Friday, November 8 - 12:00pm

Location:  Mumford Room, James Madison Memorial Building (6th floor Rm 649) 101 Independence Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20540

Sarah Aroeste, Shai Bachar, and Ellie Falaris Ganelin perform Ladino music and offer educational commentary about this language. Ladino is the language of Sephardic Jews expelled from Spain during the Inquisition, and spoken in Mediterranean and Balkan regions before the Holocaust. It is an endangered language because numerous speakers were killed during the Holocaust. Aroeste describes Ladino as a pan-Mediterranean language crossing linguistic and cultural boundaries. A display of rare Ladino books curated by the Hebraic Section in the African and Middle Eastern Division at the Library of Congress accompanies this performance.

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The annual online release of material from the Archive of Hispanic Literature on Tape has gone live! These year's release includes recordings with Jorge Luis Borges, Vinicius de Moraes, and renowned Latinx poets such as Carmen Giménez Smith, Valerie Martínez, and Rigoberto González. Curated here in the Library of Congress since 1943, the AHLOT is a collection of audio recordings of poets and prose writers from Latin America, the Iberian Peninsula, the Caribbean, and the Latinx community in the United States reading from their works. Every year we make 50 new recordings from this collection available for online streaming.

Click here to see the complete list of authors recorded for this project.

Happy New Year/ feliz año/ feliz ano novo from the Library of Congress’ Hispanic Division! We feel privileged for the opportunities 2019 offered to continue our mission of sharing the Library’s wonderfully rich Luso-Hispanic collections. We are thrilled to welcome 2020 and look forward to its surprises. 

In case you missed it, here are some highlights from this past year:

Jaime Conlan and Sam Awad, an intern and Librarian in Residence, shared accounts of their work in the “Library of Congress, 4 Corners of the World” blog. We are grateful to learn with these budding professionals. 

We inaugurated a new series of events in our Reading Room’s vestibule to connect the public with distinctive collections and services against the backdrop of the impressive Portinari Murals. With nearly 30 partners, we welcomed 765 participants to combined collections displays, presentations or readings, and maker workshops.  Some highlights included a reading with Portuguese award-winning poet Ana Luisa Amaral; an homage to the late Argentine poet Alejandra Pizarnik; a Wikipedia edit-a-thon and a workshop with Chicano muralist Mario Torero.

We continue to create more online accessibility to recordings from the Archive of Hispanic Literature on Tape and to recent acquisitions on and from Latin America through the Handbook of Latin American Studies, with volume 73 published and 74 on the way.

In 2019, the Hispanic Division also celebrated the impressive career and retirement of Juan Manuel Peréz (July), while welcoming Liliana Lopez (September) Dani Thurber (January).

We look forward to expanding our efforts and continue connecting users, creators, and learners with our treasures and resources. Please let us know if there is something you would like to see us prioritize in 2020 and stay tuned!

Many of our effort are possible thanks to generous support of the Huntington Endowment, for which we remain grateful, now 80 years after the establishment of the Hispanic Reading Room.

When the news of the day seems overwhelming, nothing can soothe frayed nerves more than an interlude, however brief, with poetry or with nature. Continue reading

April is National Poetry Month!

Celebrate by listening to some of the poets recorded for our Archive of Hispanic Literature on Tape (AHLOT), and learn about noteworthy Latin American poetry publications by consulting the Handbook of Latin American Studies (HLAS).

We also invite you to listen to our La Biblioteca podcast. Here are some episodes focused on poetry:

• Listening to Pablo Neruda
  (With poet and literary critic, Marjorie Agosín)
• Listening to Octavio Paz
  (With U.S. Poet Laureate Emeritus, Juan Felipe Herrera)
• Listening to Álvaro Mutis
  (With literary scholar, Charlotte Rogers)
• Listening to Raúl Zurita
  (With translator and literary critic, Anna Deeny Morales)
• Listening to Carlos Drummond de Andrade
  (With literary critic, Vivaldo Andrade dos Santos)

Click here for more information.

Check out the amazing exhibits by the N.C. LEGO Users Group, March 5-6, 2011.

Morehead collaborates with Scientists with Stories and The Monti to bring you the best stories about science "fails."

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Hayden Library - BV2059.C2 L69 2018

World Cancer Day 2020 theme is- 'I am and I will'.

A claim that drinking water every 15 minutes may help prevent people from getting infected is false.

Watson, Andrew, author

Base camps, check-posts set up as part of the drive

This week we have stories on blocking dangerous or annoying distractions in augmented reality, gene therapy applied with ultrasound to heal bone breaks, and giving robots geckolike gripping power with Online News Editor David Grimm. Deputy News Editor Elizabeth Culotta joins Sarah Crespi to discuss a special package on human migrations—from the ancient origins of Europeans to the restless and wandering scientists of today. Listen to previous podcasts. Download the show transcript. Transcripts courtesy of Scribie.com. [Image: Public domain; Music: Jeffrey Cook]

How has written language changed over time? Do the way we read and the way our eyes work influence how scripts look? This week we hear a story on changes in legibility in written texts with Online News Editor Catherine Matacic. Sarah Crespi also interviews Staff Writer Jennifer Couzin-Frankel on her story about detecting signs of psychosis in kids and teens, recruiting at-risk individuals for trials, and searching for anything that can stop the progression.    Listen to previous podcasts. [Image: Procsilas Moscas/Flickr; Music: Jeffrey Cook] 

Changing the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline from 1-800-273- 8255 (TALK) to a three-digit number could save lives—especially when coupled with other strategies. Host Meagan Cantwell talks to Greg Miller, a science journalist based in Portland, Oregon, about three effective methods to prevent suicides—crisis hotlines, standardizing mental health care, and restricting lethal means. Greg’s feature is part of a larger package in Science exploring paths out of darkness. With more solutions this week, host Sarah Crespi speaks with A. R. Siders, a social scientist at the Disaster Research Center at the University of Delaware in Newark, about her policy forum on the need for “managed climate retreat”—strategically moving people and property away from high-risk flood and fire zones. Integrating relocation into a larger strategy could maximize its benefits, supporting equality and economic development along the way. This week’s episode was edited by Podigy. Ads on this show: KiwiCo; Kroger Download a transcript (PDF) Listen to previous podcasts. About the Science Podcast [Image: Scott Woods-Fehr/Flickr; Music: Jeffrey Cook] 

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This toolkit aims to help states develop a plan for Title IV-E prevention services, and to assist states in planning an array of services to help address substance use, mental health, and parenting issues (“prevention services”).

This brief summarizes findings from a random assignment impact study of Wise Guys, a long-standing, widely implemented curriculum designed to help adolescent males make responsible decisions about their sexual behavior.

Dewey Library - JC423.H39 2019

YSR Congress chief was fasting in protest against the decision to bifurcate Andhra Pradesh.

Advani was seen at a major public function along with Modi in Gujarat after 2011.

Andersen, Mikael Skou

Mill Operators' Conference (7th : 2000 : Kalgoorlie, Western Australia)

Sponsors

• Triplebyte
• Sentry use the code “devchat” for $100 credit
• Clubhouse
• CacheFly

Panel

• Aaron Frost
• AJ O’Neal
• Chris Ferdinandi
• Joe Eames
• Aimee Knight
• Charles Max Wood

Joined by special guests: Hillel Wayne and Richard Feldman

Episode Summary

In this episode of JavaScript Jabber, Hillel Wayne kicks off the podcast by giving a short background about his work, explains the concepts of formal methods and the popular npm package - event-stream, in brief. The panelists then dive into the recent event-stream attack and discuss it at length, focusing on different package managers and their vulnerabilities, as well as the security issues associated with them. They debate on whether paying open source developers for their work, thereby leading to an increase in contribution, would eventually help in improving security or not. They finally talk about what can be done to fix certain dependencies and susceptibilities to prevent further attacks and if there are any solutions that can make things both convenient and secure for users.

Links

• STAMP model in accident investigation
• Hillel’s Twitter
• Hillel’s website
• Richard’s Twitter
• Stamping on Event-Stream

Picks

Joe Eames:

• Stuffed Fables

Aimee Knight:

• SRE book - Google
• Lululemon leggings
• DVSR - Band

Aaron Frost:

• JSConf US

Chris Ferdinandi:

• Paws New England
• Vanilla JS Guides

Charles Max Wood:

• Sony Noise Cancelling Headphones
• KSL Classifieds
• Upwork

Richard Feldman:

• Elm in Action
• Sentinels of the Multiverse

Hillel Wayne:

• Elm in the Spring
• Practical TLA+
• Nina Chicago - Knitting
• Tomb Trader

Episode Summary

Adam Leventhal is the CEO and cofounder of Transposit. Transposit was born from the desire to build a way for developers to work with lots of different APIs, take authentication and pagination off the table, and let developers focus on the problems they’re trying to solve. Transposit is a serverless platform that’s free and gives you a combination of SQL or JavaScript to start playing with your API.

Since interacting with API data securely can be difficult, the panel discusses how Transposit might replace the personally built tools and how does it compare to JAMstack. They talk about some common things that people do wrong with security. 

Transposit is often used as the full backend, and Adam shares how that works. There is a list of APIs that Transposit can talk to, and you can build your own connector. You can also work with JavaScript and SQL simultaneously. 

Chris Ferdinandi asks some more specific questions about how Transposit can work with email lists. Adam clarifies the difference between connectors and apps in Transposit. He delves into more detail on what makes it work under the hood. 

There are some 450,000 Stack applications but the majority have one user because they built it to communicate specifically with their API. The panel discusses how Transposit can help with this. Since Transposit is still in startup mode, it is free for now, and can connect to any public facing API. Adam talks about their decision not to make it open source and gives more details on where the authentications occur. The show wraps up with the panel talking about the pros of going serverless

Panelists

• Chris Ferdinandi

• Christopher Buecheler

With special guest: Adam Leventhal 

Sponsors

• Adventures in .NET

• Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry’s small plan

• Elixer Mix

Links

• Transposit

• SQL

• JAMstack

• OpenAPI

• Swagger

• YAML

• MailChimp

• React Redux

• Converting a string into Markup with Vanilla JS

• How to create a map of DOM nodes with Vanilla JS

• Custom events in Internet Explorer with Vanilla JS

• DOM diffing with Vanilla JS part 1

• DOM diffing with Vanilla JS part 2

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Picks

Christopher Buecheler:

• Manchester Orchestra

Chris Ferdinandi:

• Reef

• Elizabeth Warren

Adam Leventhal:

• Hamilton the biography

• Antler

• Follow Adam on Twitter @ahl

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Lowering low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) levels remains a mainstay of cardiovascular disease prevention, but gaps in treatment remain, even in persons with hypercholesterolemia and greatly elevated LDL-C levels. Although well-described gene variants in the apolipoprotein B (APOB), low-density lipoprotein receptor (LDLR), and proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9 (PCSK9) genes explain small but important fractions of monogenic hypercholesterolemia, recent attention has turned to prognostication of cardiovascular disease using polygenic risk scores (PRS) that incorporate common genetic variants derived from large-scale genome-wide association studies of lipid subfractions. Earlier PRS considered only variants with genome-wide significance, and newer studies have focused on methods that better capture the variance conferred by millions of variants, suggesting an ability to identify risk equivalent to monogenic mutations. There remains a gap in evidence from prospective observational studies or treatment trials regarding the appropriate placement of PRS in risk assessment and lipid treatment decisions relative to information on rare monogenic gene variants, particularly in multiethnic populations.

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Interview with Guido Beldi, Consultant Surgeon, author of Effectiveness of Prophylactic Intraperitoneal Mesh Implantation for Prevention of Incisional Hernia in Patients Undergoing Open Abdominal Surgery: A Randomized Clinical Trial

Interview with Anna L. Bruckner, MD, MSCS, author of Assessment of the Timing of Milestone Clinical Events in Patients With Epidermolysis Bullosa From North America

Interview with Amanda H. Kerbrat, MSW, author of Effect of Augmenting Standard Care for Military Personnel With Brief Caring Text Messages for Suicide Prevention: A Randomized Clinical Trial

Interview with Barry H. Greenberg, author of Association of Rivaroxaban With Thromboembolic Events in Patients With Heart Failure, Coronary Disease, and Sinus Rhythm: A Post Hoc Analysis of the COMMANDER HF Trial, and Marvin A. Konstam, MD, author of Antithrombotic Therapy in Heart Failure—The Clot Thickens

Interview with Shelagh B. Coutts, MD, FRCPC, author of Rate and Prognosis of Brain Ischemia in Patients With Lower-Risk Transient or Persistent Minor Neurologic Events

Interview with Laura Hawks, MD, author of Trends in Unmet Need for Physician and Preventive Services in the United States, 1998-2017, and John Z. Ayanian, MD, MPP, author of Looking Back to Improve Access to Health Care Moving Forward

Interview with Paolo Fusar-Poli, MD, PhD, RCPsych, author of Prevention of Psychosis: Advances in Detection, Prognosis, and Intervention

Interview with Charles Dolladille, MD, author of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Rechallenge After Immune-Related Adverse Events in Patients With Cancer

Australia. Parliament. Delegation to the Annual Meeting of the Asia Pacific Parliamentary Forum (27th : 2019 : Siem Reap, Cambodia)

Petrochemical and pharma meeting organizers say travel was becoming too difficult; ACS spring meeting is still on