Photography is one of the most universal languages we have. Any person who can see, can interpret a photograph and derive an emotional response. Everyone approaches photography in a different form, some only absorb it through advertisements while others actively take pictures daily.
In todays socially connected world we are looking to photography to transmit emotions that would normally be expressed in person. The ever improving cell phone camera's and "filters" stand as proof of this growing demand. When I travel to far away places, seeking to capture that unique, hard to find scene, I often find that I am blocked by an iPad or cell phone taking the same image.
Hidden in this universal pursuit are the hobbyists who want to understand photography more. For those it is less an issue of sharing photographs and more about understanding the medium and how it has evolved over the years.
I have recently started a project to preserve, repair and return a photo album that belongs to my mother. Her father and mother filled it and through the years it has been picked over and seen a bit of unintentional abuse.
Going through this album I was struck by the images that my grandfather took. The things that caught his eye and how he composed the image.
But the greatest lesson is that the images most valued today are simple portraits of family members long gone. This one on the left is my great-grandfather, the only picture I have seen of him.
I am sure there were more 'serious' photographers who would have questioned the artistic merits of this photograph. Some would have looked disapprovingly at the gear he chose to use, the lighting he ignored or the simple composition used. All of those serious photographers were taking impressive pictures of the flora around the lake, while my grandfather took a simple snapshot of his father drinking the Argentine tea called Mate.
Today all of my grandfather's images of flowers, monkeys and airplanes showing great artistic abilities just fill the album. The ones that make you stop and really look into the photograph are these simple portraits. The gestures of a man I never knew but who is responsible for my being here.
When that iPad jumps out in front of my artistically composed shot, I will no longer curse under my breath. I will be reminded that the photograph I am fighting to get will become, at best, filler in an album. I will then turn my camera to my family, regardless of what they are doing, and snap my most simple image of the day...and the only one that will matter in years to come.


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SAY YES TO THE YACHT
How to make the most of your yacht charter and keep everything above-deck.
By Aidan Pilgrim
There's a first time for everything — and hopefully, when it comes to yachting, more than a first time. Here's everything you need to know about chartering a yacht with Exclusive Resorts and checking off a bucket list travel adventure.
FIRST, THE BOATING BASICS
So, yachting: just a cool eight days and seven nights aboard a stunningly appointed, multi-million dollar boat with a full-time staff to cater to your every need, not to mention the best ocean views around. Sounds pretty good, right? Typically, when chartering a yacht you work with a yacht broker who works with a listing broker to match you with a boat that suits your needs. You pay a fee for the physical boat and its crew, as well as for all the variable costs like dockage, fuel, operating expenses, and consumables. (Ever wondered how much wine, bottled water, and lobster your most relaxed self can consume in a week? You'll find out.) These incremental expenses are lumped into an Advanced Provisioning Allowance (APA) which usually averages 30-40% of the charter fee, and is paid up front. On the last day of your charter, you settle up and either pay the difference or get a refund.
THE EXCLUSIVE RESORTS DIFFERENTIATOR
As with all our experiences, we're here to make things easy and enjoyable. We've developed an all-inclusive, flat-fee program (not including gratuity) that eliminates the entire concept of APA, so you don't have to worry about whether dockage rates or the price of caviar went up or down last week. You'll end your trip on a truly relaxed note, instead of reviewing a 400 line-item bill. Plus, you'll work directly with our yacht partners, instead of brokers, for nonstop service-at-the-ready — including a dedicated yacht concierge. From picking you up at the airport in a private car service to dropping you off at the end, the entire experience is covered. Essentially, it's the pinnacle of luxury travel.
Time to get nautical
NOW... SET SAIL!
Privately cruise through the pristine Bahamian islands with your closest travel companions on Double Down, a spacious 108-foot Broward yacht with ample indoor and outdoor lounging space. Our vetted eight-day itinerary will show you the best of the Exumas, the premier yachting area with pristine beaches and some of the world's best dive sites. Need more space? Cruise in incomparable luxury and style on a one-of-a kind, 145-foot tri-deck private yacht — with a crew dedicated to your every need.
Prefer to set sail through the Virgin Islands with your closest family and friends on a customized, 120-foot Broward yacht? Kick back and relax while a dedicated crew attends to your every need, including a curated itinerary and delicious chef-prepared meals. Play in the aquamarine water (and the world's best dive sites), lounge on pristine white sand beaches, drop anchor at popular island watering holes, and spend the day shopping at chic boutiques in charming locales.
Seas the day from the deck of your own private yacht
SOLD? HERE ARE SIX COMMON QUESTIONS, ANSWERED.
1. What do I pack?
Our yacht partners recommend packing light in a soft-sided bag for easier storage. You'll want plenty of swimsuits since most of the activities are water-based. Bring sun hats for day, and a light jacket or two for evening. Meals can be as casual or dressy as you like, but shoes aren't allowed on board, so leave your fancy footwear at home, unless you want to have dinner off the boat. (Most guests plan this, then cancel it. Boat life is just too good.) Toiletries, towels, and sunscreen are all provided.
Dress in chic, light, and airy yacht-wear
White works all year-round on the open sea
2. How do I interact with the crew?
Seen too many episodes of Below Deck? Rest assured, it's pure drama. The yacht crew is there to make the experience exceptional — and tailored specifically to you. Our yacht partner prides themselves on hiring crew members that can sense whether you want more privacy or attention and act accordingly. So just be clear about what you prefer. They'll follow suit.
3. Is it kid friendly?
It depends on the age of the child. A yacht charter is a wonderful option for family adventure travel; in fact, many guests with older kids report incredible quality time with their teens because of the fun activities and comfortably close quarters. Children under the age of 10 must be pre-approved, but typically, when a child is mobile but hasn't quite grasped the concept of consequence (approximately between the ages of two and six) our yacht partner asks that you bring an extra adult to keep an eye on them.
Dive into serene waters
Gorgeous interiors on your floating home away from home
Wonderful yacht crews that become like family
4. What if I feel queasy?
If you have a history of seasickness, we recommend starting to wear a Scopolamine patch three days days before departure. Dramamine can also be taken (pro tip: start the day before the charter leaves). However, all of our boats have enhanced stabilizers, and almost everyone who has experienced seasickness in the past has reported little to no symptoms on ours.
5. What's the Wi-Fi situation?
Internet is available on the boat, but the bandwidth and connectivity speed is not comparable to what you'll get at destination homes. Stronger Wi-Fi may be available at marinas and entry points.
6. How much should I tip?
Members of yacht charter crews have big jobs—from prepping and provisioning to approximately 18-hour work days. It's customary to leave gratuity at the end of a charter and industry standard is 20% of the charter fee. We keep things simple and recommend $2000-$2500 per crew member. Most guests prefer to tip in cash, but you can use a credit card for a small fee.
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Southern Columbia defense stopped the Spartans in the third-place consolation game and denied Hughesville a return trip to the PIAA tournament.
Hughesville was limited to just nine first half points while forcing 10 turnovers. In the Taylor Mason scored 21 second half points and finished with 22 as the Spartans' rally fell short, 54-43, Saturday evening at Milton High School. In the loss Isaiah Savage finished the game with two field goals.
Hughesville played without its second-leading scorer, Matt Myers, after he was injured in the semi-final game against Loyalsock and had to sit out.
Nate Paisley leaps to make the shot in Muncy's district championship game against Northeast Bradford.
Loyalsock defeated Hughesville 58-36 in the District 4 Class AAA semifinals at Williamsport. Lancers' defense stopped the Spartans' guards and forced 18 turnovers, including 16 in the first three quarters.
Hughesville (36) Taylor Mason 8 5-6 21, Matt Myers 1 0-0 2, Devon Bushor 0 0-0 0, Isaiah Savage 0 0-0 0, Pat Rogers 0 0-0 0, Luke Ergott 1 0-0 2, Nick Rouhoff 0 0-0 0, Devon Braden 0 0-0 0, Logan Woolcock 0 1-4 1, Steve Milheim 0 1-2 1, Austin Long 0 1-2 1, Tobias Harrington 2 2-3 6, Ori Shaner 1 0-0 2. Totals 13 10-17 36. 3-point goals Hughesville 0, Loyalsock 4 (Ross 2, Pastore 1, Gair 1). Records: Loyalsock (20-6), Hughesville (13-11).


wearing your shirt - standing by the sink.
relive those memories in your head.
as I let you brush my teeth.
to know I think of you.
and comfort you when your day's gone wrong.
I'll be the tender touch on your face.
we're in our own world - yours and mine.
I will not be far away.


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Arthur Westrich
Father Carl A. Westrich b. 24 Sep 1887, d. 7 Jan 1977
Mother Loretta Kromer
He is the son of Carl A. Westrich and Loretta Kromer.
Last Edited 21 Dec 1997
Charles Kromer
M, ID No. 4812, b. 1875
Spouse: Ottilia Westrich – child:
Arthur Kromer
Marriage* Charles married Ottilia Westrich, daughter of Charles Westrich and Elizabeth Braun.
Birth* Charles Kromer was born in 1875.1
Last Edited 17 Feb 2009
[S528] Frederick Braun and Margaret Pirron Family Group Sheet, Prepared 8 Sep 1997 by Edith Ruffing Alten, Avon Lake, Ohio. Set of sheets for Frederick Braun and Margaret Pirron and their descendants. No sources cited.
Father Charles Kromer b. 1875
Mother Ottilia Westrich b. 21 Apr 1878
He is the son of Charles Kromer and Ottilia Westrich.
Adam Sebastian Leis
M, ID No. 4814, b. 20 January 1860, d. 1941
Father Peter Leis b. 15 Feb 1829, d. 10 Oct 1912
Mother Margaret Frisch b. 7 Mar 1834, d. 28 Apr 1897
Relationship 3rd cousin 3 times removed of David Velten
Spouse: Anna M. Westrich – children:
Veronica Ida Leis+ b. 20 Jan 1894, d. 10 Aug 1989
Fred William Leis b. 26 Nov 1896, d. 5 Apr 1919
Monica Beatrice Leis+ b. 9 Jun 1898, d. 27 Feb 1978
Carl J. Leis b. 24 Dec 1901, d. 18 Feb 1923
Alma Elizabeth Anna Leis b. 26 Jun 1905, d. 31 Jan 1968
Agnes Sophia Leis b. 28 Dec 1907, d. 27 May 1972
Birth* Adam Sebastian Leis was born on 20 January 1860 in Sherman Township, Huron County, Ohio .1
He was the son of Peter Leis and Margaret Frisch.
Marriage* Adam married Anna M. Westrich, daughter of Charles Westrich and Elizabeth Braun, on 19 January 1892 in Norwalk, Huron County, Ohio .1,2
Death* Adam died in 1941 in Ohio .3
Burial* He was buried in 1941 in St. Sebastian's Cemetery, located in Bismarck, Sherman Township, Huron County, Ohio .3
[S610] A. J. Baughman, History of Huron County, Ohio: Its Progress and Development (originally published 1909; reprinted 1998 in one volume, Norwalk, OH:Huron County Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society), vol. 1, pp. 356-357, entry for family of Adam S. Leis.
[S1046] Ohio Marriages, 1803-1900 [database on-line], published by Ancestry.com, <www.ancestry.com>, extracted by Jordan Dodd, Liahona Research from LDS films of the original county marriage records, entry for Adam Leis and Anna M. Westrick, m. 19 Jan 1892 in Huron County, Ohio.
[S561] Huron County Chapter of Ohio Genealogical Society, comp., Huron County, Ohio Cemetery Inscriptions (Norwalk, Ohio: The Huron County Chapter, OGS, 1997), p. 841, col. 2, sec. D, row 2, lot 9.
Fred William Leis
M, ID No. 4815, b. 26 November 1896, d. 5 April 1919
Father Adam Sebastian Leis b. 20 Jan 1860, d. 1941
Mother Anna M. Westrich b. 23 Oct 1867, d. 30 Aug 1966
Birth* Fred William Leis was born on 26 November 1896 in Pulaski, Pulaski County, Indiana .1
He was the son of Adam Sebastian Leis and Anna M. Westrich.
Death* Fred died on 5 April 1919 in Bismarck, Sherman Township, Huron County, Ohio , at age 22. He died at home at an early age from tuberculosis.2
Burial* He was buried on 8 April 1919 in St. Sebastian's Cemetery, located in Bismarck, Sherman Township, Huron County, Ohio . The funeral services were held at St. Sebastian's Church in Bismarck, conducted by the Rev. C. J. Fecht. Burial was in the parish cemetery.3,2
Last Edited 25 Jan 2010
[S704] Obituary of Fred W. Leis, The Bellevue Gazette, Bellevue, Ohio (10 Apr 1919), 4:4.
Monica Beatrice Leis
F, ID No. 4816, b. 9 June 1898, d. 27 February 1978
Spouse: Cletus Francis Gerber – children:
Myron Gerber+
Thelma Gerber
Doris Gerber
Cletus Gerber Jr
Patricia Ann Gerber
Raymond Gerber
Donald Gerber
Richard Gerber
Gerald Gerber b. 18 Nov 1927, d. 3 Dec 1993
Birth* Monica Beatrice Leis was born on 9 June 1898 in Indian Creek Township, Pulaski County, Indiana .1
She was the daughter of Adam Sebastian Leis and Anna M. Westrich.
Marriage* Monica married Cletus Francis Gerber in 1921 in St. Sebastian's Church, located in Bismarck, Sherman Township, Huron County, Ohio .1
Death* Monica died on 27 February 1978 in Huron County, Ohio , at age 79.2,1
Burial* She was buried in St. Joseph's Cemetery, located in Monroeville, Huron County, Ohio .1
Last Edited 17 Nov 2013
[S1250] Ohio Deaths, 1908-1932, 1938-2007 [database on-line], published by Ancestry.com and Ohio Department of Health, http://www.ancestry.com, original data from Ohio Department of Health, Index to Annual Deaths, 1958-2002; and Division of Vital Statistics, Death Certificates and index, December 20, 1908-December 31, 1953, cert. 012731, Monica B Gerber, age 79, d. 27 Feb 1978 Huron County, Ohio.
Carl J. Leis
M, ID No. 4817, b. 24 December 1901, d. 18 February 1923
Birth* Carl J. Leis was born on 24 December 1901 in Pulaski County, Indiana .1
Death* Carl died on 18 February 1923 in Sherman Township, Huron County, Ohio , at age 21.1
Burial* He was buried on 22 February 1923 in St. Sebastian's Cemetery, located in Bismarck, Sherman Township, Huron County, Ohio .1
Alma Elizabeth Anna Leis
F, ID No. 4818, b. 26 June 1905, d. 31 January 1968
Birth* Alma Elizabeth Anna Leis was born on 26 June 1905.1
Death* Alma died on 31 January 1968 in Ohio at age 62.1
Burial* She was buried in February 1968 in St. Paul's Cemetery, located in Norwalk, Huron County, Ohio .1
Agnes Sophia Leis
F, ID No. 4819, b. 28 December 1907, d. 27 May 1972
Birth* Agnes Sophia Leis was born on 28 December 1907.1
Death* Agnes died on 27 May 1972 in Ohio at age 64.1
Burial* She was buried after 27 May 1972 in St. Paul's Cemetery, located in Norwalk, Huron County, Ohio .1
Last Edited 7 Sep 1998
Cletus Francis Gerber
M, ID No. 4820, b. 1899, d. 22 May 1985
Spouse: Monica Beatrice Leis – children:
Birth* Cletus Francis Gerber was born in 1899.1
Marriage* Cletus married Monica Beatrice Leis, daughter of Adam Sebastian Leis and Anna M. Westrich, in 1921 in St. Sebastian's Church, located in Bismarck, Sherman Township, Huron County, Ohio .1
Death* Cletus died on 22 May 1985 in Ohio .1
Burial* He was buried after 22 May 1985 in St. Joseph's Cemetery, located in Monroeville, Huron County, Ohio .1


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TIME IS SHORT TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF AN OPPORTUNITY TO REVERSE THE SITUATION IN IRAQ
OUR NAVAL AND AIR ASSETS ARE IN PLACE AND READY, THE ISIS POSITIONS ARE NEVER GOING TO BE MORE VULNERABLE AND THE PRESIDENT DITHERS
Yesterday we gave you our assessment of the situation on the ground in Iraq. We also linked you to the professional assessments of others. One thing that everyone has to keep in mind is the fluid and foggy nature of war. Today's assessments can be mistaken and their value diminishes as time passes. That being said we are concerned. Yesterday we noted how as time progresses and the ISIS digs in, rooting them out, even damaging them from the air or by offshore weapons becomes much more difficult. As of this morning many ISIS forces were moving by column towards Bagdad. If our immediately available forces had the order , we could deliver them perhaps another "highway of death" setting them back years. But the President is still considering his options and he has emboldened the ISIS by already announcing that he won't send in ground forces. Though he may have reversed himself last night when he said he wasn't "taking anything off the table. So put something on the table already!
We have two carrier task forces in the Persian Gulf right now with the U.S. Fifth Fleet plus cruise missile equipped submarines. If we have identifiable targets as we apparently do right now, and not embedded terrorists in an urban landscape, we could make short work of the ISIS. We also have land based air assets surrounding the region and within reach of the battle zone in Quatar, Turkey, Jordan and Kuwait. We certainly don't recommend sending them in right now but we have 10,000 troops in Kuwait and 2,000 in Jordan, why are we announcing that we aren't going to use them right now( or are we...dither dither)? The ISIS should have been made to worry about them. More over we have special forces in the area who could go in and serve as forward air observers and strike callers. These are very small units that do not engage directly. They avoid detection in order to make "calls for fire" that rain down industrial strength doses of death on the barbarians. Why are we assuring the barbarians that they won't be used this early in the game?
As we described the situation on the ground yesterday, it has the potential in a very short time to shift to a much more difficult target array. With the kind of big weapons we can bring on line now it will be much more difficult to use them in the future when the ISIS is dug in among the population. The President still has operative permission from Congress to use military force in Iraq. The decision to reverse the progress of the ISIS in Iraq is solely with one man Barrack Hussein Obama. The moment is now with the enemy advancing in identifiable columns. Every minute wasted damages our advantage. Are we going to let thousands of lost and damaged American serviceman's lives and billions in our public treasure on another "Fall of Saigon.". Remember the image of the Iraqui's with their purple ink dipped fingers held aloft after voting at the risk of their lives? American service men paid with their lives and limbs for that moment and as soon as our ground forces are out the ISIS rolls over the land killing anyone who opposes or disagrees with them, and some people simply for who they are, and what they believe. They steal 2 billion dollars to become the best funded terror organization on earth and then in utter arrogance march on the capital. We have a brief moment to turn their march into a highway of death for them. We desperately need a Commander in Chief. Instead the President dithers.
Here is a link to NEWS ON LINE for an in depth review with linked videos on the situation as of yesterday morning. As we have said so many times we're not a news service. Our "NEWS SECTION" is more about a collection of links to and a guide to professional maritime orientated news services. But we do go into a sort of journalistic / editorial mode when we see maritime events unfolding and don't think much of the U.S. general media coverage. In this case what we aren't seeing in such coverage is much critical military thinking and as usual a free ride for a clueless President. If we have more of interest late breaking we'll alert you in the NOTICES section of the HOME PAGE.
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This is just too cute, Brianna! What a wonderful job you are doing introducing Makayla to faith in God.
I think Mermaid is a beautiful name!
What! What! This is big news! I will pray God blesses you with pregnancy! Maybe you could compromise and name baby sister, Ariel.
On Day 4 of VBS, Jesus, played by Jeffrey, is going to visit. We are going to pray, asking Jesus into our hearts. I think Monkey will like that, since Jesus is already whispering to her heart.


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Health & Wellness During & After Breast Cancer Webinar Series
Heart Health & Breast Cancer
Breast and other cancer treatments can cause heart and artery diseases, which need to be identified and treated. Some may even be prevented. Watch the recording to hear from two cardiologists who work with people diagnosed with breast cancer and a panel of experts to learn about who is affected, common signs and symptoms, and how they are working to prevent and manage cancer-related cardiovascular diseases.
Samir Thadani, MD, has been a cardiologist at Kaiser Permanente-South San Francisco for over 10 years, working closely with people during and after their cancer treatment. He studied electrical engineering and computer science at MIT and was a management consultant before deciding that medicine was his true calling. He chose cardiology because he was fascinated by the engineering of the cardiovascular system. After completing medical school at NYU and residency at Boston University/Boston Medical Center, he did his Cardiology Fellowship at California Pacific Medical Center and Advanced Cardiac Imaging Fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), where he is currently an Assistant Clinical Professor. In addition to founding the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Cardio-Oncology Program, he is interested in multi-modality cardiac imaging and lifestyle medicine.
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Alexis Beatty, MD, MAS, is a cardiologist and health services researcher working to find innovative ways to care for people with cardiovascular disease to improve outcomes and reduce disparities. She received degrees in medicine and biomedical engineering from Duke University and did her Cardiology Fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Dr. Beatty worked with the Department of Veterans Affairs to develop a mobile application to improve participation in cardiac rehabilitation; she also worked with Apple on their heart features. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Co-Director of the UCSF Training in Clinical Research program, and has an appointment in the Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, where she sees general cardiology patients.
Marilyn Kwan, PhD, is a Research Scientist at the Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California. She graduated from University of California, Berkeley, with her PhD in Epidemiology followed by a postdoctoral fellowship. Dr. Kwan joined the Division of Research in 2005, where her current research focus is breast and bladder cancer prognosis and survival. Specifically, her interests include lifestyle and molecular factors and their associations with cancer recurrence, survival, and quality of life. She also studies the long-term health effects of cancer treatment, including lymphedema, fractures, and cardiovascular disease.
Joanna Hathaway, MPH, is a Breast Care Coordinator at Kaiser Permanente-San Rafael, CA, helping people diagnosed with breast cancer as they go through treatment and into survivorship to live better and longer lives. With a background in nutritional health and fitness, she has worked with individuals, groups, and at the population level to motivate behavioral change and teach healthy lifestyles. Joanna attended the University of Pennsylvania, received a Master of Public Health from the University of California-Berkeley. She is a nutritionist and a Certified Cancer Exercise Trainer who believes in making healthy choices the easy choices.
Catherine Thomsen, MPH, joined Zero Breast Cancer in 2014 to promote health and wellness and prevent cancer, after seven years facilitating efforts to engage advocates in cancer research and to fund studies of disparities and environmental risk factors with the California Breast Cancer Research Program (CBCRP). Previously, she was the epidemiologist for the State of Oregon's environmental and occupational health programs and coordinated an interagency pesticide poisoning prevention program. She received her Master's in Public Health from Portland State/Oregon Health & Sciences Universities and her BA in international relations from Pomona College. She studied in France and spent more than three years in rural and urban Costa Rica with the Peace Corps and USAID.
Peripheral Neuropathy: Dealing with Nerve Problems During & After Cancer Treatment
Cancer and its treatment can damage nerves, causing pain or discomfort known as peripheral neuropathy. In this webinar, learn from a researcher, a clinician and survivors about who is most likely to be affected, the latest treatments, and how cancer survivors can cope with nerve problems.
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Alyce S. Adams, PhD, is a Professor of Epidemiology and Population Health in the Stanford School of Medicine, as well as Associate Director for Health Equity and Community Engagement in the Stanford Cancer Institute. Focusing on racial and socioeconomic disparities in chronic disease treatment outcomes, Dr. Adams' interdisciplinary research seeks to evaluate the impact of changes in drug coverage policy on access to essential medications, understand the drivers of disparities in treatment adherence among insured populations, and test strategies for maximizing the benefits of treatment outcomes while minimizing harms through informed decision-making.
Deborah Butler was surprised by her breast cancer diagnosis in 2018. During her treatment, she developed neuropathy in both her hands and her feet and still has symptoms. She is active in the Women's Cancer Resource Center's Sister2Sister support group, where they share cancer experiences with each other, do activities, go on retreats, and encourage the new sisters coming into the group. Deborah hopes to help others by sharing how she copes with neuropathy.
Regina Guillory is a native Californian and a devoted Christian dedicated to being a servant leader in the community. Throughout her life she has given tirelessly to her family, church and service organizations, providing resources to those seeking information and assistance. As a 5-year cancer survivor she has taken on a new mission as a health advocate and champion for African American Women and all Women to empower, to educate and enrich their knowledge, action and engagement in prevention of breast cancer, alternative treatment options and survivorship. Since 2018, she has collaborated with Stanford Medical School as a member of BLACC (Black Ladies Advocating for Cancer Care) to promote proactive patient advocacy through peer to peer navigation.
Eva Meyers, Ph.D., FNP, RN, is a professional Oncology Nurse Practitioner, credentialed on the medical staff at Adventist Health White Memorial. Her specialty is breast cancer outreach, diagnosis, treatment, and survivorship care in the Cecilia Gonzalez De La Hoya Cancer Center, East Los Angeles. She assists underserved populations access quality cancer care and is working to bring quality oncology hereditary risk assessment and testing to practice. Dr. Meyers went from licensed vocational nurse to a registered nurse, then a family nurse practitioner and a Ph.D. in nursing and has worked in the hospital and out-patient settings and with diverse ethnic and low-income populations.


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I imagine that, like me, you're glad that you don't have to deal with the contents of Barack Obama's in-tray.
Think about it: right at the top, two over-excited daughters, constantly squabbling over whose turn it is to take the new puppy for a run. And a wife who – even if she doesn't say it out loud is certainly thinking it: "Don't look at me … you're the one who promised them a dog if we made it to the White House, so now you can deal with it."
And then, when both the daughters and the dog are finally asleep, there's the nearly as tricky question of what Iran and North Korea are up to at their various nuclear sites. And Iraq and Afghanistan, of course. Oh yes, and climate change. Did someone mention the economy?
And now, the people at the US State Department are telling you that you need to focus on Sri Lanka. They put out a statement last night: "The United States government is deeply concerned about the current danger to civilian lives and the dire humanitarian situation created by the fighting in the Mullaittivu area in Sri Lanka. We call upon the government and military of Sri Lanka, and the Tamil Tigers, to immediately stop hostilities until the more than 140,000 civilians in the conflict area are safely out."
On Wednesday, the British and French governments called on the Sri Lankan government to continue its 48-hour ceasefire, while also criticising the Tamil Tiger rebels for preventing civilians from leaving the conflict area.
So what's happening in Sri Lanka? Here's the brief history: for the last 25 years, on and off, the Tamil Tigers have been fighting for an independent Tamil state in the north and east of Sri Lanka. At least 70,000 – I'll repeat that, 70,000 – people have died in the conflict.
Now, after several months of heavy fighting, government forces seem to be on the verge of a military victory. The rebels control only a tiny sliver of land, but well over 100,000 civilians are trapped there. Many are dying, either as a result of military action or from diseases for which no treatment is available.
I spoke to the Red Cross earlier this week: they told me they have managed to get thousands of people out, but many thousands more are still stuck. Very few got out during the government ceasefire on Monday and Tuesday, either because the Tigers wouldn't let them leave, or because they were too frightened to.
You haven't seen or heard much about all this, have you? The reason is simple enough: the authorities won't let journalists anywhere near the conflict zone. So the Red Cross are just about the only people who know what's really happening.
And so far, all the international appeals for pauses, negotiations and the rest of it have fallen on deaf ears in Colombo. The government and the army are convinced that they are about to win this war once and for all. They are in no mood to stop now.
But those statements from Washington, London and Paris mean something. They mean there is real and growing international concern about the terrible cost in civilian lives of this military end-game. India is the traditional power broker in Sri Lanka, but India has just entered a month-long election process.
President Obama has just arrived in Mexico on his way to a Summit of the Americas in Trinidad. He has drug wars, arms smuggling, illegal immigration and relations with Latin America on his mind.
I can't help wondering how much attention he's paying to Sri Lanka.


CUFC is lucky enough to have managed to negotiate a number of key sponsorship deals. These deals are absolutely required on a season which sees the Club growing yet again to a new level. With over 250 members, organised in 13 distinct panels and playing in 9 different competitive leagues, the Club requires substantial resources and CUFC officers have decided that the Club should remain an affordable club.
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Recorded for Poem-a-Day, September 29, 2017.
my lover we had a new pet. Until it ate our chickens.
the door then wonder how the stranger ended up in our home.
but they are large rats without tails. Remember the farmer's wife?
what we fear into something beautiful. But even rats need to eat.
love hurts. Sometimes the lost dog doesn't want to be found.
Copyright © 2017 by Kelli Russell Agodon. Originally published in Poem-a-Day on September 29, 2017, by the Academy of American Poets.
Kelli Russell Agodon is the author of Hourglass Museum (White Pine Press, 2014).
at the ends of each slender baton.


Happy July, In case you did not see Bonedale Ballet's Flashmob-Rain Dance, here is a photograph! On Friday, July 6, these dancers brought much joy and positive energy to Carbondale with their premier showing of "Feel It Still" by Portugal the man and choreography by Alexandra Jerkunica. The rain did not arrive, but were not giving up. Stay tuned for more random acts of dance!
Dancers from left to right: Heather Pratt, Monika Baez, Debi Bruel, Lynn Ruoff, Alexandra Jerkunica, Janne Nikolajsen.
GRAND OPENING CELEBRATION for Coredination & Bonedale Ballet!


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Burak Özsoy (* 30. Juli 1994 in Beykoz) ist ein türkischer Fußballspieler.

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Özsoy kam im Istanbuler Stadtteil Beykoz auf die Welt und begann 2008 in der Nachwuchsabteilung von İstanbul Gençlerbirliği mit dem Vereinsfußball. Nach einem Jahr heuerte erst in der Nachwuchsabteilung von Kasımpaşa Istanbul an und wechselte 2011 in die Nachwuchsabteilung vom nordtürkischen Erstligisten Orduspor.

Im Sommer 2013 wurde er bei Orduspor mit einem Profivertrag ausgestattet, spielte zunächst aber für die Reservemannschaft des Vereins. Sein Ligadebüt für die erste Mannschaft gab er am ersten Spieltag der Saison 2014/15 gegen Kayserispor, das Spiel verlor Orduspor mit 0:1.

Seinen ersten Sieg mit Ordu feierte er am 20. Spieltag bei einem überraschenden 2:1-Auswärtssieg gegen das favorisierte Antalyaspor. In der 52. Minute erzielte den 1:1-Ausgleich, welches gleichzeitig sein erstes Tor als Profifußballer ist.

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Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card – 11
In what felt like a brisk episode, after a class lesson in formulas and equals gets Sakura thinking about how similar the Clear Cards are to Clow Cards she once captured, she has lunch with friends, during which Yamazaki informs everyone the ball sports tournament will begin soon.
On the way home from school, Sakura, Syaoran and Akiho encounter Yuna D. Kaito, who escorts Akiho the rest of the way home. Syaoran, meeting Yuna for the first time, is spooked—the butler is definitely a magic user. Eriol tells him via video chat that there's an order in the UK that grants it's highest-ranked magic users "D"—and for Syaoran to stay on his toes.
CCS is nothing if not adept at suddenly shifting from ordinary life to weird magical scenarios. After dinner with her brother during which she notices he switched up a recipe to include butter, she senses the presence of another card, which leads her and Kero to Penguin Park, the venue of a Clow card encounter in previous series.
Tomoyo placed Kero in charge of getting Sakura dressed up and filming her in case of her absence, and it's a good think Tomoyo isn't there, because this card loves pulling things off or out of the ground, inverting them, and smashing them back to earth.
In a rare interruption of Sakura's capturing routine, it even lifts her off her magical circle. It's only thanks to Kero diving in to catch her that she doesn'tsuffer a big bump on the noggin…or worse. But he wouldn't have been able to save both Sakura and Tomoyo simultaneously.
Sakura figures out that up and down don't matter if she's already in the air, so she activates her Flight Card and secures the "Reversal" Card while airborne in a short but sweet little burst of action.
Unfortunately, just like last time the inverted playground equipment attracts the attention of bystanders and ends up a news story on TV; Sakura and Kero are able to fly home without being seen.
Back home, while chatting with Tomoyo, they also learn most of Kero's footage is useless since the camera shifted when he caught Sakura. Tomoyo, containing her rage well, orders a training session for Kero so such mistakes aren't repeated.
Author magicalchurlsukuiPosted on Sun, 18 Mar 2018 Categories Anime Reviews, Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card, Winter 2018Tags カードキャプターさくら クリアカード編, butler, cardcaptor sakura, ccs, clear cards, daidouji tomoyo, eriol, flipping over, inverted, kero-chan, kinomoto sakura, magical girl, park, penguins, playground, selfies, shinomoto akiho, shoujo, sports, upside down, yuna d. kaito
Even though we've collectively logged over 1,900 hours of anime, we still consider ourselves humble tourists in the field. As such, we've developed and clung to assumptions more experienced and/or knowledgeable parties might find quaint. One of those is that the Miyazaki/Ghibli juggernaut has classically had the "wondrous fantasy with wide appeal" market cornered.
After this film (originally released in November), the first work we've seen from 34-year-old Yoshiura Yasuhiro (Eve no Jikan) which is ostensibly his magnum opus (so far), that assumption has been…inverted. SPOILERS THROUGHOUT.
Hannah Brave (Braverade): I'm still reveling in the afterglow of this phenomenally gorgeous film. There honestly wasn't a bad shot in the whole running time. From the opening moments depicting a wide-scale calamity to the transition to an underground world, it just kept dishing out awesome, exquisitely-detailed environments, determined to out-do Ghibli in sheer density of memorable imagery.
Preston Yamazuka (MagicalChurlSukui): I too found myself spellbound by the sights, but even the best-looking film can be undone by subpar music or voice-acting. This had neither of those problems: the stirring orchestral score, the hauntingly beautiful theme song; the voice-acting and ambient sounds—all conspired to complete our transportation to this new world.
Zane Kalish (sesameacrylic): The sights and sounds were spot-on (and very Ghibliesque at times, I might add), but where this film really shone was in its premise, brilliant in its elegance and almost universally approachable: what starts as a humble fish-out-of-water tale balloons into an epic tale of two worlds with opposite gravity connected by two young, open-minded representatives of said worlds, who share a passion for exploration and a yearning for the new.
Hannah: Yeah, I sure did think this was just going to be about the Adventures of Upside Down Girl, but the film became so much more than that as it progressed. The science of what exactly happened to cause this phenomenon is wisely kept vague; it's the impact of the phenomenon on society that really impressed.
Preston: To returning to the genesis of the Ghibliverse, Patema sure did resemble Princess Nausicaä, and her village was the kind of individualistic egalitarian utopia ruled by a kindly king the Valley of the Wind was. Meanwhile, gravity may be "correct" in Age's world (in that the sky is up, but more on that later), but feels like Nausicaä's unseen Tolmekian Empire; run by a man not afraid to spill blood to validate his ideals.
Zane: Forget just Ghibli: Aiga, a stark, authoritarian nightmareland where it's taboo to look up, called to mind Nineteen Eighty-Four, Blade Runner, Brazil, and Pink Floyd's The Wall. In any case, no where you particularly want to be. Once Patema arrives in Age's world, the cameras favor Age's perspective, making her inverted, but it's Aiga world that's "upside down" in terms of philosophy.
Hannah: When Age (pronounced "Eiji") hides Patema in that little shed, we knew it was only a matter of time before the "anti-invert" state got wind of her and brought the hammer down. If we had to give this film a demerit, it would be for having such a Laughably EEEEVIL Antagonist in Governor Odious Izamura, who spouts dogmatic bullshit but at the end of the day only worships the god Izamura, believing the vast power he has entitles him to keep Patema as a pet…or worse.
Preston: I can kinda forgive the scenery-chewing arch-villain, because while this film is often broken up into extremes of good and evil or up and down, it's just as concerned with the "in-between", the "third way", and in finding a way to connect the two worlds, which starts with the two kids Patema and Age. And even Izamura's evil is diluted by his right-hand man, who operates in more of a moral gray area for most of the film.
Zane: Izamura's character was definitely informed by the old-school bad guy immortalized by Muska, whom even Miyazaki said he was a bit disappointed in, but when two crazy kids start makin' eyes at each other, you need a strong, unrelenting force to break them apart in order to make their reunion that much more of an accomplishment. And I loved everything about the friendly love triangle of Patema, Age, and Porta, including how the two guys put their rivalry aside to save the girl.
Hannah: That was one hell of a rescue…even though it technically failed! But while Patema and Age's escape back down (or up? Oh dear…) to her world was delayed, the standoff on the roof of the skyscraper left us breathless, and led to one spectacular aerial vista after another, until they grow so close to the stars in the sky, they learn they're actually lights from a huge network of structures. I have to say, I wasn't expecting that.
Preston: Actually, when Age and Patema watched the stars together for the first time, I was truly hoping against hope they were actually the lights of another city. That the film actually went there really made my evening. And in a glorious moment of continuity and coincidence edging on kismet, Patema finds her backpack, which just happened to land right beside the Age's dad's wrecked flying machine.
Zane: Kismet or not, I really liked the way one life-threatening situation after another led to the Patema and Age growing to trust each other implicitly with their lives, and even becoming comfortable in their inverted hugging. The tender romance takes an important step forward up there in the "stars" where Age is the Inverted, and thus truly understands what Patema went through. As a recovering acrophobe, every instance of someone looking at their version of "down" generated a visceral response, a combination of primal fear and excitement. Unfortunately, there was no Spider-Man (or girl, in this case) kiss.
Hannah: Part of me hoped the lovebirds could just stay up there, but not only did practical issues preclude that (it gets really hot up there during the day, plus there's no food), they're the hero and heroine of the story; they can't just run away from their responsibility—and their desire—to serve as the bridge between their worlds. When they arrive at Patema's village, it's in the middle of her memorial service—now that right there is some Huck Finn/Tom Sawyer stuff!
Zane: Yes, Duty Before Booty.
Preston: Please don't type that. Also, you cut in line, it's my turn to write something.
Zane: You going to subtract points and revoke my citizenship?
Preston: No, there's no need to go Aiga on you. Ahem…anyway, yeah, Izamura's plan to invade Patema's realm with a handful of men using a flying device he has no idea how to operate seemed a bit short-sighted. You'd think someone who has that many weapons on his person would more carefully prepare for such an operation. It was akin to Dennis Hopper's President Koopa travelling to Manhattan armed with Super Scopes in the live-action Super Mario film.
Zane: Damn, nice reference. That was a properly nutty movie. But regarding Izamura, he was so obsessed with crushing the Inverted and taking personal possession of Patema (best illustrated by his tirade about why she chose Age – because he's the same age and not a dick, duh!) it dulled the survival instincts he'd ostensibly cultivated as ruler of Aiga, resulting in his excellent death-by-falling-up into an endless sky.
Hannah: Izamura's was a Bad Guy Death you can set your watches to, made more deliciously ironic by his long-held belief the sky swallowed up sinners. By then, his right-hand man is fed up with his evil shit and saves Patema, Age, and Porta with his trusty casting-net gun. That leads to a happy ending in which the first steps towards amity between the worlds are taken. And at that point, Patema and Age have been holding each other to prevent the other from falling to their doom for so long it becomes second nature. What do you think guys: too tidy an ending?
Preston: I don't think so. The happy ending felt earned, after all the heavens and hells they went through together. Their success is also a handy allegory for real world conflict: Just because my up is your down and your down is my up doesn't mean we have to be enemies. A difference of perspective, literal or not, will always lead to isolation and strife…but there will always be outliers in those groups who realize it doesn't have to be that way, and work to unite rather than divide.
Zane: I second Preston's opinion. By the end, Patema and Age are sweethearts, pioneers, and diplomats, but also very important symbols of the viability, and benefits, of harmony and accord. Aiga's hardcore Orwellian society is far more brittle than it looks when exposed to the sight of a cute couple soaring through the sky like birds. I like to imagine a sequel taking place a decade or so later, when the two societies coexist amicably in a new shared infrastructure resembling Escher's Relativity.
MAL Score: 8.31
Author rabujoistaffPosted on Sun, 8 Jun 2014 Fri, 31 Oct 2014 Categories Film Reviews, RABUJOI World Heritage ListTags Age, aiga, authoritarianism, サカサマのパテマ, calamity, dystopia, gravity, inverts, Izamura, orwellian, Patema, patema inverted, Porta, romance, Sakasama no Patema, stars, studio ghibli, studio rikka, underground, upside down, Yoshiura Yasuhiro3 Comments on Patema Inverted


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3) Describe problem: I am wondering if it is possible to have multiple fading scrollers on one page. As it stands, I have copied the code to 3 areas on my page, but only one scroller displays. How would I have to define them to get them to work?
Use your browser's 'view source' to see the code.
I have seen this script, nicely done by the way! Sometimes between messages it almost appears that the messages lay on top of each other.
It would be nice to have a programmable var for a delay between each message.
once first message disappears wait some user defined programmed amount of time.
increment to next array element and start over.
I would not want the delay to be before the first array element was displayed. I want the first array element to display right away.


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Obituary: viola and violin soloist Luigi Alberto Bianchi, 1945-2018
By Kimon Daltas2018-01-09T13:27:00+00:00
Menuhin protégé who in later years swapped fluidly between violin and viola, and whose career was punctuated by the thefts of two famous instruments
Born on New Year's Day 1945 in Rimini to a composer father and pianist mother, Luigi Alberto Bianchi was surrounded by music from the start, and it wasn't long before he developed into a violin prodigy.
His turn to the viola came almost by chance, when he enrolled at music college in Rome to find all the violin classes oversubscribed and instead was taken on by violist Luigi Ghezzi. 'He had only three viola pupils and he could devote hours and hours to me,' Bianchi told The Strad in 1989.
'With him I formed a real technique, playing Sevcík, Kreutzer – no performances, just technique. I still played the violin but we had such a good relationship that I changed to the viola because of him.'
At the Accademia di Santa Cecilia he went on to study with the great Renzo Sabatini who in turn set up a life-changing audition with Yehudi Menuhin, starting a mentoring relationship which led Bianchi to describe Menuhin as a 'real godfather' – his own father having died when he was just 11.
Menuhin invited him to play at the Bath Festival in 1968, involved him in chamber music projects, wrote an introduction for his LP of the two Brahms Sonatas; played and recorded the Mozart Sinfonia Concertante with him; and was also responsible for his meeting Georges Marci, who later became his wife. Meanwhile Bianchi had won the Carl Flesch Competition in 1970, playing the Walton Concerto in the presence of the composer, was a member of the Quartetto di Roma piano quartet for eight years, became principal viola of the Orchestra Sinfonica della RAI, all the while building a reputation as a viola soloist.
Then came a shock: his 1595 Antonio and Girolamo Amati viola, known as the 'Medicea' or the 'del Crocifisso' after the crucifix decoration on its back (pictured), was stolen from his car in the Piazza della Scala in Milan in 1980. Despite being probably the most easily recognisable viola in the world, it disappeared until 2006 (and it wasn't until 2013 that the dispute with the insurance company was resolved and Bianchi was able to take ownership of the instrument once more).
The event led him to give up the viola and return to the violin, effectively restarting his career as an unknown quantity. 'I had my reasons,' he told The Strad, claiming that he 'could not find an instrument that I liked after the theft of the Amati.'
Bianchi aged 7
With the insurance money from the Amati he acquired a 1692 Stradivari, and later upgraded to the 'Colossus' of 1716, paying a then record £440,000 for the long pattern violin previously owned by Viotti, his pupil Pierre Baillot, and Jacques Thibaud. 'For a viola player, a violin is always a toy and so I always like to play large models,' he said.
Then in 1998 came a second shock when it too was stolen, this time from his mother's house in Rome along with two Peccatte bows – and so far remains missing.
It seems the search for a new instrument led Bianchi to the third phase of his career, where he played both violin and viola, often appearing with both on recordings and indeed live, playing the first half of a recital on one instrument and the second on the other. He claimed the only real difficulty was in changing bow because of the weight difference.
Bianchi taught internationally, made several recordings, was an authority on Paganini and wrote a monograph on Alessandro Rolla, Paganini's teacher.
He died on 3 January 2018, two days after his 73rd birthday.
Obituary: Vagram Saradjian, cellist, 1948-2019
Student of Mstislav Rostropovich at the Moscow Conservatory who went on to performing and teaching career in the US
Obituary: Michael Flaksman, cellist, 1947-2019
Student of Paul Tortelier and Antonio Janigro was head of strings at the Musikhochschule in Mannheim
Obituary: luthier Paul Bartel
The violinist and luthier has passed away aged 67, following a lengthy battle with cancer


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Power Rangers Turbo es el título de la quinta temporada de la franquicia Power Rangers, producida por Saban Entertainment, Renaissance Atlantic Entertainment y MMPR Productions en colaboración con Toei Company, y emitida en Fox Kids del 19 de abril al 24 de noviembre de 1997, constando de 45 episodios. Sucede en el argumento a Power Rangers Zeo, aunque los hechos que narran la sucesión entre esa temporada y esta se narran en la película Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie, de los cuales se hace un breve extracto en los primeros episodios de Power Rangers Turbo. En esta temporada se introduce el primer protagonista infantil de la serie, y también se produce a mitad de la misma el primer cambio integral de la mayoría de personajes del equipo, abandonando la serie la mayoría de actores que habían formado parte del reparto, en algunos casos desde la primera temporada de Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, incluyendo los personajes de Zordon y Alpha 5, que dejan de ser personajes regulares, aunque volverán a aparecer posteriormente de forma esporádica. Como otras temporadas de Power Rangers, toma parte de las escenas de la franquicia Super Sentai Series, en este caso de la temporada Gekisō Sentai Carranger, lo cual en esta ocasión causó ciertos problemas de adaptación, ya que Carranger, a diferencia de otras temporadas de Super Sentai, era una serie con una fuerte carga de comedia que no se adaptaba al tono más serio de Power Rangers. Aquello estuvo por causar la cancelación de la franquicia ya que Power Rangers Turbo tuvo bajos niveles de audiencia, sumándose también el fracaso de la película precuela de la serie: Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie.

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La serie comienza en el mismo punto donde concluye Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie. Rocky se recupera  de su lesión en la espalda, pero por razones laborales  decide abandonar para siempre el equipo y dejarle su puesto a Justin. Mientras que los chicos se enfrentan a su graduación y abandonan el instituto de Angel Grove, Divatox, clamando venganza contra los Rangers por estropear sus planes con Maligore, se dirige a la Tierra dispuesta a acabar con ellos y conquistar la Tierra de paso. Poco después de la graduación, Zordon anuncia que Lerigot ha regresado para darle por fin la libertad de su prisión en el agujero temporal, y junto con Alpha 5 se marcha a su planeta natal de Eltar. No tienen tiempo de lamentarse de la despedida cuando un nuevo robot, Alpha 6 y una nueva mentora, Dimitria, llegan para ayudarles a enfrentarse a Divatox y sus ataques de monstruos. Los Rangers veteranos, sin embargo, ya no son unos adolescentes, y deben con el tiempo dejar sus poderes de Power Rangers para seguir adelante con sus vidas, escogiendo ellos mismos a quienes serán sus sucesores, una nueva generación de Power Rangers, también estudiantes de Angel Grove, que proseguirá la lucha contra Divatox.

Elenco y personajes

Principales

 Johnny Yong Bosch como Adam Park/Green Turbo Ranger.
 Nakia Burrise como Tanya Sloan/Yellow Turbo Ranger.
 Blake Foster como Justin Stewart/Blue Turbo Ranger.
 Jason David Frank como Tommy Oliver/Red Turbo Ranger.
 Catherine Sutherland como Katherine "Kat" Hillard/Pink Turbo Ranger.
 Tracy Lynn Cruz como Ashley Hammond/Yellow Turbo Ranger II.
 Patricia Ja Lee como Cassie Chan/Pink Turbo Ranger II.
 Roger Velasco como Carlos Vallerte/Green Turbo Ranger II.
 Selwyn Ward como Theodore Jay "T.J." Johnson/Red Turbo Ranger II.
 Carol Hoyt y Hilary Shepard Turner como Divatox. Hoyt la interpretó los primeros 25 episodios de la serie debido a la maternidad de Shepard, Shepard la interpretó el resto de la temporada.
 Paul Schrier como Farkas "Bulk" Bulkmeier.
 Jason Narvy como Eugene "Skull" Skullovitch.
 Gregg Bullock como el Teniente Jerome Stone.

Secundarios

Turbo Rangers

 Tommy Oliver/Red Turbo Ranger 1: Al acabar la secundaria, comienza a trabajar como probador de vehículos de competición, al tiempo que su relación con Kat va avanzando poco a poco. Cuando debe abandonar sus poderes, Tommy escoge a T.J. por su valor a la hora de rescatarle de una de las tramas de Divatox. Como Turbo Ranger, su Zord es Destello Rojo.
 Adam Park/Green Turbo Ranger 1: Tras acabar la secundaria, ha encontrado trabajo como especialista en rodajes, y también es entrenador del equipo de fútbol del instituto de Angel Grove, al que pertenece Carlos, a quien escoge como su sucesor cuando debe abandonar el poder. Como Turbo Ranger, su Zord es Trueno del Desierto.
 Tanya Sloan/Yellow Turbo Ranger 1: Tras acabar la secundaria, comenzó a trabajar como locutora de una emisora de radio local, y además dio sus primeros pasos como cantante. Al abandonar el poder, escogió a Ashley, una de las animadoras del instituto de Angel Grove, como su sucesora. Como Yellow Ranger, su Zord es Estrella de las Dunas.
 Kat Hillard/Pink Turbo Ranger 1: Tras acabar la secundaria, comenzó a perseguir su sueño de convertirse en bailarina profesional de ballet. Al abandonar el poder, escogió a Cassie por el valor demostrado cuando ayudó a T.J. a rescatarles de una trama de Divatox. Como Turbo Ranger, su Zord es Cazador del Viento.
 Justin Stewart/Blue Turbo Ranger: Tras decidir Rocky renunciar definitivamente a sus poderes, el pequeño Justin, de 12 años, se quedó de forma permanente en el equipo. Poco después de convertirse en Power Rangers, le dieron la noticia de que las pruebas de aptitud habían demostrado que era superdotado, y eso le permitió ascender varios cursos de golpe y empezar a acudir al instituto de Angel Grove con los mayores de forma directa. Justin sufre constantemente por la ausencia de su padre. Como Turbo Ranger, adquiere forma adulta al transformarse, y su Zord es Todoterreno Bombardero y luego el Sirena Bombardero.
 T.J. Johnson/Red Turbo Ranger 2: T.J. se dirigía junto a Cassie de camino a Angel Grove cuando se encontraron con Kat que estaba siendo atacada por los Pirañatrones. Por el valor que demostró al ayudarla y después al rescatar a Tommy, fue escogido como el nuevo líder de los Power Rangers, siendo el primer líder de raza afroamericana de la historia de la serie. Como Turbo Ranger, su Zord es el Destello Rojo y luego el Destello Termo de Fuego.
 Carlos Vallerte/Green Turbo Ranger 2: Se trata de un jugador de fútbol del equipo al que entrena Adam, quien tiene una buena amistad con él desde el principio y confía en sus capacidades. Por ese motivo, y por la capacidad que demostró cuando le ayudó en una misión de rescate de civiles en un ataque de Divatox, fue el escogido para sucederle en el poder. Se trata del primer Ranger de origen latino de la historia de la serie. Como Turbo Ranger su Zord, es el Trueno del Desierto y luego el Trueno Cargador.
 Ashley Hammond/Yellow Turbo Ranger 2: Se trata de una animadora de Angel Grove a quien Tanya escogió como sucesora por "su compasión y su integridad" demostrada durante la misión de rescate de civiles. Es la primera Yellow Ranger de raza caucásica de la historia de la serie. Como Turbo Ranger, su Zord es Estrella de las Dunas y luego el Corredor Estrella.
 Cassie Chan/Pink Turbo Ranger 2: Se trata de una mujer de carácter osado y sarcástico, una fachada que esconde su interior compasivo y amable. Fue escogida por Kat como nueva Pink Ranger por el valor que demostró al ayudarla a enfrentarse contra los Pirañatrones. Es la primera Pink Ranger de raza asiática de la historia de la serie. Como Turbo Ranger, su Zord es el Cazador del Viento y luego el Rescate del Viento.
 Phantom Ranger: Se trata de un enigmático aliado cuya identidad nadie llega a conocer, que aparece para ayudar a los Rangers contra Divatox. Fue quien trajo a los Rangers los nuevos Rescue Zords cuando los Turbo Zords dejaron de ser suficiente. Parece sentir una cierta atracción hacia Cassie, por quien no duda en ponerse en peligro si es para proteger su seguridad, y ella parece también sentir algo hacia él. Sin embargo, estos sentimientos jamás llegan a materializarse en nada serio.

Aliados

 Dimitria: Se trata de una habitante del planeta Inquiris que se convierte en la sucesora de Zordon en el cargo de mentora cuando este se marcha de vuelta a Eltar. Al principio, como los demás habitantes de su planeta, se comunica únicamente mediante preguntas y acertijos para hacer que sean los Rangers mismos los que deduzcan las soluciones a las situaciones que se les presentan. Sin embargo, con el tiempo abandonará esta costumbre y comenzará a comunicarse de forma directa con ellos como Zordon lo hacía antes. Aunque se sugiere durante el transcurso de la serie que podría ser la hermana de Divatox, esta idea jamás llegó a concretarse del todo.
 Alpha 6: Es "el siguiente en una larga línea de Alphas", como él mismo se define al aparecer de una cabina de la Power Cámara tras la marcha de Zordon y Alpha 5. Posee un carácter muy diferente al de este último, y una voz completamente distinta también, más grave y enérgica, aunque de apariencia es similar a Alpha 5.
 Centurión Azul: Se trata de un oficial de policía robótico procedente del futuro. Llegó para advertir a Dimitria de una terrible amenaza que se aproximaba, pero Divatox borró el mensaje de su memoria antes de que pudiera entregarlo. Después, se quedó en la Tierra para ayudar en batalla a los Rangers.

 Bulk y Skull: Al principio, Bulk y Skull fueron readmitidos junto a Stone en la policía, pero en la primera misión se toparon de bruces con Elgar, quien les convirtió en un par de monos. En ese estado, podían hablar entre ellos, pero nadie más podía entenderles, lo que les frustraba pues no dejaban de pedir ayuda, y los demás al desaparecer Bulk y Skull pensaron que se habían marchado de Angel Grove como habían sugerido ellos mismos la última vez que les habían visto con vida. Stone al ver a los monos les adoptó como mascotas y vivieron con él hasta que pudieron recuperar la forma humana gracias a un misil de Divatox, después de pasar un tiempo invisibles como efecto secundario. Tras su regreso, Stone comenzó a ayudarles a buscar trabajo, probando todo tipo de empleos de los que siempre eran despedidos al primer día. Con la nueva generación de Rangers, Bulk y Skull no llegaron a llevarse demasiado bien, salvo con T.J. que fue el único que trabó buena amistad con ellos.
 Jerome Stone: Aunque al principio había vuelto a la policía, tras la desaparición de Bulk y Skull abandonó el cuerpo, y sucedió a Ernie como encargado del Centro Juvenil cuando éste se marchó como voluntario a Sudáfrica.

Arsenal

 Turbo Morpher: Es el dispositivo de transformación, de dos piezas. Por un lado un brazalete que se coloca en la muñeca, y por otro una llave, similar a la llave de Lerigot, que se introduce en una cerradura situada en la muñeca para iniciar la transformación, tras pronunciar la frase "Shift into Turbo". Los Rangers antiguos invocaban a sus Zords para transformarse. La nueva generación dejó de hacer esto.
 Turbo Blaster: Es un arma básica de los Rangers, una pistola que siempre llevan consigo.
 Turbo Espada: Es la otra arma básica de los Rangers, una espada corta.

 Turbo R.A.M. : Es la unión de las cinco armas personales de los Turbo Rangers para formar un potente cañón.
 Wind Fire: Es el arma personal de la Turbo Pink Ranger, un arco.
 Thunder Cannon: Es el arma personal del Turbo Green Ranger, un bazooka.
 Hand Blaster: Es el arma personal del Turbo Blue Ranger, unas pistolas.
 Lightning Sword: Es el arma personal del Turbo Red Ranger, un florete.
 Star Charges: El arma personal de la Turbo Yellow Ranger, un puño de acero.

 Láser Turbina: Un cañón especial para destruir a los enemigos.

Vehículos

 Turbo Carts: Unos vehículos de transporte de los Turbo Rangers equipados con pistolas láser.
 Senturion Cycle: Es la motocicleta personal del Centurión Azul.
 Lightning Cruiser y Storm Blaster: Dos vehículos con vida propia que llegaron del espacio para ayudar a los Rangers.

Zords

 Turbo Megazord: Es la unión de los cinco Turbo Zords básicos, con forma de coches gigantes.
 Rayo Rojo: Es el Turbo Zord del Ranger Rojo, un deportivo.
 Trueno del Desierto: Es el Turbo Zord del Ranger Verde, un monovolumen.
 Estrella Duna: Es el Turbo Zord de la Ranger Amarillo, un utilitario.
 Cazador del Viento: Es el Turbo Zord de la Ranger Rosa, un turismo.
 Cañón Montaña: Es el Turbo Zord del Ranger Azul, un 4x4.

 Turbo Rescue Megazord: Es la unión de los Rescue Zords, unos Zords con forma de coches que además pueden asumir formas humanoides.
 Lighting Fire Tamer: Es el Rescue Zord del Red Ranger.
 Thunder Loader: Es el Rescue Zord del Green Ranger.
 Star Racer: Es el Rescue Zord de la Yellow Ranger.
 Wind Rescue: Es el Rescue Zord de la Pink Ranger.
 Siren Blaster: Es el Rescue Zord del Blue Ranger.

 Robo Racer: Es el Zord del Centurión Azul. Tiene dos modos, uno de coche de policía y otro de robot.

 Turbo Artillatron: Es el Zord del Phantom Ranger, un Zord de gran tamaño que puede contener en su interior a los cinco Rescue Zords. Puede dividirse en tres vehículos, cada uno para dos Rescue Zords (y el tercero para el quinto) o montarse los tres vehículos en una sola torre robótica.

Villanos

Los villanos de Power Rangers Turbo son la pirata espacial Divatox y sus secuaces, y su base es un submarino de alta tecnología.

 Divatox: Tras frustrar los Rangers los planes de Divatox sobre su boda con Maligore (véase Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie), Divatox jura venganza contra los Power Rangers, y los persigue hasta la Tierra, convirtiéndola en el blanco de sus ataques. Es una mujer de carácter extremadamente irascible con todo el mundo y muy vanidosa y con complejo de superioridad.

 Elgar: Es el sobrino de Divatox, que logró sobrevivir a las llamas del volcán al que esta le arrojó como sacrificio y regresó a su servicio. Es de carácter estúpido y atolondrado y suele estropear todos los planes que se le encomiendan.

 Rygog: Es el general del grupo de Divatox, que suele entrar en batalla directa y puede lanzar rayos por los ojos. Su punto débil es su armadura, ya que si se le tumba boca arriba, queda completamente vulnerable como una tortuga.

 Porto: Es el científico del grupo de Divatox, el encargado de fabricar monstruos y desarrollar armas y maquinaria. También suele ser él el que lanza los torpedos desde el submarino que hacen crecer a los monstruos.

 Pirañatrones: Son los soldados de campo de Divatox, unos hombres-pez con armadura ligera.

Episodios

Doblaje de Hispanoamérica

 Daniel Abundis como Tommy Oliver.
 Alfredo Leal como Justin Stewart.
 Rubén León como Adam Park.
 Pilar Escandón como Tanya Sloan.
 Laura Torres como Kat Hillard.
 Benjamín Rivera como T.J Johnson
 Carlos Hugo Hidalgo como Carlos Vallerte.
 Mayra Arellano como Ashley Hammomd.
 Rocío Prado como Cassie Chan.
 Alejandro Illescas como Centurión Azul.
 José García como Phantom Ranger.

Notas

Referencias

Enlaces externos

 Sitio web de Power Rangers Turbo en la web oficial de la serie

Turbo
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Home Books Strange and Schafermeyer's Pediatric Emergency Medicine, 5e
Chapter 39: Cystic Fibrosis
Sabah F. Iqbal; Dinesh Pillai; Kathleen M. Brown; Bruce L. Klein
Iqbal SF, Pillai D, Brown KM, Klein BL. Iqbal S.F., & Pillai D, & Brown K.M., & Klein B.L. Iqbal, Sabah F., et al.Cystic Fibrosis. In: Tenenbein M, Macias CG, Sharieff GQ, Yamamoto LG, Schafermeyer R. Tenenbein M, & Macias C.G., & Sharieff G.Q., & Yamamoto L.G., & Schafermeyer R(Eds.),Eds. Milton Tenenbein, et al.eds. Strange and Schafermeyer's Pediatric Emergency Medicine, 5e. McGraw-Hill; Accessed January 21, 2021. https://accessemergencymedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=2464&sectionid=195170025
Iqbal SF, Pillai D, Brown KM, Klein BL. Iqbal S.F., & Pillai D, & Brown K.M., & Klein B.L. Iqbal, Sabah F., et al. (2019). Cystic fibrosis. Tenenbein M, Macias CG, Sharieff GQ, Yamamoto LG, Schafermeyer R. Tenenbein M, & Macias C.G., & Sharieff G.Q., & Yamamoto L.G., & Schafermeyer R(Eds.),Eds. Milton Tenenbein, et al. Strange and Schafermeyer's Pediatric Emergency Medicine, 5e. McGraw-Hill. https://accessemergencymedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=2464&sectionid=195170025
Iqbal SF, Pillai D, Brown KM, Klein BL. Iqbal S.F., & Pillai D, & Brown K.M., & Klein B.L. Iqbal, Sabah F., et al. "Cystic Fibrosis." Strange and Schafermeyer's Pediatric Emergency Medicine, 5e Tenenbein M, Macias CG, Sharieff GQ, Yamamoto LG, Schafermeyer R. Tenenbein M, & Macias C.G., & Sharieff G.Q., & Yamamoto L.G., & Schafermeyer R(Eds.),Eds. Milton Tenenbein, et al. McGraw-Hill, 2019, https://accessemergencymedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=2464&sectionid=195170025.
HIGH-YIELD FACTS
CLINICAL PRESENTATION OF UNDIAGNOSED CF
CF COMPLICATIONS
LABORATORY AND RADIOGRAPHIC FINDINGS
LABORATORY EVALUATION
Cystic fibrosis (CF) is the most common life-limiting autosomal recessive disease among Caucasians in the United States.
Most patients with CF have the classic triad of manifestations: chronic pulmonary disease, malabsorption due to pancreatic insufficiency, and elevated concentrations of sweat chloride and sodium.
There is considerable individual variation in the clinical manifestations, severity, and course of the disease.
In a patient known to have CF, the most common reason for presenting to the emergency department (ED) is for a pulmonary exacerbation.
Gastrointestinal (GI) complications include malabsorption, obstruction, and hematemesis.
In this era of universal newborn screening, it is rare for a patient to present with undiagnosed CF.
Cystic fibrosis (CF) is caused by mutations in the gene that encodes the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) protein.1–4 This protein, which is located in the epithelial cell membrane, functions normally as a cAMP-activated chloride channel, transporting chloride, and passively water, out of the cell into the adjacent lumen.3,4 CFTR also plays a role in bicarbonate transport from the cell into the lumen. CFTR is involved in regulating sodium channels for airway epithelial cells, helping to limit sodium and water reabsorption from the lumen to the cells. In sweat gland ductal cells, CFTR is responsible for transport of chloride into the cell, leading to increased salt in sweat when CFTR is defective. These mechanisms help explain the clinical manifestations of the disease.
The CFTR gene is located on the long arm of chromosome 7. The most common mutation that causes CF is F508 deletion. There are more than 1500 less-common mutations grouped into six classes.1,5,6
The sinuses, lungs, pancreas, liver, biliary tract, gastrointestinal tract, and reproductive system express the CFTR gene and are affected by its mutation.2–4 However, the relationship between genotype and clinical manifestations is not always consistent. The most important pathophysiologic consequence of these CFTR defects is diminished water in mucus and most exocrine secretions along with associated electrolyte and other abnormalities.4 Mucus and exocrine secretions are more viscid, and they are difficult to clear, causing airway and ductal obstruction.3,7 In the airways, these mucus and possibly other abnormalities predispose to chronic inflammation as well as chronic infection with a characteristic group of bacterial organisms including Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Aspergillus, and Staphylococcus aureus.2,4 This predisposition to specific infections has yet to be fully elucidated. Various hypotheses have been proposed (Table 39-1).3,4
TABLE 39-1Factors Hypothesized to Predispose to Airway Infection with Characteristic Organisms in CF Patients
TABLE 39-1 Factors Hypothesized to Predispose to Airway Infection with Characteristic Organisms in CF Patients
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In Focus: 10 Things You'll Face After College Graduation That No One Tells You About
Joelle Theresa Ngo
For all seniors, college graduation can be pretty exciting. The thought of being done with exams and papers and never ever having to go back to school (except for visits—as an alumni!) makes everyone's hearts leap for joy. But what happens when summer's over and it's time to #adult?
After tossing that graduation cap, you'll realize what every senior learns after leaving school—you become a freshman again. That's right. Syllabus and exams will be replaced with resumes, portfolios, and meeting agendas! Honestly speaking, stepping out into the real world will be difficult, but with the right mindset and positive spirit, #adulting doesn't have to be as hard. In fact, it will lead to incredibly wonderful experiences that you will cherish for the rest of your life. And to make it even easier, here are some secrets that you'll face after graduation that no one tells you about:
1. Your first year out of college will be tough. Most fresh grads think finding a job is easy so long as they have a diploma—they're wrong. Truth is, you'll probably find yourself unemployed for the first few months you're out of college, but fret not! Just keep boosting your resume and keep applying and you'll eventually land the job of your dreams.
2. Some of you will face an identity crisis. You're sending out hundreds of resumés to potential jobs but you're met with silence. Are you doing anything wrong? Don't they like you? Should you be changing anything about yourself? It'll be hard to keep your sanity intact but hang in there, girl! If a job is really meant for you, it will come. And if not, that's okay, too! There are a lot of other opportunities that you can explore as long as you know where your passions lie.
3. The first few months can get pretty lonely. After graduation, you and your friends will be scattered around the city (or you may even be countries apart!) and setting a date to hang out will pose a challenge considering your different work schedules. Plus, when you finally leave college, you're also leaving the tightest, largest group of people who are the same age as you—making the thought of making new friends intimidating. But just put on your best smile and you'll make new friends in no time!
4. Budgeting your money has never been more crucial. Remember when we said that there'll be a possibility you'll be unemployed for a while? That's what this is for. While you're still in college, save your allowance as much as you can. You'll thank yourself afterwards!
5. Don't settle for a job for the sake of being employed. The thought of seing your friends becoming employed one by one can be excruciating, but don't feel down and don't feel pressured! If you feel like taking whatever job is offered to you just so you can say that you're also employed, we ask you to think twice before you do it! You might feel worse than when you were without work! Just wait and remember: Good things take time.
6. Put your pride aside. As a fresh grad, you'll most likely find yourself at the bottom rung of the career ladder. The work is hard and the pay is low—that's okay. Your priority now should be acquiring as much experience as you can in your chosen field and not how much money you can make (trust us, you'll be able to haggle that later on when you get better at your job). Keep an open mind and hustle hard—there's still so much to learn!
7. It's the perfect time to take risks. Whether you want to go #soulsearching, travel abroad or pursue higher studies, just go for it! Nobody's going to judge you if you want to take a breather first before you face real-world responsibilities head on, after all, you're going to do it the rest of your life, anyway!
8. You'll discover that our generation gets unfairly labelled for being entitled. Do not accept that. Stay humble, work hard and show up! Prove that you are eager to learn and look at work with enthusiasm. Don't act like you know everything, and don't be afraid to ask for help when you need it. Just prove 'em all wrong!
9. You will encounter an obscene amount of paperwork. From government taxes, mortgages to health insurance, #adulting comes with a lot of paperwork that you'll never expect. But you'll survive—if you remember to always prepare your requirements in advance in order to avoid the hassle.
10. The real world is fun—don't let other people tell you otherwise. Don't believe middle-aged grumps who tell you that you're doomed once you become an adult. Of course, it's not always rainbows and butterflies, but it's certainly not all about work, too. If they tell you, "a job is just that—a job," don't let that pull you down. Your job can be meaningful and your weekdays can matter, because life is how you make it to be.
To the class of 2017, congratulations on making it to the real world! It won't be easy, but chin up; with the right perspective, you'll be fine. This is the start of a new phase in your life—make it count!
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Interview with faculty affiliate Prof. Jaime Alves
Dr. Jaime Alves is an Assistant Professor in Black Studies at UCSB. He received his Ph.D. Social Anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin. Before coming to UCSB, he taught Cultural Anthropology and Latin American Politics at the College of Staten Island of the City University of New York and was a visiting professor in the Center for African Diaspora Studies at Universidad Icesi, in Colombia. He is the author of The Anti-Black City: Police Terror and Black Urban Life in Brazil (University of Minnesota Press, 2018).
Tell us a little about your current project.
I am very interested in studying outlawed forms of Black protest against police violence and broad forms of state violence. Currently, my work investigates how Black youth engaged in ganging practices challenge the security state in places such as the peripheries of Cali, Colombia, and São Paulo, Brazil. I want to excavate stories that challenge the crappy narratives of police victimization – a local version of the Blue Lives Matter narrative deployed to justify violence against predominantly Black and poor communities. How does one write about these stories of resistance without further criminalizing the Black urban poor? In what ways can we be sympathetic to the insurgency of those excluded from the city and yet be attentive to the tragic agency that some subjects embrace in their attempt to fend off the state? As a continuation of the previous work, my next book deals with these questions by exploring the meanings of resistance embedded in everyday practices such as occupying public land, stealing electricity and water, pirate transportation, gang membership, and illegal street-vending. How does Black resistance look like in these contexts? More specifically, how do Black Colombians reclaim autonomy over their lives and territories in a city that necessitates black subjugation and death, all while celebrating Blackness as a cultural asset?
How does your work shed light on Latin American and Iberian studies?
My work is very interdisciplinary. It dialogues with Latin American and Iberian Studies, particularly with current trends that interrogate the marginal place of Black scholarship in Latin American Studies. The field needs to question its own existence as a (pos)colonial discipline and meaningfully engage with new directions that are really challenging la academia gringa. Can Latinidad, as a concept and a mode of sociality, include Black people? What work is the "Afro" of Afro-Latin America supposed to perform, anyway? Likewise, what is the African Diaspora's place as a theoretical framework within Latin American Studies? I know these questions are hardly new. It is what Brazilian scholar Lélia Gonzalez had in mind when she proposed Améfrica Ladina as a conceptual counternarrative of colonialism. While it still does not change some colonial assumptions about Black and indigenous geo-ontologies, her call is crystal clear: it's time to "enegrecer' our field and our disciplinary practices. I am glad to see LAIS committed to this ethical imperative. The Program's interdisciplinary body of scholars is doing impressive works that expand the horizon of possibilities in Latin American Studies.
Can you tell us about how you became interested in pursuing an academic career in Black Studies?
My career in Black Studies and Anthropology results from my activism in the Black movement in Brazil. Over the years, I had the privilege to actively participate in the vibrant struggle for affirmative action policies in higher education in Brazilian universities and anti-policing movements in São Paulo. More recently, I have been involved with Black grassroots in Cali, Colombia. In all these stances, my work is grounded in my activism and my experience as a Black person coming of age in a favela plagued by police terror. While I am very aware of the complex ways skin-color and region of origin plays out in Latin America's pigmentocracy, these conditions taught me the meanings of Blackness and the importance of activist or militant scholarship to enable social change. I believe that Back Studies provides us the insurgent tools to do so and that a dialogue between Latin American Studies and Black Studies can generate meaningful insights and possibilities to engage with emancipatory projects in the region.
Is there any advice you have for Latin-Americanists pursuing academic careers?
There is so much that one can do with a degree in Latin-American Studies. The primary advice I would give to students is to get involved right away with the region's vibrant social movements and grassroots organizations. Of course, by 'region,' I am also referring to the Latinx population in the diaspora. From Argentina to Canada, the Americas is a fertile zone of indigenous and Black pedagogies of resistance, as much as it is a laboratory for predatory capitalism. A Latin Americanist degree holder from UCSB will be well prepared to act in the public sector, NGOs, or academia. Just look around campus: UCSB faculty and students, many of themselves from underprivileged social groups, are pushing forward engaged researches in pressing issues such as the geopolitics of security in Colombia, the waves of social change in Chile, environmental racism in Central America, the cruelty of humanitarian interventions in Haiti, the struggle against far-right backlash in Brazil's Bolsonaro, and so on.
Any other fun details, hobbies, or news you'd like to share with us?
A piece of news that I would like to share is that currently, I am part of a transnational research initiative– with my dear colleagues Terrance Wooten (Black Studies) and Amanda Pinheiro (Global Studies) –, which is investigating Black communities' responses to the Cov-19 pandemic in Brazil, Colombia, and Kenya. It is really refreshing to see how, despite all odds, Black communities across the African Diaspora are creatively developing strategies to cope in this biopolitical crisis. The project is co-sponsored by the SSRC, The Orfalea Center, the Center for Black Studies Research, and the Division of Social Science through the Dean's Office. A fun detail/hobby about me, I am indesculpablemente a fan of Silvito Rodrigues and Mercedes Sosa.


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Florida's first cases of the omicron variant are in Tampa and St. Lucie County
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The James A. Haley VA Hospital in Tampa is among the busiest veteran's hospitals in the nation.
Officials say a patient at the James A. Haley Veterans' Hospital had mild symptoms and recently returned from international travel. The St. Lucie case was also travel-related.
The first known cases of the coronavirus omicron variant in Florida have been detected in St. Lucie County and at the James A. Haley Veterans' Hospital in Tampa, the state Department of Health reported.
A health department spokeswoman announced the findings Tuesday, saying in a statement the strain was "quickly identified" as three state laboratories continue to actively sequence genomes of the coronavirus.
A spokeswoman from the Veterans Affairs hospital said the patient has mild symptoms and had recently returned from international travel.
Earlier today, a statement was released regarding the presumed case of Omicron detected by the Florida Department of Health. This case has now been confirmed by @CDCgov. The Department has released an updated statement below as of 6pm. pic.twitter.com/Zmkx2fszMG
— Florida Dept. of Health (@HealthyFla) December 7, 2021
A spokesperson for the health department confirmed to media outlets another omicron case was detected in St. Lucie County. The case is also travel-related.
Contact tracing has been conducted to identify possible exposures and necessary quarantine protocols, the health department said.
Speaking in Oldsmar on Tuesday, Gov. Ron DeSantis said Florida will not change its approach in dealing with the latest variant.
"In Florida, we won't let them lock you down. We won't let them restrict you. We're not going to let them impose mandates. We're not going to let them close the schools. We are going to protect your freedom to make your decision," DeSantis said.
"If people are scared of omicron and want to isolate, that's their decision. You don't impose Fauci-ism on the whole country or whole state. It's wrong," he added in a slight to Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top medical adviser to President Joe Biden.
At least 19 states have reported cases of the omicron variant as of Tuesday.
Researchers have said there much about the variant that is unknown. Fauci has said that while it appears to be more transmissible than others, it is less likely to lead to severe illness.
Health News Florida's Kerry Sheridan contributed to this report.
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Q: What is the most efficient way to assign __proto__? I need to assign the __proto__ (as found here) to an object that is passed through a web worker postMessage().  I found this solution but it creates a class on each call and that strikes me as inefficient. Is there a more efficient way to do this?
ps - This should be very safe because it's reattaching the methods to an object that had that exact __proto__ before it was dropped in the serialization.

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I found this solution but it creates a class on each call and that strikes me as inefficient

This call new newClass() is not inefficient in the general sense. It is only as inefficient as calling new Class on its own just a few more things, i.e. creating a new obj for use in this (as simple as {}) and settings newClass.prototype to be __proto__ in the returned object.

Is there a more efficient way to do this

Compared to  obj.__proto__ = (<any>(new newClass())).__proto__; ... yes very much so, Just do :
obj.__proto__ = newClass.prototype
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What happens when a medium goes on vacation? Can a medium simply switch off their ability at will? Well…not exactly. Rob Gutro is a medium/author/paranormal investigator and a scientist who has written 4 books about his encounters with human and animal ghosts and spirits. In this book, you will read about his experiences on two separate trips to the United Kingdom. England's rich history and many epic battles have caused an over-abundance of residual emotional energy. Everywhere he traveled, he had a paranormal experience. He explored royal palaces and spent the night in haunted castles.
He encountered the ghosts of historical figures including a queen, a prince, and a nobleman; and several ghosts even shared their pain of death experience with him. On one occasion, the doppelganger of a loved one provided directions when he became lost while driving in the countryside due to a malfunctioning GPS. But not all of his encounters were of the human variety: there was also a very special visit from a canine ghost. This book is intended to be more than just a collection of personal ghost stories.
In addition to relating my ghostly encounters, he has also included a short narrative history of the places where the experiences occurred. After all, knowing the history of a place is key to understanding why a ghost has decided to stay behind. So, join Rob as he relates his encounters with the ghosts of England.
Rob has written 4 other books about the paranormal, two about people (Ghosts and Spirits and Lessons Learned From Talking to the Dead) and 2 about pets (Pets and the Afterlife and Pets and the Afterlife 2). The books are available in paperback and e-book on Amazon.com.


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