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KOLLEKTIVNYE DEYSTVIYA (COLLECTIVE ACTIONS). THE DESCRIPTIONS OF ALL THE ACTIONS, Photo and Video
JOURNEYS TO THE COUNTRYSIDE. VOLUME TEN
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A virtual action, done for S. Letov's site. Like the element from the action "Intersection-2" (with the number 113 on a metal circle hung up in a tree), it is based on the series "CA Maps," in which numbered circles (the ordinal numbers of the actions) are inserted into Google maps (taken from space) in those places on the maps where the corresponding actions were carried out.
Here, a white circle with the number 118 (the ordinal number of the action in the list of CA actions) is placed: 1) on the Monument to Griboedov at the Chistoprudnyi Boulevard (Moscow); 2) on the city of Weimar (Germany); 3) on the Kremlin (Moscow); 4) on the city of Ravenna (Italy); 5) on the Pavilion of Rabbit Husbandry and the Hunting Pavilion at VDNKh [Exhibition of Achievements of the National Economy, today the All-Russian Exhibition Center] (Moscow); 6) on the Williams Institute of Forages near the city of Lobnya.
When the computer mouse cursor is passed over the circles with the number 118 the following sequences of passages arise:
1. The Monument to Griboedov – the scene of an icon procession in the city of Tutaev, with a photo-button with the image of a fragment of the Gnadenkapelle [Chapel of the Miraculous Image] in Altötting (Germany) inserted into the bottom right corner – a collage in which the photo of the procession in Tutaev is inserted into a scan from a web camera of the autobahn near Mainz (Germany) – the site of this web camera.
2. Weimar – the photo of the circle with the number 113 from the action "Intersection-2" (autumn) – the same circle, taken in late autumn –the circle in winter – the circle in summer, photographed the day of the action – the site of the web camera of Thassos Island (Greece).
3. The Kremlin – the computer flash-game "Arena."
4. Ravenna – the a site of the Sirmione web camera (view of the lake).
5. VDNKh – the menu "Schizoanalytic Investigations of VDNKh," consisting of a black-and-white photo of VDNKh from 1985 (a view of the pavilion with the bull and the dome of the Space Pavilion) with four photo-buttons:
A) "The Bull" button – a scene of "worship" to the bull carried out by A.М. and N.P. in 1987 on the steps of the Meat Industry Pavilion (photo by S. Andre) – a fragment of video from S. Volkov's birthday party made in 1987 in N.P.'s apartment on Malakhitovaya Street (S. Anufriev reading the "presentation" text to Volkov from V.S. and А. М. "Pyatihanie of the Sheep")
B) "The Vase" button (А. М. and N.P. beside a giant vase that used to stand outside of the "TECHNICAL TRAINING COLLEGE" pavilion, which subsequently burned down; photo by S. Andre, 1987) – a photo with the inscription: "Researchers of physical culture and sports," 1989 (M. Chuikova, S. Anufriev, A. М., and P. Peppershtein on a balcony on Tsandera Street, (photo by S. H.) – a portrait of V. Sorokin at the Pavilion of Physical Culture and Sport, (photo by А. М., 1987) – the soundtrack of А. М. reading Sorokin's text, "Martin Alekseevich" in 1985 (audio player inserted into a map of the village of Barybino)
C) "The Rabbit" button (photo by S. Andre, 1987. А. М. getting the door seals (used in the work "The Tin") from the pedestal of a statue at the Pavilion of Rabbit Husbandry) – a photo of the same statue from 1987 – a soundtrack of Mamleev reading his story, «Letters to Katya», 1970s recording from I. Kholin's collection (Audio player inserted into a 1987 photo by А. М. of an "altar" with mannequins in fur coats from the Pavilion of Rabbit Husbandry)
D) "The Golden Ear" button (photo of a fountain at VDNKh) – a color photo from the1990s: view of the pavilion with the bull, the dome of the Space Pavilion, and the fountain "The Golden Ear of Wheat" – text by А. М. "VDNKh – The Capital of the World."
6 – There are two passages from this map: one from the inscription "Kievogorskoe Field" – photo of the action "The Third Variant – a frame from the film "The Seventh Voyage of Sindbad" with the image of the Cyclops – video fragment from this film (scene with the Cyclops).
The second passage from the number 118, located in territory of the Williams Institute of Forages: the buttons menu for four cartoon films made by M. Sumnina in 2000:
1) Williams with bunnies; 2) the action "The Third Variant" with a soundtrack; 3) "The Way of Hsuan Chien"; 4) "Mosquitoes" (the image of mosquito larvae taking off from А. М.'s diagram, "Coordinated Reality").
Additionally, in the commentary to action "118" are four photo-buttons that contain the following sequences of passages:
A) "The Hare" button (a photo taken by A.M. in 2000 of a poster of a hare inside the Pavilion of Rabbit Husbandry) – the "altar" of "Fur coats" from same pavilion in 1987, photo by A. М (full view of the "altar" wall; in the passage to Mamleev's soundtrack, only a fragment of this wall is shown)
B) "The Burned down Pavilion of Hunting (photo of the remaining statues and a heap of earth behind them, 2005) – a photo of this pavilion from the 1990s
C) "The Dante Mausoleum in Ravenna" button – photo of the Mausoleum of Theodoric in Ravenna – photo "А. М. in Theodoric's Sarcophagus" (side view) –front view in the same place, (photo by S.H. 1994) – the article "The Mausoleum Placidia Galla" from Wikipedia
D) "Goethe's and Schiller's Tombs" button – photo of Goethe's and Schiller's mausoleum and the Church of Mary Magdalene in Weimar (between them is the tomb of archbishop Sabinin) – photo of Sabinin's tombstone – the Alaska airdrome webcam site.
The main page of the action "118" has a link to the page of "CA Maps," each of which has circles with the action numbers placed on them linked to the descriptive texts of the corresponding actions. In the same place is a link to "Additional Maps" of CA actions (26 maps) with links to actions. From the maps of "Prora" and "Butovo", in addition to the links from the circles to the actions, there are links to the corresponding articles in Wikipedia. On the "Losinyi Ostrov" map, there is a photo-button leading to a photo of a triangularly tower ("Losinoostrovsky Inspirator of CA in the 2000s").
Among all these maps is a map of "Dedovsk" where no CA actions ever took place. There are three links from here: from the word "Dedovsk" – to the page with a video frame from the action "Russian world" at the bottom of which is inserted an audio player with a soundtrack of this action: "the Train to Dedovsk Station…" (from a figure of a hare on this frame it is possible to get on that place in the Preface to Volume 10 where this soundtrack is described). The second link – from an action photo from "Russian world" (built into the map in a shape of "Laputa") – to the descriptive text of this action. From the third photo-button (the table with bugs) – to the entomological site: "Beetles and Coleopterologists."
"The additional Maps" were created especially for the action "118."
https://conceptualism.letov.ru/118/KD-actions-118.html
А. Мonastyrski, S. Letov (with the assistance of M. Sumnina)


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How the GOP got its groove back
Republicans look ahead to 2010, without bothering to figure out whether they've solved their problems first
By Mike Madden
November 20, 2009 5:20AM (UTC)
Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty addresses Iowa Republicans at the Leadership for Iowa event, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Doug Wells) (Doug Wells)
Finding the epicenter of the looming Republican comeback is pretty easy, at least this week. As it happens, you can drive there from Austin-Bergstrom International Airport in less than 30 minutes, and with only two turns. Once you get to the massive golf and spa complex with signs warning pedestrians and bicyclists to stay off the road, you're in the right place.
Here at a fancy resort on the outskirts of Austin, Republican governors and the corporate sponsors who love them gathered to celebrate their recent victories and look forward to what -- they're quite sure -- will be many more to come. "I was chairman of the party 16 years ago when we were last similarly situated," said Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, the chairman of the Republican Governors Association, who was chairman of the Republican National Committee when the GOP swept to control of Congress in the 1994 elections. "This feels better this early than it did then."
Win a couple of odd-year gubernatorial contests, it turns out, and the future suddenly looks a lot brighter. Bright enough, in fact, that the RGA had no problem Thursday morning showing attendees a "Saturday Night Live" clip spoofing Fox News Channel's coverage of the 2009 elections. The point of the skit was that the GOP and its friends at Fox were delusional, giddily declaring the 2008 elections overturned on the basis of two statewide elections with low turnout -- which the speakers at the RGA conference then proceeded to come close to doing themselves. It wasn't clear how intentional the irony was.
"For all the hype, [2008] was not a transitional campaign, it was not a transitional year," GOP pollster Ed Goeas said at a panel about the 2010 elections, after promising to pick apart some of the "many" myths about President Obama's victory a year ago. "After $700 million being spent by the Obama campaign, it was not a new electorate."
That was, in essence, the message of the RGA conference: So what if the only thing voters like less than the Democrats in Congress might be the Republicans in Congress? Who cares if the GOP has been reduced to a rump minority in the House and Senate, left on the sidelines with not much more to do than root for Democrats to fight among themselves? In politics, what matters is momentum, and right now, Republicans -- and quite a few Democrats, especially in private -- think they have it.
So Bob McDonnell and Chris Christie, the winners in Virginia and New Jersey a few weeks ago, were hailed as the heralds of a new GOP majority -- a majority of governors, granted, which doesn't really mean anything in terms of being able to pass legislation or implement policy on a national scale, but a majority nonetheless. (Both winning candidates demurred when asked whether Obama fatigue had helped them to the statehouse; it was local issues that won the day, they insisted.) No one mentioned that the party in the White House almost always loses the New Jersey and Virginia elections the year after a presidential race.
And Barbour came armed with a new poll by Zogby International that showed Obama's approval ratings and reelection numbers were perilously low in states with competitive gubernatorial races on tap for next year. Hawaii Gov. Linda Lingle said there was no reason the GOP shouldn't aim to win every single state. "There's no state that we can't win," she said. "Talking to a Republican from Hawaii -- the first Republican elected in 40 years -- I'm telling you, we could win in every state."
But the most telling numbers may have been the ones Barbour touted a little later, in a press conference, after he'd shared them with governors and Republican loyalists Thursday morning. Forget the polling; what really got the RGA excited was another kind of stat. "We spent $23 million in 2006," Barbour said. "We're going to start 2010 with $25 million in the bank."
Raising and spending money is, after all, the main thing a group like the RGA does. Which is why the big "Victory Barbecue" on Wednesday night was sponsored by the Corrections Corporation of America, whose Web site proclaims it's "the private corrections management provider of choice for federal, state and local agencies." And why Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels apologized to "the vendors in the room" for boasting of his love of bidding state contracts out using reverse auctions. Everywhere you looked, corporate sponsors popped up. A mining company, an information technology company and a supply chain logistics company teamed up with CCA and the liquor lobby to sponsor a bash at Cindy's Gone Hog Wild, a bar down the road from the conference resort. A "trunk show and fashion boutique" was set up in one hallway Thursday afternoon, so attendees could take a break from hearing about the Obama administration's nefarious healthcare reform plans to get a little shopping in. (The governors, meanwhile, headed out for some skeet and trap shooting on the resort's grounds.)
That's not to say Democrats will have it easy next year, especially if the economy doesn't recover faster. Incumbents in either party are likely to struggle; fairly heavy losses in the House and Senate are probably on the horizon, though Democrats took so many seats in 2006 and 2008 that their majority in both houses is likely safe. Midterm elections almost never bring good news for new presidents, just like the New Jersey and Virginia results.
But the GOP crowing in Texas this week doesn't mean Republicans have it all figured out again, either. The candidates on the Republican line in major races next year may include Ohio's John Kasich, who was the House Budget Committee chairman after the 1994 elections; New York's Rick Lazio, who tried, and failed, to beat Hillary Clinton for the Senate in 2000; and Iowa's Terry Branstad, whom you may have heard of because he already served as governor of the state from 1983 to 1999. That lineup doesn't exactly scream out "new and improved," no matter how much Barbour talked up the GOP comeback.
"One of the things that really does separate this Republican Party from the Republican Party of 1993 is that this one is utterly devoid of ideas," said Nathan Daschle, the executive director of the Democratic Governors Association, the RGA's counterpart. "You can say a lot of things about Newt Gingrich, you can say a lot of things about the Republican Revolution; one thing you can't say is that it lacked some kind of ideological base or agenda."
By contrast, Barbour boasted Wednesday that Republicans in New Jersey voted for a moderate, Christie, and in Virginia, they voted for a conservative, McDonnell. The main thing they had in common was their party label. As GOP governors gathered to bash the healthcare reform bill Thursday morning, they ran through the same litany of Republican "solutions" to the problem that their comrades in Washington have offered for months -- tort reform, insurance portability, tax credits. Their most famous ex-governor, meanwhile, was running around on a book tour, talking mostly to tea party types who won't exactly help win swing voters over. Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, who's supposed to be a rising star in the party and is planning a run for president in 2012, stuck to bland pronouncements as he moderated a domestic policy panel on Wednesday. "Citizens are being asked to live on the same amount of money, or less, than they did last year," he said. "They think it's reasonable that government should tighten its belt as well." No one at the conference could open his or her mouth without declaring the states to be "the laboratories of democracy" -- Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal must have said at least a half-dozen times that unlike Washington, states can't print their own money. It was not, all in all, a rousing display.
What next year's elections may offer increasingly alienated voters, then, could be a choice between the Democrats, complete with their infighting and chaotic majorities -- who may not have done enough yet to fix the problems that they confronted upon walking into office -- and the Republicans -- who were the ones who helped mess things up in the first place. If the RGA gathering was any evidence, though, the GOP is aiming to win that choice by default. A win, after all, is still a win.
Mike Madden
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package com.box.sdk;

import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URL;
import java.text.ParseException;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.Iterator;

import org.junit.Assert;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.experimental.categories.Category;

import com.eclipsesource.json.JsonObject;

/**
 * {@link BoxFileVersionRetention} related unit tests.
 */
public class BoxFileVersionRetentionTest {

    /**
     * Unit test for {@link BoxFileVersionRetention#getInfo(String...)}
     */
    @Test
    @Category(UnitTest.class)
    public void testGetInfoSendsCorrectRequest() {
        BoxAPIConnection api = new BoxAPIConnection("");
        api.setRequestInterceptor(new RequestInterceptor() {
            @Override
            public BoxAPIResponse onRequest(BoxAPIRequest request) {
                Assert.assertEquals("https://api.box.com/2.0/file_version_retentions/0?fields=file%2Capplied_at",
                        request.getUrl().toString());
                return new BoxJSONResponse() {
                    @Override
                    public String getJSON() {
                        return "{\"id\": \"0\"}";
                    }
                };
            }
        });

        BoxFileVersionRetention retention = new BoxFileVersionRetention(api, "0");
        retention.getInfo("file", "applied_at");
    }

    /**
     * Unit test for {@link BoxFileVersionRetention#getInfo(String...)}
     */
    @Test
    @Category(UnitTest.class)
    public void testGetInfoParseAllFieldsCorrectly() throws ParseException {
        final String id = "112729";
        final Date appliedAt = BoxDateFormat.parse("2015-08-06T22:02:24-07:00");
        final Date dispositionAt = BoxDateFormat.parse("2016-08-06T21:45:28-07:00");
        final String winningPolicyID = "41173";
        final String winningPolicyName = "Tax Documents";
        final String fileVersionID = "124887629";
        final String fileVersionSHA1 = "4262d6250b0e6f440dca43a2337bd4621bad9136";
        final String fileID = "5011706273";
        final String fileEtag = "2";

        final JsonObject fakeJSONResponse = JsonObject.readFrom("{\n"
                + "    \"type\": \"file_version_retention\",\n"
                + "    \"id\": \"112729\",\n"
                + "    \"applied_at\": \"2015-08-06T22:02:24-07:00\",\n"
                + "    \"disposition_at\": \"2016-08-06T21:45:28-07:00\",\n"
                + "    \"winning_retention_policy\": {\n"
                + "        \"type\": \"retention_policy\",\n"
                + "        \"id\": \"41173\",\n"
                + "        \"policy_name\": \"Tax Documents\"\n"
                + "    },\n"
                + "    \"file_version\": {\n"
                + "        \"type\": \"file_version\",\n"
                + "        \"id\": \"124887629\",\n"
                + "        \"sha1\": \"4262d6250b0e6f440dca43a2337bd4621bad9136\"\n"
                + "    },\n"
                + "    \"file\": {\n"
                + "        \"type\": \"file_version\",\n"
                + "        \"id\": \"5011706273\",\n"
                + "        \"etag\": \"2\"\n"
                + "    }\n"
                + "}");

        BoxAPIConnection api = new BoxAPIConnection("");
        api.setRequestInterceptor(JSONRequestInterceptor.respondWith(fakeJSONResponse));

        BoxFileVersionRetention retention = new BoxFileVersionRetention(api, id);
        BoxFileVersionRetention.Info info = retention.getInfo();
        Assert.assertEquals(appliedAt, info.getAppliedAt());
        Assert.assertEquals(dispositionAt, info.getDispositionAt());
        Assert.assertEquals(winningPolicyID, info.getWinningPolicy().getID());
        Assert.assertEquals(winningPolicyName, info.getWinningPolicy().getPolicyName());
        Assert.assertEquals(fileVersionID, info.getFileVersion().getID());
        Assert.assertEquals(fileVersionSHA1, info.getFileVersion().getSha1());
        Assert.assertEquals(fileID, info.getFile().getID());
        Assert.assertEquals(fileEtag, info.getFile().getEtag());
    }

    /**
     * Unit test for {@link BoxFileVersionRetention#getAll(BoxAPIConnection, String...)}
     */
    @Test
    @Category(UnitTest.class)
    public void testGetAllSendsCorrectRequest() {
        BoxAPIConnection api = new BoxAPIConnection("");
        api.setRequestInterceptor(new RequestInterceptor() {
            @Override
            public BoxAPIResponse onRequest(BoxAPIRequest request) {
                Assert.assertEquals("https://api.box.com/2.0/file_version_retentions", request.getUrl().toString());
                return new BoxJSONResponse() {
                    @Override
                    public String getJSON() {
                        return "{\"entries\": []}";
                    }
                };
            }
        });

        BoxFileVersionRetention.getAll(api);
    }

    /**
     * Unit test for
     * {@link BoxFileVersionRetention#getRetentions(BoxAPIConnection, BoxFileVersionRetention.QueryFilter, String...)}
     */
    @Test
    @Category(UnitTest.class)
    public void testGetRetentionsSendsCorrectRequest() throws ParseException {
        final String urlString = "https://api.box.com/2.0/file_version_retentions"
                + "?file_id=0&file_version_id=1&policy_id=2"
                + "&disposition_action=permanently_delete"
                + "&disposition_before=2016-09-15T13%3A15%3A35%2B0000"
                + "&disposition_after=2014-09-15T13%3A15%3A35%2B0000"
                + "&fields=file%2Capplied_at"
                + "&limit=100";

        BoxAPIConnection api = new BoxAPIConnection("");
        api.setRequestInterceptor(new RequestInterceptor() {
            @Override
            public BoxAPIResponse onRequest(BoxAPIRequest request) {
                try {
                    Assert.assertEquals(new URL(urlString), request.getUrl());
                } catch (MalformedURLException e) {
                    assert false;
                }
                return new BoxJSONResponse() {
                    @Override
                    public String getJSON() {
                        return "{\"entries\": []}";
                    }
                };
            }
        });

        BoxFileVersionRetention.QueryFilter filter = new BoxFileVersionRetention.QueryFilter()
                .addFileID("0")
                .addFileVersionID("1")
                .addPolicyID("2")
                .addDispositionAction(BoxRetentionPolicy.ACTION_PERMANENTLY_DELETE)
                .addDispositionBefore(BoxDateFormat.parse("2016-09-15T13:15:35+0000"))
                .addDispositionAfter(BoxDateFormat.parse("2014-09-15T13:15:35+0000"));

        Iterator<BoxFileVersionRetention.Info> iterator
            = BoxFileVersionRetention.getRetentions(api, filter, "file", "applied_at").iterator();
        iterator.hasNext();
    }

    /**
     * Unit test for {@link BoxFileVersionRetention#getAll(BoxAPIConnection, String...)}
     */
    @Test
    @Category(UnitTest.class)
    public void testGetAllParseAllFieldsCorrectly() {
        final String firstEntryID = "112725";
        final String secondEntryID = "112733";

        final JsonObject fakeJSONResponse = JsonObject.readFrom("{\n"
                + "      \"entries\": [\n"
                + "            {\n"
                + "                \"type\": \"file_version_retention\",\n"
                + "                \"id\": \"112725\"\n"
                + "            },\n"
                + "            {\n"
                + "                \"type\": \"file_version_retention\",\n"
                + "                \"id\": \"112733\"\n"
                + "            }\n"
                + "        ],\n"
                + "        \"limit\": 100,\n"
                + "        \"order\": [\n"
                + "            {\n"
                + "                \"by\": \"file_version_id\",\n"
                + "                \"direction\": \"ASC\"\n"
                + "            }\n"
                + "        ]\n"
                + "}");

        BoxAPIConnection api = new BoxAPIConnection("");
        api.setRequestInterceptor(JSONRequestInterceptor.respondWith(fakeJSONResponse));

        Iterator<BoxFileVersionRetention.Info> iterator = BoxFileVersionRetention.getAll(api).iterator();
        BoxFileVersionRetention.Info info = iterator.next();
        Assert.assertEquals(firstEntryID, info.getID());
        info = iterator.next();
        Assert.assertEquals(secondEntryID, info.getID());
        Assert.assertEquals(false, iterator.hasNext());
    }

}

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In conversation : Maya Penn on Sustainability and Systemic Change
by ARTICLE22 April 28, 2020
Stories of transformation from Laos and beyond in the words of leaders taking on contemporary issues through business, creativity, and advocacy.
On the definition of success : is not only when you meet your goals, but also when you help other people achieve theirs...
That's always been such a huge core of not only my work, but just how I move through the world. Being a young entrepreneur, activist artist and building this career but also being a young woman of color.
All of these things have made me very, aware of how important it is to reach back into support and to lift up others as much as possible. Everyone has knowledge, experience, more stories that can impact or help educate or help lift up others.
This time that we're in, every single person is being asked to do their part to help in this fight. Whether that is by staying home, or by trying to support your local communities, support health care workers, to support people who are in lower income communities. Being more aware of what can they do to help or, reaching out to others to receive help. All of those, those elements are really being brought to the forefront.
- Maya Penn, Animator and CEO
READ FULL TRANSCRIPT HERE
This transcript has been lightly edited for readability.
Elizabeth Suda discusses Sustainability and Systemic Change with Maya Penn, Animator and CEO
Liz 0:01
Yay, cool. I love the way you were your ARTICLE22.
Maya 0:07
Thank you. And then of course I have my Iittle design, ya know to represent.
That's right. That's right. I, I can't believe it. I'm at my parents place on Long Island, and it's where I grew up. Normally I have a stash of jewelry here and in Brooklyn where I live, but I consolidated just before.
Before COVID-19 crisis. And so now pretty much everything is in Brooklyn. And so I've been wearing
the same pair, so it feels really weird not to be mixing it up every day. But yeah, it's just for me, right? Tha
Right. But I mean, it's still like super gorgeous compliments any outfit. So.
That's how I feel you can't go wrong with the hoop.
Um, so how are you doing? And where are you right now?
Yeah, so I'm in, well actually Canton Georgia, but I usually just say Atlanta, Georgia, since everyone knows where Atlanta is, we're doing good. And, you know, me and my family, we're just taking time to, you know, work on projects that we haven't been able to while we've been traveling and, you know, it's just, you know, really crazy time. While, also you can kind of go inside and reflect and kind of work on other elements and areas, you know, that you have that you might have been neglecting before, so, but we've been leaving well, you know, thankfully.
Yeah. And and where are you in your house right now? It looks like a studio or work room?
Yeah. So this is my studio, where my Mad Science Lab, whatever you want to call it. You know, I'm doing all of my designing writing animating work just kind of a little bit of everything. But yeah, I'm just in my studio and this windows really nice because it has a lot of light. It's good for zoom calls.
It does it's so bright and I think it's sunny is the word that is it yellow in there?
Yeah, it's not it's not yellow, but it's definitely a lot of natural like light coming in right now, which is good because this past week, we had a lot of tornadoes in this area. So you know, I had to go to the basement for like couple of nights and like it was kind of, so I'm thankful that the weather changed and now we're getting sun.
Wow, is is having tornadoes a typical thing near Atlanta, Georgia, or is that something that's new?
Yeah, no, tornadoes are pretty common for the South. Specifically in the summertime more often like severe weather is more common in the summer but of course, it's more crazy now because of climate change and like, the weather is very confused. I will just say that like, because it will go from, like hot like summer to freezing the next day. It's a lot but yeah, I think it's I think severe weather is pretty common, but it's more common in summer in the south.
Well, Mother Nature is definitely has been screaming, but maybe she's been having some fresh breath of air recently. And we can get to that in a minute. But I'd love to know a little bit about kind of how your your work has changed. I mean, normally you're off giving TED Talks. You've had three TED talks so far. Is that about right?
Yes. Yeah. Then three TED Talks. Yeah. Yeah, it's so I mean, this also unprecedented, and you know, work has definitely changed. And now there's a big focus and conversation around activism from home. And it's, you know, it's really been interesting for me to not only kind of recalibrate how I do things, as activists as an artist, as an entrepreneur, but also kind of, you know, everyone's learning together, which is really cool, in a sense, even though this is a really tough time that we can kind of be there for each other and, you know, encourage and teach each other because I actually have my own IGTV series. And I did an episode recently, on one of my shows where I'm talking about how small businesses, creatives and nonprofit owners can recover from COVID-19. And, you know, this kind of tips that I have, and I'm spoke alongside of a business coach and consultant who's really amazing. And so, it's definitely been interesting, but it's been good to kind of feel that sense of community and having to do things from long distance, being on sustainability boards and having changed how we do our meetings and all of those different things is just been really a learning experience. But it's kind of good that we have this experience to know how to do this in the future, too.
Absolutely. I mean, I think one, one of the things that we're all learning from this is that no matter where we are, we live in a world where technology does facilitate togetherness, and that is absolutely one of the positives of you know, social media, the interconnection, and you know, when when we are creating content, we have the opportunity to create content that is positive and that can inspire people right from our own couches and you know, it change does really start at the local level and forget about that it starts within you. I mean, a lot of the people that we collaborate with at ARTICLE22 are are practitioners of meditation or are really, you know, looking at how their personal transformation can can influence family and their community. And I mean, I know you've also been very active recently in your own community from home. What, what have you been doing?
Yeah, so that's something that's been really big for me. I've been really focusing on trying to support my community as much as possible. I've been creating a face masks from remnant fabric from my sustainable fashion line creating face masks for healthcare workers, and then also donating to the local food banks here in Atlanta. Supporting those local food banks because, of course, there are a lot of vulnerable communities who are food insecure during this crisis and even kids because they're out of school a lot of kids who are food insecure rely on school lunches for their food and so, you know, really trying to strengthen and support those programs that are reaching out and helping those communities, provide them with the resources that they need. So those are those are the things that I've been doing as as well as just trying to spread awareness or educate others or share any other tips that I have for anyone to kind of help them get through this. And just kind of taking that action because it's, it's really important for all of us to do our part. You know, whatever we have the ability to do and whatever we can do, it's really important to do that.
Absolutely. And, and so just kind of circling back to the notion of self care. What are some things that you, you do while you're thinking of other people? You know, how do you take care of yourself? Do you have any particular rituals?
Yeah, so a lot of meditating a lot of writing and, you know, also kind of learn, I'm starting to learn certain patterns that I have. I've learned that when I need to take my mind off of everything that's happening, I start baking. I don't know why, but I've made like so many batches of vegan muffins and Anthony biscuits and stuff like this and like it's very cathartic. I always love cooking and baking and meditation, reading, painting. And I'm thankful that I have a backyard I actually have an organic garden in my backyard and I can just kind of disappear in there for a while if I just need to commune with nature. And just you know, there's so many tools that I have that I can, you know, just take care of myself and breathe and relax and it's good to be able to not have to kind of be on the go so much and I hate that it's under the circumstance, but it does give me time to kind of catch up with myself. Like I think a lot of us have not been able to do that. And to check in like, how are we doing, you know, so, you know, it's definitely trying to you know, take make use of this time while I can.
Yeah, one one phrase that I picked up in my art history classes way back when was the idea of negative space and the if something not being present, you know, a choice to not have a motif or have a sculpture that is missing apart is as as intentional, unnecessary as what is there and I feel like this moment in time is very much like that it's giving us negative space in the most positive way it's negative to, to think and to, to reflect and to envision a different picture and to heal. And that is so necessary and thinking about how we move forward from all of this. You don't just figure it out in a day it takes it takes time. And
Maya 10:32
Liz 10:33
One thing, one thing that is so present in the way you work is collaboration because people are collaborating right now even digitally and people will again, there's no doubt, I'm totally optimistic that we will all be able to share the same physical space and we won't have to remain six feet apart. So collaboration is is very much key to ARTICLE22 spirit. It's how we started working with you and other leaders. And I'd love to hear a little bit about your perspective on collaboration and what it's meant to you. Throughout the your very young career, you said something that I really love and I think it, it really is worth me just reading the quote, your definition of success is not only when you meet your goals, but also when you help other people achieve theirs. So maybe talk a little bit about that.
Yeah, that's always been such a huge core of not only my work, but just how I move through the world. And you know, being a young entrepreneur, activist artist and you know, kind of building this career but also being a young woman of color. You know, all of these things have made me very, you know, aware of how important it is to reach back into support and to lift up others as much as possible. And everyone has knowledge, experience, more story that can impact or help educate or help lift up others. And so, collaboration, as we see now is so critical and so important. You know, this time that we're in, every single person is being asked to do their part to help in this fight. And whether that is by staying home, or by trying to support your local communities, support health care workers, to support people who are in lower income communities. All of those things have made people more aware to you know, what can they do to help or you know, reaching out to others to even receive help a lot of people don't even do that people that are in need. And so, all of those, those elements are really being brought to the forefront. And in my own career, you know, I've now been at an at a point where I have mentees. And then I started this when I was eight years old. I'm 20 now and I've technically been the sustainable fashion world and sustainability space for for 12 years now. But now I'm at a point where I have other young women who are like eight, 9, 10 years old, and I like I have this idea for a business and I want to start this or I want to do something to give back in my community, and what advice do you have, and now I'm able to help, you know, teach them and kind of show them and give them advice on what they can do. And so that's like, kind of one of my, you know, examples that I've used over the years. And I think that that reaching back to others, is now being amplified on a on a scale that really shows how crucial and critical it is for us all to really keep moving forward and thriving.
Yeah well, I couldn't I couldn't agree more. And I think another one of the main threads of your work in addition to collaboration is also sustainability. And when when we started thinking about what your message was going to be on the bracelet, you you came up with something that just stopped us all in our tracks, and it kind of sums everything up love mother Earth. And in this moment, we're seeing that change can happen that that mother nature can heal herself. We've seen you know, carbon emissions fall so sharply, of course that comes with a serious economic consequence, which is absolutely problematic, but there's proof that change is possible. And that when we come together, and we all agree, we can make a change. What what sort of, you know, inspiration did you have from your message love Mother Earth? And what sort of learnings environmentally Do you think there may be from COVID crisis?
Yeah, so COVID-19 has really had an unforeseen kind of impact, or unprecedented rather impact on the environment and the community like kind of eco consciousness and environmental activism. Well, first of all, it does show us you know, well, what can we learn from this crisis and of course, this can be applied to so many different areas of our life ours, of our society and of our of our governments. But as far as sustainability, it really there are a lot of questions of you know, once we come on the other side of this crisis, and you know, we have everything in place to prevent things like this from happening again, then is looking towards we still have climate change, we still have this issue that's, you know, again, a huge global threat to all of us and will affect so many different industries and so many different communities of people. And how can we, you know, you know, look at and address climate change with the same urgency because it will affect and destroy so many communities it already is. There are so many examples now of climate refugees, in a lot of countries and from people in in Bangladesh to Guatemala to even you know, past symbols like Puerto Rico, and so on and so forth. How the climate is impacting, especially a lot of black and brown communities adversely, and so it's already happening right now. And so because of that, we really need to know how to address this with a similar urgency, because of how quickly this is shifting and becoming more and more of a dangerous situation. And also to there has been a lot of, you know, talk around because of the the lack of human activity and travel and all these other things, how the, you know, wildlife and how the climate and carbon emissions, how all that's being positively impacted and but the thing that you have to also confront is that there is this idea of that, well, you know, humans are the the virus and humans are the reason you know, why everything is the way it is and why the environment has been so negatively impacted. And that really is not the case because there are many communities of people, you can look to indigenous cultures who know how to live in harmony with the earth, humans didn't just come out, you know, doing all of these things and impact in the planet, it really all comes down to the infrastructures that have been set in place and our society and kind of changing that and dismantling that making sustainability more accessible to more communities. And just really recognizing that, you know, where we have to change these areas, because it can be possible because it's already done. It's already happening. There are already people who know how to do this, how to live in harmony with nature. And so that's something to be recognized and something that we just all collectively have to come back to, and change on, you know, individual levels and higher levels as well.
Yeah, I mean, one thing that we've always been so inspired by is when we're working with our artists and partners in Laos, you know, what you described, living with the environment in harmony with animals and nature. They're already doing this and they have been doing this and there's so much ancient wisdom that we need to reintegrate into our modern society and the answers are actually present and perhaps it's that we need to look to certain communities that have been living in the more traditional way to, to find those answers and and respect their knowledge and elevate it and learn from what they can. They can teach us so I definitely feel you on that. And, you know, transformation is not easy. It requires sacrifice it requires, planning requires discipline. What advice do you have for people that are reflecting right now in this moment about how they can change their, you know, habits and practice a more sustainable way of living? What what kind of top three or five things even would you say?
Yeah, so I think what's important for people that are wanting to live more sustainably is that I feel like people feel this intense pressure to do everything and do it all like at the max when you really it's it is a transition. You do have to assess what you can do right now what you're able to do what you have access to, and you know what's easiest to do right now and just kind of start from there. And so whether that's instead of maybe you want to go vegan or do more plant based, living, you know, if you just do meatless Mondays, that makes a huge difference. If everyone could just do that. That makes a huge impact within itself. You know? You know, when it comes to clothing, supporting sustainable brands, or even learning, like how to mend your own clothes, if you get a stain in a shirt, don't just throw it in the washing machine, if you can spot wash it by hand, so that consumes less water and energy. I mean, they're just little things that make such a huge difference if they were done on such a larger scale. And so, it is really a matter of picking what it is that's easiest for you to do and just doing that step. And then next week, adding this next thing, adding this next thing and then it starts to kind of build up and then it becomes natural for you. You've created a lifestyle that's better for the planet and is organic to how you live and move throughout the world. And I think if everyone did that everyone thought about it in that way, then it wouldn't be so daunting and you would see sustainable practices become even more common because it's almost casual, it's just Well, I'm going to try this I'm going to learn to do this, I'm going to bike today, you know, you might set a there's like a 30 minute rule like if it's if the distance is under 30 minutes or is 30 minutes or less to walk and you know, all walk or all bike so on and so forth. So I think that it's little things like that that are important for people to keep in mind as they're transitioning is to kind of be gentle with yourself and just take those steps and add on an add on because it builds up to really make a big impact.
I agree and, and you were also talking before a little bit about like dismantling the current system and that's, that's another layer right? That's about public private partnership. That's about taking our individual actions and and bringing them into the political arena. And I'd like to maybe just hear if you have any recommendations of books that kind of talk about some of these subjects that have really resonated with you. And if there's one particular idea or example that you can give about kind of wider systemic change that is going to require the participation of citizens of businesses and of government.
Yeah, so it's really like, I think what's important is, first of all, to remember that it's something that I've personally seen, especially with a lot of young people is they kind of feel like this, the whole political system is just kind of too daunting to even begin to understand. And so then they just don't, they don't they don't really take the time to to learn more about how everything works, why their vote is important. And you know, What happens after you go and beyond presidential elections? Also in your state and local elections, you know why, why it's so important to be engaged with all of that. And so the thing that's incredible is that there are so many resources online now. And unlike what we were kind of talking about earlier about this long distance, and this collaboration and learning how to use technology in this way, is that I think people are just now realizing the true power of the Internet, and realizing the true power of the technology that we have in how much information that we have at our fingertips. And so there are if you really just start, you know, again, looking into state and local elections and kind of following that that's actually a really good step. My first election was the end of the local gubernatorial election here in Georgia. And I was able to learn so much just through going through that process and figuring out, you know, what I was looking for and who was focusing on sustainability, and who was focusing in on really making a difference in those areas. I think that it's important to look at all of those different areas and know that your voice and your vote does matter. Because a lot of people feel like it doesn't a lot of times and that is definitely not true. It is so important to show up. It's so important to go that take that extra step to do the census to do all of these things that are just so crucial. Because that one less you know, Bo, that's one less voice not being heard. And that resonates, that really resonates in a way that a lot of people don't, you know, even expect I think people don't really fully know their true power. You know that they have no I think that now people are looking to kind of take that back. And it's important that we kind of keep that trend, especially of young people taking that power back and really making what is the right choice and the smart choice to see the results that they want to see in the world. And now these resources becoming more accessible to young people, and I'm doing a lot of campaigns now to to encourage youth voting. So all of those things are so important. And the reason why I also mentioned dismantling the system is because we do put a lot of responsibility on individual action, and that makes a huge difference. But you still need to have government recognition and implementation of these different plans to reduce carbon emissions, to conserve different species of wildlife and plants and you know, things that are so important to our survival. They both have to work hand in hand needs to be a societal and a cultural shift and a shift in in leadership in government and how that's implemented as well. So those kind of two things need to go hand in hand.
Absolutely. And it's it's about looking at what the agenda is have given leaders, but also about looking at how they think fundamentally, you know, are they the type of leader that's about, you know, going to approach a problem by putting a bandaid on it? Or are they really trying to understand first principles and understand the root of the problem? Because for me, what I've felt has become more clear as a priority. When looking to elect leaders is that point of looking for people who are trying to understand what is wrong with the system and how can that actually It's core be addressed, because maybe we wouldn't need so much help and charity from billionaires, if, for example, they did pay more taxes, entrepreneurship, critical to this country. Of course, you know, you're an entrepreneur, I'm an entrepreneur. But when businesses get so big, and they're able to avoid paying taxes because they have different businesses offshore, that does become a problem that does create a deficit in the federal government's budget, and we shouldn't have to rely on generosity to handle a crisis. So yeah, everything you're saying is, is is spot on and, and, and it comes down to then us as individuals realizing that who we elect is as much about the specificity of their policy as it is about their approach to problem solving in general.
Exactly. And it's also to it really important to recognize what surrounds the voting system and what issues actually do surround it. Because it's not like everything is perfect. And it's important to speak out on that and to let people know that you're educated on these issues. Because the more public awareness, there are of some of these issues, the more that we could see, you know, a rally for change, for example. Something that's really prevalent, especially in a lot of states, like where I live is voter suppression. And so that's the more you have a public outcry and awareness of that, you know, that really can hold a lot of political leaders and systems accountable in that way and Stacey Abrams, she has a really great campaign on you know, voter suppression and have a great organization and a project Around fighting that, and it's kind of things like that, that you also need to look into. And be aware of. So you can know, you know what's going on. And not just like, Oh, well, everything is, you know, kind of rigged, everything sucks, like find out why and like why things kind of happen the way that they do, educate yourself and see what you can do to prevent them and to also, you know, fight for that and fight against that, in your own community. There are a lot of organizations that are fighting against that those exact things like fair fight, or and more. So all of those things are, are really incredible. to kind of get engaged with and to educate yourself on to
Yeah. Oh, my Thank you so much. I feel like we all have a few bits of homework to do after this Stacey Abrams website. What is that?
It's fair fight, I believe I believe it's fairfight.org I'm not 100% sure if that is the URL. Okay. But, you know, that's, that's something that's really important and prevalent for, to focus on. So definitely want to make sure that I shared that to.
Go check it out. Thank you.
Yay.Thank you so much for having me to. This has just been really awesome to have this discussion.
I'm just going to keep recording, but just so we can catch up for a minute, just in case there is something interesting that we want to throw in there, but we'll edit it most likely out. Okay. But how are you like, you're good. Your family? Yeah.
Yeah, families, good families. Okay, you know, thank goodness. Yeah. And I also do have family in Charlotte, North Carolina as well. And so they've been good to just checking in with them. And, yeah, I mean, I'm just grateful that you know, we're all just doing, you know, doing good during this time. I know and being well, like, it's still extremely stressful and certain, you know, it's, it doesn't it's not like everything is just kind of magical and whatever, you know, it's still really hard and you can really just feel everyone's collective stress and fear. And then there are so many people who, you know, lives can be been completely turned upside down by what's happening and, you know, so it's all of that, you know, really, I always want to see what can I can do to help and what I can do to help and so, you know, I've been just trying to give back as much as possible while also trying to take care of myself and, you know, support my family members and do all this and my friends you know, it's been a really interesting time a lot my friends, you know, how are doing their online classes and you know, it's weird for them and There's just a lot going on.
Yeah, no, it is such a weird thing. Because the way that the majority of people are experiencing this is to stay at home. And yes, being isolated is hard. Yes. Not being able to go out and exercise your free will to go fly a kite or go to the beach is hard. But it's a lot harder to be on the front line of,
yes, a
hospital or an emergency room. And so, you know, there are people who are battling this professionally, in that respect, and there are people who are battling the disease itself. And so in a way, the experience of it is so polarizing.
Yeah, really is yeah, and the thing is, too, is that you know, these people that you know, want to go out just For no reason, and, you know, it's not essential and well, they're just like, well, I just, I just want to, you know, use my free will, I'm not afraid, and I'm not this. And it's not a thing you have to live in fear, but you have to, you know, be respectful of how you're affecting other people. You know, that's, that's the thing about it. It's not, no one's telling you to live in fear. It's just help us to, you know, to flatten the curve. Because the longer that, you know, that this goes on, and the more that we don't get this, this curve flattened, you know, we can be dealing with this for over a year up to 18 months. Nobody wants to do that. And that's going to cost even more lives. So it's kind of not a matter of, Oh, well, I'm mad because I have to stay home and you know, it's a thing of you have to really know how much power you have in staying home, how many lives that saving and how much of a positive impact that that is having. No, I think people, some people aren't really thinking about it in the right light. So to speak.
No, totally. We have a mantra protecting yourself is protecting others. And yeah. for so long actually,
Wow, that's so poignant for this time.
It, it really is. And it's such a unexpected example. And I wish it wasn't the case. But, you know, so often we think of protecting other people is protecting yourself, but it's really a circle. And yeah, it goes back to that notion of self care. And if you're taking care of yourself, then you're taking care of other people along the way. And that's, that's what, you know, each of the leaders that we're working with, including yourself is is really teasing out through the work that they do. You know, there's a lot of gray and it's it's a complicated world that we live in, and we're constantly living between the tension of good and evil, but actually most things are grey. So we've got to figure out that space. But
yeah, definitely. And my whole, like one of my big things that I push for because it's really big in environmental activism is interconnectivity. You know, how we are connected to everything, whether I speak to speaking to how much impact we all have as individuals, for speaking to the interconnectivity of ecosystems, so on and so forth. And I think that's been a big theme, so to speak, I don't know if theme is the right word, but of what's happening with COVID-19. We can see just how interconnected we are, how our one action can impact someone else, and impact the world, whether that's good or bad impact or so I think that that's something that's really been brought to the forefront of people's minds more, which I hope people can really, you know, learn from this that do need to and yeah, it's just really interesting. thing to see.
Yeah, no, I, I agree. And I feel like one of the silver linings of this could be that it allows everyone to see what happens when the entire world is vulnerable. And that yes, Ace if climate change isn't addressed, and so, you know, perhaps perhaps this is a moment of foreshadowing that can motivate us to transform our behavior individually and collectively.
I think so. Yeah.
Well, Mother Nature definitely has been screaming, but maybe she's been having some fresh breath of air recently.
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Teens have easy access to unhealthy foods
By Danielle Gaines
Three-part series on obesity in Merced County
Part 1: Merced's growing problem of obesity in life's stages
Part 2: Teens have easy access to unhealthy foods
Part 3: From binge eating to getting fit
Merced Sun-Star
Taco Bell is more than full. Teenagers crowd into tiny booths like the clown car at a circus.
Down the street, a long line snakes through McDonald's as dozens, if not hundreds, of $1 food items pile onto trays and into sacks.
It's lunchtime at Merced High School, and the students have filed out to their choice eating establishments.
A McDonald's restaurant is directly across Olive Avenue from the Merced High School campus. The restaurant is frequently crowded with students on school days as upperclassmen are allowed off campus during lunch.
On one block of Olive Avenue, they have access to El Pollo Loco, Jack In The Box, Burger King, IHOP, Quiznos, Long John Silver's, Carl's Jr., Kentucky Fried Chicken and still others within walking distance of the 2,600-student campus.
Only upperclassmen get off-campus lunch privileges, but even among the students who stay on campus, healthy choices aren't the most popular. Last year, the high school district listed the most common purchases: assorted cereals, ranch dressing, chicken patties, sliced jalapenos, pickle chips, baked potato chips, cheese sauce, cream cheese and potato puffs.
The rate of obesity in the Central Valley is alarming at all age groups, but the number of overweight children is especially shocking.
And unlike Russian babushka dolls, which get smaller one inside the other, if a boy's body shape is too heavy, it's probable he'll be shaped that way as a grownup -- only bigger.
Twenty-two percent of Merced Union High School District students included in a 2006 UC Merced study were found to be obese based on their body mass index, a measure of body fat based on height and weight. There's little reason to suspect that rate hasn't risen in four years.
These kids spend much of their lives in state-run schools. Many of them simply can't enforce well-intentioned state nutrition programs in a world of fast-food chains and nutritionally deficient but cheap sack lunches packed by poor parents.
Marie Nelson, director of student support services, said the high school district is keenly aware of health issues at its campuses. Merced High is the district's only school that releases students at lunchtime.
"The health issue is one of the priorities we have in our district. We know students lose the opportunity for education because they are at home ill," Nelson said. "But just controlling whether students go on or off campus for lunch does not control what their choices are. Students also bring foods to campus, which is their right, that are not exactly healthy."
Others said they'd like to see the fast-food temptations removed, at least during the school day.
"It obviously doesn't help when you have such easy access to unhealthy food," said Claudia Corchado, Merced County coordinator for the Central California Regional Obesity Prevention Program, or CCROPP. "If you have $2 in your pocket, you're going to walk across the street and get three unhealthy items for that price."
Corchado and the obesity-prevention project focus efforts on "systems change," the concept that radical changes at a policy or fundamental level -- no more sugar in schools or free access to sports teams for every child, for example -- can dramatically alter the entire environmental health landscape of a place.
"Obesity is not just the result of individual choices. It's the environment we live in and the environment that we're raised in," Corchado said. "Particularly in low-income neighborhoods here, it is not safe to let your child play in the front yard anymore. You can't walk to school anymore. Easy, close access to healthy food is virtually nonexistent."
Overweight children often become overweight adults, both phases of their lives equally strewn with chronic illnesses. Obesity has been linked to high blood pressure, high cholesterol, type 2 diabetes and a laundry list of other ailments.
Children are now being diagnosed and treated for illnesses that once plagued mostly adults.
In 2004, former U.S. Surgeon General Richard Carmona announced that this generation of children would be the first to live a shorter life than their parents. His sentiment has been the subject of praise and scorn in the years since, but has also spurred many a conversation. "It's a very powerful statement," Corchado said. "Because no parent wants to live longer than their child -- particularly if the cause of death is a preventable disease."
In Merced, the issue has reached critical mass.
Data on Merced's overweight, obese, unhealthy and unfit kids have been captured in a growing body of local research.
In 2005, UC Merced researcher Rudy Ortiz started an ambitious project to measure the height, weight, waist circumference and systolic blood pressure of more than 2,000 students in the Merced Union High School District.
What he found was 41.2 percent of all students in the study were overweight or obese.
Boys in the study were nearly two times more likely to be obese than overweight. "What's scary is that we're dealing with 14- to 17-year-olds, and we've already missed the time in which they were 'just overweight,'" said Simon Weffer, a UC Merced professor and co-author on the study. "So that also suggests that the high school looking at obesity is too late and interventions -- somewhere down the road -- need to happen earlier than in health class at the age of 14." (The majority of boys -- 53 percent -- still came in at a normal weight.)
The researchers' analysis showed that both gender and ethnicity had an effect on whether a person is overweight or obese. Girls were more likely to come in at a healthy weight, with 65 percent recording a normal body mass index. Black and Latino boys were more likely to be overweight or obese than their white counterparts. In girls, there wasn't a difference in the prevalence of being overweight and obese along racial lines.
"We've visually been able to see the change in student sizes," Nelson said. "This is confirming what we had expected -- not only in our district, but also in our nation."
Nelson said the district's wellness committee has seen the results and are discussing ways to move forward. "Overweight is a concern, but obesity is what we really need to focus on," she said. "We have to work on this as a community."
School administrators also use the California Department of Education's yearly physical fitness test to monitor students' health. The last results available, from December 2009, showed that Merced County schoolchildren were less likely to perform in a healthy fitness zone in each of the six areas of the test than other students in the state.
Statewide, 29 percent of the students in grade five, 34.1 percent in grade seven and 38 percent in grade nine scored perfect on the exam. In Merced County, the showing was worse: 21 percent of fifth-graders, 29 percent of seventh-graders and 28 percent of high school freshmen scored perfect here.
Concern about what America's children are eating at school has grown in recent years, influencing popular culture and local, state and federal government.
"Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution," which aired in prime time and led ratings for a few weeks on ABC this spring, aimed to change the culture of one of America's unhealthiest cities, Huntington, W. Va. "The concept of what Jamie Oliver has done on that show is ideal. It's perfect systems change," Corchado said. "If that could be replicated in Merced, it could be done anywhere. It could trickle to the surrounding communities and ideally to all of California."
Recommendations for stemming childhood obesity have emerged from many quarters:
In a September report, the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research called for a state industry fee on soda and other sugary drinks; the report is called "Bubbling Over: Soda Consumption and its Link to Obesity in California." Proceeds from the fee would go back to communities in proportion to consumption levels. (Sixty-two percent of the city of Merced's 2- to 11-year-olds consumed at least one soda a day, the highest consumption rate in the state.)
The White House Childhood Obesity Task Force proposed federal regulations that would create front-label nutrition information standards for food; increase resources for the school lunch program; and provide economic incentives to increase production of healthy foods like fruits, vegetables and whole grains.
The 2009 Legislative Task Force on Diabetes and Obesity, which Ortiz served on, suggested that state lawmakers should create health education curriculum standards for California; increase funding and accountability for physical education; pay more to schools that provide fresh fruits and vegetables; and, among other suggestions, ban mobile carts from selling junk foods and beverages around schools.
Dr. David Simenson, associate medical director at Golden Valley Health Centers, listed the changes he'd like to see: no sodas in schools, low-fat foods only on campuses and an education program that would show parents the harm of eating fast food frequently.
Simenson said he treated a 15-year-old boy recently who'd gained 55 pounds after eating a cheeseburger and milkshake every day for lunch. "People don't know healthy eating habits anymore. There's too much fast food, too much fat and too much sugar," he said. "There's a lot of juicy, yummy food we shouldn't be eating."
The doctor said he was troubled by the progression of obesity from adults to teens to toddlers. "I see 3- and 4- and 5-year-olds with weight problems. These are not kids that wake up, crawl out of bed and say, 'I'm going to make poor food choices today,'" Simenson said. "So they are suffering from poor food choices made by the adults in their lives."
In their homes, in their schools and in their communities.
This story is the first in a series of three that will look at obesity during various stages of life in Merced County and the Central Valley. Danielle E. Gaines wrote this story while participating in California Endowment Health Journalism Fellowships, a program of USC's Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.
Reporter Danielle E. Gaines can be reached at (209) 385-2477 or dgaines@mercedsun-star.com.


Ran into a few playlists of protest songs. A lot of them were 60s or 70s, which is fine but a bit dated. Others were kind of shouty. So I've been off and had a look for some tuneful rebel songs - and this is what I've found so far. The Incubus track is the only slightly sweary one.
There are lots more out there and they present a very easy way to bypass complaints that you make too many political posts.
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Ah...
Another day, another "Is Nintendo Gonna Bite it Soon?" article.
Answer: SHUT YOUR WIENERSOCKETS, HACKS!
Wow, that's about as investigative as the top five reasons why the writer of this article may be a closet dinosaur fossil molester.
Am I missing something? None of those links work or take me to anywhere stimulating or enlightening. Eat corn dogs. Go team ICO!
I was playing with the editor today too. I made a stage of two giant towers, and minimal platforms in between and on the side. The computer controlled characters can be really wiitarded when trying to use the ladder, so it took a lot of trial and error before having a stage that they could independently navigate.
Also, you can unlock more building parts by building and playing custom stages. It's fun, I guess. If you're into Legos or building Gummi Ships in KH, you'll be dropp...
RYGAR!!!!!!!!!
like now yes please, ok? thanks.
Gears of War 2? Nah. Never happen. Never ever fornever in a million years.
And the gamer zone be the non, or whatever.
Actually, I haven't unlocked all the characters, but now that you know who's in it, it's all about blazing trails inwards...and how to get those new characters...now there's some outright hint book using cheating!
Way to go IGN, you're cracking the vault open.
Yay! I'm one in half a million!
However, that game wins in more than simply sales.
Would like to try DMC someday...when the PS3 comes packaged with MGS, FFXIII...for like $100
Don't believe the panic mongering. I bet there are some dumbfat cretins who shoved the game disc in upside down and called it a "bug" when it didn't load up.
This might be the game that bankrupts me into buying a PS3. Or at least finally draws me away from Smash Bros. Good thing Square-Enix always LIES, and it won't be happening for a couple more years.
Is this a test of thread war's capacity in the new site format?
all right, I'll play
Best ever is NES and crabs to all who disagree with me!
HAWT +1!!
Too bad I wasn't directing that video.
Must...resist...33 hours and 38 minutes more...
Ah, so long crack. Won't be needing you anymore.
Any rumor that gets closer to confirming Ness is like a tasty jack in the toilet.
Stop jacking around and confirm him already!!
Smash Shortages...
EVERYBODY PANIC
HA! You wish this was news. Is there anyone spouting off boo-hoos because they really wanted the Prima guide? Go back to school and get learnt.
I'd say don't believe it for now, but instead brace yourselves for the torrent of confirmed information coming your way in about 75 hours.
And who the he11 is that next to Lucas? Does that say "Mathman?" Oh no wait..that's "Masked Man" MOTHER 3? Holy Mothra.. That would be 100% black tar radicalility
Dare I take the bait?
I could tell you so many reasons and solutions to the boredom you experienced. Biggest one of all is probably that you didn't have good people to play the game with. Once you start cultivating your own Smash cult with other players, you learn that this game goes deeper than the surface implies. There is intricate strategy and blah blah blah...well, it's not my job to sell you on the game, I'm just a fanatic. Smash Bros. is not for everyone, but is IS...


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Not only this, you have pack the entire home stuff, which is obviously the tedious task and you also have to take the proper care of the belongings that it does not get cracked and damaged. It needs to pack the stuffs in boxes, labeling, and securing the delicate items, which is not the just a cup of tea.
If you approach the household shifting services provider, it would be quite easier and all the shifting & relocation tasks get completed in the proper fashion. By approaching the professional shifting services, you can sit back & relax and all of the work is done by the firm providing the home relocation services.
You have to choose the well reputed and established service provider in make the shifting feasible. Packers and Movers is not the recognized industry and people use to call here and there in search of the services agency that caters to the household shifting. It takes too much of your time and even then you do not become able to reach to the provider that can serve you better.
In a bid to contact the competent relocation services provider, it is better to search online for the firms that are engaged in this business. The companies that have been there in this business from last couple of years must have great chance to serve you in easy way.
Make sure the correct address is properly mentioned in all the parcels so that it gets parceled to your new residential address.
Before shifting from your existing residence, you must pay off all the dues, so that it does not make any trouble further.
Communicate to the moving agency about your new address, where they have to transit the home stuff and there must not be any sort of confusion to avoid trouble in re-locating.
Before packing the items, it is imperative to check it down to avoid the inconsistencies.
Enumerate items such as bowl sets, tablecloth, and decorative pots. Pack other use of items according to usage in one packet that does not make you puzzled in managing the arranging items in your new home and office space.
If there are some breakable items, you have to cautiously pack them in a tight packet/ parcel. If the moving service provider there to facilitate you in packing and unpacking, they must know how to deal with these items.
Wrap mirror, picture, and photo frame with tissue paper so that it does not scratch.
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love week
by Francisco Garcia
what dating is like when you live in the countryside
"You'd hardly ever get signal to use Tinder where I'm from, and will almost definitely match with a neighbour if you do."
To be young is now to be lonely, according to a body of work that has gradually uncovered an issue that was once spoken of -- if at all -- as the exclusive preserve of the elderly. As far back as 2011, studies were reporting that 86% of millenials felt lonely and depressed. Three years later, this survey suggested that 18 to 24-year-olds were four times as likely to feel lonely all the time, as those aged 70 and above.
Loneliness is a lethal kind of poverty with potential for pain equal to physical ailment. Its causes are many, while its solutions are difficult and elusive to grasp or enact. At its worst, loneliness can feel like a personal failing of a peculiarly terminal kind. As if there is something wrong inside us, that keeps us from the meaningful connections of friendship or love.
Though it's inadvisable to reduce complex things to simple premises, the revolution in the way we search for romance can't have helped matters. Online dating, in all of its ephemeral manifestations, frequently leaves us feeling less, not more connected. It's hardly a revolutionary statement. The listless scrolling, periodic uninstalling, nightmare dates in chronically over-visited Zone 2 bars. The settling for tepid "seeing" scenarios that dribble on over the course of a few months, with zero mutual intention of meeting each other's friends, and a texting pathology that dictates response times of never less than 48-hours. That sneaky, perpetually nagging sense that something better is always an ill-advised Tinder Boost away.
There's a reason that dating apps have been found to lower self-esteem and leave users feeling depersonalised and unfulfilled. And there's a reason why their cusp-of-the-decade supernova success has turned into something approaching a peculiar kind of spiritual fatigue and, in some cases, exhaustion.
It's a tough conclusion to take issue with, though one deserving a caveat. All of these lightly worn cliches about 21st century dating rely on both the presumption of unlimited choice and ease of access. They are overwhelmingly urban, designed to fit into the presumptions of what it means to be single in the city. But what happens when those presumptions are removed? How do we search for romance outside of the metropolis and what potential compromises does it involve? Simply put, what's dating in the countryside like?
It's not a process 22-year-old Megan would rush into again, she says. Having grown up in a small Welsh town of around 3,000 people, she explains how limited her options felt, not least "in the capacity to meet anyone new". Even more constraining than the absence of choice was what would happen if you did happen to meet someone you felt an attraction to. "Even if you are (just) seen chatting to a guy you like, the whole town will know about it before he even does."
Despite this, or maybe because of it, Megan explains that she's never crossed over into dating apps, "even though I've since lived in both London and Paris, which, ironically, have both been very lonely places at times. I've always insisted on meeting people the 'traditional' (i.e. hard) way -- venturing out and meeting guys off my own back. Maybe that's just because you'd hardly ever get signal to use Tinder where I'm from, and will almost definitely match with a neighbour if you do."
But is there a point when the absence of choice becomes a positive, something clarifying rather than the first step to romantic petrification? Instead of feeling overwhelmed, perhaps it forces a different kind of standard on a relationship, or the way we conceive our relationships. Just maybe the hyper-modern modes of dating hark back to something much more old-fashioned than we like to admit. The constant waiting for something perfect and idealised to turn up is really just a differently glazed search for 'The One', who is always one more elusive date away, one swipe out of reach. When choice is eliminated, a healthy kind of pragmatism can have time to flourish. Or not, as the individual dictates.
"Personally I feel there's more (options) in my small hometown, where everyone knows everyone and it is much easier to meet people by chance or in person than through dating apps."
23-year-old Jessica* hails from Hereford (a largeish town in the south-eastern fringes of England). She's only lived in London for a few months and has made a conscious decision to take some time "off" dating as she gets her bearings, wary of warnings from friends "about the fact that dating in London is much more difficult than elsewhere due to the vast quantity of people and the (stereotypical) idea that everyone is more focused on establishing a career than a relationship".
For her, it's London that feels devoid of choice: "Personally I feel there's more (options) in my small hometown, where everyone knows everyone and it is much easier to meet people by chance or in person than through dating apps. But I feel that I will have to use apps if I want to 'meet' guys and date here," she says. Using the same methods in the countryside isn't a necessity, she explains, but comes freighted with its own codes and anxieties. "You see someone you know from school or work and you match with them something like 'lol' -- it's almost as if it's common knowledge that it's awkward to speak with someone you know on an app like Tinder."
Of course, these are by no means thoughts and anxieties confined to the young. Sarah Thompson is a 42-year-old single mother, freelance writer and increasingly sporadic rural dater and dating app user based in West Dorset. It's not a process that has damaged her self-esteem, she tells me: "if anything it strengthens it because you get so good at not needing anyone and not being prepared to settle". Loneliness is hardly an issue for a working mum with two children. In fact, there's no such thing as isolation. "I fantasise about being lonely", she says.
That isn't to say, living in the countryside doesn't come with its own personalised set of frustrations. "It is exasperating. I feel trapped in a small pond with no other big fish. Historically, I've just widened my search and hoped that whoever I met would be up for lots of weekends in the country. And it has worked to some extent." And it wasn't a retreat to a country idyll that ended one of her last relationships, but something beyond the confines of location: "It ended because he was a massive twat, not because of the distance."
"Some also regularly list things like 'nice bum' as a quality they are looking for in a potential suitor. Feminism still seems quite new in the country."
One thing Sarah did notice was an attitude lag between the two. "A lot of the men I see on apps here haven't learnt that it's not cool to call women 'ladies' and write things like 'one of the last true gentlemen' and 'I will treat you like a princess' on their profiles. They also regularly list things like 'nice bum' as a quality they are looking for in a potential suitor. Feminism still seems quite new in the country".
However, she's prepared to acknowledge that this isn't something just confined to pastoral visions. "I just like to imagine people are more sophisticated (in the city). But there are probably plenty of 'true gents' in both settings."
For Jason, a man spending his 30s based in a small Worcestershire town, the whole rigmarole has proved a strain and a pressure. The lack of choice hasn't exactly felt like liberation, but a burden, though he's glad to have "never seen an old schoolmate on Tinder". As someone who, by his own admission, holds "a lot of anxiety about women and dating in real life", it's been disappointing to find that the supposed "revolution" in dating mores "doesn't exist" or simply hasn't reached his town yet.
"I've seen Twitter posts making fun of the Reddit Incel movement, then looked at that page and found myself actually getting sucked into their arguments" before quickly realising "what a crock it is and feeling profoundly depressed at my idiotic situation."
Unlike Sarah, his self-esteem has been "ruined by these apps, yet I return to them like a moth to a flame". An inevitability considering his anxiety around more traditional avenues of dating and the sense of being stymied by location. It's a complex problem and again one that isn't reducible to a platitude.
For Jason, the whole edifice of online dating is "inherently a bit creepy, voyeuristic and fruitless. Maybe living in the real (non-metropolitan) world out of necessity, brings out better qualities in people." One thing he seems certain of is that "there doesn't seem to be anybody out there like me. Even when I extend the search radius to 'Anywhere'".
Sarah's rural life makes her dream of a romance "where I meet someone by chance or through a friend or work and we hit it off and then we fall for each other". A reminder that, just as loneliness is not a preserve of the countryside, love isn't exclusive to the city either.
This article originally appeared on i-D UK.


Grace called Old Grandma last night to ask if she'd buy some Girl Scout cookies. Old Grandma was happy to oblige, and she ordered 5 boxes, more than enough to push Grace over her goal.
Finished soliciting, Grace handed me the phone so that I could chat with Old Grandma.
We've been trying to schedule a visit to Old Grandma's for over two months – alternating sickness and bad weather have prevented us from going every free weekend we've had.
"The new doctor down at the clinic thinks I'm quite a character," she said.
"You are quite a character," I replied.
Old Grandma and Allie have a lot in common. They both say things they shouldn't at funny times. They both do whatever they want and who cares what anyone else thinks? They are both always on the go somewhere and always getting into something.
You might remember that Old Grandma's house was built in the 1860's (or maybe earlier). It's an old farmhouse in the middle of a bunch of fields.
Why she would say something like that is beyond me. Grandma would never throw a cat anywhere. She's kind and gentle and feeds the stray cat who drops by her porch.
But anyway, that's what she says. There are holes in the place big enough to throw a cat through.
So we got to talking about the rodents.
Squirrels are living in the attic (they have for fifty years), and there's a mouse in the kitchen.
"Yeah? How are you gonna do that?" I asked, afraid to ask.
"Isn't that how you shot your stove?" I asked.
"Yes," she began. "I went down to your Uncle Mark's and told him I had a problem. He asked what the problem was, and I told him that I had killed my stove.
I laughed and laughed. I knew it was true. She really did shoot her stove, and hearing her tell the story – again – was beyond funny.
"Did he ask why you shot your stove?" I asked her.
And then I told her that I had to go to the bathroom and asked if she wanted to come in with me or if I should hang up.
She laughed, and we said our good-byes.
When she originally killed the stove, I was telling the guys at work. They all thought it was hilarious too. When I introduced her to my boss at Mum's funeral, he asked if this was the Grandma that shot things in her house. She, of course, said you're darn right and then proceeded to tell him the whole story. I thought he might fall on the ground laughing.
Tara, this story makes me so happy. It reminds be SO MUCH of my great-grandmothers. All of them were quirky, funny, and independent like your grandmother. Thank you so much for sharing this!
She sounds like so much fun! I want an Old Grandma! You're so blessed.
Truly, we are. She is a treasure, and I'm so fortunate to have been able to spend so much time with her.
Carol, if you want some more Old Grandma hijinks, go looking for the post called "The Toilet is Clogged" from sometime in 2009 (I think). If you expand all on the archives page and search for the word clogged, you'll find it. You will never guess how her toilet got clogged. Oh my. My Old Grandma is a RIOT.


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