Old, new, borrowed, blue. Oops, I can't find the "new" part, maybe somebody else can. Help Wanted

History
When the 12th Congressional District was created after the 1930 Census, it was located in Los Angeles County. As California's population grew, however, the district generally shrank in area and progressed northward, eventually reaching the San Francisco peninsula (California political districts are generally numbered from north to south).

Richard Nixon, the 37th President of the United States, represented this district from 1947-1951. Nancy Pelosi, the 60th Speaker of the House, is the current representative of this district.

Yesterday took time to watch 51 minutes of Bernie and Jimmy, yeah that is how I want to address them, like family. Talk about powerful propaganda, woo! Anyway they confirmed my biased ass again, rinse and repeat. This is oligarchy, not democracy. Bernie is just doing what he always does, speaking his truth to power. Same with President Carter, fuck yeah! (raises fist)

Solidarity
Peace & Love

http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/6959041-181/sebastopol-school-community-mourns-teen

... In fact, suicide is the second leading cause of death among ages 15 to 34 nationwide, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

In Sonoma County, 1 in 10 self-inflicted deaths from 2013 to 2015 were among people 10 to 24 years old, Department of Health Services statistics show.

Depression was a leading cause, said Mike Kennedy, the county’s mental health director. ...

"That's the system." "We're capitalists."

Now I feel glad to have dumped Netflix too. It is not worth the grief it causes, in my view. Plus, I have to actually interface with real humans to borrow DVDs and stuff now, something like forced face2face community. Not easy for an agoraphobic like me who is prone to panic when confronted by assholes, there are so many now it's almost unavoidable. Oops! Wrong Planet.

NP: Utopia- Trapped

Bookchin sounds like a fascinating guy we could do with learning more about.

Seems there were a good many Anarchist/Communist/Socialist luminaries around this City. What comes to mind for me, is a documentary we saw a few years ago about an Anarchist/Socialist collective of mostly Jews in the Bronx in the late 1920's, who bought a building together and lived by those principles. Actually it was a group of buildings near one another, so big was the Socialist movement in that community.

I think the film we saw was this PBS special, called "At Home In Utopia."

In the mid-1920s, thousands of immigrant Jewish garment workers catapulted themselves out of the urban slums and ghettos by pooling their resources and building cooperatively owned and run apartment complexes in the Bronx. Adjacent to the newly opened subway corridor and in the midst of empty fields, they constructed the United Workers Cooperative Colony, a.k.a. “the Coops,” where they practiced the utopian ideals of an equitable and just society....

As a community, the Coops gave its residents everything they’d ever dreamed possible in their adopted country—green spaces for gardens, sports and children’s play areas; community spaces for meetings, dances, recreation and dozens of clubs that flourished; a library with 20,000 volumes in Yiddish, Russian and English and, most of all, the sense that they lived on the cutting edge of progressive reforms that would inevitably sweep the nation. As part of this agenda, the Coops invited African American families into the complex, fostering lifetime friendships—and even interracial marriage.

When the Great Depression slammed into their dreams, residents of the Coops took to the streets, demanding (and getting) mortgage relief not only for themselves, but also for neighboring housing complexes. They demonstrated for better conditions for American workers and for unemployment insurance. They believed they were watching the death of capitalism, and in its death throes, they saw an opportunity for communism to fill the gap. And, when their ideas took root, with 24 states passing mortgage relief laws and unemployment insurance becoming the norm, it seemed that their utopian society might be just around the corner for all Americans.

But after World War II, amidst growing anti-communist sentiment and McCarthyism, their utopian dreams began to unravel. Then in 1956, when Soviet Premier Khrushchev revealed atrocities committed by Josef Stalin, many residents abandoned their communist-inspired ideals altogether.

I also recall a Bernie campaign volunteer we met based on the Upper West Side who also told me a couple of wonderful stories about Socialist gatherings in Union Sq over the years.

Lots of great folks out there, alliances waiting to be made.

About the beets, got me thinking of the whole "organic" predatory marketing. Sometimes seems cynical to me, upwardly mobile hipster "socially liberal" folks driving up prices as the corporations salivate at the opportunity to get 2 and 3 times more for things just by slapping the O tag on it (what are the guidelines for getting such a designation, etc?) I've been seeing 1/2 gallon of "organic milk" for upward of 6 fucking dollars!

Just bought an armful of loose beets, for 99 cents a pound. Last night to go along with homemade pizza, I made a nice beet salad for a side, with toasted walnuts, caramelized onions, oregano, olive oil and lemon.

A cubano sandwich is great for an occasional vacation indulgence, but usually I'm mostly vege/pesca-tarian (though I still do enjoy meat every now and then)!

In CRAYONS?! Kids EAT crayons, get them on their skin, they can melt in sunlight...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/nation-now/2017/05/05/newest-crayol...

Crayola's newest crayon color is a shade of blue that was just discovered
USA Today Network Mary Bowerman , USA TODAY Published 11:45 a.m. ET May 5, 2017 | Updated 3:24 p.m. ET May 5, 2017

A brilliant blue color, discovered accidentally by Oregon State University chemists, will soon be the newest addition to Crayola’s box.

The crayon color, inspired by the blue pigment known as “YInMn” blue," is the replacement for the recently retired Dandelion crayon. The vibrant blue was discovered by Oregon State University chemists who were heating up chemicals in hopes of finding new materials that could be used in electronics. In what the university calls a "serendipitous discovery," one of the chemical mixes came out of the furnace a striking blue. The "YInMn” moniker comes from the elements that comprise it: yttrium, indium, manganese and oxygen.

“With the discovery of YInMn brand new pigment, who other than Crayola would be best to bring it to life?” said Leena Vadaketh, Crayola’s VP of Research & Development, North America. ...

... Mas Subramanian, an Oregon State University (OSU) chemist, discovered the color with his then-grad student. He said that chemists in many ways have a lot in common with the children who will soon use the "YInMn” blue-inspired crayon.

“Curiosity starts at a young age, as chemists we are curious just like kids,” he said. “I can understand the excitement of adding a new crayon color to the box, like adding a new element to the periodic table,” Subramanian said. ...

If these chemicals are to be used in the actual crayons, not curiosity but Crayola crayons will potentially kill the cat kids, even if the result may not likely be not occurring for some time. Unless they consume enough crayons of that colour, of course.

http://www.lenntech.com/periodic/elements/in.htm

Indium - In
Chemical properties of indium - Health effects of indium - Environmental effects of indium

...Health effects of indium

Indium has no biological role. In small doses it is said to stimulate the metabolism.

Indium compounds are encountered rarely by most people. All indium compounds should be regarded as highly toxic. Indium compounds damage the heart, kidney, and liver, and may be teratogenic.

Insufficient data are available on the effect of this substance on human health, therefore utmost care must be taken.

Environmental effects of indium

Since indium is not widely dispersed in the environment, it poses no threat to land or marine life. Environmental effects from the substance have not been investigated.

http://www.lenntech.com/periodic/elements/y.htm

Yttrium - Y
Chemical properties of Yttrium - Health effects of yttrium - Environmental effects of yttrium

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Health effects of yttrium

Yttrium is one of the rare chemicals, that can be found in houses in equipment such as colour televisions, fluorescent lamps, energy-saving lamps and glasses. All rare chemicals have comparable properties.

Yttrium can rarely be found in nature, as it occurs in very small amounts. Yttrium is usually found only in two different kinds of ores. The use of yttrium is still growing, due to the fact that it is suited to produce catalysers and to polish glass.

Yttrium is mostly dangerous in the working environment, due to the fact that damps and gasses can be inhaled with air. This can cause lung embolisms, especially during long-term exposure. Yttrium can also cause cancer with humans, as it enlarges the chances of lung cancer when it is inhaled. Finally, it can be a threat to the liver when it accumulates in the human body.
Effects of yttrium on the Environment

Yttrium is dumped in the environment in many different places, mainly by petrol-producing industries. It can also enter the environment when household equipment is thrown away. Yttrium will gradually accumulate in soils and water soils and this will eventually lead to increasing concentrations in humans, animals and soil particles.

With water animals yttrium causes damage to cell membranes, which has several negative influences on reproduction and on the functions of the nervous system.