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For 3 days and nights, helicopters hovered day and night as police patrolled a village in Clear Water Bay following a burglary by reportedly machete-armed individuals who fled into the nearby mountains. All villagers are unharmed, according to reports in the village WhatsApp group. Chinese news video.
Wang Yaping, age 41, became China's first female spacewalker aboard the Shenzhou-13.
In Hong Kong, the new M+ museum of visual culture opened, featuring thousands of pieces over dozens of galleries, including artifact jars painted over by famed artist Ai Wei Wei.
In Glasgow, Scotland, the 26th Conference of the Partners (COP26) has brought together nearly 40,000 delegates from around the world to confer on how humanity will collaborate and finance adaptation to climate change and mitigation of further rise in the global temperature. According to the NGO Global Witness, 503 delegates from the fossil fuel industry are attending, more than the number of delegates from any country, reported in Business Insider among other outlets.
The uncharacteristic US town of Ithaca, New York, voted to decarbonize its buildings by 2030, 20 years ahead of the global goal of achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2050. Ithaca is a town of ~32,000 people, a population which balloons when its local universities Cornell University (~20,000 students) and Ithaca College (~7,000 students) are in session.
Positive change is a long road. Hang in there! Thank you for your consistent support!
What’s happening
At the Women Entrepreneur Network lunch (WEN), I found myself among spa owners, lifestyle media owners, health and wellness coaches, junk boat owners, makeup suppliers excited to buy raffle tickets for a drawing to win a designer wallet. Personally, I was more excited for the trivia to earn a luxurious facial treatment.
Fun facts included: Madeline Albright was the first woman United States Secretary of State. The first woman to receive a medical degree in Italy was Maria Montessori. Queen Victoria reigned 63 years and 7 months.
By lucky draw of candy wrapped in magenta foil, I sat with other women who had also drawn magenta-wrapped candy same from a bag of other color foiled candies at the entry.
By lucky draw, my table neighbors included:
A former lawyer with homes in Hong Kong and Canada - after starting her business on her kitchen table in 1980, she grew it into a full-suite service helping businesses set up correctly in Hong Kong, a business that lasted over 30 years. She now serves as the honorary chairwoman of WEN. Seven years ago, she founded a family foundation supporting the education of ethnic minorities in Hong Kong - they are from Hong Kong because they’ve always lived here, though they are very often perceived otherwise.
In the last 5 minutes of my attendance, the expert microblader across the table from me revealed that she used to work at the scientific publishing company called Cell Press and is now completing an online master degree in biotechnology from Johns Hopkins University. Microblading is a semi-permanent tattoo technique, commonly for eyebrows. I had to Google it.
For another milestone, see “This week’s science post”
This week’s science post, online November 09, 2021
Food packaging, forensic science, biodefense, detergents, cosmetics, pest-resistant crops, cheese, biodiesel, organ transplants, diagnostics, regenerative tissues, self-administered insulin, medical devices, vaccines informatics and more - biotechnology has always been an anchor of modern healthcare and relevant to people of all demographics.
In the United States, the biotechnology workforce does not represent the population it serves, especially in leadership. According to the 2020 survey of 42 biotechnology companies in the United States conducted by the Biotechnology Innovation Organization, 1% of executives, 3% of board members, and 3% of CEOs identified as Black or African American, and the numbers were the same for those who identified as Hispanic.
Morehouse School of Medicine, a historically black medical school in the US, created the first-of-its-kind intensive summer program - Bridges to Biotechnology and Bioentrepreneurship - to help bridge this gap.
Enrollment in the Master of Science in Biotechnology increased 5-fold after the first session of the summer program and participants overwhelmingly reported feeling satisfied with the program, promising signs that such a program will positively impact diversity and inclusion in the workforce.
I am honored to have been involved in assembling this manuscript, newly released in Nature Biotechnology!
Human Resources – the most important resource in any enterprise
Julio Maria Muhorro - Humorous, high-energy, empathetic digital nomad from Mozambique. As a power coach and founder of Sharing Knowledge International, he helps entrepreneurs figure out which direction they are running and which direction they want to run. He instigates self-investigation, practical planning and focused intentioning so that businesses and founders alike operate with integrity and earn the income they deserve while making the impact they desire. Ask him about the vengeance of unaddressed difficult thoughts and emotions, who controls timing, and who can mess with your why’s.
Tom Halapatz became an entrepreneur one lifetime ago as the owner of a Konica Minolta Copier dealership. He now says that he doesn’t know where he would be if not for a career in professional sales. He quickly learned to be client focused and not product focused to succeed in a highly competitive marketplace. “Trust is the biggest sale you will ever make,” he says. He now serves as Vice President International of the LODE Monetary System, which aims to be the most stable monetary system in the world. Unlike the world’s currencies, which are backed by debt, LODE is backed by physical silver and gold. At age 57, Tom is a father, husband, kettle-bell enthusiast and appreciator of physical comedy, former business and sales coach, former family and intervention coach, GBO member in Edmonton, and currently still a good listener, go-getter, based in Edmonton, Canada
Interesting Reads
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance - 2004 edition. The self-told narrative of the son of a black African man from Kenya and a white woman who grew up in the American midwest. He spells out his childhood with his white grandparents in Hawaii, knowing his father just once at age 10, the confusing nature of his own blackness in America, being out of place yet building community in Chicago, and getting to know his deceased father through his dozens of relatives on his first trip to Kenya in his late twenties. After the first edition was published in 1994, the New York Times Book Review said the author "persuasively describes the phenomenon of belonging to two different worlds, and thus belonging to neither." This author became president of the United States in 2008.
Never Split the Difference: Negotiate As If Your Life Depended on It - 2016 – Former FBI hostage negotiator Chris Voss and journalist Tahl Raz spell out how to view a negotiation as a collaboration, not a confrontation, to listen INTENSELY to get under the surface of your counterpart, not adversary, and speak to what is really motivating them so that you get what you want. Listening is a lot more difficult than talking - look inside to find out how many personnel listened in on a phone line for a bank robbery and hostage situation.
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