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Alicia Arriaga is one of our valued employees. Twelve years ago, she started as an intern and today she is responsible for the anode design and powder…

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Juneneeth, celebrated on June 19 each year in the United States, is a day to commemorate the emancipation of enslaved Africans.
While Africans who were held in bondage, abused, and forced to perform hard labor were legally free throughout the former…

Celebrate Juneteenth & Honor Our Ancestors

Is Your Phone on Vibrate? That’s Haptics at Work. You’re in a virtual meeting and don’t want your ringtone broadcasted over ZOOM, so you leave your phone on vibrate. Before long, you feel that light buzz from your phone and on your wrist from your…

The Science of Touch in Electronics

2020 started off as a year like no other. It began with a mysterious, novel coronavirus, which causes COVID-19 and had begun to shut down parts of Asia and was making its way to Europe. Like everyone around the world, the team at Violet Defense was…

Violet Defense UV Disinfection System Powered by KEMET

It’s International Women’s Day on Sunday and March is Women's History Month. If you haven't already, this is a great opportunity to recognize and honor any female leader in your life whether it be personal or at work. I am fortunate and privileged to…

Where there is a woman, there is magic.

By ringing the Bell, KEMET became part of a legacy dating back to the 1870s. The trading floor bells mark the start and the end of the day’s trading. The Opening and Closing Bells have been rung by heads of state, company leaders, celebrities, and…

KEMET Rings the Closing Bell at the New York Stock Exchange

 Suzana Jankuloska When KEMET started in 1919, we were led by a brilliant inventor with a degree in Pharmacy, Hugh S. Cooper. Yet it wasn’t long before Cooper invited engineers onto his team. To this day, KEMET engineers all around the world have a…

An Acquisitive Mind

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At KEMET, we believe in the passion, skills, and engagement of our people. Maybe that’s why so many of our employees have such long tenures with the company. Yet one such employee stands out not only for his longevity, but also as a leader and…

Innovative Leadership

At KEMET, we believe that our people are our greatest asset. Maybe that is why we’re able to attract and retain some of the most talented and dedicated employees around the world. There are a few people for whom KEMET was their first and only job. We…

Celebrating Her Golden Anniversary with KEMET

The 1990s brought many electrifying changes to society. After the rise of personal computing in the 1980s, portable notebooks and laptop computers became the must-have items for students and professionals working on the go. America Online (AOL)…

From Telecom to Dot-com

Connie has lived a diverse and exciting life during her 42-year tenure at KEMET. Today she serves as Senior Director of Quality, Tantalum Products, but her work history at KEMET has taken her through different leadership roles, into almost every…

Meet Connie Fischer

Innovation is the heart of KEMET. We strive every day to make the world a safer, better and more connected place to live. We also love our customers, and we work everyday to nurture those relationships, even if it means inventing something new to…

Igniting Innovation

We take technology for granted today, each of us effortlessly interacting with computers for hours upon hours throughout the day. Yet less than a century ago, computers as we know them didn’t exist. When they first came into being, KEMET was there.…

Perfecting Technology in a Vacuum

When technology and fun come together, great things can happen. Some of the best gaming systems in popular culture over the last decade and some of the most exciting advancements in gaming technology were born of this synergy, and KEMET was there…

Shaping the Future of Gaming Technology

KEMET was founded before there was such a thing as the ‘electronics industry,’ back when radio was new, space travel was the stuff of schoolboy fantasy, and the internet would have seemed a madman’s dream. In the first decades of the twentieth…

Reflections on the Founding Father of KEMET

With over 800 people in attendance, our KEMET manufacturing facility in Indonesia celebrated 100 years of innovation with food, family and fun. Our Batam location opened its doors in 2007 and is dedicated to manufacturing film capacitors. Today, the…

Family at the Heart of KEMET Indonesia

There’s something we like to say at KEMET, a phrase that’s often brought up in conversation across meetings, conferences, and even casual dialogue. “We may not be a household name, but we are in every household.” As we celebrate our centennial year,…

KEMET in Every Household

A lot of history happens over the course of 100 years. We know. We’ve been around for a century’s worth of technological advances and milestones.
What does it mean to celebrate one hundred years of history? It means looking back on all the moments…

KEMET Was There: 1919 to Today

From the moment KEMET was founded in 1919, our employees were inventing new technologies. In fact, it was a patent filed by our founder Hugh S. Cooper that caught the attention of Union Carbide and made KEMET possible. In our early days, we were…

100 Years of Patented Technologies

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Represent San Diego is making a video about Democracy Dollars. Are you ready for your closeup?
Represent San Diego, in partnership with Common Cause California, will soon be in the video business thanks to a $10,000 grant from the Piper Fund and the…

Lights, Camera…Democracy Dollars!

Gil Sery started out in politics the hard way. He was arrested on the south steps of the nation’s capitol along with four hundred others in a Democracy Spring demonstration to get money out of politics . There were so many people, they had to be…

Volunteer Spotlight: Meet Gil Sery

A Cheat Sheet for the Undecided
September 14, 2021 is the day California voters decide the fate of Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom in a special recall election, only the fourth ever held in the US. Absentee ballots were due out by August 16. If…

Recall election: Should Newsom Stay or Should He Go?

September 14, 2021 is the day California voters decide the fate of Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom in a special recall election, only the fourth ever held in the US. Absentee ballots were due out by August 16. If you’re not sure what this recall…

CA Recall Election: Should Newsom Stay or Should He Go?

VOLUNTEERS OF REPRESENT SAN DIEGO:
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After retiring from a long corporate career, Diane Mosely was in search of a new sense of purpose. When she attended a library meeting of Represent San Diego in 2019, she found what…

Volunteer Spotlight: Diane Mosely

Tony Rocco Jul 18, 2019·3 min read So, you want to know an introvert? Great. Perhaps you’re fascinated by their enigmatic charisma, their reflective, insightful nature or their zen-like calm and serenity. In any case, you can’t approach an introvert…

So, You Want to Know an Introvert

Open San Diego is a volunteer organization that helps local government and community groups use technology to solve problems. The ten year-old group is one of over eighty chapters, called brigades, of Code for America, a national organization that…

Open San Diego Offers Aid to Local Governments Using Tech Innovations

Open San Diego is a volunteer organization that helps local government and community groups use technology to solve problems. The ten-year-old group is one of over eighty chapters, called brigades, of Code for America, a national organization that…

Open San Diego Offers Tech Aid to Local Government Groups

Propaganda. We imagine regimes feeding fake news to a subjugated populous via state-controlled media. Even though we have a free press in the U.S., we have our own forms of propaganda, which is why Cynara Velazquez created…

Propaganda Website Promotes Financial Transparency

'Propaganda' Website Promotes Financial Transparency

I was a 70’s punk rocker.
Now, in middle-age, I look back and wonder — Who was that skinny kid? The one in the photo taken in girlfriend Tessa’s bedroom, where she dressed him up in a skinny tie and tight-pegged pants tapering to a pair of…

No Regrets: Memoirs Of A Punk

Tony Rocco Jul 11, 2019·2 min read A lot has been written in recent years about introverts. Susan Cain’s best-seller, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, made a big splash and has been followed by numerous books and…

Sex and the Single Introvert

People ask me: Are you on Facebook? with a furtive look, as if inquiring whether I surf the ‘net for porn. What do you make of it, they ask? They don’t get it, they say, quizzically. They are suspicious of it, paranoid. Like it’s going to suck their…

How to Lose Friends and Alienate People on Facebook

Mr. Magic’s website photo evinced the brooding essence of a young alpha-male — chiseled, manly and handsome. Beneath it appeared a heart-rending autobiographical missive I recognized as a standard tool of the modern-day dating coach.
Mr. Magic…

On Becoming a Real Man

My teeth were chattering from the icy cold, yet greeting me on this frigid December eve was a 58 year-old Jewish man, richly tanned, wearing a tie-died t-shirt with a large peace symbol on the front. He seemed to have recently returned from a…

The Amorist

My paternal grandfather was old and decrepit by the time I was six. I recall him sitting crumpled and cynical in a lawn chair, waving a cane at his grandkids as they ran in circles around him. He muttered under his breath in a mixture of bad English…

What I Learned from My Grandfather, Whom I Never Knew

A woman once proudly told me that she had overcome her assertiveness issues in group therapy. She spent five years in a group with a member who savaged her, put her down and berated her incessantly, until she learned to stand up and defend herself.…

To Get the Most Out of Therapy, Be a Pragmatist

As I stroll the narrow and wandering streets of the West Village, a piece of New York City roughly bound by the Hudson River and Seventh Avenue, extending from 14th down to Houston Street, its character seems intact, much as it has been for decades.…

Searching for the Soul of the West Village

You haven’t had a blood test or peed into a cup, but you’re pretty sure you’ve got it — a serious case of introversion.
While there’s no diagnostic test, you may be an introvert if any of the following sounds familiar.
Around talkative extroverts,…

So, You Think You’re an Introvert

You can survive and thrive with COVID-19. I say that fully aware of the crisis upon us. Even though it’s going to wreak havoc on the economy and uproot lives, it is possible to benefit from it. Not materially, but spiritually.
To benefit spiritually…

Survive and Thrive with COVID-19

It’s only the start of the third week this year, and I’m looking back at a hectic couple of weeks at work, new school for the older one, farewell to the younger one’s crib, the start of potty training, farewell to my wisdom teeth (and all the fun…

Serendipity, Whimsy, and Funhouse mirrors

I spent the last few days reading Glennon Doyle’s Untamed, and as a listener to her podcast We Can Do Hard Things (okay - as part of her Pod Squad), I was catching up on an episode this morning that ended with the most lovely song by her daughter,…

We can do hard things (or, thoughts about last year and this year)

Maya Angelou writes, “In the flush of love’s light we dare be brave And suddenly we see that love costs all we are and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.” What a beautiful way to capture both how selfish and how selfless the choice…

In the flush of love's light

Photo by Stephen Salpukas from Nruthyarchana, presented two weeks ago. The show’s still up on YouTube if you missed it. This year has been a roller coaster personally, professionally, and artistically. It seems especially apt to pour my swirling…

Reflections

I’m presenting a solo program on Sunday, December 4th at 4 pm Eastern, and I hope you’ll join me for the performance. This is something I’ve been hoping to do for a long time, and seriously working toward for the past year - a show where I get to…

You're Invited - Nruthyarchana

Note: I found this nearly complete draft as I was about to start on a brand new piece, so I’m wrapping this up and posting it. New post to come soon! Yeah, that’s a bit of a clickbait-y title, but really, it also covers what I want to talk about.…

Why I used to hate performing and what *Science* tells me I can do

If I look at the clock, it’s the next day, but in my mind, it’s still Guru Pournami. I’ve had a thought since this morning, and I’m only now able to write it down: It is knowledge that dispels darkness (“gu”, being darkness and “ru” meaning to…

Dispelling Darkness

This year has been moving at a frenetic pace, and I can’t believe it’s nearly June (HELLO trip around the sun #32, you are here FAR too quickly and I’m not ready!) Generally speaking, my favorite approach to cooking is having pots and pans (and the…

Taking a breathe

At the beginning of last year, I wrote this: So, I’m going to dance. I’m going to dance daily. I’m going to be kind to myself as I dance, instead of tearing myself down with harsh self-criticism. But I will not let up, and if it’s a choice between…

Marking the passage of another year

Today is an important day historically. In 1955, Emmett Till, a 14 year old Black boy was lynched and murdered, after being accused of being lewd with a white woman who was selling him candy. (She recanted her testimony decades later). In 1963, on…

Art and Identity: a journey + 2 performances you need to watch

I’m starting a podcast!
I’m starting a podcast with fellow dancer, writer, choreographer, and early aughts music connoisseur Kiran Rajagopalan because he’s awesome and I’m awesome and we want to share our awesomeness with the world.
In all…

An Off the Beat idea

I’m back to talking about rhythm. (Because I can’t not).
During the last couple of months, I had a couple performance experiences that let me revisit my ideas related to it. At the Richmond Dance Festival by Dogtown Dance Theater, my mother was the…

The rippling breath, the beating heart

Photo credit: Bill Sigafoos / Firehouse Theatre
When I was in grad school, in one of my early classes, my professors talked about how the texts tell as that the artist should be like a clear vessel to let the colors of characters through to the…

Fires in the Mirror - A Reflection

For its 18th dance festival, ResiliDance, IDEA harnessed the possibilities of virtual programming by bringing together over 60 speakers and 20 performing groups from India, US, UK & NZ for 24 hours of programming spanning 4 days, as well as 5 films…

ResiliDance - A Review

It’s been a trying few days (weeks? months?) for me, but it’s been art that’s kept me sane and sustained me, and as I look at the crazy few days (weeks? months?) ahead, it’s art, again, that’ll see me through. Sharing that lovely pieces of…

Joyful things

Content warnings: Gun Violence, Murder
Tonight, my heart is aching.
This month, my heart has been aching.
A mass shooting in Atlanta. A mass shooting in Boulder. A car jacking in Washington D.C.. A mass shooting in Virginia Beach. Another shooting in…

Processing the violence.

Last night was closing night of the show The Untethered: Homecoming 2020. A diverse group of alums from across the country - and even internationally! - came together to offer both a performance and their stories, journeys, and wisdom for the…

Empowering Spaces for the Arts

May 7 Fires in the Mirror - A Reflection

When I started writing here, I was at an inflection point in my dance journey. A student of dance and passionate about Kuchipudi for many years, I was trying to convince myself that firstly, I had the satta to be a dancer; secondly, I was trying to…

A statement of intention

I just finished watching Sunday’s lineup for Prakriti Dance’s Festival of Kuchipudi, and my mind is abuzz. First - some context. Kasi Aysola, a dynamic and passionate artist, and codirector of Prakriti Dance, curated the festival. Using a blend of…

Festival of Kuchipudi - A reflection

Saving money is a no-brainer. Its benefit is obvious. You have more money! Your bank account grows. Your 401(k) grows. You can retire (potentially early) and do fun things with the savings you’ve built up over time. But there’s a second, hidden…

The Hidden Benefit of Saving Money

You’re seeing Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) in the news. People are comparing it to the Great Financial Crisis in 2008. What’s going on? Let’s talk about Silicon Valley Bank in simple terms. I’m writing this ~2pm EST on Sunday March 12. I will update…

Silicon Valley Bank 101

Outsiders think they know how something works. You know the type. Those armchair experts opining at the Thanksgiving table. The least experienced are the most confident in their knowledge. Insiders actually know how something works. And that, as the…

Great Investors’ Little Secret

Lawrence recently wrote in: Dear Jesse, My wife is 70 and I’m about to turn 70, and we’ve been retired for 8 years, and even with the tough market in 2022, our portfolio is up 40% from when we retired – from ~$3M to $4.2M. But I can’t bring myself to…

Dying with Millions

The McDonald’s Test is a simple way to ask yourself: am I really enjoying the fruits of my labor? While chatting with a client last year, we discussed a vital financial planning topic: spending their retirement savings. It’s challenging for many…

The McDonald’s Test

Retirement math can be complex. Investment returns, Social Security, spending rates, etc. But we’re keeping it simple today. We’re going to cover a basic concept that will allow you to retire decades early. Imagine a married couple with the following…

How to Retire Decades Early

Rochester is home to a dedicated clutch of platform tennis addicts. And you ask: what is platform tennis? Platform tennis (a.k.a. “paddle tennis” or, most often, just “paddle”) is an outdoor-only cold-weather racket sport, played almost exclusively…

The Negative Arts of Money and Paddle

As of October 2022, stocks were down 25% from their previous high. Bonds were down 15% over the same period. A “balanced” 60/40 portfolio was down 21%. It was, by some measure, the worst investing year in a lifetime. But life goes on. What’s happened…

Portfolios Are Up How Much?!?!

Samuel Bolton Jr. was a successful businessman, brewer, politician, and philanthropist in Troy, NY in the late 1800s. Why, then, did Bolton kill himself by diving into a vat of hot beer? He didn’t understand risk. No, not the risk of diving into…

The Investor Who Died In a Vat of Hot Beer

I wish I could run 5 miles a day without the discomfort, the exertion, and the required hour of time. (Yeah, I’m slow). But there’s no such thing as “passive running.” You either run or you don’t. The same goes for a healthy diet. And reading. And…

Don’t Be A Dummy. Be A Chicken.

What happens when you die? Will your soul travel to an ethereal plane? Does your spirit remain on Earth? Or, more simply, does your body decompose from whence it came? Welcome to The Existential Interest, a new blog where I wax philosophical on the…

Estate Planning 101

Investing is all about risk and reward. When investors take more risk, they demand more reward. One such “risk premium” is the concept of illiquidity. Liquid assets are easily converted to cash. Stocks are liquid. You can buy or sell them five days a…

The Easiest Money That Investors Ignore

For you cave-dwellers, Wordle is a word-guessing game where you have six guesses to correctly find a 5-letter word. After each guess, you learn which letters you’ve guessed correctly and if you placed those letters in the right/wrong spot. There are…

Wordle’s Hidden Financial Lesson

All the following inflation data is from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Food at home costs are up 12% year-over-year. This affects you! (Unless you’re a mystical no-food yogi…yikes). We all need to eat. But can we make economical food choices to…

The Secret To Beating Inflation

Math can unlock the world for us. But only if we use it accurately. A quick lesson today on investment performance. Apologies if I end up being soap-boxy. But bad math (especially by experts) ruffles my feathers. To start, it’s high time The Best…

Even “Experts” Measure Stupidly

Another quarter in the books! Every three months, I take a look at my personal finances, share recent news from The Best Interest, and show you more dog pictures. Here are my previous quarterly updates: Why share this info? To brag about money?! No…

Net Worth, Projects, and Dogs – Update Q4 2022

On a recent episode of Freakonomics, author Yuval Noah Harari** said: Viruses exist whether we believe in them or not. Even if you don’t accept the stories about viruses, they can still kill you. Yuval Noah Harari 🚨 This is not an article about…

9 Scientific Facts to Improve Your Finances

My wife’s family lives in Clarence, NY, about 10 miles east of downtown Buffalo. We sat in their house for Christmas as 4 feet of snow and consistent 50-70 mph winds snow-globed the world around us. Buffalo got crushed by this storm. But probably NOT…

A Cold Lesson from the Buffalo Blizzard

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. Robert Frost Most people know Robert Frost’s famous poem, The Road Not Taken. Especially the last few lines, written above. And most people…

Two Roads To Financial Independence

In 2002, Warren Buffett wrote: Charlie [Munger] and I are of one mind in how we feel about derivatives and the trading activities that go withthem: We view them as time bombs, both for the parties that deal in them and the economic system Warren…

Financial Mass Destruction

One year ago. It’s 7 o’clock on a Friday night. There’s a closet full of dresses, racks full of shoes, and trays of sparkling accessories—and you have nowhere to go. Dreaming of a night out in stilettos and winged eyeliner, you fall asleep once again…

Friday Night Fever Dream

Chronic diseases are common and costly. Six in ten adults in the US have a chronic illness, while four in ten adults have two or more. According to the CDC, chronic diseases are conditions that last at least one year, need continuous medical…

How symptom checkers can lower the cost of chronic conditions

In the early spring of 2020, in downtown Toronto, a man was stabbed in the chest. Ambulance bay doors crashed open as paramedics rushed the patient into St. Michael’s Hospital. Within seconds of his arrival, he was inside the trauma bay, unconscious…

Design for Survival: How to Build a Better Trauma Bay

An effective digital front door needs to be much more than just the entry point into the system. Consider the front door of an office building—it is not only an entrance but it also leads to a receptionist to guide visitors and help you complete…

The Insider’s Guide to Implementing Digital Front Doors

Gone are the days of crowded waiting rooms and uncomfortable hospital beds. Here's how health-care workers and institutions are revolutionizing surgery, patient care, cancer treatment—and more.
The Trauma Room Black Box
Emergency-room doctors are not…

10 Life-Saving Medical Innovations Coming to a Hospital Near You

Kirsten Gardner, deputy mayor for South Dundas, teaches a Mental Health First Aid course for the Mental Health Commission of Canada. In this interview, she tells us what motivates her as a mental health ambassador, what comes as the biggest surprise…

Meet the Mental Health First Aid Instructor

Dr. Brittany Wenniserí:iostha Jock, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor at McGill University in the Centre for Indigenous Peoples’ Nutrition & Environment (CINE). With a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Syracuse University, a master’s degree in…

Meet The Epidemiologist

As more physicians take the leap into thought leadership, they are seeing the value of hiring writers to help them rise to the top. Here’s how they can find the right fit for their needs.
If you choose to hire a writer, they’ll serve as an extension…

How Physicians Can Add a Writer to Their Team — And Get it Right the First Time

In February 2020, the first wave of COVID-19 reality washed into my town. I instantly quit my hospital job and never looked back. It was one of the best decisions I’ve made.
One year ago today, my small Canadian town made national headlines when…

When a Quarantine Came to Town

How can physicians become better known as an expert in their field? Here are 8 recommendations to stand out from the crowd — all of them are based on my experience working with top-of-their-game physicians.
Find your niche.
Start by narrowing your…

8 Ways Physicians Can Become Thought Leaders

Thought leadership. As a physician, does that idea make you excited? Or a bit queasy? While some physicians jump at the chance to be seen and heard, others are turned off by the concept — it conjures up images of social media influencers, popularity…

5 Reasons Physicians Should Become Thought Leaders

The paramedics radioed in the details to the rural Ontario hospital: female teenager, intentional overdose, ETA five minutes. The patient’s mother arrived with her, wearing a look I had grown all too familiar with—bewilderment, incredulity, fear.…

The Many Ways We’re Failing Our Children’s Mental Health

As we are confronted by a new global health epidemic in the form of COVID-19, the challenges and opportunities of global data sharing come into sharp focus. Due to significant data collection and sharing issues during the 2013–2016 Ebola outbreak,…

Leveraging standardised data in response to the novel coronavirus outbreak

Photo: Courtesy Cynthia Rennie-Faubert
Cynthia Rennie-Faubert, 48, nurse, Cornwall, Ont.
In January 2020, as I watched the news about the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, I kept thinking, ‘This is not good.’ As the situation escalated, I knew it was…

I’m a Canadian ER Nurse—Here’s What It’s Like Fighting Coronavirus on the Front Line

In this article, we hear from physicians presenting at the upcoming Orthopedic Value-Based Care conference as they share their perspectives on the future of ambulatory surgery centers. From regulations to reimbursement, we dive into the opportunities…

Ambulatory Surgery Centers: Creating Value through Outpatient Surgery

Dr. Michael Suk MD, JD, MPH, FACS is chair of the department of Orthopedics and the clinical driving force behind the Geisinger ProvenCare® Acute Orthopaedic Programs. He also has a law degree, a Master in Public Health, and served as a White House…

Creating New Care Models

All progress in medicine depends on innovative thinking. But how can we harness the power of new ideas if healthcare professionals are working in silos? It’s a problem that plays out again and again across our healthcare system as teams struggle to…

The Value of Interdisciplinary Medical Summits

Dr. Arnaldo Valedon is a fellowship-trained anesthesiologist at WellSpan Health and a longtime ASC field surveyor. He will be speaking at the OVBC 2020 conference about how to navigate state and federal regulations and how to prepare for an…

The Challenges of ASC Accreditation

Dr. Scott A. Sigman MD is a fellowship-trained orthopedic surgeon practicing in North Chelmsford, MA. He is also a fierce advocate of opioid-sparing surgery, speaking around the world to shift the culture of pain management. He will be sharing his…

Changing the Paradigm of Postoperative Pain Management

Nine extraordinary stories of kindness, compassion and full-on bravery.She helps care for COVID-19 patientsCynthia Rennie-Faubert, 48, Cornwall, Ont.The speed of the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan worried Cynthia Rennie-Faubert. As an emergency room…