"Dr. Woodie Flowers, FIRST National Advisor and Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, coined the term "Gracious Professionalism."
Gracious Professionalism is part of the ethos of FIRST. It's a way of doing things that encourages high-quality work, emphasizes the value of others, and respects individuals and the community.
With Gracious Professionalism, fierce competition and mutual gain are not separate notions. Gracious professionals learn and compete like crazy, but treat one another with respect and kindness in the process. They avoid treating anyone like losers. No chest thumping tough talk, but no sticky-sweet platitudes either. Knowledge, competition, and empathy are comfortably blended.
In the long run, Gracious Professionalism is part of pursuing a meaningful life. One can add to society and enjoy the satisfaction of knowing one has acted with integrity and sensitivity."
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Gracious Professionalism is part of the ethos of FIRST. It's a way of doing things that encourages high-quality work, emphasizes the value of others, and respects individuals and the community.
With Gracious Professionalism, fierce competition and mutual gain are not separate notions. Gracious professionals learn and compete like crazy, but treat one another with respect and kindness in the process. They avoid treating anyone like losers. No chest thumping tough talk, but no sticky-sweet platitudes either. Knowledge, competition, and empathy are comfortably blended.
In the long run, Gracious Professionalism is part of pursuing a meaningful life. One can add to society and enjoy the satisfaction of knowing one has acted with integrity and sensitivity."
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Vinyl Art by Daniel Edlen is music-inspired portraiture on vinyl records. It was developed by Daniel Edlen as a teenager in the 1990's while growing up in Southern California. He started collecting 33 1/3 LPs and ended up with unplayable duplicates. Rather than throwing them away, Edlen uses white acrylic and handpaints portraits onto the worn albums with the density of the paint creating the shading. The paintings are almost like black and white newspaper photographs in reverse. He paints the musician(s) "right on the physical canvas of their music" and then frames the record in front of the original album sleeve. Favoring no particular musical genre, Vinyl Art has depicted artists like Ray Charles, Lou Reed and Janis Joplin.
Now based near Phoenix, Arizona, Edlen was motivated to publicize and sell his work in late 2006 by friends and family looking for personal unique gifts. Exhibited at both music-inspired and lowbrow art galleries in the United States, Vinyl Art is also being sought by collectors of artwork with specific musicians or entertainers as the subject.
Viewers often comment on the amount of detail and the accuracy of the portraits, sometimes assuming a computer is involved in a mechanical process to create the images.
"No, they're handpainted with a brush, and no, you can't play them anymore."
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Now based near Phoenix, Arizona, Edlen was motivated to publicize and sell his work in late 2006 by friends and family looking for personal unique gifts. Exhibited at both music-inspired and lowbrow art galleries in the United States, Vinyl Art is also being sought by collectors of artwork with specific musicians or entertainers as the subject.
Viewers often comment on the amount of detail and the accuracy of the portraits, sometimes assuming a computer is involved in a mechanical process to create the images.
"No, they're handpainted with a brush, and no, you can't play them anymore."
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Panelite is a developer and distributor of translucent honeycomb panels to the architectural and design industries. The company was founded in 1998 by two architects who developed a new product. Since then, Panelite has developed a full line of proprietary materials and continues to apply an architecturally based approach to the processes of material research, development, and production. The company is currently being featured in the Cooper-Hewitt Design Triennial in New York City, the International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York City, and NeoCon World Trade Fair in Chicago.
Panelite is unrelated to Panelite Inc. of Oklahoma City, a manufacturer of accessories for trucks and motorcycles.
Projects
* Georgia Aquarium
* McCormick Tribune Campus Center
Panelite is unrelated to Panelite Inc. of Oklahoma City, a manufacturer of accessories for trucks and motorcycles.
Projects
* Georgia Aquarium
* McCormick Tribune Campus Center
ML Master Lists (ML) is an Internet directory-survey. As most of the information on a research topic is distributed on
Internet, a ML would include all the related links, ranked by the readers through a voting system.
RE: Content/Style Guidelines, for style, a link would have a name, URL(http://), URL Description, Contact Name, Contact email. Content
guidelines regards the wiki principles (NPOV, V, NOR), a Master List should be comprehensive (include all existing URLs).
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*ML - Master Lists webpage
*Building a Master List
Internet, a ML would include all the related links, ranked by the readers through a voting system.
RE: Content/Style Guidelines, for style, a link would have a name, URL(http://), URL Description, Contact Name, Contact email. Content
guidelines regards the wiki principles (NPOV, V, NOR), a Master List should be comprehensive (include all existing URLs).
Seel Also
*ML - Master Lists webpage
*Building a Master List