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Princeton is an excellent place to learn and do applied math – a lot of professors in many different departments, from engineering to biology to physics, are interested in this area. The strength of the math department and the breadth of possible applications is outstanding. Further, the department is very flexible with undergraduate requirements, so you can usually do anything that you want, as long as it has some mathematical component. The applied math program itself is small, but encourages its students to work with professors outside the core program. If you like math, but also care seriously about some other field, consider being a math major with an applied focus.
- 1 Opportunities
- 2 Challenges
- 3 Program in Applied and Computational Math (PACM) Certificate
- 4 A Sample Applied Math Curriculum
- 5 Course list
- 6 Outlook and Advice
Employment possibilities
Applied math is a very broad notion, and it can be tailored to fit many interests and possible career paths. After graduation you can work in finance, computer science, consulting, engineering, or a number of other quantitative fields – as long as you make sure to take the requisite courses. The combination of rigorous mathematical thinking with an awareness of real-world applications is valuable to potential employers.
If you like math, but also care about some other field, you will likely enjoy applied math. However, you will have the freedom to pursue your curiosity and explore a variety of applications that you may not be familiar with at this point. Have an open mind! Take courses in economics, physics, biology, computer science, neuroscience or any other discipline that you don't know too much about. Maybe you'll discover a new passion! In addition, you get to see what kind of math they are using, and focus on that in your math studies. As a personal example, this is how I realized just how important probability and statistics were across many applications, and motivated me to pursue them further.
Work with excellent researchers, in a broad array of fields
Princeton faculty members are absolutely brilliant as a rule. It is an amazing opportunity to study with them. As a math major with an applied focus, you can do basically anything and everything with a quantitative component. This means that you have access to faculty not just from the math department, but also from many other ones.
Planning coursework
It may not be entirely straightforward to plan your courses. This is in contrast to math, where it is quite clear what to do: take intro 200-level classes, then take the 300-s, and so on. For applied math, the courses are not polished in the same way. Many crucial applied math courses are offered in other departments. For instance, optimization and statistics are in ORFE, algorithms is in Computer Science. Further, depending on what application you are interested in, additional advanced courses are required. However, at this point you may not know what you are interested in. In any case, it is worth to think ahead, and talk to upperclassmen, grad students and faculty.
Logistics of arranging work with faculty from other departments
It is sometimes challenging to arrange independent work with faculty from other departments. Other departments assign independent work differently, and sometimes earlier than the math department. Therefore, the faculty members you are interested in working with may already have a large number of students. This has happened to me two times! However, in both cases the faculty members agreed to also supervise me, so in this particular case things worked out.
Scattered groups sharing your interests
You may find that, while the people and groups sharing your interests exist, they are scattered across several departments. This is important, because you may want to hang out with those people (undergrads and grad students), attend their seminars, and see what they are they working on to get a better picture of the field. This scattered organization brings an extra level or organizational challenge.
Program in Applied and Computational Math (PACM) Certificate
Princeton offers the PACM certificate program for undergraduates interested in applied math. The certificate, in addition to looking good on a resume, comes with a series of seminars in which students can both present their independent work and hear about the projects undertaken by other certificate students.
The certificate has three requirements: coursework, independent work, and certificate seminars. The required coursework is five classes from a wide range of pure and applied math topics, which is fairly flexible. The independent work component consists of a research project with a professor in addition or building off of other independent work requirements, i.e., junior papers and senior thesis. Finally, the certificate seminars are as described above: they entail giving a presentation on your independent work and listening to presentations of others.
For more detailed information on the certificate and on the PACM program, please see their website here.
A Sample Applied Math Curriculum
Statistics and data analysis. Many fields of science, engineering and business are increasingly data-driven, and thus several fields are becoming interested in how to deal with massive data. This is classically a sub-field of statistics, but more recently people from applied math, computer science (machine learning) and computational biology have become seriously interested in it.
Course list
APC 520/MAT 540 Mathematical Analysis of Massive Data
COS 226 Algorithms and Data Structures
COS 402 Artificial Intelligence
COS 423 Theory of Algorithms
ECO 312 Econometrics: A Mathematical Approach
EEB 414/MOL 414 Genetics of Human Populations
MAT 217 Honors Linear Algebra
MAT 218 Analysis in Several Variables
MAT 322 Algebra with Galois Theory
MAT 325 Topology
MAT 327 Introduction to Differential Geometry
MAT 331 Analysis II: Complex Analysis
MAT 332 Analysis III: Integration Theory
MAT 390 Probability Theory
MAT 391 Random Processes
MAT 90 Representation Theory of Finite Groups
MOL 342 Genetics
MOL 455/ COS 455 Introduction to Genomics and Computational Biology
ORF 522 Linear Optimization
ORF 524 Statistical Theory and Methods
ORF 525 Generalized Regression Models
ORF 527 Stochastic Calculus
ORF 565 Empirical Processes and Asymptotic Statistics
PHY 105 Advanced Physics (Mechanics)
PHY 106 Advanced Physics (Electromagnetism)
PHY 207 Mechanics and Waves
Outlook and Advice
Applied math is really everywhere – consider, for instance, the problem of predicting new data points from past data. This is essentially a mathematical problem, yet it can be used in almost any field. I would encourage students in applied math to take courses in different departments and talk to a professors whose research sounds interesting. I would also add that they shouldn't be afraid of not knowing enough math or, conversely, working on a project without "enough" math. What really matters is that you can pick up the necessary tools to understand and solve the problem you're working on – from my perspective, applied math is all about taking problems from other disciplines and using mathematical techniques to solve them.
Carlee Joe-Wong '11 (cjoe[at]math[dot]princeton[dot]edu)
Edgar Dobriban '12 (dobribanedgar[at]gmail[dot]com)


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we also decided to consolidate the kiddos artwork on canvas all into one place.
the mudroom walls.
i'm sure they like seeing their work proudly displayed as the best decor choice for that room :)
i can't wait to add more!
SO CUTE, LOVE IT ALL! YOUR NUMBERS REMIND ME OF A SHOP THAT I WORKED AT ...IT WAS A REALLY OLD HOUSE AND THEY HAD THE FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT PAINTED UP THE STEPS! THE LITTLE DETAILS ARE WHAT MAKES IT HOME! I CANT WAIT TO DISPLAY MY KIDS ARTWORK SOMEWHERE IN OUR HOUSE!ReplyDelete
Love the addition of the numbers on the staircase. And, what a great way to display their artwork. Such a happy place!ReplyDelete
Wow, your children's art is awesome! Love those flowers! :) I'd seriously frame it and hang it in my living room!
I love the idea of the numbers too! I'm (painstakingly) painting our stairs and considered doing numbers on our stairs too! LOVE how they turned out! My only concern is that I'm afraid once we have babies I'll want to put a runner up the center of them..
Both additions look great! Love the numbers--thinking about doing that on our basement stairs. And the artwork is so fun and cheery:)ReplyDelete
I've always kept my girls' artwork in a large (never-used!) pizza box after it's time on the fridge but you've inspired me to have them create on canvas and display all their creativity! Thanks!ReplyDelete
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you've done a fantastic job adding personality to the house....love the artwork all in one place and I've always been a fan of numbers on staircases.ReplyDelete
I'd love to see a shot of the whole mudroom.... :)ReplyDelete
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I'm afraid if I hung my kids' art, I'd have nothing but baseball fields. But that could be a theme there...
Love the numbers.
Love the artwork!
I am so disappointed that lightswitches infringe on my hanging space in the mudroom. Everything has to be super high or super low. So, I haven't put up anything!
August fields is such a beautiful name...love it...and I love the numbers on the stairs - my boys would totally dig those!ReplyDelete
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The term "public-private partnership" has an equitable ring to it. It suggests an equal relationship between government and business, a fair balance between private profit and public good, a reward commensurate with risk. That's not the Cross City Tunnel. The NSW Government has been taken for a ride. It has underwritten private profit at public expense. Just how great an expense is daily more evident. Motorists have every right to be livid that useful roads have been blocked or narrowed to force them into the tunnel. The tunnel should complement public roads, not close them. Instead, it speeds the few while delaying the many. And worse is to come, as the Herald has revealed. These road closures could yet extend as far as five kilometres from the tunnel, to make the inner-western and eastern suburbs a giant cattle race to funnel reluctant motorists through a tunnel they clearly regard as too expensive.
The Government must make clear just how far this alienation of public roads could go and, at this very late stage, what it will try to do to head it off, and to reverse outrages such as the narrowing of William Street. It is not enough for the Government to say such restrictions were always part of the deal and the community should have protested louder, sooner. There were protests, and they were ignored, such was the Government's heedless enthusiasm for the tunnel. Anyway, it was not the community that negotiated this lopsided deal which the Roads Minister, Joe Tripodi, now concedes made too many compromises at the expense of the public, favouring the tunnel operator ahead of the motorist. The Government did the deal and the Government must try to undo it - presumably on its knees, if not on its belly, to a tunnel operator which clearly has the upper hand. Ironically, any deal with the operator will, presumably, involve outlaying some of the public money that private financing of the tunnel was supposed to save.
Problems with the tunnel deal will inevitably focus attention on the broader issue of public-private partnerships, and how they should be done. Over the past decade or more, private interests have been jockeying for a bigger share of State Government activities in the infrastructure field, from toll roads to schools and prisons. While reward should reflect risk, the RTA's agreement with investors in the Cross City Tunnel shows the Government significantly reduced the risk while ratcheting up the reward. Offering private partners a fair return does not mean making an enterprise risk-free. If that's the only way the deal can be done, that's a good reason not to do it. However, if governments are determined to be chumps, you can rely on private enterprise to make the best of it.
The lesson in all of this is that while a government can outsource the financing, construction and operation of projects like the Cross City Tunnel, there are some things it just can't contract away - such as the public's outrage. And as motorists sit fuming in a two-lane William Street, that outrage will only grow.
More democracy, less government
Recent elections in Germany and New Zealand suggest that the fairer the voting system, the more likely it is to deliver weak, unstable government. That is, of course, if you accept - most major party politicians don't - that the test of fairness should be how closely the proportion of seats won by each political party reflects its share of the popular vote. The Germans and the Kiwis have hybrid, complex systems designed to satisfy this test. These produce multi-party parliaments in which, more often than not, no party has a majority in its own right, creating stalemates that have to be broken by the formation of formal or informal, and sometimes ill-matched and ill-tempered, governing coalitions. The bargaining process tends to involve the parties jettisoning or at least compromising on election promises to secure a share of power.
The drawbacks of a more representative form of democracy have been spectacularly demonstrated by last month's German election. The opposition Christian Democrats and their Bavarian partners won just over 35 per cent of the popular vote. This translated into just four more seats than Gerhard Schröder's ruling Social Democrats, who had a fractionally smaller share of votes. Both the CDU and the SPD promptly claimed the right to cobble together the next governing coalition. Only now, after three weeks of spirited haggling, has the impasse been partially resolved.
Mr Schröder will stand down, clearing the way for the conservative and inexperienced CDU leader, Angela Merkel, to become Germany's first woman chancellor at the head of a grand coalition of the two major parties. The Social Democrats will have half the cabinet posts, including the key portfolios of foreign affairs, finance, health and labour and social security. (Contrast this continental untidiness with Britain's first-past-the-post May election: Tony Blair's Labour, with the same modest share of the vote as the CDU, was immediately rewarded with a comfortable majority in the House of Commons.)
Even assuming two parties with incompatible ideologies can now negotiate an agreed list of ministers and a detailed program - the process could take another month - and that Dr Merkel can win parliamentary endorsement, a lasting, happy political marriage seems unlikely. This is bad news for Germany. With 11 per cent unemployment, tough decisions are needed to inject growth into Europe's largest economy. An overly generous social welfare system and excessively restrictive labour market regulations require urgent reform. This is not a time for Germany, or its European partners, to be contemplating policy paralysis - however democratically it has been achieved.


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International Cooperation
The idea of an international protected area in this region has been around since the mid 1980s. An international protected area was proposed to recognize and protect the shared natural and cultural history of the two countries in the Beringia region, the US and Russia. The richness of these resources has been recognized by people on both sides of the Bering Strait, and protection and conservation have become priorities for local inhabitants.
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An International Protected Area in the Bering Strait
Q: How did the idea of an international protected area (IPA) come about and how would it benefit the Beringia region?
A: The idea of an international protected area in this region has been around since the mid 1980s. An international protected area was proposed to recognize and protect the shared natural and cultural history of the two countries in the Beringia region, the US and Russia. The richness of these resources has been recognized by people on both sides of the Bering Strait, and protection and conservation have become priorities for local inhabitants. An international protected area spanning the Bering Strait and encompassing lands in both Alaska and Chukotka would serve as a mechanism to increase cooperation in protecting and sustaining the Beringia region.
Realization of this proposal has encountered obstacles, and support for the idea depends upon the current political climate in the two countries involved. Relations between the U.S. and Russia fluctuate, and Russia has experienced several economic and political upheavals. Currently, U.S. foreign policy aims to reestablish and strengthen relations with Russia in as many areas as possible. An international protected area in Beringia is a potentially advantageous bond, and has the potential to become an important and beneficial connection between the two countries There is evidence from around the world that collaboration on conservation can help build and sustain good relations between countries. It also reflects the need for Russia and the U.S. to cooperate in managing natural and cultural resources of the region, especially in light of the rapidly changing environmental conditions in the Arctic.
Q: How is the National Park Services' Beringia Program promoting the establishment of an International Protected Area?
A: The Beringia Program has made consistent efforts toward international cooperation and collaboration in the Beringia region. Although the initial efforts have not led to the establishment of an international protected area, the Beringia Program continues to work with cooperators in the U.S. and partners in Russia on numerous joint projects. These projects promote cooperation and stimulate interest in the region as a whole.
In the past two years presidents Obama and Medvedev have expressed interest in formally recognizing the Beringia region. Subsequently, this idea was high on the White House's radar and discussed by U.S. Secretary of State Clinton and Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at their meeting in 2010. The Beringia Program provides information and updates to those at high-levels who see an international protected area as a strategic initiative to improve US-Russia relations.
Q: Can you tell us about the current situation in regards to an International Protected Area?
A: The National Park Service continues to explore options and frameworks for an international protected area. There is no official proposal for the designation of these lands, but the Beringia Program continues to consult with experts about the possibilities of such an area. Representatives from the National Park Service meet periodically with local residents and communities to discuss issues and concerns. They also try to educate and inform their Russian counterparts and share ideas and strategies through close communication, foreign exchanges, and the Beringia Days bi-annual conference. The program tries to assess and understand the process in Russia and relies on partners to inform and update them on the current situation.
Recently, a group of leaders from Chukotka came to Alaska through the Department of State's International Visitor Leadership Program and toured the Bering Land Bridge National Preserve, Shismaref, and Anchorage. One of the subjects discussed during their meetings was the establishment of an international protected area. The Beringia Program hopes that by sharing information with Russian counterparts, they can better understand how and why an international protected area would benefit local residents.
Q: If an international protected area is established, how will it affect the Native people of Northwest Alaska and their subsistence rights?
A: Among local residents and Native groups, there is the concern that possible designation of all or part of the existing Western Arctic parklands as a part of an international protected area would limit the subsistence rights of the Native population. The National Park Service makes clear that the future designation would not change existing park boundaries nor would it alter subsistence use rights and practices or access to the park lands given under the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act. In fact, an international protected area in the Beringia region has the potential to create jobs, stimulate the local economy and unite divided families across the strait. Further, designation of a protected area could possibly promote and enhance aspects of traditional culture by heightening awareness of cultural concerns.
Q: Are you aware of what is happening on the Russian side in regards to the establishing of a federal park? Would establishment benefit the Native people of Chukotka or put them at disadvantage?
A: The National Park Services' Russian counterparts in the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment are in the process of designating a federal park Beringia in the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug. A feasibility study has been conducted, and both federal and regional authorities have held public hearings on the issue. Currently the feasibility study is being assessed by experts who are examining the technical aspects of the project. Such a designation would be advantageous for local population as it would help to protect their subsistence rights and preserve their traditional hunting grounds. A federal park has the potential to bring jobs, economic opportunities, and increased cultural awareness to local communities. The Russian Federal Government hopes to establish the federal park some time in 2012.
The Beringia program continues to be in close contact with their Russian counterparts as both sides continue discussions about the designation of an international protected area.
If you have questions or concerns, please contact Janis Kozlowski, at 907/644-3503.


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Best of Miami 2011: Ten Best Bands of the Last Decade
Start the motherfucking countdown! The Rising is upon us!
Indeed, we're just days away from unleashing our big, fat Best of Miami 2011 issue upon the world. And to honor the occasion, we've decided to surf against the tide of time by rifling through our massive digital archive of back issues to compile a list of the ten best bands of the last decade as selected by New Times staff.
Undoubtedly, every single Dade County resident with fully functional ears will wanna bitch about our picks. And all you opinionated jerks can feel free to leave your expert corrections in the comment section.
Here's a look back at ten of New Times' best bands from the last decade.
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Awesome New Republic: Best Band 2009
Around here ... this band remains one of the most universally loved live acts, creating an instant dance party within the first few bars ... they're in tune with the cultural Zeitgeist: Not only did they put their recent full-length, Rational Geographic Vol. 1, up for free download on their website, but also they somehow got Blair Waldorf herself -- Gossip Girl's Leighton Meester -- to record a cover of their song "Birthday." For real. OMG! Read the full Best of Miami 2009 article on Awesome New Republic.
Los Primeros: Best Local Pop Band 2008
Remember when bands had magical powers and went on adventures and shit? Like the Beatles, for example, when they took that submarine trip; or Josie and the Pussycats, how they had their own spaceship; or the way David Bowie led that girl into his magical labyrinth just so she could be in his music video in the end. Nowadays, what the hell good is a band? A bunch of funny-hat-wearing wannabes, that's all most of 'em are these days. But not Los Primeros. Read the full Best of Miami 2008 article on Los Primeros.
Torche: Best Rock Band 2007
As comedy icon/Tenacious D frontman Jack Black will attest, rocking is a serious endeavor, and only the truly righteous should attempt it. Miami's foursome Torche has proven its devotion to the fires of aural bombast. Established in 2005, Torche is the brainchild of lead singer/guitarist Steve Brooks and fellow guitarist Juan Montoya, who, along with Juan Nuñez and Rick Smith, produce the hardest, fastest, no-nonsense riffs in all of Miami-Dade. Read the full Best of Miami 2007 article on Torche.
Jude Papaloko and Loray Mistik: Best Haitian Band 2006
Jude Thegenius (a.k.a. Jude Papaloko) draws much of his inspiration as a painter and musician from his youth in Haiti. "In Haiti, if you spoke out against the government, the police could come into your house at night, take you away, and you'd disappear forever," says Thegenius. Despite the high risk, Jude and a group of musicians and activists formed an organization called Sunshine and put on performances that were critical of the government. "The music was about revolt," Thegenius explains. Read the full Best of Miami 2006 article on Jude Papaloko and Loray Mistik.Next Page
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The Headingley 4-H club has been busy. Members held the club's Communications Event on March 2 with 23 presenters.
Brandon Baccaert and Tyler Didyk placed first in Junior two-person visual presentation. Renate and Shavaughn Jochum placed first in Intermediate two-person visual presentation. Rachael VanWyk placed first in Intermediate one-person visual presentation.
Adara Sajtos placed first in Adult speeches, and Laura Didyk placed first in Intermediate speeches. Rosemund Ragetli placed first and Andreas Wall placed second in Junior speeches. Landen Kropelin placed first and Evan Didyk placed second in Cloverbud speeches. Kiana Sajtos, who is a member of the Headingley club as well as the Dacotah club, placed first in Senior speeches at the Dacotah club competition.
All first-place winners had the opportunity to compete at the 4-H Red River area speak-offs. The area competition was held on March 15 in Carman.
The Headingley club was very well represented and all club members gave presentations. Renate and Shavaugn placed second in the two-person Intermediate event, and Rachael placed second in the one-person competition. Rosemund placed first in Junior speeches, and Kiana, representing the Dacotah club, placed first in the Senior speech category.
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Members are now very busy completing their projects, as the club achievement is happening on April 24 at the Headingley Community Centre.
Doors will open at 6:30 p.m., with the program starting at 7 p.m. All of the members' projects will be displayed.
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Fat shaming is a bad idea. I was fat for years throughout junior high, high school, and college ... that's nearly ten years all together and I heard plenty of fat jokes. Heard plenty of "advice" from people who were in good shape. Went on plenty of diets and failed. Gave up by the time I hit college and the gained forty or so pounds over the course of that time.
It wasn't shame that brought me to Primal. It was getting ignored by a hot girl who was literally right in front of me for two days and I didn't even have a pulse to her. That sent me over the edge. That made me decide I was going to make one last ditch effort to have a decent life or give up for good. It took a lot to get me to that point. Shame wasn't the main motivator. Frustration, I think, more than anything.Went Primal July 25th, 2011.
Current Age: 25
Total Loss: 126 lbs
Starting Stats: Weighed 266 lbs, Body Fat 37.6% (100 lbs), BMI 40.9
Current Stats: Weight 140 lbs, Body Fat 15.2% (21.1 lbs), BMI 21.2
Current Goals: Get a stronger core through Pilates and continue being as Primal as I can be.
My Weight Loss Notes Now on a blog page. It starts with "My Weight Loss: Introduction." Available to the public, share with friends if you'd like!
Originally posted by trekfan View PostIt wasn't shame that brought me to Primal. It was getting ignored by a hot girl who was literally right in front of me for two days and I didn't even have a pulse to her. That sent me over the edge. That made me decide I was going to make one last ditch effort to have a decent life or give up for good. It took a lot to get me to that point. Shame wasn't the main motivator. Frustration, I think, more than anything.
I think it is a horrible idea. Why aim to destroy other people's contentment? There is so little of it in the current society, that adding pressure to this area is just wrong imo. It's not like there is a woman alive in this society that is not brainwashed enough to equate thin with happy. It's not like Americans in particularly are brainwashed to be unsatisfied and discontented with what they have, constantly being bombarded with the message of wanting MORE to achieve the Ultimate Happiness.
Brewing more personal discontent and self-loathing is not going to help anything. Least of all the entire developed world across the board weight loss. In my view the things will slowly turn around as people will adapt to living in the society of plenty.
To be honest the most effective way to a healthy state of the humankind is to slowly start raising the price of food, so it becomes a valuable commodity again, not a dirt-cheap drug, coupled with teaching people to enjoy the meals as an experience and re-connecting with everything that is good about being healthy, active and content. Content with less rather than chasing the ever-elusive more.My Journal: http://www.marksdailyapple.com/forum/thread57916.html
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
Originally posted by specsAreGrok View PostThat's what did it for me the first time as well. I used to force myself to do massive amounts of cardio, I'd be running with my eyes closed thinking of hot women and chanting to myself "doing it for the bootie". It worked, lost 100+lbs, got a date with my future wife and then proceeded to pack it all back on in happy bliss. Nowadays, I'm halfway back to where I was when I got that date, but rather than chanting "doing it for the bootie", I get a reminder of why I'm doing this everytime my kid wakes up in the morning.
As for kids, I work with kids for a living and let me tell you, Primal has made things MUCH easier with them. I tire them out, not the other way around. I'm able to tire out my 15 year old brother and his friends. The energy, the freedom of movement, is such a huge benefit. If I ever have the pleasure of being a father, I'm gonna be one of those dads that are able to keep up with their kids, do stuff with their kids ... not sit around sadly and watch them do things. Keep it up man, it's totally worth it when it comes to kids.Went Primal July 25th, 2011.
Current Age: 25
Total Loss: 126 lbs
Starting Stats: Weighed 266 lbs, Body Fat 37.6% (100 lbs), BMI 40.9
Current Stats: Weight 140 lbs, Body Fat 15.2% (21.1 lbs), BMI 21.2
Current Goals: Get a stronger core through Pilates and continue being as Primal as I can be.
My Weight Loss Notes Now on a blog page. It starts with "My Weight Loss: Introduction." Available to the public, share with friends if you'd like!
My parents taught me that making fun of the way a person looks is rude.
The reality is that every pack needs a scapegoat. Now that it's unPC to make fun of women, blacks, Jews, etc., we can all just gang up on overweight people. If we get them all thin, I shudder to think who's next."Right is right, even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong, even if everyone is doing it." - St. Augustine
Who says back fat is a bad thing? Maybe on a hairy guy at the beach, but not on a crab.
Originally posted by Damiana View PostDoesn't work when everyone around you are obese though. Look at Mississippi. Obesity there is the norm.
I'm wondering what fat people have to do with me? its up to the individual how they live their life.Caution! My replies may contain traces of nuts!. My posts are just my opinion based on my experience with the primal way of life, there is no assurance it will work with others in the same way.
Started Primal 15th October 2012
Height 5'9"
Start weight 200lb
Loss so far 33.8lbs, now 166.2lb
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Originally posted by specsAreGrok View PostYou are correct, we should probably just skip the shaming step and just throw fatties in prison; err, I mean "involuntary weight loss camps".Originally posted by canio6 View PostWith armed guards and no food. This way they will eat each other. I mean, you have to eat fat to lose fat right?
Originally posted by Richard Seekins View PostI'm wondering what fat people have to do with me? its up to the individual how they live their life.Female, 5'3", 50, Max squat: 202.5lbs. Max deadlift: 225 x 3.
This is just my take as a former fatty. Even if I was shamed about being fat, how was I going to lose weight? CW and SAD did not work for me. What did work was hCG, which the FDA says it doesn't work. Had I listened to them, I would still be fat, even with Paleo eating.
Why not have the gov't fund all fatties to have lap band or gastric bypass?
Shaming a street junkie to get help? That works, right? How about alcoholics? We can shame them into not drinking? How about the homeless?
They guy who wrote the article needs to be ashamed.
You know, as a current fat person working to become less so, I have to say this is pretty awful.
Shaming someone for how they look doesn't motivate them. It makes them more depressed which will most likely lead them further down the rabbit hole of binging and crash dieting, making them fatter.
Fat people are still PEOPLE and shaming us for how we look is not helpful. Fat acceptance is about remembering and accepting that no matter what you look like, you are still a PERSON, and you still matter.
So many overweight people in the world, from the massively obese to the mildly overweight (like 20 lbs or so) think of themselves as nothing, as unworthy of love, as unworthy of being healthier or better because the world tells us so, every single day.
How about instead of that, you tell everyone, fat or thin, that the problem is not JUST THEM. The problem is the food. The problem is the society we live in that values appearance over intelligence, manners, and kindness. Tell them they don't have to hate themselves, tell them that WE don't hate them just because they aren't physically ideal.
Fat people are not your enemy. They are human beings deserving of the same basic rights and respects given to anyone of any size, race, color, creed, sexuality, gender identification, or any other arbitrary way we've chosen to separate ourselves.
When you call a fat person a 'fatty' you make them into nothing but a thing, an object to be ridiculed and disgusted by. I have often referred to myself that way, to be self deprecating, and at least because if I say it first it doesn't hurt as much when someone else does.
From my experience most overweight people already have enough shame.
It might be helpful to look at when the rise in obesity occurred (70's) and reverse the changes that were made in food production and commodities subsidies. In addition start preparing real food for kids at schools and teaching them real nutrition. Stop giving schools the lowest quality foods. Stop advertising that's at directed at children.Life is death. We all take turns. It's sacred to eat during our turn and be eaten when our turn is over. RichMahogany.
shaming does not work
any dumbass should know that
educate people, show them why 'healthy whole grains' is still keeping them fat, then they won't wonder why they're not losing weight if they do everything rightbeautiful
yeah you are
Baby if you time travel back far enough you can avoid that work because the dust won't be there. You're too pretty to be working that hard.


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Pendleton Murrah served as governor of Texas from November 5, 1863 to June 17, 1865. Murrah was probably born in Alabama in 1826 or South Carolina in 1827, either illegitimate or orphaned early. He attended the University of Alabama and graduated from Brown University in 1848. Murrah moved to Marshall, Texas and began practicing law there around 1850. In 1857, he was elected to the state legislature after losing a race in 1855. He announced as a candidate for the Confederate Congress in 1861 but withdrew due to ill health. He served briefly as a quartermaster officer in the Fourteenth Texas Infantry in early 1862 but was forced by poor health to resign his commission. He defeated T.J. Chambers in the gubernatorial election of 1863. During his administration, military and financial difficulties pushed the state and the Confederacy into contests over conscription, frontier defense, and the impressment of cotton, cattle, and slaves. In addition, Murrah was dying of tuberculosis. In May 1865, as the occupation of Texas by U.S. forces was imminent, Governor Murrah fled to Mexico, where he died at Monterrey on August 4, 1865. In Murrah's absence (May to June 1865), Lieutenant Governor Fletcher S. Stockdale was acting governor.
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Gush Katif referendum idea still alive (JERUSALEM POST) By TOVAH LAZAROFF 02/04/05)
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A national referendum could be introduced into the Disengagement Plan Implementation Bill now being debated by two Knesset committees in advance of a plenum vote set to take place within the next two weeks.
To date, the idea of a national referendum has been supported mainly by opponents of disengagement, who on Sunday held a rally of some 130,000 people demanding that a plebiscite be held on the matter.
MKs who oppose the referendum fear that holding one now could open the door for any future government decision to be dependent on a referendum.
To assuage such a fear, the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee is weighing a rider to the implementation bill in the form of a Basic Law stipulating that a national referendum be used only for questions of territorial exchange.
Among those swayed by the shift is MK Avraham Ravitz (United Torah Judaism) who said while on a Law Committee tour of Gush Katif on Thursday that, under such narrow parameters, he would support a national referendum. He is asking the religious leaders of his party to support it as well.
Prior to the proposal to narrow the scope of a referendum to territorial exchange, Ravitz said, he had opposed it out of fear that it could be used to change laws safeguarding religious rights. The new narrow focus of the bill makes that only a slim possibility.
It´s a small risk to take to prevent bloodshed, added Ravitz. He has become convinced, he said, that a national referendum could prevent a situation in which one Jew would spill the blood of another.
He was also influenced, he said, by Gush Katif residents who said they would leave if disengagement had the support of a national referendum. Among them was Avi Farhan, 58, one of the founders of Elei Sinai in the Gaza Strip, who had previously lived in Yamit until its evacuation in 1982. Otherwise, Farhan said, he would rather live in his Elei Sinai home under Palestinian rule than move.
To show how serious he was, Farhan showed them an article about him that appeared in Thursday´s Jerusalem Post.
The Council of Jewish Communities of Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip, too, has pledged to abide by the results of a referendum.
The Law Committee is weighing including the referendum in the Implementation Bill as part of its examination of the legal issues surrounding the bill.
At the same time, work progressed at a snail´s pace as the Finance Committee met late into the night with an eye toward holding a vote Sunday on the final version of the bill, which details the compensation due to the Jewish residents of the Gaza Strip and four communities in northern Samaria that are slated for evacuation this summer.
"The meeting will go well into the night if not through the night," said MK and Finance Committee member Ronny Brison (Shinui).
The meeting began Thursday morning, but by late afternoon the committee had reviewed only 20 of the 150 paragraphs in the bill, mostly dealing with technical matters, said Brison. Hundreds of proposals to amend the bill have been made, he said.
One proposed change would increase the total sum spent on disengagement from NIS 2.2 to NIS 3.2 billion, said committee member Nissan Slomiansky (National Religious Party).
"If we want to vote on the bill by Sunday, we have our work cut out for us," said Brison.
The Prime Minister´s Office has been hoping to bring a finalized version of the bill to the Knesset for approval on Monday, but Brison and other committee members believe that date is premature. The process is so time-consuming that a subcommittee is still hashing out a final version of the revised bill even as the Finance Committee has already begun its debate on it.
The reading of the bill in the Knesset itself is also likely to be time-consuming, said Brison. It is more likely that the bill will be brought to the Knesset in the latter part of next week and voted on the following week.
The significance of the Finance Committee debate is not in its approval of the bill, but in the details that it changes, said Brison. Should committee members fail to come any agreement, the Knesset plenum would simply revert back to the original bill, he said. (© 1995-2005, The Jerusalem Post 02/04/05)
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You call Paris home. What's your daily routine like?
I am a workaholic. I work almost every day except Sunday. I travel a lot, so I have no routine. One week I'm in Paris and the following week I can be in Beijing or Moscow. The beauty of fashion is that you have a lot of fun and you never know what's going to happen tomorrow or the day after.
Your all-time favourite café, restaurant or bar?
It all depends. During the working week, I'm at avenue Montaigne [where the House of Dior is located]. I like to go to the Plaza [Hôtel Plaza Athénée], because we have a long history together – the Plaza was the first hotel on the avenue and we were the first house of couture.
I also like L'Avenue [at 41 avenue Montaigne]. On my few free hours on Sundays, I love St Germain – especially Café de Flore. This, for me, means disconnecting from the other side. It's more rive gauche. I wasn't born in Paris, but in Morocco (to a Spanish father and Turkish mother). I love the Left Bank; it's very intellectual.
What do you enjoy most about living in what is often billed as the world's most romantic city?
Paris is inspiring. Even the weather inspires me. The city has a fantastic blue sky. And then it will change quickly to be raining and grey. In mid-January, we had snow like Moscow. Only a few days later it rained and the snow disappeared. It's forever keeping you guessing. Maybe Paris is so inspiring for fashion because of this. You feel the spirit of fashion when you hear the leaves [rustling] in the trees. You feel the seasons: you feel autumn, you feel spring. There's a lot of grey – and this is why there's a lot of grey at Dior. We're very Parisian.
All-time favourite holiday destinations?
It's not Paris! I love the sea – wherever there's a nice beach and waves. When I'm in the sea, in the waves, my body and soul change. This is why I'm attracted to Sydney. Whenever I can, I head to the south of France or Morocco. I also like Phuket. My dream is to bring my family to spend a summer in Australia.
Most memorable Seat 1A experience?
I like to remember back when we had the Concorde – doing the trip to New York in three hours, the excitement of telling my wife I spent the day there. In the Concorde, you met people in finance, actors, supermodels – the energy was not just in the speed. Voila! I remember meeting lots of famous people up in the air. Today, the person next to you is on his iPad, not talking to you for the whole 13 hours.
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"If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it."
— Mary Engelbreit
From time to time I have reflected in this column on the many lessons that my garden has taught me. It would be wrong to suggest that one can find the book of life in their garden, but it is equally inaccurate to suggest that the experience of planning a garden and growing one is merely a "nice to have" experience. Gardening is much deeper than a trip to the gym or flying a kite.
A garden is our single greatest opportunity to connect with the natural world around us. Make no mistake; we are a part of a larger whole. As David Suzuki likes to remind us, we are animals, even though we live much of our lives in denial of this fact.
This is the first Saturday of a new year. The timing is perfect for a little reflection and for a deeper conversation with the garden that I live with. Come spring, there is scarcely the time to contemplate what it means to cultivate, sow, plant, nurture and harvest. All I want to do is get the heck out there and turn off the rest of the world.
With this in mind, I have made some promises to myself and, by extension, to my garden. Yes, the experience of gardening continues to change me as a river changes its course. Here is my position on the subject for 2013:
I will Listen More
My world is full of noise. In the morning I get in the car, turn it on, and the radio is already set at a predetermined station with music or talk blaring. By day, emails fill my head with information and planned responses. Television is my primary distraction before going to bed. For the most part it is so unstimulating that I find I can sleep quite well after an hour of viewing.
When I go into the garden, I defer the control of my environment to passing traffic, a train moving in the distance and, oh yes, birdsong, wind passing through the treetops and, if I am really lucky, the buzz of a honey bee or hummingbird finding something of interest in a nearby flower.
This year I am going to be more attentive to such things. I will take more time to absorb the music of nature precisely where I find it. I will not try to control it by filling my head with Nicki Minaj by way of ear buds. I will turn off my cellphone. I will leave the power equipment in the shed whenever I possibly can in favour of a rake, a hoe, a walk-behind-reel-type lawn mower, and the myriad other hand tools that can do the job with a modicum of greater physical effort and time.
I will Observe More
The fish in my pond come to the surface when I pass: a trained response to the approach of the man with the food nuggets. When my koi and goldfish arrive to say hello, I will take a little more time to marvel at their colours and notice their amazing movement, like the school of cyclists that stream past my home on Saturday mornings in the summer.
There was the tiniest of bird nests in one of my dwarf apple trees this past summer. I only noticed it when I drove past it on the riding lawn mower and it brushed against my shoulder. It belonged to a finch, a mother-in-waiting, who was more than attentive. She was a saint for sitting on her eggs, five of them smaller than my baby finger nail. All bird mothers are saints.
Next year I will get off the ride-on mower and spend more time wandering through my apple orchard without any specific purpose, other than just doing it.
I will Create More
One of the wonders of humankind is our ability to dream and convert dreams into something real. Gardens are the result of this ability. There is, after all, no animal that dreams and creates quite like we do. This ability can destroy nature or build it up.
My garden is my best opportunity to work with my natural surroundings to enhance what nature intends to be there. Moreover, I can dream about the property as it once was, covered with a dense mix of trees that stood like giants with their feet firmly rooted in the soil. If I cannot convert my garden into its former natural glory, what can I do to enhance the property to strengthen the link between it and the land that it springs from?
I will Feed and Nurture More
If there is just one thing that I have learned from my garden over the years it is this: one reaps what one sows. I feed the soil and the soil gives back aplenty. My vegetable garden is the greatest gage of this, though the exercise is equally informing with my ornamental trees and perennials.
By exercise I mean the annual practice of adding a large quantity of natural, organic material to the soil in an effort to build up the community of insects, beneficial bacteria and mycorrhizae that make up the foundation of the plants that grow there.
Farmers and gardeners share a stewardship of the land. Each spring I add several cubic yards of compost, composted horse manure and sharp sand to open up the heavy soil. I encourage you to do the same, keeping in mind that the healthier your soil, the better the performance of your garden. It is as simple as that.
I will Share More
This year, I am taking the time to look around me. Who can benefit from my garden? For the last two years I have hired an intern student to help me with my gardening. The experience has been rewarding in many ways for me, and they tell me that they have benefitted also. This year I am looking to hire another one. If this garden can enlighten someone in the flower of their youth, so much the better.
As my vegetable garden grows and matures throughout the season, I bring the excess produce to my buddy Ted at Mother's Deli & Bakery in Unionville for him to sell. I don't charge him for it. He sells some of it right off of the shelf and makes his famous pesto sauce and soup with the remainder, which he also sells to his fortunate clientele. The money is turned over to the Markham Food Bank.
This year I will ask Ted to make a list of the veggies that are of most use to him and I will plan the garden after his wishes, instead of planting what I like to grow. This way, perhaps, more will benefit from this fun and symbiotic arrangement.
And finally I plan on sharing more with Toronto Star readers. I believe that sharing my experiences can encourage readers to overcome the fear of failure, to get their knees dirty and feel good about it. Then, perhaps, all of us will have made progress in 2013. And our connection to the real world around us will be that much better.
Question of the Week
Q: I brought a Mandevilla plant indoors for the winter. Now there are small flies. How do I control these pests?
A: Allow the top 1-inch of soil to dry before watering the plant. This will reduce the population of fungus gnats. Sticky traps can be used to catch flying fungus gnats.
Mea culpa
In my Dec. 29 column, I misspelled Archbishop Romero's name. My apologies. He was a great man and deserved to have his name spelled correctly.
Mark Cullen is an expert gardener, author, broadcaster and garden editor of Reno & Decor magazine. You can sign up for his free monthly newsletter at markcullen.com, and watch him on CTV Canada AM every Wednesday at 8:45 a.m. You can reach Mark through the "contact" button on his website and follow him on Twitter @MarkCullen4 and Facebook. Mark's latest book, Canadian Lawn & Garden Secrets, is available at Home Hardware and all major bookstores.


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DTE Energy Company, DTE is in the exchange NYSE and its industry is Electric Utilities in the sector of Utilities. Based in USA, DTE Energy Company, DTE has a market cap of 16806.31. Since its IPO date on the 1/2/1970, DTE Energy Company, DTE performance year to date is 19.97%. Today DTE Energy Company, DTE has gained -0.54%, with a current price of 93.89.
Ownership of the company is 0.10% for insider ownership while institutional ownership is 67.60%. The management of the company have seen the company have a payout ratio of 70.30%. Return of assets are at 2.60%, with return on investment at 5.50%.
In terms of debt levels and profit levels, DTE Energy Company, DTE is seeing a long-term debt/equity of 1.06. While Total debt/equity is 1.1. With a profit margin of 7.50%, this is combined with a gross margin of *TBA, and operating margin of 12.20%. DTE Energy Company ability to meet debt levels, with a current ratio of 1.2, while the quick ratio is 0.8.
For the last year DTE Energy Company, DTE has seen a EPS growth of -20.60%. A performance for the year of 24.50%. The 52-week high is -5.74%, and the 52-week low is 26.21%. The average volume for DTE Energy Company, DTE is 744300.
With a target price of 102.02, can DTE Energy Company, DTE reach this target? Looking at the value indicators of DTE Energy Company, DTE. DTE Energy Company has a P/E of 22.7 and a forward P/E of 17.8. Perhaps the more useful indicator than P/E, is PEG which has a value of 4.25. DTE Energy Company also has a P/S and a P/B of 1.7 and 1.91 respectively. For P/cash, DTE Energy Company has a value of 525.2, while it is *TBA for P/free cash flow.
At the current price of 93.89, DTE Energy Company has a dividend yield of 3.28%. We see a return on equity of 8.40%.
Looking more long-term DTE Energy Company, is projected to get an EPS growth for the next five years of 5.35%. In the short-term an EPS growth of 4.06% in the next year is forecasted. This is after a EPS growth of -20.60% for this year and for the last five years a 1.50% growth has been seen.


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Community HealthCorps marks 20 years of creating healthy neighborhoods
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Girls run across the field at the Kinnickinnic River Parkway, their friends cheering them on in a relay race. The girls belong to Girls on the Run, a program that builds self-esteem and positive thinking through exercise and healthy habits. Their coaches are volunteers at Sixteenth Street Community Health Centers and members of Community HealthCorps, a health-focused AmeriCorps program founded 20 years ago according to a Milwaukee NNS report.


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July 7, 2014 | Time: 13:02 | Subscribe in iTunes
Featuring Max Skolnik, DC Director of the Taproot Foundation
Max Skolnik, DC Director for the Taproot Foundation, discusses how Project Management provides a phenomenal set of tools to approach charity work that is part of some new thinking in the non-profit sector, and how PM is ultimately part of changing the narrative on how we approach the challenges of the big social issues.
Listen online or read the full podcast transcript below.
About the Speaker
Taproot Foundation
Executive Director. Washington DC
Max is a dedicated non-profit advocate with nearly two decades of leadership experience in the field. After graduating from GWU with an MA in Latin American Studies, Max founded Kid Power in 2002. In his 10 years as the Executive Director, Kid Power operated high-quality academic, nutritional, and service-learning programs for thousands of young people throughout the District.
Currently, Max is the DC Director for the Taproot Foundation, a national organization leading, mobilizing and engaging professionals in pro bono service to drive social change. He resides in DC with his wife Erica and their son Julian.
Full Podcast Transcript
00:01 Speaker 1: Okay, PMs. We know project management does a lot of good bringing common practices that are teachable and repeatable. It's an approach that gives us outputs on time, on budget, within stakeholder expectations. It may even be used to drive organizational transformation. But what if we could change the way an entire industry approaches its mission delivery?
00:22 Speaker 2: I wanna get non-profits excited about project management because it can radically transform the way that they do their work, that there's a liberation aspect to it; that there's a freeing from this cycle of the hamster wheel of survival.
00:41 Speaker 3: From the Washington DC chapter of the Project Management Institute, this PM Point of View, the podcast that looks at project management from all the angles. Here's your host, Kendall Lott.
00:50 S1: Today, I'm speaking with Max Skolnik, the Washington DC Director of the Taproot Foundation, a national charitable organization that is engaging professionals in pro bono service to drive social change. It's a charity that helps companies and charities be better at delivering social service work.
01:09 S2: As we look at this sort of old, antiquated ways of doing social service work, the "charity", the helping people, kind of the missionary approach to doing this kind of work, it's run its course. I think we've seen in many ways how it doesn't work, that we pick a number, pick an indicator, whether it's child poverty which is relatively unchanged if not exploded here in the Washington region. AIDS cases are, as a percentage maybe going down but raw numbers are going up. So, these big, scary, complicated issues have not changed, relatively speaking, in 30 years. And all this money that we're pouring into the system hasn't really changed these indicators, or outcomes, or people's lives. What are the tools that we need to then change the narrative around the work that we're doing? And project management is just this really phenomenal way of encapsulating some of this work into really structured ways, to properly scoping these things, understanding what the needs are, the inventory of challenges that different organizations are facing, different stakeholders are facing.
02:26 S1: Well, let's go right there for a second. How does project management handle that inventory of challenges? That's more of portfolio or macro level look, so how are you associating that?
02:35 S2: To me, I think the key is prioritization. I'll go and talk to non-profits, and I'll say, "What issue is really... What project? What concern is really burning you up?" And the number one thing they'll always say is fundraising; get me money. And I think that these tools that project management can provide is ways to look at these problems and really understand what's driving them. Maybe it's not fundraising. Maybe it's a dysfunctional board. Maybe it's your marketing team. It's the way you're telling your story. Maybe it's the way you've just structured your staff. There's so many things that can impact how you raise money, how you bring an income to your organization. But I feel like a good project team that's using these principles can understand.
03:18 S1: How did you see a project team tackling that?
03:21 S2: I think that there's a huge need within the non-profit community for an external voice, an external observation. Folks who are coming from this cross sector approach, I think that we have become so siloed, not only within our profit sector but within the specifics spheres of the non-profit sector. So, youth people aren't talking to senior people. Senior people aren't talking to the job people. And we have this narrow band of what our reality is, and that obviously affects our work, that affects our relationships and someone. And very rarely switch it up. We very rarely change that perspective.
03:57 S1: It's a change of perspective.
03:57 S2: Yeah. And I think that what these external teams can do is do that in a really powerful way. We think that we're so insulated in this non-profit world. So, I see them coming in with this whole new tool set, this whole new experience that greatly benefits the work that's happening. And that ability to translate too, I think between sectors.
04:23 S2: I think the problem is that non-profits don't have a lot of experience with these tools. So when they set up projects or set up teams, they often set them up for failure. They have the wrong expectations. They have skewed timelines. They have poor sense of scope. They don't know what success looks like. They don't know how to measure success. And so you'll often just sort of set up these cross-functional teams or different teams within departments, and they don't really go anywhere, or they'll produce something that's not very useful. So I think that there is an expertise, there's an art, there's a science to this that would be huge to bring in from the outside.
05:04 S1: So, is that the only way to get it, is bringing it from the outside? Or do you see it as... Is that the faster way to solve this problem?
05:09 S2: Ideally, we want everyone to take on these principles. In our case, they're pro-bono management principles. But you can be trained on this. You can learn these things. So I think that there's an opportunity for an education around these principles, around these tools for non-profits to then take internally, then great. Let's do it.
05:29 S1: What is your experience with project management then? You're not a certified professional yourself in it, right?
05:33 S2: No, I'm not. No, no, no, no.
05:34 S1: And have you used them before? Have you used people who have been project management professionals or professional project managers, whether certified or not?
05:40 S2: So, I've been the recipient of a large number of these sort of projects by people who were trained in these principles as a non-profit provider. So we've done a number of capacity building projects with different entities that have been immensely successful and beneficial. And we're really able to change the way that we viewed our operations, the way we viewed our fundraising, and saw ourselves as more of a sustainable entity as opposed to just this, 'Let's get to the next month, let's get to the next quarter'. And then now, as a person who sets these engagements up, I was kind of a matchmaker for this, as well. I see the power on a much larger scale. We work with several hundred non-profits here in the region, and then thousands nationwide through Taproot. And it's really extraordinary to see how these very small, scoped-out, structured projects can change operations, change behaviors.
06:34 S1: Can you give me some examples? Can we put a little meat around this?
06:35 S2: Yeah. Sure. There's one group that we've worked with is Life Pieces to Masterpieces. They work with young African-American boys, east of the river, east of DC, primarily through the arts. But they sort of are about life empowerment, about leadership, and it's about sort of breaking that cycle of dysfunction in a lot of organizations.
06:52 S1: So, how did they use the project then?
06:53 S2: They're on their fifth project with us. So they did the SalesForce project. They did sort of a demand sales force project. They did marketing. And they took what was a very rudimentary fundraising operation that was essentially the way we all just say, "I'll write a hundred letters to our supporters," or "I'm gonna put a bunch of flyers in the local dry cleaner", to a very sophisticated donor database, data-driven, looking at the benevon model, all these kinds of things to really create a much more advanced development operation for themselves. And that was done through a series of projects.
07:27 S1: Why hasn't this happened before? Why is this news?
07:29 S2: The number one reason non-profits always give for not doing these kinds of resources is that they don't even know that first step, where to go. If they don't know where to look, they don't know where to find... So there's that first obstacle that I think really stops a lot of non-profits from beginning this. The second one is that they always give is time. "We don't have time to do this". But what I think they don't have is they don't have a structure. They don't have a path. They don't have a way to integrate into that project, so it's just...
07:54 S1: So, it's not just having the project management and the project manager team. It's having it connected in to your organization. It's the bed at which it lies in.
08:01 S2: Right.
08:02 S1: And you said there might be a third reason.
08:03 S2: Third is their expertise. That they don't feel they have the requisite knowledge to talk with a team, to talk through a project, that they don't have enough to even begin to build HR capacity, for example, or development capacity.
08:17 S1: It's about the culture of the non-profit and how they operate. But part of what it sounds like your mission that you're also hitting on is actually getting them to understand the value of pro bono. So, let me change the question. What is the value of project management in the delivery of pro bono services?
08:33 S2: I think that you can get a group of people around a table and just sort of brainstorm around how to solve a challenge, but how to execute it is a very important thing. And I think we often lack the knowledge of how to secure it, the time to do it, the expertise to do it, and a project manager brings all those things. It teaches you how to scope out projects. It teaches you how to secure the right resources for the right job.
08:58 S1: At the right time. That is, if you bring them in on your schedule, at the right time.
09:02 S2: Exactly. It teaches you how to set up the lines of communications. It teaches you how to properly draft things and review things and not have endless review and have too many stakeholders and too many chefs. Like understanding [laughter] who the right people are, who need to be included in that conversation.
09:18 S1: Are you a voice in the wilderness? Is this the new wave? Are you on the front, the middle, the back?
09:22 S2: No, I think...
09:23 S1: The idea that pro bono is important is one, but the second one is is that one way to deliver that is to understand things in projects.
09:30 S2: There's 'done-in-a-day' type projects, there's 'team-based' projects, there's sector campaigns, there's coaching. There's lots of the different iterations of pro bono. But for the most part, people understand that you need to have these stages, these steps, to get them done. I think that's, thankfully, it's becoming pretty much the way it's done. But I wanna get non-profits excited about project management or excited about pro bono because it can radically transform the way that they do their work, that there's a liberation aspect to it, that there's a freeing from this cycle of, what I call, the 'hamster wheel of survival'. You know, that non-profits, all they can think about is the next week, the next month, the next quarter. And they're stuck.
10:21 S1: As Taproot works with non-profits who understand the value of pro bono and that pro bono services are often delivered to them and that they can find valuable if it's projectized, how can the project management community reach across the aisle or prepare to receive you?
10:34 S2: So, I think we need to create a series of encounters between these two worlds. They could be events, they could be trainings, they could be conferences, where their interaction can start to happen. Maybe it's 'done-in-a-day' type projects. Maybe it's panel presentations. What you... We make use of the interpreting intermediaries.
11:01 S1: Sounds like the boards are the place just strike there, frankly.
11:04 S2: I mean, Taproot talks about this all the time, that the boards are the leverage point, that's the tip of the spear, that if we really get boards to buy into this in a formal way and we talk about the ideas of having almost a pro bono officer. In the same way that there is a treasurer and a secretary, there's a pro bono officer, whose job it is to think about these kind of pro bono projects. One of our best practice principles is always treat pro bono as if it's a paid engagement, to bring that level of seriousness. And I've seen a number of, on both sides, non-profits who say, "These guys are just so serious, and they're so professional, and they're so corporate, but I don't like where they're going with this project, but I'm just going to keep my mouth shut because they must know what they're doing," right? So they're not treating this like a paid... They're not being a client. They're not making demands, but also they're not making suggestions and changes. They're just kind of letting it flow, which is obviously bad.
11:55 S1: They're not acting as a client. They're not being treated as a client.
11:57 S2: That's right.
11:58 S1: A little of both.
12:00 S2: So I think those kinds of issues, issues around learning. We say learning is both ways, we want the client team to get a deliverable, to get something that's useful to them. But we want the volunteers, the project people to to use this to innovate their work, to go back and change their cultures in their companies. There's a lot to learn that non-profits can teach.
12:21 S1: So, PMs, your client service still matters, and your PM tools bring the integration, standards, and discipline needed to get charity work get done, get done well, and have value in ways that are different than in the past. It's transformative, and it's an opportunity.
12:41 S1: Special thanks to today's guest, Max Skolnick. Our theme music was composed by Molly Flannery, used with permission. Post production performed at Empower Strategies, and Tanneclam web support provided by Patomic Management Resources. I'm your host, Kendall Lott, and until next time, keep it in scope and get it done.
About the 'Project Management Point of View' Podcast Series
© PMIWDC and Kendall Lott
This podcast series is a collection of brief and informative conversations between MPS President, Kendall Lott, and a wide variety of practitioners and executives. His guests discuss their unique perspectives on project management, its uses, its challenges, its changes, and its future.


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