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Skip to comments.Obama Birth Story Unraveling - Mother In Univ Class In Seattle 15 Days After Obama Supposedly Born!
Posted on 08/08/2009 9:20:49 PM PDT by MindBender26Edited on 08/08/2009 9:33:42 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Jerone Corsi, Ph. D. is about to drop another bombshell, casting further doubt on the stories of President Obama's birth.
Dr. Corsi, whose doctorate is from Harvard, is an excellent researcher and investigative journalist. He was the driving force behind the Swift Boat veterans telling the truth about War Phony John Kerry. He is also the author of "Obamanation."
In his latest research, to be splashed on WND early next week, Dr. Corsi will reveal that he has documentary evidence that the mother of Barack Obama Jr., Ms Stanley A. Durham-Soetoro, began evening classes at the University of Washington in Seattle on August 19, 1961. This is just 15 days after she supposedly gave birth to President Obama in Hawaii.
We are expected to believe that in just15 days, she gave birth, stayed in the hospital for a few days, them packed her things and left her house in Hawaii, moved to Seattle, got established there, registered for, then began classed in Seattle, all the while caring for her newborn.
The new evidence also destroys another Obama legend-lie. According to the Presidents autobiography, Obama Sr. and Durhan-Soetoro were supposedly deeply in love and made a happy home together in Hawaii, complete with their baby, until Obama Sr. had to move to Boston to attend Harvard and could not afford take Stanley and baby Barack with him.
According to Dr. Corsis new written evidence, Durham-Soetoro was in college classes, thousands of miles away from Hawaii and did not return to the islands until long Obama Sr. left for Harvard.
Dr. Corsi also reveals that a Hawaii Certificate of Live Birth requires no proof of any kind and could simply be issued on the sworn statement of one parent.
All of this simply adds to the fast growing uncertainty and suspicion over Obamas supposed birth stories. Is August 4, 1961, his real birth date? Where was he really born? When he traveled to the Middle East in the 1990s, he did not have a US passport. What country issued him a passport, and why? Why wont he release the one document that would answer all the questions?
It just gets deeper and deeper.
"Natural Born Citizen" means Citizen at Birth.
Your post DOES agree with me in part, in that it state that "Natural Born" means "Not Naturalized".
You are corrupting the law to bring about outcomes that YOU desire.
That is just as bad as what the Libs do, all the time.
Biden is now VP.
Biden will become President, if Obama, for any reason, can not serve out his term.
End of story.
You do not have a leg to stand on, historically or legally, with your ridiculous argument.
Please read:
It was posted on this thread as 1962. How much more clear can I make it?
I didn't get anything wrong and I'm not the only one. Peruse through the first twenty or thirty postings and you'll notice that other freepers oscerved that the piece on this thread was posted with the incorrect date of 1962 (among other mistakes) and shortly corrected by a moderator. I was never talking about the link to the article but what was actually posted on this thread. I didn't get anything wrong.
so you want to cite the State Department? Try this:
7 FAM 1131.6-2 Eligibility for Presidency
a. It has never been determined definitively by a court whether a person
who acquired U.S. citizenship by birth abroad to U.S. citizens is a natural born
citizen within the meaning of Article II of the Constitution and,
therefore, eligible for the Presidency.
b. Section 1, Article II, of the Constitution states, in relevant part that No
Person except a natural born Citizen...shall be eligible for the Office of
c. The Constitution does not define natural born. The Act to establish an
Uniform Rule of Naturalization, enacted March 26, 1790, (1 Stat.
103,104) provided that, ...the children of citizens of the United States,
that may be born ... out of the limits of the United States, shall be
considered as natural born citizens: Provided that the right of citizenship
shall not descend to persons whose fathers have never been resident in
the United States.
U.S. Department of State Foreign Affairs Manual Volume 7 - Consular Affairs
7 FAM 1130 Page 9 of 103
d. This statute is no longer operative, however, and its formula is not
included in modern nationality statutes. In any event, the fact that
someone is a natural born citizen pursuant to a statute does not
necessarily imply that he or she is such a citizen for Constitutional purposes
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I think, first off, that your post is largely supportive of my argument.
Second, I think STATUTORY citizenship at birth is VERY strong evidence of Natural Born Citizenship status.
As you say, no court has ever ruled, but I think that, given the opportunity, SCOTUS will rule as I have stated here:
Natural Born Citizen means Citizen at Birth!
point taken, long night last night.
Is there a possiblity the timeline is wrong and the cheeky Kenyan bastard was actually born around July of that year?
Just wondering.
While they are at it they should end the misinterpreted 14th amendment in the jurisdiction of which currently is interpreted to allow for Anchor Babies, a miscarriage of Justice, Its like saying if you break into a bank and get caught you get to keep the money, we should have stopped you before you entered the bank. Ridiculous.
It took me abut 10 more posts after yours to see that, sorry. :)
When I got to it, none of those errors were there
If your Aunt had balls she would be your Uncle.
I don't want to make light of the responsibilities of a new mother, I just wanted to correct the general impression given by the article that she was attending the UW as a full-time student only 3 weeks after giving birth. I think another month of breathing room makes a difference, along with the fact that night school classes aren't the same as being a full-time student. We know where she was 2 and 1/2 weeks after the birth. We still have no proof of where she was when he was born.
I know the argument very well.
In my opinion, your opinion is very weak.
LIKE dude you're so far out. LIKE Valley Girl? LIKE.... tells me a lot. Next thing it'll be like YOU KNOW.
A presidential candidate should have to pass the requirements of a SBI for a Top Secret Clearance
I agree...thats why I wonder if these requirements were side-stepped, & those who did the side-stepping should be held accountable. Is my thinking correct on this?
Corsi misread a number 9 as 8.
She wasn't seen in Hawaii after March 1961.
But this was posted a year ago:
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Posted on Monday, August 11, 2008 12:41:17 AM by Crimson Elephant
Not sure what it means, but BarrySoetoro.com redirects to the John McCain website. Interesting....worth posting? I don't know, but I couldn't resist.
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I immediately saw it as a '9' adjacent to a divider line, as did several other people independently in the first thread I saw about this. Despite the line, you can tell the number is a '9' by the slant on the lower part.
It would be better if there were a higher resolution image, but there are other ways you can tell the number must be a '9'. The fall quarter at the University of Washington always starts in the latter part of September. I checked to see if UW was on the quarter system in 1961 and it was then also. Reading this number as an '8' would mean the fall quarter was almost 4 months long, which doesn't make sense. It's clear on the transcript that the following quarter of classes ran for less than three months.
There was a summer quarter in 1961 which was still going on in August. This would have had to be extremely short to fit in between graduation in June and the arrival of students on campus for the fall term if fall classes began on August 19th. The fact that 1961 graduation was in June is another indication that all the other quarters were just under three months long.
BTW while doing research on this I found out that 1961 was the 100th anniversary of the University of Washington. President Kennedy gave a speech there on November 16th.
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I didn't write that bit, I just put it up for Kansas to chew on, I am seeing references to this stuff but its deep, life is too short to follow this unless I have good reason rather than this being a distraction.
So my advice is to have it out with the guy who wrote that piece.
It is an 8, not a 9. Zoom in somehow (I just hold the Control key down, and the scroll wheel lets me zoom). You can see that the first digit consists of two ovals one on top of the other. You can clearly see the indentation in the right side between the ovals. Then take a look at the 9. No indentation. It is an 8!
I used a graphics program to zoom in. I did not see what you saw. What I did see is that Dr. Corsi should have published a higher resolution image and I wonder why he did not. As I have explained in detail, there is no way the fall 1961 quarter started on August 19th, so assuming the University of Washington knows that 'September is the 9th month, the number must be a '9'.
Notice how the wording changed in 9 months, both from carefully-worded prepared statements.
On Oct 31, 2008, DOH director Fukino said she had "...personally seen and verified that the Hawaii State Department of Health has Sen. Obamas original birth certificate on record in accordance with state policies and procedures."
On July 28, 2009, she said she had "seen the original vital records maintained on file by the Hawaii State Department of Health verifying Barack Hussein Obama was born in Hawaii and is a natural-born American citizen." An index card pointing to a non-existent birth certificate is part of a "vital record".
It's important to note that Fukino semantically picks the phrase "natural-born American citizen" instead of "natural-born citizen". Abercrombie wouldn't even go so far on July 27, NOT using the word "citizen" of Hawaii, and certainly NOT "natural-born citizen" in H.R. 593, only "Whereas the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama, was born in Hawaii...")
If you ask a native trying to get land through the Dept of Hawaiian Home Lands office, they will tell you the DOH is notorious for LOSING originals. In the book, "In the name of Hawaiians" by Rona Tamiko Halualani, the author interviews many Hawaiians who voice frustration with the Hawaiian Health Office and the DHHL for sloppy record keeping of Vital Statistics. Here's an excerpt:
One point I haven't seen brought up is that the definition of who is a natural-born citizen, if based on parentage, has necessarily changed since the Constitution was written.
At the time a married woman had no existence in law, as husband and wife were quite literally considered "one flesh" in the legal sense. This was true under common law, civil law and US law.
So when Ann married Barrack, Sr. she immediately lost her US citizenship and became a British and/or Kenyan citizen, if we use the legal principles in force at the time the Constitution was written.
This is untenable in today's world, as we have significantly modified the legal position of women, especially married women. So any definition of NBC must be modified to reflect these realities. The question is how to modify it.
Late arrivals. The mod changed it.
Well, I did tear myself away on seeing that virtually everthing was corrected except the Durham for Dunham part. Had a good night's sleep, cos' of your post.
Most unfortunate the misreadings, but as for myself, I learn something every day here.
Back to the fray- laughs.
During the campaign, someone brought up McCain's eligibility, because of that fact, and IIRC, someone on FR posted the text of some legislation, passed in the 1930's or so, that declared that children born to US citizens serving in the military, outside the US, WOULD be considered 'natural born citizens' for constitutional purposes.
Quoting Norman's early post on the mod correcting the intial post concerning Dr Corsi and the Humphreys show.
FReeper David has pretty much debunked Corsi's timeline. He is extremely knowledgable in this subject and might want to chime in.
Please see:
Post #7946 and surrounding conversation.
David says the extension classes for which Ann Dunham was registered did not start till mid-September.
Not really, and this piece which carried the reference at the head, was written by a fellow who has been after this for a while.. and I wanted to use this to start explaining the background of why things are so. Because, you are lost in the question of citizen by birth rather than the constitutional test that was written into Article II which has no practical purpose other than to define who may assume the office of the President of the United States.
I call upon the U.S. Department of State Foreign Affairs Manual Volume 7 - Consular Affairs
a. It has never been determined definitively by a court whether a person who acquired U.S. citizenship by birth abroad to U.S. citizens is a natural born citizen within the meaning of Article II of the Constitution and, therefore, eligible for the Presidency.
b. Section 1, Article II, of the Constitution states, in relevant part that No Person except a natural born Citizen...shall be eligible for the Office of President;
c. The Constitution does not define "natural born". The Act to establish an Uniform Rule of Naturalization, enacted March 26, 1790, (1 Stat. 103,104) provided that, ...the children of citizens of the United States, that may be born ... out of the limits of the United States, shall be considered as natural born citizens: Provided that the right of citizenship shall not descend to persons whose fathers have never been resident in the United States.
d. This statute is no longer operative, however, and its formula is not included in modern nationality statutes. In any event, the fact that someone is a natural born citizen pursuant to a statute does not necessarily imply that he or she is such a citizen for Constitutional purposes.
Remember the efforts made by leftists to DE-LEGITIMIZE Bush? Selected not elected and all that crap? This serves to accomplish the same purpose.
If nothing else it makes him look like a complete liar when the facts surrounding his life are shown not to line up with what he put in his books.
It does matter and it's very likely that Sr. isn't the father and the odumbo knows that he isn't. If you would have followed the BC threads and read some of the research done, you would get it. I don't know if he's the father. It does matter and you are just wrong about natural born. The reason that ONLY the president has to be natural born is so that he will have no divided loyalties.
obama does and you see where we are heading. He saw his father once when he was about 10 years old, yet he( or more likely Ayers), writes an entire book about his father? Not his mother, not the grandparents that raised him. He obviously identifies with his father and Africa. He hates America and resents it.
This 48 year old supposed nonspecific recollection from some guy named David supposedly debunks Corsi's written documentation with her signature on it?
Not even close.
" chances are also fair that there is NO original birth certificate on file."
Any theories on what " birth certificate " Obama claims he saw hidden in his grandmother's paperwork when he was a teen ager ?
Dreams From My Father, page 22.
If he found a Kenyan BC or something shocking on a legitimate US BC ,
that could that have been the genesis of his teen age downward spiral into cocaine, pot, alcohol and school truancy.
"...the author interviews many Hawaiians who voice frustration with the Hawaiian Health Office and the DHHL for sloppy record keeping of Vital Statistics. "
Great research.
I think of Hawaii 50 years ago ( when they were just organizing as a state ) as a tropical frontier.
Even today, tourists are told that Hawaii is on island time , it does things in it's own way.
The federal and state bureaucracies on the mainland that have been in existence for over 200 years are often times a mess.
It is highly likely that the state govt of Hawaii was stumbling and fumbling it's way into the new era of statehood ,
without today's technology and organizational framework and oversight.
Disorganization and record keeping chaos had to be part of the equation fifty years ago.
I won't get into a whole legal discussion here, but simply say that "natural born" is not synonymous with "native born,". In fact, some people born on US soil to parents who are here legally are not US citizens at birth, while most children born here to mothers who are not here legally are US citizens at birth!
The basic concept is that a person can become a citizen in two ways; 1, "naturally," at birth or 2, later, by application and operation of law. Then they can be become citizens as if (with a few exceptions) "natural" at birth. That operation of law allows them to become "naturalized," i.e. as if natural.
Of course, the really interestingthing is that if Obama is not a natural born citizen, then he is not a citizen at all, because he never applied to become naturialized!
If it was an extension class, there was no physical classroom attendance requirement; she could do the work anywhere and mail it in.
If it was a regular attendance class, it didn't start until the last week of September--late in the last week of September.
Nothing in her class registration provides any evidence of her physical location on August 19--or specifically: She wasn't "in university class in seattle 15 Days after . . . "
Beckwith obtained from the University of Washington, a letter which says that the class for which she was registered was in fact an "extension class"--which she could have taken from anywhere. I got the Goggle list of his topics, found the item and it says that page has been removed.
Beckwith transmitted a copy of the letter to another freeper who sent a copy to me however I can't come up with it.
The essential point is that there wasn't any classroom attendance at Washington after the 10th or so of August (end of finals for the second half of summer quarter) until classes convened for Fall Quarter at the end of September--she just wasn't there.
I guess I will go a little further since I have already done so twice: I was on campus almost every day between August 10th and September 30th; I can't swear to August 19 although I can swear to August 20 and 21; there weren't any classes in process anywhere; the place was dead as a doornail; the liabraries were closed most of the time.
This subject was hashed and rehashed on the various B.C. threads last week — in which you apparently didn't participate.
And "some guy named David" has been on this for a very long time and knows more than either of us do. Sure, he speculates — we all do. But he also has nailed-down facts amidst the opinions. You might want to go back and read previous comments.
I've been going back and re-reading old posts and am increasingly interested in Fred Nerks' assertion that there is no evidence whatsoever that Ann Dunham set foot in Hawaii until she went there with Barry 0 as a toddler. Do you have a take on this? Should Chicago connections be looked at more closely?
No indication about that birth certificate in the made up book. But you bring up a good point ... other than the letter that Abercrombie presented on Jan 24 saying Obama was born at a hospital in Hawaii, supposedly signed by Obama (which I'm beginning to doubt) ...
Has Obama himself ever said he was born in Hawaii, or has he only used his proxies for deniability?
I'm uncomfortable being on the other side of such positive statements. On the other hand, for various personal reasons, the period between August 1 and September 30, 1961 on campus at the University of Washington is pretty clear in my memory.
We think there is some evidence that she was registered for "extension" classes for fall quarter. The University of Washington runs, or at least ran then, a number of different kinds of credit classes in addition to full or part time regular classes.
One kind was where you got a course outline and books from the "extension school" and worked through each section of the outline, then taking a quiz on the material, even sometimes having to go to the University during regular sessions and take the quiz; did the rest of the course work. And got credit for the class.
The other kind was "night school"--the University ran an extensive night program parallel to the regular day program. Full credit courses with classes, attendance, and exams. In theory same substance as the day school version.
Night school session ran fairly close to the day school sessions--night school may have started the week after day school started; maybe a day or two off schedule one way or the other. But I do not ever remember running night school a month and a half off the day school schedule--I just don't think it happened.
Further, I was using library facilities and meeting with other people on campus regularly during this period--there just wasn't anything going on that was consistent with a regular class schedule in anything--certainly not upper campus as the courses for which Stanley Ann was registered for were.
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Summarizing the news without any commentary is not helpful. By the time I see the alerts I've already read most popular newspapers and likely at least browsed the underlying decision.Writing about the legal implications of business and political issues is a great way to show clients and potential clients that you understand what they do, the challenges they face, the solutions they need. But you have to tell them what they need to hear. Read the post. And start helping your clients.
Are You Reading These Posts?
Life's short. You're busy. I sort through countless law marketing and business development blogs every day to find the post that will help you market your practice, plan for the future, stay ahead of trends, increase your value to clients, and more. So you don't have to. Are you reading these posts?
Thursday, December 10, 2015
Your Clients Don't Need You To Explain The Law
Your clients don't need you to explain the law to them. They need you to explain how the law affects their ability to do business. Anything else, writes Olga Mack, Head of Legal at ClearSlide, in The Art and Science of Being Useful to In-House Counsel,doesn't do much good:
Wednesday, May 6, 2015
Lawyers: Would Your Own Mother Read Your Content?
Is your writing so filled with jargon, so dry, so "cure-for-insomnia boring" that your own mother wouldn't read it? You wouldn't be alone if it were, writes John Byrne in Lawyers: Want Your Content Read? Follow These 7 Tips! Fortunately, you can get your mom sharing your content in no time if you take Byrne's advice. Like this:
Don't bury your leads or write like you're getting paid by the word. Get to your points quickly and try your hardest to keep things moving. Oh, and try as hard as humanly possible to leave out the legal jargon, esoteric legal principles and the Latin. Carpe cut it out!Read the post. Start writing to be read. And while you're at it, would it kill you to send your mother a note?
Friday, April 3, 2015
Do You Know If Your Client Is Changing Lawyers?
It's true that a client can fire her lawyer for any number of reasons. But most of the time, writes Pam Woldow in How You'll Know When Your Firm's Been Fired. you won't see it coming. That's because she probably won't ever come out and say that you're going to lose her work:
The fired firm was just quietly going to be choked off, using a tactic the GC called "the long tail," meaning don't jerk 'em around or humiliate 'em, just gradually turn down the wick until the light goes out.Read the post. Pay special attention to Woldow's five signals that the work is drying up. Ask yourself which of your clients might be sending them. Then convince them to stop.
Thursday, March 26, 2015
"Client Focus" Is In The Eye Of The ... Client
There's only one way to give your client she expects, writes Gina Rubel in How In House Counsel Defines Client Focus. You ask her:
The phrase "client focus" can take on many meanings for lawyers. [...] One thing is certain, it is important for every attorney to ask his or her client what their expectations are as they relate to providing client-focused service and then do everything it takes to meet those expectations.Read the post for Rubel's take - and that of a handful of in-house lawyers - on what it really means to "focus on the client." Then start doing it.
Friday, March 13, 2015
Do You Hear What Your Client Isn't Saying?
It's important to listen to everything your client tells you. But, writes Michael Rynowecer in 13 Unspoken Rules of Client Relationships, it's probably more important that you hear what she isn't saying. Because you need to follow the same unspoken rules that your clients have made "part of their core personality, behavior and decision making." Like these:
1. Clients always find a way to hire the people they want when they want to.Read the post. Let these unspoken rules guide your behavior. You may not master all 13, but you just might start hearing more of what your client wants. And isn't that the goal?
2. Clients don't fire their law firms, they just stop giving them work.
3. "Your rates are too high" is a euphemism for "I want to give the work to someone else".
Wednesday, March 11, 2015
The First Step in Marketing: Identify Your Ideal Client
Writing your marketing plan? Identify who you want to work for before you decide what you want to say and where you want to say it, writes Sam Glover in Let Your Ideal Client Guide Your Marketing Strategy. And he's right: if you're marketing your practice without a clear idea of the person you want to represent and the problems you want to solve, you're doing it wrong.
Many lawyers ask whether they ought to use Twitter or write a blog or join a networking group. This is like asking whether you should use Word or Photoshop for your next project before you know what it is. [...] But if you already have a clear picture of your ideal client — your laser-targeted demographic — your marketing strategy will probably be pretty obvious.Read the post. Figure who your ideal client is (Glover's questions will help). Then start connecting.
Monday, March 9, 2015
Want To Add Value? Stop Talking About The Law
"I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail," wrote Abraham Maslow in The Psychology of Science. For lawyers, that often translates into talking about the law, about legal issues, about rules and regulations and requirements. And that's precisely where they go wrong when they're trying to develop and enhance professional relationships, explains Josh Beser in Lawyers: How to Be Valuable ... Aside from Practicing Law:
Lawyers have a problem. We're consistently perceived as experts on one thing: law. This not only dominates how others view us, but also dominates how we view ourselves. If we start talking about law, especially early on in a conversation, we will only be viewed as lawyers. This dramatically limits how others perceive what we can do to help.Read the post. Then find ways to implement Beser's three strategies to help others without practicing law. You - and they - will be glad you did.
Friday, March 6, 2015
Are You Cross-Selling? Or Just Sharing Space?
It's not all that surprising that more lawyers don't cross-sell (just ask Dan Hull). But it's good for you. And not coincidentally, it's good for your clients too, when you do it right.
But knowing that doesn't fix the problem. You need to make time to get to know your colleagues, writes Tim Corcoran in Law Firm Cross Selling Basics:
But knowing that doesn't fix the problem. You need to make time to get to know your colleagues, writes Tim Corcoran in Law Firm Cross Selling Basics:
Work from another office periodically. Pick two or three colleagues you don't know, even if your clients have never had a need in this area, and take them to lunch this year. When traveling to a client site, if there's a satellite office nearby, drop in and walk the halls. Your colleagues will refer business to you when they trust you, and they won't generally trust you until they know you.Read the post. Then get up out of your chair and onto your partners' schedule. You'll both be better off.
Wednesday, March 4, 2015
Good Writing Is Good For Business
While readers may forgive a grammatical error, a run-on sentence, or even a typo, they're likely to find your work less professional, less organized, and most importantly less valuable when they do. That's what journalism professor Fred Vultee found when he asked students to read both edited and unedited versions of news articles, writes Natalie Jomini Stroud in Study shows the value of copy editing. Vultee's conclusion? It pays to spend on an editor:
Copy editing affects audiences' perceptions about the news and their willingness to pay for it.
The lesson for lawyers and law firms is no less powerful, particularly when you substitute "your legal advice" for "the news" in the above sentence. That doesn't necessarily mean you need to hire a full-time copy editor to review your weekly blog post. But it almost certainly means that you should be relentless when editing your work to correct mistakes, avoid jargon, and make sure your intended audience will understand your message.
Don't let a typo damage your credibility. Read the post, then get out your red pencil and start editing.
Monday, March 2, 2015
3 Reasons People Will Read Your Post: The Title, The Title, & The Title
But don't take my word for it. Hear what Adrian Lurssen, co-founder of JD Supra, journalist, and content marketing strategist, has to say:
Watch the clip. Then start writing titles that tell people why they need to read your work.
Watch the clip. Then start writing titles that tell people why they need to read your work.
Monday, February 23, 2015
Collaboration Is The Future of Growth
Want to grow revenues, make your clients happier, and gain a competitive edge? Collaborate more with your partners, writes Heidi Gardner in When Senior Managers Won't Collaborate:
Read the post. Pick up the phone. Start collaborating. You'll be happier, and so will your partners and your clients.
Firms that are landing the highest-value work are focusing more on integrating than on acquiring specialized expertise. They're developing and communicating a strategy that explicitly emphasizes collaboration so that partners understand that their investment in learning to combine forces is part of a broader initiative that the firm will support. [...] These firms understand that if they can serve the most complex needs of their clients, they will earn their loyalty and the lion's share of the most valuable revenue streams, and leave their competitors to scramble after the increasingly lower-value, commodity work.Of course it isn't easy. Of course it takes time. Of course it requires additional resources and increased communication and more non-billable hours to pull it off. But finding a way to bring your colleagues together in the name of client service can pay off handsomely.
Read the post. Pick up the phone. Start collaborating. You'll be happier, and so will your partners and your clients.
Thursday, February 19, 2015
The First Rule of Innovation: Identify Your Client's Problem. Then Solve It
Looking for innovation in the legal profession? Look no further than Mark Harris, founder of Axiom Law:
"The incumbent model is largely artisanal," said Harris. "It's perfect for novel challenges that are irreducibly complex, but it's not necessary for the bulk of commerce."
Harris just inked a multi-year, multi-million dollar deal with a "major financial institution" to process the bank's standardized contracts governing swaps and other complicated, lengthy, and arcane agreements that generate significant regulatory and financial risk. Read Legal-Services Firm's $73 Million Deal Strips The Mystery From Derivatives Trading for details on the deal and how it could change the way the financial industry responds to increasing regulation without, well, breaking the bank.
Then think about how a non-traditional provider of legal services is shaking things up in ways that should make every other lawyer and firm worried. About why a former SEC Chair joined Axiom's board of directors after she learned about the deal. About what you can do to identify your client's problems, and then solve them. Before somebody else does.
Tuesday, February 17, 2015
Sorry Mr. Lennon - Lawyers Need To Imagine There's No Billable Hour, Too
Hourly rates are starting to look a little dated, says Maria Polczynski, head of legal at Australia's Bendigo and Adelaide Bank. That's why the bank is no longer working with law firms that don't offer value-based pricing.
But there's good news for the firms able to make the switch, Ms Polczynski recently told Lawyers Weekly (Resistance to value-based pricing: a failure of imagination): not only do they get to keep an important client, they can ratchet up profitability when they get the formula right:
But there's good news for the firms able to make the switch, Ms Polczynski recently told Lawyers Weekly (Resistance to value-based pricing: a failure of imagination): not only do they get to keep an important client, they can ratchet up profitability when they get the formula right:
"If what you are delivering is worth a whole lot more [than the cost of your time] then we accept that [and] will pay considerably more than … [the] standard hourly rate. That's where we think the opportunities are for the firms to up their profitability even while they are reducing their billable hours."Read the post. Ask yourself which clients are likely to follow Bendigo and Adelaide Bank. Then figure out a way to help them.
Monday, February 16, 2015
Your "To-Do" List Is Not A Strategy
"Strategy is an exercise in problem solving," writes Peter Winick in Strategy Is Not the Same as Goal Setting, not the list of things you have to do to get where you're going. Of course you need to define your objectives, identify the tactics that will support your efforts, and execute, execute, execute. But if you're looking for a strategy, you must remember that "activity is [just] activity:"
When a potential client tells me what their current strategy is, what I often hear is a list of activities, a description of various tactics, and a summary of how they are progressing against their goals. My response is typically something along the lines of, "What problems in the marketplace are you and your work uniquely qualified to solve and why do you believe that to be so?"Read the post. Identify your problems and the strategies that allow you to solve them. Then get to work.
Thursday, February 12, 2015
It Takes More Than Good Work To Stand Out
If you still believe that working hard and pleasing your clients is the only business development a lawyer needs to do, writes Cordell Parvin in In 2015, Will You Still Doing Good Work and Waiting for the Phone to Ring?, you may be stuck in the past. That's not enough anymore. Today, you must stand out:
I believe that ... lawyers and law firms have to either be remarkable or create content and value that clients find remarkable.Read the post. Because 2015 is a good time for a change,
Friday, February 6, 2015
Are You Writing for a 4th Grader?
Is your work written for 10-year-olds? Maybe it should be: that's the reading-level calculation of Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea. And it turns out, explains Shane Snow in Why History's Best Writers Wrote for Middle Schoolers, that writing at a lower reading level gives your content a higher likelihood of reaching more people.
That doesn't mean that you should be writing for children, of course. Instead, you should strive to make the complicated legal and business issues you cover accessible to a broader range of readers:
That doesn't mean that you should be writing for children, of course. Instead, you should strive to make the complicated legal and business issues you cover accessible to a broader range of readers:
The other lesson from this study is that we should aim to reduce complexity in our writing as much as possible. We won't lose credibility by doing so. Our readers will comprehend and retain our ideas more reliably. And we'll have a higher likelihood of reaching more people.Read the post. Make your work easier to read. Your readers will thank you.
Thursday, February 5, 2015
"2 Parts Vague and 1 Part Potential" Is Not A Recipe For BD Success
A business development plan full of vague opportunities and potential connections isn't going to get you anywhere, writes Eric Fletcher in Targeted Business Development, Or Pursuit Of The Broad Side Of An Empty Barn? To turn opportunities into work, you must identify specifics: people to call, lunches to host, introductions to make. Like "take Jane Smith to lunch on May 17" and "invite Bob and new head of HR to February board meeting." Otherwise, you're just spinning your wheels:
... successfully building a practice begins and ends with the nuts-and-bolts-work of strategic pursuits — action items calculated to put you face-to-face with the individual or team empowered to hire you or your firm.Read the post. Then dust off your BD plan, pull out your red pencil, and get to work.
Wednesday, February 4, 2015
Social Media Is For Listening, Too
Law firms have a lot to gain from social media, writes James Mulvey in The 5 Ways Law Firms Are Using Social Media for Listening, because they are "innately social organizations," built on social interactions. But better relationships aren't the only benefit of online activity;
(Hat-tip to Nancy Myrland, one of Mulvey's sources, for alerting me to the post.)
[B]road social media listening, using software to analyze millions of bits of data to find the conversations impacting their clients, cases, and firm's reputation ... offers your firm immediate returns, even if these results fall outside of your typical marketing uses of social media.Read the post. Start listening - and learning - on social media.
(Hat-tip to Nancy Myrland, one of Mulvey's sources, for alerting me to the post.)
Tuesday, February 3, 2015
If Social Media Isn't Working, What Are You Doing About It?
The editors at Attorney At Work have pulled together some insightful facts and figures about social media in the legal profession in How Do You Use Social Media? Among them: according to the 340 lawyers who responded to a recent AAW survey, the #2 most effective online platform for bringing in new business is "none." That's right, 31% of respondents said that the absence of social media was more effective than marketing on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, or YouTube.
Why is that? And more importantly, what are you doing about it? Read the post. Then start making social media work for you (the Lawyer's Guide to Social Media will help).
Why is that? And more importantly, what are you doing about it? Read the post. Then start making social media work for you (the Lawyer's Guide to Social Media will help).
Monday, February 2, 2015
Is There A Brand In This Law Firm?
Clients don't hire law firms, explains Mark Cohen in Law Firms, Condominiums, and A New Model Law Firm. They hire lawyers:
The reality is that except for those few lawyers who enjoy "trusted adviser" status with a client, other lawyers in the firm seldom figure into the retention process. Put another way—and many GC's have told me this—they "put up" with certain law firms because they want to work with a particular lawyer.For Cohen, that means the law firm model is broken. But there's a more fundamental lesson here, too, even if Cohen doesn't say it: your firm's brand is no more than the brand of every single individual lawyer. Market - and practice - accordingly.
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Hi I'm Heather, a recent MSc Conservation Science graduate from Imperial College London.
Back in April, as part of my studies and thanks to a generous Studentship from Chester Zoo, I embarked on a six-month research project evaluating the success of Warrior Watch; an exciting participatory monitoring and awareness raising initiative launched by the Ewaso Lions Project in the Samburu region of northern Kenya.
Warrior Watch targets the Samburu warrior (or moran), a traditionally neglected demographic typically implicated in human-wildlife conflict, and encourages selected individuals to become active within their region as ambassadors for wildlife. Here, I would like to take this opportunity to thank Chester Zoo for their support and tell you a little more about the programme and my research...
It's Sunday… a pheasant feather pokes me in the eye as the warrior - to whom said feather is attached - raises his head from his scrabble tiles neatly arranged to spell out "striped hyaena". "Sawa?" he asks, to which I reply "Ndio" and give the universally understood 'thumbs-up' gesture.
Despite our limited conversational abilities his passion both for learning and for wildlife is clear, infectious even. His name is Reria and he is one of fifteen Warrior Watch warriors. He and his fellow participants are not just learning how to spell animal names but they are taught about everything from wildlife conservation through to security.
There is a big emphasis placed on predators and addressing human-wildlife conflict. With predators partial to the odd goat or cow, such conflict not only threatens the livelihoods of local people who depend on livestock, but the survival of the regions large carnivores who might then become the targets of retaliatory persecution.
By using these warriors to spread the conservation message far and wide, Warrior Watch seeks to engender a positive conservation ethic within the whole community. In return for their efforts participants are provided with a small food stipend and – most exciting for them in a region where the overwhelming majority are non-literate – a free education!
So where does my research fit in? Well, we decided it was time we examined how effective the programme has been to ensure limited funds are being spent wisely and to justify launching Warrior Watch in neighbouring Conservancies.
I trained two research assistants – Ngila and Jeneria – to help me determine the effect, if any, Warrior Watch has had in Westgate Conservancy, where Warrior Watch launched in January 2010. 162 questionnaires; 10 focus group discussions; 7 Venn diagram mapping exercises; 5 community quizzes; countless hours in front of the computer and 80 days of bucket showers and meals of rice and beans later… and the results look incredibly encouraging.
Warrior Watch has undoubtedly had a positive impact on attitudes and intentions towards wildlife conservation – an encouragingly high proportion stating that now they would never retaliate regardless of the number of livestock a predator consumed.Why? Mostly, because the warriors have taught them the benefits of having wildlife in their Conservancy and ways to reduce conflict (e.g. using scarecrows, guard dogs and tightly fenced enclosures).
Interestingly, many also said they would not hurt a wild dog because there is a belief in Samburu culture that if you kill a wild dog you will never be blessed with a son! I also found it incredibly heartening to learn how Warrior Watch has helped empower warriors; giving them a voice in conservation decision-making and promoting cooperation within the Conservancy. One elder told us, "Warriors from the community are more respected due to Warrior Watch …[it] has changed warriors; people used to think they were criminal subjects in society".
In stark contrast, surveys conducted in a neighbouring Conservancy - where Warrior Watch does not yet operate - highlighted serious concerns for long-term carnivore conservation within the region; with poor tolerance for all predators and some warriors even openly admitted to poisoning predators in response to livestock depredation.
Will Warrior Watch expanding here have the same positive impact it has in Westgate? …time will tell, but the evidence from this study is very encouraging and is currently being used to lever additional funds to expand the programme.
The ultimate goal: to one day have a network of warriors working across the region to secure a future for Samburu's incredible wildlife alongside its people, the most welcoming community I have had the pleasure of encountering!
I am Heather Gurd, MSc. Conservation Science, Imperial College London and I Act for Wildlife.
This study was conducted under the supervision of Prof. E.J. Milner-Gulland (ICL) and Shivani Bhalla (Ewaso Lions).
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Kettle Moraine Jazz Festival ends 15-year run
The sponsor of The Kettle Moraine Jazz Festival today announced the festival's cancellation because of "funding issues."
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Style, elegance, foot-tapping rhythms and soaring melodies filled Uihlein Hall on Friday evening, thanks to a particularly fine Milwaukee Symphony Pops concert.
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When I called the phone # for HDI listed on my credit card, an automated message directed me to enter either my member # or my phone #. Since I don't have a member #, I entered my phone # and was told it was not valid. Luckily, I knew to enter 0 and ended up with a customer service rep who confirmed their charge was related to the Company Store order. I was told my money would be refunded and that it would show up on my next statement.
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Deepdiscount.com Paid for book and never received them! Itasca Illinois
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This page provides links to synopses of current research projects and programs being carried out by the physics faculty in condensed matter physics, material physics, optics, laser physics, biophysics, computational physics, and theoretical physics. Additional information on these and other research programs can be found at the faculty member's website, which can be found by clicking on the name of the faculty member on the webpages under the Research tab.
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Wine Insiders wineinsiders.com Rude Customer Service..do not order!! Ashton , Pennsylvania
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I ordered the wine Mystery Mixed 12 Pack for a Christmas gift. I placed my order on Nov. 23 2012. As instructed by the website emails were to be sent to us and the gift recipient prior to delivery because someone has to be there upon delivery. I called 12-15-12 to check on delivery. I was told that delivery was attempted 3 times so it was being returned to them. I asked what they were going to do because we never received the emails about delivery to begin with. I asked for a manager and the account manager said they could reship it but no delivery by Christmas. If a company makes a mistake you would think they would fix it by expediting the shipping, but they said no. I will never order again and I was going to have this as an annual gift. The account manager and the customer service representative were both very rude and offered no other options other than a refund.
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Northern Colorado Rallies To Beat Idaho State 79-96Cameron Michael scored 24 points, including a career-high 6 of 8 3-pointers, Jordan Wilson scored 17 with six assists, and Northern Colorado rallied to beat Idaho State 79-76 on Thursday.
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Smithsonian's National Zoological Park provides the opportunity for interns to gain experience in the zoo keeping field by participating in daily animal keeper activities including animal husbandry, nutrition, enrichment and training, and visitor education. Asia Trail, which features a variety of Asian carnivores, is seeking applicants for consideration.
This is an unpaid internship opportunity wherein the intern will support the Department of Animal Programs-Asia Trail.
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This is an unpaid internship. College credit is offered if desired; intern is responsible for obtaining necessary approvals from their university. Intern will be responsible for all transportation costs and personal health insurance.
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The National Zoo and the Smithsonian Institution do not provide free parking to interns.
Beginning in 2016, the Asia Trail Animal Keeper Internship will run on a rolling schedule and interns will be accepted as positions become available throughout the year, with no specific application deadline. Each session lasts approximately 3½ months. Exact dates of the session are flexible and will be negotiated once an applicant has been selected. Please be sure to note your availability in the application, as applications will be pulled based on matches in applicant availability and timing of open positions. Interns must be able to work 40 hours a week (5 days a week, 6:30am-3:00pm), often including weekends.
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Definition of fungible in English:
(Of goods contracted for without an individual specimen being specified) able to replace or be replaced by another identical item; mutually interchangeable: money is fungible—money that is raised for one purpose can easily be used for another
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- One that acknowledges that my candidate's speech is mine, that hard money is fungible with soft money, and thus that both should be regulated the same way.
- Some would argue that this is both pedantic and unrealistic, since money is fungible and one £10 note is for all purposes the same as another.
- Most evidence suggests that aid money is fungible - that is, that it goes into the pot of public funds and is spent on whatever the recipient wants to spend it on.
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- But there is no obstacle in principle to finding a trust, despite the fungibility of its subject matter, so long as the intention to create a trust is clear.
- Ultimately, the fungibility of money, and the ubiquity of the state in providing services and setting ground rules, together mean that there is no such thing as a 'mere' decision not to subsidize an activity.
- But the fact of fungibility suggests that aid-giving could be greatly simplified if most took the form of unconditional balance-of-payments support.
Late 17th century: from medieval Latin fungibilis, from fungi 'perform, enjoy', with the same sense as fungi vice 'serve in place of'.
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Well, hello, Theatre Arlington: A song from 'Hello, Dolly!' opening Friday
Well, hello, Theatre Arlington. It's so nice to have you back in the DMN Studio where you belong. Theatre Arlington's Gary Payne brought two leads from Hello, Dolly! to sing a song for us. Recent Texas Christian University graduates Wyn Delano and Jonathan Hardin, who play Cornelius and Barnaby, proceeded to wow us with "Put On Your Sunday Clothes," which made me recall how Wall-E, the little robot in Pixar's Wall-e, loved that song.
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Since 1881 and over five generations Aronson Antiquairs has shared the passion for Dutch Delftware with private collectors and museum and corporate curators around the world. The Aronson family members have strived to gain and maintain the confidence of its clientele to collect the finest Delftware available.
Robert Aronson, specialist in 17th and 18th century Dutch Delftware and a "master in Delft blue" (magazine Residence) has "some of the world's most sought-after example of rare Dutch Delftware" (Artdaily.org). The Financial Times recently wrote that Delft at Aronson's are "collectables to be discovered" and the Wall Street Journal calls them "exquisite antique examples" in their article "Delight in blue and white."
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"The range of colors seen on 18th century Delftware were achieved through various techniques, using skills honed throughout many years. Not every paint color could be realized in a single firing process, and there were often several rounds in the kiln. Ceramics painted with grand feu colors of blue, green, and yellow were fired at a high temperature of about 1000 degrees celsius. Emaille colors and gold were fired in the petit feu at 600 degrees celsius. And finally, cold painted decorations, as the name states, were not fired at all. In this article we would like to take closer look at cold painted decorations in two groups: objects with blue, green and yellow decoration that were fired at high temperatures before the red lacquer was applied, and objects covered in a white tin glaze that received a cold painted decoration either subsequent to their firing, or many years later." Read more.
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Ummmm.... you'll have to delete all wordpress files and delete your database or tables for wordpress.
If you installed WordPress using an automated script (like Fantastico or Simple Scripts), you should also be able to uninstall it from inside your web hosting control panel. For example, if you installed with Fantastico on cpanel, go to cpanel > Fantastico > WordPress (from left menu) > then click Remove. You will not see remove links if you didn't install WordPress from Fantastico. Check out this related screencast:
If you used a different installer, you can probably check with your web host for help uninstalling.
If you installed manually, then you can uninstall by deleting the WordPress files and the related database tables like samboll says.
I have had a problem with my new blog. I loaded wordpress and then was unable to get into my admin or the actual site. My hosting guys resolved some problem with the index file but i still have a site that looks like it is just typed. So i thought i would uninstall wordpress (As suggested by the hosting support team). Now my challenge is uninstalling. I have followed your instructions 'designsimply' but unfortunately it did not work.
I went to fantastico, clicked 'prepare wordpress for removal', then once finished, clicked 'remove press'. Nothing happened. So i clicked wordpress from the left side menu and it shows as loaded on my site.
I am a damsel in distress (well sort of - i would love to get my site up and running...and just dont really know enough to resolve this issue)
My site is http://www.magiccoffeesession.com
Any help would be gratefully accepted.
I am also having an issue uninstalling.
I installed WordPress and everything was working fine, but then I decided I wanted it in the main domain instead of a sub domain (probably stupid in retrospect), so I tried moving all the files. This has stuffed something up because all the files assume everything is in the sub domain. This is no huge deal as I havn't lost anything, and I figure deleting everything then installing again will work, but then when I try to access install.php after the second install it's telling me that it's already installed, but it still won't let me logon. :(
Thanks in advance for any help.
With 1Click Uninstaller it will be very easy.
With 1Click Uninstaller it will be very easy.
Wrong. That application is used to remove a program from a personal computer - not an application installed on a hosted server.
All they need to do is use their FTP program to delete all the WP folders and core files from the root directory, then delete the databse from their admin panel.
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Italy cruise disaster: two versions for one tragedy
Was Captain Schettino completely at fault for sailing the Costa Concordia too close to shore? Two conflicting versions of the story abound.
The company claims that the captain did everything without prior consultation. According to Pier Luigi Foschi, CEO of Costa Cruises, "[Schettino] had no approval from the operator to sail close to the shore and, in doing so, he took an autonomous decision."
Foschi admits though that sailing close to shore – when authorized – is a frequent practice. "The practice of "inchino" (literally, 'taking a bow') or "saluting" does not exist here, instead the so-called "touristic sailing" is the norm: a widely common operation that cruise operators perform all over the world and one allowed under strict safety procedures. Therefore sailing close to coast is not prohibited."
Mario Terenzio Palumbo, an off-duty Captain once serving on Costa, also claimed "inchino" was "common practice."
"Cruising at low speed and carrying out a salute to the Island of Giglio has been carried out four times between 2001 and 2007. It's always been allowed by the Coast Guard," he told reporters.
But coast guards official Marco Brusco denies it all. "In total, only two salutes have been formally recorded: the first took place on August 14, 2001, with the ship sailing close to land but keeping a route parallel to the coastline and fully complying with safety regulations. The second one resulted in this shipwreck".
But Brusco, whose position is surprisingly close to that of the cruise company, suggests a third version: some routes close to land are okay, others are not. "The term saluting refers to a common sailing practice, rather than to a specific sea operation. Simply put, you navigate close to the coast, and parallel to it, in order to perform the salute of the ship to land. It is a tradition carried out in many countries, not only in Italy. And there's no rule whatsoever – nor domestic, nor international – that explicitly prohibits it, if basic and common sailing norms are followed".
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In Science Magazine's November 30 cover story, researchers at Harvard's Wyss Institute reported that they had created 100 three-dimensional (3D) nanostructures using DNA building blocks that function like Lego® bricks—an advance from the two-dimensional (2D) structures the same team announced building a few months ago in Nature.
The Wyss team, led by Wyss faculty member Brian Wei, Ph.D., had previously described its nanofabrication technique, "DNA-brick self-assembly," as method for building complex nanostructures out of short synthetic strands of DNA.
Called single-stranded tiles (SSTs), 42-base strands of DNA "building blocks," similarly to Legos, could be programmed, the researchers said, to assemble themselves into precisely designed shapes, such as letters and emoticons, like a smiley face.
In the 2D technique, a "single-stranded tile" (SST) consists of a 42-base strand of DNA composed entirely of concatenated sticky ends and that binds to four local neighbors during self-assembly. The investigators implemented their strategy with a master strand collection that corresponded to a 310-pixel canvas, and then used appropriate strand subsets to construct 107 distinct and complex two-dimensional shapes, thereby establishing SST assembly as a simple, modular and robust framework for constructing nanostructures with prescribed shapes from short synthetic DNA strands.
As described by the Wyss Institute, the trick to creating the 3D structures required starting with smaller DNA bricks, about 32 bases long, which changes the orientation of every matched-up pair of bricks to a 90 degree angle—giving every two Legos a 3D shape. The team then used these bricks to build out in addition to up, eventually forming 3D structures, such as a 25-nanometer solid cube containing hundreds of bricks. The cube can then act as a "master" DNA "molecular canvas"; in this case described in the Science paper, the canvas was comprised of 1000 so-called "voxels," corresponding to eight base-pairs and measuring about 2.5 nanometers in size.
To date, most DNA nano research has focused on the use of a single long biological strand of DNA, which acts as scaffold along which smaller strands bind to its many different segments to create shapes. This method, called DNA origami, is also being pursued at the Wyss Institute under the leadership of core faculty member William Shih, Ph.D.
But the novel building block method, the scientists say, with its modular architecture, sophisticated geometric control, and synthetic nature, will further expand the range of applications that nucleic acid technology has already started to address.
The step from 2D to 3D nanostructures moves the use of DNA nanotechnologies forward toward applications including "smart" medical devices that target drugs selectively to disease sites, programmable imaging probes, and templates for precisely arranging inorganic materials in the manufacturing of next generation computer circuits.
Harvard's Wyss Institute was founded to discover the engineering principles that nature uses to build living things, and to harness these insights to create biologically inspired materials and devices that will revolutionize healthcare and create a more sustainable world. In medicine, the Institute aims to develop innovative materials, devices, and disease reprogramming technologies that emulate how living tissues and organs self-organize and naturally regulate themselves.
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Department of Multicultural Affairs
Larry Ginsburg is an Albany, NY native who has a love for cultural diversity and inclusion. During his time at the University at Albany, Larry has been consistently making strides in the cultural diversity field. As an Anthropology Honors major and Judaic Studies minor, Larry has a strong academic background in cultural studies, which translated over to his position as Associate Director of Multicultural Affairs during the 2014-2015 school year.
As Associate Director of Multicultural Affairs, Larry worked to engage the interfaith community on campus, by organizing the University at Albany Spiritual Council, and creating personal connections with many of the school's spiritual and religious groups. Off campus, Larry is a youth adviser to a group of local Jewish teens and is very active in the Albany Jewish Community.
Larry is looking forward to strengthening the Department of Multicultural Affairs, and making this campus a leader in cultural acceptance and cooperation. Please feel free to contact Larry and the Department of Multicultural Affairs with any questions, comments, or concerns!
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