While it's easy to pay lip service to the notion of "owning my feelings" it is much more difficult in practice. And for good reason. Taking ownership of your feelings is more complex than simply acknowledging the emotions you're experiencing – that you feel sad, mad, glad, etc. Taking ownership of your feelings also involves taking ownership of the interpretations you make that give rise to your feelings.
This ability to distinguish between our feelings and our interpretations is a cornerstone of mature communication. Whether or not we realize it, we are constantly attributing meaning to our own behavior and the behavior of others. And we do it so quickly that we can often confuse our emotions with our interpretations. From there it's easy to blame others for how we feel.
You are standing in a crowded line-up with a friend, waiting to purchase theatre tickets. Someone behind you stumbles and jostles you from behind. You didn't see them stumble so you jump to the conclusion that they are pushy and rude. You feel angry and say to your friend, "People who are pushy like that make me so angry!" Your anger is now blamed on them. However, your anger was not inevitable – it arose from your interpretation of the situation.
Instead, let's imagine that when you are bumped, you chalk it up to the jostle of a big crowd and you assume that the person bumping you has also been bumped. You imagine they were innocently waiting in line like yourself. You look at your friend, shrug and say, "Whew! Hope we make it into the show in one piece!" Your friend smiles in return and you feel a warm connection. Your interpretation of the situation has produced an entirely different set of feelings.
Each scenario involves the same circumstance and results in different feelings, because of your interpretation.
So often we fail to notice the interpretations we've made. This can result in judging the other person negatively, blaming them for our feelings and thinking we have no choice but to feel the way that we do.
Once we engage in blaming, communication tends to go downhill. Unless the accused person is able to remain non-reactive, they may get defensive or angry in response. This may not have big consequences with a stranger in the theatre line-up, however it can have big consequences in our intimate relationships.
• If I interpret "maybe he's angry at me" then I may feel anxious.
• If I interpret "maybe he's stressed about work" then I may feel concern & compassion.
• If I interpret "he's not interested in hearing about my day" then I may feel hurt or angry.
The same circumstance can result in different feelings. My husband's behavior didn't "make" me feel anything — my triggered feelings arise from my thoughts and interpretations about his behavior. We can jump to these interpretations almost instantaneously.
When I fail to take ownership of my interpretations and resulting feelings, I will begin to see my interpretation as "fact" and my feelings as "his fault". Once I lock onto my interpretation as "fact", I'm no longer open to inquiring about what is actually going on with him. I've already concluded what he's feeling and now I may blame him for how I am feeling!
As a result, I may sulk or provoke a fight or withdraw myself. I may miss out on discovering that he actually has an upset stomach that is bothering him – or that he just got news that a friend is seriously ill and he is preoccupied and worried. I miss out on discovering that his reality may be entirely different from my interpretation.
If we don't become aware of our interpretations, we only see life through the mental filters that we have developed over our lifetime. While some of these filters may be life-enhancing, some may be limiting. These interpretive filters may come from our family of origin experiences, our life history and our culture.
If your father tended to distance himself when he was angry, you may interpret that when your partner is distant, he or she is angry too – when that may not be the case at all. If you had a teacher who criticized you for talking too much in class, you may interpret someone's yawn at a party as feedback that you are talking too much – when they are simply tired. Our insecurities – often rooted in the past – can be easily triggered.
Beyond our family history, there is also the cultural context we inhabit. Most of us now realize that our norms of polite or socially acceptable behavior are very culturally determined and interpreted. What is "rude" in one culture may be perfectly acceptable in another. Employers take courses now to understand the diversity of cultures amongst their employees. That includes such cultures as boomers and millenials, as well as different ethnic groups!
Please be clear: Owning your interpretation doesn't relieve the other person from being accountable for their behavior. I am not suggesting that you tolerate behavior that is unacceptable to you or personally harmful. So when in doubt, take care of yourself.
What I am asserting is that there is power in owning and perhaps altering those interpretations that are causing you distress and may be rooted in unconscious reactivity. This benefits you and will certainly help you deal more constructively in your communication with others.
So how do we extract ourselves from blaming others for our feelings?
My partner was distant when he got home and didn't ask how I was or about my day.
I feel hurt and angry.
• What thoughts do I have? What interpretation did I make about it?
He doesn't care about my feelings. I'm not important.
When he/she _____________________________ I felt _________________________ and I assume that means ________________________________.For example: When he was distant and didn't ask me about my day, I felt hurt and rejected and I assume that means that I'm not important.
Taking responsibility for your feelings and your interpretations may be difficult – especially when the feelings are strong and intense. However, even a small step in this direction can make a big difference. The reward will be in discovering those unexamined beliefs and assumptions that you live your life through, and gaining some freedom from them – for yourself and for your relationship.
The next time you feel upset with your partner (or another person), use the template above to debrief the situation and discover your unconscious interpretations. See if you can imagine one or two alternative interpretations of your partner's behavior. Notice the difference this makes to how you feel — and what this now makes possible in your communication with the other.


Celtic have turned a £4m profit into a £11m loss in the year to 30 June. The explanation is a failure to reach the group stages of the Champions League and a reduction in transfer income. Revenue fell by over a fifth to £51.1m.
Scottish football is starting to get its finances in order according to the latest survey by a firm of accountants. However, despite greater prudence, only one Premier League club expects to make a profit after player trading and depreciation.
It could take at least five years for Rangers to regain parity with Celtic, a football expert has warned.
The club is currently losing £1m a month. Dave King has promised to invest £30m, but so far all that has been forthcoming is a £1.5m unsecured loan.
Police have visited the headquarters of Sports Direct in Derbyshire as part of an ongoing investigation into takeovers at Rangers. Sports Direct owner Mike Ashley has a nine per cent stake in Rangers.
The latest accounts from Rangers for the six months to December 31st contain both good and bad news. On the postive side, the operating loss was down by £800,000, largely reflecting the fact that costs were down £1 million. Revenue was stable at £13m, reflecting the fact that the alienated fans who had decided to stay away had already gone.
What happens to Rangers is key to the financial salvation of Scottish football argue insolvency experts Begbies Traynor in their latest report on the state of the game. A five per cent decline in attendances can largely be attributed to the boycott of Rangers.
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Trump Would Have Been Charged With Obstruction If He Weren't President, Former U.S. Prosecutors Say
05/06/2019 01:51 pm ET Updated May 06, 2019
Conduct outlined in the Mueller report would lead to multiple felony charges against anyone else, according to at least 560 former federal prosecutors.
By Hayley Miller
President Donald Trump's conduct as outlined in special counsel Robert Mueller's report would have led to obstruction of justice charges if he were not a sitting president, hundreds of former federal prosecutors said in a statement Monday.
"Each of us believes that the conduct of President Trump described in Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report would, in the case of any other person not covered by the Office of Legal Counsel policy against indicting a sitting President, result in multiple felony charges for obstruction of justice," said the statement, which was posted online.
The document quickly garnered more than 560 signatures by Monday evening, many of whom served for decades under both Republican and Democratic presidents.
"To look at these facts and say that a prosecutor could not probably sustain a conviction for obstruction of justice — the standard set out in Principles of Federal Prosecution — runs counter to logic and our experience," the statement continued.
The statement contradicts Attorney General William Barr's assertion that Mueller's report found insufficient evidence showing Trump obstructed justice.
"[T]he report identifies no actions that, in our judgment, constitute obstructive conduct," Barr wrote in his summary of so-called key findings from the Mueller report in March. He admitted during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing last week that he reached that decision without reviewing the underlying evidence Mueller uncovered.
Mueller did not find evidence of a criminal conspiracy between Trump's 2016 campaign and Russia. Though his report outlined 10 instances of potential obstruction of justice by Trump, Mueller did not charge the president with a crime. Legal experts say Mueller did not do so because of the Justice Department's opinion that a sitting president cannot be indicted.
Still, Trump has falsely claimed repeatedly that Mueller's report totally exonerated him of any possible wrongdoing.
Dozens of career government employees and political appointees, including 20 former U.S. attorneys, who have served in both Democratic and Republican administrations signed the letter, reported The Washington Post.
Notable signatories include Bill Weld, a former U.S. attorney and Republican challenger to Trump in 2020; Donald Ayer, a former deputy attorney general who served during the George H.W. Bush administration; and Jeffrey Harris, former principal assistant to then-Associate Attorney General Rudolph W. Giuliani during the Reagan administration.
In their statement, the former prosecutors identify three acts described in the Mueller report that they believe satisfy all the elements of an obstruction charge: Trump's efforts to fire Mueller and to falsify evidence about them, his efforts to limit the scope of Mueller's investigation to exclude his conduct, and his efforts to prevent witnesses from cooperating with investigators.
"As former federal prosecutors, we recognize that prosecuting obstruction of justice cases is critical because unchecked obstruction — which allows intentional interference with criminal investigations to go unpunished — puts our whole system of justice at risk," the former prosecutors wrote.
They did not say what, if anything, they hoped to accomplish by publishing the letter. It comes as Democratic leadership considers whether to move forward with impeachment in the wake of the Mueller report.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been reluctant to heed calls for impeachment from several high-profile Democrats, including 2020 presidential hopefuls Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Kamala Harris of California.
"While our views range from proceeding to investigate the findings of the Mueller report or proceeding directly to impeachment, we all firmly agree that we should proceed down a path of finding the truth," she wrote in a letter to her colleagues last month. "We must show the American people we are proceeding free from passion or prejudice, strictly on the presentation of fact."
This article has been updated with the most recent number of signatures.
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COLUMN: The Law in Real Life: States Face Prolonged Election Cycle, Waiting for Vote Tallies, Recounts or Runoffs
COLUMN: The Law in Real Life
by Linda Holmes, J.D.
States Face Prolonged Election Cycle, Waiting for Vote Tallies, Recounts or Runoffs
Election fatigue is a powerful malady, leading many of us to avoid CNN, turn away from poll-watching websites and watch anything on television — anything — other than political coverage. We are tired; we are relieved that it's over.
But, believe it or not, it's not over yet. As of this writing, three Senate races remain undecided: Alaska, Georgia and Minnesota. Scattered races elsewhere, including Virginia, are also up in the air. It will be weeks before they're all decided. How did this happen? When is Election Day perhaps not Decision Day? And is a dragged-out process necessarily a bad thing?
Alaska's Vote-Count Delay
In Alaska, the delays arise from counting absentee and early votes, counterintuitive though that may seem. Alaska used to start counting absentee ballots on Election Day, but a problem during the primaries with a handful of people who voted twice — once absentee and once in person, which is a felony — led to a change. Now, the Alaska Division of Elections cross-checks absentee ballots against records of in-person voters before counting them, which requires the office to hold off on even getting started on the 40,000 or so absentee ballots until after Election Day.
As of the afternoon of Nov. 7, Alaska had more than 9,500 early and absentee ballots left to count. And the Division of Elections shows Sen. Ted Stevens — recently convicted of several felony counts — with a 3,257-vote lead over Democratic challenger Mark Begich. While Begich has an uphill climb to overcome a 3,257-vote deficit from a pool of 9,500 votes, popular poll-analysis website fivethirtyeight.com suggests that if early-vote ratios between Begich and Stevens hold up, it might just happen. There, the positive side of a lagging process is, at least in theory, more certainty that no one's vote is double-counted.
Virginia's Possible Recount
In addition to delayed counting, the now-famous recount, a process that became wildly more familiar to the public eye after the 2000 presidential election, can change the outcome of a race. Many states give a losing candidate the right to an automatic recount if the vote is tight enough. Virginia's congressional contest between incumbent Virgil Goode and Democratic challenger Tom Perriello is a fairly straightforward example. The votes are all counted, everything looks to be done, and Perriello seems to have edged Goode by 751 votes out of the more than 300,000 cast. But Goode has the right to a recount if he requests one because he may obtain one automatically on the basis that the margin is below 1 percent of the votes cast.
Minnesota's Razor-Thin Senate Race
Things in Minnesota's Senate race are even tighter. The latest unofficial tallies from the Minnesota Secretary of State's office show Republican Sen. Norm Coleman 206 votes ahead of Democratic challenger Al Franken — that's out of nearly 2.9 million votes cast. To give a sense of perspective, Coleman's lead is not only about two-hundredths of 1 percent of the votes he's received, it's also equivalent to about 1 percent of the write-in votes and about two-tenths of 1 percent of the votes received by the Constitution Party candidate. The margin is, essentially, inconsequential. Minnesota law calls for a recount whenever the margin between candidates is less than one-half of 1 percent.
It's difficult to envision what a "recount" means or why it might change a result, and according to one recent article, Minnesota recounts haven't typically created large swings in vote tallies that would be enough to change the outcome. But that's after the results are official, which hasn't happened yet. With the race this close, clerical errors, tallying errors and, as recently arose, a set of 32 absentee ballots that hadn't yet been counted can change the landscape before the final totals are even certified before the recount. Minnesota uses a relatively easy style of optical-scan ballot, so visual inspection of "undervotes" — ballots containing votes in other races but none in the Senate race — might not reveal many votes that can be rescued because voters simply marked their ballots in a way the machine couldn't read but the human eye can. Nevertheless, it's likely to be a while before a final result is announced.
In some jurisdictions, the law doesn't end the election even when all votes have been successfully counted. In addition to voting laws, structural laws about elections can require some kind of next step even after we know who got the most votes on Election Day.
Georgia's Runoff Election
In Georgia, if the leading candidate doesn't manage 50 percent of the vote, a runoff election is held between the top candidates. There, Sen. Saxby Chambliss, who received 53 percent of the vote in 2002 when first elected, didn't quite manage 50 percent this year, though he finished ahead. He has 49.8 percent of the vote to Democrat Jim Martin's 46.8 percent and Libertarian Allen Buckley's 3.4 percent. Thus, Chambliss and Martin will meet again in December in a very different election that won't be dominated by a presidential race.
Note the effect a runoff law would have had in Minnesota: Because of the presence of a strong third-party candidate who drew about 15 percent of the vote — that's the same Independence Party that brought Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura in 1998 — neither Coleman nor Franken came anywhere near 50 percent of the vote. If Minnesota were Georgia, it would simply proceed to the runoff. As unappealing as the lack of finality in the Chambliss–Martin race may be, it's easy to conclude that it would be more democratic, in a sense, to allow the more than 437,000 Minnesotans who voted for third-party candidate Dean Barkley to express a preference between Franken and Coleman than it is to have either of them win by some 200 votes and wind up as a senator for whom 60 percent of the state didn't vote. Election fatigue is powerful, but finality isn't everything.
Linda Holmes is a freelance writer in Washington, D.C. She previously practiced law in Minnesota, specializing in employment law and legislative drafting.
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A gateway to the backwaters, Ashtamudi Lake is the most popular place in Kollam, which is surrounded by lush green trees and swaying coconut palms...
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It was upon the invitation of my friend from high school, Suresh Nair, now a resident of Brisbane, Australia, that I made my maiden trip to "God's Own Country" for a five-night-six-day visit to the state of Kerala. It was during the month of June, when I was in the United States, that Suresh contacted me about his upcoming trip to India and his desire to visit his home state and extended to me the invitation to join him between 15 and 20 September, assuring me of taking care of all local arrangements provided I was able to synchronize my trip with his schedule of meeting up in Kochi and departing from Thiruvananthapuram on the aforementioned dates. I jumped at the offer and immediately solicited the assistance of my nephew in getting domestic flight reservations.
I had barely gotten over my jet lag and associated weariness from my 10-week travels to Oahu, Hawaii when it was time for the trip to Kerala. My flight from Lucknow, routed through Bengaluru, brought me into the world's first fully solar-powered airport, the Cochin International Airport, in the evening from where Suresh picked me up and took me to the Gateway Hotel on Marine Drive, Ernakulam, which was to be our home for the first two nights. Drinks and dinner at Velocity on Marine Drive prepared me for a restful night of slumber knowing that we had a full day of exploration the following morning.
The day for me began early with a walk along Marine Drive. After breakfast, we headed out to Fort Kochi where we spent a couple of hours examining the ruins of the fort and the beach, the St Francis Church, one of the oldest European churches built in India, and Bastion's Bungalow, which houses the District Heritage Museum, Ernakulam. A short drive from Fort Kochi took us to Jew Town, the earliest Jewish settlement in Kerala, and the Paradesi Synagogue where the remnants of the once-thriving Jewish community are still to be found. The early afternoon was spent at the Hill/Mattancherry Palace in Tripunithura where we were witness to the history and culture of Kerala and the opulence of the erstwhile royal family and its matrilineal traditions.
After quick lunch at the restaurant at The Gateway Hotel and a briefer-than-brief siesta, we were ready for a long drive into the villages of Kerala where visits to two temples had been planned. The first temple we visited was the Poonilarkavu Devi Temple, Kodakara, and the second was the Puthukavu Devi Temple, Ponkunnam, which was lit up with thousands of lamps by devotees in appreciation of the deity's benevolence. The peace and serenity of the temple complexes and their surroundings remain etched in my mind. A brief visit to the home of Suresh's uncle was followed by an elaborate dinner and another restful night following a rigorous day of sightseeing.
While one had been a witness to the beauty of nature and the verdant foliage of Kerala in driving through Ernakulam and on the highways leading to the villages of Kodakara and Ponkunnam, the real treat arrived a day later when Suresh and I took a boat ride on Lake Vembanadu (Vembanadu Kayal)—India's largest body of water—which dominates the 34 backwaters of Kerala; it lies between Alappuzha (Alleppey) and Kochi and is over 200 km in area. Booked on Gokulam Sabari-I, a three-room fully air-conditioned houseboat, for a boat ride on Lake Vembanadu and an overnight stay in the backwaters, we enjoyed Kerala's coastal belt which is relatively flat, teeming with paddy fields— Kuttanad, also known as The Rice Bowl of Kerala, —groves of coconut trees, and heavily crisscrossed by a network of interconnected canals and rivers along with local fare cooked fresh by the chef on board the houseboat. The peace and quiet of the night, illuminated by random lights along the coast, and the bobbing of the houseboat, anchored in the evening to facilitate fishing with nets, ensured a peaceful night of rest on the water.
Following a hearty breakfast on board the houseboat, we headed back to the docks at Alleppey and from there by road to the Mahindra Ashtamudi Resort on the Ashtamudi Kayal in Kollam district, one of the most visited backwaters and lake in the state. Floating cottages and luminous backwaters make Mahindra Ashtamudi Resort a place right out of a fairy tale. A very popular family vacation destination, this picturesque location in Kerala blends small-town flavours with nature's hub of beauty.
A gateway to the backwaters, Ashtamudi Lake is the most popular place in Kollam, which is surrounded by lush green trees and swaying coconut palms. This 16-km-long lake is the second largest lake in Kerala, which has found its way into the sea through the Neendakara estuary. This place is so beautiful that tourists from different parts of the country and abroad, visit this natural paradise to catch a glimpse of one of the many splendours of Ashtamudi. A lot of tourists come here to experience boat ride, which gives a glimpse of village life, natural habitat, and abundant flora. This lake is known for its panoramic beauty and eight channels that connect to one lake. It is because of its eight 'arms' or channels, that the lake is named Ashtamudi.
It was at the Club Mahindra Resort that we spent the last couple of days of our stay in Kerala, taking in the visual and culinary delights that the place had to offer. This may well have been the last leg of our Kerala trip, but it was intercepted by a visit to the family home of one of Suresh's friends, George and Alison Kutty, for lunch in the village of Kalampanad. Delicious local cuisine, prepared by Alice and her two daughters-in-law, was followed by steaming cups of filter coffee and dessert. We returned to the Mahindra Resort in the late evening to spend our last night in Kerala.
Early the next morning, we took a cab from the Ashtamudi Resort to the Thiruvananthapuram International Airport, taking in the scenic beauty of Kerala on the two-and-a-half-hour drive there. At the airport, Suresh and I said our goodbyes as he flew out to Mumbai enroute Brisbane and I returned home to Lucknow. In retrospect, it would seem that I had seen very little of Kerala in the time that I had spent there. We had traversed only a third of the Kerala coast and had missed out on several other attractions for which "God's Own Country" is famous. One singular advantage I enjoyed was the company of a friend who spoke Malayalee like a native and whose very presence facilitated nuances and ventures which could otherwise have been missed, and for that, I remain grateful.
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I'm not a Christian. Can I still attend Filled?
The Filled Retreat is a Christian retreat with Biblically-based, Christ-centered teaching, contemporary worship, and times of prayer. That said, at past Filled retreats, we've had women of different faiths and women who don't ascribe to any faith who have shared that they felt welcomed and comfortable and refreshed! All are welcome!
I'm super nervous about coming by myself. Any thoughts?
About half of the women who attended Filled come by themselves. We asked the moms who attended Filled East alone if they felt comfortable, and here's how they responded: It was amazing. Not once the whole weekend did I feel out of place or awkward. Everyone was amazingly welcoming and friendly. • There was a spiritual favor over the inclusion at this event. It brings tears to my eyes how welcomed I felt • My roomies were great! • I absolutely felt perfectly comfortable and connected. Not even once did I get hung up on the fact that I was alone. • I felt extremely comfortable and welcomed. • I was so nervous but was instantly welcomed with warmth and comfort. I am so glad I stepped out of my comfort zone to come.
Which room option should I choose?
FILLED EAST: If you're coming on your own, you can choose to room by yourself (though we don't really recommend this, as it costs significantly more and you'll miss out on the community + blessings of getting to know another women!) or choose how many roommates you prefer by opting into the double, triple, or quad rooms. We'll pair you with other women who are attending on their own. We've heard from ladies who've attended in years past that getting to know their roommates and making new friends was a highlight of the retreat! If you're coming with friends, then count up the number in your crew and each choose the rooming option that matches your number for registration! Share each other's name in the "room request" portion of registration, and we'll make sure to room you together. Please note: we will place other women in your room with you if the number of guests in your party doesn't match the room option you've chosen (ex: two friends pay for a quad room means two other ladies will be placed in your room with you).
I'm flying in. Can you help me get from the airport to the retreat center?
At Filled East, we will do everything in our power to help you get to the retreat center. When possible, we will coordinate a ride for you. At the very least, we will connect with other moms who you can rideshare with.
I have special dietary needs. Can you accommodate me?
Yes, please e-mail our team, and we will coordinate the details!
I can't come for the whole weekend. Can I get a day pass?
Due to the number of moms who will be in attendance this year, we cannot accommodate day pass options for anyone.
What do I do if I cannot make it?
We do not offer refunds, but we've had women who have sold or gifted their ticket to another mom in years past. If the retreat is canceled (due to weather), refunds will be offered. We anticipate a waitlist (as we've had in the past), so contact info@citywithoutorphans.com for Filled West or roxy@fosterthefamily.org for Filled East to be placed on the waitlist.


In 2013 Ximena Hartsock, a former school principal and education advocate, started Phone2Action. The Washington, D.C.-based technology company provides clients like Lyft, the Consumer Technology Association and Doctors Without Borders, with what it calls a "digital grassroots platform" that connects organizations' supporters with lawmakers using mobile phones. Example: Lyft can use Phone2Action to send customer emails that include a link that matches the customers with their city council person or state assembly representative. The customer can then email the lawmaker, tweet at them, write on their Facebook page or call them. The cost ranges from $500 to $25,000 a month, depending on the size of the client. Hartsock, a Chilean immigrant, says it was tough to find investors willing to back her idea. In this interview, which has been edited and condensed, she describes making the career switch from advocate to entrepreneur and how she turned an idea sketched on a napkin into a company whose revenues are estimated to exceed $5 million this year.
Susan Adams: Tell me about your background.
Ximena Hartsock: I was born and raised in Chile. I came here to get my doctorate in policy at George Washington University. When I got here, I realized what an amazing country this is. Chile is way behind in opportunities for women.
Adams: What did you do after you earned your doctorate?
Hartsock: I was a school principal and then the assistant superintendent for instruction for the D.C. public schools. After that Mayor Adrian Fenty asked me to be the director of the city's department of parks and recreation. Then in 2010 I joined a national advocacy group to help advance education legislation on the state level.
Adams: How did your work as an education advocate lead you to start a business?
Hartsock: I was trying to get parents to advocate to state legislatures for bills like one in Florida to make the school menu healthier. But parents didn't know who their lawmakers were.
Adams: Why couldn't they just find them using Google?
Hartsock: You can't always Google your lawmaker and even if you know who your lawmaker is, many of them have web contact forms instead of email addresses. Also I realized that a lot of low-income families didn't have a computer at home or Internet access but they did have a cell phone. So I thought, why not use geocoding technology the same way we use geocoding to find an address? It's the same technology that the GPS in your phone uses.
Adams: How did the idea of finding a legislator on a cell phone make you want to start a business?
Hartsock: I wasn't building a company in the beginning. I was trying to solve a problem. I wanted to use the idea in my own advocacy. My organization used great technology but our vendors didn't understand that this was a problem, that people didn't know who their representatives were. I started reading, going to meetups and talked to people about APIs (application programming interfaces), where you can use a couple of technologies together to create something new. In Silicon Valley, through a friend, I found Jeb Ory, who already had a mobile company. I had already bought the domain name Phone2Action.com.
Adams: Why did you buy the domain name?
Hartsock: I was thinking that I was going to do this on my own. I wasn't thinking it was going to be a profitable company. I wanted it to be for anyone to use—non-profits, trade associations, anyone.
Adams: What made you realize you couldn't do it alone?
Hartsock: I never thought that I cannot do anything. I just realized I had to educate more people than I thought. My cofounder Jeb was a serial entrepreneur. He had two mobile startups in Chicago that failed. He knew what not to do.
Adams: Why would you want to team up with someone with a track record of failure?
Hartsock: He had raised $6 million in investment capital. He has an undergrad degree in international studies from Stanford and an MBA from Chicago Booth. He understood my idea. By then I had already talked to enough engineers and I had a prototype.
Adams: How did you pay for the prototype?
Hartsock: We went to a startup weekend in Las Vegas, a two-day event that's like a hackathon. You pay a registration fee of $500 and at the end of two days you have a prototype. Before that I had drawings that I had done myself. My first was on a napkin. People would say, "Who needs that, who would buy that?" I got lots of rejections but in my mind it was very clear.
Adams: What did you do with the prototype?
Hartsock: I showed it to people in advocacy groups. They loved it and I got offers to buy it before we had anything to sell. The same developer I met at the startup weekend continued to work for me and we built the first iteration by February 2013. While we were developing it we closed 12 contracts. We charged $300 a month for using the software.
Adams: How did you come up with that price?
Hartsock: In the beginning it was very much trial and error. We changed the price five times along the say. We charge a lot more to larger organizations. We never offered it for free unless it was for a struggling organization with a really good purpose.
Adams: How much money did it take to get your business off the ground and what was your funding source?
Hartsock: We raised $600,000 in seed funding. It's very difficult for a woman of color to raise funds. You're held to a different standard. The accent is distracting. You don't have the same networks. If you graduate from Harvard, you have a Rolodex.
Adams: Your partner went to Stanford and Booth.
Hartsock: That helped. But the idea was very difficult to pitch. People didn't understand it. The question about taking sides on an issue was very important for investors. They don't want you to take sides.
Adams: How long did it take for you to become profitable?
Hartsock: We became profitable in 2015 but we invest the profit in growth.
Adams: You come from what I'd call a do-gooder background. Do you sell your product to anyone who wants to buy it, even groups whose agendas you might oppose?
Hartsock: To me the No. 1 goal is for people to be able to connect with their lawmakers. Digital grassroots advocacy is becoming mainstream now. With our product, people know how to contact their legislators.
Adams: You didn't answer my question. How do you feel about changing your role from advocate to businesswoman?
Hartsock: I'm advocating for people to speak up, to advocate for themselves. I trust that people make the best decisions they can. We build technology to connect people with lawmakers. I don't want to have an ideology. But we would never sell to hate groups.
Adams: What about clients like Lyft, who arguably is advocating for legislation that will drive taxi drivers out of business?
Hartsock: We don't take positions on issues. I'm an entrepreneur and I own a technology company. We're just as agnostic as Google or Facebook or any technology company.
Adams: How can you say technology is agnostic at a time when fake news carried on Facebook may have swayed the election?
Hartsock: Taxi drivers advocate and use technology, too. There are a tremendous number of people on different sides of issues.
Adams: Why did you base the company in D.C. and not Silicon Valley?
Hartsock: D.C. is where most of the decision makers are. It's where the regulators are. The conversations are here. But we debated a lot about whether to stay in California. The challenge is hiring people. We have 31 employees and 60 positions open.
Adams: How do you think the election will affect your business?
Hartsock: Every election is an opportunity to get engaged. The election showed that many of these conversations were happening on social media.
Adams: How many new clients did you get in the week after the election?
Hartsock: Fifteen. We closed two or three a day, double the previous week.
Adams: What kind of organizations?
Hartsock: People are very interested in climate, health, transportation.
Adams: How do you feel about Trump's victory?
Hartsock: The language used against immigrants and people who are different is hurtful for a lot of people. We're not having difficult conversations about race and about what makes us different and we're not having them in enough places with enough people. To me that's the biggest failure. What I will do and I think the Hispanic community can do is to start building bridges and engaging with others and stop trying to just be with one another.


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Sony will not release latest Google Android 7.0 Nougat update for Xperia Z3. Sony confirms that it will release the update for only selected phones, which includes Xperia Z3+, Xperia Z4 Tablet, Xperia Z5, Xperia Z5 Compact, Xperia Z5 Premium, Xperia X, Xperia XA, Xperia XA Ultra and Xperia X Performance.
Sony used Z3 as a test device for the Android N dev preview. But phone failed to make it to final cut out. This is really a upsetting news for the Z3 owners, as phone is just two year old. Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact is also not getting update.


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Their diet is highly varied, and they can subsist on dead grass and other plant matter, in the absense of wood sources, although their main preference is of course, wood. The chewed up plant matter is used to construct elaborate fungus gardens in their nests. There are occasional reports of Macrotermes gilvus being a minor pest, but for the most part in my experience, this is not a termite that bothers humans.
The size of Macroterms gilvus is smaller than that of Macrotermes malaccensis, being no more than 15-16 mm in length (for the major soldier) and the length of the head capsule less than 4 mm. Both worker and soldier castes exhibit dimorphism.
(Above) Macrotermes gilvus mound. These termites are capable of building large mounds.
(Above) Close up view of the fungus comb. This is reconstituted wood and plant matter.
(Above) Major workers of M. gilvus.
(Above) The minor worker is paler and of course, smaller than the major worker. They mainly attend to nest activities.
(Above) The minor soldier. They occur in far greater numbers compared to the major soldiers.


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"Who is responsible for modern arts?" was the not only marketing question under which the probably most successful novel by Aleksandar Gatalica came out. In the finals for NIN Award (Serbian Booker counterpart), laurelled with "Stevan Sremac" award, this novel left neither the readers nor the critics indifferent. The Invisible is an allegorical story of the history of modern arts. In communicating his novelesque ideas, the author starts from the loop in development of visual arts, which has not been quite unbundled so far, and poises the question: how is it that after the first impressionist exhibition in 1873 modern arts burst into such an unexpected development, thriving as precipitously as it was met with contempt and derision of the audience.
This was the basis for development of genuine bildungsroman on characters who grow from small players of the epoch into controllers of arts' historical flow. The novelesque assumption is seemingly simple: nobody, in the beginning of the twentieth century, seemed to care about modern arts. Not only minor poets do starve, but so do Braque and Picasso. Only twenty years later, in the aftermath of the WWI, hundreds of painters became well-off Parisian dandies, to become rich people who mutually differ only by type of sport car they drive only a decade later. How is this possible? Aleksandar Gatalica's novel delivers a simple answer: it is about artistic conspiracy of a society from Switzerland that not only "invented modern arts", but also precisely decided what artist would be the greatest, great or just acknowledged.
The novel Invisible was written in form of 33 letters sent by Dr Dimitrije Gerasimović Gerasim from his sick bed to a young friend of his in Chicago, starting from 1953, where he revealed his role in the century's greatest artistic conspiracy. The letters written by Dr Gerasimović are not common epistles, but the notion of letter is significantly broadened to describe the epoch, events, thoughts and, of course, a novel plot.
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Kai Sotto set to mentor sports 'beasts' with new Kaiju Academy
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PROSPECT. Kai Sotto is set to see action in the NBA G League.
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'It is a dream come true to mentor young athletes globally,' says 7-foot-2 Filipino standout Kai Sotto
Ever since his high school days, Kai Sotto always seemed to have a mind ahead of his time.
Sure enough, the 7-foot-2 NBA prospect proves exactly that to this day as he laid the groundwork for his new Kaiju Academy in Hamilton, Ohio.
Despite being just 18 years old himself, Sotto already envisions his sports school to be a training ground for other young phenoms like him, and he wants a hands-on approach to their growth.
"The idea is that the Kaiju Academy teaches these young athletes to play 'like a beast' on the court and to be amazing men and women off the court," he told Forbes in an interview.
"I want young men and young women to get the right experience, development, exposure and mentorships to become their best true self both mentally and physically, and create an ecosystem of Kaijus that is healthy for all athletes and their families," he continued.
Sotto, of all people, knows full well the value of specialized mentorship as he is currently learning from the best of the best with the NBA G League Ignite Team.
Even at a very young age, the former UAAP juniors MVP is already aiming to pay it forward by passing knowledge onto others who will greatly benefit from what he has learned. (READ: Kai Sotto likens his game to former Lakers star Pau Gasol)
"It is a dream come true to mentor young athletes globally," Sotto said. "Kaiju is the Japanese term for monster, beast, strange creature, and it perfectly captures the ideal basketball competitor that I aim to be."
"Basketball isn't easy and sometimes, it will knock you down more than it builds you up," he continued. "I wanted my brand and my Academy to be about resilience."
Penciled in to open by late 2021, the Kaiju Academy is being built within Spooky Nook, a 1.3 million-square-foot sports facility in Hamilton.
It will feature more than 20 basketball courts, as well as football fields, an indoor rock climbing wall, an indoor track oval, batting cages, and an on-site hotel. – Rappler.com
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