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Fluent Freshman - Part 30

Ichirou Moriyama had long been someone Riko had spoken about and therefore someone Kevin knew of.

First reverently as he talked about how someday his brother would come for him and how he’d watch Riko’s games. Then Ichirou never showed up once and the anger set in and mentions of his brother would result in especially bad days.

Kevin’s only saving grace at the Nest near the end was that Ichirou had been as uninterested in him as he was in Riko.

Neil was the one who had handled any communications with the new Master of the Moriyama family and Kevin was grateful for that. His stomach still twists when he found out what it would cost him to have the closest thing he would ever really have to freedom since his mom’s car accident but Kevin could hardly fault Neil since Kevin has no idea if he would have been able to even open his mouth and speak to negotiate with Ichirou. He certainly wouldn’t have thought to bargain for Neil and Jean’s lives.

So he was going to make sure the Neil had the best possible chances to get on a great team not just because he had every faith that Neil could be on the national court but also Kevin wanted him on the national court. Neil was his partner and his friend.

This was his last year that he could help as directly as this so he and Neil were still putting in the hours in their evening practices. It was also the last year that Neil could rely on him to assist in getting everyone up to snuff.

Ichirou Moriyama was going to be stopping by at some point and Kevin had decided that the best way to handle this information was to focus on something life affirming.

“I’m just saying it isn’t an unknown flavor combination.” Kevin argues.

“Kevin there is something very different about vanilla protein powder in chicken stock and Chicken and Waffles.” Aaron says from his spot behind Kevin in Wymack’s car.

“There shouldn’t be! It’s all the same flavors, just liquid!” Kevin turns in his seat to point at Aaron, “You should put on your seatbelt, what if Wymack crashes?” He says for the third time since the car ride had begun.

“That’s my problem, not yours.” Aaron says and his eyes have been locked on the roof of the car since the car ride began which was rude but Kevin had learned to expect nothing less from a Minyard.

“It will be my problem when your corpse breaks my neck as you fly forward!” Kevin hisses.

“Coach, could you do me a favor-“

“I’m not going to crash the car.” Wymack interrupts eyes on the road and hands at 10 and 2.

“God forbid you do something nice for me.” Aaron gripes crossing his arms.

Kevin decides to change his target.

“Coach-“

“Kevin, you’re not putting any protein powder into Smith’s soup. That’s final. Do you want to mess up his Grandma’s hard work to follow the Doctor’s recipe exactly?” Wymack asks.

No.

No Kevin does not wish to mess up Grandma Smith’s hard work.

He just…

A Food pyramid flashes in his mind.

…thinks he knows more than the hospital dietician.

“It’s not that Smith’s Grandma made bad soup.” Kevin says because the woman was a talent in the kitchen even if she might use a bit too much butter. He’d let her know but Nicky refused to translate and she’d smiled so warmly at him and touched his face so gently… “I think she was led astray by bad science and Nicky wouldn’t translate for me.” He says, “If she understood English she would have understood and agreed with me.” He says because he did manage to get her finely chop a bunch of carrots to put into the pasta sauce so that Neil would get some veggies.

She was a reasonable woman who understood the importance of good nutrition.

“I don’t know about that.” Coach says and Kevin wonders what he means by that.

They’re close behind Andrew’s car and Kevin can see two parking spots next to one another near the front except Andrew pulls into the spots in a way that means it is almost impossible for anyone to get into the second spot unless they owned a tiny smart car.

Andrew often parks like that to make sure no one dings the Maserati.

“That little shit.” Wymack grumbles as he continues to drive.

“Aren’t you going to let us out at the entrance?” Kevin asks.

“Who am I, your driver?” Wymack grumbles and does not slow down to let them out at the hospital entrance. “You’ve been bitching about not getting enough exercise and eating too much fat this weekend, consider this just some of the exercise you’ve been wanting.” He says.

Kevin leans back in the chair.

He does NOT pout. He merely frowns with his lips puffed out and feels as if he has been treated unfairly.

He uses this time wisely.

He thinks about Neil and Andrew’s ‘secret’ conversation.

Kevin still doesn’t know Russian, has no plans to learn it because he does not want to know 80% of what Neil and Andrew say to one another, but Kevin has always been great at understanding tone and it’s not that hard to understand that they were talking about FF when he ‘Kapitan Neil’.

He thinks about what might stress Neil out about FF (never once does he consider that FF being in the hospital with a stab wound may be the thing that stresses Neil out, not when there’s an explanation that involves Exy).

FF might choose to leave.

That would not bode well for Neil.

Kevin has already signed but Neil needs the next few years still to make sure he can follow through on his deal with Ichirou.

FF is a great defensive dealer.

Kevin still doesn’t really understand how he can seemingly just appear on the Court to intercept passes but Kevin has been informed that all of his plans to figure it out are ‘medically unethical’ and ‘likely to get him thrown in prison’.

Nicky patting his face pityingly and saying, “Your face is too pretty for prison.” had been when he stopped looking at how he could buy electrodes.

His follow-up search to find out that no prison in the United States currently had an Exy court as a facility had him drop the outline of his research into his recycle bin and right click to delete permanently.

Since Kevin cannot find a way to replicate that particular talent of FF’s then they just need FF to stay.

He also quite likes the steady freshman. He’s probably not ever going to be National Court level like he and Neil are, but he would be a solid Dealer on a good team. Kevin wouldn’t even mind playing with him professionally.

They park the car far in the back of the lot and Wymack grumbles at a different nice car that is taking up two spots. Kevin climbs out of the car and they start their way towards the hospital.

Kevin considers jogging in circles around Aaron and Wymack as they walk just to burn off more of the lunch they’d just had but decides against it.

Maybe a different nutritionist will be on staff today and will be able to back Kevin up on his plan.

***

Captain Neil and Andrew are quickly followed by Nicky and his Grandma both of whom look nervous but some of that seemed to dissipate when they saw him.

“Are you okay?” Captain Neil asks.

FF goes to open his mouth but a nurse interrupts, “He decided to go on a walk in his current condition. I thought we were quite clear that you needed to stay in bed. Stressing yourself is why you collapsed in the Cafeteria like that.” His main nurse chastises.

“Sorry, it won’t happen again.” FF promises because it won’t. He’s planning on asking for a medically induced coma to escape the consequences of his actions so leaving the bed is the last thing he’s going to do. His dad’s trust for him can have money taken out for his medical needs and there has never been a greater medical need in his entire life than right now.

“What happened?” Andrew demands stepping next to Neil.

How does one explain getting a job offer from the Yakuza (Yakuza or Mafia)?

“I wanted to go for a walk.” He answers because he had and that’s easier to explain.

“Why did you meet Ichirou Moriyama?” Andrew asks again in German.

Well dammit.

FF finds himself at a crossroads.

Does he tell the truth? That he’s an idiot and didn’t realize the man was reaching out to Captain Neil? That he went and had an entire conversation with the man who owns Captain Neil, Kevin, and Jean Moreau? That afterward he tried to stand up and fainted which is how he got taken back to his room?

He thinks he has enough lies going on between his own and his grandma’s and he needs to relay something from Ichirou Moriyama.

“Lord Moriyama wanted me to tell you that he no longer needed to speak with you Captain Neil.” He relays just like he said he would and he sees Captain Neil tense.

“Smith.” Andrew says his name.

He also doesn’t want to talk about it any further.

“I’m fine, but I don’t want to talk about it.” FF closes his eyes as he answers back in German. He feels exhausted now and wishes that he had just requested a coma earlier so that he wouldn’t be in this situation. “Captain Neil, you left your phone here and it’s been pinging. Sorry I read one of the texts.” He gestures vaguely to his side table.

None of his guests speak for the next few minutes as the nurses finish reminding him to stay still, that he’s lucky his stitches didn’t break, that he’s on thin ice. He’s tired and he’s hungry so he’s curt with them in a way he’ll regret later but right now it’s just a lot when he can still feel Captain Neil and Andrew’s eyes burning into him.

Then Nicky proves to continue to be the nicest friend he has when the nurses leave and he feels Nicky’s hand take his and squeeze. “Hey, how are you really feeling?” he asks.

FF takes a deep breath, “I have...no idea.” he says. “I’m sorry.” he adds.

Nicky squeezes his hand again, “Hey, Aras made you some soup and we kept it away from Kevin. You’re probably a lil’ cranky because you’re tired, hungry, and in pain. You don’t need to talk about it right now okay?” Nicky says.

He’s really lucky to have Nicky as his friend.

He squeezes Nicky’s hand back and valiantly does not cry. He squeezes his eyes tighter to keep them from slipping out, it’d be embarrassing to cry here like this.

“Thank you.” He says voice quiet but doesn’t open his eyes, knowing what will come out if he does.

His Grandma comes to his side again and strokes his face. Her fingers wipe away the few tears that did slip out despite his best efforts but he thinks she did it so casually that maybe no one noticed.

It hasn’t been a good day, but Grandma’s soup has always been something that makes him feel better. He just wishes he could be alone for a minute with just her to witness the next few minutes.

Nicky, bless him, must sense that because he squeezes his hand tightly before letting go, “C’mon, let’s give Smithy and Aras a moment okay?” He says.

FF doesn’t open his eyes until his Grandma whispers, “My little Rotisserie Chicken, they’ve stepped out.” She says.

“He offered me a job in the Yakuza.” He blubbers immediately. “I don’t even know if they have dental.” He spills one of his lesser concerns.

“Oh honey, let’s eat some soup.” She soothes stroking his face.

***

Neil feels bad.

FF was pale, shaking, sweaty, and despite his grandma’s best efforts Neil had seen a tear slip from his tightly closed eyes.

He looks to his side and sees Andrew’s own hands tightened into fists.

“C’mon, let’s give Smithy and Aras a moment okay?” Nicky says and drags them out of the room through the sheer force of his ire. It’s moment like this that Neil really does understand why it is that FF prefers to spend his free time with Nicky over any other of their group.

They get out of the room and down the hall before Nicky starts in. “You two are the KINGS of not talking about shit so, for now, LEAVE it.” He hisses in German in a bid to keep the conversation private from anyone walking past.

“We need to know what deal he and Ichirou came to.” Andrew says in the same language.

“You’re going to find that out from Ichirou probably once he crazy murders Romero and Jackson in the next couple days!” Nicky cries dramatically, “Smithy probably doesn’t even know the full details because he’s in a lot of pain because he’s been STABBED.” Nicky points a finger at Andrew but wisely does not poke him with it. “Do you think he ACTUALLY went on a walk? Ichirou’s men probably took him since they couldn’t find YOU Neil.” Nicky points at Neil and, again, wisely does not poke him with it.

Neil’s stomach twists.

Maybe Neil should invest in a phone clip like Wymack thought the implication that the Moriyamas came to where his phone was leaves him wanting to skip it like a stone straight into the ocean. Too bad going to a beach still makes his palms sweaty.

“So what WE are going to do,” Nicky does a quick circle to point at the three of them, “is we are going to be good friends and help Smithy because he’s stressed, in pain, and needs friends not INTERROGATORS.” Nicky waves his arms in exasperation.

“Who are Neil and Andrew interrogating?” Aaron asks and Neil looks to the side to see Aaron with Kevin being pulled along by the scruff by Wymack.

“Smithy.” Nicky says.

“Why?” Kevin asks.

“Because Ichirou came and talked to him.” Andrew explains.

Kevin goes pale. “Why? I thought he was going to talk with Neil?” Kevin asks looking at Neil.

“He probably came here following Neil’s phone, which he left. So he grabbed Smithy to talk to him.” Nicky says, “Ichirou seemed impressed and pleased with whatever they talked about but Smithy is a little fragile after all of this so,” Nicky stepped into Kevin’s space, “Leave.” He pokes Kevin’s chest once, “Him.” He pokes Kevin’s chest twice, “Alone.” He pokes Kevin’s chest a third time.

“How would he even have an understanding of who he’s talking to?” Kevin asks looking sick. “No one has mentioned anything about the whole thing with the Moriyamas right?” He looks at the rest of them and Neil knows none of them would mention it.

Nicky rolls his eyes with his entire body.

“Kevin, do you know how many languages Smithy is fluent in?” Nicky asks.

“Uh…quite a few?” Kevin responds looking thrown.

“Yeah, one of those languages is French. Which you KNOW because he’s corrected your pronunciation before.” Nicky reminds Kevin and the Son of Exy blushes slightly.

“What does that have to do with this?!” Kevin squawks.

“Kevin, how many conversations have you had RIGHT in front of Smithy in French as you talked with Jean?” Nicky asks.

“None!” Kevin hisses.

“Can you say that for sure? You know how it can be with Smithy. Aaron over here has basically almost fucked his girlfriend in front of Smithy before because he didn’t realize he was there.” He juts his thumb towards Aaron.

“Hey.” Aaron scowls not happy to be reminded of that. “He needs a damn bell.” Aaron grumbles.

“I’ve talked about it in front of him and you never told us?!” Kevin exclaims.

“It’s Smithy! He’s not going to tell anyone!” Nicky argues.

Which is very true.

FF is just not that kind of guy.

“So we are ALL going to be good, supportive friends to Smithy and hopefully he gets out of here today despite the whole shit show with Ichirou and we get him back to Abby’s where he can rest up in her guest room with his grandma.” He points at each of them with a frown.

“But-“

“Kevin, leave it for now.” Wymack finally steps in to the conversation. “How’s he looking?” He looks to Neil.

Pale, tired, pained, and trying not to cry either from pain, stress, or fear Neil does not know.

“Bad.” Neil answers.

Wymack sighs, “Stay out here. I’m going to go check.” He says.

They watch as Wymack enters into FF’s room.

Kevin is still spiraling from the realization of all the different conversations he could have possibly had in front of FF thinking French would act as a barrier.

A thought crosses Neil’s mind, “Wait, Smith doesn’t know Russian right?” He looks to Andrew because he and Andrew have said quite a few things to one another when FF was there.

“No, he said he isn’t learning it here.” Andrew shakes his head. “Even if he does learn it Smith would just leave if he was uncomfortable.” Andrew shrugs.

They have all seen a ‘Smith 180°™‘ before when he’s walked in and has seen Aaron and Katelyn or entered a room where Nicky was talking to Erik or Matt was talking to Dan. Neil has even noticed one or two when him and Andrew may have been in a less than private place.

It was nice to have someone who would just see them like that and leave it alone instead of betting on it, trying to take a picture, or gagging like it’s disgusting.

Wymack walks back out after a minute in FF’s hospital room, “Let’s give Smith and his Grandma a couple more minutes.” He says and Neil’s heart sinks.

***

Wymack wasn’t quite sure what he walked into.

Smith’s Grandma was wiping his face and feeding him soup which is about what he expected. What he hadn’t expected was what FF was saying to his Grandma.

“….didn’t even wash his hands Gran. What if none of them wash their hands? I can’t work in that kind of environment!” FF babbles as he takes another spoonful of soup from his Grandma.

Smith’s Grandma looks up and sees that it’s just him at the door before continuing in English, “Sweetie, you don’t need to accept the job offer from the Yakuza.” She soothes.

“What do I even do?! What’s the etiquette? Do I send a letter refusing the job offer? Do I email him thanking him for the interview? Was it an interview?” FF asks.

Wymack shuts the door and he’s sure FF hadn’t even noticed him.

Yeah the kid needs a couple more minutes

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#Fluent Freshman AU #FF - Pt. 30 #Can't BELIEVE there's 30 parts of this #Happy 4th of July to all my fellow Americans #Happy Tuesday to everyone else #FF be going through it a bit in this chapter #He's a silly goofy guy but also he's having a delayed reaction to realizing who he just talked to #Yes Wymack was dragging Kevin because Kevin tried to go get into another argument with the Nutritionist #Also Yes GS had Neil eat veggies without his knowledge but EVERYONE else knew #Also yes the car that was parked the same assholey way that Andrew's was is Ichirou's car #Some other things that FF is worried about with the job offer #How does one ask for a raise within organized crime?#How organized is the crime?#Do they have payroll?#Or is it commissions based?#Is there some sort of ACCOUNTANT who manages all of that?#That's gotta be stressful #If he wants to pursue other avenues of employment how does he use this on his resume?#IS Ichirou Moriyama a good reference?#Do they get paid vacation?#What are his benefits?#Does he get to request 1 free hit a year?#If hired can he push a hygiene initiative?#Like YES you are trying to kill your target #But Sepsis is such an awful way to go #What do human resources look like in a crime family?#aftg #AFTG AU #AFTG OC #Andreil

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arsenicpanda · 3 years

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Trying to distract you from the elephants and hippopotami (hippopotamuses?) living above you: If you could write S5, what are the major highlights you’d focus on?

An excellent question! So, I’m going to pick some of the speculation/leaks we have and toss the others and kind of guess/go from there. Also, this gets long, like 1.9k words long, so be ready.

- Main Mystery: After the success of Jughead’s novel and the reunited Josie and the Pussycats, Riverdale has become something of a novelty, part curiosity, part tourist trap. But, this season, tourists and Riverdale residents are starting to go missing. Some come back, some don’t, and those who do come back have wild stories to tell about, idk, Mothman or something, we’ll run with that leak. But they also have a weird drug in their system. At least one of the people who disappeared was a government person with top secret knowledge. Idk exactly what’s happening, but Penny Peabody and perhaps Penelope will be involved. Maybe they’re using people as lab rats? Idk, it’s unclear. Everyone will have a piece of the mystery, even if Betty and Jughead are the ones to put it all together.

- Archie: Archie is, in fact coming home from the army, but instead of Not-Boyfriend #3, he’s coming home with Reggie, who also joined the army. Reggie’s dad is dead and has left him the car dealership, while Archie wants to Do Something For The Community In Honor Of His Dad again (also, everyone knows he’d be a shitty car salesman). Maybe we keep the firefighter thing though, idk. What’s important is that he and Reggie are living together in the Andrews house and, yes, we will get Archie’s gay awakening that we all deserve. This is 100% a ship we will explore starting somewhere in 5a. Archie is concerned about the disappearances and knows people being affected by it, same for Reggie.

- Veronica: Veronica went to business school and did business stuff with something new while being distantly involved in Le Bonne Nuit (Pop’s, however, she mainly handed back to Pop, although she does still do something accounting shit for it or something). However, she also started doing some shady shit (not sure what, I know jack all about this, I’d delegate this decision) and almost lost her business/went to jail/got sued/etc. Now she’s back in Riverdale to try to return to her roots with Le Bonne Nuit and being a Legitimate Business Woman. She married a dude who is reminiscent of her mother, kind of a business partner but also a Lady Macbeth type. The marriage is shaky at best because Veronica kind of forced herself into it, thinking that dating a non-himbo might make her happy after Archie (spoiler: it hasn’t). They will have their own apartment in the Pembrooke, and, yes, Veronica will have an office somewhere with the rediscovered painting of herself behind the desk ala Hiram because I deserve to see it. She’ll probably take it down at some point, but it will definitely be up for a while. She’ll have a rival business person (Elio?) who is both somehow involved in the disappearances, and Veronica’s husband will be revealed to have been working with him at some point.

- Veronica/Archie/Reggie: This is our endgame pairing because I deserve it. Veronica will get close to her himbos again, with Archie bringing out her better nature and Reggie bringing out her better business angles. Veronica gets brought into the Archie/Reggie relationship in 5b slowly, might all get together only toward or at the very end of the season. I’d work out specifics later though.

Now, I’m of two minds about Betty and Jughead. I could break them up like the show will or I could keep them together because I do what I want. I’m going to present both cases:

Scenario 1: They stay together

- Betty: Betty is an FBI agent, but she’s also chafing at the restrictions placed on her. She keeps getting in trouble for going about things in a shady way (like, say, ignoring the need for a warrant), and she’s getting frustrated by all the red tape. Currently, she’s being sent to Riverdale because of all the disappearances (particularly the government person) and because, well, she’s from there, she knows it. She has a partner who she doesn’t get along with. She and Jughead made it through long distance at college and post-grad, and they live together...idk, somewhere. She will somehow reconcile with Veronica, unclear how. May or may not quit the FBI to be a PI with Jughead at the end of the season. Definitely fucks up Penny’s shit at one point.

- Jughead: Jughead is a published author and a PI who Betty sometimes uses as a way around red tape and advocates as a consultant; they both love this. His first novel about Riverdale secured Riverdale’s place as That Weird Murder Town Where Shit Goes Down and turned it into a tourist trap; he hates this. He’s on his...idk, third novel, with his second having done less well than his first. He’s having trouble writing, so he goes back to Riverdale with Betty, hoping that returning to the town that first fueled his writing will help him with his writer’s block. Jughead gets sucked into the spooky part of the mystery, going off on wild tangents while Betty pursues legitimate avenues. 100% does not have a drinking problem.

Scenario 2: Betty and Jughead break up (either post 4x17 reveal or due to long distance troubles)

- Betty: A lot is the same here. She’s an FBI agent chafing at the restrictions placed on her and frustrated by red tape; she gets in trouble a lot for going about things shadily in her usual way. She’s being sent to Riverdale as a Riverdale expert to investigate the disappearances in general but, more specifically, that government person who went to Riverdale on vacation. (There may or may not be a more suspicious reason for the government person’s visit.) She is either a single career woman with a partner she doesn’t get along with or she is having an affair with her partner that is falling apart. While in Riverdale, she’s staying either in an apartment, a motel, or her house, depending. She will somehow reconcile with Veronica, unclear how. May or may not quit the FBI to be a PI at the end of the season. Again, definitely fucks up Penny’s shit at one point.

- Jughead: Jughead is still a novelist upset about the effect his breakout novel had on Riverdale. He is also an investigative journalist who’s been sent to Riverdale to investigate this shit OR a PI who can afford to take a vacation in Riverdale, and he’s happy to do it because it might help him with his writer’s block. He has a live-in girlfriend back wherever he lives, and their already dying relationship is going to break with the added long distance difficulties. He’s going to go after the weirder aspects of the disappearances because he thinks that’s where Riverdale’s answers always are. While in Riverdale, he’s staying with Cheryl and Toni. He will definitely reunite with the Serpents, and probably have some friendship moments with Archie as well. 100% does not have a drinking problem.

- Bughead: They will keep ending up at the same places while investigating and slowly slip back into their old routine and habits. They’ll have a murderboard in the bunker where they meet up away from the eyes of the FBI (Cheryl and Toni draw the line at murderboards in their house), and there will be a lot of pining and sexual tension. They will have at least one heartfelt conversation about why things didn’t work out, one instance where they have to make out to try and seem harmless after being discovered somewhere they shouldn’t be, and one heated encounter (maybe sex, maybe just making out) after being in a lot of danger. If Betty is dating her partner, he’s revealed to be a shady fucker after she breaks up with him like three episodes in. Jughead and his girlfriend have a conversation over the phone where they’re both tryin to break up with the other; it’s quite comical. Betty and Jughead are reunited by the end of 5a (episode nine at the latest) and spend the rest of the season rebuilding their relationship. The season may or may not end with Jughead proposing, possibly with a ring he bought for Betty previously but never had the heart to get rid of after the break up, possibly impulsively with one of the rings he always wears, possibly just with a new ring.

- Kevin and Fangs: Kevin is a drama teacher at Riverdale High, and Fangs does...idk, something, maybe he’s also a teacher, maybe he’s a /bein some field who can work from anywhere, maybe something else. They live together, a little off/on, but in a way that suits them and always ends in on. Kevin is concerned about some of his students who’ve gone missing. Fangs is either in the same position as Kevin or he has an employer who’s being shady.

- Cheryl and Toni: Cheryl and Toni both went to Highsmith College. Cheryl runs the Blossom maple business well and maybe something else, and Toni is a successful photographer. As for the twins, Polly recovered and is now raising them somewhere other than this helltown. They’re back in town for Cheryl’s business purposes, although they mainly live...idk, somewhere else. Either other Blossoms are secretly pulling some shit, Penelope has resurfaced, or Cheryl has a business partner who’s doing something shady. Toni sees some shit while taking photographs of Riverdale. Toni should get a storyline/be involved in the main plot, but I’m not sure what. Maybe she’ll investigate with Betty and Jughead sometimes? She definitely has a lot of interactions with Jughead, Fangs, and Sweet Pea though.

- Sweet Pea: Apparently is here? Maybe lives with Kevin and Fangs? Works...idk, somewhere? Possibly went to community college, maybe works at the hospital as a doctor or nurse or lab tech or something? Maybe is the sheriff? Unclear, but has seen some shit one way or the other. I know he’s not a series regular, but we bothered to bring him back apparently, he has to do something.

- Southside Serpents: Might not even be around? Maybe they disbanded at some point? Maybe there’s a new version of them that’s being shady? Maybe we don’t mention them at all? Unclear.- Alice: Is still here, apparently, living in Gladys’s house. No longer with FP, who has gone...idk, somewhere, maybe lives with Gladys? Alternately, Gladys comes back to live in her house and sparks fly between her and Alice. Probably is being nosy.

- Hiram and Hermione: Doing some shady shit, undoubtedly, may or may not be shady shit related to the plot, possible red herrings. It’s kind of one last hurrah for Hiram because we’re finishing up Veronica’s parallels with him this season. We might get Hiram v Betty at last, though, but then that might be best saved for season 6. Definitely a mirror for Veronica’s relationship though.

And I think that’s everyone? I wrote out Tabitha because we know nothing about her so I have no idea what to do with her. I didn’t break up choni because it really isn’t worth the hassle of breaking up and then getting back together three relationships. I have no idea what the musical episode would be. And I didn’t bother to hash out the plot because I’m not crazy enough to lay out a proper Riverdale plot, but I assure you a bunch of crazy shit goes down and at least one 90s teen/college icon shows up.

#asks #soyforramen #Riverdale #Riverdale speculation #this was such fun thank you for asking!#my thoughts on Riverdale let me show you them #so many thoughts this time

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How to Build the Right Mindset to Change Careers and Learn New Skills Fast

September 12, 2020 8 min read

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There’s a reskilling revolution happening. The COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 has spurred the evolution of how business is done. Whether positioning a new brand or as an authority in the marketplace it’s critical to realize there is a new awareness of the skillsets required by both staff and clients.

Businesses large and small are rethinking the requirements of employees as well as the technology necessary to deliver products and services to clients. This awareness is driving entrepreneurs in the technology and training industries to position themselves to win by offering courses specific to those skills.

Related: 4 Ways ‘Fake It Till You Make It’ Can Backfire

Businesses aren’t the only ones rethinking their futures. Given the significant disruption in the workforce and high unemployment rate related to COVID-19, individuals in the workforce are considering career changes as part of their post-pandemic plans. According to the Strada Education Network, of those individuals who have an interest in pursuing additional professional development and training, 64% say they will be looking to change careers, rather than get another job in the same field. This is a process known as “reskilling.” In fact, a recent report on CNBC.com estimates that approximately 17.6 million Americans will not be able to return to their pre-pandemic jobs, which will require them to learn new skills.

If you are a thought leader looking to support your clients through this upheaval, you are most likely considering how your expertise (content) can lend itself to the mass desire for reskilling. An effective way to do that is to ensure you position your expertise as learning programs that are developed through the lens of Edge Learning. Edge Learning is the continuous process of developing the peripheral skills that have the most impact on a person’s ability to achieve a successful and fulfilled life. Edge Learning is not about memorizing facts, technical skills, or understanding how to effectively use the tools of business. Instead, it seeks to develop a person’s soft skills.

Let’s use workers in the field of accounting as an example. Every well-run business needs qualified employees in their accounting department. These are people who have successfully taken courses of instruction in accounting practices. This is a very specific and important skillset. When multiple candidates are considered for hire with similar training and experience, it is their peripheral or edge skills that differentiate them.

Those peripheral skills include the candidate’s level of confidence, their personality, the type and level of etiquette they demonstrate during the interview process and their communication skills—among others. In essence, what differentiates them is how they present themselves. Beyond the question of whether the candidates have the necessary education for the role is how well they work and if they will be a good fit with the rest of the team. The same hiring considerations apply for every role from those on the manufacturing line all the way up to the CEO. It’s their Edge skills that make the difference. And educators who can deliver skilled training in those areas, in an effective manner, are in high demand. Edge Learning is an essential component of the Reskilling Revolution!

Related: 11 Practical Tips for Successful Schooling at Home

Edge Learners know that confidence will make all the difference in the type and quality of work that comes their way. The world is craving confidence after all the recent uncertainty. That same Strada Education Network study referenced above reports 64% of Americans are feeling concerned, 50% are feeling cautious, and 51% are worried. Confidence has always been key to success, but it’s more important than ever in a post-COVID-19 landscape.

Changing careers

This is not surprising given the current state of the employment market. Though the unemployment rate has since dropped slightly, the employment landscape has permanently and undeniably shifted since April, when a staggering 22 million Americans found themselves unemployed. Given the significant disruption in the workforce, it is not surprising to find that many are thinking about how a career change fits into their post-pandemic plans.

Edge skills that are readily transferable are most desirable by workers considering a change of careers. In volatile markets, it is feasible that workers can expect to work through multiple opportunities before landing positions that best suit them. On the employer side, it has become painfully obvious that HR departments are expected to hire for multiple iterations of teams over the years. It is rare that workers and employers form long-term partnerships in today’s ever-evolving business landscape.

Training content developers need to be aware of not only the latest formats for delivering training but the multitude of avenues for distribution. With the increased development of technological resources, various users of content have their own specifications or requirements for delivery styles and formats. On top of that is the importance of keeping content relevant by analyzing it against the current marketplace needs and having a system for updating it.

It is important to carefully evaluate your thought leadership and the creation of your professional development programs to ensure they meet the needs of the current climate. Edge Learners know that the quality of expertise they receive will make a difference in how quickly they are able to create new opportunities. Learning experiences must be engaging and providing amazing outcomes. They must be delivered in multiple formats to meet the various learning styles of those who will take the courses.

Content created for Edge Learners must meet specific criteria to gain traction and succeed in the coming years. Those deeply involved in the reskilling revolution are bound to be cautious in their evaluations of various training programs. They want solid results as quickly as possible and will denounce any content or training programs that simply don’t deliver.

There are four red flags to avoid when attracting Edge Learners:

The course does not promise a specific result. Instead, it makes vague promises about what the course might do for learners. Be very specific in the goal for each course and design it accordingly. Explore your industry vertical to see if your course qualifies for continuing education credits or some other industry-specific certification.

The course is too broad. Content developers fall into the trap of trying to be everything to everyone. The result is that the course offers very little, to very few. Consider where consultation fits into your course development process. How much research has been done into the specific needs of your ideal clients? Were you already committed to a topic without first listening to what people wanted and said they need? If you already have an audience, that audience knows, likes and trusts you for a reason. Allow them to guide your course development to ensure it meets the specific needs of future prospective learners through surveys and focus groups. When you ask the right questions, your clients will tell you exactly what they want to own.

The course is not implementable. If the course doesn’t provide tactics, strategies or a process for learners to apply, then there is no opportunity for them to put into practice the skills they’ve acquired—and generate tangible results.

The course does not offer follow-up by the thought leader. Thought leaders need to be accountable for the content they create. Think about the overall plumbing of your thought leadership business. How are you best optimizing your connection to your audience and leveraging the technology at your disposal to make connecting with that audience easier? Your course is not a stand-alone – your website, your sales page, your newsletter, your social media, your learning site platforms, all need to work collectively to provide your clients with a holistic product they can trust.

Jonathan Robb, Associate Vice President of Customer Experience & Engagement at NorQuest College is responsible to evaluate content specific to post-secondary institutions. He indicated that his considerations include not only the above red flags but that the skillsets being offered are in high demand both currently and into the future by industry and businesses.

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The reskilling revolution is at hand. The enhancement of soft skills is what occurs through real-world experiences and mentoring from leading experts and entrepreneurs. When new skill development is required, learners first turn to those who have been where they want to go. They value the experience and expertise of others.

The time to evaluate your content and training programs as to their delivery of Edge Learning skills in demand on both sides of the equation of business: business owners desirous of enhancing the skills of employees and workers wanting or needing to differentiate themselves in the marketplace. Use these strategies to imbue your thought leadership programs with Edge Learning skills and strengthen your impact on this everchanging market.

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How to Build the Right Mindset to Change Careers and Learn New Skills Fast

September 12, 2020 8 min read

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How to Build the Right Mindset to Change Careers and Learn New Skills Fast

September 12, 2020 8 min read

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What Does It Take To Be A Good Data Scientist? - By AIM & Simplilearn

Over the years, the term ‘data scientist’ has evolved greatly. From describing a person who handles data, to a professional who leverages machine learning — this definition has seen a great deal of change. Now, circa 2019, there are numerous blogs, Reddit pages and Quora threads dedicated to the discussion about “how to become a good data scientist”. The spectrum of data scientist roles and the myriad of duties he/she has to perform is so broad, that it is very difficult to capture it under one single definition.

Now, the data science sector is flourishing to such an extent that our earlier jobs study revealed that there are currently more than 97,000 job openings for analytics and data science in India right now. It is true that the “hottest job of the 21st century” has all the buzz, glam and traffic, but many enthusiasts are still confused as to what this job entitles. Fewer still, understand, what it takes to be a data scientist. Is it about the skill set? Is it about the education? Is it about the company you work for? Or is it all of the above? About The Study This study was conducted in association with Simplilearn. The data for this study was collected by asking respondents to fill in a survey created by Analytics India Magazine about the popular beliefs around what it takes to be a good data scientist. This included various sub-topics such as upskilling, employment, skill set, and industry trends, among others. We took opinions from all those who practice data science — from professionals with less than two years of experience to CXOs — to get a thorough idea of the working environment in this growing field. Our survey was met with much enthusiasm — and we got some great insights from it. Some of them were expected, and many of them were real eye-openers. Data Science Skill Set In an interaction with Analytics India Magazine, Dr Krishnan Ramaswami, Head of Data Science at Tesco, listed out the ideal skills required in a successful data scientist. Mathematical and statistical knowledge Good knowledge of machine learning algorithms Awareness on programming languages like Python and R which are more tuned for data science Handling large datasets Domain knowledge Problem-solving ability Dr Ramaswami also emphasised on hands-on experiences. He said, “Participation in any machine learning competitions would be an added advantage as they serve as additional validation of their skills. Experience of developing any real-life problems either during their course work or exposures through projects is also beneficial.” In this study, Analytics India Magazine, in association with Simplilearn, is taking a deeper look at what steps data science professionals take to kick-start and further themselves in their careers. What Kind Of Work Does A Data Scientist Want To Work On? This question is of key importance to almost all data scientists because as this is a nascent field, there are still some grey areas about the definitions. That is why the first question we asked during our exhaustive survey was about the kind of work the data scientists preferred to do.

A large chunk of 36.9% of respondents said that they would ideally like to do more of modeling.34% of the respondents said that they would also like to do business interaction and draw business insights.However, 55.3% of the respondents said that they were interested in all of the aspects in data science — modelling, data visualisation, coding, database engineering and business interaction. How Will You Reach Your Goal Of Getting A Job In Data Science? As mentioned earlier, the demand for data science across the industries is real. Over the past few years, the domain has been experiencing a rapid rise in jobs across the world and India is one such country that is experiencing a data explosion. However, there is also a disparity between the number of jobs available and the number of applicants. Data science aspirants say that getting a job is difficult, and noted enterprises complain that the biggest problem they face is of talent crunch -- especially in data science. But why is that? That’s why, when we asked about what was the best way to get ahead in their career, we got very interesting responses.

41.7% respondents said that they would like to update their skill sets.And 24.3% of the respondents said that networking with industry insiders was the way to move ahead in their careers. Upskilling Most companies and business leaders are posed with the question of how to build capabilities in an organisation so that they can ride the wave of digital transformation. Companies are desperately looking for people with skillsets that meets the need of the growing technological demands. When we asked our respondents what was their preferred choice of upskilling, the results were interesting.

Over 33% of our respondents said that they would prefer to register for an online course19% of the respondents said that they would like to take a break from their current work or study schedule and pursue data science as full-time education.About 48% of the respondents said that they would like to study on their own, with the help of MOOCs and other free resources. Self Study In this competitive day and age, enterprises are focussing on not just looking for candidates trained in a single skill but an individual who knows a cluster of skills which will be relevant for more number of years. Some of the skills that are currently picking up are: AutomationRPARoboticsCybersecurityArtificial intelligenceIoTConnected devicesFinTechBlockchain Our respondents had numerous options when it came to self-study.

For instance, 67% of our respondents preferred to take free online courses in data scienceOver 62% of our respondents preferred to watch YouTube videos and tutorials to learn moreAnd almost 44% relied on books Networking With Industry Insiders Building social capital by engaging in social groups is a crucial aspect of strategising career success. Networking helps in accomplishing contacts that can be helpful in getting recommendations, and in turn, better job opportunities. Data scientists’ career also hinges on making meaningful contacts and creating lasting bonds with interesting and influential people. There are many avenues for the same, but our respondents had interesting insights regarding this:

68% of our respondents said that professional social media portal LinkedIn was their choice of tool to start networking in this ever-growing professionOver 62% of our respondents said that attending conferences with interesting subject and like-minded people was immensely helpful in their careersBlogs and social media were endorsed by 55% of our respondentsAnd meetups was another helpful avenue for 54% of the participants Showcasing Skills For a data scientist, showcasing his/her abilities in coding and other software capabilities is crucial. An important part of data science is to stay relevant in the industry by showcasing your interest, expertise and unique opinion in all as many relevant subjects as possible. Our participants had interesting insights regarding this.

63% of our respondents said that the best way to showcase skills would be through hackathons59% said that keeping their Github page updated and active was the way to goAnd over 53% of the respondents said that blogging about their experiences and best practices was the key to update the community and stay connected with them How To Apply For Data Science Jobs As tools and techniques in data science are evolving, jobs in this sector are maturing and gaining more and more prominence. The number of openings that companies have for data science roles is also on an all-time high. That is why, it makes a huge difference as to what company you’re applying to, and what avenue you’re using to approach it.

Almost 46% of our respondents said that they apply for job openings through job portals like Naukri, Monster, Shine, etc, among others.16% of the respondents said that they preferred connecting to companies via social media15% of the participants said that they also were in touch with recruitment consultants for jobs Participants' Profile

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america is resisting socialism, when it might be what it needs most

as we’ve now all seen in the news lately, things are heating up in the US political sphere. With Republican supporters rallying behind incumbent President Donald J. Trump and Democrats nominating their candidate, former vice president Joe Biden. Many supporters on the right side of the political spectrum argue that the COVID 19 pandemic was a stunt pulled in order to harm Trump’s hopes of re-election, with many referring to the virus as a ‘plandemic’. Personally, I feel that these fucking morons are reading between the lines, anything negative that they can spin to fit their agenda. Idiots spend their days wallowing in fear whilst hypnotized by tucker carlson on their 75′’ flat screen TVs. They think he’s doing a great job, the best president ever. Whilst Trump golfs with friends, thousands of Americans are being infected with Coronavirus. He refuses to take accountability, yet millions of Americans are backing him. How braindead do you honestly have to be to see your country being torn to pieces by this absolute sack of orange shit and still think he’s doing a ‘’great job?’’ People are sucking in every word that Trump egurgitates. He doesn’t have a clue what he’s doing, but yet he carries on without a care in the world. Here’s a message to any Republican reading this: he doesn’t care about you. He doesn’t care about the United States. The only thing he cares about is himself and his appearance to the world. He ran for president for the media fanfare that would proceed his announcement as candidate. He knew that the media would spread his heinous ideology being such a bizarre and controversial candidate having absolutely no political experience. The working class of America, for example the miners in southeastern Kentucky, saw hope and a vision of change in electing Trump for president. He talked on his campaign rallies in these communities about getting the miners back to work and giving them good health insurance to treat any illnesses caused by mining coal (such as Black Lung, pneumonia, emphysema, lung cancer and various other respiratory diseases). To this day, Trump hasn’t stood firm on his promises to these people. In 2008, Perry County produced 17 million tonnes of coal annually. Just nine years later, that number dropped to just 4.1 million tonnes of coal annually. (NBC, 2018). I know, sucks for the miners, right? Of course it fucking does. The problem I have is that Trump paints a facade of being ‘a working man for the working man’, a pseudo-socialist. He has no interest in these communities, unless they have golf courses in them. If he was really interested in these communities, funds would have been made available to retrain coal miners to enter other career fields and pursue more opportunities. If he really cared, he would attract businesses and industry to the area to allow for more employment opportunities to open. If he really cared, he would have ensured that all coal miners and their families receive excellent quality health care. But he hasn’t.

Again, America is broken yet no one is prepared to fix it. There are numerous avenues to explore, but the stubborn, chauvinistic and greedy American is too deeply rooted in their capitalist ways to fix it. When do we stop asking questions about capital gain and start asking questions about social gain. Yes, development may cost money but what is the societal gain from this? If we redistribute the wealth evenly, there would be more opportunities to pursue education, arts, music, business and commerce etc. People will be able to grow and develop if there are opportunities presented to them. Instead of devoting $618bn to your military, devote some money to your fucking people. There are half a million Americans that are homeless but yet they continue to find fighter jets and foreign military bases as a priority.

They don’t want you to unite with us, as a comrade. Fighting for real change, not just capital. Fighting so that every human on Earth can live in a safe, comfortable environment without food insecurity, famine, poverty, disease, lack of education. We have already witnessed the damage that over commodification and overproduction has done to our planet. Millions of tonnes of food is wasted every day, while people starve. Is this the world you want to live in? Where one man celebrates while another suffers? We are all born equal, but when did the inequality begin? We have the power to change the world for better, where everyone can flourish.

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The 7 Habits I Learned From Interviewing Successful People

[Editor’s Note: Today’s guest post is from Michael who blogs at Your Money Geek. This is where he shares his experience, unique insights, and profiles inspirational success stories. When he is not writing about personal finance Michael can be found enjoying a sci-fi book.

When you think of success what comes to mind?

You probably think of a great business leader like Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett or Elon Musk. Right?

Some of you may think of an A-list celebrity like Kim Kardashian or Taylor Swift. There is no doubt they are all successful people.

However, people define success in countless ways. From the amount of money in their bank account to the number of followers they have on Instagram, everyone strives to achieve their own version of success.

Whichever way someone chooses to define success, it takes hard work, consistency, and persistence.

My passion for helping my readers reach their financial goals led me to interview celebrities, influencers and business leaders. Sharing their stories brought to life the struggle and triumph that led them to their success.

I want my readers to feel as if they aren’t alone. I want them to hear from real people that they can relate to and learn from.

Through my interviews, I discovered many of the celebrities I spoke with had similar characteristics. I began to see patterns in their journey toward success.

Over time, it became clear to me that applying these patterns to your own life can help you achieve the life you have always dreamed of. If you have been waiting for that push, here it is…

7 Habits of Wildly Successful People

1) They’re Workaholics

How many hours do you work a day? For many people, they work 40-hour weeks and then spend the rest of their time enjoying leisure activities or watching their favorite Netflix shows.

This is quite the contrary for the celebrities I’ve interviewed.

All the entrepreneurs, celebrities, and influencers I interviewed credited working more than 40-hours a week to their success. They live a life of passion and purpose, not one of complacency.

Their drive to achieve their vision of success gives them energy and ignites their creativity in all aspects of their lives. This makes it easy for them to work 12-plus hour days. It amazed me that some of my communication with these celebrities would take place after midnight.

They truly never stop working on their passion and are unapologetic about their persistence.

In my recent interview with Dominic Pace, he mentioned the importance of seeking his own work.

Pace does not rely on anyone to find work for him, rather he pursues his own employment opportunities. He noted that being proactive in pursuing work doesn’t make you aggressive or needy, it makes you ambitious and hungry for success.

Your ambition and drive set you apart from the weak and the lazy. If you want something bad enough, you must put in more work than the average person is willing to. While others rest, you need to be working.

Even if you have a 9 to 5 job, you still have 79 hours a week to do as you please. That number includes 7 hours of sleep a night.

That’s 79 hours of non-sleeping hours when you could be turning your dreams into reality.

If you want to be successful, use your time wisely.

2) They Know Exactly What They Want

Goal setting is an important trait of those that have achieved success.

Knowing exactly what you want is the driving force behind your work ethic and passion. All the successful people I speak with are extremely specific about what they are pursuing.

Diane Franklin believes that success is not only defined by the habits we establish but also in figuring out exactly what we want. To succeed you must define your goal and make a list of what steps you must take to achieve your dream.

If you don’t know what you want, you aren’t alone. But you need to start figuring it out. If you are stuck in a rut, then at the very least you already know what you are currently doing isn’t working, and that’s a start. Try something new and see if that’s better.

If not, try again. This is your life we are talking about, so what could be more important!?

According to Diane, you must push aside your fear of failure and focus on the path to success. If you fail along the way, don’t be ashamed, use the experience as a learning experience and keep working on achieving your goals.

For example, if you’re playing darts but don’t hit a bullseye what’s the point of the game? The point is to get better so that you can eventually hit the target!

Having defined goals with a list of actions you must complete is the key to remaining productive.

Knowing what you’re working toward is key to accomplishing your goals and aspirations.

3) They Respect the Competition

In addition to their passion for work, it is fascinating the healthy respect celebrities have for their competition. Almost every celebrity I interviewed was aware that if they were not willing to put in the effort, someone else would.

The same can be said for successful businessmen and women. Entrepreneurs realize that there’s always someone out there trying to steal their market share.

Successful people respect the fact that to remain successful they must maintain the level of hustle that got them success in the first place. Many believe they must start over each day and work harder than the day before. The first sign of laziness or inconsistency can significantly harm everything they have worked for.

Competition keeps them sharp and on their game. It forces them outside their comfort zone as well as pushes them to grow in their craft and skill.

Many people view competition as a bad thing or something to try to avoid at all costs. However, competition is something celebrities celebrate and accept as a part of life. There’s always someone who will have more experience or a better skill set than you do, but it’s up to you to keep striving for more.

Once we accept the existence of competition, we can accelerate our own growth. To be honest, most people really aren’t paying attention to you anyway. They focus on their own work and what they need to do in order to achieve their ideal version of success.

By using your competition to your advantage, you will always be one step ahead.

4) Avoid Saying No

Time permitting, successful actors, writers and business leaders rarely say no to high-potential opportunities.

It is impressive how rarely celebrities turn down work. Rather than consider a role too small or large, they consider every opportunity to network. They’re not fixated on the result of one effort, rather they focus on how the effort could lead to more opportunities down the road.

Their opportunistic perspective leads them to realize bringing your “A” game to a low budget short, might lead to the director wanting to work with them again on a future big budget movie.

Every opportunity leads to another opportunity. You never know what’s right around the corner if you don’t put yourself out there as much as you can.

Think back to the times when you said “yes” to a new job or an adventure. How did it turn out? Were you pleasantly surprised or disappointed? Most likely, it opened a new door to something you never thought was possible.

By saying “yes” to big and small opportunities alike, you increase the possibilities that happen in your life.

5) Written Schedules

In nearly every interview I conducted, the interviewee kept a handwritten schedule. Either a dry erase board or a simple piece of paper. I was initially shocked that they didn’t use Google calendars.

In my recent interview with Perez Hilton, he discussed his need for scheduling. He doesn’t do spontaneous work. Scheduling his life helps him balance all his avenues of work and stay on top of all his business obligations.

It’s easy for life to get in the way of your to do list. However, when you schedule your day hour-by-hour, minute-by-minute, you leave less room for error. The more structured you are with your daily schedule, the easier it’ll be for you to achieve your wildest dreams.

Time is priceless. The more you efficiently utilize your time to your advantage the more you will see results.

6) They Invest in Themselves

It’s amazing how much time and effort they invest in themselves. Everyone I interviewed could name at least one or two books that they recently read that they found helped their craft.

The vast majority still work with a coach or a mentor, and several had recently attended training or conferences.

Some people view coaches or mentors as something that only non-successful people need. It turns out that the opposite is true.

You are your most important asset. It’s your responsibility to continue to grow and get better every day.

Each day provides the opportunity to learn something new and to enhance your skills. It’s important to take advantage of these opportunities. After all, if you’re not moving forward, you’re moving backward.

Did you know that you only retain 10% of knowledge by simply reading written material? However, you may retain 90% of the material you read and then implement right away.

This means that it is imperative you continue to learn and apply your knowledge. Even if you re-read your favorite books, you will learn something new every time.

7) They Hit the Gym

It’s not just for vanity, each person I spoke with also believes hitting the gym and being physically active helps with their mental state. Everyone we spoke with mentioned that consistently hitting the gym helped them remain balanced and improved their mood.

In fact, according to the Mayo Clinic, exercise improves mood and boosts energy levels. If you’re going to work 12 plus hour days, you better have a way to keep your energy up.

In addition, exercise helps your cardiovascular system work better, giving you more energy to tackle any tasks at hand. Even the busiest celebrities make time to get their sweat on. They prioritize their health because they knew it could help them maintain their level of success.

Your Road to Success

Whether you want to become an accomplished writer, an entrepreneur, actor or a profitable side hustler, the path to success is similar.

The formula is simple, but few are up to the challenge. They are okay with a mediocre life.

I learned there really isn’t one secret to success. People who reach celebrity status or become business leaders are just like you and I. However, they are persistent, have discipline, and are consistent.

They know exactly what they want.

They take every opportunity and seize the day.

What are you doing to be successful each day?

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The gift of light, through science and service

Pawan Sinha, a professor of vision and computational neuroscience in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, first met Poonam when the girl was 13 years old. She lived in a remote village far from the urban bustle of Delhi, the second most-populous city in India. Poonam had grown up among lush trees and straw-thatched roofs and white cows with pointy horns grazing languidly along the dirt-packed road. But she had never seen any of it. Like many of the patients Sinha has worked with since he began Project Prakash, Poonam had been blind since birth due to dense cataracts, a treatable form of blindness more often seen in elderly patients.

Project Prakash, from the Sanskrit word for light, is a nonprofit organization that provides surgeries to congenitally blind children in India, and observes them during recovery to track the development of sight in the brain. Volunteers from Project Prakash travel to remote villages with limited access to health care to screen blind children and, if they are eligible, enroll them in the program.

Sinha first conceived of Project Prakash in 2002 while visiting his father in Delhi. He encountered two young siblings, living in poverty on the city streets, both blinded by treatable cataracts.

“This opened my eyes to the pervasiveness of childhood blindness in India, and more broadly in the developing world,” says Sinha. “Many children have treatable forms of blindness, but they stay blind because of lack of access to medical facilities, lack of knowledge of treatment options, and lack of financial resources to pursue medical care. These children languish in their blindness and lead difficult lives with little education, almost no prospects for employment and sadly, in many cases they die very young.”

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Volunteers transported Poonam from her village to Dr. Shroff’s Charity Eye Hospital in Delhi, where, after a full examination, she received cataract removal surgery. The very next day, the bandages came off. During Poonam’s post-operative check-up, the caregiver held up her fingers both close to her face and from a distance and asked how many. Poonam answered correctly. She could see.

“The name Prakash reflects our immediate goal to bring light into the lives of children who suffer from blindness,” says Sinha. “In meeting this humanitarian need, as a neuroscientist I realized we had an scientific opportunity. With surgery, we can transition a child from blindness to sight in less than an hour and from the very moment the child’s bandages are removed, you have a ringside seat into the process of visual development.”

The call to action

According to data collected by Project Prakash, current estimates suggest that between 200,000 and 700,000 children suffer from potentially treatable forms of blindness, such as cataracts or corneal opacities. Only 50 percent of these children are expected to survive into adulthood, and many suffer physical or sexual abuse at some point in their lives.

Compelled to act, Sinha quickly realized he wanted to create a lasting impact beyond a one-time donation to cover the cost of cataract surgeries for individual children. From the perspective of a vision researcher, Sinha felt he was in a unique position to tackle this problem on a larger scale. He recognized an opportunity for synergy between this profound humanitarian need and a longstanding neuroscientific question he was interested in as a researcher. It would also address a common problem that arises when studying visual development.

“Until now, almost all the approaches we had to observe visual development happening in real-time was by working with infants, and they are notoriously difficult to work with experimentally,” says Sinha. “Not only are they unable to follow instructions or report out, their brains have many developmental processes progressing simultaneously, so it is hard to isolate one from the others. Visual development proceeds very rapidly, so we have a very short window to work with before infants become very sophisticated visual perceivers.”

And that is one of the key scientific benefits of Project Prakash. Older blind children, like Poonam and the kids Sinha met while visiting with his father, have physiologically mature brains, but have not yet been exposed to patterns in the visual world. This makes it much easier to identify the processes of visual development as they unfold as part of the follow-up care. Using functional MRI data acquired from post-operative Prakash patients imaged at various points throughout their recovery, Sinha and the rest of the Project Prakash team observe how a child’s brain incorporates new information into existing structural and functional organization. These studies then inform Sinha’s MIT lab work on computational models of visual learning.

Prakash patients range from children as young as 6 to young adults in their mid-20s; if a young person presents to the Project Prakash team with a treatable form of blindness, they won’t be turned away. A few days after surgery, children begin visual acuity tests using the standard eye charts anyone with glasses would be familiar with. While no child winds up with perfect vision, patients gain significant functional vision, and Project Prakash provides glasses to correct their sight further.

After securing an initial round of funding from the National Institutes of Health, Sinha officially launched Project Prakash with three of his students in 2004. Since then, Sinha has added 20 team members and together they have provided 500 surgeries and 43,000 ophthalmic screenings to children in need.

A ringside seat

Since Sinha established Project Prakash, the humanitarian work has become inextricably linked to the work in his research laboratory at MIT. Many of his lab members are also involved with Project Prakash and pursue a number of research questions related to data gathered from its patients. Typically, the research team travels to India twice a year to volunteer with the humanitarian efforts of the program, interact with the patients, and of course, to gather data.

Conventional wisdom in childhood blindness suggests that older children should not see significant gains post-surgery, since their brain’s visual machinery should be set. However, in one of his first key scientific findings enabled by Project Prakash, Sinha found that even young adults can make significant gains in visual function after surgical intervention.

Members of the Sinha laboratory at MIT have also found new avenues of research probing the development of different visual skills in the Prakash children. For example, Sruti Raja, a research associate in the Sinha laboratory, is working on a project that looks at sensitivity to visual motion before and after surgery. Another ongoing study, led by Sharon Gilad-Gutnick, a staff research scientist in Sinha’s lab and Project Prakash team member, looks at how patients learn to translate what they see into drawings.

“How are they able to recognize and then copy or draw from memory basic shapes?” says Gilad-Gutnick, who has worked with Sinha since she was an undergraduate. “What does that tell us about their internal representation of these shapes, and of objects in general? We are looking at that as a function of time after sight onset.”

Another study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Oct. 30, details how some Prakash patients struggle with the task of recognizing faces. Newborn babies have notoriously bad eyesight, with an average visual acuity of 20/600. According to the American Optometric Association, good visual acuity refers to the ability to see sharply and clearly. Normal visual acuity is referred to as 20/20 vision, which means that you can see patterns as clearly at 20 feet as an average person at the same distance. In this paper, the researchers hypothesize that poor eyesight has an important function in infant visual development, acting as a visual low-pass filter. The filter induces the brain to develop visual processing strategies that emphasize the gestalt rather than local details, or as Sinha describes it, the ‘forest from the trees.”

The Project Prakash patients miss out on this benefit of poor initial acuity, which leads to difficulty organizing and recognizing the spatial relationships of distinct faces. In the paper, Sinha and the team refer to this as the high-initial acuity (HIA) hypothesis. To test this hypothesis, Sinha’s research team used a deep learning algorithm designed to mimic the many layers of the human visual system. They fed the algorithm series of images simulating different visual learning scenarios, from only blurred images to only high resolution images to a mix of the two. The series that led to the most robust recognition performance began with blurred images and progressively increased in resolution — echoing the progression in normal human development and consistent with the HIA hypothesis.

These results have significant clinical implications. Post-operative outcomes for cases of congenital cataracts can potentially be improved by blurring visual stimuli to mimic the acuity of a newborn. By gradually increasing the resolution of visual stimuli, the regimen may provide the Prakash children’s brains the inducement to encode larger scale structures in images and improve subsequent recognition performance.

While the Project Prakash children are a unique subset of individuals, lessons learned from them can be applied to brain development in general. The work reported in the PNAS paper illustrates how studies of newly sighted children can inform our thinking of normal visual development, and also guide the creation of more powerful computational strategies for visual recognition.

“We are essentially providing a possible answer to why normal visual development unfolds in the way that it does,” Sinha says. “It’s not just a limitation imposed upon us by immaturity of the retina, but it might actually have adaptive value.”

Looking beyond vision, this idea could potentially provide insight into auditory development as well; the muffling of sound by the amniotic sac may have adaptive significance akin to the blurring of images in early development.

Looking ahead

While Sinha appreciates the opportunity to tackle these scientific questions, he doesn’t lose sight of the transformative impact Project Prakash has on real lives. In the days following Poonam’s surgery, Project Prakash staff watched her blossom as she healed. She created artwork, she made up dance moves with her caregiving team, and she even took it upon herself to lead another blind patient receiving care at the hospital around the hallways. In addition to this newfound sense of independence and self-confidence, Poonam’s follow-up exams showed a marked improvement in visual abilities.

Poonam’s outcome was not an outlier for Project Prakash participants. Even though the speed of healing and level of visual acuity varies from patient to patient, most report significant improvement both to their vision and their quality of life. Sinha and his team surveyed a group of 60 patients and their families to gauge how their experience participating in Project Prakash improved their sense of independence, their ability to perform in school, and their relationships with friends, family and their communities.

“Across all of these dimensions, they reported big gains, and both patients and their families are uniformly ecstatic about the outcomes of the treatment, says Sinha. “When you take a step back to look at the whole picture, we have made a relatively small contribution by providing this routine surgery. But the consequence of that surgery is so profound for the child and for their family that the families think of us as more. It’s incredibly rewarding.”

But Prakash patients and their families are not the only ones who have been impacted by this work.

“In general, scientific research can be very frustrating, ambiguous and at times, difficult. But when you get to work so closely with children in need and you get to have that real-world impact in addition to pursuing these interesting questions, the motivation is huge,” says Gilad-Gutnik. “As scientists, I think we need to find more ways to work at this intersection of basic science and humanitarian need, and I think that neuroscience and the study of behavior presents a lot of unique opportunities to do that.”

Looking ahead, Project Prakash aims to improve patient outcomes even further through their newest initiative: a year-long residential educational program where patients who have fallen behind in school due to their visual impairment can receive specialized instruction, bringing them to an age-appropriate grade level before integrating them in local schools. They also intend to track how learning and education affects brain structure.

For Sinha, though his experience with Project Prakash has led to many immeasurably meaningful moments, meeting the Prakash patient named Poonam and following her success through the program hit especially close to home. His older sister was a doctor before her untimely death at age 25, and she was one of Sinha’s main sources of inspiration when he established Project Prakash. Her name was also Poonam.

“We are all shaped by the people we meet, and especially by the ones we admire,” says Sinha. “Seeing my sister’s devotion as a doctor to helping those in need, even at great cost to her own health, affected me greatly. Project Prakash is a small tribute to her memory, and the future of many more Poonams.”

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Kathy Webb wants to talk about the ‘good things’ happening in Little Rock

As Kathy Webb enters her fifth year as Ward 3 city director her priorities include improving public safety; working to reduce poverty, hunger and homelessness; and making Little Rock a more sustainable city. One of Webb’s greatest concerns is the way in which the public image of the Little Rock School District impacts its students and teachers. As Kathy Webb enters her fifth year as Ward 3 city director her priorities include improving public safety; working to reduce poverty, hunger and homelessness; and making Little Rock a more sustainable city. One of Webb’s greatest concerns is the way in which the public image of the Little Rock School District impacts its students and teachers. In working towards these goals, she wants the city to do a better job of sharing its successes. “Good things happen in Little Rock; it’s not all bad,” she said. “It’s not all good, but it’s not all bad.” Some of these good things, according to Webb, include the work of students and teachers in the LRSD — even those at schools with so-called failing grades, according to a new state education accountability system. "Failing" schools is a term that doesn’t sit well with her. “We have wonderful schools in the LRSD. We have schools that are not wonderful, but we have wonderful schools,” she said. “We have wonderful things going on at Hall High, we have wonderful kids going to Hall High. And when we talk about the failing school, it is a self-perpetuating prophecy. … When we adults talk about failing schools, we are damaging not only the kids, we’re damaging the city, we’re damaging the people who work there, and it is wrong. It makes me so angry.” As a Hall High School alumna and an advocate of returning the LRSD to local control, Webb said new Mayor Frank Scott, the board of directors and other city leaders need to use their voices to enact change in the district. “The one thing that we have … is a bully pulpit, and that’s all we really have,” she said. “I think we need to use the pulpit that we have. We need to use the platforms that we have to continue to advocate for local control.” Scott’s inaugural speech included pointed mentions of a more transparent city hall and called for accountability in its proceedings. That would suggest he believes Little Rock government has not been transparent; Webb commented that she thought it was a “rather sweeping statement,” but that “improvements can be made.” “I’ll say this, one of the things about city government that I’ve been most critical of is that we have done such a poor job of communicating with people and telling people all the really good things that we’re doing,” she said. “There are always things that we can do better. There are a lot of processes that we can improve and make better, but I don’t think that’s a lack of transparency, I think that’s [about] figuring out the right answers to the solutions. That’s not solving the problem. So, it’s not always a transparency issue.” The Little Rock Police Department also has some praiseworthy programs, Webb said, such as the Coffee with a Cop series and the Pizza with Police events. These outreach programs benefit the community and should help the LRPD improve its uneasy relationship with many members of the public. Webb said she hopes the hiring of a new police chief will further mend this relationship. “I’m looking forward to getting a new police chief who can hopefully start to repair that,” she said. “I think getting out in the community does make a difference. … I hope our new police chief will help set a different tone of being accessible to the community, of being proactive and making sure that from his or her position, [for] the captains and lieutenants and patrol officers, the expectations are very clear.” Scott campaigned on adding as many as 100 officers to the police force over the course of four years. If she were asked to vote tomorrow on expanding the force, Webb said her answer would be no. Webb would rather focus instead on improving public safety by reaching at-risk youth, specifically the 5,500-6,200 18-24-year-olds in Little Rock who, according to data compiled by Marla Johnson and Ken Hubbell as part of the city of Little Rock’s participation in the Network for Southern Economic Mobility, are unemployed and not enrolled in school or job training programs. “With public safety, it’s not just making sure that the police department is staffed, it’s also the work I do on [the] Children Youth and Families [Commission],” she said. “And what are we doing for at-risk youth? How are we targeting neighborhoods that have seen high crime? Well, what are the free and reduced lunch rates in those neighborhoods? What are the opportunities for youth for employment in those same neighborhoods? Is there an overlap? We can’t give a simple pat answer of, if we had X number of police then the problem would go away. No. It’s jobs and it’s opportunity and it’s hope, and there’s some wonderful programs for at-risk youth.” *** As executive director of the Arkansas Hunger Relief Alliance and a city director, Webb can engage in the kind of public policy work she’s been interested in since she was in the sixth grade and volunteered as John F. Kennedy’s campaign manager at her school. “I’ve always gravitated to social justice issues, and … [in] a lot of the work I do at the Arkansas Hunger Relief Alliance, you can look around our city and you can see the effects of poverty, the effects of hunger, the effects of food deserts, the effects on kids who don’t have meals after school and in the summer,” she said. “I’m just lucky to be at a point in my life where there’s that great connection between a lot of the work that I’m fortunate enough to be able to do.” After graduating from Randolph-Macon Woman’s College in Lynchburg, Va., and attending graduate school at the University of Central Arkansas in Conway, Webb moved to Washington, D.C., to pursue her interest in public policy. Webb said she’s “always wanted to be in a position to be able to serve” the public. She worked in the women’s movement as the national secretary for the National Organization of Women for six years, and worked with the campaign of Democratic presidential nominee Walter Mondale in 1984 to encourage his choosing Geraldine Ferraro as his vice president. “I remember how I felt when Walter Mondale picked Gerri to be his vice presidential running mate,” she said. “I remember getting a phone call that night at home, and then I remember going to work that [next] morning, coming off the Metro, coming down Pennsylvania Avenue and into my office. The way I felt, that lightness of step, knowing that as a woman, I could be anything.” Webb’s voice wavered with emotion as she described attending the 1984 Democratic National Convention in San Francisco. “I remember her opening line. I will remember that for my whole life,” she said. “Every time I say it and I think about it, I feel the same way that I did that day when she said, ‘My name is Geraldine Ferraro and I proudly accept your nomination for vice president of the United States.’ ” Webb made history herself as the first openly gay legislator elected to the Arkansas House of Representatives, an achievement that did not come without its share of painful challenges. “There were some things that people said that were hateful,” Webb said. “People say less stuff now, but they may still think it. They just don’t tell me as much. … When I was first elected to the legislature, I felt like I had to work harder [than male legislators], but I also felt like, rightly or wrongly, that what I did reflected not only on me, but I felt like it reflected on my community, because I was the first.” Webb later became the first woman to co-chair of the Joint Budget Committee, a position she said was the result of her rigorous study of the legislative budget process. She now helps train incoming legislators on how to understand and use the state budget, which she said helps keep her sharp. “The budget is a blueprint of what your priorities are,” Webb said. “As a former business owner, I better know about the budget. I think budgets are interesting, and if you’re interested in policy, I would hope that you would also be interested in a budget, because you have to pay for these policies. … It’s taxpayer money, so when people ask me questions about the budget now that I can’t answer, and that makes me take time to go find the answer, it makes me better. If I can’t justify it, then I shouldn’t be voting for it.” Asked her opinion on the more than $170,000 in unused vacation time former Mayor Mark Stodola is claiming, Webb was quiet for a beat before she answered, “That’s a lot.” Webb voted against a benefit change to Stodola’s pension worth $890,000 over time, a change that passed with a 6-2 vote at the board’s Dec. 18 meeting. At that same meeting, the board held off on a decision as to whether Stodola was entitled to claim 54 weeks worth of unused vacation time, a benefit no other elected official receives. Stodola reasons he’s due this time because he’s required to get the same benefits as the city manager, whose contract provides for accrual of unused time off. The board must decide this month whether to accede to Stodola’s claim. Webb said she wants to know how the mayor's benefits package compares to City Manager Bruce Moore's package, as well as how other cities handle retirement benefits. “I think to have uncapped vacation is irresponsible and wrong, and I was very unhappy that this was something coming up,” she said. “It’s just very frustrating, and I’ve heard from many constituents who are very frustrated by it.” Webb also advised contacting state legislators about Governor Hutchinson’s proposal to cut income taxes on the wealthiest Arkansans. She said she would prefer that the state “put money in programs, and I would probably vote that way if I were there, if I were voting, but I’m not. … If I were in charge, I would probably want to put money into permanent funding for [an affordable] housing trust fund rather than tax cuts, but I’m not in charge.” To help make Little Rock “a place where all children can thrive” — a phrase she said she took from the Sunday bulletin of her church, First United Methodist — Webb works with countless organizations, committees and associations. She said she does sometimes get a bit stretched thin, but it’s worth it. “I like to be able to help serve the people I represent,” she said. “But I think on a broader scale, [I try] to serve and try to improve public policy to make the city a better place for everybody.” Kathy Webb wants to talk about the ‘good things’ happening in Little Rock

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GGS Spotlight: Katie Prendergast

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Name: Katie Prendergast Age: 29 Location: Denver, CO

What does being a Girl Gone Strong mean to you? It means becoming my strongest self and focusing on what I can do better each day in the gym, in business, and to enhance my experience of life.

How long have you been strength training, and how did you get started? I’ve been competing in sports since I was in grade school, starting with 3rd grade softball. Practices consisted of cardio, conditioning, maybe bodyweight exercises, sport-specific drills, scrimmages, and then game time, of course.

I started weightlifting in college, using P90x workouts in my dorm or my parents’ basement. I combined that with going to the campus gym occasionally, not really knowing what I was doing. Back then, I always used weightlifting as a way to “get in shape” for vanity, not necessarily because I wanted to get stronger.

That totally changed when I got my first full pull-up. I still wanted to lift weights to look good, but I started caring about the things that I could do because of strength training.

Around that time, I dropped into my first class at CrossFit Scioto in Columbus, Ohio, and fell in love with the friendly competition in the gym. I continue to train at CrossFit facilities wherever I live and travel (Denver, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Spain).

What does your typical workout look like? I’d say it’s “CrossFit-esque.” I will usually tackle a main lift, sometimes starting with an Olympic variation like a clean, jerk, or snatch to develop athletic power. Other days, my focus will be more powerlifting style — deadlifts, hex bar deadlifts, front and back squats, overhead presses, sometimes bench presses (not my favorite), or barbell rows. I usually practice a movement skill like pull-ups, handstand push-ups, or dips, too. Two to three times per week, I’ll “metcon” or do a conditioning workout involving kettlebell swings, box jumps, and other fun stuff.

Favorite lift: Deadlifts!

Most memorable PR: This is not necessarily a PR, but my first muscle-up was very memorable. I was drilling the movement, using a box to assist myself over the bar and practice the turnover from the pull-up to the dip. I decided to just go for an unassisted muscle-up, but missed a couple times. I kind of tweaked my shoulder, so I walked away from the pull-up rig to do mobility drills. I was just going to leave the gym after that, but I hopped on the bar one more time and knocked out my first muscle-up. I just kind of stayed above the bar for a minute, holding the support position, appreciating how awesome it felt to finally get that movement for the first time. There were only four or five people in the gym, but our head coach just started cheering and clapping because he knew it was my first muscle-up and everyone else joined in. It was awesome.

Top 5 songs on your training playlist: The grittier, grungier, bluesy-er, the better!

Lose Yourself, Eminem

Hot Blood, Kaleo

Lonely Boy, Black Keys

Ocean Avenue, Yellowcard (guilty pleasure)

Joker and the Thief, Wolfmother

But also stupid poppy stuff like 90s alt-rock or 2000s rap/hip-hop. Depends what I’m doing.

Top 3 things you must have at the gym or in your gym bag: Water/shaker bottle, lacrosse ball to release trigger points, and my jump rope (because I can’t do double unders consistently with any other rope!)

Do you prefer to train alone or with others? Why? Usually with others, unless I’m just deadlifting with beats bumping through my headphones. As an athlete who grew up playing team sports, I find it really hard to push myself to my limits when I’m alone. Being with a training partner or group of athletes helps me bring out my competitive side and push harder than I can when I’m alone.

Most memorable compliment you’ve received lately: I meet with a fellow personal trainer weekly to go over our action items for the week. At our last meeting, he complimented my writing, which was awesome because I sometimes get too into my own head about what I put down on paper and can be critical about my writing.

Most recent compliment you gave someone else: I told one of my clients how proud I am of her effort lately. She’s been going through a lot of stress with work and family, so it’s amazing to see her re-focus on taking care of herself.

Favorite meal: I love food, so it’s hard to pick just one thing! I’d have to say breakfast as a general category, closely followed by a giant bacon cheeseburger, fries, and a pale ale.

Favorite way to treat yourself: My bi-weekly massage. I leave feeling so much better, and ready to tackle life again!

Favorite quote:

Do what you love, and f*ck the rest. — Little Miss Sunshine

Favorite book: Another hard one to answer because I love to read! Kurt Vonnegut had a way of stating things so simply, plainly, yet in a way that makes you really think about everyday life from a different perspective. I particularly enjoyed his book Slaughterhouse Five.

What inspires and motivates you? Improving at the things I love to do, watching my athletes improve in the gym and come into their workouts with energy, and tackling challenges outdoors, like climbing routes I never thought I could climb.

What do you do? I am a strength and nutrition coach. I work with the “everyday athlete” — from weekend warriors, to skiers/snowboarders, to rec league athletes. My job is to get people moving, push them to move some heavy weights around, teach them that the gym can be fun, and help them fit “fitness” into their busy lives so they can enjoy life outside the gym.

What else do you do? I read, I write about health and fitness, I love to cook and eat, and I try to get outdoors as much as possible. When I’m not lifting heavy things in the gym, I like to get outside and use my fitness for snowboarding, rock climbing, hiking, mountain biking, and playing random sports with friends at the park. I also love to travel to new places to soak up different cultures, sample the local food and drink, and to adventure. Ever skydive in the Swiss Alps or bungee jump in Australia? You haven’t lived until you do something crazy.

Describe a typical day in your life: On typical work days, I wake up at 6 a.m. to let the dog out, meditate, and get to work on my “most important task” for the day — usually copywriting to market my business or programming for my athletes. This involves lots of coffee, and sometimes a little cursing while I tap the backspace button repeatedly. Then it’s off to the gym to train clients until about noon, when I take a midday break and get to workout myself. Home, shower, lunch, walk the dog, then back into the gym to train clients for a couple hours. I usually finish up sessions around 6 or 7 p.m., then head home to cook dinner and chill out with my pup, Gunner.

On non-work days, I still wake up between 6 and 7 a.m. and (try to) meditate, though that doesn’t always happen on weekends. During ski season, I race out the door to beat ski traffic up to the mountains. During the summer, weekends are booked up with camping trips. If I’m staying in town, I’ll take Gunner for a long walk, make a big breakfast, and read or write through the morning. Afternoons in Denver are great for biking to breweries or wandering around the cool little neighborhoods, which all have distinct personalities.

Your next training goal: I’ve gotten a couple muscle-ups since that first one, but my goal is to be able to do them consistently. I’ve also been working up to a double-bodyweight deadlift.

For what are you most grateful? The amazing, supportive people in my life — my family, my friends, and the awesome athletes I’ve had the opportunity to work with.

Of what life accomplishment do you feel most proud? Starting my training business. It’s been one of the most challenging things I’ve ever undertaken, and still a work in progress, but it’s also been the most rewarding.

Which three words best describe you? Intelligent. Stubborn. Strong.

What’s a risk you’ve taken recently, and how did it turn out? Tell us about a time when you overcame fear or self-doubt. Not-so-recently (about a year ago), I left a full-time position as a trainer at a local gym. I gave up a steady paycheck and health benefits to see if I could build a fitness business. My end goal is to live life on my terms, not be tied to an employer; to influence as many people as possible to take control of their health and fitness; and to travel the world seeking out adventure and new challenges.

There is a lot of fear and self-doubt I have to overcome on a daily basis (questions like “am I fit enough to train this person” or “am I good enough to charge what I’m worth” cross my mind on a regular basis). I’ve found that practicing meditation and surrounding myself with awesome people (mentors, other coaches, and the athletes I choose to work with) makes it easier to overcome those doubts. Not sure I can answer how my fitness business has turned out yet… but I’ll keep you posted!

How has lifting weights changed your life? Weightlifting has given me a passion to pursue after leaving team sports; it’s helped me develop an inner strength I didn’t realize I was capable of; it’s provided a career path; and it’s introduced me to an amazing community of incredible individuals at the gyms I train and work at. Lifting weights changed my life by becoming an irreplaceable part of who I am.

What’s the coolest “side effect” you’ve experienced from strength training? Confidence that I can tackle anything! From challenging ski terrain or advanced climbing routes, to building a business, to helping someone else accomplish their life goals.

If I didn’t have the physical (and mental) strength that comes from lifting weights, I don’t think I’d be half the person I am today.

What do you want to say to other women who might be nervous or hesitant about strength training? Since I work primarily with women in the gym, I see the mentality that strength training is intimidating or “not for me because I don’t want to get bulky” from a lot of women. The most important thing I do as a trainer/coach is to dispel that myth! Yes, trying something new can be scary and intimidating… but that’s true of any skill.

Weightlifting is a skill that can be learned with dedication and practice. Hire a coach or reach out to a friend who has training experience. Read and watch exercise videos. Record yourself lifting and watch your technique. Practice, practice, practice. You won’t be “good” at weightlifting right off the bat, but with patience and practice, you’ll get better every day.

It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give to yourself to develop the physical and mental strength that comes from lifting something heavy off the ground (or the rack, or whatever you’re lifting!)

Most importantly, surround yourself with a community of people who encourage you to learn and grow inside the gym and out there in the real world.

You can learn more about Katie on her website and YouTube channel, and connect with her on Facebook and Instagram.

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GGS Spotlight: Katie Prendergast

Name: Katie Prendergast Age: 29 Location: Denver, CO

What does being a Girl Gone Strong mean to you? It means becoming my strongest self and focusing on what I can do better each day in the gym, in business, and to enhance my experience of life.

That totally changed when I got my first full pull-up. I still wanted to lift weights to look good, but I started caring about the things that I could do because of strength training.

Favorite lift: Deadlifts!

Top 5 songs on your training playlist: The grittier, grungier, bluesy-er, the better!

Lose Yourself, Eminem

Hot Blood, Kaleo

Lonely Boy, Black Keys

Ocean Avenue, Yellowcard (guilty pleasure)

Joker and the Thief, Wolfmother

But also stupid poppy stuff like 90s alt-rock or 2000s rap/hip-hop. Depends what I’m doing.

Favorite meal: I love food, so it’s hard to pick just one thing! I’d have to say breakfast as a general category, closely followed by a giant bacon cheeseburger, fries, and a pale ale.

Favorite way to treat yourself: My bi-weekly massage. I leave feeling so much better, and ready to tackle life again!

Favorite quote:

Do what you love, and f*ck the rest. — Little Miss Sunshine

Your next training goal: I’ve gotten a couple muscle-ups since that first one, but my goal is to be able to do them consistently. I’ve also been working up to a double-bodyweight deadlift.

For what are you most grateful? The amazing, supportive people in my life — my family, my friends, and the awesome athletes I’ve had the opportunity to work with.

Which three words best describe you? Intelligent. Stubborn. Strong.

If I didn’t have the physical (and mental) strength that comes from lifting weights, I don’t think I’d be half the person I am today.

Most importantly, surround yourself with a community of people who encourage you to learn and grow inside the gym and out there in the real world.

You can learn more about Katie on her website and YouTube channel, and connect with her on Facebook and Instagram.

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Why Practical Skills Will Matter More Than Your Degree In The New Economy

When Giancarlo Martinez applied a few years ago to be a web developer at Genome, a digital marketing firm in New York, he was confident that he had the ability. But he couldn’t help but wonder whether company recruiters would be able to recognize his chops—and even if they did, he worried that they still might not give him a chance.

The reason: Although he had gone to coding school, Martinez was largely self-taught—”Staying up until 6 a.m., Googling things, and just figuring it out.” Others angling to work at Genome, he presumed, “probably had master’s degrees in computer science.”

“I was very intimidated,” recalls Martinez, now 26.

But Genome was welcoming. “At the end of the day, it’s not the piece of paper on your wall,” says Stephanie Plumeri Ertz, who interviewed Martinez for the position. “It’s what you can turn out.”

To seal the deal, she gave Martinez a test, asking him to follow a set of technical specifications while designing a webpage featuring cupcakes. Martinez showed a solid command of the basics. He also added a few impressive flourishes, including an animation of a conveyer belt that churned out cupcakes heaped with frosting, which tumbled off the end of the assembly line and dropped into the mouth of a cute, if voracious, blue robot.

“The coding challenge became my golden ticket,” says Martinez, who was immediately brought on for $70,000 a year—a huge bump from the $40,000 or so he’d been scratching together through a string of less stable tech jobs and freelance gigs.

Among the big questions now confronting the U.S. labor market is this: How common will stories like Martinez’s become?

Given the passion with which some business and educational leaders talk about it, you might well imagine that we’re on the cusp of a major revolution.

Skills, Not Degrees

“Getting a job at today’s IBM does not always require a college degree,” the company’s CEO, Ginni Rometty, has asserted. “What matters most is relevant skills.” Jeff Weiner, the CEO of LinkedIn, has been pushing the same message at his company. And David Blake, cofounder of the learning platform Degreed, has put it like this: “It shouldn’t matter how you picked up your skills, just that you did.”

But others are decidedly cautious, noting that longstanding cultural norms and institutional inertia stand as powerful roadblocks to this new way of thinking. Some experts are particularly skeptical that a skills-oriented approach to learning and hiring can transcend the tech industry.

“We’re in the early innings of this transition,” says Mike Adams, cofounder and chief product officer of MissionU, which offers an educational alternative to a traditional degree by focusing on skill building and job placement. Indeed, he anticipates that it will take “decades to shift” to an environment in which capability trumps academic pedigree on a wide scale.

The situation is evolving—but “not fast enough,” adds Karan Chopra, executive vice president of Opportunity@Work, a social enterprise whose signature program, TechHire, has enabled thousands of Americans from underserved communities to access training and jobs. (Among them is Martinez, a native of the South Bronx, who was supported by the NYC Tech Talent Pipeline, a part of the TechHire network, to help pay for a six-month stint at Flatiron School so that he could polish his coding skills before auditioning at Genome.)

“It’s important to realize that this is a problem of collective action,” Chopra says. “Individual employers changing their hiring practices one at a time won’t work—or won’t work quickly enough. A critical mass of employers needs to shift behavior, signaling to the rest and influencing a change in the way the market operates today.”

To be clear, no one who is advocating for a skills-centered system is suggesting that learning isn’t essential. In fact, the idea is that ever more of us must engage in lifelong learning as automation and other technological advances render our skills obsolete. Having only a high school diploma is not sufficient to land and hold a job anymore.

The goal, then, is to make all kinds of courses readily available in physical classrooms and virtual settings alike, allowing folks to acquire know-how that’s useful in the real world and then demonstrate their prowess to employers.

Under this scenario, it is envisioned, many will still obtain four-year degrees. Many others will earn two-year degrees or technical certificates. Meanwhile, the continued emergence of even more affordable options—such as online badging regimes, which can signal when someone has completed an area of study and mastered a discrete skill—will enhance the job prospects of those currently being left behind.

A False Choice

“Making it skills versus credentials is a bit of a false choice,” says Beth Cobert, CEO of Skillful, an initiative of the Markle Foundation that, in partnership with Microsoft, is aiming to give educators a sharper picture of which skills are in demand in their region while helping businesses adopt skills-based hiring and training practices. “This is about changing mind-sets.”

The difficulty in doing so is that the vast majority of businesses and individuals are largely locked in their old ways.

Despite employers’ constant gripes that they can’t find enough qualified workers in a host of industries, many are screening out those who lack a bachelor’s degree—even though they could tackle the tasks at hand without one. “An increasing number of job seekers face being shut out of middle-skill, middle-class occupations” because of this phenomenon, Burning Glass Technologies, a provider of labor market analytics, warned this month. “This credential inflation . . . is affecting a wide range of jobs from executive assistants to construction supervisors.”

For many families—and the battery of institutions of higher education eager to win them over—there’s also little interest in reconceiving how to best prepare their kids for what lies ahead. “People still build their identity around being a four-year college graduate,” says MissionU’s Adams. “That has a pretty strong stranglehold on society,” even amid deep concern about swelling student loan debt.

Martinez felt that tug himself. His stepdad didn’t approve of him skipping college. And his mom, who is from the Dominican Republic, also had misgivings at first. “As an immigrant mother, she always expected me to have a degree,” he says.

Another issue is how hard it can be to exhibit one’s skills outside of tech. If a company is looking for a Python developer with a certain level of experience and competence, “it doesn’t matter whether you come from high school or come from a PhD” program, says Spencer Thompson, the founder of Sokanu, a career-matching platform. “If you can prove those things, that’s great.” But suppose someone wants to be a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning technician?

“How do you measure whether a person is a good HVAC installer?” Thompson asks. “What are the . . . atomic units of being an installer, and how do you actually measure whether somebody is good or bad at those things? That’s where the whole model just completely breaks down.”

The Skills Embedded In The Study Of Literature

Even tougher to see, perhaps, is how the liberal arts can fit in. But Cobert proposes that—beyond having considerable value in their own right—such subjects might be radically reconsidered to capture what employers find most meaningful. “When you take Victorian literature,” she says, “we do not break it down to show that you learned writing skills, you learned critical thinking, you learned how to respond to feedback.”

Others also are hopeful that new avenues for highlighting skills are starting to open up, not necessarily as a replacement for formal education but as a companion to it.

“I don’t think it’s about tech at all,” says Connie Yowell, the CEO of Collective Shift, a nonprofit whose platform, LRNG, teaches tangible skills to young people, gives digitals badges (sometimes called “microcredentials”) to track their achievements, and uses these markers to unlock academic credit, internships, and jobs. “This is the future of learning.”

Adams, of MissionU, is somewhere in between. He believes that tech is a sweet spot. That’s why the first two cohorts completing his program—about 50 people in all—are concentrating on learning data analytics and amassing a portfolio of work to share with potential employers.

Yet MissionU, unlike many tech boot camps, also teaches general business skills, in part through a self-paced project in which students research a topic and present the findings in Excel. This can offer concrete “evidence that you can solve problems” inside a company, Adams says—and, sure enough, employers have begun to regard this assignment as a good indicator of fundamental business proficiency. Because of it, Adams foresees some MissionU graduates finding their way into human resources and other functions, not just being data geeks.

As for Martinez, he has done well for himself. After leaving Genome, he went to work at Yashi, a video advertising company. Once again, he found a boss who admired his skills and didn’t care about his schooling. “It’s not about the path you’ve taken, but what you bring to the table,” says Dipak Shetty, who hired Martinez.

Recently, Martinez moved from New York to Austin, Texas, where he’s mulling what to do next. He may take another job in software. Or he may attempt to shift into a broader management role. For that, though, he acknowledges that he will be forced to finally get a university education, maybe even an MBA.

“If I were to pursue a business job,” he says, “I definitely need a degree to compete.”

After all, skills are everything. But for all too many employers, credentials remain the only thing.

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I am 19 and I drive a 2003 Jeep. I've been with Geico for 1.5 years & my policy price has went up two times! When I called to ask why it would go up they explained that it was nothing to do with me or my driving record (seeing how I've never had a wreck or a ticket) but that it depends on the claims from other people. I know this is how some things work, but I don't think I should be pentilized for someone else's claims. Is this how every car insurance works or is it just Geico? I'm going to start calling around to today to get quotes...but I wanted to hear from people other than a sales person.""

How much is car insurance for a 16 year old in CA?

anybody know?

Can I get Car Insurance on my own?

I'm 17 and ive had my license and been insured since 5-3-2013. But my parents are cancelling me off of their insurance because they found a pistol grip in my truck and are convinced im some type of thug gangster when in reality i was at a friends house helping them clean his dads gun and i guess they had just left it in their. But they said if i can find a insurance company that will take me without my parents having to be responsible for any mistakes i make (like if i got a speeding ticket their insurance wouldn't go up) I can still drive as long as i pay for my own insurance etc. I'm still in high school but i work a full time job because i get out of school at 10:30 everyday so i can afford insurance plus i do alot of side work. It's a real messed up situation because the truck i have now i payed 2500 cash for it after saving up for 3 years and now my dads selling it and taking the money because it was in his name so nothing i can do there. im selling most my stuff so i can buy another car. i just need insurance. I really need a license so i can continue to get back and forth to school and work. Please any help would be much appreciated.

Car insurance..please answer?

Basically my dad is paying 1600ish pound for an insurance policy, with me as a named driver on his car, that was a few months ago he got that, however now, if we was to do the same policy because we have had the car for a few months it would be 1100 ish, if my dad got a new car which he is thinking of doing, and transfered the insurance onto that (substituted it) but the car was a bit nicer and slightly more expensive to insure, would the price inrease because of the car, or decrease because im slightly older and insurance is getting cheaper for me""

Are there other ways to get your car back from the insurance company?

i went to pay my insurance company and they when i payed it they wanted my i.d so i was looking for my license where it was no where to be found so i looked for it around my entire house from top to bottom and the company refuses to give my car back untill i have some type of identification....i cant fin dit anywhere ANYWHERE! is there any other way? social security, birth certificate something!?""

Insurance Cost On two different cars?

Would the insurance on an 2008 Ford Fusion be more than a 2006 Cadillac CTS? I live in Maine.

How much (Aprox.) would car insurance cost for a living in Iowa?

19 year old male living in Iowa, zip code 50659 '96 Camaro.""

Which is the best insurance web site?

I just wanna which is the best insurance quotes website?

Why did the president veto children's health insurance plan?

I don't understand.

Workers compensation insurance in Kentucky?

What is the cheapest way to get insured on a Ford Fiesta 1.2 for an 18 year old?

Hey, I just passed my driving test and the trouble is insurance :( I've found the perfect car for me which is a Ford fiesta 1.25 studio, 2006 model which has done 49000 miles and is valued at 3800 pounds. The insurance is nearly triple the amount of the car which is something I simply cannot pay. I was considering coverbox or insure the box but I'm not too sure. I've been researching online for a good few months now and all price comparison websites and insurers' websites seem to be suggesting the same price. So please if you know how to get cheap car insurance for a 18 male who has 0 months no claims, I would appreciate your help :)""

Why don't parking tickets affect your insurance?

I used to be amazed at the number of tickets other students used to get when I went to college. Sometimes I'd walk by a car that had been there for at least a day, given the number of tickets that decorated the windshield. From what I gather, parking tickets are not moving violations, so therefore it's not the same as traffic tickets. (Which might explain why they cost so much less.) Is it because parking tickets aren't moving violations, they aren't covered by traffic safety laws and therefore aren't really covered in traffic school? Do parking tickets go on your driving record?""

Where can i find cheap/affordable auto insurance?

I need to find cheap auto insurance but I have agoraphobia. Anyone know of any cheap auto insurances that i could get online?

How much does it cost to insure a child care center?

I am enrolled in a college course called Administration of Early Childhood Programs. My final project is creating my own child care center (the project covers everything and is very detailed so we can use our materials if we actually do open up a center). Anyways, I am stuck on one part of my budget. I have been researching for hours and cannot find what my estimated cost of what liability insurance would cost me per year. Because this business does not actually exist I am having difficulties obtaining a quote from insurance companies. My center is licensed for 140 children at one time. If anyone has an estimated cost or a source that would give me an average cost per child or an insurance estimate calculator or anything like that would really help. Thanks!""

Subsidized health insurance for age 55+ in California?

Is there a subsidized health insurance program for people age 55+ in California? I used to live in Massachusetts where my father-in-law has MassHealth insurance coverage. Any program similar to that in California? Thanks!

Why do we need health insurance?

People complain about not being able to afford health insurance, and people aslo complain that the health insurance they do have doesn't cover what they need it to cover. Doesn't it seem more like health insurance is the middle man that keeps the price of health related goods and services at such a rate that is unattainable by the majority of US citizens? Wouldn't the tens of thousands of doctors be forced to lower their rates to an affordible rate if health insurance, as a standard practice, was abolished?""

""In general, how much is health insurance?

Life insurance?

Where is the best website to compare pco insurance prices?

fully comprehensive i would like a quote straight away. some websites you give all the details and it says that the company will contact the person regarding the quote. i want to compare mini cab insurance not taxi insurance. thank you so much in advance. :)

Can i get insurance on my car with out a licence?

Im 18..and i have a car..i dont have a licence yet...only my permit..so can i still get insurance on the car with out a licence?

16 year old male car insurance?

I am currently 15 and going to be 16 and getting my license . I am going to be driving a 1997 chevrolet corvette. Ik this is going to be exspensive but my parents are going to help alot. I was wondering about how much i would be paying?

Cost of Insurance for Nissan 350Z?

I am 18 years old (about to turn 19) and gonna buy a 350Z (well my parents are). I have always wanted one and I am getting it for looks and commuting only. But to be safe, I will buy a police radar and install a kill switch as soon as I get it. My question is how much would insurance be for a 2004-2005 Nissan 350Z? Would it be better to buy the Z in my parents' name under my parents' insurance? Also, I am curious of how much do any of you pay for a car like a 350Z.""

Car Insurance Am I covered? The car has it but im not on the insurance!?

I had a wreck saturday, im not on the insurance but the car has insurance.. I was just barrowing the car.. Would it still be covered and be able to get fixed?""

Now that health insurance companies must give a rebate to companies for group plans?

that don't completely utilize coverage, according to an obscure audit formula, will those insured under the group plan feel guilty if they have to use it and it affects everyone in the plan's annual rebate check? And how will insurance companies make up for this loss?""

Difficultly getting car insurance ?

i am 17 years old and my mom is buying me a car from a private dealer. the only problem there is is that my mom doesnt have a license so i have no way to get car insurance. i was wondering could i get insurance by myself if my moma signs the papers with me? also can i get a car's title in my name since im 17yrs old?

Things that could lower my insurance rate?

I am most likely buying a 2001 ford mustang: -v6 engine, 5 speed manual 140,000k miles 2 seater it has a stage 4 racing clutch, its blacked out.. paint, rims, tinted windows, (headlights might have a tint idk tho) i am a sophomore in highschool, i have never received anything lower than a B, and my gpa is a 3.75. i want to know as many things that i can get done to this car in order to force the insurance rate down: iv heard of theft systems and keeping grades low.. but what else? i was thinking of getting a bluetooth? thanks""

I'm 16 years old and looking for a cheap scooter(ped) or scrambler...how much is the insurance on them. :-)

how much about i know you can get a quote but you have to enter all your bikes infomation and i havent got a bike yet... if its to much money ill just save up for a car. i just need something to get back and forth to work

Car Insurance Fine costs driving without insurance on one car but had 3rd party on another?

Being a bit stupid I didnt relise I had to inform my insurance company that I changed cars and was stopped by the police for no insurance even though they proved that I had insurance on my previous vehicle 3rd party whic

How much is insurance for a motorbike?

I am 18 years old, own a 125cc 2011 brand new honda cbr, currently m1 license holder. Live in the suburbs, so not a lot of traffic. That's all the info I can think of that's relvent. So can anyone with information tell me how much insurance might cost a month?""

Auto Insurance Quote?

I am 16 years old living in California and I am newly licensed. I have a 4.167 GPA, am a female, and I drive a paid off car. What is a reasonable insurance quote?""

Insurance help please?

When buying car insurance, I'm looking at fully comprehensive what is volentary and compulary excess? Hwta do these amounts mean. Also, my car got broken into twice this year and my partner was in an accident so we have a LOT of claims... Any tips for keeping my insurance down? Im trying all of the search engines, but this is busting my brain!!""

What do you do when he doesnt have car insurance?

I was in a car wreck two weeks ago. We thought he had safe auto to the police report which is a nightmare but which made it worst he has no insurance at all. He had been drinking early but did not blow enough to go to jail. What can be done about him driving without insurance and drinking

Where can i get a health insurance quote?

are there any sites for oklahoma health and life insurance quotes?

Car insurance for teenagers?

Im 18 and I own a used car. Never a trouble maker. I have a part time job. I want to know what insurance I can get for my car that is affordable.

What will i have to pay for car insurance?

Im a new driver 16 years old and I am male. I live in pennsylvania in a small city of around 6,500 people and I would like to know how much i would probably estimated be paying a month for my car insurance. I Drive a 1998 Dodge Neon Highline. I dont know if anyone can help me but if you have some place were i can go and get a estimate on what i will probably be paying for car insurance it would be greatly appreciated.""

Should i get life insurance for my child?

my child gets ssi money every month and we really do depend on that money and our child has a health condition that she could die with in a year or so or she could get better with a miracle and life a happy life i dont know is i should get life insurance for my child or not who is any a year old. if so please say where i should go to get one?

Workers compensation insurance in Kentucky?

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/life-insurance-i-dont-feel-right-company-julio-webber"

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