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Nearly Half of College Students Surveyed Aren't Sure They Can Spot Fake News
For those of us who were raised during the era of the morning paper and 6:00pm news on a whopping three TV stations, it's strange to think about how young people these days are consuming news. What was once half-hour dip into the day's headlines is now a near-constant attempt not to drown. What was once a sip of water is now a firehose—and not all of it is safe for drinking.
We all feel the effects of being bombarded 24/7 with news, op-eds, commentary on news and op-eds, and commentary on that commentary. Add in the much maligned, misunderstood, and scapegoated "fake news," and figuring out how to simply be an informed citizen feels like a full-time job. I'm a college-educated adult who works in media, and it's a lot for me to sift through. I can't imagine being a teen or young adult who is just getting their feet wet.
Nearly half of college students surveyed say they can't discern real news from fake news. (Hadrian/ Shutterstock)
So it wasn't all that surprising to see the results of the Project Information Literacy study from Northeastern University. In a survey of 6000 college students, nearly half reported that they weren't confident in their ability to discern real news from fake news. In addition, more than a third said that the preponderance of misinformation out there affected their trust in all media.
"Young people have different ways of consuming news than people born even a decade before them," John Wihbey, a Northeastern professor and one of the researchers who conducted the study, said in a press release. "Our report suggests that in some ways, we have created for young people an extremely difficult environment of news. We need to figure out ways to guide them so they can navigate it."
The good news is that young people are interested in the news. They get their news from a wide variety of sources, with the vast majority make use of social media for that purpose. Only 1.6% of respondents never get any news from any social media outlet, while 89% had gotten news from social media outlets in the preceding week.
With prominent figures accusing reputable journalists of peddling fake news and with actual fake news being an actual thing, it's understandable that young people might not be sure who they can trust.
Professor Erin Looney, who teaches communication and media courses at Valencia College in Orlando, Florida, feels that there's hope for our young folks. Though this study shows that they're concerned about fake news, she says, that doesn't mean they're overwhelmingly likely to be taken by misinformation.
"With my students," Looney says, "I find they're more likely to hesitate to trust what they read because they've been conditioned to think everything is questionable. The conversation about fake news has been elevated so much since 2016 that young people are worried they'll share a bad piece of information and look foolish or uneducated."
Looney says the study speaks to an even bigger problem. "We simply don't teach media literacy before college. I took it for granted for a while when I first started teaching. As a former broadcaster with a collection of communication and media degrees, I never really spent my adult life in a world without other voracious and informed consumers of media. It was only when I started teaching that I realized it was not a shortcoming that my students didn't know the difference between fact and fiction. It was as simple as not having been asked to consider there even was a difference."
"In a way," she adds, "the "fake news" uproar following the 2016 election has been a blessing for my students because they are much more likely now to consider the source of their information than they were before."
How can parents better prepare kids for navigating through the news media? Looney says building critical thinking skills in general is vital. "Parents can also encourage children to get involved in activities that cultivate their fact-finding skills," she says. "From Scouts to board games, there are countless ways to develop critical thinking skills at home so their children are better equipped to question and confirm what they hear or read."
Looney also says schools can take specific steps to equip kids with the tools they need to be wise news consumers. "There's a really great resource called the News Literacy Project," she says,"Their mission is to bring media literacy to middle and high school classrooms, helping to create adults who are confident consumers of the media and consequently more active participants in our democracy."
"It's not the only game in town, of course," she adds. "The best and most comprehensive way for schools to prepare students, would be to build media literacy into the curriculum and emphasize the importance of the media in a democratic society. Hands down. Teach students about the First Amendment and the press's role as the fourth estate. In an ideal world, media courses would be as pervasive – and required! – as algebra and English."
Despite how frustrating it is when people misuse the fake news label, the silver lining is that young people are asking important questions about what's true and false, what's real and fake, and whom they should and shouldn't trust. That's a good thing and something we should encourage in kids—as long as they have wise mentors to help guide them through how to answer those questions.
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Annie Reneau is a writer, wife, and mother of three with a penchant for coffee, wanderlust, and practical idealism. On good days, she enjoys the beautiful struggle of maintaining a well-balanced life. On bad days, she binges on chocolate and dreams of traveling the world alone. Her writing can be found on Upworthy and Scary Mommy, in O Magazine, and in a big ol' slush pile inside her head. You can also find her on Facebook and Instagram.
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CHAMPAIGN, IL (October 19, 2016) – The 2016 Energy Conservation Incentive Program (ECIP) will recognize outstanding individual and team efforts to reduce energy conservation in nine facilities on Campus Sustainability Day.
The $177K in awards will fund future facility improvements at winning buildings from cost avoidance achieved throughout the fiscal year. Notable past ECIP supported projects include the installation of new Undergraduate Library entry doors, LED upgrades at Spurlock Museum, and U-shaped bike racks outside of the Business Instructional Facility. A complete list of building energy reduction percentages and incentive award funding is available at http://go.illinois.edu/ecip.
The 2016 ECIP awards ceremony will take place during the Campus Sustainability Celebration Wednesday, October 26 from 4:00-6:00 p.m. in the Alice Campbell Alumni Center. Representatives from departments/units in the following facilities will be in attendance. The celebration is open to the public and will include information tables and additional presentations.
Three years ago, Atmospheric Sciences, in the School of Earth, Society & Environment, was honored as one of the inaugural ECIP recipients. This year, their first place win in the Occupant Action category highlights the efforts made directly by building occupants to reduce energy usage by 7.5%.
Davenport Hall, home to the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, becomes the second back-to-back ECIP winner for ongoing renovations that continue to make the building more energy efficient.
The facility's first place honor in Energy Advancement for 25.8% energy reduction demonstrates the impact of centrally funded energy conservation and capital improvement projects to improve the building envelope and modernize learning spaces.
Through occupant action and programs such as Retrocommissioning (RCx), Energy Performance Contracting, campus-wide lighting retrofits, and building system upgrades, campus has reduced energy consumption in facilities by 27% since FY08.
Starting in 2013, the ECIP has recognized outstanding departmental and unit efforts by funding future building upgrades for facilities with the greatest percentage of energy reduction from one fiscal year to the next.


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Q: How do I preserve event listeners after sort? I'm creating DOM elements then creating an array of JQuery objects with those DOM elements. After sorting the JQuery objects and re-appending them, the click event listener is gone. Is there a way to preserve the click listener?
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  for(var i=0; i<items.length; i++){
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http://jsfiddle.net/bhav4co6/5/

A: You're clearing the HTML, effectively removing the elements from the DOM, and they are just kept in memory, where they lose all associated data and events.
jQuery also uses .empty() internally when you do .html("") to make absolutely sure the elements, the data and the event listeners are removed.
If you just remove the line
$('.news-layout-1').html('');

you're fine, as the elements will just be moved, and keeps the event listeners

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As a sidenote, there's no need for an array or a loop to append, you can just do
$('.button').on('click', function() {
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        var textA = $(a).html().toUpperCase();
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A: You can delegate the events instead of attaching them in the for loop.
When the click action is triggered, the event bubbles to the parent element ( body element in this case) to which the click handler is associated. You can then use e.target to get the exact li where the click happened.
  $('body').on('click', '.list-item', function(e) {
         alert($(e.target).data('i'));
    });

    for (var i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
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           id: i + "div",
           class: 'list-item ' + i,
           html: "Item #" + i
        });
        div.data('i', i);
        $('.news-layout-1').append(div);

       // move the click event out of the for loop
    }

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ColorID FALL WEBINAR SERIES - "Making Sense of Campus Card Systems", Wednesdays and Thursdays at 2pm ET.
The series will open with the ever popular topic of card technologies - what's new, how they work, and which brands of cards and readers should we consider migrating to? This session will also include a discussion of contactless card data encryption, inline printing and encoding, how to re-card a campus, using your cards with the local transit systems and using mobile (phone) credentials instead of cards.
This will be a broad overview of the identification technologies that campuses are using to keep their people, facilities and systems safe and running smoothly. Subjects to be covered will include trends in Physical Access Control Systems (PACS), biometrics for security and convenience in dining halls and athletic facilities, visitor management systems, tracking people and assets with mobile devices, credentials for logical access to systems and networks, and again, how phones can provide a mobile approach to these systems.
There are many new developments in the payments industry - EMV, NFC, open loop, closed loop, cloud-based services and financial aid reimbursement cards to name a few. Given that the transaction management system is a vital part of a university's service offering to its cardholders, what do you need to know to make good decisions for the next ten years? This session will discuss the pros and cons of cloud-based systems, mag stripe vs. contactless cards at the point of sale, phones for POS, open loop bank cards (VISA, MC, AMX and Discover), off-campus merchant programs, and EMV.
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794 F. 2d 1034 - Crawford v. Texas Army National Guard a Olson
794 F2d 1034 Crawford v. Texas Army National Guard a Olson
794 F.2d 1034
Richard M. CRAWFORD, Plaintiff-Appellant,
TEXAS ARMY NATIONAL GUARD, et al., Defendants-Appellees.
Bruce A. OLSON, Plaintiff-Appellant,
Wilson, Grosenheider & Burns, Austin, Tex., for plaintiff-appellant.
Joseph W. Barbisch, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Jim Mattox, Atty. Gen., Austin, Tex., for defendants-appellees.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas.
Before GOLDBERG, HILL, and JONES, Circuit Judges.
EDITH HOLLAN JONES, Circuit Judge:
Less than two years before the Supreme Court's decision in Chappell v. Wallace, 462 U.S. 296, 103 S.Ct. 2362, 76 L.Ed.2d 586 (1983), appellants Crawford and Olson filed suit against the Texas Army National Guard (TARNG), the Governor of Texas, and twelve military personnel to rectify what they believe to be violations of their constitutional rights. They allege that they were dismissed or put in the inactive reserve in retaliation for reporting criminal activity and the discrimination and mistreatment of blacks in the TARNG. They further assert that the TARNG did not follow proper procedures in changing their status. Appellants' claims were pled under the first, fifth, and fourteenth amendments, and 42 U.S.C. Secs. 1983 and 1985(2). They demanded judgment, including compensatory damages, punitive damages, reinstatement of their eligibility for all available retirement benefits, costs, attorney fees, and the removal of all false and adverse information from their personnel files, together with "such other and further relief ... at law or equity" to which they might be entitled. The appellants did not avail themselves of their right of appeal to the Army Board for the Correction of Military Records (ABCMR), which is responsibile for awarding back pay, retirement benefits, and other compensatory measures in the case of inequitable military personnel actions.
The district court granted TARNG's motion to dismiss pursuant to Fed.R.Civ.P. 12(b)(6), dismissing appellants' actions with prejudice. We affirm the dismissal, with the modification that it be without prejudice to the claims for which there may be ultimate reviewability of any future decision of the ABCMR.
Chappell held that military personnel may not pursue a Bivens -type action for damages against their superior officers to redress constitutional violations. 462 U.S. at 305, 103 S.Ct. at 2368, 76 L.Ed.2d at 594. See Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, 403 U.S. 388, 91 S.Ct. 1999, 29 L.Ed.2d 619 (1971). The Court emphasized the long-standing supremacy of Congress over rights, duties, and responsibilities in the framework of the military establishment and the practical necessities of maintaining a strict discipline and command structure within the military services. These factors counseled against judicial intervention in internal military affairs.
Last term, in United States v. Shearer, --- U.S. ----, 105 S.Ct. 3039, 87 L.Ed.2d 38 (1985), reasserting the Feres1 doctrine, which prevents claims under the Federal Tort Claims Act for injuries arising out of or in the course of activity incident to military service, the Court explained that:
To permit this type of [negligence] suit would mean that commanding officers would have to stand prepared to convince a civilian court of the wisdom of a wide range of military and disciplinary decisions; for example, whether to overlook a particular incident or episode, whether to discharge a serviceman, and whether and how to place restraints on a soldier's off-base conduct.
Id. at ----, 105 S.Ct. at 3044, 87 L.Ed.2d at 45 (citing Chappell with approval). The principle expressed in these cases is that civilian courts may not sit in plenary review over intraservice military disputes. Following Chappell and Shearer, there can be little doubt that the permissible range of lawsuits by present or former servicemen against their superior officers is, at the very least, narrowly circumscribed.2
Several of the circuit courts, acknowledging the breadth of Chappell, have declared off limits Sec. 1983 claims by National Guard personnel, Brown v. United States, 739 F.2d 362, 366-67 (8th Cir.1984), cert. denied, --- U.S. ----, 105 S.Ct. 3524, 87 L.Ed.2d 650 (1985); Martelon v. Temple, 747 F.2d 1348, 1350-51 (10th Cir.1984), cert. denied, --- U.S. ----, 105 S.Ct. 2675, 86 L.Ed.2d 694 (1985); and a claim based on the alleged inadequacy of an intraservice remedy, Mollnow v. Carlton, 716 F.2d 627, 629-30 (9th Cir.1983), cert. denied, 465 U.S. 1100, 104 S.Ct. 1595, 80 L.Ed.2d 126 (1984). Only one circuit has held that Chappell did not directly preclude the justiciability of a serviceman's complaint that he was severed from the National Guard in violation of his rights to due process. See Penagaricano v. Llenza, 747 F.2d 55, 59 (1st Cir.1984). We note, in any event, that the Penagaricano court ultimately found the guardman's claims to constitute a nonjusticiable military controversy. Id. at 64. See Mindes v. Seaman, 453 F.2d 197, 201-02 (5th Cir.1971).
We agree with the reasoning behind the majority of the circuit cases, as we perceive no basis upon which to distinguish such claims from those held impermissible by Chappell. Section 1983 and due process claims, like those predicated on Bivens, invite judicial second-guessing of military actions and tend to overlap the remedial structure created within each service, which, according to Chappell, provide an exclusive remedy subject to review only under the arbitrary and capricious standard. 462 U.S. at 302-03, 103 S.Ct. at 2366-67, 76 L.Ed.2d at 592-93. Consequently, appellants' requests for money damages, to the extent they are based upon alleged constitutional violations and 42 U.S.C. Sec. 1983, are precluded by Chappell.
We similarly reject the claims alleging a conspiracy violative of 42 U.S.C. Sec. 1985(2). Inasmuch as the litigation of a claim under this statute would disserve the interests of proper military functioning to the same extent as a Bivens or an FTCA claim, the rationale of Chappell compels dismissal.
To the extent that appellants seek correction of their military records and reinstatement of eligibility for retirement benefits, their claim is premature. They have failed to exhaust available service-connected remedies by appealing to the Army Board for the Correction of Military Records. In this circuit, exhaustion is a prerequisite to judicial review of their grievances. See Mindes, 453 F.2d at 201. Their action on this basis should be dismissed pending the conclusion of such remedies.
Appellants finally contend before this court that they are entitled to injunctive relief in the nature of reinstatement to TARNG. No case following in the wake of Chappell has so held, although one court has enjoined the enforcement of a military off-limits regulation that infringed on the claimants' first amendment rights. See Ogden v. United States, 758 F.2d 1168, 1184-85 (7th Cir.1985). In Ogden, however, the Seventh Circuit persuasively threw itself within the net of earlier Supreme Court decisions expressly approved in Chappell, none of which involved direct interference with military personnel decisions. Id. at 1175-76. See Chappell, 462 U.S. at 304-05, 103 S.Ct. at 2367, 76 L.Ed.2d at 593. In Brown v. Glines, 444 U.S. 348, 100 S.Ct. 594, 62 L.Ed.2d 540 (1980), for example, the Court rejected the contention that an Air Force regulation requiring prior approval for soliciting signatures on a petition was unconstitutional. Frontiero v. Richardson, 411 U.S. 677, 93 S.Ct. 1764, 36 L.Ed.2d 583 (1973), found sex discrimination against servicewomen on the basis of benefits provided to spousal dependents. Goldman v. Weinberger refused to hold unconstitutional a regulation prohibiting the wearing of a yarmulke by an Orthodox Jewish soldier. The common characteristic of these decisions is that they involve challenges to the facial validity of military regulations and were not tied to discrete personnel matters. The nature of the lawsuits, rather than the relief sought, rendered them justiciable. The injunctive-relief exception to Chappell advocated by appellants could swallow Chappell's rule of deference. We therefore believe that suits for injunctive relief, like those for monetary damages, must be carefully regulated in order to prevent intrusion of the courts into the military structure.
For the foregoing reasons, this court AFFIRMS the dismissal of appellants' complaints, but MODIFIES such dismissal to be without prejudice to the reviewability of any future actions taken by the Army Board for the Correction of Military Records.
AFFIRMED, as MODIFIED.
Feres v. United States, 340 U.S. 135, 71 S.Ct. 153, 95 L.Ed. 152 (1950)
Goldman v. Weinberger, --- U.S. ----, 106 S.Ct. 1310, 89 L.Ed.2d 40 (1986), is not on point as to the justiciability of servicemens' potential claims, but, in holding that there is no constitutional right to wear a yarmulke while in the armed services, a majority of the Supreme Court again paid deference to the special needs of the military and the narrow scope of judicial review of military matters

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[Kim Seong-kon] "All of Us Are Dead Now at Our School"
By Kim Seong-kon
Published : Feb 16, 2022 - 05:30 Updated : Feb 16, 2022 - 05:30
In the early 1980s when I began teaching at Seoul National University, I had my students watch George Romero's legendary film, "Night of the Living Dead" in one of my graduate classes. At that time, very few Koreans even knew what a zombie was. Accordingly, my students at SNU were shocked and appalled at the bone-chilling horror of the first modern zombie film released in 1968.
After we watched the movie, I then taught my students how to read the film. For example, I compared the classic zombie film to the social and political milieu of late 1960s America, which included the spaceship technology competition, racism, and political assassinations. Then I encouraged them to discuss the film in the context of political battles between the political left and right, liberalism vs. conservatism, and Marxism vs. capitalism. We also discussed the film's motifs, such as the duality between good and evil, us and them, and open society vs. the closed society.
Indeed, there is much more to zombie movies than horror. Lately, Korea has produced some internationally acclaimed zombie films and TV dramas full of socio-political implications, such as "Train to Busan" and "Kingdom." These days, another Netflix Korean television series, "All of Us Are Dead," enjoys worldwide popularity.
While watching "All of Us Are Dead" on Netflix, I found that this TV drama, too, implicitly reflects our contemporary society. It is noteworthy that this zombie apocalypse drama is set in a high school, a setting that reflects the cradle of our future generation and a microcosm of our society. This choice of setting suggests that "All of Us Are Dead" can be read as a powerful indictment against those who have turned our high schools into a hellish, inhumane place of survival of the fittest and fierce competitions for college entrance, not to mention an ideological incubator.
At Hyosan High School, a science teacher's experiment goes wrong and inadvertently creates a zombie virus. His intention was good; he created the virus in order to make his bullied son strong and tough. Unfortunately, however, the virus turns into a zombie plague that spreads rapidly. What happens to the virus seems linked to the science teacher's personal grudges: he is consumed with anger and the desire for revenge because of the principal's nonchalance and incompetence to punish the bullies who ostracize his son.
The science teacher resembles our politicians who may have good intentions initially, but ruin our society in the end when their experiments go awry. The science teacher also reminds us of our left wing politicians obsessed with anger and political revenge under the banner of social justice and equality. On the other side, the principal, who seriously lacks a sense of crisis and leadership, could be a metaphor for our rightwing politicians. Caught in between, innocent students, who symbolize ordinary people, become helpless victims.
The zombie virus turns out to be as highly contagious as a radical political ideology. When vulnerable teenagers are brainwashed with a political ideology at school, it can turn them into completely different people, just as humans turn into zombies. In that sense, the science teacher, who is responsible for the spread of the zombie virus, may symbolize radical teachers who infuse an ideology they blindly worship and stubbornly implant them into their students' minds.
As the school is run over by zombies, students are sharply divided by the good and the bad, us and them, and the normal and the abnormal. Even the survivors suffer mutual distrust and grow suspicious of one another as potential carriers of the zombie plague. Given over to this relentless paranoia due to their extreme situation, the students exhibit a selfish, evil nature, resembling the zombies they detest and fear.
In "All of Us Are Dead," the government is hopelessly incompetent and irresponsible. It does not attempt to rescue the survivors at school. Instead, it just imposes martial law, isolating Hyosan City, and destroying the school and surrounding town by bombing and burning under the excuse of preventing the virus from dispersing to other cities. Thus, even the uninfected people are killed as collateral damage for the greater good. It reminds us of what the military dictators did to the city of Gwangju when there was an uprising in 1980.
After bitten by a zombie, some students become half-human, half-zombie. The drama ends with the possibility that those who are in a half-zombified state are living among us, pretending to be humans. Someday, they may be prevalent in our society. Whether they are good or bad, we do not yet know. It resonates with the ending of the American movie, "I am Legend," in which new mutant zombies/vampires become predominant and begin a new civilization.
The original Korean title of the film is "Now at Our School." When we add it to the film title, it can be a solemn admonition: "All of us are dead now at our school." Before such a dreadful thing happens, we should be vigilant and wide awake.
Kim Seong-kon
Kim Seong-kon is a professor emeritus of English at Seoul National University and a visiting scholar at Dartmouth College. The views expressed here are his own. -- Ed.


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10 USC 1204 - Members on Active Duty for 30 Days or Less or on Inactive-duty Training: Retirement
Upon a determination by the Secretary concerned that a member of the armed forces not covered by section 1201, 1202, or 1203 of this title is unfit to perform the duties of his office, grade, rank, or rating because of physical disability, the Secretary may retire the member with retired pay computed under section 1401 of this title, if the Secretary also determines that—
(1) based upon accepted medical principles, the disability is of a permanent nature and stable;
(2) the disability—
(A) was incurred before September 24, 1996, as the proximate result of—
(i) performing active duty or inactive-duty training;
(ii) traveling directly to or from the place at which such duty is performed; or
(iii) an injury, illness, or disease incurred or aggravated while remaining overnight, immediately before the commencement of inactive-duty training, or while remaining overnight between successive periods of inactive-duty training, at or in the vicinity of the site of the inactive-duty training, if the site of the inactive-duty training is outside reasonable commuting distance of the member's residence;
(B) is a result of an injury, illness, or disease incurred or aggravated in line of duty after September 23, 1996—
(i) while performing active duty or inactive-duty training;
(ii) while traveling directly to or from the place at which such duty is performed; or
(iii) while remaining overnight, immediately before the commencement of inactive-duty training, or while remaining overnight between successive periods of inactive-duty training, at or in the vicinity of the site of the inactive-duty training; or
(C) is a result of an injury, illness, or disease incurred or aggravated in line of duty—
(i) while the member was serving on funeral honors duty under section 12503 of this title or section 115 of title 32;
(ii) while the member was traveling to or from the place at which the member was to so serve; or
(iii) while the member remained overnight at or in the vicinity of that place immediately before so serving, if the place is outside reasonable commuting distance from the member's residence;
(3) the disability is not the result of the member's intentional misconduct or willful neglect, and was not incurred during a period of unauthorized absence; and
(4) either—
(A) the member has at least 20 years of service computed under section 1208 of this title; or
(B) the disability is at least 30 percent under the standard schedule of rating disabilities in use by the Department of Veterans Affairs at the time of the determination.
(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 93; Pub. L. 99–145, title V, §513(a)(1)(A), Nov. 8, 1985, 99 Stat. 627; Pub. L. 99–661, div. A, title VI, §604(d)(1), (2)(A), Nov. 14, 1986, 100 Stat. 3876; Pub. L. 101–189, div. A, title XVI, §1621(a)(1), Nov. 29, 1989, 103 Stat. 1602; Pub. L. 102–484, div. A, title V, §516(a), Oct. 23, 1992, 106 Stat. 2407; Pub. L. 104–201, div. A, title V, §534, Sept. 23, 1996, 110 Stat. 2521; Pub. L. 105–85, div. A, title V, §513(c)(1), (d)(1), Nov. 18, 1997, 111 Stat. 1730, 1731; Pub. L. 106–65, div. A, title V, §578(i)(3), Oct. 5, 1999, 113 Stat. 629; Pub. L. 107–107, div. A, title V, §513(b), Dec. 28, 2001, 115 Stat. 1093.)
Historical and Revision Notes
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Source (U.S. Code)
Source (Statutes at Large)
1204 37:271(a).
37:272(c) (less clause (5), and less last proviso).
37:272(f) (as applicable to 37:272(c)).
Oct. 12, 1949, ch. 681, §§401(a), 402(c) (less clause (5), and less last proviso), 402(f) (as applicable to §402(c)), 63 Stat. 816, 817, 820.
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Mediha TING grew up in Hong Kong and was educated in the United States and in England. She comes from an artistic background and studied Fine Arts to postgraduate level. In 1995 while she was studying Fine Arts at California College of Art, CCA, she received Honourable mention in the All College Award (An Open competition for all Arts colleges/universities in the US). She graduated from (Byam Shaw) Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London in 2000. She later earned a Master Degree in Art Policy and Management at Birkbeck College in London. She decided to focus fully on her art career and leave investment banking industry. She returned to live and work in Hong Kong in 2013. Her work has been described by one reviewer as embodying a powerful feminine spiritual energy.
She has had solo shows in London, America, Shanghai, Hong Kong, UK and Taiwan and her work has been exhibited in numerous selected group shows and art Fairs all over the world; including Contemporary Art Auction at Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art (CFCCA) in Manchester, Asian Art in London and ScopeBasel Art Fair in Switzerland.
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Posted by editorfr45 on 27 Aug, 2020 In NBA teams
Made up of composed of 30 teams, 29 in the US and one in Canada, The National Basketball Association (NBA) is the world's highest level men's professional league. Every year, these 30 teams compete for the annual championship series of the NBA- The NBA Finals. The teams who win the Finals are awarded Larry O'Brien Championship Trophy. Now let's have look at the top 10 most successful teams based on the NBA Final appearances, wins, and division titles.
1. Los Angeles Lakers
Let's start with The Lakers who have many records worthy of the history books. The team have made an incredible 31 NBA finals and won 16 of them, which helps it hold the record for the league's longest winning streak, 33 straight games. There are 26 Hall of Famers who have played for the Lakers, including some of the greatest NBA players such as LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, Shaquille O'Neal, Wilt Chamberlain, and Magic Johnson. Four Hall of Famers also have coached the team.
On top of their 16 championships, The Lakers have won 31 Conference titles and 23 Division titles. Just these figure is enough to secure them as the most successful NBA Team of all time.
2. Boston Celtics
Playing out of the Eastern Conference Atlantic Division, the Boston Celtics dominance over in the NBA started in the late 1950s. Thanks to their first win in 1957, the Celtics became the greatest win streaks in the history of the league. The team also won eight consecutive NBA championships throughout the 1960s.
However, only winning 2 titles, the Celtics dipped bit in the 1970s. Then in the 1980s, they resurged with another 3 titles in 1981, 1984, and 1986. They most recently won in 2008.
The Celtics have been in 21 NBA Finals and won 17 of them. They also have won 21 conference titles and 22 division titles. All of these figure makes them deserve the number 2 position in this list.
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"Puentes" program bridges parts of Latinx students' identities, motivates students
Leah Desserich
Mentoring Mark: Chatting in the hallway, spanish teacher Mark Bauman and junior Sam Isaac meet for their mentoring session. Photo
Abby McKew, staff writer
Many students at South that need support get it from their school guidance counselor or social worker. The Puentes Mentor Program also supports students, but specifically Latinx students.
South students have various outlets that provide support for their goals, aspirations and hopes for the future. Perhaps a student might visit the Student Services Department for information about options for college, or talk to their classroom teachers for advice and insight into what classes they should take for oncoming years. However, for some South Latinx students, they know without doubt who their outlet for guidance and support is: Puentes Mentoring Program.
Veronica Reyes, co-founder of the Puentes program, explained the need for a program to guide Latinx students through high school.
"As teachers in the Spanish Heritage Learners program, [Gabrielle Mikos and I] noticed a void for some of our Latinx students in regards to mentorship and accessibility to various opportunities South has to offer," Reyes said. "The first step was a mentor program where our Latinx students could find an adult they could go to with questions, concerns, or help them navigate the resources that are available to them."
Junior Sam Isaac said that Puentes has shaped her life in many ways, helping her thrive in school and encouraging a sense of maturity and courage when it comes to her academics. With her mentor's encouragement, Isaac has grown more confident in her abilities as a student at South, Isaac said.
"[Puentes] has helped me mature and really makes me think about my future," Isaac explained. "I wouldn't have gotten into an AP class without them."
One way Puentes helps students is by giving them a trusted adult to help them through the stress of school, Isaac stated. Every semester, each member of the program is assigned a mentor, a teacher at South with whom they meet one-on-one during their SRTs; in these meetings, Issac shared many great memories with her mentors.
"[One of my favorite memories] was my birthday with Miss Suarez," Isaac said. "I brought in cupcakes and she brought in her other mentee and then we played bingo."
Students have the opportunity to speak to their individual mentor about any goal they have and they can seek advice from them.
"It could be a social, emotional, academic, community or family goal," Reyes said. "It's very much an individualized program. They are just navigating and discussing this goal that they create together."
Mikos stated that the Puentes Mentor Program is still relatively new and is evolving since its creation. The original mindset was to match one individual mentor with one member, but mentors realized that this would not be possible because of schedule changes.
"We have changed that mindset, to where you could be jumping from mentor to mentor [with] the positive of that being able to have different perspectives," Mikos said. "With that, we realized that there would be a lot more shifts and we really started focusing on the full program activities."
Mikos' favorite aspect of Puentes is being able to see the members of the program grow academically and with their personal goals. Mikos also teaches a two-year Spanish heritage course at South so she can see the growth of many members in the program.
"To see the growth and success of the students and to see how far they've come is a really gratifying feeling," Mikos said. "I have many students who are involved in the program in my heritage class, so it's been really interesting to see the students evolve, knowing what their goals are seeing that evolve over the course of these two years."
Junior Emmanuel Sanjuan, a member of the Puentes program, said the program has helped set goals and complete them. For Sanjuan, motivation to complete his personal goals and aspirations comes from his mentors' help.
"Setting goals for me is pretty hard without having somebody to check on me and see my progress," Sanjuan said. "Puentes has helped me become a more productive and independent person. I have been working on projects more by myself because then I can report back with something positive."
For Sanjuan, the support that his mentors give him goes beyond his high school career. The best way Puentes supported Sanjuan was helping him prepare and apply for college, Sanjuan explained.
"My recent mentor let me know what I needed to do to get ready for the ACT and SAT," Sanjuan said. "She helped me find out when college visits are and what I need to do to get into colleges. Her daughter has already been through this experience and [my mentor] shared this with me and it helped so much getting me ready for college."
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November 10, 2015 – my four year anniversary of the end to my detour into deception.
Hmmmmm. Interesting that this last weekend revealed a new level of understanding to the events leading up to that detour and the why behind it.
As I prepared to speak at a ladies' retreat, I wanted to accurately share the parallels we discovered in ministry as to the enemy's strategies being on the same track as the tactics of guerilla warfare utilized by the Viet Cong (VC) during the Viet Nam conflict.
I knew the specific examples of how Satan's strategies mirrored the VC's was somewhere in a book written for Point Man Ministries back in the 90's and I needed to find it.
I finally remembered the title: Behind Enemy Lines: A Field Manual for God's Army, and found a used copy on Amazon. It arrived the night before I left for the retreat, so I threw it in my bag and determined to find what I was looking for between sessions on Saturday.
As I scanned the pages I was reminded how powerful the material was, tucked away in that thin volume of only 80 pages. I found what I was looking for and then just happened to look at the date on the copyright page.
That was the year I met the wife of the wolf in sheep's clothing. I met her in a credible setting, at the Write to Publish conference on the Wheaton College campus. That encounter was the beginning of my 12 year detour into deception where, like Job, I would lose virtually everything except for a smoldering wick of my faith. Yup. The enemy often comes as an angel of light.
Could this message to the body of Christ, giving weight to the war we are in and providing tools to help fellow believers engage rather than pretend it didn't exist…could this message be a huge threat to the enemy?
Behind Enemy Lines dispels the Flip Wilson "devil made me do it" mentality that, I believe, unknowingly, gave Christians a reason to minimize the need for spiritual warfare. And this resulted in many Christians denying the existence of the demonic realm and their influence on believers and non-believers alike.
The enemy of our souls apparently didn't want us shining the light into his effective pack of dirty little secrets.
So much so, that he made sure a trap was set for me to veer completely off track and nearly lose my faith, and for the author to be taken out of the battle and rendered completely ineffective … walking away from the One who saved him and his specific calling of evangelism and equipping the saints.
How many times in your life can you look back and see that the enemy was at work, deceiving, misleading, opening doors you weren't supposed to go through, using "seemingly good things" to lead you astray? Can you recall there ever being a time where the "answer to prayer" provided ultimately ended up being nothing but a counterfeit and trap to hold you captive to his lies?
WOW. Looks like I have to add another one to my already long list.


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package io.trino.execution;

import com.google.common.util.concurrent.ListenableFuture;
import io.trino.Session;
import io.trino.connector.CatalogName;
import io.trino.cost.StatsCalculator;
import io.trino.execution.warnings.WarningCollector;
import io.trino.metadata.Metadata;
import io.trino.metadata.QualifiedObjectName;
import io.trino.security.AccessControl;
import io.trino.spi.TrinoException;
import io.trino.spi.connector.ConnectorMaterializedViewDefinition;
import io.trino.spi.security.GroupProvider;
import io.trino.sql.analyzer.Analysis;
import io.trino.sql.analyzer.Analyzer;
import io.trino.sql.parser.SqlParser;
import io.trino.sql.tree.CreateMaterializedView;
import io.trino.sql.tree.Expression;
import io.trino.sql.tree.NodeRef;
import io.trino.sql.tree.Parameter;
import io.trino.transaction.TransactionManager;

import javax.inject.Inject;

import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Optional;

import static com.google.common.collect.ImmutableList.toImmutableList;
import static com.google.common.util.concurrent.Futures.immediateFuture;
import static io.trino.metadata.MetadataUtil.createQualifiedObjectName;
import static io.trino.spi.StandardErrorCode.NOT_FOUND;
import static io.trino.sql.NodeUtils.mapFromProperties;
import static io.trino.sql.ParameterUtils.parameterExtractor;
import static io.trino.sql.SqlFormatterUtil.getFormattedSql;
import static java.util.Objects.requireNonNull;

public class CreateMaterializedViewTask
        implements DataDefinitionTask<CreateMaterializedView>
{
    private final SqlParser sqlParser;
    private final GroupProvider groupProvider;
    private final StatsCalculator statsCalculator;

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    }

    @Override
    public String getName()
    {
        return "CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW";
    }

    @Override
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    {
        return "CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW " + statement.getName();
    }

    @Override
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        Map<NodeRef<Parameter>, Expression> parameterLookup = parameterExtractor(statement, parameters);

        String sql = getFormattedSql(statement.getQuery(), sqlParser);

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                .collect(toImmutableList());

        String owner = session.getUser();

        CatalogName catalogName = metadata.getCatalogHandle(session, name.getCatalogName())
                .orElseThrow(() -> new TrinoException(NOT_FOUND, "Catalog does not exist: " + name.getCatalogName()));

        Map<String, Expression> sqlProperties = mapFromProperties(statement.getProperties());
        Map<String, Object> properties = metadata.getMaterializedViewPropertyManager().getProperties(
                catalogName,
                name.getCatalogName(),
                sqlProperties,
                session,
                metadata,
                accessControl,
                parameterLookup);

        ConnectorMaterializedViewDefinition definition = new ConnectorMaterializedViewDefinition(
                sql,
                Optional.empty(),
                session.getCatalog(),
                session.getSchema(),
                columns,
                statement.getComment(),
                owner,
                properties);

        metadata.createMaterializedView(session, name, definition, statement.isReplace(), statement.isNotExists());

        stateMachine.setOutput(analysis.getTarget());
        stateMachine.setReferencedTables(analysis.getReferencedTables());

        return immediateFuture(null);
    }
}


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"DENMAN" STOLE THE NATION'S HEART
Posted by3 Furlongs Out 10 Mar 2018 10 Mar 2018 Posted inUncategorized
This year marks 10-years since Denman ran his Gold Cup rivals into the ground, in an epic battle between two of the greatest chasers of modern time and arguably of all time.
The 2008 Cheltenham Gold Cup saw the eagerly anticipated clash between Kauto Star and Denman. The dual had been 12 months in the making and was set to be the biggest rivalry since Arkle and Mill House.
Denman was born at Ballyhampshire Stud in the year 2000 and by the time he was three- years-old he was already 16 3hh. By Presenting, out of a mare called Polly Puttens, Denman was soon on the road to stardom.
Soon after being broken in and five months after starting training, Denman won his first race in a point to point, that in itself is a great achievement.
After winning his maiden at Liscaroll, he was sold to Paul Barber for 120.000euros and three years later he would prove to be a great investment.
After Kauto Star won the Gold Cup at the 2007 Cheltenham Festival and Denman won the Royal & SunAlliance Chase two days previous, the horseracing community were desperate to see the stable mates meet on a racetrack.
The pair went into the 2008 Gold Cup in fine form. The season of 2007-08 saw Denman bag the Hennessy Gold Cup, giving 19lb to his nearest rival, Dream Alliance.
After that heroic weight carrying performance, Denman went on to win the Lexus Chase in Ireland and then the Aon Chase at Newbury before heading to Cheltenham.
Denman went into the Gold Cup unbeaten in two years, however the reigning champion's season started with a slight blip, as he got beat by one and half lengths in the Old Roan Chase by Monet's Garden.
Despite the blemish at Aintree, Kauto Star soon got his season back on track when landing the Betfair Chase, before going on to land the King George and also the Ascot Chase.
The horseracing community were desperate to see the stable mates take each other on. The outcome divided the racing public's opinion but on the 14th of March 2008 they got their answer.
Despite having 12 runners, the Gold Cup was billed as a two horse race, Kauto Star was sent of the 10-11 favourite to hold on to his crown and Denman lined up as the 9-4 challenger.
Neptune Collonges, also trained by Paul Nicholls, jumped off out in front at flag fall, with Denman tracking him and Kauto Star back in fourth.
Denman soon enforced his authority on the race, jumping with exuberance and zest and with a circuit to travel, "The tank" produced a fine leap at the 11th fence which took him to the head of affairs.
It was from the front that Denman dominated the race, attacking his fences and dictating the pace and one by one Denman diminished his rivals.
With Denman producing a round of fluent jumping, Kauto Star was not, his jumping was raged at times, signalling that he was not comfortable with the pace set by Denman.
As they galloped down the hill, Sam Thomas began to wind the screw again and was sitting comfortably aboard Denman, whereas Ruby Walsh was trying to urge a challenge out of Kauto Star.
It was then clear that there was only going to be one winner.Turning for home Denman held a lead of 10 lengths from Neptune Collonges and as he began to climb the famous Cheltenham hill he remained to pull clear.
Kauto Star showed what all true champions have, courage, bravery and a will to grasp victory when being on the cusp of defeat.
Despite Kauto Star's gutsy efforts, he was only able to claw back a few lengths from his rival, as Denman produced a good jump at the last and galloped up the hill 7 lengths clear of Kauto Star, who just held on from Neptune Collonges.
To saddle the first three of the Cheltenham Gold Cup was a tremendous training achievement by Paul Nicholls, at a time when he dominated National Hunt racing.
Although Nicholls's 1,2,3 is overshadowed by Michael Dickinson training the first five home in the 1983 Cheltenham Gold Cup, it is an extraordinary achievement and something that will take many a year to be equalled.
Kauto Star may not have been 100% that day, but I believe that Denman was as unbeatable as they come that special day.
The way he dominated the race and bossed his rivals, few horses from any era would have been able to go with him.
We were so lucky that day to witness such a fantastic horse race and a unique rivalry, to have two chasers of that calibre at the same time is rare, but to have two of the greatest chasers of this generation live in neighbouring stables is extremely rare and something I'm confident that we won't see again.
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Bristol Home Children and Immigration
Can you imagine having your child taken away from you because you are struggling financially to provide for them? Or can you imagine abandoning your child because you can not provide for them? Now imagine that your child would be sent away to live in foreign country and you would not know what happened to them. This was the plight of many children and struggling families from the city of Bristol England back in the late 19th to early 20th century. The Bristol Home Children and Immigration website provides an excellent resource for genealogists who may be searching for that missing child of an English family. Shirley Hodgson, the author of the website tells the plight of these young children who ultimately were from Workhouses, Industrial Schools, Reformatories and Ragged Schools in Bristol and also the Bristol Emigration Home for Girls and catapulted into a new life far away from their family and friends. The reason for the separation and or abandonment was mainly due to the socio-economic climate found in Great Britain at the end of the 19th century.
According to the author, Shirley Hodgson, "All the cities of Great Britain were facing problems of housing a large population, in certain areas houses with multi occupancy had become slum housing and it seemed that the streets were full of children, dirty, ragged and quick to steal food or goods that could be sold. They were stunted in growth, deformed by rickets and plagued by infections which affected their faces and bodies. Much of the labouring work was found on a daily basis, a man might get two days work in a week which would not be enough to feed his family. Mothers also worked; children were left to look after each other while parents were out, it was a very fine balance which would upset if a parent fell ill or even died. Families sold furniture to buy food and when that was all gone they sold what clothes they possessed so even if offered free schooling, the children were unable to go because they lacked clothing. When Mary Carpenter left Red Lodge Reformatory to walk from Lower Park Row, down Christmas Steps through Lewins Mead and into the narrow lane called St James Back, where she set up her ragged school, she was passing through a slum area bordering onto the docks. The children were left to run wild on the streets, they camped in dark doorways, made alleys their homes and lived on what food they could find.
The Bristol police brought many of these children before the magistrates, they were sentenced in the Petty Sessions Court, vagrants and petty offenders were sent to the Industrial Schools, persistent truants were sent to the Truant School in Kingsdown, the Boards of Guardians were asked to take some children. Many of the street children were eventually sent to the workhouse where they were settled into school buildings. The workhouses became full and as it was cheaper to send a child to Canada than keep him or her until they were 16 years of age, emigration was sought as an alternative. It was the considered opinion of many people that the fresh air and good farm food of Canada would give the children a fresh start in life."
Bristol Home Children and Immigration provide in PDF format a list of the children that were forced to immigrate to Canada. The information provided in this database includes: the full name (nicknames if available) and their birth date or emigration date with approximate age listed at the time of the passage. If you would like to further investigate this site, please click Bristol Home Children and Immigration to be directed to the home page. Have fun!
Posted by Our Future Rooted in Our Past at Sunday, October 14, 2007


Some 165 YouTube creators composing the Internet Creators Guild have reiterated their support for net neutrality in an open letter urging the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to keep current rules that safeguard the open internet. The letter, signed by several content creators on the popular video sharing platform, stresses that any move to repeal the net neutrality protections established during the Obama administration could have an adverse impact on smaller content creators in favor of the large media companies who have the resources to pay for such service.
For starters, the current net neutrality rules classify broadband internet as a utility, thus requiring equal treatment for all data on the part of the internet service providers. Title II is put in place to prevent internet service providers from offering special services that would give customers a quicker access to specific websites. But the new FCC chairman, Ajit Pai, announced the commission's plans in April of this year to repeal the current rules. A month later, the FCC kicked off its plan to overturn the existing net neutrality protections and remove the Title II classification of Internet services in the country. The proposed revision aims to change the classification of broadband internet to Title I, therefore easing the existing regulations. However, in May of this year, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit denied the FCC's request to revise the current net neutrality rules, describing the commission's proposal as ambiguous.
But the court's ruling is not likely to stop the FCC from finding other avenues to have the Obama-era net neutrality rules changed. Pai has been known to dislike the existing rules so much that he even described it as a mistake during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this year. Now the Internet Creators Guild cautions that any alteration to the current net neutrality rules would jeopardize the livelihood of many smaller content creators and tip the playing field. The letter urges the FCC chairman to help defend net neutrality in order to maintain fair play. Nonetheless, Pai also asked the internet service providers not to throttle customers' access to other websites in an attempt to convince consumers to buy premium packages for internet access. Updates on the FCC's next move to overturn net neutrality could come in the coming months.


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The $1.2 billion mistake Towers Perrin apparently made in its actuarial work for the Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association should be a lesson to and a warning for all large funds.
People, even at the best companies, can make mistakes. Outside review of any vendor's work in critical areas should be routine.
The apparent Towers Perrin error is humbling, embarrassing and distressing. But it's not surprising an error can be made in thousands of lines of computer code. What is surprising is that actuarial audits are rare, according to industry experts.
Fortunately, LACERA initiated one at last, discovering an actuarial error.
Towers Perrin now could face the issue of to what extent, if any, it should be liable for the errors in its actuarial work. The error raises a fundamental question as to whether an actuary is a fiduciary. Can it be one, when it doesn't control the assets? Marsha Richter, LACERA chief executive officer, said she isn't sure if Towers Perrin is a fiduciary, although she expects it to act without any conflicts of interest. She said LACERA is examining Towers Perrin's potential liability, if any.
The error notwithstanding, Towers Perrin is regarded as a fine actuarial firm, as witnessed by the many major pension funds around the country that employ it. But mistakes can happen in any line of work, even at the best of organizations.
The errors in the actuarial computer coding Towers Perrin used for LACERA probably have existed since 1977, Ms. Richter acknowledged in a Pensions & Investments story.
An actuarial audit, performed by Milliman & Robertson Consulting Actuaries Inc., uncovered the errors.
Nothing in the LACERA problem presumes similar problems exist at other pension funds. Nonetheless, such actuarial audits should be performed periodically.
When pension funds deal with such large amounts of money, they need to have more checks, more controls. Even a small miscalculation can affect a large amount of money and have dire consequences. The county was putting a lot of faith in its actuarial numbers, in order to shift what might have been pension contributions to other areas of county spending. With expectation of near funding of the pension liability, the county is allowed to forgo increasing its pension contribution.
An actuarial audit essentially would double the cost of the original actuarial work. The added cost might pose a financial burden for smaller pension funds. But when sponsors place as high stakes on correct numbers as Los Angeles County had, the extra cost might turn out small compared to the risk of a mistake.
Now, with the actuarial audit adding unexpected pension liabilities, the county will have to find money to bolster its pension plan. It's likely the errors could affect the county for years, if it amortizes the funding of the actuarial shortfall, which amounts to about 5% of its total $22 billion in assets.
While Towers Perrin should have double-checked the program itself, the county also should have commissioned periodic actuarial audits long ago.
Ms. Richter said she suggested the actuarial audit, inspired by a model administration proposal recommended by the Public Pension Coordinating Council several years ago. She said she will propose LACERA adopt a policy to commission an actuarial audit every five years. It should, and other large funds should adopt such a policy to do the audits periodically as well.
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Liz Jordan-Teicheira has more than 20 years of experience as a business development professional, with more than eight years in the architectural, engineering, and construction industry. Prior to joining Guidepost Solutions, she was a senior business development associate for Rolf Jensen & Associates, Inc., a fire and life safety engineering firm. Her career as a business development professional spans various sectors within the San Francisco Bay and Pacific Northwest areas.
In addition to driving business development efforts throughout the Western region, she works closely with project team leaders on retention initiatives for current clients. Ms. Jordan-Teicheira brings a wealth of strategic business development experience and a strong network to Guidepost Solutions.
Ms. Jordan-Teicheira is a member of the Society for Marketing Professional Services, and serves as the Financial Development Director for the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter. She is active in various networking groups, including ASIS International, Association of AE Business Leaders, San Francisco and East Bay CREW Network, and Real Estate and Construction Networking (RECON) organization. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in communication studies from California State University Sacramento.