DS's strength lies in its deliberate choice to provide its clients with high-level legal services throughout their growth. Lawyers and clients are committed business partners in a joint entrepreneurial adventure.
Founded over ten years ago in Québec by Jean-François Welch and Martin Bussières, two lawyers respectively from a national law firm and an international accounting firm, the firm Welch Bussières, located in Québec, has been from the start a proximity law firm focused on providing high-quality legal services at a moderate cost while staying close to its clients.
The firm chose to expand in 2013 and became DS Lawyers Canada, extending its resources through an international partnership.
Expansion within Canada soon followed, with offices opening in Montréal (2014), Toronto (2015), Vancouver (2016) and Ottawa (2018). While significantly enhancing its scope, the firm retains what makes it strong: high-quality professional requirements focused on results, along with deep commitment to its clients, considered as business partners.
Setting up in strategic locations across Canada and choosing to become part of DS Lawyers' international network was decided in order to enable the firm to provide multidisciplinary services adapted to the Canada-wide market and to market globalization. DS Lawyers Canada has 25 offices and 300 legal professionals but the major objective is still that of optimizing the performance of its clients' business, whatever the field of action.


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About Jude
About Homegrown TV
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There are always 'other projects' along the way in a freelance world. That is the joy of having a production company – to produce (and sometimes present) content…either on your own, with a tight team you've known for years, or collaborating with new people in other areas of expertise you've only just met. But most importantly, this way of operating allows one to have great variety along the way, and learn new skills as well. Some projects are short lived, some are charitable, some are way more work than the hours allowed, but all are done to make a difference by making good content.
Jude has always been involved with the different schools her children have attended, and while a mum of a student there, she has come up with various ideas for fundraisers and then produced them.
For one school she'd make a dozen auction clips with their year 13 media studies students – helping them learn to shoot and edit a story to a script she'd written with the provider of the prize. The end edit would play to a live audience at a fundraiser, with the media students enjoying seeing their work have an audience. Jude would also co - produce and co - present the evening, working up a script to include the various entertainment strands. The banner pic is with a great mate Mark Leishman, as they MC'ed a fundraising 'circus' themed event.
For another school she organised the entertainment for over 1000+ people at a black tie dinner fundraiser for two schools who were 'old foes' but gallant opponents, including a bespoke version of "7 Days" working in with their producers. She also tracked down ex All Blacks from either school and made clips to play on the night as together they celebrated the most contested school boy rugby cup in NZ, on the eve of their 200th game. The evening was also a multi camera event to capture it for posterity. She has also spent time interviewing significant members of the school community, archiving their thoughts and memories in audio visual clips for their school history (and indeed NZ's history).
Another project has been to supply academically robust, literature reviews for a multinational company around child development and parenting. This involved getting a review panel together and a suitably qualified writing team to produce scientific literature reviews of various parenting topics (written by qualified academic writers, often PhD level). It also required an accompanying consumer friendly derivative of each topic, true to the intent of the original piece, as well as snackable content for social media.
On a completely different level – but still to do with children, Jude also produced a one off documentary following the Targa Car rally for Prime TV, raising funds for the Cure Kids charity in NZ. As co - driver, she sped from Auckland to Wellington in a Mini Cooper often with her head in a map before putting it up to see the scenery speeding by through the special stages. Many co - drivers feel sick due to the looking up and down nature of the job, which Jude indeed did (all caught on camera of course), although it was not helped by her being pregnant (first trimester), with the usual morning sickness on top!
Jude also consults to various organisations on short term contracts for a varity of reasons. She continues to support good causes both in ad hoc ways and as an ambassador for the New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation and The Young New Zealander's Foundation.

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SALEM, Va. – The Washington and Lee wrestling team boasted two individual champions and eight place-winners en route to a fourth-place finish out of 13 teams at the U.S. Marine Corps Star City Tournament held at the Salem Civic Center on Sunday.
Otterbein took the team title with 137.0 points, followed by Averett in second with 127.5 points. Elizabethtown was third (126.5), W&L was fourth (124.0) and the Apprentice School was fifth (119.0).
Leading the way for the Generals were first-years Charlie Cunningham (Pequannock, N.J. / Seton Hall Prep) and Ryan Luth (Milford, Conn. / Joseph A. Foran), who both took the title in their weight class. Cunningham claimed the 133-pound crown, while Luth won the 157-pound bracket.
Junior 174-pounder Andrew Taylor (Atlanta, Ga. / Westminster) and sophomore 149-pounder Bryce Crew (St. Mary's, Ga. / Camden County) also advanced to the championship match in their respective weight classes, before falling in the finals. Junior Alec Horne (Chester Springs, Pa. / Downingtown East) placed third in the 174-pound bracket, while senior 125-pounder Ethan Hartman (River Edge, N.J. / River Dell Regional) and first-year 141-pounder Joseph Tarquine (Gallatin, Tenn. / Montgomery Bell Academy) both finished fourth overall. First-year Russ Zimmerman (Mechanicsburg, Pa. / Cumberland Valley) added a fifth-place showing at 133 pounds.
Cunningham posted a 3-0 record in winning the 133-pound weight class. He began the day with a pin (6:13) of Matthew Farrar of the Apprentice School and then notched a 7-5 decision over Tristan Bean of West Virginia Tech in the semifinals. In the title match, he recorded a 12-4 major decision over Kolin Johnson of the Apprentice School.
Luth needed four matches to gain the title at 157 pounds. He began with a pin (3:46) of Otterbein's Michael Duzzny and then posted back-to-back technical falls to advance to the championship match. He downed Clay Fritz of West Virginia Tech, 15-0, and then felled Kaleb Fontenot of Huntingdon, 16-0. In the championship match, he record another pin, this time downing Kyle Bythell of Elizabethtown in 1:03.
Crew dropped an 8-5 overtime decision to Cole Cameron of Elizabethtown in the 149-pound championship bout, and Taylor was defeated 15-8 by Conner Homan of Mount Union in the title match at 174 pounds. Both finished the day 3-1 overall.
Washington and Lee returns to action on December 1 when it travels to Ada, Ohio to take part in the Ohio Northern Invitational. Action begins at 9:00 am.


A murderer suffocated just metres from escaping jail after digging a 230-foot-long tunnel from his cell toilet to freedom.
Judson Cunha Evangelista, 26, is believed to have died from a lack of oxygen as he carved the tunnel, which had already passed under the perimeter wall of the maximum security jail in Boa Vista, Brazil.
The escape route was discovered by cops, yesterday, after the convicted murderer managed to make it back to his cell after becoming ill inside the hole, but died soon after.
Shocked officers discovered a hole which began underneath the toilet in Evangelista's cell in Wing 7 of the Monte Cristo penitentiary.
The dirt tunnel continued for 230 feet underneath the prison and had already passed under its heavily-fortified outer walls and electric fences, according to prison authorities.
The tunnel is believed to have taken months to excavate and was reportedly just a few metres away from reaching the surface in surrounding forest outside.
Officers found several bags of dirt and an electric cable which ran the length of the tunnel, with a light bulb on the end.
It is believed the prisoner was planning to charge other inmates to use the tunnel in a mass escape bid. The tunnel has now been filled with concrete, a spokesman said.


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If you are in the Philadelphia area, then please swing by The Slingluff Gallery this Saturday (6-9pm) for Jetty Team Rider Alex Duke's solo art show! Duke recently did all of the graphic design for the Jetty Parks & Pizza Summer Skateboard Tour. The multi-talented Duke is a guy that everyone should meet in person! Support Alex so he can take some time off of work next year for the next Jetty Skate Tour!


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"Imagine a technology so powerful that it will allow such feats as desktop manufacturing, cellular repair, artificial intelligence, inexpensive space travel, clean and abundant energy, and environmental restoration; a technology so portable that everyone can reap its benefits; a technology so fundamental that it will radically change our economic and political systems; a technology so imminent that most of us will see its impact within our lifetimes. Such is the promise of Nanotechnology." Kai Wu
Early in the 20th century, Henry Ford, the founder of Ford Motor Company, built a factory on 2,000 acres of property in where huge machines, and a massive assembly line and everything needed to build an automobile was located on sight. At the time, bigger was better to mass-produce this new up and coming "transportation technology". With the passing of time, we have moved away from the idea of "bigger is better" and with the advancements of the computer technology, and medicine world finding out ways of improving the way of life at a microscopical level, "smaller and smaller will be better". One such technological advancement that will function at this microscopical level will be nanotechnology.
Like the many humans that live on earth and on this universe, you might have heard a little scientific phrase along the lines of, "atoms are the building blocks for all matter". Or, atoms are the very reason of our existence. Nature is the main reason for piecing all these types of atoms together and creating and enabling us to create all that surrounds us. What if we were able to produce our own atoms and make them behave the way we wanted them to and not simply live by the rules mother-nat...
...nd achieve a better way of life. Yes, nanotechnology can become harmful to the human race but only if we handle it the wrong way. Nanotechnology should be handled in a way where it is only beneficiary to human kind and should be specialized to these areas only. If nanotechnology is, in fact, realized, it might be the human race's greatest scientific achievement yet, completely changing every aspect of the way we live
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Nanotechnology Before I can really address this topic properly I have to answer "What is Nanotechnology and why the hype?" Currently the term nano has been thrown around a lot in recent years. Mostly this is the desire of researchers to grab the research money that is out there and using buzz words do help turn heads. Nanotechnology is a grab bag of different fields of science. It takes from condensed-matter physics, engineering, molecular biology and large swaths of chemistry. Even the government was convinced by the hype to create The National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) is a multi-agency program intended to provide a big funding boost to nanoscience and engineering.
The Significance of Nanotechnology in Modern Society
So what is nanotechnology actually doing in the world outside of fiction? Developments at the nanoscale are revolutionising many spheres of science and technology in a variety of ways. Most widespread is probably its penetration into materials science. The increasingly ubiquitous 'carbon nanotube' is bringing the twin benefits of great strength combined with low mass to a variety of applications from the... ... middle of paper ... ... to ease the transition into a world where this technology becomes commonplace. If all this comes to pass (as the evidence all seems to suggest that it will), the concept of what it is to be human will be altered irrevocably, with nanotechnology both surrounding us and colonising our bodies.
Changes Made with Nanotechnology in Medicine
If scientists are able to succeed in mastering Nanotechnology while avoiding any cost challenges, it will revolutionize the medical field and improve human health and quality of life through many applications. What exactly is nanotechnology? If we were to break down the word we would find that the word Nano comes from the Greek word meaning dwarf and when joined with technology this word encompasses anything on a nanoscale. According to the National Nanotechnology Initiative (nano.gov) "Nanotechnology is science, engineering, and technology conducted at the nanoscale, which is about 1 to 100 nanometers. Nanoscience and nanotechnology are the study and application of extremely small things and can be used across all the other science fields, such as chemistry, biology, physics, materials science, and engineering".
America Must Regulate Nanotechnology
The future implications of nanotechnology exist along all frontiers of science, culture, commerce, economy, business, law, ethics, medicine/health, religion, and life. The end result of these changes will, however, either advance human civilization several orders of magnitude forward and thus achieve "utopia" if properly managed and regulated, or bring an end to human civilization if not properly controlled, studied, and managed, akin to "Pandora's Box" of ancient Greek mythology, but several orders of magnitude worse! Some significant implications as a result of nanotechnology include[2]: · Nearly free consumer products · PC's billions of times faster then today · People live longer with virtual ends to illness and aging · No more pollution and automatic cleanup of existing pollution . End of famine and starvation · Superior education for every child on Earth These implications could become reality in the near ... ... middle of paper ... .../view/library/aliens/article/70558.html [12] "Library-Technology – Nanoprobes", StarTrek.com, http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/library/technology/article/3963.html [13] National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network, http://www.nnin.org/ [14] National Nanotechnology Initiative, http://www.nano.gov [15] Center for Responsible Nanotechnology, http://www.crnano.org [16] "Everything or Nothing Overview", http://www.commanderbond.net/Public/Stories/2279-1.shtml [17] "Nanotechnology Now – Ethics of Nanotechnology", http://nanotech-now.com/ethics-of-nanotechnology.htm [18] Rob Fixmer, "The Soul of the Next New Machine: Humans", New York Times on the Web (November 5, 1999), http://cseserv.engr.scu.edu/NQuinn/ENGR019_301Winter2004/HWBCCCU.htm [19] "Telecommunications Act of 1996", Federal Communications Commission, http://www.fcc.gov/telecom.html
Nanotechnology: Immortality Or Total Annihilation?
Nanotechnology could give the human race eternal life, or it could cause total annihilation. The idea of nanotech was conceived by a man named K. Eric Drexler (Stix 94), which he defines as "Technology based on the manipulation of individual atoms and molecules to build structures to complex atomic specifications (Drexler, "Engines" 288)." The technology which Drexler speaks of will be undoubtedly small, in fact, nano- structures will only measure 100 nanometers, or a billionth of a meter (Stix 94). Being as small as they are, nanostructures require fine particles that can only be seen with the STM, or Scanning Tunneling Microscope (Dowie 4). Moreover the STM allows the scientists to not only see things at the molecular level, but it can pick up and move atoms as well (Port 128).
It is more than just mixing nanoscale materials together, it requires that we understand how to precisely manipulate and control these materials in a useful way. Nanotechnology is a new and broad science where diverse fields such as physics, chemistry, biology, materials science, and engineering converge. The way consumers respond to these early products, will be the test for broader market acceptance of nanotechnologies in the future. Nanotechnology is the construction and the use of functional structures designed from an atomic or molecular scale with at least one characteristic dimension measured in nanometers. The prefix "nano" comes from the ancient Greek word for "dwarf".
Nanotechnology: Taking Action
That we as the human race can create machines that could be designed to cure the common cold, rid the body of cancer cells, or reestablish endangered species. Yet, as science progresses these ideas are becoming real. The way nanotechnology works is very simple, but on a very, very small scale. The general idea is to create diminutive robots called nanobots out of carbon elements. These nanobots will be "equipped with arms able to grasp, manipulate, and lock in place individual atoms…in effect, [they would] resemble extremely small unmanned submarines.
Nanotechnology and the Future
Whatever the case may be, new technology could end up showing us that our human meaning is much more vulnerable than we thought! Our futures are continuously questioned due to new and different forms of nanotechnology. The future medical revelations provided by the appearance of nanobots are extremely exciting, but at the same time, incredibly daunting. Ralph Merkle and Eric Drexler, two experts on nanotechnology, describe "nanobots" as microscopic robots that are transported into our bodies and "build copies of themselves" (Kurzweil 561). These atomic nanobots are launched into our bloodstreams and eventually impact our immune system for the better.
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Robert Boyle brought about the true beginning of chemistry by disproving Aristotle's theory of four elements (Chemistry). Many discoveries were made without the computer and especially before the modern home computer. Before 1992, nuclear fission, nuclear weapons, Nuclear magnetic resonance, and Infrared Spectroscopy had all been discovered and were used effectively. This being said, the computer revamped all of these discoveries and made them more accurate, affordable, and easier to use. It changed the way chemists communicate with each other, store their information, and even publish their discoveries.
Nanotechnology is A Good Thing
Introduction Nanotechnology is a term used in reference to the science and engineering whereby the basic building blocks of matter such as atoms and molecules are manipulated. In the future, nanotechnology will give a greater control over the materials used in the manufacturing processes. In addition, nanotechnology will also enable manufacturers to have control over how materials are produced. Nanotechnology remains a controversial issue that has elicited varied debates among scholars (Hunt and Mehta 8). Those who support nanotechnology do so based on the benefits of the technology in areas such as treating diseases, purifying water, and cleaning up different materials.
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Event Sunday at Shelby church to help anyone seeking sobriety
A Mansfield man who says he lost 42 friends and family members in Ohio to drug overdose deaths in 2016, is working to save lives.
Event Sunday at Shelby church to help anyone seeking sobriety A Mansfield man who says he lost 42 friends and family members in Ohio to drug overdose deaths in 2016, is working to save lives. Check out this story on mansfieldnewsjournal.com: http://ohne.ws/2hPCXYP
Lou Whitmire, Reporter Published 5:00 p.m. ET Jan. 3, 2017 | Updated 10:06 p.m. ET Jan. 3, 2017
William Cole, says he has lost 42 family members and friends to drug overdoses in 2016.(Photo: Submitted)
SHELBY - A Mansfield man who says he lost 42 friends and family members to drug overdose deaths in 2016, is working to save lives.
William "Jody" Cole has helped to organize an event Sunday at Elm Street Freewill Baptist Church aimed at getting immediate help to anyone seeking sobriety.
The public is invited to "Impacting Addiction with Christ" at the 41 Elm St. church from 6 to 8 p.m. Sunday.
Cole, a member of Belmont Community Church, a recovering addict, said he lost his wife, fiance and stepbrother to drug overdose deaths last year. Friends who died last year in Ohio died between Richland and Summit counties, he said.
Cole, 53, said he began using cocaine at age 38 and then began selling or "moving" drugs in and out of Mansfield.
"I was making $60,000 to $100,000 a week," he said.
Cole said he never used drugs before age 38 but was living in Florida and a buddy was part of a Mexican drug cartel.
"Just ask anyone on the (METRICH) drug task force, they all know me," he said.
Cole said after cocaine, he began selling drugs and then began using heroin, bath salts and alcohol. He was in and out of jail before finding God.
He said he believes God kept him alive to help others.
"You could ask people who know me and they would tell you I should've been dead," he said.
"I was ejected through a car windshield on Wayne Street in 1999," he said.
"God's been good to me," Cole said.
Currently, Cole said he is doing his part to help people get clean by transporting people to rehab and detox facilities as fast as the facilities will take them.
"It's saving lives," he said of efforts by local people to get people help.
He has been clean a year and on Jan. 9 will be officially off probation for theft from a Walmart in Medina County.
Bob Ball, a Richland County Coroner's Office investigator, will speak at the event about what he is seeing in terms of overdose deaths in Richland County.
"What we're trying to do is to bring awareness and get people some help," Ball said.
In 2016, there were 53 confirmed drug overdose deaths in Richland County, Ball said Tuesday.
Valerie Rust, who is active with Project Starfish of Richland County, a non-profit organization that raises money to send people to Teen Challenge, a faith-based rehabilitation, also will be on hand.
She said the costs of Teen Challenge can run anywhere from $500 to $1,200 per person for the entire course of treatment which spans anywhere from 12 to 18 months.
"The goal is to give people, the addicted along with their families, a sense that people can recover and that there is hope. It is being held to encourage all churches to get involved in the battle against addiction," said Rust who with her husband Stan are helping people with addiction.
This event is one of several monthly events planned at area churches.
In February, a similar event will be held at Hillside Church of God on Bowman Street and in March, the event will be held at Cook Road Baptist Church of God.
Local resident Tiffany Sevits will also share her personal story.
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Harley-Davidson Sets Down Full Pan America Reveal For February 2021
It's one of the bikes we've been quite interested in seeing in the flesh since it was first announced, and finally, we now know when we'll get all the details on Harley-Davidson's new Pan America.
With Harley-Davidson billing the Pan America as "a two-wheel multi-tool built to endure, designed to explore, and engineered for adventure" it definitely sounds like the American manufacturer is keen to break into the most popular genre in motorcycling with a bang.
A survivor of the recent cull of new products we were expecting to see launched from Harley-Davidson due to new CEO Jochen Zeitz's "Rewire" business strategy in the face of plummeting sales and heavy financial losses for the Motor Co, the Pan America is now officially set to be revealed in March 2021 in a global launch event – another first for Harley-Davidson – with a local New Zealand press intro expected to follow soon after.
First announced at the EICMA show in 2019, the Pan America is set to take Harley-Davidson into new territory, not only because it is an adventure bike but also because it is the firms first big-bore V-twin to use water-cooling since the V-Rod of the early 2000s.
Pan America was initially set to arrive this year (2020) alongside a new Harley-Davidson Streetfighter dubbed the Bronx, with Covid-19 and Rewire axing any 2020 plans for both. The future of the Bronx is still unknown, with Harley-Davidson potentially waiting to see how well received the Pan America is against the entrenched ADV competition before dipping its toes and doing the same in the Streetfighter market.
What we do know
Admittedly we don't know much concrete info on the new Pan America at this stage. So far we know the Pan America will debut Harley-Davidson's new 1250cc Revolution Max engine which makes a claimed 145hp+ of peak power wrapped in a chassis developed to take it further off the highway than any Harley-Davidson product before it.
Wheels are spoked units wrapped in tubeless Michelin Anakee tyres with sizing unclear, however, we expect at a minimum a 19-inch front wheel while some photos appear to have the front wheel at a 21-inch sizing.
Other than that it isn't clear what the specs of the Pan America are going to be, however, with Harley-Davidson targetting the BMW R 1250 GS and KTM 1290 Adventure we expect it will also be backed by a full suite of electronic aids including rider modes, lean-sensitive traction control and ABS as touring amenities such as cruise control.
Full details will be released on February 23rd NZ time.
Has Harley-Davidson Killed Off It's Bronx Streetfighter?
The Beginning Of The End For Harley-Davidson's Sportster?
Harley-Davidson LiveWire Launches Into New Zealand


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DALLAS CRIMINAL LAWYER
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With rare exceptions, juvenile records and files maintained by law enforcement are confidential and may not be disclosed to the public. This is keeping with one of the stated purposes of the Family Code: to remove, where appropriate, the taint of criminality from children who commit certain unlawful acts. Law enforcement physical records and files convening a juvenile may not be disclosed to the pubic and must be:
Kept separate from adult files and records, where the information is maintained on paper or microfilm;
Accessible under controls that are separate and distinct from controls to access information concerning adults, where the information is maintained electronically in the same computer system as records or files relating to adults; and
Maintained on a local basis only and not sent to a central state or federal depository, except as provided by the laws pertaining to the Juvenile Justice Information System, the Local Juvenile Justice Information System, and the Statewide Juvenile Information and Case Management System.
Family Code Section 58.007(e) allows the child and the chid's parents or guardian to inspect or copy law enforcement records and files of a child. This provision enables parents to obtain information about their child's conduct while also giving juveniles access to offense related information that may be needed for academic or employment purposes.
The Juvenile Justice Information System is a computerized database for juvenile justice information maintained by the Texas Department of Public Safety. Information relating to juvenile arrests, prosecutions, adjudications and dispositions is sent to this state wide database. Unlike records of adult cases in the DPS system, juvenile case records are not public and may be accessed only by criminal justice agencies specifically named by statute.
Juvenile records are generally confidential, but Family Code lists six exceptions to the general rule that juvenile law enforcement records and files may not e disclosed to the public. Under Subsection(d), the law enforcement records of a former juvenile who has been transferred from the Texas Youth Commission to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) may be transferred to a central state or federal depository for adult records on or after the date of the transfer.
The second reception allows a juvenile or criminal justice agency, a child, or the child's parent or guardian to inspect or copy law enforcement records and files concerning juveniles. Additionally, if a child has been reported as a missing person by parent, guardian, or conservator, information about the child may be forwarded to and disseminated by the Texas Crime Information Center and the National Crime Information Center.
Limited information can be released by the juvenile court to the public about a child who is the subject of a directive to apprehend or an arrest warrant. Additionally, the county juvenile board may create guidelines to authorize the juvenile probation department to release information contained in its records. Even the records of juveniles who are certified for trial as adults under Family Code Section 54.02 remain confidential.
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January 10, 2022 Los Alamos Reporter
Former Sen. Dede Feldman To Share Political Memoir Jan. 27 Via Mesa Public Library Zoom Program
Ten More Doors: Politics and The Path to Change is former Senator Dede Feldman's latest attempt to make sense of New Mexico's unique—and at times crazy– political environment. Unlike her previous award-winning books (Inside the New Mexico Senate: Boots, Suits and Citizens and Another Way Forward: Grassroots Solutions from New Mexico) it chronicles her personal journey—as a journalist, a candidate, teacher, and activist. The chapters, which often stand alone as essays, include lessons in perseverance, tolerance, humility and humor.
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Topic: Naruto. Intelligent and in-depth. Hear me out.
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Re: Naruto. Intelligent and in-depth. Hear me out.
Heh, I'll agree with you there. Of my five favorite fighters three of them are in Akatsuki (Kakuzu, Kisame, and Nagato) then Killer Bee and Kyuubi possessed Naruto.
Yorubi
So Kiwi!
Rawrs!
Yeah. They just are such interesting characters and then they got crazy powers. Its kind of bad I feel more compassion for the villains more then the heroes. I really liked Kaguya a lot. His powers aren't normally my taste, but the way he used it and just over-all his personality and all I just enjoyed. Its kind of funny that Gaara vs Kaguya fight I cheered for Kaguya more just for the sake he was against a foe with a strong advantage against him. :)
... *cough* anyways... I guess I suddenly shifted it to being off topic. *Whistles and returns to being silent*
« Last Edit: June 03, 2011, 11:03:00 pm by Yorubi »
Ramael
Master of Bongos
Show me where it hurts and let me kiss it.
Hello again, Yorubi!
Well being as we're all starting off as chunin inside of Konoha, if you wanted to take the path to villain-hood, you'd have to start there (Akatsuki did, after all, start out life as good, honourable village ninja).
Ah, you aren't going for the 'villains' arch type deal? Also, they all didn't start in Konoha (I'm sure you know but meh. ^^;; ) or were you planning to have only one ninja village? Either way I'm not quite sure. It was just an idea if you needed help for some enemies they might have to fight and if you needed a roll to fit those needs I could of been a gap filler with a likely temporary character. In terms of actually joining full force, not sure. Like I said, I'm pretty bad when it comes to liking to be creative with my character and all. That and a villain to me needs some ridiculous bloodline Technic usually to stick out, granted there are some that don't use one that are pretty crazy still. :) Really though, many Akutsuki didn't start to good or honorable. They did have some pretty noticeable flaws to start, that just grew into something even worst with some of the members.
Sorry went on a tangent again. Anyways I'm not really sure about the whole 'turning into a villain' deal. Maybe... but meh... I think what really attracted me to the villains really was their powers and their actual strength over-all, mixed with their rather awesome personalities. Like I said I'll keep peeking around and all, but in terms of joining the restrictions on bloodlines and all makes me less eager to do so. Naruto is one of those things that without an interesting bloodline (usually unique) I just don't mind any big urge to take part with. Sure you can say the Byakugan (spelled wrong I'm sure) or sherigan, but I just feel those are way to over-used for my liking to begin with. >.<
I'll keep watch though still not quite sure about joining >.< I mean people leaving to become missing noes might be cool though not sure how I'd do establishing myself into a villain that way, and being a good guy I'm not sure of either. Meh. >.<
Katra Alexion
LadyArkytiorSigma
Location: Anywhere In Time And Space
A Temporally and Dimensionally Displaced Time Lady
Okay here is one of my character ideas, I have put a lot a thought into her and even then I know there is still room for improvement: Currently still fleshing and other character :3
Name: Iniishi Seiyuri
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Appearance: Seiyuri stands considerably above average height at 5'10", readily one of the taller women in the village. Her form is lean, flexible, athletic and well-developed in all the right places to turn heads. As far as looks goes Seiyuri is easily one of the more attractive kunoichis in a exotic sort of way - sculpted features with a light olive skin tone complimenting long forest green hair that is styled back into a thick braid brushing the back of her thighs leaving chin length bangs to frame her face. Her two most noticeable features are her emerald serpentine eyes that permanently outlined with a dark eyeliner and a pair of fangs. She tends to favor clothing in green, black and tan like her current outfit consisting of a green bandeau styled crop top incorporated with a finely woven mesh undershirt that stops over her mid-drift with a sleeveless black hooded vest over it. Both her hands are adorned fingerless gloves with steel plating attached to the back of her hands with her village's symbol engrave upon it. Her arms were encased from wrist to bicep in dark green detached sleeves and over it is a pair of tan cloth elbow guards. Her pants are low waisted and black in color with another set of tanned guards encasing her knees, leggings tucked into the tops of her black ninja boots. The top of her pants are snug and cinched at the hips with a utility belt that has a few smaller pouches on either side and the normal hip pouch on her left back side and a her kunai holster tethered around her right thigh. The belt has a unique inbuilt hook where she can attach the sheaths of her dual weapons for easier carrying.
Main strength: Assassination and Medical skills
Bloodline/Clan: None. The Iniishis is one of the smaller clans in the Konoha. They possess no blood-gift to speak of but they are known for producing excellent shinobis amazing with chakra control and keen intelligence. Members of the Iniishi family generally have served the village in the capacities of a Medic Nins, Fuinjutsu/Ninjutsu specialists or Infiltrators.
Biog: Seiyuri had been born and raised in Konoha, coming from a long line of ninja dating back to the founding of the village. Her family had always faithfully served in whatever capacity the village needed them in; healers, fighters and spies. Seiyuri had lost her father at a young age during the Great Ninja War. Her mother never fully recovered, choosing to bury herself her work at the hospital leaving Seiyuri in the care of her grandparents and uncle. Despite the early hardship of her young life Seiyuri had remained a happy caring little girl. That innocence was soon tragically ripped away during a rare family outing to Tazuna Town for their New Years Celebration when she was abducted from the festivities. For months the ninjas of Konoha searched for her but were unable find any sign of her, eventually as time passed the case was pushed aside for others of higher priority. For five years Seiyuri had been missing, presumably dead when she suddenly appeared at the font gates of the village battered and injured clutching a sealed scroll. Once she well enough she was brought before the Hokage to answer his questions. Once behind closed doors it was quickly discovered that the young Iniishi girl had a eidetic memory when, with the assistance of Yamanaka Ichiro to validate her claims, she recounted the nightmare her life had become since her abduction.
In a nutshell Seiyuri had been one of many children taken over the years from all round the elemental nations and experimented on by Iniishi Tokoumaru. Years before Tokoumaru had been Seiyuri's grandfather, Vahn's, older half-brother and the heir of the clan at that time. He had been secretly obsessed with raising the status of their small clan to equal the Uchiha or the Hyuugas. To this end he began delving into forbidden research and jutsus to obtain his goals into seeking some way to create a unique ability that could rival the Byakugan and the Sharingan. It was unfortunate that he had been so close to a breakthrough when Vahn happened upon his secret lab in the woods outside Konoha while he was in the middle of experimenting on some hapless villager. Tokoumaru was immediately stripped of his rank and his name stricken from the family registry as he was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Hokage. He escaped years later, joining a criminal organization to financially back up his research. At first he experimented on adults but couldn't get the results he was looking for until one night he had caught a street urchin spying on him. He got further with that urchin then had with all his previous specimens so he ordered his underlings to go out and collect as many children as they could throughout the Elemental Nations.
With this new found direction Tokoumaru began making leaps and bounds into his research but could never find a suitable subject to make to the last stage of the testing. Until Seiyuri was brought to him. The irony was not lost Tokoumaru that a child from his former clan would be the answer to his dilemma. Seiyuri endured years of experiments, brutal training and constant molestation and rape when she was older at the hands of Tokoumaru's own grandson, Tadashi. Seiyuri's will to survive was one of the strongest the exiled Iniishi had ever seen in one so young. She continued to survive where others had already succumbed and allowed Tokoumaru to believe he had converted her to his cause. There was much she was forced to endue for the sake of surviving, persevered to learn everything she could as she bide her time. Finally an opportunity to escape presented itself when she was fourteen; Tadashi was off attending business for Tokoumaru taking some of the underlings with him, leaving behind a small token force to guard their hideout erroneously secure in thinking Seiyuri a tamed beast. With the help from the cook, who had been the only motherly figure she had known in this hellhole, they put a powerful sleeping drought into to food to knock he guards out while Seiyuri prepared Tokumaru's afternoon lunch lacing his tea with a potent cocktail arsenic Seiyuri had created just for this moment, even going to build an immunity to it so that she could safely taste test the tea before Tokoumaru and lull him into a false sense of security.
It worked Tokoumaru took the bait and once he laid there dead, Seiyuri a scroll and sealed his body in it to bring back to Konoha with her. In another sealing scroll she raided Tokoumaru's studdy and labs for any any and all files as she get her hands on before setting the place on fire. The only thing she hadn't counted on was the early return of some of the guards. Seiyuri and the cook manage to escaped and elude the guards for a time but they caught to them when they were getting close to Konoha's borders. Having no other options Seiyuri was forced to fight the guards, refusing to go back and be further exploited by Tadashi. The fight was harsh and Seiyuri had sustained some considerable injuries but she managed to kill a few of the guards before Cook sacrificed herself to save Seiyuri by by taking the fatal blow unto herself and giving Sei the opening she needed to dispatch the last guard. Unheeding of her own injuries Sei gave Hoshi a proper burial before continuing on to Konoha, explaining her condition when she collapsed outside the village gates.
Once Seiyuri finished her story it was decided that Seiyuri's citizenship would be reinstated and she be allowed to attend the Academy to catch herself up on anything that may have been overlooked in her initial training and to undergo evaluation by their chief Medic nin to gauge where her skills where as a medic. All this on the condition that she undergo regular routine session with Ichiro Yamanaka to try and lessen the psychological damage done to her. Once she was deemed stable enough she would allowed to become a ninja of the Leaf. After that Seiyuri was reunited with her family. At first things were understandably strained, particularly between her and her mother due to the changes she underwent from the experiments but eventually her mother got over her fears reached out to her daughter. Things are slow going particularly since her mother had adopted another daughter in her absence who showed remarkable talents as a medic but things are steadily getting better them and her grandparents while things are still estranged between her and the rest of her clan's and their mixed feelings.
As per the agreement Seiyuri underwent intensive psychological therapy with the Yamanakas bringing her back from being a borderline sociopath in defense of the years of trauma and abuse she sustained to something resembling 'normal' (for a ninja anyways) but there still remains deep scars on her psyche that only time and positive reinforcement could handle. Two years after returning to the village of her birth Seiyuri was finally allowed on a genin team and to take up a part-time position at the Hospital so that she could support herself when not on missions. She can be found almost exclusively around other shinobis, preferring their company over the majority of the civilians who seem to in their biased prejudiced view think they know everything by listening to cruel rumors and pointless gossip.
Personality: Quiet, somewhat emotionally distant, with a wicked and sarcastic sense of humor and can be coldly calculating. She is distrusting of others until they prove themselves and those so few that had have proven their unfailing friendship find her to be loyal and devoted friend. She is very loyal to the Leaf and is willing to lay her life down for it if the need ever arose.
- Eidetic Memory
- Trained in the Assassin's skill-set (steal, move silently, seduction)
- Above average Chakra control
- Above average Medical skills (particularly in dealing with, creating and neutralizing poisons)
Flaws:
- Highly stressed or emotional situations can bring out her sociopath personality accompanied by a cruel, sadist streak.
- Intense nightmares of her abuse can be triggered in the aftermath of the aforementioned flaw.
- Because of her high poison resistance Seiyuri is susceptible to addiction to chemical ninja tools such as the Soldier Pills
« Last Edit: June 04, 2011, 01:19:11 pm by Katra Alexion »
Quote from: Yorubi on June 04, 2011, 11:44:45 am
For someone not really that keen on joining this game, you're spending a lot of time hanging about in this thread criticising my choices!
I didn't say all the Akatsuki started off in Konoha, I said they all started out as village ninja.
If, as you say, you're bad at "liking being creative" with a character, then I guess this really isn't the RP for you. I'm encouraging creativity with all the players, and everyone who's posted IC seems to be doing well with it so far, their characters showing lots of potential for the future.
I appreciate your offer of playing some villains, but that's something I might ask one of my more established players to help me with in future - I'd much rather have someone in that role who knows the entire RP really well, and has experience being a newbie/chunin starting off, rather than a part-timer.
If you don't "like the idea of turning into a villain"...well...not much I can do about that, them's the rules, I don't really know what you want me to say to this? It's more realistic. The Akatsuki, Taka, Orochimaru all belonged to a village before they set off down their path to villain-hood, so I'm echoing that sentiment in this roleplay. It also gives more depth, as the characters grow up with each other, then if any of them decide to leave the village, the whole matter is a lot more personal, and the players will care about the issue more. Certainly more than a two-dimensional character whose sole purpose is just to be "evil", becoming part of a weak black/white morality when all the interesting stuff happens in glorious shades of grey.
As for the bloodlines issue...as you say, we've had that discussion before, I can't really fathom why you're bringing it up again. If you truly think the only way to make an interesting character, or to properly enjoy a Naruto RP, is to have someone with a fancy bloodline, then personally I think you've completely missed the point, but that's just my opinion.
If you do have any more questions, or indeed anything constructive to ask, please feel free to PM me.
Katra Nice character profile, some nicely developed strengths and flaws. When you're ready, post her up in the character thread, and make your entry post into the Hallowed Forest exam area thread, ready for your chunin exam with the other genin!
« Last Edit: June 04, 2011, 01:50:27 pm by Ramael »
Ah didn't mean to make it sound like I was sorry. Bleh just was saying my own tastes. >.< I guess my wording is coming off if you took it that I was saying I don't like creativity. >.<
Needless to say, sorry you feel like I'm trying to bash your thread, I'm not attempting to at all. Its myself and my own usual stipulations that keep me interested and yet at the same time unsure. I'll PM you if I do come up with anything else to ask or what not.
Son of the Silver Fang Secret's Red Lollipop Beneath the olive tree is Shade
Location: Midwestern United States
peeks in
Hi. I happened across this, and it caught my interest. I'm a Naruto fan (as you can probably tell by my avatar), and I was wondering if you were still taking on people for this one? I was in a group Naruto RP awhile back, but it sort of fell apart (and I felt like the villain characters were way too overpowered... but that's another story ).
My character for that RP was a member of the Uchiha clan (I love the Sharingan), and I was hoping that I might be able to resurrect that old profile. Though I have noticed a few others claiming interest in the Uchiha clan, and I don't think it would be all the realistic to have half of the ninja be from the same clan. So I'll go with a character either from a different clan or not from one of the main clans if that is preferred.
Hi shade, as it stands we only have one player character playing an Uchiha, so you could still write one up :) Take a look over the thread and the character template and other character sheets, you may need to tweak your old profile accordingly.
Alright, I'll see if I can dig up this old profile first. Then I'll get started on the changes I need to make.
Creative Mettle
Still have room?
What gender are you looking for?
Gender's not an issue, but originality and dedication to character and personality over flashy jutsu are. Sound up your street?
What Jutsu would be allowed?
So anything elemental I assume. Do you have a medic yet?
edit: Would you be interested in a trap? Either a female who looks like a boy? Or a boy who looks like a girl?
« Last Edit: June 07, 2011, 12:27:41 pm by Alliance »
That would be me, but another medic is always welcomed
Moderate, realistic chunin level jutsu. Take a look over this thread.
A "trap"? Well I suppose as long as you're not trying to lure people out of their O/O's, then sure why not. And as Katra says, medics are always in demand.
Quote from: Ramael on June 07, 2011, 01:33:22 pm
O/O's?
No not trying to lure anyone. I'm not a creeper.
Fightingfaithless
The Blind Man
Give me your hand and I'll lead you.
Peoples Ons and Offs page where they will tell you what they are in to and what they are not. It is usually in their signature.
May I ask for the character sheet? When I get my CDs from the store, I shall finish. I know first things first names.
Will be edited when I get back.
Name: Mistugane Kamui
Hmm that reminds me I need to update and post my ON/OFF for my signature
TO ALLIANCE: The youngest you can play a character is 16 her on E
You might want to go to the beginning and read through a lot of the stuff Ramael has written, I know it seems like a lot but its not to much really.
He has some pretty detailed guidelines you will need to know to make the profile as well as the character sheet that you are looking for posted in there as well. ^_^
« Last Edit: June 08, 2011, 02:41:08 am by Fightingfaithless »
Quote from: Katra Alexion on June 07, 2011, 01:44:03 pm
I didn't know that.
I don't want to rat out any members, however, Seaweed's character is 14 years old. We already checked together. I'm not here to cause any fights, 16 is a perfect number for me. My character looks 16 anyway.
No I think what she means is that to take part in any sexual acts your character must be older than 16. I am sure that for now 15 would be fine as long as you do not take part in anything that could be considered sexual or inappropriate till your character is 'of age'. At least, that is what I think is correct I could be wrong.
Yeah, what he said.
But then I guess I'd have to ask, if your character is under the approvable age, then why is he/she termed a "trap"? Sounds a bit sinister to me!
I'm sure you'd be fine taking part in the RP and not getting into any hanky panky, but it's just your choice of words that confuses me, the title alone seems to betray some intent.
Well I was saying if someone fell in love with her and then found she was actually a him.
Like Haku from Naruto. Naruto thought Haku was cute, cuter than Sakura. And then Haku drops the bomb "btw I am a boy."
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Banking system security trumps BEE
Banking system's stability at stake on the back of black economic empowerment regulations
The standoff between bankers' associations and parties calling for increased empowerment is nowhere near being resolved.
At the heart of the three-year standoff is whether the stability of the banking system is worth risking in the name of black economic empowerment (BEE), and whether the "once empowered, always empowered" rule should apply.
In August, black investors in retail lender Absa, represented by Batho Bonke Capital, discussed a special resolution to cash in their 3.9% stake, worth R2.2 billion after tax.
If they did and the once-empowered rule were to change, Absa would need to enter into a new BEE deal.
If the rule stayed the same, Absa would be regarded as complying with BEE regulations even if it no longer had a BEE partner.
"We are not going to agree with a code that is going to mess up the industry," said Cas Coovadia, the managing director of the Banking Association of South Africa, the banking sector's mouthpiece.
Coovadia said the industry will report according to the generic codes it had been following for the past two years.
One of the latest attempts by Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies to align the industry charter with generic codes, the so-called "codes of good practice", was made in March this year when he gazetted the second phase of the draft code.
All of South Africa's big-four banks have BEE partners and there is an indication that some of the black investors are interested in selling to realise returns on their investments.
City Press understands Davies wants the "once-empowered, always empowered" clause excluded from the final code.
Banks want it included to ensure that they don't go back to concluding BEE transactions shouldtheir current black partners desert them.
The provisional financial-sector code contains nine elements that determine broad-based empowerment as opposed to generic codes, which contain seven elements.
The generic elements of the BEE code are: ownership, management control, employment equity, skills development, preferential procurement, enterprise development and socioeconomic development.
But the financial-sector code takes things a step further and includes two more elements in the form of empowerment financing and access to financial services.
On ownership, the draft code calls for 15% direct black ownership in banks, insurers and other savings companies, as opposed to 25% ownership in the generic codes.
In terms of market capitalisation, the country's four major lenders – Standard Bank, Firstrand Bank, Nedbank and Absa – are currently worth R522 billion collectively.
To comply with the draft code, banks will have to transfer R78.3 billion of equity into black hands.
The standoff is further complicated by the banking industry's requirement that it complies with a raft of Basel III banking regulations.
These regulations stipulate how much equity capital (money that is not borrowed) banks need to put aside to guard against bankruptcy.
In the wake of the 2008 global credit crisis, which led to the failure and in some cases bailout of many banks, lenders are now required to put aside capital of their own to reduce the risk.
Ismail Momoniat, head of tax and financial sector policy at the national treasury, said the Basel III regulations will take precedence when it comes to dealing with BEE to safeguard South Africa's financial stability.
"BEE measures can't trump financial stability," he said.
He added that investors who own 15% of a bank are classified as shareholders of reference and Basel III will require them to hold more cash reserves to ensure that if the bank is in trouble they are able to tap into the reserves to bail out the bank.
"If you are going to buy 15%, you must have cash and it must not be cash that is borrowed, it must be your own cash," Momoniat said.
Thabo Masombuka, the founder of BEE advisory firm Florytouch, warned that it will be very difficult for blacks to hold substantial stakes in local banks as this would require huge amounts, which they don't have.
"Broad-based black communities should not be exposed to the huge risk of big stakes in banks. In the event of a global economic meltdown, they will be wiped out," he warned.
He also warned that if banks resort to reporting according to the generic codes, poor black South Africans may lose out as the banks will have no obligation to provide services to them.


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I think both building blocks of my formal education – undergrad and then business school – were invaluable. My time at the Newhouse School at Syracuse University allowed me to learn about communications – from advertising to television to newspaper – and how to work with creative people and use creativity to bring ideas to life; to unlock creativity. Combining that with my more traditional business school MBA from NYU graduate school of business where I studied finance — the language of business – proved a powerful pairing. And so, the marriage of understanding creativity through the Newhouse School and understanding business through my MBA at NYU gave me a really solid foundation to set my career up in the right direction early on.
What do you know now about the business world that you wish you knew when you went to work full-time for the first time?
That ideas don't sell themselves. No matter how excited you are about a recommendation or a brand concept for a client, finding the right solution is important, but equally important is creating a way to bridge the gap between your recommendation and getting client agreement, and selling-in a methodical rational as to why the direction is right—not just putting all your effort into trying to find the answer. Finding the answer is just the halfway mark. After you find the answer or think you have an answer, the second part of the journey, helping your client or business get to that answer and execute it, is a skill I learned throughout my career that I wish I had more of at the beginning of my career.
There are many of them. Before even a film, the television show Star Trek had a very simple dimension that dramatized an important business principal. And that dimension is that Captain Kirk, the original Captain Kirk, surrounded himself with diverse leaders—each with a different skill set. He had Spock to provide the logical, analytical, perspective, he had McCoy, the doctor, to provide the emotional, intuitive perspective. He had Scotty to provide an engineering and rational perspective. He surrounded himself with diversity and he used his team to work through difficult leadership choices and encouraged active discussion and debate among his team to help him make better decisions. I think a critical business skill is being able to listen to multiple points of view, work with people with different backgrounds and perspectives and take the best of those perspectives and help them help you and the team make the best decision.
I frequently insert quotations during interviews that are personal favorites.
I noticed that and want to react to this Richard Dawkins observation: "Yesterday's dangerous idea is today's orthodoxy and tomorrow's cliché." To me, that sums up the challenge of working with companies as they shift ahead, and lots of the findings we've uncovered in the book Shift Ahead that your quote dimensionalizes. New ideas are often seen as risky and dangerous and a couple years later it becomes the way things are done. And a couple years later at that, it becomes a cliché. Unfortunately, because the pace of change is accelerating in the world—today, yesterday, and tomorrow are getting crunched to this morning, this afternoon, and this evening.
Great quote. To your question—that quote characterizes the gravitational pull that makes any shifting ahead for any organization, large or small, incredibly difficult. It's what we categorize in the book as "Marty Crane's Chair." Yesterday's chair was comfortable and many, many, companies are on cruise control when moving forward. They're doing what they did yesterday, maybe a little better, but very much without changing their core or actually reevaluating themselves in light of new or anticipated circumstances.
The powerful way to overcome that is to realize that an organization's natural state is in neutral, hopefully not reverse, and getting it out of neutral takes a lot of energy to get this mass moving forward, and not to underestimate how much horsepower you need to get an organization to change. Most organizations that have failed at changing underestimated the amount of horsepower necessary to get the organization to shift ahead, both in terms of push and pull and time required to go from standing to running ahead.
I think the most important characteristics is a top-down belief that the people in the organization are the assets of the organization. Their knowledge, expertise, creativity, passion, and drive are essential to make sure the organization is competitive every day. The organization needs to be constantly strengthening the people on the team. Growing them, challenging them, training them, motivating them; because if your most important asset in any organization, which is often the case, are you people, then the stronger your people, the more dynamic your people, the more driven your team, the more successful you'll be.
A workplace that realizes that talent is our differentiating and our most important differentiator, and does whatever they can to instill a spirit of continuous learning, continuous self-improvement, and pushing to make sure everyone on the team is being the best they can be, is a place where individuals will thrive. Best alone and better together.
I don't think there's an easy explanation, but one of the causes of this, in my view, is too many employees are not pursuing their passions when they choose their career. Individuals that more tightly align what they love doing with what they're going to get paid to do will invariably be more engaged and effective in their organizations. So for the employees that are just doing it because it's a job and will pay, of course that's important, but if someone can find a career that aligns with his/her passions, interests, and of course skill sets, then you will see employees more engaged.
Really tough questions. Saying what's going to happen in 3-5 years is more difficult today than perhaps ever before given the pace of change. I think the challenge that we'll face in 3-5 years is the same challenge that's underway right now.
A lot of young, talented, employees graduating college are no longer looking towards large organizations as a place to pursue their careers. When I was out of school, the bigger the organization that came to campus, the more desirable it was. But big is no longer better, so as a CEO of a large firm, one of the challenges you need to face is how do you attract talent that doesn't want to work in large organization—that wants to be more entrepreneurial, that likes to strike its own course. How do you provide an environment that will provide that to talent?
When and why did you decided to write Shift Ahead, and do so in collaboration with Joel Steckel?
Clients rarely came to Landor saying that things were terrific, business was growing, share was up, sales were up. More often, clients came in with shares dropping, sales dropping, profits off, their competition eating their lunch—asking what to do. The frequency of those calls about struggling started to increase and the ability of traditional marketing, which was taking what you had and trying to help sell it, was shrinking.
I began to chat with the clients and prospects about that notion. Then I happened to be guest lecturing at Professor Steckel's class at NYU—I was doing quite a bit of guest lecturing at NYU's business school at the time. During the class, Joel and I were talking about an organization that was struggling to stay relevant, and it was a terrific conversation because we both saw the same dimensions of the problem and the challenges, and Joel was able to really take what was going on and craft the Teachable Moment. What can someone looking at this situation or this company struggling to shift ahead or successfully shifting ahead learn from it? What is teachable to the next notion?
After we taught that class, we talked about the book and it became clear that our combined, complementary skills would not only allow us to analyze this challenge in the marketplace of relevance being harder to keep, but also allow us to extrapolate and provide lessons learned for people going through this same challenge.
The first revelation was that far more people try to shift and fail than successfully shift. We always knew it was difficult to shift a business ahead and stay relevant even though everyone understands how important it is—everyone is trying to do it. What we underestimated was how challenging it was for most companies. There was whole litany of reasons why people failed at this endeavor. The first revelation was that finding success stories would be far more difficult than finding stories of companies and organizations that had tried and been less successful in shifting ahead.
Not that much. We knew it would be challenging to get stories of successful companies that shifted ahead—that came true. We went in with the vision that we didn't want to write about big companies only or for-profit only. We wanted to do small companies, entrepreneurial companies, nonprofits, and we were able to speak in our more than 100 interviews with organizations of all shapes and sizes to be able to try to pin that down.
For those who have not as yet read your book, what is a "shift ahead"?
A shift ahead is an organization changing their business to improve or increase the relevancy of its product or service to its customers. To keep up with change and move forward and remain competitive and constantly reinvent your organization.
As you and Joel explain in the book, several companies have failed to shift ahead successfully. What are the lessons to be learned from each of them? For example, Blackberry.
When a company fails to shift ahead, it was rarely only one thing. They often face a number of challenges. In the Blackberry case, the most significant challenge they faced was an internal sense of arrogance—they felt they knew better. That no one would transition from a keyboard and touching their fingers to keys that clicked to a touchscreen. They believed their product was better and that the touchscreen that Apple was launching was a toy and didn't take it seriously. That sense of arrogance was one of many factors, but a significant one.
National Geographic had a number of challenges. One of the big ones was that they were myopic. They viewed themselves in the magazine business and didn't see themselves as broadly in the business of bringing knowledge about the world.
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This book was so good! I really enjoyed reading it even if most of the characters pissed me off. It was just how they treated the main character like a drug addict when there was NO PROOF at all except for the one OD that had her waking up in the hospital at the beginning of the book. One OD does not make an addict. She goes to her old best friend for legal help and he treats her like crap, but he treats every other woman in his life with genuine care and respect. He does get her an investigator and that helps her case. The twist at the end with who did everything to her and her family makes me sooooo mad. I saw it coming but still it made me want to punch the people in the face lol.


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The Pandas are on home ice against the Lethbridge Pronghorns this weekend. The Pandas are coming off a rough finish from last weekend and are looking to rebound against a team that's right on their heels in the standings. The Pronghorns have a really good chance at becoming a playoff contender this weekend, if they …
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The Bears won their series against the Dinos 2-0. Torrie Dyck has the most points for the team with 4. Johnny Lazo got 2 goals in the first game and an assist, but was silenced on Saturday giving him three points in his two games. On top of Greg Gardner scoring an amazing goal (post below) the …
"An Absolutely Dirty Dangle!"
Greg Gardner Scores in the second with style to build the lead. The Bears would win the series with a 2-0 game. They didn't allow a goal all series. Mucha has had a shut-out in his past 14 periods played (excluding shoot-outs).
The Bad: This will be the worst ever finish for the Pandas, third. The Good: The Pandas will play their first play-off series at home (either Saskatchewan or Manitoba) Plus the Pandas will finish third IF they win tonight. They have a better GF/GA by +11. The third placed UBC Thunderbirds will play the fourth placed Pandas …
One point, two games
The Pandas, 33 points, are facing the UBC Thunderbirds, 34 points, in a battle for third place. Right now it appears as though the Pandas will finish the season in the lowest seed ever. Third. Or fourth. The Pandas need two wins this week-end to propel themselves into potentially second but most likely third. If the Regina Cougars …
Great Uniforms, Great Cause, Great Game!
The Pandas have a hugely important week-end agaisnt the first placed Dinos. The Dinos, who currently sit atop the Pandas by six points, have become a very popular team after the addition of Hayley Wickenheiser. The Former Captain of Canada's womens team captain has not played the full the season this year, (trying to rest, not due to injury) …
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The Bears took it to the Team Canada Juniors beating them by a solid 4-1 margin. This was a huge game for the Bears as it was a chance to show Canada just how much talent they really have. Playing against Canada's best 19 and 20 year olds. The Bears squad (Ranging from 19 to 25 years …
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Last Saturday night, the Bears didn't really need to show up for the last two periods, they showed MRU not to mess around by the end of the first. The Bears had a clear 5-0 lead after the first period buzzer sounded. The Bears scored just over three minutes in, and rounded-out the period their …
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We all have different ways of expressing our excitement about sports. Over the years I have become a sports (non)professional photographer. Instead of focusing on the games or players, though, I have focused on the fans. Here are a few of my favorite pictures from my portfolio. I feel i've really captured these fan's excitement for whatever sporting event they may have been attending, watching, or participating in.