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Every family has that creative an eccentric relative that stands out from the rest. Some may call them strange, while others prefer the term "quirky."
I, however, happily give myself the title of "Cool Aunt" because my creativity will always be awesome.
Creativity isn't for dreamers and layabouts–it's for go-getters and self-starters.
You'd be lucky to have a kid as creative as me!
Now, I bet you're saying to yourself, "Gee, Jo Anna… How do I encourage my kids' creativity?"
There are so many ways to harness and encourage your kids to be creative. Creativity isn't an easy discovery though. It develops over time and takes a ton of persistence.
Here are some great tips to show you how to start your kids' creative explorations.
How To Encourage Kid's Creativity
Take Them Places
The only way your kid is going to discover their creative medium of choice is by introducing them to the arts. Take them to a museum and make it a point to google the art and artists while you're standing in front of their piece. You'll be amazed at what you can learn.
You can even call the museum ahead of time and book a personalized tour. Museums provide so much more when you have professional guidance to lead the way.
Make it a point to take your kids to some performing arts. Grab some tickets to a Broadway show, or take them to see The Nut Cracker during the holiday season. Is theater not your thing? Look up music festivals that are family friendly, and make a weekend out of it.
The more you expose your kids to different art and artists, the more likely they are to make a connection with something or someone.
The first years of life are all about discovery, and when it comes to the arts—the possibilities are endless.
Listen To Them
When you take your kids to these various artistic events– pay attention to how they react to them.
Are they falling asleep during the ballet, but they're really into the street performers on the subway? Your kids will tell you what's boring and what isn't. Lean into the activities that they enjoy so they can discover what it is about that particular art form that brings them joy.
Talk to your kids about the art. You'll start to know what activities to sign them up for or what events they'd enjoy by having these conversations. Let your kids know that you're going to be a person who will encourage any endeavor they want to try.
Share in the joy of experiencing something for the first time. Encourage them to follow through and stick it out. It will be fun for the both of you, and your kids will benefit from the support.
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Don't be Selfish
Just because you wanted to be a professional ballet dancer when you were young doesn't mean your kid wants to be one too.
Let your child discover themselves in art — even if it's an art form you don't understand. Put your ambitions aside and let your kids walk their creative path. Make sure you're there to guide them safely but don't hold them up to unrealistic expectations.
Your kids will be so much more creatively fulfilled if they are creating things for themselves, not for their parents' approval.
Many child artists that were pushed by their parents find the pressure of success to overwhelming— and sometimes give up altogether.
That's not a way to encourage your kids' creativity.
Support Them
We already touched on this briefly, but supporting your children in their artistic endeavors is a critical part of encouraging your kids' creativity.
When they see you in the audience at their play or talking to their friends about your latest work– it gives them the strength to continue being an artist.
There are plenty of artists out there rebelling against their parents because they felt misunderstood and unsupported, but the truly successful artists out there have the support of their family.
This business is a cold one, and it's nice to have comfort at home.
Be that support for your kids.
Accept Failure
This is the MOST important tip I can give.
Every artist fails.
In fact, it's part of the process. You have to teach your young artists that failure is okay. If your kid doesn't get that part in the play–don't call the director to complain. Tell your kid that being an actor means getting rejected.
Not only will this give your kid realistic expectations, but it will prepare them for the hardest part of being an artist.
Unless your family is rolling in dough, once your kid decides to be an artist they must be mentally prepared for failure.
Without failure, they'll never learn to get back up, and they won't grow as an artist. Make failure a learning opportunity. Sure, it's okay to feel sad — but they've got to try again.
Make them try again.
Jo Anna Van Thuyne is an actor, comedian, and filmmaker. She's excelled at various roles both in front of and behind the camera and after years of inspiration through education, Jo Anna wrote Mezza Morta as a culmination of all of the skills she has learned over the past decade. It is her directorial debut.
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"Power isn't an end-state. There are no weak or strong people, just people at different places on a given continuum. And power is not linear. I am stronger than K, but she is smarter and more artistic than I am. R has more money, but J has more skills. Q can access a deep level of viciousness, but W can access an equally deep level of empathy. Power is not a scale but a net of ever-interconnecting methods of affecting the world. And in each strand of the net, you have attributes and skills that both affect the strength. AND … Power is about growth or stagnation. Comfort with power is required to use it." - Rory Miller, Chiron Blog, "On Power."
"Human nature was produced by natural selection working at two levels simultaneously. Individuals compete with individuals within every group, and we are the descendants of primates who excelled at that competition." - Jonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind
"Most people shift their center of gravity slightly to chamber or set up or prep a strike or kick. … Between the reaction speed of touch and that you act on precursor movements, you will find yourself defending actions before they happen, sometimes before the threat has consciously decided to move." - Rory Miller, Drills
" If you can't extract information from any source, and see how it effects you, you need to learn how to. Drop your own biases, and just take the info for what it is." - Terry Trahan, WeaselCraft Blog
"Most techniques in martial arts are not practiced against attacks. They are practiced against feeds. A feed may have a similar motion to a punch or stab, but it is designed and delivered specifically to be defeated. A little slow, on a known line, maybe slightly over-extended or held out for just a second. No matter how much it looks like a punch, almost every element is different in a fight … and so people who have practiced against feeds are terrifyingly often completely blown away by the intensity, speed, ferocity and pain of a 'simple attack.'" - Rory Miller, Drills: Training for Sudden Violence.
"Your predator may be a scared kid feeling like he is losing control on his first crime and does not know how to regain control without resorting to extreme violence. It may be a hardened felon who will use extreme force without any thought of you, just a quick assessment of the odds of getting caught. It may be someone who enjoys the feeling of domination as he makes someone bleed and beg. It is very, very unlikely you have hit any of these personalities in normal training. Most instructors would not let an uncontrolled predator anywhere near their dojo." - Rory Miller, Scaling Force
"Peripheral vision is vision from the side of the eye. It is not as focused as a direct gaze - you can't read with it and colors are less certain. It does, detect motion quicker and allow for faster response time then focused vision. A good fighter does not watch your hands, he put his gaze where any movement form you hands or feet will register in his peripheral vision. The 'thousand yard stare' puts almost everything in peripheral vision and is a critical skill in combat to detect ambushes." - Rory Miller, Facing Violence
"On Ground Fights; in real life, the winner in a ground fight is not the strongest, the meanest, or the most skillful. The winner will be decided by whose friends get there first." - Rory Miller and Lawrence A. Kane, Scaling Force
"Once you identify the 'other' as, not only 'different from us,' but as some sort of alien species both beyond our comprehension and below contempt, they suddenly become surprisingly easy (even desirable) to kill. … identifying your adversary as something 'subhuman', it is possible to achieve a killer mind-set in short order. … how you view your adversary will greatly influence your reaction to his provocations." - C. R. Jahn, Hardcore Self-Defense
"Simplistic answers and an abundance of confidence really appeals to the part of our brains that want to reduce the complexities of life to simplistic narratives and never mind reality (much less all those messy complications)." - Marc MacYoung, "Mac and Cheese Idealism," MacYoung's Musings Blog
"Asian martial arts do not even address or acknowledge the need or existence of any of these critical survival self-defense skills at all. Instead Asian Martial Arts follows a syllabus almost wholly devoted to the practice of physical technique alone. The majority of that physical technique is wholly impractical for most people to employ effectively in an actual self-defense situation too." ~ Christopher Caile
"The goal of self-defense is not to win the fight, but rather to avoid combat in the first place. … Nevertheless, sometimes despite your best intentions, you may find yourself in a situation where there really is no alternative but to fight. When it comes to such circumstances, particularly in an asocial violence scenario, you cannot stop until it's over." - Rory Miller and Lawrence A. Kane, Scaling Force (pg. 49)
"Situational awareness - knowing what is going on around you. Specifically, it is the ability to identify, process, and comprehend factors that can be important for your safety and welfare, such as the existence of potential threats, escape routes, and weapons." - Rory Miller and Lawrence A. Kane, Scaling Force
"It is relatively easy to de-escalate impending social violence so that things won't get physical, especially if you are willing to lose face. It is only possible to de-escalate predatory violence by appearing to be too dangerous to attack. If you are alert, aware, prepared, in decent physical condition, and capable of setting a verbal boundary, those are all major warning signs to the predator." - Rory Miller and Lawrence A. Kane, Scaling Force
"If and, I hope not when, you get into an altercation with another individual, then every aspect of your life will be on trial. Every statement or post on your social networking site. Every martial arts/self-defense class you have ever taken. Everything you have ever done will be scrutinized and examined by the District/Prosecuting attorney. It can and will be used against you in ways that you never thought possible. If by some chance, you are found not-guilty, then be prepared for the lawyers in the civil case that is coming to play even dirtier than the D.A. Your character, reputation, family history, everything about you and yours, will be on display for the jury and world to see. Thing it is a joke? Talk to someone that has been through it and you will find out just how bad it can be." - Clint Overland, Forward to "Scaling Force" by Rory Miller and Lawrence A. Kane
"Karate is a blend of physically challenging training supported by mindful introspection." - Michael Clarke, Shinseidokan Dojo blog
"Our nation has become a 'sound-bite' society. A public and therefore a jury pool that is increasingly vulnerable to misinformed simple answers to complicated questions." - Massad Ayoob at Texas Bar Association Firearms Law Symposium, September 2012.
Yasuhiro Konishi Sensei once said, "Karate aims to build character, improve human behavior, and cultivate modesty; it does not, however, guarantee it."
"Understand that your knowledge only gives you an edge, and that's all." - Karate Instructor (Loren Christensen - Some Lessons Hurt)
"The martial arts is like life: you get ahead a couple of steps, and you get knocked back three. What's important is you keep getting up and moving forward. That's what being a martial artist is all about." - Karate Instructor (Loren Christensen - Some Lessons Hurt)
"Self-defense is not having your lifestyle changed for you. It's better to avoid than to run; better to run than to deescalate; better to deescalate than to fight; better to fight than to die. The very essence of self-defense is a thin list of things that might get you out alive when you are already screwed." - Rory Miller, Meditations on Violence (Note: Know that this quote is not the final say in SD but rather a tease to get you to learn more - start with his book)
"No matter how hard you have trained, how much you have studied, or how closely you have matched your training environment to the realities that you face, your body and primitive mind know that you have only been faking. Training and planning are blueprints, nothing more. They are plans; they are stories that you tell yourself. You may truly believe that your new skill (new system, new plan) is the best way out of your situation - but your body knows one thing, too: What you are already doing hasn't gotten you killed yet." … Now, a caveat to this quote is, "In the moment, like breaking the freeze, you must force yourself to act. Once a few steps are taken on the new path and you haven't died, the primitive brain will ease up a bit." - Rory Miller, Meditations on Violence
"He stresses the point of uselessness to learn a lot of forms without mastering them." - Gichin Funakoshi when asked by Asato Sensei to increase the number of kata taught.
"In truth, formal grading tests have little meaning if the outcome is predetermined or divorced from the skill displayed by the candidate…" - Michael Clarke Sensei, Shinseidokan Dojo
"Self-defense is largely about dealing with surprise and fear and pain … It is recovery from stupidity or bad luck, from finding yourself in a position you would have given almost anything to prevent. It is about overcoming shock and surprise so that you can act, to 'beat the freeze.' The ideal is to prevent the situation. The optimal mindset is often a conditioned responses that requires no thought (for the first half-second of the attack) or a focused rage." - Rory Miller, Meditations of Violence: A Comparison of Martial Arts Training; Real World Violence
"It's important to understand that not all karate is the same, nor are the people, or groups, who teach it. Depending on what you're expectations of karate are, it would be prudent to ponder 'why' karate is being taught, and not just 'how' and 'who' is teaching it. … Anyone who teaches karate has, I believe, an obligation to provide as complete an education as possible. So, not just the physical stuff, but the moral and ethical parameters within which karate operates" - Michael Clarke Sensei, Shinseidokan Karate
" … wisdom comes from your mind, and your heart … " - Shoshin Nagamine Sensei
"Sometimes I think the urge to believe in our own worldview is our most powerful intellectual imperative, the mind's equivalent of feeding, fighting, and fornicating, People will eagerly twist facts into wholly unrecognizable shapes to fit them into existing suppositions. They will ignore the obvious, select the irrelevant, and spin it all into a tapestry of self-deception, solely to justify an idea, no matter how impoverished or self-destructive." - John Rain, Extremis
"Principles will explain everything that happens in the martial arts, they also will explain how to accomplish everything we want to happen. Studying a finite number of principles explains an infinite number of techniques." - Stephen Pearlman
"The complexities of life are simply derived from our innate need for individuality yet governed by our need for group identity and protection." - Charles E. James
"It is all about how you are taught a martial art and how you train. Most MA's are taught as religions, They are all about faith, not facts. People need to believe something, even if they have to invent it. You need something that works. You need something that is practical and simple. You need a lot of scenario based conditioning. A lot of contact. It needs to be there for you when weapons are not available. You can develop the necessary attitude only in combat (the experience as a professional, etc.)." - Delilah
"According to Ken Murray in 'Training at the Speed of Life', the Air Force set 'ace' at five dogfights because there best research showed that no one—no one—remembered their training for their first three to five dogfights. Personally, I would set the threshold for unarmed encounters closer to twenty. Grasp that. With the best training in the world, you still got through your first 3-5 on instinct and luck." - Rory Miller, Teaching, Training, Conditioning and Play. Chiron Blog dtd May 9, 2014
"The Mysticism surrounding any good martial art is not so much religion as mindset." - Unknown
"There are some studies that suggest that the peak of human violence is at age two. We are most violent of all at that age. Families survive the terrible two's because toddlers are not strong enough to kill with their hands and are not capable of using lethal weapons." - NPR Program on Violence
"Commanded by an authoritarian figure, and wishing to conform, we could bulldoze homes, burn books, separate parents from children or even slaughter them, and our much-prized conscience would not as much as flicker." - Richard Ingham, Article, "Evil not so banal, says disturbing new probe.
"An internalized code of ethics doesn't just stop at the role a martial art played in World War II atrocities. When a teacher is obviously abusive, chauvinistic, sadistic, greedy or unethical, do you make excuses for him/her, and delude yourself into thinking, "Well, it's really all about the training, nothing else"? No, it's never ONLY about the training. A teacher's unethical or abusive behavior will rub off on you, sooner rather than later. As the saying goes, when you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas." ~ Classic Budo Blogger, dtd, August 8, 2014
"Karate is awash with instructors these days, but bereft of sensei." ~ Michael Clarke, Shinseidokan Dojo
"Hindsight, it gives you perfect vision when it is too late to be of any use." - Unknown
"The Okinawan are a peaceful people, but, like all people of primitive lifestyle who are also prone to drink, they were able to commit inhumane cruelty when they were caught in heat. Through centuries of practice the Okinawans had extraordinarily developed the peculiar art of self defense and attack, which we call Tekobushi. It consists, similar to Jujutsu or even boxing, of delivering blow with incredible skill and impact with the bare fist." ~ Andreas Quast, Karate 1.0
"What are you afraid of that you absolutely have to:
▪ Carry three knives and a firearm wherever you go, even in your own house.
▪ Ingrain killing and maiming techniques as your standard reaction to any attack, regardless of the context.
▪ Prefer to pass out when somebody slaps a good choke on you in training rather than tap. Or end up injured in an arm bar instead of tapping.
▪ You fill in the blank.
Unless you live in a war zone or ghetto, unless you live a criminal lifestyle, unless you get high/drunk all the time, unless you routinely go to the wrong bars and parts of town, chances of you needing any of that are slim to none. For most people, that's precisely the case: they don't have a realistic need for any of that." - Wim Demeere, What Sensei Know ......
"Situational awareness is a cumulative alertness to threat and your environment. It enables you to notice pre-incident indicators, which are odd movements or anomalies govern the situation. Pre-incident indicators, cumulatively, create a visual unlikely circumstance consistent with either a contrived situation or predatorily behavior." ~ Kelly McCann
"Every tool, technique, or tactic that you employ in a street fight must be efficient. Efficiency means that the techniques are direct and can be deployed rapidly, allowing you to reach your objective quickly and economically. Efficient techniques are also easy to learn and maintain, and they can be retained under the severe stress of combat. Remember, a technique does not have to be complex to be sophisticated." ~ From: "1001 Street Fighting Secrets" by Sammy Franco


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Mykie and Simon were telling me about their escapades on Saturday night going to D&Ds Eurovision party.
They waited for a tram in the rain…bad>The tram had drunken, singy, shouty sports fans at one end…avoid> They went to the other end and sat down…phew> They were sat next to a man on the phone with a bottle of cheep red in his hand, bleeding from the head and shouting F***ing nigger down the phone over and over…Panic!
How are my humans supposed to publically transport themselves places when the trams are full of scary, dangerous people??!!!
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ERIC Number: ED535792
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2011
Pages: 153
Abstractor: As Provided
A National Study of Student Early Alert Models at Four-Year Institutions of Higher Education
Simons, Jill M.
ProQuest LLC, Ed.D. Dissertation, Arkansas State University
The purpose of this study was to explore the state of student early alert models at nonprofit, four-year institutions of higher education through both quantitative and qualitative lenses. The use of these retention initiatives has become a much heralded practice on college campuses (Kuh, 2007a; Kuh 2007b; Seidman, 2005; Tinto, 2008). However, despite a growing trend, little documentation of these practices exists in the literature. Five broad research questions were posed to describe early alert programs. The questions sought to answer what is the nature of institutions with EAP systems, what are the major design elements, what constitutes program communication, what are the intervention techniques, and what are key measures of effectiveness. A 44-item survey instrument was sent to 1778 institutions. A total of 529 survey responses were received, yielding a 29.8% return rate. Several trends emerged as a result of the study. Student early alert programs were more prevalent on small, private colleges and on colleges with low admissions standards. Programs were considered new to higher education with 68.1% reported being five or fewer years old. The most common design elements, those receiving a minimum of 50% or higher in the associated line item results, included centralized administration of the program, use of a reactive referral approach, and employing an open concept design in terms of program inclusivity. Student communication consisted largely of email contact (82.2%). Institutions invest considerable time in student outreach with 58.8% of respondents making three or more attempts to reach each referral. Programs were described as labor intensive and poorly funded. However, most of the respondents (81.4%) reported being moderately to very satisfied with their program. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://www.proquest.com/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.]
Descriptors: Higher Education, Intervention, Colleges, Teacher Attitudes, Referral, Academic Persistence, Program Evaluation, Electronic Mail, Surveys, Measurement Techniques, Measures (Individuals), Outreach Programs, Program Effectiveness
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BREAKING: Barack Obama's discussed investigations into himself with his attorney general, possibly obstructing-
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BREAKING: Barack Obama found to have made back channel payments to a select few people to prevent damning information about him from being released right before the-
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The Legend of Duty/
"Where is the Princess? Talk!"
Or maybe The Call of Zelda? If anyone were ever to make a Nintendo mod of a Call of Duty game, this would be the way to go.
Link from The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess is bustin caps and takin names. Bearing the Triforce of Courage, he sets out on an epic quest to rid the world of terrorism with tried and true justice... of hot smoking lead!
But remember kids, guns are bad.


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Oh deary me. Where can I even begin ? The last few months have had it's share of things – some of them bad, like depression rearing it's ugly head again, but some good, like a promotion at work ! Which did shovel a lot of things on me. My muses have been absent for…
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Six years is a long time. A child born six years ago would be starting second grade in september. At least here. Today it has been six years since my mother died. A vein in her brain burst and flooded it with blood – there was nothing we could do. She died very suddenly, and not very…
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Oh hai. My name is Audrey, also known as Esper or Zero to some people. Im a 30 years old woman living in Canada, dealing with an anxiety disorder and, as of december 2016, keratoconus.
Im a crafter who makes mainly mixed media jewelry, as well as passionate with computers and building them. I adore cats and im currently owned by a 15 years old old man who has been my companion for half my life.
I am in a relationship with my lovely partner (and most patient human being in the entire universe) Kasey from I adore dearly and utterly do not deserve.
This blog is going to be a mix of a lot of things... If I can remember to keep it updated, that is.
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SPRING FLING EVENT is postponed……until summer ;-)/
We are postponing the Spring Fling Event. So sorry ladies, but I just had too many un-planned things come up. I plan on having a summer event and the Queen Bee girls and I are already planning another Fall event!!
I will be back in tomorrow with a Boston Cream Pie Cutie recipe….you won't believe how good these little treats are!!!


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A Note on Non-Profit Organizations in India
In India non profit / public charitable organizations can be registered as trusts, societies, or a private limited non profit company under section-25 companies.
Non-profit organizations in India:
(a) Exist independently of the state;
(b) are self-governed by a board of trustees or ?managing committee?/ governing council, comprising individuals who generally serve in a fiduciary capacity;
(c) produce benefits for others, generally outside the membership of the organization;
(d), are ?non-profit-making?, in as much as they are prohibited from distributing a monetary residual to their own members.
Regulatory Bodies: At the state level, these agencies include the Charity Commissioner (for trusts), the Registrar of Societies (referred to in some states by different titles, including the Registrar of Joint Stock Companies), and the Registrar of Companies (for section 25 companies). At the national or federal level, the regulatory bodies include the income tax department and Ministry of Home Affairs (only for not-for-profit organizations receiving foreign contributions).
Section 2(15) of the Income Tax Act which is applicable uniformly throughout the Republic of India ? defines charitable purpose? to include relief of the poor, education, medical relief and the advancement of any other object of general public utility?. A purpose that relates exclusively to religious teaching or worship is not considered as charitable. Thus, in ascertaining whether a purpose is public or private, one has to see if the class to be benefited, or from which the beneficiaries are to be selected, constitute a substantial body of the public. A public charitable purpose has to benefit a sufficiently large section of the public as distinguished from specified individuals. Organizations which lack the public element ? such as trusts for the benefit of workmen or employees of a company, however numerous ? have not been held to be charitable. As long as the beneficiaries of the organization comprise an uncertain and fluctuating body of the public answering a particular description, the fact that the beneficiaries may belong to a certain religious faith, or a sect of persons of a certain religious persuasion, would not affect the organization's public character.
Whether a trust, society or section-25 company, the Income Tax Act gives all categories equal treatment, in terms of exempting their income and granting 80G certificates, whereby donors to non-profit organizations may claim a rebate against donations made. Foreign contributions to non-profits are governed by FC(R)A regulations and the Home Ministry. CAF would like to clarify that this material provides only broad guidelines and it is recommended that legal and or financial experts be consulted before taking any important legal or financial decision or arriving at any conclusion.
Formation and Registration of a Non -Profit organizations in India
I. Trusts: A public charitable trust is usually floated when there is property involved, especially in terms of land and building.
Legislation : Different states in India have different Trusts Acts in force, which govern the trusts in the state; in the absence of a Trusts Act in any particular state or territory the general principles of the Indian Trusts Act 1882 are applied.
Main Instrument : The main instrument of any public charitable trust is the trust deed, wherein the aims and objects and mode of management (of the trust) should be enshrined. In every trust deed, the minimum and maximum number of trustees has to be specified. The trust deed should clearly spell out the aims and objects of the trust, how the trust should be managed, how other trustees may be appointed or removed, etc. The trust deed should be signed by both the settlor/s and trustee/s in the presence of two witnesses. The trust deed should be executed on non-judicial stamp paper, the value of which would depend on the valuation of the trust property.
Trustees: A trust needs a minimum of two trustees; there is no upper limit to the number of trustees. The Board of Management comprises the trustees.
Application for Registration: The application for registration should be made to the official having jurisdiction over the region in which the trust is sought to be registered.? ?After providing details (in the form) regarding designation by which the public trust shall be known, names of trustees, mode of succession, etc., the applicant has to affix a court fee stamp? to the form and pay a very nominal registration fee. The application form should be signed by the applicant before the regional officer or superintendent of the regional office of the charity commissioner or a notary. The application form should be submitted, together with a copy of the trust deed. Two other documents which should be submitted at the time of making an application for registration are affidavit and consent letter.
II. Society: According to section 20 of the Societies Registration Act, 1860, the following societies can be registered under the Act: ?charitable societies, military orphan funds or societies established at the several presidencies of India, societies established for the promotion of science, literature, education or the fine arts, for instruction, the diffusion of useful knowledge, the diffusion of political education, the foundation or maintenance of libraries or reading rooms for general use among the members or open to the public, or public museums and galleries of paintings and other works of art, collection of natural history, mechanical and philosophical inventions, instruments or designs.?
Legislation : Societies are registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860, which is a federal act. In certain states, which have a charity commissioner, the society must not only be registered under the Societies Registration Act, but also, additionally, under the Bombay Public Trusts Act.??
Main Instrument: The main instrument of any society is the memorandum of association and rules and regulations, wherein the aims and objects and mode of management (of the society) should be enshrined.
Trustees :?A Society needs a minimum of seven managing committee members; there is no upper limit to the number managing committee members. The Board of Management is in the form of a governing body or council or a managing or executive committee
Application for Registration: Registration can be done either at the state level (i.e., in the office of the Registrar of Societies) or at the district level (in the office of the District Magistrate or the local office of the Registrar of Societies).??The procedure varies from state to state. However generally the application should be submitted together with:
- (a) memorandum of association and rules and regulations;
- (b) consent letters of all the members of the managing committee;
- (c) authority letter duly signed by all the members of the managing committee;
- (d) an affidavit sworn by the president or secretary of the society
- (e) a declaration by the members of the managing committee that the funds of the society will be used only for the purpose of furthering the aims and objects of the society. ??All the aforesaid documents, which are required for the application for registration, should be submitted in duplicate, together with the required registration fee. Unlike the trust deed, the memorandum of association and rules and regulations need not be executed on stamp paper.
III. Section-25 Company?: According to section 25(1)(a) and (b) of the Indian Companies Act, 1956, a section-25 company can be established ?for promoting commerce, art, science, religion, charity or any other useful object?, provided the profits, if any, or other income is applied for promoting only the objects of the company and no dividend is paid to its members.
- Legislation :?Section-25 companies are registered under section-25 of the Indian Companies Act. 1956.
- Main Instrument :?For a section-25 company, the main instrument is a Memorandum and articles of association (no stamp paper required)
- Trustees :?A section-25 Company needs a minimum of three trustees; there is no upper limit to the number of trustees. The Board of Management is in the form of a Board of directors or managing committee. ??
Application for Registration 😕
1. An application has to be made for availability of name to the registrar of companies, which must be made in the prescribed form no. 1A,
2.Once the availability of name is confirmed, an application should be made in writing to the regional director of the company law board. The application should be accompanied by the following documents: ?Three printed or typewritten copies of the memorandum and articles of association of the proposed company, duly signed by all the promoters with full name, address and occupation. A declaration by an advocate or a chartered accountant that the memorandum and articles of association have been drawn up in conformity with the provisions of the Act and that all the requirements of the Act and the rules made there under have been duly complied with, in respect of registration or matters incidental or supplementary thereto. Three copies of a list of the names, addresses and occupations of the promoters (and where a firm is a promoter, of each partner in the firm), as well as of the members of the proposed board of directors, together with the names of companies, associations and other institutions in which such promoters, partners and members of the proposed board of directors are directors or hold responsible positions, if any, with description of the positions so held. ??A statement showing in detail the assets (with the estimated values thereof) and the liabilities of the association, as on the date of the application or within seven days of that date. ?An estimate of the future annual income and expenditure of the proposed company, specifying the sources of the income and the objects of the expenditure. ??A statement giving a brief description of the work, if any, already done by the association and of the work proposed to be done by it after registration, in pursuance of section-25. ??A statement specifying briefly the grounds on which the application is made. ??A declaration by each of the persons making the application that he/she is of sound mind, not an undischarged insolvent, not convicted by a court for any offence and does not stand disqualified under section 203 of the Companies Act 1956, for appointment as a director.
3. The applicants must also furnish to the registrar of companies (of the state in which the registered office of the proposed company is to be, or is situate) a copy of the application and each of the other documents that had been filed before the regional director of the company law board.
4. The applicants should also, within a week from the date of making the application to the regional director of the company law board, publish a notice in the prescribed manner at least once in a newspaper in a principal language of the district in which the registered office of the proposed company is to be situated or is situated and circulating in that district, and at least once in an English newspaper circulating in that district.
5. The regional director may, after considering the objections, if any, received within 30 days from the date of publication of the notice in the newspapers, and after consulting any authority, department or ministry, as he may, in his discretion, decide, determine whether the license should or should not be granted.
6. The regional director may also direct the company to insert in its memorandum, or in its articles, or in both, such conditions of the license as may be specified by him in this behalf. ??
Comparison among Trust, Society and Non profit Company
Section-25 Company
|Relevant State Trust Act or Bombay Public Trusts Act, 1950
|Societies Registration Act, 1860 OR the relevant State Societies Registration Act
|Indian Companies Act, 1956
|Deputy Registrar /Charity commissioner
|Registrar of (Firms and) societies
|Registrar of companies
|As trust
|As Society
|As a company u/s 25 of the Indian Companies Act.
|Registration Document
|Trust deed
|Memorandum of association; and Rules and Regulations
|Memorandum and articles of association and regulations
|Stamp Duty
|Trust deed to be executed on non-judicial stamp paper, vary from state to state
|No stamp paper required for memorandum of association and rules and regulations.
|No stamp paper required for memorandum and articles of association.
|Members Required
|Minimum ? two trustees. No upper limit.
|Minimum ? seven managing committee members. No upper limit.
|Minimum three trustees. No upper limit.
|Board of Management
|Trustees / Board of Trustees
|Governing body or council/managing or executive committee
|Board of directors/ Managing committee
|Mode of Succession on Board of Management
|Appointment or Election
|Appointment or Election by members of the general body
|Election by members of the general body
Societies and Trusts
Societies are similar in character to trusts, although there are a few essential differences.? While only two individuals are required to form a trust, a minimum of seven individuals is required to form a society.? The applicants must register the society with the relevant state Registrar of Societies in order to be eligible for tax-exempt status.? A registration application includes the society?s memorandum of association and rules and regulations.? In general, Indian citizens serve as members of the managing committee or governing council of societies, although there is no prohibition in the Societies Registration Act against non-natural legal persons or foreigners serving in this capacity.
The governance of societies also differs from that of trusts; societies are usually managed by a governing council or managing committee, whereas trusts are governed by their trustees.? Individuals or institutions or both may be members of a society.? The general body of members delegates the management of day-to-day affairs to the managing committee, which is usually elected by the membership.? Members of the general body of the society have voting rights and?can demand the submission of accounts and the annual report of the society for inspection.? Members of the managing committee may hold office for such period of time as may be specified under the bylaws of the society.
Societies, unlike trusts, must annually file a list of the names, addresses and occupations of their managing committee members with the Registrar of Societies.? Furthermore, in a society all property is held in the name of the society, whereas all of the property of a trust legally vests in the trustees.
Unlike trusts, societies may be dissolved.? Dissolution must be approved by at least three-fifths of the society?s members. Upon dissolution, and after settlement of all debts and liabilities, the funds and property of the society may not be distributed among the members of the society.? Rather, the remaining funds and property must be given or transferred to some other society, preferably one with similar objects as the dissolved entity.
Legal title of the property of a public charitable trust vests in the trustees.? Trustees of a public charitable trust may not, however, in any way use trust property or their position for their own interest or private advantage.? Trustees may not enter into agreements in which they may have a personal interest that conflicts or may possibly conflict with the interests of the beneficiaries of the trust (whose interests the trustees are bound to protect).? Trustees may not delegate any of their duties, functions or powers to a co-trustee or any other person, except that trustees may delegate ministerial acts.? In essence, trustees may not delegate authority with respect to duties requiring the exercise of discretion.
Trustees of religious or charitable trusts are charged with discharging their duties with the degree of care that an ordinarily prudent person would exercise with respect to his personal property. Public charitable trusts are highly regulated.? For instance, in many states, purchases or sales of immovable property by a trust or taking a loan must be approved in advance by the Charity Commissioner.
Indian public charitable trusts are generally irrevocable.? If a trust becomes inactive due to the negligence of its trustees, the Charity Commissioner may take steps to revive the trust.? Furthermore, if it becomes too difficult to carry out the objects of a trust, the doctrine of cy pres, meaning ?as near as possible,? may be applied to change the objects of the trust.


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Fourth painting from the series Searching for Mushrooms. These series are about our relentless search for something in our lifetimes, whether is something tangible or not. Although the painting is very objective, it is actually describing a deeper meaning. It could well be looking for answers to questions we all have.
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Mantra: Meditation on Sound & Vibration
Ven. Namgyal Rinpoche
Toronto, March 1971
A mantra [mind-tool] is a verbal device that takes one beyond the verbal, producing higher meditative states. For example, ARAHAM is used to cancel karma – a primary practice in every school. Another mantra is OM SUNYATA JNANA VAJRA SVABHAVAKO HUM – 'I am the nature of the vajra through understanding the void'.
Meditation on the seed syllable (bija) OM leads to this state of awareness. By the experience of OM I become the void – the knowing, diamond state of consciousness, ('anatto' in Pali).
There are basically two kinds of 'words' used in mantra: words that have a literal meaning and words that do not. These meaningless words are seed syllables, fundamental sound experiences (OM AH HUM). The words of a mantra can all have a literal meaning (ARAHAM – 'purity') or no meaning, or they can be a combination of both types.
In the mantra of Chenrezi, OM MANI PADME HUM, the seed syllables are OM and HUM while MANI PADME means, literally: 'lotus jewel'. In Christian mystical practice, the words usually all have a literal meaning. There is the prayer/mantra 'Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner'. This is recited by monks on Mount Athos and synchronised with the heart beat.
The words and syllables are variously emphasized. Such a mantra produces transcendental energy-awareness flowing in and out and down through the central channel.. in ways that vary according to individual practice.
There is a weapon mantra (hastra bija) that equates to a certain state of mind. It is the great cleaver of the skull, used to split the consciousness: PHAT! – cutting off thought when there is excessive verbalisation in meditation.
OM HUM PHAT! is used to exorcise evil spirits or negative mind-states. When written, there is a dot under T in PHAT which means that the T is enunciated sharply – a cut off [or stacatto] T.
The Agni (Fire) mantra is RAM! (Sanskrit 'agni' relates to the Latin 'agnes' (lamb) as in 'Agnes Dei', the lamb sacrificed to God. It is a lamb because its fleece is like the Brahmachakra – the Gate Of Purity or Crown Chakra.
OM is the ancient 'setu' mantra – a bridge. HUM is the 'kercha' or bundling mantra that heaps things together, that binds and unifies. ('Tara' also means 'bridge').
Meditation uses a device: you. Think it out, perhaps imagine and visualise in preparation for the state called 'contemplation', which is beyond mechanistic recitation. OM MANI PADME HUM brings one to the jewelled, clear state. It is uttered all on the outbreath, cascading out. If said out loud it is generally more effective than whispered or repeated only mentally.
The mantra of Orange Tara: GATE, GATE, PARAGATE, PARASAMGATE, BODHI SVAHA! Literally:
'Without, within, without within – awaken with it!'
In other words, 'Make the without as within – this is the Awakening..wow!
(SVAHA has the meaning of 'ave' (Latin 'hail'], as in 'Ave Maria' – 'Hail Mary'. Ekagata and total expansion is the Path Moment, gone past and beyond any clinging.
Rab Wilkie -Editor, Ken Long -Scribe. This article was used with permission from the "Crystal Collection" Archive of students encounters with their teacher, Ven. Namgyal Rinpoche.


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Backpacks are usually used to carry books and school items, office items of small sizes, clothes or electronic devices. They are lightweight and are great for everyday use. Backpacks are trendy among school students, as well as they are used for short trips, long trips, as well as for hiking.
Backpacks have various designs and use, and they are made for their purposes would be. School backpacks aren't similar to hiking ones, and hiking ones aren't identical as photographer's backpacks. You need to choose the backpack as per your purpose. You might find one of the most excellent backpacks in the massive collection of Backpack CND Canada.
Benefits of using Backpacks:
If you want to know benefits of backpacks, the following are some of the benefits that would make you interested:
- Organized: Backpack makes you organized. This is because they have lots of pouches in them and every pouch is for a different use. There are separate pouches for books, pens and pencils, electronic devices etc. So, if you keep your belongings in their specific places, they are much easier to carry. Also, you can easily find them whenever you need.
- Transport: If you are planning to go somewhere and even if you have a big suitcase still a backpack is useful. Backpack always allows both of your hands to be free, so this is one comfort you can always enjoy with a backpack. You can also make your movements easier because you have your both hands free, like you any way you have to run and catch a bus or a train or stand in a crowded bus or train. If both hands are free, you can efficiently use your hands to pay for anything or to show tickets if asked for.
- Safe: If you are concerned about the safety of your belongings, backpacks are the best, as they are well stripped with you with their straps. Secondly, carrying a bag or a suitcase, on the one hand, is like banging them always to something. Your backpack won't get banged. You also get waterproof backpacks which can help you carry relevant documents and things in bad weather without worrying them.
- Carrying problem: A suitcase or a bag handing on your shoulder, you can't carry them for a long time. They are going to hurt your shoulder or hurt your hands, but carrying backpacks for a long time isn't a problem.
- Easy to find belongings: Backpacks has separate pouches for water, pencils, papers, electronic devices, so it's easy to find them whenever needed and keep them back to their place. Therefore, in an urgent situation, you can bring out the only thing you need right them and then keep it back in its place.


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the media lab, massachusetts institute of technology
ॐ असतो मा सद्गमय । तमसो मा ज्योतिर्गमय । मृत्योर्मा अमृतं गमय ।।
(05) 2019 - Karl Taylor Compton Prize, MIT's highest student award.
(01) 2019 - Facebook Research PhD Fellowship 2019.
(12) 2018 - VizNet paper got accepted to CHI 2019.
(09) 2018 - received the MIT Arts Scholars honor.
(08) 2018 - received the MIT-SenseTime Alliance on Artificial Intelligence Grant ($100,000), MIT Quest for Intelligence.
(05) 2018 - received the Graduate Teaching Award, presented annually to one MIT professor or teaching assistant from each school, for excellence in teaching a graduate level course.
(04) 2018 - invited talk, "Human-AI Collaboration for Sustainable Market Design", at the Ethics of AI event by the Media Lab and Berkman Klein Center, Harvard University.
(01) 2018 - represented Daemo at a European Dialog on the Platform Economy event by the European Trade Union Institute and partners, Brussels.
(11) 2017 - AI-algorithmic ethics paper got accepted at the AAAI-2018, New Orleans, USA.
(10) 2017 - invited to the Industry Panel at the AAAI HCOMP conference, Canada― decided to step down to increase the panel's gender diversity.
(09) 2017 - invited to the Hasso Plattner Institute and Stanford Design Thinking Research Program, Potsdam Germany.
(06) 2016 - EteRNA featured in Werner Herzog's film ``Lo And Behold: Reveries of the Connected World'' (Trailer).
(09) 2015 - Daemo, crowdsourcing marketplace completed its first project with Microsoft Research.
(02) 2014 - EteRNA paper got accepted to PNAS.
(01) 2011 - co-launched EteRNA, crowd-computing game that empowers citizen scientists to invent medicine through molecular design.
Neil S. Gaikwad
नील गायकवाड
尼尔 盖克瓦德
Doctoral Student
MIT Media Lab
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Neil Gaikwad is a doctoral student at the MIT Media Lab, specializing in human-centered machine learning and socio-economic development. He develops human-AI collaboration algorithms and tools to study, model, and (re-)design socio-technical systems, analyzing large-scale datasets emerging from social processes, Earth remote sensing satellites, and socio-economic interactions. Neil holds a master's degree from the school of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University where he worked at the Robotics Institute. Currently, he is a member of the Space Enabled Research Group, where he works with his advisor Danielle Wood.
Neil's research harnesses computational, economic, and community-centered design thinking to provide real-world solutions to challenging wicked problems in crisis informatics, market design under weak institutions, just public policy design, and urban environmental planning. This work is informed by experiences in academia, quantitative finance research on Wall Street, and farming communities in the Western Ghats of India (Sahyadri, सह्याद्री) . A major focus of his current work is to decode the impact of the Earth's physical processes on human societies and institutions. Drawing upon this understanding, he is designing and engineering more efficient and equitable precision agriculture markets to help small-scale farmers mitigate the impact of meteorological disasters and institutional failures. His research is part of the MIT Quest for Intelligence, an institute-wide initiative that aims to unlock the nature of intelligence and harness it to make a better world.
Neil's research has been published in premier artificial intelligence and human-computer interaction conferences (AAAI, ACM UIST, ACM CSCW, ACM CHI) and a scientific journal (PNAS), and featured in the New York Times, Bloomberg, WIRED, and the Wall Street Journal. Some of the examples of his socio-technical system research include Daemo, a self-governed crowdsourcing marketplace and EteRNA, a crowd-computing system that harnesses a massive scale human-machine collaboration to help solve computational problems that neither humans nor machines can solve alone. Neil was one of the principal creators and founding members of Daemo and EteRNA. He led Daemo's technical architecture and invented Boomerang, an incentive-compatible reputation system. His foundational contributions draw on fundamentals from game theory (incentive design for pro-social behavior), structured finance (guilds organization as tranches), and human-centered design (tasks composition). This research has been deployed and is used by people across the world. Daemo has been used to create the SQuAD, Stanford's reading comprehension dataset for Natural Language Processing, and EteRNA has reached over 100,000 citizen scientists across the world.
One of the major missions of Neil's life is to democratize STEAM opportunities to empower people across the globe. He was one of the core members of the Stanford Crowd Research Initiative and part of the MIT's Innovating for Billions in Emerging Worlds Leadership Council. His honors include the Facebook PhD Fellowship award, an MIT Arts Scholar, an IJCAI Distinguished Program Committee Member, the ACM UIST Honorable Mention, the CHI Special Recognition for Outstanding Reviews, MIT Graduate Teaching award, presented annually to one MIT professor or teaching assistant from each school, for excellence in teaching a graduate level course, and the Karl Taylor Compton Prize, the highest student award presented by MIT in recognition of excellent achievements in citizenship and devotion to the welfare of MIT. Neil is a TEDx speaker and his talk presents the vision for just markets in the era of artificial intelligence.
MIT Media Lab
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Cambridge MA, 02139
email@example.com | @neilsgaikwad | arts
Recent awards and honors
Karl Taylor Compton Prize, MIT's highest student award
Facebook Research PhD Fellowship, 2019
Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship Finalist, 2019
CHI Special Recognition for Outstanding Reviews
Distinguished PC, IJCAI
The MIT Arts Scholars, MIT
Graduate Teaching Award, MIT
Adobe Research PhD Fellowship Finalist
Best Paper Honorable Mention, ACM UIST
Talks and travel
|AI for Good Global Summit, Geneva, Switzerland
|PopTech Future of Food, RI
[ C.5 ]VizNet: Towards A Large-Scale Visualization Learning and Benchmarking Repository
CHI 2019: The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems(Acceptance rate of 23.8%)
Researchers currently rely on ad hoc datasets to train automated visualization tools and evaluate the effectiveness of visualization designs. These exemplars often lack the characteristics of real-world datasets, and their one-off nature makes it difficult to compare different techniques. In this paper, we present VizNet: a large-scale corpus of over 31 million datasets compiled from open data repositories and online visualization galleries. On average, these datasets comprise 17 records over 3 dimensions and across the corpus, we find 51% of the dimensions record categorical data, 44% quantitative, and only 5% temporal. VizNet provides the necessary common baseline for comparing visualization design techniques, and developing benchmark models and algorithms for automating visual analysis. To demonstrate VizNet's utility as a platform for conducting online crowdsourced experiments at scale, we replicate a prior study assessing the influence of user task and data distribution on visual encoding effectiveness, and extend it by considering an additional task: outlier detection. To contend with running such studies at scale, we demonstrate how a metric of perceptual effectiveness can be learned from experimental results, and show its predictive power across test datasets.
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❊Correspondence authors, *equal Contributions.
CSCW 2019: The ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
In recent years, there has been an unprecedented growth in content that is shared and presented on social media platforms. Along with this growth, however, there is an increasing concern over the lack of control social media users have on the content they are shown by invisible algorithms. In this paper, we introduce Gobo, an open-source social media browser system that enables users to manage and filter content from multiple platforms on their own. Gobo aims to help users control what's hidden from their feeds, add perspectives from outside their network to help them break filter bubbles, and explore why they see certain content on their feed. Through iterative design process, we've built and deployed Gobo in the wild and conducted a pilot study in the form of a survey to understand how the users respond to the shift of control from invisible algorithms to themselves. Our initial findings suggest that Gobo has potential to provide an alternate design space to enhance control, transparency, and explainability in social media.
Belongie, Serge., Goel, Sharad., Davis, James., and Bernstein, Michael.
Design Thinking Research: Looking Further: Design Thinking Beyond Solution-Fixation
Springer Nature 2019
[ C.4 ]A Voting-Based System for Ethical Decision Making
AAAI 2018: Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. (Acceptance rate of 24.6%)
We present a general approach to automating ethical decisions, drawing on machine learning and computational social choice. In a nutshell, we propose to learn a model of societal preferences, and, when faced with a specific ethical dilemma at runtime, efficiently aggregate those preferences to identify a desirable choice. We provide a concrete algorithm that instantiates our approach; some of its crucial steps are informed by a new theory of swap-dominance efficient voting rules. Finally, we implement and evaluate a system for ethical decision making in the autonomous vehicle domain, using preference data collected from 1.3 million people through the Moral Machine website.
PRESS: Social Media Has Failed Its Self-Driving Test (Bloomberg) | Researchers go after the biggest problem with self-driving cars (Axios)
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All Hands on Deck 2018: National Ocean Exploration Forum, NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research and MIT Media Lab
Deep ocean ecosystems are an important component of our planet, but they remain scientifically under explored. Traditionally, research on the ocean ecosystems has been decentralized and scattered, involving small teams of experts, on single ships, traveling to distant locations, and mapping oceans as much as possible within a limited time. This has restricted rapid advancement and sharing of scientific knowledge of the ocean with broader communities. While the advent of deep learning and an unprecedented growth of the seafloor and satellite datasets provide an exciting opportunity to decode patterns in deep ocean ecosystems, these datasets are unlabeled, decentralized, and disorganized. In addition, existing deep learning algorithms often fail to capture and incorporate human insights and local knowledge in scientific explorations. This heightens the need for designing a centralized citizen science platform for collectively studying and exploring the ocean. Toward this goal, we present foundational and methodological building blocks required to design the platform. This work makes several contributions to the open ocean exploration community. First, we illustrate the science of crowd powered computational ecosystem. Second, we explore incentive mechanisms to accomplish high cognitive overload tasks and augment human-AI performance at scale. Third, we discuss ethics and best practices of designing and empowering a sustainable community of citizen scientists. We provide an important opportunity to harness crowdcomputing and AI for deep ocean exploration.
Santa Fe Institute, Complex Systems Summer School Proceedings 2018
The lack of progress on sustainable development has received considerable critical attention from the United Nations. As a result, the UN has created the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to provide a blueprint for global development. In order to evaluate the success on SDGs, the UN's Inter-Agency and Expert Group (IAEG-SDGs) introduced the global indicator framework with consensus on 232 parameters. However, these parameters are broad and tend to miss socio-cultural context along with local constraints across the world. Therefore, the generalisability of the global indicator framework is problematic. A number of studies have examined interlinks and interactions between SDGs and respective indicators (e.g. Blanc, 2014, Nilsson et al., 2016, Weitz et al., 2018, Nilsson et al., 2018) through subjective measures, but to date none has systematically studied creation of SDGs beyond government agreements on indicators. In this paper, I provide a conceptual theoretical framework based on Latent Dirichlet Allocation (Blei et al., 2003), a Bayesian inference model, to study the interlinks and evolution of SDGs in the context of local constraints. I envisage that this research will provide an important opportunity to engineer quantitative measures for evaluating the success and refinements of sustainable development programs.
[ C.3 ]Crowd Research: Open and Scalable University Laboratories
Belongie, Serge., Goel, Sharad., Davis, James., and Bernstein, Michael.
UIST 2017: ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, (Acceptance rate of 22.5%)
Research experiences today are limited to a privileged few at select universities. Providing open access to research experiences would enable global upward mobility and increased diversity in the scientific workforce. But, how do we coordinate a crowd of diverse volunteers on open-ended research? How could a PI have enough visibility into each person's contributions to recommend them for further study? We present Crowd Research, a crowdsourcing technique that coordinates open-ended research through an iterative cycle of open contribution, synchronous collaboration, and peer assessment. To aid upward mobility and recognize contributions in publications, we introduce a decentralized credit system: participants allocate credits to each other, which a graph centrality algorithm translates into a collectively-created author order. Over 1,500 people from 62 countries have participated, 74% from institutions with low access to research. Over two years and three projects, this crowd has produced articles at top-tier Computer Science venues, and participants have gone on to leading graduate programs.
PRESS: A Stanford-led Platform for Crowdsourced Research Gives Experience to Global Participants (Stanford News)
PDF Web [ACM UIST Best Paper Honorable Mention, top 2.5% of the technical paper submissions]
CSCW 2017: The ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (Acceptance rate of 25%)
Crowd workers are distributed and decentralized. While decentralization is designed to utilize independent judgment to promote high-quality results, it paradoxically undercuts behaviors and institutions that are critical to high-quality work. Reputation is one central example: crowdsourcing systems depend on reputation scores from decentralized workers and requesters, but these scores are notoriously inflated and uninformative. In this paper, we draw inspiration from historical worker guilds (e.g., in the silk trade) to design and implement crowd guilds: centralized groups of crowd workers who collectively certify each other's quality through double-blind peer assessment. A two week field experiment compared crowd guilds to a traditional decentralized crowd work model. Crowd guilds produced reputation signals more strongly correlated with ground-truth worker quality than signals available on current platforms, and more accurate than in the traditional model.
IC2S2 2017: International Conference on Computational Social Science
Historically, scientific experiments have been conducted at a small scale either with artificial environments or with the expertise of limited number of scientists. While social science literature investigates very deep questions to understand human behavior, many experiments are usually limited by the number of participants and duration of a study. On the contrary, computer science literature exploits advanced computational techniques to crunch voluminous datasets, but research designs are generally not experimental, which limits the opportunity to generate causal inferences. In this tutorial we demonstrate how crowdcomputing can enable computational social scientists to engage with millions of users on the Internet and study human behavior at scale for a longer time. We showcase pitfalls and lessons learned from various crowdcomputing and citizen science projects. Furthermore, we provide insights about how to build a sustainable citizen science community to scale science beyond the traditional laboratories. We envisage this tutorial will help computational social scientists effectively use crowdcomputing to investigate deep research questions and longitudinally validate their hypotheses in large scale experiments.
CSCW 2017: The ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work
The success of crowdsourcing markets is dependent on a strong foundation of trust between workers and requesters. In current marketplaces, workers and requesters are often unable to trust each other's quality, and their mental models of tasks are misaligned due to ambiguous instructions or confusing edge cases. This breakdown of trust typically arises from (1) flawed reputation systems which do not accurately reflect worker and requester quality, and from (2) poorly designed tasks. In this demo, we present how Boomerang and Prototype Tasks, the fundamental building blocks of the Daemo crowdsourcing marketplace, help restore trust between workers and requesters. Daemo's Boomerang reputation system incentivizes alignment between opinion and ratings by determining the likelihood that workers and requesters will work together in the future based on how they rate each other. Daemo's Prototype tasks require that new tasks go through a feedback iteration phase with a small number of workers so that requesters can revise their instructions and task designs before launch.
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AAAI HCOMP 2017: AAAI Conference on Human Computation
Low-quality results have been a long-standing problem on microtask crowdsourcing platforms, driving away requesters and justifying low wages for workers. To date, workers have been blamed for low-quality results: they are said to make as little effort as possible, do not pay attention to detail, and lack expertise. In this paper, we hypothesize that requesters may also be responsible for low-quality work: they launch unclear task designs that confuse even earnest workers, under-specify edge cases, and neglect to include examples. We introduce prototype tasks, a crowdsourcing strategy requiring all new task designs to launch a small number of sample tasks. Workers attempt these tasks and leave feedback, enabling the requester to iterate on the design before publishing it. We report a field experiment in which tasks that underwent prototype task iteration produced higher-quality work results than the original task designs. With this research, we suggest that a simple and rapid iteration cycle can improve crowd work, and we provide empirical evidence that requester "quality" directly impacts result quality.
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CI 2017: Collective Intelligence Conference
A key principle of Daemo is to provide crowd workers and requesters with a means of governing the development and evolution of the platform into the future. To facilitate this, we introduced the Daemo constitution, outlining the goals of the platform, relationship between members of the community and its standards, methods for seeking ideas, amending the constitution and resolving conflicts. The Daemo constitution has been a collaborative effort by the Stanford Crowd Research Collective. However, we have also endeavored to solicit feedback from the MTurk worker and requester communities via TurkerNation, Reddit and other channels.
[ C.1 ]Boomerang: Rebounding the Consequences of Reputation Feedback on Crowdsourcing Platforms
UIST 2016: The ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, (Acceptance rate of 20.6%)
Paid crowdsourcing platforms suffer from low-quality work and unfair rejections, but paradoxically, most workers and requesters have high reputation scores. These inflated scores, which make high-quality work and workers difficult to find, stem from social pressure to avoid giving negative feedback. We introduce Boomerang, a reputation system for crowdsourcing that elicits more accurate feedback by rebounding the consequences of feedback directly back onto the person who gave it. With Boomerang, requesters find that their highly-rated workers gain earliest access to their future tasks, and workers find tasks from their highly-rated requesters at the top of their task feed. Field experiments verify that Boomerang causes both workers and requesters to provide feedback that is more closely aligned with their private opinions. Inspired by a game-theoretic notion of incentive-compatibility, Boomerang opens opportunities for interaction design to incentivize honest reporting over strategic dishonesty.
* In the readings of Human Computation classes at KAIST, Cornell University, University of Washington
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Simoiu, Camelia., Veit, Andreas., Wilber, Michael., Zhou, Sharon., Belongie, Serge., Goel, Sharad., Davis, James., Bernstein, Michael.
Stanford HCI Design Open House 2016
Scientific research is becoming increasingly collaborative, yet primarily limited to professional researchers in labs and universities. Can we scale traditional research approach and invite anyone from around the world to participate, and crowdsource large-scale, open-ended research problems? We're scaling the research process to solve open-ended novel problems, by providing access and connecting hundreds of people with top researchers.
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[ SP.1 ]Daemo: A Self-Governed Crowdsourcing Marketplace
UIST 2015: The ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology
Crowdsourcing marketplaces provide opportunities for autonomous and collaborative professional work as well as social engagement. However, in these marketplaces, workers feel disrespected due to unreasonable rejections and low payments, whereas requesters do not trust the results they receive. The lack of trust and uneven distribution of power among workers and requesters have raised serious concerns about sustainability of these marketplaces. To address the challenges of trust and power, this paper introduces Daemo, a self-governed crowdsourcing marketplace. We propose a prototype task to improve the work quality and open-governance model to achieve equitable representation. We envisage Daemo will enable workers to build sustainable careers and provide requesters with timely, quality labor for their businesses.
PRESS: The future of work the peoples uber (Pacific Standard)
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[ J.1 ]RNA Design Rules From a Massive Open Laboratory
Gaikwad, S., Yoon, Sungroh., Treuille, Adrien., Das, Rhiju., and EteRNA Participants
PNAS 2014: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Self-assembling RNA molecules present compelling substrates for the rational interrogation and control of living systems. However, imperfect in silico models—even at the secondary structure level—hinder the design of new RNAs that function properly when synthesized. Here, we present a unique and potentially general approach to such empirical problems: the Massive Open Laboratory. The EteRNA project connects 37,000 enthusiasts to RNA design puzzles through an online interface. Uniquely, EteRNA participants not only manipulate simulated molecules but also control a remote experimental pipeline for high-throughput RNA synthesis and structure mapping. We show herein that the EteRNA community leveraged dozens of cycles of continuous wet laboratory feedback to learn strategies for solving in vitro RNA design problems on which automated methods fail. The top strategies—including several previously unrecognized negative design rules-were distilled by machine learning into an algorithm, EteRNABot. Over a rigorous 1-y testing phase, both the EteRNA community and EteRNABot significantly outperformed prior algorithms in a dozen RNA secondary structure design tests, including the creation of dendrimer-like structures and scaffolds for small molecule sensors. These results show that an online community can carry out large-scale experiments, hypothesis generation, and algorithm design to create practical advances in empirical science.
PRESS: Videogamers are recruited to fight Tuberculosis and other ills (Wall Street Journal) | RNA game lets players help find a biological prize (New York Times) | How turning science into a game rouses more public interest (WIRED) | Game lets citizen scientists participate in creating large-scale library of synthetic RNA designs (Scientific American) | Rebooting science outreach (ASBMB Today) | Why video games are key to modern science (CNN) | Online game helps predict how RNA folds (New Scientist)
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Mentored as a teaching assistant
Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAT), 2018
ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2017
Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 2013
Science 2010
Students Supervised & Mentored
MIT Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) and SM Program
Alice Jin (MIT EECS), Project: Superforecasters IARPA, Co-supervised, Fall 2017
Kealani Finegan (MAS, Wellesley College), Project: Precision Agriculture Markets, Fall 2018
Sourav Das (MIT EECS), Project: Computational Sustainability, Spring 2018
Xuenan Ni (MIT SM, Department of Urban Studies and Planning), Fall 2018 and Spring 2019
Some of the students with positions/scholarships they acquired after the projects:
Aditi Mithal (Awarded Google Venkat Panchapakesan Memorial Scholarship, CS grad program at the University of California, Los Angeles)
Aditi Nath (CS grad program at Arizona State University)
Ankita Sastry (Info Security grad program Carnegie Mellon)
Karan Rajpal (CS grad program at Cornell University)
Nalin Chhibber (Mathematics grad program at the University of Waterloo)
Prastut Kumar (The Google Summer of Code Berkman Klein Center Harvard University)
Prithvi Raj (Awarded Dr. Shanker Dayal Sharma Medal at the IIT Kanpur)
Rahul Sheth (Undergraduate program at the University of California, Los Angeles)
Radhika Bhanu K (CS grad program at Cornell University)
Vibhor Sehgal (iSchool Grad program at the University of California, Berkeley)
William Dai (Undergraduate program at the University of California, Berkeley)
Teaching and research mentoring have been an integral part of Neil's quest: to help grow and inspire a generation of creative thinkers, scientists, and inventors who will collectively engage in resolving some of the biggest societal challenges of our time. He gets a great satisfaction when his students succeed, and their accomplishments give him an immense sense of gratification that cannot be measured. Similar to Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, he would like to be remembered as a good teacher and research mentor. You can listen to his interview at MIT's WMBR 88.1 FM Post-It Wall.
At MIT Neil has spearheaded new initiatives that provided the institute wide platform for graduate and undergraduate communities to come together, share their research, and find mentors. He leads the MIT SP Graduate Student Dinner Seminar Series initiative, and he has partnered with MIT's UROP and Office of Graduate Education (OGE) to host research talks and mentorship workshops for MIT students and post-doctoral associates.
Outreach & Participation
AI and HCI Conferences
Reviewer, 22nd ACM CSCW 2019
Reviewer, The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI-2019
Program committee, 27th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence Conference on Artificial Intelligence IJCAI-ECAI 2018
Reviewer, 21st ACM CSCW 2018
Reviewer, 26th Int. World Wide Web Conference WWW 2017
Reviewer, iConference, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2010
Service at MIT
Co-chair, MIT SP Committee on Scholarly Interactions (CoSI), a graduate organization dedicated to bringing top scholars to the MIT campus and the Sidney Pacific graduate residence
Lead and co-founder, MIT SP Graduate Student Dinner Seminar Series, (visit)
Leadership Council, MIT's Innovating for Billions in Emerging Worlds Media Lab Design Rep for the, MIT GradRat Ring
Service at Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute
Volunteer Robotics Teacher, taught s kids in the Big Brothers Big Sisters program to build robots. This initiative was a part of 100 Robots for 100 Kids, a grassroots project by graduate students at the CMU Robotics Institute.
Co-organizer, EteRNA sessions for Leap@CMU, summer enrichment program for high school students.
Neil is a practicing photographer and an MIT arts scholar. His artwork inspires his scientific endeavors. His exhibition Beyond the Boundaries captures the complexities of our planet, including 3,000 years old glacier landscapes, the Western Ghats (Sahyadri) of India, cultures, and pressing societal challenges such as climate change. Neil's photography work has been published in National Geographic. For more information, please visit `Explore the Planet Earth' on Facebook and Instagram.
The Game of Cricket
Neil's research draws inspiration from sports and team dynamics. He was a former cricket player— opening batter and leg spinner. In the US leagues he kept wickets (similar to being a catcher in Baseball) for Jermaine Lawson, former international cricketer and Harshal Patel, Royal Challengers Bangalore's fast-bowler in the IPL.
Some of the archived man of the match scorecards: [146 not out]
Sports Quote: "and so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high" -- Ayrton Senna, one of the greatest Formula One drivers of all time.
Networks in the Massive Open Online Research
Where The Mind is Without Fear
Where knowledge is free
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments
By narrow domestic walls
Where words come out from the depth of truth
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way
Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit
Where the mind is led forward by thee
Into ever-widening thought and action
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.
Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore
The Impossible Dream (The Quest)
To fight the unbeatable foe
To bear with unbearable sorrow
To run where the brave dare not go
To right the unrightable wrong | To love pure and chaste from afar
To try when your arms are too weary | To reach the unreachable star
This is my quest | To follow that star
No matter how hopeless | No matter how far
To fight for the right | Without question or pause
To be willing to march into Hell | For a heavenly cause
And I know if I'll only be true | To this glorious quest
That my heart will lie peaceful and calm | When I'm laid to my rest
And the world will be better for this
That one man, scorned and covered with scars
Still strove with his last ounce of courage
To reach the unreachable star!
Joe Darion (From The Man of La Mancha)


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Oh my goodness. I know it sounds cliche, but it truly is hard to believe that we are 4 days into 2016. My last session of 2015 was a doozy, in a good way. I photographed sweet Mila a few days before she turned one in the new year! Her mama and I agreed that her personality was certainly captured--she was a bit pensive and definitely dainty. Even the cake wasn't enough to get her too messy.
As I look ahead with this little photography business and reflect back on the year. I'm just really thankful. I'm a lover of story-telling and relationships, so to be able to visually story-tell and build relationships with my clients is truly a dream come true. It doesn't come without doubt or frustrations, but the privilege of creating a visual time capsule for others is certainly enough to push through the hard.
So as I start this year, push through the temptation to compare, to give up, to slow down, to question myself, I want to stop and remind myself of my vision and this gift of photography, this gift of today...
May I chase the light, capture love, learn every day, and not let fear rule me. May my pictures story-tell and be a treasure for others.
Pssst. What would entering a New Year be without setting some big goals?! Let me share of my big dreams [that's on my 5 year plan]--owning a barn or old church for a studio!
Whew, that is out there on the internet-world now. Accountability at it's finest, right?


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canberra case C study the Vip treatment at Ncc NAME: Qantas Australian Tourism Awards TYPE: Awards night CLIENT: Qantas PAX: 960 BUDGET: WHAT YOU DID: The Awards consisted of a sit down dinner with full production including on-stage dancing performances framing the official awards ceremony. Once the event was well underway, the NCC team transformed the gallery into a lounge bar and chill room complete with its own DJ and hospitality. With the band and light show in full swing in the main auditorium, the soundproofed gallery offered full view of the spectacle in a much calmer setting. Guests were able to move easily between spaces to mingle and dance. The National Tourism Alliance chose the NCC for its ability to cater to the growing number of attendees attracted to the annual event. While 960 confirmed guests was a record for the annual awards, the NCC had plenty of room for the assembly, with swift table service and an enviable sound system designed to cater for the space's nine metre ceilings. SPECIAL TOUCHES: The main event space was themed using custom-made screens, each 20 metres across and spanning the room's height, upon which were projected a rolling display of footage and stills courtesy of specialist company, Electric Canvas. The kitchen's only brief with regard to culinary theming was to make sure the meals were fabulous, supported by an extensive list of wines produced in and around Canberra. In addition to vegetarian options, guests enjoyed a three course meal starting with a range of tasting plates. Following dinner and the awards ceremony, guests had the choice of dancing to the live band, The Enormous Horns in the main exhibition area, or networking and relaxing alongside DJs, Mario Gordon and Ashley Feraude, in the Lounge Bar in the transformed upstairs gallery. CHALLENGES/ OVERCOMING CHALLENGES: A separate VIP Lounge was required for attending dignitaries (including Minister for Tourism, Martin Ferguson) to gather for pre-dinner drinks before a seamless entry into the main area for dinner and formalities. The spectacular surrounds set up the awards night for success. 106 mice.net CLIENT'S COMMENT: "It was a fantastic night, the Exhibition Hall was very impressive and we have set a new benchmark for this event. The coordination by the team at NCC who assisted us with the event was extremely professional. We have had great feedback from many attendees." – National Tourism Alliance chairman Col Hughes A U G 1 U S T 2 0 0 8 – M D I U C E . N E E S T A S T Y N O . 5 2 7 6 9 3 -
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Kerriodoxa elegans
White Elephant Palm, King Thai Palm
Kerriodoxa (care-ee-oh-DOKS-uh) – named for William Kerr, early 19th century plant collector, particularly plants from the Orient
elegans (EL-eh-ganz) – elegant
White Elephant Palm is a palm tree that averages 10 to 15 feet in height with a 6 to 8 foot width. It has a slow growth rate, so it takes a while to reach that size. It is more often seen as much smaller specimens. Its habit of growth is roundish and single-trunked.
Leaves are evergreen, palmate, about 3 to 4 feet (older specimens can reach 5 feet) across with 3 to 4 foot long petioles, fan-shaped in almost a complete circle, shallowly divided, and dark green above with a silvery white color underneath. It has palmate veins and darkish purple to black petioles.
It has a thin single trunk that is sometimes partially subterranean with tight rings and persistent leaf bases. It is gray in color as it ages.
It is dioecious. Flowers are small, and cream in color. The flowers are borne in spadices from 1 to 3 feet long stalks among the foliage.
Fruit are yellow to orange in color, roundish to oval in shape, about 1 ½ to 2 inches long, and they contain 1 or 2 seeds.
It is hardy in USDA zones 9b to 11, down to about 32 degrees F., although there have been reports of older specimens tolerating slightly lower temperatures. It does not like frost.
It prefers part or filtered shade as an understory plant
Poor Salt Spray Tolerance – it's risky for this plant to be put in a coastal area as it has minimal tolerance. It would require multiple layers of protection such as in a greenhouse, indoors, or in a small enclosed area such as a courtyard beyond the dunes.
It prefers a rich, moist soil in the pH range of 6.0 to 7.0, but it will grow on a range of well-drained soils. It doesn't like overly wet soils.
It has moderate drought tolerance once established, but the best growth will come with irrigation during dry spells.
Seed – average germination time is about 2 to 4 months in warm soil
Pruning is basically limited to removal of completely dead fronds.
As with most palms, it is best to use a fertilizer specially blended for palms as it provides the proper nutritional balance and minor elements that are needed by the tree.
Boisduval Scale, Palm Leaf Skeletonizer, Pink Hibiscus Mealybug, Coconut Scale, Awl Nematode, Tessellated Scale, Flatid Planthopper, American Grasshopper
Ganoderma Butt Rot; Thielaviopsis Trunk Rot; Calonectria (Cylindrocladium) Leaf Spot, Graphiola Leaf Spot (False Smut)
There are very few totally "deer-proof" plants. There are also, relatively speaking, few plants that are considered a preferred food supply of deer. Most plants fall in the big gap between. One of the biggest variables is the available preferred food supply in a given area. If their preferred food is scarce, they will munch on most anything.
Protect fronds from strong winds as they can tatter easily.
General landscape palm for small to medium sites; containers; understory plant
A search of California Poison Control, ASPCA, Texas A&M University, Canadian Poisonous Plants Information System, University of Wisconsin, Poisonous Houseplants and Ornamentals - Merck Vet Manual, Purdue University - Guide to Toxic Plants in Forages, Poisonous Plants of the Southeastern United States - Alabama Cooperative Extension, Florida Poison Control, University of California, North Carolina State University, and The Cat Fanciers Association did not show this plant on any of their lists.


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Mommy & Me Mini Sessions | Bethesda Family Photography
Mommy and Me Mini sessions are here! I know so many moms who are always behind the camera and never in front of it. It's time to capture you with your beautiful children! Friday May 11th will be a day of mommy and me mini sessions at the studio. The focus is on your adorable children and you smiling, hugging, squeezing and playing with your little ones. AND we've got a special treat - Ryan of Blend Make-up Artistry will be dong makeovers for you before your session! She will give you the perfect camera-ready look! You deserve beautiful portraits with your children! There are limited spots available so email email@example.com ASAP to book.
We'll also be doing a giveaway for an Organic Bloom frame and product from Blend Event!
Ryan will also be offering hair styling for an additional $25. Must be requested at time of booking.
Session fee due in full at time of booking to reserve your spot.
{sample collage with 4 images above - collage comes on a bevel mount to be displayed on an easel stand or shelf}
This is the perfect gift idea for Mother's Day and Father's Day! Surprise Dad with a little planning ahead and have the perfect gift ready to go. Gift certificates are also available for Dads and Grandparents to give to the special ladies in their lives.