Ricardo Alvarez-Diaz is the founder and managing partner of Alvarez-Diaz+Group, PSC (ADG), a consulting and design firm with offices in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He is responsible for the general and financial management of the firm, its business development, and the coordination for project execution.
He received his Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, and began his career working for the firm of Robert A.M. Stern in New York City.
Alvarez-Diaz has served on several guest design Juries at the University of Notre Dame and the Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico. He has lectured both in the United States and Puerto Rico on contemporary topics in business and architecture. Mr. Alvarez-Diaz is the author of several published articles and was also section editor for the Institute of Classical Architecture’s annual magazine The Classicist.
He co-leads a foundation that established a yearly undergraduate student award for outstanding leadership at the University of Notre Dame’s School of Architecture in Indiana.
He received his Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, and began his career working for the firm of Robert A.M. Stern in New York City.
Alvarez-Diaz has served on several guest design Juries at the University of Notre Dame and the Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico. He has lectured both in the United States and Puerto Rico on contemporary topics in business and architecture. Mr. Alvarez-Diaz is the author of several published articles and was also section editor for the Institute of Classical Architecture’s annual magazine The Classicist.
He co-leads a foundation that established a yearly undergraduate student award for outstanding leadership at the University of Notre Dame’s School of Architecture in Indiana.
Dr. Richard Luker (1953-54) is an American psychologist, researcher, and professor. He is known for his work at the Chilton Company in 1994 during the creation of The ESPN Sports Poll. Prior to his sports work, Luker was known for his new and creative research techniques designed to better understand the impact of entertainment and marketing messages on TV and in films. His innovative designs have been written about in Ad Age, The New York Times.
Luker remains very active in academic work as well. In 2007, Luker joined Northwestern University's teaching faculty of the School of Continuing Studies. In 2005, Dr. Luker was named the Woodard Family Senior Research Fellow in the Warsaw Center at the University of Oregon. Rich has been an Associate Professor of Business in the Haab School of Business, Concordia University and Adjunct Associate Professor, Division of Kinesiology, University of Michigan off and on since 1998.
Luker remains very active in academic work as well. In 2007, Luker joined Northwestern University's teaching faculty of the School of Continuing Studies. In 2005, Dr. Luker was named the Woodard Family Senior Research Fellow in the Warsaw Center at the University of Oregon. Rich has been an Associate Professor of Business in the Haab School of Business, Concordia University and Adjunct Associate Professor, Division of Kinesiology, University of Michigan off and on since 1998.
Lunapads is a female-owned, social-mission based business in Vancouver, Canada that manufactures washable, cloth menstrual pads and underwear, and distributes a commercial menstrual cup via its website. They are also the company behind Pads4Girls, a project started to help resolve the issue of girls in developing nations missing school due to a lack of adequate sanitary protection and resources available to manage their periods.
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History
The products were designed and created by fashion designer Madeleine Shaw in 1993. Shaw wrote the first business plan for Lunapads in 1994, and in 1995 opened a store and small production facility. In 1999, she met Suzanne Siemens, an accountant, at a community leadership course. Sharing a similar business vision, they combined their skills to develop Lunapads as an international company.
Description
Lunapads are a liner-on-top style cloth menstrual pad as opposed to the more common "envelope" style. The pads have two parts; a Pad Base which snaps around the underwear of the wearer and a Liner Insert which is inserted under two bands on either end of the pad. Each pad consists of two layers of 100% cotton flannel base topped with a central pad made of one layer of nylon and two layers of 100% cotton fleece with bands at either end to hold liners.
Liner Inserts are 2 layers of 100% cotton fleece. This liner-on-top design allows the wearer to replace used liners with fresh, while still using the same base pad or panties.
Lunapanties are period underwear, designed to function on their own as a menstrual product. A nine-inch long panel of 100% cotton fleece is sewn permanently into the gusset, with cotton bands at each end to hold liner inserts. Lunapanties are most frequently considered a menstrual product, but are also worn as maternity underwear (prenatal and post-partum), and used by those who experience light or stress incontinence.
Overview
History
The products were designed and created by fashion designer Madeleine Shaw in 1993. Shaw wrote the first business plan for Lunapads in 1994, and in 1995 opened a store and small production facility. In 1999, she met Suzanne Siemens, an accountant, at a community leadership course. Sharing a similar business vision, they combined their skills to develop Lunapads as an international company.
Description
Lunapads are a liner-on-top style cloth menstrual pad as opposed to the more common "envelope" style. The pads have two parts; a Pad Base which snaps around the underwear of the wearer and a Liner Insert which is inserted under two bands on either end of the pad. Each pad consists of two layers of 100% cotton flannel base topped with a central pad made of one layer of nylon and two layers of 100% cotton fleece with bands at either end to hold liners.
Liner Inserts are 2 layers of 100% cotton fleece. This liner-on-top design allows the wearer to replace used liners with fresh, while still using the same base pad or panties.
Lunapanties are period underwear, designed to function on their own as a menstrual product. A nine-inch long panel of 100% cotton fleece is sewn permanently into the gusset, with cotton bands at each end to hold liner inserts. Lunapanties are most frequently considered a menstrual product, but are also worn as maternity underwear (prenatal and post-partum), and used by those who experience light or stress incontinence.
Robert Brizel (born February 1, 1963, Catskill Mountains) is an American educator, internet boxing writer and photographer in the Northeastern United States, primarily in New York City, Newark, New Jersey, and the Atlantic City, New Jersey casinos.
Early Life
A native of Fallsburg, New York, who grew up next to a waterfall on the banks of the Neversink River, Brizel was an entrant in the original entering Kindergarten class at the newly created Benjamin Cosor Elementary School in the Fall of 1967, built behind the Brizel family home, when his father was a member of the Fallsburg School Board under then president Ben Cosor. Brizel served as master of ceremonies at the graduation of the first class to complete the seven year course of instruction of Benjamin Cosor Elementary School in 1974. A graduate of the Fallsburg High School Class of 1980, and an Irving Hertz Memorial Scholarship winner at Fallsburg in 1980, Robert Brizel became the first graduate of the 13 year complete course of study of the unified Fallsburg Central School District eligible to serve as its principal and superintendent in 1994.
Robert Brizel spent much of his formative years on the old campus and new campus of Sullivan County Community College in South Fallsburg and Loch Sheldrake, where he later graduated from, and where his father, the late Milton Brizel, was a founding father, math professor and trustee for four decades. Milton Brizel designed the only State University of New York community college casino gaming curriculum (in anticipation of gaming being approved) while on the Sullivan County Community College Board of Trustees. Robert's father was also part owner of The Flagler Hotel and Schenk's Paramount Hotel in South Fallsburg where Robert also spent time. Brizel began writing stories for boxing magazines in 1975 by reporting on televised boxing shows held at the Concord Resort Hotel in Kiamesha Lake, including such fighters as , Ray Mancini, and Hector Camacho.
Later career
A career educator in New York City since 1988, Brizel is one of the last survivors of the only group of educators brought into the New York City school system by the late schools chancellor Dr. . A New York State Challenger Fellowship winner in Education, and one of 22 elite Long Island University Fellowship winners in Educational Administration in the Educational Leadership program at LIU-Brooklyn run by the late Dr. and the first to complete the program, his mentors at LIU included the late Dr. Frank Mickens. Brizel holds five college degrees primarily in the writing and education fields. Brizel is a staff writer and photographer for Saddoboxing,a top boxing internet site and travels most frequently to cover boxing cards held in Atlantic City Casinos, most prominently Bally's Atlantic City, Resorts Casino Hotel, Tropicana Casino & Resort Atlantic City, Harrah's Atlantic City, Boardwalk Hall, and the Prudential Center in Newark. Brizel was the only boxing writer to write about the boxing contributions of Resorts Casino Hotel co-owner Dennis Gomes when he passed away in 2012. Brizel resides on Manhattan's Upper West Side and Moscow, Russia. His wife, a physician, is from Moscow. A doctoral candidate in education at Concordia University Chicago, Robert Brizel would become the first child of a founding father, member of the faculty and graduate of Sullivan County Community College eligible to serve as its president if successful. He is warden and trustee of the New York City Peter Cooper Lodge of the somewhat secretive three link Independent Order of Odd Fellows charitable fraternal order.
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Early Life
A native of Fallsburg, New York, who grew up next to a waterfall on the banks of the Neversink River, Brizel was an entrant in the original entering Kindergarten class at the newly created Benjamin Cosor Elementary School in the Fall of 1967, built behind the Brizel family home, when his father was a member of the Fallsburg School Board under then president Ben Cosor. Brizel served as master of ceremonies at the graduation of the first class to complete the seven year course of instruction of Benjamin Cosor Elementary School in 1974. A graduate of the Fallsburg High School Class of 1980, and an Irving Hertz Memorial Scholarship winner at Fallsburg in 1980, Robert Brizel became the first graduate of the 13 year complete course of study of the unified Fallsburg Central School District eligible to serve as its principal and superintendent in 1994.
Robert Brizel spent much of his formative years on the old campus and new campus of Sullivan County Community College in South Fallsburg and Loch Sheldrake, where he later graduated from, and where his father, the late Milton Brizel, was a founding father, math professor and trustee for four decades. Milton Brizel designed the only State University of New York community college casino gaming curriculum (in anticipation of gaming being approved) while on the Sullivan County Community College Board of Trustees. Robert's father was also part owner of The Flagler Hotel and Schenk's Paramount Hotel in South Fallsburg where Robert also spent time. Brizel began writing stories for boxing magazines in 1975 by reporting on televised boxing shows held at the Concord Resort Hotel in Kiamesha Lake, including such fighters as , Ray Mancini, and Hector Camacho.
Later career
A career educator in New York City since 1988, Brizel is one of the last survivors of the only group of educators brought into the New York City school system by the late schools chancellor Dr. . A New York State Challenger Fellowship winner in Education, and one of 22 elite Long Island University Fellowship winners in Educational Administration in the Educational Leadership program at LIU-Brooklyn run by the late Dr. and the first to complete the program, his mentors at LIU included the late Dr. Frank Mickens. Brizel holds five college degrees primarily in the writing and education fields. Brizel is a staff writer and photographer for Saddoboxing,a top boxing internet site and travels most frequently to cover boxing cards held in Atlantic City Casinos, most prominently Bally's Atlantic City, Resorts Casino Hotel, Tropicana Casino & Resort Atlantic City, Harrah's Atlantic City, Boardwalk Hall, and the Prudential Center in Newark. Brizel was the only boxing writer to write about the boxing contributions of Resorts Casino Hotel co-owner Dennis Gomes when he passed away in 2012. Brizel resides on Manhattan's Upper West Side and Moscow, Russia. His wife, a physician, is from Moscow. A doctoral candidate in education at Concordia University Chicago, Robert Brizel would become the first child of a founding father, member of the faculty and graduate of Sullivan County Community College eligible to serve as its president if successful. He is warden and trustee of the New York City Peter Cooper Lodge of the somewhat secretive three link Independent Order of Odd Fellows charitable fraternal order.
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