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U-M 'important in the life of the state and country,' Deitch says
Editor's Note: The following article is one in a series devoted to the Board of Regents as a governance organization and the eight Regents as individuals who share the concerns of the members of the University community.
By Rebecca A. Doyle
A Michigan education is a family tradition for Regent Laurence Deitch. He and his sister spent their undergraduate and graduate years at the U-M, both receiving law degrees, and his oldest daughter, Sarah, currently in her second year of law school at Harvard University, followed at least the undergraduate portion of that tradition. A second daughter, Leslie, is an honors history major here, the same field Deitch studied as an undergraduate. William, now in seventh grade, "is very adept at computers" but hasn't decided whether he will look for a career in business or some other field.
"I think Michigan is a very important place in the life of the state and of the country," says Deitch, who is now in his fifth year as Regent. "I am particularly devoted to Michigan because it is not only very great academically, but because it is egalitarian in spirit. The fact that Michigan is, in my opinion, the world's greatest public university is something to cherish and nurture."
Deitch chose to serve on the Board of Regents because of the U-M's great tradition, commitment and "longstanding pattern" of providing opportunities for women, minorities and those who have been denied access to a quality education because of their race, sex or religion. The U-M's culture and tradition of values are what Deitch admires and works to preserve.
"This University is the only institution in the state I would have the interest in serving as a member of the board," he says. Part of that may be because of the memories he has of sitting in Dominick's restaurant sipping coffee and downing doughnuts while talking about politics or history with classmates, but his desire to serve the U-M isn't based on nostalgia.
"I came to the University in 1965. Things now are wholly different. I found that nostalgia and powerful emotions may be a force in involving someone in an endeavor like this, but nostalgic feelings about the past are irrelevant to running an institution today," he says.
"I felt I had some ability from my years in law practice and working with both corporate and philanthropic organizations, and I felt I had some ability and something to contribute in terms of my values, insights and commitments. If you meld together a commitment to the U-M with something that I am pretty good at and like doing, it seemed like a good thing to do."
Deitch is a senior partner practicing corporate law at Seyburn, Kahn, Ginn, Bess, Deitch and Serlin in Southfield and balances that career with duties that stem from his position as Regent.
"I am fortunate to be a person with a high level of energy and what I like to think of as a good work ethic. I am a pretty quick study, but [being a Regent] is still a lot of work."
Deitch has been married to Penny for 29 years, since the beginning of his law school days. He remembers a small apartment on Mary Street where they first lived as something Penny said he "was fond of because it was close to the IM Building." Also working toward a graduate degree, Penny commuted to Detroit where she taught high school Spanish and English as a second language. During those years, which Deitch remembers as "a great time," the couple began making friends in the Democratic Party in the Ann Arbor area, and Penny began to work part-time as secretary to Bob Harris, the first Democratic mayor in Ann Arbor since the Depression. Some of those first contacts were faculty members, and Deitch says it has been "gratifying to run into them while I've been on the Board."
In spite of his busy schedule--or perhaps because of it--family vacations are a high point for the Deitch family. Sun and water are important ingredients for a good time either in northern Michigan or at Cape Cod.
Deitch often tries to get away during the winter months for a break, but injured a knee skiing and is not as aggressive a skier as he once was. Winter weather, as long as it is bright, is fine with him. "I don't mind the cold, but I do tend to get sick of the unremitting gray sky. If it can get a little sunnier, I am very happy." When Michigan's skies threaten weeks of cloudy murk, though, Deitch can spend leisure hours at Borders Books, where he says he turns into a "magazine junkie," making weekly trips to replenish his supply. He also reads biographies and history, and is an avid golfer, "but not really good at it."
The traditions at Michigan blend with the traditions of the Board of Regents when Deitch talks about what is important to him in serving the University.
"I have been a Democrat all my life. That says something about my values, and I bring those values to the table. But the Board has a tradition of bi-partisan governance and looking at the issues in light of what is best for the whole University. I've tried to play my part in the continuation of that tradition.
"But I am not afraid to be up front in terms of things that may be controversial. I try to make decisions based on my principles."


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A homemade turkey dinner with all the fixings...who can pass on that? Sunday, close to 400 people made their way to Story to enjoy the 38th annual Story Woman's Club Traditional Turkey Dinner.
At their last meeting, the Sheridan City Council tabled an application for a new retail liquor license that would allow alcohol to be served at Lou's, a proposed bar and grill at 201 Broadway.
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The Buffalo Chamber of Commerce recently announced their 2014-15 Board of Directors.
The Executive Board consists of President Amy Wright-Sawyer of Wahoo Frontier Toppings; Vice-President Jake Jones of North Wyoming Insurance; and Treasurer Barb Marton of Mountain West Realty.
This coming weekend the Jim Gatchell Memorial Museum will have their annual Fall Gathering, which is their main fundraiser for the year for their endowment fund.
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Is there reasonable etiquette regarding the casual eating of pussy? A man refuses to go down on ladies he doesn't know well. Does this make him an asshole?
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Tony Shepherd, the new president of the Business Council of Australia, says productivity improvement is his key objective ("The Shepherd agenda", November 25).
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There is abundant empirical evidence that organisations that do not have a systematic improvement process which incorporates worker engagement (like Lean Manufacturing) have inefficiencies amounting to as much as 30-50 per cent of their turnover. Green's report shows our manufacturing industry has not embraced Lean and other globally accepted management practices. Yet business leaders like Shepherd are continually pressing the government, unions, educational institutions and others to do more. In our low-competition economy, businesses can easily generate solid profits. They have no need or desire to lift their productivity.
Convincing the government to provide further cost reduction for them allows them to boost profitability without effort on their part (see Gerry Harvey's, Solomon Lew's reaction to internet retailing).
It is time that the BCA focused on the real drivers of poor productivity – the management of private and public corporations and businesses.
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Ice Ice Baby
Prior to the return of warmer weather, an ice storm will affect areas from northern and eastern Missouri to Michigan, southern Ontario and the mid-Atlantic spanning this weekend into the start of next week.
A storm bringing rain to Southern California to end this week will roll into a zone of departing Arctic air and cold ground over the Midwest.
As AccuWeather.com Staff Writer Grace Muller alluded to on Thursday, a broad area of freezing rain and sleet is in store, lasting from a couple of hours in some locations to an entire day in others.
Major cities that have the potential for a period of freezing this weekend include Omaha, Neb.; St. Louis, Mo.; Des Moines, Iowa; Madison, Wis.; Chicago, Ill.; Indianapolis, Ind.; Detroit, Mich.; Pittsburgh, Pa.; and London, Ontario. .............(more)
The complete piece is at: http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/new-ice-storm-brewing-for-the/4847232#.UQMwIYBf3sU.facebook
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Fri Jan 25, 2013, 09:38 PM
RebelOne (30,947 posts)
1. We got quite a bit of ice in the northeastern counties here in Georgia. n/t
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Fri Jan 25, 2013, 09:51 PM
RobertEarl (13,685 posts)
2. Icicles are cool.
The way icicles hang on tree limbs adding to the weight on the faulty wood with each new drop of freezing rain, makes for a chorus of snapping wood through the great expanse of forest in these parts.
It's always something and today, in the Smokys, even tho one may not see a tree fall, the trees are falling with loud thunderous booms and seconds long crashing down of limbs back to the earth from whence they came. Ashes to ashes and all that.
Not a day to be walking thru the forests.
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Sat Jan 26, 2013, 01:31 AM
frylock (34,825 posts)
3. wintry mix sounds delish..
like peppermint and chocolate.
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Sat Jan 26, 2013, 01:41 AM
Fire Walk With Me (38,893 posts)
4. It's been raining all day in LA.
And isn't there some unspoken rule against invoking Vanilla Ice on teh DU?


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Talk about overkill. Most "hack-and-slash" action titles feature stars swinging swords around, slicing through all enemies in their path.
It's not always pretty. Sometimes a head gets lopped off, or a leg, or other body part goes flying.
That's not enough for Raiden, the star of Konami action title Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance. He's chopping enemies and objects into several small pieces.
The outrageous nature of his attacks should come as little surprise when you consider the developer: Platinum Games. Remember, they had an action title featuring a witch who attacked enemies with her hair.
The studio takes on Raiden, a fast and furious killing machine armed with a powerful sword. A playable demo of Metal Gear Rising kicks off with a tutorial.
Players can perform basic attacks using the face buttons, or they take more control of their sword by pressing the left trigger and swinging in any direction with the right thumbstick. The left stick changes the area where Raiden aims, so players can't move during these moments.
It's a trick at first, but highly entertaining as you hack through enemies horizontally, vertically and diagonally. Players can perform clean, precise strikes or wave their swords in a blistering fury, dicing everything from watermelons to stomping mechanized assault vehicles.
The demo wraps with a massive battle against a helicopter. As Raiden, I run behind structures to seek shelter from missile strikes while grabbing a homing missile to retaliate. Using the left bumper to aim, I fire off a missile to send the chopper into the ground. Out comes the sword, where I frantically flick the right stick in all directors to cut through the helicopter before it finally drops.
The controls are tricky, overall. It takes time to adjust to the full sword mechanics with the thumbstick. When combined with simpler attacks and jumps, it's gratifying.
Metal Gear Rising will be available for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
Mike Snider began covering the video game industry during the Super Nintendo-Sega Genesis clash in 1992. An original pinball wizard, he eventually was seduced by Robotron: 2084 and Tempest. These days he is a fan of action/shooters and lives out his Keith Moon fantasies playing a mean drum kit on music games. More about Mike.
Brett Molina has been writing about video games for USA TODAY since 2005. He is well-versed in Madden NFL, the fighting genre and first-person shooters. The first video game he played was Asteroids at a local arcade. He has been hooked ever since. More about Brett.


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Washington (CNSNews.com) – Peter Orszag, the man picked by President-elect Barack Obama to run the Office of Management and Budget, refused to answer questions from CNSNews.com about whether the incoming president would ever offer a balanced budget.
Orszag admitted that the current budget was "unsustainable," but offered no indication whether Obama ever planned to balance it.
"We're going to have a lot more to say about our nation's fiscal future in mid-February," Orszag told CNSNews.com.
"I'm not even confirmed yet," he added before ducking into a private room behind the Senate committee chamber where his nomination hearing had been held.
During his Wednesday confirmation hearing, Orszag did tell the members of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee that the federal government would run a deficit of at least $1 trillion per year for the next two years, half of Obama's term.
Taking questions from the committee's chairman, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), Orszag also said that tax cuts were not as good as government spending because people tend to save some of the money they receive.
Lieberman: "We're talking about a two year period of time for spending it (the stimulus) out?"
Orszag: "That's correct."
Lieberman: "If you go with that $1 trillion deficit, that would put (the deficit) at about $2 trillion over two years?"
Orszag: "Correct."
The nominee added: "(T)he highest bang for the buck is direct federal government spending on infrastructure and on real goods and services. (The reason) tax relief is somewhat less effective from a short-term stimulus perspective is that part of the money is saved rather than spent."
Orszag admitted, however, that federal budget levels cannot be sustained, despite the paradoxical need for titanic federal deficits. He said that any reform would have to wait until after the current crisis is over -- after the federal government no longer needs to spend massively.
"The federal budget is on an unsustainable course," Orszag told the committee. "The course that we are on needs to be rectified as we emerge from the current downturn or we will face a fiscal crisis."
Orszag, currently the head of the Congressional Budget Office, has been tasked by Obama to eliminate programs that are inefficient or duplicative. When asked about what these cuts might be, Orszag was silent saying that any cuts for 2009 wouldn't be announced until mid-February.
"The president-elect will be releasing a budget and economic overview in mid- to late-February which will contain some program eliminations," Orszag said.
The hearing was book-ended by Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), who worried in closing comments that the unprecedented federal spending would lead to unprecedented federal waste.
"The scary part about us spending a lot of money at once is that that's when things get sloppy," McCaskill said.


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Burning Roma moved to the front down the backstretch and never looked back, winning the 25th renewal of the $400,000 Meadowlands Cup (gr. II) on Friday night by 3/4 of a length."He wanted to go early so I just let him go," said winning rider Eibar Coa. "I broke kind of slow, but I saw everyone taking a hold so I just decided to go and he really responded for me."
The 4-year-old colt by Rubiano covered the 1 1/8 mile on a fast main track in 1:48 4/5 and returned $28.40, $10.80 and $8.60. Race favorite Volponi paid $3.80 and $3.20 and completed a $119.20 exacta. It was another 1 1/4 length back to Windsor Castle, who rallied for third and paid $8.20 to show."He's just been getting better," said trainer Heather Giglio, who became the first female conditioner to win the Meadowlands Cup. She took over training duties from William Mott in June. "He does like the track here, he loves it," she said. "I didn't expect him to be in front, but he made the lead and kept on going. I'm not sure where he'll go next. We'll take him back home to Delaware and assess the situation."Burning Roma was coming off of a 6 1/4-length win in the Alysheba Sept. 13 at The Meadowlands.The $240,000 winner's share of the $400,000 purse made Burning Roma racing's newest millionaire, improving his lifetime earnings to $1,205,537 for owner Harold Queen. He won for the 10th time in 22 starts."He broke good and I took hold of him," said Shaun Bridgmohan, who rode Volponi. "I wanted him to settle wherever he was happiest. When Include came up, he bumped us for a couple of strides and we lost some of our momentum. When he straightened out, he was running hard, but the other horse had more."(Chart, Equibase)
Burning Roma Scores Meadowlands Cup Upset
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When business leaders talk about Australia's economic future, China and India are always mentioned. But in recent months another name has been added to the list that would surprise many – Indonesia.
This is a big turnaround. Our northern neighbour has been ignored and feared in equal proportions since the 1998 Asian financial crisis, but this has changed.
Australian businesses are increasingly speaking about Indonesia as a large opportunity. The chief executive of
Walsh, having just returned from the Group of 20 leading economies summit in South Korea, said he was continually hearing about Indonesia's development. "As we take a broad look ahead, it is clear that many other countries are set to follow China's development path, for example India, Brazil and Indonesia," he said.
To be mentioned in such company is unusual for Indonesia, even though its raw numbers look impressive. It has a young, growing population of 234 million and an economy that is forecast to expand at 7.2 per cent next year. Despite this, Indonesia has never really delivered on its potential, although Walsh said this may not be far off now.
Responding to concerns that iron ore prices were likely to come under pressure from a doubling of supply in the next decade, Walsh said Indonesia would play its part in keeping demand strong.
As one of the most basic commodities needed for development, rising purchases of iron ore – used for making steel – are a good sign of a country on the move.
This is certainly the case in Indonesia. In the past five years its economy has more than doubled in size and it is forecast to nearly double again, to $US1.1 trillion by 2015.
Such prospects can no longer be ignored, especially given the anaemic growth outlook in Europe and the United States.
What has changed to suddenly put Indonesia on the radar of international investors is stability.
Indonesia has enjoyed nearly a decade of political stability since Megawati Sukarnoputri assumed the presidency in July 2001. When she lost power to
Stability has allowed Indonesia to exploit its natural strengths in mining, agriculture and tourism, despite an absence of major reforms in recent years and a generally difficult climate for foreign investors.
"The amount of radical, government-led economic reform has disappointed," says Credit Suisse economist Robert Prior-Wandesforde. "In particular, the country has a deeply inflexible labour and products market."
Despite this, Prior-Wandesforde suggests a "structural re-rating" of Indonesia may be warranted. He says its "chequered" and "volatile" past may be behind it and a more orderly, even boring, future is in front of it.
"Economic growth has proved remarkably stable in the past couple of years, in stark contrast to Indonesia's ASEAN [Association of South-East Asian Nations] partners."
The result is a low budget deficit – just 1.5 per cent of gross domestic product – a current account surplus, stable currency and historically low interest rates.
But inflation, as always, is the emerging threat. Indonesia is the only major Asian economy not to have raised interest rates since it emerged from the global financial crisis in the middle of last year.
Indeed, Bank Indonesia – the central bank – has left rates unchanged at 6.5 per cent for the past 16 months. This is despite an inflation rate of 6.3 per cent, which is above BI's target range of between 4 per cent and 6 per cent.
"A renewed inflationary spike would undoubtedly unravel much of the positive sentiment directed at Indonesia right now," says Prior-Wandesforde.
Economists are forecasting 1 percentage point in rate rises this year (2011) beginning in March.
Yudhoyono appeared to respond to criticism he has not exerted his presidential powers enough by this week issuing a flurry of directives to crack down on corruption, particularly to do with tax evasion, which is a long-standing weak spot in the budget.
And almost simultaneously Indonesia achieved a milestone that many would have thought impossible just five years ago – a near-investment grade credit rating.
Moody's Investors Service announced on Monday that it had upgraded the country's Ba2 rating for local and foreign currency debt to Ba1, just one notch below investment grade, the highest rating since before the Asian financial crisis.
Moody's cited the improved growth, stable budget and improving debt position as reasons for the upgrade, although it cautioned about the prospects for a quick further upgrade by noting the soaring prices and stalled micro-economic reform agenda.
Reaching the promised land of investment grade status would significantly lower the cost of borrowing as Indonesia's debt would no longer be considered "junk".
Even before the upgrade, investors were showing their confidence in the economic outlook. In the past 18 months, yields on the 10-year government bond have fallen from 10 per cent to 7.5 per cent. The equity market has enjoyed a similar rally.
The Jakarta Composite Index was one of the region's best performing markets last year. It gained 44 per cent, although it remains at less than half its level in mid-2007.
Even the country's long-suffering national airline, Garuda, has had some good news. After five years of negotiations, it has restructured its foreign debt and is set to list on the Indonesia Stock Exchange in February. The $US400 million capital raising will allow the airline to continue upgrading its fleet, improve maintenance standards and fly more routes.
Garuda resumed flights to Europe in June after being banned in September 2005, due to the country's poor safety record.
But while Garuda is on the mend, the same can't be said of the country's ageing infrastructure. The government's lack of progress in this area is proving a major constraint to growth and is a big reason why inflation has been hard to control.
Economists estimate Indonesia could achieve growth rates above 8 per cent if a suite of new road, port and rail lines is built.
For example, the 1000-kilometre trip across Java can take more than two days during periods of heavy traffic.
In response to such inefficiencies, Yudhoyono has pledged $US140 billion in infrastructure spending until 2014.
But little has actually happened.
The government failed to start construction on all five of the public-private infrastructure projects it had slated for last year, but hopes ground can be broken on them this year.
These failures have not stopped the Investment Co-ordination Board unveiling three more projects for this year, including a $US735 million rail link to Jakarta's international airport.
More than any other project this would be cheered by foreign investors, who have constantly complained about long delays getting to and from the airport.
In 2008, the airport toll road was closed for three days due to heavy flooding, stranding thousands of international passengers, while those who did get through endured up to nine hours in traffic.
Despite the threats of inflation and the lack of progress on infrastructure, foreign investors have scaled up their ambitions in Indonesia.
The Australian-listed beverage maker plans to invest $300 million in Indonesia during the next three years to counter slowing volume growth from its Australian business.
For a conservative company like CC Amatil, this is huge vote of confidence in Indonesia.
And the returns certainly look attractive.
CC Amatil has achieved 52 per cent earnings growth in Indonesia since 2006 and it is targeting 10 to 15 per cent growth in the next three to five years.
Such was the significance of the CC Amatil investment that chief executive
The other sign of Indonesia's new-found stability is the arrival of big private equity players.
TPG Capital, CVC Capital Partners and the Carlyle Group are increasingly focusing on Indonesia as they scour the world for deals.
In December, TPG and its local partner, Northstar Pacific Partners, said they planned to raise $US500 million for their third Indonesian fund. TPG's head of South-East Asia, Ashish Shastry, is highly optimistic about its prospects.
"Internally at TPG we see Indonesia as a major investment destination for us," he told Bloomberg.
Such a vote of confidence has not been offered since the mid-1990s when foreign investors were drawn to this "Asian Tiger".
That ended badly for all involved, leaving investors to hope this latest boom is both more moderate and sustainable.
The Australian Financial Review


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Volunteer and Intern Abroad in Belize
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Although Belize is an increasingly popular destination for tourists with over one million tourists visiting each year, the country still faces major development challenges and there are many people in need. Volunteers can have a hugely positive impact by helping to improve literacy levels as teachers, caring for children and contributing to their educational development in care centers and kindergartens, and providing healthcare in impoverished communities.
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Volunteers have plenty of activities to choose from in Belize and more than 250 different Cayes (islands) for you to discover. The waters are safe and ideal for boating, scuba diving, and snorkeling and there are numerous rivers for rafting and kayaking. You can also visit various jungle and wildlife reserves for hiking, bird watching, and helicopter touring, where you can see more than five thousand species of plants and hundreds of animal species, including jaguars, armadillos, snakes, monkeys, and more.


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Sat Apr 21, 2012, 01:13 AM
ellisonz (27,182 posts)
Obama's father among secret files on Kenyan students
Mr Obama senior came to America in 1959 and began a degree in business administration
US officials complained Kenyan students were becoming "anti-white" in the year Barack Obama's father enrolled at university, previously secret files released at the National Archives in Kew reveal.
18 April 2012 Last updated at 04:05 ET
By Sanchia Berg Today programme
US President Barack Obama wrote with pride of his Kenyan father's studies in the US in his memoir Dream From My Father.
He wrote how he had been "selected by Kenyan leaders and American sponsors to attend a university in the United States joining the first large wave of Africans to be sent forth to master Western technology and bring it back to forge a new, modern Africa".
But British colonial authorities in Kenya, and the US State Department had concerns about the first large wave of Kenyan students, of which Barrack Obama Sr was part, according to the records released by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
The file lists the Kenyans, who began studying in the US in 1959, including one "OBAMA Barrack H", who enrolled at the University of Hawaii. At the age of 23 he was the institution's first African student.
More: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17748754
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Response to ellisonz (Original post)
Sat Apr 21, 2012, 01:26 AM
chollybocker (3,687 posts)
1. ...aaand so begins the election season.
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Sat Apr 21, 2012, 01:27 AM
JDPriestly (57,936 posts)
2. Somehow I doubt that Barack Obama's father was anti-white.
I base my doubt on the fact that he married Barack Obama's white mother -- whose family was from Kansas no less.
Kenya was viewed as a potentially violent place in the late 1950s and early 1960s. They were just beginning their democratic institutions. The Mau-Maus had revolted only a few years before Barack Obama was born.
That is why I find the idea that Barack Obama's mother would have gone to Kenya to give birth to be an absurd joke.
Response to JDPriestly (Reply #2)
Sat Apr 21, 2012, 02:57 AM
unc70 (3,217 posts)
3. Kansas and Seattle and Hawaii and ...
Don't think he was anti-white, but her family being originally from Kansas has little relevance.