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Kern CCD – Together we can meet our many needs
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Started my week joining a group from Kern CCD at the MLK Community Awards Breakfast Celebration to honor the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Bishop Broderick A. Huggins' gave a powerful keynote address.
Here are a few excerpts:
"Too many needs, together we can meet.
Too many prisons that need to be emptied.
Too much poverty.
Too much sickness.
Too much violence.
Too much political gridlock.
Too much social upheaval.
Too much racism.
Too much hatred.
The problems of our humanity are too complex and convoluted not to be active in the Freedom movement.
Freedom is not an event, document, or a piece of legislation, but Freedom is a lifestyle."
Nothing essential should be circumstantial….Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness should not rest upon chance, circumstance, color, contingency, site,
Those assembled gathered to celebrate with local community leaders and to offer support in striving for equity and justice.
Two individuals connected to our Kern CCD community were also recognized with awards – including Dr. Jessica Grimes, and Steve Watkin's son, BDP Detective Aaron Watkin.
An excerpt from the program about Dr. Jessica Grimes:
"Dr. Jessica Grimes has a heart for students – guiding them to achieve their short-term or long-term goals in higher education. A dynamic mentor and gifted administrator, Jessica prioritizes collaborating with academic and corporate communities to enhance career pathways, especially among disproportionately impacted students. Jessica brings her positive leadership skills to broaden the minds and expand opportunities for collegiate students from diverse backgrounds both in her hom of Kern County and across the Central Valley/Mother Lode."
Here are some photos from the event:
Check out Steve Watkin rocking out:
Good morning friends.
It is January 21, 2023.
The sun shines bright over Kern CCD
PC Welcomes Students Back to Start the Spring Semester
After our latest bout of California storms, it's great to see students back on campus again in numbers rivaling, and even beating, pre-pandemic enrollment numbers. It seems that students are once again eager to continue their on-campus educational journeys at Porterville College.
Faculty, Staff, and Students celebrated the return to classes with a week of welcome events hosted by student services and several academic divisions. As part of the celebration, the center of the Quad became a "tent city" – with pop-up tents from various programs and departments featuring information, PC Swag, services, and lining the inner circle.
Here are some photos from the welcome week activities: https://photos.app.goo.gl/mjhAeiXH3P8YP5Tp7
Men's Basketball wins a tight one in overtime
This past Wednesday, the Porterville College men's basketball team returned to PC for a real nail biter against the Columbia College Claim Jumpers. The game kept fans on the edge of their seats and didn't let up until the final buzzer in overtime. At that final buzzer, the Pirates took the game 62-55.
The Pirates had a fierce back-and-forth with the Claim Jumpers during the first half with the game remaining scoreless for some time. Both teams tried to get the upper hand and the Pirates won out, scoring the first basket almost 4 minutes into the game.
Some great defensive play by the Pirates kept the Claim Jumpers to 7 until the Pirates took the lead nearly 10 minutes into the game with a rebound and full-court return by Kiya McQueen. The teams would spend much of the game exchanging the lead until a jumper by Jake Abrams brought the game to a 14-14 tie.
The first half ended with the Pirate's Quincy White sinking a 3-pointer and securing a nine-point lead on the Claim Jumpers going into halftime.
The second half was just as exciting as the first with impressive offensive and defensive displays from both teams. The teams were tied multiple times throughout the half at 36-36, 40-40, and 43-43. The teams were tied at 51 to end the half.
Now, with five minutes left on the clock and a gym full of screaming fans, the teams played out the overtime.
The Pirates didn't let up and seemed to tire out the Claim Jumpers as they started taking control. After ties at 53-53 and again at 55-55, the Pirates earned the upper hand thanks to Quincy White who snagged the rebound and made the layup as the buzzer blared for the final Pirate win!
Rethinking the College Experience
Faculty and staff gathered in the PC cafeteria on Friday, January 13th to reconnect and prepare for the coming semester at PC's Spring Flex Opening Day event.
Flex events are traditionally held before our Fall and Spring semesters as a professional development opportunity for faculty and staff on campus. We use this time to welcome the PC family back to campus and prepare for the return of students for the next semester of classes.
This year much of our time was spent focusing on how we can make the student experience better by rethinking the college experience for different student populations.
It was wonderful to be part of such creative and collegiate discussions on redesigning the student experience to increase access to educational and career opportunities for all. Witnessing discussions like these and those about improving our onboarding experience make it clear that our faculty and staff are incredibly dedicated to our student's success.
"Guided Pathways Guru" Dr. Davis Jenkins was the keynote speaker for the day. He started the day with an address and some coaching for the group on building clear pathways to student success. PC Academic Senate President and Guided Pathways Faculty Lead Dr. Robert Simpkins then lead the group through several tabletop exercises to discuss rethinking the onboarding experience and ensuring learning for different student populations here at Porterville College.
Winning in the classroom as well as on the court
On another sports-related note, we are EXTREMELY excited to report that the 2022/2023 Basketball Team recorded its highest team GPA in the last eight years! This is an amazing accomplishment, and proof that along with their fantastic work ethic and play on the court, these fine young men are great students as well.
Great job Pirates!
Welcome Back Coyotes!
On Tuesday, January 17th, 2023, the Cerro Coso campus was full of action! With spring 2023 semester starting brings flurries of student activity back to campus.
The Outreach department, along with student ambassadors, were ready to welcome students back. They were equipped with class schedules, campus maps, and snacks to ensure students were set up for success.
Ivan Ibarra, a program mentor in the Outreach department, remarked, "Seeing the students fill up the campus once again was amazing to see! From new students stepping foot on campus for the first time, to former students returning to campus and walking the halls once again, to lifelong learners exploring new skills, everyone had a place here at Cerro Coso. The college was running like a well-oiled machine with the commitment of staff, faculty, and admin who all rejoiced in seeing students back on campus. Let the Spring Semester begin!"
We are so excited to see what Spring 2023 holds in store for Cerro Coso Coyotes! Good luck to all!
Student Spotlight: Jocelyn
Meet an enthusiastic and friendly member of the Cerro Coso Tehachapi campus: Jocelyn! She will graduate in the Spring of 2023 with three degrees: an AA-T in Psychology, an AA in Liberal Arts: Arts and Humanities, and an AA in Liberal Arts: Social and Behavioral Sciences. She recently applied to a few colleges and hopes to transfer to her #1 choice: California State University, Monterey Bay as a Psychology Major! Jocelyn earns money as a student worker at Cerro Coso, and also volunteers in the Promise Program, a scholarship program at Cerro Coso. Jocelyn has this to say about her Cerro Coso experience:
"Cerro Coso allowed me to explore my career options without financial pressure or racking up debt. At first, I wanted to do Early Childhood Education, but after taking some classes, I realized it wasn't for me. I went on and tried different subjects, but when I took my first Psychology class, it really clicked for me! I realized I still wanted to be in a school environment, but not necessarily teaching."
"I'd like to give a shout-out to Karee Hamilton, my counselor, and Heather Bopp for helping me get into the Promise Program. They've been very helpful to me and my classmates. I'd also like to show appreciation to my Mom! She's very understanding and supportive of my education. I'm really hard on myself, and she always assures me that I'm doing the best I can."
Full-time Faculty Hiring Seminar Set
Cerro Coso Community College's Human Resources department is holding a Full-Time Faculty Hiring Seminar on Tuesday, January 24, from 6-8 pm. During the webinar, faculty will share information about preparing your resume, writing your philosophy of education, creating your teaching demo and of course – nailing the interview.
Faculty will also be available to answer questions and meet and breakout rooms.
Register for the virtual webinar at https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMlcOCgqDgtGtKbGGNBrD1UrwZOloFlxqfJ.
Opening Day at Bakersfield College was a success! Staff and faculty came together to celebrate the start of the spring semester and unite around our collective goal to support and encourage our students.
Vice President of Instruction Billie Jo Rice gave an inspirational presentation about how connected we all are at BC, and many other staff and faculty offered invaluable information to help meet the students' needs. What a great way to kick off the semester!
Miracle Mutts at BC
BC was fortunate enough to host four of Marley's Mutts therapy dogs on Thursday the 19th! Students and staff spent time in the Library lobby petting and visiting with the dogs. Therapy dogs are trained to help lift spirits and alleviate stress in many different settings, including higher ed!
First Day of Spring Semester
BC students are back on campus, ready to dive into their classes! Student Life and other campus organizations set up tents around campus to welcome students with hot coffee and muffins on their first day. After a long break and gloomy weather, it was wonderful to see the campus come alive again with students socializing and the BC team ready to support them.
Kern CCD at Chamber of Commerce
On Thursday, Jan. 19 the Kern CCD and Bakersfield College teams joined the Greater Bakersfield Chamber of Commerce for the Annual Board Installation & Awards Luncheon. The luncheon was a celebration of accomplishments made in 2022 and an opportunity to honor the volunteers who helped make the Chamber successful. The luncheon highlighted the tremendous success of the California Forward Summit. Congratulations to the 2023 Chairman of the Board of Directors Ken Keller, President/CEO of Bakersfield Memorial Hospital – Dignity Health.
Kern CCD TALE Blog
Check out this week's post in the Teaching-and-Learning-Exchange Blog (https://kernccdtaleblog.org/).
Oliver Rosales wrote about "Culturally Responsive Teaching, Innovation, and Public Humanities" and shared his experience with the Digital Delano archive, and how it led to other opportunities.
I find my own learning is continuously advanced by embracing culturally responsive teaching in Delano. I've become fascinated by the use of ArcGIS and geospatial technologies and its capacity not only to create new forms of digital archives, but also how technology can be used to visually map communities in new ways. The intersection of the work I've done in Delano and ArcGIS technologies informs my approach to the Whiting Foundation's Public Engagement fellowship.
Fun Photos & Spotted on Social Media
I enjoyed receiving this photo of the Chemistry faculty at BC celebrating the new department chair. It is so wonderful to see all the smiling faces.
Lotus Communications and the Spanish Radio Group held the 1st Annual Tu Voz Tu Héroe dinner Thursday night – 25 community leaders received the Hispanic Hero Award, many of them friends of Kern CCD and Bakersfield College. Our own Norma Rojas-Mora was one of the individuals honored.
Bill Moseley shared this image of Memorial Stadium:
Beautiful morning at the home of the Renegades. #WeAreBC
PC President Claudia Habib shared this post about Dual Enrollment students from Granite High
Today we welcomed Junior students from @granite_high @PortervilleUSD for a tour of the campus and library. They were proud to receive their PC student I.D. #DualEnrollment students are #CollegeStudents @PCollegePirates #Onboarding #FacultyChampion #HistoryClass #StudentSuccess
And check out this great video promoting Cerro Coso Community College:
That's a wrap for now.
See you next Saturday!
The future is bright at Kern CCD.
-sonya
a joyful and grateful Chancellor
#KernCCDDaringMightyThings
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Security guard shoots himself in leg and suspect arrested with firearm
November 30, 2019 General
On Friday, 29/11 while security officers were busy servicing an ATM at the Cleary Park shopping centre in Gelvandale, one of them accidently shot himself in his upper leg.
It is alleged that at about 14:30, shoppers suddenly started frantically running into the centre and were screaming. The security officers thought that they were being attacked and went down in combat position. As the guard assumed the position, he accidently shot himself in his right upper leg. He was taken to hospital for treatment. A case of discharging a firearm in a municipal area was opened.
Investigations later revealed that there was an alleged shooting between rival gangs at the taxi rank near the centre thereby causing the commuters and shoppers to rush into the centre in order to escape injury. At the same time PE K9 unit members were patrolling around the shopping centre when they were stopped by a taxi. They were informed that one of the shooters boarded a taxi which was behind them. With the assistance of SAPS Kabega Park Crime Prevention members, the taxi was pulled over in Norman Middleton Street.
K9 members apprehended the 20-year-old suspect inside the taxi. A .38 revolver was found tucked in his pants. He is detained on a charge of attempted murder and illegal possession of a firearm. He is expected to appear in court on Monday, 2 December 2019.
The firearm will be sent to ballistics for analysis.
Source: South African Police Service
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WE Program Announces New Director, Nov. 29 Event
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio — The Youngstown Business Incubator named Carmella Williams yesterday as the new director of YBI's Women In Entrepreneurship Program. YBI launched the WE Program in 2016 to promote the growth and creation of women-owned businesses.
Williams succeeds Stephanie Gilchrist, who recently took over as executive director of Inspiring Minds Youngstown.
Williams' relationship with YBI began in 2016 when she participated in the first WE Launch Class to help her grow her business. She became the first WE Launch grant recipient for her hair and beauty supply business, Carmella Marie.
"This program takes women who are often looked at as silly or unimportant and puts them first. We are taking out time to cultivate relationships, build their business, and strengthen them. When you strengthen one women, you strengthen an entire home," Williams said.
On Nov. 29, the WE Program will host its second annual "Breaking Boundaries" event. Sponsored by Cortland Bank, "Breaking Boundaries" will take place at 5 p.m. at Leo's Banquet Hall. Honored at the event will be Andrea Wood of The Business Journal, Diane Sauer of Sauer Chevrolet and Patsy Kouvas of AVI Foodsystems.
Before and after dinner, guests can enjoy perusing the "She Started It Marketplace." Local women-owned businesses, as well as WE participants, will have pop-up shops at the event to promote their business and sell their products.
Pa. Industrial Centers Aid Manufacturers
ERIE, Pa. — To alleviate the labor shortage in the manufacturing sector, the Northwest Industrial Research Center here is helping companies attract, develop and retain employees. One of seven such centers in Pennsylvania, its footprint includes 13 counties. The NWIRC…
Scout Solar Moving into Former Catholic School in East Liverpool
EAST LIVERPOOL, Ohio – "A big place with big plans" is how Matt Brophey, project executive, describes the Scout Solar company's new local headquarters in the former St. Aloysius Catholic School. The Tempe, Arizona-based solar company recently struck deals with…
Shenango Chamber Transitions Back to 'Business as Usual'
SHARON, Pa. — The Shenango Valley Chamber of Commerce is looking to continue its path back to "business as usual" as it moves into 2023, says David M. Grande, board president. 2022 was a transition year as in-person events were…


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Q: (Obj C) What if a smaller unsigned integer is divided by a larger unsigned integer? I am new here and new to Objective C too.I tried out some sample while loop program, and there is something I simply do not understand.
I've set all the variables "v", "u" and "remainder" to be of unsigned integers.
unsigned int v, u, temp;
NSLog(@"Please key in 2 non-negative integers");
scanf("%u %u", &u, &v);
    while (v != 0) {
        temp = u % v;
        u = v;
        v = temp;
        NSLog(@"Value of v is %u, value of u is %u, value of temp is %u", v, u, temp);
    }
 }
return 0;
}

The part that I do not understand is "temp = u % v".
I am aware that the "%" operator is used to find the remainder of the division of u by v, which is then assigned to variable "temp".
First I tried the values 150 and 35 which are stored in variables u and v respectively. When the program was executed, "temp" was assigned the value 10 (in the first loop), because 150/35 (u/v) leaves a remainder of 10.
I decided to switching the values; now I assigned u and v the values 35 and 150 respectively.
I expected "temp" to be 0 because 35/150 (u/v) would simply have no remainder for it is a fraction. But somehow, "temp" was assigned the value 35 (in the first loop) , and I just cannot find out why.
Why is "temp" assigned the value 35? I tried to Google "remainder of 35 divided by 150" to figure out why the % operator gave me 35 as a remainder but i couldn't find any answer.
Thank you.

A: The % does not perform division. For unsigned numbers, the remainder of dividing a smaller number by a larger number is always the smaller number itself.
Recall that
Dividend = Divisor * Quotient + Remainder

When Divisor is greater than Dividend, Quotient is zero. Hence
Dividend = Remainder

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Silva Kalcic
Streets are our Brushes, Squares are our Palettes
excerpts . complete Croatian and English text in pdf format get here
"What 's (that) gleaming white in a forest green? Is it snow, are that flocking swans?…". The Slavic antithesis, the introductory part of Hasanaginica poem by an anonymous author, certainly without that intention, but successfully describes the usual reaction of an audience to Public art projects. The public art is leaving a gallery 's White Cube addressing to potentially new consumers of contemporary art, demanding from an audience to observe or to take part (the audience as the other party in a dialog) and of course an indifference is always the undesired feedback of the audience -that was Heisenberg who contested the dogma claiming that an object is independent of a subject observing it ("Big Other "). In a case when contemporary art is placed into a public space, Nada Beros considers that "it 's being addressed in that way to a larger audience, a number of potential "consumers" increases and a work of art becomes more accessible, although not necessarily more available to the wide audience. Therefore the context of a public space is pretty often acting as a double edged sword, incurring damage to the audience as much as to the work of art.". At the time of postscientism, or as Houellebecq would say "the third metaphysical mutation ", a visual aspect of perception is dominant, and as well as the visible object is prior to a visual medium,the visual culture also takes "precedence "over a notion of "visual arts " (the limits and rules of (un)contaminated visual perception are comprised in a statement of J. Gagarin, the first man who entered the outer space: "I was watching and watching, but I haven 't seen the God!").
Being an expression of active relation of artists towards reality, the art, instead of being conserved in traditional exhibition areas, is rather confronted (to paraphrase Marina Grzinic's statement) with its social milieu -albeit the attribute "social "is denounced for its bad reputation, often being "simplified and misused" in the past. The art in public spaces abrogates entirely the boundary line between "high" and "popular" art, but there is also a danger hidden in it -art is exposed to an influence of industry of entertainment and art prints manufacturing ("making concessions to the people"), and because a rejoicing in aesthetics could be merchandised, a "beauteousness" moves to the area of design, to supermarkets and factories, as an inversion of Warhol's statement that "to be good in business is the most fascinating form of art ".
And that place of materialism and ecstatic communications is the city; "Nature, being everlasting opponent to a man, is going to be overpowered by means of modern technology and compelled to serve to a happiness of mankind " (F. Fukuyama). An ordinary citizen of a western city observes, assimilates and recognizes about 16000 logotypes every day. The public art is mainly related with an urban space and an urban feeling (unlike land art); "Streets are our brushes,squares are our palettes!", Majakovski has exclaimed that before.
As a part of the manifestation Zadar Alive 2001Darko Fritz installed a site-specific close circuit video installation on the main city square (Narodni trg).A key part of it was a surveillance camera capturing the prose of everyday life -a direct wireless live coverage of a movement of the people in that public area (in a manner of public television's panoramic snapshots). From the top of a candelabrum -the urban furniture, erected in the middle of a square, the surveillance camera (light-motive of Darko Fritz's work) was taking pictures, broadcasted simultaneously on two locations on the square, on the Renaissance Municipal Loggia and on the opposite Baroque tower clock, where a screen was placed behind a transparent back of the clock, hands of which had been removed for restoration. The intention of the project was to bring round the urban environment and spatial relations on the square by mean of live coverage -media mediated perception of an "actual" moment. An interaction of the exterior and architecture was strongly manifested,and both, synchronic and diachronic dimensions of the square, reality and meta-reality -became fused.
How many people live in their place of birth? Darko Fritz (resident in Zagreb and in Amsterdam, in 2001 by Zelimir Koscevic proclaimed to be "the greatest non-institutional exporter of Croatian culture" at the moment) posed that question in his project Migrant Navigator, dealing precisely with migrations, repositioning, identity, nostalgia (in a sense of saudade, an untranslatable Portuguese word) and a conception and significance of home as a relict of familial and national community in a period of all-pervasive atomisation of society. Migrant Navigator is a work-in-progress, the multi(hybrid) -media -and public art (implicating Web as a public space)project that started in April with a "mis.informing" Web page, decorated with a frieze of Home icons (of a renowned internet provider) introducing you to its content. The second phase of the project was off-line: from June to October of 2002 as a part of the project Talking the City, in the public area next to the railway station in Linz , was planted a horticultural installation entitled The Future of Nostalgia. From the grassy area a piece, 9x9 meters in size, "was taken ", and a pictogram of a house was made by carefully arranged flowers, or more precisely the same Home icon of the Web browser was translated in to the floral arrangement. The railway station was thoughtfully chosen location for planting -as a place of transits and a check-in post for emigrants, the point of a warping and a distortion of space, where passengers can eat, sleep, make transactions, shop, pray... Such spaces Augé denominates as non-places (non-lieux), with no identities and relations. Even the installation itself goes through transitions climatic, organic, changes of local municipal authorities what might result in a stopping of weeding and watering of beds of flowers (or the seasonal replacement of flowers),and it is even exposed to a possible anonymous act of vandalism …The third phase of Migrant Navigator was realised in November as a part of a Motel Jezevo project. A poster measuring 2x2 meter in size, made in silk-screen technique with a replica of Home icon, blown up and computer processed, with a cyber-aestheticized, cold, elegantly bright-silver background was placed on central part of existing advertising screens (of a standard, aggresive, billboard format) on both sides of Croato-Slovenian border. The poster does not contain any further informations except the pictorial one, inducing a series of associations in those ones crossing the border and at very best it could inspire them on rethinking the identity -a national one (as a socio-cultural construct) and a personal one (as its biological substratum). In the age of civilisation of communicating, the Web reduced the globe on to an attainable size, while, at the same time, in the real world border formalities drastically decelerate our movement, even calling it into question... Borders are the places with their own "psychopathology" ; the border crossing between Croatia and Slovenia (almost an unnoticeable borderline without any official structures until 1991, in a little while becoming the eastern "Schengenian" border) is a critical point of intensive trafficking, drugs & arms smugglings …
The posters with Home icons have spread out "virulently" to Zagreb, posted on the advertisement pillars of the Ban Jelacic Square and next to the Main railway station, on the billboard in Savska street, intended for the view of pedestrians and commuters.In a relation between the visible object and the visual medium (billboard - strategic place of advertising campaigns), Darko Fritz in a conciliatory way handle with a functioning mechanisms of consumerist society, inspiring beholders to a "wishful thinking "; the appropriation of marketing strategies is evident also through the concept of an exhibition as a product -namely, it has its own sign and "logo".
Zivot umjetnosti magazine, no. 67 - 68, Institut za povjest umjetnosti [Art History Institute], Zagreb, 2003


simulated memories – What's Inside a Madman's Hat?
Just like that, in the drop of Wavy Gravy's hat, they sailed off into the night.
Wow! You are on a roll! I don't know how you do it. This could have described my childhood right down to the Buick. Erie that there are so many parallels. My grandfather would stop by and take me by the hand and walk with me down to the corner store while singing songs too. And he'd always get me Bazooka gum.
Haha. My grandpa was cool. We were good buds. When I started working at an assisted living the jukebox plays a lot and I was like "oh my God I thought he made these songs up on the fly" lol.
That's funny. Some great songs from the era. My grandfather was a tailor and could take a plain piece of wool and artistically turn it into a masterpiece. He was also so far to the left politically it would make your head spin. What a character! He'd stand on a soap box and preach for progressive change. Wish he had lived longer so that I could have gotten to know him better as I grew up. He too was a rebel. I would have had a kindred spirit around had he lived. (I was the odd one out in my family once my grandpa died). Your piece momentarily gave me some childhood memories that reminded me of a very sweet man. Thank you so much . In my head I'm hearing the song "Dream" by the Everly Brothers. BTW I saw those guys many times in the 60's …beautiful voices.
Very cool. My grandpa was a slicked back black haired poker player and worked in a printing press. Played to the beat of his own heart. We got into some silly trouble, and we obviously had to keep it from my parents and oh boy when my mom would find out or hear what we were up to. Forget it haha. I learned some neat stuff from him. My imagination gives credit to him as well. Our own world, it was magnificent.
Awwww….How nice that you can draw upon those rich experiences and not only recall them with smiles and love, but bring them into your writing. Your grandpa would be proud if you. He sounds like he was a very cool guy.
I don't think I realised, when I first started to follow and read you, what a talented writer you are.
Very glad we stumbled across each other.