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--Presented by "THE DREAM TEAM"

Experts on Dream Activation for Baby Boomers

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This is a FREE workshop with like-minded Baby Boomers who are ready to explore all the possibilities. We are offering this opportunity to only 20 highly motivated participants.

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DATE:       Thursday, May 29, 2014

TIME:        10 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

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The Pulse on Politics!

Order in the Court! KEEP YOUR COOL! Spring Fashion for the Legal Executive....

Don't get hot under your collar!

Loyal adherents to the professional dress code shudder at the arrival of warmer weather. Spring — especially that first 65-degree day — is the time when normally well-dressed lawyers are tempted to throw off their woolen suits and play hooky, at least where their wardrobes are concerned.

Even a fleeting disregard for professional attire can take a toll. While every spring fling inevitably comes to an end, the images of inappropriately clad attorneys are forever burned into the brains of their clients, colleagues and supervising partners. You probably want to avoid that, so here are some guidelines to keep your frolic with spring fashion in check.

1. Skip the super casual. Unless you’re actively on vacation, nix the sportswear, the lounge-wear and the beachwear. I don’t care how nicely you iron your short-sleeved flowered shirt and attempt to tuck it into your slacks — it doesn't belong in the office. Same goes for the golf shirt, the sundress and the ball cap. No amount of pressing, belting or accessorizing mitigates the harm done by these three clothing categories. Simply avoid them altogether.

2. No one wants to see your armpits, feet or thighs. No matter how business-appropriate your sheath dress may seem, your exposed armpits are not professional. Same goes for your blinged-out but barely there sandals, and I shouldn't even have to mention the dreaded flip-flops. An easy solution for armpits is to layer with a lightweight shrug or a summer cardigan. Or, look for items with a sweet little cap sleeve instead. As for your tootsies, some types of spring footwear provide more coverage than others, so look for shoes that have modest cut-outs or peep toes,

or thick straps that camouflage your inner sole. Please don’t force your co-workers to directly confront your running calluses. The thigh thing is easy: no too-short dresses, short skirts or shorts. Never, ever.

3. Avoid the squeeze and the slop. The debate rages over which is worse — an attorney squeezed like a sausage into too-tight clothing or an attorney swimming like a sad sack in baggy, draggy clothing. Spring is the perfect season to look crisp and sharp. Seize the opportunity for a major wardrobe rebirth and make sure each item fits you well, with nary a squeeze or slop in sight.

4. Get poppy with color. As long as you’re adhering to the guidelines above, go wild with springtime color! Anchor a poppy blast of fun with a neutral and it’s hard to go wrong. Pair turquoise with tan. Bright green loves gray. Hot pink is perfect with camel tones. Electric blue wows with black. Get your warm-weather glow with metallics. Shimmer in a rose-gold jacket. Shine on with those silver ties. As long as you keep your wattage grounded and don’t overload with multiple wacky colors at the same time, there’s nothing off limits.

Oh yeah, not that many of you care in 2014....but I HATE JEANS, There is no such argument to support casual Fridays and no size of a "Dream Team" could ever convince me that Denim is cooler than a pair of slacks! I've never seen even the thinnest denim blow whilst there was a breeze! However; even the thickest wool pants tend to give way to a passing breeze.  

The Legal Brief Show on KLAVAM1230
Host: M. Joseph Miller II

M. Joseph Miller II has been in the legal field (Criminal, Civil, Tax, CLE, Family & Corporate) for almost 20 years. Miller is also the host of The Legal Brief Talk show on KLAV1230AM "The Talk of Las Vegas", sits on various boards as the Director of Legal Affairs as adviser to the Presidents and CEO's of various profit and non-profit companies. Miller's holding in fashion include Julia Sera Boutiques, English Elite Couture, and Elan Society Talent & Model management. He believes a sense of humor and the ability to frame events positively, combined with solid professional skills, leads directly to career and business success. His experience working and training others in challenging careers has given him the skills to manage the toughest customers, speak and present persuasively, and shine under stressful circumstances.

In Search of a Second Act: The Challenges and Advantages of Senior Entrepreneurship

Testimony Before the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging & the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship

Contrary to popular perception, entrepreneurship is not exclusive to the young and hip.

With that message, Kauffman Foundation Vice President of Research and Policy, Dane Stangler, provided testimony to the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging & the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship on how policymakers can foster senior entrepreneurship and why it is important to the U.S. economy.

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Testimony of Dane Stangler
Vice President, Research and Policy
Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

Before the
U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging & the Senate Committee on Small
Business and Entrepreneurship

In Search of a Second Act: The Challenges and Advantages of Senior 
Entrepreneurship 
February 12, 2014

Chairman Nelson, Chair Landrieu, Ranking Member Collins, Ranking Member Risch, and members of the Aging and Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committees, thank you for the opportunity to present data gathered by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation on senior entrepreneurship.

Founded by late entrepreneur and philanthropist Ewing Marion Kauffman, the Kauffman Foundation is a private, nonpartisan foundation based in Kansas City, Missouri that aims to foster economic independence by advancing educational achievement and entrepreneurial success.

At the Kauffman Foundation, we believe in the power of entrepreneurship to not only change individual lives, but to also create economic opportunities for many others in society. 

With the goal of creating new knowledge about entrepreneurship, the Kauffman Foundation conducts and supports research that informs policymakers and the public about pro-entrepreneurship policies at all levels of government.  

Our research contributes to a more in-depth understanding of what drives innovation and economic growth in an entrepreneurial world.

Contrary to popular perception, entrepreneurship is not exclusive to the young and hip. Entrepreneurs of all ages start businesses and create economic opportunity for themselves and others.

Last year, for example, businesses started by those ages 55 to 64 accounted for nearly one-quarter of all new businesses started.

That share has risen from 14 percent in 1996, according to the Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity, which captures business owners in their first month of significant business activity.

In the context of America's aging population, an increasing share of entrepreneurship among this population is perhaps not surprising.

What might be more startling to many observers is that Americans in the 55-64 age group start new businesses at a higher rate than those in their twenties and thirties.  

This has been true, by the way, in every single year from 1996 to 2013.

While senior entrepreneurs make up a sizeable portion of all entrepreneurs and tend to start businesses at a rate comparable to or higher than younger entrepreneurs, there are possibly some reasons to temper our enthusiasm about this phenomenon.

First, we are unsure of the types of businesses being founded by older entrepreneurs or their hiring practices — more cynical observers say that this group only starts consulting companies or use self-employment for supplemental income.

This is undoubtedly true for some share of older entrepreneurs. 

Yet other evidence indicates that we find founders of technology companies in their fifties and sixties as well: one study found more tech founders over age 50 than under age 30.4

Of more concern perhaps is the lingering effect of the Great Recession and the decimation of retirement plans and housing wealth.

To the extent this damage fell on Americans over age 55, self-employment may be seen as a way to recover nest egg losses.

Finally, with concern about Americans over age 55 permanently leaving the labor force after the recession, it is possible that older entrepreneurship rates could be suppressed.

Nevertheless, there are more reasons for optimism than pessimism about entrepreneurship among older Americans.  

First, senior entrepreneurs are likely to have greater experience than younger entrepreneurs.

That experience, whether professionally or personally, can prove valuable when starting a new business.

Secondly, perhaps paradoxically, senior entrepreneurs may have fewer concerns about setting up a business.

In their paper on entrepreneurs over the age of 50 in the United Kingdom, Ron Botham and Andrew Graves found that older entrepreneurs were "less likely to worry about risks, experience, or family life than younger founders."

Third, despite the effects of the recession, senior entrepreneurs may be more financially secure than younger entrepreneurs and may have an alternative source of income — either from retirement savings, a pension, or Social Security.

This added financial security can make the financial risks of starting a business less salient.

Finally, we might expect a higher preponderance of serial entrepreneurs among those in their fifties and sixties, which could mean greater success rates.

A 2012 Kauffman Foundation and LegalZoom survey of 1,400 business owners who incorporated their business through LegalZoom in 2012 found two-thirds of respondents over age 60 had previously started a company and ten percent of these entrepreneurs had started 5 prior companies.

Research suggests that there are several ways policymakers could support this very important phenomenon of older entrepreneurship.

Lower barriers to entry in general, for example, would make business creation easier. Licensing barriers in several sectors — which exist mostly at the state and local level — also suppress business creation.

The complexity — though not necessarily the level — of taxes can also act as a barrier to entrepreneurship.

These, of course, apply to entrepreneurs of all ages.

For senior entrepreneurship, flexible labor markets are especially important.

The idea of spending forty years at one job and retiring with a gold watch is quickly fading in the United States.

Even when Americans retire at age 65, they can expect to live healthily for another two or three decades.

Moving easily between self-employment, wage-and-salary employment, and entrepreneurship requires flexible labor markets.

This may be especially important for senior entrepreneurship as research has shown that senior entrepreneurs are much more likely to start a business if moving from a job.

In addition, fostering more senior entrepreneurship as the American population ages will require careful attention to specific sectors in order to foster innovation.

n particular, we will likely need more financial innovation to support continuously changing forms of entrepreneurship.

Finally, policymakers can foster senior entrepreneurship by encouraging intergenerational networks where entrepreneurs of different ages can interact and learn.

The Kauffman Foundation started a new entrepreneurial support program called 1 Million Cups in Kansas City that has spread to more than two dozen cities across the United States.

Each week, the 1 Million Cups program offers local entrepreneurs an opportunity to present their startups to a diverse audience of mentors, advisors, and entrepreneurs.

Presenters prepare a short educational presentation and engage in 20 minutes of feedback and questioning after they present.

Entrepreneurs gain insight into possible ways they can improve their businesses, gather realtime feedback, connect with a community that truly cares about their progress, and walk away feeling like they have advanced their business.

These community gatherings provide opportunities for individuals of all ages to connect around entrepreneurship.

In conclusion, older Americans are active entrepreneurs whose new businesses provide self-employment and employment opportunities to others.

As the American population ages, we should expect a greater share of entrepreneurs to be seniors.

Policymakers can support these "third age" or "encore" entrepreneurs by pursuing policies that lower barriers to entrepreneurial entry, maintain flexible labor markets, and encourage intergenerational interaction.

Thank you, again, for the opportunity to testify.

-Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

(Originally published in 02/12/2014 by: Kauffman.org) 

This publication has not been edited from its original publication, 

has been re-posted in its entirety and is not the work of M & A Legal Management, 

M. Joseph Miller II or any affiliate companies or individuals. NOTICE: Artwork not part of

original article by Kauffman.org.

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The Republican Lawyer: In NYC, Liberals Want to Let Illegal Aliens Vote

New York City is affectionately known to all as the Big Apple, but the new administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio is demonstrating that the Big Apple may be rotten to its core.  

The latest outrage from the ultraliberal de Blasio administration and his comrades on the city council would open the door for massive voter fraud in New York City elections.  Under a plan being pushed by de Blasio and the council, noncitizens, including illegal immigrants, would be given city-issued identification cards.  

De Blasio and his allies claim that this is nothing more than an effort to bring illegal immigrants "out of the shadows," but GOP State Senator Greg Ball, the chairman of the Senate's Veterans, Homeland Security, and Military Affairs Committee, uncovered something more sinister in this proposal.  According to Ball, this would open the door to noncitizens, including illegal aliens, to vote illegally in New York State Elections.  New York voters must provide their driver's license number of Social Security numbers when registering to vote.  If they don't, they must provide some other proof of identity when voting for the first time.  De Blasio's ID cards would give noncitizens the proof they need to cast ballots.

And while we're on the subject of the bizarre state of affairs in Gotham, let's not forget the aftermath of the NYC Department of Investigations' (NYCDOI) report on the New York City Board of Elections(NYCBOE).  If you don't remember, the NYCDOI (at the request of the Bloomberg Administration) produced a report on the management of the NYCBOE as well as the conduct of elections in New York City.  The report found, among other things, that it was relatively easy for people posing as dead voters and former city residents to vote.

You'd expect that the commissioners and staff of the NYCBOE would be embarrassed and apologetic after such a scathing report, right?  

Wrong.  

Instead of apologizing for their conduct and working on a plan to correct it, the commissioners of the NYCBOE accused DOI investigators of breaking New York State Election Law and requested that prosecutors bring charges against the investigators that uncovered the opportunities for fraud in NYC elections.

Sadly, there may be no hope for the Big Apple.  We can only hope that other officials around America see what's happening there and work to make sure this kind of insanity doesn't come to their hometown.

Creating A Great Company Culture

Written by Kate Stoner 
on January 22, 2014.

Company culture is the term used to describe the values and practices of a company and its employees.  Although each company has unique qualities, in general, company culture is about creating a positive and productive work environment for its employees. Hiring people who compliment your company’s culture, having a strong and well-known mission statement and set of company values, emphasizing that your employees are a team, not just a group of individuals, and acknowledging that good ideas can come from every employee are a few key elements that make for a great company culture.

Hiring people who are compatible with your existing company culture is the best and easiest way to maintain and reinforce your company culture. A high performing employee with a personality or attitude that does’t fit with your company culture can actually be detrimental to the work environment, which can adversely affect the business or company.

Having a strong and well-known mission statement and set of company values is very important for company culture. When employees know the company mission statement and exemplify the company’s values, they are able to be a positive representation of the company. Also, if employees share the same values and beliefs, they become more passionate and dedicated to the goals and the well-being of the company.

Companies who consider their employees a “team” often have a much stronger sense of company culture. The word team unites individuals and creates a sense of comradery. Employees who are part of a team are much more willing to help and collaborate with each other because they feel that they will all benefit, whether directly or indirectly, from accomplishing their goals.

Acknowledging that good ideas can come from anybody in the company is one of the most important things a company and its leaders can do to maintain a positive company culture. Employees want to feel valued, respected, and have a voice that has a meaningful impact on their company. Companies that eliminate a sense of hierarchy and give their employees the freedom to make a positive impact on the company have more loyal employees and are inevitably more successful as a company.

A strong and positive company culture benefits the company just as much as its employees. A successful company culture it sustains and perpetuates employee enthusiasm, creating more happy, productive, effective, and loyal employees. This directly translates into a more profitable and successful company. Nourishing and investing in company culture is a win-win situation that will positively shape the future of your company. It’s a no brainer!