--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "seventhray27" wrote: > > > I remember being fascinated watching a documentary on the Rouge Plant, > described by Wikipedia as the "largest integrated factory in the world". > They even raised their own sheep which they then sheared for wool for > upholstery or carpeting. >
Pretty interesting. I didn't know about the sheep. When I was a kid I toured the Ford Rouge Plant and watched them make a car from scratch. All the way from thick slabs of molten steel to rolls of sheet metal stamped into parts and finished as a car at the end of the assembly line, ready to drive. http://blog.cargurus.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/ford-rouge-plant.jpg http://youtu.be/CohboThGO-o Has anyone Googled their childhood home? I was surprised Google had captured detailed pictures of every house on my street. Big Brother, anyone? It's quite a trip down memory lane to see the old neighborhood. In some ways it's the same, but indeed it has changed: the elementary school on Woodmere is full of gang graffiti, the neighbors next door hang laundry in the front yard, there's a burnt out house across the street, Dad's 15 foot CB radio antennae is gone (he bragged he could talk "skip" to a guy in Alaska), and Mom's garden is gone except for one patch of perennials in bloom. The fire station on Lawndale fenced in a parking lot where the firemen played volleyball. My church, Woodmere Methodist is now a Pentecostal church. The parsonage is gone and they probably replaced the fabulous old pipe organ with electric guitars, brass horns, drums and a whole lot of talking in tongues. Geez, don't look back folks, now will never be as good as then. Zoom out 2 miles on the Google map and you can see the Rouge River, the Ford Plant and Zug Island where it flows into the Detroit River. http://tinyurl.com/abbvagq > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "raunchydog" wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Ann" wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ wrote: > > > > > > > > Maybe she felt suffocated by you?? Hey, its possible - I've lived > plenty of places with dirty air, including daily exposure to DDT when > younger, and suffered no ill health as a result - used to enjoy long > distance running after that. Just sayin' > > > > > > Big tanker trucks in my neighborhood outside of Chicago used to roll > through the quiet suburban streets in the evenings back in the early > '60's fogging the streets with plumes of DDT and our favorite pastime as > children was to follow these trucks pedaling our bikes like mad playing > in the clouds of pesticide. They were rolling banks of poisonous fog > that looked so cool to us. > > > > > > > > I grew up in Detroit a few miles from the Ford Rouge Plant and coke > ovens on Zug Island. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zug_Island The sky was > a dingy orange by the plant and a bright orange when the coke ovens lit > the sky at night. I've never had any discernible ill effect on my health > from living in this environment and I'm still healthy. Apparently, > whether or not one's body reacts adversely to pollution has to do with > gene silencing. > > > > "Gene silencing is a general term describing epigenetic processes of > gene regulation. The term gene silencing is generally used to describe > the "switching off" of a gene by a mechanism other than genetic > modification. That is, a gene which would be expressed ("turned on") > under normal circumstances is switched off by machinery in the cell. > Gene silencing occurs when RNA is unable to make a protein during > translation." Wikipedia > > > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > > > > > > > > > I have lived in only one of the cities in this chart, Paris. > And, sadly, > > > > > as much as I love the city of Paris, I have to agree with this > study's > > > > > assessment -- despite the Good Intentions and Actual Laws > Enacted of the > > > > > city's Gay Green Mayor, Paris is fuckin' polluted. I am > fortunately not > > > > > hideously badly affected by pollution, but my best friend, with > whom I > > > > > shared a nice apartment there, was not. She spent her years in > Paris > > > > > fighting a multitude of respiratory ailments that she attributed > to > > > > > breathing the air of the City Of Lights. > > > > > > > > > > And yet. We've never had to deal with *these* cities: > > > > > > > > > > [531] > > > > > > > > > > The full article is on The Economist, at: > > > > > > http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2013/01/daily-chart-11?fsrc\ > \ > > > > > =rss > > > > > > > > > c=rss> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
