That’s one of the common things I hear in the community from both sides of the aisle The nature of politics today is so divisive and filled with misinformation Someone needs to step up and say enough is enough This cycle unfortunately has had a lot of misleading information to incite fear Are we ready to accept the results of this presidential election no matter who wins I am worried because the divide between the two parties is greater than ever Are we as a community ready to move on together I ask this because District 25 is very representative of Nevada I had a conversation with a Republican gentleman He was very disenchanted with the Republican Party and was voting for Kamala Harris She was a Democrat and a manager of an apartment complex I had another Democratic woman that I spoke to that said “There is no way you are a Republican; you are too reasonable.”  I highlight these stories to show that the letter behind your name does not dictate what is believed to be true about either party There is so much bias when it comes to what a person believes to be true once they see “R” or the “D” How do we turn the page and demand from our local and state races that we are done with smear campaigns catchy phrases to attack the character of a candidate I believe the answer is the following: It starts with the candidates deciding to play by a new set of rules I understood the political landscape was ugly I still made the decision to run because for me It was about about the difference I could make on the campaign trail; to run as a different kind of candidate — a candidate this district had not yet seen I was ready for the attack ads that would slander me but nothing prepared me for the attack ads that all our children would be exposed to in schools He was in class watching an approved video on YouTube being projected on the screen when suddenly an attack ad It was saying that I wanted children to go hungry and showed images of a black child and white child Diana wants poor black kids to go hungry.”  I think we can all agree that there is no place for political ads in schools If we as adults are exhausted by the political climate we are in As I addressed the problem with my son’s school I highlighted that this is about the mental health of the children The school allowing them the space to share their feelings True leadership is about setting the tone with one’s actions Our children are the future leaders of tomorrow We chose to stand up and do the right thing I’m Diana Sande and I’m running to represent District 25 If you’re tired of the negativity of politics and want change Diana Sande is a candidate for Nevada Assembly District 25 More: Candidates invited to submit opinion columns for 2024 election 2474488180001 ESSENCE Festival headliner Emeli Sande sat down with ESSENCE.com to discuss how she’s managed to make her childhood dream a reality and shared a few interesting details about how she’s learned to embrace being loud “It’s really a dream come true,” say’s Sande “I was really quiet as a kid and music was the one place I could be loud Check out this week’s Coffee Talk video above « Back Suggestions or feedback? a pioneer in electron microscopy and beloved educator and advisor known for his warmth and empathetic instruction The Cecil and Ida Green Distinguished Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (DMSE) studying the physical properties and structure of metals and alloys His long career included a major entrepreneurial pursuit launching American Superconductor; forming international academic partnerships; and serving in numerous administrative roles at MIT and Vander Sande’s interests encompassed more than science and technology; a self-taught scholar on 17th- and 18th-century furniture he boasts a production credit in the 1996 film “The Crucible.” He is perhaps best remembered for bringing the first scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM) into the United States This powerful microscope uses a beam of electrons to scan material samples and investigate their structure and composition “John was the person who really built up what became MIT’s modern microscopy expertise,” says Samuel M the POSCO Professor Emeritus of Physical Metallurgy Vander Sande studied electron microscopy during a postdoctoral fellowship at Oxford University in England with luminaries Sir Peter Hirsch and Colin Humphreys “The people who wrote the first book on transmission electron microscopy were all there at Oxford and John basically brought that expertise to MIT in his teaching and mentoring.” He studied mechanical engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology and switched to materials science and engineering at Northwestern University Vander Sande joined MIT as assistant professor in 1971 Vander Sande became known as a leading practitioner of weak-beam microscopy a technique refined by Hirsch to improve images of dislocations tiny imperfections in crystalline materials that help researchers determine why materials fail His procurement of the STEM instrument from the U.K company Vacuum Generators in the mid-1970s was a substantial innovation allowing researchers to visualize individual atoms and identify chemical elements in materials “He showed the capabilities of new techniques like scanning transmission electron microscopy in understanding the physics and chemistry of materials at the nanoscale,” says Yet-Ming Chiang MIT.nano stands as one of the world’s foremost facilities for advanced microscopy techniques to those state-of-the-art instruments that we have today.” The director of a microscopy laboratory at MIT Vander Sande used instruments like that early STEM and its successors to study how manufacturing processes affect material structure and properties which involves cooling materials quickly to enhance their properties worked with Vander Sande to explore how fast-cooling molten metal as powder changes its internal structure They discovered that “precipitates,” or small particles formed during the rapid cooling “It took me at least a year to finally get some success a startup that is developing mass spectrometry technology which measures and analyzes atoms emitted by substances “That was John who brought that project and the solution to the table.” Using his deep expertise in metals and other materials which can conduct electricity when cooled to low temperatures Vander Sande co-founded American Superconductor with fellow DMSE faculty member Greg Yurek in 1987 The company produced high-temperature superconducting wires now used in renewable energy technology American Superconductor was a pioneer,” says Chiang who was part of the startup’s co-founding membership “It was one of the early companies that was formed on the basis of research at MIT as opposed to graduates starting companies.” While Yurek left MIT to lead the American Superconductor full time as CEO Vander Sande stayed on the faculty at DMSE remaining a consultant to the company and board member for many years who recall a passionate and devoted educator and mentor “He was a terrific teacher,” says Frank Gayle a former PhD student of Vander Sande’s who recently retired from his job as director at the National Institute of Standards and Technology “He would take the really complex subjects and he would teach them in a way that you felt comfortable as a student learning them Chiang said Vander Sande was an “exceptionally clear” lecturer who would use memorable imagery to get concepts across tiny particles that have a varied structure or composition was an aptitude for knowing the people he was teaching for recognizing their backgrounds and what they knew and didn’t know He likened Vander Sande to a dad on Take Your Kid to Work Day and then he figured out how to get the pieces together to make it comprehensible.” with an emphasis on the individual rather than the project “He really worked with people to encourage them to do creative things and encouraged their creativity.” who was a University of Wisconsin professor before becoming a repeat entrepreneur says Vander Sande was an exceptional role model for young grad students “When you see these people who’ve accomplished a lot you’re afraid to even talk to them,” he says One of the things I learned from John was that he’s just a regular person who does good work I can be a regular person and do good work says he learned as much about life from Vander Sande as he did about materials science and engineering “Because he was not just a scientist-engineer but really a well-rounded human being and shared a lot of experience and advice that went beyond just the science,” says Libera a materials science and engineering professor at Stevens Institute of Technology Vander Sande was equally dedicated to MIT and his department on undergraduates and curriculum development and in 1991 he was appointed associate dean of the School of Engineering “I remember that that took up a huge amount of his time,” Chiang says who long worked for MIT’s Industrial Liaison Program “He once told me that he did a lot of the work related to his deanship during that long commute back and forth from Newbury.” Gayle says Vander Sande’s remarkable communication and people skills are what made him a good fit for leadership roles He also was a bridge from MIT to the rest of the world Vander Sande played a leading role in establishing the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology a teaching partnership that set up Institute-modeled graduate programs at Singaporean universities And he was the director of MIT’s half of the Cambridge-MIT Institute a collaboration with the University of Cambridge in the U.K that focused on student and faculty exchanges and served as acting provost of Reykjavik University from 2009 to 2010 including college football and sports cars he gave lectures on connoisseurship and attended auctions and antique shows which had low ceilings that were inconvenient for the 6-foot-1 Vander Sande So respected was he for his expertise that the production crew for 20th Century Fox’s “The Crucible” sought him out. The film, about the Salem The crew made copies of furniture from his collection and Vander Sande consulted on set design and decoration to ensure historical accuracy His passion extended beyond just historical artifacts He was profoundly interested in learning about the people behind them “His real interest was trying to understand how people two centuries ago or more thought what their lives were like. It wasn’t just that he was an antiques collector.” Zak Ellis; and grandchildren Gabriel Rhys Pelletier This website is managed by the MIT News Office, part of the Institute Office of Communications Massachusetts Institute of Technology77 Massachusetts Avenue Per Paulette’s request no services will be held Megan Sande has been chosen as the 2025 board president for Onward Eden Prairie a nonprofit that provides transitional housing and support to young people ages 18-24 who are experiencing homelessness or housing instability The organization was formed in 2017 and in 2018 opened Onward House which offers each resident comfortable community space a private bedroom and the support they need to move forward with their lives Joining Sande as board officers for this year are: Jim Nelson Also serving on the board are directors Paul Carroll Sande lives in Eden Prairie with her husband and two teenage daughters She is vice president of sales for Freudenberg Household Products “I was interested in Onward before it was even Onward,” Sande said “I attended meetings at Immanuel Lutheran Church when they were discussing how to get it launched.” She subsequently joined the organization’s Communications Committee and “I’ve really enjoyed helping to shape Onward’s strategic direction and look forward to continuing to grow its reach,” she said he has a long history with Onward that includes serving as board president I have seen Onward become a critical nonprofit in the southwest metro,” he said I am pleased to report that Onward completed a very successful year We were able to serve young adults facing housing instability or homelessness by keeping our house full and expanding our aftercare program Our donors and volunteers are making a difference “Onward also enjoyed strong financial results for 2024 with donations exceeding our budget by 15%,” he added Immanuel Lutheran voted to transfer ownership to Onward of the single-family home used by Onward Both of these put us in a strong position as we look to 2025 and beyond Thank you for your continued support of Onward!” For more information about Onward, contact executive director Tricia Wright at tricia@onward.ep.org or visit the organization’s website: onwardep.org This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page GRAND FORKS – Grand Forks City Council President Dana Sande has been chosen as the new city representative to the Grand Forks Regional Economic Development Corporation’s Board of Directors strategy and business growth in Grand Forks and the region Its board oversees the operations of the EDC and gives recommendations on project funding to the Grand Forks Growth Fund Committee and Jobs Development Authority Sande takes over from Grand Forks Mayor Brandon Bochenski Sande previously served as a city representative on the board from 2013 to 2020 “The EDC Board seems to have a really good mix of opinions from different industries and they work really well together so I’m looking forward to and appreciate the fact Mayor Brandon Bochenski appointed me to his spot,” Sande told the Herald “I know (economic development) is near and dear to his heart so I really appreciate the fact that he has faith in me to carry on in his place.” eight member-elected and three appointed: the president of the EDC and Grand Forks County Commission chair or designee President and CEO of the EDC Keith Lund said the organization is lucky to have Sande join “A tremendous thank you to Mayor Bochenski for his four years of service on the board,” Lund said in a statement “We are fortunate to have a committed and strong leader for the city We welcome City Council President Sande to the board another great leader who is passionate about local businesses and our regional economy.” This story was updated to add a candidate Q&A campaign finance information and additional context about the race's competitiveness The race between Democratic incumbent Selena La Rue Hatch and Republican challenger Diana Sande for Assembly District 25 looks to be one of the most hotly contested legislative races in Northern Nevada In addition to the two candidate's large amount of campaign funds raised another sign of the race’s competitiveness is national support from the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee and the Republican State Leadership Committee They are two national organizations that help get candidates from their parties elected to state legislatures Democrats hold the exact number of seats needed for a supermajority in the State Assembly A Republican win in District 25 would help break Democrats' potential ability to override vetoes by Republican Gov According to voter registration statistics Democrats have a less than 3 percentage point advantage over Republicans in District 25 – and nonpartisans make up about a quarter of voters in the district Nevada Assembly District 25 covers parts of west and southwest Reno See a map here Greater Las Vegas Chamber of CommerceWhat is one change you'd make to Nevada’s education system that wouldn't cost more money?• Selena La Rue Hatch: Outside of issues tied to money some of the most important things we can do are to trim bureaucratic red tape and make sure we are not wasting the time of our teachers and our students within the education system Teachers have to fill out a lot of documentation that It’s time that could be spent actually helping children And our kids are being over-tested in a way that is killing their desire to learn without actually providing a whole lot of data for us to use So I think the most important thing we can do without spending money is just to make sure we're spending our time learning and teaching and not just filling out paperwork or checking boxes Once a child gets so frustrated with education and they're not reading So it's about opportunities to get them reading I’ve been thinking about the “Read by Three” program (a state effort to get students proficient in reading by third grade) How do we continue to implement changes to help what we're already doing with the program For the city of Reno’s Sierra Kids (Before and After School Program) – which I love it's a wonderful program – we could carve out some time to say the first 30 minutes at Sierra Kids will be reading and homework.” If we already know what kids are in the “Read by Three” program we can kind of separate them and they can just practice their reading there at Sierra Kids for 30 minutes That's an additional 30 minutes for these kids to be exposed to reading Parents also have to (make time for their children to read) as well But when we think of ways to change the system scheduling additional opportunities to read would help What aspect of the state’s mental health programs needs the most improvement?• La Rue Hatch: Nevada really struggles with mental health I see this within my classroom (teaching world history at North Valleys High School) because I have kids that have come to me in crisis today and need help today I just don't think that's serving our children – and if that's what's happening with our kids We need to be promoting more practitioners We’re expanding our youth mental health access here in Washoe County with the opening of a new facility I also support repayment of (student) loans for mental health practitioners that we were working on last session (in the Legislature) we have to be expanding the capacity so that our citizens can access these services • Sande: We need to do more for youth mental health I think we need to do something to engage the churches We need to continue to engage faith leaders on how they can also serve with regards to mental health especially to someone that potentially could be in crisis I go back to Youth Mental Health First Aid (a public education program about the unique risk factors and warning signs of mental health problems in adolescents) It's super exciting because something magical happens with young people When you give them the tools to start to talk about what's going on for them – What does managing their mental health look like – they start helping one another peer to peer It’s wonderful when you put it in their hands and see what they come up with I'm not anybody that's especially rich or famous or powerful I felt like the voices of my students and their families weren't being heard in the halls of power I wanted to take their voices with me into that building and I think that sentiment speaks to transparency I think they just want to feel that they are heard and that their needs are being met they understand they had a fair shot and were considered in the decision We need to do a better job of broadcasting what we are doing in state government So I really want to make it a goal of getting our legislative work more in the community of inviting more voices into that building that aren't just lobbyists and making sure we are connecting every single day with ordinary constituents so they really do have a voice in our local government how money is spent and what the outcomes are There are so many ways I can imagine that the education system needs more money but seeing where exactly it's going Knowing this can help with coming up with new ideas And I’d like to see more transparency for the legislators on why decisions have been made where we are with legislation and what the data looks like Candidate responses were edited for length and clarity from phone interviews Mark Robison is the state politics reporter for the Reno Gazette Journal, with occasional forays into other topics. Email comments to mrobison@rgj.com or comment on Mark’s Greater Reno Facebook page The clanging of metal trays and the scent of spices filled the back kitchen of The Great Greek Mediterranean Grill in Reno on a Friday afternoon as employees in bright blue shirts hurriedly prepped food in assembly line fashion the kitchen crew’s hard work started filling two adjoining wooden tables For the employees who were also tasked with sampling the food the sight was akin to a veritable Greek smorgasbord Slices of pita bread soon made their way into several eager hands for a quick dip into a small bowl of tzatziki sauce One of those hands belonged to Reno lawyer John Sande IV one of the franchisees who decided to bring the Greek chain to the area his wife Sepideh Arya-Sande can be seen in the back kitchen nervously eyeing a batch of rice pudding Just three days away from the restaurant's soft opening the first-time restaurant owners organized a training day  — a proverbial baptism of fire — for staff to practice cooking "We weren’t really practicing until Tuesday,” Sande said during the Friday training session “Tomorrow is going to be kind of a friends-and-family gathering." Getting the taste right was the top priority of the day for the husband-and-wife team who grew up in Iran and loves Persian and Mediterranean food was especially mindful of the flavors being dished out from the kitchen “Let me try it first,” Arya-Sande said before handing out a sample of the rice pudding As a small spoonful of the rice dessert quickly disappeared into her mouth “This is how it should taste,” a relieved Arya-Sande said Sande could be seen nodding his head after making short work of the sauce-covered pita good things come in twos and he grabs another piece and dips it again getting the food right is only one part of running a restaurant it was the stuff they needed to do behind the scenes that proved to be especially challenging From licenses and permits to hiring workers arranging financing and overseeing the construction of a new building making the food in their restaurant is like a welcome reprieve “We kind of finished some last minute things — obviously the menu boards getting the phone tested and hooked up so that we can take on telephone orders — trying to work out the kinks so there’s a lot to do,” Sande said “This is our first foray into a restaurant so I had no idea We’ve been at this for a year and a half.” From medical school to starting a Greek restaurantThe Sandes' great Greek restaurant adventure got its start at a family restaurant in Henderson Arya-Sande still remembers frequently dropping by a restaurant owned by a Greek-Armenian family while she was training and studying in the Las Vegas area as a physician assistant student which served familiar comfort fare such as tzatziki “The food was fantastic and I would go there and eat at least twice a week,” Arya-Sande said and it just reminded me of my childhood so I loved it.” That same restaurant would eventually turn into The Great Greek Mediterranean Grill franchise after it was acquired in 2016 by two Las Vegas restaurateurs who would go on to expand the business After Arya-Sande found out about the franchise what happened in Vegas did not stay in Vegas for long She reached out to the company about bringing the franchise to Reno — but not before making a trip to Las Vegas to scope out the new restaurants “I tried a couple different locations and the tzatziki tasted the same and the food tasted the same,” Arya-Sande said who also loved the food at The Great Greek Mediterranean Grill was just as excited as his wife to start the new restaurant At the top of the list of challenges was obtaining the right licenses it’s important to get this process going ahead of time I had to at least have the business license submitted so I filed the business license even before this (building) was even built,” Sande said “But they can’t even start looking at your business license until they can start doing inspections all the inspections came together quickly toward the end at just the right time because Sande submitted his applications way early Unlike restaurant owners who move to an existing location the Sandes also had to deal with the construction of a new building they brought on a contractor to begin construction once the landlord turned over the property in mid-August last year the couple was making payments for various services fees and other business costs without any revenue coming in “That’s when the real big expenses started coming when we started actually constructing stuff,” Sande said I was surprised by the sewer connection fee We did all the things you were supposed to do.” The state fees included paying a deposit equal to three months of their restaurant's estimated tax liability to the Department of Taxation Sande’s experience as a lawyer proved to be invaluable when it came to dealing with the legal maze of starting a business Sande says he could only imagine how intimidating — and costly — the process could be for a first-time restaurant owner who did not have any legal knowledge we would probably hire a licensed professional … and the cost would be a lot more than we’re willing to spend.’” ‘It’s a big risk doing this’As staff continued to sample the restaurant’s food during Friday's training session Sande noticed a man standing just outside the door says The Great Greek Mediterranean Grill isn’t officially opening until Monday I’m here for a job interview,” the man said the man took a seat in front of Arya-Sande Asked about what it’s like to be opening a new restaurant “I’ll let you know on Monday,” with a laugh Sande had two special guests already lined up on Saturday “So my parents are actually going to be our first guests,” Sande said Given the lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on staffing and the supply chain plus the rising cost of ingredients from inflation and incidents like bird flu opening a restaurant nowadays can be an even bigger challenge The required budget just to get to opening day it would have serious repercussions on their planned budget even though the couple has contingencies in place just in case we still have to keep employees employed and the landlords happy,” Sande said “We’re actually bumping against the budgeting that we did and it’s uncanny how close we’re going to be.” The Sandes could have opened the new restaurant earlier if they chose a different spot The couple chose the south Reno location at Damonte Ranch Town Center on Steamboat Parkway because they felt the higher traffic would be helpful for their business Sande pointed to several nearby restaurants such as Lamppost Pizza and the Twisted Fork which have been at the retail center for a long time which is right next to The Great Greek Mediterranean Grill has also been doing phenomenal since opening “We have a lot of synergy so I think it’s really going to help us,” Sande said “It’s a big risk doing (this restaurant),” Sande added Arya-Sande can be heard touting several items from the menu she starts telling people to try the tzatziki and the rice pudding Arya-Sande admitted that she was nervous this morning she was confident that the food would be great come opening day Just because she’s confident about the food does not mean she doesn’t feel nervous anymore “I used to organize and host parties for 50 people,” Arya-Sande said “Now I feel like I’m holding a party for all of Reno.” If you go: The Great Greek Mediterranean Grill is located at 1171 Steamboat Parkway at the Damonte Ranch Town Center near RC Willey Sign In Subscribe Now The City of Terrace's council meeting on April 28 was on the shorter end at under 30 minutes but it still had some notable items on its agenda Ray Peterson of Terrace's ValhallaFest asked for a letter of support from the council to apply for the Province of B.C.'s Destination Events Program The application requires a letter of support ValhallaFest is a music festival set 10 km west of Terrace It features camping and participant-driven events The provincial program can provide funding up to 10 per cent of their total event budget The funds can be used to cover a range of operational expenses Peterson expressed concern over festivals that have recently had to be cancelled, such as the 2025 Kispoix Valley Music Festival "I share your concern about losing events like this," said Mayor Sean Bujtas "I think about the Vanderhoof Rock Festival when I was young.. Another person from the ValhallaFest team added that in 2023 57 per cent of their ticket orders came from outside of Terrace and the District of Kitimat-Stikine and that number rose to 70 per cent in 2024 and this year 68 per cent of orders came from outside the region The council unanimously voted to write a letter of support for the festival The Terrace Pickleball Club asked for a letter of support to apply for Northern Health's Imagine Grant, which exists to support projects that address community-led health and wellness initiatives The funding would go towards purchasing new portable nets and some First Aid gear Council unanimously approved to write the letter "Pickleball is a growing sport in the community and I'm glad [the club] is looking towards community grants to foster their vision," said councilor Dave Gordon Bujtas shared that he had a conversation with Mike Farnworth At a meeting in Victoria with Provincial Ministers they discussed some of the concerns that have arisen over the years when it comes to pedestrians and cyclists People have expressed the need for a much wider walking and cycle path attach to the bridge "I was told that they're doing a bit of a study on it and should have some answers to us in the summer," he said According to section 197 of the Community Charter a municipality must establish tax rates before the 15th day of May each year for the municipal revenue proposed to be raised from property value taxes the council approved a proposal from Khalie Generaux that would maintain the property tax levy distribution at prior years levels "We're definitely talked [about] the tax rate ad nauseam it continues to scream how important it is try and find some other form of taxation like industrial taxation to burden the cost here The mayor shared that he had a conversation with Premier David Eby about the RBA and how Terrace is still struggling to find industrial taxation and how the City may need some support to get the Skeena Industrial Park off the ground and get a water system up there so that properties could be sold recommending that $18,800 from a BC Hydro grant be allocated towards performing an energy audit of the RCMP building The grant offers 100 per cent funding to conduct energy audits of industrial or large commercial facilities.  The audit would help determine the best opportunities for efficiency gains demand reduction or electrification of current systems Another recommendation was to allocate $11,690 to perform a feasibility study of the City Hall building $5,845 would be funded from the Local Government Climate Action Program Reserve and the remaining $5,845 would come from a BC Hydro grant the 2025 Financial Plan would be amended accordingly The council approved these recommendations Dialogue and debate are integral to a free society and we welcome and encourage you to share your views on the issues of the day. 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To learn about our commenting policies and how our community-based moderation works, please read our Community Guidelines Residents of Assembly District 25 in Reno should get prepared for a deluge of political mail and advertisements as the political establishment focuses its efforts to “protect the governor’s veto” by ousting first-term Assembly member and public school teacher Selena La Rue Hatch and replacing her with someone more suited to following their orders: challenger Diana Sande the facetious name used in political circles to signal the consensus of the highly-paid kingmakers (or in this case queenmakers) of Nevada’s industry giants — think multinational mining and gaming interests and the large lobbying firms and Republican PACs that serve them — has clearly decided to invest in Sande dumping hundreds of thousands of dollars into her campaign coffers They must like what she’s selling, although it’s hard to glean much from her website, sandefornevada.com/issues which has just five brief paragraphs about issues she deems important including protecting the governor’s veto from the Democrats — presumably vetoes like canceling free school lunches for Nevada’s schoolchildren or giving renters a fair shake Or maybe they approve of her voting record voting records reveal she has only voted once in the last five years Politics must not have been on her radar until Nevada Inc I am deeply concerned about the influence of Las Vegas political bosses in my Assembly District and their unprecedented investment in Sande. In fact, Sande’s latest contribution report lists more contributors and money from Southern Nevada than from Washoe County Vegas wants yet another legislator who will vote unquestioningly for their athletic stadiums and other handouts of public funds to billionaires not someone who will vote in line with her Reno constituents like La Rue Hatch La Rue Hatch has raised half as much as Sande, through contributions from education groups, labor organizations and small, often monthly donations of $10 and $20 from her constituents. Her website, selenafornevada.com details what she was able to accomplish on key issues during her first term and outlines the work still to be done to reach her goals Don’t miss her floor speech on why she chose funding schools over funding yet another overpriced stadium with public dollars would just as soon throw her out of office doesn’t have a vote in the Assembly District 25 race; only those of us who live in the District get to decide For me the choice is very clear: a person who will serve as a rubber stamp for Las Vegas and the governor whose loyalty to her constituents and their needs is unquestioned Sande has refused to take a stand on Question 6 the protection of reproductive rights in Nevada Do we choose someone who rarely even votes and whose positions we can barely ascertain Or someone who isn’t afraid to let the voters know where she stands Protecting the governor’s power to veto school lunches for Nevada’s children is a poor reason to run for legislative office And thinking Vegas money alone can buy a seat in District 25 a district full of smart voters fully capable of evaluating candidates I urge your careful consideration of these two Assembly candidates and hope you will join me in voting for La Rue Hatch B Fulkerson is the lead national organizer for Third Act Sande Alessi and Shayne Hartigan are among the most sought-after casting directors in Hollywood, and while they also work with principals, the simple fact is that if you’re making a movie or TV show in New Mexico, odds are you’ll be working with them. They are so involved there, in fact, that when the New Mexico Film Commission was drawing up its standards for extras they asked Alessi and Hartigan to write them The pair has worked on hundreds of productions around the world and are also at the forefront of doing work with the indigenous community They spoke to us from their respective offices Insights: Lessons from Sande Alessi and Shayne Hartigan Shayne Hartigan: I grew up in the industry My parents both do practical special effects I wanted to be an actor and had my sights set on going to NYU if he wants to come give me some free labor for the summer I’ll write him a college recommendation.” That was when I was 14 so I went back and interned again over the next summer in Hawaii and they had a turnover in their casting department and the casting director I was interning under was like I need somebody that can wrangle our extras casting department for the next few weeks while we get somebody trained up and on board so I got my college recommendation and got into NYU I went to NYU for a year and realized I didn’t want to be an actor I’m done with the East Coast too.” I called the casting director on Five-0 and said I went back and ended up working full time as their extras casting assistant and then an opportunity fell in my lap to work with one of the other casting directors on the island and went over and worked with her on Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates which was being shot out there at the time I was thrust into that and kind of just ran with it the reason I fell in love with casting initially and it’s a little more self-serving than anything but I loved being able to give people that once-in-a-lifetime opportunity SH: She was coming out to the island to do Kong: Skull Island I ended up getting hired semi-full time as they’re casting PA on Kong and after they moved people from Oahu to Australia back to Oahu we went from having just standards and photo doubles to all of a sudden “can you guys pull this off?” I was like would you want to try and just run the show?” So “I’ve never had somebody save my ass the way you just did Do you want to just keep working for me?” I was 20 That means I don’t have to go back to college right?” That set us off on our partnership SA: I started doing extras casting because I got into the business as an extra to learn the business I don’t think we could go around the whole world like we are now SH: What we’ve seen, especially these days, is they’re not leaning on principal casting to create these specialty looks. For instance, a lot of these Indigenous projects that we work on, like Rez Ball, we work closely with Angelique Midthunder She’s casting five Indigenous actors to play basketball and we’re getting 500 Indigenous people to fill the stands It’s on us to make it look like we’re on the res and to create these worlds on each show that we go into I think that’s what we both enjoy the most out of it because we enjoy creating that world and giving that authenticity to every show we work on They needed us to find real Afghan and Iraqi refugees in the state and nobody else locally wanted to do the job can you guys come out and help us find these communities?” That’s something that Sande has always been an expert at making the connections and being able to bring jobs to those communities where we’re dealing strictly with the Indigenous population and Hawaiians there then coming over to New Mexico and dealing with Iraqis and Afghanis who were here as refugees let’s set roots in New Mexico.” We have the culture and community on both sides We want to be a part of growing that community It was a natural progression because New Mexico is so heavily indigenous and Native American We started reaching out to the Pueblos and saying What can we do to help make sure you guys have access to these casting bonuses for these casting calls?” We work closely with Angelique She knows that we have each other’s interests at heart and that we’re going to go out to the community and find the people that need to retell that story I love a lot of the principal cast directors out there but it is a conversation we’ve had where principal casting comes on for three or four weeks on most shows we’re on for the same four weeks as principal casting and then the entire length of the film We’re here to make sure that that texture and layer are always there SA: I don’t know if it sounds like we’re giving away our secrets but we’re able to pop up anywhere because of our technology because we went in and had to cast the net so wide and dig into the community to find those ethnicities we’re also pulling in the population we left New Mexico with a big fat database that was bigger than any in New Mexico We look for the people that have never done this Those are the ones we want and their families A lot of people have this as a dream or a goal Sometimes we have to talk them into coming in we gain these relationships that we carry through the rest of our lives As opposed to people who want to do this and seek it out That’s where we like to build that relationship all of our extras will be treated with respect and dignity and that way people want to keep coming back That’s why we keep doing it because people enjoy it and they like what we do Ready to find your next role with Casting Networks? Sign up for a free trial today with the American Hustle and The Fighter director lining up Jenna Ortega (Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Scream) and Robert De Niro (Killers of the Flower Moon Ali Afshar’s ESX Entertainment has added Lou Diamond Phillips to the cast of Casa Grande: The Movie a feature to the original 2023 Prime Video series The Ozark and Inventing Anna star is in talks to play Caroline Ellison in a series about the rise and fall of cryptocurrency exchange FTX SAG-AFTRA chief Duncan Crabtree-Ireland has laid out some of the guild’s plans ahead of its contract with the studios expiring in June 2026 Casting Networks is a registered trademark of Casting Networks The Ministry of Internal Affairs announces nationwide suspension of Poro and Sande societies citing concerns over unregulated practices in a bid to address growing concerns over unregulated traditional practices has announced a nationwide suspension of all activities related to Poro and Sande societies made in consultation with the National Council of Chiefs and ensure that cultural practices do not interfere with children’s education explained the rationale behind the suspension emphasizing the government’s commitment to preserving Liberia's cultural heritage while regulating traditional practices “We stand for the promotion of positive traditional and cultural practices attaches great importance to our culture,” Minister Nyumalin stated we’ve received numerous complaints from across the country about the growing concerns surrounding the Poro and Sande societies.” Minister Nyumalin outlined several key decisions approved by the National Council of Chiefs following extensive consultations The primary decision is to suspend all activities associated with the Poro and Sande societies across the country until January 2026 “We have decided that all Poro and Sande activities are suspended until January 2026 This includes any ongoing ceremonies or initiations,” Minister Nyumalin announced all existing societies must release any children who have been initiated.” The suspension comes as part of a broader effort to address what the government describes as the proliferation of unregulated activities related to these traditional societies a structural overhaul of cultural leadership is also being implemented including those designated as cultural superintendents are hereby dissolved with immediate effect,” Nyumalin stated “We will be appointing new coordinators for each county through the office of the county superintendents These coordinators will work directly with the Ministry of Internal Affairs to ensure that the implementation of traditional practices is regulated and in line with national guidelines.” The minister acknowledged several alarming trends that have emerged within the traditional societies particularly the initiation of children below the appropriate age for commercial purposes Minister Nyumalin noted that these practices often conducted without proper authorization or oversight have disrupted the educational development of many children are being initiated into these societies purely for commercial reasons This is a matter of great concern,” Minister Nyumalin said “Initiating children without their consent is unacceptable and we must regulate how these activities are carried out We will ensure that initiation is done in a responsible and ethical manner with children being educated in parallel with these practices.” The issue of children being kept in traditional bush schools during school months The suspension aims to address this educational disruption “There must be a clear-cut policy to ensure that traditional practices do not interfere with formal education,” Nyumalin explained we cannot afford to have children missing school and our society cannot progress without it.” To bring order to the practice of traditional societies Minister Nyumalin outlined a plan to develop and enforce regulations governing traditional practices This will be done in close collaboration with the National Council of Chiefs who are set to meet in April 2025 to finalize the regulations “We are committed to working closely with the chiefs to formulate clear regulations for the Poro and Sande societies they will return to consult with their local communities to ensure that everyone has a voice in this process,” Nyumalin said The new regulations will include guidelines on initiation practices The government aims to ensure that these practices align with national laws while protecting the rights of children and preserving Liberia’s cultural identity Another issue raised during the consultation was the use of traditional practices to disrupt economic activities Minister Nyumalin addressed concerns that individuals using the name of traditional societies were blocking concession operations halting the progress of businesses and affecting the country’s economy “There have been instances where individuals have gone to concession areas and disrupted operations,” Minister Nyumalin said we are giving strict instructions to all chiefs to ensure that such disruptions are not tolerated Traditional authorities will never again be allowed to interfere with business operations.” The government’s stance is that business and traditional practices must coexist without compromising each other chiefs are now under directive to prevent bush master's from interfering with the work of businesses operating in Liberia The government’s reforms will proceed with the immediate appointment of new cultural coordinators at the county level These coordinators will play a critical role in ensuring that traditional practices comply with the new regulations “We have set a deadline for the new coordinators to be appointed and they will work closely with the Ministry of Internal Affairs to ensure that traditional practices are implemented in a way that benefits the nation,” Nyumalin emphasized The government will continue to work with chiefs and traditional leaders to ensure that the new regulations are effective and that cultural practices are respected within the boundaries of national laws “We believe that within the next eight months we will be able to carry out these reforms effectively,” the minister concluded and transparent framework for managing traditional practices ensuring that our culture thrives while protecting the rights and education of our children.” Your browser is out of date and potentially vulnerable to security risks.We recommend switching to one of the following browsers: By 2024-10-25T13:53:00+01:00 Blue Turaco’s founder says ‘coffee saved my life’ championing robusta and the difficulty of being a black founder But perhaps not as young as Wycliffe Sande The Blue Turaco founder began thinking about his career at just eight years old His mother’s mental health began to spiral: she became non-verbal for a year and was unable to work who grew up in a fishing village in Uganda He began collecting cow dung and picking coffee for money “I think in the UK you’d call it child labour but in my situation it was called survival.” It formed the basis of what would eventually become Blue Turaco “I don’t think it’s dramatic to say coffee saved my life A lot of things I do now are born out of my own curiosity about coffee as a child.” that curiosity was the driving force behind Sande building the first black African-owned coffee company to gain a UK supermarket listing – in a somewhat bumpy path to success.  He then met a British volunteer who was working in local schools and the volunteer’s family helped Sande come to the UK to study law at the University of London He then landed roles at Nestlé and Nando’s and it was during the latter stint that Sande began making moves to launch Blue Turaco He saved frantically and spent all his annual leave travelling to his home country with a plan to source coffee from local farmers Doing so fairly was one of the founding principles of Blue Turaco which sources directly from Ugandan coffee-growing communities The brand pays 30% more than traditional coffee trade routes and provides two meals for Ugandan village schools for every pack sold Blue Turaco hopes to take its number of farmers from 100 to more than 250 by the end of this year’s season taking its total number of stockists to 500 Blue Turaco is now on track to hit a forecast retail sales value of £2m in 2025 UgandaLives: London and UgandaAge: 41Family: Wife and three kidsPotted CV: Financial claims co-ordinator at Nestlé; sales & customer service manager at Nando’s; founder of Blue Turaco CoffeeBest advice you’ve ever received: Don’t rush but don’t delayBusiness motto: Powerful coffee powerful impactBook you’re currently reading: The Business of Speciality Coffee by Maxwell DashwoodItem you couldn’t live without: PhoneHobbies: Reading writing and walking in natureDream holiday: To travel throughout Uganda and document itFavourite film: Coach CarterFavourite book: Steve Jobs biography by Walter IsaacsonFavourite restaurant: I don’t really have one but Nando’s would be up thereFavourite way to drink coffee: Black at room temperature the company’s stated mission is to “shift the power dynamics in the coffee industry” “I don’t just want to sit in London and make loads of money,” he says “When you have struggled so much through life it’s natural to think: I’m earning money now Part of that is about simply showing up on the farms “I’m not there as someone dipping in because it’s my profession to buy coffee,” he explains “ I am truly and genuinely working with farmers with a long-term perspective any new policy is really just passed down to a farmer saying: ‘This is what we think is good for you.’ There’s never been a true champion of smallholder farmers… who’s also building a brand.” Sande is obtaining direct feedback from farmers on what works and what doesn’t He also realises most smallholder farmers grow a variety of crops That could be through Blue Turaco – which buys corn from its farmers you’ve created a secondary income,” says Sande And I think I’m able to do that mostly because I was born in that environment I think: ‘This is what I would have loved from someone as a farmer.’” Paying farmers 30% more than your standard brand is another key benefit Much of that simply comes down to “not being greedy” on profits though it also comes from working directly with farmers That means it can take out the “five middlemen who all want their cut” Sande has seen the benefits of that extra income with his own eyes “It allows some of these farmers to dream,” he says “We need to make sure coffee production pays because that’s the only way we’re going to attract new blood.” Another of the big challenges facing Sande – and Ugandan farmers as a whole – is changing perceptions of robusta “We are challenging what the coffee connoisseurs have always told you – that arabica is the only coffee worth drinking,” he says “Our offering of speciality robusta is really differentiated About 70% of coffee grown in Uganda is robusta meaning the more we talk about it and improve robusta processing techniques the more livelihoods we can impact,” Sande points out Blue Turaco grows its robusta at a high altitude in “favourable growing conditions” to create what it describes as a more nuanced flavour profile with fruity and floral notes The coffee berries are dried and processed in Uganda before going to the UK “I feel compelled as someone who understands coffee to get people talking about robusta for what it is – an amazing coffee that’s rarely looked after or processed in the right way,” Sande sums up he is also keen to discuss one of Blue Turaco’s missions closer to home: opening doors for other black entrepreneurs “It was extremely difficult to get Blue Turaco off the ground,” he says You need to have gone to the right schools the only fmcg founder for young black people to look up to was Levi Roots Blue Turaco is not just about selling the product and it’s also a template for the black boy and girl born and raised in Croydon who have never bought a product made by someone like them Success does not come in monetary value only It’s also how many other people who look like me will be inspired.” Sign in to comment on this article Site powered by Webvision Cloud Learn moreExplore related questionsDiscover more about the topics that matter most Browse our suggested questions or ask your own to find out more Jort van der Sande is determined to repay Dundee United fans for their backing after acknowledging his relationship with the supporters could have easily turned sour The Bonaire international joined United last summer signing a two-year deal to bolster the attacking options at Tannadice But while the tireless forward has undoubtedly contributed to a fine campaign for the Tangerines, he has gone 33 games without breaking his duck – albeit only 10 of those coming in the starting line-up Nevertheless, van der Sande went viral after being hoisted on the shoulders of delirious Arabs at a recent Dundee United Supporters’ Federation awards night while encouragement from the stands has never wavered “I came here as a striker – and am still a striker – and I haven’t scored a goal,” said van der Sande there are different aspects in the game other than scoring goals but it (the fan reaction) could still have gone the other way “As a striker who came from a foreign country and hasn’t scored “But they are a tremendous support for me, personally It’s getting harder and harder because there are less games to have a chance to score “If the manager gives me a chance and gives me game time I will give anything to try to make an impact There could scarcely be a better time to open his account than during a mouth-watering finale to the campaign; starting with tomorrow’s clash against Hibs He smiled: “That would be the best scenario ever.” The last fixture between the sides in February was shrouded in controversy when Sam Dalby’s goal was ruled out for a phantom handball with the score tied at 1-1 Hibs went on to run out 3-1 victors at Tannadice, while the Scottish FA subsequently acknowledged the error van der Sande is not prone to crying over spilt milk “I don’t think you can really think like that during the season,” he continued “There were plenty of games that we were the lucky ones in the end and there were plenty of games where we weren’t the lucky ones “I believe that eventually you end up in the spot you should be.” Nevertheless, van der Sande is adamant United have nothing to fear from the Hibees, insisting Saturday’s showdown in Leith will be a very different affair from the Tangerines’ 5-0 reverse against Celtic last time out. There has barely been anything between the sides this season with one win apiece and a 1-1 draw at Easter Road “I don’t think we’re worried if you look at the previous games we had against them,” he added we have more chance to try to make the game and play our football.” Ross Graham will miss out due to a hamstring strain Lewis Fiorini is expected to be fit and Declan Gallagher will train on Friday with a view to being available Comments are currently disabled as they require cookies and it appears you've opted out of cookies on this site. To participate in the conversation, please adjust your cookie preferences in order to enable comments Try a different filter or a new search keyword In an industry largely populated by hype-chasers, self-promoters, and bloated egos, Sande is the definition of a mercurial figure. As the founder of the London/Berlin-based Blackest Ever Black he was the architect of one of the most original independent record labels of the last decade I’ve corresponded with him a little over the years but he prefers to conduct interviews by email and you’d struggle to find a good photo of him—I doubt I’d recognize him if I bumped into him on the street “I don’t let everyone know what I’m working on or doing all the time which could be (mis)interpreted as seeking anonymity I don’t really want you to know who I’m hanging out with Lost Domain is a love letter to a strain of fast future-facing electronic music—the kind shot through with a sort of sick existing right at the brink of too-fast-to-dance-to “Getting into 160 BPM stuff totally revitalized me,” writes Sande that energy—it affects your thought patterns and your nervous system in a completely different way to trad techno into this different level of consciousness This sensibility cuts through Dear Ghod a new compilation bringing together artists from the Lost Domain inner circle as well as a few fellow travelers There is some variety here—the industrial techno wormholes of Conrad Pack’s “Outer Drift”; the minimal cardiac pulsations of Leeway’s “Rushcutter”; the hardcore power balladry of Assassin’s “Gabber Smelled Like Pineapple And Coconut”—but there is also consistency: a crackling sense of anxiety Lost Domain’s laser-focus feels notable because Blackest Ever Black was anything but Blackest was not so much about a core sound or style as it was about exploring a sensibility: dark and (whisper it) a little gothic and hardly as humorless as it might first appear Drop a needle on one of the label’s releases and you might hear pitch-black techno Blackest Ever Black’s variety felt like a virtue Its spirit of eclecticism hinted at something bigger: a long dark thread running through diverse sounds clearly it was the last great British independent label—only a total simpleton would dispute that,” says Karl O’Connor who released a string of records through Blackest Ever Black He came to it fully formed with all his influences in place and got out just when people—mainly Americans—were starting to catch on and copy him.” Sande released over 100 records throughout Blackest Ever Black before bringing the label to an intentional close in 2019—one year shy of its 10th birthday. Shortly after, he moved back to the UK following a period spent in Berlin and founded Low Company a record shop in Hackney Wick that also operated as a label and place to drink beers and spin strange and esoteric records after hours Low Company took the catholic taste of Blackest Ever Black and blew it up it to the size of a store Go browsing its racks and you’d turn up everything from aggro hardcore punk 7-inches to Swedish improv folk LPs to hand-dubbed mixtapes every visit offering a raft of new discoveries Low Company was the realization of a long-standing dream to run a record shop it wasn’t long until things started to go off the rails “The plan was to come back and open this shop in London,” he writes I should’ve realized opening a shop in a different city was a mental idea but I wasn’t really prepared to give it up.” the realities of running a small business in post-Brexit Britain quickly began to bite and you have to sell some garbage to make ends meet—which we could never quite bring ourselves to do.” Debts were starting to snowball when the pandemic hit: “The perfect alibi I never once attributed the shop’s demise to Covid but the timing of our closure invited that assumption The reality was more prosaic: I couldn’t really be fucked with it.” Low Company pulled down its shutters for good in August 2020 “It was like walking out on a relationship I can just leave.’ The shit bit came later Especially when I tried to listen to techno—a constant in my life for 20-plus years—or anything amelodic It felt like a bunch of receptors in my brain that I used to take for granted had shriveled up and died.” At the same time I had to pay off the shop’s debts—boring grown-up shit all against a backdrop of pandemic perma-glumness and anxiety I knew I was glad to be done with the shop but I didn’t really know what else to do with myself I felt totally disconnected from everyone and everything.” so this kind of support blew my mind,” says Gormley “It made the whole thing feel real—it helped make it real He’s got a nice way of upping the stakes and doubling down on things.” Around 2020, Gormley had shifted focus to his new production alias, Leeway and was immersing himself in two largely forgotten genres: freetekno a speedy variant of hardcore techno that grew out of European squat parties and outdoor raves; and the raw zoney instrumentals that emerged the first days of grime “The bit of grime that excites me is when it’s in flux between other genres when it’s only just forming as a definable sound and it’s really strange and choppy and alien,” says Gormley he was trying to intermingle the styles in his own original productions “This grime-freetek thing was just this desire to put two very potent forms of sonic rebellion/abstraction together.” Throughout the pandemic, Gormley would send Sande .zip files of music—edits of grime and freetekno tunes that he’d been obsessively piecing together, trying to spark a new sound into being. Then, in late 2021, he sent over some new Leeway production sketches building on these ideas—loops of snappy snare and black hole synth that, in time, would evolve into his 2023 LP Hypoxia “I was blown away that he’d been tapping into this whole other thing “Suddenly something clicked with where my head was at “I think Guy made me realize how compatible some of the gristlier freetek stuff could be with grime and steppers,” explains Sande in different ways are answering a natural craving I had which was to reconcile the hard and fast with a more eerie dub-depressed quality.” Looking for a way to describe the sound on a flier “There’s a dub sensibility to everything I love: minimal Moving from inner to outer space and back again.” Sande sees Lost Domain as a node in this wider network “All this stuff for me is true cyberpunk,” he continues “Music made by advanced networked humanoid freaks It was very obviously a new generation coming through fantasist vibe exacerbated by the pandemic.” To date, Lost Domain have surfaced a couple of times for live events—a kick-off in collaboration with Gormley’s night SCRAM at Bermondsey’s Ormside Projects with special guest Regis, and the first UK appearance by the San Francisco techno producer Nebuchadnezzar But Sande sounds a little uncomfortable about such IRL manifestations “At the moment I’m not sure if we’ll do another thing at least not in the near future,” Sande writed he sounds more fired up by the idea of Lost Domain as a sort of research lab: a way of exploring the 21st century boundaries of music and technology “It’s hard to say this without sounding like an idiot but I’m exhilarated by AI and all the complications—good bad and ugly—it’s bringing to our existence,” Sande writes “From the very basic level of fucking around with Deep Dream Generator and Chat GTP and other shonkier content-creation tools trying to generate images and texts that surprise me and unsettle me using very basic strategies to trick the algorithms into creative malfunction.” Gormley and Sande also talk about using Lost Domain as a delivery mechanism for the written word Each release on the label’s Bandcamp is accompanied by some cryptic piece of writing—fragments of prose cribbed from science fiction novels or brief oblique track notes that nod to the ‘grimdark’ aesthetic of Warhammer 40K or 2000AD: “inner space warfare>>>weedhaven>>>no way back>>>keep healthy people out of clubs>>>.” So it makes sense when Sande reveals that Lost Domain grew out of some original fiction that he wrote in 2021 and 2022 “Recently I’ve been feeling like I want to revisit them and start integrating them into the project—which is a lot easier said than done,” he writes “I think the motivation is that I want to start making more visible the context for this music but is still quite opaque to anyone on the outside I wondered if the name Lost Domain had nostalgic connotations: a harking back to raves gone by “I can’t think of anything more tedious than that whole ‘lost future,’ hauntological thing—it’s a dead end,” he writes But in corresponding with Sande and Gormley I note how many times the pandemic comes up as a topic It makes me wonder if Lost Domain—either directly or subconsciously—refers to that pandemic headspace and the way that living in plague times reshaped our lives Things have returned to normal—whatever the fuck that means But the feelings that period engendered—that undercurrent of nervousness and paranoia and isolation—still travel with us “Labels are just concentrations of energy,” says Sande “I think what Lost Domain is is a narrowing of focus Blackest Ever Black in particular became this sprawling thing I wanted it to be a million different things at the same time I was young and naïve and I wanted to cram everything in.” “But labels are also bridges between the present and the future No one has ever worked with me for my reliability or business acumen They do it because I can help them imagine a future in which their boldest work is out in the world The curious byproduct of that is I feel like I’m always living in this imagined future and when it actually arrives I can’t enjoy it because I’m thinking about the next thing PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (April 14, 2024) – Beverly Sande, Ph.D., P.E., has been awarded $112,200 in grant funding by Texas Tech University through the Education Service Center Region 13 Sande is an Associate Professor is in the Whitlowe R. Green College of Education at Prairie View A&M University (WRGCOE). Douglas Butler, Ph.D., serves as the Department Head and Associate Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, while Britine Perkins, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor within the College of Education they act as Co-Principal Investigators (Co-PIs) for this project The project aims to facilitate activities that enhance teacher candidate readiness and strengthen our university-school partnership This goal aligns with Prairie View A&M University’s (PVAMU) WRGCOE mission which focuses on preparing candidates for roles in public and private schools as well as other settings dedicated to fostering the educational growth and welfare of culturally diverse children and youth Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker Dundee United are delighted to announce the signing of Jort van der Sande from ADO Den Haag on a permanent transfer as the striker arrives at the club on a two-year deal The move is subject to both international and SFA clearance After spending a large portion of his childhood on the Caribbean Island of Bonaire van der Sande entered the academy of boyhood club FC Den Bosch upon his return to the mainland -  a side who our Scottish Cup-winning hero of 1994  Guido van de Kamp His breakthrough into the first team came in the summer of 2014 having starred for the club’s reserve side consistently going on to grab four goals and three assists in his debut senior term in the Dutch second tier aged just 19 the frontman became an integral part of a side that regularly jousted for a place in the promotion play-offs - a feat which the White and Blue Dragons ultimately achieved in van der Sande’s final campaign his time at De Vliert ended with an approach from fellow Eerste Divisie outfit FC Eindhoven A three-year stint with Ernie Brandts’ men brought further battles for a place in the top flight as van der Sande maintained an encouraging return of a goal contribution every 204 minutes in the south west A prolific 12 months with NAC Breda then followed with our new number 20 involved in over a third of their 64 league goals during 2022/23 including a thundering header against MVV Maastricht just ten minutes into his debut.  His final year in the Netherlands was spent with ADO Den Haag where he netted 13 Eerste Divisie strikes for a third successive season van der Sande pledged his allegiance to Bonaire and made his international bow in a CONCACAF Nations League clash with Anguilla he has appeared in a further matchup with the same opponent and a tussle with Saint Martin The 28-year-old will have the opportunity to kickstart his Terrors career into life immediately with the visit of Luton Town tomorrow evening - grab your ticket to see our new recruit in action here! "Jort’s arrival is an exciting one for the club" "His goalscoring record in Dutch football speaks volumes about his pedigree having been at the top end of the second tier’s scoring charts on numerous occasions throughout the past decade "Linking up with teammates whilst playing with his back to goal is also a pivotal strength of his game one which will bring a different dynamic to our frontline and have a positive impact on the versatility of the unit as a whole." Van der Sande himself added: "This is a big club with a rich history "I'm a tough player who likes to be in duels with defenders create chances for my teammates and most importantly I also think this will be a really good fit for me - I love the country and that made this an even more attractive proposition." He concluded: "Tomorrow night's game is a great opportunity for me to get to know my teammates and make a great impression on the fans at his home unexpectedly from a recent health issue.  the son of Eugene Sande and Connie (Holthaus) Sande Benedict's School through 8th grade and then graduated from Decorah High School in 1990. Cory held various jobs throughout his life including Deco Products and Wal-Mart in Decorah Cory liked listening to his music playlist especially to Howard Jones and Neil McDaniel He also enjoyed spending time with his Dad at his Dad's cabin He could always surprise you with a funny look on his face He enjoyed simple pleasures like grilling a good pork chop or sitting by a campfire Dalton and Carsen; his parents Eugene (Jan) Sande Lake Delton Kelly (Cheryl Matuszewski) Dvorak Eagle River IA; one step brother Frank (Natalie) Nguyen Woodruff Fairfax,VA; his nieces and nephews: Karinna and Devin Ashbacher Mallory and Camren Darling; step-nephews Joshua and Jackson Nguyen Woodruff uncles and cousins that he enjoyed spending time with.  He is preceded in death by his grandparents Selmer and Jeanette Sande and Raymond and Hilda Holthaus; aunts and uncles Darlene and Wayne Perry and Jane and Doug Blair; cousins Michael Robertson A private memorial service for immediate family will be held on Saturday followed by a Celebration of Life at the VFW in Decorah An additional Celebration of Life will be held at E9177 North Reedsburg Road Please select what you would like included for printing: Copy the text below and then paste that into your favorite email application This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply Service map data © OpenStreetMap contributors Industry news and insights from Europe and around the World Keep up-to-date with the latest new products and technology was re-elected president of European contractors group AREA for a further two years at AREA’s general assembly last week director of the Czech Republic’s SCHKT training centre was elected as the new vice president at the annual meeting in Belfast AREA includes 26 national associations from 24 European countries amongst its membership representing more than 13,000 companies with a total turnover of €23bn Two new members were admitted this year: the Association of Refrigeration Engineers of Latvia and the Association of Fluorinated Gas Companies of Romania Cooling Post is the leading online resource covering latest news and developments in the cooling industry air conditioning news and the latest heat pump developments Privacy & Cookie Policy © Copyright 2025, Cooling Post Ltd - All Rights Reserved | Website by Capital Web Bonnerup Funeral & Cremation Services - Albert Lea Enter your phone number above to have directions sent via text Link IconCopy linkFacebook LogoShare on FacebookXShare on XEmailShare via EmailLink copied to clipboardSande Webster gallery owner and early champion of Black artists Webster was a trailblazing arts dealer who began showing Black artists nearly half a century ago when others told her it was bad for business whose gallery played a major role in the renaissance of Philadelphia’s visual arts over the past half century and served as an important hub for the city’s Black artists She was 89 and had been increasingly frail “She just passed away in the middle of the night,” Brantley said Monday “I came down and I looked over and she was gone.” Ms. Webster’s gallery at 2006 Walnut St. closed in 2011 in the wake of the Great Recession But she remained a fixture on the city’s art scene attending openings and other events until the pandemic shut most of it down Sande Webster studied physics and Spanish at Temple University — not art But she fondly remembered trips to the Rittenhouse Square art fair when she was a little girl She liked to say “my interest in art happened without my knowing it was happening.” a painter and graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Sande Webster and three friends started a gallery She had a particular interest in Black artists and became instrumental in the formation of Recherché a small collective of Black artists who banded together in the hope of greater visibility and to exchange ideas Not only did she support the artists of Recherché but her gallery showed a number of Black artists outside of the group “I hear you have Black artists in your gallery,” one prominent dealer said to her early on Webster enthusiastically acknowledged the diversity of her artists to the dealer don’t you know you can’t do that?” the dealer admonished Webster said in an interview in We Speak: Black Artists in Philadelphia white people never come,” the dealer continued Webster proved that prediction wrong as she eventually worked her way to a million dollars in annual sales — all while consistently showing artists of color “Sande is somebody who moved the needle on the arts in Philadelphia by showing Black artists before other galleries,” said William Valerio chief executive and director of the Woodmere Webster’s gallery gave “a platform to artists who were otherwise excluded,” he said She “embraced artists who were otherwise not given a chance” — a situation “that still exists to this day” despite her efforts she’s really been an institution in the Philadelphia art world because she amplified artists who had strong voices but weren’t being heard,” said Susanna Gold and author of The Unfinished Exhibition: Visualizing Myth and the Shadow of the Civil War in Centennial America “A number of artists that she represented were Black artists She was an advocate for them at a time when they didn’t have as many advocates as they should have Webster wanted to make sure her gallery defied definitions “She represented a number of artists of all different heritages but insisted on not categorizing them She just wanted them to be recognized as interesting artists She made that happen in her gallery spaces and with collectors and collections.” a who’s who of Black artists in Philadelphia — from Syd Carpenter who was represented by the Webster Gallery for more than 20 years “no galleries in the city were willing to show African American artists » READ MORE: Moe Brooker, educator, civic leader, and painter known for his virtuoso use of color, has died at 81 Brooker said in an interview a few years ago that the Webster gallery “opened the door” for Black artists it was an exhibition of Recherché's work at Sande Webster’s gallery in 1985 that attracted the attention of Brantley “So I go into the gallery and Sande is there I’m looking around and she comes up to me and she says ‘I know you; you’re James Brantley,’” Brantley recalled Your work was at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and you exhibited your work there in your third year.’ And she described the paintings.” Sande Webster Gallery eventually showed his work in exhibitions all over the world — from Europe to Cuba and other countries in Latin America rare individual,” Brantley said of his wife Mallory Lutz and Stephaine Phelan; a stepdaughter Plans for a memorial service were still being formulated on Monday assistant professor in the department of curriculum and instruction at Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) was awarded a total of $12,200,000 by the United States Department of Education for her program “Leading Equity Across Diverse Environments with Revolutionary Synergy (LEADERS).” The total funding is a one-to-one cost-sharing model where the USDoE grant provides $6,100,000 and the additional $6,100,000 is supplied by the awardees themselves “The partnership will allow LEADERS to directly serve 260 diverse teacher residents and leaders of which 85% are Title I schools,” said Sande The LEADERS Team includes project partners from multiple departments and institutions program coordinator and associate professor of history at PVAMU; Dr associate professor in the College of Education at PVAMU; Dr assistant professor in Educational Administration and Human Resource Development at Texas A&M University (TAMU); and associate professor in the departments of Educational Administration and Human Resource Development and Teaching The LEADERS project is an extension of the partners’ current work to develop and scale educator preparation programs focused on meeting the needs of underserved students residencies for undergraduate and post-baccalaureate programs will be delivered at PVAMU for their students while PVAMU and TAMU will work across institutions to deliver a residency for students in our principalship programs Year one of our LEADERS project will involve ramp-up activities years two through four the cohorts will be rolled out and year five is the culmination of our efforts to ensure sustainability alongside our school district partners — Brenham Independent School District (ISD) “PVAMU will use this grant to design its new Leading Equity Across Diverse Environments with Revolutionary Synergy (LEADERS) initiative to enhance and strategically target high-needs districts,” said Magesh Rajan vice president of Research & Innovation “It will prepare highly qualified teachers and leaders capable of supporting the academic and emotional needs of children and youth in grades K-12.” The goal of this program is to increase the number of effective and diverse teacher residents and school leaders for high-need schools and subjects; enhance the quality of new teacher residency programs by engaging them in a culturally sustaining residency; build capacity and ensure the sustainability among the partners to fully implement and sustain their residency programs after the grant period ends; and advance the field by conducting a rigorous evaluation and disseminate findings to improve knowledge and understanding of systems and processes necessary to authentically scale and sustain residency programs for teachers and school leaders in high-need areas “The college has always been a noted leader in the state of Texas in producing teachers and leaders for high-need districts,” said Dr our collaboration with Texas A&M University contributes to Chancellor Sharp’s vision for a multifaceted partnership between TAMU and PVAMU.” Jort van der Sande and Richard Odada are set to return to international action across three different continents this week as North Macedonia Bonaire and Kenya contest their final matches of 2024 David Babunski has featured regularly for a North Macedonia side which has stormed to the top of UEFA Nations League C Group Four They have netted eight goals in four matches and stringing together their longest run of consecutive victories since March 2022 The Lions also currently hold their joint-highest FIFA ranking in 15 years Blagoja Milevski’s men need just one point from clashes with Latvia and the Faroe Islands to secure an historic promotion into League B for the first time since the competition’s inception The 30-year-old jets off to the Balkans having missed just one William Hill Premiership match this term - a metronomic figure in the Terrors’ engine room Fellow United star Kristijan Trapanovski was also included in the squad however had to withdraw due to a hamstring injury sustained at Easter Road.  Babunski will therefore have to content himself with brother who plies his trade for Swiss outfit Grasshopper Zurich North Macedonia v Latvia | Thursday 14 November | 7:45pm North Macedonia v Faroe Islands | Sunday 17 November | 2pm Jort van der Sande's Bonaire will base themselves in Central America as El Salvador host the final round of CONCACAF Nations League C fixtures Bonaire go head-to-head with the table-topping hosts in the early hours of Friday morning with three points a necessity should they wish to finish top of the pile themselves.  van der Sande opened his international account with a well-placed header in second-half stoppage time however El Salvador held firm to record a 2-1 triumph The Dutch municipality return to action less than 72 hours later, contesting their final Group One battle with Saint Vincent and the Grenadines on Sunday evening. Bonaire v El Salvador | Friday 15 November | 1am Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | Sunday 17 November | 8pm Since being handed his senior debut by Jacob Mulee in 2021, Richard Odada has gone on to secure 20 caps for Kenya. The towering midfielder has also started the last 15 consecutive matches, a run stretching back 17 months. Impressive displays at domestic level have ensured that will likely continue for Odada, as he was named in the Harambee Stars’ latest squad to round off their Africa Cup of Nations Qualifying campaign. However, their hopes of reaching next year’s edition of the historic competition hang in the balance after back-to-back defeats to Cameroon last month. This Friday’s meeting with Zimbabwe can be deemed a must-win - four points currently separate the sides with just six left to play for. Namibia, who sit bottom of the table yet to register a point, are Kenya’s last opponents of Group J and 2024, with nothing less than a convincing victory required again should they wish to appear at their sixth AFCON. Zimbabwe v Kenya | Friday 15 November | 4pm Kenya v Namibia | Tuesday 19 November | 1pm Sign in In-depth Interviews with Authorities in Business We use interviews to draw out stories that are both empowering and actionable Listen When negative self-talk creeps in and you find yourself on the rumination wheel of awfulizing the situation As a part of our series about how very accomplished leaders were able to succeed despite experiencing Imposter Syndrome Teresa Sande is CEO and founder of Mirror Mirror Strategies a talent consultancy focused on creating effective inclusive leaders and high performing organizations Find Your Fierce: Interrupt Imposter Syndrome and Own Your Success Teresa is passionate about equity in the workplace healthy corporate cultures and ensuring people are valued and rewarded for their contributions — those seen and unseen Teresa holds a Master’s in Organizational Effectiveness and Communication and has more than 20 years of global corporate experience as an executive with companies like Intel She has dedicated her career to creating effective talent strategies that enable business results through strategic planning startups and mid-and large-sized organizations to get to the root of what all leaders have in common — being human She has coached exceptional leaders around the world and along the way has become an expert in imposter syndrome — the feeling you are alone She has discovered imposter syndrome is one of the key derailers for leaders struggling to stand in their greatness And having battled imposter syndrome herself Teresa knows firsthand how these feelings — particularly for women and people of color — are rooted in and fed by flaws that exist in organizational systems there is a hefty price to pay for all involved Our readers would love to “get to know you” a bit better Can you tell us a bit about your ‘backstory’ My dad was a proud police officer for more than 30 years and my mom stayed at home and helped my grandparents run their tavern business My brother and I were two of the first people to graduate from college in my family Our humble beginnings set me up to feel unconvinced I ‘belonged’ as I started my corporate career especially as I worked with more and more people who went to strong pedigree schools That feeling of not being sure I belonged was prevalent for me throughout my career in corporate America — most acutely as I started to experience success They were being identified as future executives — yet they started to severely doubt they belonged there or that they had earned their success the more I learned about imposter syndrome and shared my findings with my clients we quickly became frustrated that while there was a lot written about what it is there was not nearly enough concrete support for what to do about it Just telling someone not to feel that way doesn’t cut it Can you share with us the most interesting story from your career Can you tell us what lessons or ‘take aways’ you learned from that I’ve had the opportunity to work with some of the very best and brightest talent Fortune 100 companies have to offer I learned early you need to take risks and try different roles across three different companies over the span of 10 years Taking those risks taught me it’s just as valuable to learn what you don’t want to do and what type of leader you don’t want to be as much as what you DO want to do and the type of leader you DO want to be I also learned nothing has to be permanent If you try something and you don’t like it or it doesn’t work out you can always create your next opportunity It’s important to remember if you did it once you likely won’t because now you’ve grown and the next thing you’ll do will be even bigger and better What do you think makes your company stand out An executive in HR often has to tell leaders what’s really going on — and it’s not always what they want to hear Sometimes those same leaders are actually the root cause of an issue that is happening One of my talents is helping people see things clearly by offering an accurate assessment of a situation providing constructive feedback or seeing what is possible Many leaders have shared with me they appreciated me being real and telling them like it is Once people reach senior leadership status They stop telling them what they need to hear but it’s something I’m good at and it benefits the person When I was thinking about what to name my company I kicked around words I felt described the work I do and the services I offer — like inspiring I had talked myself into a circle and threw up my hands I asked myself out loud: What the heck do I do that’s unique I reflected on feedback I’ve received from CEOs and other top leaders I’ve worked with and it came to me I’ve been told over and over again that I ‘hold up the mirror’ for people so they can see clearly what is in front of them The name Mirror Mirror comes from that — I help people gain awareness and clearly see their talents and what it will take to achieve their vision Once you see something you can’t unsee it and now you can move forward None of us are able to achieve success without some help along the way Is there a particular person who you are grateful towards who helped get you to where you are The kiss of death in HR is not thinking like a business person you immediately lose credibility and are seen as theoretical One of my first managers instilled in her team that we exist to serve the business Everything we did needed to be in support of solving a challenge the business was facing she also believed just because the business wanted something didn’t mean we should do anything and everything requested of us She expected us to be business leaders who happened to have expertise in HR That mindset has served me so well throughout my career and helped to set me apart — it helped me grow my career and it’s a core principle from which I operate my consultancy today I wouldn’t be where I am without that role modeling and strategic guidance that shaped my approach Now let’s shift to the main focus of this interview We would like to explore and flesh out the experience of Impostor Syndrome What do people with Imposter Syndrome feel Imposter Syndrome was first called Imposter Phenomenon in the 1970s by two female professors They were working with PhD students and noticed a phenomenon in female students they weren’t seeing in male students The women were doing their projects and research just the same as the men yet the men were saying “I deserve to be here I have my research to back up what I’m saying,” while the women thought “I’m lucky to be here; I stumbled into this research.” The men connected their actions intrinsically to what they did and the direct outcome and success they achieved The women disconnected that success and were not able to internalize how their actions drove the results the female students were attributing their successes to external factors o Being in the right place at the right time o Getting selected for the program because the first choice people were not available It wasn’t necessarily anything the women were doing wrong it was how they saw their successes coming to them As the concept became more mainstream over the years I describe imposter syndrome as an outcome and results in having a feeling or belief that you haven’t earned your success Perhaps you feel you don’t even belong in the role you are in and it’s simply a matter of time before everyone finds out you’re not as awesome as they thought you were It’s like a shoe is about to drop and you’ll be discovered as a fraud I can generalize the feeling of imposter syndrome but what I think is even more interesting are its tell-tale signs and symptoms Often it shows up in the form of perfectionism tendencies micromanaging and down-playing your success That’s why it can be tricky to identify when it’s happening feeling like an imposter isn’t a moral failure on the part of the person It’s a result of our experiences with the systems we are a part of What are the downsides of Impostor Syndrome and for the organization they are a part of When someone feels like a fraud or an imposter they start to display certain behaviors to compensate for it — things like micromanaging a team This is because they’re operating from a scarcity mentality The fear of failure or fear that you may not ever get another chance doesn’t create psychological safety As humans we are not at our best when we feel unsafe or insecure in our positioning I believe imposter syndrome is a strong contributing factor to why there aren’t more women in senior leadership positions Women may not put themselves out there for the role or push for it for themselves if they are questioning if they belong or are good enough if the environment isn’t healthy and doesn’t have psychological safety and awareness of their own unconscious biases an organization may judge women and people of color differently and say they aren’t ready for the big roles It’s a highly complex issue and takes some unpacking to keep it under control for both the person and the organization How can the experience of Impostor Syndrome impact how one treats others The tell-tale signs you’re experiencing imposter syndrome can show up in your day-to-day work If you feel scarcity or fear you can’t make a mistake or you might not get another shot you may start micromanaging your team and spending time in the weeds Perhaps you start to have a lack of tolerance for failure Perfection tendencies start to show up and as we know Many women who have made it to the senior-most ranks had to sacrifice If they are still struggling with imposter syndrome they may continue to feel a sense of scarcity like there is only room for one of us at the table they may say they want to support other women coming up in the pipeline Women leaders can sometimes be toughest on other women — either because no one made it easy for them or because they think it will help the other woman toughen up and be ready for what they will face I love when leaders work to actively change the culture of an organization and challenge the norms so that things will be better for the next generations They may have some blind spots in the process and they still may need to heal from their own experiences The outcome of feeling acute imposter syndrome can have a systemic cost for an organization Imagine your organization identifies you as someone they believe should be promoted but start to feel you weren’t worthy (although you were) so you begin to micro-manage or over-analyze maybe she isn’t right for this job.” It’s almost like a self-fulfilling prophecy — and why it is so critical to get imposter syndrome under control We would love to hear your story about your experience with Impostor Syndrome I applied for my first big corporate job at Intel That’s where imposter syndrome first hit me like a ton of bricks I was sitting on the floor of my tiny apartment filling out paperwork stretch out my hand to all the people I’d be working with how will I add value if I’m not even sure what I’ll be doing What if all the things I’ve learned up to this point aren’t what is needed there?” At this point little beads of sweat are forming on my forehead and my hands are starting to sweat “What if people ask me to do something I don’t yet know how to do why did they hire me?” Now I’m full-on hyperventilating and start to tear up “They are going to size me up quickly and realize they made a mistake It’s only a matter of time before they realize I’m not that great and they’re going to fire me.” I was a puddle on the living room floor The next day came and I put on my big girl clothes and went to Intel But that experience set me on a path where I started to notice when I felt this way — it was almost always at a point of achievement while coaching top talent in Corporate America I noticed some were experiencing that same feeling I had — a sense that they “just got lucky,” telling me “people are going to realize I’m not the best person for this job.” It was prevalent in leaders as well as people on the cusp of leadership They were paralyzed by the fear of getting found out When I would share with them what I was learning about imposter syndrome over and over the reaction was a huge sigh of relief so I’m not the only person who feels this way?” Just to be able to name it was empowering and from there we could discuss: Why do you think you feel this The more we uncovered the more it was clear that imposter syndrome wasn’t a failure on their part But frustratingly there wasn’t much written about what to do about imposter syndrome Simply saying someone shouldn’t feel that way isn’t enough and continued watching people who battled it and talking through what worked for them.What were the tricks and techniques we would get to the root of some of the limiting beliefs people were holding about themselves And I realized I felt this way throughout my own life I had to face the music and realize there had been times I self-sabotaged my own career The more work I did around imposter syndrome the more I realized these people were not broken awareness is key and there was work to be done to be their best selves what stood out to me the most was that many organizational systems are set up to feed imposter syndrome especially for anyone who isn’t in the majority at the top of the house those senior-most seats are predominantly occupied by white men That fueled my fire to get the book written and try to help as many people as possible what have you done to mitigate it or eliminate it and I’m proud to say I continue to achieve and succeed but absolutely it still strikes at points of high achievement Following the frAIMworkTM for success I outline in my book — AIM stands for Awareness and Momentum — is what keeps my imposter syndrome in check telling you that you ‘aren’t that great’ or ‘it’s a matter of time before they realize they made a mistake with you,’ you need techniques to Interrupt and short-circuit those thoughts to get you through the moment without derailing doing the deeper work with yourself to ensure you have a strong foundation and understanding of your worth will build Momentum towards owning your talent and success proactive work is where you will really start to see the dividends of your effort and investment in yourself what are 5 steps that someone who is experiencing Impostor Syndrome can take to move forward despite feeling like an “Impostor” Please share a story or an example for each Some solutions are quick and in the moment you need both in your strategy to fight imposter syndrome “What if that’s not true?” Here’s the scenario: You’re in a meeting and you are worried someone is going to ask you a tough question You start telling yourself you won’t know the answer Not knowing the answer will signal you are not qualified you wonder why they hired you in the first place It’s just a matter of time before you’re found out Ask yourself “What if that’s not true?” No one knows everything you are one of the best positioned people to be in this role You likely do know the answer or how to quickly find it out It’s a quick short-circuit to the negative thinking — and one that is necessary to make sure you don’t go down the imposter syndrome rabbit hole If you find yourself trying to please or be all things to all people But you don’t have to take every piece of feedback that doesn’t serve you Some coats are perfectly fine but don’t fit the situation You don’t need a wool coat when it’s 90 degrees outside A cotton coat won’t help when it’s raining 3 — Things can be easy for you and still be of tremendous value you may be inclined to dismiss it or assume anyone can do it When you do that you are not honoring your gifts and talents — you’re discounting them It is a misconception that things need to be hard and that you need to have blood sweat and tears to prove you’ve earned something Your success can be well-deserved and come relatively easy Enjoy those moments where your greatness makes something easy When others compliment you and are thrilled with your work 4 — Tune into your triggers and thought patterns Imposter syndrome is complex and doesn’t stem from just one place Be aware of where it stems from for you — it is different for everyone And it’s always an obvious or overt situation Growing up my brother and I were always told we could do anything and be anything to know he may need to fight for things he wants that people will depend on him as a leader and not everyone will like him all the time and that’s ok And while I was told I could do anything and be anything to gain lots of skills so I could help lots of people and that sometimes I just need to go along to get along there was a difference in what was delivered to me versus what my brother heard My messages reinforced the need to fit in and please others as a way to succeed but it didn’t exactly set me up to be fierce either (sorry mom and dad a trigger is when something doesn’t go as planned I assume more than my share of the accountability and if I’m not mindful I can agonize over what else I could have done Our thoughts drive our actions and our actions drive our outcomes — so when you experience an outcome make sure you go all the way back to your thoughts to understand why you might be acting a certain way 5 — Build your own Personal Board of Directors Organizations have Boards and they are composed of different people who do different things One member might be particularly skilled in strategy and yet another with the people side of work they are all there for one reason — to ensure the success of the company you must assemble your own Personal Board of Directors made up of people who support you in different ways You must be mindful about who is on your board and for what reasons The time to build your board is not the moment you need them someone I can call anytime to lift my spirits and tell me I’m amazing I have another person on my PBoD who is my tough love the person who will tell me to get over myself They provide the swift kick in the rear that I sometimes need If you could inspire a movement that would bring the most amount of good to the greatest amount of people There is a saying: “If diversity is being invited to the party then inclusion is being asked to dance.” I want true belonging for everyone in corporate cultures — I want organizations to take it one step further to really impact the experience people are having in the workplace Diversity and inclusion isn’t the full picture and it’s not enough That saying about the party and the dancing is nice but it still implies that it’s someone else’s house True belonging is when none of us need to wait for the invitation because it’s our house We don’t only need an invitation to join someone else’s table — we need them to join ours As leaders it is imperative to look in the mirror to see how you might be contributing to this feeling that some people have where they don’t belong This is going to take a fundamental mindset shift to rebuild our cultures and organizations from a place of belonging it is not anyone else’s job to label someone as having imposter syndrome If it were easy they would have fixed it by now We are blessed that some very prominent leaders read this column with whom you would love to have a private breakfast or lunch The social psychologist Amy Cuddy has influenced my work through all of her research and experience I respect that she has had her share of detractors I have seen her present several times and even ran into her once at a conference while waiting to check in at the hotel spa I was such a fangirl when I introduced myself she may have been looking over her shoulder for security My husband joked I should start a fan club and we could call ourselves Cuddy Buddies Her work is inspiring and complementary to mine — she is truly a role model I’d love to do a research project or collaboration with her I follow her on social media and she also just seems real so to sit down and have a conversation with her would be amazing and so educational Her roller skating (pre-leg break) is on point! I’m going to say one other person: Ryan Reynolds #2 — he is creative and fearless with his business endeavors and there would be so much to learn from him fierce woman so I believe he would be supportive of my work (hmmm so maybe I should actually say Blake Lively…?) and #4 — I laugh at almost everything he does and would love an autographed something Deadpool-related How can our readers follow you on social media Follow me on instagram @fiercenotfears and sign up for my newsletter at www.teresasande.com. I’m also on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/in/teresasande/ This was very inspiring. Thank you so much for joining us! No responses yetHelp RANDOLPH — When this year’s seniors don their caps and gowns to mark the end of their Randolph Academy journey they will be joined by Brad Sande – a fixture