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The war on men: 9 ways masculinity is under attack

by Paul Joseph Watson

Men are facing a full frontal assault on their rights, health and culture like never before. The war on masculinity has never been so brutal – but it’s not a war being waged by women. The attack is coming directly from the top, as the establishment desperately attempts to emasculate and disempower men in order to force women to be more dependent on the state, thereby enabling more power to be centralized and aiding the growth of big government.
Here are ten ways in which the state has declared war on men and masculinity;

1) Falling Fertility
Sperm counts amongst men have significantly decreased over the last half century and particularly over the last 25 years. In some European countries, sperm counts have dropped by as much as a third since 1989. Part of the fall can be explained by exposure to pesticides, endocrine-disrupting chemicals like Bisphenol A, and the many other artificial horrors that increasingly pervade our water and food supply. Many have made the connection between falling sperm counts and the open calls by innumerable elitists to drastically reduce world population by as much as 95 percent. Research shows that underpopulation, not overpopulation, will be the major demographic crisis of the 21st century as a result of humans failing to achieve the replacement rate of 2.1 children.

2) Chemical Warfare “Feminizing” Boys
Exposure to phthalates, which are found in many plastics, is “feminizing” boys by blocking normal male testosterone and causing genital abnormalities, according to scientists. “Boys exposed to high levels of these in the womb were less likely than other boys to play with cars, trains and guns or engage in “rougher” games like playfighting,” according to a BBC News report. According to Elizabeth Salter-Green, director of the chemicals campaign group CHEM Trust, phthalates are a true “gender-bender” because they lead to a reduction in “male behavior”.

3) Degradation of Positive Masculine Role Models
Whereas 50 years ago, advertising, Hollywood and television was filled with examples of positive masculine role models that young men could look up to, today’s entertainment industry routinely portrays men as clueless and bumbling oafs at best (think Homer Simpson, Everybody Loves Raymond, Married With Children) or at worst as aggressive sexual predators. Since advertising is primarily aimed at women, men in commercials are also now routinely depicted as either being emasculated losers or stupefied morons. Young men consuming this content grow up thinking that it is acceptable and even encouraged to aspire to these character traits. In doing so, they are robbed of their natural masculinity and find it extremely difficult to attract well-rounded women, who are rightly disgusted by such behavior.

4) Metrosexual Malaise
Second wave feminism was a creation of the establishment itself and at its core has little whatsoever to do with genuine concern about women’s rights. Radical feminism deliberately confuses gender roles and makes young men apprehensive about exercising their masculinity for fear of being seen as overbearing or aggressive towards women. This has contributed to an entire generation of “metrosexual” men who are promiscuous, unwilling to commit to a relationship and unable to fulfil a women’s basic needs for healthy companionship, destabilizing society and making it more difficult for women to find suitable long term partners with whom to have children.

5) The ‘Men are Paid More’ Myth
The establishment promulgates the myth that men are paid more than women because of discrimination, .

Study: Regular consumption of citrus fruits can reduce dementia risk by 15%

by Zoey Sky

 

08/02/2022 – Dementia continues to affect more people worldwide, and countries with aging populations like Japan are especially vulnerable. To address tAdd Newhis matter, researchers from Tohoku University studied the health benefits of eating citrus fruits.

According to the study findings, regular consumption of citrus fruits like oranges, grapefruits, lemons or limes could help reduce the risk of dementia among older adults by almost 15 percent. The research team hopes that the dietary approach could be both a simple and effective solution for dementia prevention.

When incorporated into a balanced diet, citrus fruits can help improve your overall well-being. Citrus fruits are full of vitamin C, a nutrient that strengthens your immune system and keeps skin smooth and elastic. One medium-sized orange has all the vitamin C you need in a day.

Citrus fruits also have good amounts of other vitamins and minerals that your body needs to function properly, such as copper, magnesium, phosphorous, potassium and B vitamins.

Citrus fruits are also full of plant compounds with many health benefits, including anti-inflammatory and antioxidant effects. Over 60 varieties of flavonoids, carotenoids and essential oils are behind many of citrus fruit’s health benefits.

When incorporated into a balanced diet, citrus fruits can help improve your overall well-being. Citrus fruits are full of vitamin C, a nutrient that strengthens your immune system and keeps skin smooth and elastic. One medium-sized orange has all the vitamin C you need in a day.

Citrus fruits also have good amounts of other vitamins and minerals that your body needs to function properly, such as copper, magnesium, phosphorous, potassium and B vitamins.

Citrus fruits are also full of plant compounds with many health benefits, including anti-inflammatory and antioxidant effects. Over 60 varieties of flavonoids, carotenoids and essential oils are behind many of citrus fruit’s health benefits.

Citrus fruits, flavonoids and brain health

The edible parts of citrus fruits are full of flavonoids.

Findings from some cell and animal experiments have shown that citrus flavonoids can cross the blood-brain barrier and play a part in antioxidant and anti-inflammatory actions. Earlier studies suggest that this could help reverse and repair some forms of cellular damage.

Before the Tohoku University study, only one cross-sectional study had been done, with results suggesting that a high intake of citrus fruits is positively associated with better cognitive function.

The Tohoku University research team performed statistical analysis using data from the Ohsaki Cohort 2006 study to take a closer look at the link between citrus consumption and incidence of dementia.

The Ohsaki Cohort 2006 study involved Japanese participants aged 65 and older. The volunteers were living in Ohsaki City, northeastern Japan, on December 1, 2006.

Researchers conducted a baseline survey to collect data on the frequency of citrus fruit consumption in the community. They then followed up with 13,373 responders in 2012 to find out how many in the cohort had developed dementia within six years.

The survey included different questions about the dietary and lifestyle habits of the participants.

The responses related to the consumption of citrus were broadly classified into three groups:

  1. Those consuming citrus fruits less than two times a week.
  2. Those consuming citrus fruits three to four times weekly.
  3. Those consuming citrus fruitsalmost every day.

The researchers also characterized the baseline of other factors that may be linked to dementia like cognitive functions, motor functions and psychological distress. The primary outcome was the onset of dementia as defined by the Long-term Care Insurance system, a mandatory form of national social insurance used in Japan.

Yasutake Tomata, a lecturer at Tohoku University, and Professor Ichiro Tsuji led the research team. They did analyses to assess whether their finding was an artifact of reverse causality.

The researchers are hopeful for the potential use of the data from the study, but they acknowledged that more factors must be considered before a definitive conclusion about citrus consumption and dementia can be reached.

Some of the factors include the causes of dementia, along with demographics and the location of the study group.

Follow a balanced diet and eat citrus fruits to boost your overall health.

Visit Brainhealthboost.com to read more articles with tips on how to boost brain health.

Watch the video below to learn more about how citrus fruits can help prevent dementia. Foods.news

In the US Civil War’s aftermath, some Confederates fled to Mexico  

A new book looks at Southern generals, governors and others who preferred exile over life under Union rule

 

by Rich Tenorio

 

As the United States’ Civil War ended in 1865 and many defeated Southern cities lay in ruins, a handful of ex-Confederates who ended up leaving their ill-fated secessionist nation opted for a perhaps unlikely destination: Mexico.

The narrative of what happened to members of the Confederate army after the war’s end is addressed in a new book about this period of history: Ends of War: The Unfinished Fight of Lee’s Army after Appomattox by University of Virginia professor Caroline Janney.

“It quickly became clear there were so many unanswered questions and so many unanticipated consequences, questions that other people had not asked,” said Janney of what inspired her book, which took six years to research and write.

In 2022, it won the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.

Janney said her interest began with one question – “what do you do with the Confederate army, a rebel army, after a civil war?” She reflected, “It started as a simple question and blossomed into a whole host of questions.”

“I was most surprised,” she said, “to find out the number of men who didn’t surrender themselves at Appomattox, those who pursued the slim opportunity to continue waging the war.”

Confederate General Jubal Early is perhaps one of the more prominent of these ex-Confederates who ended up in Mexico for a while after the war; he led troops in some of the Civil War’s bloodiest and most famous battles, including Antietam, Fredericksburg and Gettysburg.

Defeated in battle, Early was relieved of his command by General Robert E. Lee in March 1865, just a month before Lee himself surrendered his Army of Northern Virginia to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, widely seen as ending the Civil War.

Early and other defeated Confederates, including oceanographer-turned-rebel navy secretary Matthew Fontaine Maury, fled to Mexico in the war’s aftermath. Early decided he would not live under the United States government and fled to Texas on horseback, then on to Mexico.

Maury, who would develop a doomed plan for resettlement of ex-Confederates via land grants from the Mexican government, followed a more circuitous path that included a stop in England.

Most of those who journeyed to Mexico did so via steamship, although others traveled overland to New Orleans, and then to Texas.

Some who reached Mexico included generals and governors invited by Mexico’s Emperor Maximilian, who was a longtime friend of Maury’s. Confederate generals who came to Mexico at Maximilian’s behest included John B. Magruder, Sterling Price, Joseph Shelby and Edmund Kirby Smith.

“They no longer considered themselves U.S. citizens,” Janney explained of ex-Confederates heading across the Rio Grande. “They see [Mexico] as a better alternative to being subjugated by the enemy.”

Another motivation of these men was the possibility of fighting against the U.S. again if war broke out over Mexico between the United States and France. With the Civil War over, the U.S. had sent soldiers to the Mexican border, including members of the U.S. Colored Troops, with the intention of enforcing the Monroe Doctrine against foreign involvement in the Americas.

A war between the two countries didn’t seem out of the realm of possibility.

Even before the war had ended, as things were looking their worst for the South, apparently some were already considering picking up the fight against the Union from elsewhere: Janney’s book quotes a 23-year-old Confederate officer in Robert E. Lee’s army named William Gordon McCabe. He considered fighting against the U.S. under a different flag.

On April 7, 1865, two days before Lee’s surrender, he wrote, “I am willing and ready, if God spares my life, to follow the old battle flag to the Gulf of Mexico. If our men desert it, and I am not killed, I shall be forever an exile.”

On April 25, McCabe had journeyed from Virginia to North Carolina and was considering the possibility of a war between France and the U.S., “when we may probably get something to do in the service of H. S. H. [His Serene Highness] Napoleon III.”

By that point, U.S. president Abraham Lincoln had been assassinated on April 15 by Southern sympathizer John Wilkes Booth, inflaming Northern hostility toward the South. This gave those who fled to Mexico yet another reason to consider leaving.

“Why were they willing to go to a country where the unknowns were so great?” she asked. “They feared retribution, they feared punishment within the U.S.”

Some former Confederates fled even further abroad than Mexico, refusing to live in a country with emancipated slaves; Mexico had ended slavery before the U.S. did. These men headed to two other Latin American countries where slavery still existed: Cuba and Brazil.

There were some ironies in Confederates fleeing the U.S. for Mexico: some had been there almost two decades earlier, fighting for the U.S. in the Mexican-American War.

“A lot of the [Confederate] officer corps was familiar with Buena Vista,” Janney said, referring to the 1847 battle between the Mexican army of Antonio López de Santa Anna and the U.S. force of Zachary Taylor. “It was not completely foreign to them in that regard.”

Some Confederates fled to Mexico to save their lives: two months after General Lee surrendered, he was indicted for treason on June 7, 1865, a fate shared by 36 fellow Confederates, including Jubal Early.

A treason conviction meant death, which pushed Early to become an expatriate in Mexico.

Some who came to Mexico committed fully to a new life here and planned to live in Maury’s and other settlements for ex-Confederates in a number of states, among them ones in modern-day Coahuila, Tamaulipas, Nuevo León and Morelos.

Others realized that they had clearly made a spontaneous, angry decision to leave the U.S. and didn’t make it past Texas.

“Some of this clearly is a reaction that’s not especially well-thought-out in terms of long-term circumstances,” she said. “Going to Texas, many changed their mind within one month or two. Their immediate response, full of emotion and rage, tempered itself.”

anney said she was struck by those who did make it to Mexico.

“It speaks not just to their devotion to the Confederate cause, but their rejection of the U.S.,” she said.

Rich Tenorio is a frequent contributor to Mexico News Daily.

Farmworker advocates fight to save community garden 

by Suzanne Potter

California News Service

 

July 26, 2022 – A farmworker group in Watsonville is speaking out after a local church terminated the lease on land used for a community garden.

The group, called Tierras Milperas, has grown food for local families for 12 years on property which belongs to the All Saints/Cristo Rey Episcopal Church.

After a community outcry, Bishop Lucinda Ashby recently granted a 90-day extension on the lease.

Hugo Sanchez-Nava, community coordinator for Tierras Milperas, wants a meeting with the bishop to clear the air.

“Rescinding the lease termination and speaking with our members directly will demonstrate her commitment to making sure the church welcomes all the people in the community no matter their race or background or history or culture,” Sanchez-Nava asserted.

In the termination letter, the church said the church property has recently become unsafe, after a church employee was found dead in his car. Police are also investigating an alleged rape and reports someone left drug paraphernalia in the area. The church pastor did not respond to multiple requests for an interview.

Carmen Cortez, member of the Council of Gardeners for Tierras Milperas, said the threat of eviction is unfair to the 46 families who use the community garden, and said they should not be blamed for the incidents.

“These concerns that they’re raising are very serious,” Cortez acknowledged. “And we would have expected them to come to us when they actually happened, if they did happen. However, we are very certain that on our side of the fence where we manage our garden, they have not happened. And so we would like to have that conversation with the bishop.”

The bishop’s office said it will allow the families to harvest the current crop if it receives a contact list of Tierras Milperas’ membership. The office added it will consider a new lease, pending further negotiations.

Louisiana’s near-total abortion ban can take effect, court rules

The ruling will force the state’s abortion clinics to shut down for the third time since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade

 

by Raymond Wolfe

 

Sat Jul 30, 2022 – BATON ROUGE (LifeSiteNews) – A Louisiana appeals court has ruled that the state can once again enforce a ban on abortion throughout pregnancy, in a major victory for pro-lifers in the Pelican State.

The Louisiana 1st Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday granted Attorney General Jeff Landry’s request to let the ban take effect while the state appeals a lower court ruling that blocked it last week.

Louisiana’s trigger law, enacted in 2006 and revised in June, bans abortion from “fertilization and implantation” except when necessary to preserve the mother’s life or prevent a serious physical injury or if an unborn baby is deemed “medically futile.” Many pro-life advocates argue that there is never a circumstance in which abortion is medically necessary.

Judge Donald Johnson of the 19th District in Baton Rouge had issued a preliminary injunction against the law on July 21 at the request of abortion providers.

“Louisiana’s pro-life trigger laws can be enforced,” Landry tweeted on Friday. “The First Circuit has ordered Judge Johnson to grant our suspensive appeal.”

It’s not yet clear when the ban will go back into effect, as Johnson has not signed the 1st Circuit’s order as of Friday afternoon, according to The Advocate. The three remaining abortion clinics in Louisiana will shut down when he does.

Louisiana’s abortion mills have repeatedly closed and reopened since the Supreme Court’s June 24 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which struck down Roe v. Wade and returned regulation of abortion back to the states and Congress.

The Louisiana trigger law took effect immediately upon the reversal of Roe, but state District Judge Robin Giarrusso temporarily blocked it days later.

The Center for Reproductive Rights, a pro-abortion lobby group, and Boies Schiller Flexner LLP, a law firm with ties to the Democratic Party, sued to block Louisiana’s abortion bans on behalf of a Shreveport abortion clinic, arguing that the laws are unconstitutionally vague.

Giarrusso’s order expired in July when another judge declined to extend it, though Judge Johnson again blocked the trigger law the following week.

Nearly 250 abortions have been reported to the Louisiana health department since the Supreme Court overturned Roe, The Advocate noted.

Every other state in the Deep South and all of Louisiana’s neighbors are currently enforcing bans on abortion throughout pregnancy or from around six weeks.

Louisiana’s trigger law makes performing an abortion or intentionally providing a pregnant woman with drugs to kill her unborn baby a felony carrying up to 10 years in prison and $100,000 in fines. Penalties for late-term abortions (after 15 weeks of pregnancy) increase to a maximum of 15 years in prison and fines of $200,000.

The trigger ban allows exceptions for “a medical procedure necessary in good faith medical judgment or reasonable medical judgment” to prevent the mother’s death or avoid a serious, permanent injury to a major bodily function “due to a physical condition.” It also permits the “removal of an unborn child” if at least two doctors deem him or her to be “medically futile.”

For an abortion allegedly to prevent the mother’s death, the law requires a doctor to “make reasonable medical efforts under the circumstances to preserve both the life of the mother and the life of her unborn child.”

Notice: Municipal General Election will be held in the City of Belmont, County of San Mateo

CITY OF BELMONT

NOTICE OF MUNICIPAL GENERAL ELECTION TO BE

CONSOLIDATED WITH SCHOOL DISTRICT ELECTION

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Municipal General Election will be held in the City of Belmont, County of San Mateo, State of California on Tuesday, November 8, 2022 between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. for the election of the following officers:

Two (2) Councilors for a period of four years from Districts 1 and 3 and a General Mayor for a period of two years.

Nomination papers and related documents must be obtained in person by the prospective candidate from the City Secretary’s office at One Twin Pines Lane, Suite 330, Belmont, CA beginning Monday, July 18, 2022. All Prospective candidates must make an appointment to meet with the City Clerk to receive nomination papers by calling (650) 595-7413 or emailing jplut@belmont.gov. The last date and time for the submission of nomination papers for any of the above positions is Friday, August 12, 2022 at 5:00 p.m.

All prospective candidates must be registered to vote with the City of Belmont at the time nomination papers are issued.

/s/ Jozi Plut, CMC

City Secretary

Date: July 14, 2022

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Notice of General and Special Municipal Election will be held in the Town of Woodside

TOWN OF WOODSIDE
2955 Woodside Road
Woodside, CA 94062
NOTICE OF ELECTION
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a General and Special Municipal Election will be held in the Town of Woodside on Tuesday, November 8, 2022, for the following officers:
A City Councilmember to fill the position now held by Brian Dombkowski, from District 2, for a full four-year term that expires in November 2026;
A member of the City Council to fill the position now held by Richard “Dick” Brown, of District 3, for a full four-year term that expires in November 2026.
One member of the City Council to fill a vacancy, from District 5, for a two-year partial term expiring on November 4, 2024.
The nomination period opens on Monday, July 18, 2022 at 8:00 a.m. and closes on Friday, August 12, 2022 at 5:00 p.m. If an incumbent does not submit their nomination by the close of filing on Friday, August 12, 2022 at 5:00 p.m. (the 88th day before the election), the filing period will be extended for five (5) days, ending on Wednesday, August 1, 2022 at 5:00 p.m. (on the 83rd day before the election) to nominate candidates other than the person(s) who are the incumbents for that incumbent’s elective office. This extension is not applicable when there is no designated or elected incumbent eligible to be elected. If no one or only one person is nominated for elective office, appointment to elective office may be made as prescribed by Section 10229, Elections Code of the State of California.
All interested candidates must be registered voters of the Town of Woodside. Nomination papers for the elective office of Woodside Councilmember must be obtained from the City Clerk’s office, 2955 Woodside Road, Woodside, California by appointment. For more information, please contact City Clerk Jennifer Li at jli@woodsidetown.org.
NOTICE IS ALSO GIVEN that Provisional Vote By Mail Ballots for the Election to be held on Tuesday, November 8, 2022, will be posted at the County of San Mateo, Records and Elections Division at 40 Tower Road, San Mateo, CA 94402 The polls on Election Day will be open from 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
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Frost Amphitheater presents two amazing events in July

Mon Laferte

Singer and songwriter Mon Laferte is one of the most revered, respected, and beloved musicians in Chile today. Her music brings together the sonic traditions of her native country and that of Mexico, where she lives, with the maximalist punch of globally minded pop, while her lyrics powerfully address the issues facing women, people of color, and the impoverished in Latin America.

Defiantly outspoken, she’s also the winner of four Latin Grammys, including most recently Best Singer Songwriter Album, for her 2021 album Seis. Written in the mountains of Tepoztlán, Mexico, and inspired by both Mexican singer Chavela Vargas—whose songs freely celebrated love between women—and by the 2019 protests against human rights abuses in Chile, the album was also nominated for a 2022 Grammy Award.

Her most recent album, 1940 Carmen, released in October 2021, is a snapshot of her time in Los Angeles, during the first semester of that year.

Sun, July 24, 2022 at 7:30 p.m. at 51 Lasuen St, Stanford, CA. Tickets start at $35.

 

Puerto Rican salsa with the Latin Rhythm Boys at Sushi’s

In 1963, Henry Miranda aka Jr., successfully brought his amazing Puerto Rian Salsa music from Hawaii to California, where he formed Jr. Miranda and His Latin Rhythm Boys. Jr. Miranda’s ability to play the Cuatro was admired by many, he provided young musicians, from all walks of life, mentorship and guidance. His musical legacy and passion for entertainment was then passed on to his sons, Henry Jr. and Earl Miranda.

The modern day version of the orchestra was revived in 2004, by Musical Director, Earl Miranda and Musical Producer, Henry Miranda Jr. Ric Mightone Feliciano’s collaboration began in 2013, as Band Director, Musical Arranger and Writer. Together, the three embarked on a bold direction to record original music, expressing love for the Puerto Rican heritage.

The concept of the high-energy Puerto Rican Salsa comes from the desire to honor their Jibaro roots, with the beautiful sounds of the Puerto Rican cuatro and the Cuban tres to undergrind a driving clave. However, the power of their sound comes from a heavy does of trombones. It’s known as the Trombanga sound, developed by Mon Rivera and Willie Colon.

Their most recent album release titled Celebrando (Label:  CDBABY) featuring beautiful performances by Grammy Award Winning artists such as jimmy Bosch, Willy Torres, Chino Nunez, Art Webb and Louie Romero.

At 510 Embarcadero West, Oakland, (510) 238-9200. Doors: 7:00 PM   Show: 7:30 p.m. Sat July 30, 2022.

 

Los Tigres del Norte

Initially formed in 1967, this six-piece Mexican phenomenon band who immigrated from Sinaloa, Mexico to San Jose, have brought the musical genre of norteño to the worldwide stage, and have sold over 37 million records.

Boasting several Grammys, Latin Grammys as well as their own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Los Tigres del Norte have become one of the most influential Latin groups of all time.

Sun, July 31, 2022 at 7:30 p.m. at the Frost Amphitheater. Tickets start at $40.

Momochtli, aka popcorn, the Mexican food in the mouth of the world

Popcorn was consumed in what is now Mexico even before tortillas, tamales and pozole, we tell you all about the origin of this snack

Shared from/by Mexico Desconocido

 

It is certain that in different parts of the world there are people who have never eaten an omelette or an exquisite pozole in their lives, moreover, surely there are those who do not even know about the existence of a country called Mexico, but that they have tried the popcorn of corn, boy have they done it.

To gloat with pleasure that popcorn, our popcorn, is in the mouths of the entire planet, it is convenient to talk about its history. To begin with, and for those who do not know, popcorn occupies seven of the 59 native corn races existing in Mexico, which in its case is identified with the scientific name of Zea mays Everta.

9000 years of popcorn

Which began to be cultivated, like so many other species, nine thousand years ago, according to archaeological references. In other words, its cultivation began with the beginning of agriculture in this part of the planet that we now call Mexico.

Even, listen to this, it is believed that popcorn was consumed by our ancestors in its popped form, long before tortillas or tamales.

The Spanish discover popcorn

Already in more recent times, during the conquest stage, the friar Bernardino de Sahagún narrated in the invaluable book, historically speaking, General History of the Things of New Spain, his amazement at seeing grains of roasted corn that opened in the fire. flower-shaped that people called momochtli.

The religious said that the women adorned their heads with this popped corn during the festivities in honor of Tezcatlipoca: “the women maidens danced, shaved and feathered with red feathers, all their arms and all their legs, and they wore compound capillejos on their heads. instead of flowers with toasted corn that they called momochtli, where each grain is a very white flower”.

Without popcorn there is no cinema

Of course, in those years, the natives never imagined that nine centuries later some Americans, during the Great Depression (1923-1933), would make the momochtli fashionable in something that would be called movie theaters, because it was cheap and helped the people will forget their sorrows by watching moving pictures and eating a cheap snack.

And since we are out there, the Encyclopedic Dictionary of Mexican Gastronomy tells that in the time before the arrival of the Spaniards to these lands, the corn in question was placed on the comal so that after bursting it was smeared with maguey honey, so caramelized popcorn is not a modern invention at all.

Today’s caramelized popcorn grannies

In fact, in Chiapas, popcorn has been eaten since ancient times with piloncillo honey. A candy they call puxinú, well known in Tuxtla Gutiérrez and Chiapa de Corzo.

As a final fact is that January 19 is known as “Popcorn Day” in the United States. What the Americans fail to mention is that the momochtli with all its seven races called chapalote, palomero toluqueño, arrocillo, nal-tel, reventador and palomero de Jalisco, would not exist were it not for the fact that the ancient Mexicans domesticated them.

Millions awarded to help students overcome learning loss due to the pandemic

L.A. schools, nonprofits get millions to help students overcome pandemic learning loss

 

by Suzanne Potter

California News Service

 

July 20, 2022 – Multiple studies have confirmed students across the country experienced significant learning loss during the pandemic.

Now in Los Angeles, 108 community organizations and local agencies are sharing $7.8 million in grant money to help kids catch up. The California Community Foundation just announced the grants, as the final installment of a three-year program.

Victor Domínguez, president and CEO of the YMCA of Metropolitan Los Angeles, said the funds help support 45 summer camps across the region.

“We’ve been able to engage more than 20,000 kids and teens in safe, high-quality sports, arts, fitness, civic engagement, and STEM summer enrichment activities,” Dominguez outlined.

The rapid response grants will also help the mayor’s office, Los Angeles Unified School District and the County Office of Education forge partnerships with community-based organizations going forward. The initiative is expected to help 86,000 kids, ages 5 to 17, right away, and reach another 136,000 in after-school activities this fall with tutoring, STEM classes and mental health programs.

Valerie Cuevas, director of education for the California Community Foundation, which oversees the grants, said the goal is to help restore some of what was taken away by the pandemic.

“Our major effort was to make sure that youth maintain connection to learning, connection to school; find a way to maintain joy, connection to peers, despite the heaviness of everything that was happening around us,” Cuevas explained.

She added the summer learning initiative was made possible by huge donations from multiple charitable organizations, including $3.3 million from the Ballmer Group.

 

Oakland nonprofit fills community fridges to combat hunger

July 18, 2022 – Local nonprofits in the Bay Area are tackling hunger in low-income neighborhoods by stocking corner stores and “community fridges” around town with free healthy meals.

The HOPE Collaborative in Oakland has received a $5,500 grant to help with this effort, from the Health, Environment, Agriculture and Labor Food Alliance – known as HEAL.

Elizabeth Esparza – interim project director at HOPE Collaborative – said people think that hunger needs went down as the pandemic has eased, but that isn’t the case.

“There were a lot of increased supports in 2020,” said Esparza. “And a lot of those started to drop off before the end of 2020 when the pandemic was at its worst. And so, that need is still there.”

HOPE Collaborative has teamed up with nonprofits Cocina del Corazon and Third Eye Soul Kitchen to stock community fridges placed around town and launched the Community Food Distribution Project with their Healthy Corner Store partners in March.

Navina Khanna, executive director of the HEAL Food Alliance, said the group is awarding $52,000 in rapid-response grants to food justice organizations that work with communities of color.

“We were seeing that to go through a whole funding process is often very, very cumbersome,” said Khanna, “in terms of an application and reporting requirements, and things like that. And that, by creating a pool of funds and getting that out to our communities, our communities could do what they need to do.”

The grants are designed to be flexible and can be used for many things – including repairs to a broken fridge, transportation, food and more. They have benefited eight grassroots, BIPOC-led organizations across the country.

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