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Risk-Taker is  important because if you were running for president you would have no courage to become a official   president 

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By Mollie Garza

This is something my mother taught me that I live by. My mother was an immigrant from El Salvador and as a single woman moved our family to the states to live the American Dream. I was taught to get out there, kick butt and never take "no" for an answer. I now live in New York, hang my hat on selling to "Fortune 500" companies and aspire to be an entrepreneur. It's funny when I look back and remember telling elementary school teachers that I would be a CMO one day. Big dreams, passion and perseverance led me to becoming a risk taker, with a title, called Sales.

I went to college and got a degree in Industrial Marketing which is not a degree that I pursued rather it was a ticket to get into the real world. My first position was a product manager at large Fortune 100 company in a role that did not speak to my education but it was a dream job. I had the opportunity to work with coolest, largest companies that I even had never dreamt of working with including ESPN, NBC, US Weekly, NFL, MLB and more. Coincidentally, I found the most gratification working with startup founders. In 3 years, I made startup founders into millionaires with "buying power" I had. These founders showed me how to properly sell to large, Fortune 100 companies and make fans. I can remember saying, "we have a deal" and how much happiness that meant. To no surprise, as soon as I had the opportunity to join a startup, I left. I learned a role from the inside out and figure, if I wanted to become a CMO then the fastest way to do it was to sell them.

Why Wouldn't Someone Go Into Sales?

People tell me that one of the main reasons they could never be a seller is because "the stress of having a quota" is something they could never do. What's interesting is that I do not pay much attention to my quota. I am driven by competitiveness. During interviews, I ask: How much does the top seller make? How much revenue do they bring in? And in my head, I tell myself, I can't wait to beat those goals. The only difference between sellers and non-sellers is simply the confidence to take risk.

The hardest part of salesmanship is input with little to no immediate success. Mark Cuban did not wake up owning the Dallas Mavericks, at one point, he ate ketchup to feed himself. Just like entrepreneurialism, sales, requires a significant amount of preparation, emotional stability and continuous practice. We prepare for client meetings, study the people we meet with, practice the pitch and on the day of the meeting, a client will cancel. The next day, I could easily close the biggest deal of my life. Similar to sports, just because there is a possibility of rain does not mean you don't practice before game day, you suit up and practice like a winner. When you reach your goal, you celebrate with a nice dinner or bottle of champagne and get back to work to finish what you have accomplished. There is no off season in sales, you have to be that passionate to show up every day and perform like it's game day.

With success comes many failures and obstacles. In my first startup sales role, I remember someone close to me telling me that a CPG was not the "right fit" for the solution I was providing. I remember feeling so empty and disappointed that someone could look me in the eye and tell me that my dreams that I had changed jobs for was impossible. I grit my teeth and within 2 years, I closed the 1st CPG deal and earned a PR release. That company has now pivoted their entire strategy around CPG's and was later named "Crain's Fastest Growing Companies." Many sellers will go through unanswered emails, phone calls and disappointment but it's perseverance that allows us to ignore defeat and stay focused on the finish line.

I used to think that I needed a degree to pursue my dreams but what I've learned is that a degree helps to earn the opportunity (at least these days) but in the end you are in control of the opportunities you are given. Risk taking has taught me that you can have an influence on your future and if done well, it can be prosperous. I have also learned to reflect quite frequently - on both successes and failures. Perseverance can be mastered when you reflect, learn and perfect the steps to overcoming a problem. Repeat the steps to success and to remember the mistakes and never do it again. And while you do this, never forget where you want to go to make your dreams come true.

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By Mollie Garza This is something my mother taught me that I live by. My mother was an immigrant from El Salvador and as a single woman moved our family to the states to live the American Dream. I was taught to get out there, kick butt and never take "no" for an answer.

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education is important because if you did not know what someone was telling you.You will do it wrong and it helps the kids to know more 

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education is important because if you did not know what someone was telling you.You will do it wrong and it helps the kids to know more 

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"Recall the face of the poorest and weakest man you have seen, and ask yourself if this step you contemplate is going to be any use to him." These words, spoken by Mahatma Gandhi in 1948, should be taken as a test of our sincerity, and as a challenge to our complacency, when considering the fate of the 30 million children displaced from their homes by civil wars and natural disasters.

More boys and girls have been uprooted by crisis than at any time since 1945. They are likely to spend their school-age years without entering a classroom, their talents undeveloped and their potential unlocked. There are now 75 million young people whose education has been interrupted by conflict and crisis. Yet urgency - and international law, which mandates the education of all displaced children - fails to inspire action.
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Displaced children are more likely to become the youngest laborers in the factory, the youngest brides at the altar, and the youngest soldiers in the trench. Without opportunity, children are vulnerable to extremists and radicalization. Every year, close to a half-million girls are trafficked and vanish.

The fate of these dispossessed is tethered to the thinnest of lifelines. When disaster strikes, what can only be described as a begging bowl is handed around the world's donor community. Voluntary contributions are then administered by refugee agencies, charities, and NGOs, which heroically help refugees scrape by with the bare essentials - food, water, shelter, and protection.

In such circumstances, the right to education becomes an unaffordable "luxury." While UN Peacekeepers are funded by assessed contributions levied on member countries, the millions of children displaced by crises have no guarantee that anyone will fund their schooling. Indeed, less than 2% of humanitarian aid reaches education. Syria's civil war, now entering its sixth year, and the first anniversary of Nepal's devastating earthquake - two disasters that have forced millions more children into the streets - serve as painful reminders that we lack the means to return children to the classroom in the wake of such tragedies.

A permanent fund securing education for children in emergency situations is long overdue. Instead of wasting months begging for aid, such a reserve fund would be capable of delivering it immediately. At the onset of an emergency, the fund would swiftly assess where dispossessed children are, develop a strategy, and put in place a plan to provide education for them.

Now, for the first time, we are in a position to deliver on this promise. Under the leadership of UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake, UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova, UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi, Chair of the Global Partnership for Education Julia Gillard, and World Bank President, Jim Yong Kim - and with the support of the UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon - an unprecedented humanitarian fund for education in emergencies is about to be established.

The new "Education Cannot Wait" fund will respond to new realities and requirements. Most child refugees are likely to spend more than a decade out of their own countries, so their plight cannot be considered temporary. The breakthrough fund will support the education of refugees for up to five years, instead of the mere months of patchwork provisions that are presently on offer.

No longer will humanitarian, security, and development needs be split into silos with their own addresses and agendas. A single fund will now meet these needs at once. After all, when refugee children find a place in school, they are more secure, their parents are more hopeful, and their states are more stable. The fund will not be bound by old World Bank rules that, until recently, excluded the education of refugee children in middle-income countries from concessional loans.

The initiative will be the first official humanitarian fund for education. And a parallel UN-led fund will have distinct windows through which businesses, foundations, and individuals can contribute. To be sure, delivering an education to displaced children demands a departure from pure voluntarism: a shift toward assessed contributions collected by levies from wealthy countries. But, until this shift occurs, we will ask individual philanthropists, corporations and charities - as well as new and old aid donors - to come together to catalyze the venture. Our sense of urgency, coupled with the requisite funds, promises to have a significant impact. When it comes to securing schooling, no price tag is too steep.

The fund will harness today's passions and key innovations. We want technology firms to play a central role in providing new ideas and disruptive thinking. We want firms that already offer refugees an online education, internet access and IT hardware to drive the provision of education to displaced and isolated girls and boys. In establishing this fund, we are ending the era of the formulaic crisis response.

It was Gandhi's belief that reflection could motivate action by recalibrating our moral compass. What makes this fund unique is not the series of new benchmarks it sets. Rather, it signals a change in how we meet the challenges of an emergency. Going beyond present demands, the fund is based on the needs of the future.

In providing resources to deliver education, the fund is a bold affirmation of a better tomorrow - an unwavering promise to unlock talent, develop potential, and secure futures for all children, wherever they are. By establishing "Education Cannot Wait", we are sending a message to the downcast and dispossessed everywhere. Education, at its best, offers something that food, shelter, and healthcare can never themselves provide: hope, the chance to plan, and to prepare for the future.

Gordon Brown, former Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer of the United Kingdom, is United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education and Chair of the International Commission on Financing Global Education Opportunity.

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"Recall the face of the poorest and weakest man you have seen, and ask yourself if this step you contemplate is going to be any use to him." These words, spoken by Mahatma Gandhi in 1948, should be taken as a test of our sincerity, and as a challenge to our complacency, when considering the fate of the 30 million children displaced from their homes by civil wars and natural disasters.

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pay taxes Is important because if we did not pay for taxes we would not have schools,bus,a military,or cops 

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pay taxes Is important because if we did not pay for taxes we would not have schools,bus,a military,or cops 

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Run for president is important Because If there was no president the world would go bad because there is not laws and that is why we need to run for president

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Run for president is important Because If there was no president the world would go bad because there is not laws and that is why we need to run for president

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Voting is important because if you did not like the laws that the presidents made. you can have a new president and he can try get new laws

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Computer Vote Tampering and Vote Counting Irregularities

The 2014 midterm election results may have been a complete farce. All it takes is one insider who knows how to flip a switch and the outcome changes. When it comes to voting, should we trust our votes to a computer that doesn't even spit out a receipt for confirmation? Do you trust your voting machine manufacturer?

Private companies like ES&S, Dominion (previously of Diebold or Sequoia), Smartmatic, and Hart Intercivic make most of the electronic voting machines. Three of five board members at Hart Intercivic are board members at HIG Capital, a global private equity firm that made a significant investment in the voting machine company. The Washington Post reported "HIG employees as a whole have donated $338,000 to the Romney campaign this year, according to Open Secrets." Hart supplied the electronic voting machines that were used in the 2012 elections in precincts in Ohio, Texas, Oklahoma, Washington, Colorado and many other states.

These connections between candidates and voting machines are too close for my comfort. But it isn't just the cozy relationship that matters. It's important to know who has their hands on the ballots and the votes. In study after study, electronic machines have proven incredibly easy to rig.1,2,3,4,5,6 At Princeton University, researchers found that in less than one minute, a criminal could bypass the lock using a simple tool and replace the memory card with one containing malicious code. It's so easy to open the box that the researchers show how it is done in a video. "Any desired algorithm can be used to determine which votes to steal and to which candidate or candidates to transfer the stolen votes."

The abstract of the Princeton study goes on: "Malicious software running on a single voting machine can steal votes with very little risk of detection. The malicious software can modify all of the records, audit logs, and counter kept by the voting machine so that even careful forensic examination...will find nothing amiss." One machine can be rigged within less than a minute and then it goes viral. "An attacker could infect a large population of machines while only having temporary access to a single machine or memory card." And bear in mind, if you work for the elections office, you don't even need a key.

It really comes down to this: do you trust the people counting your ballot? "In more than 3,000 counties, parishes and independent cities, voter registration and precinct polling places are still controlled by party functionaries...whose loyalty resides with the leaders of their particular faction, rather than with the people" writes John R. MacArthur, author of You Can't Be President: The Outrageous Barriers to Democracy in America.7

Besides computer rigging, there is the problem of absentee ballots. My precinct does "polling place voting" where the poll workers have a long list of neighbors they check off as each warm body takes a ballot. This system assures that each person is who they say they are and each voter casts only one vote. By comparison, Oregon and Washington mail out ballots whether you ask for them or not.8 Washington state has become the first to have nearly all mail-in voting. In both states, to verify that the voter is authentic, human counters compare signatures on the registration form to the ballot.

A voter with a legitimate reason to use an absentee ballot, but who forgets to include a copy of their photo ID when mailing it in, may have their vote tossed out unless they hand-carry their paperwork to the proper authorities. To prevent these problems, visit http://www.longdistancevoter.org/forms to find out about absentee ballots.

In 2012, one in five Americans (27 million people), voted by absentee ballot. Of those, 258,000 absentee ballots were thrown out for arriving late in the mail, not having valid signatures, not having a matching signature, or "other."

If a voter forgets to bring his ID to the polls, shows up at the wrong precinct, or his name isn't listed on the roll, he can receive a provisional ballot and has a few days to clear up the problem. However, many poll workers don't know how to instruct voters to use their provisional ballot, and sometimes they don't offer them. Project Vote reports that in the 2006 general election, fifteen states rejected more than 50% of their provisional ballots, Kentucky counting less than 7%. Voters who are experiencing difficulties at the poll can call 866-OUR-VOTE for help.

After the 2014 midterms, Jim Allen, a spokesperson for the Chicago Board of Elections, said, "We did have a rocky start in a number of polling places where we had insufficient judges and/or equipment issues," citing that 2,000 election judges didn't show up as planned. It may have been a result of a "new dirty trick" whereby robocalls placed specifically to the judges instructed them to go to training sessions and told them how to vote. "You're telling people how to vote in a federal election and implying that it has to do with their employment."

Voting expert Bev Harris, author of Black Box Voting: Ballot Tampering in the 21st Century, describes the black box as "any voting system in which the mechanisms for recording and/or tabulating the vote are hidden from the voter, and/or the mechanism lacks a tangible record of the vote cast."

In her book, Ms. Harris recommends a method for authenticating our votes. She writes, "In the U.S., we complain that our citizens don't think their vote matters. Here's a concept: Let people see their vote. Not a video representation of a vote hiding in a black box, but the actual vote. Count votes before they leave the neighborhood. Invite people in to watch the counting. And add a 21st century twist: install a web camera, so citizens can watch the vote-counting live, on the Internet."

I made friends at the League of Women Voters and asked the President of the Los Angeles chapter for help organizing a voter veracity program throughout the League. He referred me to a woman named Judy Alter who, since 2003, has dedicated her life to making sure our votes are counted accurately. Judy works with the Election Defense Alliance and Protectcaliforniaballots.org. She said, "ten thousand people [who fight for accurate vote counting] can't stop the computer insiders who rig the elections, but we can demand a return to paper ballots. 78% of the world's democracies use paper ballots."9 Judy recommended using Poll Tape Capture to compare the actual count at each precinct against the reported count. But it's up to us, the voters who want to track the ballots, to do the counting.

Those who want to perform this important public service can find instructions in Appendix 10 of my book, Poll Tape Capture Instructions for Volunteers.

Today's post is part three of a six-part series on voting, found in Chapter 30 of In Search of the Next POTUS: One Woman's Quest to Fix Washington, a True Story. Follow this blog to receive the next three segments of this article.

1. Pollack, Peter. "Diebold Voting Machines Hacked in Florida." Ars Technica. Arstechnica.com, 22 Dec. 2005. Web. 30 Jan. 2015. http://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2005/12/5821-2/
2. Collier, Victoria. "How to Rig an Election." Harpers Magazine. Harpers.org, Nov. 2012. Web. 30 Jan. 2015. http://harpers.org/archive/2012/11/how-to-rig-an-election/
3. "Hacking Democracy." YouTube. Cinedigm, 3 June 2011. Web. 30 Jan. 2015. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx1vxPFXIiw
4. Klimas, Liz. "More Electronic Voting Machines Changing Romney Votes to Obama: We Looked Into It and Here's What a Vendor Told Us." The Blaze. Theblaze.com, 31 Oct. 2012. Web. 30 Jan. 2015. http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2012/10/31/more-electronic-voting-machines-changing-romney-votes-to-obama-we-looked-into-it-and-heres-what-a-vendor-told-us/
5. Carrasco, Ed. "Election Day Rigging? Voting Machine Changes Obama Votes to Romney [VIDEO]." NMR. Newmediarockstars.com, 6 Nov. 2012. Web. http://newmediarockstars.com/2012/11/election-day-rigging-voting-machine-changes-obama-votes-to-romney-video/
36. "Rigged USA Elections Exposed." YouTube. Truthstream, 2 Mar. 2006. Web. 30 Jan. 2015. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEzY2tnwExs
6. "Center for Information Technology Policy " Voting Videos." Center for Information Technology Policy " Voting Videos. Princeton University, n.d. Web. 30 Jan. 2015. http://citpsite.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/oldsite-htdocs/voting/videos.html
7. Feldman, Halderman, Felten; Security Analysis of the Diebold AccuVote-TS Voting Machine, Princeton University, September 13, 2006.
8. MacArthur, John R. "Problem #2/Parties You're Not Invited To." You Can't Be President: The Outrageous Barriers to Democracy in America. Brooklyn, NY: Melville House Pub., 2008. 44. Print.
9. "Conversation with Judy Alter." Telephone interview. 1 Aug. 2013.

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Computer Vote Tampering and Vote Counting Irregularities The 2014 midterm election results may have been a complete farce. All it takes is one insider who knows how to flip a switch and the outcome changes. When it comes to voting, should we trust our votes to a computer that doesn't even spit out a receipt for confirmation?