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Exclusion in the Environmental Movement, a Kiss The Ground Film Critique
December 5, 2020 February 11, 2021 by The Evergreen Guide
For #WorldSoilDay, let us look at a movement revolving around soil health and issues on diversity and inclusion it faces.
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Kiss The Ground has been described as groundbreaking, but I find that it only manages to scratch the surface. I don't have indigenous roots as a Filipino-American woman and my family does not have experience working or owning farms. Regardless of my background, I was left feeling very jaded on behalf of indigenous peoples and farmers of color internationally after watching this film on Netflix. My grievance is about the missed opportunity to showcase Traditional Ecological Knowledge and diversity in agriculture to a wide audience.
Kiss The Ground is a 2020 full-length documentary. Their website describes it as a film "that sheds light on an new, old approach to farming called "regenerative agriculture" that has the potential to balance our climate, replenish our vast water supplies, and feed the world". I went into watching the film blind; I didn't know about the directors or producers (besides assuming, correctly, that they were white) and I haven't even watched a lot of movies of the narrator either. Nonetheless, I thought that the film might teach me more about regenerative agriculture. By the end of the film, I was left feeling fed-up at the hollow hope it offered.
Before I share why I felt like this, I offer one good takeaway: the scientific explanations in the first half of the film. While with a sometimes monotonous tone, Woody Harrelson does a thorough job describing these ideas in an easily digestible manner for audiences unfamiliar with environmental science concepts. There's clever use of infographs that are dynamic and most helpful for the visual learner.
Yet aside from these environmental science segments, I almost stopped watching halfway through. Why?
Throughout the first half of the film, one can't help but notice they almost exclusively interview farmers who are white and male. They shared feminine perspectives of scientific background, but didn't show a female farmer who works on the soil themselves until the latter half of the film. There were several opportunities to introduce to Netflix's inter/national audience a wider range of diversity of ethnic groups as agriculture owners, but in this regard Kiss the Ground fell short. They spoke only to white farm owners, and only interviewed BIPOC in non-farm owner roles smushed into the last 20-minutes of the film. This bit of inclusion can come off as performative—especially considering that no indigenous people or organizations were featured at all in the film.
That is not to say that the women and POC featured are by no means less important; science experts like Dr. Kristine Nichols and John D. Liu and composting entrepeneurs like Pashon Murray and Michael Martinez are vital for conducting research and providing accessibility for regenerative agricultural practices. However when Kiss The Ground only relegates a small portion of screen-time to their voices and consistently selects white, male faces as the pioneer and primary voice of agricultural owners, it upholds the stereotype that agriculture is dominated by white, male landowners and will likely remain that way. By not challenging agriculture's skewed demographics, it subliminally reinforces its current inequitable structure. I can't wholeheartedly say that Kiss The Ground isn't inspiring, it provided a wealth of scientific knowledge… But in terms of environmental justice and social issues, the film is quite glaringly lackluster.
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(via Detroit Public Libary Digital Collections)
2 out of the 3 black-and white photographs used about bison/buffalo are ones that can be easily found on Google.
When it finally came time for the female farmer Doniga Markegard of Markegard Family Grass-Fed Farm at the 50-min. mark, I wasn't as thrilled as I ought to have been. Instead, I was preoccupied and appalled that the only look back into indigenous history thus far—and one of the only referrals to indigenous knowledge in the film—referred only to the mass-hunting of over 60 million buffalo "in an attempt to starve the Native Americans". One of the white, male farmers go on about the importance of buffalo, and they quickly show a North American map juxtaposed with greyed areas for the plains bison migration territory. I couldn't help but think another map I've seen would have paired perfectly with this—one that shows the shrinking of indigenous American lands over time.
This presented like a snippet of trivia despite the centuries of history behind them, and it could not even be delivered by an indigenous person. Metaphorically rubbing salt in the wound is the accompaniment of overused historical photos: white cowboys shooting down a buffalo or alongside towering piles of animal remains. Others have eloquently described the issues and unconscious bias behind showcasing indigenous stories purely through black-and-white photographs, in past-tense, or altogether excluding their voices or stories at all: indigenous communities are not lost, forgotten people, but whitewashed media so often portrays them as such. Such microaggressions were clearly executed at this point in the film, as Kiss The Ground does not elaborate how colonization (and with it, industrial agriculture) came to take over indigenous lands or that these lands were carefully managed by indigenous peoples for thousands of years… managed with methods that today's regenerative agriculture is inspired by.
This GIF is from the Youtube video, Native American Land Losses (via Imgur)
The only other homage to indigenous values is in that Doniga Markegard learned about permaculture practices through Lakota elders in her childhood, but her mentor's name or the wilderness immersion school she attended goes unnamed. While you can vaguely connect her monologues to indigenous values, it remains discreet, implied, and in the background. The forefront is in science stripped of deep, cultural values that I presume was instilled with Markegard as well. She's written books about these experiences, but it seems that editors opted not to include any more context beyond permaculture's physical execution.
One can look into Doniga's publications which share her experiences with learning indigenous beliefs and practices, Dawn Again or Wolf Girl—but in reality, no matter how much it's recommended you can't expect every viewer who watches Kiss The Ground to reach for a book. And even if Markegard had more screen-time to explain what she was taught, the film would fall short still. Acknowledging tribal land or leaders verbally is the absolute bare minimum—it isn't enough to refer to our indigenous teachers by name and leave it at that. True solidarity would be including indigenous leaders and communities into these spaces to showcase their knowledge and practices themselves. This is just one of the reasons why the regenerative agriculture movement repeatedly comes off as as tone-deaf.
It's possible that the filmmakers genuinely did not think that their film would come off this way. They also may have asked themselves: if our main objective is to target industrial agriculture, to teach about soil and environmental science and putting it into practice… why should we include indigenous peoples' history or their movements regarding land rights?
Seeing that roughly 95% of farmland is white-owned and a large majority is agriculture, so it is only obvious this film will want to cater to a white audience first and foremost. But there is a still a need to acknowledge and include BIPOC–Black and Indigenous People of Color–voices. It is important to address the underlying issues and events that lead to this small percentage of BIPOC in agriculture. Without facing these topics head-on, one implies that they aren't that concerned about changing those inequitable statistics.
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By glossing over indigenous histories and struggles, and by not challenging how society is built in a way that the majority of U.S. soil has been privatized and owned by white people, Kiss The Ground showcases how America's mistreatment and erasure of black and indigenous peoples persists. When a film talks about white settler colonialism's consequences on wildlife population but not on the interconnectedness to indigenous land sovereignty; when a film has funds to send an interviewer to Zimbabwe for a story, yet neglects to reach out to BIPOC farmers in their home country… it reveals that white people advocating for regenerative agriculture remain either unaware or uncaring of systemic social justices issues that brought on climate change in the first place.
Indigenous communities globally have long been alienated and separated from environmental movements that effect them the most, and there are so many activists and groups that bring light to this issue. Right before Thankstaking—Thanksgiving's alternative name in acknowledgement of colonial genocide—over 10 indigenous organizations came together to send a message to regenerative agriculture and permaculture leaders. It was posted on @CulturalSurvival and other environmental advocates' social media, saying:
Regen Ag and Permaculture claim to be holistic in approach. When regenerating a landscape, 'everything' is considered: soil health, water cycles, local 'wildlife', income & profit. 'Everything', however, tends to EXCLUDE history: Why were Indigenous homelands steal-able and why were our peoples & lands rape-able? Why were our cultures erased? Why does our knowledge need to be validated by 'Science'? Why are we still excluded from your 'healing' of our land?
White people practicing regenerative agriculture and producing media about it have power to make the movement as inclusive or exclusive as they see fit. They have privilege to reach a wide audience and influence how the public views agriculture and it's working structure as a whole. Whether they meant to or not, Kiss the Ground perpetrates indigenous erasure as mainstream American textbooks have always done by not dedicating even just 10 more minutes of screen-time interviewing an indigenous person or organization.
Traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) systems are the roots of regenerative agriculture, and these roots continue to nourish and feed the movement by gifting their knowledge to farmers both white and non-white alike. Building the regenerative movement without involving indigenous communities is like neglecting the soil: you'll still receive a crop, but your harvest will not be as bountiful and the taste will not be as sweet.
In the 21st century with all the accessibility and reach the internet provides, making connections to indigenous-led endeavors is as simple as an email or phone call. A search on Google and social media platforms provides so many resources and contact information for BIPOC-led agriculture and environmental activists. They provide nuanced criticism on regenerative agriculture on this very issue. I highly recommend watching and/or following the below resources to learn about BIPOC agriculture and sovereignty, environmental stewardship, and community action:
Managing Groundwater with the Paiute, Short Documentary: "the Paiute are shepherding conversations around access to water resources, raising key questions about how our snowpack, streams and aquifers are used and maintained" (free to watch 26-min. video on KCET)
Gather, Film: "exploring the destruction & appropriation of the Native America food system by chronicling those fighting for food sovereignty (full-length documentary, $4.99 rental or $12.99 purchase on Amazon, Vimeo, and iTunes)
Regeneration—from the Beginning, Short Article on Nonprofit Quarterly: succinctly explains the arguments I've talked about here from the professional prospective. The author, A-dae Romero-Briones (Cochiti/Kiowa), is "the director of programs, Native Agriculture and Food Systems Initiative, at the First Nations Development Institute"
Planting Justice, 501(c)3 Non-Profit: An Oakland-based organization that "has built over 450 edible permaculture gardens in the San Francisco Bay Area, worked with five high-schools to develop food justice curricula and created 40 green jobs in the food justice movement for folks transitioning from prison"
Raised Roots, Farm & Consulting Agency: "Providing superior produce, gardens and farm education" through Oakland-based urban farming
A Growing Culture Non-Profit: Based in Mexico, they are "Global Movement for a Just Food System," and "focused on eco agriculture technique and information exchange for education & advancement"
Seeding Sovereignty, Advocacy Organization: "an Indigenous-led collective, works to radicalize and disrupt colonized spaces through land, body, and food sovereignty work, community building, and cultural preservation"
In my experience in trying to bring buffalo back to the land, a lot of non-Indian people can understand the need to do that and the good it can do for the land. Whereas they can't really understand the need to bring the culture back.
Fred DuBray of the Cheyenne River Lakota Nation, South Dakota
quoted from the film, Gather
On Dec 4th, I attended a Film Discussion & Q&A hosted by a California-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit called Sustainable Solano.
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The Co-Founder and Executive Director of Kiss The Ground Foundation, Ryland Engelhart and also his father Matthew Engelhart (owner of an organic, regenerative agriculture farm Be Love Farm, and also founder of the popular Californian vegan restaurant chain, Café Gratitude) were present to answer any questions that attendees had.
Before I could even ask, they acknowledged how the film didn't create a clear, explicit narrative with indigenous views and history. Their response was to create an Educational Version with an additional scene that revolves the Lakota peoples' cultural beliefs and relationships to bison and the land. It includes two additional 45-minute videos, one for students that will be integrated into schools nationwide, and the other for farmers that focuses on profitibility and land resilience. It is made available on Kiss The Ground's website, free for students and non-students alike to stream.
Unfortunately, the Educational Version will not replace the original film streaming on Netflix. But besides producing a new film version, Kiss The Ground seems to be getting more involved with indigenous-led agriculture. Ryland Engelhart shared that he's in touch with Zach Ducheneaux, Executive Director to the Intertribal Agriculture Council. Founded in 1987, the IAC works "to pursue and promote the conservation, development and use of our agricultural resources for the betterment of [Indigenous American] people." Engelhart has learned about IAC's agriculture finance model that provides long-term loans to people to make agriculture more accessible to indigenous communities. Kiss The Ground is currently learning how they can support indigenous communities in this regard. While they don't have a specific progam yet, Kiss The Ground is raising a $3.4 million impact fund in which 10% of that will be dedicated for grassroots organizations focused on BIPOC issues.
Another way that Kiss The Ground is attempting to make regenerative agriculture more accessible is through organizing around the 2024 Farm Bill. They acknowledged that campaigning around the bill may not result in massive change at the federal level, but by making these concepts more widely known it will hopefully interest both current farmers owners and younger generations to adopt these practices at the local and community level.
I went ahead and ordered the Educational Version but have not watched it yet—I'm cautiously optimistic that it has a stronger message revolving social justice seeing how Ryland addressed these issues early into the discussion and Kiss The Ground seems to be in contact with at least one indigenous organization. In my honest opinon as long its privileged leaders are continually, genuinely learning and engaging in ways of mutual aid and allyship for BIPOC environmental justice issues, there is hope for the regenerative agriculture movement still.
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Building and maintaining a consistent experience in your designs, products, and systems can have great consequences for your customers and their experience.
Customers become accustomed to specific interface objects and even the location of those objects on a screen. This makes the experience familiar, and your product becomes more straightforward to use.
This includes establishing the colors, typefaces, and tone of a product that can be used across many types of layouts and interfaces.
The experience of your product should be cohesive, with a continuation from one element to the next like the way a book is structured. Every visual element cues the audience that you're still in the same story, moving from chapter to chapter. Keeping colors, fonts, and alignment consistent helps your audience focus on the plot.
This goes back to our discussion of design patterns in the Simplicity lesson. Maintaining the locations of objects, like the menu button in one of the top two corners, is a design pattern establish in many products and one you can build in your product too. If your customer can already tell how your product works because it works like other products they are familiar with, then they don't have to spend time learning your interface.
People become accustomed to existing patterns, and our brains are optimized for recalling and repeating patterns. We build a shared understanding of how specific products work and then have an expectation for how similar products are supposed to work. This intuitiveness is based on design patterns across the design industry and is one reason to keep looking at other products and designs to see how they are solving problems.
These patterns are also seen in common design systems and are a benefit of Google's Material Design and Apple's Human Interface Guidelines. Establishing elements that many app designers use creates consistency across thousands of applications.
As you establish a mood and tone to your designs, you'll want them to feel consistent as well. A continuation from one screen or product to the next, as if one voice is talking to your customer. If I click on a link on your website and the next page feels radically different, I may think that hyperlink took me to another website and not another page of the same site. If your homepage is airy with a lot of white space, your product page shouldn't be dense and content heavy with little breathing room. As your audience discovers new elements, they should instantly know that they are still using your product.
This expands to the tone of your interface copy as well. Your writing should remain consistent with your product. If your product is geared toward an enterprise audience and your homepage or landing screen describes the product in a formal, professional way, then the other pages or screens in your product should not be casual in tone and full of puns. A great example of a guide for this is Shopify's Voice and Tone section of it's Polaris design system.
The consistency of an experience is also essential when it comes to the sharing of your product. A customer may have a great experience using your app to order groceries or buy a product. So much so that they evangelize your product, telling their friends how great it is or how beautiful it works to solve their problems. If those friends then come to your product and don't have that experience, that is an inconsistency too.
A rule of thumb is to use two or three styles of type across an entire product, like a website or app. Using more than that can make a product feel unstructured or busy, and can be distracting. For colors, a great starting place is one primary color, one secondary color, and a few tones of those colors, plus black and white. Using more colors in complex systems can work successfully, but it becomes more difficult with each addition.
As stated above, consistency has a lot of benefits, so using additional typefaces or colors can be used for differentiation but should feel like it fits within the experience.
You can also use a break of consistency to your advantage. We avoid distraction so that our interface can get out of the way of our customers using our product. A lack of consistency can be used to create emphasis an attract attention. Our brains detect patterns and signal your attention when what is happening in front of your eyes deviates from the expected pattern.
An example is indenting a quote block to further emphasize it. One thing to keep in mind when considering types of emphasis is to limit the amount of them. A bold, red, italics, larger block of text is not really necessary if you are also indenting it. And remember: if everything is bold, nothing is bold — the amount of what you emphasize is essential too.
As we'll consider in the upcoming Hierarchy lesson, this creation of emphasis is a tool that is used to draw the attention of your customers and aid in your customer flow by guiding where their eyes move and which details they may remember.
Consistency is often broken, and it will happen frequently. That's okay! It's more important to understand your customers' needs and solve their problems than maintain a consistent product. If you are only paying attention to a rigid system, you might not address those problems. It's a balance.


I didn't participate in NaNo, but I did Camp in July and, like you, I didn't finish - primarily due to lack of preparedness and slacking off. I'm still glad I did it, though, because I got a huge amount of plotting and writing done I wouldn't have accomplished otherwise.
I was planning on doing nano but I slacked and stopped writing on my blog. The thought of writing that amount gave me stress, so I put it aside to write later. Lovely post, Noor.
I'e never done nano, because for me, writing 50,000 + words in a month is just too much to handle. I mean, I have time for it, but I don't think I could actually do it.
With homework and everything I didn't even have the time to think about NaNo. I think it is great that you participated in NaNO and you have 20,000 words which is still amazing! Great post! I am going to start using the advice you gave yourself.
I did decide to do Nano this year. I registered and everything but I've found out that I can't really work with deadlines. They become a distraction for me. I prefer writing at my leisure. Anyway, best of luck with your novel!


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More than 85 people were forced out of their embattled Chinatown building last Thursday when the city declared the building unsafe — and they fear the landlord, who has been trying to evict them for years, will now refuse to do the repairs and use it as a pretext to kick tenants out.
The New York City Department of Buildings issued a full vacate order at 85 Bowery on January 18 after an inspector ruled that the building's main staircase was structurally unstable and therefore a "significant life-safety hazard." The city gave the landlord, Joseph Betesh, two weeks to replace the stairway.
The Red Cross says it registered 29 households, including 71 adults and 15 children, after the eviction, and reports that as of yesterday it is providing emergency shelter for 27 of those families. The displaced families, including newborns and people up to 90 years old, were sent to a hotel in Brownsville that the city uses to house homeless people. Tenant association representative Jinming Cao says they were initially sleeping in one large room on mattresses with no blankets. Blankets were provided after a TV news crew showed up Sunday night, says Sarah Ahn of the Chinese Staff and Workers' Association, a neighborhood activist organization working with the tenants. The displaced families were moved into separate rooms as of yesterday, Cao tells the Voice.
Betesh has been trying to evict all the tenants of 85 Bowery and the building next door, 83 Bowery, for more than two years, claiming in court that the buildings were not rent-stabilized and that necessary repairs can't be done while people are still living there. Last month, the Division of Housing and Community Renewal recommended that the State Supreme Court judge handling the case declare that the buildings are rent-stabilized.
"The main thing is the landlord wants all the tenants out," says Cao, whose cousin lives in one of the buildings and who has become a spokesperson for the tenant association because, unlike the Chinese-immigrant tenants, he speaks English. City emergency workers, he says, told the evicted tenants that if the landlord doesn't cooperate, it would be a long time before they could come back.
"We're determined to make the owner fix these stairs quickly, get residents back in their homes, and meet his legal and moral responsibility to have a safe building for residents," the Department of Buildings said in a statement.
Tenants have been demanding repairs for more than two years. In February 2016, a Housing Court judge ordered Betesh to fix the staircase at 85 Bowery by the end of that April, in response to "HP actions," lawsuits demanding repairs filed by both the tenants and HPD. Betesh never made the repairs. The engineer the building owners hired argued that the staircase could not be replaced while the tenants were there because of "badly cracked joists." An engineer the tenants hired responded that the tenants could stay while the joists were being replaced if protective barriers were installed in the hallways.
In September 2016, Betesh agreed to hold off temporarily on his eviction attempts in exchange for tenants agreeing to stay the HP action and extend the deadline for repairs. Later that month, however, he filed another motion demanding their immediate eviction.
Meyers represents tenants at 94 Franklin Avenue, a seven-apartment rent-stabilized building in Bedford-Stuyvesant that the Department of Buildings ordered vacated in July 2015, he says, after its Hasidic landlords built a synagogue in the backyard without a permit, blocking the fire escape. Two and a half years later, some of the tenants are renting apartments for "significantly more" than they had been paying, according to Meyers, while others are still in a city shelter in East New York.
The Department of Buildings and HPD "have done little to address the issue," Meyers says. The buildings department "has not required the landlords to remove the illegal structure from the backyard," he says, while HPD has refused to back tenant demands that the building be turned over to a court-appointed 7A administrator who could get repairs done more quickly.
The city itself used unsafe building conditions as a pretext for a mass eviction in 1995, when the Giuliani administration ousted squatters from three abandoned buildings on East 13th Street on the Lower East Side that the city had seized from tax-delinquent landlords in the 1970s. The squatters had won a temporary restraining order in the fall of 1994 protecting them from eviction until a court ruled on their claim that they were entitled to keep the buildings under an obscure legal principle called "adverse possession" — that because they'd lived there for ten years and the city hadn't previously tried to kick them out, the property was legally abandoned.
The three buildings passed a safety inspection, but after heavy rains in April 1995, the Giuliani administration declared them "in imminent danger of collapse." After a bit of litigation, it sent in a massive paramilitary force to kick the squatters out.
The statement also accused the tenants of doing "illegal renovation work that further contributed to the building's structural instability," saying it had discovered that "11 of the building's 16 apartments were illegally converted into nearly 40 single-room-occupancy (SRO) units," and that those rooms were a fire hazard.
"That's a lie," says Cao. "Those rooms have already been like that for 20 to 30 years." He says tenants told him those rooms were constructed by the building's previous landlord, who also installed fire-safety equipment.
A buildings department spokesperson tells the Voice that if the landlord doesn't get the repairs done on time, it could issue a violation, the State Supreme Court judge could step in, or HPD's Emergency Repair Program could do the work. "We don't see any indication as of now that any of that will be necessary," the spokesperson says.
HPD referred questions about what happens if the owner doesn't comply to the buildings department.
"The tenants have no trust in the landlord that he will adhere to the court's timeline of two weeks, nor that he will not purposely do a shoddy job," Sarah Ahn tells the Voice. She said the group would "continue to fight for a guarantee" that the tenants would get back to their homes.
"I don't know what is in the landlord's head," says Seth Miller, the lawyer representing the tenants. "We are afraid it will be used as a pretext" for permanent evictions.
On Monday night, two dumpsters in front of the building were filled with garbage bags and thin sheets of wood with nails sticking out of their edges. The building's first-floor commercial space had been stripped down to timbers. The staircase was still there, listing to the right.
The 83-85 Bowery Tenants Association and the Coalition to Protect Chinatown and the Lower East Side are planning a protest outside HPD's Gold Street offices at 3:30 p.m. today, to demand that the agency do the repairs itself, before the two-week deadline.


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Weekly InSight: Special Investigation of Homicides in Guatemala
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In our May 4 Facebook Live session, Co-director Steven Dudley spoke with Senior Edior Mike LaSusa about InSight Crime's most recent special investigation on homicides in Guatemala. Dudley summarized the results of the investigation in a blog post for InSight Crime's partner, the Center for Latin American and Latino Studies at American University. That blog post is reproduced below, along with the full video of our Facebook Live discussion.
A study of hundreds of homicides in Guatemala revealed major problems with authorities' contention that "gang-related" and "drug trafficking-related" murders are at the center of the violence in that country, findings that complicate violence reduction programs in that country and elsewhere. InSight Crime analyzed the murders in two areas: Zona 18 in Guatemala City, where 300,000 inhabitants live in what authorities designate a "gang area," and the municipality of Chiquimula, a community of some 100,000, or what authorities call a "trafficking corridor." We also studied how police, forensic doctors, and government prosecutors gather and use information they gather during homicide investigations to clear cases or not. It is less CSI and more creaky, antiquated 20th century bureaucracy.
Key findings from the report include:
The confidence with which Guatemalan authorities attribute homicides to traffickers is not warranted by the available facts. In the trafficking corridor, we could reasonably attribute only 28 percent of the homicides to what we termed "organized crime-related" activities — significantly less than authorities normally publicly attribute to organized crime. Drug trafficking, we believe, is an incorrect way of describing the dynamics behind this violence. Another 38 percent of the cases lacked information to make a determination.
In the gang area, where Barrio 18 and Mara Salvatrucha (MS13) operate, we could reasonably attribute 41 percent of the homicides to gang-related activities — an estimate in line with what authorities say in Guatemala. Another 35 percent of the cases did not have enough information to make a determination.
Regardless of area, the widespread availability of firearms is a clear factor in the murder rate. An estimated 75 percent of all homicides occur at the end of a gun in Guatemala. At 15.8 guns per 100 inhabitants, the country has the highest number of guns per capita in the region, according to World Bank data. (El Salvador has 7.0 per 100, and Honduras, 6.2.).
Another theory to explain the level of homicides — that the more "indigenous" western highlands are less prone to violence than the more "ladino" eastern states — is in its infancy and beyond the scope of our study.
In both areas, the information from authorities was fragmented, disorganized, and sometimes missing altogether. Reports are filled out by hand or typed into computers, but they are quickly buried in massive piles of data and are most likely erased or lost by the next person in that job. Multiple, clashing bureaucracies operating on the different platforms and with different formats also have differing criteria for classifying data. The low priority given to collecting and analyzing information, and poor training, seriously undermine authorities' ability to understand the homicide phenomenon as well as resolve the homicide cases themselves. Indeed, our observation is that the resources used to gather what are considered more politically salient statistics — such as the overall number of criminal acts in any one area — hurts efforts to resolve cases or give authorities the ability to analyze criminal dynamics.
SEE ALSO: Guatemala News and Profile
The confusion between the sources of violence has a palpable impact on how money is allocated over the years. The US Congressional Research Service has estimated that 66 percent of the $1.2 billion that Washington disbursed under its Central America Regional Security Initiative (CARSI) was "hard-side" assistance aimed at attacking drug traffickers whose role in the murder rate we have assessed to be lower than previously thought. Only 31 percent of US aid was "soft assistance" — violence prevention, social and economic programs — that would address the more serious problem of gang violence. The allocation of Guatemala's own funding is harder to discern, but the Mano Dura tactics adopted by the Northern Triangle countries over the years have more resembled the militarized strategy against the drug traffickers, implementing various states of siege in affected locales (Guatemala), enacting "emergency measures" inside jails and in particularly troublesome states (El Salvador), and using the military police in numerous places (Honduras). Aggressive police sweeps have, moreover, overcrowded prisons bursting with inmates in horrifying conditions. While some of these programs may have helped slow the increase in homicides, our report clearly indicates that a deeper understanding of the problem — based on more rigorous collection and analysis of information on homicide cases — is necessary to evaluate and improve international and local strategies. Especially if Washington cuts Northern Triangle funding, as it is widely reported to be intending, a smarter approach will require becoming smarter about the problem.
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Rediscovered: The secret sauce of the ancients that makes everything taste better.
Garum is umami in a bottle - it was once the most expensive liquid in the ancient world.
What did citizens of ancient Carthage and Rome use to improve the flavor of dishes from savory game stews to wine and sweets? A secret sauce made from fish fermented with lots of salt. Using ancient recipes and methods, The Silk Road Gourmet (http://www.silkroadgourmet) recreated this ancient recipe – called garum – and will be holding an Ancient Roman Cookoff in April to showcase the ways that garum was used and enjoyed in the ancient world.
The flavor of garum is much stronger than that of most modern fish sauces like colatura di alici from Italy and nuoc mam from Vietnam and, according to Kelley, "explodes in the mouth to impart a feeling of fullness." The uses of garum were also much more varied in the ancient world than the use of modern fish sauces today. Some of the diverse uses in the past come from the different preparations made with garum. The Romans mixed it with sweet and dry wine, flavored it with a variety of herbs, such as oregano, parsley, and saffron and diluted it with water, vinegar or honey. It was used both in the preparation of food and as a table condiment, where a few drops were added to a dish or a goblet of wine to enhance its flavor.
Interestingly, fish sauces do not appear in the east until more than 1000 years after recorded production and use was underway in Carthage, Rome and in other areas of the ancient western world. Given this, it likely represents a west-to-east flow of food and flavor technology.


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The following policy contains the governing philosophy for regulating the use of the Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology's computing/information network facilities and resources. Access to the College's computing/network facilities and resources is a privilege granted solely to Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology faculty, staff, registered students, and those with special accounts. All users of the computing/information network's facilities must act responsibly and maintain the integrity of these resources. The College reserves the rights to limit, restrict, or extend computing/information network privileges and access to its resources.
Those who do not abide by the policies listed below are subject to suspension of computer privileges and possible referral to the appropriate judicial process. The Vice President for Finance and Administration should be notified about potential violations of laws and policies governing information use, intellectual property rights, or copyrights.
Computer and Network Services should be notified about potential loopholes in the security of its computer systems and networks. The user community is expected to cooperate with the computing department in its operation of computer systems and information networks as well as in the investigation of misuse or abuse. Should the security of a computer system or information network be threatened, suspected user files may be examined.
1. An individual shall use only the network ID that was assigned to him/her, unless multiple access has been authorized for the ID.
2. Users may use only the password(s) provided to them and shall not try in any way to obtain a password for another user's network ID.
3. Attempting to disguise the identity of the account or machine you are using is prohibited.
4. Use of the College's network resources to gain or attempt to gain unauthorized access to remote computers is prohibited.
5. Any deliberate act which may seriously impact the operation of computers, terminals, peripherals, or networks is prohibited. Such acts include, but are not limited to, the following: tampering with components of a local area network (LAN) or the high-speed backbone network, otherwise blocking communication lines, or interfering with the operational readiness of a computer.
6. No person shall knowingly run or install on any of the College's computer systems, or give to another, a program which could result in the eventual damage to a file, computer system, or information network, and/or the reproduction of itself. This is directed towards, but not limited to, the classes of programs known as computer viruses, Trojan horses, and worms.
7. No person shall attempt to circumvent data protection schemes or uncover security loopholes.
8. All persons shall abide by the terms of all software licensing agreements and copyright laws. In particular, unauthorized copying of copyrighted software is prohibited, unless the College has a site license specifically allowing the copying of that software. Furthermore, the copying of site licensed software for distribution to persons other than Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology faculty, staff, and students, or the copying of site licensed software for use at locations not covered under the terms of the license agreement, is prohibited.
9. Deliberate acts which are wasteful of computing/information network resources or which unfairly monopolize resources to the exclusion of others are prohibited. These acts include, but are not limited to, sending mass mailings or chain letters, creating unnecessary multiple jobs or processes, obtaining unnecessary output, or printing or creating unnecessary network traffic.
c. That which consists of any advertisements or commercial enterprises.
11.No person shall harass others by sending annoying, threatening, libelous, sexually, racially, or religiously offensive messages. This includes all materials deemed offensive by existing College code of conduct laws.
12.Use of the College's computer/information network resources to monitor another user's data communications, or to read, copy, change, or delete another user's files or software, without permission of the owner, is prohibited.
13.Use of the College's servers, workstations, or information networks must be related to a Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology course, research project, work-related activity, departmental activity, or for interpersonal communications. Use of these resources for personal or financial gain is prohibited. If the nonbusiness usage of information services results in a direct cost to the College for any reason, it is the individual's responsibility to reimburse the College.
14.Any network traffic exiting the College and/or using College resources/infrastructure is subject to the acceptable use policies of the network through which it flows (Internet, D&E), as well as to the policies listed here, such as abusing Internet Service Providers (ISP) services using College network/resources.
15.Existing College policies such as the Sexual Harassment Policy, will be enforced as they relate to a violation of the Computer Use Policy.
16.Potential violators may also be subject to criminal prosecution under federal or state law, and should expect the College to pursue such action.


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Ditrypanocystis coxi is een soort in de taxonomische indeling van de Myzozoa, een stam van microscopische parasitaire dieren. Het organisme komt uit het geslacht Ditrypanocystis en behoort tot de familie Selenidiidae. Ditrypanocystis coxi werd in 1971 ontdekt door Levine.

Myzozoa

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As a student in your average magic school hearing of a haunted room was no surprise. Supposedly more and more monsters will attack exhausting until your magical skills are exhausted. Your friends have dared you to see how long you can stay in and SURVIVE!
Will it be two hours? Three hours? How about Five or SIX hours?!


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Mount Carmel supporters vow to keep Worcester church open
Brad Petrishen Telegram & Gazette Staff @BPetrishenTG
May 4, 2016 at 10:34 PM May 4, 2016 at 11:22 PM
WORCESTER – What was billed as a prayer vigil for a doomed church turned quickly into a rally Wednesday as parishioners of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church – with the support of an array of city politicians – vowed to fight the Worcester diocese's decision to demolish the historic building.
"Under no conditions should we see this church be demolished," former District 2 City Councilor Philip P. Palmieri said forcefully as dozens of churchgoers who gathered in the parking lot clapped.
Mr. Palmieri's successor, Candy F. Mero-Carlson, Mayor Joseph M. Petty and two of their council colleagues were among numerous heavy hitters Wednesday who came out on the chilly, overcast afternoon to question the diocese's motives and vow to fight its decision.
"This is not a done deal," Anthony J. Vigliotti, the Worcester County Register of Deeds and a former church altar boy, assured parishioners, vowing to do everything in his power to assemble a legal team to block the demolition. Parishioners also said they intend to appeal the decision both to the Vatican and the courts.
Monsignor F. Stephen Pedone told the Telegram & Gazette Saturday that the diocese decided to close the 88-year-old Catholic church – whose ornate façade is in danger of crumbling onto Mulberry Street – because architects could not certify its structural integrity. Even if repairs were made, he said, the architects said every time they peeled back a layer, another problem was found.
But city officials attempted to counter that narrative Wednesday, with Ms. Mero-Carlson saying that John R. Kelly, the city's building commissioner, was "shocked" to hear the diocese elected to demolish the building.
"He doesn't believe this building is unsafe and needs to come down," said Ms. Mero-Carlson, noting that the only repairs the diocese was ordered to make were $120,000 in work to shore up the building's façade.
"If this building was really so unsafe, why is it that they held Mass here (this weekend)?" she asked nodding parishioners.
Mr. Palmieri and other speakers said they believe the reason the diocese is quick to throw up its hands and bring in the wrecking ball is because of the value of the land.
"This is probably one of the most valuable pieces of property in Worcester," he told the crowd. "And if this (the church) goes, then that goes, and that goes," he said, pointing to the nearby Gene J. DeFeudis Italian-American Cultural Center and Joe DiMaggio Little League Field.
City records online show that the church's address – 28 Mulberry St. – is valued at $1.19 million. The church land at neighboring 0 Mulberry St. and 30 Mulberry St. is collectively assessed at an additional $5 million, the record show.
Carmelita Bello, a lifelong parishioner, said she and other churchgoers plan to do everything they can to keep the merger with Our Lady of Loreto Parish from happening. She said they plan to appeal the Worcester Diocese decision to the Vatican and also to seek an injunction in court.
In an email announcing the vigil, Ms. Bello said even if the building can't be saved, the parish can. She urged people to compare the parish's finances to those of others in the diocese.
"Our revenue is adequate, it's the management of the expenses," she wrote. "Let the clergy administer the sacraments and the parishioners manage the operations and finance."
Of the local Catholic churches that itemized collections in financial documents posted to the Worcester Diocese website, Mount Carmel ranked near the top in offertory collections, with $335,150 in fiscal 2015. The churches collecting more were St. George's, St. John's, Our Lady of Czestochowa, Our Lady of the Angels and Christ the King, which raised the most at $439,227.
Asked about the criticisms lodged Wednesday, Monsignor Pedone said the diocese made the correct decision and expressed frustration with the players crying foul.
"He was up there grandstanding – the assistant pope," Monsignor Pedone said of Mr. Palmieri – one of several protesters, including Mr. Vigliotti and Ms. Bello, whom he said do not attend the church regularly.
"They couldn't find their way to the front door," he said, adding that his sarcastic tone was because of his frustration over what he sees as grandstanding in the face of reality.
"We have no intention of selling the property," he said, adding he "never once" heard Mr. Kelly, the building commissioner, say he was "shocked" at the diocese's decision.
"I don't know where she got that," he said of Ms. Mero-Carlson's remark.
Monsignor Pedone said at the end of the day, the reality is that the church's parishioners were given ample warning to save the church but could not raise enough money to do so.
"This wonderful beautiful gift was given to us by our ancestors, who built this during the Depression … and we haven't maintained it through the years, because our people slowly – and sometimes more rapidly – have walked away."


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The Apple Watch Round Series in this video is jaw-droppingly beautiful
Is this the new Apple Watch you would buy? We've already emptied our wallets…
(Image credit: DBS DESIGNING)
As far back as May 2018 did T3 report that a stunning new Apple Watch Series 4 with a round watch face could be incoming, and now thanks to a jaw-dropping new video we've got a tantalising glimpse at just how beautiful the smartwatch could be.
The video in question introduces the Apple Watch Round Series, a would-be successor to the Apple Watch Series 3, showing off the striking smartwatch from every angle and in a number of lush colourways, too.
Apple Watch set to receive its biggest ever update tomorrow
New iPhone X 2018: 5 surprises that would blow us away
This is the foldable new iPhone video you've been waiting for
The mouth-watering video comes courtesy of commercial tech industry designer Muhsin M. Belaal Auckburaully (opens in new tab), who specialises in producing high-quality concepts of much-wanted new devices which, while unofficial, often look truly amazing and show what ideally tech enthusiasts would like to see.
This video shows a new Apple Watch which, as well as boasting a stunning round face with a screen that goes all the way to edge, also sports a delightfully thin new profile which just screams premium and style.
Here is the Apple Watch Round Series video in full:
Will the Apple Watch Series 4 look like this? The short answer is no, as the tech to make a smartwatch this thin with a full face screen isn't commercially viable for the mainstream yet.
However, that doesn't mean Apple couldn't release a Apple Watch Series 4 with a round face, it would just have to make a few real-world in 2018 concessions. Indeed, there have been plenty of rumours that Apple is working on a round-faced Apple Watch, we just don't expect it look quite so futuristic if it is released.
And, after looking at this Apple Watch of our dreams, a smartwatch that would easily lodge itself at the top of our prestigious best smartwatch buying guide, we'd absolutely love to see Apple offer a gorgeous round-faced model that moves away from the range's traditional rectangular display.
A round-faced Apple Watch Series 4 would also help the North American maker to fend off the challenge from Samsung's new Galaxy Watch.
Apple's big event on September 12 can't come soon enough…
Samsung Galaxy Watch vs Apple Watch: which is the best smartwatch?
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Robert Jones
Rob has been writing about computing, gaming, mobile, home entertainment technology, toys (specifically Lego and board games), smart home and more for over 15 years. As the editor of PC Gamer, and former Deputy Editor for T3.com, you can find Rob's work in magazines, bookazines and online, as well as on podcasts and videos, too. Outside of his work Rob is passionate about motorbikes, skiing/snowboarding and team sports, with football and cricket his two favourites.
Samsung Galaxy phones are getting a huge free software upgrade
One UI 5.1 may launch with the Samsung Galaxy S23 range – but that doesn't mean older devices can't get in on the fun
By Sam Cross • Published 30 January 23


Obstructed. Hydronephrosis of one or both kidneys means there is blockage or obstruction preventing the urine from flowing normally from the kidney to the bladder, and then out the urethra. There are many causes such as stones, tumors, scarring, etc. If blockage occurs below the bladder i.E an enlarged prostate in a male, both kidneys will be involved. If severe and chronic, can result in kidney failure.
Severe back pain x5 days that is getting worse. Paun started after lumbar puncture 12/24. Ct result= 3mm bulge l5-s1 & hydronephrosis r kidney larger than left. W/ worsening pain at what point do I go back to see my dr?
I have a transplanted kidney. What can I do about hydronephrosis?
How should infant hydronephrosis that was in one kidney and now both with much debris be treated?
I had larascopic pyeloplasty right kidney march 2014 for puj obstruction. It was a success but within 6 months I have hydronephrosis again. Why?
I got hydronephrosis treated in 2008 & my kidney function came upto 38%. 4m 20, after that I didnt get tested but have been drinking. It pains mildly.


"Tell me the story of Il Trovatore"became an even more loaded request when applied to Dmitri Tcherniakov's new production of the Verdi opera at La Monnaie in Brussels, conducted by Marc Minkowski (seen June 24).
Verdi's middle-period masterpiece is stronger on dramatic confrontations than on coherent storytelling. Enter Tcherniakov and a concept. In this staging, the five central characters are invited by a contemporary Azucena to a sort of family analysis of past events. This uncomfortable Agatha Christie-style house party takes place behind locked doors in a gloomy hotel. Secondary roles are abandoned and sung by the other principals, who follow the script from Azucena's printed handouts. The chorus only comments from the pit in this claustrophobic therapy session. Characters relive scenes from the opera, but as the role-playing progresses, Count di Luna becomes increasingly violent. By the final act, playacting ceases, and the tragedy unfolds.
It was an evening that divided supporters of the rereading from those for whom it was a betrayal. Ultimately, there were losses and gains in equal measure. Tcherniakov rightly sees Azucena as the lynchpin and dramatic motor of the opera. He benefited here from an exceptional performance from Sylvie Brunet-Grupposo. The mezzo's intense playing of an enthusiastic analyst — complete with encouraging gestures and quizzical looks — had the campy charm of a California lifestyle guru; as the action progressed, she had her ginger wig snatched off to confront the final tragedy with somber dignity. Brunet-Grupposo sang exceptionally, burrowing deep into her chest tones and rising with a lighter opaque sound to a shining top with something of the generosity of the late Rita Gorr. Her invitation to Marina Poplavskaya's Leonora brought to the stage a damaged-looking young woman of pent-up emotion, tensely hiding behind her dark glasses. Unfortunately some of the character's tension crept into Poplavskaya's singing. Her soprano produces some fine sounds, especially in its upper register, but she struggled with the coloratura and the need to produce a bel canto line of matched, even tones. Her commitment to the staging was total: few prima donnas would have agreed to sing the whole of "D'amor sull'ali rosee" while facing a wall. Acoustically, this helped the soprano, and it was visually arresting, but from the audience's standpoint, Leonora's secret outpouring remained just that.
During the Miserere, Poplavskaya interpolated a high note, but her Manrico, Misha Didyk, courageously did without his traditional top Cs in "Di quella pira." Manrico was presented as a rock-star figure, but Didyk's singing was very Eastern European in tone, and his metallic outbursts gave little pleasure. Scott Hendricks did better with his crazed, love-obsessed di Luna, but he offered aggressive singing, lacking in poise and legato. Bass Giovanni Furlanetto was a hardworking Ferrando, something of a crusty onlooker who, like the other protagonists, was onstage most of the evening. It was irritating to have the chorus relegated to the pit. There is a place in Verdi for mass choral singing that makes a meaningful dramatic contribution. Confined to the pit, the chorus had no way of expressing physical emotion, and — more important — the device is musically muting. It also identifies a certain sameness that crept into the staging — no changes of decor or place, just a growing intensity. Tcherniakov may have no time for the picturesque, but Verdi was well aware of the visual excitement of anvil-bashing and changes of setting.
Minkowski was a courageous conductor, sympathetic to the singers and finding a grand musical thrust. His tempos were steady but often afflicted by his very personal sense of rubato, drawing ragged but enthusiastic playing from the Monnaie orchestra.


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Fedzilla (federal government + Godzilla)
"Fedzilla" (federal + Godzilla) is a term for an out-of-control, monster big government. American hard rock musician and conservative critic Ted Nugent has used the name "Fedzilla" frequently since at least July 2008. "Fedzilla" gained increasing usage following the November 2008 presidential election of Barack Obama.
'Fedzilla" has also been used to describe the Federal Reserve ("the Fed") banking system, with this usage cited in print since at least February 2009.
Wiktionary: Fedzilla
Blend of federal and Godzilla
Fedzilla (uncountable)
(US, informal) US federal government regarded as a rapacious monster with an appetite for political power, money, etc.
fedzilla
slang for the federal government which has too much power and too many regulations over people's day to day lives.
Fedzilla turned down my application to cut down the tree because the form wasn't filled out correctly.
by Greg Janke Jan 8, 2009
A federal government that is out of control and whose employees (bureaucrats) meddle through excessive rules and regulations.
Fedzilla sent me a letter that says I have to show up for an IRS audit next month.
by Gregmeister66 Oct 22, 2008
Fedzilla T-Shirts, Hoodies, and more
Wikipedia: Ted Nugent
Theodore Anthony "Ted" Nugent (born December 13, 1948) is an American hard rock guitarist and vocalist from Detroit, Michigan. He originally gained fame as the lead guitarist of The Amboy Dukes. He is also noted for his vocal conservative political views and his ardent defense of hunting, conservation, and gun ownership rights.
(Oxford English Dictionary)
Godzilla, n.
slang (orig. U.S.).
[< Godzilla, the name of a dinosaur-like monster which first appeared in the 1956 U.S. Inoshiro Honda film Godzilla, King of the Monsters, alteration of Gojira, the name of the monster in the original 1954 Japanese film of that name, blend of Japanese gorira gorilla and kujira whale, apparently adopted from the nickname of a burly film-set employee.]
A large or strong example of its type; a person or thing of monstrous proportions or strength.
1965 N.Y. Times 11 July F1/2 The institutional investor, that Godzilla of the financial world,..may soon find itself in a new relationship to small, independent shareholders.
1982 F. MCGUINNESS Factory Girls (rev. ed.) i. 10/1 Ellen: These clippers up the nose if you don't. Hop it. Rosemary: All right, Godzilla.
-zilla, comb. form
[< -zilla (in GODZILLA n.).]
colloq. (orig. U.S.).
With preceding noun, forming humorous, usually temporary words which depict a person or thing as a particularly imposing, relentless, or overbearing example of its kind.
See also BRIDEZILLA n.
1978 I. REED Secretary to Spirits 6 It breathes and hollars [sic] like All the Japanese sci fi monsters Rolled into one: Hogzilla.
1988 D. TKAC Everyday Health Tips iv. 147/1 (heading) Bosszilla… Your immediate supervisor at work is (a) crazy, (b) probably wanted by the FBI, (c) half man, half some type of life form from Pluto.
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Newsgroups: alt.abuse.recovery
From: "Alan B. Mac Farlane"
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 09:37:12 -0700
Local: Thurs, Aug 29 2002 11:37 am
Subject: Judge Tansil Slapped/Patient Died Anyway
Which seems plausible, given the mental set of Fedzilla. ³Visible defiance. Must destroy!²
Ted, White and Blue: The Nugent Manifesto
By Ted Nugent
Washington, DC: Regnery Pub.
Do you supporters of Fedzilla health care really believe the limousine liberal crowd who support a Fedzilla health care are going to use the health care system they force on everyone else?
Guitar Player Economics 101
A major reason for this tremendous prosperity over the last 25 years is largely attributed to tax cuts, which Senator Obama wants to rescind and reverse. Instead of continuing with this historic growth by continuing President Bush's tax cuts or even providing more economic stimulus by lowering taxes even further and reducing the size of the federal government (which I refer to as Fedzilla), Senator Obama wants to feed Fedzilla by raising taxes. This is simply weird and dangerous.
Warning: Do not feed Fedzilla. It is a pig.
Rockbama Does Invesco
(UPDATED): While Senator Obama was giving his acceptance speech at Invesco Field in Denver to tens of thousands of Fedzilla supporting numbskulls, I was busy pummeling musical fun gluttons at the New York State Fair with my R&B spirit-infested guitar as I've done over 6,000 times so far in my gravity-defying career.
Rocker Ted Nugent Discusses His New Book
This is a rush transcript from "Hannity & Colmes," October 13, 2008. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.
SEAN HANNITY, CO-HOST: Our next guest is well known to legions of rock 'n' roll fans, but he's here to unveil his brand-new book on politics, "Ted, White and Blue: The Nugent Manifesto." Joining us now with his no-holds-barred plan to attack what he calls the problems that are gutting our nation, rock star, friend, author, Ted Nugent.
NUGENT: We'd like — we'd like Fedzilla to show a little bit of accountability, and that's what we're demanding.
Give me liberty or give me debt
By Joyce Pines | Kalamazoo Gazette
February 19, 2009, 11:31AM
Of all the Republicans and Democrats who ran for President in 2007-2008, only one, Congressman Ron Paul of Texas, understood the relationship between our Federal Reserve ("Fedzilla," as some call it) money system and America's financial crisis.
Moore, Nugent, Wilson sound off on Detroit
By MIKE HOUSEHOLDER, Associated Press Writer
Nugent, the wildman rocker and outdoor enthusiast known as the "Motor City Madman," is far to the right of Moore on the political spectrum and doesn't see government intervention in autos as a particularly good thing.
"Left to their own accord and entrepreneurial enterprise, I am confident the U.S. auto industry would have outperformed all others. ... Now that Fedzilla has had the audacity to turn up the havoc-wreaking, criminally violating the U.S. Constitution and all parameters of logic and decency, it appears the death knell has sounded. It breaks my Motor City heart," he said.
SodaHead
The Unstoppable Ted Nugent!
In the absence of any real border enforcement by Fedzilla and after the emergency of the recent murder of rancher Robert Krentz, Arizonans rightfully took matters into their own hands and passed a law allowing Arizona cops to demand immigration papers from people they stop.
New York City • Government/Law/Politics/Military/ Religion • Saturday, May 22, 2010 • Permalink
Who else thinks Ted is the sh*t? He's so right on about everything it's funny! And please anti-hunters/tree huggers, just let em rip. LOL. I'm ready for this one.
Posted by Jack Smith on 06/27 at 03:38 AM


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Congratulations to our new site sponsor, Fellowship Technologies, on this exciting announcement! For the full announcement, click here.


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Someone Still Likes You: DateSite Docs Plan Comeback
By Victoria C. Hallett, Crimson Staff Writer February 11, 2000
Love was blossoming on computer screens all over campus last year when DateSite.com, the online matchmaking site founded by four roommates in Winthrop House, started sending out "Someone likes you" e-mail messages.
But this year, the novelty may have wilted.
The notes encouraged people to return to the site, where they could type in the e-mail addresses of their crushes and send them similar e-mails. If the addresses matched, bingo--another happy couple was formed.
After just two weeks of existence in February 1999, the site had put together 175 couples.
One half of one of the first DateSite success stories, Paul A. Stephano '99, said the concept was genius.
"[The date] was great and it's all thanks to DateSite," he said a year ago.
But DateSite's heyday was short-lived. After getting over the initial excitement of a chance to reveal their crushes on the Pfoho-Open e-mail list, people soon forgot about the site.
This Valentine's Day, "Someone likes you" might be a thing of the past.
When asked about the site, many students, even those who had been the recipients of many e-mail messages last year, needed to be reminded of what exactly DateSite was.
And then they recalled the massive popularity of the trend.
"It was the kind of thing where you opened your inbox and you had eight new e-mails," says D.K. Osseo-Asare '02.
But after receiving somewhere between 50 and 100 e-mail messages from the site, Osseo-Asare questioned the sincerity of the crushes.
Elizabeth S. Grossman '00 said the fad couldn't last forever.
"That's a tough way to meet people," she says. "Nobody wanted to admit they were doing it."
Edward S. Baker '01, co-founder and webmaster of DateSite, said 1,800 Harvard users--over a quarter of the student body--have registered, and the site's 10,000 users have averaged a 20 percent matchup rate.
"But when summer came, the traffic died down," Baker says. "We really haven't spent much time advertising it since school started."
Although the crush-curiosity frenzy has dissipated, the site is prepared for students to return for another visit.
"I worked on it this summer," Baker says. "The page just looks a lot different."
Changes include a design makeover and new content, like a purity test and the "Magic Date Ball," which answers yes-or-no dating questions like the Magic Eight Ball, a popular novelty toy.
Baker's newest concept is the "Interest Matcher," a survey users can fill out to find compatible people who fit certain criteria.
"If you come to the site and don't get a match, [Interest Matcher] guarantees a match for whoever takes it," Baker says.
Currently he is having friends test out the survey prototype and give him feedback.
The questions delve into physical traits like height and body type as well as personality details like musical taste and hobbies.
Baker is worried the seven-page survey may be too lengthy for people to want to finish. The matcher will be available soon: Baker is tweaking the questions but hopes to finish it within the next few days.
"If I do put the survey on the page before Valentine's Day, I'll have it just for Harvard," Baker says. "If all goes well, we'll open it up to people at other schools."
Reeling in students in the Boston area and beyond is one of DateSite's long-term goals.
According to current DateSite statistics, students from 500 different colleges are registered.
Some schools have vast numbers of users, including MIT with 800 and Brown, UMass, BC, Amherst, BU, Yale, Brandeis, UPenn, Tufts, Princeton, URI, Wellesley and Dartmouth, each of which have several hundred DateSite devotees.
The DateSite Docs, as founders Baker, Jacob E. Fleming '01, Arthur E. Koski-Karell '01 and Joshua J. Wilske '01 call themselves, spent a lot of time last year pushing the site on campus, but the website has had to find its own way at other schools.
"Its success at Harvard shows it has a lot of potential," Baker says. "But since we don't have any source of revenue, it's hard."
First-years are another possible target for the DateSite Docs.
When told about the premise behind the site, Grace E. Bloodwell '03 said first-years would love the chance to register on the site.
"I'm going to use it now as my means of getting dates," she enthused sarcastically. "I think I'm going to skip lunch and use it right now."
Although none of the founders have found love with the website themselves, Baker says they're just happy to have done a service for the rest of the school.
"It's a fun project to do while I'm here," Baker says. "I enjoy helping people out. I like to hear about matches we've made."
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Before the watch, are the tools to produce the components and build them into the time piece. Bergeon is the oldest surviving watchmaking tool company in existence. They have been supplying tools to the industry for over 200 years and are, in their domain, a legend. Every watchmaker in the world will have either bought or inherited Bergeon tools at some moment during their life.
Bergeon SA is today established in La Chaux-de-Fonds with their Head Office at Allée des Défricheurs 4 where they have over 3000 items. The majority of the tools they produce are made in Switzerland by either themselves or an established group of tool and component manufactures.
The tool precedes the object to the realization of that which it will be implemented. To the question of the philosopher: "How to be creative before creation? The craftsman says that the tool is at the origin of any work! Its pragmatism does not allow it to get lost in the meanders of an anxious thought of itself.
At each questioning of the material or his work to improve it constantly, he responds by creating a tool to overcome the new constraints imposed by his creative genius.
Thus, the primitive tool, very simple, dedicated to multiple functions, will slowly be diversified and specialized in different trades that will all have tools for each function, or even several variants for the same gesture.
The watchmaking tool is one of the richest examples of this evolution of tools related to the evolution of the product from the basic tooling of the forge.
On the basis of the developing watchmaker, we find, even today, the coupled symbol of creation, the anvil and the hammer. But the anvil is reduced to the size of a phalanx of the thumb and the hammer is so delicate that it is hardly enough to break the shell of an egg.
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Another view of Lake Minnewaska.
THIS is Lake Minnewaska. What more can I add?
Not the clearest view, but spectacular none the less.
Another view of Lake Minnewaska. You can see the parking lot and directly in front of the parking lot is where Wildmere stood.


After studies proving that too many screenings can lead to false positives, this week the American Cancer Society recommended women don't begin mammograms until age 45 and only get tested every other week. For more information check out motherjones.com's investigative report: What If Everything Your Doctor Told You About Breast Cancer Was Wrong?
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LA families in search of sensory-friendly programming, look no further. On October 31, Segerstrom Center for the Arts will present its first sensory-friendly musical with Tall Stories' musical stage adaptation of Room on the Broom. For drama, be sure to get tickets now for John Patrick Shanley's Outside Mullingar at the Geffen Playhouse. For comedy (just before the holidays, too!) David Sedaris is coming to Irvine Barclay Theatre November 23 & 24. And for a family friendly, intimate theatre experience in the modern circus vein, check out Gravity & Other Myths: A Simple Space, also at Irvine Barclay Theatre.
New York City families looking for some last-minute outdoor fall festivities before it gets too cold, be sure to check out Ghouls and Gourds at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden this weekend and the Maize Maze and Children's Fall Festival at the Queens County Farm Museum. For some fresh and compelling musical theatre check out First Daughter Suite at The Public and powerhouse team David Bowie, Enda Walsh and Ivo van Hove's Lazarus at New York Theatre Workshop.
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Forfone — бесплатное VoIP-приложение, которое позволяет пользователям совершать бесплатные звонки, отправлять мгновенные текстовые сообщения с фотографиями и текущим местоположением (геолокацией). Приложение не требует никакой дополнительной регистрации или учётной записи пользователя. Forfone позволяет получить прямой доступ ко всем мобильным и стационарным сетям по всему миру через Wi-Fi, LTE, 3G или UMTS.

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Cite as: Ward, David; Florida Marine Research Institute (2010). Geographic Information System (GIS) characterizations of the distribution of seagrasses along the East coast of Florida in the Indian River (Kennedy Space Center to Hobe Sound), 1992 (NCEI Accession 0000601). [indicate subset used]. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. Dataset. https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0000601. Accessed [date].
This was the first seagrass coverage created for the St. Johns River Water Management District (SJRWMD) that follows the Florida Land Use and Land Cover Classification System (FLUCCS) coding system. Users should be aware that later versions of these data are available. Contact the FMRI Map Librarian for updates to this archived version of these data.
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These fruit nutrition facts will show you why nature's candy should be a major part of your diet.
1) Fruit is easier to digest than any other food, and it exits the stomach quicker than anything else you can put in your mouth. A few bananas will be out of your stomach 30-40 minutes after you've eaten them. Meat can sit in you stomach for the better part of a day. All the energy that gets wasted digesting the meat can be put to better purposes like helping your brain function better.
2) Fruits have the highest percentage of vitamins per calorie, and the second highest percentage, following vegetables, of minerals per calorie. An estimated 60-90 percent of vitamins have yet to be discovered, so supplement pills won't cover all your bases. We need raw fruits, and plenty of them, to meet our needs.
3) Over the course of a year, 200 varieties of fruit are sold in most grocery stores, so you'll never lack for variety of taste or nutrients.
4) Fruit, unlike the meat and refined grain products that make up the majority of the standard American diet, is packed with fiber.
There are two categories of fiber- soluble and insoluble. Soluble fiber is mostly found in fruits and vegetables. It absorbs water, helps keep the stool bulky and soft, and keeps things moving through the intestines. Insoluble fiber scrapes the intestines and causes damage.
5) All major health and disease-prevention organizations suggest that we increase fruit consumption, including the American Heart Association and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Fruit has been shown to decrease the incidence of most cancers, heart disease, and numerous other maladies.
6) The human body needs a maximum of 10 percent of its calories to come from protein. Higher than 10 percent and health starts to decline. Lower than 3 percent or so and you're not getting enough. Fruits and vegetables combined average 5-8 percent. They're perfect.
7) Fruit contains no cholesterol.
8) Every cell in the body, including the brain and the muscles, function off of the sugars glucose and fructose. The simple carbohydrates in ripe fruit come primarily from glucose and fructose, which the body immediatly assimilates with virtually no digestion.
Complex carbohydrates like those found in bread, on the the other hand, need to be heavily digested to be used as fuel. Because our body needs lots of sugar to function, it make sense to deliver it in a form it can use off the bat.
9) The vast majority of fruits are low in fat. With the exception of overt fasts such as avocado, durian, and olives, fruit averages around 2-8 percent fat. Fat intake should come in under 10 percent, so you can't beat fruit for proper fat intake.
10) Fruit is great for losing weight. It's low in calories and high in water content, making it filling but not hard on the waistline.
11) Fruit puts a negligible toxic load on the body. Compare this to acrolein produced by deep frying, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons from barbecuing, the salt so commonly put on food, and the numerous other toxins released from cooking, and we see why fruit suddenly looks ideal. Fruit doesn't cause cancer and other diseases becuase of this.
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Madrid beat Valencia on penalties in the Super Cup semi-finals
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia ( Associated Press) — Real Madrid will have another chance to celebrate the Spanish Super Cup title in Saudi Arabia.
Madrid beat Valencia 4-3 on penalties in the semi-finals on Wednesday and will look to win their third Super Cup title in the Middle Eastern country on Sunday.
The defending champions will face either Barcelona or Real Betis, who play the other semi-final on Thursday. The championship game will take place at the King Fahd Stadium in Riyadh.
Valencia defender Erle Comert sent his shot over the crossbar and goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois saved Jose Luis Guy's charge to give Madrid a pass.
The teams drew 1–1 in regular time and finished goalless on aggregate. The scorers were Karim Benzema and Samuel Lino.
Benzema also converted his shot in the tiebreaker, as did Luka Modric, Toni Kroos and Marco Asensio for Real Madrid. Edinson Cavani, Alix Moriba and Hugo Guillamón scored for Valencia.
Asensio said, 'It was a difficult match. "We fought a bit, but what matters is that we managed to advance to the final and we will have the chance to win another title."
It is the fourth edition of the renewed Spanish Super Cup, played only between the league champion and the winner of the Copa del Rey. Now teams that were one step away from the title in both competitions also participate, turning the event into a four-way tournament to be held in Saudi Arabia, in a lucrative deal for the Spanish Football Federation.
Real Madrid secured the league title last season ahead of Barcelona, while Betis beat Valencia in the cup final.
Madrid won two of the first three editions of the new tournament in 2020 and 2022. Athletic Bilbao will be crowned in 2021 when the tournament takes place in Spain due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The scoring was opened by Madrid through a penalty by Benzema in the 39th minute after the Frenchman was fouled inside the area.
Early in the second half, Valencia equalized with Lino sending a cross from Tony Leto into the back of the net.
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by amy · January 5, 2013
Original Title: 低俗喜劇
Director: Ho-Cheung Pang
Screenplay by: Ho-Cheung Pang, Chiu-Wing Lam, Luk Yee-sum
Cast: Chapman To, Ronald Cheng, Dada Chan, Yam Yam Siu, Hiro Hayama, Fiona Sit, Miriam Yeung, Suet Lam
Labeled as a Category III sex comedy, Vulgaria was one of Hong Kong's biggest hits this past year [1][2] — alongside Pang's sequel Love in the Buff, follow-up to his smash romantic dramedy Love in a Puff — topping some of the week's Box Office takes, where it gave a good run for its money to juggernauts like The Dark Knight Rises some days. Then, there were those mule scenes talks online, so missing this was a no-no.
Vulgaria lives up to its name the minute the company credits roll and there's a warning telling you that if you're overly sensitive and dislike crude humor, over the top offensive situations, sex and language… this is not the film for you. The story gets going at a film school, where they're about to give a conference with movie producer To Wai-Cheung (To). To is an out-of-luck producer who tries to explain the actual job of a producer before, during and after the movie shoots, as he tells the students about the time he got involved with mainland Triads to get funding for his last film… a remake of the 70s erotic film, Confessions of a Concubine.
Having said that, watching Vulgaria felt like… watching a mild R-rated American film; subtitles-wise anyway. Content-wise, it's quite similar to this year's "vulgar" teddy bear, Ted, which was mind-bogglingly dubbed to Spanish as if it were little kid's fare. Curiously, the scenes that made me laugh the most were the scenes that had less to do with sex and the crude jokes, like in the Mahjong den raid and the sexual harassment investigation… because punctuation is so damn funny in any language. However, as with any movie — especially comedies — a lot can be lost in translation. Though the subtitles were funny in their own way, I'm sure there are jokes and plays on words specifically set for Hong Kong people, just like the McDull series has its own "secret" charm for locals.
It also helps to know the Hong Kong movie industry to get the references and the cameos. For example, no one would bat an eye if they'd see Hiro Hayama without having watched 3D Sex and Zen. Despite all its tongue-in-cheek and irreverent humor, Vulgaria has some sort of a heart. Chapman To's character is the epitome of the struggling movie-related person, the one who mortgages their home to fund their project, those who are often told to grow up and take responsibility, that their dreams are never going to happen.
Acting is fine, with the highlight of Ronald Cheng who plays the eccentric Mainland Triad boss — giving out a funny as heck curse in Hakka — and alongside Suet Lam has the hilarious task of giving a high class dinner to his possible film business partners. Vulgaria, however, shouldn't be taken too seriously, it's a light and quite low-budget film that's the perfect fit for a good time… preferably with your guy pals. If you could say one thing about digital filmmaking it is that it gives crazy ideas like this the opportunities to make a profit.
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Diandra Rodriguez says:
I just saw this! And the subtitles seemed to get a lot of the humor across well. oh gosh the harassment punctuation thing. What really cracked me up, though, was the whole dinner scene with To's reaction to the food and what he ended up trying. It is like a mild R-rated American film, though, which is why I laughed when I see all the reviews saying "it's so vulgar!" uh it's in the title. I wish the last third of the movie had more energy, though. I'd give it the same rating you did.
@Diandra Rodriguez, I wonder if it's more vulgar if I knew Cantonese. LOL And during the fancy high class dinner, I kept saying "oh god" he had a fancy name for every dish, which is very Chinese too!
Just thinking about the "F*ck. Period. These overseas Chinese girls." sentence cracks me up, though.
@amy, haha yeah I was worried when they took a sexual harrasment turn, but then it became a language joke and I laughed.
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