Michael Kress

Situation Overview: This past Monday, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), published a highly anticipated interpretive release that lays the foundational groundwork for the regulation of crypto assets by the two agencies.[1] Effective March 23, the guidance establishes five categories of digital assets, explains when a non-security token becomes (and ceases to be) a security, and outlines safe harbors for common crypto activities.

Amid the protests after George Floyd’s murder, a group of students found their collective voice to make change in their school and beyond. May 25, 2021 After George Floyd was murdered last May, students at Gwendolyn Brooks College Preparatory Academy in Chicago found themselves in the center of the protests, which consumed their neighborhoods. Many local stores closed amid looting. Arrests and occasional violence took place practically outside students’ windows.

1. Provide the means. Surround your children with the things that will allow them to follow their interests, such as art supplies, woodworking materials, musical instruments, or any other tools of the trade. 2. Do your own creative work in their presence. Whatever your medium or muse, when your children are pursuing their own creative passions, set up near them and take some time to focus on yours, in parallel. 3. Discuss the art around you.