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My new age had barely settled in when I began reaping the benefits of being a whole year older. It was great to be able to check the box marked "I've stopped counting" on all applications. And of course McDonald's offered me coffee at the discounted rate for seniors, but it was really great to see a movie for $3 less after showing my ID, and it is even better to have two people assist me on and off the treadmill at the gym each day. People are truly concerned about making sure I don't overexert myself, which is the exact reason I avoid going to the gym in the first place.
The most surprising thing about my being a year older was the spike in responses my profiles received on Match.com, Oldies-But-Goodies.net and Counting-Down-The-Days.org. Apparently, my profile was chosen to represent the "older gentlemen" category, so it was the first time I had 48 year olds reaching out to me because they looked forward to the wisdom and guidance I could provide. It was thrilling to have so much in common with my potential suitors such as having the same medical alert bracelets, matching wheelchairs, and a healthy appreciation for the smell of Ben Gay. A few people even offered to pay for me to get autographs when I link up with my former classmates Betty White and Hugh Hefner at the next high school reunion.
For several weeks leading up to my birthday people asked what I was going to do to celebrate. Would I have my face carved into Mount Rushmore with the presidents? Would I allow Beyoncé' and Britney Spears to perform backup at one of my concert events? Or, more realistically, would I finally make the time to offer those fitness training sessions to The Rock, Vin Diesel, and Tom Cruise so that they could bulk up before their next movies? Apparently they have dreams of one day having my physique. I mean, can you blame them?
Perhaps I did look a bit more in shape and svelte than usual around my birthday because I allowed one of my clearly deranged co-workers to talk me into going on the three-day Military Diet the week before I officially became elderly. For those three days, you're essentially allowed to drink a glass of water and eat 1 peanut for breakfast, lunch, and dinner each day. Yes, you read that correctly. I literally had to take one peanut and split it three ways to make it last throughout the whole day.
I'm not usually a dieter because I believe in the healing power of chicken nuggets. However, since my doctors have been telling me for years that I'm just one French fry away from being obese, I got excited at the idea that I could possibly lose ten pounds in just three days. I thought that if I stuck to the diet, I'd be able to finally squeeze back into those extra-large t-shirts that I adored in my twenties without first slathering myself down with a mixture of Crisco and lard. Oh, those were the days.
Naturally, I weighed myself on the first day. The number was so offensive that I immediately hopped off the scale and tossed it across the room and off the balcony. Unfortunately, it ricocheted off a tree branch and hit someone's little boy in the head. Don't worry, though. The kid was bothering some squirrels that were simply minding their own business, so he totally deserved the encounter with the scale.
With dreams of being a new and improved me for my 98th birthday, I set my resolve to endure the three days of starvation. On day one I heard voices and went through the five stages of grief and abandonment. On day two, one of my shrinks reminded me that I was doing this to myself just before she blocked my number and demanded that we both see other people. On day three I rolled around on the floor with hunger pangs and tried to eat one of my neighbor's goldfish before I finally caved and had four Milk Duds after dinner. I had truly reached a new low.
The day after the diet was over, I practically ran to the scale to see what I had accomplished. Much to my shock and dismay, instead of losing ten pounds, I only lost three. I blame those four Milk Duds for getting me so off track! Disappointed and depressed, I had a cheesesteak for breakfast. By the next day, my replacement scale showed that I had gained all the weight back plus two extra pounds. In a rage, I flung the new scale off the balcony, too. This time the scale only slightly grazed the arm of someone's grandma. Scared for her life, she ran for cover. However, her family later thanked me because they hadn't seen her move that fast in years.
A few days before my birthday arrived, I decided that I would go to Niagara Falls so that I could finally scratch that off my bucket list. It was then that several of my friends informed me of how cold and miserable it would be up there this time of year. I was also reminded of my clumsy nature and that I would probably reach down to pet a friendly dog, trip over someone else's shoelaces, and tumble right over the falls. After all, since it had been years since someone had accidentally gone over the railing, fate would probably recognize that I was in the area and choose me to balance out the numbers.
To avoid the run in with the dog and the shoelaces, I gassed up the car and drove to Norfolk, Virginia instead. If it was in fact my turn to stumble into Niagara Falls, fate was going to have to put in some extra effort to make that happen. My two additional pounds and I met up with some friends in Norfolk where I ate a lot, slept a lot and played Topgolf for the first time after being convinced that it was nothing like real golf and that I wouldn't tumble off the third-floor platform if I somehow swung too hard, missed the ball, and was pushed forward by a gust of wind.
Much to my surprise, and possibly because I may be kind of related to Tiger Woods, I came in second place during the first game and I actually won the second game. Not to brag, but I was forty points ahead of my closest competitor. I mean, sometimes when you're gifted, the numbers just speak for themselves. My win probably did have something to do with the scoring holes being large enough to be a parking lot, but I was just happy to be able to call my Dad and tell him that I had finally found a sport that I was partially good at. He was so proud.
Oh, and since I know what you're thinking, because I'm responsible, like last year, I absolutely did not have drinks of any kind for this birthday. There were absolutely no cocktails, shots, wine, or beer of any kind. Did I mention no shots?
All in all, I have to say that being 98 isn't so bad. For one, whenever I share how old I am with people, all of the compliments I receive for looking so good for my age is empowering. Also, when I explain that I have had very little work done so far, it is as if I'm giving people the gift of hope that they too can look as good as I do when they reach their nineties. Well, nothing is for certain, but one can dream, can't they? Yes, one can dream.
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Well I was afraid of that in the beginning too, everyone told me I would never sell $1k wedding packages let alone what I sell now; high end wedding packages of $12k.
I was afraid that I wasn't a good enough photographer to get paid and I was afraid I wasn't going to be able charge what I needed to survive, let alone create a lifestyle I love.
I started my photography business from a 36ft Bedford bus in a remote rural community of 3000 people, I struggled to get $200 for a session plus 30 edited photos on a disc. Now I average $1800 per family session and $5500 for weddings.
I had people tell me I would never make money from photography and asking when was I going to get a real job!
Despite the nay sayers I was able to figure out how to make this work.
Over the course of my professional career I mastered the editing workflow, how to price for profit and how to magnetize your ideal clients to keep your calendar booked solid.
My reality now is that I travel 70% of the year, have all the days off I want and make an awesome 6 figure income.
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Exports of leather and leather goods
The new
policy will identify the problems of exporters and their financing
From SHAMIM AHMED
RIZVI, Islamabad
Sep 25 - Oct 01, 2000
Commerce Minister, Abdul Razak Dawood said that
after textile, his ministry was focusing on promotion of export of
leather and leather goods from Pakistan which had a tremendous
potential. The government was preparing a new policy i.e.
"leather vision" similar to "textile vision" with
the same type of incentives to be offered to leather sector.
The Minister claimed that the "textile vision
2005" has been hailed by all concerned and the objective set
therein would certainly be achieved. After textile, leather is an
important export earning sector with a tremendous scope for growth.
Export target for Leather Industry for 2000-2001 is $630 million
against $270 million last year. Through new leather policy government
intended to increase it to at least 1 billion dollars.
Addressing the inauguration of National Institute
of Leather Technology of Pakistan, the Minister praised the export
performance of the leather sector during the first 2 months of the
current financial year which has showed an increase of 25% if compared
to the corresponding 2 months of the last year. The new policy will
provide all incentives and concessions to fully harness the potential
in this sector. He disclosed that a meeting of stake holders in the
leather industry will be held early next month to finalize Leather
vision 2005" before giving a presentation to the Chief Executive
and the Cabinet and finalise the package. After sectoral analysis of
the leather industry the government, in consultation with the
Industry, will finalise the package of incentives and concessions to
increase exports.
Leather Policy will provide a broader framework to
bring about improvement in its chain of processing and remove
irritants at the export stages. The study currently being undertaken
is also assessing the "financial back-up" that is needed to
achieve desired goals in this important sector of economy.
The exports of leather and leather manufactures
have witnessed a drop in the last five years, causing considerable
loss to this industry that employ over 250,000 workers. Its share in
total exports has declined from 8.0 per cent in 1994-95 to 6.9 per
cent in 1998-99. The dip is registered both in exports of finished
leather as well as leather manufactures.
As regard the leather manufactures, its exports had
declined from 389 million in 1993-94 to 269 million in 1999-00.
Leather made-up include shoes, uppers, jackets, gloves etc. However,
the only plus point is the decline in exports of raw and semi-raw
leather (wet blue) which indicates increase in the value addition. Its
share in total exports has declined from 80 per cent to 60 per cent
during the recent years.
The entire ranges that involves pealing of hide
from the animal to its final processing is being studied to identify
problems. It is being seen as to what level of education is needed for
the labour involved in initial stages of hide preservation.
Particular emphasis is being laid to develop a
mechanism to collect and preserve hides of sacrificial animals which
are the best skins available and that too in the large quantity. The
problems of tanneries and the downstream leather industry are also
being looked into. The Policy will also identify problems of leather
exporters vis-a-vis their financing needs and lack of access to the
international market.
According to the sources, the major impediment in
increasing leather exports is the price competitiveness our goods are
facing in the international market owing to high cost of production.
Similarly, there has been a very little improvement towards value
addition that resulted in its low demand. At the domestic level, there
is a lack of skilled manpower outside Karachi and Lahore.
Non-availability of ancillary components and spare-parts for the
processing industry has added to the problems.
Talking informally to the newsmen after a meeting
with the members of Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the Commerce
Minister said that economic salvation of the country lies in its
exports. He said that during my meeting with the leading
industrialists of the country we have visualised the 30 billion annual
export target in ten years. It may sound too ambitious in the present
circumstances but I am confident that it is achievable." If we
wish to regain our economic sovereignty and get rid of foreign debts
we will have to achieve this target", he added.
The achievement of 30 billion annual export target
in ten years, as, visualized by the Commerce Minister and leading
industrialists of the country may look like a tall order in the
economic situation prevailing over the past many years. Examining it
in the perspective of the country's track record in fulfilling plan
targets generally, one may tend to dismiss it as yet another instance
of wishful thinking. However, there can be no denying the urgency of
making the best of the country's tremendous export potential to ensure
its survival and release from the burden of accumulating external
debt. It may be worthwhile to point out that although various
strategies earlier adopted for export promotion from time to time were
often appended with inspiring phrases, like 'export or perish' just
for the sake of treating effect, how we are really in the midst of
that kind of an appalling predicament. For, if we fail to increase our
export earnings in a measure commensurate with our debt, defence and
development requirements, we would lose the very chance of survival.
Hopefully now, the private industrial sector that had been
relegated to the background, because of flawed policies and programmes
of the past governments in a row and is now being conscientiously
reactivated, and seems convinced of the prospects of a real export
boom. This should be evident from their reported readiness to meet the
challenge, positively responding to the government's realistic
approach of taking them into confidence and associating them with the
crucial primary phase of decision making in matters of vital economic
importance. The variegated spread of the country's industrial sector,
as built from scratch with the traditional enthusiasm by the
entrepreneurs, should have sufficed to set the pace long before, for
economic progress in the real sense. But the fact is, that despite its
acumen, skills and resources, this pivotal sector of the economy had
remained incapacitated and failed to make its contribution to national
development mainly because of the flawed policies that continued to
negate its enthusiastic moves in that direction. In this context, the
minister's reiteration that departing from the past approach of
utilising the bureaucratic inputs only, it has been considered
imperative to interact with the private sector in the formulation of
industrial policy, should have inspired the participants of the
meeting to make practicable suggestions. Now that the industrial
community has been given the chance of speaking its mind to the
government on how best to help it improve its performance on the
export front, indications are that the needful would be done.


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Despite being sick of her face, we still admire Lady Gaga's go-big-or-go-home approach to music, imagery, shoes and yes, beauty marks. Even her most zealous haters gotta give it up to the omni-present, ever-polarizing pop freak when it comes to marketing herself as an outsider icon. For many, however, the glossy pop she makes has never pushed the boundaries as far as her fashions, stage antics and messages have. Her music has been called everything from pretentious art fluff to retro-pop regurgitation, and her new one (released yesterday) probably won't change the made-up minds out there. But the singer's "little monsters" already seem more than pleased, and based on the slew of interviews the Lady's been giving, she's pretty pleased with herself too. Club bangers (especially on the longer Special Edition) and winsome power ballads make up this un-even collection, and while a lot of it is Velveeta vampy and embarrassingly self indulgent, there are bits of meaty brilliance as well. Here, five points on the Good, the Bad and just plain Bizarre of Born This Way.
1. Musical Sensibility
Yay- A more rockin' sound and vocal style spikes several cuts on Born This Way, recalling the soaring structure of metallic anthems and songs designed for Bic-flipping in a stadium as much as disco sticking in the gay club.
Nay- Four on the floor bludgeoning and similar sounding synths clutter a lot of the melodies here -again, great for dance floors and ripe for remixing- but it feels hollow and ostentatious without the mirrored ball and flashing lights.
2. Lyrics
Yay- Positive themes about self-love are threaded through Born This Way's entirety and the result is undeniably uplifting. On the whole, the disc evokes a unified exhuberance, much like that seen in Gaga's new Google Chrome adverts which debuted during her impressive Saturday Night Live appearance this past weekend.
Nay- Overuse of "baby," signature self-reference "Gaga" and non-sensical repetition "whoa-whoa" "dumb-dumb-dadeeda" get annoying about half way through, but it's the rampant religious references, both metaphoric and literal, that bring the content "down-down" as Gaga croons on "Judas." For someone preaching non-conformity, she preaches and talks about God way too much.
3. Production
Yay- Beefy, clean production that gleams like the lubed up latex Gaga wears on stage.
Nay- The production on some of these tracks is so big and stirring, its cinematic, but in an '80s parody "Eye of the Tiger" sort of way.
4. Hooks and Choruses
Yay- "You and I" (the romantic power ballad we'll all be singing this Summer), "Bad Kids" (reminiscent of Madonna- yes, she's still invoked more than once here- at her most buoyant) and the electroclashy "Heavy Metal Lover" are the best. "Government Hooker" and "Hair" are growers.
Nay- "Bloody Mary" (simply boring) and "Americano" (Ick! Forget about Madonna, on this schmaltzy attempt at a Latin-flavored dance anthem she sounds like Liza Minelli singing at a Quincenera. No bueno, baby).
5. Sound-alikes/Influences
Yay or Nay?
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J-Lo ("Marry the Night" sounds like "Waiting for Tonight")
Kelly Clarkson ("Edge of Glory" sounds like "My Life Would Suck Without You")
Linda Perry ("You and I" sounds like "What's Up?" (What's Going On")
We'll be re-listening to the album in its ultimate environment, the club, this Wednesday, as the Born This Way Haus Party takes over downtown's Belasco Theatre. Bring your proof of purchase for entrance and get there early. We hear the monsters will be out in full force (and that "Mother Monster will be watching"). Full report from the official record release bash on Thursday.


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RÊVES D'AUTOMNE 2013 — From September 27 to October 6
Rêves d'automne, Festival of Painting, a continuation of artistic tradition over time. In the heart of Baie-Saint-Paul, come celebrate the sheer beauty of the Charlevoix landscapes that have always inspired the most talented artists. We offer a rich program. Don't wait to discover all the activities!
For the symbolic price of $5, the Rêves d'automne badge lets you access all the Festival's activities. Badges are available at site entrances as well as at Rêves d'automne Place. Admission is free for children age 12 and under.
© All rights reserved, Rêves d'automne, Festival of painting, 2012
Photo Credits: Marc Archambault, J.-F. Bergeron / EnviroFoto, Patrick Lemieux,
Humberto Pinochet, François Rivard, Le Massif de Charlevoix


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The Dunkirk Local Development Corporation purchased 208-214 Washington Avenue in 2009. Environmental remediation is currently taking place. Future plans for redevelopment are in final planning stages. The EF Burke Company is the preferred developer.
Former Dutch Bertges Car Dealership (18 Lake Shore Drive East)
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This is an article by Carole Scott.
I've heard that there's a debate 'raging' about whether Public Relations and Corporate Communications are the same thing.
My response when I heard this? I had no idea, as I'm too busy getting on with the job.
But now that I do, I have no idea why a label matters. What's more, I'm in the middle of a career that has spanned many types of communication and I've felt no need to paint myself into a narrow corner.
My current title is Head of Corporate Communications but I could just as easily be Head of Public Relations because the 'public' in PR equals 'audience(s)' and 'communications' equals 'relations'.
Communications professionals – whether PR consultancy executives, social media specialists, corporate communications officers and the rest – are all engaged in a process that comprises five key elements:
Every activity within the communications spectrum fits into one of those stages, from working with a small group of key stakeholders through to mass conversations on social media channels. Whether you are communicating with internal audiences or external ones, and whether your job is focused on strategy development or tactical delivery, every single one of us is employed to reach, communicate with and engage target audiences.
I do understand, though, that in the early stages of your career, job roles and definitions can help shape your decisions. So course leaders and trainers are right to focus on including communications in their scope.
PR used to distinguish 'us' from other forms of communications such as sales, marketing or advertising. Now that boundaries have blurred, I'd say it's probably time to ditch PR as a defining term.
The communications landscape is changing and shifting at a phenomenal rate and the speed of change will only increase, not slow down.
Once upon a time, in a land of fax machines and word processors, we really only had live events, face-to-face stakeholder relations, print (owned or external) publications, and external broadcast media to play with. Now, we have a huge box of tools – not just the amazing array of technology and digital channels on offer, but diverse ways of creating, curating and sharing content, as well as the ability to measure in new and better ways. And with this mouth-watering menu, comes myriad roles to choose from.
Back in the bad old days of the 80s, my university careers service was hopeless. If you wanted to be in law, management consultancy or the City, they could tell you exactly how to do it.
But no one, not one single person, talked about careers in public relations.
So I had no idea that this was even an industry, let alone a profession. It is a wonderfully rich, diverse and stimulating career option and more so now than ever, thanks to the explosion of possibilities created by digital technologies.
The one constant is that we will be communicating to an audience, with a specific purpose in mind.
Carole Scott is Head of Corporate Communications for UK, Ireland and the Nordic region at Henkel, the company behind many well-known global brands such as Pritt, Sellotape, Loctite, Right Guard and Schwarzkopf.
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Southampton West Station
There has been a railway station at Blechynden since 1850 when the Southampton - Dorchester Line was opened. Originally called Blechynden Station, it was situated slightly further east than the present station. It became Southampton West End in 1858, then Southampton West, and finally Southampton Central in 1935. The station buildings have been rebuilt several times, notably in the 1890s, 1930s and 1960s. The current buildings date from two separate eras: the south-side buildings are typical 1930s Southern Railway architectural style; the north-side buildings date from the post-war rebuilding of the 1960s.
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Further reading:
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Rockmother says the real problem with Ladies Against Feminism:
"It's not the way of life. It's not the subjugation to the king (i.e. the husband). It's not even the homeschooling.
It goes way deeper than that. It's the suicide of the will. It's taking the easy way. It's having a ready-made set of mores and a ready-made "community" of like-minded (frighteningly like-minded) people. It's never questioning. It's never doubting."
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An overview of the course from Dr. Jones.
Interpretation, analysis and synthesis of current research in educational technology for the purpose of integrating research methodology and application to educational environments.
This course has five objectives:
The instructor will use the department's moodle system to communicate information to students throughout the class. It is your responsibility to read discussions on the course forums. Contact the instructor if you have problems. The moodle section might not be available until the first day of the course.
Please complete the Student Information Sheet for Learning Technologies.
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The instructor will schedule online sessions as needed during the course. The course will be using Adobe Connect Pro and there is a short tutorial available on its use. Meetings are optional, but highly recommend with such a short semester. Recording of the meetings will be made available when possible.
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The concept of crowdfunding helps ordinary people realise their dreams and turn them into tangible products. But every once in a while, there comes a whacky idea that leaves people scratching their heads but thoroughly amused.In this infographic, we examine four ridiculous crowdfunding projects that got funded.
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Name: Eye Sweep Precision Eye Definer
Brand: Mememe
Size: 1.6g
Price: £6.50
From Mememe's website:
Precision tip liquid eyeliner which creates the perfect definition.
What I liked:
– pigmented
– glides smoothly on the lids
– dries quickly
– once set, it doesn't budge nor fade
What I didn't like:
– if you have small eyes or are a newbie at applying liquid eyeliner, you may find it difficult to draw thin lines with this
When it comes to liquid eyeliners, I stick to those with a felt tip applicator. With a bit of patience and a lot of practice, I can manage to draw a straight line with them quite easily. But if the eyeliner comes with a brush tip? Forget it. Try as I might, I could never master those.
Mememe Eye Sweep Precision Eye Definer comes with a felt tip applicator. That's why I purchased it and yet, I'm still struggling to apply it properly. The problem? Its tip is not as thin as I'd like it to be. Or better, the very tip is, but the bottom is thicker. Because of this, you have to use the tip to apply the eyeliner in the inner part of the lashline and then tilt the pen slightly to draw a thicker line as you proceed to the outer corner.
Being still a newbie at liquid eyeliner application, I find this new technique hard to master. It doesn't help that I have small eyes and, if the line I draw is too thick (which often happens when I use this), the eyeliner swallows up the eyeshadow almost completely and that's just not a look that's flattering to my eye shape. This doesn't mean the eyeliner is bad though. If you have bigger eyes than me or are good at applying liquid eyeliner, you will probably find it easy to use.
The pigmentation cannot be faulted. Mememe Eye Sweep Precision Eye Definer glides gently on the lids and delivers an opaque and dark blackline in just one swipe. It dries very quickly and once set, it doesn't fade nor smudge (unless you forget you have it to on and rub your eyes, ahem) for the whole day. I put it on in the morning and at night, when I took it off, it was still there, almost flawless.
Mememe Eye Sweep Precision Eye Definer glides smoothly on the lids, delivering an opaque and intense black line that doesn't smudge nor fade throughout the day. However its tip, which is thin at the top and thicker at the bottom, may make it difficult for newbies or people with small eyes to draw a thin line.
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Let $I$ be the vanishing ideal of a finite set of points in $\mathbb{R}^n$.
(a) Prove that $p(x)$ is nonnegative over $V_{\mathbb{R}}(I)$ if and only if it is a sum of squares modulo the ideal $I$.
(b) Using the above fact, prove that for $\mathcal{B}$ a $\theta$-basis of $\mathbb{R}[x]/I$, the spectrahedron $\{ y \in \mathbb{R}^{\mathcal{B}} \,:\, M_{\mathcal{B}}(y) \succeq 0, y_0 = 1 \}$ is the simplex whose vertices are the vectors $(f_i(s) \,:\, f_i+I \in \mathcal{B})$ as $s$ varies over the finitely many points in $V_\mathbb{R}(I)$.
(a) The idea is to construct another polynomial $g$ that takes the same values as $p$ on $V_{\mathbb{R}}(I)$ and that is SOS. If we manage to construct such a polynomial then we are done since we then have $p-g = 0$ on $V_{\mathbb{R}}(I)$ and thus $p-g \in I$ by definition of $I$ being the vanishing ideal of a set of points.
We can construct the polynomial $g$ using Lagrange interpolation: Let $a_1,\dots,a_N$ be the $N$ points of $V_{\mathbb{R}}(I)$. For $i \in [N]$, consider the polynomial $g_i(x) = \prod_{j \neq i} \|x - a_j\|_2^2 / \prod_{j \neq i} \|a_i - a_j\|_2^2$. Note that $g_i$ is a SOS since it is a product of polynomials that are SOS. Also note that $g_i$ satisfies $g_i(a_i) = 1$ and $g_i(a_j) = 0$ for all $j \neq i$. Hence the polynomial $g(x) = \sum_{i=1}^N p(a_i) g_i(x)$ is SOS and satisfies $g(a_i) = p(a_i)$ for all $i \in [N]$, i.e., $p=g$ on $V(I)$. Hence $p-g \in I$, and $p$ is a sum of squares mod $I$.
Note: this same question was in the exercise Stability number of a graph
(b) Call $P$ the polytope(1)
and $S$ the spectrahedron(2)
We have to show that $P = S$.
In this question we identify $\mathbb{R}^{\mathcal B}$ with $\mathbb{R}[x]/I$ where a vector $\alpha \in \mathbb{R}^{\mathcal B}$ is identified with the element $\sum_{i \in \mathcal B} \alpha_i f_i \in \mathbb{R}[x]/I$.
Recall that if $y \in \mathbb{R}^{\mathcal B}$, the matrix $M_{\mathcal B}(y)$ is defined by:(3)
where $\lambda_{i,j}^{\ell}$ are the coefficients in the expansion of $f_i f_j \in \mathbb{R}[x]/I$ in the basis $(f_{\ell})_{\ell \in \mathcal B}$:(4)
The following statement says what it means for $M_{\mathcal B}(y)$ to be positive semidefinite:
Fact: For $y \in \mathbb{R}^{\mathcal B}$ we have(5)
where $\langle \cdot, \cdot \rangle$ is the canonical inner product on $\mathbb{R}[x]/I$ (after identification of $\mathbb{R}[x]/I$ with $\mathbb{R}^{\mathcal B}$ via the basis $\mathcal B$) and where $\Sigma(I) \subset \mathbb{R}[x]/I$ is the cone of polynomials that are sos mod $I$.
Proof: The proof of the equivalence follows directly from the observation that if $\alpha \in \mathbb{R}^{\mathcal B}$ then(6)
where $g_{\alpha} = \sum_{i \in \mathcal B} \alpha_i f_i$.
To prove the equality above we simply use the definition of $M_{\mathcal B}(y)$:
The proof of the equivalence 5 then follows easily from the identity 6.
We now prove the equality $P=S$.
- We first show the inclusion $P \subset S$: Since $S$ is convex, it suffices to show that the vertices of $P$ belong to $S$. Let $y=[f_i(v)]_{i \in \mathcal B} \in \mathbb{R}^{\mathcal B}$ for some $v \in V_{\mathbb{R}}(I)$ be a vertex of $P$. Since we have $f_0(v)=1$ (by definition of a $\theta$-basis), we have that $y_0 = 1$. To show that $M_{\mathcal B}(y) \succeq 0$, we show that $\langle y, p \rangle \geq 0$ whenever $p$ is sos mod $I$. Observe that by definition of $y$ we have for any $p \in \mathbb{R}[x]/I$, $\langle y, p \rangle = p(v)$ and thus if furthermore $p$ is sos mod $I$ we have $\langle y, p \rangle = p(v) \geq 0$ since $v \in V_{\mathbb{R}}(I)$.
- We now show the reverse inclusion, namely that $S \subseteq P$. Let $y \in S$. To show that $y \in P$, we will show that if $\ell$ is an affine function s.t. $\ell \geq 0$ on $P$ then $\ell(y) \geq 0$. Let $\ell(z) = a_0 + \sum_{i \in \mathcal B} a_i z_i$ be such that $\ell(z) \geq 0$ for all $z \in P$. Consider the polynomial $p(x) = a_0 f_0(x) + \sum_{i \in \mathcal B} a_i f_i(x) \in \mathbb{R}[x]$. Since $\ell$ is nonnegative on $P$, the polynomial $p$ is nonnegative on $V_{\mathbb{R}}(I)$. Hence by part (a), $p$ is sos mod $I$. Thus, since $M_{\mathcal B}(y) \succeq 0$, we have $\langle y, p \rangle \geq 0$ which means that $\ell(y) \geq 0$ since $y_0 = 1$. Now this is true for all $\ell$ affine functions such that $\ell(z) \geq 0$ for $z \in P$, and hence $y \in P$ (since $P$ is a polytope).


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Billing Companies: The companies you own are used in Billing Companies. This information is used for billing and accounting purposes. In this section, we will know about to Manage and Adding / Editing your Billing Companies.
Managing Billing Companies
From this section, you can view all your added companies.
You can edit your company and its records anytime.
Shortcut link to redirect to create an invoice.
Deleting of unwanted companies.
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Adding New Billing Company
As shown in the screenshot, there are simple values to be filled and you will be up and ready to start your accounting transaction for new adding company.
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Friday, February 27, 2009
Chocolate Truffles Giveaway Winner
Comment #13: Sadie! Congratulations, Sadie. You are the winner of your very own tin full of my homemade chocolate truffles. :-)
Send me an e-mail at sbasker_mk [at] hotmail [dot] com, with your shipping address. Also let me know what flavor and coating you'd like. Thanks for entering!!!
4 comments:
- Leslie said...
Congrats Sadie! Knowing what a great cook Steph is... you are gonna love these truffles! Enjoy!
- February 27, 2009 at 8:00 PM
- Jana said...
I'm insanely jealous.... enjoy!
- February 27, 2009 at 11:33 PM
- Sadie said...
Wow! I'm so excited that I won! I can't wait to bit into one of those decadent pieces of heaven!!
- February 28, 2009 at 10:58 AM
- Kimmie said...
Hi, Thanks for posting a comment on my Blog...I am new to the whole "Blog" world and I am really enjoying it. I love all of your great tips on frugal eating and also your fun "household tips".
We are frugal zealots as well and it's nice to meet other people who don't have picky eaters for kids. I vowed I wasn't ever going to be a "short order cook" for my family and so my kids learned real quick that it was better to eat dinner than to go to be hungry.
Love you ideas....I'll have to check back.
Have a great day!
- March 17, 2009 at 3:42 PM


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You Ask, I Answer: Omega-3 Fatty Acids
I'm pregnant and my OB/GYN has suggested that I eat a lot of wild salmon for the health and nutritional benefits of the Omega-3's.
Only problem is, I gag at the smell and sight of fish right now.
So I've been trying to use ground flax seed sprinkled in other foods I can manage, like yogurt, fruit salad, toaster waffles and cereal.
I know the flax seed needs to be ground in order to be absorbed, but how much do I need to consume each day in order to get the same benefits as eating a serving of fish?
Are there other good sources of omega-3's that I should try?
— "My Eggo is Preggo"
First of all — congratulations!
Your question is a great one, since it deals with the different varieties of Omega-3 fatty acids.
Although we often refer to "Omega 3 fats" as one general category, there are three different types — Alpha-Linolenic Acid (ALA), EicosoPentaenoic Acid (EPA), and DocosaHexaenoic Acid (DHA).
EPA and DHA, meanwhile, are found in large quantities in cold water fish. Grass-fed beef also contains a little.
One concern with getting Omega-3's solely from vegetable sources is that many people are unable to convert
Fetuses are absolutely unable to make this conversion, so they must get EPA and DHA directly from the mother (DHA is particularly necessary for eye and brain development.)
Even if you, as the mother, are able to convert
To put that into perspective, 1 tablespoon of ground flaxseed contains slightly less than 2 grams of ALA.
One tablespoon of flax oil, meanwhile, delivers 7 grams (one good way to incorporate that into your diet is by adding it into a smoothie).
It's also important to realize that as good for us as Omega 3 fats are, they do not work alone. Vitamin C, zinc, and magnesium are involved in the conversion of
If you are not consuming enough of those nutrients, your will not convert quite as efficiently (so, say, you might need 15 or 17 grams of
In your situation, I suggest taking an EPA/DHA supplement.
That doesn't mean you should stop eating ground flaxseeds, though — they are a nutrition all-star!


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Gardening Articles and Videos
List of work to do, Holladay Gardens, Monday, June 13
6/13/2011 | Sheryl McGlochlin
Holladay B Garden:
I just took a quick spin on my bike to check out what needs to be done today
If you come, this is what you'll be asked to do:
1) Tilling a section of garden
2) Planting corn
3) Picking peas: We are just starting our "pea picking" season. You'll be picking for other garden members who are working in other areas, along with picking some for yourself. We'll be doing this work all week long.


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The UFC on Fox: Velasquez vs. Dos Santos event is the first time that the UFC heavyweight championship will air on network television. There has been a ton of advertising and promotion put behind this event with commercials airing since September, and a one hour UFC Primetime show that aired after a NFL football game last Sunday which garnered around 2 million viewers.
However, this event is a one hour special with ONLY the UFC heavyweight title fight being shown although there are nine other fights on the card. UFC president Dana White said the featured fight will be the only fight shown on the broadcast, even if it "only goes 10 seconds."
The fight is scheduled for 25 minutes, but it is highly unlikely that this fight will last that long considering that out of a combined 23 fights both fighters have only gone this distance three times.
So what will fans be watching should the fight end early?
UFC president Dana White said that the UFC plans on doing pre-fight interviews with both fighters. So that feature combined with some pre-fight analysis and predictions from announcers coupled with commercials will likely fill the first 15-20 minutes of the broadcast. They will have to allot nearly 30-35 minutes for the actual fight should it actually go the distance. If the fight ends early I'm sure they will use that time to promote the upcoming UFC 139: Shogun vs. Henderson PPV which will take place exactly one week later also in California. You can probably expect more commercials as well as it was reported that UFC on Fox Ad Inventory has been sold out for quite some time.
So looking at all of that information it is likely to be a mixed bag in regards to how many viewers the show will garner. The show has been heavily promoted but will folk tune in for only one fight featuring two fighters that many casual fans have never heard of? If this show is do to well ratings wise, it will probably have to lean heavily on the power of the UFC brand which is certainly possible.
However, I wouldn't expect the ratings for this show to be indicative of what to expect in the future with events featuring 4-6 fights over a 2-3 hour time frame since this show is only an hour long.
I think the show will do close to 6 million viewers, give or take a little. How many viewers are you expecting to tune in on Saturday night?


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Thursday, July 30, 2009
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Live free or die
Any place where a guy named Doobie can walk around freely in his kilt and shades with an AR-15 and a Braveheart claymore on his back is a place I want to be. Preferably next door, because you know that guy's neighborhood is the safest on the planet. (Not to mention the humdinger block parties he probably throws.)
Seriously, though. These people are doing it right. Keeping it light, while keeping it real. Making freedom fun while living out the ideals back home. Like Woodstock without the hippies, Marxism and B.O.
Read the article, then check out the Free State Project website.
(Kudos also to the Associated Press, yet again, for some solid, unbiased reporting on life in the Obama Era.)
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Wednesday, July 22, 2009
You can still rock in America...
One benefit of liberals running the media is the joy to be found in hijacking their material. I smile every time I hear Chrissie Hynde's "My City was Gone" because I know how much it must burn her biscuits that most people know it only as Rush Limbaugh's theme song.
You see it a lot on the campaign trail, where it's the sorry excuse for a Republican candidate who doesn't get at least one angry cease-and-desist for using some bootleg tune at a rally. (I loved watching McCain's use of "Right Now" lead to a minor flareup of the bad blood between right-leaning Sammy Hagar, who thought it was "cool," and members of his former backup band, Van Halen, who grumbled about "no permission" asked.)
It may be early, but I've got a good soundtrack suggestion for whoever's headlining for the GOP in 2012.
Yes, after watching President Barry's health care press conference/disinformation event tonight, I'm tired of laughing him off. I know we need to pace ourselves, but I'm in rebel mode right now, and this one is just what the doctor ordered. Can't miss with rage-powered lyrics like:
What if I say I'm not like the others!A kickin' song. A killer video. Suitable for killing Taliban or raging against the Obama machine... I give you Foo Fighter's supremely stealable The Pretender. (And when Dave Grohl calls to cry about it, put phone to speaker and crank it to 11.)
What if I say I'm not just another one of your plays?
You're the pretender!
What if I say I will never surrender!!
(Video missing? Watch it here on YouTube.)
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Thursday, July 16, 2009
Barack O'Mama Jeans
Maybe this is the real reason they were booing him at the All Star game?
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Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Monday, July 6, 2009
...And Rick Warren is His prophet
Purpose-driven naivete
Rick Warren believes God needs Allah's help to combat man's inhumanity to man because "some problems are so big you have to team tackle them."
What, too big even for Bono??
(More here.)
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Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Your tax dollars at work: Gay Pride edition!
So let me get this straight. California is so broke that it's closing state parks and issuing IOUs in order to pay for essentials like law enforcement. Yet the California Highway Patrol finds the resources to man a recruiting booth at the gay freak show known as "Sacramento Pride"?
My dad went to the anti-tax TEA party held at the same location a month or two ago. To my knowledge, the CHP didn't set up shop on that occasion, and if you asked them, I'd bet you a case of fruit-flavored KY Jelly they'd say something about the partisan nature of the day. At which point I'd ask them about their position on a key point of the Pride event -- opposition to Prop 8.
I heard somewhere that gays just want to be "treated equally under the law." Apparently that doesn't include the ones on public nudity and indecency. And if the cops tried to enforce them, you know these second-class citizens would riot like it's 1969.
And with President Obama praising those gay street brawlers (who injured a cop or two as I recall) I probably wouldn't risk it anyway.
Luckily, the CHP is too busy signing guys in bare-butt leathers to arrest them. Which explains at least one member of the Village People, too.
All these photos, by the way, come courtesy of a Facebook friend's album. There were more shocking ones -- including a leather-strapped, bare-chested lesbian with pierced nipples roaming the streets with a sno-cone -- but Facebook removed them overnight. Wouldn't want young eyes seeing stuff like that, would we?
Which brings me to the Sacramento Pride website, which promised a "kidzone" for the event. And no, that's not a joke about the picture below. Pretty sure they meant an actual kidzone, meaning Facebook has higher standards than the CHP.
Do you consider yourself Californian? My condolences. If I were you, I'd go out and raise holy hell about this.
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The Virginia Tech Hokies have had an up-and-down season so far in their second season under Buzz Williams with some big wins against a weaker opponents and a couple of tough losses. The Hokies have shown a lot of promise largely due to the influx of new faces.
Unfortunately, one of those new faces may now be done for the season.
Freshman SF/SG Chris Clarke suffered a fifth metatarsal injury to his right foot and is having surgery this week. At this time, Virginia Tech has said that the freshman will be out indefinitely with more to be known about the length of his absence after surgery though most believe that Clarke's season is over.
Clarke was playing fairly well for the Hokies averaging 10.5 points and 7.4 rebounds per game while being a starter for the Hokies. Clarke's toughness and rebounding ability allowed the Hokies to go with more lineups that included only one true big man.
Clarke was not a great shooter and not a threat from beyond the arc, but the freshman forward was aggressive in attacking the rim and drawing fouls. Clarke's injury also will force Buzz Williams to change his rotation some especially with Clarke being a talented rebounder and solid defender.
With Clarke out, the Hokies may go to a more traditional lineup with three in the backcourt and two in the frontcourt with Johnny Hamilton making his return from suspension against Saint Joseph's. However, Clarke will not be an easy player for the Hokies to replace and his loss puts a dent in Virginia Tech's backcourt depth.
One player that could make a significant difference if he is healthy enough to play this season in Ahmed Hill. Hill is known for having a great work ethic and bringing toughness, while also being a very good defender. However, Hill's return has been up in the air for awhile, and a redshirt seems very possible.
Justin Bibbs may also be used more on defense as Clarke was as someone that has good size and length along with being a solid defender when the Hokies go with one big man. Walk-on Matt Galloway received some playing time earlier in the season and may start to get a few more minutes if depth becomes a bigger concern.
Chris Clarke is a tough loss for the Hokies that will force Buzz Williams to make some adjustments. Virginia Tech will need to step up as a team to replace the rebounding, defense, and toughness that Clarke brought to the game, or hopes of going to the NIT or NCAA Tournament could disappear.


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By Wendy Widom
CHICAGO (CBS) — Robert Morris University (RMU) announced this week it plans to offer athletic scholarships to qualifying League of Legends players as part of its first eSports team.
RMU Associate Athletic Director Kurt Melcher also announced the university is actively seeking a coach for the team.
The Eagles plan to join the Collegiate Star League (CSL), an intercollegiate league for North American colleges and universities.
CSL began with 25 schools and quickly expanded to include over 100, including Arizona State, Carnegie Mellon and Harvard.
Competitive League of Legends is big business, bringing in $624 million through its 70 million monthly players.
With users clocking in 2.4 billion hours last year alone, advertisers, sponsors and now collegiate athletic departments see an opportunity to connect with a large audience.
Says Melcher, "We have a national championship bowling team in addition to traditional sports teams, and, in my mind, there is no difference between a traditional athlete and an e-sports athlete."
RMU has already received over 400 inquiries for its new League of Legends varsity team.
While practice will begin in September, the CLS season typically begins in December.


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New 2019 NissanAltima 2.5 SR
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This is my 5th altima and I've loved them all.
By Lynn on Friday, May 03, 2019Always comfortable seating, never had any of my Altimas in for repairs other than routine maintenance, & excellent gas mileage. My new Platinum model has an average of 31 mpg, yet the engine is so peppy. Love all the safety devices, especially blind spot indicator. The on-board computer is amazing and now I think I could never live without it. The color is beautiful - scarlet ember and the styling is gorgeous. Love this car!!
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Great Improvement of previous generations
By Geo on Monday, March 04, 2019New Altima is knock out in design. Modern and attractive exterior and interior. Appreciate the simple dash layout and controls on steering wheel. Yes there is a bit of plastic but doesn't look cheap and what do you expect at this price point. Pro-Pilot is amazing and don't see how anyone buys car with out this type of safety feature. Performance is good and one of the fastest 0-60 times of all the base engine cars (7.6). Ride is comfortable most of the time but suspension doesn't like pothole filled roads, but neither do I. Can wheel and deal on price better than you can on Honda Accord, Camry or Mazda 6. All which I drove and did not find any reason to buy over Altima.
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Many shortcomings insight
By Magician on Saturday, December 01, 2018This 2019 Altima 2.5 SL drives nicely and soft on 17 inch wheels. 2.5L engine has a sufficient power. CVT transmission works fine. Though, in my opinion, it substantially lacks driving dynamics and pleasure of the automatic transmission with gears. Steering is precise and on-center. Brakes work very well. Navigation system is simple, but intuitive and entry commands are easy. Bose audio system sounds OK for this vehicle segment, but nothing extraordinary. Trunk space is adequate. Rear seats are comfortable and visibility is good. Heated steering wheel is an incredible feature. Once you try it, you will never want to get the car without it. These are the good things about this vehicle and now are the shortcomings. Front passenger seat is awfully uncomfortable. The seat cushion does not go up nor down, nor does it recline. It feels like you are sitting flat on the floor. There is no lumbar support. Long drives are very uncomfortable and unpleasant. Please remember this is one of the top trims of this vehicle. There is no ventilation for front seats and rear seats are not heated. Interior is very dim at night time as there are no LED interior lights and regular bulbs with foggy lenses do not provide a good illumination. The buttons for the lights feel cheap and loose. Tail lights are not LED neither and their illumination is dim and out of date. Headlights are LEDs, but their range is short and visibility is marginal. Ford Fusion, Honda Accord and Mazda 6 offers all the above mentioned features for about the same price. The infotainment screen is not tilted towards the driver and it is hard to see sometimes with sun glare. Also it is destructive to reach to the screen every time you need to change anything as there is no separate controller knob like in Mazda. Climate control for some reason does not maintain the set temperature. The interior materials look and feel cheap, especially on the door panels. Front doors rattle when you close them and dashboard speaker covers are misaligned. The sunroof size is very small. In my opinion, there are many shortcomings and cost saving signs. They are very visible, not attractive nor they are comfortable.
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A Doncaster polling station has been labelled 'a farce' after a voter struggled unsuccessfully to find it.
Jacky Oruc claimed the wrong post-code had been put on the polling card, and no trace was available of it on internet based maps.
She complained that the Maple Grove Communal Hall polling station, in Armthorpe, was nearly impossible to find without previous local knowledge.
Jacky, of Armthorpe, said she spend hours pouring over the maps on the internet and was still unable to find it, adding the postcode given on the polling card was incorrect. It also did not appear on some maps. She said was on the verge of giving up.
She said: "It is a farce. It is invisible on the internet. I've never had any problems like this before.
"The post code on the polling card is wrong, DN3 3EQ. It sends you to a wood yard in the middle of a field, I have confirmed with helpline on the polling card they have given me a new post code which is DN3 2EQl. On Google maps, the post code identifies a residential property with no obvious community halls nearby. The address doesn't help either. Maple Grove, no road names, well Maple Grove doesn't come up on Google maps."
"They helpfully told me the place was hard to find, but did not have anyone who knows where it is, Somebody might ring me later. Well I would like to vote so if anyone can find it please do let me know!"
The council's own webside says only that the site needs two signs to help people find it. Maple Avenue is between Almond Avenue and Chestnut Avenue.
A Doncaster Council spokesman said: "We advise anyone who has difficulty finding a polling station to call the council customer service desk on 01302 736000."
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MARSHFIELD, Mass. Sixteen schools formerly comprising the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) East announced a change in name and administration to the league. The league will be named the New England Hockey Conference (NEHC) and will have both a men's and women's division.
The NEHC is effective immediately for the 2015-16 season, and both the men's and women's teams will remain eligible for automatic bids to the NCAA Division III Tournament.
Castleton University, New England College, University of New England, Norwich University, UMass-Boston, Saint Anselm College, Saint Michael's College and University of Southern Maine field both men's and women's teams.
Babson College and Skidmore College will field teams on the men's side, while Franklin Pierce University, College of the Holy Cross, Manhattanville College, Nichols College, Plymouth State University and Salve Regina University are women's-only members.
The leagues will share an executive committee comprised of Josh MacArthur, Babson Director of Athletics and Recreation, Al Bean, Director of Athletics at Southern Maine, Neil Duval, Saint Anselm Associate Director of Athletics, and Tony Mariano, Director of Athletics at Norwich.
"The formation of the New England Hockey Conference is an important step in providing the student-athletes at our institutions with a highly competitive hockey conference and an outstanding championship atmosphere," Mariano said. "The NEHC will allow the institutions the autonomy in its future direction with the goal of improving the overall student-athlete experience. It is our desire to make the NEHC the most competitive Division III hockey conference in the country and to be able to recognize and honor the outstanding student-athletes that we have in our league."
Babson men's ice hockey coach Jamie Rice has led the Beavers to two of the last three league tournament titles.
"We are excited that our league remains intact as we prepare for the next chapter as a member of the New England Hockey Conference," Rice said. "Our league members have consistently proven ourselves as one of the top Division III hockey conferences over the last 15 years, and the ability for all of us to move forward and maintain our intense and respectful rivalries are extremely important. The quality of our conference, the level of play, our student-athletes and tremendous coaches continues to grow, and we are looking forward to continuing the tradition of excellence off and on the ice that we have all established."
Manhattanville women's ice hockey head coach David Turco echoed Rice's comments on the preservation of longstanding rivalries and tradition. The Valiants have won eight league tournament titles, with their latest coming in 2011.
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Norwich is the defending champion on both the men's and women's sides. The men defeated Babson, 3-2, in overtime to claim their 11th league tournament title. The women beat Castleton, 1-0, to claim their fourth straight title and sixth in the last seven years.


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Leading Through Budget Time
I try not to overestimate my role as school principal. I know that it's the teachers and support staff that do much of the heavy lifting in the building on a day-to-day basis. Through my years as an administrator, I know there are benchmark moments in the school year where I am asked to make key leadership decisions that will strongly influence the life of the school and those same teachers and staff which commit so much. One of these moments is budget time.
I highly respect the way our district allows principals to make the important decisions for their schools through the budget process. The simple explanation of the process looks like this - the school is allocated funds based on a variety of factors, but primarily projected student enrolment. From this allocation the principal then leads the decisions regarding staffing for the school. The entire district knows this as RAM time (with RAM an acronym of Resource Allocation Method) and planning begins in earnest in April.
While teachers and staff have an understanding of the process, it does not make times any less worrisome. If the school population is likely to stay the same, staffing will likely look similar. If population is projected to increase, there is a good chance that additional staff will be hired. Finally, if a school population is on the decline, hard staffing decisions need to be made. Staff will often begin to predict the budget implications and it's impact on their position almost immediately.
As a leader, these are the difficult times. As I have talked about in my previous blog posts, the school staff become a family of our own. Everyone puts their heart and soul in their work for our students and school. We come to know each other as professionals, and as friends. While I am fortunate to receive amazing counsel from my administrative team, it is ultimately the principal that signs off on all budget decisions. I'm not going to lie, these difficult decisions are heart-wrenching. In the end, I rely on some key principles to guide me through these times:
1) Students First - the first step is to work with the current staff and school administrative team to determine the needs of the students moving into the next school year. Key elements in this stage are ensuring class sizes start at right numbers, and that students with complex needs have support staff available to assist.
2) Listen to the Staff - beginning as early as February we begin to analyze school needs as a staff. It often occurs past the mid-way point of the school year, which is enough time to determine the value of decisions made for the current year. No one knows better than the staff what needs to stay the same and what needs to change for the next year.
3) Staff over Stuff - when you value relationships as part of student learning, you know that investing in the relationships and the people that build them is essential. At the school level, we can often look at alternative options such as limiting copying and paper use, or forgoing tech purchases, in order to keep the staff that matter at our school.
4) Deliver News Directly - when bad news is coming it becomes evident right away and everyone knows it. There is no need to delay the delivery of news. My way of working is to talk with staff directly in a one-on-one manner. I also don't delay the news or "sugar coat" what's coming. I say what needs to be said as straight as I can and, if needed, provide the rationale for school decisions.
5) Support Staff Through the Process - Delivering bad news isn't the last step, and in my view it's just the beginning. Frequent check-ins afterward are important, and it's even more essential to find out what the preferences of that staff member are toward their next steps. From there, I try and reach out to colleagues in order to gauge the possibility of a match for our displaced staff. I remain on their side, always.
Being a leader in good times is pretty easy. I've been in the position to add staff throughout this process and to ensure everyone at your school has a guaranteed position and to welcome in new people into the fold can be exciting and fun. Leading through a lean budget isn't easy at all. As I muddle through the series of difficult decisions the common refrain from friends is "oh well, that's why you get paid the big bucks". I am fully aware that my decisions impact people in both their professional and personal lives and I don't take that responsibility lightly. My only hope is that my guiding principles make the process a bit easier for those impacted.
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Well said, Mr. Fero. This is the only time of year I don't love my job every day.
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As Plaxico Burress began his scouting of the upcoming opponent, he noticed a glaring absence.
The Giants on Sunday night face the Redskins at Giants Stadium, and Burress knows the opposing secondary will not include safety Sean Taylor, who was shot and killed in his Miami home on Nov. 27.
"I was looking at the film this morning, kind of got choked up a little bit, just knowing I'm going to step on the field this Sunday and [number] 21 is not going to be out there," Burress said yesterday.
"He's a great friend of mine. He's a competitor. It's going to be a little different. It's sad to say, but we got to keep on punching. I miss him."
The Redskins have played two games since Taylor's death, losing to the Bills and beating the Bears.
"We would get over it if everybody stopped asking us about it all the time," Redskin running back Clinton Portis. "You can't put it behind you. It is always going to be on your mind. But I think a lot of people are just trying to get away from it and trying not to think about it."
Once again, the Giants are extremely thin at safety. FS Gibril Wilson, who missed the past two games with a knee injury, did not practice and appears likely to miss at least another game. Wilson did do some running.
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Police are trying to piece together the events surrounding a serious crash on the M1 which left two people seriously injured in hospital earlier today.
Officers from the Herts, Beds and Camrbidgeshire Roads Policing Unit are appealing for witnesses to help their investigation into the collision on the M1 Southbound just after 9.40am.
The crash happened at the junction along from Hemel Hempstead, between Junction seven and Junction six just before the exit slip road to the M25 junction, when – for reasons unknown at this time – a Renault Clio in the central lane was involved in a collision with a Vauxhall Astra.
Two people have been taken to hospital with serious injuries.
Sergeant Colin Jenkinson, from the Roads Policing Unit, said: "This is an extremely serious collision which has caused serious injuries to those involved. I would urge anyone who may have seen this incident or either car prior to the collision taking place to come forward."
The M1 was closed between Junction Seven and Junction Six southbound while police conduct an investigation and traffic is still queueing on the motorway at the time of writing.
Sgt Jenkinson urged people to avoid the area if possible.
He said: "I would ask motorists to avoid the M1 in this area and to make alternative travel plans or find an alternative route as the road is expected to be closed for some time."
The crash comes just two days after an M1 safety awareness campaign (pictured) and amid wet driving conditions police are warning people to take extra care.
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Richard Branson. Bill Gates. Arianna Huffington. Who's your favorite business leader? Do you follow her on Twitter? Read all of his posts on LinkedIn and Facebook? And do you ever wonder why some of them seem to be everywhere at once? Chances are it's because that person has mastered the art of getting the word out on social media.
Recently, my company helped rank the top 100 CEOs from around the world, based on the quality of their social media presence. Below are the top 10 from the full list. Have a peek and see if your favorites made the cut.
To narrow it down to 100, our team worked with closely with Xinfu to analyze hundreds of global company leaders—from large corporations to tech CEOs and rising entrepreneurs. Some of the key factors used include value in content shared, Klout score, vision in strategy and size of followings on Twitter and LinkedIn (the two primary networks for business leaders on social media):
So, what do these social CEO gurus have in common? Here are a few key secrets to their (er … our) success business leaders might take a page from:
Offer valuable content: Establishing yourself as a thought leader, who people want to follow, begins with sharing quality, value-added content. This can include industry insights, leadership tips and advice, commentary on news and trends, video Q&As with followers—and more. With your social and content teams, craft, plan and share this type of content regularly through your social channels.
Commit: Do it regularly: The real key to success (where many fail) is consistency. Set up a regular social media schedule that fits your calendar. This can be as minimal as putting aside 5 minutes every Sunday to chime in on the latest industry news, 5 minutes on Tuesday to shoot a quick Q&A on your phone and 5 minutes on Thursday to post a company update.
Find your own authentic voice: The most effective CEOs on social media offer a window into their unique worlds: behind-the-scenes photos and videos showing off their company, teams, passions, hobbies, etc. They also let their authenticity come through in their voice via social media. This can range from off-the-cuff and sometimes controversial like T-Mobile CEO John Legere, to positive and inspirational like Tim Cook—but authenticity is always key.
Amplify your work: It's true that some social media messages "go viral" and spread like wildfire, capturing big audiences. But most of the time, this simply isn't the case. One powerful way great social CEOs extend their reach is through employee advocacy. What does this entail? They simply ask their own teams to 'amplify' their posts with their own social networks. At companies with hundreds of employees, this quickly adds up. (My company also has a tool to help with this, called Amplify).
Don't go at it alone: It's a well-known fact that CEOs have zero time to spare. So how can they carve out the extra minutes to manage even one social media account, such as Twitter? While authenticity is key in social media, most of them have a person or team backing them up. With support staff (PR, marketing, social media agency) in place, they're then free to focus on injecting insight and personality with the time they can spare however tight that might be. I can't stress it enough: The right support will make this entire process easier—from strategy to compliance.
The bottom line: It's clear by now that social media represents a cultural shift, not just a technological one, and it certainly isn't going away. CEOs who fail to adapt don't just risk being left behind—they will be left behind.
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