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News and Events
Current News & Events
Conversación Comunitaria:
Anti Blackness in the Latinx Community
Join us for a critical conversation led by Dr. Victoria González Rivera from the Chicana & Chicano Studies Department at SDSU.
Thursday, June 18th
Please see recent article by Dr. Victoria González-Rivera: Why My Nicaraguan Father Did Not "See" His Blackness And How Latinx Anti-Black Racism Feeds On Racial Silence.
50th Anniversary Celebration
In April of 1969 the historic Plan de Santa Barbara – which established the blueprint for Chicana/o Studies programs and departments across the nation – was signed. To mark this foundational moment in our history, we kick-off a yearlong 50th anniversary commemoration this month. We invite you to join us! (More events will be added, so please check our website continuously throughout the year).
For more information, please visit ccs-50.sdsu.edu.
Hernández Elected to an NACCS Leadership Position
Roberto Hernández, associate professor in the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies, has been elected to a leadership position in the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS).
Hernández will become chair of the organization for 2020-21 and serves as chair-elect for the prior year. Formed in 1972, NACCS is part of what Hernández calls an important step in demarcating Chicana and Chicano Studies as an independent discipline with its own canon, schools of thought, professional associations and advanced degree programs, and an international research scope.
Hernández previously served as an at-large representative on the NACCS national board in 2011-13.
Hernández' research, publications and teaching focus on the intersections of colonial and border violence, the geopolitics of knowledge and cultural production, decolonial political theory, social movements, hemispheric indigeneity, masculinity and comparative border studies.
Hernández earned a Chicana/o Studies Honors B.A. degree (with an emphasis in Political Theory), as well as Masters and Ph.D. in Comparative Ethnic Studies (Black, Native and Chicana/o Studies) from the University of California, Berkeley, where he was also a Researcher with the Center for Latino Policy Research and a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Social Change. He was previously a Visiting Researcher in the Center for Black Studies Research and the Chicana/o Studies Institute at UC Santa Barbara, where he taught in both Chicana/o Studies and Black Studies.
At SDSU, he teaches courses on the U.S.-Mexico border history, theory and contemporary issues, Chicana/o and border folklore, Community Studies, and racialized/gendered captivity and incarceration from colonialism and slavery to the prison industrial complex and migrant detention centers.
"I am excited for this new role and also for thinking about how I can best serve,
also in conjunction with the ongoing Ethnic Studies efforts at SDSU and the broader
CSU community," Hernández said.
KPBS Podcast
Listen to Dr. Norma Iglesias Prieto's, KPBS podcast, "Getting Education on Other Side."
The History of Presidio Park in Old Town San Diego
Dr. Isidro Ortiz appeared on KPBS' San Diego Historic Places, as part of the Baja California Series (Part VI Episode 6). The episode, which orginally aired in June 2016, explores Presidio
Park to learn more about early colonial history in Baja California and the lives of
first Mexican community.
In Memoriam
Gus Chavez, one of our department founders and former director of EOP at SDSU, passed away on Sunday, August 18th. He was an ally and friend to our department and a beloved mentor to many students. The Chicano community has lost one of the major figures in the struggle for educational equity and justice. We offer our deepest condolences to his family. Gus Chavez, ¡Presente!
- Gracia Molina de Pick. Noted Chicana feminist activist, educator, and philanthropist died peacefully in
her sleep on Sunday, August 11, 2019. We offer our deep and heartfelt condolences
to her family. A series of community memorials will be held in her honor citywide
and a celebration of life ceremony will be held at SDSU on August 26. More information: https://www.
- Dr. Raul Ruiz, pioneering Chicano educator, activist, and journalist passed away on June 17. We give our deepest condolences to his family. May he rest in peace and power. Learn more about Dr. Ruiz.
- Armando Rodriguez, pioneering and lifelong Chicano educator passed away on Sunday, March 10th. We give our deepest condolences to his family. May he rest in peace and power. For more information please read the article in the San Diego Union Tribune and see the a write-up about him and photos.
Past News & Events
M.E.Ch.A de SDSU High School Conference
On November 10, 2018 students from around the county attended the 48th annual Movimiento Estudiantil Chicanx de Aztlán de San Diego State University (M.E.Ch.A) conference for high school students. The theme for this year's conference was: "Liberation of Students: A new self-determined consciousness." The purpose of M.E.Ch.A high school conference is to promote higher education to underprivileged youth through cultural consciousness, political awareness, and community involvement. View the photos on facebook.
Multicultural Hall of Fame Honoree
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Isidro Ortiz, who was inducted into the Multicultural Hall of Fame at Stanford University. Muchas felicidades! Dr. Ortiz an alumni of Stanford University, spoke at a luncheon there on October 26, 2018 as part of their reunion homecoming events. He discussed his life as a scholar-activist.
Book Award
The book published by Montezuma Press, "Chicano Tributes – Activist Women of the Civil Rights Movement," edited by Rita Sanchez and Sonia Lopez, recently won two awards: (1) First place in the Women's Issues category of the International Latino Book Awards and (2) First place in The Pinnacle Book Achievement Awards – Best Book in the category of Recovery for "Chicano Tributes – Activist Women of the Civil Rights Movement." Some of the women featured in the book include Chicano and Chicana Studies' Norma Iglesias-Prieto, Coral MacFarland Thuet, Bertha Hernández (author) and Women Studies' Irene Lara. Read the story on SDSU NewsCenter.
News Article
Dr. Victoria Gonzalez-Rivera was featured in two news articles: Anti-Government Protests Continue in Nicaragua (KQED News) and Nicaragua in Crisis (Latino USA)
Women's Suffrage in the Americas
Dr. Victoria Gonzalez-Rivera was a visiting faculty member at the NEH Summer Institute "Women's Suffrage in the Americas" that took place at Carthage College in Kenosha, Wisconsin in July 2018.
New Book Out
Roberto D. Hernández, Assistant Professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies just published a co-edited book: Decolonizing the Westernized University: Interventions in Philosophy of Education from Within and Without with Lexington Books. The collected essays provide a sharper understanding of the neoliberal crisis in education and knowledge production and the responses to it at multiple sites around the world.
Congratulations to the Class of 2016!
Article in the New Yorker
CCS professor María Ibarra is cited in recent issue of The New Yorker--in an interesting and sobering article entitled "The Cost of Caring: The lives of the immigrant women who tend to the needs of others." Read the full article on the New Yorker website.
"Point of Entry" Exhibition
CCS Professor Norma Iglesias-Prieto is the guest curator of the year-long exhibition, "Point of Entry." The exhibition explores cultural and geographic complexities of borders. "Point of Entry" is on display through winter of 2017. Learn more by visiting the SDSU NewsCenter website.
CCS Alumnus Works for CNN
Alumnus and former outstanding graduating senior, Thomas Carrasco, was hired by CNN as a political commentator. Thomas earned his bachelor's degree in Chicano studies and political science at San Diego State University. He earned a master's in ethnic studies at Berkeley before he went to UCSB to get his doctorate. Carrasco is one of the first five in the United States to receive a doctorate in Chicano studies. Read the full article from The Channels website (.pdf)
CCS Undergraduate Featured in 360 Magazine
Miguel Angel Castañeda is the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies 2015 Outstanding Graduating Senior. He named Victoria González-Rivera as his most influential professor. Congratulations Miguel and Victoria! Read the full article on the SDSU NewsCenter website.
Theatre Performance: UN-
Wednesday, May 1; Thursday, May; Friday, May 3
San Diego State University - Experimental Theatre
TuYo is presenting its first independent production as a Latinx theatre organization. Performances will take place the first week of May in the Experimental Theatre at San Diego State University.
"UN-" is a collection of stories written by Latinx authors across both San Diego and the U.S.. The bilingual production weaves together movement, song, film, and poetry to tell stories of how immigrants make it through this country. It reclaims what it means to be American by amplifying the voices of Dreamers, DACA recipients, and the undocumented who've been disenfranchised around citizenship. It shows immigrants in times of trouble, in times of triumph, and in their everyday lives. It lifts the shroud around and celebrates the full, human self.
UN- is partially funded by the San Diego State University's Student Success Grant and TuYo Theatre.
Featuring SDSU students, alumni, and faculty on all aspects of production.
Written by: Kennedy Garcia, Jesus Valles, Cynthia Ochoa, Marielle Vizcarra, Diana Burbano, Georgina Escobar, Mario Vega with Eliza Vedar, and Mabelle Reynoso
Directed by: Peter Cirino
Medical Borders and American Borderlands: Medical Authority, Jim Crow, and Latina/o Civil Rights
Thursday, May 2
Love Library 406
John Mckiernan-Gonzalez, PhD
Professor of Southwest Studies and Director of the Center for the Study of the Southwest at Texas State University. Author of Fevered Measures: Public Health and Race at the Texas-Mexico Border, 1848-1942 (Duke, 2012) and co-editor of Precarious Prescriptions: Contested Histories of Race and Health in North America (Minnesota, 2014).
MEChA 50th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
April 27, 2-7 pm | Storm Hall West Patio
Organized by MEChA
Chicana Movidas: New Narratives of Activism and Feminism in the Movement Era
Dr. Dionne Espinoza, Dr. Maylei Blackwell, Anna Nieto Gomez, and others
April 25, 9:30-10:45 am | Love Library 430
Violence, the State and Gendered Indigenous Agency in the Brazilian Amazon
José Miguel Nieto Olivar
April 23, 7-8 pm | Arts & Letters 104
Chicano Park Day
April 20, 10 am-5 pm | Logan Ave. & Cesar E. Chavez Parkway
Finding Aztlan in a Lost Mexican Codex: Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation
Friday, April 19, 4 pm
Storm Hall West 011
Reception to follow
Please join us for the History Department's annual Appleby Lecture, given this year by Harvard University historian Davíd Carrasco. His lecture, "Finding Aztlan in a Lost Mexican Codex," will focus on the intellectual adventure of the rediscovery and decipherment of the Mapa de Cuauhtinchan (ca. 1540) in which the search for Aztlan plays a prominent role. Painted on bark paper, and measuring some three by six feet, the Mapa de Cuauhtinchan contains over seven hundred images and symbols relating to the social memory of an indigenous community struggling to hold its own in the turbulent atmosphere of colonial Mexico.
Dr. Davíd Carrasco, the Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin America at Harvard University, is an award-winning author of more than a dozen books, whose research and writing has focused on religion and spirituality among the Aztecs and other pre-contact Mesoamerican societies. He has worked extensively on major archeological sites, including the discovery and exploration of the Aztec Templo Mayor in Mexico City. In addition to his wide-ranging scholarship on the Mesoamerican past, Dr. Carrasco is a prominent public intellectual, whose work on Chicano and indigenous identity and spirituality has been featured on PBS. He has also collaborated on projects with leading figures in the United States and Mexico, including Cornel West, Toni Morrison, and Carlos Fuentes. The Mexican government has awarded him the highest honor given to a foreign citizen, the Mexican Order of the Aztec Eagle for his contributions to understanding the history and cultures of Mexico.
Sponsored by the Department of History, President's Office, Department of Chicana & Chicano Studies, and MALAS. Made possible by the Andrew Bell Appleby Endowment.
Starving for Justice: Hunger Strikes, Spectacular Speech, and the Struggle for Dignity
Dr. Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval
April 18, 2-3:15 pm | Arts and Letters 101
Roots of Immigration: Public Security Policies in El Salvador
Monday 4/15, 1-2 pm in Scripps Cottage
Dr. Jose Morales - Former Dean of the Law School at National University and Vice President of the Central American Commission for the Defense of Human Rights
There will also be second more informal discussion on the new proposed amnesty law in El Salvador with Dr. Morales in NH 229 at 3 pm on April 15.
AChA HIGH SCHOOL CONFERENCE
Association of Chicana Activists
April 13, 9 am-3 pm | Montezuma Hall
Organized by AChA
César E. Chavez Commemorative Luncheon
April 12, 11:30 am-1:30 pm | Montezuma Hall
Latino/a Criminialization and Punishment
Dr. Jerry Flores
April 11, 9:30 -10:45 am | Love Library 406
Co-sponsored by SDSU Common Experience
April 11, 2-4 pm | Viejas Arena
MamaScholars: Mothering in Academia Series
You are invited to the MamaScholars: Mothering in Academia Series. This series is organized with the goal of building community and opening healing spaces for MamaScholars. The series aims to create academically-informed consciousness-raising spaces for mothers and allies about the particular needs of mothering across culture, race, ethnicity, class, citizenship status, gender, sexuality, size, age, ability, and relationship status. In order to do this, we've invited scholars, community activists, and healers of color to promote educational tools for creating positive self-agency. At the heart of our vision is creating a mothering collective that advocates for mothers' needs in support of their academic goals.
Mothering in Academia Series is organized by the Nepantleras Feminist Collective and Dr. Irene Lara, and supported by the Student Success Fee (SSF), the Women's Studies Department, Women's Resource Center, SELACH, MALAS, Latin American Studies, Africana Studies, Chicana/o Studies, Safe Zones, and ONE SDSU Community.
- MARCH 21, 6 - 7:30 pm: Ana Castillo Community Reading at National City Library. No registration required.
- MARCH 22, 9am-12pm or 1-4pm. Writing Workshop at SDSU. Pre-registration required bit.ly/AnaCastilloWorkshop, limited capacity.
- MARCH 23, 8:30am - 4:30pm. SDSU Scripps Cottage. Registration required bit.ly/MamaScholars
For more Details: info/contact: [email protected] | follow us on Instagram for updates: @las_nepantleras
Latino Film Festival
March 14-24, 2019
Save the date for the SD Latino Film Festival. Sponsored by the San Diego Union-Tribune and Media Arts Center the film festival highlights the wok of international media artists and journalists.
This year's competition theme is a unique and timely cross-border project: The "Migrant Voices Today" Film Challenge (Voces de los Migrantes).
CCS Professor Norma Iglesias-Prieto will help judge the video competition.
More information at https://2019.sdlatinofilm.com/migrantvoices
Book Presentation: Autonomy is in Our Hearts: Zapatista Autonomous Government through the Lens of the Tsotsil Language
Thursday, March 14, 4 pm, Hepner Hall 209
Join us for this book presentation of Autonomy is in Our Hearts: Zapatista Autonomous Government through the Lens of the Tsotsil Language by author Dylan Eldredge Fitzwater.
Following the Zapatista uprising on New Year's Day 1994, the EZLN communities of Chiapas began the slow process of creating a system of autonomous government that would bring their call for freedom, justice, and democracy from word to reality. Autonomy Is in Our Hearts analyzes this long and arduous process on its own terms, using the conceptual language of Tsotsil, a Mayan language indigenous to the highland Zapatista communities of Chiapas.
The words "Freedom," "Justice," and "Democracy" emblazoned on the Zapatista flags are only approximations of the aspirations articulated in the six indigenous languages spoken by the Zapatista communities. They are rough translations of concepts such as ichbail ta muk' or "mutual recognition and respect among equal persons or peoples," a'mtel or "collective work done for the good of a community" and lekil kuxlejal or "the life that is good for everyone." Autonomy Is in Our Hearts provides a fresh perspective on the Zapatistas and a deep engagement with the daily realities of Zapatista autonomous government. Simultaneously an exposition of Tsotsil philosophy and a detailed account of Zapatista governance structures, this book is an indispensable commentary on the Zapatista movement of today.
About the author
Dylan Eldredge Fitzwater has encountered the Zapatistas as a human rights observer, a participant in several international gatherings, and as a student at the Zapatista language school in Oventik. He currently lives in Portland, OR, and works at Burgerville, a regional Oregon fast-food chain, where he is an organizer for the Burgerville Workers Union, an affiliate of the Industrial Workers of the World.
Free and open to the public!
Nicaragua's Current Human Rights Crisis
Monday, February 25, 2019
Arts and Letters ( AL) 132
A brown-bag presentation by Victoria González Rivera, Professor in the Department of Chicana/o Studies.
For more information, contact Grace Cheng at [email protected].
Part of the Interdisciplinary Human Rights Initiative (IHRI) Series on Human Rights Issues
New Book Presentation and Signing
Monday, December 3 at 1 pm
Chicana/o Collection, Love Library First Floor
Join us for a new book presentation of Coloniality of the U-S///Mexico Border: Power, Violence, and the Decolonial Imperative by Dr. Roberto D. Hernández.
Hernandez weaves together corridos, fiction, government documents, maps, and other
sources to examine geographic, territorial, and historical burdens that have led to
a complicit endorsement of border violence.
-Emma Perez
Book talk with signing to follow
The Chicano Blowouts of 1968
Monday, November 26, 2018 • 6:30 pm
Mary Hollis Clark Conference Center
San Diego Central Library
@ Joan Λ Irwin Jacobs Common
330 Park Blvd, 92101
Fifty years ago, a group of students in East L.A. led a series of walkouts that resulted in change to the education system that many thought was impossible. The 1968 Chicano Blowouts changed the lives of students everywhere.
Join Professor Isidro Ortiz of the Department of Chicana/o Studies at SDSU for a stimulating discussion about the rise and legacy of this student movement that fought for educational justice and against unequal conditions and racism in Los Angeles high schools.
"Desde Más Acá" Exhibit Opening
Thursday, November 15 from 6 to 8 pm
Gallery inside the SDCC Campus (1313 Park Blvd. San Diego, CA. 92101)
As part of the 7th Binational Conference on Border Issues 2018 (organized by San Diego City College, COLEF, and UABC), there will be an art exhibit titled "Desde Más Acá" at SD City College's City Gallery. Dr. Iglesias-Prieto and eight of her former students are participating with a piece elaborated with "Border Mental Maps."
At a time in which democracies are failing, in the face of a dehumanizing and predatory system, and as we witness the fortification of the wall between Mexico and the United States, we are interested in discussing and showing the forms of resistance that have arisen from the border and transborder communities. The Trump administration generates tension that directly affects the daily life of Latina/os, especially those from Mexico and from border communities. What are the possible ways to face this new neoconservative order? From what organizational experiences have we begun to create spaces for reflection and transformative action? How do we respond to new and old forms of discrimination towards marginalized groups?
En esta coyuntura en la que las democracias están fallado como una opción frente a un sistema deshumanizante y depredador y cuando asistimos a la fortificación del muro entre México y los Estados Unidos, nos interesa discutir y mostrar las formas de resistencia surgidas desde las comunidades fronterizas y transfronterizas. La llegada de Trump a la presidencia de los Estados Unidos ha generado una tensión entre la población que afecta directamente la vida cotidiana de personas de origen latino y especialmente de México y de las comunidades fronterizas. ¿Cuáles son las posibles formas de enfrentar este nuevo orden neoconservador? ¿Desde qué experiencias organizativas se han empezado a crear espacios de reflexión y acción transformadora? ¿Cómo responder a las nuevas y viejas formas de discriminación y negación de las minorías?
Human Rights Abuses and Central American Families on the U.S./Mexico Border: Historical Roots and Contemporary Problems
Friday November 9, 12-4 PM, Scripps Cottage
Join us for this symposium featuring (in order of appearance):
Trans and LGBTTI Migration from Honduras By Suyapa Portillo Villeda, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Pitzer College. Frequent contributor to the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) Report on the Americas, the Huffington Post, and other media, and author of academic articles on Honduras in multiple journals and books.
From Obama to Trump: Constructing a Central American "Refugee Crisis" By Leisy Abrego, Ph.D. Associate Professor, UCLA. Author of the award-winning book, Sacrificing Families: Navigating Laws, Labor, and Love Across Borders (Stanford University Press, 2014)
Minor Offenses: Children, Violence, and Refugee Migration By Ester Hernández, Ph.D. Professor, Cal State Los Angeles. Co-editor of the award-winning book, U.S. Central Americans. Reconstructing Memories, Struggles, and Communities of Resistance (The University of Arizona Press, 2017).
The Role of "Race" and "Racial Scripts" in Understanding U.S. Response to Central American Migrants By Arely Zimmerman, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Pomona College. Co-author of By Any Media Necessary: the New Youth Activism (NYU Press, 2016).
Contemporary Human Rights Abuses in Nicaragua and in U.S. Asylum Policies By Victoria González-Rivera, Ph.D. Associate Professor, SDSU. Author of Before the Revolution. Women's Rights and Right-Wing Politics in Nicaragua, 1821-1979 (Penn State University Press, 2011).
Not your Tragic Other: Central American Solidarity, Identity, and Poetics By Maya Chinchilla, MFA. Poet and Lecturer at UC Davis. Author of The Cha Cha files. A Chapina Poética (Korima Press, 2014). Editor of the forthcoming CentroMariconadas: A Central American Queer and Trans Anthology.
The Legacies of Genocide: (Re) Framing Maya Migration to the United States By Alicia Ivonne Estrada, Ph.D. Professor, CSU Northridge. Co-editor of the award-winning U.S. Central Americans. Reconstructing Memories, Struggles, and Communities of Resistance (The University of Arizona Press, 2017).
Co-sponsored with SDSU Common Experience, the College of Arts and Letters Dean's Office, the Department of Women's Studies, the Department of History, the Department of Political Science, the Department of Sociology, the Master of Arts in Liberal Arts & Sciences, the Women's Resource Center, and the Center for Latin American Studies.
Writing Resistance: Tender Hearts in Troubled Times
Friday November 9th, 10-11 AM, room TBA
With Central American Poet, Maya Chinchilla, MFA
Maya Chinchilla, author of The Cha Cha Files: A Chapina Poética (2014), is a Guatemalan poet and Lecturer at UC Davis in Chicana/Latino/a/x Studies. She is the editor of the forthcoming "CentroMariconadas A Central American Queer and Trans Anthology". Maya received her MFA in English and Creative Writing from Mills College, a BA in Latin American and Latino Studies at UC Santa Cruz, and studied Broadcasting and Communications at SFSU. She is currently working on an installation at SOMARTS about her experience with healing, disability and learning to walk again.
Maya writes and performs poetry that explores themes of historical memory, heartbreak, tenderness, sexuality, and alternative futures. Her work —sassy, witty, performative, and self-aware— draws on a tradition of truth-telling and poking fun at the wounds we carry. For more info mayachapina.com.
Co-sponsored with the SDSU Common Experience, the Master of Arts in Liberal Arts and Sciences, the Women's Resource Center, and the Department of Women's Studies.
Film Screening: Singing Our Way to Freedom
Wednesday, November 7, 2018
5:15 – 8:15pm
Conrad Prebys Aztec, Union Theatre
Please join us for a screening of singing our way to freedom, a dramatic look at the life and music of Chicano musician, composer and community activist, Ramon "Chunky" Sanchez. Borrowing from musical traditions on both sides of the border, chunky uses music and humor as powerful weapons in fighting for social justice.
Join director Paul Espinosa for a Q&A after the film and commentary by CCS faculty
Performance by Rondalla Amerindia De Aztlán at 5:15 P.M
Kuxlejal Politics: Indigenous Autonomy, Race, and Decolonizing Research in Zapatista Communities
Saturday, November 3rd at 4pm
Centro Cultural de la Raza in Balboa Park
Join Dr. Roberto D. Hernández and local, community-based organization, Hormigas Autónomas y Rebeldes for a book tour launch with Dr. Mariana Mora, associate professor and researcher at the Center for Research and Higher Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS) in Mexico City. She will be presenting her new book "Kuxlejal Politics: Indigenous Autonomy, Race, and Decolonizing Research in Zapatista Communities" (Univ. of Texas Press, 2017) in conversation with Dr. Hernández.
Over the past two decades, Zapatista indigenous community members have asserted their autonomy and self-determination by using everyday practices as part of their struggle for lekil kuxlejal, a dignified collective life connected to a specific territory. This in-depth ethnography summarizes Mariana Mora's more than ten years of extended research and solidarity work in Chiapas, with Tseltal and Tojolabal community members helping to design and evaluate her fieldwork. The result of that collaboration—a work of activist anthropology—reveals how Zapatista kuxlejal (or life) politics unsettle key racialized effects of the Mexican neoliberal state.
Free and open to the public.
November 2-11
Nov. 2-3, 7-10, 7:30 p.m.; Nov. 4 & 11, 2 p.m.
Experimental Theatre
Tickets: $20/$17
Performance: Más, a docudrama directed and hosted by the Theater Department. Director Pete Cirino and writer Milta Ortiz. On November 2 only, Dr. Michael Dominguez from the CCS department will engage in a talkback after the show.
Día de Muertos (Day of the Dead) Commemoration
Thursday, November 1, noon, Arts and Letters Building, Third Floor Alcove
This year's theme: State-Sponsored Death: Mexico - Tlatelolco Student Massacre, 1968 U.S. - Separation of Families, to Date
Altar will be on display November 1-15, 2018
Traditional and innovative Altar de Muertos (Day of the Dead altar). Remarks by Dr. Norma Iglesias Prieto and musical performance by Coral MacFarland Thuet. Coffee and pan de muerto (sweet bread) served.
Co-sponsored with Center for Latin American Studies.
Dolores: Film and Discussion
Wednesday, October 10, 2018
4 – 6pm
Conrad Prebys Aztec Student Union, Theatre
Join the Department of Chicana/o Studies along with the Department of Women's Studies, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, and One SDSU for a film screening of Dolores.
Dolores Huerta is among the most important, yet least known, activists in American history. An equal partner in co-founding the first farm workers unions with Cesar Chavez, her enormous contributions have gone largely unrecognized. Dolores tirelessly led the fight for racial and labor justice alongside Chavez, becoming one of the most defiant feminists of the twentieth century—and she continues the fight to this day, at 87. With intimate and unprecedented access to this intensely private mother to eleven, the film reveals the raw, personal stakes involved in committing one's life to social change.
The film is directed by Peter Bratt.
Learn more at https://www.doloresthemovie.com
Film Screening
Join us for a screening of Rigo Reyes and Alberto Pulido's documentary "Everything Comes From the Streets" and presentation of a new book on lowriding in San Diego and Tijuana.
August 21, 2018
Factory of Dreams
261 3rd Ave
Chula Vista, CA 91910
This event is free and open to the public.
Learn more about the film, including viewing the move trailer on the KPBS website.
Día de Muertos (Day of the Dead) Commemoration
Wednesday, November 1, 2017 @12 noon at Arts Letters Building third floor, by elevators
This year's theme is "DACA, RIPped...but not our dreamers!"
The Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies in conjunction with the Center for Latin American Studies invite you to their annual celebration. Coffee and pan de muerto (sweet bread) will be served.
Altar de Muertos (Day of the Dead altar) exhibit will run from Oct. 30-Nov. 10.
Book Signing
Join us for a Book Sale and Signing by the editors of Chicana Tributes, Activist Women of the Civil Rights Movement: Stories for the New Generation, Rita Sanchez and Sonia Lopez.
Wednesday, September 13, 2017
4pm to 6pm
Love Library, Fourth Floor, Room LL430
The book honors 61 Activists & 61 Authors. Some of the women featured in the book include CCS' Norma Iglesias-Prieto, Coral MacFarland Thuet, Bertha Hernandez (author) and Women Studies' Irene Lara.
Lunchtime Talk
Constructing Latinidad in the Rural South: Youth Negotiations for Epistemic Space and Identity in New Diaspora Schools
By Dr. Michael Domínguez
May 8, 2017
Arts and Letters 379
Dr. Domínguez has a Ph.D. in Education and will join the Chicano/a Studies faculty in the fall of 2017. His talk focuses on his current research project and addresses the relationship between learning, literacy, identity, and culture.


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Our trip got off to a very bad start, but luckily things turned around and we had a wonderful time. We left Tuesday evening (the 10th) to stay in a hotel near the airport just to make things easier the morning of our flight. We could leave our car there all week and they would shuttle us to and from the airport and they had a free continental breakfast. So the girls were all excited about our "slumber party", all of us together in one room for the night. We got there around 8:00 PM, only for Paul to discover that he had left his wallet at home! We were able to get checked into the room with my credit card, while he went home to fetch his wallet (about 40-45 minutes one way). I probably should have been the one to go since he obviously didn't have his license with him but I really didn't want to and he knew right where it was. When he finally got back to the hotel it was after 9:00 and the girls were asleep. So much for our fun slumber party.
Meanwhile, I was feeling kind of cramp-y and couldn't figure out why. My period wasn't due for a few more weeks. But my cycles are all over the place lately, plus with endo cramps can stike just about whenever. So we went to bed, but I was starting to feel worse. The pain was spreading from around my left ovary to the entire right side of my abdomen. I was still able to sleep for a little bit, but around midnight I was feeling horrible. I was nauseous and achy and had the chills (or felt really hot). I thought maybe I had caught whatever the girls had, or it just might be my endometriosis acting up (it's pretty much left me alone since my last surgery in June of "06). And yes, I realize that nausea, body aches, and chills aren't exactly textbook endo symtoms, but aside from the common cold, none of my illnesses/conditions have ever been textbook. Anyway, I felt awful and we decided to go to the ER. It was 1:00 in the morning and we had to drag the girls out of bed, walk down a really long hallway to the elevator to the parking garage, and then to the car where pour Paul had to get them both in their carseats while I sat there moaning in pain. They were such troopers, too, never fussing or whining even after we got there and had to wait around forever. But luckily, once I was settled into my room they were able to go to a family lounge area and sleep on a couch there. I had bloodwork done and a CAT scan and they couldn't find anything, so they chalked it up to a "virus" since we had mentioned that the girls had been sick as well (I'm pretty sure it's endo related, but I'll find out more on the 25th).
So while all this is going on we're watching the clock wondering if we're going to get out of there in time to make our flight. Sometime around 5:30 or 6:00 AM Paul went back to the hotel (leaving the girls with me) to pack up our things (that got scattered all over the room in the haste to get me and the girls from bed to the car) so that when I finally did get out we'd be ready to just hop on the shuttle. He also rescheduled said shuttle from 7:30 to 8:00. I think I ended up getting out of the ER around 6:30, give or take, and he showed back up about 10 minutes later. Turns out that once we got back to our room we had about 25 minutes to change clothes (when we left for the ER I had just thrown on the first shirt I grabbed over that tank top I had been sleeping in, was braless and threw on capris over my sleep shorts), brush teeth, and put my hair up in a ponytail and pack up the last of our things. I did manage to grab a few sips of coffee and then we were on the shuttle and on our way. We missed the free breakfast (not that it was anything great, but still beats paying $5.00 for a muffin at the airport) and I didn't have time to fill my prescription for pain meds. But I got by on Ibuprofen. The flight was rough, because it hurt so bad to reach down to get anything out of my carry-on or whatever, but the girls slept through a good portion of it and were otherwise very good, and I was able to sleep a little too (I must have been very tired because I normally can NOT sleep on a plane).
Then, on top of all that, the airline lost one of our carseats. So we had to rent one, but they found and returned it to our condo a few days later and reimbursed my father-in-law. Sigh.
So that was the beginning, but the rest of the trip went much better!


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Who are the Haqqanis and why are they being blacklisted?
The US is to blacklist the Haqqani network as a terror group, founded by a CIA asset turned al-Qaeda ally and probably the most dangerous faction in the Afghan Taliban.world Updated: Sep 07, 2012 23:02 IST
The United States is to blacklist the Haqqani network as a terror group, founded by a CIA asset turned al-Qaeda ally and probably the most dangerous faction in the Afghan Taliban.
But there are fears that it could drag Pakistan, where its leaders are based, closer towards the pariah-like status of state sponsor of terror and jeopardise the prospect of peace talks with the Taliban and any prospect of a solution to the war in Afghanistan.
So who are the Haqqanis? Why are they being blacklisted? What threat do they represent and what are the implications for Pakistan?
The network's founder is Jalaluddin Haqqani, a disciplined Afghan guerrilla leader bankrolled by the United States to fight Soviet troops in Afghanistan in the 1980s and now based with his family in Pakistan.
In the 1980s Jalaluddin was close to the CIA and Pakistani intelligence.
He allied himself to the Taliban after they took power in Kabul in 1996, serving as a cabinet minister under the militia's supreme leader, Mullah Omar.
When American troops arrived after the 9/11 attacks Haqqani looked up old friends and sought refuge in North Waziristan, becoming one of the first anti-US commanders based in Pakistan's border areas.
He has training bases in eastern Afghanistan, is close to al-Qaeda and his fighters are active across east and southeastern Afghanistan and in the capital Kabul.
Militarily the most capable of the Taliban factions, the network operates independently but remains loyal to Mullah Omar and would probably fall behind any peace deal negotiated by the Taliban leadership.
Now in his late 70s and frail, Jalaluddin's seat on the Afghan Taliban leadership council has passed to his son Sirajuddin, who effectively runs a fighting force of at least 2,000 men.
The United States blames the network for some of the most spectacular attacks in Afghanistan, such as a 2011 siege on the US embassy and, in 2009, the deadliest attack on the CIA in 25 years.
Washington has long since designated Jalaluddin and Sirajuddin "global terrorists" but in July Congress urged the state department to blacklist the entire network.
It comes at a critical juncture, with US President Barack Obama seeking re-election and violence again on the rise in Afghanistan as NATO combat troops prepare to leave in 2014.
Supporters of the designation say the financial sanctions will help disrupt the Haqqani network's fundraising activities in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
According to The New York Times, their business interests include car dealerships, money exchanges, construction companies, import-export operations and smuggling networks.
But Pakistan fears it could further worsen ties between Islamabad and Washington just as cooperation had resumed after a series of major crises in 2011, particularly the killing of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan.
"Any such decision will take the relationship back to square one, ruining the improvement seen in ties between the two countries during the last couple of months," a senior Pakistani security official told AFP.
Last year, the outgoing top US military officer, Admiral Mike Mullen, called the Haqqanis the "veritable arm" of Pakistan's ISI spy agency, although other American officials later distanced themselves from the remarks.
Pakistani analysts argue that the Haqqanis can never be defeated, that sanctions will have little effect because the network moves its money through unofficial channels and that blacklisting the group could jeopardise peace talks with the Taliban.
Saifullah Khan Mahsud, executive director of the FATA Research Center -- a think tank that focuses on the tribal belt -- said it was a contradiction to try to isolate the Haqqanis.
"Now they say they want to talk to Mullah Omar but not to the Haqqanis, that's stupid. Talk to all of them, talk to everybody," he told AFP.
He accused the United States of trying to create a rift among insurgents and put pressure on Pakistan, which has long refused to launch an operation against the network.
Pakistani officials have in the past admitted to contact with the Haqqanis as a hedge for influence when US troops leave Afghanistan, but deny supporting their operations and downplay the group's importance.
Rahimullah Yusufzai, a Pakistani journalist specialising in the tribal areas, said the possibility of "real talks" on peace in Afghanistan -- suspended last March -- would be impossible while the US continued to kill Haqqani fighters.
The CIA has stepped up drone strikes on North Waziristan against Haqqani fighters.
One of Jalaluddin's sons, Badruddin, was rumoured to have been killed last month.
Political analyst Imtiaz Gul also voiced fears about the implications for Pakistan.
"The danger is to designate the Haqqani as a terrorist organization and then to say it might imply sanctions on Pakistan," he said.


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Wednesday, July 16, 2008
A Few of My Favorite Things
1. Suzannes kitchen window, 2. oatmeal with caramelized bananas and drizzling of maple syrup, 3. Comfortable on the Fourth, 4. National Geographic behind the scene, 5. Mike Rowe - Surfer Boy, 6. Ice Tea Splash, 7. Paris City Hall by a Cloudy Night HDR*, 8. day 58: creme brulee, 9. bless from above, 10. "The family is one of nature's masterpieces.", 11. Cliffhanger, 12. Sunday Favorites on a Tuesday
I know you all have seen this meme on other people's blogs. I put off doing it myself because it looked too complicated, but it wasn't really that hard, even for a techophobe like myself! From upper left to right, in rows from the top down, these are the answers:
1. First name: Suzanne
2. Favorite food: oatmeal (yes, really!)
3. High school: Lincoln
4. Favorite color: red
5. Celebrity crush: self-explanatory!
6. Favorite drink: iced tea
7. Dream vacation: Paris
8. Favorite dessert: creme brulee
9. What I want to be when I grow up: happy
10. What I love most in life: my family
11. One word to describe me: fortunate
12. Your Flickr name: vetaflame (Note the teeny, tiny picture of me wearing my Dickinson pullover in someone else's favorites mosaic!)
Want to play too?
a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.
b. Using only the first page, pick an image.
c. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into fd's mosaic maker.
1. What is your first name?
2. What is your favorite food?
3. What high school did you go to?
4. What is your favorite color?
5. Who is your celebrity crush?
6. Favorite drink?
7. Dream vacation?
8. Favorite dessert?
9. What do you want to be when you grow up?
10. What do you love most in life?
11. One word to describe you.
12. Your Flickr name.
7 comments:
- Fibra Artysta said...
I might have to try this one, its cool!
I totally dig Mike Rowe too! Made me want to invent some kind of gross fake job just so he would show up to film an episode of 'Dirty Jobs'.
- July 16, 2008 at 6:58 PM
- Dr. Steph said...
It's fun eh?
So when are we going to Paris?
- July 17, 2008 at 6:27 AM
- Melissa Morgan-Oakes said...
I love the fortunate (Cliffhanger) image.
Oatmeal rocks. I love oatmeal, and I have to say that oatmeal looks amazing. I found gluten free oatmeal. This was a big moment. I missed my warm cuddly winter bowls scotch oats.
- July 17, 2008 at 6:33 AM
- Lydee said...
very cool, i especially love the flickr name where someone else has a pic of you in their's!
- July 17, 2008 at 6:52 AM
- Kim said...
I should try this. Very cool mosaic. My favorite dessert is a tie between creme brulee and homemade raspberry pie.
- July 17, 2008 at 8:01 AM
wow same celeb crush! Mike Rowe is awesome! And hey why don't we go to Jamaica together? we can sit on the beach and knit away. After 23 people at my house, i really like your idea of fun in the sun!!!
- July 17, 2008 at 10:24 PM
- Sunflowerfairy said...
Mike Rowe=Hubba hubba.
- July 20, 2008 at 5:56 PM


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About the Book:
"I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith."
In the biblical letter of 2 Timothy, the apostle Paul reflected on his passing life. It was but a vapor. He was a pilgrim, passing through this life and into the next. Moments 'til Midnight creatively peels back the curtain of Paul's final hours. Author Brent Crowe imaginatively retells the last twelve hours of Paul's life, from the perspective of the apostle himself. Along the way, readers will be encouraged to live with purpose, to redeem the time, and to embrace the awesome reality that they too are on a sacred journey.
With no more letters to write, no more churches to plant, no more sermons to preach, and no more missionary journeys to embark upon, Paul awaited his death sentence. What were his final reflections on life? How did he view the race he had run? How should you view the race set before you?
My Thoughts:
First, I have to say the advertising blurb (above) is misleading. Saying this is a retelling of the last hours of Paul's life leads you (or at least led me) to expect a narrative in first person. That is not what this book is all about. If you are looking for a narrative work you will be disappointed.
The content of the book, however, is not disappointing. Written specifically for young people, but also applicable for adults – particularly those new to a walk of faith – the author takes us on an exploration of some of the most significant themes of Paul's writings. These themes are what author Crowe believes that Paul must have been reflecting on in his final moments of life.
The writing style is somewhat light and very easy to read. The author applies a conversational tone rather than an academic tone to the work. There is a good balance of comparison and contrast. For example, the author talks about potential and why it is important and then he goes on to talk about purpose and why that is more significant than potential. I appreciate Crowe's ability to say, here is something you should know, but also know that it isn't the main thing you need to know.
People who have been journeying with Christ for many seasons of life might not find anything particularly new or compelling about this book, but it is very well suited for its target audience.
P.S. – I think the artwork on the cover is stunning!
I received a free digital copy of this book in exchange for my honest opinion.


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I'm trying to install Neuron for use with pyNN in a fresh install of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and thus far have had no success.
I have downloaded the nrn.tar.gz and iv.tar.gz files and tried running:
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./configure --prefix=`pwd` --with-nrnpython --with-paranrn
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checking for X... no
configure: error: cannot find X11
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sudo apt-get install x11-common
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libtoolize -c -f -i
libtoolize: putting auxiliary files in '.'.
libtoolize: copying file './config.guess'
libtoolize: copying file './config.sub'
libtoolize: copying file './install-sh'
libtoolize: copying file './ltmain.sh'
libtoolize: Consider adding 'AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS([m4])' to configure.in,
libtoolize: and rerunning libtoolize and aclocal.
libtoolize: Consider adding '-I m4' to ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS in Makefile.am.
aclocal: warning: autoconf input should be named 'configure.ac', not 'configure.in'
Has anyone managed to get neuron to work with python on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS or seen this X11 issue before?
Many thanks,


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"Heavy air traffic?" I asked, looking at my watch.
"Hmmph," he dismissed.
"Lame reindeer?"
His cheeks began to match the colour of his red jacket and so I quickly clicked my fingers at the waiter and asked for a double Black Bush whiskey, with plenty of ice.
When it arrived I said, "get that in you Santa, that'll make you feel better."
It barely touched the sides.
"Have another … you're not driving are you?"
His crinkly blue eyes narrowed dangerously and I calculated by the time he levered his backside off the chair he was in I could be long gone, camera bag and all, so I sat my ground.
Staring back at those eyes behind the thin wire-framed glasses I thought the white-whiskered guy was getting a bit old and well past doing the sort of hours he was racking up.
"You look tired," I ventured, offering what I hoped would be a bit of a reboot for an interview that was heading very fast into the Never Ever Again file.
"It's been a long week and a hard year," he said. The second glass arrived, chocker with ice, and was downed again in a moment.
"Make that two more," I said. My expense account had been relatively untouched and what better way to spend it than by cheering up an old man.
Particularly at Christmas and, particularly, this guy.
Throughout my childhood Santa made me feel such expectation, excitement and joy on Christmas Eve he could have been the grumpiest git in the world and I wouldn't have cared.
"How can I help?" I asked.
"To start with, you can give me your new address. How can you have stuff delivered without an address? Do you know how many Richard Moores there are in the world?"
"I reckon about 38 billion …"
"There are too blasted many. Why don't you use your middle initials?"
"Well, that's a bit American for my tastes," I responded. "But if it will make you happier, I'll plonk them in."
"And why did you move to the Cook Islands without leaving a forwarding address? Tax issues? Lawyers' letters?"
"No, I had lived in New Zealand for 12 years and, well, you get less for murder," I quipped. I had enough of the Land of the Long White Shroud.
"Lucky for you I'm not a Kiwi," he answered.
"Lucky for the world too," I would have thought.
"I mean every house you visited you'd leave bottles of Steinlager, - a beer that tastes like it has already been drunk once – an autographed photo of the All Blacks, a black shirt with a silver fern and a digital photo frame of the entire household doing a blinking haka." "You may have something there," he said, "but I am a man of no nation. I am of all countries. I am … a living United Nations."
Roll back the sleigh a bit there Santa, you live in the North Pole. How international is that?
"Well it's a lot more so since they discovered mineral deposits and oil in the Arctic Circle," he countered quickly. "Everyone is up there now trying to claim a piece of the action."
"You have a point," I conceded. "Anyone doing a China? You know, pouring massive amounts of concrete into the sea around the icecap, painting it white and then claiming it's theirs?"
"No," he boomed, "It's mine. My home is shrinking courtesy of climate change and, no matter what Donald Trump says, it is real. The other day half my front yard dropped into the sea."
"So we need to make our environmental footprint smaller," I posed?
"We do," he said calming down, almost being pleasant - for the first time since he had entered the room.
"So to save your home we need to reduce carbon emissions?"
"We do."
So we should travel less?
"We should."
Then those blue eyes opened wide as he realised my meaning and he dropped a very naughty un-Santa-like word.
Well I had to ask, I said. I mean what sort of a carbon footprint do you leave delivering presents to all of the good children in the world?
Then Santa Claus laughed and sat forward. His eyes fair sparkled and he whispered to me. "I don't leave a footprint as my sleigh is magical."
One does not dare scoff at Santa, but I was tempted and said facetiously: "So you don't get airpoints then?"
He smiled and pulled out a little booklet of air-mile rewards he had in his pocket. "I have the second highest number that anyone has ever collected!"
You are joking? Crikey you must do several million miles on Christmas Eve. Who on Earth … or above Earth … could possibly do more?
He looked at me still smiling. He kept staring until the penny dropped. "No," I said. That can't be right … can it?"
His ruddy cheeks wobbled as he nodded faster and burst into laughter. "Yes, lad, none other than Henry Puna."
I could have fallen off my chair. It may have been the laughter, or a couple more whiskies, but I think Santa was warming to me. There had been something puzzling me for decades about his December 24 night flights and that was how could he possibly travel such distances and deliver so many presents in 31 hours. (That figure is to cover the different time zones that band the globe, dear readers.) "You would have to travel at about 10 million kilometres an hour to do so," I said to him. Santa sat back, smiled and said with a wink: "Einstein's Theory of Relativity - it makes my seemingly impossible journey … possible."
He explained: "According to Einstein the faster one travels the smaller one gets. That means I shrink. So does my sleigh, my sack of presents and … even … my tummy. Hard to believe though that may be."
I nodded my head to let him know I believed his stomach could reduce in size … hey, readers, I want my Chrissie pressies!
Anyway, this special Theory of Relativity meant he could zip around the place at unimaginable speeds, hop down the tightest chimney and even squeeze into the narrowest window cracks to deliver his presents.
"Blinking brilliant," I said. "So Jenny Craig is doomed and KFC can become the world's prime food? All flights into Rarotonga will need to use bigger aircraft to bring that particular fast food to the island?"
"Ah, no, not really," Santa replied. "You need to be moving very fast to achieve the size loss."
Initially I was unsure of what he meant but then had a lightbulb moment. He was right, there wasn't much chance of anyone moving too fast on Rarotonga, I agreed.
"Now tell me, Santa, I've heard you had a few problems with your little helpers this year."
"Yes, we did have some industrial action as some of the staff got a little too big for their booties and demanded more recognition for what they did."
"You mean they were full of elf-importance?"
That brought a withering look. I know, it was bad, but you can't mention Santa's little helpers without cracking appalling puns about elves … can you?
The Big Man sighed: "On one occasion it was just me and Mrs Claus wrapping up thousands of presents."
"So it was like petrol stations on Rarotonga then?"
He looked up quizzically.
"No elf-service," I said.
Santa groaned. "Come on then, get them all over and done with …"
"Is it true you banned mobile phones from the workshop because you were sick of them always taking elfies?
"And you wanted to bring back some elf-control?
"And to cheer everybody up you brought in Elf-is to sing some songs?
"And a psychologist to raise their low elf-esteem?
And …
"That's enough!" Santa shouted. "Any more and you are officially off the Christmas card list."
Okay, all right then.
"One last question Santa, are your elves good spellers?"
"Yes, why?"
Just wanting to know if they knew the elfabet?
By crikey he moved fast for such a tubby chappie, but I was quicker and flew out the door faster than Rudolph on steroids.
Well, that's me stuffed for a Christmas visit this year.
Mind you, I'll still leave the old guy a nice tumbler of whiskey and a box of home-made peppermint bark ... just in case.


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PHP Programmer to Code Wordpress SEO Fixes
Budget $250-750 USD
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** We need PHP Programming done, to Fix these SEO Issues, so that they stay fixed.**
Our Wordpress website is a Marketplace that uses Easy Digital Downloads,
So we have been working on the SEO for [login to view URL] for many months, and the website was not even showing up on google. Now it is, but only barely. We need a wordpress/php/mobile SEO Expert to address and fix many SEO issues preventing the website from ranking.
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So the code for displaying on Mobile needs to be updated and viewing the mobile website I found that the title is hidden behind the menu. This needs to be fixed somehow.
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I am 46-year-old mum of two teenage boys & have been a Health Coach since 2004.
It has been nothing but a privilege to help thousands reach their optimum health and weight management goals ever since.
Nutrition has been my passion since I was a young girl, right at the time when my mum was going through her breast cancer treatment, whilst using the power of plants and natural foods to help her body gain strength, heal and rejuvenate, which all played a tremendous part in her healing.
It was exactly thanks to this experience that health and nutrition started playing such big part in my life, which stayed with me throughout my teens and early adulthood.
However, after my first pregnancy in 2003, I was overweight, out of shape and energy for the first time in my life. I was 29. And I simply could not find my "way back home" to a healthy, fit body.
For the first time I was faced with the need to lose weight and it was not an easy task. I was faced with low energy, cravings, low self esteem and body image and I could not turn the corner, mainly in my mindset, but also when it came to actually making steps to lose weight. I did not know what I was supposed to do. And having a small baby – I did not seem to have energy either.
It wasn't until I found Herbalife Nutrition in 2004 that I finally started losing weight and, more importantly – feeling fantastic with much gained energy and vitality.
Whilst I remained open minded to the idea of meal replacement shakes that I saw as an intelligent way to minimise calories without compromising on the nutrition and to get more overall nutrition in my body – my family, except my mum (surprise, surprise), was less enthusiastic. However, I followed what my gut was telling me and started the plan.
The plan was simple and starting my day with a balanced, nutritious Formula 1 breakfast and supplements made all the difference to my energy levels during the morning and it also influenced health choices I made for the rest of the day. Suddenly, I did have energy to also take care of myself rather than looking for any moment to take a nap.
I learnt what to eat, when to eat it and in what balance in order to stabilize my hormones responsible for blood sugar and hunger control. My body also started consistently getting optimal nutrition on a daily, which is how I maintain my weight, shape and energy levels to this day, over 15 years later.
I have had a second child since, however, gaining back my pre-pregnancy shape has been simple as I continue to apply all the principles I now knew that they worked!
Now, all four of us, as a family, live this way every day.
I feel to be in a better shape and energy in my mid forties than I was in my twenties and I am dedicated to helping others feel the same!
Sorting my weight and health out has been a catalyst in deciding to change my career and help others achieve the same by becoming a Health Coach and then a Nutritional Therapist, leaving the corporate world behind.
With the personal experience, knowledge I gained and our science backed solutions I was now able to help anyone whether they want to lose weight or improve their energy levels and add more nutrition and balance into their diet!
And I have helped many achieve just that!
My goal is to continue inspiring and educating others to live healthier, more active lifestyles as well as to be a role model for my own children in the importance of taking care of their health, the same way my mother has inspired me.
Having been a Herbalife Nutrition Health Coach since 2004, I have been privileged to work with just over two thousand people in my career and here are some of their amazing stories and transformations they allowed me to share with you…
If you would like to reach out and connect with me, please do, I would love to hear from you, you can use the form below or check different ways you can engage with me…
Thank you for reading about my journey back to wellness and I look forward to hearing from you.
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If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain;
If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works?Proverbs 24:11-12, KJV
Jesus came to seek and to save those who were lost (Lk 19:10). He defined his mission with these words and additionally contrasted the fact that he came to give life and life in abundance with that of the thief who comes only to kill, steal and destroy (John 10:10). As the Wise Son he has been appointed over God's house (Heb. 3:6).
Since I have written on this thread of "Missio Argo" sub-blog, more than four and half years have passed. My brother's house from which I last wrote has been sold and he is living in a new home. I moved to a new home within Fukushima, then I left Fukushima in 2017, to intern at a non-denominational church in Kansas City as part of the missions, prayer, and justice movement with which I was seeking a greater degree of covering, alignment, and relationship. I started with homecoming in Wisconsin for a four-month sabbatical.
Two years in Kansas City brought great difficulty as well as great depth of friendship and significant pivotal moments for growth in my life. I came to the church in KC to first seek inner and heart healing in the context of a spiritual family I was led to. I was met with a heavy-handed skepticism from some of the leadership that was shocking, and I think borderline spiritually abusive. Despite that, I submitted as much as I could with a broken heart, believing the promise that this was the family I was supposed to be with. Good friends grew up around me, godly men and women generations above me and near me who were able to speak prophetically into my heart.
Between a Living Waters group program and a Healing for the Nations retreat, as well as time in the prayer room at the church, and the experience of losing my car and phone while driving through the Iowa countryside, God spoke profound, life altering revelation into my life. Let me give some snapshots of the heart and vocational journey over these years:
- Healing and deliverance from deeply embedded shame and childhood wounds began to free me from the way shame coated my sexuality and inner child. Within this freedom I could see that my path to holiness/wholeness meant integration of my homosexually oriented sexuality and inner child with my adult self and with my faith and relationship with the Lord. I did not need to manicure a "holy enough" version of myself that was rooted in my own work but freed in Christ and the love of the Father I knew I was empowered to walk the path of integration and given permission to live the question of what all of this means and how I should live.
- The need to surrender the work of healing my heart to the Lord. It's not my work, it's my heart but Jesus is the healer, the master physician and he is the only one who can in fact bring healing.
- I was building my life on a foundation of technology and knowledge. These empower the old man, or the false self. The picture is me sitting in a command center at the panels of a supercomputer. The seat with me in it represents the rule of reason/knowledge/intellect and the use of technology to aid the shaping of self and my world.
- God was replacing that paradigm with a new one: "the coracle is sonship." The coracle refers to a kind of sail boat driven by the wind and is a picture of a Spirit lead lifestyle. Sonship refers to the life in the Spirit by which God is my Father and Jesus my elder brother. God has always been, and profoundly through this revelation, inviting me into a new and living way by which I plan, strategize, and make decisions with the Father and under his wise council and leadership as a son rather than as an orphan in my own command center. I am still shifting into this reality, but it has been tremendously life giving.
- Caught up within this paradigm shift was how to live the question of my sexuality. I needed to not rely on my own insight, knowledge, and understanding nor on the knowledge of experts but trust the voice of the Spirit to lead me through the darkness of unknowing.
- This nexus of foundational repentance brought great freedom. Freedom from shame, freedom from needing to figure things out, and freedom from the lies that I am solely responsible; I have to be on top of things; I have to have it together in any way that exalts the self, up, over, and against the Lord's role to be responsible to and for me. To let the Lord be my covering, and to be the Word from the Father that defines and calls me into being.
- As I began to live this repentance in the context of my church family, I found good, caring, and compassionate friends who got to know me and who I in turn got to know. I was somewhat anxious to get accepted into the internship in which I was invited into and had subsequently been disinvited into. This put a little bit of the devil's schemes into the walking out of these new revelations. In my relationship with the Father I grew in sonship and belonging. In my relationship with the church I fell into performance and continually struggled with belonging.
- I had hoped to live out the question of my sexuality together with my spiritual family. In some ways this occurred, but in many ways the process seemed frustrated. I was also eager, probably too eager, to make it through the hoops to get through the internship, seminary study, and leadership development so that I could get back to Japan and dear friends and relationships I had built during my three years in Fukushima.
- My trust in the leadership had been rocky from the initial rejection and performance dynamic that built but as the story kept changing about when I might be resent to Japan, I began to grow uncomfortable with the alignment.
- In the summer and fall of last year I felt increasing tug from the Lord to give voice to my experience as a sexual minority which culminated in me coming out as a queer, celibate Christian. From what I knew about the theological/ethical boundaries of the movement I was coming into, I thought I was within them. I had shared openly about my sexuality and how to speak to it with leadership and thought it was safe. It was NOT. Immediately I began to be treated with anger and accusation for doing something wrong. Something that was so hard and yet so freeing for me to speak, which was an act of living in the light and living with greater integrity was met with judgement and anger. It was the anger that scared me most. I began to feel unsafe in the company of certain leadership and when I attended worship, I began to have experiences of trauma. This wasn't just an experience of offense, but I was actually having a racing heart, hyperventilating and feeling extreme panic. I stopped attending worship at that church but stayed involved in the courses and small group I was helping start.
- I hardly began to look for ways to go back for Japan but there was a remarkable open door that came through ELCA Global Mission and I was in a process of discerning a call immediately. This avenue out of Kansas City and to Japan is, I am convinced, the good pastoring of the Lord to deliver me from a place where I was not being pastored well.
I move home in December. My spiritual son and friend who is closer than a brother came from Japan to visit me in Kansas City, and then my family in Wisconsin, and New Mexico. I accepted the call to Japan with the ELCA in December and started orientation in February. I was sent at the end of March and started working at a Lutheran junior and senior high school about as soon as I got here as well as work in congregational mission which I am still just getting aligned with. My pastors of the Lutheran church in my hometown have been a literal lifeline as I almost gave up hope of belonging in any kind of "church." Not only have they always been a prophetic voice of welcome, they have championed me in the upward call of God. I am incredibly grateful for them.
I love my church family in Kansas City as well. I met some of the most beautiful, loving people there. I also love the leaders. Some are close friends. There is pain but leaving for me was something God did to rescue and re-place me in his purposes, not a permanent farewell. I don't know if, how, or when I will rejoin my friends from that movement. I was kicked out of the leadership pathway because of my professed sexual orientation. That has been a deep, and grievous bludgeon against my soul but I am hopeful for change, for reconciliation, and for us to grow in brotherly love and affection through whatever comes next.
Jesus sought me out when I was lost in the rejection and judgement of those given over me. Jesus is healing and giving me life as I walk in the way of the cross. Jesus is protecting me from the way the thief has tried to kill my walk with God, steal my destiny, and destroy the dreams God has put in my heart. I am growing in my identity of a son in God's house both in relationship to God and to the Church which is full of sinners of which I am one. God's love came through the bloody cross of Christ and I am learning obedience through suffering in various junctures in my relationship with the church. I am encouraged by this because I read it as a sign that I am a legitimate son who is chastised because I am loved.
And so, as I continue to write on this platform about mission and life as a missionary, I want you to know a little about more about who I am and where I am coming from. As I am eager in the joy of the Lord to share the good news of the reconciling love of God, of his generous welcome into the house, not only to receive the bread of life but to do the work of the Kingdom as co-agents of a glorious redemption. As I do so, I remember I can still be lost, I am still broken, I am still holding questions and living them. I don't give pretense to hold the answers but I know there is something about this man, about the way he loves me, about the way he holds out his hand that I can say with confidence to those around me, have you heard of this man who can save you from death, and sin, and hell? Far be it from me to to abandon the work of reconciliation to which God has given me.
Pray for me. The love of God be with you.


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> Dar's Mug Cozy #2
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Dar's Mug Cozy #2
This is a very fairly easy mug/cup cozy that can be made in under an hour. The pattern has a thicker buttonhole tab than Dar's Mug Cozy #1. It should fit a wide variety of mugs or cups and does have a little bit of stretch to it allowing it to fit most cup sizes. This cozy is great for gifts to teachers, apartment office staff, co-workers, family …. well, just about anyone! Just make sure you use 100% cotton so it absorbs the condensation on the outside of the cup and dries quickly. This version starts with a foundation single crochet row which gives a nice decorative "ridge" down the center.
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Yesterday I posted my Wire Wrapped Key Brooch Tutorial.
Here are some ideas for wearing/using:
- Wear as you would any brooch/pin.
- Close a shawl or sweater with it.
- Adorn a scarf.
- Put it on a hat.
- Pin it on your purse.
- Put it on a thick, strong necklace or chain.
- Attach it to a headband or hair tie and wear it in your hair!
8 Ways to Customize the Wire Wrapped Key Brooch:
- Experiment with different beads, different colors of wires, adding in unexpected or unusual embellishments.
- Try weaving in novelty yarn with the wire.
- Add a stone or other special item.
- Add charms as you are wrapping.
- Add a special vintage brooch – just thread the wire through the pin as you are wrapping.
- Add some bead dangles.
- Think of it as a 3D collage or sculpture and let your imagination run wild!
- Use seed beads and add tons of them to the wire as you are wrapping. Try doing rainbow colors, or just pick your favorite color.
Have Fun!!
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Foxconn's upcoming $2.6 billion plant rumored to produce iPhone sapphire screens
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Posted over 5 years ago by Rachel VanDenBrink
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TEDxSalem explores more than 'ideas worth spreading' at its January 6th event, which will feature both a talk and performance by Las Vegas-based magician Jackson Rayne.
When asked what he is passionate about in life, Jackson is quick to respond: people.
"I love learning and I love teaching and inspiring others. Life is tough and I feel great purpose when my work can positively affect people through entertainment," he said.
No stranger to Salem, Jackson attended Willamette University where he graduated with his BA in Economics. It's also where he gained national media attention for his first underwater escape and realized his opportunity of a career in magic.
And for the past 25 years, Jackson has been pushing the extremes, both physical and mental, through dynamic illusions and daring escapes. What began for the fun of learning, developed into a calling that's earned Jackson a place on center stage as a headlining performer as well as recognition on national television.
But it doesn't stop there. Jackson is also the holder of multiple world records.
"I broke the fastest escape from a posey straitjacket," Jackson said. "My original record breaking time was 7.26 seconds which I can now beat by quite a bit. I also broke the world record for most escapes from a straight jacket in one hour with 54 escapes."
"I didn't even know I was capable of breaking a world record," he said. "The first time I was locked up the jacket it took me 45 minutes to escape but I did it. Once I figured out the most efficient route it was just a matter of time. It actually looks very easy now when I escape because it happens so fast."
Join us at TEDxSalem to hear illusionist Jackson Rayne's 'idea worth spreading' and possibly a little something else we might have up our sleeve.


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Tulip's Modern Slavery Statement covering 1st October 2016 to 30th September 2017 is now available for viewing on Tulip's internet.
The report shows that progress has been made in a number of areas:
- A risk assessment tool has now been rolled out across a number of our farms, including pig and sheep farms. This has ena-bled us to better identify any potential ethical issues and to have a better understanding of the main issues within our farming supply chain. Our action plan now includes responsible recruitment, further developments in the health and safety area and an extended whistle blowing facility;
- The number of employment agencies that we use across our sites has been reduced;
- We are in the process of rolling out a new clause in our GNFR (Goods Not For Retail) suppliers, e.g. laundry services and security, which are carried out by third parties. This will involve an audit tool to be used to check their processes and procedures;
- A transport and logistics specific SAQ will be rolled out across all our suppliers this year;
- We have now fully mapped our supply chain where possible to Tier 2 and 3. We have also strengthened our new supplier 'on boarding' with a more robust risk assessment process prior to any business being undertaken;
- We are in the process of launching our Responsible Sourcing Policy across the Danish Crown Group to enable us to work consistently across our suppliers and incorporate this as part of our standard supplier agreements.
There are five main targets for 2018:
- A responsible sourcing policy and training will be developed for all relevant staff – to be completed by the end of June 2018
- All suppliers with over 30 employees will be linked on SEDEX and have a valid audit. We aim to have 85% linked and 40% with a valid audit. This will be completed by the end of September 2018
- Development of advice and guidance on Modern Slavery for suppliers. In this respect, we are targeting smaller suppliers who have only have had limited exposure. This will be completed by the end of May 2018.
- Third party supplier audits to be carried out at all sites – by end April 2018.
- Farm improvements (as listed above) to be fully implemented by the end of September 2018.
"One exciting initiative we are cur-rently working on with the Co-op is the Bright Futures programme, which helps victims of Modern Slavery into paid employ-ment, which supports victims in rebuilding their lives."
By law, any company that does more than £36 million business per year is obliged to report on what actions they are taking to prevent slavery and human trafficking. As a major food manufacturer, Tulip has a strong reliance on temporary agency labour – as have other organisations within our supply chain – and we have a responsibility to ensure that we and our suppliers comply with the regulations of the Modern Slavery Act of 2015.