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Bias In The Deaf Community | ASL - Duration: 25:23.
[marker writing]
[Pokemon game sound]
Hello!
So I think I have someone with me today.
Where is she?
Oh!
Hi! Who are you?
CHRISSY: I'm Chrissy.
RIKKI: She drove all the way here to North Carolina from where?
CHRISSY: Maryland.
RIKKI: That's a six hour drive.
CHRISSY: Yes, it is.
RIKKI: And now we're collaborating on 3 videos each, 6 total.
It's going to be a long day.
CHRISSY: A long day. RIKKI: Fingers are going to fall off.
Where's the ambulance?
Today, we'll be talking about bias in the deaf community.
To put it simply, we'll be talking about our personal experiences.
Do you want to start?
CHRISSY: Everything I say will be just my personal opinions.
I don't want to upset anyone.
RIKKI: Again, this is our experience.
Everyone has different experiences.
CHRISSY: The deaf community is very diverse.
So many different types of people come into this community.
But many people are biased against different things
like cochlear implants, hearing aids...
RIKKI: Speaking.
CHRISSY: Right, voicing. Oral deaf.
CHRISSY: Mainstreamed. RIKKI: New signers.
CHRISSY: New signers.
Fluent signers.
PSE or SEE signers.
The list goes on.
We're all different people,
but we have all something in common: hearing loss.
I have, we both have a lot of experience with bias in the community.
As a mainstreamed person, I know many Deaf people
who are uneasy about having me around.
They think like she has a hearing aid and is connected to the hearing world,
they don't like that.
I think it's ridiculous.
We are all people with different experiences,
different backgrounds, so just, like, accept that.
You know?
I know I have hearing aids and some people-
more with cochlear implants-
but some people are like,
"Why have a hearing aid?
"You're Deaf; just accept your identity and be proud.
"Don't want a hearing aid to help."
I mean, honestly, my hearing aids don't
really help me at all anymore,
but I'm still comfortable with having them.
That's my personal decision.
RIKKI: I've noticed a lot of deaf people have hearing aids
and everyone's like, "Okay!"
And hearing aids get shown- oh, and Chrissy has awesome ones-
They're purple and have little things on them.
But then I've got a friend with a cochlear implant and
a lot of people- She's fluent in ASL, by the way,
but because she has a cochlear implant,
people have a tendency of going after her.
Back to you.
CHRISSY: It's really ridiculous.
I mean, I have a lot of friends who
have cochlear implants too, but don't really use them.
Some benefit from the CI, some don't.
But at the end of the day, that's a personal decision.
It doesn't change how people socialize
and interact if you sign or whatever.
I don't know. It's ridiculous.
RIKKI: I mean, sometimes, you might see someone with a cochlear implant
and they're very hearing headed and oppressing other deaf people,
but my friend isn't like that.
She has a cochlear implant, is fluent in ASL,
and is very involved in the deaf community.
So that's very different.
But there are still people who want to attack her.
CHRISSY: It's really just a personal decision and
if someone has a cochlear implant,
it doesn't mean they are a bad person
or not accepting of their deaf identity.
Sometimes I know-
I'm not going to go deep in this topic because it's really controversial,
but people get cochlear implants from birth
when their parents give them to them.
It's not their choice.
Maybe be a little resentful toward the parents,
but, still, why be upset or rude to someone who made that decision
or had someone else make that decision for them.
It's just technological help.
It's not changing an identity and it's not against the deaf community.
I think it's important to remember we all relate with hearing loss.
We're all oppressed and sometimes don't have accessibility.
Why take a community that's already been oppressed
and become more oppressive?
That's happening.
The other thing with bias in the deaf community-
I know we both have experience with this, is with oral deaf or voicing deaf.
RIKKI: Mainstreamed education.
I have a deaf mom and hearing dad and my mom was mainstreamed too.
CHRISSY: I have an all hearing family who don't sign at all.
So... what do you expect?
I'm not a perfect person.
I know a lot of hard of hearing people who try to get involved
in the deaf community but they're scared.
The community pushes them away.
RIKKI: You see people attack some of those who try to get involved.
Like it's not enough if they're not perfect.
They're not wanted.
CHRISSY: And that's rude.
Honestly, I think people need to be more open minded.
To take in diversity.
Everyone is human.
Everyone who needs or wants to be included should be.
RIKKI: For myself, I'm newer.
I'm newer to the culture, the community.
I was hearing headed- well, not really like that,
but it felt like I had to be.
Because I was the only deaf person that I knew.
I mean, besides my deaf mom, but that doesn't count.
And then, you know, I found the Internet.
CHRISSY & RIKKI: A whole new world!
RIKKI: We've been doing that all day.
So then I was slowly getting involved because I was still...
Well, most of the community that I knew of was in Los Angeles.
And I live in North Carolina.
LA is over there.
Like, way over there.
CHRISSY: Gotta fly all the way over there.
RIKKI: So all I had was the Internet which made it harder to get
really involved, dip my toes in.
And when I stopped doing makeup on YouTube,
and started doing more videos about deafness-
not deaf culture or ASL, at least not yet,
but about my own personal experiences as a deaf person.
And then I was flown out to Los Angeles for a movie.
That's when everything started.
Eventually, my videos started getting more views because of #NoMoreCRAPtions.
I started learning ASL and
I'm really someone who is not good at learning [signed] languages.
CHRISSY: But you're improving.
RIKKI: My brain messes up sometimes.
I still mess up English.
And I grew up with English!
CHRISSY: Everyone makes mistakes!
RIKKI: That! I feel like a lot of people don't realize that.
So, for example, you might say that I might sign more PSE.
And maybe I do, but I learned that from deaf people who taught me.
I mean, I'm not fluent.
I'm not amazing when it comes to using the language.
But I can still have a conversation.
And I learned how to from deaf people.
But I still get people commenting that I suck at signing.
Oh! You know, when I started doing YouTube,
when I started talking about deafness,
a lot of people were mad because I wasn't signing.
They wanted me to sign, and then I eventually made my
first video in ASL which turned into more videos.
But then people would tell me that I suck at signing.
And I'm like, if I don't sign, you get pissed at me,
if I start signing and I'm bad at it, you get pissed.
What do you want?!
CHRISSY: Right!
RIKKI: Then when I stop signing, I start getting comments like,
"You're not signing! You're not really deaf!"
And it's always the same people!
CHRISSY: Always. If you're speaking, people think you're lying.
They don't believe you're deaf.
It's like they think voicing means that you're not deaf.
RIKKI: It's just... what do you want?!
Like, just pick one.
Okay, so back to the whole English thing.
It's funny because if...
the deaf people who taught me ASL,
they grew up signing with their deaf families,
they're fluent in ASL, and they were teaching me.
So, it's like, what's your opinion on them?
CHRISSY: Right.
RIKKI: And then popular deaf people like Nyle-
And I love Nyle, okay?
He and I are pals.
But I've noticed that he also tends to sign more English.
Friends have told me that the signing is more English.
And then I'm like, "So why is he being looked up to?!"
But you know what? He's a good person!
He does a lot of activism work.
So, yes, I say support him.
However, the thing is, there's so much support for him,
but if I'm signing like that,
"Why are you signing like that?!
"You suck!"
CHRISSY: Everything you do is wrong!
And it's such a big problem in the deaf community.
People are so biased about everything.
There's an opinion on everything.
And, sometimes, you just need to accept people.
We're all different.
There isn't a system for a perfect deaf person,
of how you're supposed to be.
No, that's not going to happen.
I know when I started getting involved in the Deaf community,
I wasn't online so I didn't have to deal with internet rage,
but some people didn't want to chat with me.
I was mainstreamed and not signing perfect.
But, like, what to do you expect?
I didn't choose to not learn ASL first.
If it were my personal decision,
I would have been signing since I was born.
People are different and this is a different problem,
but everyone's experiences vary.
RIKKI: See, I recognize that I have more privilege because-
Okay, so this is a confusing concept for some.
I have some privilege if I'm speaking- okay-
So I tend to voice more than you do, right?
So if we're at a restaurant together and I'm the one voicing,
the server will probably just look at me and not look at you
because I'm using my voice.
And she tends to sign more.
So that's where I have more privilege.
But at the same time, if I don't understand them,
then they'll likely get mad at me.
CHRISSY: Well, I voice sometimes too.
I have a hearing family and I'm involved in the hearing world too.
I'm not shoving the hearing world aside.
I'm not writing it off.
No, I'm a part of that too.
RIKKI: And with languages- languages are hard.
You know?
So I always say to use the language
you're the most comfortable with.
Because if you're uploading a video for everyone to see,
if I'm uploading a video that's in ASL,
and the topic is difficult for me,
I won't know how to sign everything I need to.
And that would be a problem because
if I sign something wrong,
everyone's going to be like, "What is she saying?"
Well, there'd be two reactions:
The first would be, "What?"
and the second would be, "Excuse me?!"
CHRISSY: Yeah, that's true.
RIKKI: So voicing, captions, done.
CHRISSY: Yeah, I mean, if you are most comfortable speaking,
you should do you.
Depending on the situation,
I'll decide whether to speak or sign.
If I'm with my hearing family,
they are all clueless if I sign,
they honestly get offended.
So I speak with them.
I did speech therapy for 13 years so I can speak.
Speaking is a privilege I have.
But it doesn't mean I'm not Deaf,
or I'm not involved in the Deaf community,
or that I'm not proud of the culture,
community, and my identity.
There's not one thing.
I don't know how to explain it.
RIKKI: It's hard explaining this stuff.
But the goal is to make ASL, or all sign languages, accessible.
You want it to still exist,
but if you make new signers feel small,
that'll stop.
Thank you.
That will stop and then the doors close.
CHRISSY: Someone who is mainstreamed is probably
already struggling with self esteem and being alone,
stuck in the hearing world.
Then if they try and get involved in the Deaf community
and are made to feel worse about themselves.
That's awful, why do that?
Why not accept them, help them pick up new signs.
RIKKI: Yeah, if you do that, they will stop trying.
CHRISSY: I know this experience.
I know other kids whose hearing loss was a surprise
and didn't know what to do.
I want to help them.
I've experienced progressive hearing loss.
I know what's happening.
I want them to be involved.
I want them to see the world
that I found that made my life
so much better and improved everything.
The signing world,
why not help others find that experience,
find that world?
I don't know why people need that personal bias.
I know some of that bias is spread through Deaf schools.
As mainstreamed people,
we have experienced getting involved in the deaf community
and it's not easy because of the set up bias.
Trying is not easy but it's important.
Many people are intimidated and
don't want to get involved because
they are scared of people's bias.
We both know from experience that it's not
easy to get involved in the community
with people's bias.
People's opinions sway one way and
ignore people who aren't signing fluently.
It's ridiculous and I know from Deaf events
if someone is new, we will try basic conversation.
But things stop and they'll be ignored
because people don't know what to do.
But I know it's so important to help them.
If they are mainstreamed and alone,
their self-esteem is lowering.
If they try and get involved in the deaf community
but are pushed aside,
they are left with nothing and a damaged self-esteem.
The deaf community need to be more accepting
and accept that everyone is from different backgrounds.
If you aren't from a Deaf institution, that's fine.
There are different ways to learn and to communicate.
It's not easy but is so important to accept people.
I know when I started, well, not really started-
Since I've been going to deaf events and
meeting other deaf people who were mainstreamed
and sign a little bit, not a lot,
but I know how important it is
to get them involved and how beneficial that is.
So I want to do everything I can
to help them learn and pick up signs,
introduce them to that "New World."
It's important to help them build themselves back up.
Give them that pride, give them the experience,
give them the deaf community, introduce them to the culture.
They probably want to learn and want to be included.
Everyone wants to be included, right?
So why keep that bias
and push away people who need people?
If you work together, things only improve.
So why damage their self-esteem and worsen their signing?
RIKKI: Also, I've sort of noticed that
the deaf community has a few cliques.
And I forgot the sign even though you taught it to me earlier,
but there's a lot of racism in the community as well.
CHRISSY: Racism.
RIKKI: Show me again?
CHRISSY: Racism.
RIKKI: Racism.
Ah, like pulling the skin!
Thank you!
There's a lot of cliques but also racism.
I have a few deaf friends who are black and
we notice how differently they tend to be treated.
For example, the entertainment circle.
You see a lot of the same faces repeatedly.
So my friend, who is a person of color,
well, specifically, who is black,
she keeps trying again and again,
and she always gets less support than everyone else.
Than all my white friends.
CHRISSY: The deaf community is oppressed,
but for people with intersectional identities,
it's worse.
I know that bias doesn't help.
There is enough bias in the world already.
We don't need more.
I know some people think that
Deaf people hate hearing people.
That's the other thing:
deaf people are just like hearing people
except we can't hear, that's it.
RIKKI: I can't do math.
And other things. But anyway.
CHRISSY: But one thing- why add oppression?
I don't know.
This is a specific topic.
RIKKI: I remember my deaf friends from a while back...
Now, we don't really talk anymore
because it seems like they keep to themselves.
They stay in their same circle or clique.
Bums me out a little bit.
CHRISSY: Oppression sucks.
I know I have a lot of privilege, white privilege.
RIKKI: Same.
CHRISSY: Not as a woman, but as a person.
I have privilege and I accept that, I know-
RIKKI: Voicing and white privilege.
CHRISSY: Voicing privilege.
It's important to recognize and acknowledge that privilege.
RIKKI: It's not simple.
There's a lot of different things involved.
CHRISSY: Bias sucks.
I don't know why people have it in the community.
Why people are so strong headed about things.
Cochlear implants, hearing aids,
oral, speaking, whatever.
Just accept people for who they are.
New signers.
Fluent signers.
Whatever.
People are people.
RIKKI: And that's our rant for today.
Okay, not really a rant.
More like a discussion.
A really excited discussion.
Look, I love my deaf friends.
I love the deaf community.
I love the language and learning more.
It's just...
It's not perfect.
Well, nothing's perfect.
CHRISSY: It's important to recognize privilege,
recognize diversity.
Recognize who you are and how you fit into the community.
That's it.
RIKKI: If you have a goal,
if you want to meet that goal,
you have to be more open minded.
Because not everyone is perfect.
Not everyone is at the same level as you are.
CHRISSY: You aren't superior or
less of value for your experiences.
RIKKI: Hopefully, you learned something today.
Hopefully, you enjoyed the video.
Go watch Chrissy's videos.
Subscribe.
We'll see you later. Bye.
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Left-wing activist David Hogg made a fool out of himself in Canada late last week while
joining leftist Michael Moore for the premiere of his anti-Trump propaganda film "Fahrenheit
11/9."
Appearing on stage with Moore at the Toronto International Film Festival, Hogg spoke to
the Canadian crowd about saving America and turning their "shame" into "votes."
"I have a question for you guys: Who's ready to save America?
Who's ready to make America the country we say it is on paper and make it the actual
country that it wants to be?," Hogg asked the Canadian crowd.
"I think the most important thing to realize, however, is the problems we face as a country,
whether it be water in Flint, Michigan or the amount of mass incarceration of people
of color that can't vote."
Hogg continued by suggesting that Canadians can donate money to political campaigns in
the United States, which is a felony.
After making the embarrassing remarks, Moore took the microphone away from Hogg.
Nearly ten minutes later, Hogg was briefly allowed to speak again.
He called out to the IRS, which he hoped was watching him speak, and asked them to investigate
President Donald Trump for getting "$30 million from Russia via the NRA."
Hogg, who has a tenuous relationship with the truth, has repeatedly spread this lie
which he seems to have come up with on his own:
The truth is the NRA allegedly received $2,500 from a few people with Russian addresses over
the course of a couple of years.
Even CNN reports that "it's not illegal for the NRA to accept contributions from foreign
donors," unless it were to use that money for "electioneering purposes."
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How Tariffs Affect Utah Agriculture & Food - Full Episode - Duration: 28:51.
A great deal of attention has been paid to the
tariffs and the impact it has had on the rust belt
in Ohio, but what kind of affect does it have
here at home?
Hello again, and Welcome to The County Seat.
I'm Chad Booth. Today we are going to look at
Utah's agriculture industry and the squeeze
they are already feeling as a result of the trade
tariff war that is taking place thousands of miles
from the farm. We start with a look at what
tariffs are and how they affect goods at home.
Here is Andy Pierucci from the Utah
Department of Ag and Food to explain.
What exactly is a Tariff? Well in short, Tariffs
are a tax on imports. They're typically charged
as a percentage of the transaction price that a
buyer pays a foreign seller. Say an American
store such as Smith's buys 100 garden
umbrellas from China for $5 apiece, or $500.
The U.S. tariff rate for the umbrellas is 6.5
percent. Smith's would have to pay a $32.50
tariff on the shipment, raising the total price
from $500 to $532.50.
In the United States, tariffs -- also called duties
or levies -- are collected by Customs and Border
Protection agents at 328 ports of entry across
the country. Proceeds go to the Treasury. The
tariff rates are published by the U.S.
International Trade Commission in the
Harmonized Tariff Schedule, which lists all U.S.
tariffs.
Sometimes, the U.S. will impose additional
duties on foreign imports that it determines are
being sold at unfairly low prices or are being
supported by foreign government subsidies. It's
not always easy to match a specific product to a
specific tariff or to keep up with which products
from which countries are facing, say, special
anti-dumping duties.
The formation of the World Trade Organization
and the advent of trade deals like the North
American Free Trade Agreement among the
U.S., Mexico and Canada reduced tariffs or
eliminated them altogether. The average U.S.
tariff is one of the lowest in the world: 1.6
percent.
Recent trade disputes have led to an increase in
tariffs at home and significant retaliatory tariffs
abroad. Many of the retaliatory tariffs have
targeted American agricultural products.
Utah's agriculture and food industry contributes
more than $21 billion in sales annually and
employees hundreds of thousands of Utahns
both directly and indirectly. Agricultural exports
play a vital role in Utah's economy.
Agriculture has traditionally been a bright spot
in our nation's overall balance of trade and is
one of the top exporting industries in the State
of Utah. In 2017, Utah farmers, ranchers and
other food producers exported almost $1 billion
worth of food and agricultural products around
the world. So how do the talks in Washington
regarding trade and Tariffs affect the state of
Utah and our local farmers?
Chad will tackle that question in the discussion
when we return, for the Department of Food
and Agriculture I am Andy Pierucci.
Welcome back to The County
Seat we are continuing our
conversation today on tariffs and
their local impact on local
markets this always seem to play
on the national newscast but the
impacts at home are here.
Joining us for our conversation
are Miles Hanson the CEO of the
World Trade Center and Ron
Gibson a really good dairy
farmer of high quality out of his
dairy farm in Weber County and
is president of the Utah Farm
Bureau and thank you both for
joining us today.
Thanks for having us.
There are groups of people who
are hurt by this whole trade war
that is just has started up and
has people worried about it so
my first question is who has
been hurt what businesses have
been hurt by this?
I think broadly the impacts of the
tariffs that we have placed on
imports coming into China and
other places in retaliatory tariffs
have had a chilling impact on
Utah's economy and when you
see it in the agriculture and I will
let Ron touch on more but we
also see companies who are
importing and exporting so take
one example Barracks Imaging
they do high imaging for
companies their stock has
dropped over 20 percent
because a supply chain relies on
exporting to China components
and then reimporting those
components so their exporting
and importing multiple times
throughout their manufacturing
process they are getting killed by
tariffs so now they are
employing 1000 Utahns and look
at how do they adjust the supply
chain or how do they take their
business overseas is just one
example of the way that the
tariffs and the retaliatory tariffs
weigh the impact on Utah's jobs
and companies but also jobs
they keep.
So sometimes it's realistic to
assume that some of the guys
are getting tariffs multiple time
in manufacturing process?
Yes, exactly right. They are
importing components to
manufacturing and then they are
going to export whatever they
have done back to China they
are going to get hit with the
tariff on the import side and
then again on the e export from
China they will be hit with the
tariff again.
How do we relate the agriculture
side of this to Utah, practically
everybody I talked to say I don't
sell anything to China I don't
care I just produce locally but it
still has an impact how does that
work Ron?
Agriculture is extremely sensitive
to the tariffs because none of
the tariffs that we are under
now have not been placed under
the administration but the
retaliatory placed by other
countries so let me tell you how
that works. So with pork for
example right now has a 70%
tariff going into China 70 percent
wo what happens is we have a
tremendous amount of product
that has historically gone into
China wo when those animals do
not go into China they back up
here in the US and that lowers
the price of pork when you go to
the grocery store and pork is
basically free and I was there the
other day and you can get 10
bucks off about any pork
product in the store so that hurts
our beef market our poultry
products and protein products
it's the same thing with dairy
when we have a dairy product
that is not leaving the country
and has been exported in the
past then those products stay in
our country and that depresses
the prices for everybody. So
even though many of our
agricultural producers from Utah
have not been historically been
exporters the prices that they
receive for their commodities
are going to be depressed
because the is more of that
product on the market.
What kind of impact does that
have for you in dairy farming?
Over the last months we have
had at least a 70,000 dollar hit at
our farm because of the tariffs.
What is that relationship to gross
receipts is that is that significant
is that half?
It's about a quarter of our
monthly receipts.
That's enough that it can take
your profit margin.
Not only our profit margin you
are seeing in our state today I
would say the dairy industry has
been hit the hardest by this from
an agricultural perspective the
other agricultural industries in
the state will be affected in time
just like I talked about through
the economic model I just talked
about but not near as
immediate. Mexico has been
until the first of July has been
taking 25% of all of the dairy
exports from the US so when we
have a trade war with Mexico
that is a huge problem for us in
agriculture.
Isn't their some pressure on the
other side if China relies on us
for pork soybean or something
to feed their population and put
a tariff on imports doesn't that
eventually catch up with them?
Yes like all disputes are battle of
wars a trade war or a trade
dispute wherever we are on the
continuum like in all wars there
are casualties on both sides so
there is no question that in
China they are feeling the impact
of the tariffs that they have put
in place and I read one article in
Reuters a few days ago talking
about looking into November
and December the question is as
to whether or not there will be a
soybean shortage in China itself
there is no question the cost is
on both sides I think what is
important as policy makes is to
make sure that we have a frank
understanding of what the costs
of policy really are and then
have a clear understanding of
what the objective are of the
policies and then ask ourselves
how do we achieve those
objectives with the last amount
of costs to American companies
and consumers.
Knowing that these trade
policies were going to create
problems what kind of help has
the federal government been
willing to discuss to help the
agricultural community?
So President Trump announced
on the 24 of July a 12 billion
dollar aid package for those in
agriculture and it was registered
in the federal registry on the 24th
of August just sent out today on
the 4th of September now I
talked earlier about how my
family farm has been hit we feel
like 70,000 dollars a month over
the last two months the 12
billion dollar package that
President Trump put into action
is going to help me about 4000
dollars a month. So the reality is
it sounds like a big number but
it's really not going to help
agriculture in a way that people
think it might and its definitely
not the kind of subsidy that
people think it might be. The
most important thing we have to
understand about this is that
these relationships that we have
built as an industry are with
people when we talk about
trading with we are not trading
with a country we are trading
with people and businesses in
Mexico and we have those trade
relationships that have been
built over decades and when the
government gets in the way of
this and puts taxes on these kind
of things that ruins and breaks
these relationships and gives
other people and other
businesses in other countries
opportunists to come and take
our markets and its extremely
concerning to me about all the
ag markets and one thing we are
noticing in our business is that
right now the contracts for grain
going to China are not
forwarding contracts that we
normally do so China brought in
last year they got 2/3rds of their
soybeans from the US so think
about that they cannot find
enough soybeans other places in
the world to not buy any from us
but if they only buy a third of
their soybeans this year that is
going to leave a whole bunch of
soybeans back on the market
here in the US.
Which will get turned into soy
milk which will then compete
with dairy.
And that is going to be a
problem.
Let's talk about winners and
losers for some people watching
this will say it's unfortunate for
the ag industry but if the cost of
milk is down if the cost of
soybeans is down is that good
for US consumers? How does
that trade off work out can you
put that into context for us?
I don't think it will be good for
Utah consumers or US
consumers and here is why. The
agricultural industry is in its
fourth year of depressed prices
and fourth year of depressed
economy and its tough it was
tough before the tariffs came
into place agriculture provides
something for our community
that is intangible it's not so much
an economic value although the
economic value of agriculture in
Utah is very big it's more than
that it is part of our community
just imagine a state that has no
sweet corn or no local tomatoes
no local dairy and beef I don't
want to live in that kind of state
if all we have are roof tops and
we don't have any sustainability
that is one thing that really
scares me.
Right and in addition to that Ag
industry contributes 21.5 billion
dollars to the Utah economy so if
you think about healthy farmers
they play a very vital role in
communities across the state
and then multiple the effect on
what the ag industry is doing
accounts for a very significant
driver of economic growth in the
state.
Well there are two issues that
that brings up and one of them is
once you lost that advantage it's
really hard to gain it back.
It's impossible.
So then we permanently
dependent on we are no longer
self-sufficient I think the second
point just as a wrapping up point
is that most people do not
realize that the agricultural
impute to our state's economy is
also capture in tourism and fairly
significantly and so I think its
number 2 and 3 as far as
economic impact am I correct on
that statement?
Top 5 for sure I think you have to
be correct I think Ron would
know better than anybody.
Yes,
Okay gentlemen any last
thoughts.
Well the last thought that I have
is just because you might save a
few pennies on the ground and
that is not good for long-term
and if the trade wars are bad we
have to understand that tariffs
that we have had countries that
have taken advantage of our
trade relations over the years I
personally am grateful to have a
President that is trying to fix that
we as an organization disagree
with his actions and how heh is
doing it but it is refreshing at
least to know that people are
noticing and trying to help fix the
situation that we find ourselves
in we need free trade we need
fair trade.
I agree with that I think one final
point I have not met anyone that
disagrees with the objective that
we need to update NAFTA and
find ways to improve it but need
to hold China accountable for
some unfair trade practices
there seems to be a unanimous
consensus these are worthy
objectives and the Trump
administration is working very
hard to accomplish those
objectives what I am hearing out
in the business community here
in Utah is that the process in
which we are trying to achieve
those objectives has a lot of
collateral damages we need to
understand the costs of the
current approach and ask
ourselves is there a better way
of accomplishing those
objectives and that is one thing
that we as business leaders
make sure we are out front and
driving that conversation.
Thank you gentlemen for your
time appreciate it when we
come back with The County Seat
we are going to go on the
ground to look firsthand how the
tariffs already in place are
hurting local food growers.
Welcome back to The County Seat. Utah
agriculture is already taking a hit from tariffs,
not only at the dairy farm, but in the apple
orchard as well. How is that possible, We find
out On the Ground.
So here at Cherry Hill Farms we have tart
cherries apples and peaches. So you look on this
apple here and this is one that got beat up by
the hail marks and you look at one underneath
that didn't get any of the hail marks on it and
you're looking for the cream color with the red
and that's what people like in a gala.
The size of this farm here in Utah is about 600
to 700 acres our main market is here in Utah we
sell to Walmart to Smiths to Associated and
they have been really good customers to us
I get to work with my kids as much as they want
to work with me I get to be outside and I get to
work with a lot of really good men who come
and help us on our farm
We are here in a peach block, and these trees
this is an Angela's Peach there is not a whole lot
on here because we got hit with frost this spring
and so what is here is what we are here to get
the few that are here
There's going to be issues this coming fall that
we are already starting to feel as the other
growers in the united states that aren't shipping
exporting are now starting to push their
product into Utah and into these areas and
that's starting to crowd and have and over
supply and that's pushing the market and price
down in these markets so that's the struggle we
are going to run into this fall unless something
happens quickly with these tariff wars.
So as we plan for the future for this coming
marketing here we hope that good heads
prevail and the tariff wars will come to an end
and we will come to some sort of agreement
that opens up these doors for exports, if that
doesn't happen we have to look at how we are
doing business here on the farm and figure out
what are we going to do to prepare and how
are we going to change our inputs our costs
what are we going to do so that we can stay in
business at a lower price apple or a lower price
peach or a lower price piece of fruit
There's got to be a happy medium somewhere
out there and we just have to figure out how to
get to it there are too many good people
involved and I think hey will get it resolved and I
think it will take a little bit longer then we want
but it will get resolved at some point
I'll be right back with some closing thoughts.
As I have been putting my portion of this show
together, I have reinforced one thing I already
knew, and learned something I didn't know
before.
The thing I already knew was the nature of the
farmer or the rancher. I have been blessed to
know and work with many of them across the
state. They are a great bunch of people and I
wouldn't trade that friendship for anything. You
know, it always seems that no matter what you
throw at them, how many bad crops, new
regulations, tariffs or what ever it may be, they
always seem to have a kind of practical
optimism about their future, and a desire to
stay on the land and do what they love. Curtis
Rowley might not have the fanciest office, or a
private jet, but it is obvious that he loves what
he does and intends to keep doing it someway
or another. Personally, that is inspiring to me at
this particular point in my life.
The thing I learned was
that the relationship between China holding
U.S. debt and our trade deficit with them are
not connected directly. If you listen to the talk
on the street and the twitters from the White
House, you would, like me, conclude that the
unfair trade agreements and trade deficits are
causing our national deficits. However, as I
have researched this connection if there is any
connection, it is just the opposite. It is our
budget deficits that indirectly set us up for
trade deficits.
Any entry level economics class will teach you
that persistent or large budget deficits decrease
Gross Domestic Product, which means we make
less and have less to export, on the other hand,
when we import a great deal, foreign investors
from other countries end up with lots of surplus
U.S. dollars, they can't spend them at home
easily so they invest in in our treasury bonds
and thereby hold our debt. Our excess
purchases of their products create the foreign
wealth that ends up holing our debt, (about 1/3
of it).
So, as a result it seems to me that while we
think that by reducing the trade deficit by using
tariffs to get better trade deals will decrease the
national debt. The opposite would be true as
that only by reducing our debt does that capital
stay in the private sector leading to better GDP
and more to export at a fair price.
Better trade deals won't fix our ability to be
more productive until we learn that when
government is taking all the money to loan and
applying it to their feckless spending, it leaves
less for us who actually produce thing that we
could export.
That's my two cents worth. I hope for the sake
of rural Utah; the trade war ends soon. Thanks
for watching and we will see you next week on
The County Seat.
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Spotting Fake News - Duration: 3:33.
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As information becomes more available to our students and adults I consistently hear from
some of our teachers that they think that computers are going to take over their job one day.
In fact some think that their jobs are being taken over by computers now.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
Nothing.
In fact, the case is quite actually the opposite.
We now need teachers more than ever to help weed out all of the inaccurate information
that our students read on the internet, particularly fake news.
An MIT study shows that younger people are more likely now to remember where they can
find facts online rather than facts themselves.
So again, teachers are increasingly going to be fact checkers for their students because of all the internet research they do.
Interestingly enough, fake news isn't really new but has been used all throughout history.
So we are not necessarily dealing with anything new here, for all intents and purposes fake news is really "propaganda."
But what we are dealing with are inexhaustible volumes of it.
So we here at BPS want to let educators and students know some simple ways to evaluate
resources and determine whether they are fake news or not.
So before getting into the technical piece you must always consider these five questions
when evaluating an internet resource.
1: Who created this message and what is the purpose?
2: What techniques are used to attract viewer attention?
3: What points of view are represented?
4: How might different people interpret this message differently?
5: What is omitted?
On the technical side you can look for different things on screen that can help you to determine
whether a site, page, or comment is fake news or not.
1. Check the website url address in your browser, is it encrypted?
Look for the lock on your chrome or safari browser and look at the address.
Is the domain name misspelled (newyorktimes.com vs. newyorktime.com)?
Having a ".co" at the end of a domain name is particularly popular with fake news right now.
2. Look for contact information on the site.
Reputable news sources WILL ALWAYS have this.
If there is none this is a big red flag for fake news.
3. Looks at the ads, are they for pornography or sexy?
Do they have ridiculous bi-lines?
If this be the case then this is another red flag for fake news.
And 4. Use a search engine to research an article if you're not sure if it is fake news.
Some fake news is written incredibly well.
So much so, that it is nearly impossible to determine whether it's fake or not in the span of a few minutes.
Here are a few good websites you can use to fact check articles.
www.snopes.com
www.politifact.com
In the end, it will increasingly fall on teachers to teach students about the pitfalls of fake
news and soon students will have the skills necessary to evaluate online news sources on their own.
Be safe. Be smart!
Thank you.
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3D printing on Alfawise U20
Some of the pieces just 3D printed
Glueing with super glue
Filling gaps with putty
Teeth positioning
Avory acrylic coat after the filler primer
Weathering with acrylic paint
Painting teeth in brown and black, then with clear acrylic
Final result!
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SAD NEWS WALSH: How The Democrat Party Launders Money - Duration: 3:26.
Planned Parenthood has just announced a sweeping new initiative to unseat Republicans in state
and federal offices.
Its "largest ground game in history" will include door-knocking, advertising, and similar
strategies.
This will all be in addition to the 20 million dollar ad campaign it launched a few months
ago.
Their efforts on behalf of the Democrat Party may be ramped up more than usual, but there
is nothing unprecedented happening here.
The abortion conglomerate has been giving millions to Democrat campaigns and Democrat
causes for decades.
Meanwhile, they are given millions — 500 million, to be exact — in tax payer dollars
annually.
Planned Parenthood is, among other things, a not-so-cleverly-disguised money laundering
operation for the Democrat Party.
Tax money goes in the front door, Democrat campaign contributions (and the corpses of
300 thousand dead children a year) come out the back.
To make matters even more absurd, the Republican Party is the one pushing the wheelbarrow full
of cash through the door.
Despite controlling both houses of Congress and the White House, Republicans have chosen
to keep the pipeline open.
They might as well get on their knees and shine the Democrat Party's shoes while they're
at it.
Liberals have the gall to complain about the NRA's donations to Republican politicians
and causes, but the NRA is not funded by the public.
There is no logical reason why the NRA should refrain, or be prevented, from giving some
of its privately-raised funds to Republican campaigns.
Planned Parenthood, on the other hand, rakes in a billion dollars in tax money every two
years on the basis that it is nothing more than a "health care provider."
Yet it is allowed to act as a ruthlessly partisan organization even as it describes itself in
such innocuous terms.
Of course, apologists will claim that all of this is a non-issue.
Yes, Planned Parenthood is funded by tax payers, they say, but the tax money doesn't go towards
the baby killing or the political activism.
These apologists may as well pee in a pool and claim that they only peed in one side
of it.
Like water, money is fungible.
There is no difference between one dollar and another dollar.
Obviously, if we give Planned Parenthood half a billion "restricted" dollars to put towards
non-abortion and non-political activities, we have enabled them to dedicate their non-restricted
funds to those activities.
If you give a homeless guy ten dollars and then he goes and buys a sandwich and a bag
of crack, it would be useless for him to claim that he used your dollars for the sandwich
and other dollars for the crack.
Even if that were true (which you couldn't really verify), you still helped him buy the
crack by taking care of the sandwich.
There is not a single good reason to continue funding this organization.
There are two very good reasons to stop.
Someone just needs to get the message to the Republicans.
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Nearly 1,600 EPA Employees Have Left The Agency Since Trump Took Office - Duration: 1:41.
Donald Trump has been president for 18 months, and in that time, the Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) has lost nearly 8 percent of its workforce.
Nearly 1,600 employees left the EPA, and fewer than 400 were hired, according to the Washington
Post.
The loss has resulted in the lowest levels of employment since the Reagan administration.
As a candidate, Trump promised to gut the EPA, saying he would leave "tidbits,"
but "take a tremendous amount out.
So far, the agency's budget has remained "stable," according to the Post, yet employees
keep leaving.
"Several veteran EPA employees, who have worked for both Republican and Democratic
administrations, said the agency's profound policy shifts under Trump hastened their
departure," the Post wrote.
The agency has lost more than 260 scientists, 185 environmental protection specialists,
and 106 engineers, according to Freedom of Information Act data obtained by the Post.
Acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler told the Post that "nearly half" of EPA employees
are eligible to retire in the next five years, and is focusing on recruitment and quality
instead of numbers.
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