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Sharing a Bit of Cloth and Comfort
My copy of "The Apron Book" just arrived. I could hardly wait to sit down with a cup of coffee and get lost in an era that seems so long ago, but so close to heart. Earlier in the year, I attend "The Apron Chronicles" a traveling exhibit of aprons and their stories, told by EllynAnne herself! The exhibit was amazing! Aprons do have a voice and they're heard throughout the pages of "The Apron Book". In "The Apron Book" Geisel has done an extraordinary job bringing the aprons to life. Each apron pictured has a heartwarming story filled with love that only an apron could tell. They come to life and it is as if you're there. The tidbits of info scattered throughout the book from what to do about over salted soup to the perfect pocket placement on an apron are a delight. I can't sew a stitch but I've read every pattern in the book! Thanks EllynAnne

apron lover
I loved the colorful mix of worn aprons in my mother's kitchen drawer and I'd give anything to have one wrapped around my waist right now. Unfortunately, those aprons are long gone, but as I hoped, THE APRON BOOK brings me right back to the wonderful memories I associate with the aprons ofmy childhood.
DIY Cover Up
I too eagerly anticipated reading this book, since I went through an apron-sewing blitz this summer. I was a bit disappointed, however. Although the photos and instructions are helpful (for seamsters more accomplished than myself), the tone of the book is reactionary, with negative statements about working mothers and a lot of nostalgia for the Ozzie and Harriet era. Although Geisel celebrates the rebirth of the domestic arts, she praises the home-as-nest (enclave of traditional domesticity) rather than the house-as-studio (a DIY workshop involving every member in open-ended acts of engagement with economy, history, and culture.) Still, there's some interesting history and some great photos. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Antiques & Collectibles    2. Antiques/Collectibles    3. Beauty & Grooming - Apparel Guides    4. Fashion & Grooming    5. Popular Culture    6. Popular Culture - General    7. Textile Fabrics    8. Textiles & Costume    9. Antiques & Collectibles / Kitchenware    10. Handicrafts   

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Excellent Resource
Hebdige's book is an excellent text that is enjoyable and informative to read. It is academic and poetic all at once, mirroring certain aspects of the self-conscious scene he describes. He takes on the challenge of recording both the history and method of cultural creation and change in Britain, and leaves the savvy reader at a good place for interpreting later subcultural movements (US punk & hardcore, for example). I would say this is an essential read for the student or layman interested in subculture (past and present) or the history of punks, skins, etc.

Buy this book.
Professor Hebdige is a genius, and contrary to the other review he immersed himself in "this scene."He grew up right in the middle of the movement in England and witnessed firsthand the events and shifts that the book covers. He is a brilliant professor at UCSB and to take his class is an experience like no other. Reading this bookis only a glimpse into the mind of one of the world's most exceptionally brilliant and artistic men.

Lacking in-depth analysis
This book lends itself to the idea that some subjects are best written about when one has experienced them first-hand. Lauraine LeBlanc's book Pretty in Punk, for example, offers an academic AND an experiential view of the movement. Hebdige could have benefited by letting more members of the subculture speak for themselves in his book or if he had actually lived in a subculture scene. While it is important to maintain some distance between your subject and yourself, too much distance leads to too many gaps and too much assumption. Although I enjoyed reading the book and think it is a good brief overview of many subcultures and styles, it might have been better to dedicate a separate book to each subculture and their particular style rather than trying to encompass them all in such a small space. The result would have been a more in-depth study of each group instead of a stereotypical glossing over - to understand the style one needs to understand each group more in-depth. I need to read his latest version to see if he addresses some of these issues. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Anthropology - Cultural    2. Great Britain    3. Popular Culture - General    4. Social Science    5. Sociology    6. Subculture    7. Youth    8. Art / Popular Culture    9. Cultural studies    10. Sociology, Social Studies    11. United Kingdom, Great Britain   

Reviews (97)

Shakespeare is Full of Quotes
A careless reading of "Amusing Ourselves to Death" will reveal a string of cliches about the modern era of industry and sense of participation in it: that our politicians are image-focused, "news-of-the-day" is typically useless, and our preachers and teachers are entertainers primarily. This book is hack, if only in the sense that the ideas he presents were of grave concern to Plato. Postman takes that (1) truth is given form by rhetoric, (2) which is defined by the mode of expression, (3) and although historically authors were aware of the distinction between speech, image and text, with the rapid accumulation of new forms of meda we are no longer conscious of how they shape our dialogue, (4) and via the transformation of discourse into image-driven entertainment we are losing the context of content.
Desperate Networks
The cover art of headless viewers watching television says it all. My only brush with the late Neil Postman came when he spoke at the university I was attending in the northwest. A breezy east coaster, he was unaware of the need to step on eggs. During the questions, one woman said, "Mr. Postman, how can we help children have self-esteem?" to which he replied, "I don't want them to have self-esteem; I want them to esteem something other than themselves."
Interesting, but...
This is a very interesting book where the author builds a solid argument about the "downfall" of culture as we know it ever since we've had access to any sort of communication technology that came after the printing press (he condems the use of the telegraph and anything that came after it, but in his point of view, the TV is the worst invention ever created).
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Subjects:  1. Influence    2. Mass Communication Media And Society    3. Mass Media - General    4. Mass media    5. Performing Arts    6. Performing Arts/Dance    7. Popular Culture - General    8. Sociology    9. Sociology - Social Theory    10. Television & Video    11. Television - History & Criticism    12. United States    13. Social Science / Media Studies   

Subjects:  1. Bibliographies & Indexes    2. Encyclopedias    3. General    4. History    5. Popular Culture - General    6. Reference    7. Sociological aspects    8. Sports    9. Sports & Recreation    10. United States    11. Cultural studies    12. Social Science / Popular Culture    13. Sports & Outdoor Recreation    14. USA   

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A MUST READ... INVOLVED!
I loved reading this book and will read it again. When I began reading, I could not set the book down. I felt Richardson was honest and respectful of difference.He speaks his mind over a subject he initially knew very little about. It was one person's perspective and he told it with compassion. As someone who also has a disability, I gravitated toward each and every page; to each and every person.
Different Subject Matter + Great Introspection = Great Read
I saw this book in Half-Price Books. I liked the layout on the cover, it looked "different", and it was cheap (bingo!), so I bought it. Because of time constraints, it took me 2-3 weeks to read this book. However, one could easily finish it within a week if they so desired.
The cynical journalist leaves little to admire
Journalist John H. Richardson attended a Little People of America convention looking for a story he could turn into a book. But the perfect story did not emerge immediately and so Richardson, cynical journalist that he seems to be, apparently decided to force a story. What emerges is more a voyeuristic look into the methods and musings of a journalist than the intimate look at "dwarfs" that Richardson may have intended.Read more

Subjects:  1. Anthropology - Cultural    2. Biography / Autobiography    3. Interpersonal Relations    4. Minority Studies - General    5. Popular Culture - General    6. Social Science    7. Sociology    8. Specific Groups - General    9. Social Science / Popular Culture   

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An Engineer's Opinion...
I'm an electrical and electronics engineer, working for a governmental R&D Institution. I also study on Science and Technology Policy Studies for an M.S. degree. I found the book quite useful, especially in its aspect of analyzing the scientist and engineer in his own time, his own context, his own psychology... It is a well organized, fluent, clear book. It may not be a complete guide or a definitive study, but it is a good point to start. Recommended...

Trivial where not incorrect
Latour again demonstrates trivial insights and egregious errors. He simply does not know his subject (allegedly science) well enough - he makes conceptual and factual blunders. I am glad this book is still in printbecause it is a useful aid in teaching humanity students about science -but not in the way Latour had envisioned! By understanding hismisinterpretations, we can learn how laypeople get confused.

Brilliant view on scientific truth as a network of strength
Latour today can be regarded as one of the leading philosophers of science and technology. After his first work with Steve Woolgar, "Laboratory life", this is his second major work in which he generalises onvarious topics that he only touched in a very preliminary way in the abovework. Latour adopts a very original way of following scientists in theirstruggle to "produce" scientific truth. He studies them as ifthey were a tribe (Latour is originally an ethnographer).

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Accidentally hilarious
This is surely one of the worst books ever written. By anyone. Ever. And this was a best-seller in the US?!! Read it and weep. The book's title is remarkably telling, in fact telling you all you need to know about it. Charen uses the phrase "useful idiots" to describe those on the left in non-communist countries, apparently because that's what Lenin called them. Except that he didn't! As the author useful mentions on page 10, "Lenin may never have actually uttered the phrase". Hilarious! I might well write my own book in the future, called "Simple-minded Idiots", because Ronald Reagan once said that about Republicans. (Well, he might have done.)
Which "Liberals" Are You Talking About?
This book is yet another attempt to deligitimize any opposition to the the Republican and big business agenda by demogogic attacks on "liberals" as bumblingly inept fools and arbitrary bureacratic despots, if not traitors, who "blame America."Thus the title "Useful Idiots", borrowed from Lenin, implying in the manner of Joe McCarthy that liberals are "dupes of the Communists."
Ollie, give yourself another pat on the back...
Yet another whitewashing and self-serving attempt to claim that Ronald Reagan "won the Cold War" - by the way, it was my impression that the Cold War was not in any sense 'won', it was rather something that just ended, for the most part because it was widely acknowledged within the USSR that the Soviet style economy and political system could neither be sustained nor reformed.
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Subjects:  1. 20th century    2. Cold War    3. Communism    4. History    5. Liberalism    6. Political Ideologies - Communism & Socialism    7. Politics / Current Events    8. Popular Culture - General    9. Social Science    10. Sociology    11. United States    12. United States - 20th Century    13. Cultural studies    14. Social Science / Popular Culture    15. Sociology, Social Studies   

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The LSD chapters, man...
This book is great.Highly recommend to "experienced travellers" - it'll most definitely bring familiar (mostly pleasant) memories back to life.But even more I'd recommend it to people who are still thinking about taking the plunge and are afraid for one reason or another.
Essential Reading, a Modern Classic
"Pharmako/Gnosis" is the crown jewel of Pendell's superb trilogy, and indispensable reading for anyone interested in psychedelics, botany, anthropology, and earnest inquiry into the nature of existence. Covering LSD, mescaline and peyote, DMT, psilocybin mushrooms, esoterica like Syrian rue and even xenon inhalation, as well as other signposts on what he calls "the Poison Path," Pendell continues his profound investigation of mankind's relationship with plants and chemicals that can seem like helpful teachers, demons, pernicious addictions -- or all three at once. (The truly addictive substances are mostly discussed in the previous two volumes of the trilogy, "Pharmako/Poeia" and "Pharmako/Dynamis.")
chewy goat heads
Well, I just finished the first time through on this book and I can't say it's as good as his first one in this series (or the 2nd one for that matter.) I mean, it's alwright and I'll read it again, but it's a little more flowery and rambling than the previous two. It seemed like he was relying more on data gathered from others in writing this one as opposed to the stong impression of personal experience I gandered from the others in this series. I'm a little dissapointed, but then I had very high expectations and a strong interest in the subjects he discusses. He just left out alot of things I would have considered important maybe, but overall a good book.
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great read
The Blast Master has once again brought forth an education in Hiphop. KRS-ONE's love for the Hiphop culture and movement is best described in his book Ruminations. I found it to be a very interesting and dynamic read. For those that doubt the skills and knowledge of an Emcee that has been laying vocals from Street corners to world stages is mistaken when you claim his albums are "crap" and patrons demanded thier money back at live shows could be further from the truth. I have been to several KRS-ONE shows(from Chicago, New Orleans, New york, Los Angeles, Austin, Houston and beyond) and in my experience I have never seen a crowd so enthused or invigorated. Over the past few years his rhyme styles have elevated. A truly great Emcee never has to rely on "GREAT BEATS" but moreso on lyrical content. KRS writes rhymes for the educated and enlightened listener. HIP-POP music lovers need not apply, this style the KRIS style is way beyond your level of thinking.

One Step towards Understanding. One Giant Leap towards Univerisal Consciousness
For those of you that do not read Ruminations and listen to the person that gave the book one star, obviously you are afraid of improving yourself as well as your community. To read this book, one does not need prior knowledge of spirituality, reparations for African Americans, or even Hip-Hop history. However, this book is not for people that are stagnant and unwilling to learn. Nevertheless, if you are living in the Dark Ages and want to partake in the Hip-Hop Renaissance, then expand your mind to Ruminations and digest the smorgasbord for thought by KRS-ONE. On the contrary, if you are believing life is one big "bling, bling" party and don't take the time to think beyond one's needs, then continue a life of selfishness and at the moment lifestyle and there will come a time when you will wind up looking for such insight whether it be from KRS-ONE or other philosophers, teachers, scholars, meta-physicians to regain mental stability and repentance for one's negative thoughts and actions. Like they say, "If you think education is expensive, try ignorance." Buy the book and invest in the common good as well as yourself. You will be glad you have taken this positive step. Like Rakim stated on Follow the Leader, "I guess nobody told you a little knowledge is dangerous." One Love.

Dope, insightful
A book that really makes you think. A good beginning as a published author for Kris. As to the klowns that gave KRS 1 star, quit being a hater and realize that kris still is and always be one of the greatest emcees in hip hop history. The kat that hated on kris' last few album probably supports trash like Chingy and Nelly. ... Read more

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Life in all its strangeness
Unquestionably, the strength and courage shown by the modern day media has been the sole driving force in bringing forward the various viewpoints that would eventually change the world for better. It is like the words - "It sometimes takes a stranger for us to be able to look into justices' beautiful eyes". That is true at so many levels, both at an individual and personal level but also in terms of the relationship between the citizens of this world and the media. And therein lies the genesis of everlasting love as well, no matter how much doubt is cast by slander. However human nature is strange in that one often ends up hurting the most those that they actually love dearly. Words, in that context, are also strange since they can be sometimes be so vitriolic, if not being utterly cruel. There once was an ordinary man who sat in his home looking at his television screen, as if looking through it and asked for forgiveness and hoped that one day he would be forgiven by everyone he hurt. It was at times like this that he wished he could get himself to walk away from the television and return to his ordinary world of man and machines or even to his essence, not out of fear of retaliation but out of the pain he kept causing others. After all he was just a human being! He was such a person who could see the truth in every perspective and ideology and at the same time felt that the modern world would be writing its epitaph if it did not bravely face the reality of the every changing world. It was something as simple and pure as seeing the truth in the different ways of life chosen by different human beings who lived on this land even if he did not agree with all viewpoints. It is like being able to walk in every stranger's shoes and realizing that in essence some face of the ultimate truth shows itself no matter how different this truth looks at face value. It is analogous to the different faces of a diamond and that it would take a miracle to be able to see these myriad, if not infinite, faces of the same diamond in one glimpse. In this regard, the narrower the tunnel vision, the more mistrust there is against other viewpoints. That is the essence of life. Well, what can you say other than - "shine on you crazy diamond..."
your superego
Complete moral degredation of society, eh?Dimwit zealots interspersed with egotistical invaders of privacy and the silly immature masses of disgusting protoplasm seeking fun at others' expense, all trapped in the tragic duplicity and hypocrisy of their own self-glorified beliefs...the self-proclaimed intellectual class, the so-called saviors of modern society? Has the rabid journalistic and entertainment and advertising (aka the modern day devils) media gone berserk with no one around to save them from their mental illness except maybe their own slow but inevitable slide down into oblivion?

Shooting history on the wing
Media-disseminated messages flood our every waking second, affecting us in ways we often do not readily discern. Croteau and Hoynes take the reader on an exploration of these media forces in a sociological journey that walksthen leaps from the birth of printed words for the masses to cyberspace forthe individual.In the process, we learn a lot along the way. Not onlyabout media, but, about ourselves. Unlike most college course texts inMedia and Society (in sociology or journalism), "Media Society"is written in understandable English and is not ruefully Marxian inideological slant. The work plays it straight down the middle. The authors'goal, to which they succeed, is to provide information that shows thecomplexity of social relationships in, around and through which informationfrom all sources is sought and internalized by "receivers" then,through feedback, subtly affects the "senders" and subsequentmessages as well.Surprisingly up-to-date in information, especiallyconcerning the so-called New Media (a synthesis of current technologies,traditional entertainment programs-turned-political,and old news media).Croteau and Hoynes not only introduce the reader to the media mileau insociety, they show how economics drive news coverage. At the same time theyexplain that media consolidations have not shrunk the markets as firstfeared, but have actually led--perhaps inadvertently--to an explosion ofdifferent, often smaller and more intimate media.The media pie, theyattest, is growing bigger as the number of slices inexplicably increase.In later chapters, the authors do a commendable job acquainting the readerwith communications theory, especially explaining how opinions are formed.My favorite chapter, given my predilections, are the chapters dealing withmedia and the political world (and the rest of the chapters in Part 4). The authors also enter the globalization fray by demonstrating not only howAmerican pop culture is transforming traditional cultures (see Barber'sMcWorld v. Jihad for greater detail), but also how traditional cultures areinfluencing American pop culture in ways greater than we had intuited.Anyone interested in gaining a sense of how media is impacting his or herdaily life and how we, as social beings, react to that impact, shouldcertainly read this wonderful book. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Anthropology - General    2. Mass media    3. Performing Arts    4. Performing Arts/Dance    5. Political aspects    6. Pop Arts / Pop Culture    7. Popular Culture - General    8. Public Affairs & Administration    9. Reference    10. Social aspects    11. United States    12. Media studies    13. Social Science / Anthropology / General   

Editorial Review

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Funny enough
Pros: lots of discussion and dissection on the new millenium anti feminism backlash. I found myself agreeing with most of Miss Dowd's commentary about the sad trend of the past 15 years for women to re-claim their femininity by resurrecting the stereotypes and behaviors their mothers threw off. She made some good analogies!
"Why Can't I Get a Date With a Rich White Man?"
Since this seems to be the subtext of the book Are Men Necessary, I think it should have been the title.
A Good Read!
This is an extremely enjoyable look at the battle between the sexes. Dowd makes it plain that this is not a scholarly thesis, but rather a compendium of anecdotes and commentary, many culled from her own experience, about men and how we as women view them in the 21st century. And, of course, vice versa, using some delicious insight and keen wit to make her many (and often deadly on target) points.
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Strangely beautiful and mesmerizing...hypnotic
I love this book and you don't have to be a lover of poetry to admire and appreciate the poems contained in this book. Jim Morrison was a man who was deeply committed to his art. As the lead singer and lyricist of The Doors (one of the greatest rock bands of all time) he took special care that his lyrics as well as his poems aim to release people from the constraints of what is normal and that we as people should follow our own destiny and draw our own conclusions and live our life the way that we want it. Jim Morrison was a tortured, confused and misunderstood soul but nevertheless a genius. An enigma and legend that will live on forever. The lizard king, the electric poet cannot and will not be silenced ever... as long as his music and poetry continues to thrive in all who appreciate and love his unique and captavating artistry. Get this book and you will not disappointed.

Mesmerizing , Magical, MysticalPoetry
Jim Morrison was a poet far, far ahead of his time.His words evoke dancing, metaphorical images that bloom in your mind like rare hothouse flowers.You can feel the angst, pain and beauty of his soul in these poems.
Haunting
The words and images in this book have a way with your mind.They stick in your subconscious as if they are the stories your ancestors told around the campfire.
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Editorial Review

Martin Torgoff came of age just about the same time as the drug boom, a circumstance that informs his overview of America's "Great Stoned Age." Chronicling the irrepressible onslaught of mind-altering substances from the end of World War II through the close of the century, Torgoff (whose previous publishing efforts have centered around rockers Elvis Presley and John Cougar Mellencamp) intersperses the personal with the historical. Laying the groundwork with his own recollections of indulgence beginning in the late 1960s, the author flashes back to the Beat era, which he asserts opened the door for all that followed. Interviews with the obscure and celebrated add color and detail to the chronicle. Here's Herbert Huncke, the unapologetic hustler and heroin addict who lurked on the periphery of '50s bohemian scene and turned up as a character in William Burroughs' pulp memoir Read more

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So what is the answer?
If you have been there then you know the answer. The question is: Why did we travel there in the first place. Addictions are sneaky. Sometimes we write about them, other times we fight them. Addicted movie stars are just addicts. Hard drugs have no respect for who we are.

California Al
I wanted to be interested in this book, but it became pretty boring ater a while. There is an undercurrent of romanticism that pervades the authors purpose. He claims to be neutral, yet his descriptions and conversations with many of the people slant towards idol worship. Although the author claims to be in recovery, I did not get the sense of how drugs and alcohol can ruin peoples lives. I felt that his narrative was self serving, and glorifying the wonders of drugs and experimentation. There is a price to pay. What was good was hearing his father's take on the whole down side of watching his son grow up loaded. That was interesting. I'm getting weary of the proselytizing about how epochal the 1960's, 70's and 80's were. I didn't like his picture either.

GREAT BOOK FOR UNIVERSITY COURSES!!!
I'm reading this book a bit at a time.Each part is like a little history lesson - full of specific people, places and things that I've heard a lot of stories about - usually from folks who didn't have a great deal of clarity when they were either living through them OR speaking about them.Read more

Subjects:  1. Anthropology - Cultural    2. History    3. History - U.S.    4. History: American    5. Popular Culture - General    6. United States - 20th Century    7. United States - 20th Century (1945 to 2000)    8. American history: postwar, from c 1945 -    9. Crime & criminology    10. Drug addiction & substance abuse    11. Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000    12. Social Science / General    13. USA   

Editorial Review

Cheating, argues author David Callahan, is no longer the exclusive purview of lowlife criminals, slick hucksters, and shady characters with ace cards shoved in secretive places. Now everyone's doing it and because everyone sees everyone else doing it, they keep on doing it. Callahan says the trouble begins in America's brutally competitive economic climate, which rewards results and looks the other way when it comes to the ethical and even criminal transgressions of those who come out on the winning end. Certainly there is no shortage of examples of cheating from the business community, and Callahan nimbly dissects the dishonest actions of the usual suspects (Enron, WorldCom, Global Crossing) to demonstrate how that same mentality extends out to our educational system, amateur and professional sports, the news media, and even the lives of common citizens who, while they would never think of themselves as being cheaters, are nevertheless inclined to commit the occasional act of beneficial fudging. And while honesty is a nice ideal, Callahan says that cheaters cheat because, contrary to oft-repeated axioms, cheaters win: the chances of being caught are shrinking as are the punishments meted out should one be nabbed, and the benefits of a successful cheat far outstrip any potential threat. Further, Callahan posits that otherwise upright folks who would not cheat are drawn into the practice out of fear that they simply won't be able to make it in modern society otherwise. There's a lot of material for Callahan to work with here, given that every instance of cheating is fair game as source material and is able to be used to construct a theory of epidemic. And the range of material is so broad and the basic argument ("we cheat more") so simple that Read more

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A good book for indiscriminate followers
If you are looking for a pro socialist (but surprisingly anti-postmodern) and horribly pessimistic view of American society, I recommend this book.If you like vague generalizations and loosely correlated (but very interesting) facts presented as truth, The Cheating Culture is for you.
The moral decline in america...from a liberal point of view
In today's society, steroid-enhanced sports figures cork their bats, while corporate executives cook their books. In the days after 9/11, banking institutions whose networking system crashed saw their clients draw out millions of dollars they did not own.Parents push to have their children wrongfully diagnosed with learning disorders so they can have extended time on tests.Lawyers exaggerate expense reports; doctors get kick-backs for promoting vitamins; and commission-based mechanics work to find expensive problems on well-running vehicles.
Cheating is everywhere

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