly, out-of-town ganja guests, when making purchases in the nearby downtown stores, should inform sales staff that they came to their city to check out the local vapor lounge.
By demonstrating Vapor Central has a financial impact on other business, the dollars will begin to outweigh the perceived problems.
Insurance and Lawyers
Again, unless you have a million in the bank, you will need insurance. Assessing risk is their business, and vapor lounges are very risky ventures to say the least. So expect some higher rates.
You need to limit your liability, and if the worst case scenario happens, theft or fire, you must be protected. Look for new marijuana insuance companies, and get more than one estimate.
No landlord will lease his million-dollar building to you without appropriate insurance.
Indeed, Vapor Central attempts to construct continuity with the past in which marijuana use was legal. But prohibition is still here, and a good lawyer on retainer is always a good investment.
Your Vapor Lounge may operate on whichever level it pleases. How may it maintain itself? It is clear that while VC is effectively enacting their own utopia, and rules, they stay within certain lines of the law, and the surrounding community tolerates this.
Vapor Lounge and Retailing 411
Goodwin is blunt about where he makes his income. 500+ customers a day puts paper in the register, but it didn't start out like that. You have to work hard. Live nightly events. Constant upgrades. Members feel like they pay to have a better pot palace.
Goodwin's correct in stating "You need the combo: head shop, toking room, food, munchies, hang-out, cultural centre."
In Toronto, Vapor Central is known for its comedy shows and an open stage. The BCMP vapor lounge in Vancouver also has an open mic night. Regular events and entertainment makes people want to come back. It's affordable, safe and comfortable.
Unlike at a bar, where people tend to get a notch louder and rowdier with each drink, crowds at vapor lounges get mellower, friendlier and more good-natured after each toke.
Putting Food On The Menu
With food, the best thing is to have it delivered pre-prepared. Selling sandwiches can require an expensive capital cost outlay. Baked goods, cakes, and munchies are best prepared in sanitary conditions off-premises and delivered daily (or whenever) to your store.
Ask around and you'll find bakeries, existing sandwich shops, and others in the business of prepared food that will be glad to sell you wholesale. Stock rotation is also important for foods with 'best before' dates. Remember: with food, bongs, and vaporizer parts, it's all about hygiene and consistent standards of cleanliness. Resin in the vape or bowl doesn't rent very well, and mold on a brownie doesn't sell very well or taste very good.
It pays to shop around. Do plenty of research. Just because it's at a wholesaler, or even a place like Costco, doesn't mean it's not cheaper somewhere else.
Obviously, as a marijuana vapor lounge, you might want to offer THC baked goods. This can easily bring in sales, and it's not quite like selling bud. In Canada, pot food is a hard case to prove in court, and since Watermelon was acquitted for selling pot food, it's a wedge a cafe can more safely take opportunities with. But The Kindred Cafe in Toronto was raided and eventually closed for selling pot food and a cannabis bakery was raided in Victoria, B.C., so this recommendation comes with warnings of extra police scrutiny.
Creating a well-rounded affordable munchies menu ensures a pothead can buy grass off his dealer and still afford to hang out at your lounge, a place where like-minded people can meet and eat.
Within a month, it's possible to convince 100 potheads a day to drop $5 – $20 to toke and eat with their bud buddies someplace other than their living room, creating a guaranteed weekly gross of two grand. Respectable reefer revenue!
Competition? Yes.
All right, so there's no cannabusiness in your town. Think you can open the doors, and resident characters like Norm from Cheers, or a Pot Poet like Chris Lawson, will instantly take up residence? Not so. The fuzz fear factor plays a role. This can be limited via a pot promotional program geared to your cannabis community.
With a vapor lounge, the enthusiast buys their green, then treks to the joint with a few friends, where the pot posse spend two hours in the afternoon ringing up a $25-$40 bill. Pricing, product, and pot all play a critical role in people spending their money.
Goodwin now competes with Toronto's other vapor lounges that want marijuana market share too, with their vaporizers, bongs, papers and pipes. Vape on the Lake, Vapor Social, Village Vapor Lounge, et al, have all emulated the vapor lounge concept, $5 membership, bong rentals, entertainment, all indoors.
In developing your business plan, on three different days of the week, spend several hours outside of a cannabusiness you admire probably not in your community and watch the frequency of people going in. Add a column for comments. Repeat.
Know thy competitors. Know their pricing. Know their gimmicks. When do they have sales? How do they advertise? Who are their wholesalers?
Finally, spend hours in the neighborhood you're thinking of renting in. Possibly it's near a competitor. Are you located around a college or university campus? Who's already visiting the local businesses? Will people come to the area? If so, what's parking like? Is there local transit? Determine via the research and a written plan how your cannabusiness has the winning formula to succeed, then market it.
Free Publicity and Promotion
A growing number of people regularly trek from within an hour (Niagara, Oakville, Brantford) distance of Vapor Central to spend a few hours in a mind bending liberating environment, watch a comedy show, and have a good time.
Goodwin says people from the USA, Detroit and Buffalo, make the trek of about eight hours to shop and smoke in his place. Many customers rent hotel rooms and spend the weekend. Customers enjoy knowing that some of the money they spend is rolled back into community activism efforts.
Goodwin has furthered the marijuana debate while generating publicity for Vapor Central. He receives reams of newspaper paragraphs, television time and talk radio based on his knowledge and his local business when he opened those locations in 2004 and 2007. Both started with huge 420 smoke outs, at City Hall and Yonge and Dundas Square
Goodwin's marketing campaign capitalizes on his direct involvement in the community. This results in media mentions, which are the best advertising and worth more than he or his competitors could afford to buy.
Even negative media can generate opportunity, if you stay calm in the spotlight. Goodwin, before his grand opening, publicly declared he'd sell marijuana, which led to a month-long media juggernaut. He made outrageous bold claims, and then appeared to give The Man a little by backing down to an original goal.
Goodwin says that had he publicly declared Up In Smoke Cafe just a toking cafe, then the police would have stepped back from there, and pushed us to medical or vapor only, although maybe it antagonized them into harassment mode. 200-plus police visits is a little much!
The police, media and politicians believed they had shown him the error of his ways, when the reality is that a toking-only lounge is fine with him for now. Recently he combined the cannaversary with a protest, creating a double-edged advertising campaign.
Until paid teams took over, Goodwin personally plastered posters all over Hamilton, Toronto and Niagara Region, promoting and sponsoring rallies. Coverage cracked National media with talk radio, and TV news running ongoing blurbs on their National Headline channel about the Goodwin Ganja Giveaways.
Vapor Central employed a slightly more low-key opening than Up In Smoke Cafe, which Goodwin boyishly smiles and admits is the easier way to go about business, but can still build a strong customer base quickly.
Membership Has Its Privileges Pothead Rules
How does Vapor Central maintain its legitimacy as a community within a socio-cultural context that legally disallows its existence? Make the Pothead lounge only accessible to members. Prospective proprietors could go so far as creating a gym membership type system. Memberships can be bought for a day pass, a month pass, or a year pass. This toke lounge room is off limits to non-members, particularly those sporting badges, tazers and guns. Employees must enforce! Turning away minors is key.
Roll all this membership money back into the shop. Revoke membership if potheads abuse the rules. "The biggest rule is no dealing, fishing, mooching, asking, and begging to get a toke off someone," Goodwin says. "Sometimes these moochers are blatant. Others are subtle. Worst are the people fishing in ashtrays. I'll throw you out on your head for that."
Goodwin lays down the top vapor lounge rule. "Don't come in here asking, 'Can I buy a dime bag?' We don't sell. No one sells. But I still get asked a 100 times a day."
Pot Partners
Best friends entering a business arrangement, or working for you, can easily destroy both the friendship and the startup. Write everything down, or if need be, draw up contracts. Spell out how the business is to be run, and when the money comes in, how to pay each other.
Making no money for a year or operating a failing business can ruin a friendship more fiercely than stealing or cheating with someone's spouse or significant other. Goodwin did open with a partner, Ryan Clark, now Goodwin has partnered with Dom Cramer, both are avid activists that still find handling the cannabis craziness that can unfold at any marijuana moment daunting.
Employee responsibilities need to be written out and adhered too. Vapor Staff consider Free Marc Emery T-shirts their work clothing like a McUniform, but actually cool.
The Small Business Sacrifice
Chris would live in a vapor lounge. He admits it. He has done it. His business is part of his family life. The amazing liberating experience of opening a cannabusiness comes with worry of am "I going to financially take care of the family." Goodster is totally dependent on his ability to generate income with Vapor Central. "In the first month you should be doing $100-$200 days with a vapor lounge, then $500 days by six months. I was doing that by then. And within a year I had days of $1000."
Like the cannabis plant, new businesses take time to grow. They need passion, nurturing, care, planning and dedication to succeed. Vapor Central almost consumes Chris Goodwin.
One day during a conversation with a Hamilton cop who came in, Goodwin proudly asserted that he and his ex-wife Melissa smoke joints all day. The next day, Hamilton Children's Aid came to the Goodwin home to see if the couple were "responsible parents." The CAS worker boldly asserted that two adults smoking marijuana became unfit parents, and could lose the custody of their child!
Any good activist knows The Man will do everything they can to derail the sacred movement of the cannabis people, including threatening families and mothers and children with segregation.
Goodwin responded with a press release and followed that up by radio, TV, and newspaper interviews. No retreat, no surrender. Their cause is righteous, and they won that round, with bravery. Prohibitionists are ever vigilant in advancing spiritual and physical control of the citizenry, especially those practicing a peaceful and honest lifestyle that opposes the State.
While photographs are snapped outside the now-landmark Up In Smoke Cafe, a tired Goodwin (sporting a few days facial growth) with a glint in his tired red eyes, sends the message combined with his laugh, "I love this."
New Tips
Both Vapor Central and Up In Smoke Cafe started with a old cash box, then a casio cash register, a few vaporizers and couches, with a couple tables and chairs with seating for 30, just a few bongs and pipes, many from home or friends, old big screen TVs, anything reasonable for fair prices to start. For events, it all starts with one mic and a small mixer, house speakers and an old amp, most for $50 or less and a stage that was plywood on milk crates.
Now, and with time, VC has grown to have two touch-screen cash registers, 25 Volcano Vaporizers, 25 leather couches, and seating for over 175, with 100 Glass rentals, and 7 flat screen TVs. Our events now sport 5 mics, with stands, a 26 channel mixer, 8 powered speakers, and a bigger cooler stage. Grow with the support you have. Expand walls as you need to. Take away cabinets that don't sell enough product, to add seating when needed.
Vapor Central Statistics
– 500+ Average Members a Day
– From 2007 to 2011 Over 250,000 Members with 45,000 At Events, Totaling $2.5Million in Sales.
– In 2011 Over 100,000 Members with 15,000 At Events, Totaling Over $700,000 in Sales.
– In 2011 Over 90,000 Daily Members, Totaling Over $425,000
– Over 10,000 Weekly, Monthly, Yearly Memberships, Totaling Over $25,000
ALL Sales
2007 $148,000
2008 $382,000
2009 $594,000
2010 $705,000
2011 $910,000
Total $2,739,000
Memberships: 260,000 members = $1,232,000
Events: 40,000 members = $175,000
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Early 20th century American labor and working-class history is a subfield of American social history that focuses attention on the complex lives of working people in a rapidly changing global political and economic system. Once focused closely on institutional dynamics in the workplace and electoral politics, labor history has expanded and refined its approach to include questions about the families, communities, identities, and cultures workers have developed over time. With a critical eye on the limits of liberal capitalism and democracy for workers' welfare, labor historians explore individual and collective struggles against exclusion from opportunity, as well as accommodation to political and economic contexts defined by rapid and volatile growth and deep inequality.
Particularly important are the ways that workers both defined and were defined by differences of race, gender, ethnicity, class, and place. Individual workers and organized groups of working Americans both transformed and were transformed by the main struggles of the industrial era, including conflicts over the place of former slaves and their descendants in the United States, mass immigration and migrations, technological change, new management and business models, the development of a consumer economy, the rise of a more active federal government, and the evolution of popular culture.
The period between 1896 and 1945 saw a crucial transition in the labor and working-class history of the United States. At its outset, Americans were working many more hours a day than the eight for which they had fought hard in the late 19th century. On average, Americans labored fifty-four to sixty-three hours per week in dangerous working conditions (approximately 35,000 workers died in accidents annually at the turn of the century). By 1920, half of all Americans lived in growing urban neighborhoods, and for many of them chronic unemployment, poverty, and deep social divides had become a regular part of life. Workers had little power in either the Democratic or Republican party. They faced a legal system that gave them no rights at work but the right to quit, judges who took the side of employers in the labor market by issuing thousands of injunctions against even nonviolent workers' organizing, and vigilantes and police forces that did not hesitate to repress dissent violently. The ranks of organized labor were shrinking in the years before the economy began to recover in 1897. Dreams of a more democratic alternative to wage labor and corporate-dominated capitalism had been all but destroyed. Workers struggled to find their place in an emerging consumer-oriented culture that assumed everyone ought to strive for the often unattainable, and not necessarily desirable, marks of middle-class respectability.
Yet American labor emerged from World War II with the main sectors of the industrial economy organized, with greater earning potential than any previous generation of American workers, and with unprecedented power as an organized interest group that could appeal to the federal government to promote its welfare. Though American workers as a whole had made no grand challenge to the nation's basic corporate-centered political economy in the preceding four and one-half decades, they entered the postwar world with a greater level of power, and a bigger share in the proceeds of a booming economy, than anyone could have imagined in 1896. The labor and working-class history of the United States between 1900 and 1945, then, is the story of how working-class individuals, families, and communities—members of an extremely diverse American working class—managed to carve out positions of political, economic, and cultural influence, even as they remained divided among themselves, dependent upon corporate power, and increasingly invested in a individualistic, competitive, acquisitive culture.
Bracero Guest Worker Program
Ana Elizabeth Rosas
This is an advance summary of a forthcoming article in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History. Please check back later for the full article.
On August 4, 1942, the Mexican and U.S. governments launched the bi-national guest worker program, most commonly known as the Bracero Program. An estimated five million Mexican men between the ages of 19 and 45 separated from their families for three-to-nine-month contract cycles at a time, in anticipation of earning the prevailing U.S. wage this program had promised them. They labored in U.S. agriculture, railroad construction, and forestry, with hardly any employment protections or rights in place to support themselves and the families they had left behind in Mexico. The inhumane configuration and implementation of this program prevented most of these men and their families from meeting such goals. Instead, the labor exploitation and alienation that characterized this guest worker program and their program participation paved the way for, at best, fragile family relationships. This program lasted twenty-two years and grew in its expanse, despite its negative consequences, Mexican men and their families could not afford to settle for being unemployed in Mexico, nor could they pass up U.S. employment opportunities of any sort. The Mexican and U.S. governments' persistently negligent management of the Bracero Program, coupled with their conveniently selective acknowledgement of the severity of the plight of Mexican women and men, consistently cornered Mexican men and their families to shoulder the full extent of the Bracero Program's exploitative conditions and terms.
Communist Party USA, 1919 to 1957
James R. Barrett
The largest and most important revolutionary socialist organization in US history, the Communist Party USA was always a minority influence. It reached considerable size and influence, however, during the Great Depression and World War II years when it followed the more open line associated with the term "Popular Front." In these years communists were much more flexible in their strategies and relations with other groups, though the party remained a hierarchical vanguard organization. It grew from a largely isolated sect dominated by unskilled and unemployed immigrant men in the 1920s to a socially diverse movement of nearly 100,000 based heavily on American born men and women from the working and professional classes by the late 1930s and during World War II, exerting considerable influence in the labor movement and American cultural life. In these years, the Communist Party helped to build the industrial union movement, advanced the cause of African American civil rights, and laid the foundation for the postwar feminist movement. But the party was always prone to abrupt changes in line and vulnerable to attack as a sinister outside force because of its close adherence to Soviet policies and goals. Several factors contributed to its catastrophic decline in the 1950s: the increasingly antagonistic Cold War struggle between the Soviet Union and the United States; an unprecedented attack from employers and government at various levels—criminal cases and imprisonment, deportation, and blacklisting; and within the party itself, a turn back toward a more dogmatic version of Marxism-Leninism and a heightened atmosphere of factional conflict and purges.
The Great Depression
Erik Gellman and Margaret Rung
From the late 1920s through the 1930s, countries on every inhabited continent suffered through a dramatic and wrenching economic contraction termed the Great Depression, an economic collapse that has come to represent the nadir of modern economic history. With national unemployment reaching well into double digits for over a decade, productivity levels falling by half, prices severely depressed, and millions of Americans without adequate food, shelter or clothing, the United States experienced some of the Great Depression's severest consequences. The crisis left deep physical, psychological, political, social, and cultural impressions on the national landscape. It encouraged political reform and reaction, renewed labor activism, spurred migration, unleashed grass-roots movements, inspired cultural experimentation, and challenged family structures and gender roles.
Municipal Housing in America
Margaret Garb
Housing in America has long stood as a symbol of the nation's political values and a measure of its economic health. In the 18th century, a farmhouse represented Thomas Jefferson's ideal of a nation of independent property owners; in the mid-20th century, the suburban house was seen as an emblem of an expanding middle class. Alongside those well-known symbols were a host of other housing forms—tenements, slave quarters, row houses, French apartments, loft condos, and public housing towers—that revealed much about American social order and the material conditions of life for many people.
Since the 19th century, housing markets have been fundamental forces driving the nation's economy and a major focus of government policies. Home construction has provided jobs for skilled and unskilled laborers. Land speculation, housing development, and the home mortgage industry have generated billions of dollars in investment capital, while ups and downs in housing markets have been considered signals of major changes in the economy. Since the New Deal of the 1930s, the federal government has buttressed the home construction industry and offered economic incentives for home buyers, giving the United States the highest home ownership rate in the world. The housing market crash of 2008 slashed property values and sparked a rapid increase in home foreclosures, especially in places like Southern California and the suburbs of the Northeast, where housing prices had ballooned over the previous two decades. The real estate crisis led to government efforts to prop up the mortgage banking industry and to assist struggling homeowners. The crisis led, as well, to a drop in rates of home ownership, an increase in rental housing, and a growth in homelessness.
Home ownership remains a goal for many Americans and an ideal long associated with the American dream. The owner-occupied home—whether single-family or multifamily dwelling—is typically the largest investment made by an American family. Through much of the 18th and 19th centuries, housing designs varied from region to region. In the mid-20th century, mass production techniques and national building codes tended to standardize design, especially in new suburban housing. In the 18th century, the family home was a site of waged and unwaged work; it was the center of a farm, plantation, or craftsman's workshop. Two and a half centuries later, a house was a consumer good: its size, location, and decor marked the family's status and wealth.
The New Deal
Wendy L. Wall
The New Deal generally refers to a set of domestic policies implemented by the administration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in response to the crisis of the Great Depression. Propelled by that economic cataclysm, Roosevelt and his New Dealers pushed through legislation that regulated the banking and securities industries, provided relief for the unemployed, aided farmers, electrified rural areas, promoted conservation, built national infrastructure, regulated wages and hours, and bolstered the power of unions. The Tennessee Valley Authority prevented floods and brought electricity and economic progress to seven states in one of the most impoverished parts of the nation. The Works Progress Administration offered jobs to millions of unemployed Americans and launched an unprecedented federal venture into the arena of culture. By providing social insurance to the elderly and unemployed, the Social Security Act laid the foundation for the U.S. welfare state.
The benefits of the New Deal were not equitably distributed. Many New Deal programs—farm subsidies, work relief projects, social insurance, and labor protection programs—discriminated against racial minorities and women, while profiting white men disproportionately. Nevertheless, women achieved symbolic breakthroughs, and African Americans benefited more from Roosevelt's policies than they had from any past administration since Abraham Lincoln's. The New Deal did not end the Depression—only World War II did that—but it did spur economic recovery. It also helped to make American capitalism less volatile by extending federal regulation into new areas of the economy.
Although the New Deal most often refers to policies and programs put in place between 1933 and 1938, some scholars have used the term more expansively to encompass later domestic legislation or U.S. actions abroad that seemed animated by the same values and impulses—above all, a desire to make individuals more secure and a belief in institutional solutions to long-standing problems. In order to pass his legislative agenda, Roosevelt drew many Catholic and Jewish immigrants, industrial workers, and African Americans into the Democratic Party. Together with white Southerners, these groups formed what became known as the "New Deal coalition." This unlikely political alliance endured long after Roosevelt's death, supporting the Democratic Party and a "liberal" agenda for nearly half a century. When the coalition finally cracked in 1980, historians looked back on this extended epoch as reflecting a "New Deal order."
Progressives and Progressivism in an Era of Reform
Maureen A. Flanagan
The decades from the 1890s into the 1920s produced reform movements in the United States that resulted in significant changes to the country's social, political, cultural, and economic institutions. The impulse for reform emanated from a pervasive sense that the country's democratic promise was failing. Political corruption seemed endemic at all levels of government. An unregulated capitalist industrial economy exploited workers and threatened to create a serious class divide, especially as the legal system protected the rights of business over labor. Mass urbanization was shifting the country from a rural, agricultural society to an urban, industrial one characterized by poverty, disease, crime, and cultural clash. Rapid technological advancements brought new, and often frightening, changes into daily life that left many people feeling that they had little control over their lives. Movements for socialism, woman suffrage, and rights for African Americans, immigrants, and workers belied the rhetoric of the United States as a just and equal democratic society for all its members.
Responding to the challenges presented by these problems, and fearful that without substantial change the country might experience class upheaval, groups of Americans proposed undertaking significant reforms. Underlying all proposed reforms was a desire to bring more justice and equality into a society that seemed increasingly to lack these ideals. Yet there was no agreement among these groups about the exact threat that confronted the nation, the means to resolve problems, or how to implement reforms. Despite this lack of agreement, all so-called Progressive reformers were modernizers. They sought to make the country's democratic promise a reality by confronting its flaws and seeking solutions. All Progressivisms were seeking a via media, a middle way between relying on older ideas of 19th-century liberal capitalism and the more radical proposals to reform society through either social democracy or socialism. Despite differences among Progressives, the types of Progressivisms put forth, and the successes and failures of Progressivism, this reform era raised into national discourse debates over the nature and meaning of democracy, how and for whom a democratic society should work, and what it meant to be a forward-looking society. It also led to the implementation of an activist state.
Teacher Unionism in the 20th-Century United States
Adam Mertz
Since the turn of the 20th century, teachers have tried to find a balance between bettering their own career prospects as workers and educating their students as public servants. To reach a workable combination, teachers have utilized methods drawn from union movements, the militant and labor-conscious approach favored by the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), as well as to professional organizations, the tradition from which the National Education Association (NEA) arose. Because teachers lacked the federally guaranteed labor rights that private-sector workers enjoyed after Congress passed the National Labor Relations Act in 1935, teachers' fortunes—in terms of collective bargaining rights, control over classroom conditions, pay, and benefits—often remained tied to the broader public-sector labor movement and to state rather than federal law.
Opponents of teacher unionization consistently charged that as public servants paid by tax revenues, teachers and other public employees should not be allowed to form unions. Further, because women constituted the vast majority of teachers and union organizing often represented a "manly" domain, the opposition's approach worked quite well, successfully preventing teachers from gaining widespread union recognition. But by the late 1960s and early 1970s, thanks to an improved economic climate and invigoration from the women's movement, civil rights struggles, and the New Left, both AFT and NEA teacher unionism surged forward, infused with a powerful militancy devoted to strikes and other political action, and appeared poised to capture federal collective bargaining rights. Their newfound assertiveness proved ill-timed, however.
After the economic problems of the mid-1970s, opponents of teacher unions once again seized the opportunity to portray teacher unions and other public-sector unions as greedy and privileged interest groups functioning at the public's expense. President Ronald Reagan accentuated this point when he fired all of the more than 10,000 striking air traffic controllers during the 1981 Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) strike. Facing such opposition, teacher unions—and public-sector unions in general—shifted their efforts away from strikes and toward endorsing political candidates and lobbying governments to pass favorable legislation.
Given these constraints, public-sector unions enjoyed a large degree of success in the 1990s through the early 2000s, even as private-sector union membership plunged to less than 10 percent of the workforce. After the Great Recession of 2008, however, austerity politics targeted teachers and other public-sector workers and renewed political confrontations surrounding the legitimacy of teacher unions.
The Socialist Party of America, 1900–1929
Elizabeth McKillen
One of the pervasive myths about the United States is that it has never had a socialist movement comparable to other industrialized nations. Yet in the early 20th century a vibrant Socialist Party and socialist movement flourished in the United States. Created in 1901, the Socialist Party of America unsurprisingly declared its primary goal to be the collectivization of the means of production. Yet the party's highly decentralized and democratic structure enabled it to adapt to the needs and cultures of diverse constituencies in different regions of the country. Among those attracted to the movement in its heyday were immigrant and native-born workers and their families, tenant farmers, middle-class intellectuals, socially conscious millionaires, urban reformers, and feminists. Party platforms regularly included the reform interests of these groups as well as the long-term goal of eradicating capitalism. By 1912, the Socialist Party boasted an impressive record of electoral successes at the local, state, and national levels. U.S. Socialists could also point with pride to over three hundred English and foreign-language Socialist periodicals, some with subscription rates that rivaled those of the major urban daily newspapers.
Yet Socialists faced numerous challenges in their efforts to build a viable third-party movement in the United States. On the one hand, progressive reformers in the Democratic and Republican parties sought to coopt Socialists. On the other hand, the Socialist Party encountered challenges on the left from anarchists, syndicalists, communists, and Farmer-Labor Party activists. The Socialist Party was particularly weakened by government repression during World War I, by the postwar Red Scare, and by a communist insurgency within its ranks in the aftermath of the war. By the onset of the Great Depression, the Communist Party would displace the Socialist Party as the leading voice of radical change in the United States.


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Plans to increase fuel duty by 3p should be axed in order to boost the UK economy and create thousands of jobs, campaigning group Fair Fuel UK has told the Government.
Backed by over 20,000 road freight companies, Fair Fuel UK presented their initial findings ahead of a report by the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) in last minute talks with ministers including Treasury minister Chloe Smith.
According to the Fair Fuel UK's petition, 1 billion fewer litres of fuel were sold in the first three months of 2011 compared with the same period before the 2008 financial crisis, equating to a £637.8 million loss in tax revenues to the Treasury. The same period also saw a 15.2 per cent dip in petrol sales and a six per cent fall in diesel sales, after it revealed that the UK now has the highest fuel duty in the EU.
Initial findings from the CEBR report are expected to show that a cut of 2.5 p per litre would create 18,000 new jobs in the first year. Fair Fuel UK has stated that reducing fuel duty is 'key' to UK economic recovery and hopes the full report will demonstrate that a cut in duty would help Treasury revenues.
Quentin Willson, broadcast journalist and national spokesman for Fair Fuel UK, said: "We've been saying this all along and now we can prove it. This conclusively backs up our claim that a cut in fuel duty will boost the economy without harming Treasury revenues. Quite rightly, the Chancellor's priority is on stimulating growth in order to pay down the deficit. Here is a way to do both."
He continued: "The Government now needs to embrace these findings and follow through on the 1p cut they made last year."
However, despite axing a fuel duty rise last month, and limiting a planned 5p rise in August 2012 to 3p, the Government has indicated that further fuel duty cuts are not in the pipeline. Speaking to Sky News this weekend, Chancellor George Osborne said that fuel duty concessions had already been made and that the Treasury would not be able afford the £1.5 billion needed to cancel it.


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There's a lot to like about Zack Wheeler, who really wants the ball Opening Day for the Mets. Manager Terry Collins said if Jonathon Niese isn't physically ready, he would decide between Bartolo Colon and Dillon Gee.
Colon is the most experienced, but with no goodwill stock in the organization. Gee is deserving based on 199 innings last year, but ambivalent to the prospect. Meanwhile, Wheeler wants that game, which are points in his favor.
Also to like about Wheeler is his perfectionist nature. Despite three scoreless innings Sunday against Atlanta, Wheeler wasn't pleased with his changeup, which will be his focus tonight against Miami.
Wheeler said at times he opens up his shoulders too early.
"Every time you get out there on the mound, it's been a little problem for me,'' Wheeler said. "There's a little too much adrenaline, I guess.''
Too much adrenaline is an argument against starting Wheeler Opening Day.
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* A group of Mets will travel to Las Vegas for split-squad games Saturday and Sunday against the Chicago Cubs. Among those expected to go are David Wright, Curtis Granderson, Travis d'Arnaud, Bobby Parnell and starters Colon and Jenrry Mejia.
* Ike Davis (calves) and Lucas Duda (left hamstring) will continue to take batting practice and field grounders at first base. It is hoped they will play in DH roles this weekend. Neither has done any running.
* No word when Wilmer Flores will get another chance to play shortstop, but with two split-squad games this weekend there could be an opportunity.


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Join us this Saturday and Sunday, November 10 & 11, at the Northwest Coffee Festival in Seattle as we brew Full Cup coffee from the new trifecta for home.
This festival celebrates the great taste of specialty coffee by featuring exceptional coffee. This year guests will be able to see the trifecta for home in action as it unlocks each flavor note for a smooth, deep-bodied coffee or tea experience. trifecta allows you to adjust for perceived acidity, sweetness, earthy flavors, extraction level, mouth feel and more! The result is a Full Cup -- a unique, amplified taste experience. Stop by to see us, and taste the new world of Full Cup coffee!
Plus, in addition to exceptional coffee, this festival features artisan chocolate, specialty foods and desserts, holiday gift show, beer and wine.
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When: Saturday, November 10 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM
Sunday, November 11, 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Where: Seattle Design Center, 5701 6th Ave South, Seattle, WA 98108
Tickets: $15 (Plus fees) Available at www.nwcoffeefestival.com
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NewCo needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 108 designs submitted by 22 freelance designers.
Tailslating Media
Tailslating Media is a new media agency, focusing primarily on online VIDEO/FILM strategy, film production, and distribution and syndication of video assets. Tailslating Media works exclusively in the on-line space, and helps companies leverage online video to drive return on investment. Tag line of company is being tweaked but the general idea is "Leveraging Video to Drive Business Results". While we are a creative shop, we pride ourselves on the strategy elements and analytics we also provide.
Pending quality of entries, relationships built here could lead to further work down the line.
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Logo should be clean and relatively simple. As an agency, logo should be professional but also demonstrate creativity. While we have some ideas about logos, we want to see your creativity and don't want to limit any designs.
Logo will be leveraged across all media, including website, business cards/stationary, emails, and film productions (title cards)
We will want PSD file at completion, and the ability to make slight tweaks in future in the event that there is a name change (e.g. "media" may become "digital").
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