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Are Lawyers Liars & And Crooks?
There are tons of puns in English on lawyers and liars. One, says: "How do lawyers sleep? It is simple. They first lie on one side and then they lie on the other."
Lawyers are also butt ends of many jokes like — There was a tombstone that read: 'Here lies John Smith, a lawyer and a gentleman'. A passerby remarks 'How strange? They buried two men in one grave!' The implication is that a lawyer cannot be a gentleman. There may even be a book exclusively on lawyer jokes. .
A common perception is that lawyers are liars and crooks. Many politicians being lawyers and the belief that all politicians are crooks prove this notion. Mahatma Gandhi, Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar, first PM Jawaharlal Nehru, his millionaire father Motilal, and the architect of communal partition of India Mohammad Ali Jinnah (father-in-law of another famous jurist M. C. Chagla), were all lawyers as are most Central and state legislators leaders.
The West's Rule of law and India's Dharma depend on the principles that everyone is innocent unless proven otherwise and 'Let a hundred crooks go free but let not one innocent be punished.'
However these were distorted and thousands of crooks are acquitted, even in the land of freedom, the USA. So when a former Chief Justice of India Ranjit Gogoi, MP, said that the justice system in India had turned into something unintended and "when you go to court you regret it".
This and his remark that "you want a 5 trillion dollar economy, but you have a ramshackle judiciary" had raised a storm. However, one has to ask why pendency of cases is growing and Judges too 'reserve' verdicts that come decades after a case is filed. The third axiom of law, 'justice delayed is justice denied' is overlooked.
Are lawyers who seek adjournment after adjournment on flimsy grounds and judges who grant them or 'reserve' verdicts to a later date responsible? Lawyers defended a terrorist caught red-handed, Kasab, heinous criminals like the rapists of Nirbhaya or took up cases even after knowing the guilt of their client simply because a 'lawyer cannot refuse' and what the client tells the lawyer is 'privileged' and so cannot be disclosed.
Lawyers for Kasab, Nirbhaya rape accused or similar criminals say they were only ensuring that the clients get punished just on the right grounds and that no legal provisions are overlooked. But a lawyer's income depends on the number of cases won, for which they resort to legal hair splitting and 'interpretations' of procedures that would set the guilty free.
If no lawyer is representing one, the court appoints one to act curie. The letter of the law takes precedence over the spirit. It is felt that, at least in the former corrupt administration, lawmakers decided loopholes first and conveyed them to the accused even before a law was made. Lawyers are deployed by big firms, to tell them how to evade law. Some are also known to have helped the other side for their own client's defeat – just for money.
And now allegations of corruption in the judiciary compound the problem. A woman judge of the Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court has acquitted, in two consecutive cases, the accused in rape cases on technicalities, eroding trust in the judiciary. She may be right and popular perceptions may not 'stand the test of law'. Legal intricacies in the two cases may have justified the acquittal.
Years ago a case alleged that the Chief Justice of a High Court wanted to travel at tax-payers' expense for medical treatment to a particular US town not known for medical excellence, as his son happened to be studying there, just before he retired.
It was, perhaps, perfectly according to rules, as was the purchase of land by a close relation of the dynasty in power, with a meagre loan from a company to sell the same land to the same company for a huge sum. It may be a legal commercial transaction, but was it just?
An editor used to laugh at people building houses, saying that they could as well occupy someone's house, stay there for decades till legal eviction procedure is completed and then occupy another. He was murdered: perhaps an expedient way to solve an issue that would take decades for courts to decide , This is mostly due to lawyers who seek adjournments as in the TV advertisement that shows 'tareek pe tareek' till lawyers on both sides grow old arguing the same case. Out of this arose a new job – of 'experts' who would violently evict tenants refusing to vacate.
The film based on Agatha Christie's famous novel, 'Witness for the Prosecution' ends with the prime witness, the accused, being killed in the open court and a lawyer saying, "No, it is not a murder. It is an execution."
Another joke says a young lawyer boasted to his lawyer father how he won a case in just two hearings but the father tells him he was a fool as he could have dragged it in for years and made big money.
Lawyers like Ram Jethmalani, Kapil Sibal, and Abhishek Sanghvi , incidentally also politicians) charged lakhs of rupees per appearance in court. A big group of such lawyers argued in the Ram Janmabhoomi case while the God's side was taken up by a very old man single handedly. He also stood for weeks in the court arguing even when a seat was offered by the Bench — and won.
Judicial reforms and the Law Commission overseeing legal proceedings has not helped. No one did a case study of the long-pending cases to see how many of the adjournments were unjustified, if not actually frivolous, and who was responsible for them. Is the predominance of lawyers in the legislative bodies responsible for it? And with so many legal experts among lawmakers, why are laws made which lend themselves to many interpretations by lawyers?
Perhaps all these questions have just one answer — the old adage 'let the sleeping dogs lie'.
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OUTLOOK: The Dodgers are favorites to win a sixth consecutive NL West title with a roster that returns mostly intact. They lost the World Series to Houston in seven games, extending the franchise's drought to 30 years without a championship. Los Angeles had a quiet offseason, other than shedding the contracts of Gonzalez, Kazmir and McCarthy in an effort to lower payroll. The move brings the team under the luxury tax for the first time since 2012, which figures to pay off next winter when a highly anticipated group of big-name free agents becomes available. Kemp has been a surprise in his return to the club. He was acquired from Atlanta as part of the Dodgers' salary dump and figured to be traded. However, he has been a solid performer in spring training. Kershaw anchors the rotation, and Jansen is one of the best closers in the game. A multitude of veterans will be vying for playing time as a result of the team's heavy use of platoons and matchup-driven lineups. Turner suffered a wrist injury late in spring training and will miss the early portion of the season.
LOS ANGELES -- Starting pitching figures to be at a premium perhaps more than ever Wednesday when the Los Angeles Dodgers and Milwaukee Brewers meet for what figures to be a bleary-eyed Game 5 of the National League Championship Series.
The teams played to a draw and taxed their bullpens for more than five hours in Game 4 on Tuesday before Cody Bellinger's RBI single in the 13th inning scored Manny Machado from second base and gave the Dodgers a 2-1 victory.
So close to taking a commanding 3-1 lead in the series, the Brewers are now even with the Dodgers at two games apiece. The Dodgers have staff ace Clayton Kershaw on the mound Wednesday, while the Brewers will counter with Wade Miley, who was dominating in Game 2.
Kershaw will be looking for redemption in the Dodgers' third and final home game of the series. The NLCS already is guaranteed to have a Game 6 on Friday at Milwaukee.
"There's no secrets anymore," Kershaw said, after giving up five runs (four earned) in three innings of Game 1. "I think now that we're (past) the fourth game of the series and facing them a couple of times in the regular season, I know what their strengths and weaknesses are. They obviously know mine. And I always like watching our guys pitch. And especially because we have a lot of lefties. For the most part, the video work is done, all the studying is done now, and it's just a matter of going out there and competing."
If the Dodgers do not advance out of the NLCS, there is a possibility that Wednesday could be Kershaw's last game in a Dodgers uniform at Dodger Stadium. He has the ability to opt out of his contract after the season and has 10 days after the World Series ends to reveal his decision.
For Miley, the big picture won't be as broad. His goal would be to repeat his outing from Saturday at Milwaukee, when he breezed through his outing, giving up only two hits. The Brewers are known for a reliance on their bullpen, but Miley still looked disappointed when he was removed in the sixth inning.
If he plans on varying his strategy this time around, he wasn't about to reveal any secrets.
"No, I just go and execute pitches," Miley said. "I feel like I attack every team I face the same: Just try to keep the ball down and mix speeds back and forth. And hopefully hit it at people."
When the series was in Milwaukee, the Dodgers were only able to produce against the acclaimed Brewers' bullpen. Now that the series has shifted to Los Angeles, the Dodgers appear to be struggling against all pitchers.
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Adding to the drama is that Game 5 will be played less than 15 hours after the ending to Game 4, which lasted 5 hours, 15 minutes and was the second-longest NLCS game by time after Game 5 in 1999 between the New York Mets and Atlanta Braves went 5:46.


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Call a Coup a Coup
BY Heather Cox Richardson | January 11, 2021
Trump supporters breeched security and entered the Capitol as Congress debated the a 2020 presidential election certification process. (PHOTO BY ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP/GETTY IMAGES)
Unbelievably, it was only a week ago—last Sunday — that we learned Trump had called Georgia's Secretary of State and pressured him to change the results of the 2020 election. Trump demanded that Brad Raffensperger "find" the 11,780 votes Trump needed to win Georgia. The news of the attempt to get an election official to overrule the will of the people was astonishing: at the time, it was the worst domestic attack on our democracy ever, coming, as it did, from a sitting president.
At the time.
Over the past several days, the picture of what happened on Wednesday, January 6, 2021, has become clearer, and it's bad. While Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser gave a press conference Wednesday night, there has been not a single official briefing from the White House, the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, or Capitol Police.
The federal government has gone dark.
What we do know is that on Wednesday, January 6, 2021, egged on by Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani, Alabama Representative Mo Brooks, Don Jr., and especially Trump himself, Trump supporters stormed the Capitol just as Congress was meeting in joint session to confirm Democrat Joe Biden as our new president. They overpowered the Capitol Police — perhaps with the help of some of the officers — breached the doors, and smashed their way through the historic building, shouting for Vice President Mike Pence — whom Trump insisted was at fault for not overturning the count — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and "traitors" who were counting the electoral votes for Biden. While many of the early pictures from inside the Capitol showed rioters gawking like tourists, ones released this weekend showed violent thugs, carrying plastic handcuffs and seeming to have information about where to find specific members of Congress. They breached the Senate chamber at 2:16, just a minute after the senators made it out.
The Capitol Police got the lawmakers to safety, but were not in control of the building. Lawmakers huddled quietly behind barricaded doors waiting for police that took hours to come. When they did arrive, they cleared the area and regained control of the Capitol. After janitors had cleaned the building, lawmakers counted the electoral votes that established Democrats Biden and Kamala Harris as the next president and vice president of the USA.
As videos have emerged and timelines been established, it has become apparent we came perilously close to seeing our elected representatives taken hostage or even executed on the makeshift gallows the rioters set up outside the building.
But here's the thing: these were not outside insurgents; they were supporters of the Republican president. Trump enflamed the insurgents but he did not create them: years of demonizing Democrats and suggesting they must not be allowed to govern did that. As NPR reporter Kirk Siegler noted, Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, infamous for years of standoffs with the federal government, wrote on Facebook that Trump "pointed towards Congress and nodded his head… [and said] go get the job done." Republicans are now caught in a vise of their own making. They have to stand either with their own voters or with democracy.
The night of the attack, more than 100 Republican members of the House of Representatives and several senators, led by Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Ted Cruz (R-TX), continued to endorse Trump's lies by voting to reject the electoral votes for Biden in key states. The next day, Trump's supporters tried to argue that the rioters were "Antifa," despite their Trump garb and the fact Trump invited them, incited them, urged them to go to the Capitol, and after the riot told them he loved them. (An AP investigation establishes that they were right-wing agitators.) When that didn't take, supporters tried "whataboutism," comparing the Black Lives Matter protests of this summer to the storming of the Capitol.
They are trying to rewrite the history of this week to downplay that we have suffered an attempted coup that killed at least five people, and that the people behind it are still in the highest levels of our government.
The realization that we are in the midst of a coup, abetted by Trump's use of social media, prompted Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram to ban Trump permanently, and to take down QAnon accounts. That, not the Capitol attack and the murder of a police officer, has created outrage among Trump, who is allegedly "ballistic," and Trump supporters. Republican lawmakers spent the weekend noting how many followers they were losing as Twitter took down QAnon, Nazi, and fake accounts. (Trump opponents noted that this was not actually a good thing to call attention to.) Parler has lost almost all of its supporting businesses and might go out of business itself.
Democrats are appalled by what Trump has wrought, and they are joined by plenty of Republicans. In the National Review, for example, Ed Whelan called the Capitol attack "an outrage that ought to have every genuinely patriotic American seething with anger." He blamed Trump for inciting the attack, and said that "impeachment and conviction of Trump is an appropriate, and probably a necessary, response."
In a powerful video, former Republican Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger called the Capitol attack the American equivalent to Kristallnacht, which marked the beginning of German Nazis' systemic destruction of the Jews. To puncture the idea that the sort of behavior on display on Wednesday was manly, Schwarzenegger told the private story of his abuse at the hands of his father, who had been swept up in the Nazi movement in Austria, and celebrated the sword from his starring role in the 1982 film Conan the Barbarian as a symbol not of toxic masculinity but of democracy, tempered by adversity. He called on all Americans to rally around Biden and to work to make his administration a success.
White House appointees' resignations show which way the wind is blowing. Trump's former Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney took to Fox News Sunday to say he had no idea that people might actually do something like attack the Capitol. "People took him literally," Mulvaney told MSNBC. "I never thought I'd see that."
Similarly, the rioters themselves, once found and arrested, are either apologizing and saying they were swept up in the moment, or denying they were part of the mob. One man apologized for his "indiscretion."
Both Marriott, the world's largest hotel chain, and health insurer Blue Cross Blue Shield have suspended their donations to lawmakers who voted against the counting of Biden's electoral votes late Wednesday or early Thursday morning. The anti-Trump Lincoln Project has promised to target companies that donate to any lawmakers who voted against the counting of the electoral votes. Hitting closer to Trump, Stripe, the vendor that handles online credit card payments for Trump's campaign, has announced it will no longer handle his account. And tonight, the Professional Golfers Association of America Board of Directors took the 2022 PGA Championship away from Trump Bedminster, his New Jersey club.
At the end of last week, Democratic leaders set out a three-part plan to punish the president for inciting an insurrection. They gave Pence an option to begin the process of invoking the 25th Amendment, which, considering the president had tried to get him killed, was not necessarily a long shot. Pence refused. They gave McConnell the weekend to convince Trump to resign. Trump refused. They announced that, if both of those things failed, they would begin impeachment proceedings on Monday.
McConnell promptly noted that the Senate could not take up such a proceeding until the day before Biden's inauguration at the earliest. He is bargaining. It is possible to hold an impeachment trial even after a president is out of office, but he knows that Biden does not want the beginning of his term crowded with more Trump business, especially as coronavirus is raging and Biden wants to get it under control. McConnell doesn't want Republicans to have to vote either for or against the president because such a vote will slice the Republicans in two and make it clear that some of them stand for insurrection. In the Senate, only Republicans Mitt Romney (R-UT), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), and Pat Toomey (R-PA) have endorsed impeachment.
McConnell is hoping Pelosi will blink and the moment will pass.
She will not, and it will not. She notes, correctly, that the president is "an imminent threat" to "our Constitution and our Democracy," and she is trying to give the Republicans cover to do the right thing. Tonight, she announced that the House tomorrow will begin proceedings on a resolution by Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD) calling on Pence to mobilize the Cabinet to activate the 25th Amendment within 24 hours. If he declines, the House will turn to impeachment. She has asked for unanimous consent for the resolution to enable the Republicans to avoid a vote. If they refuse, the measure will go forward the next day anyway.
She also fired a shot across the bow of Republican lawmakers by asking her colleagues for their views on the third section of the 14th Amendment, the one that prohibits anyone who "shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion" against the United States, "or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof," from serving in Congress.
As I watch Republican lawmakers try to slip away from the crisis they have made, I think of Black Capitol Police Officer Eugene Goodman, armed only with a nightstick, luring the insurgents in the wrong direction to buy the time Senators needed to escape with their lives.
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Dave: I'm VP Design at Heap in San Francisco. For the past few months I've been the only designer here, though that's about to change.
Being the only designer on the team is quite unique. What's the most challenging part of it?
I'm lucky enough to have a team around me that respects design and is interested in improving the product design-wise. But I don't have people with significant training or experience as designers. There are times when it would be nice to be able to ask advice or opinions from people who have similar experience, but they're not around. That can feel a little bit lonely.
Do you discuss work challenges with designers from the outside? Do you have a mentor?
At the moment I don't have a design mentor, and I don't feel a deep need for that. I do turn to the team around me. I'm able to get good advice that way.
On the mentorship side, what I need most now is ongoing mentorship and feedback for management and leadership skills. Those are what I'm most focused on growing and improving. I'm looking to actually put in place some executive coaching to help me with that.
How about looking for help in the design community?
I haven't focused heavily on that, though I do have former colleagues I catch up with from time to time—though again, as much for leadership skills as for design. There are interesting design problems to solve here, but I haven't had a desperate enough need for periodic mentorship on those solutions.
It would be just nice to have somebody around and in real time to talk to and to bounce those ideas off. Outside resources are not necessarily going to help you with that.
What's easier to do without a team and what's harder?
The easy part of not having a team is that you don't have to think about any of the logistics of having a team. You don't have those meetings, you don't spend time mentoring people, having 1-on-1's, helping people grow their careers or providing feedback on their designs.
All that time can be spent on work. There is a whole level of coordination and leadership that doesn't have to happen.But that's also what I signed up to do, and what I'm most excited about doing—so while it's easier, it's not desirable.
What's harder, is that I don't have other designers to bounce ideas off. Also, when I'm not doing a thing, it's not getting done.
There is a lot to do, and it would be nice to have some help. I was hired to create a team, and until it happens, everything has to be done by me.
Is working alone giving you more room for experimenting and exploring new ideas?
To some degree – yes. The "no" part of the answer is there is so little time. I want to be spending more time building a prototyping practice and figuring out how can it fit directly with our engineering process.
I want to spend more time exploring new tools and building new techniques too. It's not that I don't have time for that, but it's limited.
The "yes" part of the answer is that I don't have to think just yet how those tools and techniques are going to fit within the design team. I can think of how it might work, how we might want to do this. I can experiment without having to think about the impact in real time on other people – I can figure that out later.
If an experiment in the process fails right now, the only designer that it affects is me. I can be a little bit fast and loose with what I try because I'm only convincing myself.
What's the impact of working alone on your design process? Are you not able to spend as much time on some things as you'd like to?
I don't think it takes more time. It goes back to what I was saying before – I like to work on a team. I have engineers and salespeople to collaborate with. That's all great, and it's been rewarding, but I don't have any designers to collaborate with.
I go through the same steps as a lot of designers. Working with product managers to map out the problem statement, coming up with the high-level documentation explaining how we might solve those problems. Maybe I do sketches, mockups, wireframes, animations, prototypes. I use the same toolbox that I think most designers use, but the difference is it's all on me.
There is no point when I'm sitting with some other designer critiquing my design. I might be sitting with engineers doing that, but it's a slightly different conversation.
Can you imagine working as the only designer for a longer period?
I can imagine it. Earlier on my career, I spent many years as a freelancer, so I have a lot of experience working as the only designer on a team, and as an outsider in that case.
Some things are nice about it, but I don't know if I want to go back to it long term. I enjoy collaborating with other designers and being a part of a team. My biggest career goals right now have to do with leadership, mentorship and management and you can't do that as the only one.
Also, in the case of Heap, I was hired explicitly to build the team, which means right now I feel like I'm in an interim state. This isn't a role that's about sitting and doing design – it's about doing design until I can hire and lead people to do design.
Can you say more about Heap itself? What do you do and what's the role of design in the company?
You can use Heap to collect data on what your users are doing. Where they're clicking, what are they tapping on, when they're submitting forms, what pages are they visiting or if they're visiting this page after the other – all those things.
We have a powerful way of doing it. If you have worked with a lot of those platforms, you know that there is a process of instrumentation or tracking that needs to happen.
Okay, when this event happens, send the event to my analytics platform.
That's brutal, and it's not iterative.
At some point, you come out with follow-up questions you are not prepared to ask because you didn't instrument that part of the product. You have to go back, instrument it, and wait. It's like having a conversation in letters back and forth between two different continents. You can ask questions, but you have to wait for two weeks for the thing to get back to you.
At Heap, we collect all this data in a raw form.
We collect every tap, click, page view, and screen view. After the fact, in our product, you can go and "track" those things. What you're actually doing is taking this raw data and effectively activating it – we call it virtualizing. I can create virtual events around data, and I don't have to wait – it's all retroactive back to when I installed Heap.
It's also less dependent on changing the code. People who don't have access to the engineering team or can't get resources from it can still ask questions of the data. We have a lot of analytics modules– you can graph things, do retention graphs, do funnels. You can even take all the virtual data and sync it with your existing data warehouse.
For design at Heap, there are some very interesting opportunities. Here's an example. If you think about the way data is used in organizations, the right way to do it is starting with a hypothesis. Maybe it's a product strategy, maybe it's a business strategy.
This notion of assumption and testing is a core of what you do as a team. You have this hypothesis, you have to translate that into questions you want to ask your data.Then you have to interpret the response from the data and feed that back into your hypothesis and the product strategy.
That's a conversation that involves data and a lot of people. It's difficult because information can be lost along the way. If you get it wrong, you end up going with your gut when it would be nice to back that up with data. On the other side, you end up becoming very incremental. Looking at the data, and using that to drive your product's strategy is never going to give you a big bold hypothesis.
One amazing design opportunity in that space is to take a moment when the information is lost, or people aren't communicating well around the data, and make it possible to have a better conversation. I'm talking very abstractly, and the part of it is that we are still trying to figure out what that means.
Of course, on a more tactical level there is an opportunity to level-up our UI across the board.
Do you believe that being the only designer in the company pushes you to have deeper relations with developers and other teams?
Inevitable. There is just no option to go and hang out with my team because it's not there yet. I think that's been good more than it's been bad.
This is a company that does not yet have a strong sense of what design is and how it works. It's crucial to me as I build up the design practice at Heap to make it collaborative. If we want to establish that, there's no other choice but to make designers and developers work hand in hand.
Do you think that being the only designer makes you responsible for educating the rest of the company what a role of design is?
Absolutely. There is more than one way to do the design, and there is more than one definition of what design is. My responsibility and responsibility of the first few designers that I hire is to establish what do we mean by design.
What's important about it, how is it done, when is it done, how can we make cross-functional colleagues – product managers and engineers, and marketers, and salespeople, and everyone – a part of that design process.
That's fascinating, and I spend a lot of time thinking about how can I make that happen, because now is a unique opportunity, where none of that is set in stone yet.
What responsibilities do you have as the only designer working at Heap?
The easy answer is that I'm responsible for all the design work. The bulk of the time and energy – and this is true now and will be true in a larger team – is going to be around the product.
That is where the greatest need for design effort is right now, and it's where it's essential that design be fluid and collaborative and iterative. We have an agency that we work with on web and marketing and that partnership has worked well. That's not a process that's going to work as well with an agency when it comes to working on the product itself.
So because our engineering team is internal, we need to be collaborative. The bulk of my work and the bulk of my team's work shortly is going to be on the product. But we will be involved in other stuff as well—for instance, I work closely with the marketing team and the agency on our website.
As those needs and priorities shift, so our time might shift as well.
How do you optimize your work not to get overwhelmed with all the responsibilities that you have?
The easiest thing is trying to permit myself to say no. It's a very easy thing for me, and of course, I'm not alone with this, to try to address the situation by taking on as much as possible. Working harder, squeezing more hours into the day, and that's self-defeating again.
The quality of work goes down, you become stressed out, you get grumpy, and people keep asking you for things, because you keep saying yes, so there's no end to it. I try to think very hard about where my time is going to be most leveraged for lack of a better term, to apply that time there.
Hey, I'm having a lot of trouble with that slide in my PowerPoint deck, can you help me out?
Oh yeah, I can rely on them when I get stuck on a slide for a sales presentation. They will give me an icon or some advice.
I believe when designing products like Heap, that have complex dashboards, you need to be focused on making the product consistent. Does working alone make this task easier to achieve?
Man, I wish I could make it more consistent.
I'm going to stick with existing patterns.
You realize that there are many competing patterns to choose from. It's inevitable with a product that has been around for a while and hasn't had a lot of design support.
I don't think that would be harder with a couple more people. You can still coordinate a small group of designers pretty well. That gives us potential bandwidth to do a whole survey of the product, start to consolidate the design system.
The biggest trouble is finding the engineering cycles to do it. Combining the code-base in conjunction with consolidating the design system is absolutely the right way to do it. You come out on the other side with a consistency that's enforced in code, instead of mockups.
I can't say if that level of effort is worth pausing everything else to do, or if it's better to do in the course of other work.
The questions here are: how do we insure consistency over time and where are the right points to stop and make a more conservative effort to become more consistent.
I think that would get only easier for at least the next 3 designers to join the team. It gets harder to force consistency when you have a team big enough that you can't get them all around a desk and talk about something.
At what point you know that you have to start hiring new people? What made you realize that?
It was before I started. It's been a goal from day one, and it's something that my CEO holds me accountable for. It's certainly become more evident over time.
As a member of the company's executive team, I spend a significant percentage of my time on things that are not just working on the design of the product. Maybe that's administrative details of how the company is operating, maybe it's figuring out our strategy for the next 6 or 12 months.
But that makes the problem more severe in a sense because that's less time spent designing things. Certainly, I'd say in my first couple of months, before that I had expected to have more time to do design, and it's been even less than I thought.
But I've been hiring since I started.
What characteristics do you have in mind regarding your future colleagues?
I'm looking for a few things. I mentioned both a need for a design system and probably a need for not prioritizing it today. That reflects the fact that I need people who are really strong on UX, on problem-solving, on information architecture, on identifying user needs and coming up with elegant solutions for complex problems.
Something I want to ensure as we grow is that the design team and the engineering team collaborate tightly. If the design team is at least a little bit technical, that opens up some possibilities to collaborate in the code-base.
Not necessarily in terms of designers checking in code, but more like checking assets, tweaking CSS values, working with React components. I'm also looking for designers who can write reasonably good UI copy. Those are the hard skills.
On the soft-skills side, I'm looking for people who are passionate, driven and care about what they do and are interested in growing. I'm also looking for people who are humble. That have a sense of humor and are ready to poke fun of themselves. They also have to be interested in being respectful and learning from the people around them.
That's sometimes a tough balance to find – a passion on the one hand and the humility and humor on the other. But that's something that we have at Heap that I want to make sure we preserve. It's a lot of why I joined in the first place.
Last but not least, I'm looking for people who are pragmatic and professional. People who understand that every decision we make has to be a trade-off. I want them to be a part of the trade-off. I want people who recognize that our job should be fun when we stand back from 1000 feet, and we look at it. Our job should be rewarding. But at the 10 feet level, sometimes we have to do some crappy stuff, and that's like any job.
I want people who can come along for that ride and who realize that their day-to-day job will be a mix of stuff that's rewarding and stuff that's just got to get done. They are going to have to operate with timelines and constraints.
What tips would you give to someone who is or will be working as the only designer on the team?
Finding the opportunity to talk to others about their designs. That could be going to meetups, creating a relationship with a designer from another company that's in a similar position, so that you can bounce ideas off each other.
When I was freelancing, I learned a lot from myself, or from reading blog posts and books. But once I came into a team and became a part of that team I realized how much more I can learn by having people around me.
So find ways how to surround yourself with people who can give you perspectives that aren't your own. That's hard. It's easy to say find other designers, but you're busy – it's hard. Make that effort.
Beyond that, cultivating feedback relationships within your company can be valuable. I do get input that's incredibly valuable from our engineers and our product managers. You start to know who are the people you can go to for input on design that's going to be on a level that's valuable for you.
I also tend to turn people around me into kind of a de facto design critique team. We do design reviews, people show up, and I get input, and that's valuable, even though they're not designers. And I've encouraged folks outside the immediate team to come to those.
We don't have the space set up yet, but I've considered having those design critiques out in the open, so people wandering by can be a part of it. It's about welcoming non-designers to the team. It doesn't necessarily mean they will be working in Sketch.
Dave, thanks a lot for the interview! There is anything that you would like to plug in?
I'm hiring! If what I mentioned is appealing for you and you're reading this, drop me a line. I'm looking to build a team that's going to be a lot of fun, and we are going to work on really interesting, challenging projects.


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We've previously featured Penda Health, a Kenya-based social enterprise that delivers a range of high quality medical services and products just for women. Unlike other clinics in the region, Penda charges patients a small fee -- not too much that it becomes unaffordable to low and middle income women, but enough to ensure the provision of top quality care -- and to make the model sustainable.
In the interview below, Penda Health co-founder Stephanie Koczela shares a touching anecdote about a mother and child that fueled her drive to become a social entrepreneur, she shares where the business model came from, and she offers her playful secrets to staying inspired.
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1. How did the idea for the business model come about?
Low and middle income individuals in developing countries are seen as only being able to access healthcare services if they are free, and yet this same population spent billions of dollars on healthcare in 2006 (WHO). The problem is that the quality of the services available is extremely low.
Penda Health believes that by working with factories in industrial areas of Africa, we will be able to increase the client to health provider ratio in such a way that we will be able to keep costs lower than typical health clinics while also remaining committed to the provision of quality services.
2. How did you decide to join this sector?
My co-founders and I have all been working with the low and middle income sector of Kenya for the past 3-5 years. We have collectively seen a need for improved access to quality healthcare for this segment. Each of us has personal relationships that have been affected by the lack of access, and this frustrated us and made us wish things could change.
In June 2011, we stumbled across a study that was done by USAID that showed that if the Kenyan government were to spend $71 million on providing access to family planning services to the Kenya population, it would save the country $271 million over the next 10 years on other social sectors such as maternal health, water and sanitation, malaria prevention, etc. This study inspired us to want to provide increased access to family planning services specifically.
We started talking to women to see if there would be anything we could do to improve access to quality healthcare and how best to improve access to family planning services. After talking to 1,000 women, we decided that we would be able to provide high quality and increase access by opening a chain of small health centres, and Penda Health was born.
3. How do you get your inspiration?
My personal inspiration came from a little baby named Lucky. Lucky was born to a 20-year-old single mother who was sick when she got pregnant, which lead to him being born 3 months premature. His mother passed away when he was 2 months old.
Once Lucky's mother died, Lucky was taken by his grandmother to a government hospital for care. He got sicker and sicker there. I found him after he'd been there for 3 weeks and was likely to pass away within 48 hours. I got the government hospital to release him and rushed him to a private hospital, but it was no help. We spent thousands of dollars trying to undo the harm done by the low quality care he received in the previous hospital days. In the end, he passed away despite receiving excellent care for weeks before his death.
It broke my heart and infuriated me at the same time. It's unacceptable that the quality of health varies so much depending on how much money you can pay. And it infuriates me that his mother will not make the impact that she might have made in Kenya just because she did not have access to birth control.
It was in the wake of Lucky's passing that I felt inspired to dive head-first into making Penda Health a reality.
4. How do you reset yourself to be creative? Do you have any rituals?
I love to go running with a friend of mine in Central Park. It helps me clear my head and get ready to dive back into my work when I am overwhelmed. On the opposite end of the spectrum, I like to lie on the floor and throw a ball up in the air when I am trying to think through something. A bit strange... but it works for me! :)
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DHS: Cleaning company 'deceived' Chertoff
WASHINGTON (CNN) - Workers of a company that hired illegal immigrants cleaned the home of top U.S. immigration official Michael Chertoff, and the Department of Homeland Security has accused the company's owner of deceiving the department chief.
"Every contractor in the United States has the responsibility of ensuring their workers are legal," DHS spokesman Russ Knocke said in a prepared statement given to CNN on Thursday.
"As soon as the Chertoffs learned that Mr. Reid deceived them by employing some unauthorized workers, they fired him."
The situation came to light when the owner of the company, James Reid, approached The Washington Post, which published an article on Thursday.
Reid, who owns Consistent Cleaning Services in Maryland, denied that he deceived the DHS secretary and his wife, whom he had worked for since Chertoff was named to the position in early 2005. Now, he is facing more than $22,000 in fines from U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, which is under DHS.
Reid told CNN's "American Morning" on Thursday that before he went to the Chertoffs' home, he provided the Secret Service with the employees' payroll information, their social security cards, work permits, passports or visas.
"Whatever information they provided me, I provided them," he said. The documents were checked again when Reid and the workers arrived at the Chertoffs' home.
"The same employees went into their house for year after year after year ... that they forced me to release," Reid said.
Every three months he would have to provide new documentation on the workers, he said. Reid said he determined four of his workers were undocumented, and fired them on his own. But he said that when ICE began its investigation earlier this year, it said six other employees were illegal immigrants and forced him to fire them.
He said those six workers, all women, had all the proper documentation and he personally escorted them into the Chertoffs' home after going through the security checks.
"I did not know they were undocumented," Reid said of the six women. "I figured I'd go to Homeland Security - I collected the information, I'd go to his house and after going to his house, I'd figure Secret Service just investigated them, so I'd figure they had to be legal."
"I had no questions about if they were legal."
Knocke, however, said while it is abundantly clear Reid employed unauthorized workers, it is unclear whether any of those illegal workers went into Chertoff's residence. Asked why the workers' unauthorized status did not come up during the routine Secret Service checks, Knocke noted that Reid's employee base and clientele was larger than just the Chertoffs.
DHS accused Reid of not doing his own background check on his workers, particularly through E-verify, a DHS-funded system that allows businesses to ensure that employees are legal.
"It is unfortunate that Mr. Reid did not acknowledge his own personal responsibility and check the eligibility of his work force," the statement from Knocke said.
But Reid maintains that he used a national payroll service to perform background checks, in addition to the Secret Service checks.
"I would think they would catch that after three years of taking ... what they say (were) illegal employees into their house, " Reid said. "They should have caught that a long time ago."
Knocke said Chertoff has been briefed on the situation, agreed the investigation should go forward, and recused himself from further involvement.
The DHS spokesman accused Reid of being a "disgruntled" former employee and an "opportunist" who has taken this opportunity to "vent his frustration."
Knocke said the Chertoffs were simply customers, and compared their employment of Reid's cleaning service to going to a restaurant and being told by the manager that a meal was properly served and the table was properly cleaned when it was not.
Reid told CNN the fine may force him out of business, and he has had trouble affording a lawyer. He said he sought help from his congresswoman, Rep. Donna Edwards, D-Maryland, and an immigrant advocacy organization in Maryland.
–CNN's Beth Rotatori contributed to this report
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In this week's episode, Mike and Don begin with – "what's in a name?!" – followed by a walk down memory lane resulting from a wonderful email sent by Darin Bell. Then Shawn Smith with questions, questions! What about using the term, "gospel"? Wayne Leis asks about LIFE! A letter from our friend Danny Minaskanians about Jewish teachings on an afterlife. What do the scriptures say about this? Our friend Glenn Kline, a Jewish man, adds his comments on the subject. SHALOM everybody!
I guess when we pass on, we go to be with the Lord. If it's good enough for God, it most likely is good enough for me.
For any minister or preacher to define what heaven or Paradise is, it's like Mike said in " The Great High priest " teaching – " don't tell me you have Melchizedek figured out ".
My concerns are my health staying good and where are the fish feeding tomorrow. Very interesting discussions again as always.


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Government pauses on web regulation to ponder question, "What is a small-scale blog?"
A follow-up to my weekend post, Bloggers unite to oppose "botched late-night drafting" that proposes new press/web regulation, highlighting the concerns of many — including the Hacked Off campaign group — that politicians' hasty law-making had resulted in legislative over-reach.
In the House of Lords last night, the Government accepted an amendment that will exclude from the Royal Charter-backed independent self-regulation plans 'A person who publishes a small-scale blog'.
How 'a small-scale blog' is defined will be consulted on by the culture, media and sport department. Patrick Wintour in The Guardian reports this as "a miniconsultation with the newspaper industry on how best to construct a workable definition of the bloggers", which would be an, erm, interesting way of going about it.
Here's what Lib Dem justice minister Lord (Tom) McNally told peers:
In the past week, I have seen some concerns voiced regarding the extent to which bloggers or tweeters may be caught by this definition [of 'relevant publisher' – ie, those within the ambit of the regulator]. I will return to this point in a moment. Lord Justice Leveson distinguished between the often grass-roots, small-scale activity of individual bloggers' sites and social networking, and those activities that have developed over time into more sophisticated, multi-authored and edited news-related businesses. He referred to:
"a number of news blogs-the Huffington Post is an early, high profile example of one, which has developed over the years into something much more like an online newspaper-which specifically aim to bring a range of news stories and views on those stories to their readers".
This is an important distinction. Leveson is describing a press-like operation online. In order to future-proof our regulatory approach, we need to keep up with changes in technology. Any regulatory system that seeks to cover news publishers cannot ignore the fact that the print forms of press are facing real economic challenges, both structural and cyclical, and that distribution methods are moving increasingly online. Reforms to press regulatory systems must take account of the increasing online presence of the national news publishers, as well as press-like news publishers who operate solely online.
In future, the digital world is likely to be the principal method of distribution for much of our news, and our regulatory system must reflect this. It is important because the public have different expectations about different kinds of media, and in taking a regulatory approach we should take seriously those public expectations. Clearly, the online version of the national press, its regional counterpart or an online yet press-like news site, carry very different public expectations when compared with a small-scale blog-or, for that matter, a tweet. Our definition of "relevant publisher" seeks to make this differentiation. It does so by employing an interlocking series of tests, all of which must be met before the threshold of the definition is reached. They are, first, whether the publication publishes news-related material; secondly, whether it is written by different authors; thirdly, whether it is to any extent subject to editorial control; and, fourthly, whether it is published in the course of a business. The definition is therefore intended to protect small-scale bloggers while capturing the more sophisticated, press-like online material that Leveson described.
Equally, the definition of "relevant publisher" is not intended to capture the news aggregation services of operations such as Yahoo! or MSN. Nor is it intended to capture social networking sites where individuals post user-generated material. Nor is it aimed at sites that simply moderate the comments of others, or aggregate a series of blogs without any active consideration of the content, such as the blog-hosting services WordPress and Tumblr. I also clarify that, contrary to some recent reporting, the definition is equally not aimed at covering individual journalists. The definition of "relevant publisher" is aimed at organisations that employ or otherwise commission journalistic content, and, even then, only to the extent that these organisations operate in line with the four interlocking tests that I outlined.
I recognise that people have been seeking clarification on how the legislation could apply to small-scale bloggers, and how the interlocking tests work. This is reflected in some of the amendments before us, and includes the suggestion that there may be a case for making an express exemption in respect of small-scale blogs in the new schedule inserted by Commons Amendment 131.
To allow a period of reflection in advance of the next round of ping-pong in another place after the Easter Recess, the Government have tabled manuscript Amendment 131BA in recognition of the concerns over Amendment 131. As part of this, my right honourable friend the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport has agreed that her officials will collate and engage with any issues that are raised before submitting a view on how the test will operate and whether there is a need for a further amendment. I hope it is clear to noble Lords that when this is next considered by the other place, the Government may come forward with an alternative amendment, or invite the other place not to agree this amendment. However, for now, I invite the House to make this change.
It's not clear from Tom McNally's statement if he thinks that sites like LibDemVoice should be brought within the regulator's reach.
On the one hand, we are very clearly not an "online version of the national press". However, we do (probably) meet all four of the "interlocking tests" he specifies — as will other multi-author blogs which publish news-related posts and carry advertising to pay for running costs.
It's this grey area in the middle which the government doesn't yet have an answer to whether we should be included in or included out.
* Stephen Tall is Co-Editor of Liberal Democrat Voice, a Research Associate for the liberal think-tank CentreForum, and also writes at his own site, The Collected Stephen Tall.
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This post is SO GOOD! You perfectly bring up all the questions I have had about Luke. While I loved The Force Awakens, the ending with Luke was weak. What has he been doing??? Building up the Jedi should have been of utmost importance. There better be some answers in the next movie!
Agreed, I think Michael has hit the nail on the head in this piece. I, too, felt the ending of TFA was weak (and it felt contrived, a way to force Luke into the film without him really needing to be there at that point). I can imagine we will be getting some good info in Episode VIII, but right now, I am feeling disappointed and a bit anxious about what we will end up discovering.
Thanks Nancy! I'm happy to know that I'm not the only one puzzled and a bit frustrated with Luke being MIA in the Disney Canon. I want answers in the next movie…and a great novel about him…and maybe his own yearlong comic series too. Am I asking too much? I don't think so. He's LUKE SKYWALKER after all :).


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Meet the Olive & June Founder Changing the At-Home Mani Game
Photo: Courtesy PR
If you're a fan of nail art and chic, Instagrammable nail salons, then it's likely you've heard about Olive & June, where the polish wall is color-coordinated and the manis are flawless. Behind the brand is founder Sarah Gibson Tuttle, who opened the shop in 2013 after her quest to find the perfect nail salon came up short. Since then, the brand has gained celebrity clientele, a loyal fan base and posted enough mani inspo to rock a different nail look every week. And although the L.A.-based salon is thriving, Gibson Tuttle wanted to take Olive & June to the next level by giving everyone (and she means everyone), the opportunity to create their best manis at home with Olive & June nail polishes and a tool called the Poppy, designed to make painting your non-dominant hand a breeze. We recently caught up with Gibson Tuttle for the scoop on the nail trends she's loving right now, her best advice for aspiring beauty-preneurs and what makeup means to her.
How did you get started in your career?
Before opening our Beverly Hills salon in 2013, I worked for ten years as an equity sales trader at JP Morgan & Morgan Stanley in New York City. I loved clients but did not love the job itself. Quality of life and a million days of sunshine a year got me out west. When I arrived, I realized Los Angeles had everything I wanted except for the perfect nail salon. Seeing the opportunity to create a pretty space where women could expect and enjoy expert nail care on a regular basis and spend time with their friends, I opened Olive & June.
Biggest 'pinch-me' moment in your career thus far?
Most of the highlights for me lie in the everyday moments of a client getting nail art for the first time or a manicurist getting excited about learning something new. Some of the bigger brand moments still put a smile on my face. Drew Barrymore hosted a Flower Beauty event at our Beverly Hills salon three months after we opened to celebrate her polish line, and I looked around the room and could barely believe the love and the support I saw. I remember the first time we were in print (Lucky magazine!) like it was yesterday and then being in the September Issue of Vogue a year later was also so major. Most recently though: Poppy! It is my ultimate dream to make beautiful nails possible for everyone, and Poppy is going to make that a reality.
What's a day in your life like?
My days are always different, but I try to wake up before my daughter does to get a few things out of the way. And mostly so I can make myself a latte! After I hang with Noah for a bit, I really get connected with emails and Instagram. I usually have a mix of meetings and calls throughout the day that center around product development, social (I still run all of our accounts), brand and fundraising. Right now I'm the most focused on products as we are in the throws of launching everything you need to do an at-home O&J mani.
Name the launch you're most proud of.
Poppy! She's changing the at-home nail game by empowering women to own their nail routine. I'm so excited for all women to feel confident in their nail routine.
What's your best advice for women aspiring to found their own beauty company?
Make sure you are all in. Starting a company is all-encompassing and can be very lonely as a sole founder. If you love it, you'll enjoy every moment and the hard ones will all be lessons. If you are not in love, it'll be a grind every single day.
What beauty industry trend are you most excited about in 2019?
Clearly it's all about at-home routines for me. We want to make doing your own nails easier, less intimidating, and a real part of people's personal beauty routines this year.
The nail trend you're loving right now?
We love a neutral mani, especially in spring! We recently debuted a collection of chic neutrals that we think look really, really good on everyone. I'm especially loving our new Olive & June Nail Polish in Eva. It's the perfect everyday shade, especially for the beginner.
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You spent a year doing only DIY manicures. What was the biggest lesson you learned?
It's really hard to paint your nails with the current products on the market! Polish bottles are designed for professionals to paint with their dominant hand. I knew that the key to making nails part of your beauty routine at home was to create the products that made it easier. The Poppy allows women to get comfortable with painting on their first try. The shape of The Poppy gives you a comfy, natural grip with either hand so you can control the brush better and paint even, steady strokes. I'm so excited for women to be empowered to do their nails the way they are doing their makeup and hair.
When formulating the Olive & June polishes, what were a few non-negotiables?
So many! I'm a bit of a perfectionist. We formulated our nail polish to go on super smooth, really have staying power (I wanted 7-plus days), dry as fast as possible while still having enough shine, and do so without the most common harmful chemicals often found in polish. Our formula is 7-free, vegan and cruelty-free. We are so proud of what we have created.
How did you choose the colors and pick which color corresponded with who?
Our debut colors were really focused on the foundation of our ideal polish wardrobe — a range of unexpected neutrals that flatter every skin tone. We also really wanted to create shades that are forgiving to paint with so that creating that perfect O&J mani anywhere is achievable. We want to really make it possible for every woman to have beautiful nails all of the time! We then named the polishes after some of our favorite clients by selecting the shades that felt the most "them". We, of course, also got their input; it was fun to see them have a hard time picking a color because they loved them all.
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My daughter because I want to be the best version of myself for her. Our amazing team because they are so smart at all of the things I am not and wish I was. Other founders who are changing the world because innovating is everything. Friends of the brand like Eva Chen because she has time to not only help me and Olive & June on everything I ask her (and more!), but she also leads a huge, full life that always inspires me to do more. Dan Levy because no show makes me laugh harder than Schitt's Creek. (This is my not so subtle plea for him to come back for more seasons.)
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Q: Law of the $L^2$ norm of a Brownian motion and related Let $B_t$ be a Brownian motion with variance 1. We know that $\int_0^1 B(t) \mathrm{d} t \sim \mathcal{N}(0,1/3)$. I am interested to know what we can say about the law of the two random variables
$X = \int_{0}^1 B(t)^2 \mathrm{d}t = \langle B,B\rangle_{L^2([0,1])}$ and $Y = \int_{0}^{1} \left( B(t) - \int_0^1 B(s)\mathrm{d}s \right)^2 \mathrm{d}t = X - \left( \int_0^1 B(s)\mathrm{d}s \right)^2$.
Is there a well-known probability law hidden behind them?
Thank you for attention.

A: Aspects of Brownian Motion (Mansuy & Yor) give an expression for the joint Laplace transform of $B_t$ and $\int_0^t B_s^2 ds$ (section 2.1).  For $\delta$-dimensional Brownian motion,
$$ \mathbb{E}\left[\exp\left(-\alpha|B_t|-\frac{b^2}{2}\int_0^t |B_s|^2 ds \right) \right] $$
is equal to
$$\left(\text{ch}(bt)+2\frac{\alpha}{b}\text{sh}(bt)\right)^{-\delta/2}\exp\left(-\frac{xb}{2}\frac{(1+\frac{2\alpha}{b}\coth(bt)}{(\coth(bt)+\frac{2\alpha}{b}}\right). $$
I don't recognize the generating function, even for $\delta=1$ and $\alpha=0$; and neither do Manuy & Yor give it a name.
See also Albin 1995 for some other references.

A: The distribution of Y has been studied in great details by Donati-Martin and Yor in their work: Fubini's theorem for double Wiener integrals and the variance of the Brownian motion path
http://archive.numdam.org/ARCHIVE/AIHPB/AIHPB_1991__27_2/AIHPB_1991__27_2_181_0/AIHPB_1991__27_2_181_0.pdf
In particular it is proved that in distribution
$Y=^{law}\int_0^1 | W_s |^2 ds$
where W is a standard complex Brownian bridge.

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Ceano Mack and Lakeisha Guthrie, professionally known as "Prince Peezy & La La Chanel," are a hip-hop and r&b group from South Broward County, Florida. Hood Illustrated described the group as " On top of catchy and beautiful hooks, banging beats and hard verses. It was refreshing to see 2 young artists present music that wasn't just full of drugs being done, gang signs being thrown and guns waved at the camera."
Recently the group released the video "Shine," the first single off the groups upcoming E.P "Project X." The E.P is scheduled for release in the spring of 2018 and will be available for purchase on iTunes and the group's website. The album will also be available for streaming on all major networks. A publicity campaign and small tour have been coordinated to market the album to a larger audience.
Ceano Mack aka "Prince Peezy" was born on January 2nd, 1989 and raised with six of his brothers and sisters and a few of his close cousins. He states that "we never really had much even though kids from the neighborhood thought otherwise." He also states that "at the age of five the doctor's diagnosed me with cancer/womb timer, it didn't stop my life but it slowed it down a bit. At a young age, I observed my brothers and my cousin recording over instrumentals on a cassette tape player and my oldest brother studying Tupac. That was all it took, and I was hooked."
Lakeisha Guthrie aka "La La Chanel" was born on August 1st, 1989. A self-described introvert, Lala states "that throughout my childhood my mother struggled with substance abuse which often resulted in my anger and frustration. I had to find a positive way to release these and other emotions and music has become that outlet to express my struggles with everyday life." She also states "I mostly like to create vibes that can take others including myself out of the normal elements. A lot of the music is feel-good music is that I am at the young, wild and free stage of my life."
Prince Peezy & Lala Chanel meet shortly after high school and have worked together ever since. The group has released one mixtape and two released EP's. The group has seen moderate success including performing at South By South West twice, South Padre Island Spring Break twice, and traveling to Brazil with DJ Unknown to perform at "The Audio Club" for the Jaruzelski Tour. The group has opened for successful acts such as Big Sean, Waka Flocka, and Roscoe Dash. Prince Peezy & Lala Chanel are also a two-time nominee for "Best Hip-Hop Duo" at the Underground Music Awards. Prince Peezy & Lala Chanel goal is to claim their space in the entertainment world and create music history through accomplishments.
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