“A Little History Here, a Little Hollywood There”: (Counter-) Identifying with the Spanish Fantasy in Carlos Morton’s Rancho Hollywood and Theresa Chavez’s L.A. Real

Often considered the final conquest and ultimate summation of Manifest Destiny, California holds a unique place in the American imaginary. While the popular mythology of the Spanish fantasy has served to obscure the use of violence and racialized oppression throughout the colonization of the American Southwest, traces of such struggle remain in memories of the colonized as they continue to occupy this contested space. This paper examines Carlos Morton’s ensemble-based political satire, Rancho Hollywood, and Theresa Chavez’s one-woman show, L.A. Real, to navigate the dynamic experience of contemporary Southern Californian racialized identity. These two pieces diverge stylistically but share an inclusive, nuanced approach to making sense of history, exploring the material and epistemological impact of historical representation on Chicana/o identity over time. Rancho Hollywood and L.A. Real counter-identify with the Spanish-fantasy heritage by rejecting stereotyping, questioning sanitized versions of Californian history, and voicing personal narratives that resist dominant regional myths and their associated racial ascriptions. Each play stages alternative versions of history that include personal experience and cultural memory; this transformative, productive approach to identity formation articulates agency over the memory of California

Gender and Food Access in Adams County: Food Provisioning, Identity Formation, and Survival

This project analyzes food access issues in Adams County, specifically within the setting of South Central Community Action Programs and the Gleaning Project through the collection of individual testimonies. Budget, time, transportation, health, and household composition emerged as common themes that affect food access within this rural community and limit choice and agency, and also serve as a major influence in the process of food provisioning and identity formation, especially in terms of motherhood, parenting, and caregiving. In most cases, due to these systemic shortcomings, individuals and families navigated multiple solutions to these challenges in order to sustain themselves and to be active members of their communities

Un pie sobre la tierra

Joint (Un pie sobre la Tierra) is a short fiction film where in Ramona`s birthday she attempts to find her daughter Valentina. After several attempts calling her phone without answer, she enters Valentina`s room to find some clues, she finds a pack of cigars, a flyer with a guide map of the concert where Valentina went and a intimate home video of her daughter and lover smoking dope. Julio, the husband interrupts to go to the concert in search of Valentina. On the road Ramona and Julio talk about their daughter and about some memories when they where young. Before entering to the concert, ignoring Julio`s warnings Ramona takes a puff of the snuff (tobacco she took from hers daughter`s room). From this point on, Ramona takes a journey of sensations, fantasies and memories in her body, next to Julio and Valentina. Joint talks about human relationships and family in a 15- minute film with the participation of several colleges and about 8 months from conception of the idea to mastering the video.Un pie sobre la Tierra es un cortometraje de ficción que cuenta la búsqueda de Ramona para encontrar a su hija Valentina en el día del cumpleaños de aquella. Después de varios intentos llamando a su celular sin que nadie le conteste, Ramona entra al cuarto de su hija para buscar algunas pistas: ahí va a encontrar una supuesta cajetilla de tabacos, el flyer donde está el croquis del concierto donde Valentina se encuentra y un video casero íntimo de su hija y el enamorado que se los mira fumando droga. Julio, esposo de Ramona, la interrumpe mientras miraba el video, y salen en búsqueda de Valentina. En el camino conversa con su esposo sobre su hija y recuerdan algunos momentos cuando los dos eran jóvenes. Antes de llegar al concierto, Ramona tiene ganas de fumar un tabaco (se había guardado los tabacos de su hija), y sin hacer caso a las advertencias de su esposo, se prende el supuesto tabaco. A partir de este momento, Ramona ingresa a un viaje de sensaciones, fantasías y recuerdos con su cuerpo, con Julio y su hija Valentina. Un pie sobre la Tierra es una historia que nos habla sobre las relaciones humanas y sobre la familia; es un descubrimiento cinematográfico de 15 minutos donde participaron varias personas y tomo alrededor de 8 meses desde la concepción de la idea hasta la masterización del video

HUMAN TRAFFICKING IN CYBERSPACE

Once with the spread and use of computers and Internet on a larger scale, trafficking in persons has conquered a new space: cyberspace. The recruitment of victims through the Internet, the use of e-mails for the moral coercion of the victim and ultimately, the exploitation of victims with the purpose of obtaining widespread Internet pornography constitute human trafficking in cyberspace. This area of crime deployment raises many questions like: who will be criminally liable, which is the applicable law, which is the end point of the crime?computer crime, human trafficking

The Chamber Chorale

Program listing performers and works performed

SERCA is critical to control the Bowditch effect in the heart

The Bowditch effect or staircase phenomenon is the increment or reduction of contractile force when heart rate increases, defined as either a positive or negative staircase. The healthy and failing human heart both show positive or negative staircase, respectively, but the causes of these distinct cardiac responses are unclear. Different experimental approaches indicate that while the level of Ca2+ in the sarcoplasmic reticulum is critical, the molecular mechanisms are unclear. Here, we demonstrate that Drosophila melanogaster shows a negative staircase which is associated to a slight but significant frequency-dependent acceleration of relaxation (FDAR) at the highest stimulation frequencies tested. We further showed that the type of staircase is oppositely modified by two distinct SERCA mutations. The dominant conditional mutation SERCAA617T induced positive staircase and arrhythmia, while SERCAE442K accentuated the negative staircase of wild type. At the stimulation frequencies tested, no significant FDAR could be appreciated in mutant flies. The present results provide evidence that two individual mutations directly modify the type of staircase occurring within the heart and suggest an important role of SERCA in regulating the Bowditch effect.Fil: Balcazar, Dario Emmanuel. Universidad Nacional de La Plata; ArgentinaFil: Regge, María Victoria. Universidad Nacional de La Plata; ArgentinaFil: Santalla, Manuela. Universidad Nacional de La Plata; ArgentinaFil: Behrensmeyer, Anna Kay. Universität Osnabrück;Fil: Achimón, Fernanda. Universität Osnabrück;Fil: Mattiazzi, Ramona Alicia. Universidad Nacional de La Plata; ArgentinaFil: Ferrero, Paola Viviana. Universidad Nacional de La Plata; Argentin

Fault tectonics and earthquake hazards in the Peninsular Ranges, Southern California

There are no author-identified significant results in this report

La Brigada Ramona Parra; Muralismo y Cambio Social en Chile / La Brigada Ramona Parra ; Muralismo and Social Change in Chile

Mi motivación para esta proyecto era mi interés en el poder de murales en Chile, y los cambias sociales que arte callejero pueden iniciar. Arte callejero he tenido un efecto muy grande en la historia y políticos de Chile. Yo quería descubrir más sobre esta historia, y también cómo los organizaciones que hacen murales, cómo la Brigada de Ramona Parra, funciona hoy. Para mi proyecto, yo usé entrevista, guías de arte callejero, observaciones en escuelas de Bellas Artes, y un exposición de murales. En mis resultas, yo encontré que la Brigada de Ramona Parra ha cambiado la escena política en Chile y todavía tiene un rol importante en los políticos. / My motivation for this project was my interest in the power of murals in Chile, and social change that street art can begin . street art I had a big effect on the history and political Chile. I wanted find out more about this story, and also how the organizations that make murals, how Ramona Parra Brigade , operates today . For my project , I I used interview guides, street art, Fine observations in schools Arts and an exhibition of murals. In my result , I found that the Brigade Ramona Parra has changed the political scene in Chile and still has a role important politicians

Régimen tributario de sociedades de hecho vitivinícolas

El presente trabajo tiene como objetivo principal analizar la conveniencia de constituir y llevar a cabo una sociedad de hecho dedicada al cultivo y elaboración de vino en la provincia de Mendoza. En principio se analizan algunos conceptos generales, aspectos legales y contables a tener en cuenta, basados en leyes de impuestos nacionales y provinciales y en bibliografía consultada.Fil: Flores, Ramona Natalí. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas.Fil: Luengo, Noelia Belén. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas.Fil: Torres, María Alejandra. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas

Conference Bibliography: Juvenile Justice 1999-2013

A selected bibliography was prepared in connection with the Juvenile Justice Conference held at the William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, on April 12-13, 2013