Award-winning author Carole Roman has written a lovely picture book to introduce young children to the country and culture of Mexico. If You Were Me and Lived in… Mexico: A Child's Introduction to Cultures Around the World is intended for ages pre-K through eight. It combines carefully selected information with images crafted to be typical, but never stereotypical. The book is available from Amazon and on the author's website.
In my experience, it is hard to find books about countries and cultures that are appropriate for this age group. Many are filled with stereotypes. Others, partly in an attempt to avoid stereotypes, include too much information and do not hold a child's interest. Some of these books rely heavily on photographs, but it is difficult for a photograph to represent a broad reality.
In If you were me and lived in Mexico… Carole Roman masterfully negotiates these issues. She chooses to focus on a few facts that children identify with and easily grasp. Kids learn, for example, what their name might be, what they might call their parents and what their favorite food might be.
Part of the effectiveness of this book is its restraint. It presents just a few names, rather than a long list, and suggests one favorite food rather than dozens. By keeping the information simple, If you were me and lived in Mexico… is manageable and opens the door for conversation about these topics. The author also carefully chooses facts that appeal to children. For example, they learn that the temple at Chichen Itza has 365 steps. Kids love information like this!
The illustrations support the text and also focus on representations that are meaningful to young readers, such as children talking to their parents, going to school and playing at home. In the background of the illustrations, children will see a market, a flower vendor and a park, but as I mentioned, these features are typical, not stereotypical. Even the traffic of Mexico city, a detail in the illustration of el Palacio de Bellas Artes, conveys a sense of Mexico that many adult readers will find familiar.
You can learn more about the author and the If you were me and lived in…series on Carole Roman's website.
Disclosure: The author sent me a copy of this book to write the article. All of the ideas and opinions are my own.


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The Nichi Bei Foundation is an educational and charitable nonprofit organization dedicated to keeping the Japanese American community connected, informed and empowered — primarily through a community newspaper (Nichi Bei Weekly) and Website (www.nichibei.org), as well as educational programming.
"The work done by the (Nichi Bei) Foundation, not only through its stalwart newspaper, but also through the enlightened and dedicated sponsorship of a dizzying array of activities, renders it arguably the extant Nikkei institution that makes the single greatest contribution to the maintenance and enrichment of the history, society, and culture of the Japanese American community."
— Art Hansen, director emeritus of the California State University, Fullerton Japanese American Oral History Project and former senior historian, Japanese American National Museum
An Innovative Nonprofit Organization
The Nichi Bei Foundation is an innovative nonprofit educational organization, rising out of the ashes of a community-serving media legacy dating back to 1899 to launch the first nonprofit ethnic community newspaper of its kind in the country. It strives to be the glue that holds the community together, helping to preserve Japanese culture while shedding light on community issues and documenting the community's history for generations to come.
Through its nonprofit publication, the Nichi Bei Weekly, the Nichi Bei Foundation has helped to launch such innovative publications such as:
• Japanese Culture and Cherry Blossom Festivals Guide. The only annual guide to Japanese culture in the country, this special publication highlights Japanese cultural centers and springtime festivals throughout the country. In an effort to preserve Japanese culture, special features on cultural arts as well as extensive class listings are included.
• Obon and Summer Festivals Guide. The only annual guide to Japanese summer festivals throughout the country.
• Japanese American Community Resource Guide. Featuring maps and historic walking tours of the last three remaining Japantowns, a directory of community-based nonprofit organizations in California, a Japanese Language School Directory, historical destinations, a guide to community centers and senior centers, and cultural arts class listings.
• San Francisco Japantown Map and Directory. The most comprehensive map and bilingual directory of Japantown.
The Nichi Bei Foundation has evolved to create groundbreaking educational programs that shed light on the Japanese American experience such as:
• Films of Remembrance, a day-long showcase of films presented by the Nichi Bei Foundation, sheds light on the forced removal and incarceration of the Japanese American community into American concentration camps during World War II. Initiated in 2012, Films of Remembrance has expanded to include events in Sacramento in collaboration with the Sacramento Asian Pacific Film Festival in 2017 and New York City in 2019. In 2020, Films of Remembrance expanded to a two-day event in both San Francisco and San Jose Japantowns. www.nichibei.org/films-of-remembrance
• Nikkei Angel Island Pilgrimage. The Nichi Bei Foundation led more than 1,700 people on the Nikkei Angel Island Pilgrimage, reconnecting the community to our forgotten legacy at the former Immigration Station, where up to 85,000 persons of Japanese descent were detained between 1910 and 1940. In addition to reconnecting participants to their family legacies with the help of partners like the California Genealogical Society, the Nikkei Angel Island Pilgrimage — held in partnership with the Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation and the National Japanese American Historical Society — honored those who rediscovered the forgotten Immigration Station barracks in the 1970s, as well as those who took up the preservation efforts shortly thereafter. www.nichibei.org/angel-island-pilgrimage
• Wakamatsu Pilgrimage. The Nichi Bei Foundation has led two four-bus pilgrimages from throughout Northern California to the site of the former Wakamatsu Tea and Silk Farm Colony, the first large settlement of Japanese in America. Launching buses from San Francisco and San Jose Japantowns, Emeryville and Sacramento, Japanese Americans descended upon the historic site, which includes the grave site of Okei Ito, the first Japanese woman to die in America. Alternating with the Nikkei Angel Island Pilgrimage, the Wakamatsu Pilgrimage in 2019 featured a descendant of Wakamatsu colonist Kuninosuke Masumizu. The event was held in partnership with the American River Conservancy and the California Genealogical Society, whose volunteers helped to conduct family history consultations with pilgrims. www.nichibei.org/wakamatsu-pilgrimage
• The Northern California Soy and Tofu Festival, with an aim to educate the public on the benefits of soy and tofu, is our signature fundraiser. The festival showcases soy and tofu vendors, cooking demonstrations, cooking workshops, Asian American entertainment, a Tofu Dessert Competition and family-fun activities. It also serves as a vehicle for community-building and leadership development. www.soyandtofufest.org
An inspiring historical legacy…
In 1899 legendary newspaperman Kyutaro Abiko — known to historians as the most influential Japanese immigrant to America — established the Nichi Bei Shimbun, which would become the most influential Japanese American newspaper in the country prior to World War II. Abiko, who also founded three Japanese American farming colonies in California's Central Valley, encouraged Japanese immigrants to settle in their adoptive country, and to rebuild their lives in America.
After the war, some former staff of the Nichi Bei Shimbun came back to establish the Nichi Bei Times with the goal of getting the community reconnected after their devastating incarceration in wartime concentration camps. Led by Shichinosuke Asano, a protege of Takashi "Kei" Hara — the first commoner prime minister of Japan — the first issue of the Nichi Bei Times rolled off the presses on May 18, 1946. The early pages were used by Asano to raise awareness of and funds for postwar relief efforts in Japan, and the newspaper would help in obtaining redress for the community for their wartime incarceration.
An inspired rebirth…
As the Nichi Bei Times board of directors decided to close the newspaper after 63 years in September of 2009, a group of Nichi Bei Times staff and contributing writers, media professionals and community leaders — encouraged and supported by the Japanese American community — set out to rebuild in the spirit of the Issei, brick by brick. They established the Nichi Bei Foundation, an educational and charitable nonprofit organization, as a means to support community organizations, shed light on community issues and document the community's history.
Just one week after the last edition of the Nichi Bei Times rolled off the presses, the very first edition of the Nichi Bei Weekly was published as the first ethnic nonprofit newspaper of its kind in the country.
Born in one of the worst economic climates in decades, with virtually no seed money, the pioneering rebirth of the Nichi Bei Foundation and the Nichi Bei Weekly has become one of the most inspired community movements in recent memory.
Inspired by a community-serving historical legacy, the Nichi Bei Foundation and the Nichi Bei Weekly have a simple yet profound mission: to keep the community connected, informed and empowered.
Nichi Bei Foundation Board of Directors
Kenji G. Taguma, President
Linda Harms Okazaki, Interim Board Chair
Nancy Ukai, Secretary
Kiyomi Takeda
Wesley Ueunten, Ph.D.
Graig Inaba
Al Matsui
Laurie Shigekuni, ESQ
Read Board of Directors Bios here.
Nichi Bei Foundation Advisory Council:
Sandy Close, Founder and Executive Editor, New America Media
Art Hansen, Director Emeritus, Japanese American Oral History Project, California State University, Fullerton
Carole Hayashino, President and Executive Director, Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai'i
Cathy Inamasu, Executive Director, Nihonmachi Little Friends
Jan Masaoka, Director, Blue Avocado
Dale Minami, Community Activist and Attorney
Andy Noguchi, Civil Rights Co-Chair, Florin JACL
Jon Osaki, Executive Director, Japanese Community Youth Council
Paul Osaki, Executive Director, Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Northern California
Don Tamaki, Chair, San Francisco Japantown Foundation
Twila Tomita, Board Member, Florin JACL
Rosalyn Tonai, Executive Director, National Japanese American Historical Society
Bill Watanabe, Executive Director, Little Tokyo Service Center
Akemi Kikumura Yano, former President and CEO, Japanese American National Museum
Aiko Herzig Yoshinaga, Independent Researcher
Fred Hoshiyama, Community Solidarity Activist
Jimi Yamaichi, Curator and Historian, Japanese American Museum of San Jose
Jeff Adachi, San Francisco Public Defender
Lane Hirabayashi, Former Chair, UCLA Asian American Studies Program

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I had a blog written by English long time ago. Domain name is difficult and not easy to remember. Almost an year ago, I bought a new domain and add my real name on it like another designers I admire.
Writing English is still not easy but I'm getting better. One of problems is I didn't understand about the construction of this wordpress blog. I spend 3 hours front of computer and finally I understood what's the difference menu, page and category this evening.
Maybe this issue is one of my another English barrier. WordPress suggest Korean language service. But, there are limited in outline and payment system. I got feel like I just solved first question of math exam.
I'm living in small town called Athens and population of this is just over 3000. Peoples are so kind and friendly. Everybody know each other and sometimes, it's little bit difficult to get inside of them. I got a part time job at Fresh Mart and I'm working 14~15 hours a week. I'm getting tiny mini paycheck every other week. But I get a chance to meet most of people in this town with wonderful co-workers.
I asked to be my model to daughter of Jenn few months ago. I met Mitzi today, who is an one of customer. I showed her some of my sample and ask be my model. She said happily yes. Becca(Jen's daughter) and Mitzi has totally different charm.
It will take some time to blocking shawls and sew buttons, then I can take pictures with them.
It's a kind of lucky day today for me.
꽤 오래전에 영문 블로그를 운영했었습니다. 그런데 도메인 명이 복잡하고 기억하기 쉽지 않아서 새로운 도메인을 약 일년전에 구입했지요. 존경하는 다른 디자이너들이 그런것처럼 그 도메인에 내 이름을 그대로 붙였습니다. 영어를 쓰는것은 아직도 익숙지 않지만 그래도 많이 좋아지고 있는 중입니다. 하지만, 이 워드프레스블로그의 구조는 꽤 오랫동안 이해하기 쉽지 않았어요. 어쩌면 또 다른 언어 장벽일수도 있겠고, 네이버나 다음의 블로그 구조에 오랫동안 익숙해져서인 탓도 있을 거예요. 오늘 오후 컴퓨터 앞에서 3시간 가량을 보내고 나서야 페이지, 메뉴 그리고 카테고리가 어떻게 다른지 이해하게 되었습니다. 워드프레스는 한글도 지원을 하지만 한정적입니다. 마치 수학시험의 첫 문제를 푼것 같은 기분이예요.
내가 살고 있는 곳은 아네테라고 불리우는 작은 마을입니다. 아테네지만 그리스가 아닌 캐나다의 동부 온타리오에 있어요. 작은 마을의 사람들은 모두 친절하고 상냥하지만 모두 이곳에서 나고 살아온 사람들이라서 그 사이에 섞이기가 쉽지 않습니다. 동네에 있는 수퍼마켓에서 파트타임 으로 일주일에 14~15시간 일을 하게 된 뒤로 약간의 급여도 받긴 하지만 더 많은 것들을 얻게 되었습니다. 사람들을 이웃들을 하나 둘 알게 되고 또 섞여 들게 되었지요.
함께 일하는 젠의 딸에게 모델이 되어 줄것을 한참전에 물었었습니다. 그리고 오늘은 종종 방문하는 손님중에 한명인 밋지를 만나서 몇몇개의 샘플을 보여주고 모델이 되어 줄수 있느냐고 물었구요. 밋지는 행복하다며 물어봐 줘서 고맙다고 했습니다. 흔쾌히 모델이 되어 주기로 했구요. 젠의 딸인 베카와 동갑인 밋지는 둘다 참 예쁘기도 하지만 전혀 다른 매력을 가지고 있습니다. 일주일에서 열흘정도 블록킹을 하고 또 단추를 달고 할 시간이 필요하긴 하지만 이젠 오랫동안 미뤄 왔던 일들을 하나둘 할수 있게 되었습니다.
지난 토요일 우체국 뒤에 선명하게 떠 있는 무지개를 만났습니다. 그순간 카메라가 없어 집까지 뛰어가 집앞 도로에서 사진에 담았을땐 아쉽게도 많이 흐릿 해졌어요. 행운을 가져다 준 것같은 무지개 사진을 올려 봅니다.


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MRS. CLINTON'S WATER PROBLEM: A THEORY
A couple of years ago the Wall Street Journal published an article on the most common pieces of advice doctors gave their patients, but didn't take themselves. In the list were "exercise often", reduce stress", and "to eat right." But somewhere in that list there should've been "drink adequate amounts of water." There are many medical conditions, and medications, that respond much better when the body is well hydrated.
But when advising some female patients to drink more water, I've seen some wince, make a face, then share their reluctance to do so, claiming it makes them frequent the lady's room too often, interrupting their busy day. Those who work in business or dresses explain that the undressing and redressing is a chore, more or less. This of course does not apply to every business woman in professional dress, but apparently it's an issue for some.
There's no difference in the volume capacity between a male and female bladder, which is about 16 ounces. So why is it that some women apparently have to empty their bladders more frequently than men? Or do they?
Some have suggested this may be due to the woman's bladder pressing against her other interior parts, particularly the uterus, which is located above and over the bladder, pressing as it were, causing a nerve signal to prematurely alert the brain that the bladder is full, when in fact it is not.
This may explain why some ladies shy away from drinking water to avoid urinating any more frequently than necessary. The less water intake the longer it takes for the bladder to fill to the point of signaling the need to void. But for some, and for some medical conditions, it may subject a woman to being insufficiently hydrated to recover from a particular illness.
This may explain why Mrs. Clinton may be experiencing recurrent dehydration, twice by her admission, one last week, and "on more than one occasion over many many years" by that of her husband's admission during a recent interview with Charlie Rose. This excludes those times she is off the radar, perhaps recovering from another bout of dehydration.
According to her staff, Mrs. Clinton shuns drinking water, but not, according to them, for any particular reason. But the reason just may be to avoid having to visit the lady's room more than she must, especially when out and about, remaining in control of her busy schedule. What other reason would there be?
This wouldn't be so much a problem perhaps unless it happens in warm, humid, weather, especially while wearing a business suit and jacket, resulting in her being insufficiently hydrated. This in turn would cause, in the midst of being under hydrated and overheated, a hypotensive episode resulting in a sudden blood pressure drop, causing one's legs to weaken, buckle, or cause a fainting episode.
Perhaps another inciting issue in Mrs. Clinton's case is this. To everyone's knowledge we are not aware that Mrs. Clinton has had a hysterectomy in which case she still has her uterus, tubes, and ovaries. This dehydration explanation would become even more acute if she were to have one or more uterine fibroids present, causing additional pressure on the bladder.
Something similar would be going on with Mr. Trump if he were to have an enlarged prostate, one large enough to encroach upon the bladder and cause frequent urination. But to date, he isn't the one who is getting dehydrated or falling out.
But an additional aggravating factor in Mrs. Clinton's case is the 2012 concussion she suffered as a result of, according to her staff, being dehydrated and subsequently falling in a weakened state. The nerve reflex that makes us know we need to urinate is primarily a spinal cord reflex, a connection between the bladder and spinal cord. But it's in the higher centers of the brain that the final control over urination is exerted. If, in a concussion, these higher centers have been damaged, then the inhibitory control over one's bladder is lessened, allowing for a lax bladder. That is, a "weak" bladder in which the urge to urinate would happen quicker with a less than full bladder. Therefore, one would be inclined to drink less water to avoid urinating frequently.
If this is what is going on with Mrs. Clinton it would be no surprise to see her continue to have episodes related to insufficient fluid intake.
One remedy for Mrs. Clinton, if she hasn't begun to do so already, would be to wear a disposable Depends diaper, which would allow her longer periods of time without having to duck into a restroom.
In either case I hope she improves her health. But if she continues to have health episodes of any kind, it may turn out to be sooner rather than later that the nation will learn that the Hill may in fact be over the hill -- and that, to some, would be just deplorable. Almost as deplorable as if she were to win the election and be the first president in history to have to wear a diaper.


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The Influence of Influencers: How Bloggers Are Changing Brand Marketing
"I truly believe entertainment is the future of e-commerce and retail." This quote was authored by Rachel Tipograph, founder and CEO of MikMak and former global director of digital and social media for Gap Inc., during a panel discussion at the Summer 2015 Create and Cultivate Conference in Chicago earlier this year. Tipograph along with many other startup founders and e-tailers shared how to stay relevant in a modern marketplace to over 500 bloggers, influencers and entrepreneurs in attendance.
During the keynote panel, "Launchpad: How to launch your business, create community and stay relevant in modern marketplace," founders and CEOs from Ringly, DooBop, MiraFit, Havenly and BrideSide all shared their trials and triumphs of launching a business. The key takeaway from the panel was that content delivery is a large part of their brand.
"In my opinion, professional video is more effective than user-generated content in retail," added Tipograph. "It's the way people consume content now, and content is powerful."
Suzanne El-Moursi, director of brand development for women's wearable tech company MiraFit, elaborated on the brand's digital strategy.
"I think it's important for every brand to have a storyteller," said El-Moursi. "You have to find what's compelling about your story and brand and go from there."
MiraFit reaches its customers through its blog, which features tips, fitness how-tos and Pinterest-worthy images.
The panel continued to elaborate on the idea that content marketing and a seamless digital experience are no longer the exception, rather the new expectation. So how can marketers make their brands stand out? Sonali Lamba, co-founder of BrideSide, an e-commerce site that aggregates bridesmaid dresses, shared what she believes makes the difference.
"One day it just hit me that it's not the items that I'm selling people are after, it's the service, the piece of mind and my brand that people are interested in. Perfecting that through content and customer service is critical."
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It's basically $50 for a ready-to-go vision system similar to the CMUCam/Pixy.
We haven't used it yet but it looks nifty.
Hey Marshall. What is Merriam-Webster's definition of "pneumatic device"?
Forgive my lack of vision tracking knowledge but how would you use this on the robot?
This almost reminds me of this.
It even supports NEON instructions… Jaci's gonna be happy.
Serial interface streams processed data to the RoboRIO.
Ordered! I'll evaluate it before recommending it to 299 or 1072.
EDIT: Just got it in the mail. I'll post some updates if/when I get it working. Amazon Same-day shipping is available with it for a total of $50 if you have Prime!
You will need to supply your own micro SD card and mini-USB (not micro-usb) cable.
After I ordered it, I dove right in with the basics of getting it setup on a Windows computer. I thought I needed Linux to program it, but it's possible to do it on a Windows computer if you're ok with taking slightly more time.
Use AMCap to view the Jevois video stream. AMCap lets you switch between camera modes easily.
Open Arduino software and open the Serial monitor to start the command interface with the Jevois. Make sure to set the "Newline" line ending instead of the default "None"; this confused me for a few minutes.
Send the "help" command and get a list of all commands and the current settings. You can control exposure, contrast, gain, brightness, color balance, and set them to be automatic or manual. The settings aren't saved so I have to resend it upon bootup.
All of the above took me 2 hours, of which 1/2 hour was finding a uSD and 1/2 hour was finding out that you had to use "newline" mode in the Arduino Serial monitor.
If you are using Windows or Mac to program the Jevois you have to run Python code instead of C++. You also can't run it easily on Windows as far as I know; you just have to let the Jevois find runtime errors. This can be frustrating if you are looking to get a lot of custom code working.
I viewed some of the resources on the Jevois website, but for FRC I wanted to be able to take code generated in Python by a GRIP pipeline and just deploy that to the Jevois. Specifically, I wanted to take an image, run an HSV filter on it, erode it, dilate it, find the contours, and filter the contours. This pipeline works for recognizing retroreflective tape in 99% of situations with the proper bright green LED ring and low exposure settings. I took the PythonSandbox example and experimented with copy/paste solutions, and finally found one that worked every time. I just took all the grip code and copied over the stuff in the "Process" function into the "Process" function of the Jevois, put the constants in the constructor, and put all static methods below all of that. Ran the filter with 0 runtime errors, and all I have to do now is plug in constants that GRIP gets me. My LED rings are coming in the mail in a few days, and once I confirm that this works consistently I'll write up a whitepaper.
All of that took me roughly 5 hours, of which most of was just tracking down syntax errors and finding out how to use the output settings of the Jevois. There's still some things I'm not sure about, such as how to change the resolution and FPS and how to run code not in the "sandbox" directory; I know it's possible but I haven't worked on this in a few days due to time crunch.
TL;DR: Jevois works great and I would 8/10 recommend it to teams, particularly those who have Linux programmers. I'll be putting up a whitepaper soon enough about using this.
I'll be following this closely. I'm looking forward to reading about your results/experiences.
I received ours as well, it took me a bit less time to get rolling - I REALLY don't like the lack of echo on the serial line - but yeah… this thing is the perfect graduation present for teams who were using the pixy and now want something with a bit more horsepower. Don't expect a white paper from us about it unless we use it in an event or on a robot… but it's good.
Also the fan sounds like a pneumatic device after being shot by an FRC mentor for experimentation.
Going to third the above comments. Mine came in Saturday and I haven't had a TON of time to mess with it. It seems to work well. If Asid is writing a white paper good.
I can't stress how small this thing is.
My big complaint with it is that the microSD card slot is in a garbage location (it's too deep, the case makes inserting it much harder than it needs to be). Also, the lack of echo in terminal makes life harder but that's a minor hiccup.
Just ordered one. While it's no Jetson, if it's sufficient for its size, I'll take it. At least it'll be fun to play with.
+1, the fan is much louder than I would like. I'm considering replacing it with an aluminum heatsink and a much slower fan, or even just a quieter fan of the same size.
It really is tiny, even smaller than a Pixy I would argue in terms of effective volume. I had to push in the microSD with an SD card, but it's one of the nice holders that you feel a "click" in.
Would anyone who has this please do a benchmark with various OpenCV functions (preferably in both C++ and Python) at various resolutions? While a tiny size is great and all, I feel another important metric is fps to $ ratio for your run of the mill OpenCV FRC code. That and the headaches that will inevitably arise when configuring the device for the first time.
I was running my simple pipeline around 100fps. I don't have the know-how to benchmark effectively but I can ask a 299 or 1072 member to look into it for me. As long as it runs at an appreciable speed I'm ok with what it does.
I'm a Gadget Geek. I do a LOT of vision processing work with the team. I can afford to add this to my toy list even if it doesn't make it to our robot.
That said, if it performs on par or better than our RPi vision system, it will be a lock!
Now those are advertised frame rates that the camera supports and not benchmark tests but if all you care about are frame rates then that's what it supports.
I do have some concerns about lens distortion but some calibration routines can take care of that easily enough.
Not quite 100% accurate. You haven't had it send target info to a RoboRio via UDP.
I know I'm splitting hairs, but the Pi does have some capabilities the JeVois just doesn't.
This is going to be the usual comparison that happens in engineering all the time. Do the advantages out weigh the disadvantages. In other words, is the trade off worth it?
To clarify, I run the 352x288 CIF input/output at 60fps screen refresh rate, but my vision code is running at a possible 100fps.
…but I do get what you are saying - it's not a perfect solution but I definitely think this thing is going to find a home in FTC and FRC.


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Article May 22, 2019 Labor Solidarity Lecturers Strike
UC-AFT likens teaching conditions of lecturers to gig labor force
Teachers support UC staff in fourth strike, oppose privatization of services
By Mia McIver, President UC-AFT
On May 16, the 24,000 workers of AFSCME 3299, the University of California's largest employee union, conducted their fourth strike of the 2018-19 academic year.
Article April 15, 2019 Strike Labor Solidarity
Horns & Warm Kleenex: A personal view of the Oakland teachers' strike
FIRST PERSON | By Katharine Harer
I joined the picket lines in Oakland on three different mornings. On the first day of the strike, teachers brought a boom box and we danced and sang on the line. Another day, at a different school, a parent brought a folding table and fed us tangerines, string cheese, mountains of cinnamon and chocolate croissants and hot coffee.
California Teacher March 18, 2019 Strike Local Action
Teachers never walk alone when they have union brothers and sisters
Six Days That Shook Los Angeles – Part 6, Conclusion
UTLA's fight to save public education resonated far and wide. Messages of solidarity and selfies of fist-pumping teachers poured in from Kentucky to Canada. Union locals across Los Angeles set up support networks for more than 200 LAUSD schools. For Writers Guild members, joining teachers on picket lines was an opportunity to pay back their mentors.
California Teacher February 27, 2019 Strike Local Action
The power of parents: A new generation shows its commitment to local schools
Six Days That Shook Los Angeles - Part 5
United Teachers Los Angeles has fought for nearly 50 years to give parents a greater voice in how their children's schools are run. In recent years, UTLA stepped up its outreach by hiring community organizers, building coalitions, and working with supporters in changing neighborhoods.
Those efforts bore fruit in January, when thousands of parents joined teachers on picket lines across the 700-square-mile school district to fight for "the schools our students deserve."
The UTLA strike was personal for Josh Pechthalt
Manual Arts High School has a proud 109-year history. Alumni include painter Jackson Pollock, actor Paul Winfield, and tennis champion Richard "Pancho" Gonzalez. Former teacher Josh Pechthalt was shaped by – and has helped to reshape – the South L.A. fixture.
CFT President Josh Pechthalt was a student at Fairfax High in 1970, when United Teachers Los Angeles struck for nearly a month. He later taught social studies at Manual Arts High School for more than 20 years, and was on the front lines in 1989, when UTLA struck a second time.
California Teacher February 6, 2019 Strike Local Action
UTLA retirees link "Class of 2019" to 1989 and 1970 walkouts
During the strike, hundreds of retired L.A. teachers returned to their former schools to continue the fight for public education. One veteran of the two previous strikes said back then UTLA was up against an intransigent district, but didn't have to face billionaires and unrestrained charter school growth.
UTLA-Retired is now mobilizing all its 4,300 members for the special election in March to fill a key seat on the LAUSD school board and tilt the balance away from a pro-charter majority.
California Teacher January 30, 2019 Strike Charter schools Local Action
Charter schools cost L.A. Unified nearly $600 million per year, board votes for moratorium
Eight days after the six-day strike had ramped up public pressure, the Los Angeles Unified school board passed a groundbreaking resolution calling for a moratorium on new charters in the district until Sacramento completes a study of how their unchecked expansion has affected traditional schools. The district also made a significant investment in local community schools.
California Teacher January 25, 2019 Strike Local Action
Teachers and communities lay it on the line
With a massive outpouring of community support, a new generation of teachers shut down the country's second-largest school district in a fight for the future of public education. UTLA members launched their first strike in 30 years to deliver "the schools our kids deserve."
A week later they were well on their way.
Article January 23, 2019 Strike
UTLA members went on strike and won for public education
Yesterday the members of United Teachers of Los Angeles ratified their new contract, ending the six-day strike that has captivated the state and the nation, and paving the way for teachers to their classrooms this morning.
California Teacher December 1, 2018 Strike
Strike? Stand with L.A. teachers to win the schools students deserve
UPDATE: After the factfinding report was released on December 18, UTLA announced it will go on strike January 10.
A Red-for-Ed wave rolled through downtown Los Angeles on December 15 as tens of thousands of members and supporters of United Teachers Los Angeles protested large class sizes, low pay, over-testing, a shortage of school nurses and other support staff, and the unregulated growth of charter schools.
California Teacher October 1, 2016 Strike
San Francisco faculty struck for a day and won
Local unity gains good contract, overdue pay raises
The faculty union at City College of San Francisco pulled off a one-day strike on April 27, despite the administration's claim that the strike was illegal. To avert another strike, the college agreed to a union contract with substantial raises by July.
California Teacher May 1, 2016 Strike Accreditation ACCJC
San Francisco City College faculty calls one-day strike
April 27 action protests college administration stonewalling
Rain, wind, and a four-hour round trip from her home could not keep English teacher Jessica Nelson away from City College of San Francisco to join a one-day strike on April 27, the first strike in the school's history.
"I wanted to support my fellow faculty," she said. "There's a lack of respect for faculty here. That's what led to this strike and all the time, energy and effort the union has put into it."
Reflection from the frontlines of the Chicago Teachers Union strike
Unions need strong vision and understanding of all tools available
I THOUGHT I KNEW what I was going to see and do in Chicago. I ended up being amazed and awed, and sometimes moved to tears, by the tremendous strides educators just like us were taking all around me.


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(25 Jul 1920 - 16 Apr 1958)
English physical chemist and X-ray crystallographer whose X-ray photographs gave Crick and Watson the clue needed to interpret the helical structure of DNA.
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Conclusion: Big helix in several chains, phosphates on outside, phosphate-phosphate inter-helical bonds disrupted by water. Phosphate links available to proteins.
— Rosalind Franklin
Underlined in typewritten lecture notes, with handwritten annotations, as report (7 Feb 1952) on 'Colloquium November 1951'. As given in Anne Sayre, Rosalind Franklin and DNA (1975), 128.
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I see no reason to believe that a creator of protoplasm or primeval matter, if such there be, has any reason to be interested in our insignificant race in a tiny corner of the universe, and still less in us, as still more insignificant individuals. Again, I see no reason why the belief that we are insignificant or fortuitous should lessen our faith.
Letter to her father, Ellis Franklin, undated, perhaps summer 1940 while she was an undergraduate at Cambridge. Excerpted in Brenda Maddox, The Dark Lady of DNA (2002), 61.
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Science, for me, gives a partial explanation for life. In so far as it goes, it is based on fact, experience and experiment.
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Sodium thymonucleate fibres give two distinct types of X-ray diagram … [structures A and B]. The X-ray diagram of structure B (see photograph) shows in striking manner the features characteristic of helical structures, first worked out in this laboratory by Stokes (unpublished) and by Crick, Cochran and Vand2. Stokes and Wilkins were the first to propose such structures for nucleic acid as a result of direct studies of nucleic acid fibres, although a helical structure had been previously suggested by Furberg (thesis, London, 1949) on the basis of X-ray studies of nucleosides and nucleotides.
While the X-ray evidence cannot, at present, be taken as direct proof that the structure is helical, other considerations discussed below make the existence of a helical structure highly probable.
From Rosalind Franklin and R. G. Gosling,'Molecular Configuration in Sodium Thymonucleate', Nature (25 Apr 1953), 171, No. 4356, 740.
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The results suggest a helical structure (which must be very closely packed) containing probably 2, 3 or 4 coaxial nucleic acid chains per helical unit and having the phosphate groups near the outside.
Official Report, submitted in Feb 1952. In Anne Sayre, Rosalind Franklin and DNA (2000), 126.
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You frequently state, and in your letter you imply, that I have developed a completely one-sided outlook and look at everything and think of everything in terms of science. Obviously my method of thought and reasoning is influenced by a scientific training—if that were not so my scientific training will have been a waste and a failure.
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You look at science (or at least talk of it) as some sort of demoralising invention of man, something apart from real life, and which must be cautiously guarded and kept separate from everyday existence. But science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated.
Letter to her father, Ellis Franklin (undated, summer 1940? while she was an undergraduate at Cambridge). Excerpted in Brenda Maddox, The Dark Lady of DNA (2002), 60-61.
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Your theories are those which you and many other people find easiest and pleasantest to believe, but, so far as I can see, they have no foundation other than they lead to a pleasant view of life … I agree that faith is essential to success in life … but I do not accept your definition of faith, i.e. belief in life after death. In my view, all that is necessary for faith is the belief that by doing our best we shall come nearer to success and that success in our aims (the improvement of the lot of mankind, present and future) is worth attaining … I maintain that faith in this world is perfectly possible without faith in another world.
Letter to her father, Ellis Franklin (undated, summer 1940? while she was an undergraduate at Cambridge). Excerpted in Brenda Maddox, The Dark Lady of DNA (2002), 61.
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As a scientist Miss [Rosalind] Franklin was distinguished by extreme clarity and perfection in everything she undertook. Her photographs are among the most beautiful X-ray photographs of any substance ever taken.
— John Desmond Bernal
In his Obituary for Rosalind Franklin, Nature, 1958, 182, 154. As given in Andrew Brown, J.D. Bernal: The Sage of Science (2005), 359.
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She would have solved it, but it would have come out in stages. For the feminists, however, she has become a doomed heroine, and they have seized upon her as an icon, which is not, of course, her fault. Rosalind was not a feminist in the ordinary sense, but she was determined to be treated equally like anybody else.
— Sir Aaron Klug
'Rosalind Franklin and the Discovery of the Structure of DNA'. Cited in Brenda Maddox, The Dark Lady of DNA (2002), 326.
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She [Rosalind Franklin] discovered in a series of beautifully executed researches the fundamental distinction between carbons that turned on heating into graphite and those that did not. Further she related this difference to the chemical constitution of the molecules from which carbon was made. She was already a recognized authority in industrial physico-chemistry when she chose to abandon this work in favour of the far more difficult and more exciting fields of biophysics.
Comment in The Times, 19 Apr 1958, shortly after Franklin's death. In Jenifer Glynn, 'Rosalind Franklin', in E. Shils and C. Blacker (eds.), Cambridge Women: Twelve Portraits (1996), 206.
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Our dark lady is leaving us next week.
— Maurice Wilkins
Letter from Maurice Wilkins to Francis Crick, 7 Mar 1953. Cited in Brenda Maddox, The Dark Lady of DNA (2002), xvii.
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I think she [Rosalind Franklin] was a good experimentalist but certainly not of the first rank. She was simply not in the same class as Eigen or Bragg or Pauling, nor was she as good as Dorothy Hodgkin. She did not even select DNA to study. It was given to her. Her theoretical crystallography was very average.
— Francis Crick
Letter to Charlotte Friend (18 Sep 1979). In Francis Harry Compton Crick Papers, Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine.
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Her [Rosalind Franklin] devotion to research showed itself at its finest in the last months of her life. Although stricken with an illness which she knew would be fatal, she continued to work right up to the end.
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While the biological properties of deoxypentose nucleic acid suggest a molecular structure containing great complexity, X-ray diffraction studies described here … show the basic molecular configuration has great simplicity. [Co-author with A.R. Stokes, H.R. Wilson. Thanks include to "… our colleagues R.E. Franklin, R.G. Gosling … for discussion."]
From 'Molecular Structure of Deoxypentose Nucleic Acids', Nature (25 Apr 1953), 171, No. 4356, 738. (Note: in W.F. Bynum and Roy Porter (eds.), Oxford Dictionary of Scientific Quotations (2005), 226, this quote is listed under Rosalind Elsie Franklin and cited, incorrectly, as from "Rosalind Franklin and R. G. Gosling, 'Molecular Structures of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid', Nature, 1953, 171, 741." However, the Franklin and Gosling article on p.741 is the second of two pages titled 'Molecular Configuration in Sodium Thymonucleate'.)
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The information reported in this section [about the two different forms, A and B, of DNA] was very kindly reported to us prior to its publication by Drs Wilkins and Franklin. We are most heavily indebted in this respect to the Kings College Group, and we wish to point out that without this data the formation of the picture would have been most unlikely, if not impossible.
[Co-author with Francis Crick]
— James Watson
In 'The Complementary Structure of Deoxyribonucleic Acid', Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series A (1954), 223, 82, footnote.
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[Our work on the structure of DNA] was fairly fast, but you know, we were lucky. One must remember, it was based on the X-ray work done here in London started off by Morris Wilkins and carried on by Rosalind Franklin, and we wouldn't have got to the stage of at least having a molecular model, if it hadn't been for their work.
Quoted and cited from BBC radio (1999) in transcript of Australian ABC radio program PM (30 Jul 2004) on the ABC website.
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Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA, by Brenda Maddox. - book suggestion.
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Gist: 5 Reasons Why Atiku May Not Become President In 2023
As the countdown to 2023 begins and several candidates have started announcing their intentions to run for the office of the President of the federal republic of Nigeria, it appears that that there would be a lot of competition ahead. Atiku Abubakar who is a former Vice-President of Nigeria has been a strong contender for the position of the Presidency in the past. It was recently announced by his son that the 73-year-old would run once again for the position of the President of Nigeria.
The successful politician, businessman and philanthropist who served as the 11th Vice President of Nigeria from 1999 to 2007 during the presidency of Olusegun Obasanjo, has contested in all the elections since then.
As we draw closer to 2023, we present to you some top reasons why we think Atiku may not win the Presidential elections if he contests again.
Without further ado, lets get right into it.
1. Old Age
Atiku Abubakar is 73 years old and as vibrant as he may appear to be, he has come of age and a lot of people believe age would hinder performance and may not vote for him.
It can be recalled that Buhari claimed his age has limited his performance as President, a revelation that came to the younger generation who massively supported him to become President.
We also think that a lot of young Politicians who have been performing excellently have given the young people a glimpse of hope to run for public office and this may one way or the other affect Atiku's cummulative votes come 2023.
It should also be noted that more people including the likes of Kingsley Moghalu, Fela Durotoyem Omoyele Sowore amongst other young people ran for the position of President in the last election and may also be doing so again and that may affect the support Atiku should usually get.
2. PDP Zoning
Atiku Abubakar was the People's Democratic Party's (PDP) candidate in the last election and according to the party rules, the position of the sole candidate is usually zoned from time to time and this may affect Atiku's ambition to run in 2023 under the umbrella of The People's Democratic Party.
While addressing a press conference on Monday in Abuja, the PDP National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, said: "The PDP has not come to discussion in respect of zoning. I want to leave it at that."
But as the election draws closer, the issue of zoning may come up and this may affect Atiku's bid to run under the platform.
3. Tinubu/Buhari
Popular APC chieftain and founding father, Bola Ahmed Tinubu has been hinted to possibly run for the office of the Presidency come 2023, and this may as well have an effect on Atiku's shot at the seat.
Tinubu was instrumental in making Buhari President in 2015 and his influence in the political sphere can not be underestimated. President Buhari would most likely support Tinubu's ambition if he decides to run for office and this may definitely hamper Atiku's chances of winning the most votes.
4. Wike/PDP Governors
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has lowkey revealed his plans to run for Presidency in 2023 and as a top People's Democractic Party Governor he may as well be competing for the party's ticket and this may as well give Atiku a tough time.
In addition, the PDP Governors who are young and vibrant are looking for a way to break from the norm, as they usually nominating very old politicians as candidate as they are beginning to prepare the party for a future led by younger politicians.
5. Corruption Allegation
Atiku's has been implicated in a number of corruption charges and that may take a toll on his political career.
He was implicated in an international bribery scandal alongside, William Jefferson and one of Atiku's wives, Jennifer Atiku Abubakar.
There were several rumours by pundits that Atiku was unable to visit the United States, in January 2017, the U.S. government released a statement saying it would need the consent of the politician before it can disclose the true state of his immigration status to the United States.
Although recently, Atiku in company with Bukola Saraki, visited the United States on the 17th of January 2019 with the aid of Brian Ballard and has lowkey dropped the speculations about him.
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Architecture has always been one of the greatest art forms, but since computer aided design I think it has become the greatest art form of our time.
Built 1948-1953, it was seen as a symbol of prosperity during the decades of Spain's dictatorship. Empty since 2008, it became a symbol of Spain's property market collapse.
Built 1998 and home to the LA Lakers. The arena has also hosted political conventions, the annual Grammy Awards since 2000 and numerous music concerts.
Completed in 1989 and considered one of the finest reproductions of Art Deco architecture.
12th-14th century masterpiece of perpendicular Gothic architecture.
Built between 1356 and 1363, it is regarded as the finest example of early-Mamluk architecture.
At 309m (1,014 ft) it is currently Europe's tallest building.
View from the corner of Southwark St. & Borough High St.
Built in 1930. 136 luxurious apartments. 27 floors.
Home to the rich and famous, past and present.


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La cultura de las Islas Malvinas es esencialmente análoga a la de la cultura británica. Las islas Malvinas tienen una población no nativa, principalmente blanca y británica (en su mayoría inglesa, y en mucha menor medida, otras partes de las islas británicas, además de Santa Elena y Chile).

Idioma

El idioma inglés se utiliza, principalmente en su forma de inglés británico. Sin embargo, debido al aislamiento de las islas, la pequeña población mantiene su propio acento/dialecto. En las zonas rurales (es decir, en cualquier lugar fuera de Puerto Stanley), conocido como "camp" (del español campo), el acento malvinense tiende a ser más fuerte. El acento tiene semejanzas con el inglés de Australia-Nueva Zelanda, West Country y Norfolk en Inglaterra.

Otros notables términos de las islas Malvinas son las palabras "kelper", es decir un isleño malvinense, que proviene de las algas marinas (Kelp en inglés) que rodean las islas (a veces se considera peyorativo), y "smoko", refiriéndose a un descanso para fumar.

El dialecto además tiene numerosos préstamos del español rioplatense y español chileno. De hecho, el 10% de los habitantes de las islas hablan este idioma, siendo una minoría significativa que ha crecido en los últimos años. Además, en una primaria en la capital, enseñan este idioma.

Literatura
Para la cultura inspirada por la Guerra de las Malvinas por favor, ver el impacto cultural de la Guerra de las Malvinas

Debido a la escasa población de las islas, la mayor parte de la literatura de las islas ha sido escrito por fuera. Sin embargo, alguna poesía ha sido escrita por habitantes de las islas, incluyendo, Patria de Ernest Spencer.

Arquitectura

La Enciclopedia Británica de 1911 dice:
Las casas [de Stanley], en su mayoría blancas con techos de colores, generalmente son de madera y hierro, y tienen terrazas acristaladas, gris con fucsia.
La Casa de Gobierno, es gris, hecha de piedra, trae a la mente una mansión en las Islas Shetland y Orcadas.
El cuartel del gobierno es una estructura bastante imponente en el centro de la ciudad, como es la iglesia catedral, en el este, construido de piedra y reforzada con ladrillo.

El cuartel del gobierno es ahora una casa de huéspedes y es un poco parecida a las casas circundantes.

Muchos edificios más se han erigido en Stanley. En 1998, el gobierno de las islas Malvinas puso en marcha un programa para fomentar la construcción de casas privadas, el desarrollo se conoce como Stanley Oriental. Esto condujo a un auge en el mercado de la construcción de viviendas con muchas casas de madera importada, en gran parte de Escocia. Estas casas van desde bungalós de un dormitorio individual hasta grandes casas con 4-5 habitaciones; el estilo de revestimiento y color puede variar enormemente.

Las casas de Malvinas son reconocidas por ser de colores brillantes con jardines muy bien cuidados; las casas antiguas con frecuencia tienen tallados de madera.

El puente Bodie Creek a veces se dice que es el puente suspendido más austral del mundo.

Educación

La educación es gratuita y obligatoria hasta el final del año académico, cuando el niño llega a los 16 años de edad. Las Malvinas sigue el sistema educativo inglés.

Varios

Wagstaff describe la cocina local como "muy británica en personaje, con mucho uso de vegetales cultivados, cordero de la zona, carne y pescado". Es común entre las comidas son "los pasteles caseros y galletas con té o café".  Por otra parte , las actividades sociales en las Malvinas son, en palabras de Wagstaff, "típica de la de una pequeña ciudad británica con una gran variedad de clubes y organizaciones que abarcan muchos aspectos de la vida comunitaria". También describe a la población como muy amables y sociables.

Hay dos periódicos, el Penguin News y el Teaberry Express, y también una estación de radio el Falkland Islands Radio Service o FIRS y un canal de televisión local. También existe un proveedor de televisión satelital, KTV Ltd., que cuenta con canales y radios provenientes del Reino Unido.

Las islas también tienen su propio equipo nacional de fútbol y equipo de cricket.

Véase también
 Inglés malvinense
 Museo de las islas Malvinas
 Deporte en las Islas Malvinas
 Inmigración chilena en las islas Malvinas
 Cultura de Argentina
 Cultura del Reino Unido

Referencias

Enlaces externos (en inglés)
 La poesía de las Islas Malvinas
 Islas Malvinas revista
 Conservación de las Islas Malvinas
 Islas Malvinas y el Museo de Patrimonio Nacional
 Islas Malvinas Shackleton Scholarship Fund

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In-Brief: March 9th, 2018
2018 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections
As this issue of In Brief went to press, the 2018 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) was under way in Boston, Massachusetts. For persons interested in following news from CROI, we recommend the following websites:
Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections - the official website for CROI, has links to the conference agenda, abstracts, presentation slides, and video or audio recordings of speaker presentations and workshops.
AIDSmap, Healio Infectious Disease News, HIV.gov, NATAP, Poz, Science Speaks Blog, and TheBodyPro sites are also providing extensive coverage from CROI.
We plan to summarize selected highlights from 2018 CROI in the next issue of In Brief.
HIV Among Youth
CDC Study Finds Large Differences in HIV Diagnosis Rates by Age Among Young Persons
Although young persons between the ages of 13 and 29 represented 23% of the U.S. population during 2014, they accounted for 40% of new diagnoses during that year, according a recent report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). However, the diagnosis rates were not uniformly high among young persons, but instead varied substantially by age. During the period from 2010 through 2014, HIV diagnosis rates per 100,000 population rose rapidly with increasing age from 0.7 among persons aged 13 to 15 years, 4.5 among those 16 to 17 years, 16.5 among those 18 to 19 years, and 28.6 among those 20 to 21 years. The HIV diagnosis rates per 100,000 population were higher, but less variable, among persons aged 22 to 23 years (34.0), 24 to 25 years (33.8), 26 to 27 years (31.3), and 28 to 29 years (28.7).
"These findings underscore the importance of targeting primary prevention efforts to persons aged under 18 years, specifically those aged 16 to 17 years, and continuing through the period of elevated risk in the mid-twenties," according to CDC study researchers. "Much remains to be understood about the factors that affect adolescents and young adults at high risk for acquiring or transmitting HIV infection . . . When implementing effective HIV prevention strategies, a multifaceted approach that incorporates the educational, social, policy, and health care systems can help support youths as they transition from adolescence into young adulthood."
NCCN Issues New Guidelines for Managing Cancer in People Living with HIV
Compared to the general population, people living with HIV (PLWH) have higher rates of many types of cancers - both AIDS-defining malignancies and non-AIDS-defining cancers. In addition, PLWH and cancer have higher mortality rates than uninfected persons with cancer. "Reasons for this increased mortality include delayed diagnoses, advanced cancer stage, other comorbidities, and immunosuppression," according to the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN). "However, there is also significant disparity in cancer treatment between PLWH and the general cancer population, with many PLWH not receiving any cancer treatment at all." NCCN notes that a recent survey of U.S. oncologists suggests that a lack of consensus guidelines and provider education has contributed to the substandard cancer care often offered to PLWH. "...To help fill that gap in education and enable health care providers to provide optimal cancer to PLWH, NCCN recently issued detailed cancer guidelines specifically for this population.
The new guidelines include specific recommendations for managing cervical cancer, anal carcinoma, non-small cell lung cancer, and Hodgkin lymphoma in PLWH. They also provide guidance on: HIV management for persons undergoing cancer therapy, systemic therapy and drug-drug interactions, radiation therapy, surgery, supportive care, and the use of medical imaging in PLWH. The cancer and HIV guidelines can be viewed and downloaded for free from the NCCN website. However, persons who wish to access the guidelines must first register with NCCN.
PHAT Life Intervention Reduces HIV Risk Among Youth in the Criminal Justice System
An HIV risk-reduction intervention called PHAT Life - Preventing HIV/AIDS Among Teens - significantly reduced sexual risk-taking among a group of juvenile offenders in Chicago's Cook County, according to a recent study published in the journal Health Psychology. PHAT Life is a group intervention that uses a combination of role-playing, videos, games, and skill-building exercises to promote knowledge about HIV/AIDS, positive coping, and problem-solving skills among high-risk youth on probation. PHAT Life consists of eight sessions, each lasting 90 to 120 minutes, delivered over the course of a two-week period. For the study, 310 urban youth between the ages of 13 to 17 who were on probation were randomized into either PHAT Life or a health information program of equal intensity.
The study researchers found that PHAT Life participants were more than four times as likely to report a reduction in the number of sexual partners and an increase in consistent condom use, compared to participants in the health information program. "Uniquely tailored interventions like PHAT Life that reduce adolescent risk behavior are essential to mitigate young offenders' poor long-term trajectories," noted Geri Donenberg, the lead researcher for the study from the University of Illinois-Chicago. "Limited resources require evidence-informed decisions about who can benefit the most from HIV-prevention efforts. Our findings suggest that PHAT Life can reduce sexual risk among the highest-risk teens."
Two HIV/AIDS Funding Opportunities from the Ryan White Program
The Health Resources and Services Administration's HIV/AIDS Bureau (HRSA/HAB) currently has two open funding opportunities under the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program. One of these opportunities, with a deadline of March 26, is for a new three-year initiative called Evidence-Informed Approaches to Improving Health Outcomes for People Living with HIV (PLWH). According to HRSA, this program will "support a single organization that will systematically identify, catalog, disseminate, and support the replication of evidence-informed approaches and interventions to engage PLWH who are not receiving HIV health care (i.e., individuals who are not currently in care or have never been in care) or are at risk of not continuing to receive HIV health care."
The second HRSA/HAB open funding opportunity, with a deadline of April 2, is for a new three-year demonstration project called Improving Sexually Transmitted Infection Screening and Treatment for People Living with or at Risk for HIV. The organization selected for this project will work with HRSA staff "to promote clinical service and system-level interventions leading to an increase and/or improvements in the screening and treatment of STIs [sexually transmitted infections] among low-income people living with HIV or at risk for HIV who are served by HRSA's Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program and/or Health Center Program."
More Tips on Digital Marketing from HIV.gov
During the past month, the HIV.gov blog has published several new posts focusing on digital marketing as part of its ongoing series to help agencies and organizations make better use of digital tools for HIV communication. These include:
How to Know if Your Social Media Strategy is Successful - This post describes approaches for gauging the engagement and reach of your media strategy with your target audience(s).
Is Your Content Ready for Mobile Users? Tips for Making the Most of the Small Screen - This post provides tips for making information attractive to smartphone users, including: incorporating engaging visuals; shortening headlines, paragraphs, and overall content; using bullet points; and linking to more in-depth content.
Awareness Day Promotion: Should You Be Using Videos? - This post describes the great popularity of video content, outlines why videos are an effective way to engage target audiences, and provides nine ideas for creating promotional videos for raising awareness, encouraging action (such as HIV testing), or promoting events associated with HIV/AIDS awareness days.
Biktarvy Fact Sheet from AIDSinfo
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) AIDSinfo site recently published a fact sheet on Biktarvy - a new one-pill-per-day HIV regimen that was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on February 7. The document provides extensive information about Biktarvy, including the drugs it contains, who it is approved for, drug dosing and what to do if someone misses a dose, and side effects, including the potential for serious adverse reactions. A Spanish version of the fact sheet is also available on HHS's infoSIDA site.
HHS Updates Opportunistic Infections Guidelines with New Information for Human Herpesvirus-8
The latest revision to HHS's Guidelines for the Prevention and Treatment of Opportunistic Infections in HIV-Infected Adults and Adolescents provides updated information about Human Herpesvirus-8 (HHV-8) - also known as Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV). As its alternative name indicates, HHV-8 is the virus responsible for the AIDS-defining illness Kaposi's sarcoma, and it is also associated with a condition called multicentric Castleman's disease. The revised HHV-8 section includes the most recent data on the epidemiology of HHV-8 infection and HHV-8-related malignancies, new treatment recommendations for multicentric Castleman's disease, as well as information about a newly described clinical syndrome called the KSHV inflammatory cytokine syndrome (KICS).
CDC Fact Sheet and Web Pages
Internalized HIV-Related Stigma: This 2-page fact sheet describes internalized HIV-related stigma, its manifestations, and its prevalence by race/ethnicity, age, and gender. It also summarizes ways people living with HIV can reduce internalized HIV-related stigma.
HIV Among People Who Inject Drugs (PWID): This web page provides updated statistical data about HIV among PWID, including new HIV diagnoses and HIV prevalence. The page also describes challenges in preventing HIV infection among PWID and highlights CDC programs that support HIV surveillance, prevention, outbreak response, and treatment in this high-risk group.
Injection Drug Use and HIV Risk: This web page discusses the risk of HIV, other infections, and overdose among PWID. It also describes steps PWID can take to reduce the risks associated with injection drug use, and includes links to related resources on injection drug use, HIV, hepatitis C, and overdose prevention.


DTN Ag Policy Editor Chris Clayton reported on Friday (link requires subscription) that, "USDA plans to enroll 4 million acres in the Conservation Reserve Program to replace acres scheduled to leave CRP next fall, Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack announced Friday, so the new sign-up should not affect 2011 crop-year acreage.
"Vilsack spoke at the opening of Pheasant Fest in downtown Omaha as wildlife groups such as Pheasants Forever have become some of CRP's most ardent defenders. But given current commodity prices and demand for more acres to go into production, Vilsack said he did not want his enrollment announcement to affect the markets.
David Rogers reported yesterday at Politico that, "Alarmed by new deficit estimates, the Senate Budget Committee signaled Thursday that it may go beyond its typical five-year spending resolution this spring and instead pick up where a presidential commission left off last month, forcing votes on a longer-range scheme for deficit reduction.
"Leading members of both parties on the committee expressed an openness to that approach, and if the initiative were to gain steam in the Senate, it could become a vehicle to bring President Barack Obama and the new House Republican majority to the table.
(FarmPolicy Note: Extended remarks on this issue from Chairman Conrad at yesterday's Budget Committee hearing can be heard here (MP3- 2:40)).
Janet Hook and Siobhan Hughes reported in today's Wall Street Journal that, "The Republican-controlled House, hours before the State of the Union address, passed a resolution Tuesday calling for more drastic and immediate cuts in domestic spending than envisioned by President Barack Obama in the speech.
"The resolution, approved on a 256-165 vote, calls for House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R., Wis.) to dramatically lower the ceiling on government spending in the remaining seven months of the current budget year.
Bill Bartel reported yesterday at The Virginia-Pilot Online (Norfolk) that, "U.S. Sen. Mark Warner is about to heed his own admonition that Congress 'put up or shut up' when confronting the dangerously high federal debt.
Damian Paletta, Jonathan Weisman and Laura Meckler reported in Saturday's Wall Street Journal that, "President Barack Obama will call for new government spending on infrastructure, education and research in his State of the Union address Tuesday, sharpening his response to Republicans in Congress who are demanding deep budget cuts, people familiar with the speech said.
David M. Herszenhorn reported in today's New York Times that, "House Republican leaders confronted pressure from conservatives on Thursday to take more aggressive steps to cut federal spending, with a large group of lawmakers calling for outlays to be slashed by $2.5 trillion over the next decade, far more than the party has sought so far.
A news release yesterday from Sen. Kent Conrad (D-ND) stated that, "[Sen. Conrad] announced today that Jim Miller, Under Secretary for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Service at the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), will return to his staff next month as a senior aide leading his negotiations on the next Farm Bill.
Associated Press writer Dale Wetzel reported yesterday that, "North Dakota U.S. Sen. Kent Conrad said Tuesday he will not seek re-election in 2012 because he wants spend more time working on ways to reduce the nation's $14 trillion debt, which he ranks with a terrorist attack as 'the central threat facing the country'" [related statement here, related video here).
The Associated Press reported yesterday that, "Welcome to Washington, tea partiers.
"Now that they're freshmen in a GOP-run House, the political movement's candidates are running smack into the traditions, partisan divisions and powerful competing interests that make it so hard to redirect the government.
Carl Hulse reported in Saturday's New York Times that, "House Republicans sought to build momentum for their effort to cut spending and confront Democrats over fiscal issues as they gathered for a policy retreat in the aftermath of the Tucson shootings, which have overshadowed their debut as the new majority party.
"Transplanted for three days to a well-secured hotel overlooking the city's [Baltimore] harbor, Republican leaders said they spent considerable time exploring the budget and spending initiatives that they intended to make the centerpiece of their legislative agenda.
Tim Carman reported in today's Washington Post that, "Calling it not only a national health issue but also a military one, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on Thursday proposed to overhaul the nutrition guidelines for public school meals for the first time since 1995, when Americans were mostly alarmed by the fat content of food.
"The proposed rules are far more wide-ranging and would gradually reduce sodium, limit starchy vegetables, ban most trans fats, require fat-free or lowfat milk, increase whole grains, add more fruits and vegetables, and, for the first time, limit the number of calories children consume daily [see an example here]. The guidelines are consistent, Vilsack said, with first lady Michelle Obama's Let's Move initiative, which promotes healthier eating for children.
A news release yesterday from Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), the incoming Chair of the Sen. Ag Committee, stated that, "[Sen. Stabenow] toured three agriculture businesses that create jobs in Michigan. This followed her inaugural speech as Chairwoman, which she delivered yesterday to the Michigan Agri-Business Association. She toured Dow Agrosciences in Harbor Beach, Cooperative Elevator in Pigeon, and Star of the West Milling in Frankenmuth today.
The U.S. Federal Reserve released its January Beige Book report today, which contained a brief economic summary of current economic conditions by Federal Reserve District.
With respect to agriculture, yesterday's report included the following summaries.
Philip Brasher reported yesterday at the Green Fields Blog (Des Moines Register) that, "The new chairwoman of the Senate agriculture committee says lawmakers need to find 'creative solutions' to maintain a federal safety net for farmers in spite of concerns about spending.
Joseph Weber reported earlier this week at The Washington Times Online that, "The anti-spending crusade of Capitol Hill's resurgent Republicans could find itself with a tough row to hoe down on the farm.
"Republicans now controlling the House have wasted no time advertising their determination to rein in federal spending, cutting their own legislative budget on the second day of the 112th Congress. But the dozens of new GOP lawmakers — many hailing from rural districts — could face a more difficult choice considering cuts in the successor to the current five-year, $288 billion farm bill that expires just weeks before the 2012 elections.


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Hong Kong start-up VCredit has prospered in China's cutthroat online financing market by playing by the rules, its founder says. Photo: Reuters
Business / Companies
How going by the book helped Hong Kong start-up VCredit weather China's breakneck consumer finance market
Company is seeking up to US$200 million from its Hong Kong market debut this month and founder Stephen Liu Sai-wang says having a clear business model and complying with laws have helped it prosper
Topic | IPO
Laura He
Published: 8:03am, 11 Jun, 2018
Updated: 8:02am, 11 Jun, 2018
Before joining the Post, Laura worked for MarketWatch and The Wall Street Journal Digital Network in San Francisco and Hong Kong. She has also worked for Forbes in San Francisco and had stints at Xinhua News Agency as economics editor, anchor and financial correspondent in both Beijing and Hong Kong. She has an MA degree in digital journalism from Stanford University and passed CFA exams.


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May 9, 2017 Morgan Magazine
UK PM THERESA MAY Calls for SNAP GENERAL ELECTIONS in June
One nickname that is being ascribed to Theresa May, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, is the blunt and obvious "Theresa Maybe". Her detractors would point out that she gets this from her seeming slowness in getting things done compared to the sheer speed that she was swept into her position to begin with: replacing David Cameron after his resignation in the wake of the victorious "YES" vote in last year's BREXIT referendum. PM May then had promised to see BREXIT executed soonest, along with a slew of other sweeping governmental reforms. Yet it was only last month that the official proceedings for the UK withdrawal from the European Union have been initiated, to the impatience of BREXIT believers. Hoping to get some momentum going in her planned changes, May has called for a snap general election in the country for June.
According to BBC, PM May has decided to hold elections for Parliament out of her perceived need for certainty, stability and strong leadership across the UK to get the right people on-side as the BREXIT Article 50 procedure. On her statement announcing the snap polls, the Prime Minister described the situation from her point of view thusly: "The country is coming together but Westminster is not."
Jeremy Corbin, the Labour leader, has said that the election was something his party was looking forward to as an opportunity to vote in what he terms a "majority first" government. He also called out PM May over her refusal to engage in any televised party-leader debates taking place before the election date on June 8, declaring that the Prime Minister should not be afraid of "head-to-head" encounters as she appears to be with her opting out. In response to what they interpret to be May's squeamishness in officiated verbal sparring, the Liberal Democratic Party proposed to TV broadcasters that they hold any debates without the Prime Minister's presence, an act called "Empty-chairing".
The live TV debates for political parties ahead of any general elections are a relatively new development for the UK. It only happened for the first time back in 2010 (which saw the Conservatives and Cameron replacing Labour and Gordon Brown), and only for the second time in 2015 (wherein party and PM were retained). A spokesperson for BBC stated that it's still too early to tell if the broadcasting giant will bid for staging a debate.
In order to see this general election through, the House of Commons in Parliament will me Wednesday April 19 to vote for approval. PM May will then need two thirds of the Members of Parliament (MPs) to vote in favor of the snap polls, which will effective bring forward to this year the regularly scheduled general election of 2020.
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Projective modules over subrings of $k[X, Y]$
Author: David F. Anderson
Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 240 (1978), 317-328
MSC: Primary 13C10; Secondary 13F20, 14F05
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9947-1978-0485827-5
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Abstract: In this paper we study projective modules over subrings of $k[X,Y]$. Conditions are given for projective modules to decompose into free $\oplus$ rank 1 modules. Our main result is that if k is an algebraically closed field and A a subring of $B = k[X,Y]$ with $A \subset B$ integral and ${\text {sing}}(A)$ finite, then all f.g. projective A-modules have the form free $\oplus$ rank 1. We also give several examples of subrings of $k[X,Y]$ which have indecomposable projective modules of rank 2.
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Spoiler alert: It has a heart-warming twist at the end!
Marry Me is the latest single off Thomas Rhett's third album Life Changes. The country singer has now shared the video for the track and it's a bittersweet cocktail of love and hope. As a visual representation of the song, the video tells the story of childhood best friends and the one-sided love it usually entails – with an adorable twist at the end! Unlike the song, director TK McKamy gives the video a positive, chick-flick-like finale.
Life Changes is nominated for a Grammy in 2018 as Best Country Album and rounds up a whirlwind of a year for Rhett who recently finished up the European run of his Hometeam Tour and had two of the cutest family additions with daughters Willa Gray and Ada James.
Next spring, Thomas Rhett is launching his US tour in support of the new record kicking things off in Tulsa with 28 dates in total culminating in Sacramento on 27 October 2018. Here's to hoping he'll find some time to come back to the UK in between.


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Departing Kapiri Mposhi
by Richard | Sep 16, 2010 | Africa, Journalism, Tanzania, Travel | 2 comments
There are the days,
The ones we will remember forever
Tired eyes bear that same light
Inexhaustible
Tight corners at the smiles
Reflected in the tears that never age
The laughter and the pain of these days…
The Kapiri Mposhi station stands as the whitest of elephants in the literal Zambian bush. It's a squarest square, all embossed lines and patterns in white and cobalt blue paint that was popular with the architects of the seventies. Or was it the eighties? My Lonely Planet is buried deep in a mess of dirty clothes on my back and I'm disinclined to fish it out to date the look precisely.
Bold, blue letters the height of the banged-up taxi on the orange dirt below declare 'New Kapiri Mposhi' on the roof of the edifice. There's little new about the place. Built by 'the Chinese' to ship copper from Zambia's womb to the hungry port of Dar es Salaam, we passengers are a secondary concern. Paying versions of Kerouac's train-riding vagabonds, on our way to wherever. Today, 'wherever' happens to be where the copper goes. Tanzania, and another building which will presumably look a good deal like this – 'New Dar es Salaam' perhaps? I doubt it. There wouldn't be enough space for the letters on the roof.
I am pleasantly surprised at the long beast sitting on the rails. Immaculate steel for hundreds of meters and cabins made for long, shared journeys.
Entering is cool, almost damp after the dry heat and dust outside, and I hang out instinctively with the other dharma bums I'd found my way here with. Naomi and Patric sit unconcerned in one corner of the boxed interior and watch life pass by unconcerned. Patric is somewhere around my height, but with the swarthiness and strong jaw of an Italian model. He has an easy smile and seems primed to laugh, relaxed. By contrast, Naomi seems tense and a little on edge. Tiny and blonde in comparison to Patric, an intimidating demeanour compensates for her size. Even as she smiles, her eyes aren't there. Rifle-barrel cold. Next to Patric's gregariousness, it's even more pronounced. I can't help but think to myself that it's as if someone had filled her with steel through her eyes.
Sitting on our backpack fortress, we aren't talking much yet. We'd crossed paths only hours before on the bus that brought us to New Kapiri Mposhi. I knew a little about them. Read that they were dating. That they've been travelling this stretch of Africa a lot longer than I have. I had seen them reading me too. We're a little like strays that way, still sussing each other out. Deciding whether we liked what we saw. Deciding whether we might bite. Mostly, I was watching those eyes and backing down every time they watched me back.
The train itself, like a host late at their own dinner party, took its time in arriving. A thousand tonnes of steel sneaking onto the platform until a steamy exhalation tipped its hand. Families, children, bags and colourful chaos jostle through the baby blue entrances to the some-decade platform and climb aboard every open door in the now-silent machine. I am pleasantly surprised at the long beast sitting on the rails. Immaculate steel for hundreds of meters and cabins made for long, shared journeys.
Boarded and with a last check from the stationmaster, the train screams on the smooth steel rails and chunks, heaves, gathers itself and begins its slower, slow, faster jog.
Leaving is over, and three days now remain between us in our shared cabin before we'll see the other side of this adventure. Sniffing over, Naomi turns her eyes on me as the three of us relax into the journey and start to open up a little and share carefully planned stories of ourselves.
Naomi, owner of eyes that prove the existince of Things in the world. Taken onboard the Kapiri Mposhi express. Somewhere around the Tanzania/Zambia border.
She mentions, as the Zambian countryside begins to clack by outside, that she had worked as an aid worker in Northern Uganda. I ask her what that was like, picking up on the strange omen of her mentioning an place whose troubles represent something that I have my own designs on trying to see in time. Naomi, as if given permission by my interest, finally speaks in full.
Endless detail. Terrible stories of her time spent there. Of refugees starving in government camps, president Museveni's massacring of whole villages in the war that brought him power. Of two brothers, small children, abandoned as villagers fled and subsisting on puddles of water and vegetation until they were found. Rescued, only to be left behind in a world that she, and every other dharma bum, is free to leave.
Held in the spell of her tales, I realise that the cold grey in Naomi's eyes comes from looking into that worst darkness of the human spirit. Seeing it and not blinking or looking away. It's a burned-in realization of the way the world is. It's a truth, orphaned amongst the others that we polish for the world, of places too dark for us to know how to cope with. I am fascinated by the evidence of horrors seen that those eyes contain. Incontrovertible evidence of what lies in the places I wish to go some day with my own still-bright eyes and what light I can bring for as long as my fire holds.
I recognise, as conversation wanes and I watch the ochre sunset burn to slag on the horizon outside, that I have not chosen wrong. That where life leads is where I need to be. To learn what I must to see the world as it truly is. As the train clacks on into the night on its long, inevitable voyage, I am reassured a little at the strength of steel to carry me through the darkness yet.
I saw
I believed
I always tried
You will say.
Though the eyes age
They will always betray the soul
That lived in those days
Democ. Rep. of Congo