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Life in the Cerrado - A South American Tropical Seasonal Ecosystem, by Gerhard Gottsberger and Ilse Silberbauer-Gottsberger
This book consists of two volumes and treats the unique, endangered and species-rich Cerrado ecosystem of South America.
The authors:
Gerhard Gottsberger was born 30 December 1940 in Judenburg, Austria. He studied biology, geology, chemistry, pedagogy and philosophy at the University of Graz (1959-1963). His Ph.D. thesis (defended in 1966) dealt with the biology, reproduction and phytogeography of Myxomycetes in the province of Styria. From 1966 to 1968, funded by several Brazilian institutions, he worked at the University of São Paulo (USP) and the Botanical Institute of the Secretary of Agriculture of São Paulo State. At the end of 1968, he became a professor of Systematic Botany in the Department of Botany at the University of Botucatu (UNESP), where he remained until 1981 when he moved to the Federal University of Maranhão in São Luís as a professor in the Biology Department. Two years later, he was invited to take a position as professor and director of the Botanical Garden in the Institute of Botany and Plant Physiology at the University of Giessen, Germany (1983-1993). From 1993 to 2006 he held the chair of the Department of Systematic Botany and Ecology at the University of Ulm, where he is also was director of the herbarium (ULM) and the Botanical Garden. Although retired he still is working in the herbarium of the University of Ulm. He was a visiting scientist (1971) at the University of Nijmegen and a visiting professor at the Universities of Victória (1979), Rio de Janeiro (1979) and Vienna (1974, 1976, 1980). Since 1980, until his retirement, has been a professor and staff member of the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA) and the Federal University of Amazonas in Manaus. His research interests center on plant evolution, reproductive biology (pollination and seed dispersal), and tropical ecosystems.
Ilse Silberbauer-Gottsberger was born 11 June 1940 in Graz, Austria. She studied biology, mineralogy, geology, pedagogy, psychology and physical education at the University of Graz (1958-1963) and earned a teacher's diploma. Her Ph.D. thesis (defended in 1965) dealt with vertebrate cerebellum neurotransmitters. From 1965 to 1967, she taught biology and physical education at a secondary school in Leibnitz, Styria, and from 1967 to 1969, biology, physics and chemistry at the Colégio Humboldt in São Paulo. From the end of 1969 to 1981, she was a professor of Systematic Botany in the Department of Botany at the University of Botucatu (UNESP), and from 1981 to 1983, professor in the Biology Department at the Federal University of Maranhão in São Luís. Moving to Germany in 1983, she became an Associate Scientist at the Institute of Botany and Plant Physiology at the University of Giessen. Since 1993, till today, she works as a researcher and staff member in the Department of Systematic Botany and Ecology at the University Ulm and as a curator in the herbarium (ULM). Her research interests center on phytosociology and phytogeography of tropical vegetation, and reproductive biology (including pollination and seed dispersal).
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Life in the Cerrado - A South American Tropical Seasonal Ecosystem Set Vol. I and Vol. II
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Life in the Cerrado - A South American Tropical Seasonal Ecosystem Vol. I: Origin, Structure, Dynamics and Plant Use
277 pages, including numerous color figures, drawings and tables, hardcover, format 22.5 x 29.5 cm
The first volume examines in detail the vegetation, its structure, dynamics and presumed origin. Emphasis is on the adaptational features of plants in relation to their physical environment, in particular climate, soil conditions and fire. Further, the utility of cerrado plants to humans is discussed, the influence of man upon this ecosystem, and some of the problems associated with conservation politics.
* Preface
* Map with Major Localities Cited in the Text
* Introduction
* Definition of Cerrado and Distinction From Other Vegetation Types
* Geographical Location and Extension of the Cerrado Biome
* Geology, Geomorphology, Paleoclimate, Paleoecological Changes and Origin of Cerrado
* Climate
* Soil Properties and Soil, Vegetation and Plant Relationships
* Vegetation Physiognomy
* Other Vegetation Types in the Cerrado Region and Transitional Forms
* The Origin of the Cerrado Flora
* Floristic Diversity and Community Structure
* Plant Physiognomy, Life Forms, Growth Forms and Underground Organs
* Tree Age, Growth Rate and Growth Rhythm
* Water Balance, Nutrient Availability, and Xeromorphic and Scleromorphic Features of Cerrado Plants
* Fire and its Influence on Plants and Vegetation
* Frost and its Effects on Species Distribution in the Southern Cerrado Region
* Seasonality and Vegetation Rhythm
* Seed Germination, Seedling Establishment and Cerrado Regeneration Capacity
* Utility of Cerrado Plants and their Economic Potential
* Transformation of Cerrado into Cropland and Pasture, Environmental Consequences and Influence on Soil Dynamics
* Amerindians and Cerrado
* Importance and Future of Cerrado
* References
* General Index
* Index of Plant Names
Life in the Cerrado - A South American Tropical Seasonal Ecosystem Vol. II: Pollination and Seed Dispersal
383 pages, including numerous color figures, drawings and tables, hardcover, format 22.5 x 29.5 cm.
In the second volume, pollination and seed dispersal phenomena are described, and emphasis placed on how these processes, essentially plant-animal interrelationships, are critical to the maintenance and regeneration of this ecosystem.
* Events and Processes Leading to Reproduction and Seed Formation
* Generalist Insect-Pollinated Species Usually Having Bees as Principal Visitors of Day-Active Flowers
* Generalist Flowers Having a Greater Beetle Component
* Generalist Flowers Having an Occasional Beetle Component
* Pollen-Flowers in Dilleniaceae, Clusiaceae, Myrtaceae and Mimosaceae
* Species Pollinated by Small and Medium-Sized Bees
* Choripetalous Open or Partially Constricted Nectar-Flowers
* Choripetalous Open Pollen-Flowers
* Choripetalous Papilionoid Nectar-Flowers
* Sympetalous Actinomorphic or Zygomorphic Nectar-Flowers
* Flowers with Explosive Release of Pollen
* Pollination by Resin-Collecting Bees
* Species with Nectar-Flowers Pollinated by Large Bees
* Choripetalous Actinomorphic or Zygomorphic Flowers
* Choripetalous Papilionoid Flowers
* Sympetalous Flowers
* Floral Ecology of Bee-Pollinated Bignoniaceae
* Superimposed Pollination Systems in Jacaranda
* Oxaea flavescens: Nectar Robber or Pollinator?
* Buzz Pollination in Pollen-Flowers Having Poricidal Anthers
* Pollination of Solanum lycocarpum and Ouratea Flowers
* Multistaminate Large Flowers of Cochlospermum
* The Riddle of Mass-Flowering Miconia Species
* Flower Structures and Pollination in Cassiinae: Variations on a Theme
* Oil-Flowers and Oil-Collecting Bees
* The Native Cerrado Bee Fauna and the Introduced Honeybee
* Scarcity of Fly Pollination
* Cerrado Palms: From General Entomophily with Bees Predominating to Cantharophily
* In the Evening When the Beetles Come: Pollination in Annonaceae and Philodendron
* The Opportunists: Butterflies
* Generalist Night- (and Day)-Active Flowers, with Increasing Tendency Towards Moth (Nocturnal Lepidoptera) Pollination
* Moth Pollination
* Pollination and Evolution in Vochysiaceae
* The Silent Pollinators: Bats
* Hummingbirds and their Flowers
* Wind Pollination
* Pollination and Floral Biology in One Hectare of Cerrado
* Pollination and Floral Biology within Cerrado sensu lato and as Compared to Other Vegetation Types
* Sex Expression and Breeding Systems
* Herbivory and its Links to Reproduction and Regeneration; Parasitic Fungi and Myxomycetes
* Ants and Termites and their Influence on Plants and Vegetation
* Animals and their Role as Seed Dispersal Agents
* The Study of Dispersal in Cerrado Vegetation
* Field Work and Methods Used During Studies of Dispersal Phenomena in Two Plots of Cerrado sensu stricto and Cerradão in Botucatu
* Principal Dispersal Modes, their Relation to Height Classes and Examples of Dispersal Phenomena in the Cerrado sensu stricto Hectare, Botucatu
* Dispersal and Trypanocarpy in Grasses
* Relationship Between the Morphology of Dispersal Units and their Dispersal
* Observations on Hygroscopic Movements of Awns
* Modes of Zoochory in the Cerrado sensu stricto Hectare and their Relationship to Height Classes
* Dispersal Modes Related to Fruiting Time in the Cerrado sensu stricto Hectare
* Dispersal Modes in the Cerradão Hectare as Compared with the Cerrado sensu stricto Hectare in Botucatu
* Distribution Pattern in Relation to Dispersal Mode
* Index of Animal Names
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Life in the Cerrado - International reviews
This authoritative monograph on one of the most remarkable ecosystems of the Neotropics is based on more than 35 years of field work and research by the two authors. It gives not only a survey of the main results of their own multidisciplinary studies, but offers an up-to-date and competent synthesis of the relevant and voluminous literature, often not easily accessible and partly written in Portuguese. The text is well organized and very clearly written, copiously illustrated by many excellent colour photographs and drawings, and supported by numerous schemata and tables. The two volumes on the cerrado ecosystem by Gerhard Gottsberger and Ilse Silberbauer-Gottsberger are a major contribution to our understanding of the biological problems of South America and a must for all interested in this field. Beyond that these volumes are an important step forward in current efforts to better evaluate the links between species diversity, ecological interdependences and evolutionary aspects in the different biomes of our biosphere. (Friedrich Ehrendorfer, Institute of Botany, University of Vienna)
When one opens the two volumes on the Brazilian cerrado first one is immediately overwhelmed by the esthetical pleasure - the sensual impressions - given by the richness of colour photographs most of them master pieces and fine drawings of plants. In the first volume the photographs are more of landscapes and whole plants in the second volume there is a wealth of excellent close ups of flowers and pollinators. The text then provides ample satisfaction for the depth of thought with maps, schemes and graphics and extensive tabulation of informative facts, quantitative data and functional analyses. The two authors have worked together in the cerrados for 35 years and for 12 of these years (1969 1981) very intensively when they had a square one hectare plot of cerrado at Botucatu, Sao Paulo, for particularly detailed and continuous studies (Ulrich Luettge, Institut für Botanik, Technische Universität Darmstadt)
A truly superb and definitive work on cerrado! Multitudinous platitudes would be inadequate to do justice to this incredible work, which is so beautifully executed and so thoroughly done that it instantly becomes a landmark work. The two large-format volumes treat cerrado, a seasonally dry woody vegetation type unique to Central Brazil. This bargain-priced grand synthesis stems from a combined 80 years of study by this husband-wife team. Few other vegetation types in the world are so thoroughly treated, and certainly none is so beautifully and multifariously presented. The very detailed contents listing in the heading essentially provides the best review of this definitive work. This great and grand work belongs on the shelf of not only every biology library but also every holistically minded ecologist. It is an impassioned plea for the conservation of cerrado, should also serve as a compelling inspiration for persevering in long-term research and for synthesizing it. Further praise would be superfluous. (Rudlof Schmid, University of California, Berkeley, USA, from review in: Taxon 56, May 2007)
More than a hundred years after the study of Warming, two other European naturalists are offering a gift to tropical biologists and everyone that loves nature, another scientific masterpiece with the cerrados, the Brazilian tropical savanna, as a focus. Life in the Cerrado shows that natural history is still alive, more vigorous than ever. The first volume, with 21 chapters, opens with an extremely interesting preface that describes the pathways followed by the authors during their studies in Brazil, and additionally introducing their main contributors, also important names to the tropical. The second volume, with 36 chapters, and more related to the main interest of the authors, pollination biology and seed dispersal, is a text absolutely indispensable to anyone who is interested in the study of all aspects linked to tropical plant reproduction. The authors describe thoroughly the pollination systems, vectors and their syndromes, seed formation and dispersal, with a clear evolutionary view in how each aspect has developed in cerrados. Furthermore, it is an extremely important comparative source of information for those who work with pollination biology in other tropical vegetations and to researchers interested in coevolutionary aspects of biodiversity. The most representative and particular cases of special forms of pollination in cerrados are detailed. This second volume is, if possible, even more effectively illustrated than the first one. The tables and figures maintain a masterly quality and clarity in presentation. There are many tables summarizing the results of important papers already published, showing the exact relation between plant species, floral rewards and visitors. The richness of color photos and hand drawings by the authors and by other researches are captivating. The bibliographic review is complete; all important papers and books in animal-plant interactions published on the Brazilian tropical savanna are properly cited. To close this short review, a small consideration about the title. Perhaps Two Lives in Cerrado could represent better the impressive amount of dedication, effort, and real love we feel in each page of these books. Reading them, ones feel like a child learning again the first steps of how to be a real naturalist. (Kleber Del Claro, Tropinet Vol. 19 (1) pg. 12)
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Why Every Business Leader Should Make An Empathy Plan For 2022
Defined by Merriam-Webster as "something that causes strong feelings of worry or anxiety," stress has been rising in Americans for years. But now it seems to have become the prevailing emotion of the 2020s.
In a survey earlier this year by the American Psychological Association, 84 percent of adults reported feeling at least one emotion associated with prolonged stress in the preceding two weeks. The most significant sources of anxiety were the future of the nation, the coronavirus pandemic, and political unrest.
For businesses, this environment has accelerated a dramatic change: Market winners and losers are being decided based on empathy—companies' ability to put themselves in customers' shoes and show, in every interaction, deep and genuine concern for their wants, needs, and priorities.
PERMENENTLY CHANGED CUSTOMER EXPECTATIONS
To be sure, customer experience (CX)—how a company engages with customers at every stage of the buying journey—already had become an essential business priority in a digital age that has given consumers unprecedented choices and power. But making customers feel trust and delight on an emotional level has gone from being an aspiration to an expectation in the last year and a half.
A recent report by contact center technology provider Talkdesk shows that most consumers have higher expectations of companies they do business with today than before the pandemic.
In the retail sector specifically, according to the study, 58 percent of retail customers said their expectations of their preferred brands have increased in the last year. "Ease, speed and ability to transition across channels of choice during interactions rate among their top priorities," the report said.
According to a McKinsey report in August, e-commerce sales continue to experience huge growth, with online penetration remaining approximately 35 percent above pre-pandemic levels and e-commerce logging more than 40 percent growth over the past 12 months.
This means that retailers truly can no longer ignore that the line between digital and in-store experiences for consumers has rapidly disappeared and consumers no longer differentiate where and when they had an experience with a business, just how it felt.
Even the most eternal optimist would have a hard time believing the stressed-out climate will subside anytime soon, so businesses need to be planning for 2022 and beyond with one thing in mind: How can we forge a memorably positive emotional connection with customers and consistently deliver a consistently delightful, empathy-driven experience? Here are three ways to get there.
STEPS TO EMPATHY-DRIVEN CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE
1. Make customer empathy the company's central cultural value.
Many businesses still operate in silos, but, as described above, customers no longer do. Thus, companies need to shed old ways of how the business has been structured and organized and adopt new ones based solely on how customers see and work with them. Everyone on every team in every department must have a clear understanding of their role in providing a holistic, empathy-driven experience and how each channel and touchpoint integrates to make that happen.
As part of the effort to cultivate human experience as a core value, every individual in the company should be able to see, hear, and feel the customers' experience—not just a select few whose "job" it is.
Finally, companies must ask themselves if they have the right leaders for this time. Does the CEO grasp where to prioritize investments to drive the experiences customers are demanding? Do executives across the C-suite have the right levels of empathy, authenticity, and emotional intelligence? In today's world, leaders must make decisions with their hearts as much as their heads. "Soft skills" are the new hard skills.
2. Focus on human experience as much as data.
Understanding customers on a deeper level—who they are, what their lives are like, and what their motivations are for using a product or service—has become harder as customer experiences have become less human and more digital. Companies are trying to build deep connections with perhaps millions of people they may never actually see.
As a result, most businesses have turned to collecting and analyzing data—clicks, sales conversion statistics, email response rates, survey responses, etc.—to try to glean customer insights.
But while quantitative methods can help uncover trends and patterns, (for example, that 65 percent of web page visitors are leaving without going beyond the home page) they tell only half the story: Data can provide the "what" behind customer behavior but not the "why." It is devoid of color and context—the many nuances around customer experience that can come only from observing and interacting with customers first-hand.
Interaction with real customers must be combined with companies' data-centric processes to inform every aspect of product design, creation, and support.
3. Take advantage of technology.
Technology exists—video, live interviews, and other research studies—to continually see and hear what customers are thinking. Companies should leverage this technology to build a feedback loop that drives the brand forward from the customer's viewpoint—a virtuous circle in which one desirable outcome from human insights leads to another and drives continuous improvement.
In a product or app launch, for example, this can include live customer interviews before design starts, quick validation of prototypes and sketches, continuous verification during development to validate decisions and reveal problem areas, and post-launch gathering of insights to reveal any issues that weren't found earlier.
By following these three steps, businesses can make customer empathy part of their brand's lifeblood. In these times, there may be no greater differentiator.
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6 Ways to Come Back From the Pandemic With a Stronger Team
The future of work arrived out of nowhere, on the back of a once-in-a-century pandemic. Team dynamics got challenged as members dealt with illness, trauma, and crisis. We've all been forced to rapidly and radically adapt to new working norms. The Ferrazzi Greenlight Research Institute has spent more than 15 years studying high-performing teams, but I've never seen entrepreneurs rise to the occasion as they have this year.
When the crisis subsides, the temptation will be to turn back that progress and retreat into old behaviors. But entrepreneurs need to shift from overload to shared load, and to practices that can transform team performance to find unexpected growth–and lower unsuspected risk. Let's not go back to work; let's go forward.
We've been examining great remote teams since well before the pandemic. The most effective ones, we've discovered, were committed to going beyond collaboration to what I call co-elevation. This is a "we will go higher together" attitude toward the mission and with one another, matched by distinct co-elevating practices that enhance performance. As I describe in my new book, Leading Without Authority, the work of a true leader is to promote a shared sense of responsibility among the team.
The pandemic has exposed lots of work norms that weren't serving us. Our surveys consistently show that seven out of 10 team members don't get value from being part of a team, and 74 percent feel like they cannot speak up in a group of their peers. That failure is on us as leaders to fix. It's time to stomp out conflict-avoidance and embrace bold steps to move everyone forward.
The shift to virtual teams doesn't make this work any harder, and may, in fact, make some aspects of change easier. Let's look at the co-elevating traits that underpin great teams, along with some high-return practices to sustain these traits.
People have been talking about agile techniques for a while, but the massive shift to virtual has made them hugely valuable to practice. Agile management replaces annual planning and long, painful meetings with weekly or monthly sprints. In these sprints, teams focus on one or two projects at a time.
Every critical functional area of the business knows what the outcomes are for the week. Every team does daily standups called scrums, in which everyone answers three questions: What have I done? What are the challenges I need help with? What am I doing next? Quick, effective decision-making becomes the norm, just as it has become the norm during the pandemic. Let's make sure it sticks.
A high-return practice: Adopt weekly or monthly sprints. Agree as a team what to prioritize, and assess as a team if things are off track. Shift the focus from process to delivering on customer value. The right decisions are the ones made at the level where things get done.
Necessity has forced us to cut across silos and draw from the combined wisdom that ignites innovation. The teams I've worked with over the years have discovered how remote working can drive even greater collaboration. Using the psychological safety of Zoom breakout rooms, leaders can foster more risk-taking to replace monotonous report-outs.
Too many big discussions about process innovation or identifying new markets become one-way affairs, with leaders asking and answering all the questions. Don't think of yourself as the center of your team. Your job is to ask the smart questions, and to break the team into smaller groups so everyone's voice can be heard and their insights extracted into breakthrough innovation.
A high-return practice: Move all meetings toward collaborative problem-solving. Make heavy use of video breakout rooms, because people are conflict-averse and won't share openly in a big room. Commit at least 50 percent of your time to collaborative problem-solving.
It has become harder to maintain our professional faces after so many hours peering into our colleagues' homes, watching kids crawling across laps, and hearing one another's struggles. Academics such as Brené Brown at the University of Houston have long advocated the power of vulnerability and empathy. Finally, the whole world is accepting it.
A high-return practice: Avoid diving into meetings transactionally, as you might have done before. Start with a conversation that gets people relaxed and empathetic to one another, going deeper than that superficial small talk you'd normally make in the hallway. Have everyone do a "personal-professional check-in" or "sweet-and-sour," to share something they are struggling with.
Accountability
The first question many leaders ask me is, "How do I make sure remote workers are being productive?" What they're really asking is, "How do I know they're not in the other room on a yoga break?" Being a great leader means establishing clear outcomes and a vision for what winning looks like. If you've given your people clear outcomes and set them up with project sprints and they're meeting their goals, who gives a damn whether they're doing yoga in the afternoon?
Another great way to ensure teams are engaged is to elevate accountability among peers. No one wants to let their teammates down. Peer accountability might start to feel punitive or like micromanaging, but I keep going back to this principle of co-elevation, helping one another get across the finish line. If you elevate peer-to-peer accountability above the individual, then somebody who's ahead on their timeline this week will run back and help a colleague get across the finish line.
A high-return practice: After team members share their plans or reports in a meeting, break them up into small groups to "bulletproof" one another's work by pointing out one risk that the individual might guard against, one innovative idea to consider, and one act of generosity that the group could offer by way of help. If you make space for people to be of service to one another, you get more risk-taking and more crazy ideas that lead to innovation.
Generosity
"How can I help?" I have heard those words more than ever during the pandemic. There's a real commitment to taking care of people and helping with their projects and ideas. This is crucial to driving higher employee engagement. In our research, remote teams who are left unattended suffer a roughly 50 percent reduction in productivity.
A high-return practice: Leaders can embed generosity as a behavioral norm by routinely asking whoever makes a report or does a presentation, "What can any of us do to be of service?" This kind of help is best offered during the bulletproofing process in the breakout rooms. In the big room, it would fall flat.There's a real commitment to taking care of people and helping with their projects and ideas. This is crucial to driving higher employee engagement.
Elon Musk has said that his friends tell him how good things are, while "my best friends tell me what sucks." I get why: Entrepreneurs are strongly opinionated and often shut down candor from their team. That's wrongheaded. Fear of honest talk leads to longer cycle times and slower decision-making.
A high-return practice: Candor breaks are the best way to discover what's being held back. Pause the meeting when it feels right and ask the team, "What's not being said?" Or, again, divide into small-group sessions midway to ask that same question.
Disruptive technologies and disrupted markets have been pushing us to behave and work differently. But for too long, too many of us have kept playing by the old rules. There is a community of business leaders at GoForwardtoWork.com who are dedicated to gathering and sharing the best ideas in the new world of work. Join us.
By Keith Ferrazzi, Founder and chairman, Ferrazzi Greenlight
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Why Social Awareness And Empathy Take Constant Work
Empathy is a lifelong process.
Anyone who knows me knows I'm an outspoken feminist. But once upon a time, I scratched my head and questioned why we needed feminism. "Shouldn't we just advocate egalitarianism—equality for everyone?" I asked. I wasn't fully aware of the multitude of issues specific to women, both overt and internalized, facing me and all women in society (and how feminism benefits men, too).
In another instance, back in high school, I remember using the phrase, "That's gay," as a way to say "That's not cool," at the dismay and horror of my gay friend. It was a phrase I heard a lot and repeated. At the time, I didn't think about how it could be hurtful and problematic. My friend calling me out really made me rethink how I chose my words.
Developing social awareness and empathy takes time, effort, intention, and choice. No one is born with the ability to be perfectly informed and sensitive when it comes to the many complex social issues in our world. Being empathetic isn't always intuitive, as we are so often caught up in our own problems and it can be human nature to be selfish.
It takes energy to extend ourselves to others, to see things from their perspective, and to provide support and solidarity. But once you start to educate yourself and learn about the various issues facing marginalized communities, you start to grow as a human who can positively interact with others—especially those different from yourself.
Empathy is the ability to understand what another person is going through. It's the ability to really put yourself in someone else's shoes, and to feel what they are feeling. It's about being respectful and standing in solidarity with marginalized groups, including non-white, non-men, and LGBTQIA communities. You hear them, validate them, and help fight for them. You're an ally.
As a cisgender straight woman, I've never had to deal with discrimination when it comes to my gender identity or choosing who I love. While I've never personally dealt with the struggles that face the LGBTQIA community, I can understand the pain and frustration of someone who has been judged by society, their loved ones, and their peers for simply being who they are. I can empathize.
On the other hand, as a woman of color, I've experienced discrimination for my identity in other ways. I have been teased, tokenized, and fetishized. I've had strangers, especially back in my Midwestern hometown, make assumptions about who I am. A shop owner once told me he was surprised I speak fluent English. I've had people ask me where I'm from (expecting me to name some exotic Asian country rather than Ohio). I've had dates fetishize me for my race and appearance.
The hardships I've dealt with—while certainly traumatic at times—helped shape who I am. They've made me a stronger, more outspoken, and more informed person. While I've learned to forgive others, especially those who don't necessarily have bad intentions, I always speak up. If someone makes a problematic comment, I will calmly explain to them why they are wrong or how their words can be offensive. I challenge them to be more open-minded and to reflect on their behaviors and comments.
As I mentioned earlier, we all have to start somewhere when it comes to social awareness and building empathy. I don't let people off the hook, but I also try to educate rather than shame. Being socially conscious is not about purity, and it shouldn't be driven by a fear of saying the wrong thing. People mess up. Allies should be allowed to ask questions and openly communicate. On the same token, they should be willing to take constructive criticism and constantly better themselves.
My identity as an Asian-American woman is the fabric of who I am. I appreciate when others are empathetic to my struggles but also validate me as a whole, complex person. In a world that perpetuates stereotypes, it's imperative that we see people for who they really are, beyond identity and appearance. This takes research, self-educating, reading the works of diverse authors, taking classes, and incorporating the works of marginalized people into your everyday life. It's a constant work in progress, but I wouldn't have it any other way.
By: Karen Li
Source: https://gc4women.org
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Why Empathy Is One of the Most Overlooked Skills in Business
It was a sunny day in April. The air was crisp and the walk ahead of us enjoyable.I stared at the beautiful Embarcadero situated near our San Francisco office, feeling grateful for working close to such a stunning view.
Then I shifted my gaze over to Tim, my walking mate for the afternoon. We were on one of many walking meetings we'd shared over the past year. But this time was different. Tim, a normally talkative employee, was dragging his heels and appeared disgruntled whenever I asked for status updates. He kept his head down, answering only in curt replies.Something was off.
As his supervisor, I could have easily approached his behavior with a stern stance, by grilling him, or asserting my authority. But 14-plus years of entrepreneurship have taught me one thing: A harsh, adversarial response is never the answer.Instead, I slowed my pace and asked him how things were going at home. "Is everything OK?"
Tim confided then that his father had recently had a stroke, and that he was taking turns spending nights at the hospital, leaving him tense and run-down. I nodded. "I'm so sorry, that sounds very hard.""How can I support you?" I offered.
We spent some time talking over how to alleviate some of his load at work, and even scheduled some days off for him to be with his family.After our conversation, it was as if a weight had been lifted. In our meeting afterward, he began eagerly participating, even offering feedback I hadn't asked for.
Showing genuine care and concern only took a few seconds of my time, but it was enough to let Tim know that I was on his side.
One of the most overlooked skills in business
Empathy — the capacity to recognize and understand other people's feelings, to "put oneself in someone else's shoes" is a critical leadership skill. Common sense tells us that it's a basic human quality most founders would have in their arsenal, but in fact, it's one that many leaders often get wrong.
In a commencement speech on June 15, 2014, American business magnate and philanthropist, Bill Gates, stood before an audience of Stanford grads and spoke of channeling optimism into a conviction to make things better.
"If we have optimism, but we don't have empathy," he said, "then it doesn't matter how much we master the secrets of science. We're not really solving problems; we're just working on puzzles."
This has been true to my experience as the CEO of my company JotForm. We started with one goal: Create a drag-and-drop tool that enabled people to quickly build forms, even if they didn't know how to code. As a software engineer, I'll be the first one to say I'm the biggest nerd I know. I enjoy taking a complex issue and making it easy and accessible.
I've had the privilege of growing our small startup to a business with over 250 employees and seven million users worldwide. And what I've learned from being a founder all these years is that people, not software, matter most. Connecting with our team and our customers is the real vision that keeps us moving forward. I believe the secret to our success lies in empathy.
Beyond sympathy
Our culture admires a certain business stereotype: the die-hard leaders who push the envelope and only care about themselves. But at what price? A shortage of empathy in the workplace accounts for an increasing lack of employee engagement, which impacts productivity. This costs businesses more than $600 billion per year.
How does this happen? Simple: by confusing empathy with sympathy. Sympathizing — feeling sorry for an employee's situation isn't the same as understanding their feelings and needs, or building rapport.
Instead of becoming annoyed with their employees or commanding them to pick up the slack, effective leaders know how to express themselves by showing real concern and asking how they can improve the situation.
While valuable, sympathy is only a surface-level response that keeps you at a distance. Empathy, on the other hand, is a perspective shift — it's genuinely imagining yourself being in the other person's shoes, and allows you to connect on a deeper level.
By: Aytekin Tank
Source: https://www.entrepreneur.com
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			$t = $this->db->schema->tableWithOptions($this->objects, DBTable::CREATE_ALWAYS);
			$t->columnWithSpec('uuid', DBType::UUID, null, DBCol::NOT_NULL, null, 'Unique object identifier (UUID)');
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			$t->columnWithSpec('modified', DBType::DATETIME, null, DBCol::NOT_NULL, null, 'Timestamp of the object being last modified');
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			$t->columnWithSpec('dirty', DBType::BOOLEAN, null, DBCol::NOT_NULL, 'Y', 'Whether the object needs to be re-indexed on the next pass');
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			return $t->apply();
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		if($targetVersion == 2)
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			$t = $this->db->schema->tableWithOptions($this->objects_base, DBTable::CREATE_ALWAYS);
			$t->columnWithSpec('uuid', DBType::UUID, null, DBCol::NOT_NULL, null, 'Object identifier');
			$t->columnWithSpec('kind', DBType::VARCHAR, 36, DBCol::NULLS, null, 'Object kind');
			$t->columnWithSpec('tag', DBType::VARCHAR, 64, DBCol::NULLS, null, 'Short object name');
			$t->columnWithSpec('realm', DBType::UUID, null, DBCol::NULLS, null, 'Associated realm identifier, if any');
			$t->indexWithSpec(null, DBIndex::PRIMARY, 'uuid');
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			$t->indexWithSpec('tag', DBIndex::INDEX, 'tag');
			$t->indexWithSpec('realm', DBIndex::INDEX, 'realm');
			return $t->apply();
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			$t = $this->db->schema->tableWithOptions($this->objects_tags, DBTable::CREATE_ALWAYS);
			$t->columnWithSpec('uuid', DBType::UUID, null, DBCol::NOT_NULL, null, 'Object identifier');
			$t->columnWithSpec('tag', DBType::VARCHAR, 64, DBCol::NOT_NULL, null, 'Tag');
			$t->indexWithSpec('uuid', DBIndex::INDEX, 'uuid');
			$t->indexWithSpec('tag', DBIndex::INDEX, 'tag');
			return $t->apply();
		}
		if($targetVersion == 4)
		{
			$t = $this->db->schema->tableWithOptions($this->objects_iri, DBTable::CREATE_ALWAYS);
			$t->columnWithSpec('uuid', DBType::UUID, null, DBCol::NOT_NULL, null, 'Object identifier');
			$t->columnWithSpec('iri', DBType::VARCHAR, 128, DBCol::NULLS, null, 'IRI of this object');
			$t->indexWithSpec('uuid', DBIndex::INDEX, 'uuid');
			$t->indexWithSpec('iri', DBIndex::INDEX, 'iri');
			return $t->apply();
		}
		if($targetVersion == 5)
		{
			$t = $this->tableWithOptions($this->objects . '_tmp', DBTable::CREATE_ALWAYS);
			$t->columnWithSpec('uuid', DBType::UUID, null, DBCol::NOT_NULL, null, 'Unique object identifier (UUID)');
			$t->columnWithSpec('created', DBType::DATETIME, null, DBCol::NOT_NULL, null, 'Timestamp of the object being created');
			$t->columnWithSpec('creator_scheme', DBType::VARCHAR, 16, DBCol::NULLS, null, 'Scheme of the creating user');
			$t->columnWithSpec('creator_uuid', DBType::UUID, null, DBCol::NULLS, null, 'UUID of the creating user');
			$t->columnWithSpec('modified', DBType::DATETIME, null, DBCol::NOT_NULL, null, 'Timestamp of the object being last modified');
			$t->columnWithSpec('modifier_scheme', DBType::VARCHAR, 16, DBCol::NULLS, null, 'Scheme of the modifying user');
			$t->columnWithSpec('modifier_uuid', DBType::UUID, null, DBCol::NULLS, null, 'UUID of the modifying user');
			$t->columnWithSpec('owner', DBType::VARCHAR, 64, DBCol::NULLS, null, 'Identifier of the key used to sign the last update to this object');
			$t->columnWithSpec('dirty', DBType::BOOLEAN, null, DBCol::NOT_NULL, 'Y', 'Whether the object needs to be re-indexed on the next pass');
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Digital History (HIST 4085) is an upper-level course offered by the Department of History at York University.
This course introduces students to both the theoretical and practical impacts of digital technologies on historical scholarship and public history. Digital technologies and the development of the Internet have transformed the ways that historians conduct their research, access sources, analyze documents, and communicate research findings. Students will gain practical knowledge of how to take advantage of digital tools for historical scholarship and public history and explore the theoretical implications of such digital knowledge mobilization.
Students meet once a week for 3 hours. Weekly meetings are divided into two sessions: discussion and lab.
In the discussion session, students discuss and debate a common set of readings/video/audio based on a single topic. All readings are available online with links in the syllabus.
In the lab session, students will work with partners to complete particular lab exercises related to the week's topic. These exercises may also involve writing blog responses. Students are required to submit completed lab reports the following week.
Part of the final grade will also be determined by student self-assessments. This course is based largely on group work and working with partners throughout the year.
Your active participation in class is essential, and we will measure it in a variety of ways. Attendance is mandatory and will be taken every class. You must show that you are engaging with course readings and themes by orally contributing thoughtfully to in-class discussions.
Students will also be able to participate online for partial credit each week. This can include comments to weekly discussion questions on the course forum.
Because this course aims to teach students about digital history, including online research and communication, students are encouraged to bring internet-connected computing devices to seminar (laptops, tablet computers, smartphones). These devices should be used exclusively for course-relevant purposes. Students are not required to bring their own computer equipment to class, however. All students will have a Windows-PC available in the lab.
All course participation, including in-class discussion and online discussion, must be in compliance with the York University Student Code of Conduct. In order to ensure this, students should be respectful toward one another and toward all faculty and staff. Active and respectful student participation is essential to establishing a productive and engaging learning environment for everyone.
The grading scheme for the course conforms to the 9-point grading system used in undergraduate programs at York (e.g. A+ =9, A=8, B+=7, C+=5, etc.). Assignments and tests will bear either a letter grade designation or a corresponding number grade (e.g. A+ = 90 to 100; A = 80-89, B+=75-79, B=70-74; C+=65-69, C+60-64, etc.).
Assignments received later than the due date will be penalized one letter grade per day (i.e., if one day late, an A paper receives a B+) up to a maximum of five days. After five days, assignments will not be accepted. We will consider exceptions to the lateness penalty only when they are supported by authoritative written documentation (i.e., a doctor's note) or they can be legitimately substantiated. Students may not request deadline extensions within three days of a due date. All deadline extension requests must be made in writing via email to the instructor.
The History Department is located on the second floor of Vari Hall, 2140. The usual office hours during the academic term are M-F, 8:30am-4:00pm. The department's phone number for general inquiries is 416-736-5123.
History Advising Hours: The History department offers advising times weekly. The hours are posted on our website 1-2 weeks in advance. The days and times change to accommodate student's different schedules. No appointment is necessary; students will be seen on a first-come, first-served basis. The Director of Undergraduate Studies is Prof. Adrian Shubert, and he can be contacted at dushist@yorku.ca.
The Writing Centre: One-to-one help with a writing instructor on any writing assignment. You will need to enroll to set up your appointment, though they also offer some drop-in sessions. The enrollment link and further information is found at http://www.yorku.ca/laps/writ/centre/. Bring a copy of your assignment to your appointment.


It's been awhile since we've heard any news about John Galliano, after his long-discussed replacement at Dior was announced to be Raf Simons.
But here he is again in the news, having been stripped of his French Legion of Honor accolade, per President Francoise Holland, WWD reports.
After being accused of assault and anti-Semitism outside a French café last year, Galliano left his post at Dior and has barely resurfaced, save for designing Kate Moss's wedding dress.
What do you think about the latest for John Galliano? Reasonable or has he already been punished accordingly? Let us know in the comments below.


Mortal Kombat 11 is only a few weeks away, and developer NetherRealm continues to reveal new characters in the lead up to the game's launch. Last week, the company gave fans their first look at three returning fighters--Liu Kang, Kung Lao, and Jax--during Sony's inaugural State of Play presentation, and now it's unveiled a brand-new character named Cetrion. As we see in her reveal trailer (via Game Informer), Cetrion is an Elder God connected to the Earth, and she's able to utilize her elemental powers in battle; the trailer showcases her summoning vines from the ground to restrain opponents and conjuring up rocks to pummel foes with.


Nestlé and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, today announced the launch of the Social Investment Accelerator programme, designed and led by Ashoka, to scale solutions for social entrepreneurs.
The programme aims to support young social entrepreneurs to gain access to finance, enabling them to create further growth, impact and employment opportunities for other young people worldwide.
The Social Investment Accelerator provides young entrepreneurs with mentorship support in business and finance to find the right types of financing and investors. Nestlé experts will be mentoring the social entrepreneurs throughout the programme.
The programme will begin this year with 12 young social entrepreneurs in Africa, working in the fields of global food chain, access to clean water and youth employment. It will be implemented by Ashoka – the world's leading network of systems-changing social entrepreneurs.
12 social entrepreneurs working across Africa in the fields of global food chain, access to clean water and youth employment in African countries will be selected for this unique 6-month programme.
Identify established social entrepreneurs needing additional support to access the right type of financing and grow their impact.
Disseminate Ashoka's expertise on accelerating social enterprises and hybrid finance in African countries.
investment ready, or to find the right hybrid corporate structure to access both investment and philanthropy efficiently.
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Various coaches and consultants will be involved throughout the process to support the participating entrepreneurs. Each social entrepreneur has three mentors to support them.
The programme is based on the social investment toolkit developed by Mark Cheng (Ashoka Europe Director and Social Finance Impact Investors Expert). The entire mentoring programme will last up to nine months.


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How the heartbeat abortion bill that's gained momentum around the country got started in Ohio
Crafted at an Ohio woman's party, the heartbeat bill has spread to Tennessee and other states. It has conservatives optimistic about a Roe v. Wade challenge.
How the heartbeat abortion bill that's gained momentum around the country got started in Ohio Crafted at an Ohio woman's party, the heartbeat bill has spread to Tennessee and other states. It has conservatives optimistic about a Roe v. Wade challenge. Check out this story on Tennessean.com: https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2019/04/11/heartbeat-abortion-ban-gains-national-momentum/3433887002/
Jessie Balmert, Cincinnati Enquirer Published 9:00 a.m. CT April 11, 2019
The governor of Georgia is set to sign one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the country, the "fetal heartbeat" bill. Dozens of celebrities have signed a letter against the passing of the bill. USA TODAY
COLUMBUS – One woman's fight against abortion started at a sleepover in Ohio. It could end with a U.S. Supreme Court challenge to Roe v. Wade.
Ohio lawmakers just passed a bill to ban abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected, part of a nationwide crusade to undo the U.S. Supreme Court's protection of abortion rights. Republican Gov. Mike DeWine has promised to sign the abortion ban, which is one of the nation's strictest.
The so-called "heartbeat bill," which prohibits abortions as early as six weeks into a woman's pregnancy, has been endorsed by Vice President Mike Pence and is seen as a credible threat to the landmark case Roe v. Wade.
Opponents of the abortion ban say it penalizes doctors for performing procedures protected by the U.S. Supreme Court. In many cases, women do not realize they are pregnant until weeks after these laws would prohibit abortion.
Tennessee's version of the bill was tabled this week as it moved to a Senate committee for further study, but the committee chair insisted the bill was not dead.
Tennessee's Lt. Gov. Randy McNally echoed his support for the measure.
"Passing a constitutionally suspect bill now would give the courts an opportunity to erase the progress we have made," McNally said in a statement after the vote to move it to summer study, citing the state's existing restrictions. "And a losing court fight would likely result in awarding taxpayer money to Planned Parenthood. Protection of the unborn is too important to risk taking a step backward."
VPC_GA_HEARTBEAT_BILL_EXPLAINER_ (Photo: USA TODAY)
Ohio roots
The legislation is the brainchild of Janet Folger Porter, an anti-abortion activist who rose to national prominence in 2017 as the spokeswoman of scandal-plagued Alabama Sen. Roy Moore.
In November 2010, Porter crafted the heartbeat bill during a sleepover at her Northeast Ohio home with fellow opponents of abortion access, then-chairwoman of the Warren County Republican Party Lori Viars and Linda Theis, a former president of Ohio Right to Life, the state's largest anti-abortion group.
Porter, a former legislative director with Ohio Right to Life and current leader of Faith2Action, was frustrated with the slow, incremental approach that other conservatives were taking toward banning abortion. She clashed with her former organization, dividing Republicans into conservatives and arch-conservatives.
"When I started it, there were those who said it was impossible," Porter told The Enquirer this week. "But the state of Ohio motto says 'with God, all things are possible.'"
Some members of the Ohio House applaud following their vote while others photograph protestors who unfurled banners reading "This is not a House of Worship" and "This is not a Doctor's office" following a vote on the Heartbeat Bill at the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus, Ohio on Wednesday, April 10, 2019. The House members voted in the controversial "Heartbeat Bill" that bans abortion at the first sounds of a fetal heartbeat, which is around 6 weeks after conception. Many protestors shouted in the hallway outside of the meeting where House members decided to pass the bill. (Brooke LaValley/The Columbus Dispatch via AP) (Photo: Brooke LaValley/Columbus Dispatch via AP)
From extreme to expedited
The heartbeat bill was considered extreme, rejected by conservative legislators and twice vetoed by GOP Gov. John Kasich.
Porter and other proponents of the bill protested on lawmakers' lawns and inflated a giant heart-shaped balloon on the Statehouse lawn to demand movement on the proposal. They sent teddy bears that made heartbeat sounds when squeezed to lawmakers' offices.
They rallied supporters to call and write Republicans who didn't support the bill and supported their GOP primary challengers. Porter even ran for the legislature herself, challenging Larry Obhof, now president of the Ohio Senate, for his seat.
Eight years later, Ohio's GOP-controlled Legislature easily passed the abortion ban, making it one of the first bills to hit DeWine's desk. Ohio Right to Life, historically cautious of the legislation and its all-but-certain legal challenge, now supports it.
In the meantime, Arkansas, North Dakota, Iowa, Kentucky, Mississippi and Georgia have passed versions of the heartbeat bill – four of which were passed in the past year. And the legislation is pending in 11 other states.
Ohio's law has no exception for rape or incest but would allow abortions to save a woman's life. Other states have different restrictions.
The legislation has not taken effect anywhere yet, blocked by court decisions or pending legal actions. The Eighth District Court of Appeals has struck down two state's laws as unconstitutional, and the U.S. Supreme Court declined to weigh in so far.
That was Kasich's key argument in vetoing the heartbeat bill: America's courts will find it unconstitutional and Ohio would foot the costly legal bill.
Enter President Donald Trump. Conservatives see his numerous federal court appointments as the antidote to years of pro-abortion access court rulings.
In September 2017, Pence invited Porter and other abortion opponents, including former Majority Leader Tom DeLay, to talk about the heartbeat bill in Washington D.C.
"(Pence) told us: I love, love, love this bill," Porter said.
Kimberly Inez McGuire shouts "Shame" while members of the Ohio House of Representatives exit their meeting at the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus, Ohio on Wednesday, April 10, 2019. The House members voted in the controversial "Heartbeat Bill" that bans abortion at the first sounds of a fetal heartbeat, which is around 6 weeks after conception. Many protestors shouted in the hallway outside of the meeting where House members decided to pass the bill. (Brooke LaValley/The Columbus Dispatch via AP) (Photo: Brooke LaValley/The Columbus Dispatch via AP)
The legal challenge
To date, no court has upheld the heartbeat bill as constitutional. But opponents of Roe v. Wade think they have a better shot with federal courts in more conservative areas.
"We believe now is our time," Ohio Right to Life president Mike Gonidakis said. "The momentum is building for the pro-life movement."
If a federal appeals court – maybe Ohio's and Kentucky's 6th Circuit or Georgia's 11th – upholds the heartbeat bill as constitutional, that could force the U.S. Supreme Court to take another look at Roe v. Wade.
"Will this heartbeat law go into the court system? Will there be a lawsuit? Yeah, we're counting on it. We're excited about it," said Rep. Ron Hood, R-Ashville, one of the sponsors of the bill.
Ohio is already in court defending a 2017 law banning abortion when the reason the woman wants the abortion is because of a possible fetal Down Syndrome diagnosis. Iris Harvey, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Advocates in Ohio, said the state is wasting taxpayer dollars on abortion lawsuits.
"Why continue to pursue this extreme ideological crusade when Ohio is in the midst of a public health crisis?" Harvey said. "Addressing Ohio's rampant infant and maternal mortality rates and creating equitable access to health care is what they should be focusing on."
If the U.S. Supreme Court allows states to decide their own abortion access policies, Ohio's GOP-controlled Legislature would likely choose to ban the procedure entirely, NARAL Pro-Choice Ohio Executive Director Kellie Copeland said.
"If Mike DeWine enacts this ban, and the U.S. Supreme Court upholds it, that will mark a seismic shift in American history," she said.
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More: A 'Heartbeat' abortion ban cleared the Ohio Senate. Here are the reasons for and against it.
More: Ohio lawmakers push 'heartbeat bill' again – this time with a governor's support
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Labor Department Proposes Rule to Expand Association Retirement Plans
Just more than half of working Americans have access to a 401(k) retirement plan, data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show. That percentage drops to 46 percent for companies with fewer than 100 employees. To expand access and offer a more efficient retirement plan to small businesses, the Department of Labor (DOL) has proposed a rule that would expand the definition of a pooled strategy called association retirement plans.
While the proposal refers to them as "association retirement plans," these types of retirement plans are better known as multiple employer plans (MEPs). They are currently only available to an employee organization or certain employers in the same industry.
The rule, proposed in late October 2018, would expand the MEP definition, currently found in section 3(5) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA). The proposal would allow unaffiliated businesses in various industries, but with common economic interests, to join together and create a retirement plan for all employees under a single administrator. The rule, if finalized, would also allow businesses that are within certain geographic conditions to create a MEP.
Currently, small businesses are often discouraged by the cost and complexity of offering a retirement plan, U.S. Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta said when announcing the proposal. The new rule would expand opportunities for employers to offer options to the 38 million private-sector employees who don't have access to a retirement plan at work.
The proposal comes after President Donald Trump's Aug. 31, 2018, executive order 13847, Strengthening Retirement Security in America. This order directed the DOL and Treasury Department to look for ways to help employers sponsor retirement plans. While Treasury has not issued any proposals at this time, it is expected that the department will issue guidance within 180 days of the order.
Your accountant can help you understand how the proposed rule might affect you and determine whether joining a MEP would be a beneficial strategy for your workforce.
By Patricia Schirmer, CPA, Audit Director – Harris CPAs
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