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Earlier this month, we attended the 2010 HIV Prevention Leadership Summit in Washington, D.C. The Summit brought together grantees funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), state and local health departments, community planning group (CPG) members, capacity building assistance providers, community-based organizations, and other interested HIV prevention partners to share innovative strategies and lessons learned for enhancing HIV prevention programs.
Over the course of the four-day summit, we had an opportunity to learn how Federal and community partners are using new media to bolster HIV prevention efforts. During the session, CBOs, Social Networking/Social Marketing, and HIV Prevention Programs, CDC Health Communication Specialist Booker Daniels provided an overview of the current social media landscape and illustrated how national campaigns such as Act Against AIDS and Facing AIDS are leveraging Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr to engage communities on the issue of HIV prevention. Gina Larco and Anthony Contreras, Outreach Specialists at Tarzana Treatment Centers, shared lessons learned from using social marketing as a tool to reach youth in their community. Gina and Anthony stressed the importance of getting to know your audience before developing a strategy and selecting tools—something we have talked about in previous posts here talked about the challenges of launching social marketing campaigns like "I Love My Boo" to challenge stigma and homophobia and pointed to the need to understand the relationship between online and offline social networks.
We also co-hosted a Twitter session with CDC National Prevention Information Network (NPIN during which we provided an overview of Twitter and discussed potential uses for community partners. The session provided an opportunity for conference participants with varying skill levels to share ideas about how to make the most of Twitter.
Lastly, we caught up with two HIV.gov New Media Microgrant Awardees and the HIV/AIDS Resource Center (HARC have developed new media projects aimed at reaching young men of color in their communities and were thrilled to share their experiences and learn how their peers from across the nation are using new media in response to HIV.
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Tesla becomes fifth-best automaker for U.S. consumers
Already a hit with geeks and technology moguls, electric car manufacturer Tesla reached a new milestone on Wednesday: finally penetrating the mainstream consciousness, according to a new survey from Consumer Reports.
Tesla, the company created by SpaceX founder Elon Musk (pictured above), now ranks at number five on Consumer Reports' Car-Brand Perception Survey, just behind traditional automakers such as Chevrolet, Honda, Ford and Toyota, which snagged the number one slot.
See also: 5 Surprises You'll Find in a Tesla Model S
This jump up to fifth place is a huge leap for the company, which was ranked way back in tenth place in 2013. Consumer Reports' survey polled 1,578 U.S. car owners in the U.S. in December, focusing on getting the respondents to list their top car brands in terms of performance, value, safety, quality, design and technology.
But for electric car skeptics, the most surprising news will be that the survey also asked respondents to list their top choices in terms of fuel economy. The fact that Tesla is now ahead of the likes of Volvo, BMW, Mercedes-Benz and Cadillac in the overall rankings indicates a serious change in the public's perception of electric-powered cars as a viable means of transport.
The shift in how the U.S. public perceives Tesla is no small issue. Around this time last year, following a poor review of the Tesla Model S in the New York Times, Musk speculated that the negative review may have cost the company around $100 million.
Of course, this limited survey won't necessarily result in an automatic uptick in new orders for the company. For that to happen, the company will likely need to conduct a few more demonstrations showing off how the electric car can travel from coast to coast.
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Nevertheless, the survey's results do indicate that the company is finally getting through to mainstream consumers who have been, up until now, hesitant to adopt electric cars.
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Finn: Eight of the Toughest Challenges Schools Still Face
Reaching the threescore-and-ten milestone recently, and embarking on a new role at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, prompted me to do some stocktaking on the state of American education in 2014.
I've been at this for ages, notably since Diane Ravitch and I launched the Educational Excellence Network in 1981. Two years before A Nation at Risk, we—and a handful of fellow travelers—had concluded that American education needed a kick in the pants, a kick toward greater quality, primarily in the form of stronger student learning.
That was before many of today's ed reformers were born—a growing army of compatriots with whom I still march.
What has been accomplished in three decades-plus? A lot, actually, beginning with two epochal changes:
First, we now judge schools by their achievement results, not their inputs or intentions. And while we still struggle with the details, over the years we've developed academic standards that set forth the results we seek, created measures to gauge how well they're being achieved, built a trove of data that generally makes results transparent and comparable, and constructed accountability systems that reward, intervene in, and sometimes sanction schools, educators, and students according to how well they're doing.
And, second, choice among schools has become almost ubiquitous. Though too many choices are unsatisfactory, and too many kids don't yet have access to enough good ones, we're miles from the education system of 1981, which took for granted that children would attend the standard-issue, district-operated public school in their neighborhoods unless, perhaps, they were Catholic (or very wealthy).
Plenty more gains deserve mention, including the serious entry of technology into classrooms, ambitious teacher-evaluation systems, networks of charter schools that do a bang-up job of educating poor kids, some rewards for outstanding educators (and some softening of job protections for the other kind), and a host of "alternative" routes into classrooms and principals' offices.
Yes, there's much to be proud of—and millions of American children (and the nation itself) now benefit from the reformers' labors.
Chester E. Finn Jr. has been a frequent contributor to the Commentary section of Education Week for more than three decades, beginning with the back-page essay that appeared in the Sept. 7, 1981, inaugural issue.
Browse through some highlights from Mr. Finn's prolific run below.
- Trashing The Coleman Report (Sept. 7, 1981)
- Questioning 'Cliches' of Education Reform (Dec. 25, 1989)
- Does 'Public' Mean 'Good'? (Feb. 12, 1992)
- Memorandum to the President From Chester E. Finn, Bruno V. Manno, and Diane Ravitch (Dec. 24, 2001)
- Lessons Learned (Feb. 27, 2008)
But we have so far still to go. The reform seeds that we've planted don't yet yield nearly enough harvest of student achievement or school performance, particularly at the end of high school, when it matters most. We still have too many unforgivable gaps, too many "dropout factories," too many kids left behind, too many without great options. Other countries are making faster gains. And we haven't yet worked our way down the agenda of essential reforms. Let me note eight of the toughest and most consequential challenges ahead.
Governance. The basic structural and governance arrangements of American public education are obsolete. We have too many layers, too many veto points, too much institutional inertia. Local control needs to be reinvented—to me, it should look more like a charter school governed by parents and community leaders than a vast Houston- or Chicago-style citywide agency—and education needs to join the mayors' (and governors') portfolios of other important human services. Alternatives are emerging—mayoral control in a dozen cities, "recovery" school districts in a few states, and more—but the vast majority of U.S. schools remain locked in structures that may have made sense around 1900, but not in 2014.
Finance. I dare you to track, count, and compare the dollars flowing into a given school or a given child's education. I defy you to compare school budgets across districts or states. I challenge you to equalize and rationalize the financing of a district or state education system—and the accounting system that tracks it—in ways that target resources on places and people that need them and that enable those resources—all those resources—to follow kids to the schools they actually attend. What an unfiltered mess!
Leaders. We're beginning to draw principals, superintendents, chancellors, and state chiefs from nontraditional backgrounds, but we haven't turned the corner on education leadership. We still view principals, for example, as chief teachers—and middle managers—rather than the CEOs they need to become if school-level authority is ever to keep up with school-level responsibility. We already hold them accountable as executives, but nothing else about their role has yet caught up.
Curriculum and instruction. "Structural" reformers—I plead guilty to having been one—don't pay nearly enough attention to what's happening in the classroom, in particular to what's being taught (curriculum) and how it's being taught (pedagogy). The fact is that content matters enormously—E.D. Hirsch Jr. of the Core Knowledge Foundation is exactly right about this—and that some instructional methods work better in particular circumstances than others. Both standards-based and choice-based reform have remained largely indifferent to these matters, but that ought not continue.
High-ability students. Smart kids deserve education tailored to their needs and capabilities every bit as much as youngsters with disabilities. And the nation's long-term competitiveness—not to mention the vitality of its culture, the strength of its civic life, and much more—hinges in no small part on educating to the max those girls and boys with exceptional ability. Yet gifted education in America is patchy at best; at worst, it's downright antagonistic to the needs of these kids.
Preparation of educators. How many times do people like former Teachers College President Arthur Levine and organizations like the National Council on Teacher Quality have to document the failings of hundreds upon hundreds of teacher- and principal-preparation programs before this gets tackled as a top-priority reform? Once again, promising alternatives are emerging, and a smallish number of traditional programs do a fine job. But, once again, the typical case is grossly inadequate.
Complacency. Two forms of complacency alarm me. The familiar one is the millions of parents who deplore the condition of American schools in general but are convinced that their own child's school is just fine ("... and that nice Ms. Randolph is so helpful to young Mortimer"). The new one, equally worrying, is reformers who think they've done their job when they get a law passed, an evaluation system created, or a new program launched, and then sit back on their haunches, give short shrift to implementation, and defy anyone who suggests that their proud accomplishment isn't actually working.
Greed. I hail the entry into the education reform camp of entrepreneurs with all their energy, imagination, and venture capital, but I've seen too many examples of their settling for making their venture profitable for shareholders rather than kids. That's not so different from traditional adult interests within the public and nonprofit sectors battling to ensure their own jobs, income, and comfort rather than giving their pupils top priority. A firm that's just in it for the money is as reprehensible as a teachers' union that's in it just to look after its members' pay, pensions, and job security.
That's more than enough to keep the reform army fully engaged for at least another 33 years. I'll march with them as long as I can, as will my Fordham Institute colleagues. This war needs to be won. My grandchildren are counting on it. So will yours.
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President Obama teared up this afternoon when he talked about the victims of today's elementary school massacre in Connecticut: at least 27 people and 20 little kids were gunned down.
"The majority of those who died today were children — beautiful little kids between the ages of 5 and 10-years-old," he said. "They had their entire lives ahead of them — birthdays, graduations, weddings, kids of their own."
He noted that he had become all too familiar with mass shootings, thanks to the Sikh temple shooting in Wisconsin, the movie theater shooting in Colorado, and the mall shooting in Oregon — those examples are only some of the mass shooting tragedies that took place this year.
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Four decades since Roe V. Wade legalized abortion
This year marks the 40th anniversary of Roe V. Wade which led to the legalization of abortion. It was on Jan. 22, 1973, that the United States Supreme Court issued its ruling, one that meant the legalization of abortion.
Unfortunately, nearly four decades later there is still bitter division over the efficacy of that decision. Fortunately, those who refuse to acknowledge the need for that decision are becoming fewer in numbers and in anger.
In commenting on Roe V. Wade we make no pretext that the decision was easy nor that there are those who cannot yet reconcile the notion of abortion with their religious beliefs. But we do offer that it is within those beliefs there is room for understanding.
The decision to terminate a pregnancy is one of if not the most personal decisions someone can make. It is so multifaceted that it has taken society the whole of four decades to decide the role to be played by the laws of humankind.
In that attempt, society has sought to lessen by law and practice the occasion for abortions. The widespread availability of birth control, the limiting of abortions except in the most dire of circumstance have become the accepted norm.
In doing so, society has recognized the notion that in the final analysis some decisions are so personal that they lie only between a woman and her maker, be it God or another deity from which she seeks guidance.
This is not reason enough to accept the notion of abortion under any circumstances, but it is to recognize the need to bring the practice out of back alleys and to treat those in distress with respect and proper care.
It also provides us with opportunity to urge those who oppose abortion to renew efforts to find homes for the unwanted already born and to make room for those who might yet see the light of day.
According to the Congressional Coalition for Adoption Services, 423,000 children in the United States are living without permanent families in the foster care system. Of these children, 115,000 are eligible for adoption, but nearly 40 percent will wait over three years in foster care before being adopted.
Globally, there are 13 million orphans who have lost both parents and are living in orphanages or on the streets and lack the care and attention required for healthy development. These children are at risk for disease, malnutrition and death.
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Goodbye keyboards: Wristband recognizes words you write in the air
Ask any writer, and there's a good chance he or she will tell you how great it feels to physically write words on a piece of paper. While typing is much faster, and a lot more efficient, something just feels so good when putting pen to paper. In the case of tablets — which tend to have keyboards too wide for dual thumbs, yet too small to type on like a full-sized keyboard — handwriting recognition can be the most efficient way to jot down some words, somewhat satiating that pen-to-paper desire. Unfortunately, handwriting recognition isn't exactly the peak of refined technology at the moment, and it generally isn't precise enough to pick up everyone's wildly different handwriting styles with any real accuracy. Scientists at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) might have found a different solution — a band that detects the motions and gestures of the wrist, and can translate that into writing.
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Rather than relying on a fickle screen, KIT's wristband — or glove, depending on how you view fashion — allows a user to write words in the air, which the system can detect with the help of gyroscopes and accelerometers. The gestures are then sent to a computer over a wireless connection, then the computer makes sure the user was actually writing, rather than, for example, flailing wildly for no reason. So if you are waiving hello or vigorously scratching something, your computer won't suddenly have a bunch of gibberish written on-screen.
Rather than standard gesture recognition, the airwriting glove employs pattern recognition as well. A statistical model has been created for the characteristics of each letter of the alphabet, taking different writing styles into consideration. For instance, the airwriting system can recognize the difference between writing in all caps (of which some of us are guilty). In total, the recognition system has a bank of 8,000 words, with a general error rate of only 11%. A large chunk of that error rate comes from individual writing styles, and when the system is calibrated for someone's specific style, the error rate drops to just 3%.
Aside from expanding the system's wordlist, the KIT team aims to make the device smaller, and thus more comfortable to wear. Further than that, the team would like to integrate the system directly into a smartphone, which would mean you could simply wave your phone around in the air and generate words on its screen.
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Info Edge (India) Ltd. Invests a Further INR 55 Crore (~$10M) in Zomato
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NEW DELHI, February 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --
Info Edge, which runs the recruitment site Naukri.com has announced a further investment of INR 55 Crore (~$10M) in the shares of restaurant guide service, Zomato. Prior to this round Info Edge had invested INR 31 Crore in Zomato over three rounds. As per the BSE filing, the fresh investment has been made through ordinary shares of Zomato Media Pvt. Ltd.
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"Zomato is fast emerging as one of the finest Indian consumer internet businesses. It has a great team, a great brand, a super user experience, a dominant market share, an excellent revenue scale up with a known path to profit and a global opportunity. When the founders invited us to invest in the next round we were delighted to grab the opportunity. We are excited to partner with Zomato to build up the company further." Info Edge Founder & Executive Vice Chairman Sanjeev Bikhchandani said. He also added, "While Info Edge has transitioned to a majority shareholding this will not transform the operating relationship between the investors and the founders who will continue to enjoy the same operating independence as earlier. The management team of Zomato has built the company and they shall continue to grow it out. We respect good entrepreneurs and we are here to support and not to control."
- Zomato was launched four years ago and currently operates in 5 countries: India, United Kingdom, UAE, Sri Lanka, and Qatar with further international expansion on the cards. In India, the operations span 13 cities
- The website and mobile app provide in-depth information (menu, contact details, pictures, directions, ratings and reviews) for over 75,000 restaurants across 19 cities in 5 countries
- Zomato has a dominant traffic share in India with an estimated 70% traffic share. Traffic to the site has grown by 250% over last year
- Zomato's mobile app is one of the most popular apps in India with over a million downloads across different platforms. More than 50% of Zomato's traffic comes from its app which is a big barrier to entry for other players in this market
- Monetisation trends are robust with a 700% growth in monthly billings as compared to a year ago. Billing continues to grow well month on month. The India operation broke even at the EBITDA level in December 2012
- The UAE site has become market leader within 6 months of launch. Monetisation has begun and the UAE operation is expected to break even on an EBITDA level within a few months
- More than 1500 restaurants in India have paid Zomato in the current FY. Renewal rates are in excess of 80%
- In the last 6 months, Zomato has added the following four new countries - UAE, United Kingdom, Sri Lanka and Qatar. The company intends to add several more geographies outside India in the next twelve months
- Globally, the most valuable company in this space is Yelp with a market cap in excess of $1.3B
Zomato will now focus on using the investment to further beef up market share in its existing markets while continuing to scale sales operations in its dominant markets - India and UAE. Additional country launches are also in the pipeline -with the company planning an entry into the Philippines and South Africa in the next few months. Deepinder Goyal, Founder & CEO of Zomato said, "We plan to use these additional funds for product development, scaling up our sales team in various locations, and further international expansion. India is already a profitable business for us, and our UAE business is very close to breaking even. Info Edge has been a great partner for us - we are excited about deepening this relationship with an aim to build a global internet business out of India."
About Zomato.com
Zomato.com is an online food & nightlife guide with listings for over 75,000 restaurants across 5 countries - India, United Kingdom, UAE, Sri Lanka and Qatar. Zomato is currently the largest food and restaurant portal in India and was started by IIT Delhi alumni in July 2008. It has expanded its services to 19 cities across 5 countries over a span of 4 years. Zomato.com raised its first round of funding from Info Edge in August 2010. Zomato is headquartered in New Delhi and currently employs 200 people in 19 cities spread across 5 countries.
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Info Edge (India) Limited (NSE: NAUKRI) is the leading internet company in India. Info Edge is well known for its internet businesses - Naukri.com - Jeevansathi.com; 99acres.com and Shiksha.com. The company also owns Quadrangle - an offline executive search firm, FirstNaukri, Naukri Gulf, Brijj and Allcheckdeals.com.
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Women Rock SXSW
It wouldn't have stood out to me if I weren't immersed in a super-male industry festival such as South by Southwest in Austin, Tex.. But there I was, on frat-boy ridden Sixth Street, noticing the patriarchal web of door men, rock dudes inside the club and graying top dogs making money off them all. It contrasted with one trend that developed in my personal concert-viewing, which happened quite accidentally: I saw a ton of promising indie acts, many of whom haven't yet broken through, fronted by women. Here are my four favorites:
The energy in the room for Seattle hip-hop duo THEESatisfaction at the Sub Pop showcase was something special, a humid dance party where everyone paid close attention to the words and self-produced music of Stasia Irons and Catherine Harris-White. It was a cool mix of physical surrender and mental consciousness. Irons and Harris-White rapped and sang about the frustration of living in an America where the Civil Rights Movement is too often referred to in the past tense, as if to say "mission accomplished": "Why am I chilling at the bottom of the pyramid? / I watched black women break their backs building them," Irons rapped, ending with "and it sucks." Sometimes her words came fast and sometimes they came slow.
The mini-epic "Bisexual" unfolded in paced-out vignettes that built to the line "tonight I might be bisexual." Irons' words weaved rhythmically into the cut-and-paste grooves pumping through her MacBook, and playing against that, Harris-White sang in a low register, the calm eye of the storm at SXSW. It was amazing how she shut out all the noise and humanity around her, creating a world within a world. THEESatisfaction performed tracks from their upcoming debut album, awE naturalE (out March 27, but you can listen to the whole thing here) and some brand-new jams, one of which looped a snippet of LL Cool J's "Around the Way Girl" to big cheers from the crowd.
Seattle quartet TacocaT officially began the second act of its career at SXSW, introducing a few hundred people gathered outdoors at Cheer Up Charlie's to a new, weed-y thrust in its pop rock music, and band-buddy relationship with hometown rap trio Don't Talk to the Cops! — celebrating a recent partnership with Das Racist's Greedhead Records. Previous TacocaT songs told stories about UTIs and misogynistic bike messengers. That feminist edge is still present in their music, but new EP Take Me To Your Dealer is more HIGH-concept — exemplified by "Volcano," which front-woman Emily Nokes sang while jumping energetically and wagging her head from shoulder to shoulder, pledging her love to a particular brand of vaporizer. She invited Don't Talk to the Cops! on stage for the second half of the set, and from there it was one crazed mantra-rap song after another, with TacocaT dancing and doing backup vocals. It was amorphously political music, supporting a variety of causes under the umbrella of the Party party. At one point, rapper/dancer emecks (lowercase hers) took the fore to announce she was not just Asian, but Laotian, and led everyone in a surprise shoutalong of "LAOS! LAOS! LAOS! LAOS!"
Colleen Green
Describing Los Angeles one-woman punk band Colleen Green's music requires mentioning that she rips off The Ramones' zippy pop-punk sound. And while her addition to that well-established canon — slowing the music down into a screwed-up, stoned version of itself and replacing the band with a mechanized drum track — doesn't sound great on paper, it actually stretches the music out and makes its joyful moments last longer. Watching her hide behind sunglasses and deadpan the dirty-sex paean "I Wanna Be Degraded" at Hotel Vegas was a display not of "professionalism" or "effort," but a loving tribute to a certain style and feeling which only buzzed-out, four-chord pop can provide.
Some bands' music is suited to the noisy chaos of SXSW. Widowspeak is not one of those bands. The Brooklyn-based rock quartet's buzzing status in the hipster blogosphere practically required it to play the conference, which is designed to take ascendant acts to the next level. They gamely soldiered on at the chatty Parish on Sixth Street, playing smoldering rock to a few hundred people while thousands more partied outside. Front-woman Molly Hamilton closed her eyes often while lifting her heathery voice. She played emphatic chords on rhythm electric guitar, which lead guitarist Robert Earl Thomas decorated with staccato lines, and against the odds the music communicated grace and nobility.


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