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Coup at Central Basin Water COntinues With Help of Newly Appointed Directors

@supjanicehahn @lamiradalewis @LMDistrict5 @mayorcamacho @LutzPicoRivera @drmonicasanchez @andrewcorban @PicoRiveraCity @cityofpicorivera @theChrisApodaca @wrdsocal @alisajjadtaj @officialcityofartesia @hgcityca @HawaiianGardens @cityofsfs

November 13, 2024 By Brian Hews It was well-known that Martha Camacho Rodriguez would lose her Central Basin Water District 1 seat in last Tuesday’s election so the new CB Board majority of Juan Garza, Camacho Rodriguez, Nem Ochoa, and Joanna Mareno violated the Brown Act, with no objection from General Counsel Victor Ponto, removed Art Chacon as president, and appointed Camacho Rodriguez as…

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4000 Follower Celebration Bingo Card

I am coming up to 4000 followers on the old blog and I would like to say a massive thank you to everyone who has taken the time to follow me, it means everything to me that you enjoy my work!

Secondly let's celebrate with a little bingo!

The Rules:

One Bingo Square per Character

One Bingo Square/Char per ask

When a character is assigned I will add them to the bingo card so you can see it.

If a Char/Square isn't working for me, the Square will be reset.

As usual check the pinned post on my blog to see who I'm writing for. I've added a few newbies recently.

Any questions just ask!

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De la gaveta íntima

De la gaveta íntima #aperturaintelectual #palabrasbajollave @tmoralesgarcia1 Thelma Morales García

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demons , talk , legacy @ juan

MUSE QUESTIONS : ACCEPTING !

say  if  your  muse  was  in  silent  hill  ,  a  mystical  town  that  shows  it’s  visitors  physical  manifestations  of  their  own  demons  -  what  would  they  see  ?

nossa, eu não sei nem como começar. juan é uma pessoa muito reprimida, então os temas mais recorrentes em uma silent hill baseada nos demônios dele contaria com criaturas silenciosas e brutais, diretamente relacionado a quantidade infinita de vezes que ficou quieto em situações ruins porque foi ensinado a nunca questionar, e ele simplesmente aprendeu a nunca falar nada, só concordar. ele também é uma pessoa muito apegada a toque físico, mas ele sente vergonha do quanto ele deseja e anseia por isso (criaturas que parecem querer cuidar mas matam sufocando, esmagando etc). consigo imaginar uma cidade cinzenta, com badalares de sino, uma lembrança antiga da igreja onde ele cresceu, e os badalares sempre anunciam coisas terríveis. também teriam criaturas de semblante tristonho, desesperado (com bocas costuradas). quanto mais medo você sente delas, quanto mais o seu coração acelera, mais rápidas elas se tornam, remetendo a como juan sempre teve muito medo, e as vezes ele achou que esse medo comeria ele vivo (e, nessa cidade, o medo literalmente vai). e por último mas não menos importante, a grande figura paterna dele: o padre. que seria grande, forte e faria todos os outros monstros se esconderem. e dentro do estômago dele, por um buraco, você conseguiria ver uma outra criatura: a mãe dele. e olhar diretamente nos olhos dela te deixaria vazio.

do  they  talk  to  themself  /  objects  /  the  walls  ?  how  come  ?

sim, especialmente pra se chamar atenção ou tentar decidir alguma coisa complicada. mas ele não fala com objetos ou com as paredes, normalmente quando ele está falando sozinho ou ele está falando consigo mesmo ou ele está realizando alguma prece.

does  your  muse  want  to  make  a  lasting  impact  on  the  world  ,  or  would  they  prefer  for  their  life  to  fade  away  into  obscurity  ?

ambos? juan não sabe reagir quando ele é genuinamente visto por alguém, mas ele acredita que está no mundo para fazer a diferença na vida das pessoas como alguém realmente de passagem. o que ele imagina para si é que ele vai ser uma uma lembrança querida na mente das pessoas, mas nunca constante. ele quer ser alguém que, quando é mencionado, coloca um sorriso no rosto da pessoa.

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Un discurso polémico y seis grandes novelas que compiten por el Premio Vargas Llosa

"Después de escuchar las palabras de David Toscana, quienes estábamos en la Sala 2 del Conjunto Santander de las Artes Escénicas nos felicitamos por haber aguantado el calor de la tarde tapatía para recordarnos por qué la literatura es indispensable".

Por Irma Gallo Fotos: Josué Nando/FIL de Guadalajara Tarde de jueves en la calurosa Guadalajara. La Sala 2 del Conjunto Santander de Artes Escénicas estaba atiborrada. A pesar del aire acondicionado, la reunión de cuerpos hacía que poner atención al acto inaugural de la quinta edición de la V Bienal Mario Vargas Llosa fuera todo un reto. Sólo la emoción por escuchar la conversación entre los…

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A Tango With The Villain

!!WARNINGS!!: Strictly WLW, Dirty Flirting, Perverse Gestures/Comments, I WILL use google translate for phrases but it may not be 100% correct so I’ll put what it’s intended as next to it in Brackets(these things —> []).

!CHARACTERS!: Karla Martinez(OC), Valeria Garza, Juan, Carlos, Andreas(thugs that I named cuz I’m too lazy to find names of her thugs), and the Bartender.

The club was bustling with activity. Loud music blaring and colorful lights flying around the room. The bar was busy.

Most of the women wore simple, revealing clothes to attract the men who mostly wore a simple T-Shirt and jeans. Valeria sat in her private booth with her men standing guard by it.

She was waiting for someone.

Valeria was dressed in a black vest suit and a red button up dress shirt. Intending to match outfits with the person she was waiting for. Checking her phone for the thousandth time, she sighed in frustration. She snapped at one of her men. He leaned in to receive his orders. “Carlos, tráeme un whisky; con hielo.[Carlos, get me a whiskey; on the rocks.]” The man nodded and went to the bar. Ordering her whiskey.

Valeria checked her phone again and threw it down on the table impatiently. She ran a hand through her hair. “¿Dónde estás, mi llama?[Where are you, my flame?]” She mumbled to herself frustratedly. She’d told Karla to get ready half an hour before she was expected to leave. So where the hell was she?

It was about 15 minutes later when Karla finally arrived, much to Valeria’s frustration. But not her disappointment. When Karla finally came to the booth, Valeria got to see Karla in all her glory. Standing at a height of 5’1”(without heels). Her long, wavy black hair frames her face, cascading down her back and curled slightly at the ends—just barely enough for it to look natural. Karla's warm, caramel-toned skin practically glowing with how the club lights bounced off it, and her expressive dark brown eyes convey a look of warmth and love for Valeria.

Valeria eyed Karla up and down, shifting invitingly as she licked her lips upon seeing how Karla’s skin fitted cocktail dress that faded from red to black on the bottom of the dress accentuated some… attributes of her body. Karla was wearing the matching red high heels to the dress—though they wouldn’t stay on long before she switched to red and black sneakers so the dress didn’t drag too much.

“You look good, durazno.[peach.]” Valeria commented as Karla sat beside her. “Gracias, mi amor.[Thank you, my love.]” Karla said before adding “You look good too, no doubt we’ll turn some heads tonight.” Karla chuckled. Valeria just grinned and put her hand on Karla’s thigh and softly rubbed with her thumb. “Margarita, ¿verdad mi alma?[right my soul?]” Valeria asked, Karla simply nodded and Valeria snapped her fingers, one of her men going to get said Margarita for Karla. A few minutes later he returned and gave Karla her Margarita. “Gracias, Juan.[Thank you, Juan.]” Karla said as she took a sip.

A few drinks later, Karla dragged Valeria onto the dance floor. Swaying her hips to the erotic Reggaeton music blaring in the club as Valeria chuckled and decided to dance with her. Though, it was an understatement to say Valeria’s hands simply wandered. They had aim, Karla knew that as soon as she felt Valeria’s hand possessively still on her thighs to keep her close as she danced to the music. Whispering dirty yet sweet nothings into Karla’s ear as they dance together.

As the night went on Valeria’s touches became more possessive. At some point she dragged Karla into her lap and buried her face in Karla’s neck as she practically devoured Karla’s neck and squeezed her breasts teasingly “Why can’t I just tare this dress off, ¿mi llama..?[my flame..?]” Valeria repeated in frustration every few minutes. Andreas, one of Valeria’s thugs, didn’t like the little noises he could unfortunately hear from the two women in their booth over the blaring music.

Later some more romantic music came on, and Karla dragged Valeria onto the dance floor. “Care for a dance, ¿mi amor?[my love?]” Karla grinned, Valeria chuckled and went with her. When the music for the tango came on Karla was glad she and Valeria took classes for it.

Valeria took Karla in her arms and they got ready to dance the tango. The second they started Valeria grabbed Karla’s ass VERY firmly. If you asked Karla, she would tell you Valeria was DEFINITELY drunk by that time. At the end of the tango, Valeria dipped Karla and held her there. Kissing her deeply before her lips wondered down Karla’s neck and to her breasts. “Let’s go home, mi alma…[my soul…]” Valeria murmured. Karla already knew what that meant, and eagerly agreed. Valeria signaled for her men to bring the car around and then she escorted Karla safely to it.

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Imagen de Francisco I. Madero con su estado mayor político y militar en el año de 1911

Fotografía tomada después de la Primera Batalla de Juárez. En la fotografía, de izquierda a derecha, aparecen de pie el coronel Francisco Villa, Gustavo A. Madero (hermano del presidente Madero), Francisco I. Madero Hernández (padre del presidente Madero), el teniente coronel Guiseppe Garibaldi, Federico Gonzales Garza, el coronel José. de la Luz Blanco, Juan Sánchez Azcona, Alfonso Madero Gonzales (hermano del presidente Madero) y David Lawrence (reportero de Associated Press). Sentados en la fotografía, de izquierda a derecha, están Venustiano Carranza, Francisco Vázquez Gómez, Francisco I. Madero (Presidente de México), Abraham González, José María Maytorena, Alberto D. Fuentes Dávila y el General de Brigada Pascual Orozco.NotasIdentificación de personajes en fotografía cedida por Miguel Angel Berumen, historiador especializado en fotografía de la Revolución Mexicana. Título derivado de la información que acompaña a la postal: Líderes de la Revolución Mexicana de 1910 posan después de la Primera Batalla de Juárez.

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do you have any book recommendations for us :D

MAYBE SO.......!!!! u know i love talkin abt books!!!

well, ok since ive posted about most of the books ive been reading recently MAYBE i can also post about some that i ordered and am waiting to arrive??? because all of these sounded very interesting to me!!!

SO books i have coming in the mail:

surrealist novels:

the woman in the dunes by kobo abe

the hearing trumpet by leonora carrington

the melancholy of resistance by laszlo krasznahorkai:

the third policeman by flann o'brien

nadja by andre breton

(been really into surrealism lately if it isn't apparent. most excited for melancholy of resistance i think)

horror, gothic, etc:

bruges-la-morte by georges rodenbach

the damned (la-bas) by joris-karl huysmans

floating dragon by peter straub

classics, short stories, etc:

french decadent tales (oxford world's classics) by stephen romer

in watermelon sugar by richard brautigan

swann's way (in search of lost time, #1) by marcel proust

selected short stories by balzac

icefields by thomas wharton

some ive picked up recently & stoked to read:

ada, or ardor by nabokov (my most beloved author of all time)

carmilla by le fanu

nightmare alley by william lindsay gresham

a king alone by jean giono

twilight of the idols by nietzsche

transparent things by nabokov

dark water by koji suzuki

selected poems by jorge luis borges (also beloved)

trolled my goodreads for more recs

books ive read & enjoyed so far this year:

the iliac crest by cristina rivera garza

the tenant by roland topor (FAV!!! huge fav)

crimson labyrinth by yusuke kishi

pedro paramo by juan rulfo

carolina ghost woods by judy jordan

death in her hands by ottessa moshfegh

the unbearable lightness of being by milan kundera

in the lake of the woods by tim o'brien

disgrace by j m coetzee

goth by otsuichi

books i enjoyed from last year:

the lottery & other stories by shirley jackson

the vegetarian by han kang

rosemary's baby by ira levin

piercing by ryu murakami (an all time fav)

the bloody chamber by angela carter (fav)

starve acre by andrew michael hurley (also a fav)

the glassy, burning floor of hell by brian evenson

the devil's larder by jim crace

monstrilio by gerardo samano cordova

and as a bonus, literally anything by nabokov. i have a big book of his short fiction that ive been reading slowly for a long while. despair by him is my fav book of all time, hands down. he is a master of absurdism (and a master of every language he writes in).

ALSO!!!! if youre into poetry, anything and every single thing by: t.s. eliot, baudelaire, rimbaud, borges. i also love neruda's poetry but i have heard he was an awful man so keep that in mind

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Camp Camp Spanish dub

Max: Héctor Emmanuel Gómez

Nikki: Lileana Chacón

Neil: Pascual Meza

David: Irwin Daayán

Gwen: Alondra Hidalgo

Neil “Niño Espacial” Armstrong Jr.: Monserrat Mendoza

Dolph Houston: Arturo Cataño

Harrison: Moisés Iván Mora

Nerris: Nycolle González

Ered Miller: Karen Vallejo

Nurf Nurfington: Raúl Anaya

Preston Goodplay: Óscar Flores

Intendente: Germán Fabregat

Cameron Campbell: Octavio Rojas

Sasha / Erin / Tabii: Carla Castañeda

Edward Pikeman: Jesús Guzmán

Billy “Serpiente” Nikssilp: Alan Fernando Velázquez

Stephan van Petrol: Juan Carlos Tinoco

Hecdor Repugnante: Eduardo Garza

Jasper: Arturo Castañeda

Bonquisha: Laura Torres

Daniel: Alan Bravo

Jen: Karla Falcón

Intenhermana: Gabriela Guzmán

Penelope Priss: Ruth Toscano

Candy: Violeta Isfel (Startalent)

Carl: Andrés López (Startalent)

Agentes Miller: Joaquín Cosio (Startalent)

Sra. Nurfington: Kate del Castillo (Startalent)

El Papá de Nerris: Kuno Becker (Startalent)

La Mamá de Harrison: Consuelo Duval (Startalent)

El Papá de Harrison: Javier Ibarreche (Startalent)

La Mamá de Nerris: Jacqueline Bracamontes (Startalent)

Teniente Stuart Houston: Salvador Cienfuegos (Startalent)

Buzz Aldrin: Rodolfo Neri Vela (Startalent)

La Abuelita de Preston: Elena Poniatowska Amor (Startalent)

Sr. Repugnante: Faisy (Startalent)

Sra. Repugnante: Favio Posca (Startalent)

Brian: Daniel Lacy

Vera: Alicia Barragán

Hwan: Pepe Vilchis

Dang: Miguel Ángel Ruiz

Clark Campwell: Gabriel Pingarrón

Muriel Campwell: Olga Hnidey

Ainsley: Alina Galindo

Louis: César Filio

Cameron Jr.: Ricardo Brust

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THE BOOKS I READ IN 2023

*I read it before

**I read it more than once this year

Aaron Caycedo-Kimura, Common Grace

Adania Shibli, Minor Detail, translated from the Arabic by Elisabeth Jaquette

Ahmad Almallah, Bitter English

Alison Lubar, It Skips a Generation

Atef Abu Saif, The Drone Eats With Me: A Gaza Diary

Brynn Saito, Under a Future Sky

Camonghne Felix, Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation

*Carolina Ebeid, You Ask Me to Talk About the Interior

Chanté L. Reid, Thot

*Christina Sharpe, Ordinary Notes

Christine Shan Shan Hou & Vi Khi Nao, Evolution of the Bullet

Christopher Okigbo, Labyrinths (with Paths of Thunder)

Cristina Rivera Garza, Liliana’s Invincible Summer

Dionne Brand, Chronicles of the Hostile Sun

*Dionne Brand, No Language is Neutral

Dionne Brand, Primitive Offensive

Édouard Louis, Who Killed My Father, translated from the French by Lorin Stein

**Emily Lee Luan, 回 / Return

Erin Marie Lynch, Removal Acts

Fady Joudah, Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance

Farid Tali, Prosopopoeia, translated from the French by Aditi Machado

Gabriel Palacios, A Ten Peso Burial For Which Truth Is Sign (coming out 2024)

Ghayath Almadhoun, Adrenalin, translated from the Arabic by Catherine Cobham

Hauntie, To Whitey & The Cracker Jack

Hervé Guibert, To the friend who did not save my life, translated from the French by Linda Coverdale

Hiromi Ito, Tree Spirits Grass Spirits, translated from the Japanese by Jon L. Pitt

*James Baldwin, No Name in the Street

*James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name

*James Baldwin, The Devil Finds Work

James Fujinami Moore, Indecent Hours

Jami Nakamura Lin, The Night Parade

Jawdat Fakhreddine, Lighthouse for the Drowning, translated from the Arabic by Huda Fakhreddine and Jayson Iwen

Jed Munson, Commentary on the Birds

Jennifer Hayashida, A Machine Wrote This Song

Jenny Odell, Inhabiting The Negative Space

Jenny Xie, The Rupture Tense

*Joy Kogawa, A Choice of Dreams

Joy Kogawa, A Garden of Anchors: Selected Poems

**Joy Kogawa, From the Lost and Found Department: New and Selected Poems

Joy Kogawa, Gently to Nagasaki

*Joy Kogawa, Jericho Road

*Joy Kogawa, Obasan

Joy Kogawa, The Rain Ascends

Joy Kogawa, The Splintered Moon

*Joy Kogawa, Woman in the Woods

Juan Felipe Herrera, Akrílica, eds. Farid Matuk, Carmen Giménez, Anthony Cody

Kamo-no-Chomei, Hojoki: Visions of a Torn World, translated from the Japanese by Yasuhiko Moriguchi and David Jenkins

Keorapetse Kgositsile, Collected Poems, 1969-2018

*Kiku Hughes, Displacement

Kōno Taeko, Toddler-Hunting, translated from the Japanese by Lucy North

Leila Khaled, My People Shall Live: Autobiography of a Revolutionary, as told to George Hajjar

Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, Kaan and Her Sisters

**Lindsey Webb, Plat (coming out in 2024)

Lisa Hsiao Chen, Activities of Daily Living

Liyana Badr, A Balcony over the Fakihani, translated from the Arabic by Peter Clark with Christopher Tingley

Lucille Clifton, An Ordinary Woman

*Lucille Clifton, Blessing the Boats

Lucille Clifton, Good News About the Earth

Lucille Clifton, Good Times

Lucille Clifton, Two-Headed Woman

Mahmoud Darwish, The Butterfly’s Burden, translated from the Arabic by Fady Joudah

Mahmoud Darwish, If I Were Another, translated from the Arabic by Fady Joudah

Mahmoud Darwish, Palestine as Metaphor, translated from the Arabic by Amira El-Zein and Carolyn Forché

Maya Abu Al-Hayyat, You Can Be The Last Leaf, translated from the Arabic by Fady Joudah

Maya Marshall, All the Blood Involved in Love

Michael Prior, Model Disciple

*Mitsuye Yamada, Camp Notes and Other Poems

Mitsuye Yamada, Full Circle: New and Selected Poems

Mohammed El-Kurd, RIFQA

**Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear

Mourid Barghouti, I Saw Ramallah, translated from the Arabic by Ahdaf Soueif

Mourid Barghouti, I Was Born There, I Was Born Here, translated from the Arabic by Humphrey Davies

Mourid Barghouti, Midnight, translated from the Arabic by Radwa Ashour

Na Mira, The Book of Na

Najwan Darwish, Nothing More to Lose, translated from the Arabic by Kareem James Abu-Zeid

Natsume Sōseki, Kokoro, translated from the Japanese by Edwin McClellan

Nona Fernández, Voyager: Constellations of Memory, translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer

Noor Hindi, DEAR GOD. DEAR BONES. DEAR YELLOW.

Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human, translated from the Japanese by Donald Keene

Osamu Dazai, The Flowers of Buffoonery, translated from the Japanese by Sam Bett

The Palestinian Wedding: A Bilingual Anthology of Contemporary Palestinian Resistance Poetry, edited and translated from the Arabic by A.M. Elmessiri

R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Kappa, translated from Japanese by Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda and Allison Markin Powell

Salim Barakat, Come, Take a Gentle Stab: Selected Poems, translated from the Arabic by Huda J. Fakhreddine and Jayson Iwen

Samih Al-Qasim, All Faces But Mine, translated from the Arabic by Abdulwahid Lu’lu’a

Samih al-Qasim, Sadder Than Water: New & Selected Poems, translated from the Arabic by Nazih Kassis

*Saretta Morgan, Alt-Nature (coming out in 2024)

Satsuki Ina, The Poet and the Silk Girl (coming out in 2024)

Sawako Ariyoshi, The Twilight Years, translated from the Japanese by Mildred Tahara

Shailja Patel, Migritude

Sham-e-Ali Nayeem, City of Pearls

Sharon Yamato, Moving Walls

Shivanee Ramlochan, Everyone Knows I Am a Haunting

**shō yamagushiku, shima (coming out in 2014)

Shuri Kido, Names and Rivers, translated from the Japanese by Tomoyuki Endo and Forrest Gander

*Solmaz Sharif, Customs

Stella Corso, Green Knife

*Taha Muhammad Ali, Never Mind: Twenty Poems and a Story, translated from the Arabic by Peter Cole, Yahya Hijazi, Gabriel Levin

Terry Watada, The Game of 100 Ghosts (Hyaku Monogatari Kwaidan-kai)

Victoria Chang, Obit

*Wong May, Superstitions

THE BOOKS I'M CURRENTLY READING, THAT I HAVEN'T FINISHED YET

Chi Rainer Bornfree and Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, The Portal (not yet published)

Elaine Castillo, How to Read Now

Eqbal Ahmad, The Selected Writings

Essays, ed. Dorothea Lasky

Fadwa Tuqan, A Mountainous Journey: A Poet's Autobiography, translated from the Arabic by Olive Kenny

James Welch, Winter in the Blood

Lan P. Duong, Nothing Follows

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Touching the Art

Preti Taneja, Aftermath

Wanda Coleman, Wicked Enchantment

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Illicit Take-Over of Central Basin Board Meeting Led to Hiring of GM

IS THIS OK? From (l-r) three appointed (not elected) Central Basin Directors Juan Garza, Jim Crawford and Thomas Bekele with VP Martha Camacho. The group, with advice from attorney Victor Ponto, reconvened a previously adjourned meeting and then voted to hire Elaine Jeng as GM. VP Camacho reconvened the meeting without using proper parliamentary…

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2024 olympics Dominican Republic roster

Athletics

Robert King (Santo Domingo)

Erick Sánchez (Azua De Compostela)

José González (Santo Domingo)

Alexander Ogando (San Juan De La Maguana)

Yeral Nuñez (La Romana)

Milagros Durán (San Pedro De Macorís)

Franchina Martínez (Santo Domingo)

Marileidy Paulino (Don Gregorio)

Anabel Medina (Santo Domingo)

Boxing

Junior Alcántara (Salvaleón De Higüey)

Cristian Pinales (La Romana)

María Moronta (Santo Domingo)

Diving

Frandiel Gómez (San Felipe De Puerto Plata)

José Ruvalcaba (León De Los Aldama, Mexico)

Victoria Garza (Saltillo, Mexico)

Equestrian

Yvonne Losos (Santo Domingo)

Gymnastics

Audreys Nin (Santa Cruz De Barahona)

Judo

Robert Florentino (San Juan De La Maguana)

Moira Morillo (Santo Domingo)

Shooting

Eduardo Lorenzo (Santiago De Los Caballeros)

Soccer

Josué Báez (Santo Domingo)

Ángel Montes (San Juan De La Maguana)

Enrique Bösl (Kösching, Germany)

Nelson Lemaire (Schaarbeek, Belgium)

Thomas Jungbauer (Jarabacoa)

Xavier Valdez (Faribault, Minnesota)

Francisco Reyes (Santiago De Los Caballeros)

Edgar Pujol (Sabadell, Spain)

Luiyi De Lucas (Galván)

Heinz Mörschel (Frankfurt, Germany)

Óscar Ureña (Figueres, Spain)

Rafael Núñez (Madrid, Spain)

Edison Azcona (Boca Raton, Florida)

Peter González (Madrid, Spain)

Joao Urbáez (Móstoles, Spain)

José De La Cruz (Rubí, Spain)

Fabian Messina (Stuttgart, Germany)

José De León (Madrid, Spain)

Nowend Lorenzo (Santo Domingo)

Swimming

Javier Núñez (Santo Domingo)

Elizabeth Jiménez (Santo Domingo)

Taekwondo

Bernardo Pié (Bayaguana)

Madelyn Rodríguez (Santiago De Los Caballeros)

Volleyball

Alondra Tapia (La Vega)

Geraldine González (Santo Domingo)

Madeline Guillén (Santo Domingo)

Cándida Arias (Santo Domingo)

Brenda Castillo (Santo Domingo)

Ariana Rodríguez (Miami, Florida)

Niverka Marte (Santo Domingo)

Yonkaira Peña (Santo Domingo)

Bethania De La Cruz (Santo Domingo)

Brayelin Martínez (Santo Domingo)

Jineiry Martínez (Santo Domingo)

Gaila González (Santo Domingo)

Weightlifting

Beatriz Pirón (San Pedro De Macorís)

Yudelina Mejía (Santo Domingo)

Crismery Santana (San Pedro De Macorís)

Wrestling

Luis Pérez (Santo Domingo)

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Latina girl core/ Mexican fairy core/ Catholic core

As the title of this post suggests, what I will be describing is more of a trending aesthetic sensibility than a clearly identifiable hashtag such as #cottagecore or #darkacademia. I noticed the influence of Latin American Catholicism first in fashion in brands such as Mirror Palais and Willy Chavaria: both designers are latino and their Spring/Summer 2023 show took place in a Catholic church. On TikTok, the stylings associated with the above aesthetics often include long ruffled low-rise skirts paired with dainty crop tops, rosaries on neck or waist, white, cotton, two-piece maxi skirt ensembles, gold jewelry (particularly hoop earrings), and scarves and flowers as hair accessories. The visuals include catholic churches, crosses as wall decoration, white lace, warm-tones, and hair ribbons. Evidence for consolidating the tree aesthetics is the fact that these visuals appear when searching for either, hence if there is little to no aesthetic distinction between aesthetics what makes them different? I say not much. I was expecting to find a lot of controversy and accusations of cultural appropriation under the #latinacore and #mexicanfairycore, however most of the people who used them were latina. Most of the accusations of appropriation were made by non-latina white people under #catholicore. Oh the irony of catholics being angry about cultural appropriation when it's been the church’s favorite conversion tactic for centuries. I find the catholic angle of the aestheticization of latinamerican imagery very interesting since TikToks hashtagged #catholiccore use latinamerican cultural catholicism instead of a European catholicism. For example, in addition to Selmya Hayek and Danelia Garza, another ubiquitous latina in the aesthetic is the Virgin of Guadalupe. According to a legend written in Nahuatl, the image of the Virgin Mary appeared in 1531 to a Mexican man named Juan Diego and spoke to him in Nahuatl. The legend helped popularize catholicism amongst a resistant ethnically Aztec and Mayan Mexican population. I believe that Mexican catholicism is so aesthetically appealing because it is a mixture of indigenous and European catholic influences, hence it has the grandeur gothic European churches and the rich colors of Mexican life such as bright marigolds and painted skulls. Additionally, Gen Z is the least religious generation yet, and the visuals of Mexican catholicism offer the visual splendor of religion without the conservatism and shame.

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Una promesa inquebrantable de amor y otra de justicia… “El Precio De Amarte”

Diogo Covarrubias y Amelia Saldívar, a sus seis y cinco años, son inseparables. Comparten juegos y sueños ignorando que su destino está marcado por la venganza. Eduarda, madre de Amelia y ama de llaves de la finca ‘La Fortuna’, es la amante de Clemente Covarrubias, padre de Diogo. Eduarda se embaraza con la intención de que Clemente deje a su esposa Teresa, pero este, al saberlo, le da una fuerte cantidad y le exige dejar la finca de inmediato. Eduarda pide la ayuda de Jorge, un examante y su eterno enamorado, para hacerle pagar a Clemente su desprecio.

Amelia cuenta a Diogo que ella y su madre se van de la finca. En su despedida, y como símbolo de su eterna amistad, Diogo y Amelia cuelgan de la rama de un árbol una botella con sus nombres en el interior. El encuentro es aprovechado por dos encapuchados que secuestran a Diogo, a pesar de que Amelia lucha para evitarlo. Teresa y Clemente reúnen todo lo que tienen para recuperar a su hijo mayor. Clemente, en un intento desesperado por rescatarlo, es asesinado por Jorge en presencia de Diogo. Ese asesinato, y la impotencia de ver a su madre corriendo tras la camioneta que lo separará de todo lo que ama, deja herido su corazón.

El hermano de Jorge, su cómplice, no puede matar a Diogo y lo deja abandonado a su suerte en otro país. Amelia, en medio de su inmensa tristeza, ruega porque Diogo regrese sano y salvo un día. Teresa entra en depresión, vende lo que queda para pagar a investigadores privados, cuando Héctor Zárate, el Agente Federal asignado por la Policía para encontrarlo, se da por vencido. Arminda y Norberto, cocinera y capataz de la finca, cuidan de Bernardo, el hijo pequeño de los Covarrubias. Eduarda, que se mantuvo cerca de Teresa, supuestamente acompañándola en su duelo, urde un plan para hacerse dueña de ‘La Fortuna’.

Teresa muere y Bernardo es llevado a un orfanato. Pasan los años. Diogo ha pasado por muchas penurias para sobrevivir. Incluso, forma parte de una pandilla de carteristas. Cuando es atrapado, tiene que dar su nombre y Héctor es informado del paradero del joven. Diogo se entera de que su madre murió y su hermano fue adoptado. Héctor le ofrece encargarse de él y darle su apellido. Desde ese momento, Diogo se convierte en Rodrigo Zárate y se promete a sí mismo encontrar al responsable de su secuestro y de la muerte de sus padres. Para ese fin, Rodrigo se convierte en un respetado Agente Judicial de Investigación.

En una redada, Rodrigo atrapa a Jorge, y de inmediato lo reconoce por el tatuaje en su brazo. Jorge le revela que la persona que ordenó su secuestro fue Eduarda Saldívar, actual dueña de ‘La Fortuna’. Rodrigo se da de baja en la Corporación para volver a Tierra De Agua en busca de justicia. Amelia, que vive en ‘La Fortuna’, ahora es veterinaria y dirige una Fundación dedicada a dar equinoterapia a niños con capacidades diferentes. Está casada con Iván, médico del hospital del pueblo, con el que tiene un hijo. El matrimonio es un infierno por los celos de Iván.

El día que Rodrigo regresa al pueblo, Amelia, escapando de los reclamos de Iván, sufre un accidente automovilístico. Rodrigo, al presenciar la tragedia, no duda un instante, y se lanza a salvar a Amelia y a su hijo, que también va en la camioneta. En el hospital, Rodrigo se entera de que la mujer a la que le salvó la vida es Amelia, su amiga de la infancia. Amelia enseguida siente una intensa conexión con este desconocido. Las noticias sobre Martín son desgarradoras, sus lesiones afectaron su columna y de momento no volverá a caminar. Amelia se siente culpable y Rodrigo impotente por no poderle revelar quién es.

Eduarda se presenta ante Rodrigo para agradecerle su heroica acción. Rodrigo le pide trabajo con la idea de investigarla y tener las pruebas necesarias para mandarla a la cárcel. Así es como va descubriendo los negocios sucios de Eduarda y a quiénes ha quitado de su camino para adquirir más poder y riqueza. Los planes de Rodrigo no contemplaban enamorarse de Amelia, quien a pesar de la atracción que siente hacia Rodrigo, pone distancia por ser una mujer casada, cuya mayor preocupación es sacar adelante a su hijo. Iván, al ver que está perdiendo a Amelia, se convierte en enemigo de Rodrigo.

Fecha de estreno: 2 de septiembre de 2024 a las 9:30 pm por Las Estrellas y en ViX.

Producida por Carmen Armendáriz, la novela cuenta con las actuaciones de Marcus Ornellas, Scarlet Gruber, Jorge Poza, Alejandra Barros, Kenneth Lavill, Antón Araiza, Gabriel Porras, Enoc Leaño, Epy Vélez, Vicente Tamayo, Raquel Garza, Alejandra Ambrosi, Juan Carlos Barreto, José Daniel Figueroa, Ignacio Guadalupe, Valeria Burgos, Verónica Jaspeado, Arantza Ruiz, Ilse Ikeda, Ana Celeste, Paula Cacho, César Acosta, Sebastián Poza, Edu Maruri, Nina Rubín, entre otros.

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A Benítez, un emotivo homenaje en Bellas Artes

"La UNAM fue el alma mater de Fernando Benítez y la Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales, su territorio, nuestro hogar, donde decenas de alumnos nos enamoramos del periodismo escrito en general, y del periodismo cultural en particular".

Por Irma Gallo “¿Saben cómo le hice para hablar con una piedra? Pues investigando, y preguntando a todos aquellos que conocen su historia. Porque un periodista debe saber no sólo formular las preguntas correctas, sino hallar la respuesta, muchas veces siguiendo la ruta de la imaginación, no lo cual no es sinónimo de invención”. Mónica Mateos, reportera de La Jornada, autora del libro Mariposa…

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Significant Jother Prelims!

The prelims for Jacket 4 will come in two waves after the winner’s bonus poll ends on Sunday, so get your votes in there.

First, there will be the prelims to decide between love interests for Johns/Jacks/Variants who had multiple submitted. There are eight of those matches, and they will be released throughout the day on Monday, July 10.

Then, there will be the prelims to decide which single nomination significant jothers will make the bracket. If a nomination was submitted multiple times as the only love interest, they are already in. There are 11 polls of four significant jothers, and the winner of each will make the bracket. Prelims were seeded by submission order, and those polls will be released throughout the day on Wednesday, July 12.

Match-ups below the cut!

Monday Match-ups: Who shall win the jand?

Prelim #1: Martin Blackwood (11) vs Georgie Barker (1) for Jonathan “Jon” Sims (The Magnus Archives)

Prelim #2: Jason Mendoza (5) vs Derek (1) for Janet (The Good Place)

Prelim #3: Mercymorn (2) vs Alecto (1) vs Augustine (1) vs Mercymorn + Augustine (0 but throuple rights) for John Gaius (The Locked Tomb)

Prelim #4: Zatanna Zatara (2) vs King Shark (2) for John Constantine (DC)

Prelim #5: Nisha Kadam (2) vs Moxxi (1) for Handsome Jack (Borderlands)

Prelim #6: Brad Majors (2) vs Frank-N-Furter (1) for Janet Weiss (Rocky Horror Picture Show)

Prelim #7: Shayera Hol (1) vs Mari McCabe (1) for John Stewart (DC)

Prelim #8: Rafael Solano (1) vs Michael Cordero (1) for Jane Villanueva (Jane the Virgin)

Wednesday Match-ups: I don’t have a funny name

Prelim A: Phryne Fisher for Jack Robinson (Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries) vs Kitty for Johnny Thirteen (Danny Phantom) vs Marguerite Baker for Jack Baker (Resident Evil) vs James “Jamey” Emerson Fletcher for Mary “Jacky” “Bloody Jack” Faber (Bloody Jack)

Prelim B: Naomi Herne for Evan Lukas (The Magnus Archives) vs Pete Tyler for Jackie Tyler (Doctor Who) vs Agnes Montague for Jack Barnabas (The Magnus Archives) vs Eric Bittle for Jack Zimmermann (Check, Please!)

Prelim C: Anna Bates for John Bates (Downton Abbey) vs Rose DeWitt for Jack Dawson (Titanic) vs Wendy Torrance for Jack Torrance (The Shining) vs Samatha Carter for Jack O’Neill (Stargate SG-1)

Prelim D: Joan of Arc for JFK (Clone High) vs JFK for Joan of Arc (Clone High) vs Elvira for Don Juan (Moliere) vs Pocahontas for John Smith (Pocahontas)

Prelim E: Penta Roujeat for Jack Wright (Namesake) vs Jethro Bodine for Jane Hathaway (Beverly Hillbillies) vs George Jetson for Jane Jetson (The Jetsons) vs Peter Parker for Mary-Jane Watson Parker (Marvel)

Prelim F: Thor for Jane Foster (Marvel) vs David Read for Jane Read (Arthur) vs Marla Singer for Jack/The Narrator (Fight Club) vs Sophie Aubrey for Jack Aubrey (Master and Commander)

Prelim G: Jay Nakamura for Jon Kent (DC) vs Satinder Hall for Ivo Keys (Shaderunners) vs Edward Rochester for Jane Eyre (Jane Eyre) vs Co Bao for John Rambo (Rambo)

Prelim H: Rosemary for Jack/Raider (Metal Gear Solid) vs Vriska Sekret for John Egbert (Homestuck) vs Maddie Fenton for Jack Fenton (Danny Phantom) vs Minnina for Jonathan Ratker (Dracula Starring Mickey Mouse)

Prelim I: Clary Fairchild for Jonathan Christopher “Jace” Herondale (The Mortal Instruments) vs Marisol Garza for Jonathan “Jon” Cartwright (The Shadowhunter Chronicles) vs Jo Lupo for Zane Donovan (Eureka) vs Robert Martin for Janet van de Graff (The Drowsy Chaperone)

Prelim J: Rebecca St. Claire for Jack Secord (Warehouse 13) vs David for Giovanni (Giovanni’s Room) vs Lucy Moderatz for Jack Pullman (While You Were Sleeping) vs Petra Solano for Jane “JR” Ramos (Jane the Virgin)

Prelim K: Scott Summers for Jean Gray (Marvel) vs Hessa for John the Baptist (The Wife of John the Baptist) vs Helen Wick for John Wick (John Wick) vs Patrick Bateman for Jean (American Psycho: The Musical)