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Title: Canadian fish farms spread disease to wild salmon. (Environmental Intelligence).(British Columbia's pink salmon threatened)(Brief Article)
Author: John C. Ryan
Publication: World Watch (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 2003
Publisher: Worldwatch Institute
Volume: 16Issue: 3Page: 7(1)

Article Type: Brief Article

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Refresh Yourself. True Stories of Struggle, Strife, And Success.It all began with a wadded up scrap of paper that languished at the bottom of her purse, lost among the loose change and old gum wrappers.Gayle was working as a nurse administrator, when a salesman slipped her a note with a phone number,This is someone you should meet. Gayle read the name on the note: Rita Snider.Yeah, sure, I ll get right on it, she thought, dropping it into her purse.There it sat - for a year.One day, on impulse, Gayle fished out the note and called.As soon as she d said hello, Rita replied,Honey, I ve been waiting for your call. A few days later, Gayle visited with Rita, and listened to the remarkable story of her battle with breast cancer.Diagnosed at age 36, Rita began chemotherapy and lost her hair nine times over.After a humiliating search for wigs and prosthesis, Rita declaredNever again! Determined to help others, Rita opened a shop called The Lemonade Stand. A place to come and be refreshed , it was a safe and comfortable salon that provided women with everything they would need for their own fight with cancer.For seven years, she tirelessly helped hundreds of women fight the same battle that she was fighting.Rita surprised Gayle by saying,The Good Lord told me that if I hung on long enough, He d send someone to carry on.As soon as you walked in, I knew it was you. As amazing as it sounded, by the end of the day Gayle decided to quit her job and devote herself to The Lemonade Stand.Rita passed away later that year, but Gayle kept her dream alive for over a decade more.Those years were filled with financial struggles, heartaches, and challenges without end; but there were countless gifts and rewards as The Lemonade Stand went on to help over 10,000 clients. ... Read more

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Publisher: Washington, Govt. print. off.Publication date: 1921Subjects: Pink bollwormNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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good condition, what i expected
The book arrived in a timely manner in good condition, overall I was pleased with the product.

Off on too many tangents
King's premise is good: Where is all the money going when we consumers virtuously buy a box of crackers of a carton of yogurt decorated with a pink ribbon? Having experienced breast cancer, I am sick and tired of seeing pink ribbons everywhere I look, and have become cynical about the plethora of alleged research that's being funded right and left. Like King, I doubt that a cure is possible--there are too many factors contributing to the disease and too many different bodies experiencing it. The best we can hope for is to mitigate the causes and find more effective treatment.

King rightly points out that hopping on the "cure breast cancer!" bandwagon is just another marketing tool for companies hoping to enhance their images in the public's eyes. For example, she exposes that one would need to eat three cartons of yogurt every day for four months in order for the little lids to amount to a trifling $36. Skip the calories and send your money to your nearest research facility: that's much more effective.

But King gets caught up in a scholarly wordiness that is hard to plow through. She also spends too much verbiage criticizing the big, bad businesses that are hiding behind the pink ribbons. She feels government should "mitigate the effects of capitalism" by offering universal health care and offering more assistance to "underserved" populations. The book turns into a treatise on social policy and this angle dilutes her message. And I wonder if King realizes that the money for social programs must come from somewhere. Shedoesn't seem to understand that businesses pay a lot of taxes and employ people, who in turn pay taxes too, and that government has no income except those taxes!

This book needed some serious editing and cutting to make it more accessible to the general reader. But then it would only have been an article.

Excellent academic overview of current breast cancer funding
Pink Ribbons, Inc. is an excellent overview of breast cancer philanthrophy's relationship to breast cancer research politics. As an epidemiology graduate student, most of the people I know with criticisms of current breast cancer research agendas are medical researchers. This book gave me valuable insights into why we have such a difficult time obtaining grants to research the correlation between environmental toxins and breast cancer.

However, because it appears to be written for academics who specialize in breast cancer history, it glosses over the social and political context that these changes are occurring in. Anyone interested in this book should read Barron H. Lerner's The Breast Cancer Wars: Hope, Fear, and the Pursuit of a Cure in Twentieth-Century America or Robert Aronowitz's Unnatural History: Breast Cancer and American Society (Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine) before reading this.

Premise is good, writing not so much
The previous two reviews I don't think really touch upon the book itself, but are more of a personal opinion in regard to the "pink ribbon phenomenon" in general.

While I think the author of the book had some important things to say and did her research, the writing really leaves something to be desired.Many of the pages could have been omitted as King tends to refer back to previous chapters and outlines what is to come far too much.I really felt as if I was reading the same thing over and over just so that the author could fill a few more pages.

The message itself is a good one, but it could have been written in a much more reader-friendly manner.A 30-page introduction by the author and another 30 pages of notes at the end, let you know it is going to be a wordy one.

Women's breast health is making a healthy profit
She seemed to be saying people stick pink ribbons on their products to be 'current', 'trendy' and ultimately to get consumers to purchase their product. And, this is true to some extent. Savvy marketers understand that these events translate into big bucks.

This is a far cry from the 1970's when it was still scandalous to talk about breast cancer in public. Traveling back in time, we would not find any ribbons anywhere. People apparently must have held to a policy that talking about breast cancer ultimately spread it.

However, because breast cancer does strike anybody anywhere, raising that public awareness has become an important public action. Where it differs from the AIDS awareness (which also became trendy) and why more conservative organizations feel free to join their feminist counterparts in this cause is because cancer is not a condition which is transmitted around through the public population through a transmission of bodily fluids.

So while I do think that those other people promoting pink ribbon-themed materials also want a cancer-free world, I doubt they precisely share the same politics of feminist health care activists. In the 1970's, these women envisioned low-cost, multicultural, and high-quality healthcare models which placed women themselves as equal partners in the decision-making process about their own bodies.

To some extent, the current pink ribbon market flooding could be a re-co modification of women by the status quo according to the author. Women's breast health is being reduced to a symbol as opposed to the more substantive and ultimately three-dimensional reality which would be required when dealing with a person attached to the breast.

But since cancer does not discriminate, splitting hairs over the source of political support and current marketing strategies seems like a ridiculous quibble. Let's instead close ranks and just work together to say that cancer is bad and should be eradicated, while working towards an agreeable compromise in strategy.
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Soon after creating the experimental pop group, Pink Floyd, in 1966, Syd Barrett took to using hallucinogenic drugs, which led to schizophrenia. He has now abandoned his past. Through interviews with Barrett's family and friends, this book provides an account of the man and his illness. ... Read more

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Lost in the Woods
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A thorough yet digestable bio of the late Syd Barrett.Captures the pre and post Floyd Syd.

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Syd Barrett, RIP
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AUN BRILLA EL DIAMANTE.....
La vida de Syd Barret sin duda alguna que se enmarca dentro de los mitos en la historia de rock, es triste ver la historia de un joven con proyectos e ilusiones, quien junto a sus amigos creo una banda que fusiono el arte con la musica....pero se le escapo de las manos. Aca Julian Palacios nos hace ver como en forma progresiva la mente de Syd se transforma, como la maquina de excelentes canciones comienza su erratico caminar hacia un aislamiento total, donde se plasma la sombra de ungenio y figura. Sin duda alguna que este libro sera un verdadero tesoro para los amantes del primer Pink Floyd, aquel lúdico y psicodelico grupo, los datos aportados y testimonios recogidos son de primera fuente, evitando caer en supuestos y errores....en definitiva imperdible.

Shine on You Crazy Diamond
Mainstream rock knows Pink Floyd.The all too familiar grandoise 70's tours that gave thier audiences experiences of a lifetime. They recognize the string of lyrically and musically woven work that is considered some of the finest productions ever.This is the stuff which "legendary" is all about.The stuff of Meddle, Wish You were Here, Animals. The Wall. The sonic Dark Side of The Moon.
Beyond this, few rock novices know about the groups early history. This was a very different Pink Floyd. One that was controlled by Syd Barrett.
Roger "Syd" Barrett grew up like any normal post world war II english boy. Originally yearning to become a painter, an exposure to Elvis and Little Richard provoked him to take an interest in music as well. Being an art student in England within the early to mid sixties was an experience. Influences were abundant everywhere; American R&B and Jazz. The Blues. Also abundant was the uncontrolled avialability of pot. Syd, always wanting fresh, new experiences took thatin as well. Eventually his guitar playing bcame better than his artwork.He hooked up with the son of one of his teachers, Roger Waters. Together they formed bands and played small venues for a little more than a year and a half. Then came the infamous "First Trip" where Syd experiences LSD for the first time through magic mushrooms (this is forever immortalized on the celluoid "Syds First Trip", a sought after tape of himself being filmed by the student buddy showing Syd completely on his magic swirling ship.Syd liked this so much that he continued to use it on a regular basis, knowing that the more he could ingest, the more his development as an artist would blossom. He eventually got the acid in its most available form.Soon these Physedelic experiences reflected in his playing and concept. Lighting Display, which was almost unheard of for a pop act became a central focus for the band-now named The Pink Floyd by Syd-the philosphy being that what you cannot make in your playing you can make up for with a visual experience.It was this, and not the Floyds early music that made the band so sucessful in the early going.
Syd in those days ws considered a visionary. On LSD he...sure was.His musical ideas and concepts were fresh and uncharted-eventually his wirting skills developed as well as his bands presentation. The first sinle "Arnold Layne" made top 20 in England, but it was the second record, "See Emily Play" that established the Floyd as THE trip band. The formula was there; crazy lyrics, studio effects, unusual sounds and a tight arrangement-all completely orchestrated by Syd. Thier first album The Piper at The Gates Of Dawn (which includes uncanny songs such as "chapter 24", "Lucifer Sam", The Scarecrow, the phenomenal "Bike" and the extended space jam "Interstellar Overdrive") captured not only the essence of Syd Barretts Pink Floyd, but the London Underground as well. Soon it was Top of the Pops. Top 10 single and album. The Beatles visits, The UFO club. It was wall coming together rapidly for Syd.
Then came the fall.
Syd was still on a steady diet of LSD. His behavior was rapidly getting out of hand.The once focused and vibrant musician/songwriter was slowly but surely turning into an acid casualty. Acid didn't effect Syd's performance, it effected his actual functionality in life itself.
His mental state becoming more eratic, his behavior was even more intolerable. Add thhe responsibilities of writing music and touring,it became to obvious it was too much to bear (see aural evidence with the single "Apples and Oranges" and the still unreleased "Scream thy Last Scream" and visual evidence of the infamous American Bandstand appearance on thier first American tour)and became clear that he was basically incoherent-the proverbial "lights on but nobody home" scenario. Eventually the band discharged Syd altogether-replacing him with David Gilmour. It was Gilmours-not Syds-guitar style that became most identifiable with Pink Floyd.
Syd lived in a flat in London after this ouster and grew worse; outta touch with his music and the world.He managed to produc (with the help of the Floyd) two solo albums The Madcap Laughs and Barrett (both 1970). Though it was music, with some notable exceptions, they were clearly an unfocused and disjointed affairs. (highlights include "Terrapin","Octopus","Golden Hair", Gigolo Aunt" and one of syd's first written songs,"Effervescing Elephant").
His deterioration continued well into the mid-seventies. Chronically usntable and mentally challanged due to prolonged ingestion of drugs he wound up being institutionalized.Released later to the daily care of his family, he shacked up in his mothers basement where he lives comfortably and carefree to this day almost unrecognizable from his prime, but suffers from a diabetic condition.
One of the most brightest and gifted artists to come out of the rock era, Syd Barrett became one of the first burned-out rock stars, a physical toll being monumental, an emotional one being inmeasurable. Syd today eschews his past. Wordly known as the founder of Pink Floyd, he received entry to the Rock N' Roll Hall of Fame(did not attend)and is held in reverence to numerous young musicians worldwide.
For one shining moment, albeit brief, Syd Barrett became the darling of The London Underground and one of England's brightest Pop stars before it all came crashing down. Syds story is nothing sort of tragic, a chronicled tale of drug abuse and the troughs of the Rock N Roll lifestyle. His price that he paid for entering that arena reserved for those of groundbreaking visionary status. The book documents this expertly, and doesn't leave too much detail out, in fact I feel there is too much detail. Syd will forever remain a footnote in the bands history. To this day Pink Floyd cannot denounce (or shake off) the influence and original vision he had for the band.
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In this touching, frank and informative memoir, Nicki Boscia
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Beyond the Pink Moon
Beyond the Pink Moonby Nicki Boscia Durlester


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Beyond the Pink Moon, personal, insightful and life affirming
Nicki Boscia Durlester has written a personal triumph.The book is a beautiful read, life affirming and spiritual.Clearly her first book is written with the pen of intellect, deep compassion and self-effacing wit.It is a must read for anyone who has experienced any kind of challenge. Join Nicki on her personal journey of survival and surely your will be inspired to face your own obstacles in life and hopefully gain strength for Nicki's courage and passion.

Nicki B. Durlester's book is an engaging and inspiring read!
I don't have much quiet reading time in my world right now and usually have to work on books little by little over a few weeks...but...as I opened the pages of "Beyond the Pink Moon" and my 5 year old son settled down for a nap on a long drive over Labor Day, I ventured into the pages and was able to experience Nicki Durlester's story in it's entirety.What an experience...for her, certainly first and foremost, but for me as well.I laughed, cried, was VERY touched by the kindnesses offered to her on her journey and her openness and gifted storytelling style!I highly recommend Beyond the Pink Moon to others and am thrilled to have purchased a few so I can share with friends!Kudos to Nicki Durlester for the courage it continually takes to survive her breast cancer legacy and for the courage to write and self-publish this work.I'm in awe.... ... Read more

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In early 2005 aged just 34, Chantal was diagnosed with breast cancer. A Pink Wig is her inspiring story of how her positive attitude helped her and her family come to terms with the disease. Chantal is currently working on a sequel. ... Read more