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GAO Report Highlights Trends in Lobbying Disclosure Act Compliance and Enforcement
By Kimberly Railey on April 21, 2022
Posted in Lobbying Compliance
The 2021 report from the Government Accountability Office ("GAO") offers new details on the landscape of Lobbying Disclosure Act ("LDA") compliance and enforcement. The report is based on random audits of lobbyists' filings and analysis of enforcement by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia ("USAO").
The report included several trends GAO identified…
Understanding H.R. 1 (Part 2): Changes to the Lobbying Disclosure Act and Foreign Agents Registration Act
By Inside Political Law Staff on March 8, 2021
Posted in Foreign Agents Registration Act, Lobbying Compliance
With a growing chorus of support across the progressive landscape, the For the People Act of 2021 has emerged as a key legislative priority for congressional Democrats in the 117th Congress. Envisioned as a "transformational anti-corruption and clean elections reform package," the bill would enact sweeping changes to federal election laws along with important changes…
LDA's Registration Threshold Increases By $1,000
By Derek Lawlor on March 8, 2021
Under the federal Lobbying Disclosure Act ("LDA"), an organization or lobbying firm must register if it employs an individual who meets the definition of a "lobbyist" and if its total expenses or income for lobbying activities meet certain monetary thresholds. The two non-monetary thresholds determining when an individual becomes a "lobbyist," discussed below, are usually the main factors driving when an organization or lobbying firm must register. However, the monetary thresholds, one of which was recently increased from $13,000 to $14,000, may affect the registration obligations of entities engaged in only a de minimis amount of lobbying.
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Contributions-for-Pardons Opinion Reveals DOJ Efforts, and Challenges, Prosecuting Lobbying Violations
By Andrew Garrahan on December 3, 2020
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An opinion by Chief Judge Beryl Howell of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia unsealed yesterday has generated much attention for its discussion of contributions-for-pardons allegations in a case that is still largely obscured from public view. But the underlying offenses at issue in the case also include an alleged "secret lobbying…
DOJ Charges Abramoff in First-Ever Criminal Lobbying Disclosure Act Prosecution
By Matthew Shapanka on June 26, 2020
Nearly a decade after his release from prison, having served nearly four years on corruption charges, disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff may be heading back behind bars, this time as the first person ever charged and convicted for criminal violations of the Lobbying Disclosure Act ("LDA"). Yesterday the Justice Department announced that notorious lobbyist Jack Abramoff…
A Rookie's Guide to Federal Lobbying Compliance: Four Key Risks for Companies Contacting Government Officials on COVID-19 Matters
By Zachary G. Parks & Derek Lawlor on May 1, 2020
As the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic spreads through every industry, companies that previously steered clear of Washington, D.C. may find themselves contacting the federal government for assistance. From communicating with Members of Congress about potential provisions of the CARES Act to requesting new forms of assistance from federal agencies that oversee their industries, these…
GAO Report Reveals New Insights Into Lobbying Disclosure Act Compliance and Enforcement
By Zachary G. Parks on April 8, 2020
The 2020 annual report from the Government Accountability Office ("GAO") provides new details regarding the state of Lobbying Disclosure Act ("LDA") compliance and enforcement. By statute, the GAO is charged with conducting random audits of LDA compliance and submitting reports reflecting the results to Congress. This year's audit reviewed approximately 100 quarterly "LD-2" reports filed…
Interacting with the Government During the Pandemic: Compliance Blind Spots for Corporations and Executives
By Robert Kelner, Robert Lenhard, Michael Wagner, Peter B. Hutt II, Zachary G. Parks, Derek Lawlor & Andrew Garrahan on March 24, 2020
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The consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic are reverberating in every sector of the global economy, from life sciences to transportation, retail to manufacturing, financial services to sports and entertainment. As federal, state, and local governments attempt to blunt the pandemic's public health and economic effects, many companies are frantically working with government to seek the…
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By Robert Kelner, Robert Lenhard, Zachary G. Parks & Derek Lawlor on April 8, 2019
The recent passage of the Justice Against Corruption on K Street Act of 2018 ("JACK Act" or the "Act") imposes new requirements on those registering and filing reports under the Lobbying Disclosure Act ("LDA"). The Act amends the LDA to require that LDA registrants disclose listed lobbyists' convictions for criminal offenses involving bribery, extortion, embezzlement,…
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With the Foreign Agents Registration Act in the news and public awareness of this formerly obscure statute at an all-time high, Senator Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) introduced legislation last week to revise the statute significantly, including reversing a decision Congress made in 1995 to remove most private sector reporting from FARA and place it instead under…


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text: Iceland's best loved painter, and sculptor Asmundur Sveinsson. Iceland's president, Vigdis Finnbogad6t tir, former director of the Reykjavik The ater, is a strong supporter of the arts. "We were so poor and materials so scarce that Icelanders expressed themselves with the only thing that was free-words," she told me in her Reykjavik office. The 56-year-old president was elected in 1980 to her position as spokesperson for the nation and reelected without opposition in 1984. She believes that a national women's strike in 1975 planted the seed for her nomi nation and also for the founding of the Women's Alliance, which holds three seats in the Iceland Parliament. "The idea of the 1975 strike was to dem onstrate how valuable women are to our society," said President Vigdis. "It was a marvelous day. Men cooked for their chil dren for the first time and ran day-care cen ters in their offices." Some banks closed during the strike for lack of tellers, and telephone communica tions became hopelessly snarled because switchboard operators left their posts. In October 1985 the women staged an an niversary strike, and this time the President of Iceland herself didn't show up for work.

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The Lakeshore Eco-Network
Par Pat Morden
Grand Bend, Ontario is a small town that attracts people who love natural beauty. The white sand beaches of Lake Huron area spread at our feet, and the provincial park next door is home to the rare oak savanna ecosystem. But Grand Bend is also a conservative rural community, one where wind farms are almost universally detested.
My husband and I moved here 14 years ago. Soon after, we had an opportunity to see An Inconvenient Truth, and our world view shifted. When my husband came home from Chicago trained as a Climate Reality presenter, he wondered what opportunities there would be to spread the message in our community. But in May 2014, with the support of his Rotary Club, he organized a forum that attracted some 300 people.
And then Mother Nature stepped in with a sharp reminder. In August 2014, a tornado tore through our community, taking down thousands of trees. We were approached by our local community foundation to take the lead in encouraging reforestation. It was, in a strange way, an opportunity – to clothe the climate crisis in the reassuring message about tree-planting. Our small group set a goal of 5,000 trees over 10 years and began to offer spring and fall tree sales. In 2017 we held the first-ever Ausable Heritage Tree Festival alongside our spring tree sale and implemented a major public planting at our local soccer field. In October we hosted the former Environmental Commissioner of Ontario at a forum on adaptation to climate change.
(Along the way, I also trained with Mr. Gore (Toronto 2015), and we have made several presentations to local churches and community groups.)
Our group, now called the Lakeshore Eco-Network, works closely with a nearby Conservation Authority, a trails group, local service clubs, and the Community Foundation. We have been consistent in our core message: tree planting and conservation to fight climate change. I'm not sure if we've changed many minds, but we've certainly sold a lot of trees!
Our group is proud to have presented, on April 5th, An Inconvenient Sequel at a small local movie theatre. I think it's the only screening that has happened in our neck of the woods. For my husband and me, it's coming full circle. But it's not the end of the road, not at all.
Je suis une rédactrice et experte-conseil en communications, et tout récemment, je suis devenue directrice générale de la Grand Bend Community Foundation. J'habite au milieu de la chênaie-parc sur les rives du lac Huron, avec mon mari et trois Border-Collies.
Lisez le blogue de Pat Morden dans son LinkedIn.
Important: 3 Key Climate Change Priorities
Toronto's Killing Fields


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STARTUP_FLAGS="--batch"
BUILD_FLAGS="--discard_analysis_cache"

function extract_histogram_count() {
  local histofile="$1"
  local item="$2"
  # We can't use + here because Macs don't recognize it as a special character
  # by default.
  grep "$item" "$histofile" \
      | sed -e 's/^ *[0-9][0-9]*: *\([0-9][0-9]*\) .*$/\1/' \
      || fail "Couldn't get item from $histofile"
}

function run_test_actions_deleted_after_execution() {
  readonly local product="$1"
  readonly local javabase="$2"
  readonly local get_pid_expression="$3"
  readonly local extra_build_arg="$4"
  rm -rf histodump
  mkdir -p histodump || fail "Couldn't create directory"
  readonly local wait_fifo="$TEST_TMPDIR/wait_fifo"
  readonly local exec_fifo="$TEST_TMPDIR/exec_fifo"
  readonly local server_pid_file="$TEST_TMPDIR/server_pid.txt"
  cat > histodump/BUILD <<EOF || fail "Couldn't create BUILD file"
genrule(name = 'action0',
        outs = ['wait.out'],
        local = 1,
        cmd = 'echo "" > $exec_fifo; cat $wait_fifo > /dev/null; touch \$@'
        )
EOF
  for i in $(seq 1 3); do
    iminus=$((i-1))
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genrule(name = 'action${i}',
        srcs = [':action${iminus}'],
        outs = ['histo.${i}'],
        local = 1,
        cmd = 'server_pid=\$\$(cat $server_pid_file) ; ' +
              '$javabase/bin/jmap -histo:live \$\$server_pid > ' +
              '\$(location histo.${i}) ' +
              '|| echo "server_pid in genrule: \$\$server_pid"'
       )
EOF
  done
  mkfifo "$wait_fifo" "$exec_fifo"
  local readonly histo_root="$("$product" info \
      "${PRODUCT_NAME:-$product}-genfiles" 2> /dev/null)/histodump/histo."
  "$product" clean >& "$TEST_log" || fail "Couldn't clean"
  "$product" $STARTUP_FLAGS build --show_timestamps $BUILD_FLAGS \
      $extra_build_arg //histodump:action3 >> "$TEST_log" 2>&1 &
  subshell_pid="$!"
  cat "$exec_fifo" > /dev/null
  if [[ -z "$get_pid_expression" ]]; then
    server_pid="$subshell_pid"
  else
    server_pid="$($get_pid_expression)"
  fi
  echo "server_pid in main thread is ${server_pid}" # >> "$TEST_log"
  echo "$server_pid" > "$server_pid_file"
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  date >> "$TEST_log"
  echo "" > "$wait_fifo"
  # Wait for previous command to finish.
  wait "$subshell_pid" || fail "Bazel command failed"
  local genrule_action_count=100
  for i in $(seq 1 3); do
    local histo_file="$histo_root$i"
    local new_genrule_action_count="$(extract_histogram_count "$histo_file" \
        "GenRuleAction$")"
    if [[ "$new_genrule_action_count" -ge "$genrule_action_count" ]]; then
      cat "$histo_file" >> "$TEST_log"
      fail "Number of genrule actions did not decrease: $new_genrule_action_count vs. $genrule_action_count"
    fi
    if [[ -z "$new_genrule_action_count" ]]; then
      cat "$histo_file" >> "$TEST_log"
      fail "No genrule actions? Class may have been renamed"
    fi
    genrule_action_count="$new_genrule_action_count"
  done
}

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Q: Approximation argument in geometric flows I'm studying by myself Mean Curvature Flow and I'm reading the paper "Interior estimates for hypersurfaces moving by mean curvature" by Klaus Ecker and Gerhard Huisken and I'm stuck in the following theorem:

$\textbf{Theorem 5.1}$: $M_0 \equiv F_0(\mathbb{R}^n)$  be a locally Lipschitz continuous entire graph over $\mathbb{R}^n$, then the initial value problem $(1)$ has a smooth solution $M_t = F_t(\mathbb{R}^n)$ for all $t > 0$. Moreover, each $M_t$ is an entire graph over $\mathbb{R}^n$.

I didn't understand what approximation argument exactly was used in the the last paragraph of the proof:

From Corollary $3.5 (ii)$ we then conclude for any integer $m \geq 0$
$$\sup_{B_{R_0}(0) \times [0,T]} \left| D^m w_R \right| \leq c_m,$$
where $c_m = c_m(m,n,R_0,c_0, c_1)$.
We can therefore select a sequence of solutions $(w_{R_k})$ for $R_k \rightarrow \infty$ ($R_k > R_1$ for any $k \geq 2$) s.t. $w_{R_k} \rightarrow w$ in $\mathcal{C}^{\infty}$ uniformly on $\Omega \times [0,T]$. Since $\Omega$ and $T > 0$ were arbitrary this establishes the existence of a family of entire graphs $M_t = \text{graph} \ w(\cdot, t)$ solving (1) where $w \in \mathcal{C}^{\infty}(\mathbb{R}^n \times (0,\infty))$. As the second and higher
  order derivative estimates for $w$ on each compact subset of $\mathbb{R}^n$  depend only on the initial height and gradient on a slightly larger subset, an approximation argument yields a smooth solution of (1) also for locally Lipschitz initial data.

This last paragraph leads me to think that I need some corollary of Arzela-Ascoli theorem and proceed as the section "4.4 - Curvature explodes" of this thesis, which teach how construct a global solution. This thesis construct a global solution for the curve shortening flow and the author of thesis states that uniform limit of the subsequence there it's a smooth map and it's clear for me, because this result:

$\textbf{Theorem A.4.2}$ Let $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^s$ be a closed bounded set. There is a function $u \in \mathcal{C}^{\infty}(\Omega)$ and a sequence $m_j \rightarrow \infty$ with
$$\max_{x,t} \left| \frac{\partial^{p+q}}{\partial x^p \partial t^q} u_{m_j}(x,t) - \frac{\partial^{p+q}}{\partial x^p \partial t^q} u(x,t) \right| \rightarrow 0 \ \text{as} \ m_j \rightarrow \infty.$$

This theorem can be found on Appendix $4$ of the book "Initial-Boundary Value Problems and the Navier-Stokes Equations" by Heinz-Otto Kreiss and Jens Lorenz, but the problem is that I don't have uniform bounds for $\frac{\partial^{p+q}}{\partial x^p \partial t^q} w_{R_k}$, so I don't know how to proceed here. Is the approximation argument commented by authors really an argument based on Arzela-Ascoli theorem? Anyone can give some details about this argument?
Thanks in advance!

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Source: Per service record of Alexander Drummond, reg. no. 730492.
London Advertiser. March 16, 1916. Page 5.
Military Medal with bar.
News clipping from the The Huron Expositor, 1917-09-28, Page 3.
Among the Western Ontari men who are announced by Stewart Lyon as having won the military medal in the recent fighting are three from Perth county, viz: D.M. Ross, Reginald Adams and Rudolph [Reuben] Switzer. Pte. Ross is a son of Dan Ross, of Stratford, and enlisted with the 18th Battalion. He was wounded once. He is well known and was a member for one year of the Stratford hockey team. Redge Adams is a St. Marys boy. He enlisted in the 110th battalion and held the rank of sergeant until he went to France. Rudoph Switzer is another former 110th Battalion man.
Source: The Huron Expositor, 1917-09-28, Page 3.
Military Medal entry on London Gazette. London Gazette. No. 30364. Page 11348.


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Football team persists despite loss
Bryan McCreary|September 21, 2009
After having already matched its win total from last year, the Spartan football team went into Chaminade bearing a 2-1 record and with a new sense of confidence. Facing the 2-2 Red Devils proved to be too much, however, with the Spartans falling in a one-sided affair, 63-35.
Senior Micah Alsobrook is the team leader with six touchdowns on the year, followed by senior Garner Wilson and junior Kaleb Cooper, who both have five. Sophomore Chip Miller continues to show his maturity, completing almost 60 percent of his passes with nearly 100 yards, nine touchdowns and only five interceptions.
After a loss, the team feels that it is important to move on and build on the positives coming out of the game.
"We saw a lot of good things, and even though we lost, we need to build on them," said senior Zack Degrande. "If we don't put this one in the past, we won't play good for the rest of the season."
The Spartans look to rebound against the 1-3 Holt Indians in the Homecoming game this Friday.
Going Back to Games
Overcoming Effects of Football Quarantines
Football Senior Night
Lightning Prevails
Freshmen Fall to North
FHC Has a Hard Loss Against OTHS
FHC Crushes FZS in First Home Game
Spartans loss to rivals


If it was an extra ordinary day?
How would I spend that day?
Never caught the tide and made it to shore?
Blocking the light of what might have been?
Conjured another day with a lost love?
How would I share that day?
Where we'd loved most deeply?
When we were together believing in forever?
In the presence of my spiritual mentor?
How would I learn that day?
Of endless dead-ends and unpredictable turns?
To startling new perceptions of alternate reality?
In every delicious moment of that extra ordinary day.


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Australia's plant-based Food as Medicine cookbook named national winner by the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards.
Australian vegan cookbook Food as Medicine: Cooking for Your Best Health by Sue Radd was named the national winner in the "Best Health & Nutrition Book" category of the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards. The competition draws entries from 60 nations every year, and the health category is the "most crowded" according to publishing company Signs Publishing book editor Nathan Brown. "This wonderful book is a delight for the reader," Gourmand World Cookbook Awards jury president Edouard Cointreau said after announcing the winners. Published in October, the book contains 150 plant-based recipes and insight into scientific research that supports the health benefits of eschewing animal products. As a national winner, Food as Medicine qualified to compete on the international level of the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards in May. Last year, Han Kang's The Vegetarian—which explores themes about eating animals and culture in South Korea—won the prestigious Man Booker International Prize.


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Tadcaster took Pudsey by surprise with Fiona passing to Ailsa, who picked it up well and pushed on towards the Pudsey goal followed by a nice pass out to Helena who won an early short corner. Fiona passed it out to Kathy who took a good strike but unfortunately it was saved.
Play swapped quickly to the other end, Pudsey sent in a high flying ball and a difficult bounce which fell in Pudsey's favour meant they took an early lead. 1-0 to Pudsey.
Pudsey continued to drive towards the Tadcaster goal but Jen kept her cool and made some diving saves. Tadcaster put good pieces of play together with some nice one, twos between the players, keeping procession and moving the ball round well.
We had a few chances but half time it was 1-0 to Pudsey.
Pudsey came out a little stronger in the second half but our defence didn't falter with Sarah J staying strong in the centre and Caroline and Jane keeping the Pudsey wingers marked well.
Tadcaster got back into it and started passing the ball round well again. Becky and Fiona intercepted the ball well and fed it through to Eve and Helena out wide. Ailsa also had some good pickups at centre forward. Fiona won the ball passed to Eve who drove the ball down the right wing and into the D, releasing it nice and early with a good cross to Helena who finished it off with great goal.
It was 1-1 and all to play for.
Pudsey weren't to be beater and continued to push towards the Tadcaster goal. We put in some great marking and defending, with good shadowing skills and jab tackles.
We won a few short corners in a row and tried some good variations and shots on goal but the Pudsey goalie had them covered and cleared the ball. Tadcaster continued to look for goal and Tania had a good chance but the goalie saved it.
Played turned round quickly and Pudsey were driving for goal, unfortunately they won a short corner from an obstruction. We stopped the initial shot but the ball was still loose and it was the Pudsey player that picked it up near the far post and despite a good effort by Caroline to try and stop it, it was a goal. Pudsey were 2-1 up.
There was only a few minutes left to play and both teams continued to play well and look for another goal but it finished 2-1 to Pudsey, which is a shame as Tadcaster had played very well against the top of the league opposition.
Man of the match was a draw this week. Some good performances by everyone but the youngest got the votes with Eve and Helena sharing man of the match for fantastic running and drive and a great goal for Helena. Well done girls.


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Moorjani et al. on recent population mixture in India
Despite some claims to the contrary across the web today, there's really nothing new or controversial about this Moorjani et al. paper, considering all of the non-academic data available online on South Asian genome-wide and Y-chromosome genetic structure. In fact, I think the authors were way too cautious and diplomatic in their assessment of the post-Neolithic population history of the region.
It is also important to emphasize what our study has not shown. Although we have documented evidence for mixture in India between about 1,900 and 4,200 years BP, this does not imply migration from West Eurasia into India during this time. On the contrary, a recent study that searched for West Eurasian groups most closely related to the ANI ancestors of Indians failed to find any evidence for shared ancestry between the ANI and groups in West Eurasia within the past 12,500 years3 (although it is possible that with further sampling and new methods such relatedness might be detected). An alternative possibility that is also consistent with our data is that the ANI and ASI were both living in or near South Asia for a substantial period prior to their mixture. Such a pattern has been documented elsewhere; for example, ancient DNA studies of northern Europeans have shown that Neolithic farmers originating in Western Asia migrated to Europe about 7,500 years BP but did not mix with local hunter gatherers until thousands of years later to form the present-day populations of northern Europe.15, 16, 44 and 45
Here's my non-diplomatic assessment of the data presented in the paper: South Asia has seen multiple waves of population movements from West and Central Asia since the Neolithic, including the Indo-Aryan invasion during the Bronze Age, which reshaped the genetic structure of the region in a remarkable way. Indeed, the Aryan invasion introduced into South Asia one of the most common Y-chromosome lineages there today: R1a-Z93 or R1a1a1b2*. Obviously, scientists working on the problem of the peopling of South Asia really need to become aware of this marker, and in particular its very close relationship to the Northern and Eastern European-specific R1a-Z283.
Priya Moorjani et al., Genetic Evidence for Recent Population Mixture in India, The American Journal of Human Genetics, 08 August 2013, doi:10.1016/j.ajhg.2013.07.006
Origins of R1a1a in or near Europe (aka. R1a1a out of India theory looks like a dud)
South Asian R1a in the 1000 Genomes Project
Southwest Eurasians + Northwest Eurasians + Mesolithic survivors = modern Europeans
DOD879 said...
"Obviously, scientists working on the problem of the peopling of South Asia really need to become aware of this marker, and in particular its very close relationship to the Northern and Eastern European-specific R1a-Z283"
What exactly is this very close relationship?
Z93 is found in many places where there is no trace of Z283 and vice-versa. They seem to be mutually exclusive in most cases so far.
There are two main subclades of R1a in Europe today that are very rare or missing in Asia: Z283 and L664. However, Z283 shows a much closer relationship with Z93 than with L664, via Z645 and other mutations.
What this means is that Z283 and Z93 separated very late from their common ancestor, so it's likely that the vast majority of Asian R1a today is the result of a European population moving east that suffered founder effect and lost its Z283, L664 and possibly other, now extinct or extremely rare subclades, along the way.
There was an ancient DNA paper about something like that a few years ago...
Nirjhar007 said...
'' the most prolific Y-chromosome lineages there today: R1a-Z93 or R1a1a1b2*. Obviously, scientists working on the problem of the peopling of South Asia really need to become aware of this marker, and in particular its very close relationship to the Northern and Eastern European-specific R1a-Z283.''
They are aware but the problem for you will be the Farmana aDNA, which will make you cry:(.....
and another thing the above research only shows the time(which should be around 1900b.c. since they used an impractical age of 29 years per generation) when Harappans started to move in East and South and mixed rapidly with the Dravidian-Munda ASI people, nothing else in a practical sense...
Good Day....
You really need to accept now that it's all over. The Aryans did invade India and they carried a shit load of R1a into the country.
Once you do that, we can move on and discuss the really interesting stuff like how it all went down. Which reminds me, what do you know of this?
Morphometric and ancient DNA study of human skeletal remanants in Indian subcontinent.
http://polishgenes.blogspot.com.au/2013/09/american-society-of-human-genetics-ashg.html
''You really need to accept now that it's all over. The Aryans did invade India and they carried a shit load of R1a into the country.''
How they brought the ''shit load of R1a'' did they used Vimaanas like in this beautiful article:-)?
http://decodehindumythology.blogspot.in/2013/06/ufos-and-vimanas.html#comment-form
''Once you do that, we can move on and discuss the really interesting stuff like how it all went down''
You know what your whole hypothesis is very weak! you know why? It's because it is totally built up on a theory!! A theory which is yet to find a single Direct/Actual evidence!...
Farmana aDNA has the ability to solve the Indo-European Puzzle for ever!! No kidding....
''what do you know of this?
http://polishgenes.blogspot.com.au/2013/09/american-society-of-human-genetics-ashg.html''
Same as you do David...


Designing An MBA – Page 2 – A journey of putting your beginner's mind to work to ask "what's next?"
I want to keep this short and let my links speak for themselves. My attempt here is to share some highlights and inspiration with you, and allow you to take them in, as best you can, as if you were living in my shoes at the conference. Hope you take a little time to do so – enjoy what took me three days in maybe one hour? Seems like a good deal.
He convened the meeting that coined the term impact investing. How freaking cool is that. That was only TEN YEARS AGO.
This guy broke every rule in the book in his talk and in his life. He's lost a lot of weight and made a lot of world-changing progress since this talk but it's still enough to get you close to the inspiration.
Yup, that was my great addition to the conference. Some aluminum foil and some Play-Doh.
In a breakout session titled "Designing with Empathy at the Base of the Pyramid", Pact's Michelle Risinger took about fifty of us on a journey towards taking the growing "design thinking" movement in the private sector and moving this unique brand of human-centered research, empathetic listening, and prototype building based off building off the needs of a client or customer to those most in need. This was my attempt to provide a better waiting room experience for my partner, including a dance floor, a board game area, and a private booth to facetime with family. She revealed the true project that Pact had covered in the end, which was to take a plain and lonely hallway where patients awaited teenage circumcision as a form of STD prevention, while hearing the screams of the patients in the room right next door, after walking for hours to get there and with no recovery area.
It was hard to hear about the Pittsburgh shootings, but I was inspired to be able to watch this woman speak immediately after.
She reminded me how much I miss President Obama, to say the least, he just had a real knack for finding amazing people to place in important positions, but McCarthy, as former Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, also gives me such hope for the future. Even the future of politics. Please watch.
And next was actually the final keynote I saw, but it was, rightfully so, a bit of a downer. So I'm jumping to it now so I can end on an up note. It's a downer, but it's among the more powerful messages delivered in a powerful way that I've ever seen. He is the first speaker I've ever seen stop the audience from cheering for his success, because he believes, like so many of us in the room, his success was only possible by winning the luck of the draw while others are deprived opportunity.
Finally, I am extremely interested in utilizing my MBA to address, well… work. Particularly how low America is in terms of the average happiness of our citizens, and the lack of fulfillment we get from the workplace.
Here are two wonderful resources I learned in great detail about at the same time in sitting in my final session, led by Aaron Hurst of Imperative and also attended by the equally compelling Jeff Hittner of Project X.
Click on these links. The first if you work anywhere or plan to work anywhere, to understand your role in the "purpose economy." The second if you study anywhere or plan to study anywhere, you can find a way with this "purpose company." You will be glad you did.
Hope you enjoyed your conference via blog experience! See you next year!
I'm going to do something a little different this week. I'm going to use the entire blog to give a blow-by-blow response to a podcast I listened to a couple of days ago that was tremendously inspiring and triggered many ideas within me.
In 2011, Clara Ma won a competition put on by NASA to name its third Mars Rover.
"People get annoyed by how many questions I ask", the then-11-year-old says.
This reminded me of another idea I had heard earlier this year. That as we grow older, in school, we are rewarded more for having answers than for having questions. I recalled memories I hadn't really delved into in years, in studying the trees in my backyard with my mom. As a person who became an artist, I like to shock people by telling them my parents were scientists. But then I quickly follow up with stories of my grandmother taking me to Broadway plays, of my mom changing careers mid-stream to design jewelry. That's why I turned out so creative, I tell people.
But not one minute into this podcast, I have a realization that ties my art career to my MBA experience and my professional desires more clearly than ever previously. Maybe I wasn't just creative.
Let's introduce this person. Francesca Gino.
She notes that curiosity peaks at the age of 4 or 5 but then declines from there. She talks about her children and how the questioning never ends. "Why is the sky blue?" She tells a story about how she encourages, rather then shuts down, her children. 6 am in the kitchen – opening up cabinets, making a mess. But now she joins in, in the exploration, asking them questions.
First, of all, way to parent Francesca! But secondly, I have yet another epiphany. What a tragedy this is. What a challenge we have as humans that the thing that advances our society, that makes us special, is something we start losing so young. I think about how I have been interested in trying to help others be better empathetic listeners, at various points in my life, most recently in developing a prototype for a worksheet in my class with Ideo U. I think about an exercise we had at the orientation for the UC Davis Graduate School of Management. How we were supposed to listen to our partner and only respond with prompt questions of "Who, What, Where, Why, and How" to help them dive deeper into a topic.
And it hit me. The only word that matters (OK slight overstatement but go with me here) for an empathetic listener is… WHY. In my own frustrations in conversations in which I don't feel listened to, I was never able to put my finger on what would bother me. It's WHY. Why helps us understand. Why gives the gift of allowing a person to dive deeper. Why allows them to explore uncharted territory. Why encourages the thing we are slowly losing. Curiosity.
If you are someone who would like to be a better listener, try something next time. Be a three year old. Just keep asking why.
She aligns her fear that her children would make a mess with the worries leaders have that they will make a mess. "You have to be willing to clean up the salt", Curt Nickisch responds. New life quote. Thanks Curt!
We are learning about "opportunity costs" in my Microeconomics class taught by Brett Saraniti. In essence, this is the loss of a potential gain in other alternatives when you choose to invest in something. Gino talks about how "costly" it is to shut down curiosity. She talks about Intuit, and how it gives failure awards that give important learning opportunities to the team. The employees even get a failure party. It made me think of Intel (come on, they are similar names, easy jump) who came in and gave us our first "case competition" during orientation. I can tell you first hand that they had inquisitive, satisfied employees. We were abuzz with dreams of interning there after they left. If you measure the cost of lack of curiosity by whether or not MBA students are excited about working at your company… well, I think it's a halfway decent measure, is it not?
She points out how curiosity is not talked about as often as creativity and innovation. Bingo. But it is KEY to creativity and innovation. So instead of fostering creativity and innovation in your organization, foster curiosity. Not everyone can just be innovative. But we can all be curious. I wonder, if you have been worrying about this in your own MBA journey, what would happen if you boil it down to asking "why" more often.
"I'm much more likely to ask questions" is an outcome she mentions. Bingo. But she crystalizes it further. "I'm much more open to a different view on the same task or problems", she notes. Curiosity allows us to have a more open mind towards finding a solution. It makes us better at taking others perspectives and encourages us to see how someone can have a different viewpoint. It improves our decision making.
Putting on my "systems thinking" hat here, which I am prone to do, Gino is not just proposing a solution to making companies more effective, she's got the world on a string. I get my progressive education now. Wow. Thank you Park School of Baltimore. Thank you all my teacher friends fighting to encourage better citizens of humanity. What would happen if we were all encouraged to see how people can have a different viewpoint?
This is where I got to go to school every day. I am so grateful.
There is no evidence that when you allow curiosity to stay alive in organizations, efficiency becomes an issue. The notion of "curiosity killed the cat" is raised, or more accurately the embarrassing humorous image of a cat with a tissue box on its head is pointed out.
Not exactly a tissue box on a head moment, but couldn't resist an excuse for a cute kitten photo!
As I've noted in my podcast previously, we had an opportunity to decide what animal we were in orientation, and what animal a partner was. Cats were often mentioned for their laconic-ness, their even-keel, independent nature. For being hunters and going after what they wanted. Curiosity was pretty much ignored. Small but powerful nugget there about what we are encouraged to value in each other.
"Yes, and." OK, Francesca. You have my heart now. For anyone from a performance background, those words ring loud and strong. It's what you learn in your first improv class, the core concept of creating a new world from scratch.
The idea is that to build a world you have to accept and agree with whatever your partner decides to be true. Disagreement becomes immediately confusing. If I say "that was a good game of catch, Dad" and you say "but I'm not your dad, I'm your sister, and that wasn't a baseball, but a penguin"… sure that's funny at the moment, but what the heck do I say next. If you say "thanks, and I'm so glad your Mom finally mowed the lawn so we had room", that sets up some funny potential for my partner as to where the scene could go next and gives more information to play with.
But what she points out about all of this is it starts with a point of acceptance. Then she brings up Pixar. One of my dream organizations. What are you doing to me Francesca!! She says they call it "plussing." Build on top of each other's ideas. Don't shut down exploration before it begins.
I also like to refer to improv as we experiment with working in teams at the GSM. I brought up an idea a few weeks ago about choosing team leaders, and whether you should have a top-down approach in teams or a collaborative approach. The thing that I love about improv is that every choice that is made is in service to the team. Someone has to step out first. But you don't do it because you think you are the best or you deserve to lead. You do it because… in order for the team to succeed, someone has to. And then someone has to step out next because, in order for the team to succeed, you need someone to talk to. Every step, including leadership choices, are in service to the team.
Ha, I totally had this hat as a kid!
Aaaaannnddd… I'm going to leave it here. I have homework to do. And if you have read this far, I applaud you and imagine you probably are interested enough to listen to the podcast now, if you haven't already. I left about half of it for you to take in on your own.
Thanks, Harvard Business Review, and Francesca Gino. Hope this blow-by-blow wasn't a little much. I appreciate you all helping me process my thoughts here, and do also hope it was useful to someone out there in good ol' cyberspace.
But if you would allow me a humble brag this week, to veer away from my usual outward-facing style of blogging, I would like to take you through something I think I do pretty exceptionally well. It is my "designing my MBA" expertise if you will. And I found that the majority of my classmates have really benefitted from seeing my approach so I want to pass it on to whoever else may be reading this.
OK, let's begin here. What are the desired outcomes of informational interviews? I can simplify what would probably be a long list into two buckets.
Make a good impression on someone who you may want to hire you.
-I released a podcast I started in which I interviewed a different classmate every week. Yup, your classsmates. Do they fulfill both #1 and #2, at least in the long term? You bet they do. And podcasts also go out into the world, where potential employers hear your informational gathering, analytical, and listening skills.
Podcast with interviews of people from different professions. Learn about different careers, what each is all about and how to get in if you wanted to.
I come to all my informational interviews with a little something in my pocket that clarifies that I'm out there gathering information outside of this. The great news is that often saying "I met so-and-so at so-and-so and they said" is an outcome of an informational interview that helps you make an impression in further informational interviews. In other words, they feed into each other. Don't see them as happening in isolation – it's a snowball rolling downhill.
-A "postponed" info interview is an info interview unto itself. Or at least half of one. Did you learn something about the industry? No. But did you make a good impression if you are gracious…? Actually, you get a two-for-one deal here often. Not only are you gracious to the info interviewer, but you are gracious to their scheduler. Don't think that matters? Have you never had a casual chat with your co-worker about how you liked the energy of the person who just came by the office? That matters too.
-I go to meet with a professor (in another department outside the business school by the way, which opens up a whole new world of potential resources for you) during his office hours and guess what? The student who has arrived at the same time I have, I graciously let him go first, and what do I overhear…? He's an entrepreneur with really interesting ideas. I end up joining their conversation. Put yourself in the position and info interviews can happen at any time in any place.
-I go to San Francisco in the evening to attend "Inside The World of a Tech Entrepreneur", hosted by WSJ+ (Wall Street Journal Plus). Check out their world-wide calendar. I find out about this event through a classmate. I am NOT a tech-interested person, but I am, on the other hand, NOT NOT at a tech-interested person so why the heck not? We have a fun road trip on the way there and back, so what's to lose (OK it cost $ but other than that.) I end up asking a question to the panel about organizational culture, which I am very interested in and get a wonderfully complex answer. I go up to the panelist after and ask to LinkedIn connect.
I also want to say, because it's just a lovely thing you can offer your classmates, if you DO have a networking instinct, I have found myself literally pushing my classmates forward to talk to people when they are confronting their own shyness in these situations. My classmate who I pushed, in this case, was beaming the rest of the night, having made a big breakthrough to find the courage to approach.
-I have another more traditional phone informational interview. A key note on this one – this person never replied to my original email. I reached out again two weeks later. THAT DOES WORK. Not every time, but a lot of it comes down to busy people sometimes miss or forget things. That makes them human. And, again, if you follow up, politely and empathetically, well it actually can cast you in an even more worthy light than if you had just gotten the interview on the first try.
That's ten, one bonus for good measure?
There are some technical difficulties to be worked out (like discovering I have to sign up for the business version of WordPress for my host, PodBean, to have an embeddable player… any sponsors out there???) :-).
It's not on iTunes yet, or Stitcher, or "any of the places you get your podcasts" as Ira Glass puts it.
But I am still devoting my entire blog this week to it because I have started a new accompanying weekly podcast also called Designing An MBA (you will notice a theme this week if you click on any of my links).
Here's the idea. As I "put my beginner's mind to work" to design my MBA over the coming two years, much of my opportunity to do so comes from co-learning with my classmates. So my hope is to interview as many of the "other 43" as possible this year, and then, interview them AGAIN next year, to see how they have grown and changed and their understanding of the MBA process has developed as well.
This is the guy that the guy above idolizes. I know, I was a little surprised too. Take a listen!
Did I mention I hope you listen????
Our four week-long orientation (technically three, but I am counting the aforementioned "Communication and Culture Boot Camp" week at the top as part of it) came to a close yesterday as the Davis campus failed to defend its inaugural title in the 2nd Annual UC Davis Graduate School of Management Olympics, losing to the part-time students in Sacramento.
FOUR WEEKS. You heard that right. Each time I mention that to friends who have been through graduate school, the response is very jaw hits floor. I get a lot of "I had one day" back to me, which they admit is perhaps too little, but they are quick to jump to the conclusion that four weeks is too much.
Which it is. There was repetitiveness to the curriculum and a serious burn out factor at the end for its participants, who struggled mightily at points in the final week to be attentive audiences (cover photo notwithstanding, an excellent panel on the sustainable energy sector).
But I am choosing, I guess to focus on positives in this blog, in part because I know and am grateful to the fact that members of my class, faculty, and staff read this, but also, honestly, because I think the lessons of the positive are often overlooked.
Here's a takeaway that I think is a meaningful and powerful MBA lesson. How many of us have started jobs, and found ourselves so knee-deep in actual responsibility within 24-48 hours that any hope of getting "oriented" flies out the window? Perhaps even more direct of a lesson, how many of us, by losing this opportunity, lose a chance to get to know the members of our team in a way that is integral to our mutual success? Do you even know the names of everyone that you work with and interact with on a daily basis after years in the office? How unfortunate is it, on both a personal level, one of human connectivity and mutual appreciation, and on a professional level, one of trust, inspiring innovation, and co-mentorship, that we allow this to happen so regularly?
When I was a boss at my non-profit theater company, this is a lesson I profoundly wish I had made more room for earlier and with more frequency. Note I don't say it's a lesson I profoundly wish I had learned but something even worse, in fact. I knew it but I didn't utilize it. I facilitated it all the time for others, but when it came to my own work… I was busy. I was stressed. I was too awkward or shy or not wanting to step out of place, even as a leader, to value social interaction that didn't focus on output, and it had the effect, over time, of wearing on my personal enjoyment of a craft whose very success is heavily based on the openness and empathy of its performers.
OK, for those who know this movie, perhaps not the best example of a professional environment, but still, I wonder if this is how your first few weeks of work felt, what it might contribute to your long-term productivity, loyalty, and personal stake in your company's success.
Because while our orientation ended with the lovely group event of the Olympics, the weekend also featured the following "events". Friday, from 6:30 pm until late in the evening, many students stayed after the official celebratory end-of-week happy hour, and un-officially celebrated the end of an intense case competition, reminding each other of how much we liked and supported each other despite going head-to-head earlier that day. Saturday, a couple of students announced dinner plans and half of our class ended up going, to the point where we ran out of tables and chairs for our party at the restaurant. Sunday, a classmate held a potluck and once again, a solid block of our class turned up with home-cooked recipes and relaxed chat in the beautiful night breeze.
This, all before our first class has even begun. What is going to happen because of the trust we have in each other during team homework? What will our morale be in the coming year as a whole? How will we handle it when inevitable fractions and fissures amongst our group come our way? How will we work together to manage stress that might inhibit our productivity and the quality of our education?
But I think, we will look back at this time, even on the parts where we were perhaps coming together by groaning at a presenter we felt was under-qualified or a session we felt was unnecessary, and remember that the school gave us the greatest gift of all. Time. Time to learn how to trust each other, to work together, and to establish our community. And I know nearly every corporation does volunteer events for its employees, parties, and more. But I'm talking about thinking big here. I'm talking about every group of new employees, across departments, having weeks of activities together when they start their new jobs. An interesting thought experiment, at the least.
Excited to see how looking back on photos like these will provide meaning and context moving forward. Ruminating on how infrequently life provides room to build up this level of trust.
But… also… pretty glad orientation is finally over ;-).
This is actually pretty connected to the ideas I'm suggesting chewing on in this article. How to do something that is pretty far from the norm and create a movement behind it. How to take a relatively unique idea of four weeks of orientation, and move it beyond just one innovative campus like UC Davis (saying this with full disclosure that I have no idea how long other full-time MBA programs do orientation).
I'm reflecting this week on international classmates. On their bravery. On their perspective. On their curiosity and desire to learn in not only a foreign language but while simultaneously navigating foreign customs and norms.
I also think I have some quality advice to offer you in this post, particularly if you are an American in an MBA or any other program or business, thinking about how much you would like to break through whatever perceived barriers you think you have to truly getting to know your international teammates.
This weekend, I spent an overnight in Tahoe with three classmates, of which a description of our nationalities sounds like some sort of classic joke.
Except, of course, this was not a joke. This was my real, newly amazing life. I remember discussing with friends before I came to the UC Davis Graduate School of Management that one of the hidden, intrinsic values of an MBA would be growing my worldview thanks to having international classmates. I did not think, however, that included being so connected to them that even before orientation was over we would travel two hours by car, put down our cell phones and our laptops, and spend 24 hours together hiking, watching sunsets, and sitting into the late hours talking about our greatest fears and how we were already changing in our program.
That got me thinking about this last week in its entirety. About how the incoming MBAs went to do a team building exercise in a ropes course, and how I watched a bunch of students from China and India and elsewhere take on this very American of ideas, to climb to very high places and jump from them as a way to conquer your fear. In their second language and literally on the other side of the world from where they were raised, where the comfort of their family and friends lay and participating in an activity that is actively designed to be scary and lonely, my peers humbled me with their bravery.
Shout out to the Challenge Sonoma Ropes Course – lovely people and a wonderful day – check them out!
I thought about how another Indian classmate and I met this week to discuss our idea to create a travel opportunity for us and our classmates to go to India and China to visit businesses, listen to panels of speakers, chat with start-ups, and increase the collaboration of our classmates by giving Americans access to the cultural backgrounds of their peers. We want UC Davis and its Graduate School of Management to be on the forefront of uniting not just students in these world economies but their businesses with the potential international employees who can broaden their perspective and deepen their product. We have since added a Chinese classmate to our collaboration. She has entrepreneurial experience. Who knows where this will go next.
Is there anything more universal than a fist bump?
So. How did I get here in three weeks? Here's some humble advice. It's what I did to allow myself this experience, and I think it really worked. I hope it might be helpful to you.
Tell your international classmates how brave they are. Not just for jumping from a high place, though you should applaud that too. But take a moment and recognize the truth. Moving from your home to start an MBA in hopes of switching careers mid-stream is scary enough. Can you IMAGINE doing it on the other side of the world and, for many, in a second language? Tell them that. Because they are probably feeling anything but brave as they fumble for the right words and awkwardly try to adapt to a plethora of new cultural norms that we take for granted.
Sit next to them. A few of my wonderful American classmates and I decided to come a week early to a special orientation aimed at and mandatory for International students called Communication and Culture Bootcamp. We found ourselves sitting together the first day, and quickly had an informal discussion and the next day and for the week to follow sat in different places and next to different international students each day, setting a tone that they should consider us a resource to help them bridge a divide that we are lucky to not have to do. A few of my foreign classmates told me they noticed this and were really touched by it.
Call them by their native name and work to enunciate it correctly. If this means having to say multiple times, "hey, can you help me get your name right", then do it! Volunteer to videotape them saying their name and share it with your peers so we can all practice. Chinese students often come readily equipped with an American name, hearing that Americans will not be able to pronounce or maybe won't want to try to pronounce their name correctly. My classmates have told me how much they valued that I and others tried to or are still trying to get their name right. Your name is who you are. It is the first thing you tell someone when you meet them. I can't help but imagine that another person trying to value and validate your name, when you are alone in a different country, can really be meaningful.
And, finally, and this may be obvious to some, but… LEARN FROM THEM. What an opportunity this is! I can't tell you how many times in the last three weeks I've asked "how do they do _____ in China/India/South Korea/Brazil/etc.?" It's an old adage but a true one: I learned more from them then they did from me.
I knew I wanted to get my MBA, in part, to grow my worldview. I don't think I realized I might walk away with friends all over the world. That, alone, is honestly worth the price of admission… though a job would be nice too. Maybe… an international one?
My classmates and I are thinking about trying to start a club at the Graduate School of Management regarding Design Thinking. Before I started my MBA, I took classes with Ideo U and I really can't recommend them enough. If the term "human-centered" makes you sit up in your chair, go there. I also just want to plug my wonderful assistant teacher/mentor from one of the classes I took, Andy Ball, and his company Cognitive Design Lab. Go to this site. Try not to be inspired. The seed for my desire to collaborate with my international classmates undoubtedly came from my weekly video chats with Andy and people from all over the world working together with Ideo U's complex and challenging syllabi.
I'm getting used to something that has not been part of my professional vocabulary before… "untraditional background." When you work in the arts, then the arts are traditional, right? Being creative, empathetic, and innovative is traditional. It's what our funders invest in, the brand we cultivate, and, in the end, the product we sell.
Much of these first two weeks of orientation have been focused on crafting our personal pitch. The personal pitch was previously known as an elevator pitch, but due to a changing business landscape, more diverse perspectives and a sense that leadership isn't always top down (a literal climb to the top floor in this case), it has been, I think, quite appropriately renamed.
Because, boiled down to its essence, this is why we all come to Masters in Business programs, right? It's one of the few places left, in America at least, where a good education regularly leads to a good job. And as much as I love and cherish my time as a theater director and non-profit arts leader, it had limitations on my personal economic growth, but perhaps even more significantly, on the economic resources to create impact with my work.
And while I may be one of the few theater directors currently getting his MBA, I am certainly not alone in being "untraditional." Among my 50 fellow classmates, just to name a few, are a doctor, a lawyer, an active duty member, a tutor, and a martial arts teacher.
Me and just a few of my MBA and MPAc classmates at an outing to the absolutely wonderful and diverse KP International Market in Sacramento. That's the doctor on my right!
Hours of scrawling in my notebook later, some while I probably should have been listening better to my classmates practicing their own pitches, I finally went up to our Career Services Interim Director, Elizabeth Moon, and asked for help. Something was missing, and it felt like it lived in the moment I first shook a person's hand? How do you say theater director, and not lose the person right off? Thankfully, so many employers today desire an untraditional background, but it's hard to take the listener so quickly from Point A to Point B without making it clear, right from the top, what the value of your "untraditional background" will provide that few others can offer.
My name is ____________ and I'm passionate about _____________.
What does a theater director do? He creates space for others to thrive. We build a world around our actors that allows them to be honest, truthful, and compelling in their performance. What does a not-for-profit leader do? She creates space for others to thrive. We build a world for employees to feel valued, to care deeply about work that is often underpaid and underresourced, and to believe in the impact that their contribution has to the whole.
My name is Daniel Student and I'm passionate about other people. Offering reflective listening to others, connecting to others, and inspiring innovation in others.
This is why my first career was actually as a theater director specializing in helping diverse casts relate to each other on stage, where I engaged in particularly challenging issues around communication and clarity. I also executive directed a historic non-profit theater company that was really struggling to do much beyond keeping the doors open and the lights on before I became involved. I doubled our operating budget, increased our contributed income by 500% through grants and personal appeals, I rebranded and rewrote our website and other marketing materials, and, most importantly, inspired hundreds of artists from around the city to volunteer their time to revitalize this important community organization.
I want to take this community-based work and blow it up on a global level. And that's why I am getting my MBA at UC Davis. I want to pair those hard, corporate business skills I will learn with my creativity and innovation from leading artistic and small non-profit teams, to help you inspire your employees towards being better leaders, communicators, and teammates in the global market and the world itself.
implicit.harvard.edu. This came up in our diversity training this week with the wonderful professor, Gina Dokko, who I also must credit as a big reason why I chose UC Davis as I was so impressed with her class when I first visited in January. This study wasn't new to me, but the idea of our implicit bias is a really great way for people to understand systematic racism, sexism, etc. For everyone who claims "I'm not like those other people", I'm not biased, it's an important wake-up call. Check it out!


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Strout v. Cent. Me. Med. Ctr. – Maine's Apology Statute
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In medical malpractice litigation, Maine is one of 30 states to enact a so called "I'm Sorry" law, also sometimes referred to as an "apology statute." Essentially, our Bangor medical malpractice attorneys know these laws serve to shield health care providers who extend expressions of sympathy following an adverse patient outcome. The laws indicate those statements can't be used later against the doctor or hospital as proof of an admission of liability.
However, as the recent case of Strout v. Cent. Me. Med. Ctr. shows, the law does not offer absolute protection with regard to these admissions. This is an important point to underscore because medical providers will often attempt to reach out to patients or surviving family in the wake of a poor medical outcome in an effort to minimize the damage, and perhaps deter the patient from filing a lawsuit. It's important for individuals to save this correspondence, as it could later be useful for the case.
In Strout, the Maine Supreme Judicial Court was tasked with determining whether the trial court erred in allowing portions of a letter from the medical center's president to the patient into evidence weighed by the jury.
According to court records, the plaintiff went to a local emergency room in the spring of 2009 for treatment of severe abdominal pain. A doctor ordered a CAT scan, which showed a significant legion on the patient's liver. The doctor who evaluated the scan told the patient that more than likely, the lesion was an indication of pancreatic cancer.
The diagnosis was devastating. Even with chemotherapy, the average life expectancy for patients with this disease is one year. Additionally, the doctor indicated the legion was so large that it was almost certainly inoperable. The patient could expect to measure the rest of his life in months.
A tissue sample was taken to confirm the diagnosis.
However, several weeks passed and the test results showed the doctor was wrong. The patient did not have pancreatic cancer, but rather a different type of lymphoma, in which 95 percent of patients survive five years or longer.
The patient filed a complaint with the president of the medical center. The president responded, saying the administrators and doctors were "saddened" by the course of events, and further that the doctor, though he meant no harm, "needed to wait" for the biopsy results to confirm before offering such a definitive diagnosis.
A few months later, the patient filed a complaint for medical malpractice on the grounds of emotional distress, loss of income and loss of life enjoyment.
The medical center moved to exclude any piece of the letter from evidence, asserting that it fell under the state's "apology statute," as codified in 24 M.R.S. 2907(2). The attorneys further argued the letter was not admissible because per the state's formal rules of evidence, it amounted to an offer to compromise and also that its relevance was substantially outweighed by the potential unfair prejudice it would cause.
The trial court allowed that a portion of the letter would be admissible. Specifically, the judge allowed entry of the part of the letter in which the president conceded the doctor should have waited.
In turn, a jury issued a verdict in favor of the plaintiff for $200,000.
The defense appealed on the grounds that the letter should have been inadmissible. However, the Maine Supreme Judicial Court disagreed.
Justices rejected the argument that the entire letter constituted an apology, when a plain language analysis of it was clear that the president had admitted fault by stating the doctor should have acted differently. Just because an admission of fault is placed within an apology letter, the justices ruled, does not make the entire contents off-limits.
If you are the victim of medical malpractice in Bangor, contact Peter Thompson & Associates at 1-800-804-2004 for a confidential consultation to discuss your rights.
Strout v. Cent. Me. Med. Ctr. , June 10, 2014, Maine Supreme Judicial Court
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A beautifully rendered technological nightmare inhabited by ghostly figures of the past and future.
"Daguerreotype" is Kurosawa's first cinematic excursion outside of Japan. While we have become accustomed to seeing Asian directors choosing to shoot their first non-Japanese language feature in English and mainly within the constraints of the US studio system - Nakata has directed in both the US and UK albeit not with much success - Kurosawa's choice of France works exceptionally well and hasn't impacted negatively on his artistic or aesthetic vision. Instead "Daguerreotype" seamlessly melds Kurosawa's Japanese sensibility with those of French art cinema.
"Daguerrotype" is screening at Japan Cuts, that will be until July 23.
Jean Malassis (Tahar Rahim), a young seemingly aimless drifter, takes a job as an assistant to Stephane (Olivier Gourmet), a reclusive photographer who lives in a dilapidated mansion just outside Paris, with his daughter, Marie (Constance Rousseau). Stephane's obsession with recreating the past through the use of a daguerreotype is offset by the ethereal beauty of Marie, his model and main muse, with whom Jean soon starts a passionate affair. However, Marie desires to escape the confines of the mansion and move to Toulouse to take up a job as a botanist. Neither man, nor the house that they all inhabit, will let Marie go. Instead, she is manipulated by the men in her life: Stephane desires to transform Marie into the double of his dead wife, while Jean tries to persuade Stephane to sell the mansion to a property developer (Malik Zidi) for a sizeable commission instead of leaving with Marie when she confides in him about her job offer.
The daguerreotype, named after its inventor Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre, was the earliest photographic process (1839). Details of the process was given to the public in 1939 as a gift from France to the World. However only twenty-five photographs survive after a fire that destroyed the Daguerre's laboratory. One suspects that this was the reason that Kurosawa decided to shoot the film in France rather than his native Japan. Like everything in the film, the daguerreotype is rendered uncanny, its lens magnified and photographs rendered life-size like the camera itself. Like much of Kurosawa's work, at the heart of "Daguerreotype" is haunting: both technological and ghostly. We are repeatedly told that death is an illusion and there is no such thing as reality: or indeed the type that can be captured by the photograph or indeed the cinematic mechanism itself.
The cinematography, here by Alexis Kavyrchine, is suitably muted as in the best of Kurosawa's 'horror' films. The subdued palate of browns, dark blues and greys is only broken by the vibrant green plants that Marie lovingly tends in the greenhouse. Plants unlike humans are rooted in the soil and have an ontology that is missing from those that inhabit the alienated landscape so carefully constructed by Kurosawa. A static camera, repeated medium-shots, which create a distance between the subject (the viewer) and the object (the film), mirror the emotional distances between the characters that are lost within the surface of appearances that surrounds them. Not all we see is 'real' in a film that questions the very foundations of reality itself.
Tahar Rahim is perfectly cast as the aimless Jean, the pivot, around which the other characters circulate, imbuing the film with an emotional intensity that contrasts to the lack of emotion shown by those around him. As the trapped Marie, Constance Rousseau, is luminous, struggling to find root in the mechanical world that she inhabits, which is constructed by an enduring patriarchy that sees women as objects to be exchanged, with no value in their own right. By setting the film in France, Kurosawa denies those critics who would read her character as representative of female oppression in Japan as a result of Confucian values (which is in itself highly problematic and much more complicated), instead he suggests that such oppression is not national but rather global.
"Daguerreotype" is an extraordinarily nuanced film, with multiple layers to be peeled back through repeated viewings. It is beautifully composed, the performances evocative, the minimalist score by Gregoire Hetzel echoes the uncanniness of the world of illusions and doubles, which, however distant it might seem from reality, functions to raise profound philosophical questions around the nature of reality in our technologically mediated world.


A new update to the Windows Phone 8.1 Developer Preview is rolling out now. The build number is 8.10.12393.890. No word on what is new, as we are downloading the update right now. Head over to Settings > Phone Update and snag the update right now!
On May 14th, Microsoft rolled out an update to the Developer Preview (8.10.12382.878), adding a few improvements based on feedback. Windows Phone 8.1 Developer Preview was originally released in April of this year.


Valan MacLeod's wicked first wife betrayed him. Her death haunts him like a wraith in the night, making it impossible for him to trust any other woman. One stormy evening fate thrusts an intriguing, young girl into his life. He saves Aria Morrison from a vicious assault and learns she is running to avoid an arranged marriage to Baron Eduard Ramsay, Valan's sworn enemy.
Valan and Aria take refuge for the night in a cottage by the sea. Her sweet innocence enchants Valan into believing he might be able to love again, and he offers to marry her in the baron's stead. Her father refuses the match. He uses Valan's dark past against him and forces Aria to uphold the marriage contract.
Months later Aria's husband dies, and she comes to Valan begging for sanctuary. Seeing her again, Valan realizes he still loves her, but the naïve girl has changed into a woman with secrets, reminding him of his deceptive first wife. Did she kill her abusive husband? Can Valan trust Aria with his heart?
Desperate to escape an arranged marriage, Aria Morrison flees in hopes her actions will bring her father to his senses, but her plan goes awry. Alone on the trail Aria is accosted by miscreants bent on having their way with her.
Out of the gloom, a shadowy figure comes to her rescue. She soon learns her savior is none other than Laird Valan MacLeod, one of most powerful men in the Highlands. Valan becomes the champion of her dreams. Aria is thrilled when he offers to marry her to protect her from the baron.
Her father thwarts their plan, telling her Valan stood by and allowed his first wife to be murdered. The dark forces at work in Laithclach Castle send Aria running to Valan to ask for sanctuary. After all that happened between them, can she find a way to regain his trust?
Protector of the Highlands is a perfect historical romance that will take its readers on an unforgettable, charming, thrilling journey in which the reader won't be able to resist falling in love with this incredible story. The reader in Protector of the Highlands will feel compelled to read very early on book thanks to the novels wonderful author, Connie C. Scharon; her talented, poignant words will keep her readers turning the pages with haste. Scharon wonderfully captures her reader's imagination effortlessly, and so I would implore all of you lovely readers to read this wonderful book!
Protector of the Highlands is an incredible novel that will introduce the reader to the protagonist of the book, Valan MacLeod. Valan has had a tough time recently thanks to his first wife's betrayal which in turn made him not be able to trust another woman. However on 'one stormy evening' a young woman turns up, a woman called Aria Morrison, and he can't help but fall for her and her kindness. Aria sought shelter at Valan's as she had just escaped an assault from the man she is supposed to have an arranged marriage with, who also happens to be Valan's worst enemy. I do not want to spoil what happens next book lovers but what follows is a thrilling and captivating story that should not be missed book lovers!
The story of Protector of the Highlands is an incredible, special one that took my breath away on more than one occasion; the pacing of this story was wonderfully written and plotted so that I did not get bored at any given time. I always measure my likeness of a book on whether I find myself looking at the page number; if I do in fact do this I know that the novel is taking its toll… but Protector of the Highlands was different. Never once did I find myself referring to the page number and that is a sure sign that this book is a compelling piece of work that draws the reader in and captivates them to the end!
Connie C. Scharon writes with elegance and beauty, her words stunned me and inspired me. I loved reading her work, it feels so natural and such a breeze, generally, with romance novels, I get bored after a period, but Scharon never bored me once, she kept me entertained from beginning to end and for that I admire her. Scharon's beautiful, descriptive, flowing words were stunning, and I believe she would be able to inspire these thoughts in you too if you choose to read this delightful novel.
The author of this exceptional book, Connie C. Scharon is quite the wordsmith extraordinaire. Scharon has a talent of knowing how to entertain her readers, this book of hers is written in such a way that speaks to the reader and puts a spell on them, I felt trapped because I could not put this book down! Her relentless assault of action too was a delight; I adore being thrown into the midst of things, and it is so important for historical romance novels to be this way, so Scharon truly is a talent!
To summarise my thoughts on the perfect Protector of the Highlands, I would say if you are looking to read a beautiful, moving, entertaining novel that will keep you guessing until the end then this wonderful book is for you! Protector of the Highlands gets five stars from me! Be sure to have a read of the preview below book lovers and also keep an eye out for my spotlight for Connie C. Scharon which will be live soon!
Thank you so much for reading book lovers! I appreciate it so much; I love discussing wonderful books with all of you so please comment below and let me know your thoughts on the Protector of the Highlands. Do you see yourself reading this book? Do you love the genre? Please let me know your brilliant thoughts below, and I will be sure to comment back. Thank you so much again for reading!


Interrupted power supply, lack of power infrastructure and grid connectivity in many Asian countries has become major challenge for telecom operators to power their tower infrastructure. On account of these factors operators have to reply on alternatives to power their telecom sites. Presently, in many Asian countries, diesel generators and hybrid (diesel generators-batteries) powering solutions are primarily used. Growing subscriber base, increased competition, adoption and penetration of new technologies such as 3G and 4G is expected to put enormous pressure on operators to sustain service quality levels and expand their networks by keeping check over carbon emission levels. Spanning of network across Asian continent has considerably raised the demand for telecom tower power systems, which has spurred innovations and launch of green power solutions such as solar, wind, fuel cell, or others supported by either with battery or diesel back-up (predominantly by battery in most of the incidences).
According to 6Wresearch, Asia's Telecom Tower Power Systems Market is projected to cross billion dollar mark by 2019, growing at a CAGR of 12.3% during 2014-19. Predominantly majority of the telecom towers in Asia are unreliable meaning partly supported by grid and partly by diesel power back-up.
The drivers for telecom power systems include growing mobile subscriber base, faster growth of urban population, inconsistent networked readiness index, and investments in telecom infrastructure. Latest trends in Asian telecom market are growing penetration of 3G and introduction of 4G in developed economies, passive infrastructure sharing, and adoption of green or energy efficient power solutions. Restraints in the market are identified as carbon emissions and high capital or associated costs.
Apart from India and China, high development activities in telecom sector are witnessed in South-Eastern region, especially in countries such as Laos, Vietnam, Myanmar, Cambodia, Indonesia and Philippines, due to growing mobile penetration, subscriber base, addition of telecom towers, improving economic conditions and urbanization trend. In South-Eastern countries, unreliable and off-grid telecom sites have increased significantly due to deployment of telecom towers in rural areas, which is driving the market for telecom tower power solutions in Asian region.
The report provides market volume (units) and revenue ($ thousand) estimates and forecast until 2019 with CAGR projected from 2014 to 2019 for unreliable, off-grid, and green power system types for Asian continent excluding GCC and Oceania.
The report covers market estimates for countries such as India, China, Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar, and others. Additionally, report covers market dynamics, value chain, Porter's analysis, and current market trends.


How we go above & beyond in selling your home!
Many homeowners don't know what staging is or how valuable it is when selling a house. We truly believe in the benefits that staging can do to help your home sell faster. With the majority of potential home buyers shopping online before even stepping foot into a home, pictures truly do make the first impression. From our consultation to even bringing on board a professional home stager for a consultation that will put a plan in place for your home.
In an effort to make your home stand out online, just like staging, great photography is a requirement in our opinion, and you as a seller should not accept anything less. After we complete preparing the home for going to market, we will schedule a time to photograph of your home with a professional photographer.
Using our amazing photos, we use these to implement a virtual tour for your home. We also create this tour with the ability for you to share on your social media and anyone you would like as well. Our unique virtual tours are prepared to track how many times its been viewed, and we share this information with you on a regular basis.
Do You Do Open Houses? We get asked this question all the time. We customize our listing/marketing plan based on your needs and goals, market activity, and other numerous factors. Upon bringing your home to market, we will hold an open house to introduce the new listing to the neighborhood. Open houses also serve as a great opportunity to obtain feedback from potential home buyers to determine how we need to adjust if needed. We don't recommend having open houses every single weekend as it makes you as a seller seem desperate.
Keep in mind, serious buyers are working with a Realtor, and will be scheduling their private viewing, and since we are doing our job right, they should have no problem finding the home on the market.
Where on the internet do our listings appear? EVERYWHERE POSSIBLE! Our homes for sale get exposed to the internet home sites every day, and only to sites that update on a regular basis. Some examples include Realtor.com, Zillow, Trulia, Homes.Com and so many more. 99% of buyers that call their agent to see a home is because they noticed the home online somewhere.
In addition to the abundance of websites we promote to, we also utilize social media by sharing to get the promotion we can use to gain more advertising.
Email campaigns are a fantastic way to promote and market any home for sale. Upon bringing a home to market, we use these campaigns to distribute to potential home buyers, vendors we work with, current and past clients, Mortgage lenders, and of course campaigns specifically for Realtors in the area of a home.
Yes, there are still print marketing avenues that are used in the digital age. They may not be as effective as they once were, they still impress homeowners. From time to time, we will utilize print ad to announce a new listing, open house, or any news related to your home. In our experience, maintaining an online presence is more beneficial and more cost effective, but there are times that print may work so our goal is to work every possibility to sell your home as fast as possible.
This is a given for most agents, but it still needs to be stated and even explained. What is the Multiple Listing Service? Why does it help sell a property quickly? MLS stands for Multiple Listing Service, and this is the FIRST place we add your new home for sale and it is the FIRST place any Realtors will search for homes for sale for clients they have. Here is we inform agents and potential home buyers the specific information about your home.