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About Judy Blume
Judy Blume spent her childhood in Elizabeth, NJ, making up stories inside her head. She has spent her adult years in many places, doing the same thing, only now she writes her stories down on paper. Adults as well as children will recognize such Blume titles as: Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret; Superfudge; Blubber; Just As Long As We're Together; and Forever. She has also written the best-selling novels Wifey; Smart Women; and, Summer Sisters. More than 75 million copies of her books have been sold, and her work has been translated into twenty-six languages.
She receives thousands of letters each month from readers of all ages who share their feelings and
concerns with her.
Judy received a B.S. in education from New York University in 1961, which named her a Distinguished Alumna in 1996, the same year that American Library Association honored her with the Margaret A. Edwards Award for Lifetime Achievement. She has won more than ninety awards, none more important than those coming directly from her youngest readers.
She serves on the boards of the Author's Guild, currently as Vice President; the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, where she sponsors an award for contemporary fiction; and the National Coalition Against Censorship, working to protect intellectual freedom. In Spring 2002, Judy was a spokesperson for the Cheerios "A Book for Every Child" literacy campaign which benefited Reading is Fundamental, America's largest literacy organization. She is also the founder and trustee of The Kids Fund, a charitable and educational foundation.
Judy's first book in the Fudge series, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, was published in 1972. She is thrilled to be celebrating its 30th Anniversary with the publication of Double Fudge. Just as generations of fans have loved the Fudge books, generations of Judy's family have inspired them. Thirty years ago, Fudge was inspired by her son, Larry, and now Double Fudge was written at the request of her grandson, Elliot.
Judy lives on islands up and down the East Coast with her husband George Cooper. They have three grown children and one grandchild.
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Books By Judy Blume
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Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing (Fudge Book 1) 29 May, 2014
by Judy Blume
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Peter thinks he has the world's biggest problem – his naughty little brother, Fudge.
Fudge causes trouble wherever he goes and it's usually up to Peter to sort out the mess. When Peter wins a tiny green turtle called Dribble, he's determined to keep it away from his brother. But when Fudge does get his hands on Dribble – disaster strikes!
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing is the first book in the hilariously funny Fudge series from the bestselling author and household name Judy Blume, featuring cover art from picture book star, Emily Gravett.
The chaos continues in Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great and Superfudge.
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Double Fudge 29 May, 2014
Uh oh, what's Fudge up to now?!
Pete's little brother, Fudge, has a new obsession. He's mad about money and he wants loads of it. In fact, he's going to print a hundred million trillion 'Fudge Bucks' and buy the whole world. Or maybe he'll just settle for buying the capital city of America and call it Fudgington.
He's driving Pete nuts. Will Fudge ever stop being the most embarrassing brother on the planet?
Double Fudge is the fifth and final book in the hilariously funny Fudge series from the bestselling author and household name Judy Blume, featuring cover art from picture book star, Emily Gravett.
Start at the beginning with Tales of Fourth Grade Nothing and continue the chaos with Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great and Superfudge.
Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great (Fudge Book 2) 29 May, 2014
Sheila hates swimming. And dogs. And ghosts. And thunderstorms. She'll do anything to avoid them all – except admit that she's scared.
Her new friend Mouse Ellis, yo-yo champion of Tarrytown, thinks she's chicken. But Sheila is determined to show everyone that she can be Sheila the Great.
Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great is the second book in the hilariously funny Fudge series from the bestselling author and household name Judy Blume, featuring cover art from picture book star, Emily Gravett.
The chaos continues in Superfudge and Fudge-a-Mania.
Just as Long as We're Together 29 May, 2014
Stephanie and Rachel have been best friends for years, in spite of their differences. Alison is new in town, and immediately becomes an integral part of their group. But is it possible to have two best friends? And how can you call anyone a friend if you can't tell them your most painful secrets?
Just as Long as We're Together is bestselling author Judy Blume's classic novel about changing friendships, and is followed by the sequel Here's to You, Rachel Robinson.
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Blubber 2 Jun, 2014
Bullying sucks, but true friendship is worth fighting for.
Blubber is a thick layer of fat that lies under the skin and over the muscles of whales . . .
When Linda innocently reads out her class project, everyone finds it funny. Linda can't help it if she's fat, but what starts as a joke leads to a sustained and cruel ritual of humiliation. Jill knows she should defend Linda, but at first she's too scared. When she eventually stands up to the bullies, she becomes their next victim – and what's worse, Linda is now on their side . . .
In this bright blue edition of Blubber, Judy Blume sensitively explores bullying and self-esteem.
Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret 29 May, 2014
Meet Margaret. She's going through all the same things most teenage girls have to face; fitting in, friendship, and first bras!
Life isn't easy for Margaret. She's moved away from her childhood home, she's starting a new school, finding new friends – and she's convinced she's not normal. For a start she hasn't got a clue whether she wants to be Jewish like her father or Christian like her mother. Everyone else seems really sure of who they are. And, worst of all, she's a 'late developer'. She just knows that all her friends are going to need a bra before she does. It's too embarrassing to talk to her parents about these things. So she talks to God instead – and waits for an answer . . .
This bright pink edition of bestselling author Judy Blume's classic teen novel, Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret features a fresh, contemporary cover look.
Superfudge 29 May, 2014
Peter Hatcher's little brother, Fudge, is four. And he's as monstrous as ever!
When Fudge discovers that his new baby sister can't play with him, he tries to sell her. When that doesn't work, he tries giving her away. And on his first day at school he kicks his teacher and calls her Rat Face. Can his big brother help him out this time?
Superfudge is the third book in the hilariously funny Fudge series from the bestselling author and household name Judy Blume, featuring cover art from picture book star, Emily Gravett.
Start the series with Tales of Fourth Grade Nothing or continue the chaos with Fudge-a-Mania and Double Fudge.
Fudge-a-Mania 29 May, 2014
Fudge is five – and he's driving his older brother, Peter, mad, as usual!
Going on holiday with Fudge – and baby Tootsie, Turtle the dog and Uncle Feather the bird – means disasters every day. Even worse for Peter, disgusting Sheila Tubman is staying in the same house.
Will it be Peter's nightmare holiday? One thing's for sure – it's going to be fudge-a-mania all the way!
Fudge-a-Mania is the fourth book in the hilariously funny Fudge series from the bestselling author and household name Judy Blume, featuring cover art from picture book star, Emily Gravett.
Start at the beginning with Tales of Fourth Grade Nothing or continue the chaos with Double Fudge.
Forever 29 May, 2014
Do you remember the first time?
Forever is still the bravest, freshest, fruitiest and most honest account of first love, first sex and first heartbreak ever written for teens. It was a book ahead of its time – and remains, after forty years in print, a teenage bestseller from the award-winning Judy Blume.
With a contemporary cover, Forever is a teen classic ripe for a new generation of readers.
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Here's to You, Rachel Robinson 29 May, 2014
Meet Rachel, the youngest in a family of high-achievers. She's also the cleverest. But it's not easy being super-intelligent – especially when her errant older brother insists on disturbing the peace and undermining everything she ever says or does. And her best friends seem to be falling for his charming veneer . . .
Here's to you, Rachel Robinson is bestselling author Judy Blume's classic novel about family conflict. A powerful sequel to Just as Long as We're Together.
Freckle Juice 29 May, 2014
by Judy Blume, Emily Gravett
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Andrew wants freckles. He wants to be like Nicky Lane, who has millions of them. If he had freckles like Nicky, then his mother would never notice when his neck was dirty. He wouldn't have to wash and he'd never be late for school.
So when Andrew hears about the secret recipe for freckle juice, he's determined to try it . . .
Freckle Juice is a humorous adventure for younger readers from literary superstar, Judy Blume, featuring inside illustrations by Kate Greenaway award-winning illustrator, Emily Gravett.
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Smart Women 1 Dec, 2011
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Two thirtysomethings try to find their way through the complications of post-marriage love in this beloved novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Judy Blume.
Margo and B.B. are each divorced, and each is trying to reinvent her life in Colorado—while their respective teenage daughters look on with a mixture of humor and horror. But even smart women sometimes have a lot to learn—and they will, when B.B.'s ex-husband moves in next door to Margo...
Includes a New Introduction by the Author


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Historical Background to President Trump – the Republican Party's Shift
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Tags: Kivisto: The Trump Phenomenon, Trump, USA
Peter Kivisto
This post begins a bare-bones outline of a few key historical developments that have brought us to where we are now. Anyone with a deep knowledge of U.S. history will find my treatment very basic indeed. I am using as a convenient source a book that sets out a basic overview of selected background developments that led to Trump's ascendancy, Peter Kivisto's The Trump Phenomenon: How the Politics of Populism Won in 2016. (You can read the book online at Scribd. A couple of reviews will give you some idea of what others have seen as its strengths and weaknesses.) I am only selecting a few areas of Kivisto's discussion in these posts. Developments in the media and political propaganda are most significant but I want deeper preparation before posting on that side of things. A related blog series is Fraser: From Progressive Neoliberalism to Trump; also, America's Radical Right in Context (Lipset Revisited). I have added hyperlinks copiously for the benefit of anyone (like me) who uses these sorts of outlines as springboards for further reading.
From World War 2 to the 1960s the two major political parties were both centrist:
DEMOCRATIC PARTY : Center-Left
a coalition of . . . REPUBLICAN PARTY : Center-Right
a coalition of . . .
labour unions big business and traditional main street conservatives
leftists who had moved toward the political center from the New Deal forward fiscal conservatives, libertarians, and social liberals
Southern conservatives — the Dixiecrats a core of right-wing radicals, during the 1950s associated in particular with the John Birch Society, a virulently anti-communist organization that operated with secret cells and abounding in conspiracy theories about communist penetration of the federal government and other institutions.
On the John Birch Society:
Fred Koch
One of the founding members of the Society was Fred Koch, the founder of Koch Industries and the father of Charles and David. Party leaders saw these extremists as a threat to conservatism and undertook campaigns to contain rather than encourage them. Efforts were made, for example by William F. Buckley, to keep the Society's members in particular and the extremist right in general out of influential roles in the party. However, over the course of several decades, as the success of the brothers Koch attests, the radical right has succeeded in reshaping the party and moving it far from its nineteenth-century roots. The turning point in the party's remake began in the wake of the tumultuous 1960s — an era in which the combined impact of
the civil rights movement,
growing opposition to the Vietnam War,
and the counterculture
set the stage for what has played out for over a half-century later.
As Jane Mayer has chronicled in Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires behind the Rise of the Radical Right on the funding sources of the radical right, the Koch brothers are an important component of a much larger group of donors, including prominent family names like Bradley, Olin, and Scaife. Their collective attempt to reshape American conservatism into something considerably more reactionary was immeasurably aided by Citizens United, the 2010 Supreme Court decision opening the floodgates for "dark money" campaign funding.
(Kivisto, 88)
From Johnson's Great Society to White Nationalism
1964: the Civil Rights Act
1965: the Voting Rights Act
Both passed with bipartisan support. (Democrats controlled both houses of Congress and the legislation was advanced by the Democrat President Lyndon Johnson.) But in each case the Republican Party marshalled a larger percentage of its members in support of each bill than the Democrats did.
Why was there less support for these bills among Democrats? Answer: the Dixiecrat faction in the Democratic Party.
Compare the reactions to the Social Security Amendments Act (1965):
Republicans opposed it because they saw it as "creeping socialism"
A minority of Democrats also opposed it even though they had supported the idea of social security legislation in the 1930s — then such legislation was deemed of benefit to "their white constituents".
Despite Republican support for the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts, Johnson saw the writing on the wall: the Democratic coalition was about to unravel as the South, a once solidly Democratic region, was about to exit the party. Bill Moyers, then an aide to Johnson, reported that the President told him, "I think we just delivered the South to the Republican Party for a very long time to come" (Moyers, 2004, p. 167).
The unravelling followed. Southern Democrats defected to the Republicans. Republican Richard Nixon implemented the "Southern strategy":
For its part, the Republican Party opened its arms, with Richard Nixon implementing his "Southern strategy." In researching a biography of Nixon, John A. Farrell discovered a document in which Nixon, during the 1968 presidential campaign, promised these new arrivals to the party that he "would retreat on civil rights and 'lay off pro-Negro crap' if elected" (2017, p. 9).
From Politico
The Republican Party of Lincoln was also sliding into another place:
At the same time, liberal and moderate Republicans elsewhere in the country were confronted with challenges from the right by opponents who were hostile to their centrism and their commitment to civil rights. Thus began what Purdum describes as "the long process by which the Party of Lincoln became the party of white backlash, especially |but not only] in the South" (2014b, p. 3).
Republican strategist Kevin Phillips foresaw the outcome clearly:
Blacks, given the right to vote by the Democratic Party, naturally supported the Democratic Party
Southern whites responded by flocking to the Republican Party
Also, the shift of the once Democratic South to a solid Republican base was secured . . .
As blacks continued to migrate to Northern states . . .
. . . Northern whites would migrate south, establishing a strong Republican base in the south.
Into the 1970s . . .
The 1970s set the stage for the final destruction of a center-right conservative party and the solidification of a reactionary one — a party in which people associated with the former were increasingly condemned by those in the latter camp as being Republicans in Name Only (Kabaservice, 2012).
The rise of Ronald Reagan to national prominence . . . in 1980 further signaled this rightward shift. Thus, Reagan launched his 1980 post-convention campaign in Philadelphia, Mississippi, the site of the brutal murder of three civil rights workers in 1964. Far from being there to memorialize their martyrdom, he was there to inform whites that he was on their side, using the coded language of states' rights. The person who arranged this visit was Republican operative Paul Manafort, who would serve the Trump campaign until his Russian connections made it too problematic for him to continue in that role. His place in Republican politics from Reagan to Trump reflects a white nativism that has, arguably, defined the party ever since the implementation of the Southern strategy. It led to recurrently stoking racial fears and antagonisms, as with Lee Atwater's Willie Horton (a convicted murderer who went on a crime spree while on furlough) television advertisements on behalf of his boss, George H. W. Bush. (Kivisto, 91f)
The bodies of slain civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Mickey Schwerner lie in an earthen dam June, 1964 just southwest of Philadelphia, Mississippi. — The Intercept
The next two historical waves are the emergence of the Christian Right and then the reaction to Barack Obama's election. Those developments will be discussed next.
Kivisto, Peter. 2017. The Trump Phenomenon: How the Politics of Populism Won in 2016. Bingley, UK: Emerald.
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Steve Ruis says:
The Powell Memorandum (1971) was the blueprint forward for much of the changes adopted by the GOP. It led to the Think Tanks, and many of the political stances taken. Prior to this, CEOs considered politics was a basically dirty business that they wanted to keep their hands clean from. Afterword, they realized that lobbying had a greater ROI than any other part of their business. The number of registered lobbyists soared and the ranks of the nouveau riche became swollen with corporation executives, now the largest subcategory of the filthy rich.
Thank you for this detail. I see one reference is https://www.librarything.com/work/10333738 — do you have others you would recommend?
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Born to Lead consists of twenty-one independent topics, each designed and specifically written to support the teaching of personal leadership.
In Born to Lead, pupils are introduced to the idea that, throughout their lives, each of them must take responsibility for leading their personal development. The exploration of heroes, heroines, tyrants and tormentors helps to unravel the concepts of leadership. Working in groups and individually, pupils explore character qualities and leadership skills they must develop if they are to be ready for their 'Big moment'.
The main thrust of the units is directed at personal leadership development, ethics, morality and an awareness of community and social justice. The units are designed to be acceptable to pupils from all backgrounds, cultures and beliefs.
The availability of the Born to Lead units from our Learning to Lead programme allows schools, teachers, tutors and parents to create a bespoke, context specific character through leadership sequenced curriculum that focuses on teaching the knowledge, language, values and behaviours that underpin effective leadership and provides a framework that complements the delivery of PSHCE and SMSC education.
This unit aims to help pupils to understand:
The different pathways into leadership.
That leadership skills and behaviour can be learned.
Leader of tyrant?
Historical figures in both roles.
The characteristics of a good and poor leader.
Some of the qualities required for effective leadership.
Qualities specific to good and poor leadership.
Active leadership.
Doing what is right.
The characteristics of heroic acts.
The behaviours of a hero.
Leading or bullying?
Perceptions of power.
How easy it is to disguise bullying as leadership.
The crucial difference between leadership and bullying.
The leadership qualities a bully does not possess.
Why take the lead?
The motives behind becoming a leader.
How a motive can be both acceptable and unacceptable.
The relationship between personal success and the greater good.
Why people may want to take the lead.
Why personal success is a good thing.
A worthy cause
The difference between a cause and a conviction.
What makes a cause worthy.
Why a worthy cause is important in leadership.
Humour - laughing and leading
The positive influence of humour on effective leadership.
How misplaced humour can cause untold damage.
The appeal of humour and situations in which it is effective.
Optimism - singing in the rain
The power of optimism as a motivator and team builder.
The danger when optimism turns to delusion.
That optimism is a valuable tool only when the goals are credible and the optimist has proven able to deliver his/her promise.
Tolerance - respecting others
The importance of listening to the views of others.
The value of respecting other peoples' ideas.
The ability to embrace change.
Why tolerance is a vital quality in good leaders and how it can be used to earn respect.
Marching to the beat
Music as a powerful form of communication.
Situations where music is used for this purpose.
How music can be used to affect mood and behaviour.
How lyrics can convey a powerful message.
Cults and gangs
Gang culture.
Control versus leadership.
The characteristics of cults and gangs.
The dangers of gang membership.
The abuse of leadership.
Courage - being brave
Being brave but not heroic.
Everyday courage.
The difference between courage and heroism.
Everyday opportunities to demonstrate courage.
Thinking differently
Independent thinking.
Some problems that were solved by a person who 'thought differently'.
The benefits of a different approach.
Step forward - speak up
Independent action.
Situations where failure to act made a problem worse.
Strategies required for managing agreement.
The benefits of working in teams.
The difference between a group and a team.
The characteristics of good teamwork.
Dealing with trouble
The role of a leader in handling conflict.
The signs and behaviour that signal the beginning of conflict.
The simple steps that can help to resolve the conflict.
The benefits of being trustworthy and having trust in others.
The qualities that inspire trust.
The people and organisations in whom we place our trust.
The power of confidence and the negative effects of poor self-esteem.
The behaviours of those with low self-esteem.
Simple ways in which we can help to build confidence in others.
Honesty - tell it how it is
The benefits of being honest at all times.
Truth has a number of highly valued, partner qualities.
Dishonesty is the enemy of trust.
Responsibility - your call!
The importance of your role as an individual.
Why you are responsible for how others perceive you.
Why you are the one person who determines success or failure.
The big moment
The importance of NOW.
The skills and qualities that allow you to take the lead.
Typical everyday opportunities to take the lead.


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A general protein O-glycosylation machinery conserved in Burkholderia species improves bacterial fitness and elicits glycan immunogenicity in humans
Yasmine Fathy Mohamed, Nichollas E. Scott, Antonio Molinaro, Carole Creuzenet, Ximena Ortega, Ganjana Lertmemongkolchai, Michael M. Tunney, Heather Green, Andrew M. Jones, David DeShazer, Bart J. Currie, Leonard J. Foster, Rebecca Ingram, Cristina De Castro, Miguel A. Valvano
The Burkholderia genus encompasses many Gram-negative bacteria living in the rhizosphere. Some Burkholderia species can cause life-threatening human infections, highlighting the need for clinical interventions targeting specific lipopolysaccharide proteins. Burkholderia cenocepacia O-linked protein glycosylation has been reported, but the chemical structure of the O-glycan and the machinery required for its biosynthesis are unknown and could reveal potential therapeutic targets. Here, using bioinformatics approaches, gene-knockout mutants, purified recombinant proteins, LC-MS-based analyses of O-glycans, and NMR-based structural analyses, we identified a B. cenocepacia O-glycosylation (ogc) gene cluster necessary for synthesis, assembly, and membrane translocation of a lipid-linked O-glycan, as well as its structure, which consists of a β-Gal-(1,3)-α-GalNAc-(1,3)-β-GalNAc trisaccharide. We demonstrate that the ogc cluster is conserved in the Burkholderia genus, and we confirm the production of glycoproteins with similar glycans in the Burkholderia species: B. thailandensis, B. gladioli, and B. pseudomallei Furthermore, we show that absence of protein O-glycosylation severely affects bacterial fitness and accelerates bacterial clearance in a Galleria mellonella larva infection model. Finally, our experiments revealed that patients infected with B. cenocepacia, Burkholderia multivorans, B. pseudomallei, or Burkholderia mallei develop O-glycan-specific antibodies. Together, these results highlight the importance of general protein O-glycosylation in the biology of the Burkholderia genus and its potential as a target for inhibition or immunotherapy approaches to control Burkholderia infections.
https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.RA119.009671
Burkholderia
Burkholderia cenocepacia
Burkholderia mallei
Burkholderia Infections
Trisaccharides
Bioelectric potentials
Gene Knockout Techniques
Rhizosphere
Multigene Family
Fathy Mohamed, Y., Scott, N. E., Molinaro, A., Creuzenet, C., Ortega, X., Lertmemongkolchai, G., ... Valvano, M. A. (2019). A general protein O-glycosylation machinery conserved in Burkholderia species improves bacterial fitness and elicits glycan immunogenicity in humans. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 294(36), 13248-13268. https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.RA119.009671
Fathy Mohamed, Yasmine ; Scott, Nichollas E. ; Molinaro, Antonio ; Creuzenet, Carole ; Ortega, Ximena ; Lertmemongkolchai, Ganjana ; Tunney, Michael M. ; Green, Heather ; Jones, Andrew M. ; DeShazer, David ; Currie, Bart J. ; Foster, Leonard J. ; Ingram, Rebecca ; De Castro, Cristina ; Valvano, Miguel A. / A general protein O-glycosylation machinery conserved in Burkholderia species improves bacterial fitness and elicits glycan immunogenicity in humans. In: Journal of Biological Chemistry. 2019 ; Vol. 294, No. 36. pp. 13248-13268.
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N2 - The Burkholderia genus encompasses many Gram-negative bacteria living in the rhizosphere. Some Burkholderia species can cause life-threatening human infections, highlighting the need for clinical interventions targeting specific lipopolysaccharide proteins. Burkholderia cenocepacia O-linked protein glycosylation has been reported, but the chemical structure of the O-glycan and the machinery required for its biosynthesis are unknown and could reveal potential therapeutic targets. Here, using bioinformatics approaches, gene-knockout mutants, purified recombinant proteins, LC-MS-based analyses of O-glycans, and NMR-based structural analyses, we identified a B. cenocepacia O-glycosylation (ogc) gene cluster necessary for synthesis, assembly, and membrane translocation of a lipid-linked O-glycan, as well as its structure, which consists of a β-Gal-(1,3)-α-GalNAc-(1,3)-β-GalNAc trisaccharide. We demonstrate that the ogc cluster is conserved in the Burkholderia genus, and we confirm the production of glycoproteins with similar glycans in the Burkholderia species: B. thailandensis, B. gladioli, and B. pseudomallei Furthermore, we show that absence of protein O-glycosylation severely affects bacterial fitness and accelerates bacterial clearance in a Galleria mellonella larva infection model. Finally, our experiments revealed that patients infected with B. cenocepacia, Burkholderia multivorans, B. pseudomallei, or Burkholderia mallei develop O-glycan-specific antibodies. Together, these results highlight the importance of general protein O-glycosylation in the biology of the Burkholderia genus and its potential as a target for inhibition or immunotherapy approaches to control Burkholderia infections.
AB - The Burkholderia genus encompasses many Gram-negative bacteria living in the rhizosphere. Some Burkholderia species can cause life-threatening human infections, highlighting the need for clinical interventions targeting specific lipopolysaccharide proteins. Burkholderia cenocepacia O-linked protein glycosylation has been reported, but the chemical structure of the O-glycan and the machinery required for its biosynthesis are unknown and could reveal potential therapeutic targets. Here, using bioinformatics approaches, gene-knockout mutants, purified recombinant proteins, LC-MS-based analyses of O-glycans, and NMR-based structural analyses, we identified a B. cenocepacia O-glycosylation (ogc) gene cluster necessary for synthesis, assembly, and membrane translocation of a lipid-linked O-glycan, as well as its structure, which consists of a β-Gal-(1,3)-α-GalNAc-(1,3)-β-GalNAc trisaccharide. We demonstrate that the ogc cluster is conserved in the Burkholderia genus, and we confirm the production of glycoproteins with similar glycans in the Burkholderia species: B. thailandensis, B. gladioli, and B. pseudomallei Furthermore, we show that absence of protein O-glycosylation severely affects bacterial fitness and accelerates bacterial clearance in a Galleria mellonella larva infection model. Finally, our experiments revealed that patients infected with B. cenocepacia, Burkholderia multivorans, B. pseudomallei, or Burkholderia mallei develop O-glycan-specific antibodies. Together, these results highlight the importance of general protein O-glycosylation in the biology of the Burkholderia genus and its potential as a target for inhibition or immunotherapy approaches to control Burkholderia infections.
KW - bacteria
KW - Burkholderia
KW - cystic fibrosis
KW - galleria mellonella
KW - glanders
KW - glycosylation
KW - immunogenicity
KW - melioidosis
KW - nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)
KW - phenotypic arrays
U2 - 10.1074/jbc.RA119.009671
DO - 10.1074/jbc.RA119.009671
Fathy Mohamed Y, Scott NE, Molinaro A, Creuzenet C, Ortega X, Lertmemongkolchai G et al. A general protein O-glycosylation machinery conserved in Burkholderia species improves bacterial fitness and elicits glycan immunogenicity in humans. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 2019 Sep 6;294(36):13248-13268. https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.RA119.009671
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Dropping the F-Bomb: why we're going 'Free From' bad language
Daniel Hegarty
From today, we're making a promise to rid ourselves of bad language and be a 'free from' mortgage broker.
It's a term most of us have heard in the supermarket aisles, referring to food that has cut out allergens. For us, it means getting rid of other things that bring consumers out in hives: confusing industry jargon, complicated language, and endless acronyms. 'Free From' for Habito, means always writing in plain English, being clear and accessible in our advice and using terms that everyone understands, or explaining the ones they don't, much better.
Communicating clearly means that all of us can make informed decisions and do what is best for us financially. Our research has shown the harm that badly worded contracts can do. We'll be campaigning to simplify the outdated language used in mortgages so that everybody can understand every aspect of what they're signing up for.
Why now? Habito was founded just over two years ago with a guiding principle to make the process of getting a mortgage less difficult.
One thing has become clear since we started and that is that millions of UK homeowners actively fear their mortgage. The process of getting one, or switching to a better one, seems so complicated, scary and confusing, that many would rather avoid it altogether.
Why are people afraid of mortgages? People are disengaged by the use of over-complicated language and industry jargon. SVR, fixed-term rates, introductory period, interest-only, capital repayment… the list goes on. No-one learns this in school. These aren't words or phrases we use at any other time. They are unfamiliar and unapproachable. And it's only natural to fear what we don't know — it leaves us feeling vulnerable.
Complicated terms, industry legalese and endless jargon mean that many homeowners aren't able to understand what they're signing up to. We found that nearly half of homeowners only read a quarter or less of their terms and conditions of their mortgage before signing on the dotted line.
Not understanding what you are signing up to is stressful. More than a third of people say they have had sleepless nights or been distracted throughout the day because of the stress of needing to go through a financial contract.
More than headaches and insomnia, this costs homeowners dearly. More than half of homeowners say they think they've ended up paying for something they shouldn't have because the language was too complicated, and they signed up for something they didn't fully understand.
On top of this, Dr. Peter Backus, Senior Economics Lecturer at the University of Manchester, estimates that 55% of homeowners could be wasting nearly £300 a month, from not switching their mortgage.
So what are we actually doing? Earlier this year, we commissioned the University of Nottingham's Linguistic Department (LiPP) to do a linguistic analysis of Habito.com. They did a full readability test to make sure our words are easy to understand and as a result, we've made some major changes.
We can only do so much, though, on our own. Buying a house is a huge financial commitment, which is why it's also a major legal commitment between consumers and lenders. Habito is not a lender, so we can't rewrite everyone else's terms and conditions. But as the middleman, or as we like to think of it, the interpreter, we want to do better at translating it all.
Fundamentally, this comes down to us wanting to make people feel empowered when they make the biggest financial commitment of their lives. We don't think you should need a degree to be able to read a financial contract.
Homeowners agree. 95% of people say that the Government should regulate to make the language in financial contracts easier to understand. So, now that we're on the path to getting our own house in order, we're going to campaign for much bigger, industry-wide, changes too.
Today's announcement is just the beginning.
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Ethiopian rural communities: where are they heading?
Since 2009 a Mokoro team have been revisiting twenty rural Ethiopian villages that some of them had visited for the first time in 1995 as part of the WIDE research project. This case-based, longitudinal looks at the broad modernisation processes and outcomes in each community and documents how government and donor development interventions have interacted with these. On 11 January Mokoro's Principal Consultants Becky Carter and Catherine Dom, members of the WIDE 3 team, presented insights arising from the current stage reached in the research to offer hypotheses about where these 'exemplar' communities – and other similar communities in Ethiopia – might be heading.


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"General Practitioners" for Domestic Violence Cases
by Barry Goldstein | May 31, 2017 | Family Court Custody Crisis, Feature
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A mother to be was taking medication in response to a serious immune deficiency. When she learned she was pregnant with twins, the woman contacted her doctor to find out what to do about the medication. He said she needed to stop taking the medication that had provided important benefits to her health. She works at the CDC and is knowledgeable about her health issues. She contacted an organization that specializes in immune deficiencies, and they recommended increasing her medication. This advice was confirmed when she consulted a specialist.
The medical profession strongly encourages the use of specialists and doing so in this case prevented a potential disaster.
There is now a specialized body of scientific knowledge about domestic violence, and experts working full- time on abuse issues who have a far better understanding about recognizing and responding to domestic violence. This was not true when domestic violence first became a public issue, and courts turned to mental health professionals for advice on domestic violence. These outdated and dangerous practices have not changed despite the tremendous increase in available knowledge.
I have heard some court officials object to the use of domestic violence research and expertise as somehow violative of neutrality. But ignorance of current scientific research and DV dynamics is not neutral. It creates a powerful bias that favors abusers and jeopardizes children. When professionals don't know what to look for, they routinely disbelieve true reports of abuse or minimize the significance. We constantly see court officials focus on less important issues and retaliate against victims because the officials couldn't recognize the abusive tactics. The judges, lawyers and evaluators do not know what they are missing, so they never consider reaching out for the specialized knowledge that is now available. And women and children are placed in avoidable danger just as the first woman would have been if she listened to the first doctor.
Outdated Custody Practices Literally Kill Children
In Maryland, Dr. Amy Castillo had sexual relations with her husband immediately before going to court to seek a protective order. The judge assumed that if the parties were still having marital relations the father could not be that dangerous. If the judge had access to training or experts concerning DV dynamics he could have understood it might not be safe for the mother to refuse the father's sexual demands. Instead the court gave the father the access he needed to murder the three children.
In Connecticut, Adrianne Oyola sought a protective order because her partner threatened to kill their baby. The judge failed to recognize that it was a continuing and dangerous threat because he had no access to expertise about DV dynamics. The father used the access provided by the court to throw seven-month-old Aaden Moreno off a bridge to his death.
In California, Katie Tagle was concerned about texts from her baby's father threatening to kill their child. She sought a protective order to save the boy. In the transcript of the hearing, Judge Lemkau told the mother he believed she was lying. This was not based on anything in the evidence so it appears to be based on the judge's mistaken belief that mothers often make false reports. The Saunders' study from the US Justice Department found that judges and other professionals without the needed training tend to focus on this dangerous myth. The father used the access provided by the court to kill Baby Wyatt. Judge Lemkau was sincerely horrified at the tragedy, but said there was nothing he could do based on the information he had. In one sense this was true. Neither he nor other judges can protect children in their courts as long as they are limited to the outdated and discredited practices developed in the 1970s when the specialized expertise was unavailable.
These tragedies are not as rare as they should be. More common are cases where the children are not murdered but are exposed to abuse and deprivation that makes them sick and shortens their lives. Although deliberate false reports of abuse by mothers are rare, in cases involving possible child sexual abuse, 85% lead to custody for the alleged offenders. The situation is so bad that many if not most attorneys refuse or discourage clients from raising sexual abuse because the court response is so hostile. This means thousands of children every year are sent to live with their rapists. And every year 58,000 children are sent for custody or unprotected visitation with dangerous abusers.
Legal and Psychological Approaches Alone Often Fail Children
Judges usually receive their training and information from legal or mental health professionals, but neither their academic or practice experience provides the specialized knowledge the Saunders' study found was necessary to respond to domestic violence cases. The problem was illustrated by a tragedy that occurred last year in Westchester County, NY.
A recently- retired police officer killed his two teen daughters while they were sleeping and then committed suicide. The reporting suggested he was an admirable professional and father. Everyone seemed shocked that Glen Hochman could have committed such a heinous act. The local Gannett newspaper assigned a reporter to try to understand how this could happen. They interviewed law enforcement professionals, some of whom knew him, but none could fathom why he would kill his daughters. Abusive men act very differently with the rest of the world than in the privacy of their homes, but courts often take an alleged abuser's good reputation as if it proves he couldn't be an abuser. When the reporter interviewed mental health professionals they tried to concoct an unlikely psychological explanation, but they admitted their guess was unlikely. As in Family Court, they couldn't understand the cause because they were limited to psychological explanations and domestic violence is not caused by mental illness.
The reporter then interviewed me. I had a research chapter from Dr. Dianne Bartlow concerning the 175 children murdered by fathers involved in contested custody in a recent two- year period. I also knew that the most dangerous abusers are ones who believe she has no right to leave. A large majority of contested custody cases involve the worst abusers who hold this belief. Sometimes they respond by killing the mothers, sometimes they kill the children, but more often seek custody as a way to regain control over their victims. Court professionals expect the worst abusers would have committed the most severe physical abuse, but this is usually not the case. It turned out that Glen Hochman recently learned his wife wanted a separation and she reported him to the police.
When you read stories like the Hochman murders you desperately want to prevent these tragedies from ever happening again. But society cannot save the children until it understands the causes. Alissa and Deanna Hochman could not be saved by legal or psychological expertise alone, but if the specialized body of domestic violence knowledge is also considered the girls would be alive today.
The Specialized Body of Knowledge about Domestic Violence Needed to Protect Children
Too often court officials respond defensively to criticism concerning their response to domestic violence cases. They would like to believe they do a good job and that research findings to the contrary are mistaken. Many of their standard practices, however, give judges little chance to recognize and respond effectively to domestic violence.
Aside from decisions leading to the murder of women and children, the worst custody cases are what the Saunders' Study refers to as harmful outcome cases. These are extreme outcomes in which the alleged abuser is given custody and safe, protective mothers who are the primary attachment figures for the children are limited to supervised or no visitation. These decisions are always wrong because the harm of denying children a normal relationship with their primary attachment figure, a harm that includes increased risk of depression, low self-esteem and suicide when older is greater than any possible benefit. The Saunders' study found that in most of these cases very flawed practices such as pathologizing the victim, relying on unqualified professionals and using unscientific alienation theories cause these harmful outcomes. Obviously, the judges and other professionals do not want to hurt children and are usually unaware of the findings in the Saunders' study when they create these harmful outcomes. Particularly revealing of the problems in the custody court system is that in many cases when the court was made aware of the Saunders' findings it failed to correct the bad decision.
Many common errors demonstrating fundamental ignorance of domestic violence 101 continue to be widespread in the custody courts. Reports of domestic violence are discredited based on non-probative factors like the victim returning to her abuser, the failure to follow-up on petitions for a protective order and the lack of police or medical reports. At the same time few court professionals look for the pattern of controlling and coercive tactics that make it easier to recognize domestic violence and avoid treating the case as "he-said-she-said." Many court professionals focus only on physical abuse. Other professionals assume if there are no recent physical assaults the danger is over. Some professionals even believe the end of the relationship eliminates the danger. Without knowledge from the ACE Study many professionals minimize the impact of DV on children.
Gender- biased practices are still widespread, and judges are often defensive and retaliatory when the issue is raised. Psychologists look for psychological explanations for domestic violence, although mental illness is not the cause of DV. They also expect children exposed to abuse to act out in obvious ways, but children respond in many different ways as they try to survive. Abusers are able to control their behavior, so acting properly during supervised visits does not mean the alleged abuser is safe. Nevertheless, courts often make this the only or most important factor in restoring normal visitation.
Courts often treat a victim's emotion or anger as a far more important indication of parenting ability than it actually reveals. The myth that women and children frequently make false reports continues to be widespread among court professionals and plays an outsized role in leading courts to disbelieve true reports of abuse. Courts ought to weigh and discuss the potential benefits and harm of possible outcomes. This should be based on valid scientific research, not personal opinions and biases. But we rarely see this kind of discussion in custody decisions. Especially when the court gives the alleged abuser custody and when it punishes the children by limiting contact with good mothers.
The Saunders' Study found what should have been obvious; the professionals working full time on domestic violence issues are the ones with the specific information courts most need in order to respond to domestic violence cases. This research supports the use of a multi-disciplinary approach, so that the court gains access to the specific knowledge and information it needs for each case. The Safe Child Act will make children safer by promoting a multi-disciplinary approach and better use of current scientific research like ACE and Saunders. The ACE Research found domestic violence and child abuse are far more harmful to children than previously understood. At the same time, the Saunders' Study demonstrated how inadequately trained judges, lawyers and evaluators deny and minimize true reports of abuse. This is the worst possible combination for the children. Our children deserve practices that are evidence- based, multi-disciplinary and trauma-informed. None of these necessary elements are part of the old practices from the 1970s that have not kept up with current scientific research.
The Kingdom of the Netherlands received a Humanitarian Award for saving the lives of American children that a custody court had placed in jeopardy. Peter Mollema, the Deputy Chief of Mission for the Dutch Embassy accepted the award for his nation. He eloquently summed up the issue when he said, "It is common sense, you must protect the children." It is the common sense we need from our custody courts.
Barry Goldstein
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Barry Goldstein is a nationally recognized domestic violence author, speaker and advocate.
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If you are one of those girls who find it easier to stay awake till 6 am than to wake up at 6 am I am with you. It is definitely easier to concentrate at night, nothing is going on, there's really not much you can do apart from either work or procrastinate, two things that if you are a night owl, you get more enjoyment doing it during the night.
I really want to pick up this theme today to show you that wrong is just a belief.
Chances are you grew up with people telling you that staying awake during the night is bad, and sleeping till noon its even worst because you are loosing the day and not being productive.
I say do whatever works best for you, if you can really get things done during the night then there is no problem to be solved. If you can have some time alone relaxing, watching your favourite show, do it. Do it as often as you need, if you can't sleep, use that time, don't beat yourself over it. It simply means you have more energy than you expected.
Night Owls are as awesome as Early Birds! Both of them do great in life once they realise how something considered bad or undoable can work wonderfully to them.
Look at your faults as if they were unique characteristics that you were given and see what great things you have accomplished through them. If you have OCD for example that really annoys you at times, I would look at you and tell you that you have amazing organisational skills, and if I were to have someone organising my closet it would be you. And If you had Alzheimer I would tell you all of my secrets and the most beautiful moments of my life over and over and you would be the best listener. I used to have a friend when I was in high school and everyone would tell me that she was a lier, however I was very close friends with her, for me she was a storyteller at times it was entertaining. We were both having fun, and that's what mattered.
I am sure you will think that your problems are different, but make an effort and look at them with love, you deserve that. You really need to understand that there is good in everything. Get used to search for good as we would search for Wally. It is there, even when you can't see it. Owning your faults will make you more authentic because you will stop hiding the bad things and they will rise beautifully.
There's something really powerful about being by ourselves. If you can be by yourself you can be with anyone. And if the only time you get during your 24 hours to spend time with the best person in your world is at night, go ahead and do it.
It's everything for tonight, I hope you enjoyed. See you in the next one.


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Why the U.S. Government Is Paying Half a Billion in Settlements to 17 Tribal Governments
That adds to 95 cases the U.S. has settled with native groups since 2012
Jason Daley
Faithkeeper of the Turtle Clan of the Onondaga Nation of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy Oren Lyons, Ph.D., (right), and The Tadodaho of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy Chief Sidney Hill, examine a treaty at the National Museum of the American Indian Smithsonian Institution
The Interior and Justice Departments announced earlier this week in a press release that U.S. government has reached an agreement with 17 tribal governments across the nation to pay $492 million for mismanaging money and natural resources held in trust for the benefit of native people.
According to Rebecca Hersher at NPR, the settlement caps a four-year push by the Obama administration to resolve more than 100 lawsuits brought against the government by indigenous people claiming the Interior Department did not have their best interests at heart while managing lands in their names.
According to the Department of the Interior, it manages almost 56 million acres of trust lands for federally recognized native people including 100,000 leases on those lands for housing, logging, farming, easements and oil and gas drilling. The agency also manages 2,500 native trust accounts.
"The government bought the land from Indians, but it didn't pay the Indians," staff attorney with the Native American Rights Fund Melody McCoy, who handled 13 of the cases just settled, tells Hersher. "The U.S. government would say it held the assets in trusts benevolently, for the protection of Indian lands and money. The flip side of that is that in exchange, the government was supposed to be a good trustee, and it wasn't. Land was not managed well. Money and resources were not managed well."
As a result of poor management, the plaintiffs claim they lost decades of potential income. The settlements include the Muscogee Creek Nation of Oklahoma, The Colorado River Indian People and the Gila River Indian Community and range from $25,000 to $45 million.
These most recent settlements are part of a much longer effort to address tribal lawsuits by the government. In 2009, the government settled what turned out to be an epic, 13-year-long class-action lawsuit, paying $3.4 billion to Native American plaintiffs claiming the 1887 Dawes Act and other actions cheated them out of decades of income.
Since then, besides the 17 recent cases, the Obama administration has settled lawsuits from 95 native groups. McCoy says 11 cases are still pending. So far, the government has paid $1.9 billion to resolve those cases. In a break from a century of policy, the government will pay the settlements directly to the tribal governments to spend as they please, instead of holding the cash in trust, which was customary in the past.
Earlier this week at the annual Tribal Nations Conference, President Obama urged native leaders to keep pushing for visibility and a voice with whatever administration succeeds his, Valerie Volcovici and Julia Harte at Reuters.
"Settling these long-standing disputes reflects the Obama Administration's continued commitment to reconciliation and empowerment for Indian Country," Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell says in the press release. "As we turn the page on past challenges in our government-to-government relationship with tribes, we're moving forward with tribal governments to ensure proper management of tribal trust assets."
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Oil companies sue Los Angeles over ban on oil and gas drilling
An oil pumpjack operates in the Inglewood Oil Field on January 28, 2022 in Los Angeles, California.
An oil company with a drilling operation in the Wilmington neighborhood of Los Angeles has filed a lawsuit against the city over its law to ban new wells and phase out all drilling within city limits.
Warren Resources, which operates the 10-acre, oil-extraction site, filed a lawsuit on Tuesday in LA Superior Court seeking to stop the ordinance from taking effect. The company argued the city failed to conduct an adequate environmental review of the potential impacts of halting extraction.
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The lawsuit also argued the ordinance constitutes a violation of the California Environmental Quality Act, the city's General Plan and the state and federal constitutions. Warren said the law would force the shutdown of its operations, which are located solely within the LA area.
The city in December voted to immediately ban new extraction and shut down existing operations within 20 years, marking one of the strongest environmental policies ever enacted in the state of California. There are 26 oil and gas fields and more than 5,000 active and idle wells in LA, in areas like Wilmington, Harbor Gateway, downtown, West LA, South LA and the northwest San Fernando Valley.
"The City has failed to ask the necessary questions and obtain the required evidence at every turn, has rushed every legally required process along the way, and as a result has based its approval and adoption of the Ordinance on a woefully deficient environmental document," attorneys for Warren wrote in the lawsuit.
Ian Thompson, a spokesperson for the LA City Attorney's office, declined to comment on the lawsuit. Attorneys for Warren didn't immediately respond to CNBC's request for comment.
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The ordinance has been praised by residents who have complained for years that pollution from nearby drilling has harmed their health. The oil industry has largely condemned the city's ban and argued that phasing out production would hike gas prices and make LA dependent on foreign energy.
Wilmington is a predominantly working-class and Latino community of more than 50,000 people and is surrounded by oil refineries and contains pumpjacks among its public parks and schoolyards. The community has some of the highest rates of asthma and cancer in the state, according to a report by the nonprofit Communities for a Better Environment.
More than half a million people in LA live within a quarter-mile of active oil wells, which produce hazardous air pollutants such as benzene, hydrogen sulfide, particulate matter and formaldehyde. Nearly one-third of the wells in LA are located outside of drill sites between parks, schools and houses.
Residents near drilling sites are at greater risk of preterm births, asthma, respiratory disease and cancer, research shows, and drilling has disproportionately harmed Black and Latino residents.
Several other oil entities, including E&B Natural Resources Management Corp and Hillcrest Beverly Oil Corp., also filed a separate lawsuit on Tuesday against the city over the ordinance.
Last year, California lawmakers voted to ban new oil wells within 3,200 feet of homes, schools and other populated areas after years of complaints by residents and activist groups.
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The Silk-Screens Posters of Puerto Rico, Division de la Comunidad and Others
(translated and adapted from the digital library of the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture & University of Puerto Rico collaboration).
The poster in Puerto Rico has a different dimension and meaning that transcends the regular association one may have with the production of posters. The Puerto Rican posters are recognized as one of the most widespread and representative forms of artistic production and the study of its development and use provides a perspective on the social, historical, economic, and cultural aspects of the Island. Some studies locate the development of the cartel in Puerto Rico from the entry of the printing company to the Island, approximately in 1806, when typographic posters and promotional graphic sheets began to be produced. Others argue that Puerto Rican posters began in the late 1930s and early 1940s. This movement was closely linked to the use of the poster as a means of disseminating government and educational information.
On May 14, 1949, Law No. 372 was approved, which created the Community Education Division (DIVEDCO) in order to develop a program to promote and extend adult education in rural and urban areas of Puerto Rico. The Division produced many posters, mostly screen-printed, advertising educational and cultural activities, including films generated by DIVEDCO, as well as educational messages to the people. The works of the artists Lorenzo Homar, Isabel Bernal, and Ed Vera Cortes, among so many others, stand out in this collection.
Like the Community Education Division (DIVEDCO), other entities affiliated with the Government of PR or autonomous have used the poster as a means of communication and education. The collection that we present is a sample of the art form and depict the important role of women in Puerto Rican culture and every-day-life.
Ballets de San Juan Actividades Culturales (1984)
Nelson Sambolin
Silk-screen Poster
Fiestas de la Calle San Sebastian (1984)
Lizette Rosado
Semana de la Secretaria 1988
Antonio Maldonado
2do Festival de Valores de Barrio Obrero (1982)
Ed Vera Cortes
Festival de las Flores (1969)
Alberto Ortiz Collazo
6to Festival Internacional de la Cancion y la Voz (1979)
Isabel Bernal
XI Semana de la Danza (1983)
Velazquez Alvarez
Asociacion de Profesionales en Garantia de Calidad en Salud de PR (1988)
Wilfred Labioa
50 Anos Aniversario Associacion de Enfermeras Graduadas (1966)
Ruben Moreira
Departamento de Justicia Division de lo Criminal
VIII Juegos Panamericanos en Puerto Rico (1979)
Lorenzo Homar
Certamen de Posesias y Poemas (1988)
Spanish/Spain Dancer
Waldemar Brodhurst
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Ray Glaser was a founding member of the Los Angeles Branch of the People's Songs organization.
"The West Coast had an active People's Songs organization, developing out of hootenannies starting in Los Angeles in November 1945. The local branch opened in June 1946; its founding members were Mario Casetta, Vern Partlow, Harry Hay, Earl Robinson, Lewis Allan a/k/a Abel Meeropol, Bill Wolff, Morry Goodson, Sonny Vale, Bill Oliver and Ray Glaser. Casetta, usually known by his old childhood nickname, 'Boots', was the branch's only paid employee. The Los Angeles branch became part of a quickening left/labor movement, particularly in the film industry. People's Songsters appeared on picket lines, and once joined a motorcade to the state capitol in Sacramento to lobby for better housing. By fall they were staging numerous hootenannies and other events. An October program, 'I Hear America Singing', featured an eclectic group of performers and selections: leftist cabaret singers Goodson and Vale, calypsonian Sir Lancelot, western balladeer and actor Tex Ritter, Bill Oliver, Pete Seeger, Earl Robinson and others. Talented writers, always in abundance, supplied a steady stream of clever, timely songs, which often appeared in the 'Daily People's World', the West Coast version of 'The Daily Worker'. Hay, who also was a pioneering gay rights activist, became 'the theoretician of People's Songs,' Earl Robinson said. Hay held monthly meetings at his home, sometimes featuring Seeger or Malvina Reynolds, before launching his class on 'The Historical Development of Folk Music'. The organization partially survived the demise of national People's Songs in early 1949. Renaming itself 'Peoples-Art Songs' it formed the core of a vibrant, progressive Los Angeles folk music community that lasted into the '50s."


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Q: Reduce openstreetmap graph size in networkx I have a graph (transformed from OSMNX) of London's walk path, containing 667.588 edges, with different highway attributes (the street types in openstreetmap). Running a shortest_path algorithm is quite slow (4 seconds). To improve the speed, I want to largely reduce the number of edges in a systematic way without losing main connections/city structures, but not sure how to do it? Any suggestions? Is there a way to group some close nodes to a more important one, thus reduce the size?

A: You can extract edges with desired highway types from your main graph G:
highways_to_keep = ['motorway', 'trunk', 'primary']
H = nx.MultiDiGraph()
for u,v,attr in G.edges(data=True):
    if attr['highway'] in highways_to_keep:
        H.add_edge(u,v,attr_dict=attr)
        H.node[u] = G.node[u]
        H.node[v] = G.node[v]

Here, we first initialized an empty MultiDiGraph, which is a type of graph used by OSMnx, then populate it with data from the main graph G, if the 'highway' attribute is in our list of highways_to_keep. You can find more about highway types in this OpenStreetMap page.
Our graph is a valid NetworkX graph, but you need to do one more thing before you can take advantage of OSMnx functionalities as well. if you execute G.graph, you will see graph attributes which contains crs (coordinate reference system) and some other things. you should add this information into your newly create graph:
H.graph = G.graph

here is the plot of H , osmnx.plot_graph(H):

A: It depends what type of network you're working with (e.g., walk, bike, drive, drive_service, all, etc.). The drive network type would be the smallest and prioritize major routes, but at the expense of pedestrian paths and passageways.
OSMnx also provides the ability to simplify the graph's topology with a built-in function. This is worth doing if you haven't already as it can reduce graph size by 90% sometimes while correctly retaining all intersection and dead-end nodes, as well as edge geometries, faithfully.

A: The above solution does not work anymore since the networkx library has changed. Specifically
H.node[u] = G.node[u]

is not supported anymore.
The following solution relies on the osmnx.geo_utils.induce_subgraph and used a node list as an argument to this function.
highways_to_keep = ['motorway', 'trunk', 'primary', 'secondary', 'tertiary']
H = nx.MultiDiGraph() # new graph
Hlist = [] # node list
for u,v,attr in G.edges(data=True):
    if "highway" in attr.keys():
        if attr['highway'] in highways_to_keep :
            Hlist.append(G.nodes[u]['osmid'])
H = ox.geo_utils.induce_subgraph(G, Hlist)

A: The osmnx simplification module worked for me in this case https://osmnx.readthedocs.io/en/stable/osmnx.html#module-osmnx.simplification:

osmnx.simplification module
Simplify, correct, and consolidate network topology.
osmnx.simplification.consolidate_intersections(G, tolerance=10, rebuild_graph=True, dead_ends=False, reconnect_edges=True)

Consolidate intersections comprising clusters of nearby nodes.
osmnx.simplification.simplify_graph(G, strict=True, remove_rings=True)

Simplify a graph's topology by removing interstitial nodes.


The famous historic route is one of the best destinations in the world to travel centuries back to perceive the civilizations of the ancient and medieval Ethiopia the UNESCO ancient city of Axum, the UNESCO registered eighth wonders of world- rock churches Lalibeal, Gonder African Camelot and medieval monasteries of lake Tana are living testimonies that endow with you a complete and full history of the country.
Morning after breakfast transfer to the airport to fly to Lalibela UNESCO World Heritage Site of Lalibela - the Jerusalem of Ethiopia, in a fitting final to your Ethiopian adventure, after a quick check in to the hotel start explore the first group of the monolithic red-Tuff churches incredibly carved into the rock. Your will lead you through the network of crevices and tunnels linking each of the churches. The churches are still in use today. After lunch break continue visiting the second group which located on the other side of river Jordan finally walk to the separately standing, uncovered and beautiful Saint Georges Church down to narrow path to church, step inside and you will see a robed priest going about his timeless business Late afternoon drive back to your hotel, Overnight Hotel.
Early morning around 6:00 start drive to Bahirdar through the beautiful and fertile countryside on the Lake Tana side on new paved road, it takes 2:30-3:00 hours transfer to hotel after a short breakfast break take a boat trip on Lake Tana and visit two of the most accessible and representative of the monasteries with very beautiful well painting from the medieval time still serving their original function, Ura Kidane Mehret and Azwa Maryam. PM after lunch break excursion to Blue Nile fall 32 km to the little town of Tiss Abay and walk for about twenty minutes to visit the famous Blue Nile Falls. The falls is locally known as Tiss Isat meaning, "Water that smoke". Those who may wish to descend to the base of the falls must be climb back to the other side and cross the Blue Nile in a boat in-order to back to the point of departure, transfer to the airport for your flight, Evening arrival at Addis Ababa. Then transfer to the airport for your departure.


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Morrissey still has some fight left in him on Low In High School
Josh Modell
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Low In High School
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Morrissey hasn't made it easy to be a Morrissey fan in recent years, delivering multiple foot-in-mouth political proclamations, a puzzling debut novel, and sporadic, underwhelming new music. 2014's World Peace Is None Of Your Business felt like a death knell—a listless, uninspired album that veered from attempted bear-poking (voting is useless!) to a song detailing the evils of bullfighting, that most common and relatable of pop music subjects. He seemed to be out of both ideas and the energy with which to deliver them convincingly, not to mention out of touch with the emotions that powered his best songs. The lyricist who made his name by putting the perfect words to life's most delicate moments in The Smiths and in his strong early solo career wasn't coasting—he was deflating. Part of the slide was due to Morrissey's headlong foray into political statement-making, which was in full force from the album title right down the line. The bar for his new one, Low In High School, was so low as to be practically underground.
He's managed to claw himself out of that hole, bouncing back with what might be his best album since 2004's You Are The Quarry. And though it doesn't match Morrissey's achievements from, let's say, 1982 until 1994, that's also not really a fair hurdle to expect him to climb. He's older now, and still a clever swine, but he's far removed from the groundbreaking, landscape-changing angry young man that helped shape a musical movement. Instead of your lonely, romantic proxy, he's your surly, sometimes cool uncle who's set in his ways but still capable of surprises. Low In High School has a few of those, most effectively on the mid-album epic "I Bury The Living." It's a politically incorrect provocation that's going to get him in some trouble, because it forcefully dismisses the idea of "supporting the troops." Instead, it indicts all soldiers as murderers with lines like, "Call me brave, call me a peacemaking hero / Call me anything / Except what I am." Regardless of whether you agree with that sentiment, Morrissey hasn't sounded this convinced of anything in years, and his expert band—though its arrangements sometimes edge toward show tunes—helps him make his dramatic case. This particular gang of his tends to be a talented one-trick pony, but it stretches itself on this one, moving from a cathartic crash to a pretty little coda that feels like Morrissey in a nutshell: sad, cutting, and pointed.
The political landmines don't stop there, but neither are they anywhere near as strong: "Who Will Protect Us From The Police?" is an obvious statement, obviously delivered, and "Israel" is a muddle of positive sentiment about the country that's embraced Morrissey. (If there's anything Morrissey reacts well to, it's being reacted to well. He might share that—though surely not much else—with the president of the United States.)
He fares much better when he's mixing politics and his personal life: "In Your Lap" describes the Arab Spring, but ends up distracted by sex. "They tried to wipe us clean off the map / And I just want my face in your lap," he sings over melodramatic, soap opera piano. On "Spent The Day In Bed," he's more interested in self-care, and while "Spent the day in bed / Very happy I did" is a fine line, it's no "Spending warm summer days indoors / Writing frightening verse to a buck-toothed girl in Luxembourg." (Still, the song plays better in context of the album than it did as a single.) And "Home Is A Question Mark" is vintage Moz in both its sentiment and sound: It's about loneliness, but it may also be about another of his favorite subjects—trouble with record labels. That shouldn't surprise his fans, who are familiar with—and forgiving of—their hero's set-in ways. What might surprise those who've been paying close attention is Low In High School's relative strength after such a long, fallow stretch.
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Home Conventions MoCCA Fest 2014 announces Guests of Honor: Bechdel, Cruse, Staples and Williams
MoCCA Fest 2014 announces Guests of Honor: Bechdel, Cruse, Staples and Williams
Heidi MacDonald
Details for 2014's MoCCA Festival have just been revealed, and it answers many questions. The Guests of Honor are Alison Bechdel, Howard Cruse, Fiona Staples and Robert Williams (Above), but more featured guests will be announced later. The show will return to the Lexington Armory on April 5-6. I know organizers looked at different venues but this is still the most practical for many reasons.
In a really huge change, the price of admission is being dropped to $5 per day. Last year tickets were $15 which is just too much for a "Caf" of this kind. Hopefully the lower price will open MoCCA up to an even wider audience.
The guest list itself presents, to my eye, a nice wide range. Bechdel is a current superstar, Cruse is a veteran master (and groundbreaking creator) deserving the attention, Williams is a hero to a whole different crowd, and Staples should be a big draw. None of them have been over exposed in the area. It's my understanding that a well-known local veteran figure will be taking over the programming, so that should be in good hands as well.
This is the first show that will really show the imprimatur of the Society of Illustrators, led by Anelle Miller, which took over on short notice for the 2013 Festival. If nothing else, lowering the admission price is a huge step in the right direction.
ABOUT THE GUESTS OF HONOR
Alison Bechdel is an award-winning cartoonist who developed a loyal following for her long-running comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For. In 2006, Bechdel published Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, an autobiographical graphic memoir chronicling her childhood and relationship with her closeted father. Fun Home was a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist and was named Best Book of 2006 by Time Magazine. A second graphic memoir, Are You My Mother: A Comic Drama, was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in May 2012.
Howard Cruse emerged from the countercultural underground comix scene and, in 1979, began editing the pioneering Gay Comix anthology series, featuring work by openly gay and lesbian cartoonists and directly addressing aspects of queer experience. In the 1980s he went on to createWendel, a strip about a gay man, his lover Ollie, and a cast of quirky surrounding characters, which appeared regularly in The Advocate. During the 1990s Cruse worked on the award-winning graphic novel Stuck Rubber Baby, published in 1995 with an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner. Since then, Cruse has published numerous titles including Wendel All Together, The Swimmer with a Rope in his Teeth (written by Jeanne E. Shaffer), From Headrack To Claude, Felix's Friends, and more.
Fiona Staples is a comic book artist living in Calgary, Canada. She has illustrated numerous comics including Mystery Society, Done to Death, Secret History of the Authority: Hawksmoor, Jonah Hex, and Northlanders. She has contributed cover art to DV8, T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents, Criminal Macabre, Superman/Batman, Archie, and more. In March of 2012, Image Comics published the first issue of Saga, an ongoing series by Brian K. Vaughan, which received critical acclaim and for which she received two Eisner Awards, a Hugo Award, and several Harvey Awards.
Robert Williams is a prolific oil painter and cartoonist whose iconic detailed images depict naked women, death, destruction, booze and clowns. During the 1960s Williams worked under Ed "Big Daddy" Roth in the Hot Rod Culture, creating advertisements and graphics and developing his style. He later became one of the key contributors to Zap Comix, the flagship underground comix anthology that also featured work by S. Clay Wilson, Spain Rodriguez, Rick Griffin, Gilbert Shelton and Victor Moscoso. By the 1980s Williams had shifted his attention more directly to painting, and in 1994 founded Juxtapoz Magazine, creating an outlet for artists in the contemporary art world who identified with his "Lowbrow" style. He exhibits his work frequently, and has had several solo shows at the Tony Shafrazi Gallery in New York City (with one upcoming in 2014). He is the subject of the 2013 documentary film Robert Williams: Mr. Bitchin'.
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See how Dan Holguin's header establishes Relevance, Intrigue, Value and Credibility at once.
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Most websites include only a few things in the footer: The Copyright, Terms and Conditions, and navigation links. It's usually an afterthought.
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Mie Koenigs uses the footer to invite Social Media followers and connect further with his readers.
If Facebook is part of your marketing strategy, use the footer to get more Facebook followers.
Having your opt-in section at the footer helps make it "sticky" and accessible.
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