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White light wavefront control with a spatial light modulator |
Optics Express, Vol. 22, Issue 11, pp. 13870-13879 (2014)
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Spatial light modulators are ubiquitous tools for wavefront control and laser beam shaping but have traditionally been used with monochromatic sources due to the inherent wavelength dependence of the calibration process and subsequent phase manipulation. In this work we show that such devices can also be used to shape broadband sources without any wavelength dependence on the output beam's phase. We outline the principle mathematically and then demonstrate it experimentally using a supercontinuum source to shape rotating white-light Bessel beams carrying orbital angular momentum.
© 2014 Optical Society of America
OCIS Codes
(050.0050) Diffraction and gratings : Diffraction and gratings
(140.3300) Lasers and laser optics : Laser beam shaping
(320.5540) Ultrafast optics : Pulse shaping
(090.1995) Holography : Digital holography
(050.4865) Diffraction and gratings : Optical vortices
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Optical Devices
Original Manuscript: March 27, 2014
Manuscript Accepted: April 29, 2014
Published: May 30, 2014
Dirk-Mathys Spangenberg, Angela Dudley, Pieter H. Neethling, Erich G. Rohwer, and Andrew Forbes, "White light wavefront control with a spatial light modulator," Opt. Express 22, 13870-13879 (2014)
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I m a k e - T e X 1 . 0 0 =========================== Copyright 1993 Rainer Klute <firstname.lastname@example.com> This is Imake-TeX, an Imake support for creating documents with the TeX typesetting system and the LaTeX macro package. It helps you in using TeX (not in installing) it. With Imake-TeX, you will never again have to fiddle around with calling latex and its various utility programs (makeindex, bibtex). Simply type "make" and your document's DVI file will be up-to-date. All you have to do is to write a simple Imakefile and let Imake generate a suitable Makefile for you. Here is such an Imakefile: #include "TeX.tmpl" PaperFormatA4() SimpleLatexTarget(document) The generated Makefile provides the following commands: make depend: Searching the TeX source files for dependencies like \input{somefile} make dvi: Generate an up-to-date DVI file make viewdvi: Display it on your screen make ps: Generate a PostScript version of your document make viewps: Display it make clean: Remove unnecessary things make veryclean: Remove even the DVI file make Makefiles: Generate Makefiles in subdirectories Installation: ------------- Imake-TeX basically consists of a shell script "texmkmf" (TeX make makefile) and a template file "TeX.tmpl". Their installation is (of course) performed with the help of Imake. You should proceed as follows: 1. Edit the configuration file Imake-TeX.cf as needed. 2. Create an initial Makefile. You have to do this in two steps: 2.1 Type the command "xmkmf". It will issue an error message ("Can't find include file TeX.tmpl"), but it will also display the imake command it tried to execute. This will be useful in the following step. 2.2 Type the imake command as shown the xmkmf output, but add the option -DInstallImakeTex before you execute it. For example, on my machine I run the command imake -DUseInstalled \ -I/usr/local/X11R5/lib/X11/config -DInstallImakeTex 3. The command "make install" will make and install the texmkmf and TeX.tmpl at their appropriate places. Beware: An error message like /bin/sh /usr/bin/X11/mkdirhier.sh /destdir/lib/config /usr/bin/X11/mkdirhier.sh: /usr/bin/X11/mkdirhier.sh: No such file or directory indicates that the installation directory (here: /destdir/lib/config) does not yet exist and Imake fails to create it because the script mkdirhier.sh is missing. The solution is to create the installation directory manually and then to rerun "make install". 4. The command "texmkmf -a" replaces the initial Makefile with a full-blown one. You will need it to create the Imake-TeX documentation. Don't be alarmed when you get some warnings: Warning: chapter1.tex not found Warning: chapter2.tex not found Warning: chapter3.tex not found Warning: \([^ not found Warning: \([^.tex not found These messages are normal. If you wonder about them, look into the documentation where the reason is explained. 5. Enter one of "make dvi", "make ps", "make viewdvi", or "make viewps". They create the Imake-TeX documentation in DVI resp. PortScript format. The "view..." targets display it on your X11 screen. 6. Have fun.
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Charcot foot is a deformity that results from nerve damage (neuropathy) in the foot or ankle. The nerve damage causes a loss of sensation that increases the risk of injury to the feet. When the foot is repeatedly injured, the weight-bearing joints start breaking down. Early signs of Charcot foot include redness, swelling, and increased temperature of the foot.
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The Basilica
The Basilica
The Basilica of San Benedetto, built over the birthplace of St Benedict and St Scholastica, is cared for by the monks of Norcia. The Basilica opens each day at 8:20 AM and closes at 8:15 PM. The Basilica is closed Tuesday for cleaning usually from 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM.
Mass Times
The Conventual Mass of the monks is offered in the Extraordinary Form (1962) on Sundays and Solemnities in the Basilica of San Benedetto at 11: 45 AM. The Conventual Mass during the week is celebrated at 10:00 AM in the Extraordinary Form (1962).
Vespers and Compline
Vespers and Compline are open to the public every day in the crypt of the Church. The time for Vespers varies throughout the year from 5:30 PM in Summer, 6:00 PM in Fall and Winter, and 4:15 PM in Lent. Please write to us for more up to date information. Compline is at 7:45 PM all year round. To participate in the morning offices, please write or call and we will open
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Waddup guys. Sam here again and I have just started my first big set of exams, so please, if i am late in replying, it is not because i don't want to, its cus im sitting in an exam hall zoned out somewhere.
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In 2012, I will: COMPOST More
Turns out, composting is really easy, even clean if you'd like it to be, and there are some surprising things that you can be and should be composting. If you feel a bit lost like I did, here are some basics on how to compost.
Can We Cut Food Waste on The Biggest "Food Day" of the Year?
As much as I love the holiday and as wondrous as I find it to be, the sad fact remains that in general, this day of gratefulness and the biggest "food day" of the year also happens to be one of greatest when it comes to waste.
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#22600From Lucas's movie THX1138, here's a video that shows great ideas without big budget and high-end technology. Enjoy!
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Spreckels Union School District bond proposition, Measure B (November 2012)
From Ballotpedia
A Spreckels Union School District bond proposition, Measure B ballot question was on the November 6, 2012, ballot for voters in the Spreckels Union School District in Monterey County, where it was approved.
Measure B authorized the district to borrow $7 million.
A 55 percent supermajority vote was required for approval.
Election results
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No | 1,255 | 37.51% |
- Final official results from the Monterey County elections office.
Ballot question
The question on the ballot:
Measure B: "Spreckels Union School District Student Achievement and School Safety Measure. To improve educational quality/student achievement/safety in every local school, retain teachers, reduce the impact of state budget cuts, qualify for matching grants by upgrading technology to improve teaching/student learning, repairing/upgrading fire alarms, 9-1-1 systems, roofs, ventilation, classrooms/computer labs. Shall Spreckels Union School District issue $7 million in bonds, within legal interest rates, with annual audits, citizens' oversight, and no funds for administrators' salaries or pensions?"[1] |
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Michael Bonfante was a Willow Glen High grad, 1959
Willow Glen--The county's newest theme park is all about growing things, and some of its roots go down deep to Willow Glen.
Bonfante Gardens Theme Park founder Michael Bonfante spent some of his formative years in Willow Glen, attending Willow Glen Middle School (then known as Markham Middle) and Willow Glen High School until he graduated in 1959. Bonfante and some of his friends from that time say that, while no one knew he would open a family-oriented nonprofit theme park in Gilroy in June of 2001, his affable and hard-working personality was already evident.
"He's probably not much different than he was then," says Pat McDonald, now Mariottini, Bonfante's high school girlfriend.
Bonfante, 60, was born in Hollister but moved to southern Willow Glen in 1953. Bonfante's friend Alan Oteri says he remembers meeting Bonfante for the first time in Willow Glen Little League and then bumping into him again in high school. Oteri, who now lives in Gilroy and helps his son run Gilroy's Garlic World, ended up working for Bonfante at the Nob Hill Foods grocery store chain. Bonfante worked for his father and uncle at the company during and after high school and later ran it after his father's death in 1977.
"He always had money because he always worked," Oteri says of Bonfante in high school. "He was interested in cars. He had a 1958 Chevy and he used to let me use it if I helped him wax it."
Mariottini also remembers Bonfante's love of cars.
"I remember when he got his license," she says. "He always had the spiffiest car. That sometimes was a date for us, to go out and polish his car."
But she remembers his financial situation a little differently than Oteri.
"He never had any money because he always lent money away," Mariottini says. "It's nice for them, but it's not nice when you're dating him."
Bonfante denies giving away all his money, but he agrees that he was lucky enough to be able to work.
"It wasn't a lot of money in today's world," he says, but enough to afford the car. Of course, that meant he was his friends' designated driver.
"I think my claim to fame was that I drank more milk than anyone in the world," Bonfante says, explaining how he bought a case of 33-ounce milkshake glasses and stashed one at each of his friends' houses. He would fill them and drink the whole amount at once, more than a quart's worth. "I was able to convince myself that drinking so much milk would give me the same feeling as drinking two or three beers."
Bonfante remembers playing football and basketball for Willow Glen High and enjoying being a guard on the basketball team.
"I think his first love was probably basketball," Oteri says.
Bonfante also received good grades in school, Oteri says, and was well-liked by his teachers and classmates.
"He was a kiss-ass in school," says Oteri, laughing and talking about some pranks he and his friends played. "Michael was sort of a ring leader, but he'd never get caught."
Except one time, he did. Oteri remembers one year there was a particularly bitter rivalry between Willow Glen and Lincoln High Schools. Bonfante organized a trip to the opposing school and the Willow Glen group burned big letters "W" and "G" into the front lawn. The culprits ended up having to pay for it, Oteri says, adding that he didn't participate that time.
"Michael was a good organizer, a good project person. He was goal-oriented and he loved to build things," Oteri says, describing the time after he graduated from Willow Glen High that Bonfante spent building a small shopping center in Morgan Hill on land he had bought himself.
Oteri says Bonfante never had any formal training in architecture or construction. "Building just came naturally to him. The tree thing came much, much later, though."
"The tree thing" is Bonfante's love of nature, particularly trees, that sparked his dream of building a theme park for families.
"The idea for the park came after developing my passion for trees and how important it is that kids learn about how important they are," Bonfante says. "I had to find something to lure the kids here."
Bonfante chose amusement rides and activities that would attract children to a space designed to celebrate trees and other plants, in the hopes that those surroundings would infuse youth and their families with his own appreciation of the outdoors. He sold the family business to Sacramento-based Raley's Supermarkets in 1998 because none of his four children were interested in working for Nob Hill and he wanted to devote all his time, energy and money to the theme park.
The 75-acre park showcases approximately 10,000 trees, including 25 "circus trees" in highly imaginative shapes, and nearly a half million plants. It features 40 rides and attractions, including the "Mushroom Swing," "The Garlic Twirl" and a 1927 Illions Supreme Carousel. It also has five specialty gardens, 11 restaurants and snack bars and 11 retail shops.
Mariottini says Bonfante always had a quirky sense of humor, showing up for an evening out at the show with her parents wearing Bermuda shorts (his slacks were in the car; he just wanted to see the reaction) and bringing her a single huge cala lily that she had to carry around at their senior dance. But he also "was a hell of a hard worker," she says, and ended up introducing her to the man she married.
Oteri says he and his wife have season passes to the park and enjoy going to eat dinner at Uncle John's Barbecue restaurant.
"It's a nice place," he says. "Once you see it, you'll see his workmanship and pride. He ran his company the same way."
Bonfante Gardens, 3050 Hecker Pass Highway, is open daily 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. through Labor Day. It's open Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from Sept. 4 to Dec. 16. Tickets are $28.95 for adults, $25.95 for seniors 65 and over, and $19.95 for children 3 to 12. Parking is $7 per vehicle. For more information, call 408.840.7100 or visit www.bonfantegardens.com.
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All About Rajnikanth
After a brief hiatus from films, superstar actor and Tamil icon Rajinikanth is back with a new film. Reports began surfacing that the first look poster of his upcoming film 'Lingaa' will be coming out on 29th August, on the occasion of Ganesh Chaturthi. Industry tracker Sreedhar Pillai had ... read more
Online marketing has picked up momentum in India. This is evident from the recent trailer of superstar Rajinikanth's movie 'Kochadaiiyaan' which received 4.2 lakhs hits within 12 hours of trailer uploading. Also, it shows the massive liking and appeal for Rajinikanth. He is still reigning as sup ... read more
Rajinikanth's latest animated flick 'Kochadaiiyaan' seems similar to his last animated film 'Sultan The Warrior'.Well, 'Kochadaiiyaan' has just come up with its teaser a few days back and looking at the teaser, it was noticed that it bore resemblance to one of his movies which never saw the ... read more


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I just wanted to say howdy to y'all. I have been reading the mag for a couple of years now and really enjoy it. JI am just now learning about the online version and this here forum though. I look forward to getting to know some of y'all in the future.
Welcome to the DRUM! forums Todd! We're planning on making this the best resource for drummers available online but in the mean time please fee free to ask questions or post insights… or pics of puppies. Your call.
Just know that these forums are pretty much a direct line to the writers and editors of DRUM! and by extension to all of the manufacturers and industry insiders so take advantage of the opportunity!
Thanks David,
I envy y'all at the mag as that has to be one of the greatest jobs that a drummer could have.
Todd - 10 January 2014 12:54 PMThanks David, I envy y'all at the mag as that has to be one of the greatest jobs that a drummer could have.
No doubt about it! Thanks for reading the mag!
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Universal flu vaccine clinical trials at UTMB Galveston show promise
GALVESTON — A universal influenza vaccine targeting a protein common to all strains of influenza A has safely produced an immune response in humans. If proven effective, the vaccine could eliminate the practice of creating a new flu vaccine annually to match predicted strains, with major implications for global health.
The results of the clinical trials, led by the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston in collaboration with biotechnology company VaxInnate and funded by a $9.5 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, was published in the July 18 issue of the journal Vaccine.
The vaccine candidate, VAX102, targets a protein known as M2e, found on the surface of the influenza A virus, that has remained completely unchanged from 1918 until the recent pandemic, making it of interest to researchers searching for a target for the immune response to influenza that would be stable over many seasons.
Unlike traditional flu vaccines, which target antigens that change continuously, the prototype VAX102 represents a vaccine that would not require annual updates. This would be a public health breakthrough in preventing influenza in the developing world, where current vaccine technology makes yearly inoculations nearly impossible. The technology used to produce the candidate vaccine would eliminate many of the limitations of current influenza vaccines, including inefficiencies related to manufacturing — such as limited production capability and the inability to change the target antigen should the vaccine not match the circulating strains.
"As we saw in the 2009 influenza pandemic, there is a great public and global health need for a rapid, scalable model for vaccine production," said lead author Christine B. Turley, M.D., vice chair for clinical services in the department of pediatrics and a member of UTMB's Sealy Center for Vaccine Development. "If ultimately proven effective, VAX102 will meet this need and offer a completely new approach to global flu prevention and control."
Clinical trials show low dose produces antibody response
Two studies, conducted at UTMB and Johnson County Clin-Trials in Lenexa, Kansas, assessed the safety, tolerability and immunogenicity — the induced immune response — of VAX102.
Healthy adults ages 18 to 49 were randomly assigned to receive two doses of either vaccine or placebo. The two studies established the dose range for further study. Doses ranging from 0.03 to 10 micrograms were studied. Individuals at the highest doses had more systemic reactions; doses of 1 microgram or less were safe. All vaccinated subjects showed some degree of antibody response, with a more than four-fold increase noted in all groups by 14 days after the second dose of vaccine.
An important next step will be studies to determine the degree to which the vaccine may be effective against influenza infection. Future studies would also investigate the durability of the antibody response and more closely assess cytokine responses — proteins released as part of the immune response — in an effort to better understand, predict and potentially prevent the adverse reactions noted at highest doses.
Pending results of future trials, VAX102 could be used as a stand-alone vaccine to prevent influenza A infection. Other possible strategies include use in conjunction with vaccines that target traditional influenza antigens, as a part of an approach to increase efficacy when infection occurs with mismatched strains.
A novel approach to influenza protection: impact on global health
VAX102 efficacy would have major global health implications, as worldwide annual influenza vaccination is not currently feasible due to limitations of licensed vaccines and international immunization infrastructure.
According to Turley, an influenza vaccine that can be produced rapidly and with great economies of scale, such as VAX102 through simple bacterial fermentation, allows for an entirely new approach to international influenza control. Further, because the M2e-based vaccine would not require annual updates, it could be useful to offer protection over multiple influenza seasons.


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Keeler: Back remembered for his toughness | DesMoinesRegister.com | The Des Moines Register I feel like the other thread has run its course... feel free to merge if I am wrong. There are some great quotes from Hiawatha Rutland in today's Keeler article in the Register. "It's kind of rough transitioning from being in the spotlight to not (being in it)," former Iowa State tailback Hiawatha Rutland said of Stevie Hicks, his ex-teammate who'd passed away Friday after being discovered on a freeway. "I went through that a little bit. After I got injured, I went through a lot of crazy thoughts and stuff, crazy behavior patterns. I don't know what happened." "He called me one day and said, 'I'm going to Canada ... when I get my new cell phone, I'm going to call you,' " said Rutland, who now lives in New York City. "When I talked to him, he said he was doing all right. We had many good conversations - talking about life, about the next level, about whatever."
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Two More on Perry's Agenda
1. Yuval Levin, a very credible domestic policy analyst, is more favorably disposed to the Perry plan than others have been. In particular, he notes that Perry's approach to entitlement reform is bold, if vague, and that Perry's support for a premium-support model of reforming Medicare (along the lines of what Paul Ryan has proposed) is welcome:
...a fundamental reform of the payment system into a premium-support model, along the general lines of the Ryan budget (or perhaps something like a reform I've written about here) would make a huge difference. It's very significant that Perry has put himself on the side of such reform, which is quickly becoming the standard conservative view of the matter, and rightfully so.
Levin might be a little off-track, however, in suggesting that Perry's out in front of Mitt Romney in supporting a Ryan-style approach to Medicare reform. He writes, "[i]f Mitt Romney did the same, rather than voting present on the most significant fiscal challenge our country confronts, he could finally be taken seriously on budget issues too." Romney has in fact expressed support for Ryan's Path to Prosperity, and has promised his own plan along similar lines.
2. Howard Gleckman of the Tax Policy Center, however, thinks Perry is simply telling people exactly want to hear:
Perry, whose campaign has been foundering, has put all his policy chips behind what seems to be a remarkable free-lunch-for-all plan. An old boss of mine used to measure political candidates against what he called his pander-meter. For GOP primary voters, this one rates a 10-with a bullet.
TPC doesn't yet know enough about Perry's plan to model it. But at least at first glance it looks like an attempt to be all things to all people-big tax cuts combined with a promise to balance the budget with- this being campaign season-huge unspecified cuts in spending.


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The school is on the semester calendar system and is a multicampus school.
There are 17,492 undergraduate students at Scottsdale Community College.
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LIHEAP delay leaves needy in the cold
HENDERSON COUNTY, Ky. - A popular national program that provides heating assistance to low-income households and that was supposed to begin in Kentucky on Monday was informed at the last minute that it did not get federal funding.
That means that about 6,000 people in seven counties, including Henderson, Union and Webster, will not be able to use federal funds to pay their utility bills or to stop their services from being disconnected even as the temperature continues to drop.
"We are still hoping that we will get it," Kristi Winkler, community services block grant supervisor for Audubon Area Community Services, said Saturday.
Audubon Area Community Services usually receives about $500,000 in federal money to provide the heating assistance subsidy, she said.
"(But) we don't have it, and we cannot issue any kind of payment to the utility companies because we don't have the funding to cover it," Winkler said. "We may still get the money, but it's just not coming when we were told it would be here. And our biggest concern is that our clients will be upset."
The Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) helps roughly 150,000 Kentucky families pay their heating bills each winter, according to the Kentucky Cabi
net for Health and Family Services website.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services usually allocates funding to the Commonwealth through the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, which contracts with community action agencies — such as Audubon Area Community Services — to receive LIHEAP applications and to provide benefits to recipients.
While the allocation always comes in late, it's usually available in time for seniors and other low-income residents to receive help paying their utility bills by the first Monday in November in Kentucky, Winkler said.
But she said she received a call saying the program had not yet been funded at 4:30 p.m. Friday. She said she wasn't told why the program wasn't funded.
"We kept waiting for it," she said. "They said they did not have a release date, but they would like to get that release date within the next week or so."
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Level | 60 Requires Level 55 |
Category | Eastern Plaguelands |
Experience | 0 XP or no coins at Level 90 |
Reputation | Argent Dawn +20 |
Rewards | [Insignia of the Dawn] 9 |
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Korfax at Light's Hope Chapel in the Eastern Plaguelands wants 30 Dark Iron Scraps.
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On the Tools toolbar, select the Paint Bucket tool and fill the first rectangle with paint. Now save this image with the first filled letter as S.gif. (save it as YOUR letter's name).
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Using the Paint Bucket, fill the next rectangle with a different color of paint. Now save this image as T.gif.
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Using the Paint Bucket fill the next rectangle with a different color of paint. Now save this image as E.gif.
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When you are finished filling each rectangle and saving each time, you will have a separate image for each letter of your name plus one extra uncolored one called plain.gif. In my case I have 9 .gif images.
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Dr. Brian K. Johnson, President of Montgomery College, Delivers Inaugural Address
Montgomery College commemorated the inauguration of new president, Dr. Brian K. Johnson, on Tuesday, October 9, 2007. Dr. Johnson is the seventh chief executive officer in the college's 61-year history. Themed "Learning Locally, Transforming Globally," the inaugural festivities celebrated the diversity of the College's offerings and of the college community, which includes students from more than 170 different countries. The ceremony included speakers from visiting colleges and universities, and the college and greater community; musical performances; and an inaugural address by Dr. Johnson. The program for the inauguration ceremony and photos of the event can be found at: www.montgomerycollege.edu/inauguration. Following is the full text of the October 9, 2007, inaugural address delivered by Dr. Brian K. Johnson, president of Montgomery College: "Forty-four years ago, on a day much like this one, on a college campus not far from where we now meet, a young man gave what was perhaps the finest speech of his brief and brilliant career. He spoke of hope, and he spoke of peace. He spoke of change and of resistance to change. But mostly, he spoke of responsibility. My responsibility and yours. The nation's responsibility.
Our challenge, he said, is to make the world safe for diversity.
The site of that speech was American University, just down the road. And the speaker was President John F. Kennedy.
A few months later, the president was dead. And since that awful day, so many years ago, I think our nation has sometimes forgotten President Kennedy's call to action. We have, too often, forgotten our responsibility to make the world safe for diversity.
But Montgomery College has not forgotten. Our faculty has not forgotten. Our staff has not forgotten. And this administration will not forget.
Every day, we are helping to make the world safe for diversity. Every day, we are creating a place where all these beautiful flags, the flags of nations old and young, can be held high and held with pride and held without fear.
We learn locally. We transform globally.
Our students are black and white and brown and red and yellow. They are able-bodied and physically challenged. They are rich and poor, old and young. They speak English and Farsi and Mandarin and Bengali. Their Ipods carry the music of Tchaikovsky … and the music of Shakira. They appreciate the poetry of Dante … and they appreciate the poetry of India Irie. And when they pray, they pray to Jesus and Allah and Yahweh and Brahman.
They come to us from more than 170 different countries. We welcome them all. And we say to them: Let us help you. Let us help you help yourself.
I am not, admittedly, the first to say that Montgomery College is "the Ellis Island of Maryland." But I like that statement. Because the lady in New York harbor — the lady who holds aloft the torch of liberty — has always represented the best of our national character. And let me remind you, this icon in the harbor, this abiding symbol of the land we love, is a woman. And she is an immigrant. She arrived here, a gift from France, in 1886.
Lady Liberty. Through the decades, she has spoken on our behalf. And through her, we have said — our nation has said — Come in, we will give you a chance.
We do that, too. But there is a fundamental difference between Montgomery College and Ellis Island. The difference is this: The folks who came through Ellis Island did not leave prepared for the University of Maryland or M.I.T. They did not leave prepared for the workforce or for the rights and the responsibilities of citizenship. Most critically, the folks who came through Ellis Island did not have, at their service, what we offer every student: a faculty of consummate professionals, a faculty whose superb qualifications are matched by quiet dedication to their noble — and ennobling — work.
Like Ellis Island, Montgomery College welcomes everyone. We, too, say — Come in. Join us.
But we also say: You will not leave Montgomery College unprepared. We are Ellis Island with a twist. Like the Lady in the harbor, we hold aloft the torch of liberty. But we add a condition.
We tell our students that if they are to know the blessings of liberty, they must first know the blessings of literacy. And we do not define literacy in any minimalist sense. Literate citizens do not just know how to read — they know how to read between the lines. Numerate citizens do not just know how to count — they know what counts.
We offer literacy for all, the necessary prelude to liberty for all.
This is the right thing to do, and it is the smart thing to do. Ensuring access to affordable higher education is an ethical imperative. But it is also an economic imperative. Every time we educate a student, we add another shoulder to the wheel of economic progress. Every student we educate drives our county — and our state — toward greater prosperity.
Since 1990, just 17 years ago, Montgomery County's Hispanic population has grown by 81 percent. Our foreign-born population has increased 65 percent. We have seen a 73 percent increase in the number of residents who do not speak English at home.
These are our neighbors. This is our future. And for the sake of our neighbors and on behalf of the future, Montgomery College will make good on the promise of access. Because we know that by offering students' access today, we offer our county and our state access to a more prosperous tomorrow.
Our county understands this. Our state understands this. Our governor and our lieutenant governor have called on our state's community colleges to lead the way in developing the workforce we need to thrive in the 21st century. They have called on us to begin producing the workforce that will sharpen Maryland's competitive edge.
Lieutenant Governor Brown, please carry this message back to Annapolis: Montgomery College will answer your call.
Montgomery College will work as one with our colleagues, with the other 15 great community colleges in our state, and together we will get the job done.
Montgomery College will work as one with the Montgomery County Public Schools, and together we will get the job done.
Montgomery College will work as one with County Executive Ike Leggett and the Montgomery County Council. We will work with our county's faith-based community, with the non-profit sector, with our business community, with every minority community. And together we will get the job done.
Together, we will demonstrate the power of togetherness.
What will keep us together is the understanding that the ideals that unite us are far more important than the details that sometimes divide us. Let us promise each other this: We will not be distracted. We will not be divided. We will keep the faith by keeping in touch. Starting now, I am committing Montgomery College to a communications offensive: We will communicate more often, more clearly, more candidly, and with better technology than ever before. Better communication will mean a better community. Better communication will remind us of our interdependence. And that is critical — because Interdependence is the defining fact of our time.
I believe Montgomery County understands this. I believe the State of Maryland understands this. I think we get it. I think we know that we can never be like the two guys out in a rowboat in the middle of a big lake. The boat springs a leak and begins to take on water. And the one guy says to the other — Your end is sinking.
That's not Montgomery County. And that's not Montgomery College.
I promise you this: Montgomery College will be guided by the understanding that we all need each other. And we will lead the way toward the day when no group, no constituency, no institution in this county will ever look at another and say — Your end is sinking.
We are all in the same boat. We will sail together.
Can we navigate the rough seas? Can we get the job done? Of course we can. The reason for my confidence is simple: We have done it before.
With the G.I. Bill, we took a population that was considered uneducable and turned it into the skilled, imaginative, driven, and determined workforce that took our nation to economic heights never before seen and produced a quality of life never before imagined.
The greatest generation was also the world's most educated generation. Now that generation is retiring.
Montgomery College will not join the chorus of voices saying that the sky is falling. Where others see adversity, we see opportunity — the opportunity to demonstrate, once again, that America has what it takes, now as always, to confound expectations and come out on top. We will get the workforce we need to excel in the global marketplace.
But let me make this clear: While this college works to meet our state's workforce shortages in nursing, in engineering, in the hospitality industry, and in biotechnology. We will sustain and we will enrich our legacy of excellence in the liberal arts. We will demonstrate one more time what this faculty has proved again and again: Expanding access does not mean diluting quality.
It is our joint commitment to access and excellence that brought Montgomery College recognition from the New York Times. It is our joint commitment to access and excellence that gives us a national reputation few can match. And it is by sustaining this joint commitment that we will get the State Of Maryland the workforce it deserves — a workforce of lifelong learners.
But we will also do something else, something a little old-fashioned and absolutely essential. We will remember that life is more than an economic quest. It is a quest for moral clarity and spiritual satisfaction. It is a quest for love that is unconditional and friendships that are unbreakable.
This we know. And because we know this, we will prepare our students not just for global competition but for global collaboration. We will help them learn locally and transform globally. We will help them understand that it falls to them to find the common ground on which we can celebrate our common humanity.
It falls to them to make the world safe for diversity.
Because we know we must prepare our students for this essential task, we go far beyond the traditional mission of community colleges. Yes, we prepare our students for the nobility of hard work. but we also help them understand that the poet, the sculptor, the painter, the actor, the musician, the dancer — these, too, are workers. They work to open our minds and open our hearts. They work to make us part of what the Iranian author Azar Nafisi calls the "Republic of the Imagination."
By helping our students become citizens of the Republic of the Imagination, this republic without borders, we introduce them to the abiding truth that William Faulkner long ago articulated. Faulkner told us that the poet helps us endure, the poet helps us prevail, by "reminding us that we have a soul . . . a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance and courage and honor."
The poet, by reminding us that we have a soul, reminds us of our responsibility to the most vulnerable among us. At Montgomery College, we intend to meet this responsibility.
Beginning today, Montgomery College will create and sustain a culture of social responsibility. We will do more to take our community college into the community. We will dig into our souls, and we will reach out to the most vulnerable among us. We will make it our mission to lift up those who have been left out.
This college is one of the few institutions in this county that can do something — something meaningful — about the economic polarization that is the enemy of social cohesion. Our county ranks near the top nationally in the number of PhDs per capita. But our state is also home to 683,000 adults who do not have a high school diploma.
This is not acceptable. All these PhD's and all these folks without a high school education: This is a prescription for even more severe economic polarization. And this, too, is unacceptable.
We must help. With new and bold workforce creation strategies. With more outreach so we get more people into our Adult Basic Education programs. With more service learning. With a new commitment to our social justice mission.
Martin Luther King Jr. went to the heart of the matter when he said that "everyone can lead because everyone can serve."
All of us who are privileged to work at Montgomery College take pride in our service. But we can do better. We will do better. We will deliver.
The goals I have set before us today are ambitious. But let there be no mistake: These are realistic goals. I know this in my heart. I know this because I know the faculty, staff, and administrators of this college. These are the men and women who will lead us. These are the men and women I will stand beside with pride, arm in arm, embracing responsibility, defining the future, creating hope.
You are the companions I will look to for strength in the tough times and for laughter all along the way. I will always speak with pride when I say, these are my colleagues; this is Montgomery College.
The journey before us will be long. But we will deliver.
Let us begin. Let us begin today to shape a better tomorrow. Let us begin today to finish the unfinished work of making the world safe for diversity.
I thank you all very much."
# # # Montgomery College is a public, open admissions community college with campuses in Germantown, Rockville, and Takoma Park/Silver Spring, plus workforce development/continuing education centers and off-site programs throughout Montgomery County, Md. The College serves nearly 60,000 students a year, through both credit and noncredit programs, in more than 100 areas of study. |


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Meaning & Origins
Scottish and Irish (of Scottish origin): from the Gaelic personal name Donnchadh, composed of the elements donn 'brown-haired man' or 'chieftain' + a derivative of cath 'battle', Anglicized in Ireland as Donagh or Donaghue. Compare Donahue.
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Nicknames & variations
Tanith, Tanitha, Tanit, Tanitia, Tanithia, Tanitta, Tanieta, Tanito, Tamatha, Tanithe
Dunkin, Duncanson, Duncombe, Dunckel, Duncil, Denkin, Dunkan, Dunckley, Duncklee, Donkin


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