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On November 7, 2011, we will officially publish Jesus Ramirez-Valless new book Compañeros: Latino Activists in the Face of AIDS, which details how eighty gay, bisexual, and transgender (GBT) Latino activists and volunteers living in Chicago and San Francisco have been touched or transformed by the AIDS epidemic. Dr. Ramirez-Valles, a professor of community health sciences at the University of Illinois, Chicago, answered our questions about Compañeros.

Q:  How do you define Compañeros and why did you choose this for the title of the book?

A:  Compañeros refers to people coming together in solidarity to fight against oppressive forces. They create emotional and intellectual bonds. They share a common condition or history. The title of Com

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Opening with a discussion on the need to integrate self-regulation processes and to create a life-span oriented framework of these processes, this volume explores several perspectives in the current scholarship. Chapter contributors examine theoretical concepts including

• Vygotsky/Luria Insights in the Development of Executive Functions
• Self-Regulation and Academic Achievement in Elementary School Children
• Influences of Children?s and Adolescents? Action-Control Processes on School Achievement, Peer Relationships, and Coping with Challenging Life Events
• Intentional Self-Regulation, Ecological Assets, and Thriving in Adolescence: A Developmental Systems Model
• and a Life-Span, Relational, Public Health Model of Self- Regulation: Impact on Individual and Community Health

The volume concludes with New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development series editor-in-chief Reed W. Read more…

Fairview Junior High ninth grader Angelica Trudgen puts the finishing touches on a visual arts project thats bound for an October student art show at the Global Bean in Silverdale. Her class is studying abstract art, and was tasked with creating pieces inspired by modernist sculptor Henry Moore. (Angela Dice/Special to the Kitsap Sun)

Fairview Junior High Associated Student Body leaders go over plans for an upcoming assembly intended to help other students be more empathetic.

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UKs The Guardian recently profiled Woody Guthrie, American Radical author Will Kaufman.

Will Kaufman kicks back in the Presidential Inn on the edge of the tiny town of West Branch, Iowa, after a long drive and ruminates on his location. Woody would have laughed his head off, muses the professor of American literature and culture at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan). It couldnt be more ironic.

Woody is Woody Guthrie – the American folk singer and champion of the working class who famously inspired Bob Dylan. Guthries ballad, This Land Is Your Land, is almost the countrys second national anthem.

The irony is that West Branch would have been a place of loathing for Guthrie. F

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