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In your opinion, who is the most important white leader in the country today? Oooooh ... sets your teeth on edge, doesn't it?
But here's another one: In your opinion, who is the most important female leader in the country today? Or the most important Asian-American leader?
Now, let's take this to the nth degree of absurdity: Who is the most important religious leader in the country? How about the most important vegetarian?
My answer to these questions is that I'd rather not live in a world where such distinctions matter.
The Pew Research Hispanic Trends Project recently released the results of its survey on views of national Latino leadership. Sixty-two percent of respondents say they "don't know" who the most important national Hispanic leader is. Another 9 percent say "no one." The top names that came to mind were Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor and Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., who were each cited by 5 percent of respondents, followed by former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa at 3 percent and Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., at 2 percent.
The introduction to the report says that three-quarters of Latinos living in the U.S. say that their community "needs" a national leader. I'm going to quibble with this assertion.
When respondents were asked specifically how important it is for the U.S. Hispanic community to have a national leader advancing its concerns, less than a third (29 percent) said it is "extremely" important and less than half (45 percent) said it is "very" important.
I'd say that putting such statements under a microscope might illuminate this: Believing it would be advantageous to have a nationally influential proponent of one's interests is not the same as "needing" a "representative." Indeed, the very notion of representation falls apart when we dig into the statistics about what tenets such a representative should or would hold on Hispanics' behalf.
Most people with a passing interest in the quirks of Hispanics know that there is great disagreement among them about whether to even be called Hispanic or Latino. Pew's most recent numbers, included in the survey, show this hasn't changed.
Moreover, those surveyed might agree that a national Hispanic leader would have a tough time appealing to a "Hispanic community." Of those surveyed, only 39 percent said that U.S. Latinos of different origins share "a lot" of values, while another 39 percent said U.S. Latinos share "some" values and an additional 19 percent said that they share "few or no" values.
Even if there were a Hispanic community with a common agenda, I still don't believe one national Latino leader would magically make everyone's Latino dreams come true. And that's fine.
Hispanics don't need a single national Latino leader because the United States is wonderfully, bountifully flush with geographically, socio-economically and politically diverse leaders who, yes, just happen to be Hispanic.
Maybe it's because my own career consists largely of paying attention to how Hispanics navigate our rapidly diversifying and flourishing society that it's so obvious to me: We have an embarrassment of riches in the realm of leadership.
The sheer types and numbers of Hispanic leaders working every day toward the betterment of America is so mindboggling that I find it difficult to keep up with their daily impact on our country.
And let me be clear about what I consider a leader. I'm not talking just about Hispanics dedicated solely to bettering the lives of Hispanics. I do run across a fair number of those, and their work is extremely important and necessary, but overall they are rare.
I'd say that 95 percent of the time I speak to a Hispanic lawyer, doctor, scientist, teacher, firefighter, banker, researcher, executive director, CEO or president, volunteer, ballet dancer, entrepreneur or other person who is working toward an audacious goal, that goal is rarely specific to any particular race, ethnicity, gender or religion.
They almost always are looking to make the world -- or their school, neighborhood or town -- a better place for their fellow men, women and children. Period.
And that is not by any stretch of the definition "Hispanic leadership," it's just plain old get-things-done leadership. And isn't that what we should all aspire to?
Why settle for being a torchbearer for just one demographic slice of society, when you could be a groundbreaker for our whole country?
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Abstract: After a break of 20 years and with the help of the fundamental book [A], the study of unilateral, equitransitive tilings of the plane by squares of three sizes was revived. First D. Schattschneider had found five possible tilings [A, p. 76] and Martini, Makai and Soltan generally characterized the unilateral tilings and obtained a new equitransitive arrangement [B]. They also described two other tilings constructed by B. Grünbaum. The problem to describe all possibilities remained open. In this paper we shall derive all the unilateral and equitransitive tilings using the classification of the fundamental planigons. We prove, that only the eight known tilings are possible. We have learned that D. Schattschneider parallelly solved this problem, too. Our method is different from hers. \item{[A]} Grünbaum, B.; Shepard, G. C.: Tilings and Patterns. W. H. Freeman 1987, 72-81. \item{[B]} Martini, H.; Makai, E.; Soltan, V.: Unilateral Tilings of the Plane with Squares of Three Sizes. Beitr. Algebra Geom. 39 (1998), 481-495.
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Siberian Slaves
Sneaking into North Korea's Secret Russian Labor Camp
By Shane Smith, Photos by Jason Mojica
This guy menacingly brandished a railroad spike at Shane until his Russian mobster driver "Billy the Fish" grabbed it out of his hands and asked, "This your lights-out switch?"
Shortly after I arrived in Siberia, our British editor, Andy Capper, texted me: "You'll love Siberia. Everything is so close and the people are so nice." He was of course being facetious (or British: same thing) because everything is 18 hours by train and the people are very mean indeed. Some might start out nice, but after the vodka starts flowing—which is always—so does the malevolence. There are exceptions to the cranky-Russian rule, but they're very few and very far between. One such exception was a lovely, lovely man called Billy the Fish—not his real name, of course. His nickname was the Fish, and I added the "Billy" in because I was drunk.
Billy was a local mafia type from a remote Siberian town that had no police and little regulation, save him and his boys. This would prove to be literally lifesaving, because we were after a very dangerous quarry in the middle of nowhere—North Korean slaves—who don't want anyone to know they are actually there. Billy, clearly game for some hijinks, agreed to take us into the forest to find them.
At the first camp we found, the North Korean guards threatened us and tried to throw us out. Billy the Fish laughed—a great gold-toothed guffaw—and then smiled. "This is Russia," he growled, eyes glinting. Motioning to the vast expanses around him, he declared, "This is mine." Then to our camera crew, "Keep shooting. They can do nothing." So we did.
Later, when we were deep in the forest, we came upon cadres of North Korean workers. A group of them approached and quickly surrounded our truck. One of them was swinging an iron bar, looking like he was going to bash our imperialist brains in. Billy took it from him, looked at it, and remarked calmly, "This your lights-out switch?" Sniff. "You're going to need more than that." He smiled and chucked it into the forest.
Later, we had lunch by an old woodpile—Spam, hard bread, paprika chips, vodka, beer, and, for dessert, vodka with juice. Billy pulled out some old shotguns, and we released some built-up tension by shooting at our empty beer bottles. It was like being 15 again, naughty boys in the forest. When we came around the corner there were the North Koreans, waiting for us, but cowed and much less aggressive. "Did you know they were there?" I asked Billy. "Of course." Sniff. "Where else would they be?" Classic Billy.
After an afternoon of playing cat and mouse with North Korean slaves, Billy took us to a freezing cold Siberian river for a swim to "clean it up," then more vodka to "warm it up," and then home to his family for the only good meal we ate in Russia. After eating, the Fish family took us to the bar (read: room with lights) for a night of boozing and drunken hugging with hard men whose nicknames included Stalin, Bear Killer, and, my favorite, plain old Killer. Tears, more vodka, giving of cheap presents, and finally the two-day train ride back to "civilization."
But the North Koreans were waiting for us on the train… And so began the worst 48 hours of my life, which ended with the FSB (the modern version of the KGB), the local militia, plainclothes police, and assorted thugs removing us from the train and placing us into custody. Finding myself wishing for Billy and his ability to effortlessly sort things out, I texted him that the FSB had detained us. He replied, "Of course they have. Just leave." So we took off, racing across Siberia to the Chinese border (Billy told us about the smugglers' route) and finally… to freedom.
A North Korean performs a little routine maintenance on a Russian truck in the heart of the labor camp.
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The sawmill in Dipkun.
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Everyone said that the bridge leading into the logging camp had burned down, and we'd have to ford the river, but apparently a local cop built this replacement bridge so he could loot scrap metal from the North Koreans.
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A Francesco Totti-inspired Roma made it seven Serie A wins from seven as they destroyed Inter 3-0 at San Siro on Saturday.
The veteran forward crafted a beautifully-stuck opener in the 18th minute and, after Ricky Alvarez had rattled the upright for the home side, the Giallorossi legend doubled his tally from the penalty spot.
Kevin Strootman laid on Alessandro Florenzi to crown an excellent counterattack in the final minute of a rampant first-half display to make the points safe.
Federico Balzaretti collected two yellow cards to slightly sour Roma's evening, but their lead at the Serie A summit stands at five points ahead of Napoli's game with Livorno on Sunday, while Inter remain fourth.
The Nerazzurri had made two changes to the side that drew 1-1 at Cagliari last time out – Saphir Taider replacing Mateo Kovacic in midfield and Rodrigo Palacio preferred to Ishak Belfodil in attack. Roma, in contrast, were predictably unchanged from their 5-0 demolition of Bologna.
Having warmed up in commemorative shirts, both sides observed a minute's silence in memory of the victims of the Lampedusa boat tragedy before kick-off.
Roma soon settled into the contest and, following a driving seventh-minute run, Gervinho saw his shot deflected over via a last-ditch challenge from Taider.
Taider was involved at the other end shortly afterwards, taking a touch and drilling a low shot from the edge of the box that Roma goalkeeper Morgan De Sanctis did well to hold low, but Totti would soon show him how it was done from a similar distance.
Florenzi played the ball into Gervinho 20 yards out as he came in from the left and the former Arsenal forward teed up Totti, who smashed home first time to leave Inter goalkeeper Samir Handanovic with no chance.
A superb tackle from Juan Jesus prevented Gervinho from doubling his team's lead in the 24th minute and Inter sprung down the field, allowing Alvarez to send a rasping 25-yarder against the inside of the post with De Sanctis rooted to the spot.
Taider was then wasteful from a couple of set-pieces as the hosts looked to be gaining the upper hand, but they were blown away in a six-minute spell before half-time.
Gervinho proved to be a menace on the right flank once more, dancing past Esteban Cambiasso and drawing a trip from Alvaro Pereira.
The offence arguably took place on the line but the referee pointed to the spot, from where Totti's firmly-struck kick eluded Handanovic's dive.
Roma saved their best until the stroke of the interval, a clever pass from Totti sending Strootman surging at the heart of the Inter defence before a perfectly-weighted ball to his right was clinically crashed into the far corner by Florenzi.
Inter's woes almost increased in the 48th minute when Florenzi was allowed room to turn and hook a volley goalwards inside the area, only to be impressively thwarted by Handanovic.
Walter Mazzarri's men thought they were back in the contest when Palacio flicked on Alvarez's cross for Andrea Ranocchia to beat De Sanctis in an aerial challenge and nod home, but the centre-back was adjudged to have headed the ball out of the keeper's hands.
Gervinho should have added further gloss to the scoreline when he raced clear of a scattered Inter defence to produce a scuffed shot that Handanovic tipped around the post.
Substitute Mauro Icardi almost capitalised on a weak back header from Daniele de Rossi as Inter manfully continued to press – something they did for the rest of the match following Balzaretti's foolish 79th-minute lunge on Alvarez that rules him out of next weekend's mouth-watering top-of-the-table clash with Napoli in the Italian capital.


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Reflective practice is "the capacity to reflect on action so as to engage in a process of continuous learning", which, according to the originator of the term, is "one of the defining characteristics of professional practice".[1]
According to one definition it involves "paying critical attention to the practical values and theories which inform everyday actions, by examining practice reflectively and reflexively. This leads to developmental insight".[2]
Reflective practice can be an important tool in practice-based professional learning settings where individuals learning from their own professional experiences, rather than from formal teaching or knowledge transfer, may be the most important source of personal professional development and improvement. As such the notion has achieved wide take-up, particularly in professional development for practitioners in the areas of education and healthcare. The question of how best to learn from experience has wider relevance however, to any organizational learning environment.
History and backgroundEdit
Reflective Practice was introduced by Donald Schön in his book The Reflective Practitioner in 1983, however, the concepts underlying reflective practice are much older. John Dewey was among the first to write about Reflective Practice with his exploration of experience, interaction and reflection.[3] Other researchers such as Kurt Lewin, Jean Piaget, William James and Carl Jung were developing theories of human learning and development.[4] Marcus Aurelius' Meditations has also been described as an example of reflective practice.[5]
Dewey's works inspired writers such as Donald Schön and David Boud to explore the boundaries of reflective practice. Central to the development of reflective theory was interest in the integration of theory and practice, the cyclic pattern of experience and the conscious application of that learning experience. For the last 30 years, there has been a growing literature and focus around experiential learning and the development and application of Reflective Practice.
Donald Schön's 1983 book introduces concepts such as 'reflection on action' and 'reflection in-action' where professionals meet the challenges of their work with a kind of improvisation learned in practice. Reflective Practice has now been widely accepted and used as developmental practices for organisations, networks, and individuals. As Boud et al state: "Reflection is an important human activity in which people recapture their experience, think about it, mull it over and evaluate it. It is this working with experience that is important in learning."[6] Reflective Practice can be seen and has been recognised in many teaching and learning scenarios, and the emergence in more recent years of blogging has been seen as another form of reflection on experience in a technological age.[7]
Models of reflective practiceEdit
The concept of Reflective Practice centers around the idea of lifelong learning where a practitioner analyses experiences in order to learn from them. Reflective Practice is used to promote independent professionals who are continuously engaged in the reflection of situations they encounter in their professional worlds. There are several models of reflection used to draw lessons out of experiences.[citation needed]
Argyris and Schön 1978Edit
Argyris and Schön pioneered the idea of single loop and double loop learning in 1978. The theory was built around the recognition and amendment of a perceived fault or error.[8] Single loop learning is when a practitioner or organisation, even after an error has occurred and a correction is made, continues to rely on current strategies, techniques or polices when a situation again comes to light. Double loop learning involves the modification of personal objectives, strategies or policies so that when a similar situation arises a new framing system is employed.[9]
Schön himself introduced some years later the concept of Reflection-in-action and Reflection-on-action. Reflection-in-action can be described as the ability of a practitioner to 'think on their feet', otherwise known as 'felt-knowing'.[10] It revolves around the idea that within any given moment, when faced with a professional issue, a practitioner usually connects with their feelings, emotions and prior experiences to attend to the situation directly. Reflection-on-action on the other hand is the idea that after the experience a practitioner analyses their reaction to the situation and explores the reasons around, and the consequences of, their actions. This is usually conducted though a documented reflection of the situation.[11]
Kolb 1984Edit
Kolb was highly influenced by the research conducted by Dewey and Piaget in the 1970s. Kolb's reflective model highlights the concept of experimental learning and is centered around the transformation of information into knowledge. This takes place after the situation has occurred and entails a practitioner reflecting on the experience, gaining a general understanding of the concepts encountered during the experience and then testing these general understandings on a new situation. In this way the knowledge that is gained from a situation is continuously applied and reapplied building on a practitioners prior experiences and knowledge.[12]
Gibbs 1988Edit
Graham Gibbs discussed the use of structured debriefing to facilitate the reflection involved in Kolb's "experiential learning cycle". He presents the stages of a full structured debriefing as follows:
- (Initial experience)
- Description:
- "What happened? Don't make judgements yet or try to draw conclusions; simply describe."
- Feelings:
- "What were your reactions and feelings? Again don't move on to analysing these yet."
- Evaluation:
- "What was good or bad about the experience? Make value judgements."
- Analysis:
- "What sense can you make of the situation? Bring in ideas from outside the experience to help you."
- "What was really going on?"
- "Were different people's experiences similar or different in important ways?"
- Conclusions (general):
- "What can be concluded, in a general sense, from these experiences and the analyses you have undertaken?"
- Conclusions (specific):
- "What can be concluded about your own specific, unique, personal situation or way of working?"
- Personal action plans:
Gibbs' suggestions are often cited as Gibbs' reflective cycle or Gibbs' model of reflection (1988), and simplified into the following six distinct stages:
- Description
- Feelings
- Evaluation
- Analysis
- Conclusions
- Action plan.
Johns 1995Edit
Johns' model is a structured mode of reflection that provides a practitioner with a guide to gain greater understanding. It is designed to be carried out through the act of sharing with a colleague or mentor, which enables the experience to become learnt knowledge at a faster rate than reflection alone.[15] Johns highlights the importance of experienced knowledge and the ability of a practitioner to access, understand and put into practice information that has been acquired through empirical means. In order for this to be achieved reflection occurs though 'looking in' on ones thoughts and emotions and 'looking out' at the situation experienced. Johns draws on the work of Carper (1978) to expand on the notion of 'looking out' at an experience.[16] Five patterns of knowing are incorporated into the guided reflection, having a practitioner analyse the aesthetic, personal, ethical, empirical and the reflexive elements experienced through the situation. Johns' model is comprehensive and allows for reflection that touches on many important elements.[17]
Rolfe 2001Edit
Rolfe's reflective model is based around Borton's 1970 developmental model.[18] A simplistic cycle composed of 3 questions which asks the practitioner, What, So What and Now What. Through this analysis a description of the situation is given which then leads into the scrutiny of the situation and the construction of knowledge that has been learnt through the experience. Subsequent to this, ways in which to personally improve and the consequence of ones response to the experience are reflected on.[19]
Reflective Practice has been described as an unstructured approach directing understanding and learning, a self regulated process, commonly used in health and teaching professions, though applicable to all professions.[20][21][22] Reflective practice is a learning process taught to professionals from a variety of disciplines by practitioners, with the aim of enhancing abilities to communicate and making informed/balanced decisions. The practice has historically been applied most in the educational and medical field.
In education, reflective practice refers to the process of the educator studying his or her own teaching methods and determining what works best for the students. It involves the consideration of the ethical consequences of classroom procedures on students.[21]
The appeal of the use of reflective practice for teachers is that as teaching and learning are complex, and there is not one right approach, reflecting on different versions of teaching, and reshaping past and current experiences will lead to improvement in teaching practices.[23] Schön's reflection-in-action assists teachers in making the professional knowledge that they will gain from their experience in the classroom an explicit part of their decision-making.[24]
As Larrivee argues, Reflective Practice moves teachers from their knowledge base of distinct skills to a stage in their careers where they are able to modify their skills to suit specific contexts and situations, and eventually to invent new strategies.[21] In implementing a process of Reflective Practice teachers will be able to move themselves, and their schools, beyond existing theories in practice.[23] Larrivee concludes that teachers should "resist establishing a classroom culture of control and become a reflective practitioner, continuously engaging in a critical reflection, consequently remaining fluid in the dynamic environment of the classroom".[21]
Clinical psychologyEdit
Other Health professionalsEdit
Reflective Practice is associated with learning from experience, and is viewed as an important strategy for health professionals who embrace lifelong learning. Due to the ever changing context of healthcare and the continual growth of medical knowledge, there is a high level of demand on healthcare professionals' expertise.[25] Due to this complex and continually changing environment, healthcare professionals could benefit from a program of reflective practice.[26]
For healthcare professionals Reflective Practice would result in a physician noticing when there is, for example, an unexpected response to treatment, critically reviewing their initial understanding on the problem and generating alternate solutions.[27] This has the added benefit of assisting the health care professional by providing a new learning situation that will develop their skills and knowledge base.[28]
In the field of nursing there is concern that actions may run the risk of habitualisation, thus dehumanising patients and their needs.[28] In utilising Reflective Practice, nurses are able to plan their actions and consciously monitor the action to ensure it is beneficial to their patient.[28]
The act of reflection is seen as a way of promoting the development of autonomous, qualified and self-directed professionals. Engaging in Reflective Practice is associated with the improvement of the quality of care, stimulating personal and professional growth and closing the gap between theory and practice.[29]
Other professionsEdit
Reflective Practice can help an individual to develop personally, and is useful for professions other than those discussed above. It allows professionals to continually update their skills and knowledge and consider ways to interact with their colleagues.[30]
Suggested ways for professionals to practice reflective management include:
- Keeping a journal;
- Seeking feedback;
- View experiences objectively; and
- Taking time at the end of each day, meeting, experience etc. to reflect-on-actions.
See alsoEdit
- ↑ Schön, D. (1983) The Reflective Practitioner, How Professionals Think In Action, Basic Books. ISBN 0465068782. Template:Page needed
- ↑ Bolton, G (2010) Reflective Practice, Writing and Professional Development (3rd edition), SAGE publications, California. ISBN 184860212X. p. xix
- ↑ Dewey, J. (1933) How We Think. A restatement of the relation of reflective thinking to the educative process (Revised edition.), Boston: D. C. Heath. ISBN 0486298957.
- ↑ (2005). Learning Styles and Learning Spaces: Enhancing Experiential Learning in Higher Education. Academy of Management Learning & Education 4 (2): 193–212.
- ↑ Mac Suibhne, S. (2009). 'Wrestle to be the man philosophy wished to make you': Marcus Aurelius, reflective practitioner. Reflective Practice 10 (4): 429–436.
- ↑ Boud D, Keogh R and Walker D (1985) Reflection, Turning Experience into Learning, Routledge. ISBN 0850388643. p. 19
- ↑ (2010). Weblogs as instruments for reflection on action in teacher education. Interactive Learning Environments 18 (3): 245.
- ↑ Smith, Mark K. (2001), Chris Argyris, Encyclopaedia of informal education (infed). Web-page accessed 29 November 2010
- ↑ Argyris, C & Schön, D (1978) Organization learning: A theory of Action perspective, Reading, Mass: Addison Wesley. ISBN 0201001748. Template:Page needed
- ↑ Walkerden, G. (2005) Felt knowing: a foundation for Local Government Practice. In Keen, M., Brown, V. & Dyball, R. (Eds.) Social Learning in Environmental Management. London, Earthscan. ISBN 9781844071838.Template:Page needed
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Further readingEdit
- Dewey, J. (1933) How We Think, Revised Edition. Boston: D.C Heath. ISBN 0486298957 (Dover reprint 1997)
- Schön, D. (1983) The Reflective Practitioner, How professionals think in action, Basic Books. ISBN 0465068782
- Hartman, H. J. (2001), "Teaching Metacognitively", In Metacognition in Learning and Instruction, Springer, Dordrecht. ISBN 079236838X
- Freshwater D, Horton-Deutsch S, Sherwood G, Taylor B (2005), Resource Paper: The Scholarship of Reflective Practice, The Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International
External linksEdit
- 11.965 Reflective Practice: An Approach for Expanding Your Learning Frontiers, MIT OpenCourseWare, January 2007
- Neill, J (2004), Experiential learning cycles
- Tindal, Ian, Discovering reflective practice
- Introduction to developing reflective practice, The UK Centre for Legal Education
- Atherton, J.S., Learning and teaching: Reflection and Reflective practice
- Smith, Mark K., Donald Schön: learning reflection and change, Encyclopedia of Informal Education (Infed)
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Key Cooperative Gifts more than $10,000 in Matching Grants and Donations to Feed FamiliesMay 29, 2020
Key Cooperative announced today a total of more than $10,000 had been donated to local food pantries and hunger relief programs this May.
AMES, Iowa – Opportunities to harvest
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needs of local industries.
The central Iowa meeting will be held Jan. 6 at the Leonard Good
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The northern Iowa meetings will be held Jan. 14 at the Clay County
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Stover harvesting can impact economic, agronomic and water quality
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As the debate over same-sex "marriage" heats up in New York, you occasionally hear legislators say that they oppose same-sex "marriage" but are in favor of "civil unions". This is an effort to appear reasonable, and open to compromise, which is certainly laudable. The problem us, the term "civil unions" doesn't mean what they think it means.
When most people use the term "civil unions", they mean some kind of legal arrangement that grants rights to same-sex couples, like hospital visitation, inheritance rights, insurance eligibility, etc., without putting that relationship on the same legal plane as marriage.
The problem is, that's not what the term "civil unions" actually means. It means the same thing as same-sex "marriage".
Bills that recognize "civil unions" grant them all the same rights and privileges of marriage. The "civil unions" bill that was passed in New Jersey, for example, specifically states that any provision of law that deals with marriage, spouses, etc., must be read to include "civil unions" and those who enter into them. The "civil unions" bill introduced in Rhode Island today does exactly the same thing. The legal difference between "marriage" and "civil unions" is absolutely nothing — it's just the name.
So, all the statutes that prohibit discrimination based on "marital status" would have to be read to prohibit discrimination against those in "civil unions". In fact, the case that led to the New Jersey Methodist organization being stripped of its tax exempt status wasn't based on their refusal to recognize a "marriage", but their refusal to recognize a "civil union" — which the courts treated as the same thing as a marriage.
It's also well known that same-sex "marriage" advocates have used "civil unions" laws as a step towards the judicial imposition of same-sex "marriage" . The argument they make is that granting the rights of marriage, but denying the term "marriage", is invidious discrimination in violation of the Equal Protection Clause (or its state equivalent). That was precisely the approach that was successfully used in Connecticut to impose same-sex "marriage" by judicial fiat. That same argument is being made in court in New Jersey.
The reality also is that "civil unions" are not on the table in the New York State Legislature. To my knowledge, a "civil unions" bill has never been introduced in the Legislature, and nobody has said that they are interested in doing so. Indeed, same-sex "marriage" advocates frequently say that they don't want "civil unions".
The choice in the Legislature is not "civil unions" versus same-sex "marriage". It's all about re-defining marriage.
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6th Annual Peace
Peace Studies
Conference 2012
For more information, please contact:
Fran Faraz Peace Studies Coordinator
Nancy Fong Peace Studies Counselor
Dr. Dave Hudson Dean of Arts and Letters
Get involved:
Fran Faraz – Club Advisor
"Peace Renaissance"
Creating Peace through Sustainability, Education, Nonviolence, Conscious Democracy, Health, and Artistic Creativity
A Day Dedicated to Peace at GWC
On Friday, April 20th, Golden West College hosted the 6th Annual Peace Conference. The well attended conference featured panel discussions, interactive workshops, and musical performances that were focused on a variety of peace-oriented subjects—environmental sustainability, global human rights, non-violent conflict resolution—as well as lectures designed to empower and inspire participants into making a meaningful difference in their own communities.
The 2012 Peace Award was presented to iSanctuary, an organization that helps those freed from enslavement to sustain themselves with marketable artisan skills. iSanctuary was founded by Stephanie Pollaro, a GWC Alumnus who was moved into action when she learned that over 800,000 people each year are victims of human trafficking and 14,000-17,000 are trafficked into the United States. The organization maintains facilities in India and here in Orange County.
For the second year, this was a Zero Waste event. The conference committee used a minimal amount of paper for advertising and relied on a network of grassroots community-building practices, such as social media and multiple outreach efforts. Reusable mugs, plates and cloth napkins were donated by the GWC staff, and all organic waste from the conference were separated and sent to compost operations, which diverted the waste from local landfills.
Peace Award
People are trafficked.* Victims are rescued. Then what?
International Sanctuary ends the cycle of human trafficking through providing self-sufficiency options to survivors.
Stephanie Pollaro, President and Founder
Stephanie Pollaro's passion for empowering women and children suffering in the bonds of sexual slavery was born from a magazine article that she read in May 2003. The article outlined the brutality of human sex trafficking in India and around the world. International Sanctuary is the realization of Stephanie's dream to combat the atrocity of human trafficking. Originally a California resident, Stephanie has lived in Mumbai, India since 2006, where she works with young women ages 14-25 rescued from commercial sexual exploitation; establishing a sanctuary center is where trafficking survivors come on a daily basis to learn the art of jewelry-making. In addition to driving International Sanctuary's strategic direction as president, Stephanie is responsible for providing much of the first-person care and training to the girls who participate in iSanctuary's programs.
Stephanie has come to understand the real life challenges survivors face on a daily basis. Through these experiences, iSanctuary has built its philosophy: focusing on the individual survivor by providing a sanctuary, a safe place where she can thrive. Stephanie's sacrifice has provided a pathway to allow others the opportunity to contribute to a cause beyond themselves. Her dedication not only directly inspires the women and girls she serves, but also those who are impacted by her story.
Stephanie holds a Master's degree in Counseling from California State University Long Beach, and was selected as one of OC Metro Magazine's "Top 40 Under 40 Business Entrepreneurs of 2009." She has received the Soroprimist Ruby Award for "Women Helping Women" in 2011 and served as Golden West College 2011 commencement speaker.
It is Stephanie's objective to see girls living lives free of bondage and full of hope.
*Human trafficking is the illegal trade of human beings for the purposes of exploitation: modern-day slavery. 800,000 people are traffciked each year.
Peace Conference Program
2012 Golden West College Annual Peace Conference Program
Creating Peace through Sustainability, Education, Nonviolence, Conscious Democracy, and Artistic Creativity
Program Schedule
8:30 a.m. – Registration, Breakfast, & Networking
9:00 a.m. – Opening Ceremony & Dance by Salma Allam
Fran Faraz, Director of Peace Studies Program, Golden West College
9:05 a.m. – Welcome to 2012 Peace Conference
President Wes Bryan, Golden West College
9:10 a.m. – Recognitions & Acknowledgments
Fran Faraz, Director of Peace Studies Program, Golden West College
Dr. Paul Tayyar, English Professor and Director of Honors Program, Golden West College
9:15 a.m. – Program Overview & Panel Moderation
Chip Royston, Anthropological Philosopher, Professor at Cal State Fullerton
Panel I "Exploring the Arts as a Creative Catalyst for Transformation"
Kelly Thornton Smith, Founder and Chair of the Board for the Center for Living Peace in Irvine
Karen Blessen, Founder and President of 29 Pieces and Program Manager for MasterPEACE
Lisa Schultz, Founder of TheWhole9.com and The Peace Project
10:30 a.m. – Panel II "Envisioning Everyday Sustainable Living"
Lance O'Donnell, Faculty at College of the Desert and Cal Poly PomonaArchitectural Design
Shadi Shariat, Urban Agricultural and Permaculture Consultant
Hadley McGregor, Golden West College student
11:30 a.m. – Interactive Workshops
Dr. Paul Tayyar, English Professor and Director of Honors Program, Golden West CollegeDr. Gloria Garrett, social artist and founder of Glorious Journey Photography
Chanel Plett, Artist and Poet
Deborah Orrill, Director of Recycling Resource Management Program, Golden West College
Toyota Presentation
12:00 p.m. – Lunch and Musical Performance by The Red River
The GWC Art Gallery will be available for viewing all day
1:00 p.m. – Presentation of the 2012 GWC Peace Award
1:15 p.m. – Panel III "Awakening Human Potential with Dignity through Human Rights"
Tim Aye Hardy, United Nations, UNESCO Chair of Global Human Rights Leadership Forum
LeeAnn McIlroy Langton, Lecturer at Cal State University, Long Beach
2:45 p.m. – Break
3:00 p.m. – Panel IV "Building Bridges in Creating Collaborative Communities"
Paulina Gonzalez, Executive Director of Strategic Actions For Just Economy (SAJE)
Dr. Daniel Wehrenfennig, Director of the Conflict Analysis and Resolution Program, UC Irvine
Iosefa Alofaituli, Executive Director of Oak View Renewal Partnership
4:30 p.m. – Transformation – Chip Royston, Fran Faraz, Paul Tayyar & Solana Price
5:00 p.m. – Closing Celebration
Education breeds Confidence. Confidence breeds Hope. Hope breeds Peace.
Speaker/Panelist Bios
Salma Allam is a dancer, actor, choreographer and writer. In addition to her dance work in films and television shows, Ms. Allam toured with Don Omar through the Americas and she has appeared in Summerstage with Viewsic Expressions. She received her two-year certificate program at the Merce Cunningham Studio, and she has trained at the Deena Levy Theater Studio. Ms. Allam is the co-founder of Movement in C, is the artistic director of the Salma Allam Dance Theater, and she is currently a dance instructor at the Brooklyn Music School. Her choreography and writing credits include, Eternal Bleeding, Bound by Love, Things My Mother Taught Me: A Daughter's Journey, Roses on the Floor, and Bamboo Sticks.
Iosefa Alofaituli As the Executive Director of Oak View Renewal Partnership (OVRP), a grassroots non-profit organization based in Huntington Beach, CA, Mr. Alofaituli is responsible for the organization's strategic planning, operations, programming, and fund development. As the result of his collaborative efforts with residents, public and private partners, Mr. Alofaituli has facilitated the development of a mobile clinic, monthly community cleanup, youth soccer league, community garden, farmer's market, and micro-enterprise incubator. Prior to his involvement with OVRP, he served as a Peace Corps volunteer for over two years in a small fishing village in the Dominican Republic. He served as an Economic Development Advisor to the village's 2000 residents, and through collaborations with local individuals and organizations, Mr. Alofaituli led the development of an artisan school, micro-enterprises, an eco-friendly stove project, a business development course, and a travel clinic.
Karen Blessen is an award-winning freelance artist and writer who, in 1989, won the prestigious Pulitzer Prize. She has traveled to Africa as a member of the Save the Children's HIV/AIDS Leadership Council, and in 2005 she illustrated Peace One Day: The Making of World Peace Day (Putnam). Ms. Blessen is the Founder and President of 29 Pieces, a Dallas-based organization focused on creating art that uplifts, teaches, and heals. She is the Program Manager for MasterPEACE, an in-school, hands-on program using art to teach young people about peacemaking and nonviolence. Now in its fifth year, the 14-lesson program has been taught to more than 3,000 Dallas students. Ms. Blessen was recently named by the Dallas Observer as one of three MasterMinds of the Arts in Dallas.
Fran Faraz is the Director of the Peace Studies Program and is the Advisor to the Peace, Mind and Body Club at Golden West College. Ms. Faraz teaches Introduction to Peace Studies and Nonviolence and Conflict Resolution, and she recently established a major in Peace Studies that articulates with several local 4-year universities. This is the 5th annual Peace Conference that Ms. Faraz has organized, and her goal is that with each passing year, the conference further helps to raise awareness and knowledge of a variety of peace-related issues.
Dr. Gloria Garrett is a social artist, a fine art photographer and the founder of Glorious Journey Photography (GJP). Her mission is to give nature a voice, increase compassion for the beings and wild places shown in her images and inspire people to remember their connection to nature. GJP is a social venture enterprise, donating all profits from the sale of images to support non-profit organizations fostering peace, justice and environmental sustainability. Dr. Garrett holds an MBA in finance from the University of Texas in Austin and a PhD in energy medicine from the New Mexico Theological Seminary.
Paulina Gonzalez is the Executive Director of Strategic Actions For Just Economy (SAJE), a "place- based" organization in South Los Angeles that works to improve the quality of life and opportunity for the 200,000 residents of the area known as the Figueroa Corridor. SAJE works with local residents to build a healthy and thriving community by engaging residents in the City and Community Redevelopment Agency's land use planning process. This project seeks to increase the amount of affordable and safe housing and green space in the area, educates residents so that they can advocate for their rights as tenants, works collaboratively with community clinics and other nonprofit organizations to improve health and reduce the negative health impacts of slum housing on children and families, and works with community members to advocate for responsible development that will bring quality jobs to the Figueroa Corridor.
Tim Aye-Hardy Born and raised in Rangoon, Burma (Myanmar), Mr. Aye-Hardy participated in the 1988 student-led protests in Burma by giving speeches to thousands of students on human rights while he was a student at the Rangoon Art and Science University (R.A.S.U). Later, Mr. Aye-Hardy was expelled from the university due to his involvement in the protests. After a 1989 military coup took control of the country, Mr. Aye-Hardy immigrated to the U.S. He attended California Polytechnic University, Pomona and San Diego State University, and earned his B.S. and M.S in Computer Science in 1998 and 2007 respectively. Mr. Ay-Hardy is currently Co-Chair and Facilitator of the International Forum Planning Committee for the UNESCO Chair Global Human Rights Leadership Forum, and he is the Director of Outreach with Burma Global Action Network.
LeeAnn McIlroy Langton is a lecturer at California State University, Long Beach where she teaches in the University Honors Program, The Department of English, and The American Language Institute. She was named an Outstanding Straight Ally for CSULB's LGBT Lavender Graduation Ceremony and is a designated Safe Faculty Member for CSULB's LGBT Student Association. A graduate of UCLA and CSULB with degrees in Linguistics, Professor Langton has served in the United States Peace Corps in East Africa. She is a mentor teacher for CSULB's Partners For Success program, an initiative that supports first-generation college students and promotes bi-literacy. Ms. Langton was named Most Valuable Professor for CSULB's Honors Program in 2011.
Hadley McGregor is a sophomore at Golden West College, who taught herself to sew at the age of seven: "As I grew up my reasons for continuing to sew changed from simple curiosity to a productive hobby that allows me to create my own unique style of clothing inspired by past eras. However, fashion is not my main motivation for making clothes. The biggest reason I make my own clothes is that I am no longer supporting companies who practice the use of sweatshop labor. I believe there are many steps and strategies to stop large companies from using sweatshop labor.
Lance O'Donnell, AIAMr. O'Donnell received his Bachelor of Architecture degree from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in 1991 and his Master of Architecture degree from UCLA in 1994. His Palm Springs office, o2 Architecture, is dedicated to discovering the essence of place, and his work engages the senses and intellect with a poetic connection to site and rigorous environmentally crafted modernism. Mr. O'Donnell joined the faculty at the College of the Desert in 1994 and the faculty of Cal Poly Pomona in 1996, where he has taught architectural design and sustainability for the past two decades. His honors include recognition by the California Energy Commission in 1998 for Outstanding Sustainable Design Teaching and in 2001 by the American Institute of Architecture California Council.
Chanel Plett Based in Los Angeles, Chanel Plett is an accomplished artist, graphic illustrator, and poet. She has designed the covers to several World Parade Books, including Donna Hilbert's The Green Season, Regina Nervo's Horizon's Pocket, and Clifton Snider's Moonman: New and Selected Poems. The most recent exhibition of her work in Los Angeles was at The Chasm Gallery, and her poetry has recently been featured in the journals Cynic and Black Heart Magazine, as well as the bestselling poetry anthology, Beside the City of Angels: An Anthology of Long Beach Poetry.
Chip Royston III, M.A. Anthropological Philosopher. Professor of Human Services and Anthropology at California State University, Fullerton, Mr. Royston is profoundly interested in the human condition; past, present, and future. He also has many interests outside of the classroom. He has an integral partnership with the Center for Living Peace and has twice been a keynote speaker at the Golden West College Peace conference. He authored an empowering children's book endorsed by Dr. Jane Goodall. He was a founding member of Bundle of Twigs, a Long Beach-based community activism leadership organization. Mr. Royston interest in creating Peace has been nurtured by a life-long dedication to service and has created this purpose statement to guide his life: We Are One Global Family Where Each and Every Human Being can See Themselves in the Eyes of Another; Regardless of Different Background, Experience, or Belief.
Lisa Schultz is the founder of The Whole9.com, an international creative community, and The Peace Project which was founded to show that great change can happen very quickly if creative people work together. Towards that goal, The Peace Project, creates coalitions of activists, artists, and volunteers to take action to help endangered communities and promote the cause of peace around the world. In 2010, The Peace Project provided 10,000 pairs of crutches to communities throughout the war-torn country of Sierra Leone. This year, The Peace Project is planning to build the first Peace Center in Sierra Leone, Africa, and will be launching the third annual Call-for-Artists, where the proceeds will go towards building The Peace Center, proving that art really can change the world.
Shadi Shariat Over the course of her career, Ms. Shariat was the program coordinator for the Supportive Housing Project, a program designed to provide housing and services to homeless individuals, and she has served as a board director at the nonprofit organization, The Grain Project. Ms. Shariat has been involved in initiating and implementing the first city-sponsored cooperative garden in central Santa Ana, where low-income residents engage in learning how to grow and harvest organic food. She has coordinated Community Harvest, which promotes community-building through encouraging residents to share their backyard produce with families in-need. Currently, Ms. Shariat is a consultant to residents, businesses, organizations and schools in building urban gardens, adopting zero-waste initiatives, and developing sustainable agriculture programs alongside a variety of organizations, among them Transition Towns, Slow Food, and Oak View Renewal Partnerships.
Kelly Thornton Smith is the Founder and Chair for the Center for Living Peace, based in Orange County, California. The Center for Living Peace provides a beautiful and inviting place for people to experience classes and programs that encourage children and adults to: "Be the Change they wish to see in the world." In partnership with the University of California, Irvine, the Center for Living Peace sponsors Living Peace, a series of conversations with international leaders committed to making the world a healthy, sustainable, and compassionate place. Ms. Smith is a member of the Orange County Community Foundation Board of Directors, and she serves also on the Foundation Board of the Orange County High School of the Arts.
Dr. Paul Tayyar is an English Instructor at Golden West College and Co-Coordinator of the Peace Studies Program. His books include Follow the Sun: Poems, Stories, and Reflections (Aortic Books), Scenes From A Good Life (Tebot Bach), and Postmark Atlantis (Level 4 Press). Dr. Tayyar is the Founder and Director of World Parade Books, which has published works by Lamont Award-winning poet Edward Field and Pen-Award winning author Rafael Zepeda. He holds a Ph.D. in American Literature from U.C. Riverside, and he is a five-time nominee for the Pushcart Prize.
Dr. Daniel Wehrenfenning A professor of political Science at UC Irvine, Dr. Wehrenfennig is the founder of the Olive Tree Initiative, which seeks to promote conflict analysis and resolution through Experiential Education by providing students and community with the education, training and experiences needed to better negotiate and solve conflicts. Dr. Wehrenfenning was the Producer of the documentary film, Beating the Odds: Malawi's Peaceful Quest for Democracy, and he serves on the board of the Center for Citizen Peacebuilding at UCI. He is the recipient of numerous prestigious fellowships, including numerous Kugelman Citizen Peacebuilding Research Fellowships awards. He has published scholarly articles on the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, global human rights, and the relationship between economic terrorism and globalization. Dr. Wehrenfenning is also the Director of the undergraduate certificate program in conflict analysis and resolution.
Elmore Toyota is pleased to present the Prius family line-up to our colleagues at Golden West College. Toyota is bringing excitement for 2012. With the introduction of the Prius C and the Prius plug-in, Toyota now has four distinctive models which will address customer's specific needs while delivering innovative styling, excellent fuel economy, and a versatile driving experience. Toyota's revolutionary Hyrbrid Synergy Drive has become a standard for Hybrid vehicles. It continues to deliver amazing efficiency, ultra low emissions and excellent performance. With the continued support of Golden West College we are able to contribute to the well-being of our planet and maintain an eco-friendly environment for our future.
Community Exhibition Tour 2012: Conversation With the Earth, Indigenous Voice on Climate Change. This tour originated at the Smithsonian!
Conversations with the Earth (CWE) is a way of listening closely to traditional custodians of the world's biocultural diversity in order to formulate viable global responses to environmental challenges. CWE's opening conversation brings Indigenous Voices on Climate Change to convey local experiences of climate change. Grounded in respectful long-term partnership between indigenous-led organizations and award-winning experts in participatory video, journalism, photography, and audio, CWE conveys local accounts of the impacts of climate change on indigenous communities, stories of the unintended consequences of imposed mitigation eorts on local livelihoods, and examples of traditional knowledge and its value in developing appropriate responses to climate change. CWE asserts indigenous peoples' inherent rights to their territories, lands, and resources as a necessary condition of maintaining and enhancing resilience of local social-ecological systems to multiple converging global crises, including climate change.
The Red River Originally founded in Long Beach, California, by acclaimed singer-songwriter Bill Roberts, The Red River's latest album, Little Songs About the Big Picture, was selected as one of 2010's Top Ten Albums. Writing about the album, music critic Bob Boilen writes, "The Red River finds beauty in the day-to-day. There's elegance in the unremarkable. Little Songs About the Big Picture celebrates the mundane. At times, the way Bill Roberts writes about the wonder of life, it's reverent, bordering on religious. And when his eight friends join in—on viola, French horn, keyboard, drums, guitar and other voices—and this nine-piece band does its slow build, it feels spiritual and sentimental.


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Tuesday, May 02, 2017
Quanergy LiDAR Presentation
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- AnonymousMay 3, 2017 at 7:37 PM
He never showed any confidence in OPA bluffing.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 8, 2017 at 11:38 AM
"SPAD arrays do not exist in Silicon -- well that's part of our IP" What?!? STMicro have presented many SPAD arrays in Silicon, actually CMOS SPAD array.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 8, 2017 at 11:45 AM
"The SPAD array is not an imaging sensor [...] the whole sensor acts like one component" --> this is then a digital SiPM and force the transmitter to be a 2D scanner (single laser spot scanned in both directions) which requires extremely high speed. The exposure time for pixel is therefore very small if you want to meet the requirements on the global frame rate. Relying on temporal concurrency or time-correlation is highly limited by the 2D scanning unless high power are employed.ReplyDelete
What's most interesting here is the OPA laser scanner together with a SPAD array in terms of speed/optical-power trade-off. Unfortunately this has not been cover in depth. The results seem very promising, nevertheless.
Very nice approach.


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On Thursday, Lamell McMorris, the head negotiatior for the NBA referees union, told the New York Times that a lockout has become "imminent and unavoidable" after contract talks between the union and the league fell apart. That means that when preseason games get underway on October 1st, WNBA and Development League refs will be working the whistles and, as in 1995, these replacement refs could work games that count.
As in any labor negotiation, there are several issues on the table but the ones causing the biggest bones of contention have to do with changes to the severance policy and the implementation of a new system to develop new referees that would give 100 assignments to up-and-comers. McMorris accused the league of trying to "purge some of the older referees from the staff," which may be the prudent thing for the union but a killer move for the court of public opinion.
The general consensus of basketball fans is that the level of officiating in the NBA is about as good as the level of hygiene in a bus station. That the level will only get worse with replacement refs helps the union get a deal eventually, but they could turn this thing in their favor very easily by taking a more enlightened position toward the integration of new referees.
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The union should be pushing for a process that produces a reliable pipeline of newer and younger referees because it would express their desire to be as good at their jobs as possible. The current referees are salaried, which means no money would come out of their pocket. There's no way the union can claim that refs in their mid-50's can do the job as well as people 20 years younger in better physical condition, so they should be highlighting the fact that the NBA doesn't do anything to train new officials.
That's an issue where they could really gain some ground. The league itself has never seemed to care at all about uninspiring officiating in its games, to the point where they treat anyone who criticizes them like Fidel Castro treats someone who calls his beard a bourgeois affectation. If the union stood up and said, "Hey, we want to be the best that we can possibly be at our job, but the NBA cares more about their bottom line than the game of basketball," they'd be getting praised from all corners of the basketball watching universe.
The NBA wants this lockout because the whole impasse is a prelude to one they'll have with the players union in 2011. They want to set a hardline tone and establish that they're losing money, so there's absolutely nothing for the referees to lose by going all-out in an attempt to win the battle for public opinion. Call for more and better training, call for more transparency so that refs can explain and defend their actions and call for the league to care as much about that facet of the game as they do about making sure that the league's brand visibility is growing in Krakow. It might not get them the deal they want in the end, but it would go miles with those of us who watch the NBA.
Instead, they and the NBA are both taking that position and simply approaching it from different directions. The kneejerk reaction to protect the veteran referees at the expense of new blood only sends the message that the referees care about protecting their own, whether they are good or bad at their jobs.
Josh Alper is a writer living in New York City and is a contributor to FanHouse.com and ProFootballTalk.com in addition to his duties for NBCNewYork.com.


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Spring 2009 Distinguished Speakers
Spring 2009
Gregg Ireland '72 - Friday, January 30, 2009
Gregg Ireland '72 is a Senior Vice President of Capital World Investors, a division of Capital Research and Management Company (The Capital Group), the investment adviser for the American Funds. With over $900 billion in assets under management, The American Funds is one of the three largest mutual fund managers in the world. Mr. Ireland has been with Capital for 36 years and is a Portfolio Counselor for several funds. He is a member of the FEI Board of Advisors and completed his MBA at Harvard Business School in 1979.
Fernando Fabre - Thursday, February 5, 2009
Fernando Fabre is the Managing Director of Endeavor Mexico and professor of Entrepreneurship at Anahuac University. He has been appointed by the Partnership for Prosperity Program in conjunction with the Mexican government to develop guidelines to build an entrepreneurial culture in Mexico.
Peter Kraus P'11 - Monday, March 2, 2009
Peter Krause P'11 is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of AllianceBernstein, a firm he joined in December 2008. Previously, he was executive vice-president at Merrill&Lynch, where he was responsible for overseeing the firm's business strategy and investments, global growth plans and opportunities. Prior to joining Merrill Lynch, Mr. Kraus was co-head of Goldman Sachs' Investment Management Division for 7½ years. In addition to his role as co-head of the Investment Management Division, Mr. Kraus was a member of the firm's management committee as head of firm-wide strategy and chairman of the Strategy Committee.
Tom Linebarger '86 - Monday, March 9, 2009
Tom Linebarger '86 is the President and COO of Cummins Inc., a global power leader that designs, manufactures, distributes and services engines and related technologies, including fuel systems, controls, air handling, filtration, emission solutions and electrical power generation systems. Mr. Linebarger received a BA in economics from CMC, a BS in engineering from Stanford, an MBA from Stanford, and an MS in engineering from Stanford.
Jonathan Rosenberg '83 - Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Jonathan Rosenberg '83 is a Senior Vice President for Product Management and Marketing at Google. In this role, Mr. Rosenberg oversees the design, creation and improvement of all of Google's products, from consumer offerings to publisher and business services. Mr. Rosenberg holds an MBA from the University of Chicago and a bachelor's degree with honors in economics from Claremont McKenna College, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa.


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What do I need to bring to Closing?
- Certified Funds payable to Acker Title Agency of Montcalm County
- Homeowner's (Hazard) Insurance binder
- Driver's License or State ID
- Social Security Number
It may also be a good idea to contact your Realtor or Lender (if applicable) and ask if they have any other conditions they require.
What is an Expanded Coverage policy?
The Expanded Coverage policy provides the most complete title coverage available in the industry. This policy contains the same coverage as the basic policy, however includes protection against creditor claims, undisclosed heirs, mistakes in recordings, or even errors in the tax records. The Expanded Coverage policy also increases in value by 10% each year for the first five years to protect against inflation. For a nominal difference in premium you will receive a lot more coverage.
How are Property Taxes prorated?
Property Taxes in Montcalm County are based on the calendar year. To calculate them we typically take the total amount for the year and divide that by 365 days. We then charge both Buyer and Seller for the number of days they will have each owned the property (based on the Closing date). With that said, sometimes different terms are agreed upon in the Purchase Agreement and we follow that first above any local practices.
What can I expect at Closing?
The Closing is where all of the parties involved in your transaction come together to pass the ownership from Seller to the Buyer. Traditionally the Closing involves Buyer/Seller, Realtors, and sometimes even the Lender. It lasts approximately one hour.Related video: What to Expect During the Closing Process


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March is Heaven for Concept2 Erg Challenges
February 24, 2017
March and April are super-awesome months if you love the working out on a Concept2 rowing ergometer. There's both an individual challenge in the form of the Mud Season Madness and a virtual team challenge fifteen days later, the World Erg Challenge. If you play around on the C2 erg at your gym, your CrossFit box, or at ROWViGOR, […]


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Sorts roadmap in descending order and adds a filter input field
This is a plugin that allows you to sort the roadmap as well as search for certain milestones using a filter input field. Sorting milestones can be done by name and due date in either ascending or descending order. Filter functionality is copied from RoadmapFilterPlugin and modified a bit: made it translatable and translated it to German.
Thanks to daveappendix.
Shows another checkbox in roadmap view, which allows you to sort milestones in descending order of due date.
Filters roadmap milestones.
Additional checkboxes and filter input (
RoadmapPlugin version <= 0.4.0):
Changed Filterbox with possibility to choose between name (version number) and due date as sort criteria and ascending or descending order (
RoadmapPlugin version >= 0.4.1):
Bugs/Feature Requests
Existing bugs and feature requests for RoadmapPlugin are here.
If you have any issues, create a new ticket.
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Download the zipped source from here.
Or download the pre-compiled python egg.
You can check out RoadmapPlugin from here using Subversion, or browse the source with Trac.
General instructions on installing Trac plugins can be found on the TracPlugins page.
Some standard Trac prefixes are allowed at the start of each milestone name:
- '
^' on the front means milestones starting with the following string will be included in the filter.
- '
$' on the front means milestones ending with the following string will be included in the filter.
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~' on the front means milestones containing the following string will be included in the filter.
Anything else is an exact match. Separate multiple names with a pipe symbol:
Recent Changes
- 11241 by aleuhe on 2012-02-03 13:39:32
removed warnings
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If no user modification ist given in the request arguments. The show attributes are set as saved in the session keys. So all needed milestones are given in data attribute to the post_process_request.
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added license information; clicking on label "Show milestone descriptions" is also checking check box
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Showing filter box
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Plugin as python egg in version 0.4.0
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New Filterbox with selection of sorting criteria and order
- Roadmap_Plugin-0.4.1-py2.6.egg (12.2 KB) - added by 9 years ago.
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#11 Kellie Sirus
|Sarasota, Fla./Sarasota HS
2008: Second Team All-Atlantic Sun selection. ...Second Team ESPN The Magazine CoSIDA All-District All-Academic for District IV. ...A-Sun All-Academic Team. ...Fourth overall in batting in the A-Sun (.385). ...Batted .400 in A-Sun games only, tying for sixth best in the conference. ...Ninth in the A-Sun overall in hits (65). ...Fourth in A-Sun games only with 28 hits. ...Tied for fourth in total bases on A-Sun games only (48). ...Led Lady Bisons in multi-hit games (18). ...Posted 10-game hitting streak, finished regular season with a nine-game streak. ...Posted hits in 15 of the last 16 regular season games. ...Five mulitple-RBI games, twice with four (Austin Peay, April 1) and at Mercer (April 12). ...Second on team in home runs (seven). ...First on team in on-base percentage (.439). ....Second in slugging percentage (.562). ...Tops on team in runs scored (34). ...Second on team in RBI (32). ...Season-high six assists Mar. 8 against Georgia Southern. ...Started all 55 games.
2007: Earned a spot on the Atlantic Sun All-Freshman Team. ...Played and started in 53 games, used primarily as a third baseman. ..Second on team in both starts and games played. ...Tied for eighth in the A-Sun in home runs with 10. ...Ranked sixth in the A-Sun in RBI with 44. ...Finished in the top five on the team in 13 different statistical categories... Second on team in runs scored (30). ...Fourth in hits (53). ...Second in RBI (44). ...Tied for first in triples (2). ...Second in home runs (10). ...Third in total bases (96). ...Third in slugging percentage (.561). ...Third on team in total plate appearances with 187. and second in at bats with 171. ...Longest hitting streak was seven games. ..Also posted a pair of six-game hitting streaks. ...Had 16 mulit-hit games (14 with two, one with three and one with four). ...Season high was four hits in game one at Gardner-Webb (April 6) which tied for the team-high for one game, and recorded three hits in game two. ...Led team in multiple-RBI games with13 (eight with two, two with three, one with four, one with five and one with six). ...Season-high six in game one at Gardner-Webb (April 6). ...Recorded five in game one against Elon (Feb. 17). ...A-Sun All-Academic Team.
High School: Four-year letterwinner for the Sarasota High Sailors. ...as a senior, awarded the team[apos]s Defensive Player of the Year and Leadership awards, and earned All-Area honorable mention.. ..named Offensive Player of the Year and All-Area honorable mention as a junior...won the team[apos]s Pitcher[apos]s Award as a freshman. ...voted as Most Athletic of her senior class. ...Senior class Vice President. ...competed for Team FLA Gold and coach Dave Hazzard, as well as the Sarasota Quicksilver club teams.
Personal: Alpha Chi Academic Honorary Member. ...Hobbies include shopping, going to the beach, working out, and boating. ...Would like to skydive, but never has. ...Superstitious about wearing her hot pink sports bra and neon green spandex for extra luck in big games. ...Considers her biggest sports thrill as getting beaned in the nose with a line drive while she was pitching, broke her nose, and got a free nose job. ...Nickname is Kel or Sirus. ...Believes the best thing about Lady Bison softball is her teammates ("they are amazing. ...TROS for life"). ...Playing with former high school teammate Katie Haab. ...Most admires her parents because "they have always been there for me, they believe in me, and they're my No. 1 fans." . ...Chose Lipscomb for the size, the people, and most of all Nashville. ...Has two sisters, Katie (23), and her twin sister, Kristie (20); and one brother, Michael (26). ...Parents are JoAnne and Mike Sirus.


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What is Dermatology?
Dermatologists are medical doctors who take care of your skin, hair, and nails. Their work can involve everything from treating uncomfortable and itchy allergic rashes, to injecting Botox and removing wrinkles, to performing surgery to remove life-threatening skin cancers.
Dermatology is divided into several branches. A dermatologist may perform all of these services in his or her daily work, or he or she may specialize and focus on just one field.
- Dermatopathology deals with the identification of skin diseases. Dermatopathologists diagnose skin problems, usually by taking scrapings of skin and examining them under a microscope.
- Cosmetic dermatology is the branch of dermatology that works to improve the appearance of the skin. This can include wrinkle reduction, liposuction, hair loss treatment, or the treatment of scars.
- Dermatological Immunology is a subspecialty that deals specifically with immune related problems of the skin, such as eczema or lupus.
- Pediatric dermatologists treat newborns and children with skin disorders. They also provide help to families with inherited skin problems.
- Mohs surgeons are specialized dermatologists who can remove skin cancers using a microsurgery known as Mohs technique, where slides of the tissue are examined as they are removed. This is a very exact surgery with an extremely high cure rate.
Your skin is extremely important: it covers and protects everything in your body. A dermatologist helps keep it healthy, as well as looking and feeling good.
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Zayn Malik Twitter Death Hoax – Fans Reactby Michelle McGahan | PopCrush
One Direction fans around the world were thrust into a panic when #RipZaynMalik became a worldwide trending topic on Twitter today, March 31. (We admit: The sight of the hashtag freaked us out for a second, too.) But don't worry, Directioners: Zayn is reportedly alive and, as far as we know, perfectly healthy — this was just another Twitter death hoax, conveniently on the eve of April Fools' Day. While we don't know how the trend started or who started it, fans have had a range of reactions about the hoax on Twitter. Directioners have tweeted everything from furious anger to sadness — and even some hilarious one-liners.
Check out the responses below, and PopCrushers + Directioners, tell us: What do you think about the Zayn Malik death hoax?
There are some fans who believed the hoax, writing:
#ripzaynmalik please let the directioners mourn their idol… All this "he's still alive" trolling makes me sick to my stomach
— fairly chill (@MichaelSmartGuy) March 31, 2014
Others who perpetuated it:
#RipZaynMalik tragically killed in police custody earlier today. pic.twitter.com/ev5xdHu7fc
— Anonymous (@blackplans) March 31, 2014
Some fans just got angry:
#RipZaynMalik just imagine how zayn's going 2 feel when he sees this, well haters hope u r happy for hurting one more person #WeLoveYouZayn
— It's Zen (@Hana_Hanzek) March 31, 2014
Others just got angry at Directioners:
#RipZaynMalik the only reason this is trending is because of idiot directioners who won't stop tweeting about it, calm down guys
— joshua darrell (@jooosterhuis) March 31, 2014
people are like STOP THE TREND #RipZaynMalik but if you keep doing that it will just trend more bc you keep mentioning it sIGH
— milLICENT (@vvhyHarreh) March 31, 2014
And lastly, some took the whole thing in stride:
#RipZaynMalik More like rip all your clothes off Zayn Malik
— Connor aka My Hero (@LiammIsMyHero) March 31, 2014


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Birmingham Royal Ballet - Swan Lake Pre-Performance Talk
Birmingham Royal Ballet - Swan Lake Pre-Performance Talk
There are no booking fees for this production.
Birmingham Royal Ballet - Swan Lake Pre-Performance Talk Access
Access Booking line: 0800 912 6971
All bookings made may be subject to booking fees and a transaction charge.
A Sunderland Empire Visual Guide is available prior to your visit to us by emailing [email protected]
A symbol resource on going to the pantomime is available to download here.
If you would like to be kept updated about future Assisted Performances by email, please contact [email protected].Access Performances
- Audio Description None scheduled
- Sign Language Interpreted None scheduled
- SUR Titles None scheduled
- Relaxed Performances None scheduled
There are eight spaces in the stalls where wheelchair users can remain in their wheelchairs. Access is on the flat via a lift. Alternatively patrons may wish to transfer to a fixed seat, with vacated wheelchairs stored in the nearest bar area. Please note that patrons must be able to vacate the building quickly in case of evacuation. If you are unsure of the best option for you, please discuss this with our box office staff when booking.
Please note that the Upper Circle and Gallery are not accessible by lift and are therefore unsuitable for those with limited mobility.
Access performances
Current access performances are listed against show titles on our homepage.Supported Experiences
During a supported experience usual arrangements are in place within the auditorium, including latecomer's rules, and there are no technical adjustments to the performance.
Families should expect pyros, possible strobes and loud sound effects. Those who are sensory sensitive are advised to bring any equipment needed for support e.g. ear defenders.
This is not a Relaxed Performance.What we can offer is:
- Quiet spaces.
- TV relay of the performance in Dress Circle bar.
- Preparation pack available – Visual Story and Widget symbol resource, explanation of the story and characters.
- Familiarisation visits can be arranged.
- Supportive staff attending will be present.
- Early entry into Auditorium may be able to be arranged but not guaranteed.
- Families are urged to get in touch with us to explain what specific support they need to help support their visit.
Open captioned and audio described performances are sometimes scheduled. To be kept up to date, please email [email protected]. For all performances, there is a Sennheiser infrared system available in all areas of the auditorium. This can be used with or without a hearing aid. When you arrive at the theatre, please speak to a member of our Front of House team who will give you the equipment and show you how to use it. Please note there is a fully refundable £10 deposit for the loan of the equipment.
Guide, hearing and other working dogs are welcome in all parts of the theatre
Accessible toilets are located at the Stalls and Dress Circle levels and in the stalls bar as you enter the theatre.
Sunderland Empire Information
High Street West
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Getting Here
Tyne and Wear Metro:
If you're seeing a show you can travel on Metro and the Shields Ferry for free for up to two hours before and after the performance! We're just a short walk from Park Lane Metro station or Sunderland Metro station. CLICK HERE to find out more. Terms & Conditions apply.
CLICK HERE for timetable information.
By Road:
Please be aware of busy match days - full listings can be found at SAFC
Please use Google Maps to find directions. Our full address is:
Sunderland Empire,
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Sunderland, SR1 3EX
If travelling by bus, we recommend Simply Go where you'll be able to plan your journey.
Sunderland has fantastic parking. Here are a couple of options for you when visiting us, both a short walk to the theatre:
The Bridges Multi-storey Car Park
By train:
National Rail services stop at Sunderland (SUN). We recommed The Train line to help you plan your journey.
Calls cost 7p per minute, plus your phone company's access charge.Groups Bookings : 0330 102 7531
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ATG continues to make the safety and security of its customers and staff a priority. As such, please bear in mind that we may undertake bag checks, so recommend you leave extra time to avoid queues, and refrain from bringing suitcases rucksacks and large bags into the Theatre. Many thanks for your cooperation.
Book online: www.atgtickets.com/sunderland
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For deaf and hard of hearing customers, please use our Type Talk service on 18001 0844 871 7677 (textphone user) or 10882 0844 871 7677 (hearing person).
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Situated just two kilometres from Brisbane's Central Business Disitrct, Victoria Park Golf Complex is an inner city sanctuary and home to truly amazing experiences. Facilities include:
Putt Putt
Victoria Park's 18-hole mini golf Putt Putt course is jam-packed full of fun and is like no other you've experienced before. Open morning till night every day.
Driving Range
Victoria Park's all-weather, two level Driving Range includes 53 hitting bays and a grass hitting tee and target greens. It's fully licensed, is open morning till night every day.
18 hole Golf Course and Golf Training
Victoria Park's Golf Learning Centre features seven coaching bays equipped with the latest technology.
Kid's Playground
Victoria Park's Playground hosts equipment for kids aged 3 to 12 including a slide, climbing ropes, farm tractor, rock climbing wall and imaginative play areas.
Restaurant Dining
The Victoria Park Bistro offers stunning views of the Brisbane city skyline, free on-site parking, and a seasonal menu crafted by Award Winning Executive Chef Jason Peppler which showcases local flavours.
Special Events
Victoria Park also features an award-winning function venue. Their eight function spaces offer an impressive wow factor with views of rolling green hills and the spectacular Brisbane city skyline.
Due to current health advice on social distancing, please contact the business for the most up to date information regarding opening times and services.
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